No matter how the Viceroyalty of Batavia warned and signaled that an imminent expedition was about to take place, it was of no use to the Spaniards, who had already taken over the brains of victory, and they had no idea what the Dutch were looking at.

In their eyes, the Dutch are just relying on new technologies to achieve success, compared to the Australian weapons, the Dutch are now using a scum, although they are all from Australia, but the obvious gap between the first and second generations has been shown.

After a naval battle with the Spaniards, the reinforcements sent by Brown completely understood why the Spanish dared to be so arrogant, and even dared to go to war with themselves at this time, knowing that in the entire Far East, the Dutch had the largest number of troops, even the Australians did not have such a strong number of soldiers.

The Spaniards defeated two or three thousand men with more than a thousand men, which was nothing in the past, but now it is big news, and Brown, who is committed to the expansion of the Far East, has been trying to restore the reputation of the Netherlands in this region, and now it seems that not only has not recovered, but has become worse and worse, at least in another way, it can be seen that he has failed very much.

Once the sense of failure arises in a person's heart, it often produces two results, one is to study hard, and the other is to retaliate quickly, but now it seems that he does not have the strength to retaliate.

Several naval attacks were routed by the Spaniards, and the Dutch lost a ship, which did not exist in previous engagements, and the most important thing was that the Spaniards actually had armed steam warships, which was great news.

The Spaniards converted the steamship into a warship, but the Dutch spies didn't know it at all, isn't this a naked slap in the face, and only now do they know that they did not sail the ship back to Europe for transportation business.

This time the Spaniards took a big risk, pinning all their reliance on new weapons, and the failure of the attack on the sea meant that the Dutch could not support the defenders of the Malay Peninsula, once the upper defenders on the island ran out of weapons and ammunition. That is, the time to surrender.

Although it was known that Spain might have acquired new weapons, it was probably impossible to buy them from the Australians at this time, and there was no time for time and distance, the most important thing was that the Spanish warships were farther than the Netherlands in terms of shooting distance.

In the governor's palace in Batavia, Brown was furious, expressing his dissatisfaction with the Australians' secret sale of weapons to the Spaniards, slamming the table fiercely, telling his men to defeat the Spaniards, once the Spaniards defeated, then the situation in the Far East would have a great impact.

Whether you have the ability or not. But Brown gave the order, and his men had to carry it out, and it was a battle with their lives.

It's just that this practice is of great use, I'm afraid it's not much, the Spaniards have secretly shipped the purchased weapons back to the country, the domestic troops have been reequipped, and it originally took two or three months to go to Europe, and they must wait until the monsoon arrives to set sail, and now there are steamships. You don't need to wait for the monsoon to go straight to the sea.

The Australian steamship shortened the distance between countries around the world and accelerated the exchange of the world, but also affected the rapid rise or fall of the price of certain items.

Originally, the price of tea shipped from the Far East to Europe was on the high side because of time and distance. Therefore, the price was inevitably high, but after the steamship transportation, the price dropped significantly, and the Dutch also understood the principle of small profits but quick turnover. The amount of use is large to earn profits, in fact, the annual income earned is relatively higher than in the past.

Now Brown probably regrets that he didn't leave a few steamships to be converted into warships. This would not be the case today, at least when it comes to transporting supplies.

There has never been a regret pill to take in this world, so Brown's regret and dereliction of duty will inevitably be attacked from home, and once the Spaniards appear on the battlefield with new weapons, that is when Brown officially goes backstage.

"Brown is arrogant and arrogant, and now he has finally tried the consequences," Wang Tiehammer said with a smile as he sat in his captain's room, and he was very happy to receive such a high amount of compensation for the accident, and with this money, the navy could add another steam warship, which was the least.

"General, are we docking with eastern Malaysia to enter the spectator mode," the adjutant asked Wang Tiehammer very formally.

According to the mission of the Sea Blue, it was to go to the waters of Hong Kong to deter the Manchus, and at the same time replace the next two warships to defend Malacca.

"It's a good option to go into spectator mode, and I don't mind staying for a moment to watch if they're fighting."

Although the Australian Navy is strong, after all, there is too little combat experience, and many people's combat experience is only maintained when they are at war with pirates.

The Dutch and the Spaniards were both old maritime powers, and both sides had a lot of combat experience.

The appearance of the Sea Blue made both sides of the war notice, and the two sides stopped the battle very tacitly, and even the Dutch sent a small boat to inquire, and after learning that the Sea Blue was just passing by, they were relieved to leave, and the battle began.

The Dutch still have a lot of experience in naval warfare, only to see that the two warships not far away are scattering in Chengyanxing, encircling the Spanish warships from both directions, but the Spaniards are not weak, they quickly found this target, quickly sailed the ship to the left, and finally made an arc to turn left, so that the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the oncoming Dutch ship on the left.

In terms of combat defense, the Spaniards are still very experienced, but in terms of offensive formation, the Dutch are slightly superior, but the lag behind the Spanish in weapons dooms them to a very huge price to pay if they want to win.

Wang Tiehammer held a telescope and looked at the two warring sides in the distance, while constantly explaining to the officers and soldiers around him.

This is a rare practical observation and learning course, which is very beneficial to the situation encountered by the Australian Navy in the future.

The whole battle lasted for nearly two hours, the Dutch did not have the upper hand, and from the current situation, if they wanted to win the attack, they had to send more ships, and now it seemed that they could only wait for the Hong Kong fleet to return and launch an attack.

(To be continued.) )