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At the beginning of the war, Britain hired a large number of Imperial Chinese naval officers as instructors, and restrained the British Navy in accordance with the combat regulations of the Royal Chinese Navy, and promulgated the "First British Naval Discipline Ordinance" to rectify military discipline.

According to the principle of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire in the formation of separate teams during battle, Blake divided the British fleet into four teams: red, white, blue and black, so as to facilitate command.

Most of the large new warships of the British Navy are under construction, while many of the main large warships of the Dutch Navy have already been built, so there is a big difference in naval strength between the two sides, and the Dutch Navy has an absolute advantage in the quality of warships.

Both sides arranged their battle plans according to their actual conditions, and the Dutch Navy had a strong main fleet, so the Dutch Navy was eager to find the main fleet of the British Navy for a decisive battle. However, the British Navy was inferior to the Dutch Navy in terms of the number of capital ships, so the British Navy chose to avoid the main force of the Dutch Navy and entered the Strait of Dover and the North Sea to carry out the tactics of breaking the attack and harassing the Netherlands.

British Navy Commander Blake listened to the construction of the Chinese Empire's battlefield observation team, sent a fleet to the north of Scotland to attack the Dutch East India Company's silver-carrying ships, to sink or capture Dutch fishing ships in the North Sea, and even entered the Baltic Sea to disrupt the maritime trade between the Netherlands and Northern and Eastern Europe.

There is no doubt that this use of strategy and tactics was fatal to the Dutch economy. The strategy developed by the Dutch side was to use a strong fleet to escort merchant ships and force the passage of the Strait of Guò Dover to ensure contact with the outside world.

Determined by the comparison of naval strength, this is a somewhat negative strategy, but improper strategic deployment has put it in a disadvantageous situation.

The two major battlefields of the Anglo-Dutch War - the North Sea and the Mediterranean. The British Navy placed its main battlefield in the North Sea, but the Netherlands placed its main battlefield in the Mediterranean.

The Netherlands had invested too many troops in the secondary theater, the Mediterranean theater, making its power in the battle for the Strait appear very weak.

The main reason for this strategic decision was not that the Dutch admirals did not know that the main force of the British Navy was in the North Sea, nor did they not want to go to the North Sea to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the British Navy, but mainly because the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire suddenly increased the strength of the Atlantic Fleet and the Mediterranean Fleet, which made the Dutch Admiralty feel tremendous pressure, so it had to deploy the main fleet on the Mediterranean side to monitor and alert the Mediterranean Fleet of the Chinese Empire.

Although the Dutch admiral Marton had accumulated a wealth of experience in naval warfare during the long battles with the French pirates and the Spanish navy, and had a high command art, the quality of the Dutch capital warships was generally higher than that of the British navy.

However, the Dutch navy's sailors were not subject to compulsory military service, but were temporarily recruited civilian sailors, although Dutch sailors were relatively high in terms of quality and could serve in naval operations with a little training. However, the Dutch sailors were still at a disadvantage in terms of military soft power, as they were often deserted in battle, and often lacked coordination.

The British Navy was influenced by the Imperial Chinese Navy, and although it had not yet achieved compulsory military service, it far surpassed the Dutch Navy in terms of military discipline. Strict military discipline ensured that British sailors would not suddenly desert during fleet operations, which led to a sharp increase in the British navy's naval combat effectiveness, offsetting the disadvantage of the Dutch navy in the number of warships.

The number of naval battles between the two sides was frequent, and the Imperial Chinese Battlefield Observation Group recorded more than 90 naval battles, but according to the regulations of the Imperial Chinese Maritime Battle, there were five battles that could be called large-scale naval battles, and most of them were named after the places where they occurred.

Among them, in the Strait of Dover and the North Sea Theater, the main fleet of the British Navy was not weaker than the Dutch naval fleet, and the two sides won and lost each other in the battle at the beginning, and they were in a state of stalemate as a whole.

