Section 870 Battle of Linga Island (2)
After retreating for more than two hours, the Southeast Fleet regrouped and met again!
The wind is always favorable to Hongmaofan, and it has been favorable.
Both warring sides fought strictly along the battle line, and there was no scattered fighting.
The battle line engagement came from the first initiative of the Southeast Army, and Hongmaofan also learned it.
The LinkedIn navy led by the turnip-headed Blake was defeated by the Dutch. The turnip head is his own constipation blame toilet, and the business is not good to complain about the counter, saying that the reason for the failure is that the captains under his command are rushing and killing indiscriminately, and they have broken their own positions.
However, at that time, naval warfare was also like cavalry combat, with warships of similar size fighting each other.
In all three battles of Batavia, the Southeastern Fleet fought on one line and defeated the Dutch by means of battle line tactics.
Everyone, this tactic is good, don't fight, all line up in a line to shoot, fighting is to compare who has more artillery, whose ship is stronger, and who has more ammunition, and finally who has better sailor endurance.
Also, when there is a line, the commander is often in the middle, and he can take care of both the left and right. Sometimes there are many ships in the fleet, and a line is laid out for several nautical miles, and the commander cannot see or see it. It's okay, there are deputy commanders below the commander, like the major fleets have the forward, the middle and the rear, each with its own flagship, and their ships are scattered along a line, like the railway police, each in charge of a section.
During the battle, if the captain is found not to keep a line and there are signs of backward movement, the commander will write it down and go back to make a small report, and the captain will face the danger of being dismissed or even losing his life after going ashore.
If you are in a chaotic battle, you will be dazzled, and you won't know where to take it.
Fighting on the battle line is a stupid way, and there is no way to do it.
So they began to bombard each other again, all of them were top-notch troops, and both sides were undaunted, seeing the sawdust flying, and the shells looming around them, patronizing the opening of artillery and shooting.
After the advance of the red hair, the Chinese army followed, and suddenly, a Dutch ship withstood the blazing artillery fire, brought out a group of battleships behind, and went straight into the Chinese army of the Southeast Fleet!
At the head is none other than the Dutch general Jost Bonket, who is going to cut off the battle line of the Southeastern Fleet!
If it was too late for the battle lines of the two sides to be set up, it would be too late to outflank the small Southeast Fleet, so Jost Bonkett would attack the Chinese army of the Southeast Fleet in the Chinese army.
The ships of the Southeastern Fleet were even more dense, rubbing shoulders like people, and each ship was using a salvo of fire, spitting fire and rumbling continuously, and Jost Bonkett's battleship "Ford" was caught in the cannon fire in the sky, lost its way in the white smoke, and when it came out of the smoke, it was confronted by a large ship.
Siresma!
He shouted, "Fire!" ”
Thirty-eight guns fired a salvo at the "Ford" in the form of bayonets on the cannons, and the shells barely missed, and the Dutch ships were well fed!
In less than a minute, fifty-eight seconds!
Another salvo!
On his "Southeast Asia No. 8", the officers and soldiers were in full swing, the officers were still wearing military uniforms, while the soldiers wore helmets, shirtless, and only wore a bulletproof vest, some wore trousers, and those who were afraid of losing their balls wore crotch guards.
They're very motivated, and their job anyway is to shoot and throw things out.
Then a third salvo, this time two seconds longer, a minute.
However, the "Ford" could not stand it anymore, and the salvo of the "Southeast Asia Eight" not only killed and wounded the Dutch, but also disrupted their rhythm, so that their return fire was quite weak and weak, and even the upper gun deck did not fire a single shot.
The "Ford" was "discolored" like a woman who had been ravaged by pain, the deck was littered with dead and wounded, there were shards of wood everywhere, the fallen personnel groaned incessantly, and Jost Bonkett had to command the battleship to retreat temporarily, widening the distance between it and the southeastern warship, thus reducing the hit rate of the southeastern ship.
It wasn't until he was back on the Dutch line that Jost Bonkett breathed a long sigh of relief.
Then General John Iverson did not believe in evil and commanded his "Rotterdam Maiden" to rush to the fifth-class cruisers in the Southeast Fleet's battle line, which, although they had 18-pounder guns, had only one gun deck and were quite weak in firepower.
With a large number of anti-aircraft guns, the "Rotterdam Maiden" and the Dutch ships that followed behind were parallel to the formation of fifth-class cruisers, and their guns were fiercely poured on the Chinese warships.
But the fifth-class cruiser always insisted on returning fire, the soldier fell, another soldier took over, the port cannon fell apart, and the starboard cannon was pulled over and hit again!
The Chinese hid in a hidden place and shot at the red hairy fan with muskets!
After all, the cruiser was inferior to the battleship, and the firepower on the cruiser gradually fell silent, especially the battleship was condescending, and the open-air deck fired shotguns, so that the Chinese could not raise their heads, and if the helmsman position was not protected by armor plates, I was afraid that even the rudder could not be controlled.
John Iverson triumphantly maneuvered the ship to the cruiser and carried out the task of cutting off the battle line.
Suddenly, more than a dozen black balls flying out of the cruiser were black and fiery!
The red-haired fans watched them land on the "Rotterdam Girl" and explode violently, blowing up the red-haired fans and dogs on the wall!
Bomb! The bomb is coming!
The powder canister of the black powder period was actually a large cannon battle, and its explosive power was limited, but it was still quite a threat to the human body with iron bullets and rusty iron nails, and even John Iverson was hit by a few iron bullets, which was spicy and painful.
Some of the red-haired fans were unlucky enough to nail the nails into the flesh, and there were quite a few of them.
So John Iverson returned in vain.
Next was the Dutch general Witte de Witt, who commanded his "Flevoland Province" to rush to the rear of the South-Eastern Fleet in order to make a cut-off.
However, the southeastern warships were unusually dense, and the Dutch could not cut off the southeastern fleet, but instead caused a fierce blow.
However, the Dutch still had good luck, and the 70-gun battleship "Nanhai No. 13" hit the tail rudder position next to the battleship "Nanhai No. 35" behind it, and the rudder position failed.
When the British at the front wanted to outflank the Southeast Fleet, Chen De gave the order to retreat, and the ships opened their sails and retreated, and the battleship "Nanhai No. 13" fell behind!
Even if the officers and men on the ship tried their best, it still surrounded the red-haired ships, and the rest of the red-haired ships crossed them and continued to pursue!
The officers and men of the southeast ships watched with wide eyes as the battleship was caught in the red-haired cannon fire, but they could not do anything.
In particular, the officers and men of the battleship "Nanhai No. 35" were even more eager to replace each other.
Chen De said coldly: "Retreat!" ”
The Southeastern Fleet had to continue its retreat, losing its friendly ships to the enemy.
The battleship "Nanhai No. 13" raised three red flags, indicating that the ship will fight to the death and will never surrender!
"Resist to the end, if you can't detonate the powder magazine, open the sea valve, and sink the ship!" Captain Jiang Jiandong said loudly.
The "Nanhai 13" guns and cannons roared, but it was besieged by a pack of wolves, and Hongmao Fan was very experienced in destroying its sail system with chain bullets to make it unable to run, and then attacked with solid bullets and shotguns in turn.
The Chinese resisted bravely and fought to the last soldier!
As the sun set, the "Nanhai No. 13" exploded and sank!
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