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Once again, the sea trembled under the fire of the colonizers, eager for economic gain.

The fleet was led by the English naval commander Robert Black, born in 1599 in the west of England to a wealthy merchant and shipowner, who had studied at Oxford University.

In the English Civil War, because of his shrewdness, profound knowledge, and repeated military exploits, he was valued by Cromwell and became famous at home. After assuming the post of commander-in-chief of the navy, he devoted himself to the study of naval strategy and meticulously implemented operational command, which greatly promoted the development of the British Navy and the prosperity of naval scholarship.

This time, his attack on the Sunda Islands was not only the pride of the former British royal family "Royal Ark" (at this time King Charles I was about to hang in the hands of Cromwell), but also the British "Sea King", "Prince", "Victory", "Triumph" and other powerful battleships built in 1637.

Thirty three-masted cruisers, which were extremely advanced at the time, were the product of a full combination of firepower, speed and range, and were also the main force of the British Navy, which represented advanced naval ideas at this time.

Most of these cruisers had two decks, carried about 60 guns, and could reach a maximum speed of 10 knots. Although the firepower of such warships seems to be far less imposing than those that can carry more than 100 guns at every turn, for the time being, the halo of the rise of Great Britain's maritime power has not yet been properly put on their heads.

The main firepower of these cruisers was the unified Kabarin guns, which had barrel-shaped shells (think of a round-bottomed iron barrel) and had a longer range than ordinary spherical shells. These barrel-shaped shells weighed 17 pounds (about 7.71 kilograms) and had an effective range of 600 meters, with a maximum range of nearly 3,000 meters. On the contrary, both the speed of the ship and the salvo power of the artillery, it seems that the battleships as the main force are inferior.

This was also the trick that Britain had figured out in the constant naval battles with Spain and the Royal Netherlands Navy. Such a change, regardless of the intensity of fire and the rate of fire, has made the opportunity to change the artillery fire and the formation, and organically combine to produce incomparable power.

The straight-line battle formation in the artillery battle became more mature, which also made the British navy at this time much sharper than Spain and the Netherlands, which still used a large number of warships carrying landing troops.

Therefore, the British Navy, in response to the British East India Company's desire for the Spice Road, dispatched almost half of its navy to fight for the ownership of the Spice Islands. On the one hand, he organized other forces near Europe, intercepting the merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company to Europe, and obtaining a large number of resources and wealth seized by the Dutch East India Company around the world.

The British fleet sailed into the rather narrow channel of the Sunda Strait, with three columns guarding the marines in the middle, who were carried by armed merchant ships.

The Sunda Strait is about 150 kilometers long, 22~110 kilometers wide, and 50~80 meters deep. Less than 30 kilometers above the sea at the northeast exit, there is a small island 3.52 kilometers long and no more than 1.5 kilometers wide.

The reason why Robert Black took the Spice Islands from here, instead of the Strait of Malacca, which he usually takes, is that it will not be long after coming out of the Sunda Strait to face the city of Batavia. Or before landing on land, he would fight the warships of the Royal Netherlands Navy stationed here, which was nothing to him after half his life in naval warfare.

And he was even more confident that he had chosen to cross the Sunda Strait, and at this moment standing on his flagship battleship "Sea King", his beautiful and handsome military uniform had long been wet from the raindrops flying in the Sunda Strait.

Although the rain almost covered the surface of the sea like a curtain, making it almost impossible for him to see the course, it also made the sailors tremble, and it was no fun to run aground near the enemy's waters.

However, in such weather, the lighthouse on the small island at the exit of the channel could not see the British fleet operating at sea, so as to achieve the purpose of a surprise attack on the city of Batavia.

"King of the Sea"! Robert Black was convinced that the ship was not only the pride of the British Navy, but also a symbol of Britain's growing maritime power. Although it was slower than the warships built close to the light Galen ships that were built and joined the fleet, there was nothing more secure than riding on such a ship in a duel at sea.

With a total length of 51 meters, a width of 14.7 meters, a depth of 23.17 meters, and a draft of 6.8 meters, the ship weighs 1,683 tons and has four decks. The ship was erected with 3 masts, and crown sails were hung on the mainmast and foremast. The ship is armed with 102-104 guns, 30 guns on the low and main decks, and 26 guns on the upper deck. There were 12 guns on the bow floor, 14 guns on the half deck, 10 bow guns and a number of stern guns.

There were only five such first-class battleships, and the remaining fifteen battleships were all second- or third-class battleships, of course, these were only his own divisions, and they had not yet been uniformly recognized.

In fact, the history is two years later, that is, since 1650, the British Navy classifies ships according to the number of guns, the first class ships are equipped with 100~120 guns, the second class ships are equipped with 90~98 guns, and they are still three-deck, the third class is equipped with 64~80 guns, and the two-deck is generally speaking, only the first three ships are counted as "first-line combat ships" and can enter the battle column as the main force to engage, the fourth-class ships have 30~60 guns, and the fifth class is a three-masted galleon with 30~44 guns. The sixth level is a coastal defense and patrol ship with 20~28 guns.

Robert Black, the commander of the British fleet, led his fleet with confidence, and when it was raining heavily and the weather was not very bright in the early morning, he was confident that he would not be detected by the Dutch, even if the Dutch were stationed on the small island in the center of the strait.

Of course, his confidence was only in the hands of his rivals, the Dutch. And the scouts of the divisional reconnaissance battalion of the 2nd Marine Division of the Shenzhou Army, hidden on the island, with the help of high-powered telescopes, still did not miss the Robert Black fleet in such weather.

This observation point was established at the southern end of the island, and the equipment they used was quite peculiar. The highest lens is set up at a third of the 60-meter-high giant rainforest plant along the coast, about 10 meters above the ground, using the principle of a periscope, refracting the image from a depth of three meters underground to the observation station not far from the shore, and the terminal is a pair of eyepieces with adjustable focus.

Three sets of surveillance systems, high (10 meters above the ground), medium (5 meters), and low (1 meter), cooperated with the scouts on the opposite shore to monitor the Sunda Strait tightly.

The Scouts' station, on the other hand, is accessed through a sealed door from their observation room. Completely prefabricated reinforced concrete, semi-buried underground, with good ventilation and lighting, including bathrooms and other accessories such as storage.

In order to put together the four observation points that were blockaded here, a total of more than 8,000 Indonesian laborers were used, and all of them were completed after three days, and now they have shown an effect that is not as good as expected.