In the first three months, the Dutch navy took the initiative to find a decisive battle for the British navy. There were three major naval battles, namely the Battle of Plymouth, the Battle of Kentice Snooker, and the Battle of Portland. Among them, the Battle of Plymouth was the largest, lasting more than six days, and it was the strongest naval battle of the Dutch Navy. During the battle, the Dutch navy offensive was extremely fierce, and the British naval commander made the mistake of strict passive resistance, as a result, dozens of British warships were blocked by the Dutch fleet at the doorstep, and the British navy was powerless to fight back, and lost face. In the end, because the Dutch navy ran out of ammunition, it had to be withdrawn to replenish the ammunition, so that the British navy could breathe.

In the first naval battle, the Dutch navy won and gained momentum. The British Navy was beaten at the doorstep of the British Navy, which disgraced the British government. Charles I deposed Tori, the commander of the fleet, and replaced his relative, the 4th Earl of Salisbury, as commander of the fleet.

Strictly speaking, Salisbury's Fourth Earl's command ability was not as good as Torrey's, but Salisbury was clever in diplomacy and hired Rear Admiral Chen Keqiang, deputy chief of staff of the Imperial Chinese Mediterranean Fleet, as a military adviser.

With Rear Admiral Chen Keqiang serving as military adviser to the Royal Navy fleet, the tactics of the British Navy have changed dramatically. Chen Keqiang applied the battle tactics of the Imperial Chinese Navy to the British Navy, the most important of which was the use of battle line tactics.

Although the navies of various countries are studying the battle line tactics of the Imperial Chinese Navy, they are only in the stage of research and discussion, and the navies of various countries have not yet practiced them, and they have no actual combat experience. Chen Keqiang's use of battle line tactics on the British Navy was a bit bold, but it was a good strategy to overcome the Dutch naval superiority in a short period of time.

This came to the fore in the second large-scale naval battle, when the Battle of Deakon Snooker began, and the British Navy, under the command of Chen Keqiang, faced the Dutch fleet with battle line tactics. Although the Dutch battleships were powerful, they liked to fight one-on-one and melee, and the British Navy used the battle line tactics to form a sub-battle team with several warships to seize the "T" prefix of the Dutch warships in the maneuver, and then concentrate all the firepower on the battle line to attack the enemy ships, and the effect was very obvious.

However, for the first time, the British Navy used battle line tactics to meet the enemy, and although it comprehended Chen Keqiang's tactical thinking, it was still very difficult to handle in actual combat. At the beginning of the battle, the Dutch battleships were heavily damaged, but by the middle and late stages of the battle, the Dutch battleships took advantage of them, and in the end the two sides ended in a tie and each withdrew from the battle.

For the British Navy, it was quite rare to be able to tie with the Dutch fleet, which was several times more powerful, and even a victory in disguise.

For the first time, the battle line tactics of the Chinese Empire were recognized by the British Navy, as well as affirmed by British naval experts. For the next half a month, the British navy still did not dare to meet the Dutch fleet head-on, but only attacked Dutch merchant ships and fishing ships everywhere.

The Dutch Navy was not aware of the great threat posed by the British Navy's new tactics, so it failed to actively pursue the British Navy, and Salisbury used this time to train the British Navy with Chen Keqiang, so that the British Navy could master the essentials of battle line tactics.

As the Anglo-Dutch War entered its fifth month, Britain gradually gained strategic advantage. Since Britain placed its main fleet in the North Sea, the turning point of naval warfare was the first to appear in the North Sea theater of operations.

In the Battle of Gabbard Beach, for the first time, the British Navy did not flinch in the face of the Dutch fleet, but took the initiative to attack, looking for an opportunity to seize the "T" prefix of the Dutch battleship in mobile combat. The Dutch fleet had been chasing the British fleet to prepare for a decisive battle, but was led by the nose by the British fleet, revealing more flaws and opportunities to the British fleet, only to be hit hard by the British fleet and suffer heavy losses.

The Battle of Gabbard Sandbank lasted two and a half days, with the British Navy losing seventeen ships and the Dutch losing twenty-one, and for the first time in the Anglo-Dutch War, the British Navy lost fewer than the Dutch Navy.

When the news reached London, there was jubilation throughout England, believing that this was a turning point in the Anglo-Dutch war, and that the Netherlands would go downhill.

