Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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Hu Huiqian had already squatted down at this time, one hand tightly grasped a rope, and the other firmly grasped a fist...an iron fist!

After getting the iron fist, Hu Huiqian shouted at Fist Li again: "Fist Li, I'm about to touch it, squat down!"

"Order!"

Fist Li quickly squatted down, even squatting with the unlit torch in his hand, and then, like Hu Huiqian, he grabbed a rope with one hand and an iron fist with the other.

It was said that it was too late, and then it was too late, only to hear a loud "bang", and the Malayan clipper that Hu Huiqian and Fist Li were riding on had already slammed into the wooden rafts on those serial boats!

On the surface of the sea, the waves rolled over, and the wooden raft and the fishing boat were half arched immediately, and the bow of the Malayan clipper was also broken, and the rest was deeply stuck in the wood. row inside.

Splashes of water flew together with pieces of wood, and the "Popeye" on the Malayan clipper jumped into the water one after another. The plopping on the sea was almost like dumpling.Hu Huiqian and Fist Li Ze firmly grasped a rope at the bow of the Malayan Clipper, trying to keep themselves from falling into the water from the clipper.

Several bottles of kerosene were placed on the bow of this Malayan fast boat. When the collision happened just now, some bottles were broken, and the viscous kerosene flowed out, and the air was filled with a pungent smell. The smell of kerosene.

"Fist Li, jump help..." Hu Huiqian roared, loosened the rope with one hand, and held the iron fist in the other hand, then straightened up, and with a push of his legs and feet, the whole person flew into the air, from The Malayan Clippers, who had been stuck in the raft, jumped onto the raft at once, and then ran for ten or twenty steps along the rickety raft with the iron fist in hand.

"Boom..."

At this time, a loud noise came from behind Hu Huiqian, knocking him down, his feet slipped suddenly, one of them lost his footing, and almost fell into the sea.He quickly stabilized his body, knelt down on the raft with one knee, and when he looked back, he found that there was a raging fire behind him!It was the Malayan clipper that ignited the fire, and the roar just now should have been made by the artillery on the western-style galley!

It should be that the sailors on the western-style galley discovered that the Malayan clipper had crashed into the line of defense composed of fishing boats and wooden rafts, and then fired with the ship's sub-cannon and 6-pound cannon. Sparks rubbed off on the hull of the ship, and ignited the fire oil that had been spilled.

Hu Huiqian saw the western-style galley again with the help of the raging fire from the burning oil.This galley was very close to him, only thirty or forty steps away, completely within the range of the Iron Fist anti-ship rocket launcher!

Hu Huiqian knew that this was the best and only chance for him to use the Tekken Anti-warship bazooka... The Tekken anti-warship bazooka was very heavy, and with his strength, he could only carry one.

And he is also within the range of the opponent's firepower. Whether it is a flintlock, a sub-cannon, or a 6-pound gun, he can easily kill him!

Thinking of this, he tore off the yellow phosphorus cable at the tail of the Iron Fist rocket launcher, carried the rocket launcher on his shoulder, aimed at the western-style galley warship, and finally pulled off the yellow phosphorus cable at the head of the rocket launcher. ...

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"Sir...anti-ship infantry!"

A sailor from the Dutch East India Company has already discovered that Hu Hui, who was carrying a bazooka and was about to launch it, has done it!

John Tropp, the captain of the speedboat of the Dutch Flying Fish, felt absurd when he heard the name "anti-ship infantry"... He has served the Dutch Navy and the East India Company for so many years, from an ordinary sailor to the Dutch Flying Fish The captain, in his 20-year sea career, never thought that infantry would one day become the nemesis of battleships!

This fucking thing sounds absurd, but it actually happened during the negotiations in Miaowu City before the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded India.A British armed merchant ship was hit by rockets from the "anti-ship infantry" of Wu's army, and a big hole was opened in the ship's plank of the gun bay.Since then, "anti-ship infantry" has appeared on the military stage as a special unit, and later the concept of "anti-ship cavalry" with more mobility appeared.Although Western countries are facing a shortage of sugar medicine and are unable to equip a large number of sugar medicine weapons, they still try to organize some anti-ship infantry and anti-ship cavalry as mobile troops guarding the inland rivers of Haikou.Unexpectedly, Daming would actually use "anti-ship infantry" for naval battles between ships.

