The Governor's Fortune and Misfortune
Chapter 741:The Governor's Fortune and Misfortune
Schweil knew that the speed of the Daming Navy's light iron armored ships was amazing, and no matter what sailing ships, paddle ships, and paddle ships must not escape the pursuit and interception of light iron armor ships.
However, Zhang Bin ordered Yu Chenglong to let go of the first few fast ships!
What does the duke mean?
If the pirate leader Andaman ran away, this encirclement and engulfment did not lose its meaning, the guy and the Dutch are closely related, if let him run, with the support of the Dutch, he will not be able to pull out such a large team in three years!
Why did Zhang Bin let go of those fast ships?
The reason why he let go of the first few bunks, naturally has his intention, he said faintly: "The few casss ships can also carry dozens of people, let them run nothing, after the Daming Navy will regularly visit this channel, on those few broken ships, can not pick up any wind and waves."
Schweil heard it, or confused, because these fast ships could not afford to let them go?
It seems that it is not difficult to block the bunks, but it takes more time at most, what does this duke mean?
He did not dare to ask again, because Zhang Bin had already answered, and he asked again that the duke was going to be angry, and he dared not provoke this powerful man.
They chatted for a while, in front of Yu Chenglong also received an order, although he did not know what Zhang Bin means, but he did not hesitate, just in front of the a few paddle boats to catch up to have a little effort, if you just clean up the back of these no wind can not run the sailboat, it is much simpler, he directly ordered, life all light iron armored ships surrounded, soon, escaped more than two hundred kinds of pirate ships were either sunken or blocked.
The battle ended in less than an hour, and the Daming Navy, with the peak of Mount Tai, destroyed several pirates raging in the East Hu Sea and the Bay of Bengal, and the shipping lanes from Malacca to Ceylon were temporarily considered safe.
Zhang Bin did not rush to Ceylon, but ordered the entire fleet to enter the pirate nest to rest, while Zheng Zhilong and Yu Chenglong counted the results.
In fact, there were no casualties in this battle, that is, several Weiyuan battleships were bombarded a few holes by the Dutch Cannon, and a little repair was done, which had no effect at all.
Almost all of their pirate ships were captured, and the pirates and their families were captured to 20,000 or 30,000, and the casualties were basically killed on the spot, and almost no one could be injured and not die.
Just now, the new port city continues to work, these pirate captives sent in the past is a good labor, as for their families, do not work, cook, wash clothes, clean everything, save a lot of things.
This delay, a day passed, Zhang Bin simply ordered the fleet to rest in the pirate den for a night, and continued to advance to the northeast the next morning, carrying the coastline, along the normal course of the channel to the direction of Ceylon.
At this time, in the temporary headquarters building of the Dutch East India Company in Colombo, the new Governor-General Specks was anxiously pacing back and forth in his office.
In fact, he could not be the new Governor-General of the East India Company, because he was the Governor-General of the East India Company at the beginning of Chongqing, but unfortunately, he lost Formosa for a moment, so he was directly removed by the parliament and the House of Elders who really controlled the East India Company, and replaced him with Admiral Braun.
He was also blessed by the disaster, because Blauer was worse than him, and the man was at the beginning of the ass and puffs of the southeastern governor of the Ming Empire, and finally he not only lost Batavia, the headquarters of the East India Company, but also the Dutch Navy's fleet in the Far East.
This is not the worst, the worst is that after they were captured by the Ming Empire, not only the Ming Empire was caught to work hard, but also sold the hard work by the Ming Empire to Spain, the largest enemy of the Netherlands, and in order to redeem these captives, the East India Company also paid a great price, thinking of the scrawny and frightened face when Blauer, Hao Keman and Van Dimen redeemed, Specks felt shuddered.
He was so lucky that if he had not been removed from office, he would have been captured by the Ming Empire, and it was precisely because he had escaped the robbery that he had been shown by the Parliament and the House of Elders.
No one knew the Far East better than he did, Batavia lost it, but the business of the Far East could not be lost, so he became the governor-general of the East India Company again, and led the army to seize Ceylon, Malabar, and the Maldives from Portugal, so that the East India Company regained its ground in the Far East.
As a result, he was re-elected by Parliament and the Elders.
However, his good fortune seems to be over, because the navy of the Ming Empire has passed through Manila and Batavia from the south of Formosa to the Strait of Malacca.
He knew that the goal of the Ming Imperial Navy must be Colombo, and it must be their East India Company, because the Ming Empire seems to have cooperated with Spain and Portugal in recent years, and only they in the Netherlands, the Ming Empire did not care at all.
They were in Formosa, Batavia, and even the southeast coast of the Ming Empire, and they fought several battles with the Ming Empire, and it can be said that the Ming Empire Navy did not come to Colombo to clean up who they were, whether they would go to Goa to the Portuguese, that was almost impossible, even if they were to go to Goa, they had to pass from Ceylon!
He had ordered the ship to pack all the important goods and documents, as well as the gold and silver he had earned in the past few months, and even he had thought of it wherever he had fled the navy of the Ming Empire.
However, he still hesitated, whether he wanted to run, this run, he just ran away, the parliament and the Elders gang of people will forgive him?
The problem, if you don't run, the consequences seem more serious, if it is surrounded by the navy of the Ming Empire, not only the goods, documents, and property are all gone, the warships and people will become prisoners of the Ming Empire, Colombo's defense can't catch up with Batavia, his super battleships are less than thirty, this strength is not the enemy of the Ming Empire Navy, a few years ago, Blauer in Batavia has tried, he does not want to try again.
The only thing he now expects is that the Ming Imperial Navy will not all attack, for this reason, he sent dozens of cannons to the pirates in particular, if the Ming Imperial Navy does not all attack, then, it is very likely that it will take a little effort to play the nest of the pirates, even if the imperial navy all attack, the pirates will certainly be able to escape part.
He is now waiting for the results of the pirate den, he has even sent several uncles to the vicinity of the pirate den to monitor, and once the results come out there, he will make a decision according to the specific situation.
If the Imperial Navy has fewer than 50 super battleships, he will take the risk of keeping it, and if the Imperial Navy has more than 50 super battleships, then he will run away!
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