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Rear Admiral Reuben sat in the captain's room commanding the USS Soyuz in seven provinces, and after a while, he had not yet received a reconnaissance report from the seaplane, and he had a premonition that something was going to happen.

Just as he was about to send the last plane, an officer rushed in in a panic, displeased Major General Reuben and wanted to reprimand the reckless officer.

"Airplanes! There are a lot of planes coming out there! The planes of the South China Army came. Although the Dutch officer's words were somewhat incoherent, Major General Ruben heard them, and he hurried out.

A group of yellow-blue painted planes flew in the sky, densely packed, estimated to be more than thirty.

It was Nanhua's plane, and they flew very low, almost across the sea, and they were very fast, much faster than ordinary seaplanes.

Airplanes used against battleships?

Major General Reuben came up with this idea, which felt a little ridiculous. He stomped on the Seven Provinces Soyuz, a 7,000-ton iron guy that could not be pierced by an airplane's machine gun.

However, what made him embarrassed was that there were few weapons on the ship to restrain the opposing aircraft, and even the flagship Seven Provinces Soyuz did not have anti-aircraft machine guns.

"Hurry up the machine gun, don't let the plane come close." Major General Ruben ordered.

So a group of sailors came up on the deck, and they scrambled to raise the muzzle of the bulky Maxine machine gun, which was not an easy task.

In the blink of an eye, Nanhua's planes had already flown over, and in front of them were 10 Cummins biplane fighters, in groups of two and two, flying in formation.

Due to the fact that the Dutch fleet was not equipped with specialized fighters. The two or three seaplanes carried were almost negligible in the face of more than 30 aircraft of the South China Air Force. So there was a surprising scene in the battle.

"Da Da Da"

The South China fighter planes that had arrived earlier opened fire first, and a barrage of bullets spewed out from the nose of the plane, hitting the deck of the Seven Provinces Soyuz, knocking down the Maxine machine gun that had been so hard to add up, and then the second and third planes flew over the Seven Provinces Soyuz, and the high-speed bullets hit the deck, sweeping down the exposed Dutch sailors.

In just one round, more than a dozen Dutch sailors were killed at gunpoint by Nanhua's planes.

"Damn!"

Rear Admiral Reuben cursed, and was immediately pulled back into the cabin by the clever guards.

He stood in the cockpit and watched the presumptuous South China planes surrounding the Seven Provinces Soyuz. His face was pale, and he couldn't wait to pull out the **** and shoot down the damn "mosquito".

He likened the South China plane to a mosquito. In terms of size, the Nanhua aircraft is too far away from the Seven Provinces Alliance, and it is indeed a mosquito.

It's just a headache. Although these mosquitoes did not "bite" through the thick skin of the battleship, they killed and injured a large number of people on board.

In less than two minutes, there were already many corpses of the Dutch Navy on the deck of the Seven Provinces Alliance, and the officers who had not yet picked up were lying on the deck in agony, and they tried to reach into the cabin, shouting for help.

A medic rushed out to bring back a wounded Dutch officer, but before he could take two steps, a plane suddenly appeared behind him and knocked it down, and the blood slowly stained the deck.

"Bastard! It's so barbaric! Major General Reuben's eyes reddened. Clenching his fists tightly, he was enraged by the scene outside.

"Da Da Da Da"!

A Thoreau bullet suddenly entered the cockpit, shattering the glass of the cockpit, and two Dutch officers who could not dodge were hit, and the large-caliber bullets of the aviation machine gun punched several holes in their bodies, and the blood continued to seep out, and they were incurable.

Everyone began to realize that the cockpit was not safe and looked at each other.

"Shoot!" Major General Reuben took out the **** and walked to the door and shot at the plane overhead.

Infected by him, other Dutch sailors also found cover to shoot at the planes in the air.

The bullets of the Dutch sailors angered the South Chinese pilots. They turned their heads sharply and swept down the daring Dutch sailors.

All of a sudden, there was a burst of gunfire, and bullets fired by the South China plane splashed down like water.

It was not so easy to jerk off, and the Dutch sailors who could not dodge were hit one after another and fell to the ground. Howls of pain.

"Withdraw!" Major General Ruben immediately decided to put an end to the futile move of the jerking off. The Dutch fleet was ordered to take shelter temporarily.

After this visit, he deeply felt the importance of air defense. If the ship is equipped with more than a dozen anti-aircraft machine guns, will the Nanhua aircraft still dare to be arrogant?

Major General Ruben thought to himself, a little resentful.

When he returned to Jakarta, he loaded the Dutch battleship with machine guns, a large number of machine guns, to prevent similar tragedies from happening again.

It's embarrassing to think about it, the tens of thousands of tons of steel battleships were actually driven away by a small plane, and no one believed it.

This happened in just a few minutes, except for the loss of a few personnel, the Seven Provinces Alliance was not a big problem, but the situation of those small-tonnage destroyers and gunboats was a little miserable.

Two gunboats were strafed by Nanhua planes, and more than half of the people on board were killed or wounded, and they were in a mess.

After Major General Ruben gave the order to retreat, he actually stayed on the surface of the sea without any reaction, motionless.

"Want to escape? No way! The real meal hasn't started yet? ”

After the fighter rage, the slower bombers finally flew over. When they saw that the enemy had turned around, they were anxious.