By the light of the fire at this time, John Tropp had spotted a hunky man wearing a pair of boxers and half-kneeling on the burning wooden raft carrying a bazooka. The bazooka on the hunk's shoulder was facing his Holland Flying Fish!

"Damn..." John Tropp cursed, before he could figure out what to do, he saw a cloud of fireworks from the tail of the bazooka on the shoulder of the hunk, and the spindle-shaped head of the bazooka was visible to the naked eye The speed flew towards him.Subconsciously, John Tropp was about to draw his gun and shoot, but before he could draw out the pistol, the spindle-shaped "arrowhead" had already hit the hull of the Dutch Flying Fish with a bang.

This anti-ship iron fist has a steel thorn on the head, which can be easily pierced into the wooden shell of the battleship, and then nailed to the wooden shell!

"It's going to explode!"

John Tropp knew it was not good, so he yelled quickly, and then he stopped drawing his gun, but stretched out his hand and grabbed a railing on the side. Just as he grabbed it, there was a violent shaking under his feet, and his ears were shaking. At the same time, a bang was heard.

"Hit!"

Hu Huiqian cheered loudly, but at the same time he also found that the western-style galley seemed to be fine, only a hole was opened on the left side of the midship, and two or three oars were blown off.

"Throwing you an old mother..." Hu Huiqian cursed dissatisfiedly.

This rocket was going to hit the side of the gun deck, and it might cause the ammunition to explode or fire, but it hit the oarsman's deck, killing a group of worthless native oarsmen at most.

"boom!"

Just when Hu Huiqian was still not satisfied with the result of the battle, the Dutch Flying Fish's ship's butt was hit again, and a ball of fire was thrown up.This should be the rocket fired by "Fist Lee" hit the target!

"Wan Sheng!"

There were cheers on the sea at the same time, and Hu Huiqian knew that it was the arrival of the rest of the Malayan Clippers under his command.

These boats are here to set fire!

So Hu Huiqian didn't dare to stay on the raft for a long time, so he plunged into the water and swam to one of the Malayan clippers.

At the same time that Hu Huiqian dived to escape, the "naval grenadiers" on the Malayan clippers who were close to the wooden blockade line began to throw Molotov cocktails at the blockade line composed of wooden rafts and fishing boats.

Dozens of kerosene filled with kerosene, cloth strips on the bottle mouth, and already ignited Molotov cocktails drew arc-shaped parabolas in the air, and then smashed them one by one on the wooden signs and fishing boats, making a loud noise. At the same time, a fire ignited soaring into the sky!

The fire quickly spread across the entire raft blockade, and at the same time illuminated a large area of ​​the nearby sea as if it were daytime!

The Dutch Flying Fish and several other Dutch East India Company galleys quickly exposed their targets due to the fire spreading at sea, and became the living targets of the assault boats and river-sea galleys following the Malayan clippers up.

The Dutch Flying Fish, which was hit with two iron fists, was the first to be exposed, so it attracted the most firepower. Five assault boats rushed to the front and aimed their six-packed rocket launchers at the Flying Fish.But they didn't fire right away, but they all moved forward-you had to get close to hit accurately!

John Tropp felt surrounded by despair when he saw the five speeding boats approaching him rapidly, and he just yelled in horror: "Oars, oars...we have to get out of here!"

But no matter how much he yelled, the oars couldn't get up quickly. It wasn't that the native oarsmen were unwilling to work hard, but that the iron fist that Hu Huiqian hit just hit the outer side of the oarsmen's deck in the midship.Although this "anti-ship iron fist" is not very big, it is filled with sweet powder that is several times more powerful than black powder.How can the wooden plank resist it?A big hole was blown out in an instant, and those shattered pieces of wood were carried by the blast wave and flew around the entire paddlers deck.The oarsmen inside suffered disaster immediately. They were all shirtless and had no protection at all. The wooden block passed by them, and there was a long bloody gash!About a third of the oarsmen were rewarded for these flying pieces of wood, and the entire oarsman's deck was filled with screams.The rest of the oarsmen, who were not injured, were also so frightened that their hands and feet were weak, and they had no strength to paddle anymore.