Although the British were a little proud, it was undeniable that in the subsequent naval battles, the Dutch navy suffered more than the British navy. In the Battle of Sdewa, the British Navy sank a Dutch third-class battleship with five cruisers, setting a classic example of a cruiser sinking a battleship. Since then, the British Navy's battle line tactics have become more and more flexible, reaching 30 percent of the combat strength of the Imperial Chinese Navy, while the Dutch Navy still has not come up with new tactics to deal with battle line tactics. Judging by the overall strategy, it is indeed the Netherlands that is going downhill.

Of course, the superiority of the British Navy was only in the North Sea theater of operations. In the Mediterranean theater, the British Navy was still in a passive state by the Dutch Navy.

Seventy percent of the main fleet of the Dutch Navy was deployed in the Mediterranean theater, and the number of British warships in this area was only one-third of that of the Dutch fleet. Regardless of the number or the quality of individual ships, the British Navy is at an absolute disadvantage.

The target of the Dutch navy's alert was not the British Navy, but the Mediterranean Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

The Mediterranean Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire has twenty second-class battleships deployed in the Mediterranean theater of operations, as well as a large number of cruisers and frigates.

However, the Mediterranean Fleet of the Chinese Empire did not receive an order from Beijing to go to war, and therefore was only in combat readiness of the second level. In this way, the Dutch navy still did not dare to relax, because they knew that the British backer was the Chinese Empire, and there was no telling when the Chinese Imperial Navy would suddenly intervene.

The Chinese Empire supported the British, and although it did not directly participate in the war, the result was a strategic mistake on the part of the Dutch government. That is, the main battlefield was placed in the Mediterranean, and the energy was put on the Mediterranean Fleet of the Chinese Empire, rather than on the main force of the British Navy.

As a result, although the Dutch Navy achieved an absolute victory over the British Navy in the Mediterranean theater, the battles in this theater had little impact on the war from a strategic perspective. The Netherlands had amassed a powerful fleet in this area, which was basically pinned down by the Mediterranean Fleet of the Chinese Empire, and although it was able to maintain its superiority over the British, it caused the Dutch to lose both tactically and strategically in the North Sea Theater.

Eight months later, under the strangled blockade of the British navy, the weakest aspects of the Dutch economy, such as over-reliance on foreign trade and inferior domestic industry, were soon exposed.

Naval warfare is the most costly for national and financial resources, with eight months of fighting and hundreds of naval battles of all sizes, destroying warships, casualties, war expenses, and military expenditures, and depleting ammunition reserves is even more astronomical. In this case, the trade-oriented Netherlands soon became unsupportable. On the contrary, Britain's emerging industry quickly showed great potential for war.

After eight months of fighting, Britain's ammunition supply doubled rather than a shortage. This is mainly due to the fact that Britain has a strong industrial base, and although the British bourgeoisie has been suppressed, British industry is growing.

For war, the ultimate expression lies in the struggle for economic hegemony, and industrial capacity is the most basic factor in war. Undoubtedly, Britain ultimately prevailed over the thriving industrial capacity of other countries.

In the Netherlands, on the other hand, the streets of Amsterdam are overgrown with weeds, beggars and nearly 2,000 houses are uninhabited. The defeat of the Dutch navy in the North Sea, and the blockade of the Dutch mainland by the British navy, almost put the Netherlands in a state of destituteness.

So the Netherlands had to cry and beg France and Spain to import weapons and ammunition from their countries. According to the implicit neutrality laws of various countries, France and Spain should not export arms to the belligerents. However, Spain was unhappy with the Chinese Empire, and France did not want the rich Netherlands to be taken away by the British, so the two countries began to supply the Netherlands with arms and strategic materials, thus making a lot of war money.

With the support of France and Spain, the Netherlands recovered some of their strength. However, the news of the attack on the Chinese Imperial treasure ship and the war with the Pacific Fleet of the Chinese Empire quickly spread when the news of the house leak happened to rain overnight, and the news of the attack on the Chinese Imperial East India Company's fleet was quickly distributed.

