In the center of the situation, everyone couldn't help but hold their breath, including the artillery commander.

The gun commander is the third person on the warship, below the captain and deputy commander, and is the commander of all weapons on the entire warship.

However, to launch an attack, an order from the captain is required, and the commander of the ship allows the attack or the fleet commander gives the order to attack, and the artillery commander can officially launch the artillery bombardment.

At the moment, everyone is waiting for the captain's order.

On the bridge of cruiser No. 201, the captain kept his eyes on two Dutch naval warships in the distance, waiting for the best angle to attack.

The distance between the two sides is about three nautical miles, and at this distance, the threat of the two Dutch warships is not small for the two warships of the Red Guard Corps.

Among them, the four 280 mm guns on the shore defense battleship could easily damage the cruiser and also bring fatal damage to the destroyer.

And the four 200-mm guns on another protective cruiser also posed a huge threat to the destroyer.

In order to be able to make the opponent as ineffective as possible in the first round of attacks, the captain waited for the best angle of attack.

In the American Strait tonight, the wind speed is level five, the gust wind has reached level eight, and the wave height is nearly one meter, even the 10,000-ton cruiser is undulating in the waves, which adds a lot of variables to the next attack.

After all, naval guns do not have a modern hunting and destroying system, and the angle of the barrel is manually controlled and fixed, and it is impossible to automatically lock on to the target.

At this moment, the warships of the two sides are already in a state of facing each other, coming and going, and are about to stagger.

The captain of the cruiser, who was also the temporary commander of the two warships, gave the order to attack in an instant.

In the short-range wireless communication, the attack command sounded at the same time.

The battle center of the cruiser and destroyer also immediately sounded the attack command of the artillery commander, and the gun operator immediately pressed the button of the shelling.

The nine main guns of the No. 201 cruiser roared at the same time, and the huge recoil of the salvo made the warship sway violently, and the blinding fire erupted from the muzzle.

The destroyer that followed, with six 175-mm guns, also resounded in the sky, and the fire from the muzzle of the guns shone on the undulating waves.

On the Dutch warship opposite, all the Dutch soldiers saw the fire from the guns of the opposite warship and heard the roar of artillery fire, but they had no time to react.

At a distance of three nautical miles, the captains of the two Dutch warships had only time to shout the word "enemy attack" before the shells had already fallen.

No one thought that the "British" battleship on the opposite side would actually open fire, and the enemy's prior artillery aim could not be seen in the dark night.

Even when they saw the warships on the opposite side firing, the Dutch sailors couldn't figure out why.

The shells fell violently, and at close range, the muzzle did not need a high elevation angle, almost direct fire.

Although the accuracy of the artillery was greatly weakened under the undulating waves, the dense firepower of the salvo was enough to win.

The Dutch protective cruiser was the first to hit inside, two shells directly penetrated the side armor of the protective cruiser, and the penetrating force of the shells directly at close range easily tore through the armor, and the violent explosion blew open two gaps up to two meters wide on the side of the protective cruiser, and the sea water poured in.

At the same time, the fate of the coastal defense battleships in front was even more tragic, nine shells, three of which hit directly, one exploded the armor on the side side, and the 254-mm shells lifted a large area of armor and blew a gap of more than three meters.

Another shell hit the chimney of the shore defense battleship directly and exploded in the middle of the warship, causing the warship to quickly burn.

The last shell hit the bridge, and the force of the explosion blew the bridge into debris, blowing the bridge structure away and a large amount of wreckage falling into the sea.

Many Dutch sailors who were caught off guard were swallowed up by the explosion before they could react, and many Dutch soldiers standing on the deck were thrown into the sea by the impact of the explosion.

The surviving Dutch sailors, while extinguishing the flames of the explosion, tried to plug the gap in the waterline, and some Dutch sailors quickly opened the shelling.

Saving, fighting back, the two Dutch warships were in chaos, and the most terrible thing was that the gap that had been blown open was entering the water.

The first round of attacks had a decisive effect, and the Red Guard sailors on the cruisers and destroyers were quickly reloaded with new shells.

The green signal lights that could be used for shelling were lit, and in the combat intelligence centers of the two warships, the command of the artillery commanders was heard again, and the operator pressed the designed button.

This time the attack re-corrected the trajectory and angle, another round of volleys.

The flames of death roared out from the barrels, and the two Dutch battleships not far away were once again shrouded in shelling.

In the two twin 280-mm guns on the shore defense battleship, the nervous Dutch sailors had not yet sent the shells into the chambers before the shells fell again.

This was the end of the good fortune, just at this time the sea was calmer, the gusts did not appear, the second round of salvo hit a much higher rate, nine shells, six of which directly hit the already burning shore defense battleship.

The 254 mm guns, although the lethality is not as good as the 355 mm guns of the battleships, but for a shore defense battleship with only 5,000 tons, six shells hit in one go, plus the previous three shells, even if it is God's favor, no one can save its fate.

Six shells hit at the same time, using shells no less powerful than modern high explosives, and the violent explosion made the shore defense battleship feel as if its small sampan had been dismembered.

The huge explosion power made the entire warship collapse on the sea surface in an instant, and at the moment of the explosion, the bow of the ship was blown out as a whole, and then the hull of the ship was raised in the explosion, and the whole was turned into debris in the flames of the explosion.

The protective cruiser in the back did not end much better, five 175-mm shells set the entire warship on fire, and the 3,800-ton protective cruiser turned into a coffin floating on the sea.

Although the main structure of the warship was still there, the hull was riddled with holes, and the flames were accompanied by the raging seawater, and the protective cruiser sank into the sea at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The two warships, which had completed the entire attack, adjusted their direction and headed towards the location where the two Dutch warships had been destroyed.

On the sea, only a pitiful dozen Dutch sailors survived, and when they saw the two warships sailing over, they all showed confused expressions.

The lights on the warship shine on the sea, and the survivors who swim on the surface of the sea will become prisoners.

It was only when they were fished onto the warship that all the Dutch sailors could see clearly the unfamiliar flag flying on the warship, as well as the yellow enemy on the warship.