Zhang Haoran and the commander of the reconnaissance battalion, Zhao Shangzhu, the former commander of the Northwest Army, came to the flagship together, this high-speed cruise ship is among the most high-speed, and the structure is relatively strong, but it is not convenient to install the cannon, unless the entire ship group is changed accordingly, Yang Yuanzhao did not plan to do so, only placed some machine guns in a limited place, or hidden, this ship is a smart ship, but also the core of a fleet, if this one also has to step forward to meet the battle, That's the most critical juncture.

Zhang Haoran and Zhao Shangzhu are both young people, Zhang Haoran is 21 years old, Zhao Shangzhu is 23 years old, two years older, the same soldiers, the same rigorous training, the same vigor, the only difference is that Zhao Shangzhu has lived in Southeast Asia for more than 2 years, his face is a little dark, this is a natural reaction in a long-term high temperature environment, Yang Yuanzhao just simply asked, the configuration of the reconnaissance battalion, especially whether it is familiar with machine guns, when you know that all people have enough shooting experience in Makqin, Even when a small number of people were quite good at archery, it was only when he had undergone rigorous training as a firefighter that he was relieved.

Machine guns, to put it bluntly, the basic structure is similar to that of machine guns, but the caliber is a little larger, the materials involved are a little better, it is not difficult to manipulate it, it is not the over-the-horizon shooting of the main gun and large-caliber artillery, it is necessary to calculate the trajectory and position, the machine gun is mainly direct fire, the firing range is only 2500 meters, under high speed, what displacement and the like, can be ignored, a ship is so big, how can it be hit, Yang Yuanzhao believes that for most civilian ships, especially ordinary pirate ships of several hundred tons, As long as there are machine guns to saturate and attack them, they will definitely be able to achieve great results.

In addition to Zhang Haoran's report to Yang Yuanzhao, he also informed Yang Yuanzhao of the communication frequency band, which was set by Xiao Jianfeng before leaving, although the time was urgent, he didn't have time to ask Xiao Jianfeng if he joined the pirates, but with his understanding of the captain, the captain is very powerful, and with the help of the intelligence department, it is no problem for Ying Ai to be mixed into the pirates.

With 1,200 professionally trained soldiers, as well as a huge number of machine guns, Yang Yuanzhao put his heart in his stomach a little, no matter what, the battle always has to be fought one by one, and now the key is the situation of the other party, Zhang Haoran brought back limited information, knowing the approximate size of the other party, and even the number and character of the leader and main leaders are not known, which makes it difficult for the staff officers to determine the battle plan, and can only take one step at a time to see how to talk next.

On the other side of the distant strait, Lingjiawei Island in the Strait of Malacca, located in the north of Penang, not far from the entrance of the Strait of Malacca, next to the Andaman Sea, is an important place for shrinking from the opening of the Andaman Sea to the Strait of Malacca, and a large number of pirate fleets are concentrated here, which is also the ambush location selected by the pirates.

There are many pirates in Southeast Asia, but few pirates will run to this end of the Strait of Malacca, because there is a gap between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, the British occupy Singapore, and after controlling Malaccia, the control of the Strait of Malacca is extremely strict, and the place where the pirates operate is either along the coast of Indonesia, or simply enter the Andaman Sea, and it is not easy to enter the heavily guarded Malacca.

With the secret permission of the British, these pirate warships, grandly through the Strait of Malacca, the pirates who are familiar with this situation, chose Lingjiawei Island, where the terrain is more precipitous, the entire archipelago is composed of more than 90 volcanic islands, the environment is complex, it can be convenient to conceal the ships, the more the fleet goes to the Strait of Malacca, the more concentrated it is, easy to be attacked by them, as for the return of the fleet to the Andaman Sea, it is almost impossible, leaving from the port of Colombo, almost a week of sailing, the supplies on these ships are probably not muchIn this case, escaping into the deep sea, almost looking for death.

Xiao Jianfeng arrived here yesterday afternoon, with the help of a small pirate Montenegro, in the name of a small pirate Montenegro, entered the pirate territory, for pirates, there is no discipline at all, besides, in this place in Southeast Asia, with the acquiescence of Britain and France, who will do anything to them, the northwest is so famous, defeated the polar bear Russia, but no matter what, those are all land things, it has nothing to do with them, it is difficult for the army to go to the sea, their influence on this piece is almost zero.

The news that the Northwest set up plantations in Nanyang and immigrated a large number of Chinese people, because of strict secrecy, although there was a hint of rumors, but no one believed that so many people had disappeared, and some of them were cultivated in the farms, which most people believed, but when the number was huge to hundreds of thousands, or even millions, no one would believe it, and the Northwest also borrowed this inertial thinking to hide so many farms and people.

