The port of Mazen, a port on the southeast coast of Borneo, is not far east is the Makassar Strait. It is one of the few important places in Borneo that still holds the control of the Dutch.

The port of Malchen is backed by the Barito and Matapura rivers and floods frequently. Most of the houses of the local Phuket people are pillared houses, built on wooden stakes, and accessed by small boats. The harbor is excellent and can be navigated by large ships. The main output is pepper, wood, rattan, rope fiber, grease, gold and coal. Although there is almost no modern industry, it is a well-deserved product distribution center in the surrounding area. Even Sulawesi, on the other side of the Makassar Strait, also has ships coming and going from the port of Mazen from time to time.

Control of the port was firmly in the hands of the Dutch, who had more than 2,000 colonial soldiers here at the height of the tension. However, as Sino-British relations became closer, the situation in Borneo gradually eased, and the Dutch took the initiative to withdraw their troops deployed there as a gesture of goodwill.

China's South Sea Fleet has never sent warships to patrol the Makassar Strait. Just like the fortifications built by the Dutch in the port of Mazen, they were all for the land, not for the sea.

China's actions in Borneo are limited to land friction and are acceptable to the West. If a naval landing operation is used, it will be a real war, not a misfire.

At dusk, on the northwest sea of Machen Port, a formation of three merchant ships and one gunboat appeared on the sea in the sunset.

This is a contingent of immigrants, and those who have a little understanding of the international situation will know that this formation under the banner of China must be going to East Timor.

Before the 16th century, Timor was ruled by the kingdom of Sri Buddha centered on Sumatra and the kingdom of Mahabacher, centered on Java. Early 16th century. Portuguese colonists invade the island of Timor. In 1613, the Dutch invaded and established a base in West Timor in 1618. Squeezing out Portuguese power to the east. In the 18th century, British colonists briefly took control of West Timor. In 1816, the Netherlands reinstated the colonial status of the island of Timor. In 1859, Portugal and the Netherlands signed a treaty to re-divide the island of Timor. The eastern part of Timor Island and Oecussi were annexed to Portugal, and the western part was incorporated into the Dutch East Indies. Then last year, China signed an agreement with Portugal. With 100 million Chinese dollars and some corresponding preferential terms, it was enough to win Portuguese East Timor and the Oecussi region.

In the second half of last year, China began to organize migrants and build bases in East Timor, and this wave is no longer known to be the fifth wave of migrants. It's still the sixth wave of immigrants.

"Signal, get ready to land!"

From Lanfang to Timor-Leste, although the journey was not peaceful, the pirates here were always unclear. There are so many islands, big and small. In later generations, Indonesia's reputation as the 'country of a thousand islands' is not false at all. There are many islands though. Naturally, there are more coastal ports, and they come to shore once every three days, and immigrants can get off the ship from time to time to move their muscles and bones, and it will not be too hard at all, let alone any epidemic.

For the immigration and reclamation of the south, phenol, a chemical extracted from coal tar, has been engraved into the hearts of every Chinese person in the shortest possible time. Because this thing is the best to disinfect and sterilize! It is an indispensable necessity for Nanyang immigration and reclamation.

The commander-in-chief of the formation, Liu Guanxiong, captain of the Anlan ship, put down the binoculars. gave an order to the first mate Gao Xianyun.

Twenty minutes later, the four ships that had completed the formation headed straight 30 degrees north of the front.

Machen Port was never used as a military port. However, the excellent natural conditions allow the Machen Port, which has only been developed simply, to be "loaded" with no pressure.

Liu Guanxiong stood on the bridge of the ship, and the sea breeze in front of him made him open-minded. Major, Captain, I have finally crossed this hurdle. This is also entering the middle level of the Navy.

He was very envious of Deng Shichang, Fang Boqian and others, who were two terms earlier than him, and the gap was only two years, and now it was the difference between cloud and mud. Fortunately, I finally got out of the ground and flew into a bird. Liu Guanxiong believes that one day he will be able to become a Honghu in the same way!

"Captain, there's a situation!"

However, the lookout on the mast raised the alarm when the formation was still four or five nautical miles away from the port of Mazen: it seemed that the port had been cleared at the port of Machen, and there was hardly anyone at the wharf. And there are more than a dozen ships crowded on the dock, not like cargo ships, but like pirate ships that haunt the islands.

Liu Guanxiong's face changed greatly, and he immediately climbed the mast neatly. Under the dusk and sunset, a qiē in Machen Harbor is clearly visible in the telescope, which is indeed abnormal!

Although the dock was crowded with boats, there were not many people. And those ships had black flags on their masts.

Alarm bells are ringing. The first-level battle alert caught many of the naval officers and men and dart masters who thought that this operation was a trip at all, and they ran out of the deck cover one after another, rushing to their respective combat posts.

The latter is very good in dealing with emergencies, just like soldiers, although their movements are not standard, but their time, weapons, and combat qualities are excellent, so that the soldiers on the merchant ship secretly give a thumbs up.