The Imperial Government of China held a global press conference to inform all countries of the situation and lodged a solemn protest with the Dutch Republic, ordering the Dutch Republic to give a reply within a week.

The governments of various countries expressed their support for the solemn protest of the Chinese Empire and the demand for a reply to the extortion made by the Netherlands, because the demands put forward by the Chinese Empire were fully in accordance with the current rules tacitly accepted by the countries of the world.

However, the Dutch government was depressed. Because the Dutch government had no knowledge of the actions of the Dutch East India Company in the Far East, and besides, it would take at least several months or even half a year to investigate the Dutch East India Company, after all, the means of communication were very backward, and this time was considered fast. However, the Chinese Empire gave the Dutch government only one week to reply, which was not enough.

The Dutch government was nervous, and they knew what the reply the Chinese Empire wanted was nothing more than to severely punish the Dutch East India Company and compensate the Chinese Empire for its losses.

The Dutch government was able to punish the Dutch East India Company severely, and it could give a satisfactory answer to the Chinese Empire. However, if the Chinese Empire demanded compensation from the Dutch government, it would be fatal.

It is well known that the conservative value of the treasures that the Chinese Empire transported from Egypt was more than a billion silver dollars, and if the Dutch East India Company really robbed this treasure fleet, then the compensation demanded by the Chinese Empire would be astronomical.

The Dutch parliament discussed it for several days, and it was generally believed that the Chinese Empire would not make such a protest without incident, and that in the Far East, the Dutch East India Company must have made some kind of action. But the Dutch parliament has no information about what the action is, so it is not in a position to make a decision.

Soon, the date for the order to reply arrived. The Dutch parliament was unable to give a substantive answer to the Chinese Empire because it did not have an investigation report. But in order to appease the Chinese Empire, the Dutch Parliament temporarily froze all accounts and property of the Dutch East India Company and outlawed the Dutch East India Company's privilege order.

However, this reply clearly did not meet the requirements of the Chinese Empire. In fact, the Chinese Empire had already seen the embarrassment of the Dutch authorities, the Anglo-Dutch War had fallen to the side of the British, and the defeat of the Netherlands was a sure thing, so the real purpose of the Chinese Empire was to find an excuse to wage war against the Netherlands and divide the fruits of the Anglo-Dutch War.

On November 17, the Chinese Empire issued an ultimatum to the Dutch Republic and formally declared war on the Netherlands in the early hours of the next day.

The Chinese Empire's declaration of war on the Netherlands immediately shocked the whole of Europe. France was particularly nervous, as the Chinese Empire was always looking for a springboard into the European continent and its involvement in European affairs. Britain was undoubtedly a springboard for this, but if the Netherlands were defeated, then the entry of the Chinese Empire into the Netherlands would seriously threaten the security of France.

To this end, the French government immediately sent a note requesting the mediation of the war between the Chinese Empire and the Netherlands. The Netherlands was also terrified, it would be difficult for Britain to deal with, and if the Chinese Empire intervened again, the Netherlands would be in danger of extinction.

The purpose of the Chinese Empire was only to get a piece of the pie, not to declare war for the sake of war. Since France mediated, the Chinese Empire had to listen to the terms of France and the Netherlands. It is clearly the best way to reap the benefits without war.

At the end of the 15th year of Shenwu, France, as a mediator, participated in the armistice negotiations between the Chinese Empire, Britain and the Netherlands. The peace talks were held in Paris, France, and representatives from various European countries attended the talks.

Negotiations continued until the end of the year, and a draft contract was released. Under the terms of the draft peace treaty, the Netherlands recognized that Britain had equal trading rights in the Dutch West Indies, agreed to pay an indemnity of £300,000, and agreed to salute British ships in British waters.

For the British, the Dutch's conditions were satisfactory to them, and the British accepted the terms of the armistice, but it still depended on the meaning of the Chinese Empire, and if the Chinese Empire was not satisfied, everything would be in vain.

