Chapter 417

"These damned Dutch."

The news brought by the bodyguard made the king of Chu angry. He underestimated the barbaric nature of the Dutch.

"Father, what shall we do?" Li Chuyuan was also very angry. He gradually realized the true colors of these Dutch people, a group of greedy businessmen.

The king of Chu hesitated for a moment and made up his mind. He said, "send out our warships. We will let the Dutch know how powerful the king is."

"Yes, father." Li Chuyuan responded and went to the dock.

Lin'an City, Cao Fu.

At this time, the news of the attack on Lin'an dock soon spread here. After getting the news, Cao Kun, the leader of the Cao family, immediately called his eldest son Cao Zhengtong in front of him.

"Father."

Cao Zhengtong is about twenty-six years old. His face is pale and his body is thin. He seems to be recovering from a serious illness. When he talks, he is still weak.

"Zhengtong, you are leaving for Qingzhou now. The king of Chu will suffer a great loss if he goes to war with the Dutch rashly." Cao Kun said anxiously, "if we lose the war, our Cao family's caravan will never be able to go to sea again. When you get to Qingzhou, you should contact Zhengyang immediately and call up the merchant ships that are transporting goods all over the state of Chongqing. At the same time, you can buy the merchant ships from Qingzhou again and organize the fleet. After all, the king of Chu is staring at us very closely. Our fleet in Chu can't move."

Cao Zhengtong was puzzled and said, "the king of Chu is powerful. It should be no problem to deal with the Dutch."

"The king of Chu is powerful, but there is no way to take the Dutch at sea. His ship can't beat the Dutch warships." Cao Kun said urgently, "don't be stunned. Hurry to do it. I'm afraid the only one who can defeat the Dutch now is the king of Qi. The hope of our Cao family lies in Qingzhou, not Lin'an. The king of Chu is no different from other dignitaries in Dayu, and the king of Qi can make our Cao family continue to prosper."

Cao Zhengtong's face became heavy. He nodded and said, "yes, father, I'm going to Qingzhou now, and I'll tell the king of Qi what happened here."

"Well, go ahead and tell me about the shipyard." Cao Kun sighed.

Accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. Over the years, the Cao family has offered countless silver to the king of Chu. But the king of Chu is greedy and is now planning to annex the Cao family directly.

he had told him this secretly in the eyes of Chu Wang Fu. Therefore, he make a prompt decision to set up Cao family's estate in Qingzhou.

Although the king of Chu was wary of this, it was not clear what his real purpose was. He thought that the Cao family was just doing business in Qingzhou.

In fact, he was preparing for the transfer of Cao's assets. Once the king of Chu started, they would flee even if they gave up the Jiangnan industry.

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 front ten warships, ten guns were set on each deck, and about five on each side of the deck.

Standing on the biggest building ship, Li Chuyuan was full of confidence. Before they had no guns, they were afraid of fighting with the Dutch at sea.

But now they are equipped with ten warships with guns, and with traditional warships, he believes he can fight the Dutch.

Down the river to the East, Li Chuyuan saw the Dutch warships besieged at the mouth of the sea. At this time, a total of 10 Dutch warships were shelling the coastal wharf.

These Dutch warships are all three decks with a row of guns on each deck.

In the face of these Dutch warships, Li Chuyuan issued an order to attack. When the war drum sounded, 100 warships rushed to the Dutch warships.

At this time, on the Dutch warship liberty, a slightly obese middle-aged man with a single telescope was observing the warships rushing out of the river estuary.

The middle-aged man is wearing a brown vest, long curly brown hair, shiny shoes and stockings under his feet, and black trousers on his legs. He is the new count black of Ryukyu Island.

"My Lord, do you want to retreat, lead them into the deep sea and smash them in one blow?" Rod thought he gave a good suggestion.

"No, these warships are disorganized, and the number of artillery is insufficient. They only use the random tactics of 50 years ago. Although the number is large, they are not our opponents at all. Today I will let these stupid Chu kings understand what sea warfare is!" Black put away his glasses and said to one of the crew, "put up the blue flag."

The crew was ordered to raise a small blue flag to the top of the warship.

At this time, the Dutch warships, which were scattered in the sea, immediately began to adjust their direction as if they had been ordered. The scattered warship formation immediately became "one". This is the array warfare method in naval combat.

In Blake's eyes, the king of Chu's fleet at that time only adopted the method of disorderly warfare, which had no unified command. Each ship was fighting on its own, and there was no unified dispatch at all.

In fact, 50 years ago, the Dutch used the same method of random warfare, but they began to change this method of fighting by themselves only after they lost to the British array warfare with three times the strength in a naval battle.

At this time, looking at a hundred mighty warships, Blake was not a bit nervous. When the warships were arranged in a "one", he ordered to open fire."Boom..."

Ten warships opened fire at the same time, and five hundred guns opened fire on the Chu king's fleet rushing out of the river. In an instant, the rain like shells flew to the warships rushing out.

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

Under the continuous attack, the king of Chu warships just rushed out of the river estuary immediately began to sink. These seven warships blocked the route of other warships like rocks. Even under the push of the river, some warships could not dodge and began to collide with each other.

Suddenly, the fleet of the king of Chu was in chaos.

The soldiers in the fleet were even more frightened by the terrible guns of the Dutch. Chu was rich and arrogant. There was no war since the founding of Chongqing.

The common 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 bodies floating in the river, screaming soldiers, red blood, more soldiers lost their fighting spirit.

Li Chuyuan's face suddenly changed when he saw such a hellish scene.

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

"Retreat, retreat!" Li Chuyuan roared.

Under this command, the chaos of the fleet began. After the loss of ten warships, the rout began.

On the freedom, Blake looked at the chaotic fleet of the king of Chu and said with a grim smile, "now it's time for the king of Chu to sign a new trade agreement."

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