Chapter Thirty-Nine: The First Battle of the Netherlands

Wang Shixiang touched the cold heavy artillery barrel under him, and the excitement in his heart could hardly be contained! Not long after he graduated from the Taiwan Artillery Command College of the Huo Jiajun, he became the commander of the artillery regiment of the Fifth Division because of his achievements in school!

Moreover, this time to fight the Dutch, it was also the first time that their artillery regiment had gone to the battlefield since its establishment! Therefore, at this moment, only by relying on the steel bodies of these big guys in his hands can he really calm down his boiling thoughts!

These heavy guns have all adopted the newly developed artillery cannon steel of the Taiwan Academy of Sciences! They cannot help but be lighter, and the service life of the barrels has also been greatly improved! In addition, after the new smokeless type that has been successfully developed, the power and efficiency of the artillery have been greatly improved!

In particular, this heavy weapon with the number M1880 in the army, nicknamed the 'Fire Lion' 152mm heavy howitzer, has a caliber of 18 times, a maximum elevation angle of 30 °, and a range of 10,000 meters, and is the favorite of all artillerymen!

Of course, this kind of artillery also has its own shortcomings, because he is still a retreating artillery, although it has been increased to the maximum speed of three rounds per minute, but every time the shell is fired, the angle of the shell must be recalculated, which restricts its power, but this 152mm Fire Lion heavy gun is still the most outstanding army support weapon in this era.

"Regiment Commander! Just now, Regiment Commander Yang sent a military order, ordering our artillery to spare the enemy's landing force and focus on the two battleships at sea!" said the herald panting.

"Got it, send it to Commander Yang, and the artillery will guarantee to complete the order!"

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"There's not much movement on the shore!" Vincent said, frowning as he looked at the empty harbor with binoculars in both hands. He was the captain of the cruiser 'Egret', a 1,300-ton wooden-hulled cruiser with only five 160mm25 x diameter front-loading guns, which was not only slow, but also only two or three kilometers long in gunpowder. But even so, it can be regarded as a powerful weapon in the waters of the South Seas.

"Hehe, Vincent don't worry, these South Sea monkeys must know that they can't stop our army and artillery, so they simply abandon the harbor and hide in the jungle to fight guerrillas! Aldorp said with a smile, his family is one of the oldest nobles in Europe, although it is now a little declining, but the arrogance in his bones makes him look down on these natives of the South Seas who can only use swords, guns, bows and arrows! Moreover, this time he came to the kingdom's colony in the East Indies purely for gilding, and he is not very good at commanding operations!

After listening to his words, Vincent couldn't help frowning, he was not the guy around him, who relied on the shadow of his family to finally become the captain of the ship! As a real soldier, at this moment, the strange situation on the shore made him feel a little uneasy. However, the experience of suppressing the indigenous rebellion in the past made him unable to find anything wrong, so he did not question the opinion of his colleagues at this moment.

However, compared with the situation when the cruiser Hector did not even lift the gun suit, the guns of the "Egret" have been pointed at the harbor in the distance, although his sailors are still leisurely pointing to the distant harbor and laughing, but compared with his companions, it is indeed much better!

Seeing that the Dutch fleet, which had not even prepared for the most basic artillery fire, took the transport ship and drove directly to the port, all the officers and men of the Fifth Division were a little dumbfounded, which was seriously inconsistent with the basic combat knowledge they had learned in the troops. Of course, they would not doubt the military textbooks compiled by the young master himself, which had already proved their correctness in previous battles, and now they only had the word 'fool' left in their minds!

"This is the Dutch army?" Yang Wangpeng muttered to himself in disbelief.

"Are they here to travel or to fight?" Ouyang Tian asked mockingly.

"No matter what they're here for, don't even think about leaving when they come!" Gao Qiliang squinted his eyes and said with a murderous face, now the troops he personally trained are actually being despised so much, of course he is very hot at this moment!

"Looking at their appearance, it's probably that even those two warships are going to dock!" After hearing the words of his companion, he lowered his head and thought about it, Yang Wangpeng continued: "Let our troops hide well, and they are not allowed to shoot without an order!"