In order to satisfy the Chinese Empire, the Dutch authorities said that they would thoroughly investigate the Dutch East India Company, and if this was true, the Dutch government would sanction the Dutch East India Company and freeze all of the company's assets as a security deposit for the Chinese Empire. Once verified, the Dutch government would transfer the property of the Dutch East India Company to the Chinese Empire as compensation for the looting of the treasure fleet.

Of course, the Dutch authorities also understood that this was not the whole purpose of the Chinese Empire's declaration of war against the Netherlands. If the Chinese Empire is not benefited, this war will never stop.

France desperately needed a Sino-Dutch armistice, so it secretly threatened the Netherlands to cut off Dutch supplies if the war did not stop. In the end, the Dutch parliament was forced to cede the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean to the Chinese Empire, and at the same time crack down on Dutch Caribbean pirates, not providing them with a nest for development.

Half a month later, China, Britain, and the Netherlands signed the Paris Armistice Agreement, and Britain and the Netherlands were relatively close to each other, and the two leaders exchanged official documents and signed the agreement. The distance between the Chinese Empire and the Chinese Empire is too far away, and the exchange of the treaty needs to be signed by the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, which takes about half a year.

However, under the mediation of France, the Chinese Empire had ordered the Mediterranean Fleet to cease military operations, and the Chinese and Dutch sides had stopped military operations.

The Anglo-Dutch War ended with the intervention of the Chinese Empire and the victory of the British. Of course, the reason for Britain's victory was inseparable from the inappropriate strategic deployment of the other side -- concentrating superior forces in the secondary theater and ignoring the life-and-death Strait of Dover and the North Sea theater, but more importantly, Britain had strong industrial strength -- which was able to quickly replenish its combat strength. At the same time, the military guidance and strategic guidance of the Chinese Empire provided the British Navy with the right path, and the military assistance to Britain gradually made its navy catch up with the Dutch navy in terms of equipment, numbers, firepower, and even tactics.

Of course, the most important thing was the military intervention of the Chinese Empire. As a result of the Chinese Empire's declaration of war on the Netherlands, the Dutch completely lost their determination to fight against the British, and chose to negotiate peace to cede benefits to the Chinese Empire and Britain.

The war is not over, though. The defeat of the Dutch Navy in the North Sea did not represent the defeat of the Dutch Navy against the British Navy as a whole. The Dutch Navy had far more large warships than the British Navy, and the Dutch Navy's main fleet did not suffer any losses and still surpassed the British Navy in strength.

Especially in this Anglo-Dutch war, hundreds of naval battles taught the Dutch navy a deep lesson. The battle line tactics used by the British Navy were also known to the Dutch Navy, and they were thoroughly studied. It can be said that the Dutch Navy began to lie down and sharpen its knives, and as long as there is a little spark, I believe that war will continue to break out.

This spark was also buried in the Paris Armistice Agreement, because the Dutch divided the trade interests of the Dutch West Indies equally among the British, so that British trade intervened in the Dutch trade, which would lead to a fierce rivalry between Britain and the Netherlands in the Dutch West Indies, that is, in the American colonies. And this competition for colonies will eventually light the fuse for the next Anglo-Dutch war.

The Chinese Empire received assurances from the Dutch government that the property of the Dutch East India Company was frozen, and if the case was true, the company's property would serve as a guarantee to compensate the Chinese Empire for its losses. The Chinese Empire took a fancy to this, because with this agreement, the Chinese Empire could rightfully accept the East Indies, which belonged to the Dutch East India Company.

As for compensation, a Dutch East India Company was sufficient to compensate for the loss of the treasure fleet that had been hijacked. The Dutch East India Company would lose its entire company because of this contract, and would become a beggar. From both a military and economic point of view, the Chinese Empire has cut off a formidable rival.

The Dutch parliament's investigation of the Dutch East India Company then went into full swing, starting with many of the East India Company's executives who had returned to the Netherlands and some of the East India Company's offices were located in the Dutch provinces.

As a result, these people more or less knew some inside information, and it became a fact that the Dutch East India Company had robbed the treasure fleet of the Chinese Empire, which made the Dutch government quite embarrassed, and directly banned one of the privileges of the Dutch East India Company, and sent an investigation team to Batavia. V