"General Yuyi, the Ming warships were found in front, the number is five, the direction is due south, and the distance is about twenty kilometers."

In order to break the conspiracy of the Ming people, Yuichi, who was retreating south, received a report from the sailors on the mast.

"It seems that this is the conspiracy of the Ming people, do they think that this battle will be won, and they want to surround us with twenty warships?" He was enraged, and the honor of the Kingdom of the Netherlands was not to be despised.

In order to stand taller, the obese man laboriously climbed up to the top deck of the flagship and struggled to look ahead with his monoculars. The sky has already brightened, and under the morning mist, the figures of five battleships in the distance appear in the camera.

After looking at it for a long time, he put away his binoculars and said to Colonel Ryan: "Order all ships to speed up, the target is the five enemy ships in front, and we will kill the enemy behind before they catch up." ”

Fifty-five ships fought five ships, achieved a local group fight, and then returned to take out the enemy's main force. He didn't know the real combat power of the Tiance Army's warships, but judging from the current situation of the Tiance Navy's formation, its naval combat experience was stupid to the point of naivety.

The speed of the Combined Fleet accelerated to eight knots, and it rushed violently towards the Nanyang Detachment departing from Hong Kong.

This fleet consisted of two coast guard warships, two coast surveillance warships, and one supply ship, one of which was the one that started from Batavia and followed the Dutch, and the commander of the detachment was Zhuang Suwen, commander of the South China Sea Fleet.

The contrast of ten times that of the enemy made the European crews, both the Dutch and the Spaniards, very active, so that they all rushed forward with a scream.

The guns of European warships were all smoothbore guns, and although the maximum firing range of the 48-pounder guns of the largest caliber reached 3 kilometers, the best range of shelling was within 300 meters, as with other caliber guns in naval warfare. Beyond this distance, only God knows where the fired shells hit.

The Europeans of this era used firearms, and they all played the tactics of bayonets to see red, and this was the case in naval warfare, and the same was true in land warfare, so land warfare was called lining up to shoot, almost pointing at each other's noses and shooting. However, this also shows that the soldiers in Europe are professional soldiers, and they are very obedient and disciplined, and if the Ming army is allowed to do this, it will definitely collapse long ago.

Originally, the naval detachment was tasked with encircling the European fleet, but it did not expect to become the first target of the Europeans.

The navy's operations are still dominated by naval artillery, so most of the naval combat tactics of the Tiance Army refer to the World War II materials provided by Wang Yue for the reference of naval research. Because of the huge technical superiority of the naval warships of the Tiance Army, the combat idea is similar to that of the US military in the previous life, that is, flat push.

Seeing that the European fleet was divided into three directions, the left and the right, and the commander of the detachment, Zhuang Suwen, was not surprised and said: "Order all ships to turn to the left, seize the T-position, and deal with the enemy fleet on the left first." ”

There are a large number of enemy ships, and Zhuang Suwen naturally has to use the speed of his own warships to get rid of the encirclement and group beating. The naval warship of the Tiance Army drew a graceful arc on the surface of the sea and sailed towards the left of the European fleet.

At a distance of twenty kilometers, the European fleet would need to walk for an hour and ten minutes at a speed of eight knots.

It was found that these five enemy ships did not flee, but quickly adjusted their positions, shifted towards the Spanish fleet, and stared at the battleships of the Tiance Army with binoculars in disbelief: "Why? How did the warships of the Ming people do not have sails, but they can move freely at sea? ”

It has always been a very complicated process for a sail warship to stop and turn at sea, but the steering of the Tiance Navy warship is completed very smoothly and in one go.

No one could answer this question, and Colonel Ryan rushed over from the stern of the ship and said, "General, the enemy behind is pressing up, and their speed is very fast. ”

He put down his binoculars and said, "Let the Batavian fleet stay and stop them, buy us time, and take out the five enemy ships in front of us first." ”

"But...!" Colonel Ryan said. The Batavian fleet has only thirteen warships, and the enemy behind it not only has a numerical advantage, but also a huge ship, doesn't this send the Batavian fleet to death?

He interrupted: "There is nothing to do, carry out the order." ”

He had a bad premonition that today's naval battle was likely to be more than auspicious. Four of the twenty enemy ships were more than ten times the size of the largest of the ships, the smallest of which was about the size of his flagship, and the enemy ships were very strange and sailing at incredible speeds.

The best tactic now is to cut off the enemy's arm first, so as to increase the chances of victory in the next confrontation with the enemy's main fleet.

Colonel Ryan was reluctant, but an order is an order and must be carried out.

The Tiance Army has always been unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to observe battlefield dynamics, which is one of the reasons why they chose to start the war during the day. The change in the formation of the Europeans was clearly seen by the drones.

The thirteen warships of the Batavia fleet broke away from their own positions, and each warship was adjusted to a horizontal stop on the sea surface to form a battle line on the channel of the main fleet of the Tiance Army, aiming at the position of the Tiance Army with the side sides, and the gun windows of all the warships were opened, and the gunners loaded shells and gunpowder to make pre-battle preparations.

"Order all ships to gather fire on the enemy ships in front of us who are trying to intercept our army, do not entangle with them, and continue to advance." Looking at the picture transmitted by the drone from high in the sky, Wei Xiaoliang ordered.

In the course of pursuit, the 15 warships of the main fleet have changed their formation into a horizontal formation to the European fleet, with two dock landing ships in the center, a supply ship in the rear, and coast guard warships, maritime surveillance warships, and passenger and cargo ro-ro ships on the left and right flanks.

Since the mobile cargo ship is not a combat ship, only the self-defense weapon is equipped with a Type 85 heavy machine gun with an incendiary warhead, so it is arranged to wait in the nearby ocean.

At a distance of three kilometers, 75 85-millimeter anti-aircraft guns and 120 37-millimeter antiaircraft guns on the warships of the Tiance Army opened fire one after another, and these antiaircraft guns were converted from army antiaircraft guns.

Among them, the 85-mm anti-aircraft gun has a firing range of 10,000 meters and a rate of fire of 30 to 35 rounds per minute, and the caliber of the gun is about equal to the caliber of the 20-pounder gun formulated by the Europeans in this time and space.

This thing would not have been a problem against a metal plane made of late World War II. The most terrifying thing is the rate of fire, the rate of fire of the European 20-pounder gun is 2 to 3 rounds a minute, and the rate of fire of the 85-mm anti-aircraft gun reaches a terrifying rate of 30 to 35 rounds, and not only that, but this shell will explode.

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