Many people have focused on the military port in Motama Bay, which was actually the first military port established by the Republic and has been used ever since. Every replenishment of new ships and recruits is basically carried out here, so many people think that the republic is just such a military port.

In fact, it's more than that.

In some of the southern parts of Dawei Bay, in the second year of the establishment of the military port of Motama Bay, the military port began to be built secretly, and in the third year, a dock was officially established here, and the trained skilled shipwrights began to assemble warships. After several years of savings, the number of warships has reached more than 50. Together with the more than 30 naval capital ships remaining in the Burmese region, there are more than 80 naval warships in total.

During this period, no one knew that there was a military port in Dawei Bay, and no one knew that many veterans would be mobilized here for boarding exercises. No one knew that on the warships in Motama Bay, every once in a while, some veterans would disappear, and then quite a few new ones would appear.

Why? Because Zhang Hongbin had already expected that there would be a battle between Huaxia and Europa!

Why do you say that? Because of the important small gardens of Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, Nanyang has been beaten by Zhang Hongbin to lose his temper. It was forbidden to transport gold, silver, copper, and iron, and every time you had to pass through the Strait of Malacca, you had to pay a 30% tax, otherwise you would be sunk or captured. After a few unlucky people failed to try the law, this place no longer provided precious metals for Europe, even if the goods brought back were also valuable, but the key to the great voyage was that the European nobles lacked gold coins, and they needed more and more gold! They don't want much silver!

Zhang Hongbin's behavior can be said to have directly violated the fundamental interests of the Europa nobles. It would be strange if that didn't arouse their hatred.

Obviously, Zhang Hongbin's behavior of sewing up other people's money bags finally made Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands completely angry. In the end, I don't know how to instigate it, but I actually pulled the British John Bull in. France, a country with little navy, finally joined in.

There are more than 300 warships, and basically all of them are regular warships in service. If such a combined force swam in the Mediterranean, only Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire would have to obediently be turtles.

Of course, if you come to Nanyang and come to Huaxia, even Zheng Zhilong will have to kneel. It's a pity that they don't have to face a naval power in the feudal era. It is the People's Republic of China that has modern science and technology, surpassing their more than 200 years of ship technology.

Perhaps, after their initial investigation, they found that the Republic had only about 30 warships in Burma, and only about 20 of them were put into South Asia for cruises. Even if all of them are assembled in Burma, with the combat strength of their more than 300 main warships, they can completely use the wolf pack offensive to sink or capture these advanced ships, and even if they don't get anything at that time, bringing these ships back will be a huge trophy!

Not to mention, the products of China are also very attractive, especially silk and tea, which are indispensable to European aristocrats. Being able to beat the other party to pay compensation for the land is the best ending.

With such and such good thoughts, they set out from the Arabian Sea, the Mumbai region of India, bypassing Ceylon, and were about to go north to fight the Republic. It can be seen that this engagement should be fought in the Bay of Bengal, provided that it is seen who discovers whom first.

Before the Republic Navy set out for the expedition, Zhang Hongbin received a letter of engagement from the United Navy, stating that a decisive battle would be fought in the Bay of Bengal, Burma-India route. Don't look at this kind of behavior as a bit silly, but a fair and equitable duel, it is a manifestation of medieval chivalry. The most important thing is that it is a naval battle now, and if no one follows such a rule and walks around in the vast sea, God knows if they will miss the other side.

When the time comes, the coalition army will come directly to Burma to bombard, but the navy of the Republic will go directly to India because it did not find the other side, only to find that the direct home has been destroyed, is this really no problem? In general, when someone else knocks on the door, but their own home is too far away, a proper duel rule is actually more advantageous to the Republic.

Both sides chose a season decisive battle that would be relatively free of storms, so from the moment they set out, whether it was the Republic or the Combined Fleet, the weather encountered was basically sunny, at most it was dark and cloudy, and it rarely rained. Even if it rains heavily, it will soon be clear.

Seeing that it was another sunny day, the representatives of various countries on the flagship of the United Fleet were also in a happy mood.

"Haha, today's weather is really good, it's a great day to break the oriental monkeys." The Portuguese representative looked out the window on a sunny day, and he was also very happy.

"We will soon enter the agreed decisive battle, and no one knows what the outcome will be until the war is over. Don't underestimate any enemy, and don't overestimate yourself. "The Spanish representative is clearly a more sane commander.

"Then it also depends on what kind of enemies we are facing. I do not deny that the other side's ships are indeed faster than ours, but according to our accurate information, the other side only has 20 ships, and if the intelligence is wrong and needs to float upward, it is conservatively estimated that there will be no more than 50. You know, we have 300 warships, and most importantly, the tonnage of our warships will not be worse than those of the warships they support.

In other words, we only need to defeat all of their auxiliary ships, and the few remaining big ships will be tigers surrounded by wolves. The tiger may be able to outmaneuver the wolf, but even if the lion encounters the wolf, he must obediently retreat. "The Portuguese commander had no intention of being afraid.

"yes...... If you follow your plan, then we will win this time. But don't forget jì, this is the sea, and it's the vast Bay of Bengal. In this vast sea area, the opposing ship can obtain a relatively large depth with its excellent speed. On the other hand, if they want to get rid of us, we can only follow behind and eat the sea breeze. The Spanish representative was very unimpressed, he felt that the tactical concept of the Portuguese representative was still stuck on the equal opponent.

