"Oh no, Colonel, we've found an unidentified fleet in the open sea!!"

"We're speeding towards our port of Batavia."

Although it was not intentional, it was clear that Batavia's welcome ceremony would be interrupted halfway.

"How long will it take to get to our port?"

Colonel Lincoln was taken aback.

"Two hours at most!"

"How big?"

"More than thirty ships!"

"Sound the alarm, all sailors go into combat readiness."

Colonel Lincoln didn't even want to send someone to reconnoiter and verify the belonging of the incoming fleet, so he gave the order in front of all the non-commissioned officers of the Dutch Far East Fleet present.

Now the forces in the entire Indonesian archipelago and the Strait of Malacca can still gather such a large fleet to exist, in addition to the European coalition they have just established, the most likely is the Wyvern Gang who have just suffered defeat and left.

Now the coalition fleet in Europe, about half of the ships are on the way to converge, but until the Wyvern Gang, who had just suffered a defeat, put together a powerful fleet one step ahead of them, what it means, Lincoln felt like a mirror.

At this moment, if it was not possible to confirm whether the Hongmen of Dayuan Island participated in the plan of the Flying Dragon Gang before, now Lincoln is 100% sure in his heart, and the Hongmen has given great support to the Flying Dragon Gang.

"I'm sorry Your Excellency, the lower official thinks it is necessary for you to take refuge in the Governor's Mansion Castle for a while, and besides, we have prepared a welcome dinner in the castle, which is just right for you to eat."

"Of course, the lower officials can't participate."

Fortunately, the soldiers who came to report the news were very clever, and there were few officials who could stand around Governor James, and when there was news of the enemy's attack, only a few people around Lincoln heard it, and the rest of the people did not fluctuate much.

Governor James had just taken office, and he caught up with this war, saying that he felt that he was not unlucky, which was naturally false, but he was also a person who had seen the world, and at this time James was no longer panicked, and replied calmly: "Then there is Colonel Lawringn, and my flying Ziora will also be handed over to you to command!" ”

"Then the lower official has thanked Your Excellency first."

The addition of a first-class battleship can be said to be a relief in the snow for the Batavia fleet left behind at this time, because in the previous war, it can be said that the European coalition forces that were both defeated and wounded, and the last remaining warships were only in single digits, and now Lincoln has been busy for more than a month, pulling together all European forces, and in the end it is only less than twenty warships that have received everyone's verbal promises, even if the ships of the Dutch Far East Fleet and the East India Company are added, they are not even as many as the number of unknown fleets that are not good at this moment.

Not to mention, more than half of these warships have not yet reached the port of Batavia, and some of them are even trafficking goods and escorting fleets on distant routes.

"It's coming!"

However, Lincoln was not too expensive to worry about, the port of Batavia was used as the Yamen of the Dutch Jawwa Governor's Palace, and its ground protection was naturally to the teeth, and on the two batteries set up around the harbor that were horns of each other, dozens of deep cannons were aimed at the sea, and countless sailors had begun to get busy after the alarm bell rang, pushing the artillery to the most threatening position.

As the monoculars approached one by one, the momentum of the compelling pair gradually revealed, making the more than 1,000 sailors in the port of Batavia change color.

"I heard that the new governor of the Netherlands happened to land in port today, and it is a matter of our front and back!"

As the former lair, Zheng Zhilong's news channel in Batavia was not completely cleaned up by the Dutch in less than two months, and at this time he had already received a big news from the Hong Kong secret agent.

"Why don't we give them a welcome ceremony too?"

"That's a good feeling!"

Shi Peicai and Lu Yi asked with a hot face, naturally you will not object, anyway, the fleet in the port of Batavia has been blocked, and their goals are half achieved, and then it is time to use artillery fire to talk and do things.

"But this time, I want to take the lead with the five warships of Hongtang and give you a bad idea."

Shi Peicai got up, but he was the first to show the strength of their Hongtang fleet, and at the same time, it was also a lesson for the brothers of the Flying Dragon Gang and the Crazy Shark Gang, so that they could know how to use real artillery shooting.

As Shi Peicai stood up and ordered the heralds beside him to issue a flag, the five warships from the Hongtang fleet came out in a crowd and sailed to a range of about three miles from the port of Batavia.

The distance of three miles is exactly the range of defense in the general Western seas, and for the fleet and coastline defense artillery, this is also exactly within its maximum range.

Of course, the so-called maximum range is only the effective range that the gun can fire, but if it is the effective range of this era, it must be the direct range of this artillery.

"One round of test firing of five guns on the left chord of the No. 1 ship, fifteen degrees in elevation, ruler 235, fire!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

Five guns roared one after another, and then between the smoke and fire, five clouds of smoke and dust rose one after another in the opposite part of the Batavia port, but these five shots luckily avoided the Batavia port and hit the empty space on the left.

"The second test shot of the five doors of the left chord of the No. 1 ship, the elevation angle was 15 degrees, and the ruler was ............"

After two consecutive rounds of test firing, the guns on the Hongtang battleship landed closer and closer to the port of Batavia, and it was not until three of the five artillery shells landed in the port of Batavia that the gunners of the Hongtang battleship began their real show.

Although the artillery of this era could not achieve long-distance accuracy due to the casting process, Hongmen's continuous development and research over the years have made their fleet artillery more scientific and far-reaching.

In addition, there is already a prototype of the standard process for casting artillery, which makes the casting of artillery more industrialized and streamlined, but it makes the difference between the guns of the Hongtang fleet smaller, and it is more suitable for the collective command to calibrate when shooting.

"Boom! Boom! ……”

The five Hongtang warships, which were equivalent to the third-class battleships of the Westerners in this era, had more than a hundred guns on one deck, and the huge roar brought by the salvo not only shocked the European sailors in the Batavia harbor with solemn expressions, but also shocked the group of allies behind the Hongtang fleet.

(End of chapter)