"Yes, Captain!"

"The head of the regiment wants to catch a big fish!" Ouyang Tian picked up the binoculars in his hand and looked at the sea, and said with a thoughtful smile.

"Hehe, if these two warships are captured by us, what a great battle feat! When the time comes, the young master will not reward us with a few more heavy guns!" Yang Wangpeng said with a smile.

"Heavy artillery, Lao Yang, didn't you always want the 60 mortar before, why did you change your mind so quickly!" Gao Qiliang said with a playful face.

"Hehehe, since he saw the power of the 'Fire Lion' heavy cannon a few days ago, he has already changed his hexagram!" "Imagining the earth-shattering roar and the powerful power that swept through everything, Ouyang Tianshen said with some wistfulness.

'Artillery' is the modern god of war, and there is not a single army general who does not like its powerful firepower!

While a few people were chatting, six freighters plus two battleships were already not far from the shore!

The combat uniform of the Huo Jiajun Army was designed by Huo Shan himself, although it was not as advanced as the digital camouflage of later generations, but in this era when there was no basic concept of camouflage, it had reached the peak of the era in concealment.

Located near the equator, the Nanyang Islands have a typical tropical rainforest climate, with abundant sunshine and abundant rainfall, and the vegetation on the islands is also very dense, and even the trees that have been cut down will quickly re-emerge after a few days. Therefore, in this environment, the army's grass green sè combat uniform is simply the supreme weapon here, as long as it does not move dozens of meters away, no one knows that there are thousands of troops hidden here.

Looking at the bare harbor, there is not even a ghost shadow, the conjoined wooden houses full of tropical atmosphere in the distance, the doors and windows are closed, and the spacious street, in addition to the howling sea breeze, there are only all kinds of garbage fluttering in the wind. There was a withered aura on the hollow harbor!

"Hahaha...... Soldiers, this is a pleasant sea trip, let's speed up and occupy Sanmarinda, endless wealth and beauty are waiting for you, don't let those incompetent guys in the army units rob us of the gold coins that belong to our naval warriors!

The navy soldiers who were still sick from the scorching sun just now were all excited, looking at their bloodshot eyes, it was obvious that the desire to kill in their hearts could no longer be suppressed!

Almost all the soldiers of the Dutch East Indies colonies experienced this kind of scene, and each time they suppressed a rebellion and occupied a new colony, the harvest of wealth was the most abundant. Of course, this was the driving force behind their march from Europe to the East Indies, because after a few years in this fertile archipelago, you can safely take off your military uniform and return to Europe with enough wealth to make you comfortable for the rest of your life!

Seeing the 'Hector' rushing towards the harbor in the distance, like a woman stripped naked and allowed to be ravaged, the army and the sailors on the 'Egret' who fell behind suddenly became anxious, and if they were late, they would not even be able to drink the soup! Therefore, without the orders of their respective commanders, the steam engines of all the ships were turned on to the maximum, and the excited crew of the boiler room, despite the sweat of the flow, struggled to throw a shovel of coal into the boiler, and the huge power pushed the propellers through the main shaft, driving all the ships towards the dock like arrows.

"Captain! they're about to land!"

"Got it!" Guo Yu raised the binoculars in his hand and quietly observed the eight Dutch fleets speeding on the sea a few hundred meters away! This time, the goal of the second group of their 'Cobra' special forces was to capture the six cargo ships and the two two warships after they docked.

"Now assign combat missions!" Guo Yu looked at it for a while, put down the binoculars in his hand, and gathered his team members.

"The first squadron, the first squadron, and the second squadron are responsible for the two battleships, and the third squadron is responsible for sniping, don't let their troops have a chance to return to the ship, and there will be artillery to assist you at that time! The remaining second squadron and the third squadron, a total of six squadrons, will take those six freighters for me! In addition, after all the squads have completed their tasks, they will immediately join the three squads to snipe and snipe until the end of this war! Do you understand their respective tasks?"

"Got it!"

"Let's go!"