The Netherlands was once a coachman at sea, and in its heyday, the Dutch navy also had a blockade of the Thames and had a proud record of burning London. But it was all in its former glory, and by the end of the eighteenth century, with the repeated decline of the country, the Dutch navy began to rot to new heights.

After the Batavian Revolution of 1795, the original Dutch Republic became a puppet state of the First French Republic, the Republic of Batavia. Ruyter and other famous generals of the Dutch navy were unwilling to die for the French, and in 1796 a Dutch naval squadron in the Gulf of Sadania surrendered to the British. This was followed by a crushing defeat at the Battle of Cambethon in 1797, which almost wiped out the Dutch navy of this period, the Batavian navy.

After the fall of the Batavian Republic in 1806, the Netherlands became a kingdom again, but the king was the younger brother of the emperor, and four years later the Dutch kingdom was unsurprisingly incorporated into the First French Empire. Then, in 1813, when the Emperor was defeated at the Battles of Moscow and Leipzig, the Dutch began to fight for secession from the First French Empire. In 1815, the First French Empire finally collapsed, and the Dutch, who had been in turmoil for two years, finally proclaimed the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, with the Prince of Orange as the first king.

After twenty years of tossing, the Dutch Navy finally lost what little money it had few, and by 1850 the entire Dutch Navy had only about 5,000 men.

Due to the pressure of extreme shortage of human resources, the Royal Dutch Navy had to recruit sailors from the colonies, and at this time, the Dutch colonies were left with the last of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) and Sumatra (present-day Malaysia).

In the history of the original time and space, even if these natives with very low salaries were hired as crews, the Dutch Navy did not expand to about 10,000 people until 1900.

It stands to reason that the navy has decayed to such an extent that the Dutch really shouldn't have provoked the Great Song Empire, and they wouldn't have heard of the fact that the BB63's 406 main gun almost overturned a Dutch speedboat with a huge wave of warning fire at Maguan.

However, the Dutch's fascination with the Dutch East Indies is no less than Maozi's obsession with ice-free ports. In the most tragic battle of the Java Sea, the Dutch not only caught up with a major general, Karel . Dolman, who also lost three destroyers with a special meow: "Van . The destroyers of the "Gent", "de Ruytel" and "Java" accounted for three-quarters of the Allied warships lost in this battle!

Back in 1896, the Dutch, who had been prepared to be encroached upon by the Great Song Dynasty in the Dutch East Indies, could not withstand a flicker from the British, and finally couldn't help but compete with the crossing crowd in Borneo, and the Dutch were going farther and farther on the road to death.

After a series of temptations, such as supplying the local natives, and mixing Dutch soldiers among the mercenaries, the Dutch discovered that the Great Song Empire seemed to be really being held back by Maozi's southward fleet, as the British claimed. The Dutch decided to take a risk and try it further, believing that it would be a good option to provoke a conflict with the ironclad cruiser of the Great Song Imperial Navy, which was parked in the waters off East Wanlu.

The ironclad cruiser was in a state of shutdown due to the lack of coal-fired replenishment, and even if we provoked it, it could not immediately pursue us and cause the conflict to further expand, which is why the Dutch chose to provoke the "Zhenyuan" ship.

Although the officers and men on the "Zhenyuan" ship at this time were all natives recruited by the Traverse Crowd, and even some of them were the men and horses of the former Beiyang Naval Division, these natives with braided hair no longer regarded themselves as inferior people of the lower ranks, and even in front of the British instructors who had withdrawn, they held their heads high. The Chinese are an excellent race that can be compared to any white man, and from the moment they cut off their braids, they have been repeatedly indoctrinated by the Crossing Crowd.

The two Dutch destroyers ignored the warnings given by the "Zhenyuan" ship in flags, and repeatedly approached the "Zhenyuan" ship parked on the sea. The indigenous sailors on the "Zhenyuan" ship had long regarded themselves as the Great Song people, and they didn't care whether you hung the Dutch flag or the French flag, and directly carried out warning shelling on the approaching Dutch destroyers in accordance with the rules of engagement.

However, the German-made Krupp 305mm 25 times diameter breech gun, which was switched to self-made ammunition from the Crossing Crowd, still had no hit rate at all, and the "Zhenyuan" was anchored and anchored, and the main gun range on both sides was limited, so this round of warning fire could only be heard.

After being warned by the shelling of the "Zhenyuan" ship, the Dutch did not leave, and after withdrawing from the range of its 305mm main guns, they began to provoke in circles, assuming a posture of wanting to blockade the sea area of Dongwanlu.

In the evening, another Dutch warship appeared in the waters near East Manlot, and it became clear that the Dutch wanted to blockade the nearby waters.

"There's another Dutch warship, and we're in trouble." Lu Xiaobei was deeply concerned about the radical behavior of the Dutch.

"You're worried about what's in the bilge of the 'town away'?" Jin Peng asked.

"Chief Road, don't worry about that ironclad cruiser of your navy, it has a total weight of nearly 1,500 tons of armor, and the armor under the water is twelve inches (305mm) thick, and the Dutch have no firepower to sink it." Although I don't know what treasures the Great Song people put in the bottom compartment of the "Zhenyuan" ship, Sokaya is not worried about the sinking of the "Zhenyuan" at all.

"Of course we weren't worried that it would be sunk by the Dutch, but it only had less than 100 tons of coal in its coal cabinet, less than a tenth of its maximum coal load, and that's what we're most worried about!" Jin Peng said.

"Let the boiler of 'Zhenyuan' make a fire, at least bring a generator, it's too unsafe not to turn on the searchlights at night. The Dutch are already crazy, even the 63 main guns of the BB406 can't stop them, let's take it easy! Lu Xiaobei said.

Night finally fell, and without the interference of solar radiation, the expeditionary force could finally use the radio to communicate with the command center in the green paint area, but the "Zhenyuan" ship in a fixed position on the sea surface at night was even more unsafe, the Dutch destroyer was moving, and the "Zhenyuan" ship with the searchlight turned on basically became a target.

If the anchor is to be moved, the coal in the coal cabinet of the "Zhenyuan" ship will not last long, and the blockade of the East Wanlu Sea by the Dutch seems to have become a foregone conclusion.

"I just want to ask when you can take out Maozi's Pacific Fleet, the Dutch have begun to blockade East Wanlu, we are at risk of being trapped in West Borneo, hurry up and find a way to relieve us, we don't even have the coal to break through!" Lu Xiaobei complained to Zhao Yi on the radio.

"Calm down, Hu Dazhuang is waiting to marry you, if you lose a single hair, he won't tear me, our fleet has already sailed to Dongwanlu, you just need to keep the communication smooth, and someone will contact you soon." Zhao Yi said.

"Fleet? You're a liar!? The three destroyers of the Dutch are blocked in the waters of East Wanlu, don't draw cakes for me, quickly ignite BB63 and go south! Lu Xiaobei didn't believe even a single punctuation mark in Zhao Yi's statement about the fleet.

"Three destroyers want to move BB63? I think this is the worst time that the 'director team' has been hacked, don't worry, it's not difficult to dismantle Batavia this time, wait for the fleet to contact you. Zhao Yi said.