Sonod stood on the highest wall, looking at the sea in the north, motionless like a sculpture.

"Governor, you have been standing here for several hours. You might as well go down and rest for a while!" Encos's voice sounded in his ears.

At this time, a cannon sound came faintly from the north, and a long sigh rang out almost at the same time.

Sonod slowly turned his body and said in a hoarse voice: "Encos, are you too cold-blooded? Even though I knew there was absolutely no chance of winning this attack, I still sent Lieutenant Colonel Andorno and his fleet out for a illusory honor. Is it worth it?"

Encos was silent for a while before saying, "Governor General, I am just your adjutant. Both courage and experience are far inferior to you, but I have an advantage that you do not have."

Speaking of this, Encos showed a hint of bitterness on his face, "I have fought with the fleet of the Marquis and stayed in his prisoner-of-war camp for a while, so I still have some understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army."

"Encos, I asked if it's worth it, not like you asked about the combat effectiveness of the Ming army!" Sonod interrupted him.

"But these two have a necessary connection!"

Encos said in anti-voice: "Only by understanding the combat effectiveness of the Ming army can we make better choices, right?

Honor cannot be eaten as food. We could have ordered Andernor to lead his fleet to avoid it in the South Ocean, or even ordered them to return to their homeland, but you have let them go on a path of no return, just for the honor of soldiers.

In my opinion, wouldn’t it be better to save this precious fleet and wait until the local fleet arrives before launching an attack on the Ming people together?”

"Are you finished?"

Sonod surprisingly did not express his anger, but instead took back his gaze from a distance, sighed and asked, "Encos, if I let Lieutenant Colonel Andorno and his fleet push to the South China Sea or even return to the mainland, can the city of Gelanzha be still defended?"

"Well……"

It was like a scoop of cold water pouring on Encos' head, and it immediately wiped out Encos' confusion and grief in his heart.

Whether ancient and modern, both in China and abroad, in addition to fighting for financial resources and equipment, the most important thing is to fight morale. The result of a high morale and a determined desire to die and a two army with low morale but no fighting spirit is to meet.

The reason why the defenders of Gerlandzha are still high and not only because of Sonod's instigation, the most important point is that Lieutenant Colonel Andorno's tragic spirit of leading the fleet to take the initiative to attack affected them even though he knew he would die.

If Andorno led the fleet to escape, then the morale that Sonod finally aroused was probably blew up. Not to mention that he had been attacking the Ming army with absolute military strength for four or five months, he would probably not be able to hold on for four or five days.

After understanding this, the little courage that Encos had just plucked up could no longer be found like a deflated ball.

Seeing Encos lower his head, Sonod knew that his adjutant had figured it out. He put his hands behind his back and said lightly: "Okay, pass on my order. Except for the soldiers who left the alert, everyone else will go down and rest.

If I was right, the Ming people are busy cleaning the battlefield and not paying attention to us, but from tomorrow we may have very little time to sleep."

Sonod was right. The naval battle was over, but the matter was not over yet. A series of things such as cleaning the battlefield and rescuing the wounded were all busy.

Especially here is the sea. It is not easy to rescue the wounded and corpses and bodies from the sea filled with corpses and wreckage. After a war, all the sailors were already very tired.

Cleaning the battlefield is naturally a very hard thing, but compared to how to "pull out" the head of the Zhenyuan ship from the Black Pearl body is nothing.

In today's combat effectiveness, Zhenyuan used its strong corner to smack the bow of the Black Pearl, but later found that the bow of the Zhenyuan was firmly embedded in the hull of the Black Pearl and could not be pulled out for a while.

This made everyone very anxious. It was more than ten miles away from them. If they stayed here for too long, who would know what trouble would happen to the Dutch people?

After seeing the situation of the Zhenyuan, Liu Xiang, Lu Guangbiao and other officers unanimously believed that the two ships were too firmly inserted. If they wanted to separate the two ships, they could only tow the ship back to the Xiamen Shipyard. The craftsmen slowly divided the two ships into pieces. They would never go back to the battlefield without ten days or half a month.

When Yang Feng heard this, he was a little unhappy and shook his head on the spot: "No, Zhenyuan is a flagship. How could he return to Hong Kong in shame when the war first started? Besides, Zhenyuan is not as fragile as you think. Since it is not easy to separate, let's use a rough method."

"A rough way?"

Everyone looked at each other.

"Can't it..."

"Just knock it out!"

Well, the rougher method Yang Feng said is very simple, which is to let another third-class warship sail slowly for a distance and then use the bow to hit the half-shed of the Black Pearl.

How about it, simple, right? Rough?

It's really simple and crude.

"Bang……"

With a muffled sound, the huge bow of a third-class warship hit the Black Pearl. The Black Pearl, which had originally clamped the bow of Zhenyuan, began to shake under the impact.

"Bang……"

Another muffled sound, and another third-class warship hit the Black Pearl, causing the Zhenyuan to shake violently.

After two consecutive collisions, many people's faces changed.

On the deck of another warship, Lu Guangbiao looked at the Black Pearl that was constantly hit, and felt a little numb. He thought he was a man who thought he was proficient in maritime affairs, but he had never seen such a crazy approach.

Aren't he afraid of the Zhenyuan being damaged? You must know that such a warship is hulled, and it is absolutely impossible to get it without more than 100,000 taels of silver. It seems that this person is really not using silver as money.

After being hit continuously, the half-wall of the Black Pearl could no longer hold on to the Zhenyuan, and was knocked back more than ten meters. Then the sea water frantically poured into its hull and soon sank into the seabed.

The Zhenyuan, who had escaped, finally regained freedom. Liu Xiang, who had long felt very distressed, quickly asked someone to check the damage to the warship. After learning that the hull, especially the keel bone, was not hindered, but the bow of the ship was slightly damaged, she felt relieved.
Chapter completed!