Nassau, on the other hand, watched nervously as the formidable 122-gun super battleship approached his Aquaman, which was already ahead of several capital ships, pierced through the hull by a large number of shells fired from its sides, and perhaps his own Aquaman would be next.

"General! The enemy's fifth-tier ship! Come to us! ”

Nassau suddenly looked in the direction of the water finger. I saw that the Chinese frigates and cruisers formed a small detachment of four ships, forming a big angle with a long line of combined fleet battles.

"Why did they run so far diagonally and come at us again?" Nassau's second mate asked.

Nassau, though bad-tempered, was also a real admiral, and he frowned deeply, and said, "Do you think these small ships can withstand too much of the battleship's broadside fire?" With such a large angle, coming from both sides, it is guaranteed that they will not be attacked by fire at the beginning. ”

The second mate said, "But look, General, the ship in front of us has already attacked them!" ”

Nassau looked sharply and saw several British ships in the middle of the battle line firing cannonballs at the fifth-class ships that were already getting closer. Due to the oblique hull of the frigate, the hit rate of the flying shells was much lower than when the side of the enemy ship was directly opposite or at a right angle. Only sporadic shells hit the boats, which did not cause huge casualties.

"These idiots, there is still time to take care of other things at this time!" Nassau punched the hull of the boat and said angrily.

The second mate wanted to ask why, but soon he knew the answer, because the 122-gun Nanyang had already approached the front battleship of his fleet, and the fifth-class ship at the front did not have time to load the next round before facing the huge number of highly lethal artillery fire of the Nanyang, and was beaten to the point of being powerless.

A large number of shells hit the ship's main mast directly, causing the ship to lose its main power, and one side of the hull was also broken, although it did not sink, but the work would be done by the Chinese battleship behind for the Nanyang.

Nassau didn't care about the hapless battleship, and he now had to brace himself and think about how his Aquaman could escape from such a huge ship. In the end, Nassau had to order all the Dutch warships to leave the battlefield separately, and after retreating, raise the Dutch flag and return to the port of Batavia in Sumatra (because the Dutch secretly signed a treaty with the British, all the warships participating in the war flew the British flag).

"General, what shall we do? Followed by China's warships, "the second officer was also sweating profusely, firing his cannons, and found that the enemy's battleships behind him were approaching them, and these Chinese fifth-class ships were eyeing them outside, and once they approached, it was very likely that they would fall directly into a broadside battle, and the outcome would be unpredictable at that time.

Nassau was also indecided, he muttered repeatedly, and finally said: "We will fight when they are close, these small boats without protection, we can deal with them with one or two shelling at close range." ”

His calculation was to quickly knock out these frigates before leaving, and if possible, use these small boats as shields to block the shelling of Chinese warships.

It's just that it backfired, and the large and small detachments of 23 fifth- and sixth-rank ships, like terrifying wasps, were nailed into the combined fleet that had been filled with fear. Rather than engaging the battleships of the Combined Fleet directly to the side, these little ones inserted themselves into the gap that the two battleships saw with astonishing dexterity.

Most battleships did not have enough firepower in the bow and stern, generally no more than ten or eight small guns, and this firepower happened to be acceptable for the frigates.

In the end, in the face of a large number of fifth-class and sixth-class ships of the Nanyang Navy, Nassau had to raise the white flag and order surrender, while those escaped Dutch warships were successively overtaken by high-speed steam ships on the way to Batavia, and in the end, only three sixth-class ships actually escaped to Batavia. The disadvantage of Bermai's death on the part of the British fleet seriously affected the Combined Fleet, and the Dutch, at Nassau's command, fought with great vigour with the small ships that had surrounded them, either with swords and guns, or with guns, and the battle line in the Dutch part of the battle line was completely changed. And the British lost their commanders, and the captains began to act on their own, mostly fulfilling their previous orders, maintaining the battle line and firing at the Chinese.

The outcome of the war was obvious, both in terms of numbers and artillery, the Anglo-Dutch fleet was far from being the opponent of the Chinese South Sea Fleet.

The Battle of the South Seas of 1841, known to Europeans as the Battle of Tammillan, was a major military defeat for Europeans in the Far East. Of the 78 large and small European warships, only 11 escaped after the war, including two Dutch third-class ships, and on the way back to Batavia, they were caught in a storm and sank with damage to their hulls.

The British warships were completely destroyed, 12 of the 3rd class ships were sunk and 4 were captured, 5 small 5th class ships were captured, and the rest were destroyed. On the Chinese side, three small warships were lost, and the other ships were somewhat damaged, but after repair, they were not hindered in use.

In total, the European Navy suffered more than 8,000 casualties, of which about 4,000 died and more than 3,000 were taken prisoner. The Chinese suffered 507 casualties, of which 285 died.

Among them, the commander-in-chief of the European fleet, Rear Admiral Bermai, died not long after the start of the battle. Throughout the mid-19th century, countless European shipbuilders were engaged in building ironclad ships that were stronger than China, and countless European officers and spies came to China to see the true face of the world's most powerful warships.

As the first application of ironclad ships in actual combat, the Battle of Temilan is in no way inferior to the Battle of Trafalgar in history, and after the Battle of Trafalgar occupied the peak of the era of sail warships, the Battle of Temilan became the 072nd chapter of the modern navy. British Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne could no longer bear the pressure from the House of Commons and the country to submit his resignation to the Queen on August 30. Then Sir Robert Peel of the Conservative Party appointed a cabinet to form a government.