The Dutch Flying Fish, which had lost most of its power, became a floating target in this way, and could only rely on the side cannons and 6-pound guns that fired non-stop on one side to desperately resist the rapidly approaching enemy assault boats.

But those assault boats were all hidden in the darkness, only their outlines could be vaguely seen, and they could only shoot a few random shots.However, the Dutch Flying Fish was brightly illuminated by the burning rafts and fishing boats nearby, and the targets were not so good during training!

The five assault boats fired [-] rockets at once - this thing is much more powerful than the anti-ship iron fist used by individual soldiers!

In just a few breaths, six of the thirty rockets had already hit the thin hull of the Dutch Flying Fish at an extremely fast speed, and three of them even penetrated the wooden ship planks and entered. inside the hull.Feeling that the deck under his feet trembled six times, John Tropp knew what was going on, so he hurried to the side. As soon as his body leaned against the side guard, the deck under his feet suddenly jumped, and then It was the roar of the earth shaking and the mountains shaking...Trop fell headfirst from the exploding warship into the seawater when he couldn't stabilize himself!

Chapter 795 We are not Dutch, we are soy sauce

When John Tropp's head came out of the sea after taking a few mouthfuls of salty and bitter sea water, what caught his eyes was a scene that could make him suffer for a lifetime.His beloved Dutch speedboat, the Flying Fish, was on fire and smoke, its sails had turned into a torch, its bow was nowhere to be seen, and there was a big hole in the gun bay, smoke and fire kept coming out. The sailors who survived jumped into the water like dumplings...

Just when he was saddened by the tragic situation of his precious speedboat, several roars swept across the undulating sea and reached his ears. He turned his head and followed the sound, and saw three or four hundred yards away, Another speedboat was blown up by enemy rockets!

In addition, he also found that the blockade line composed of rafts and fishing boats strung together had become a raft line of fire, and the ropes connecting the rafts and fishing boats had been burned a lot.Many burning rafts and fishing boats are floating around on the sea.

Of course, the burnt blockade cannot stop the continuous stream of river-sea galleys and assault boats, let alone the impact of hundreds of Malayan clippers!With the moonlight in the sky and the firelight on the sea, John Tropp saw quite a desperate scene - it was not the Jianghai type of the Ming army, let alone their assault boats, but the fast speed boats that made him despair. Malayan clippers, they are hard to hit, and each clipper has two anti-ship infantry!

Although the rockets fired by these anti-ship infantry are relatively small, not enough to cause a fatal blow to the sailing battleship, but it is still enough to open a few holes in the battleship... The planks of the battleship can't stop the sugar rockets at all!Although it will not sink, but there are a lot of holes pierced in the body, how painful it is!Although the battleship can't call, the gunners and oarsmen in the cabin can't stand it!Once these people suffered heavy casualties, the warships would lose most of their combat effectiveness, and the galley warships would even lose more than half of their mobility, turning them into targets that could only be beaten.

Obviously, the calm weather is not suitable for the control of the Strait of Malacca where sailing warships maneuver at high speed. Because of the appearance of this kind of anti-ship infantry that can board Malayan fast boats, it has already fallen into the hands of the Ming Empire... and such tactics, Westerners There is no way to replicate it in Malacca, because there are not many Westerners in Malacca, but there are hundreds of thousands of pirates and sea merchants with Chinese origin and other immigrants.

After all, this is the backyard of the Celestial Empire!

Thinking of this, John Tropp had to sigh, and then swam to the nearby shore of Johor State.

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In the depths of the Johor Strait, on the British battleship Britannia, the governor of the Dutch East India Company, Kemps, was standing on the stern deck, trying to look towards the direction where the battle was taking place at the west mouth of the strait.His three third-tier battleships and twelve galleys were blocked there - although he commanded the so-called Eight-Nation Joint Fleet, the ships of the three countries did not come at all, and did not even exist... the five-nation ships that came The ships of Britain, France, Switzerland, and Portugal in the ship are all here to help for God's sake!How to get them to lead the way?God will not agree!

Therefore, those who are blocked in front are the property of the Dutch East India Company, while the ships of Britain, France, Switzerland, and Portugal are all shrunk in the Johor Strait.Needless to say, everyone is now watching the situation at the west mouth of the Johor Strait.

