cpa300_4(); "Captain, commander-in-chief telegram!" The telegraph operators on the eight ships translated the short messages and immediately went to their respective captains. ▲ ∴ top ▲ ∴ point ▲ ∴ small ▲ ∴ said,

"Hurry up!" Hearing the message from the commander-in-chief, the captain who was busy did not dare to slack off.

"Launch the torpedo immediately!"

"Ah, launch a torpedo, yes, why did you forget to launch a torpedo quickly? Quick, launch the torpedo! ”

Firing torpedoes is, of course, a technical job, and the soldiers of the Huaxia Army only know how to launch them, and they are far from being proficient in operation, so they can only use pistols to force the captured Dutch white sailors to operate and launch torpedoes.

These white sailors also knew at this time that if they did not defeat the Dutch fleet on the opposite side, they would definitely be dead ends on the ships of the Huaxia Army at this moment, so they also quickly launched the torpedo according to the operating procedures.

Suddenly, more than a dozen high-speed waterlines appeared on the sea, rushing towards the Dutch warship group!

"Torpedo, quickly avoid torpedo!"

The Dutch fleet was well acquainted with the power of these torpedoes, and desperately turned its bow in the direction of the torpedoes, and the formation of the torpedoes was even more chaotic in order to avoid the sudden artillery attack.

Unfortunately, due to the poor timing of the commander of the Huaxia Army, the first wave of torpedoes did not even scratch a single hair of the Dutch battleship, except for one slow transport ship.

"Nima's!"

The commanders of the Huaxia Army were furious and ordered a second torpedo salvo immediately.

But the Dutch ships, which had dodged the onslaught of torpedoes, took a breath and concentrated their artillery fire on the charging Chinese torpedo fleet.

When a torpedo boat was loading a torpedo, it happened to be hit by a 75-millimeter shell, and the torpedo was immediately destroyed, and the 40-ton torpedo boat was immediately blown to pieces, and none of the 33 Chinese soldiers and six Dutch prisoners on board survived.

When a destroyer was about to launch a torpedo, it was hit by a 210-millimeter shell from a Dutch battleship, and the violent explosion made the bow seem to be cut in half by a giant's broadsword, and it immediately sank into the water, and in less than five minutes it completely sank into the water, and only 35 Chinese soldiers and nine prisoners survived among the 107 Chinese soldiers and 26 Dutch prisoners.

This was the heaviest casualty since the founding of the Huaxia Army.

Seeing such heavy casualties, Hu Zhen could only sadly issue an artillery firing order to the flagship's gun positions to cover the actions of the destroyer and torpedo boats: "The enemy's coordinates are xxxx, the distance is xxx, open fire!" ”

Thanks to the accurate measurements of the nuclear submarine, the Amsterdam's artillery fire was very accurate, and two of the four shells fired in this salvo actually hit the Dutch flagship Groningen, one hit the fuel coal bunker, raising soot smoke up to hundreds of meters, and the other shell hit its front twin main guns, overturning it on the spot.

The Groningen's bad luck was only the beginning, and the next step was even worse.

Taking advantage of the soot and smoke blocking the view of the Groningen, a destroyer of the Huaxia Army rushed over and fired two torpedoes at its port side.

A torpedo passed through the stern of the Groningen, and a torpedo hit the amidship of the Groningen, but the torpedo did not explode due to its quality.

This was so angry that the Chinese soldiers of this destroyer jumped up, and the captain Geng Huoyan's eyes almost burst blood.

Geng Huoyan was a platoon commander in the Huaxia Army, twenty-three years old, and it is said that his five elements lacked fire, so his family gave him a name with five fire characters, known as "five fires", he joined the Huaxia Army in the town of Lager, because he had been a sailor on a steam engine steamer from Singapore to Pontianak in Borneo for eleven months, and he was barely a professional, and was elected as the captain of a destroyer.

At this moment, Geng Huoyan saw that it was too late to load the torpedo tube with torpedoes again, so he simply shouted loudly: "Rush forward and use the method told us by the commander-in-chief to fight with them!" ”

The destroyer rushed to the Groningen from the left at top speed before turning the rudder, and the two ships passed by no more than two or three meters apart.

"Shoot them to death!"

With Geng Huoyan's loud shout, in addition to the guns equipped on the ship, a row of pipes stretched out from the destroyer, and it spewed fire violently at the Groningen - no, it was a fierce jet of shells!

It turned out that Hu Zhen had already considered that the destroyer and the torpedo ship might have such a short-handed encounter, and prepared 30 recoilless guns for the destroyer, which were tied with tripods, which came in handy at this moment, and pushed to the side to aim at the Groningen a few meters away and fired fiercely.

Not only did the thirty recoilless guns fire at the same time, but the three heavy machine guns tied to the ship also opened fire fiercely, sweeping through the exposed enemy on the Groningen.

Some of the men who did not have the recoilless guns and heavy machine guns they were wielding pulled out the grenades they were carrying and threw them at the Groningen.

Under the combined blows of naval guns, recoilless guns, heavy machine guns, and grenades, the Groningen, which had already ignited a fire, suffered hundreds of shells and grenades, and the fire on the ship burned even more fiercely. From an outsider's point of view, the flagship of the Dutch reinforcement fleet turned into a campfire at sea.

Where had the Dutch troops on the Groningen seen such a blow, even in the bridge conning tower, a recoilless cannon shell was hit, killing three staff officers on the spot, and the commander, Major General Laudel, was also knocked over the wall by the air wave of the explosion and fainted.

The loyal guard rushed over and shook Lauder awake: "Your Excellency, you can't stay here any longer, get out of the Groningen quickly!" ”

Lauder opened his eyes and saw that the flag signal cable of the Groningen had been destroyed by the fire, and the flag signal could not be sent at all, and the Groningen was no longer suitable for use as a flagship to command the reinforcement fleet.

Lauder had clearly seen through the observation just now that his fleet was suddenly ambushed by the joint ambush of the Huaxia Army battery and the captured fleet, but at this time it had already left the range of the battery, and the Huaxia Army fleet on the sea suddenly revealed its true ability when it charged

He nodded and said, "Hurry up and get me up and leave the Groningen!" ”

With the support of several loyal guards, Laudel finally found a small sampan on the side of the gunwale, lowered it to the surface, and fled.

Hu Zhen didn't know that this Lauder had left the Groningen, and after Geng Huoyan's destroyer disengaged, he still bit the Groningen and stumbled.

"The enemy's flagship coordinates xxxx, distance xxx, open fire!"

Under the command of Hu Zhen's accurate data, the gunners became more and more calm, and the Amsterdam's two twin 260 mm guns achieved another round of salvo fire: four salvo shells, three hits, one hit the mast, one hit the bow, and one hit the amidship.