The person was very fast, and You Romance also sent someone to send a detailed report. Although You Romantic led the flagship "Nanyang III" to escape back to Pontianak Harbor, he was hit by fragments of the British army's exploding howitzer while commanding Class A, and was seriously wounded, but his life was unharmed, and more than 300 naval officers and men on the "Nanyang III" ship also lost more than 40 people, and nearly 100 people were wounded.

It turned out that four days earlier, You Rongrong led the Third Detachment of the South Ocean Fleet to escort the troop transport ships escorting the Dutch prisoners across the three oceans, and then went directly north to Saigon. Soon after leaving Sankouyang, when passing through the Tammelan Islands, they encountered the encirclement of a group of British fleets, especially romantic suspicions, the British army mobilized the East India and China combined fleet and the West India fleet together to form the main warships were dispatched, a total of fifteen warships, of which there are five large-tonnage main warships, all of which are warships and cruisers with a displacement of more than one or two thousand tons, with more than 40 guns, and ten frigates and steam gunboats of various styles. It was supposed to be based on the combined fleet of East India and China, which was based at the port of Calcutta.

At that time, the British warships asked the 3rd South Sea Fleet to be inspected through the flag. At this time, a foreigner who claimed to be a British envoy, accompanied by a Chinese general, took a kayak to find You Romantic, claiming that the commander of the LinkedIn Combined Fleet was Rear Admiral West Ma, the commander of the British Combined Fleet in East India and China, and asked You Romantic to put down the troop carrier and follow the British fleet to Xingjiapo to receive a war investigation, otherwise, he would attack.

You was furious, ignored it, and led the Third Squadron to leave. The British attacked first, and the 3rd Detachment immediately returned fire. However, although the range of British artillery was not as far as that of the Third Squadron, it finally managed to rush into a distance of 500 meters to engage in a broadside artillery battle with the Third Squadron at a distance of 500 meters, thanks to the large number of warships and the large number of artillery guns.

It is also You Romantic, but he is also out of helplessness, because there are dozens of troop carriers dragged down, just the Dutch soldiers prisoners of war are good, and there are more than ten guards and sailors on the troop transport ships are all soldiers and soldiers, and they can't be abandoned, so in order to cover the troop transports, You Romancy withdrew first, and fled north along the southwest wind, and he led the third squadron to slowly go south against the wind, trying to drag the British warships, while firing fiercely, and the British warships in a bombardment battle.

You Romantic did because of the successive victories over the Bullock Dynasty and the Dutch East Indies Fleet, a little arrogant, plus the British rushed into the battlefield close to their third squadron and lost three warships sunk, a cruiser was heavily damaged and withdrew from the battlefield, You Romantic thought that with his artillery range and power advantage can fight with the British, as a result, as soon as the British warship fired, it was found that in the close range of gunwales, the British fleet's artillery fire was much more fierce than their own, and the opponent's artillery was extremely accurate in close combat, "Nanyang No. 6" On the spot, the main gun was blown up from the gun door, half of it was scrapped, and when the angle was turned and the gun on the other side was changed, the sampan had already been set up by the British and rushed to the deck.

The "Nanyang No. 6" was full of gunners and sailors, equipped with only ten muskets, which could withstand the melee attack of dozens of people, and was soon occupied by the British.

A 1,200-ton frigate and two other gunboats of small displacement sank directly after the third round of artillery because there were too many guns, and only more than 10 of the more than 200 soldiers on board were saved. However, the British warship was humane, not only salvaged and rescued the soldiers on their own sunken warship, but also rescued many of the captured soldiers who fell into the water.

You Romance saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly ordered a retreat, but was entangled by a British warship, where could he get out so easily? After two rounds of bombardment, another frigate was also captured, and even You Romance himself was injured, but fortunately, the "Nanyang No. 3" relied on its fast speed and ran to the southeast with a tailwind, and the British seemed to focus on the troop carrier, busy capturing the troop carrier, so that the "Nanyang No. 3" made a detour to recover Pontianak, because the hull was damaged and needed to be repaired.

