"These damn Dutch."
The news brought by the guards made the King of Chu furious. He underestimated the barbaric nature of the Dutch.
"Father, what should I do?" Li Chuyuan was also very angry. He gradually realized the true colors of these Dutch people. They were a group of greedy businessmen.
King Chu hesitated for a moment and then made up his mind, he said: "Send our warships, we will let the Dutch know how powerful this king is."
"Yes, father." Li Chuyuan responded and headed for the dock.
Lin'an City, Cao Mansion.
At this time, news of the attack on Lin'an Wharf quickly spread here. After receiving the news, Cao Kun, the head of the Cao family, immediately called his eldest son Cao Zhengtong to him.
"Father."
Cao Zhengtong was about twenty-six years old. His face was a little pale and his body was a little thin. It seemed that he had just recovered from a serious illness. Cao Zhengtong was still a little weak when he spoke.
"Zhengtong, you set off for Qingzhou immediately. This time King Chu hastily started a war with the Dutch and will suffer a big loss." Cao Kun said nervously, "If we are defeated, our Cao family's caravan may no longer be able to go to sea. , after you arrive in Qingzhou, immediately contact Zhengyang to summon the merchant ships that are transporting goods throughout the Chongqing Kingdom. At the same time, re-purchase merchant ships from Qingzhou and organize a fleet. After all, the King of Chu is watching us very closely. We are in Chu. The fleet can't move."
Cao Zhengtong said in confusion: "The King of Chu is strong, so he should have no problem dealing with the Dutch."
"The King of Chu is strong, but there is no way to defeat the Dutch at sea. His ships can be attacked. But the Dutch warships." Cao Kun said anxiously, "Don't be stunned, hurry up and do it. The only one who can defeat the Dutch now is King Qi. The hope of our Cao family lies in Qingzhou, not Lin'an. King Chu will eventually fight against the Dutch. There is no difference between the other dignitaries of the Chongqing State, but the King of Qi can allow our Cao family to continue to prosper."
Cao Zhengtong's expression became serious, and he nodded and said, "Yes, father, I will go to Qingzhou and bring the people here. Tell King Qi about it."
"Well, go quickly and tell us about the shipyard." Cao Kun sighed.
Accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. Over the years, the Cao family has offered countless amounts of money to the King of Chu. However, the King of Chu is greedy and is now planning to annex the Cao family directly.
His informant in the Prince of Chu's Mansion had already secretly told him about this matter. Because of this, he immediately decided to start arranging the Cao family's property in Qingzhou.
Although the King of Chu was a little wary of this, his real purpose was still unclear, and he thought that the Cao family was just running business in Qingzhou normally.
But in fact, he was preparing to transfer the Cao family's assets. Once the King of Chu took action, they would flee even if they gave up their property in Jiangnan.
While the father and son were talking, Li Chuyuan led a hundred warships to attack eastward from the Qiantang River outside Lin'an City. On the ten warships in front, there were ten cannons on each deck, with about five cannons on each side of the deck. .
Standing on the largest building ship, Li Chuyuan was full of confidence. In the past, they had no artillery and were naturally afraid of fighting the Dutch at sea.
But now that they are equipped with ten warships equipped with artillery, plus traditional warships, he believes they can fight the Dutch.
Going eastward along the river, Li Chuyuan saw the Dutch warships blocking the outlet. At this time, a total of ten Dutch warships were shelling the coastal pier.
These Dutch warships all had three decks, with a row of guns on each deck.
Facing these Dutch warships, Li Chuyuan issued an attack order. When the war drums sounded, hundreds of warships rushed towards the Dutch warships.
At this time, on the Dutch battleship Liberty, a slightly fat middle-aged man was observing these battleships rushing out of the river mouth with a monocular.
The middle-aged man wears a brown vest, has long curly brown hair, shiny leather shoes and stockings, and black pants on his legs. He is the new Earl Black of Ryukyu Island.
"Lord Earl, do you want to retreat and lead them into the deep sea to defeat them one by one." Rhodes thought he had given a good suggestion.
"No need. These battleships are unorganized and have insufficient number of artillery. They are just using the chaotic warfare method from fifty years ago. Although they are large in number, they are not our opponents at all. Today I will let these stupid kings of Chu understand what It's a naval battle!" Blake put away his binoculars and said to a crew member: "Hang the blue flag."
The crew received the order and immediately raised a small blue flag to the top of the battleship.
At this time, the Dutch warships, which were originally scattered in the sea, seemed to have received an order and immediately began to adjust their direction. The scattered battleship formation immediately changed into the word "one". This is exactly the array warfare method in naval battles.
In Black's eyes, the King of Chu's fleet at this time was just using random warfare. This type of warfare did not have a unified command. Each ship fought independently, and there was no unified dispatch at all.
In fact, fifty years ago, the Dutch also used a chaotic warfare method. However, they only began to change this independent warfare method after losing to the British array warfare method with three times the number of troops in a naval battle. Law.
Looking at a hundred mighty battleships at this time, Blake was not nervous at all. When the battleships were arranged in a "one" shape, he ordered to open fire.
"Boom boom…"
Ten warships opened fire at the same time, and five hundred artillery pieces opened fire at the Chu King's fleet rushing out from the river mouth. In an instant, raindrop-like shells flew towards the warships rushing out densely.
After a round of firing, the Dutch fleet immediately began to rotate in a U-shape, and the other side of the first battleship immediately fired another salvo of artillery.
Under the continuous attacks, seven warships of the King of Chu that had just rushed out of the river mouth immediately began to sink. These seven warships were like rocks blocking the route of other warships. Even driven by the river current, some warships were unable to dodge in time. Hitting each other.
Suddenly, King Chu's fleet fell into chaos.
The soldiers on the fleet were even more frightened and overwhelmed by the terrifying artillery of the Dutch. The land of Chu was rich, and there had been no war at all since the founding of the Great Yu Kingdom.
The people were content with enjoying themselves, but the soldiers were afraid of war. When Li Chuyuan ordered the war against the Dutch, many soldiers were already frightened.
At this time, looking at the corpses floating in the river, the screaming soldiers, and the red blood, more soldiers lost their will to fight.
Li Chuyuan's expression suddenly changed when he saw this hell-like scene.
He was used to hiding in the house to plot conspiracies and was good at calculations, but the real battlefield was completely different from what he thought. Looking at the sunk battleships one after another, his legs began to tremble.
"Retreat, retreat!" Li Chuyuan roared.
Under this order, chaos in the fleet began. After losing ten battleships, the rout began.
On the Liberty, Black looked at the chaotic King Chu fleet and said with a ferocious smile: "It's time for King Chu to re-sign the trade agreement."