The huge and fast sailboat of the other party was already difficult for them to catch up. If you run into it, you don't need wind at all, but it's a little faster. The iron ship of the state, they can't catch up. Not to mention, the existing artillery technology has too limited damage ability to iron ships, and if you can't jump into gang battles, it is very likely that you will be molested to death by the opponent's iron ships.

Also, don't ask why they can communicate with each other so smoothly. At the time, French was both a popular language and a lingua franca, and it was spoken by many upper-class people. Therefore, in this environment, commanders can communicate in guò French, and if they speak in general, they can use the flag language instead. In fact, the flags of various countries are almost universal.

"Enemy attack!" A French shout brought this good time of peace to an end.

A few "boom ......" sounds, but it was like several shells coming from a distance, but they exploded around their own positions.

Several delegates could even feel that the flagship under them had a shaky feeling.

"All in place, ready to fight, where is the enemy?" The Spanish commander immediately took out his monoculars and shouted to the side.

"Straight ahead, damn it, I almost saw a vague shadow of the other party!" The sailor in charge of the lookout said very confusedly.

Yes, the enemy is right in front of him, but it's far, far away from here, just because both sides are starting to see each other, but the artillery is definitely not hitting each other's safe area. Besides, the ship's cannon is fired on both sides of the gun in many cases, directly frontal fire, but there is also a thing called the bow gun, but the narrow bow is good to be able to place a gun, so the bow gun is rarely used in a group battle.

Therefore, the lookout was really depressed, and he finally found the enemy's trace in the case of the other party, and he didn't have time to tell him that he had found the enemy's traces, and the first sentence reported was actually "enemy attack". When Guy found the enemy, there were several black shadows coming at the location of the other party, and the sound of breaking through the air made the lookout think of those two words for the first time. In fact, he was not mistaken.

"Boom ......" when the commanders were in their positions, they didn't want the other side to shell again.

The shells landed on their fleet with great precision, and the dense formation of the fleet became a failure for their casualties. It's just that at this time, the major commanders have not yet realized this problem. They are still struggling, why the enemy is so far away from them, why they can open artillery here. In their memory, there is no such thing in this world that can be shipped, and the cannon that can shoot so far is not enough, even if it is a cannon!

They were answered by the third round of shelling, and at this moment the enemy's hull was completely on the horizon.

There were eight ironclad ships, and all of them were equipped with a huge bow gun (one of the domestic ones was installed in a supermarket), and it was clear that these shells were fired from this type of bow gun. What bothered them the most was that the firing speed of this kind of bow gun was still deadly fast.

It is certain that at full range, the opponent can fire a full ten rounds of shells...... Damn, a full eighty shells smashed directly at you, how many of your own ships would you have to sink?

At this moment, the only way is to separate the entire fleet and use the method of dividing troops to outflank and completely block the way of the opponent's ironclad ships. But when they divided their forces, they found that the other side was not only eight ironclad ships, but also nearly a hundred sailing ships no less than theirs, and what made people even more speechless was that there were five huge and fast-moving sailing ships among them.

With its perfect control of the wind, the clippers quickly intercepted the way of these enemy troops, and in the process of interception, they opened fire to contain them. At the same time, the Fubunes and Manila galleons also sailed out one after another, and as the main combat force, they began to shoot at the enemy army.

The naval battle in the Indian Ocean kicked off smoothly, but the combined fleet directly entered an absolute disadvantage from the beginning because of its congenital deficiencies.

Not to mention, ironclad ships are not vegetarians, and whether they are artillery, or they just hit them, they can cause irreparable damage to the opposing ship. Not to mention, the bow gun passed by at a relatively close distance, and it could directly tear a Spanish warship into two pieces.

Yes, it was obviously artillery, but after it was exploded, it directly split someone else's warship into two parts, like a saw or a hammer.

"Demons, Huaxia people are the embodiment of demons!" Some Christians began to try to pray to God.

God responded with a cannonball and called him to heaven to be blessed. The meaning seems to say: the world is too dangerous, let's come up!

In terms of numbers, it is not denied that the Chinese fleet has certain disadvantages. However, in terms of the performance of warships, it is a direct crushing level. With absolute fleet superiority, more and more ships of the combined fleet were sunk, or they simply announced their surrender, and a few hurriedly fled.

But the commander Liu Ruoqian had no intention of letting them leave, since he came, he would obediently accept the prisoners, or die!

Their warships immediately caught up with them, and with their incredible speed, they caught up with them and forced their landing. As for those who were unwilling to surrender, they were directly sunk. It is worth celebrating that with the further pursuit of the pursuers, they actually succeeded in capturing the opponent's flagship.

At that time, the Portuguese commander no longer had the chic spirit when he first set out on the expedition, but at this moment he raised his hand, snot and tears, and shouted: "I surrender, please don't kill me...... I can give you a ransom, a large ransom......"

"What are the devils talking about?" In charge of the Huaxia Navy, which came to capture them, one of the non-commissioned officers asked his comrades-in-arms around him.

"God knows!" The comrade-in-arms next to him shrugged his shoulders.