However, according to You Romantic's report, in this war, the British Combined Fleet actually suffered a lot of losses. In the back of the bombardment, another gunboat was sunk and a frigate was damaged.

In the end, the messenger talked about You Romantic's plea, and as soon as Tan Tiyuan arrived in Pontianak, he begged for a punishment and let him be punished for his guilt. Colleague, You Romance was still a little worried, he was worried that after the British settled the damaged warships and those captured troop carriers, they would attack Pontianak and then Batavia, reminding the main general Tan Tiyuan to take precautions.

Hearing this, Tan Tiyuan's anger calmed down a little. In this way, in fact, although the Third Squadron led by You Romance was almost completely wiped out, only escaped from the flagship "Nanyang No. 3" and the hull was damaged, it was not too badly lost. On the side of the British, the entire front and rear losses were not small, one frigate and three steam-gunboats were sunk, and one cruiser and one frigate were wounded.

Now the British Combined Fleet can fight with four large-tonnage main warships, five frigates and steam gunboats. The point is that you can't fight directly with You Romance like you, but you have to use the range to compete with it.

Tan Tiyuan made up his mind, so he gathered all the remaining warships, leaving only a battlecruiser, a Dutch cruiser and two armed steamships that had been captured due to heavy losses to stay in the port of Batavia to guard the troop transport ships and docks, and let Zeng Guoquan lead the infantry to occupy the forts on the side of the port channel and guard them closely.

He and Ding Ruchang led the first and second fleets of the South Ocean Fleet (one frigate and one steam gunboat were also sunk, and there were only 10 warships), plus the captured five warships (one cruiser, two frigates, and two small gunboats) of the Dutch East India Fleet, and set sail from Batavia and sailed straight in the direction of Pontianak. He was going to resupply a little in Pontianak while inquiring about the British fleet and looking for fighters.

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Five days later, not far from the Tammelan Islands, twelve warships of the British Combined Fleet for the East India and China sailed in two columns.

On the bow deck of the flagship "Alekautte", Rear Admiral Simma, commander-in-chief of the British Combined Fleet in the East India and China, held a telescope and looked into the distance, the vast sea was boundless. The fierce battle a few days ago made him still uneasy! It's been a long time since you've experienced such a treacherous naval battle!

Born into a British naval family, his father was a famous general during the Napoleonic Wars, and he joined the navy since he was a child, and although he is not yet 60 years old, he has more than 40 years of maritime experience. Originally, he served under Vice Admiral Napi of the Baltic Navy, but with the end of the Crimean War, and the frequent wars in the Far East, especially the rebellion in India, an empire in the East began to rise, and the Admiralty promoted him to rear admiral, in order to replace General Tailin, who died in the Indian rebellion, as the commander of the combined fleet of East India and China.

The naval battle with that small fleet a few days ago made him realize that the originally backward empire in the East was now completely different, and it was not the same as the Manchu Qing more than ten years ago.

Among the two captured Eastern warships (Nanyang VI and a frigate), he finally discovered something that shocked him, and finally understood how the enemy, who was obviously not systematically trained, extremely lacking in tactics, and very unskilled in operation, was able to sink four warships and damage two of his fleet:

On the cruiser called "Nanyang No. 6" and another frigate, there were a total of thirty guns, of which six medium-caliber and two small-caliber guns turned out to be rifled guns, which only shocked him a little, but one of the medium-caliber guns turned out to be a breech-loading rifled gun! This surprised him, and after returning to Xingjiapo, he quietly led people to test the rear-loading rifled gun numbered "Krupp-D/150C/216#", and the performance parameters of this gun stunned him: this rear-loading rifled gun can reach a maximum range of six to seven kilometers, and the effective range under stationary targets is more than three kilometers, and the accuracy is very high.

His face was white at the time, and he was scared for a while.