Thunder roared. With the help of the flash of artillery fire, you can see the warships that are fighting fiercely on the sea, and under the flares fired by the warring parties, the sea surface is bright and dark, and the flash of the cannon is reflected in each other, and the sea surface of the Belli Ocean is dyed in a strange way. The smoke drifting across the sea swirled in the rolling waves. Like a ghost hovering over the battlefield. Wandering in the howling sea breeze, he refused to leave this sea battlefield full of artillery fire.

This is the Beli Ocean on the island of Bangka. Right now. The naval battle between the 1st Squadron of the Chinese Navy in the South Seas and a task force of the East India Squadron of the Dutch Navy was in full swing, with artillery fire from the Chinese fleet to the north and artillery fire from the Dutch fleet to the south. On that dark and dreary sea, flares, armor-piercing shells, high-explosive shells, small-caliber artillery shells. All kinds of modern killing weapons roar fiercely on the battlefield, or knock out column after column of water from the undulating sea. Or hit the hull of an enemy warship and cut through the hard steel beyond recognition.

From the beginning of the battle to the present, in just over ten minutes, the battle has entered a critical moment. The distance between the two hostile sides has been shortened to less than 3,000 meters, and at such a close distance, the naval guns basically do not need to emphasize the solution of shooting Zhu Yuan, as long as the muzzle is lowered, the naval guns can completely hit the enemy ship directly, and the accuracy of hitting is very high.

Such a close naval battle, and a battle that took place in the middle of the night, was very wary of each other's torpedo attacks, so both the Chinese and Dutch fleets were engaged while taking a zigzag course. Avoiding the imaginary horde of enemy torpedoes.

But in fact, from the beginning of the battle to the present, neither of the warring parties has organized a torpedo attack. The Dutch fleet was unable to carry out a torpedo attack because of the sudden attack and the formation was chaotic, while the Chinese fleet did not plan to attack the torpedo at all because of the advantage of artillery fire, after all, compared with the Dutch fleet, the biggest advantage of the Chinese fleet was the main guns of the battleships, not the torpedo tubes that were like decorations.

Facts have proved that the decision of the commander of the Chinese fleet is completely correct, and now the four Dutch warships participating in the battle have all been shot, the deck buildings are in flames, black smoke is billowing out, and one of the cruisers and one gunboat is actually unable to organize an effective artillery counterattack.

Although the most obvious artillery superiority of the Chinese fleet was that of the "Green Forest" and "Chimei" ocean-going large attack ships, they relied on the 280 mm main guns on the ships to successfully suppress the artillery fire of the Dutch fleet and inflict heavy casualties on the enemy ships. But on the other hand, the other Chinese warships that participated in the war were not completely furnished, in fact, "the four seas." The shells also inflicted no small damage on the Dutch fleet.

Right now. "Sea folding. The captain of the ship, Xie Gangzhe, stood on the bridge of the ship, holding a telescope to look at the Dutch fleet in the south, and in the night, the deck buildings of the four Dutch warships were burning, and the flames were curling with steel, like four clusters of husbands. Stand out. There is no need to shoot flares anymore. The naval guns just aimed at the flickering fires on the sea.

"Use the High Burst Nose and focus on the deck of the enemy ship!"

Xie Gangzhe gave a new order, and the adjutant standing beside him immediately conveyed the captain's order to the shooting command room, and the rest was the matter of shooting the commanding officer, Xie Gangzhe only needed to stand on the bridge and monitor the battlefield.

"Poison! Rumble! ”

Two dull cannon shots, two 203 mm guns were ejected, and flew towards the Dutch fleet to the south, and a few seconds later, one shell landed on the sea not far from the starboard side of a Dutch cruiser, splashing a column of water several feet high, while the other shell accurately hit the starboard deck of the Dutch cruiser's swollen part, and caused a violent explosion. Lift some of the bits and pieces of the deck into the air and throw them into the dark sea. "The most powerful weapon on board the Cruiser is the two 203-millimeter guns that are placed on the ship and the ship, although for a warship with a displacement of no more than 4,300 tons. This caliber cannon is somewhat excessive, but Xie Gangzhe likes this kind of naval gun very much, in his opinion, although the firing degree of this naval gun is not as good as that of a 150 mm naval gun, but because the caliber of the gun is larger, the shells fired are heavier, therefore. In terms of armor-piercing ability, this 203 mm British naval gun is undoubtedly the best choice for medium-sized warships. The ship is strong and the guns are sharp.