If the Dutch warship can stop it, the big guys will burst out with a sense of justice, and rush forward to uphold justice for the Dutch.If the Dutch warships can't hold back... The Emperor Ming's "Sanction Order" clearly states that the Dutch family will be sanctioned!Britain, France, Switzerland, and Portugal can still make money.

One side is to make money, and the other side is to be beaten to death!As long as you have a normal mind, you know how to choose...and as a Christian, if you choose to be beaten to death instead of making money, is it tantamount to suicide?This is going to hell!

So at this moment, Krampus stared intently at the battlefield three or four nautical miles away, with a black heart in his throat, and he was still silently praying to God, the old man, in his heart.

Don't lose... Amen!

Rumble!

Before Krampus had time to make the sign of the cross on his chest, a series of huge fireballs once again rose from the battlefield ahead, accompanied by thunderous bangs!

With the light of the moonlight and the various ships and rafts burning on the sea, Campos discovered that it was the third-tier battleship Batavia that had just exploded—this was not the original Batavia, but An almost new third-tier battleship that was eliminated by the Dutch Navy not long ago has 12 cannons, [-] of which can fire [-]-pound mixed charge (sugar, nitrate, carbon, sulfur) flowering bombs, Very powerful!

However, the seventy cannons of this third-tier battleship are used to bombard small Malay clippers and assault boats. With full sail, there is no problem in running ten knots.Although the so-called Malayan Clippers can also reach this speed, how can the endurance of "Popeye" compare with the sea breeze?What's more, there are also galleys and sails, and when the wind is strong enough, the speed can even reach [-] knots. There is no need to be afraid of Malayan express boats, which are mainly driven by paddles. With only one small schooner, it cannot take full advantage of the wind.

But in the Strait of Malacca where the wind is very small, the third-tier battleship seems to be a bit clumsy and fragile... and four galleys are not enough to protect a third-tier battleship from a large number of Malaya clippers and assault boats attack.

At this time, the battle at the estuary on the west side of the Johor Strait had reached its climax. One of the two raft fishing boat blockades arranged by the Eight-Nation United Fleet had been completely burned, and the other had been ignited by incendiary bombs long ago, and it was broken into several pieces. Knots, burning while floating on the sea.

Already three of the twelve VOC galleys looked utterly horrified, reduced to three blazing fireships, which seemed to have been completely abandoned, waiting to be burnt to ashes.The remaining nine speedboats also fell into a bitter battle, and they were besieged by hundreds of Malayan speedboats and assault boats.Although he was trying his best to fire and resist, he had already shown his defeat!

Six of the nine speedboats had been set on fire, and the remaining three were also shot and punched with holes!

Although the sub-cannons and 6-pound guns equipped on these nine Dutch speedboats also hit many Malayan speedboats and assault boats, compared to the absolute numerical advantage, this loss is not worth mentioning... The Malayan clippers and tuki boats hit by shotgun shells or projectiles from the sub-cannon may not necessarily be over.In fact, those Malayan clippers or assault boats were able to grit their teeth and persist in fighting after being bombarded and losing some personnel-even the Chinese pirates in Malacca knew that tonight's battle would determine Can they and their descendants become the masters of the "toll booth" in Malacca!

This is a life of lying and winning for generations!

If you don't fight now, when will you wait?

In addition to the hundreds of Malayan fast boats and assault boats, there are also ten galleys of the Ming Navy, which are larger than the fast boats of the East India Company, also participated in tonight's battle.

These elite warships of the Ming Navy were even more vigorous. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Malayan clippers and assault boats fighting with the Dutch galleys, they charged at full speed and directly rushed past the eighth-nation fleet. The second blockade line rushed to the three Dutch third-tier battleships!

The three third-tier battleships nestled in the strait had no maneuverability at all at this time-in the absence of wind, the large sail battleships could only be towed by galleys.Facing the ten galleys of the Ming army rushing over, they could only use their broadside artillery to stop and shoot.These three Tier [-] battleships lay across the strait one after another, not only blocking the channel, but also having [-] cannons that could fire at the ten Ming army galleys rushing towards them at the same time.

The salvo of more than 100 cannons, this scene is of course quite spectacular!

On the side of the Ming Navy, the main firepower of the Jianghai-type galley is a ten-barrel rocket launcher installed on the bow turret. Ten Jianghai-class salvos can fire a hundred rockets in one salvo. This scene looks better than three battleships. The salvo of hundreds of guns looked even more terrifying!