After arriving at the pirate assembly point, Xiao Jianfeng carefully did not come out, because of their joining, Montenegro's strength increased greatly, from a small pirate in a marginal position, to a core member, Montenegro said to be a pirate, is a branch of the Chinese in Southeast Asia, his surname is Zhao, his name is Zhao Wenju, he is a person near Penang, he has a family and a business, and the intelligence department just discovered him and his family by chance, and controlled him in various ways, as part of the intelligence location and background cover, Of course, there may be some positive things in the future that will not stand out, so that he can come out, but he didn't expect that it would not be long before he was used by Xiao Jianfeng.

Zhao Wenju finished participating in the pirate conference, returned to the ship, and told Xiao Jianfeng about the situation he had discovered, Xiao Jianfeng's brows furrowed tightly, there are a lot of pirates, now it is not only the whole of Southeast Asia, some of the remaining pirates in East Asia, the Japanese, the Koreans, and some of the pirates from the Pacific have arrived, the number has increased to 2,350 ships, 79,000 people, and the number of pirates added behind is not much, and it is not strong, but the strongest 7 pirates in Southeast Asia, They are pouring out of the nest, and their strength is also extremely powerful, especially the 4 led by them, the Blood Skeleton, the Witch Troupe and the Demon Knight and Liu Zhongyu Pirates, not to mention in Southeast Asia, in the entire world piracy field, they are also the best.

The boss of the blood skeleton is a Dutchman, he seems to have a certain relationship with the Dutch colonists in Indonesia, he is the most powerful pirate, with 239 ships of all kinds, more than 8,000 people under his command, the witch group is rare, the leader is a women's pirate group, his leader is two women, the magic knight is a group of pirate organizations that can't see the international, somewhat loose, managed by 7 demon knights, as for Liu Zhongyu, it is said that he is a descendant of Liu Xiang, he is the leader among the Chinese pirates, and all his subordinates are Chinese. The strength of the four pirates is almost the same, and the most important thing is that in their hands, the flagship is actually an ironclad ship, although it is 3,000 tons, it is still an old style, at least 30 years ago, and the warship is completely different from ordinary civilian ships.

Xiao Jianfeng is because of this worry, a large number of pirates are a rabble, crowded up, at most is just a target, when leaving the ship, he has seen a 20 mm twin machine gun, I heard that it was purchased when the big purchase, for ordinary ships, especially in the case of such a large number of pirates, the cannon is not much use, what is needed is this machine gun, the rate of fire is fast, the power is strong enough, and the civilian ships that have not been strengthened are almost one hit and one accurate. But the 4 warships are different, even if they are old-fashioned, they can't run fast, at most 11-12 knots, but this speed is the speed of most of the ships in the ship group, the most important thing is that he is steel-armed, fully protected ironclad ships, 20 mm, or even 100 mm guns, may not be able to deal with them, according to the information obtained before, with the support of the British, when the time comes, the British frigates will release the water, or choose to retreat, once they can resist the retreat of the ironclad destroyers, When the time comes, these ironclad ships will be almost invincible.

What to do, the situation is a little urgent, he has no better way, he has to wait, in another room, the telegraph operator exclusive to him is constantly sending reports, this is the only thing he can do, the earlier the transmission of the message to the ship, the sooner the loss will be reduced, tonight is destined to be sleepless, Xiao Jianfeng needs to carefully sort out his next steps, as much as possible to know what he needs to know, figure it out, and send it to the fleet by telegram.

Although the pirates are scattered, but for the pirates to sort out the tactics this time, it is a good guy, led by the four pirates, each of them leads twenty or thirty small gangs, about 300 ships, each person is responsible for a different fleet, their goals are only three in the front, the back two are too far, the most important, and the most ships, are jointly responsible for the strongest blood skeleton and the demon knight.

The Black Mountain Pirate Regiment was assigned to the Witch Regiment, with the 120 ships of the Witch Regiment as the core, and the Black Mountain Regiment was also established into the core because of the relationship between a 10,000-ton giant ship, and there were sufficient weapons and 500 personnel on it.

I don't know how the boat group is arranged, but Xiao Jianfeng is a little relieved that whether it is his radio or the radio on the side of the ship group, it can reach a distance of about 150 kilometers, this distance for the average ship, it takes 10 hours, when the time comes, the ship group will definitely not be caught off guard, he still tries his best to figure out the movements of these pirate groups, and strive to send more and more perfect signals back.

The night slowly deepened, the two sides were about 200 kilometers apart, thinking about each other, calculating each other, a very bizarre sea battle in the 20th century, about to begin, from the beginning of the 19th century, in addition to small-scale pirates, attacking individual ships, or three or five small ships, similar to thousands of ships, tens of thousands of pirates, jointly aimed at a target, this is the first time. R1152