The cruiser "Haiyi" was built by the British shipyards, and this cruiser was the same as that one. "Haitian", which ran aground on the reef and was eventually scrapped. It is the largest warship ordered by the Qing court to foreign countries after the destruction of the Beiyang Naval Division, and the warship is the representative work of the most typical British cruiser at that time, "Armstrong-type cruiser", which concentrates the most technologically advanced side of the British Navy at that time and absorbs the lessons of the Sino-Japanese War. The Qing court deliberately equipped the warship with a 203 mm main gun, which was the largest naval gun that could be loaded with a cruiser of this class at that time. After the Republic of China, the open-air fort was renovated and replaced with a semi-open gun cover that could provide frontal protection, but it still required manpower

In that year, the Admiralty transformed the "Hayes." At the time of the main gun battery, some people suggested that the overly cumbersome 203-mm British main gun should be dismantled and replaced with a 150-mm German-made naval gun that was the same as that of the "Haishen", so as to further improve the protection performance of the "Hai Analysis, the small turret", but this suggestion was resolutely opposed by Xie Gangzhe, the deputy commander of the "Hai Analysis" at the time, and his reasons were very good. A 150-millimeter naval gun could not deal with the cruiser's main armor belt, but a 203-millimeter naval gun could penetrate the cruiser's armor belt. The ship was able to retain the two British guns and took part in the battle of the Belle Ocean tonight, and with great performance, at least five of the ship's main gun shells hit the Dutch cruiser directly and penetrated the armor belt.

Considering that the deck armament of the Dutch warships still existed and still posed a certain threat to his own fleet, Xie Gangzhe resolutely decided to make a small change to attack with high-explosive bombs, focusing on bombarding the deck armament and crew. The explosives contained in the high-explosive bombs are also highly flammable, enough to ignite the wooden parts of the deck structures of warships.

"Whoosh"

A shell fired by a Dutch warship swept across the bridge of the "Hai Yi" with a roar, flew to the other side of the warship with a mast, and landed far away on the sea.

"But that's it."

Xie Gangzhe snorted contemptuously, and then continued to hold the telescope and stand on the open bridge, looking at the Dutch fleet. He knew very well that although the two capital ships of the Dutch fleet were colonial cruisers of the same class as the "Sea Deep" and the "Geldland" class, the caliber of the main guns on the Dutch warships was not 150 millimeters, but 105 millimeters. is a little overwhelmed. It was simply impossible to penetrate the armor belt of the "Haizhi".

For the Dutch fleet, the three capital ships of the Chinese fleet were all heavily armoured, and for this reason, the focus of their attacks was on the "depth of the sea." Sea chips. Hairong: "The three smaller cruisers, I hope to be able to hit them hard, or sink them.

However, under the cover of the three capital ships of the "Green Forest Red Eyebrow Sea Analysis", the "Three Seas" basically did not suffer a fatal attack. Although I also ate some shells from the Dutch fleet. However, the warship did not catch fire and did not lose its combat effectiveness, and is still closely following the "Haiyi". Pouring artillery fire on the Dutch fleet.

Xie Gangzhe looked to the east and saw that the "Three Seas" were safe and sound, so he pointed the lens of the telescope at the Dutch fleet, and at this moment, he heard a strange cry from the south, like the dying wail of a monster, and then, he saw that the four clusters of "torches" of the Dutch fleet were suddenly extinguished "The enemy ship has sunk!" The enemy ship sank! ”

The staff officer standing on the bridge shouted excitedly, but the sound of the cannon was still there, and his shout was immediately drowned out by the sound of the cannon, but Xie Gangzhe did hear it clearly.

The deck building of the cruiser of the Dutch fleet was burning, but now it was no longer on fire, so the staff officer shouted.

As for the staff officer's judgment, Xie Gangzhe basically agreed, because the warship was the cruiser Jianlan that was attacked by the first wave of concentrated fire by the Chinese fleet. A few minutes earlier, the Dutch cruiser had stopped advancing, and at that time, Xie Gangzhe had judged that the warship had lost power, and a warship that had lost power and its hull was full of bullet holes could not rely on the strength of its crew to extinguish the fire on the deck, so the most likely reason why the warship's fire disappeared was that it had disappeared below the surface of the sea.

This was the first enemy warship sunk by the Chinese fleet, and it was not only Xie Gangzhe and his staff officers who saw the warship disappear, but almost at the same time, all the captains of the Chinese fleet noticed the sudden disappearance of the sea "torch" in the southern sea. As a result, the morale of the Chinese fleet is higher.

Later, the flagship came to the light signal, asking all ships to follow the flagship and concentrate their firepower to destroy the remaining Dutch cruiser.

Soon, the Dutch cruiser was surrounded by dozens of high water columns, several armor-piercing shells directly penetrated its main armor belt, and the time-delay fuse immediately detonated the explosives in the rear of the shell, and with a few muffled sounds, the ammunition compartment of the Dutch warship was detonated, and in an instant, I saw a huge and bright yellow fireball suddenly rise from the sea, followed by a rolling explosion.

Only half a minute later, the second Dutch cruiser was sent to the bottom of the sea, and the Dutch fleet was left with only those two scarred gunboats.

There was no suspense in the ensuing battle, and those two gunboats were no match for the Chinese fleet at all. On the way back to the port, they were wiped out by the artillery fire of the Chinese fleet.

At this point, the Battle of Belliyang was over, and it took only half an hour.

"The ships counted the losses, and the fleet turned to the north to meet the supply fleet. In addition, a telegram was sent to inform the Dutch side of the situation, telling them the direction, and asking them to organize a sea rescue. ”

Soon, the order of the commander of the fleet, Lupin, was delivered, and for a commander who had won a naval battle, it was a simple and small order, but it was undoubtedly an order that would go down in history. It is said that the book is full of umbrellas