Chapter 416 The Battle of Qiantang

"These goddamn Dutch people."

The news brought by the guards made the King of Chu furious, and he underestimated the savage 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, which were a group of greedy businessmen.

The King of Chu hesitated for a moment and made up his mind. He said, "Send our warships, and we want to let the Dutch know how powerful this king is."

"Yes, Father." Li Chuyuan responded and went to the pier.

Lin'an City, Cao Mansion.

At this time, the news of the attack on Lin'an Wharf quickly spread here. After getting 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 pale and his body was a little thin. It seemed that Cao Zhengtong was still a little weak when he was just recovering from a serious illness.

"Zhengtong, you should set off for Qingzhou now. This time the King of Chu rashly fights with the Dutch will suffer a big loss." Cao Kun said nervously, "If the battle is defeated, our Cao family's caravan will not be able to go to sea again. , Immediately after you arrive in Qingzhou, contact Zhengyang to convene the merchant ships that are transporting goods all over the Great Yu Kingdom. At the same time, you will 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 land. The fleet can't move."

Cao Zhengtong said in confusion: "The King of Chu is very powerful, so there should be no problem with dealing with the Dutch."

"The King of Chu is very powerful, but he has no way to take the Dutch at sea. His ship can't beat the Dutch battleship." Cao Kun said urgently, "Don't be stunned, hurry up and do it, now I am afraid that the Dutch can be defeated. Only after the King of Qi, our Cao family's hope is in Qingzhou, not in Lin'an, after all, the King of Chu is no different from other dignitaries in the Great Yu Kingdom, and the King of Qi can make our Cao family continue to prosper."

Cao Zhengtong's expression became heavy, he nodded and said, "Yes, father, I will go to Qingzhou and tell King Qi about the matter here."

"Well, let's go, and tell us about the shipyard." Cao Kun sighed.

Accompanying the king is like accompanying a tiger. In recent years, their Cao family has offered countless silver to the king of Chu, but the king of Chu is insatiable, and now he is planning to directly annex the Cao family.

His eyeliner in the Chu palace had already secretly told him about this, and because of this, he took the time to set up the Cao family's property in Qingzhou.

Although the King of Chu was a little wary of this, it is still unclear what his real purpose was, thinking that the Cao family was just running business in Qingzhou normally.

In fact, he was preparing to transfer the assets of the Cao family. Once the King of Chu made a move, they would have to flee even if they gave up the industry in Jiangnan.

When 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, ten artillery pieces were set up on each deck, and about five on each side of the deck. .

Standing on the largest building boat, Li Chuyuan was full of confidence. Before they didn't have artillery, they were naturally afraid of fighting the Dutch at sea.

But now they were armed with ten ships with artillery, plus traditional ships, and he believed they could fight the Dutch.

Following the river to the east, Li Chuyuan saw the Dutch warships besieging the estuary. At this time, a total of ten Dutch warships were shelling the seaside pier.

These Dutch battleships all had three decks, each with a row of artillery pieces.

In the face of 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 obese middle-aged man was observing the battleships rushing out of the river mouth with a monocular.

The middle-aged man wore a brown vest with long curly brown hair, shiny leather shoes and stockings under his feet, and black trousers on his legs. He was the new earl of Ryukyu Island, Black.

"Lord Count, do you want to retreat and lead them into the deep sea to defeat them one by one." Rhode thought he gave a good suggestion.

"No need, these warships are disorganized, and the number of artillery pieces is not enough. They just use the chaotic tactics of fifty years ago. Although the number is large, they are not our opponents at all. Today, I will let these stupid Chu kings understand what It's a naval battle!" Black put away his glasses and said to a crew member, "Hang the blue flag."

The crew was ordered to immediately raise a small blue flag to the very top of the battleship.

At this time, the Dutch battleships that were scattered in the sea seemed to have received an order and immediately began to adjust their direction. The scattered battleships immediately turned into the word "one", which was the array tactics in naval battles.

In Black's eyes, the King of Chu fleet at this time was just using a chaotic method of warfare. There was no unified command of this method of warfare.

In fact, fifty years ago, the Dutch also adopted the method of chaotic warfare, but after losing three times their strength to the British in a naval battle, they began to change this kind of separate warfare. Law.

At this time, looking at a hundred mighty battleships, Blake was not at all nervous. When the battleships were lined up in the word "one", he ordered to fire.

"Boom..."

Ten warships fired at the same time, and 500 artillery pieces simultaneously fired on the Chu King fleet that rushed out of the river mouth. In an instant, raindrops of cannonballs flew towards the battleships that rushed out intensively.

Immediately after a round of firing, the Dutch fleet began to rotate in a U-shape, and the other side of the first battleship immediately fired again.

Under the continuous attack, seven battleships of the King Chu battleship that had just rushed out of the river mouth immediately began to sink. These seven battleships blocked the route of other battleships like rocks. collide with each other.

Immediately, the fleet of the King of Chu was in chaos.

And the soldiers on the fleet were overwhelmed by the terrifying artillery of the Dutch. Chu was rich, and there had never been a war since the founding of the Great Yu Kingdom.

The people were content with pleasure, and the soldiers were afraid of war. When Li Chuyuan ordered 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 changed suddenly when he saw this hellish scene.

He was used to hiding in the house to plan conspiracies and was good at calculating, but the real battlefield was completely different from what he thought. Looking at the sunken battleships, his legs began to tremble.

"Retreat, retreat!" Li Chuyuan roared.

At this order, the chaos of the fleet began, and after the loss of ten ships, the rout began.

On the Liberty, Black looked at the chaotic King Chu fleet, and said with a grin, "Now it's time for King Chu to sign a new trade agreement."