Zhu Youxiao stood at the bow of the flagship ship, wearing a golden armor that was strengthened to the limit. The crimson cloak rustled under the sea breeze.

Zhong Chuxiang and Wu Xilin, two young generals of the Royal Guard, stood straight like two pine trees, standing motionless behind Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao's eyes were like an eagle flying in the sky, looking ahead with a domineering look.

It was a long island with twisted and slender coastline, making the defense of the island very difficult.

At the northern end of the island, a small fortress can be vaguely seen.

This is the western island of the Penghu Islands.

The small fortress was built by the Dutch in the past year or two to blockade and protect the northwest waterway between the White Sand Island.

The large fleet set off at the hour of You and took two days and two nights to arrive at Yuegang, Fujian.

In the new huge Yuegang, the soldiers of the Royal East China Sea Fleet replenished fresh water, fruits and other supplies, immediately began to cross the sea and accelerate towards the Penghu Islands opposite.

According to the timely weather forecast provided by Xiaohong, the latest tropical storm will hit seven days later, and now is the best time to cross the strait every minute.

If the Royal East China Sea Fleet had a fast enough attack, it would have been enough to occupy the Penghu Islands and destroy the Dutch entrenched in Tainan before this wave of tropical storms.

In this way, the losses of the large fleet's cross-sea expedition can be minimized and even negligible.

Therefore, under Zhu Youxiao's strict order, the soldiers of the Royal East China Sea Fleet did not delay even a quarter of an hour, and continued to follow the route designated by Zhu Youxiao and sailed at full speed.

After one day, I had successfully crossed the strait and arrived at the large island west of the Penghu Islands: Xiyu.

The first target to be captured was close in front of him. When the large fleet got closer, Zhu Youxiao picked up the telescope, adjusted the focal length and started to check. The appearance of the small fortress immediately showed clearly in his eyes.

This is a typical Western colonial castle. The triangle design limits the living face value, but makes the turrets divided on three corners theoretically have two turrets on either side to support it.

The wooden walls built are not straight, but have a certain slope. This is naturally not to make the enemy climb up, but to make it easier for soldiers to find the shooting angle.

After all, if it is a straight city wall and the enemy is under the city, you have to poke out half of your body outside the city before you can shoot at the enemy.

It is not a common danger to do this on the battlefield.

At the same time, the rolling wood and stones placed on the oblique city wall also make the agile enemies feel afraid when climbing.

Moreover, the city wall is not very slanted, but it is relatively slanted, so it is very difficult for people to climb.

Like most Western colonial fortresses, this fortress is also made of wooden, only the various forts are built with civil and wooden buildings. At most, a layer of soil is applied outside the wooden wall to prevent the enemy from setting fire.

"Let the Marines send three thousand men immediately to capture it!"

Seeing that the enemy was not mentally prepared or prepared to be attacked, Zhu Youxiao slightly despised the Westerners, put down his telescope, and said to Zhong Qiuxiang behind him.

These Westerners are too arrogant and even the guards are not sent out on a routine basis. They must think that no one dares to tease them.

Damn it!

This is the Penghu Islands of the Ming Empire. These Westerners who have only occupied the Penghu Islands for a short time are too arrogant and a little arrogant!

"Cleaning all the Westerners on all the islands of Penghu Islands for me."

Zhu Youxiao was inexplicably angry and added in a bad tone, "In this battle, our Royal Navy, don't want any Western captives!"

There are two meanings to not keeping prisoners: one is that six days later, a tropical storm is coming, so where can I get time to hang out with the Western prisoners who like to sing the most?

Another reason is Zhu Youxiao’s preferences.

Damn it, most of the Westerners of this era do not take a bath, and they are all smelly and smell bad. Even if they are covered with various spices and juices on their bodies, they will make people feel sick when they get close.

After repeated emphasis by His Majesty the Emperor, Zhong Chuxiang understood Zhu Youxiao's meaning very much and immediately ordered the soldiers of the Marine Corps to launch a landing attack.

After receiving the order, the soldiers quickly put down the speedboats on the leopard cruiser.

These speedboats are like bamboo, and the bottom of the boat is not a "u" shape, but a flat bottom.

This makes the speedboat contact less seawater area, naturally less friction, and the speed will become faster.

At the same time, there is a spinnaker on the speedboat. Although the area of ​​the spinnaker contacts the sea breeze is less than that of square canvas, the adjustment angle is very flexible.

In addition to canvas, these small boats specially used for landing have oars on both sides, and their explosive power is extremely fast.

