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- Zheng Zhilong deceived Zhao Han, this guy is purely bragging, he does not have more than twenty big bird ships.
He only has two!
The main reason is that the requirements for wood are too high. There is no oak in Fujian and Guangdong, and the better quality iron pear has been cut down. Hongyi cannons are installed on the bow and stern of the ship, and an improved version of the Franco cannon is installed on the side. If you use fir wood, it is very likely that you will collapse yourself when you fire the cannon.
Zheng Zhilong's warships can't beat the Dutch warships at all with artillery battles alone.
One is that the hull is too brittle, and the other is that the firepower is insufficient.
The first is the problem of the main structure of the hull. The design of the compartment plate and the bottom plate lacks a large number of ribs for reinforcement. The second is that the wood cannot keep up, and strong wood such as oak cannot be found. These two reasons made the hull so brittle that even large-caliber artillery dared not be loaded on the ship.
Due to this situation, Zheng Zhilong later imitated the Western-style hull and built it with a keel and rib structure. It was a very strange kind of boat, which was seen and drawn by the British. Its hull was of Western style and its sails were of Chinese style.
At this moment, Zheng Zhilong is asking shipbuilders to build this kind of warship combining Chinese and Western, and it is estimated that it will take a year or two before it can be launched.
But in any case, Zheng Zhilong is not afraid of the Dutch, because he can win every naval battle.
Historically, in half a year, the Dutch will fight Zheng Zhilong again. The nine Dutch warships, including the three-masted battleship, were beaten back to Batavia by Zheng Zhilong and did not dare to come out.
This was also the last battle between the two sides. From then on, the Dutch paid the protection fee honestly, and the deadlock was not broken until Zheng Chenggong attacked Taiwan City.
Just when the Dutch soldiers landed in Macau, Zheng Chenggong personally led the fleet and came quickly from Guanghaiwei.
Through the telescope, the Datong soldiers on the Macau side observed the situation at the watchtower and immediately sent a message to remind them to light the beacon.
Wan Bangyan's Guangzhou navy was hiding in Tuen Mun, and when he saw the beacon smoke from Macau, he quickly led three Xinhui ships and more than a dozen black boats to help in the battle.
Fifteen Dutch warships and twelve armed merchant ships saw Zheng Zhilong's fleet appear, and immediately chose to stay away from the coast to avoid being bombarded by the Macau Fort and Zheng Zhilong.
The main battleship of the Netherlands is the "Middle Burke", with a displacement of about 500 tons. It is the only "giant ship" in the Dutch Eastern Fleet.
This giant ship participated in the battle of Liuluo Bay, but withdrew early before the battle started.
The reason for the evacuation was that it was too big and cumbersome, and it was too disadvantageous for offshore operations, and it was easy to be attacked by a large number of small boats by the Ming army.
At this moment, Zheng Zhilong led more than 270 large and small ships, most of which were offshore galleys, and quickly approached the Dutch fleet with the advantage of speed.
"Boom boom boom boom!"
The two sides began to shoot at each other, and the intensity of their firepower was completely incomparable with European naval battles.
The "Middle Burke", the largest and most powerful ship on the battlefield, is only a Galen ship with a displacement of 500 tons. There are 251 soldiers on board, 125 sailors, and more than 30 artillery pieces.
Most of the warships in the Netherlands have a displacement of about two to three hundred tons. As for Zhao Han's Jiangxi Navy, the largest warships have a displacement of 150 tons.
Of course, sea warships and inland river warships must not be compared by displacement.
If the improved Frang cannon on Zheng Zhilong's ship is installed on a Jiangxi navy warship, it only takes a few shots to destroy its own hull.
I saw Zheng Chenggong's fleet coming from the west and south, encircling the Dutch fleet in a fan shape.
The shells fired by the Zheng family battleship crackled and hit the enemy, but it seemed to tickle the Dutch battleship. Although the improved Franco cannon has a fast rate of fire and high accuracy, its power is too small, and it can only cause slight damage after a half-day bombardment.
There are two types of artillery on Dutch battleships, one is heavy artillery, with a very low hit rate;
However, the consequences are different.
Many warships of the Zheng family were hit by a hole, and the fir hull was too rough.
During the approach between the two sides, two warships of the Zheng family were sunk, and the other four were seriously flooded.
As for the Dutch warships, only three were severely damaged, and they had nothing to do with the Zheng family. It was the result of the Macao coastal defense artillery.
The direction of the wind was favorable for the Dutch fleet to break through the siege. It was late autumn at this time, and the sudden northwest wind blew the Dutch warship quickly to the southeast, which happened to be the gap in the three-sided encirclement.
"Boom!"
Wan Bangyan is leading the Guangzhou navy to besiege from the east. After being hit by only one shell, a black boat was seriously flooded. The sailors hurriedly withdrew from the battlefield, and if they slowed down, they might sink.
?p; For a century-old navy, the materials used to build ships will take a hundred years.
Oak and teak are top shipbuilding materials, but they are rarely seen along the coast of China. It may be very common hundreds of years later, but most of them were introduced from abroad, and it was very difficult to find in China in the late Ming Dynasty.
There are many teak trees in the Indochina Peninsula, which are distributed in Burma, Thailand, and Laos in later generations.
Moreover, warships made of teak are of higher quality than oak warships.
This naval battle woke up Wan Bangyan completely. He lost a Xinhui ship and three black boats. Fortunately, he was able to get three captured Dutch warships.
After Zhao Han received this letter, he immediately ordered the logging of oak oaks, and transported them over mountains and ridges to Guangzhou for shipbuilding.
This is a kind of Chinese native oak, and the wood is top-notch. However, the trees that can be used for shipbuilding must be at least 70 or 80 years old. Basically, they can only be found in deep mountains and old forests, and the transportation cost will be very high.
As for the offensive and defensive battle in Macau, there is no suspense.
Once the naval battle started, all the Dutch soldiers who landed and fought were dumbfounded. Their ship is retreating, and they I haven't boarded the ship yet!
More than a thousand Dutch, Japanese, and Malay soldiers were preparing to attack the fort. Seeing that the naval battle started and the gun body was getting farther and farther away, the commander immediately ordered to retreat.
"Boom boom boom!"
Under the bombardment of the fort and the pursuit of the defenders, the retreat quickly turned into a rout.
Don't count on the morale of these people, a group of Dutch soldiers whose salaries are not enough to support themselves, a group of Japanese ronin hired to rob, a group of semi-slaved Malay natives. Their combat quality is not much better than that of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.
Sixteen years ago, a Dutch soldier who was captured by the Macau defenders pleaded to convert to Catholicism in order to survive.
Catholicism and Protestantism are regarded as heretics to each other, and they are fighting for their lives. Not only is the combat effectiveness of the Dutch Army worrying, but their beliefs are also very problematic.
Of course, the Portuguese are not much better.
Due to the excessive exploitation by the Portuguese king, many Portuguese in India directly converted to Green religion and Hinduism
"Here's another one!"
The discoverer of New Zealand and the surveyor of Australia, Abel Tasman, 35, had his expedition ship sunk. After finally swimming back to the shore, a group of Macau defenders rushed towards us.
Abel Tasman, a Dutch Protestant, raised his hands very simply and shouted in Portuguese: "I am a Catholic, don't kill me!"
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