Moreover, these hundreds of rockets were still fired in salvo, all aimed at the Batavia located in the middle of the three third-tier battleships!However, they did not open fire immediately, but used the close-in shooting tactics of queuing up and shooting. Under the cover of night, they approached against the constant shells. Although three or four galleys were hit, none of them were shot. Hit the vital point - now the ten ships are facing the enemy at the bow, so the rower's deck is not easy to be hit, and only the rocket turret at the bow is considered the key point.In order to keep this vital point, the sailors also built sandbags in front of the fort.Even if it is directly hit by an explosive shell, it can still keep the fort.

Since the shells fired by the three third-tier battleships could not cause fatal damage to the ten galleys, Zheng Cong, who was supervising the battle on the rear galley, also became courageous, and held back the order to fire until the ten The galley was about to collide with the enemy ship, so it was ordered to fire the signal flare.

Hundreds of rockets soared into the sky, making strange noises, and roaring towards the Batavia, which was more than a hundred steps away.

The Batavia, which had no wind power, could not maneuver at all. It was just a floating target, and was covered by the intensive firepower of hundreds of rockets. It was hit by thirteen or four rockets at once.The penetrating properties of these rockets propelled by the burning of the sugar powder were not weak, and some directly penetrated through the weak points of the ship's plank and penetrated into the battleship.Some are strapped into thick oak baffles.After a while, eight of the rockets began to explode one by one!

This time the Batavia was in bad luck, one fireball after another shot out of the ship!

Although eight rockets exploded, what really caused fatal damage to the Batavia was a rocket that hit the second-story gun bay of the Batavia.

This rocket did not know where the "strength" came from. It actually penetrated the thick baffle of the gun cabin, got into the belly of the gun cabin, and opened a center to bloom.

This is a gun compartment for 12-pound long guns. Although these long guns are not used to open flower shells, there is still a lot of black powder used as propellant in the gun compartment!

There was only a loud bang, and the rocket bomb that got into the belly of the gun cabin exploded immediately!The shrapnel and miscellaneous fragments produced by the explosion were carried by the huge air wave that was also produced by the deflagration of sugar medicine, and flew violently in the cabin with limited space, sweeping over the bodies of the gunners like a violent storm. Almost turned the entire gun bay into a hell on earth!Everyone was knocked to the ground, some were killed directly, and some were beaten to a bloody mess, but they were not dead yet, they were just rolling in their own blood!

Some of them were not fatally injured, but were already frightened mad by the tragedy that happened in front of them. They let out a loud exclamation and ran out like crazy.

All the people in the gun compartment on this floor are either dead or dying, or have been frightened and lost their minds. No one cares about the unburned sugar medicine splashed from the exploded rockets. The fire was lit everywhere... The fire quickly spread everywhere in the gun compartment where black powder was scattered everywhere, and soon burned more and more vigorously with the help of black powder, and burned outside the warehouse where the gunpowder was stored in a blink of an eye.Although the door of the storeroom was closed, it still couldn't stop the hot flames from igniting the wooden door and wooden walls of the gunpowder storehouse!

In this way, the fire spread into the gunpowder magazine, and then ignited a little more than a ton of black powder piled inside...

"Bah, the Batavia is dead!"

Seeing the Batavia turn into a floating ball of violently burning fire after a big explosion, Governor Krampus' heart was about to break.

Although the Dutch East India Company has no less than [-] large and small ships, there are only six third-tier battleships among them, and one has been lost now. If the other two are lost, the Dutch East India Company's position in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean will be lost. Hard to hit a discount.

Thinking of this, he ordered loudly: "Quick, quickly order all the galleys to go to the west exit of the Johor Strait, we must fight back..."

As soon as he said this, he suddenly froze there.Because he found that the sailing battleship Britannia under his feet was moving... It was moving to the depths of the Johor Strait!

Campus quickly turned his head to look at the mast. There was no sail on the mast, and it seemed that there was no wind now... But how did the ship move?

Of course, this question is not difficult for Campos.

The Britannia must have been towed deep into the strait by a British galley to escape!

"Baron!" cried Krampus, "the Britannia is moving . . . who did it?"

