The Strait of Malacca is a strait located between the Malay Peninsula and the island of Sumatra.

A waterway connecting the Andaman Sea (Indian Ocean) and the South China Sea (Pacific Ocean), with the Dutch East Indies Colony of Sumatra on the west coast and the British Colony of West Malaysia and southern Thailand on the east coast.

Named after the trading port on the Malaysian coast was Malacca (EL, formerly known as L), the city was an important port in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The relationship between the Netherlands and England during this period was not very close, but the business contacts were very close.

Since the dissolution of the Dutch East India Company, trade and commerce in the main Dutch colonies in Southeast Asia have been closely linked to the British East India Company.

Although the Netherlands now had many of their own ocean-going trading companies, the Dutch continued to work closely with the British East India Company, in large part because they were looking for a tree to lean on, under which to enjoy the shade.

After all, the territory of the Dutch East Indies stretched from the Strait of Malacca in the north to the edge of Australia in the south, and these two places were on the edge of the British colonies.

Many times, the Dutch also needed to rely on British power in the Far East, which was also the basis of cooperation between the two sides.

A large number of goods from the Dutch East Indies were sold directly to the British East India Company at the port.

None of this, however, has anything to do with the Red Guard, at least for now.

At this moment, a 5,000-ton coastal defense battleship and a 3,800-ton protective cruiser of the Netherlands are returning to Sumatra from the direction of Malaysia.

On the ship, the Dutch sailors did not know about the war in the colonies, and in this era of closed information, there was no long-distance wireless communication, coupled with the deliberate blockade, these Dutch navies seemed to be somewhat idle.

Since the Dutch colonized the Dutch East Indies, only in the Napoleonic era has the Dutch East Indies changed hands once, and from the end of the Napoleonic era to the present, the existence of the Dutch East Indies has not experienced any external threats.

This also makes the Dutch here very numb, there is no sense of danger and friend and foe at all, some only routine patrols every day, occasionally escorting merchant ships, even pirates are extremely difficult to encounter.

The cookie-cutter life made the Dutch sailors numb for a long time.

It was as if now, looking at the silhouettes of two warships in the distance, sailing over the sea in the night, they also thought purely that they were British warships.

This kind of picture, they have encountered many times, flashing a few light signals, just pure greetings, as if walking on the road to meet an acquaintance, say hello, it is normal.

The international greeting lantern language, the opposite side also flickered a few times regularly, the two sides said hello, according to the normal situation, both sides to find their own mother, each to do their own things.

Of course, there were times when they were close and waved, and when the two warships in the distance continued to approach, the sailors and officers on the two Dutch warships did not suspect anything.

After all, at the exit of this strait, there are too many opportunities for the navies of the two sides to meet.

The two warships of the other side, one in front of the other, quickly adjusted their direction and formed a parallel line with the two warships of the Netherlands.

The distance between the two sides is less than three nautical miles, and at this distance, the two sides can still only vaguely see the outline of the other party's warship.

It was also at this distance that the Dutch sailors seemed to have discovered something very strange.

The two warships on the opposite side, judging from the outline, could not see the huge chimneys at all, and when sailing, there were no columns of smoke produced when burning coal.

"This is a new warship of the British?"

"It doesn't seem like it, I haven't heard of it, and these two warships, the big one looks a lot like a battleship, when did Britain mobilize such a strange battleship."

"It's not like a battleship, it's like a very large cruiser, and the other is about the same as our shore defense battleship, but it's not seen in the British Far East Fleet."

"It can't be a new type of warship secretly built by the British!"

"Don't be kidding, all countries are staring at each other, how can there be any possibility of secret construction, not to mention that they have already gone into the water to the Far East."

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A group of Dutch sailors were on deck, looking at the silhouette of the warship in the distance, and there was a lot of discussion, but no one thought that this would be the enemy.

No kidding, who will attack the Dutch Navy?

Even the captains of the two Dutch warships stood on the bridge with a little curiosity, looking at the two warships, and wondered in their hearts whether it would be a battleship secretly built by the British, without thinking in the direction of the enemy at all.

The guns on the two Dutch warships were still wearing gun suits to minimize the corrosion of the barrels by seawater.

On the other hand, on the two warships opposite, the Red Alert soldiers were already in combat positions, and the gunnery radar was constantly calibrating the two warships of the Dutch Navy, transmitting data to the hand-cranked computer, and the artillery commander in the war intelligence center was paying close attention to the course and speed of the two warships.

The guns on the warship, whether it is firing or muzzle steering and angle adjustment, are done through the war intelligence center on the battleship, the hand-cranked computer will calculate the ballistic trajectory as accurately as possible, and the assistant of the artillery commander, according to the data obtained by the hand-cranked computer, will adjust the direction and angle of the barrel, and then manually press the firing telex button.

Inside the turret, the artillery responsible for loading can fire artillery, but is purely responsible for the reloading of shells, and after the reloading, press the button to notify the War Intelligence Center that the gun is reloaded.

In fact, compared with the artillery on the warships of this era, which are all fired by artillery, this attack mode on the warships of the Red Guard Corps is not only more advanced, but also more efficient.

The War Intelligence Center has artillery controls for each turret, which is a complex compass with multiple rotating areas that control the direction of each gun and the elevation angle of each barrel.

At this time, one by one, the gun operators are slightly adjusting the elevation angle of the barrel and the direction of the turret according to the numbers displayed on the hand-cranked computer.

On the controller, there is a detailed digital display, which is actually super simple to operate, as long as the number of the controller pointer is aligned with the number displayed by the hand-cranked computer.

Even a primary school student can complete this control, after all, the device on the compass rotates, it is very light, and it does not require a lot of force.

The indicator light in front of the controller, one red and one green, when red, the design button will be fixed, and it can't be pressed, when it is green, lift the safety cover, and the gun will be fired when you press it lightly.

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