Chapter 199 Straight to Nanri Island
Yu Xiaotian did not personally receive the captured Wett, but ordered all the prisoners to be temporarily detained in the prison camp, and the captured Dutch warships were temporarily towed to the freshwater boat house, waiting for the next step of repair.
He did not even expect that he had completely annihilated the Dutch fleet, did not let go of a Dutch warship, and captured five of them, including the largest warship on which Wetter sat.
One of the other two warships was sunk in the freshwater river, and the other was on the battlefield outside the freshwater estuary. Because the ammunition compartment in the ship was hit and a large amount of ammunition exploded, it was completely destroyed on the spot and sank into deep water. There was no possibility of salvage and repair at all.
In this battle, the sea wolf also lost seven ships below the No. 2 lucky boat. The rest of the ships were injured, and more than 200 naval personnel were injured. However, for such losses, the sea wolf can still bear it and will not hurt the sea wolf.
The reason why he didn't pay attention to the Dutch commander Waite is that he still has more important things to do. These days, he has been almost awake all night, paying attention to the situation throughout the Taiwan Strait and constantly analyzing the enemy's situation.
It turned out that he did not expect that Waite would be so bold that he dared to lead his Dutch fleet alone to attack Tamsui City without the cooperation of military warships. Fortunately, he left personnel on Nanri Island and found the movement of the Dutch fleet in time, and the flying fast ships on the sea were also found in time. The Dutch planned and informed him with a carrier pigeon at the first time.
After learning about this situation, Yu Xiaotian adjusted his strategic deployment in time, transferred elite forces from the three major naval fleets, and arranged such a trap for the Dutch in the area of the freshwater estuary.
It turns out that he has a headache about how to deal with this Dutch fleet. With the strength of his current navy, it is not a big problem to deal with the Dutch fleet alone.
But the problem is that after the Dutch fleet arrived at Yongningwei, it has been with the army fleet, asking him and his men to avoid rats and dare not act rashly.
Although the Dutch fleet has weaknesses, once they get the cooperation of officers and sailors, they will have to pay a lot of losses if they want to annihilate them. At the same time, they may not be able to do their best in one battle, and may even lead to their strategic failure.
Therefore, Yu Xiaotian has been waiting for the opportunity to find a way to kill the Dutch when they act alone, but he didn't expect that Waite was so arrogant that without the cooperation of the officers and marines, he would lead his fleet to go straight to the sea wolf's nest freshwater city on Taiwan Island, trying to give the sea wolf. A black tiger pulls out his heart.
It's much easier to do this. Yu Xiaotian is afraid that he won't come. Now that Witt actually does this, it is tantamount to finding his own death.
The reason why he gave the order not to allow the artillery of the freshwater estuary to block the Dutch fleet trying to invade the freshwater city was to paralyze Waite and make the Dutch officers think that the main force of the sea wolf was not in the freshwater city, and they could have the opportunity to shell the freshwater city, causing huge losses to the sea wolf and forcing the sea. The wolf finally compromised with them.
Wight was really fooled and sent three warships into the Tamsui River. As long as they entered the Tamsui River, it would be difficult to climb to the sky.
Because the sea wolf has already arranged several iron cables to block the river in order to protect the freshwater city, and heavy artillery bases have also been arranged on both sides. No matter who dares to break into the freshwater river, there is no other possibility except for a dead word.
Wate would be better if he didn't divide his troops. Even if the sea wolf surrounded them outside the freshwater estuary, it would be difficult to eat them in one bite. However, Waite, this guy was so arrogant that he made unforgivable mistakes in succession, which eventually led to his fleet being completely The sea wolf was destroyed.
But now Yu Xiaotian is not in the mood to do any celebrations, because killing the Dutch fleet is just the beginning of this battle for him. There are more things he has to do next. He has no time to do any celebrations for this victory, let alone appreciate the faces of these Dutch losers.
So as soon as the Tamsui River War ended, he immediately ordered the fleet to prepare for sailing, and the seriously damaged ships were left for maintenance, but the slightly damaged ships were simply repaired during the voyage.
The main fleet of Sea Wolf gathered in the eastern waters of Nanri Island and began the second stage of the recovery of Nanri Island.
Before that, the biggest trouble for the sea wolf to recover Nanri Island was the Dutch fleet. If the Dutch fleet did not leave Nanri Island, even if the sea wolf gathered all the maritime strength, I'm afraid it would not be easy to easily solve the officers and sailors and completely block the officers on Nanri Island and fight dogs.
