After hiding in the Straits of Johor, the Zhenwu and Baiyue can basically be said to be invincible. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Look, that's so good!"

Xu Shou said proudly.

He put two battleships across a small bay with enough water depth, lined up and showed the four huge cannons aimed at the mouth of the bay, and there was no need to worry about the Dutch's shells falling because of the terrain behind and on both sides, so that the Dutch could only attack from the mouth of the bay, and he would fight one of the slow sail battleships when they appeared, anyway, in such a few places, they would not be able to line up their nearly thirty battleships anyway.

Of course, this is a desperate situation.

It is impossible for these two warships to break through and rush out.

"But it's not a big deal."

Xu Shou patted the shoulder of the first mate and said.

"Because our main fleet is coming."

Then he added.

Yes, this is his plan, from the time he recklessly ran here, he held back such a plan, to attract the Dutch as bait, and create an opportunity for the main fleet that came to follow to complete the encirclement, he could support here for ten days at most, and then he could wait for the main force of the Nanyang Fleet led by Luo Zhang. And ten days should not be difficult, after all, his eighty-pound cannon is too powerful, even the second-class battleship can't withstand his blow, and the Dutch can't fight too much loss for his two battleships, so he only needs to survive the initial attack.

Even if you can't hold it, it's not a big deal, just sink the ship and retreat to the shore to hide.

What's more, it was not only the main force of the South Ocean Fleet that came next.

In fact, he counted too much, and he didn't need to wait ten days at all.

"Commander, spot the enemy."

The Third Detachment of the Nanyang Fleet of the Ming Navy is stationed on the battleship Dinghai, the flagship of the Jinzhou Fleet, and the captain Wang Feng said to the fleet commander Chen Han.

The naval system of the Ming Dynasty, His Majesty the Emperor is also the marshal of the navy, of course, he is also the marshal of the army, the general staff of the navy is the supreme command body, subordinate to the two major fleets of the South Sea and the North Ocean and the coastal defense of the government, the latter includes the coastal defense system and the coastal defense fleet, as for the inland river fleet is still under the army. The fleet commander is the admiral, usually the vice admiral, each fleet has a sub-fleet, the commander of the sub-fleet is the commander, the military rank is generally the rear admiral, and then the following are the captains of the ships, the battleship colonel, the cruiser lieutenant commander, the frigate major, the ship personnel are similar to the European naval titles, the first mate and the second chief gunner, etc., after all, the latter is experienced in this point.

"Looks like the Dutch are waiting for us."

Chen Han said with a sneer.

This is also expected by him, if you want to enter the Strait of Malacca, you can only go here, if the Dutch want to block them outside the Strait to avoid affecting the attack on Malacca City, then the best place is to block here, and this is also the most suitable place to block.

"Order the ships to prepare for battle!"

Then he said.

"Enemy ships!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a chaotic scream rang out behind him.

He subconsciously immediately turned his head to starboard, a Dutch-flagged battleship was sailing out from behind a cliff near the sea a mile away, it was obvious that the latter did not expect a powerful Ming fleet to appear in front of him, in the field of vision of his telescope, he could clearly see the sailors on the deck running in a panic, and a captain who looked like him was holding a telescope like him, and at the same time did not know what to shout behind him.

"Fire!"

Chen Han roared.

Suddenly, seventy-four cannons on the starboard side of the battleships Dinghai and Zhenhai erupted flames at an extremely fast speed, and almost at the same time, more than 20 cannons on the starboard side of the Dutch battleship on the opposite side also roared.

At a distance of 600 meters, if the rifled guns were on land, they could even accurately hit a carriage, although this was at sea, but the waves were very small at this time, not to mention the salvo of seventy-four cannons, and then I saw two more shocking wounds on the starboard side of the Dutch battleship, and at the same time, a cannonball fired from the Dutch battleship also hit the deck of the Dinghai, and the broken wood that was stirred up while being bounced off by the solid planks also injured several sailors.

But at this moment, two terrifying flames suddenly erupted from the starboard side of the Dutch battleship, shattering the deck.

Forty pounds of cannon shells.

This is also the largest artillery on the Ming battleship, but this cannonball is not an eighty-pound cannon shell after all, and the Dutchman's battleship is not those small warships of the Kang Mazi Naval Division, two forty-pound shells of more than a dozen pounds of gunpowder will not let it be killed in one shot, and the Dutchman's shells are still shooting outward again.

At the same time, the second round of shells on the Dinghai and Zhenhai were also fired, and then the fifteen-pound guns of the three cruisers continued to fire in the same way, and the two sides began to fight at close range filled with gunpowder just like the most common naval battle scene in this era, of course, the result of this fight is not suspenseful, even if there is no need to use flowering shells, only solid ones, the Dutch battleships can not bear it.