The pilot jerked the joystick, dived down with a load of ammunition, and kept the bomb on the deck of the Dutch fleet.

After being strafed by fighters, the Dutch fleet was almost empty of fighters on deck, so the South China bombers recklessly flew over the heads of the enemy less than 100 meters away and dropped bombs.

"Bang bang bang!"

A violent explosion sounded on the deck of the Seven Provinces Union, a 152mm caliber cannon was blown up, and the huge barrel tilted down and fell decadently.

A Dutch sailor was also on deck with a heavy gun barrel and fainted in agony.

Major General Ruben looked at what was happening outside, his eyes were split, and his liver and gallbladder were cold.

After all, the bomber is not the kind of terrifying torpedo bomber that was more than ten years later, and two or three of the tens of thousands of tons of super battleships were killed.

Fifty kilograms of bombs dropped by bombers in Nanhua. Landing on the Seven Provinces Soyuz, it blew up craters on the deck. The momentum was huge, but unfortunately it failed to blow up the internal structure of the battleship, and the Seven Provinces Alliance was still unharmed.

"Bang!"

A bomb landed near the cockpit, and the blast wave of the explosion twisted the cockpit and shrapnel flew and killed the Dutch officers in the cockpit.

Major General Reuben was crushed under him, and the adjutant beside him helped him block the shrapnel, and the valiant soldier was shot and killed.

Major General Reuben's chest rose and fell violently, and just now he thought he was going to see God? He had just brushed off with death, and his head was a little confused. Not yet sober.

His face was cut by a splash of glass, and the hot sensation made him gradually sober up and continue to direct the battle.

On the Seven Provinces Soyuz, around a dozen South China aircraft. There was a constant rumbling roar, hovering over the heads of the Dutch like a group of death.

The bombers, having dropped their bombs, were somewhat dissatisfied and continued to hover over the Dutch fleet, pouring out all their bullets.

For a while, the Dutch were beaten bitterly, and it was not miserable.

At this moment, how desperately the Dutch wanted to leave this hellish place, the feeling of weakness without the power to fight back was too frustrating for them.

Major General Ruben pushed away the body of the adjutant next to him, walked to the cockpit, and looked anxiously at the situation outside.

After hitting a bomb. The cockpit had a wider view, but Major General Ruben was in a bad mood.

Not far away, a Dutch destroyer had caught fire, it was the Philip, and it was now enveloped in raging flames. The sailors on board were also on fire, and were constantly jumping into the sea, and the howls of pain were transmitted to the Seven Provinces Alliance, looming.

After a round of bombardment, the Dutch fleet lost 2 destroyers (one was destroyed by fire, one was blown up and the power compartment was damaged), 3 gunboats. 5 transport ships.

The power system of the Seven Provinces Soyuz is intact, the damage is not fatal, and it can still sail out of the sea off Medan at high speed.

After dropping the bombs, the South China planes, which had run out of bullets, could only watch the Dutch fleet flee, and some arrogant pilots flew to the heads of the Seven Provinces Alliance. Flapping their wings triumphantly, they provoked the Dutch, who had been tormented by them.

The Dutch were so angry that they vomited blood. But they don't have time to care about their unscrupulous enemies.

Nanhua's planes went back satisfied, leaving behind the Dutch fleet, which was in a state of apprehension.

The Dutch did not dare to linger any longer, but only thought about escaping, fleeing to safety, because no one knew if there would be the next wave of planes.

Major General Reuben was slightly relieved after inspecting the pipe damage. At least the planes were not capable of sinking their own ships, and most of the Dutch fleet could still safely return to Jakarta and fight again after two or three months of refurbishment.

However, the deck was in shambles, and a large number of naval officers and men died in strafing and bombing, which made Rear Admiral Ruben lament.

In fact, the Dutch fleet had already suffered heavy losses from the South China Air Force. Major General Ruben finally understood why the other side dared to land with a swagger.

It was a special naval battle, which took place in less than half an hour. Seeing their fleet scared away by enemy planes, the Dutch-Indian colonial troops who had just come ashore did not feel good.

The Dutch colonial officers who remained on the shore felt their scalps tingle at the thought of the whining South China planes all over the sky, and many began to complain that the navy had sent them to this hellish place to die.

But at this time, the Dutch fleet was in no mood to heed the army's complaints. At noon, the equatorial sun shone on the Dutch fleet, which had just experienced the flames of war.

The Seven Provinces Alliance was covered with scab, and the remaining sailors slid the bodies of their comrades over the national flag into the sea, hiding the dead in the deep blue.

The Dutch sailors looked sad and felt that they had lost too much, and many of them even left tears of pain.

Having just said goodbye to the deceased, Major General Ruben was in a low mood, and he wanted to be alone and quiet. Walk to the bow of the boat, look at the blue sea, and say nothing, let the sea breeze blow away the pain in your heart.

He regretted it a little, in the morning battle, although he still saw the army of Nanhua, but the opponent's plane had already given him a great shock.

The thought of the Dutch Army on the shore made his heart tangled again.

"I hope—"

He thought silently to himself.

The watchtower of the Seven Provinces Soyuz was blown up in the bombing, along with the ship's lookouts, and it had not had time to be repaired.

Looking at the empty lookout, Major General Ruben felt that something was not good, as if some danger was approaching. He had already experienced this feeling in the morning.

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