But now that the threat of the Dutch has been lifted, then the military navy is not a problem. Although on the surface, the strength of the military navy is not weak, it also depends on who he compares with. Now if they compare with the sea wolf's fleet, the military navy is simply a dish, so Yu Xiaotian decided to start. The second stage of the combat operation completely recovered Nanri Island and closed the doors and beat the officers and soldiers on Nanri Island.
So on the morning of the day after the Sea Wolf ended the Battle of Tamsui River, the sea wolf fleet gathered in Tamsui City began to act again. Headed by the flying-shaped Clippers, two captured Spanish warships were in the middle, and several deeply modified Dafu ships as their deputy began to sail in the direction of Nanri Island.
Nothing happened during the voyage. At this time, it was winter, and there were not much wind and waves on the sea, which was suitable for sea wolves to carry out large-scale naval operations.
So after only one day of ferry, Yu Xiaotian personally led the fleet to the eastern waters of Nanri Island and would be together with other ships that had arrived early.
This time, the sea wolf can be said to have poured out, concentrating almost all the combat power of the navy and gathered more than 170 warships of various types, including some large sand ships in the merchant fleet, which were loaded with a battalion of land soldiers to cooperate with the fleet's subsequent landing operation.
Just when Yu Zhigao thought he could succeed, the sea wolf's fleet suddenly appeared near Nanri Island, and the officers and sailors also arranged some patrol ships around Nanri Island. When the sea wolf fleet sailed to Nanri Island, they found the sea wolf's fleet. When they saw hundreds of ships hanging the sea wolf battle flag began to converge. When gathered in the eastern waters of Nanri Island, the officers and soldiers on the sentry ship were suddenly scared to death.
The sentry ships of the officers and soldiers, like homeless dogs, smoked and fired rockets in panic, used all the means that could call the police, and fled to Nanri Island with their tails one by one.
And a flying-shaped fastship appeared on the sea. Under the operation of the sea wolf, the beautiful hull rode the wind and waves on the sea, drew white tracks, and rushed straight to the sentries of the officers and soldiers.
The speed of these flying-size fastships is their mace. Their speed is more than twice that of normal Chinese sailboats, which is very suitable for naval pursuit. In addition, they have strong firepower and comprehensively suppress the firepower of enemy ships. It is even more easy to deal with these light officers and marine sentry ships.
Before several officer and military sentry ships could escape back to Nanri Island, they were intercepted by their way. After several shells, these officer and military sentry ships were immediately destroyed and landed.
However, these officers and military sentry ships still provided early warning to Yu Zhigao in advance.
After hearing the report of his own soldiers, Yu Zhigao, who was discussing things with his staff in the handsome account, suddenly dropped the tea bowl in his hand to the ground, stood up and asked in surprise, "What are you talking about?" The sentry found that a large number of sea wolf warships were coming to Nanri Island?
The soldier's face was very ugly. He quickly knelt down and replied, "Chief! Wolf smoke rose from the east of Nanri Island, which was the news from the sentry ship. A large number of enemy ships must have been found coming, and the sound of artillery from the sea must have been heard! General, please make arrangements as soon as possible!"
Yu Zhigao listened carefully, and then faintly heard the sound of cannon in the distance. It seemed that there was indeed a sound of gunfire, so he no longer dared to neglect it. He immediately shouted loudly, "Order the sailor, immediately raise the anchor and sail to go to the sea to prepare for war!"
The harmonious atmosphere in the original tent suddenly disappeared after hearing the report of the soldiers. Everyone immediately became nervous. Some people even began to feel scared. Some even said, "The wolf thief has abandoned Nanri Island. Why are they coming back now?"
Yu Zhigao was also nervous and angry at this time. He shook his head and said, "What else are you talking about at this time? I have long thought that the thief would not abandon Nanri Island so easily, and he would definitely not give up! Sure enough, he is still a thief and wants to come and demonstrate with me!
In this case, I will go with him! I'd like to see if the thief can take it back to Nanri Island? It is said that I will order everyone to start preparing for war, and the mainland division will immediately rush to the shore to prevent the thief from landing on the island!"
On Nanri Island, which had gradually calmed down, after hearing the sound of gunfire from the east sea of the island, suddenly jumped up again, and a large number of officers and soldiers immediately took action and rushed to the seaside.
The officers and soldiers who had been resting on the shore did not dare to neglect. In the scolding of the generals, they quickly began to board the ship one after another.
And the officers and sailor warships docked on several berths on Nanri Island did not dare to neglect at this time. After getting Yu Zhigao's general order, they began to quickly pull up their anchors and sails, and began to move one by one and sail towards the sea.