Chapter 145: Yue Zhongqi

"This is surrender!"

All the officers and men on the five battleships of the Huo Jiajun looked at the white flags fluttering in the wind on the ironclad cruiser Turquoise!

Many Huo soldiers were still a little unable to come back to their senses for a while, and after wiping their eyes repeatedly, they realized that they were indeed right, the Dutch had indeed surrendered!

At this moment, all the Huo family soldiers were happy to protect their comrades-in-arms, and their white navy berets flew into the sky!

Two ships were damaged and one was captured! This is the answer sheet handed over by the five Seahawk-class frigates of the young Huo Jiajun Navy in less than an hour! Moreover, they wisely did not touch the enemy's two large-tonnage ironclad ships at the beginning! Therefore, the losses of the five Seahawk-class warships were negligible!

Looking at the Dutch warships that had slowly stopped, Chen Jin breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, this military operation that was planned by him at the beginning had finally achieved a complete success! Although it was indeed a pity to let go of the two ironclad cruisers, the Prince and the Oranch! However, they had been crippled, and there was no longer any threat to the Huo Jiajun Navy!

"Raise the flag, let them turn off the boiler, hang down the muzzle, all the crew members are concentrated on the big deck, as long as they don't resist, then we will give them prisoner of war treatment in accordance with the RìNeiva Convention!" Chen Jin calmed down his emotions for a while, and quickly issued a new order!

"Yes, Captain!"

In a short time, five small boats full of Huo Jiajun naval soldiers armed with rifles on their backs were lowered from the five Sea Hawk-class frigates, who would be responsible for keeping all the Dutch prisoners of war in a centralized manner, and were responsible for piloting the captured Turquoise ironclad cruiser!

Looking at the five-star blue-background naval flag raised by the Dutch battleship, Chen Jin couldn't help but nod with satisfaction, no matter how you look at it, it is still more pleasing to the eye to hang his own naval flag on this turquoise ironclad ship!

"Captain, our wireless telegraph room has just received radio waves from the Seahawk VI, Seahawk VII, and Seahawk VIII! They have reached a position two hundred kilometers west of the island of Simelu! They are now less than sixty nautical miles away from us! Moreover, after inquiring about our current location, they are rushing to the ship with all their might!" After handing over the telegram he had just received to the captain, the combat staff officer saluted and left!

"If these three guys come over again, I'm afraid we'll be busy for a while!" Chen Jin read the telegram he received carefully, gently put it on the table, looked at the sailors who were busy getting acquainted with the Turquoise ironclad ship, and whispered with a headache.

He knew very well that all of his classmates who had graduated from the Naval Academy were bold and bold masters! It was impossible for him to be indifferent to the fact that his five Seahawk warships had achieved such dazzling results!

The open sea does not have to be undulating land, where sound travels much farther distance!

The waves on the blue sea were undulating, and the surging waves were lapping against the steel battleship that was moving at high speed! Standing in the not wide bridge of the Sea Eagle No. 7, Yue Zhongqi couldn't help frowning!

"The cannonade has stopped? It seems that the war is over, but I don't know what the results will be?"

He knew his classmates, and he also understood the great power produced by the high speed and speed of the Seahawk-class battleship! Therefore, he did not consider that his side would lose in the naval battle!

"We're still too slow, and we've ordered the speed to be increased to 22 knots!"

Looking at the staff officer who turned around to carry out the order, Xiao Yunzhong, the first mate of the Sea Eagle No. 7, couldn't help but change his face, turned his head to look at Yue Zhongqi, who looked at Yue Zhongqi with a serious face and eyes looking into the distance, couldn't help but ask: "Captain, the battleship is traveling at a speed of 22 knots, which can easily cause the engine to overheat and affect the service life!"

"I know, but did you find it in the clouds, after the cannon stopped this time, it never sounded again!" Yue Zhongqi said with a thoughtful look on his face.

Hearing his words, Xiao Yunzhong was stunned for a moment, and then quickly reacted! On the way here, they had heard a total of three intensive artillery fires, all of which were about ten minutes apart! From these dense and familiar cannon sounds, he also guessed that it must be the five Sea Hawk-class frigates that arrived first, unwilling to be lonely, launched an attack on the Dutch and Portuguese naval escort fleets! However, he was very angry with Chen Jin, Cao Zhijie and others understood that given the huge disparity in strength between the two sides, they would not provoke the huge fleets of the two countries, which already had nearly 60 ships! Because this was really unwise! Therefore, the greatest possibility was that what was now fighting with them was a detachment of the combined fleets of the two countries, a fat meat that they could eat in their mouths but would not hurt their appetite! Thinking of this, I made the Seahawk 6, Seahawk 7, and Seahawk 8, who had just arrived and did not catch up with this good show, be envious!

That's why they're desperately rushing in the direction where the cannon is coming from! Because only by getting there as quickly as possible can we find out what's going on there!

Thinking of this, Xiao Yunzhong didn't say anything anymore! If his three warships had traveled thousands of miles to the Indian Ocean, except for wasting coal and fresh water and aggravating the wear and tear of the warships, they would not even have a single record of taking a shot, it would be really a great shame! Moreover, against the backdrop of the good results achieved by the other five Seahawk-class frigates, I am afraid that all the officers and men on his three warships would feel blushing because of this!

"Captain, look!" Captain Chen Fei, who was holding up the binoculars, suddenly looked excited, and shouted loudly with a face full of surprise pointing to the place where the sea and the sky meet in the distance!

Hearing the excitement revealed in his words and tone, Yue Zhongqi and Xiao Yunzhong involuntarily glanced at each other, and hurriedly grabbed the telescope that was placed aside, looking into the distance with some curiosity and some expectation!

In the open sea, with the assistance of telescopes, most of the officers on the three frigates could clearly see the six battleships that appeared in the distance and were heading here at a speed of 15 knots!

It was a complete captured warship, and that was a great feat! According to the Huo Jiajun's military management methods and regulations on rewards and punishments, the capture of this battleship alone would enable most of the officers and soldiers on these five Seahawk-class warships to be promoted to the next rank! Moreover, the navy would also appraise and convert this warship into silver dollars within the Huo Jiajun, and distribute half of it to all the officers and soldiers who participated in the battle! At present, almost every ironclad ship of more than 1,000 tons is priced at more than 200,000 silver dollars! Each of the more than 1,000 officers and men on the five Sea Hawk-class frigates will receive a fortune of at least 200 silver dollars! 200 silver dollars In this era when five silver dollars can meet the living needs of a family of five for a month, and 10 silver dollars can buy a cow! 200 silver dollars is an unimaginably great fortune!

All the officers and men of the Sea Eagle 6, Sea Eagle 7, and Sea Eagle 8, who were familiar with these military systems at the beginning of their enlistment, almost all of them were red with jealousy when they saw this almost intact captured warship! Even Yue Zhongqi was no exception, you must know that even his current salary was only 30 silver dollars a month! Moreover, compared with this, the temptation of this battle exploit to him was even more irresistible!