Belitung Island is a large island located between Borneo and Sumatra.

At the southern tip of Belitung Island, where the British Far East Fleet was approaching, an equally powerful fleet was quietly anchored on the sea, letting the waves crash against the hull.

On the No. 101 Dreadnought First Class Battleship, Luo Haiping, commander of the Red Alert Navy, patiently waited for the time to come for engagement.

During these two months, the Red Alert Navy has been actively preparing for war, and the strength of the First Fleet is completely sufficient to deal with the British Far East Fleet.

But this is not to say that the Red Guard Corps has a complete crushing advantage, after all, the opponent has six battleships, and the First Fleet only has two.

For any war on the battlefield of the Dutch East Indies, Fan Yize had no intention of interfering in command, and let the Red Police Corps play on its own, formulate its own combat plans and tactics, and Fan Yize only wanted the result.

If this is a normal thing for military generals in other countries, it is even more of a pressure for all the officers of the Red Guard Corps.

In Luo Haiping's words, this is the commander's trust in himself, but it is also a test, if he can't quickly defeat the British fleet, it will be tantamount to living up to the commander's expectations.

The horn of war has been sounded, and according to the information from the intelligence ship, the British Far East Fleet has finished its babysitting work, bared its fangs, and is gradually approaching Belitung Island.

In the flagship command center, seven or eight staff officers and intelligence personnel were busy on the charts, and the wireless receiver in the command center was also constantly receiving all kinds of information from the intelligence ship.

The British, cautiously, did not separate the fleet, but formed a full-fledged battle formation, gradually approaching the Sea of Java.

At the same time, the British fleet was also surrounded by fast warships, these fast warships of only one or two thousand tons, their role was the same as that of destroyers, but at this time, the British Navy did not have the name of destroyers.

These British fast warships, with tonnage ranging from 1,000 tons to 3,000 tons, did not have strong firepower, and were able to reach speeds of up to 23 knots, and undertook combat missions similar to those of destroyers.

The night has completely fallen, and the faint moonlight is hazy on the sea, although it is not so much that you can't see your fingers, but you can't see it a hundred meters away.

In the hazy night, even if you find an enemy, you can only vaguely see a subtle outline, of course, in this era environment, the fastest way to find an enemy is to look for a pillar of smoke.

Even in the night, the billowing plumes of smoke are much clearer than those of warships.

It's just that the British Navy couldn't imagine that their opponent's warships were not coal-burning, and they didn't have that obvious column of smoke.

Technically, this is an asymmetrical war, but the asymmetry is not too obvious, but if you add tactics and vision, it is really asymmetrical.

Although the British naval soldiers and officers of this period were among the best in the world in terms of soldiers' quality, command and naval combat experience, there was really no comparison with a group of Red Guard regiments who were familiar with modernization and even naval warfare for more than 100 years to come.

Luo Haiping, who was sitting in the command center, calmly watched the four British fast warships passing through Belitung Island, and calculated the time carefully in his heart.

A few minutes later, in the waters east of Belitung Island, two British fast warships with two gunboats had bypassed Belitung Island and entered the Java Sea.

On the fast battleship Namrou, many British sailors were in combat positions, searching the surrounding sea.

Along the way, there were occasional encounters with small fishing boats sailing on the sea, and in such sea areas, it was normal to encounter fishing boats, and the British sailors did not care.

The British sailors on the warship did not think that they would encounter the enemy's warships here, and in their opinion, they should have entered the middle of the Java Sea around dawn before they could encounter the enemy's warships.

This belief was prevalent among most of the sailors of the British fleet, and although they were careful, there was inevitably a lack of mental laxity.

This situation is normal, if all the nerves are tense from now on, if in the second half of the night, if you really encounter the enemy, then who will have the spirit to meet the enemy?

On the sea not far from them, several small fishing boats were slowly moving on the sea, and the British sailors on the fast battleship Namro had already spotted these fishing boats, but unfortunately, they did not care.

In the dark of night, on the sides of these fishing boats, there were two torpedo boats of tens of tons.

There were no such torpedo boats in this era, and there were only two torpedo tubes on a torpedo boat weighing more than 20 tons, and each of the launch tubes had a torpedo that could be fired at any time.

Under the cover of the fishing boats, the torpedo boats approached the British warships with great difficulty.

"Two torpedoes, fired."

On every torpedo boat, an order to attack was transmitted at the same time, a sneak attack, a tried and tested means.

Under the calculated amount of advance, one by one the torpedoes advanced towards the position in front of the British warship, and the torpedo boats that completed the attack still followed the fishing boat in no hurry.

The torpedo was launched, and all the Red Alert sailors on the torpedo boat couldn't help but hold their breath, waiting for the results that were about to appear.

On the fast battleship Namrou, a British officer who was blowing wind on the side of the ship unexpectedly looked at the bubbling sea not far away, and the bubbles approached the side of the warship in a straight line, and the speed was extremely fast.

"What is this?"

The British officer scratched his head with some doubts, and immediately thought of torpedoes, he had also seen many torpedo attacks, but didn't torpedoes always float on the water?

He didn't take his eyes off the two bubbles, and waited until the two torpedoes were about to crash into the battleship at his feet, and stared headfirst down to see what it was.

In the dark water, when he saw two long tubes, his instinctive nerves tensed instantly, but it was too late.

There was a violent explosion in the distance, and his consciousness went blank for an instant.

The two torpedoes that hit the fast battleship Namro blew the warship of about 2,000 tons out of the water, and the astonishing power of the underwater explosion directly disintegrated the warship into wreckage.

The other three warships not far from the side also crashed into the torpedo very badly, and in the dark night, in this era when it was still a surface torpedo, the suddenness of the underwater torpedo, even without a submarine, was still enough to make the British, who had never seen it, pay a heavy price.

Due to the concealment of underwater torpedoes and the super lethality brought by contact with water pressure, two fast warships of no more than 2,000 tons, and two gunboats of only more than 700 tons, were directly blown into pieces.

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