"Where's the sound of the cannon?"

On the battleship William III at the eastern entrance of the Johor Strait, Admiral Bank was stunned.

It took nearly a minute for the sound of the first round of artillery bombardment of the Ming army to reach here, and the captains and sailors of the Crusader warships, who were hesitating whether to attack inward, immediately looked in the direction from which the cannon sound came, and at this time the billowing smoke from the Dutch battleship could already be seen.

The Ming fleet in Batavia!

Admiral Banks immediately understood who his opponent was, this fleet should have arrived a long time ago, in fact, he was waiting here for the main target of the ambush was this fleet, but he waited for three whole days without waiting, and now he finally got his wish. As long as he destroyed this fleet consisting of three battleships and six cruisers, he could basically say that he had won, and at this time he didn't care about the two Ming warships in the strait, and did not hesitate to leave four third-class battleships to continue to block the guard, and led the main fleet to turn around and go south.

In this way he would concentrate the might of three 2nd class battleships, twenty 3rd class battleships with almost four times the firepower to ensure victory.

At this time, Chen Han had also sunk the Dutch battleship, this unlucky battleship was hit by more than fifteen forty-pound shells one after another, and the internal explosion of the flowering shell caused a raging fire, and then caused the gunpowder barrel to explode directly into a pile of fragments, but its desperate resistance also caused the death and injury of more than a dozen sailors of the Ming army, after all, the two sides were too close to each other, and its artillery could also exert a certain power.

"Ma's, this is a patrol ship, and the Dragon's Tooth Gate is their main fleet."

Looking at the floating wreckage in front of him, Chen Han frowned and said.

Of course, it didn't make much sense for him to say this, because immediately after Bank's main fleet appeared in his field of vision, the towering giant ships, riding the wind and waves on the blue sea, especially the three ships that were even larger than the Weihai, and they looked like they had a kind of domineering momentum that crushed everything, and there were ninety cannons on three layers on the side of the side, representing their noble rank.

This huge scale frightened Chen Han, he actually only had two battleships, and three cruisers, all the guns added up to less than a quarter of the other, in this case, it was obvious that it was a very irrational behavior to fight hard, he didn't want to take two battleships to fight twenty-three battleships, especially if it also included three second-class battleships that were a level higher than the Dinghai, he immediately ordered to turn around and sail west to a deep-water channel between Batam and Linga, and use the complicated terrain to throw off the Dutch fleet.

And the same Banker was confused by him.

Because in Bank's calculations, the target of his hunt should be three medium-sized third-class battleships and six cruisers, but where did these two large three-class battleships and three cruisers with seventy-four guns come from?

But he didn't bother to think about it, anyway, whether it was big or small, it was a floating cloud under the crushing of his strength, this Ming fleet was also a huge piece of fat, he definitely couldn't let it go, after finding that the opponent turned and was ready to escape, he didn't hesitate to lead a huge fleet to chase over, but at this time it was not easy to catch up with the Ming army, the terrain of this sea area was too complicated, there were too many messy islands, and the two fleets escaped one after another, and soon stayed away from the Dragon Tooth Gate.

However, today is destined to be a day to remember, or rather......

The unfortunate days of the Dutch.

Straits of Johor.

The captains of the four third-class battleships left behind were vigilantly staring to the west, the smoke of burning coal in the sky was rising, and it was obvious that the Ming troops on the two schooner battleships also heard the sound of cannons, knowing that their reinforcements had arrived and were preparing to fight out of the strait, and what was waiting for them next would be a fierce battle, the four battleships lined up in a battle line at sea, all eyes were fixed on the distance and waited to meet the opponent at any time. They now only have four battleships on this side, and although the opponent is two, the ferocity of the hundred-pound cannon is very terrifying, and the advantage is that the two Ming battleships have run to a dead end on their own, and now they only need a small arrangement to occupy an absolute advantage.

They are as insidious as Xu Shou.

These four battleships drove directly to the mouth of the bay where Xu Shou was hiding, and with the help of terrain cover to resist flank attacks, all the cannons were aimed at the mouth of the bay, as long as Xu Shou's battleship showed its head, it immediately bombarded it with the fire of hundreds of cannons. In order to ensure victory, these four battleships loaded all their cannons with flowering shells purchased from the British at a high price, and they were located less than three hundred meters from the mouth of the bay at this time, and at such a distance, their thirty-two-pounder guns could penetrate even the decks of second-class battleships, so to speak, as long as the Ming battleship showed its head, it would be blasted to pieces in an instant.

More than a thousand officers and soldiers on the four battleships stared closely ahead, and the gunners pulled up the flintlock ropes in their hands and waited for the enemy to come out, but none of them noticed that at this moment the four Ming cruisers appeared silently behind them like ghosts. (To be continued.) )