Twenty-four Marines sat on each speedboat. As soon as they got out of the sea, the speedboat was like an arrow from the string, drawing snow-white wave marks and rushing towards the beach.

The Marine Corps had just launched an attack here. The Dutch on Xiyu Island had already discovered a large fleet of attacks. A thick black smoke rushed out of the castle, acting as a beacon tower, notifying oneself that an enemy was coming.

However, no Dutch left the fortress and came to the beach to block the Marines of the Royal Navy.

In fact, the best effect is to block the enemy by the sea. The enemy has just landed, has no queue, has not yet established a stable foothold, and is also backed by the sea, so it is easy to be completely wiped out.

However, the coastline of the West Island is too long, and the Dutch fortress on the West Island is too small, with only more than 100 soldiers stationed in total.

These Western soldiers, seeing such a large enemy fleet attacking, did not retreat without authorization, were already worthy of the identity of this soldier.

The Marines were very fast in driving the speedboats, and they rushed to the beach at the beach with a very calm attitude, calmly rectifying the queues by the beach, and soon three combat formations were formed.

There were only 3,000 soldiers in charge of this login operation. Everyone did not log in immediately, but only about half of them were logged in, that is, 1,500 people.

The remaining half of the soldiers held new muskets with an effective range of 500 meters and were responsible for covering them, so as not to be bad if they were raided by cunning enemies.

During the army's entire lineup, another five hundred-man marine carried several General Shenwei guns and dozens of flowering bullets to the beach, which were weapons used to break through the enemy's fortress gates and walls.

In addition, they must be used to bombard the enemy's towers.

Although only a few generals of Shenwei were brought ashore, it was more than enough to deal with a small fortress for the Westerners.

At this time, Zhong Qiuxiang's order came again, fifty-two leopard cruisers separated into two squadrons. Wu Xilin, as the Right Army, took twenty-six warships to cruise on the nearby sea to prevent them from being raided by unknown enemies.

Zhong Qiuxiang, who led the left army, advanced towards the small fortress with twenty-six battleships arranged in combat formations.

The cannon suits of the warship had been lifted up, and the cannon windows in the cabin were set up, revealing a dark and extremely ferocious cannon.

Before the Marine Corps who have landed and completed attacks, of course, they must use a large warship to carry out several rounds of large bombings on the enemy to meet the consistent style of the Royal Royal:

I just want to bully you with advanced weapons, what's wrong?

With Zhong Chu's order, the soldiers took the lead in launching an offensive test fire with the large-caliber main naval gun on the ship. Twenty-six shells landed near the small fortress. Although they did not directly hit the enemy's fortress, their power was terrifying.

A few shells fell on a small woods beside the fortress and immediately exploded, stirring up a cloud of smoke and dust, and dozens of trees of all sizes collapsed.

Just imagine, if this test shot fell into a fortress or on a wooden wall, the lethality would be extraordinary!

"Boom!"...

The main guns of twenty-six Leopard Cruisers were fired in a total of three guns, causing a complete collapse of the enemy's wall on the front, and a nearby wall was also concave.

Outside this city wall, the layer of soil applied was blown away and broken, revealing the gray and black wooden stakes inside. The dust that was still shaking off from time to time gave people a shaky feeling.

In addition, on the beach, the Royal Marines who came like a dark tide made the Dutch defenders feel desperate. Screams, running, and shouts are everywhere, and they are in chaos.

But after a while, suddenly, a series of explosions suddenly occurred in the direction of the Dutch turret!

"Huh? The Marines have not started the attack yet, and the fleet has not continued to fire?"

Zhu Youxiao was still wondering what happened. Not long after, a team of scouts sent someone to report.

It turned out that the Dutch saw that the situation was not good, and they found that the enemy was too powerful and could not defend it, so they blew up the cannons and the soldiers all retreated to Penghu Island in small boats.

Zhu Youxiao was too lazy to order a pursuit. Anyway, the several islands occupied by these Dutch people now know that there is an enemy attack, and there is no need to keep it secret.

As long as they do not evacuate the Penghu Islands immediately, all the Westerners in this sea area will die.

He immediately asked his soldiers to occupy the fortress, and ordered the Royal Navy soldiers to camp on the western islands and overhaul the temporary advance base.

During this period, several Dutch reconnaissance speedboats came to the coast of Xiyu several times. I don’t know if they wanted to inquire about information or fire a few guns to harass the Royal Fleet.
Chapter completed!