The Acehnese people waited for almost a month, and it was expected that it would take ten days for Crimea to go to the Rising Sun City in the southeast province, ten days of negotiations, and ten days of response, but the news that came was that Crimea had nothing to do, and the southeast government did not give a clear reply.

Don't wait, the fleet is dispatched!

On the flagship, Aceh Sudan Iskandar Rattani was dressed in gold, equipped with a sword, a huge ring on his finger, and the gold ornaments and precious stones on his clothes and sword glittered in the sun, which was extremely dazzling.

And his generals were dressed in iron armor and wore iron helmets, and they were full of arrogance.

The Aceh army was a very powerful army, with strong soldiers, heavy iron weapons, swords and spears, leather armor and bows and arrows, and arquebuses!

This is remarkable, you must know that Southeast Asia is generally backward, and the armor of many natives in the South Seas is their skin, and it is good to have clothes, and the iron tip of the wooden spear is enough to make him envious, let alone have a machete.

The main thing in the Aceh fleet is the dragon boat ship, the real name is the "Calais type battleship", that is, the oared warship, the original source is ancient Greece, well, Achilles used this kind of warship to land on the beach during the Battle of Troy.

Such boats were used until the Middle Ages and then spread eastward, where they were passed to the Aceh by the Ottoman Turks.

The hull of these ships is slender, the length and width are relatively large (generally 6~9:1), there is only one deck, the side of the ship is shorter, there is a paddle window on the waterline, oarsmen are set on both sides, there are 15-30 oars on each side, the oars are thick, and it takes four slaves to row, if it is a thin slave, it becomes a big trouble----- these Sudan countries are generally influenced by the Ottoman Turks, like to use slaves, there are black slaves, eunuchs, and even white slaves in the court, of course, if possible, they will also enslave the Chinese to work, it's just that the clever Chinese were soon able to raise their position among the slaves, successfully trampling other races under their feet. As we will see, Yan Dashao used these pretexts to enslave the Chinese in the Sudan Kingdom to wage war against the Sudan Kingdom.

The "Calais-type battleships" usually do not have guns on the deck, generally only in the bow and stern, most of them are in the forecast, and a considerable number of rowing warships do not have a stern, and a small number of guns are set on them, often only 3 or 5 guns. There are also some Calais warships that are faster, and the bow of the ship is equipped with a ramming angle, which is this kind of battleship that Zhao Hongli saw last time, and is used to impact the enemy formation.

The hull structure is simple, the strength is poor, the draft is shallow, and most of them are flat-bottomed boats.

Calais warships are usually equipped with two masts, and small ships also have only one mast, each with a triangular sail, because the oars are basically powered by oars, and the sails are only auxiliary tools for sailing, and they still rely on oars when fighting.

The Acehnese were indeed strong, employing more than 200 Calais warships, as well as smaller flat-bottomed ships, including Chinese ships known as "junks", which mainly transported military supplies.

There were more than 20,000 Acehnese warriors, not counting slaves, and the pure-bred Acehnese disdained to be oarsmen, so the oarsmen were almost all slaves, and the oarsmen on each ship were almost twice as many as the soldiers.

The flagship of Iskandar Rattani in Aceh Sudan, called the "Sacred Sword", belonged to the "Gallias" battleship, which was more powerful and more terrifying than the Calais.

It has a fat hull, a length-to-width ratio of 4~5:1, usually has two decks, the lower deck is the oarsmen's deck, 2-3 rows of oarsmen are staggered, the upper deck is an open-air deck, 15 guns are installed on each side, and it has the power of side guns.

The Sacred Sword is 70 meters long, 7 meters wide, has a draft of about three and a half meters, and has a light displacement of 250 tons, twice the size of an ordinary Calais battleship, and it has 36 6-pounder guns, and a total of 300 oarsmen work together to make the giant ship move.

The Acehnese had a total of 10 of these "Gallias" ships, and this time they dispatched 6 ships, while their opponents, the Johoreans, did not have such ships!

The "Gallias" battleships were so powerful that the Acehnese had high hopes for them, but there were pros and cons, and the "Gallias" battleships were a short board in terms of maneuverability, although they were equipped with 3 masts and more oarsmen, but because the hull was too heavy, the maneuverability was still far inferior to the agile Calais-type battleships, which seriously slowed down the fleet, so that it took the fleet a full week to reach the sea surface of Johor, and at the same time, it also gave the enemy a chance to take advantage of the fact that it could not be filled in time during the battle.

At 10 a.m., the Johor fleet of hundreds of warships met the Aceh fleet off the coast, and the battle began slowly.

The equipment of the Johoreans is also similar to that of the Acehnese, and the fleet is all "Calais-type warships", with smaller hulls and no large "Gallias-type" warships, and the other party is a Sutan royal pilot, and the morale is strong.

It's just that the Johoreites did not lack courage, they were led by General Khalid (there are many people called Khaled), Merwan, Misbaha, etc., and the forward flagship led by Khalid bore the brunt of the attack, firing at the Aceh fleet, and their bow gun sank a large Calais warship in the front of the Aceh with only two guns!

The shell actually pierced directly through the upper hull of the waterline of the unlucky battleship, and the sea water rushed in, and the Aceh ship, which had no watertight compartment, sank quickly!

Accidentally!

But it was also an excellent sign, and suddenly, the cheers of the Johoreans overwhelmed the Acehnese who were twice as large as them!

The Aceh people were silent, and the faces of some old officers changed: "This is a twelve-pounder cannon!" ”

When the red-haired fan came to Nanyang, the artillery sold was always less than six pounds, without exception, no matter how good the relationship and the price was, he would not sell higher pounds of artillery.

The technical level of the natives is inferior, don't look at the cannons, they are nothing more than the Europa, Turks and Chinese, there is no other source, and all countries will not sell heavy artillery-----Chinese make an exception, sell the Johoreans twelve-pounder cannons, in order to let the Johoreans better kill the Acehnese and not defeat quickly.

"Defeat the Acehnese!" The rapid combat power of the Johorerites against the long-burning anger in the hearts of the Acehnese created this jaw-dropping scene at the beginning of the war!

Iskandar Rattani ordered two-thirds of the fleet to attack the Johoreans head-on, and one-third of the fleet went into the shallow waters to the north to fight, trying to flank and cut off the Johor fleet's return sea route to the shore, but it was not a good strategy, as the center of gravity of the Johor fleet moved north---- their ships were faster, so the Acehnese were blocked, and they could not exert the power of the boats.

At about eleven o'clock in the morning, the left flank fleet of the Acehnese and the right flank of the Johorean flank collided violently, and a bloody battle began.

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