Although the German Imperial Fleet claimed to be still anchored in the Indian Ocean, the number of battleships of the European countries and their countries still reached an astonishing 45, 57 cruisers, 39 destroyers, 9 airship carriers, 22 logistics transport ships, a total of 172 ships, and more than 2,000 airships. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This is known as the most powerful fleet in the history of mankind.

It is no wonder that almost all Europeans believe that the Chinese army has no chance of victory.

Even many people within the Chinese Empire thought that the Chinese Empire had no chance of winning, and some people who were dissatisfied with the Chinese Empire jumped out and began to fan the flames.

In particular, those old and young remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were even more looking forward to the rapid defeat of the Chinese Empire by the European coalition forces, and they also took practical actions to organize armed insurrections and launch attacks on the Chinese army and police in China.

However, most of the Chinese peasants in China received the arable land allocated by the empire, and they were the largest vested interest group, and the old and young remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty would not agree to rebel.

As a result, most of the old and young remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were resolutely suppressed as soon as they emerged, but did not receive any support.

It's just that some people got the support of European countries, got the support of weapons and ammunition, made a fuss for a while, and finally were suppressed by the powerful Huaxia army.

He ordered the Huaxia Army and the domestic government to launch an attack on the concessions of various countries, and to take back all the concessions in Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, and other places.

The military and police in these local concessions are not strong in combat, and they can only be used to bully the local people, which is not enough compared with the Huaxia Army.

The Huaxia Army took action, but within half a day, the concession was fully recovered.

Hong Kong was the largest concession and concession in England, and its strength was only 4,000 men, and the Huaxia Army dispatched two infantry divisions to wipe them all out in one day and successfully recover Hong Kong.

At this point, except for Macau, which was under Portuguese control, and Portugal did not intend to attack the Chinese Empire, Hu Zhen decided to leave it alone for the time being.

The diplomatic envoys of various countries all lodged a strong protest against this, but the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Niu Quyun, ignored this, and just told them that the Chinese Empire was to retaliate with a tooth for a tooth, and if Portugal did not attack the Chinese Empire, Macao would be preserved, and if countries wanted to protect their own interests, they should learn from Portugal.

When the news reached the combined fleet in Singapore, the fleets of various countries were very angry about this and accelerated the pace of their advance.

As a matter of fact, after a long voyage in the Indian Ocean, the fleets of various countries have had many problems, the officers and men are exhausted and in urgent need of rest, the bottom of the ships is covered with seaweed and shellfish, the speed of the ships has been affected to a certain extent, and they urgently need to replenish fuel and maintain and repair.

However, due to the actions taken by the Chinese Empire against the concession and the urging at home, the fleets of various countries could no longer stay in Singapore, so they immediately set out north.

The coalition fleet was going north to engage the Chinese navy, and the first obstacle in front of it was the Natuna Islands.

The Huaxia Guild signed an agreement with the Kingdom of the Netherlands, stipulating that the Natuna Islands were territories under the jurisdiction of the Huaxia Guild.

According to reconnaissance by the authorities of the Straits Strait Settlements in Singapore, the Chinese Army was stationed on the Natuna Islands with a certain defensive force.

Seymour, the commander of the coalition fleet, was a typical old-fashioned admiral, and he was not very interested in the "fly" airships that were buzzing in the sky, and he always regarded the airships as an auxiliary tool or reconnaissance tool for the warship in his heart.

England's operational concept, which penetrated into the marrow of the naval officers, caused the airship to not play its due role.

When Hu Zhen personally led the Huaxia Army's fast fleet through the Strait of Malacca to fight in the Indian Ocean, some airships had already assembled in Singapore, but they did not attack and bomb the Huaxia Army's fast fleet from beginning to end.

This made the fast fleet of the Huaxia Army do a bunch of measures to deal with the bombing of airships, and none of them were used.

At this moment, the fleets of various countries are going north, and the speed of the airship is obviously much faster than that of the battleship, but Seymour ordered the airship to rush to the Natuna Islands at the same time as the battleship, and the commanders of all the national fleets took it for granted, and no one stepped forward to dissuade them.

When the coalition fleet began to bombard the Natuna Islands with large-caliber heavy artillery, the airship belatedly arrived from the sky and tried to drop bombs on the ground, but was blocked by the smoke and flames on the ground.

The commanders who were in charge of commanding the air fleet were usually fed up with the anger of the old fellows of the Navy and Army, and they were also eager to express their thoughts in their hearts, and they commanded the airships to rush up and drop bombs.

This method of rushing to show oneself, coupled with the lack of bombing and aiming tools, and even more because of the lack of command experience in ground and sea bombing, the effect of the airships covering the sky in bombing the ground is extremely poor, and it is far less effective than the effect of the navy's warships in accurately shelling ground targets.

However, whether it was shelling by warships or bombing by airships, not a single shell was fired back on the Natuna Islands.

This is a huge contrast with the arrogant and rapid sortie of the Huaxia fleet's attack on the Indian Ocean.

What's going on?

As a student of the Chinese civilization, the Wa State was very familiar with this tactical method of warfare, and some officers in the Wa army believed that this was a precursor to the Huaxia Army luring the allied fleet into the ambush circle.

However, what is the Huaxia Army using to bury the "most powerful fleets in the history of mankind" in various countries?

A very small number of young officers of the Japanese army believed that the Huaxia army would use warships and airships to bomb and flank the allied fleet.

But this is a reason that even the commander of the Wakoku fleet, Gonbei Yamamoto, did not believe:

"What can a few little flies in the air do? And dare to bury the fleet with the battleship that almost the entire human society unites! ”

It is no wonder that in another time and space, the Japanese used naval aviation to attack Pearl Harbor and won a great victory, but the Japanese navy was still dreaming of a battleship Armageddon, and exhausted the last industrial resources of the Japanese to create the Yamato and Musashi, two freak battleships with a displacement of more than 70,000 tons.

In this era, even the most advanced airships of the Huaxia Army were unreliable in bombing the enemy's warships, and they could not go to sea to fight in windy weather, and even if they went to sea to fight during calm weather, they would still play some role in interfering with the enemy's warships, and it was difficult to assume the role of independently attacking the enemy's warships.

The European powers have already conducted airship-to-warship exercises, and the results have come that the role of airships in land warfare can still play a great role in the army, but their role in naval warfare can only be described by the Chinese word chicken ribs.

Therefore, the eyes of the fleets of various countries are fixed on the number of main warships of the Huaxia Army, which is much smaller than the number of their own warships, and they will not be afraid of the huge number of airships of the Huaxia Army. (To be continued.) )