But. It seemed that the opponent was even more frightened, and from a distance, the masts on the ships suspected to be pirate ships on the opposite side began to climb up the sailors, and black smoke rose from the chimneys, and many people untied the small boats of the big ships and lowered them into the sea, and wanted to run towards the land by boat.

That's the smart choice!

The distance between the two sides was only a small four or five nautical miles, and it could be reached in half an hour without the Anlan ships, and at that time these ships were not necessarily able to move.

"It's not the Dutch, it's the pirates! Send the flag, let the merchant ship drag behind! Prepare for shelling! Liu Guanxiong's expression was very excited, he was going to open meat today, haha! That's a lot of luck.

Gao Xianyun's adrenaline increased again, he had not really participated in the war since he joined the army, and the only time he followed the warship into Hangzhou, the Chu army in Hangzhou Bay surrendered without a fight. He has been secretly dissatisfied that many of his classmates in the same period are one level higher than him, and the best ones are all on the same rank as Liu Guanxiong, thinking that he is unlucky. So when I saw this scene in front of me, I only felt that I was extremely Tailai, and someone would send a pillow when I was sleepy.

If you can completely annihilate the pirates in front of you, or even most of them, it will be a great achievement.

The Anlan ship is in full swing, and there are more than ten pirate ships, which must have at least five or six hundred people. Maybe there are thousands of people! Liu Guanxiong's expectations for 'making contributions' are not inferior to Gao Xianyun.

The distance is getting closer!

Probably already knew that it was in a desperate situation, and the pirate ship at this time actually began to shell. The best of these corsairs is also only a sailboat, a purely steam-powered ship at all. Most of them are old sailboats!

The East Indies are dotted with islands, with few spacing between harbours and a large market for old-fashioned sailing ships.

The orange-red muzzle flames tore through the fading dusk, and a deafening roar echoed across the harbor. Five or six pirate ships were a thousand meters away, and they fired the cannonballs.

The Anlan continued to approach.

The Anlan ship with a displacement of 1,250 tons can hold 400 tons of coal, has a speed of 11.5 knots, and was originally equipped with one 62-pounder gun and four 40-pounder guns, but after modifications, it has become one 190mm gun, four 150mm guns, four 120mm guns, and six 40mm caliber machine guns. Compared to these old pirate ships, the firepower is extremely powerful.

The Anlan ship never held back its guns, even if the pirate ship's guns hit the ship, they always stepped forward. Advancing 300 meters against the shells, the pirates' artillery skills were very poor, and the Anlan ship did a bullet evasion curve movement, and only two cannons were hit in the 300 meters, injuring one sailor soldier.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

When the Anlan ship approached a distance of 700 meters, the gunboat's cannons suddenly opened full firepower. From 190mm guns to 40mm guns, shells rained down on the pirate ship. Of course, the main force of this raindrop was six 40mm machine guns.

Cannonballs smashed into columns of water around the pirate ships, sparks erupted on the wooden pirate ships, and the pirates, who knew that there was no way out, screamed hysterically on the deck, frantically resisting.

China's crackdown on pirates is so severe that it is cold-blooded. If they are caught, they will die, or they will die of torture in the pits of the mines. It's better to die desperately clean.

The distance between the two sides is still close, but everyone knows that as the distance closes, the Grim Reaper is getting closer and closer to the opponent. With the pirate ship's weak body, six 40mm cannons can sweep away the entire deck superstructure. What's more, the cannon shells also have arson phosphorus added to them.

A main gun shell landed on the bow of a sailing ship, and the explosion of the high-explosive shell set off a rushing heat wave, instantly tearing the entire bow of the ship, completely destroying the bow deck, and the huge hole black smoke billowed like a burning blood basin, and large pieces of wooden fragments flew all over the sky.

Immediately afterwards, the 120mm secondary gun also hit a shot in a direct manner, this time the explosion was even more violent, the boiler of the sailboat exploded, and almost half of the hull was destroyed in the heat storm.

The hysterical pirates were not revolutionaries and men who were not afraid of death, and when the brute force in their hearts subsided, fear gripped their hearts deeply.

The pirates on board were in a mess, and the situation began to fall apart. People are constantly jumping into the sea with wooden barrels, or directly into the sea.

"We don't need prisoners, keep shelling!" Liu Guanxiong did not feel the need to take some prisoners and send them to East Timor. So it's better to wipe out all of these pirates.

Another shell hit a pirate ship with its deck cocked high, piercing the upper deck and directly into the interior of the hull.

"Boom ......" was an unparalleled loud sound.

An inflated ball of flame burst the entire pirate ship.

In Liu Guanxiong's eyes, this is the scorching flames like a cloud of fire, like a hurricane, dismantling the entire pirate ship from the inside out. The scene is so beautiful, so beautiful!

The sea within a radius of hundreds of meters seemed to be swept away by the raging flames, and dozens of pirates in the sea let out a terrifying and tragic cry at the moment when the sea surface was enveloped in flames. (To be continued......)