"Governor," answered the question was Sir Childe, the Governor-General of the British East India Company, "it was an order from the Baron (Churchill)...Governor, we are English after all, and England is not in the Ming Dynasty. Within the range, we can freely enter and exit the Strait of Malacca!"

Chapter 796 Instead of you kneeling, let me kneel first!

When the morning of July [-], the seventh year of the Ming Dynasty came, a scene that made people laugh and cry appeared in the narrow and curved strait between Temasek Island and Johor State.

There are seven European third-tier battleships—all majestic sailing battleships, with a total of nearly [-] cannons, which are enough to destroy several countries in Southeast Asia!Now, fourteen galleys of [-] to [-] tons were dragged by ropes and fled slowly to the depths of the strait... Fourteen small Western boats paddled hard, pulling seven battleships as magnificent as a city wall slowly. Moving into the strait.As if trying to avoid something scary!

At the same time, at the western entrance of the Strait of Johor, there were still eight warships that had been burned and wrecked and originally belonged to the Dutch East India Company, floating lifelessly along the current.

On both sides of the west mouth of the Johor Strait, there are still twelve 12-pound guns firing one after another, as if telling the Ming warships cruising outside the strait: "You must not come here, our Western imperialism is Super fierce!"

Outside the Strait of Johor, two fleets of five river-sea galleys, ten tussock boats and forty or fifty Malayan fast boats cruised outside the east and west mouths of the strait. The warships of doctrine are blocked in the Strait of Johor.

"Aren't you Englishmen, Frenchmen, Portuguese, Swedes ashamed? You have thus abandoned your allies - the brave Dutch crusaders! They are all defenders of Western civilization, defenders of European interests the most outstanding fighters under the banner of God... may God bless these holy and noble martyrs!"

In the officer's lounge of the sailing battleship Britannia, the person who is impassionedly accusing the senior officials of the East India Trading Company of Britain, France, Portugal, and Switzerland and a British baron and major general is the governor of the Dutch East India Company, John S Camps.

This big profiteer from the Netherlands, who had a clean beard and hair trimmed yesterday afternoon, is now unshaven, with a face full of grief and red eyes, as if he has been wronged so much.

On the other hand, Churchill and Chard of the United Kingdom, Jean Reno of the French East India Company, Charlie Vasa of the Swedish East India Company, Perez, the commander of the Portuguese Goa Fleet, and others all had expressions of sympathy. Looking at Krampus, the eyes are full of apology... I am so sorry, these people agreed to defend the freedom of navigation with the Dutch.But when the ships of the evil Ming Empire pounced on them last night, they were all scared, and none of them were willing to take their warships to defend the interests of the Netherlands.

This is really inappropriate and embarrassing... Not only did they not stand out, but they also let their galleys drag the third-tier battleships to hide in the depths of the strait, and then watched the three third-tier battleships of the Dutch He and ten galleys were destroyed by ships of the Ming Empire!

Of course, this is not the worst thing to do.The most inappropriate thing is that these people are still planning to happily carve up the Dutch market after the Dutch East India Company goes bankrupt... The Emperor Ming said in the "Sanction Order of the Celestial Dynasty" that the Dutch East India Company should be sanctioned, but not sanctioned. England, France, Sweden, Portugal.

Therefore, when the governors and admirals of Britain, France, Switzerland, and Portugal found that it was impossible for them to defeat the Ming sea power with absolute numerical superiority in the calm Malacca Strait most of the time, they immediately chose... to kneel for the time being Make money, and then consider how to oppose Daming after making enough money.

It's just that this money... It's too embarrassing to earn it for real!

"Baron!" Campus looked at Baron John Churchill, who had been shouting and screaming with red eyes, but resolutely persuaded Baron John Churchill when the situation came to an end. "How do you think we should show the Ming Empire the unity of the Western world?" ?”

John Churchill looked embarrassed, and he didn't understand naval warfare... So he never expected that the Eight-Nation Armada would fight so uselessly in the Strait of Malacca.The Dutch, who were the best at sneaking anchorages, let the Ming Navy steal the anchorage, and they were stolen even though they were fully on guard!No, not "stealing", but storming the anchorage by force!

They didn't even come to the capital ship, so they relied on a bunch of speedboats to fire rockets to tidy up the three third-class ships and twelve speedboats of the Dutch.