Chapter 151 Victory!

A 150mm caliber flowering shell from the side of the Jewel hit the amidships on the starboard side of the Seahawk No. 1! Although the hull of the ship was dented by nearly 15 centimeters under the protection of the 100mm No. 2 steel armor, it did not break in the end! It only destroyed a 37mm high-speed machine gun under the strong shock! Moreover, the scattered shrapnel caused the five Huo Jiajun naval soldiers of this machine gun group to pay two dead and three wounded!

Since the start of the war, there have finally been casualties in the Huo Jiajun Navy! Looking at the red blood and the soldiers who fell on the deck and groaned in pain, Chen Jin's eyes suddenly turned blood-red! As the captain of the Sea Eagle No. 1, every officer and soldier on the ship was his brother in life and death, and every casualty made him feel distressed and angry!

"Captain...!" Chen Changshan looked at the strong man in front of him who had always been calm with some worry! He had never seen him so angry!

"Changshan, don't worry! I'm fine!" Chen Jin took a few deep breaths and suppressed the anger in his heart, he knew that as the captain of the Sea Eagle No. 1, he could not lose his cool at this important moment when the war was not over! At this time, he finally understood the cruelty of war! Chen Jin, who had not been out of the school for a long time, although he already possessed a wealth of naval knowledge and a witty mind, as well as extraordinary wisdom! But as the captain of a naval warship, he had just qualified! Only by truly experiencing the training of artillery fire can he truly let his talents shine and become a mature senior officer of the Huo Jiajun Navy!

Loosening the pinched whitening knuckles, the fragility of life finally let all the officers and men of the Sea Eagle No. 1 understand what the real war is! At this moment, they seem to be truly mature, the blood of their comrades stains the deck red, and at the same time ignites their anger of revenge, at this time all the officers and men of the Sea Eagle No. 1 have forgotten their fear, they clenched their teeth, glared angrily, stared closely at the battleship Jewel in the distance, and vented their anger with cannonballs!

Meng Deli looked at the battleship in the distance through the telescope with some disbelief, and at a distance of 3,500 meters, the 150mm naval guns directly hit the enemy ship, and they didn't even break the layer of side armor that looked like it might not even be ten centimeters! He wondered if his eyes were wrong, or if there was something wrong with his own guns!

But let him break his head, at this time, it is still mainly wrought iron armor, composite armor is advanced things, and steel battleships are not a single era, and the defense of No. 2 steel armor (Harvey steel) is really a little perverted!

Although he was eager to understand the reason, the artillery fire seemed to be more intense than before, interrupting his thoughts!

"Quack!"

The violent vibration sound from the boiler compartment under his feet, like an unstoppable cold current, extinguished all the hopes of fighting in Mendeli's heart, and made his heart become cold!

"It's over!" felt the rapidly declining speed of the ship, and Montley thought bitterly in his heart!

"Captain!

I looked at the staff officer's somewhat trembling fingers! I saw that not far away, there were already many holes under the blows of four enemy ships, and a dazzling white flag was slowly raised on the rails of the Grand Duke that was a little inclined on the port side!

Seeing this scene, all the officers and men on the Jewel were stunned, and even the naval guns that were originally firing involuntarily stopped!

"Did you fail?" said the pale-faced Mendley in a somewhat unacceptable whisper!

"No, we haven't lost yet, we can continue to fight!" said Mendley, standing on the bridge with some gaffe!

It's a pity that the Dutch officers and soldiers around him, who seemed to have been drawn out of the backbone after the surrender of the Grand Duke, just looked at him with a pale face, and did not make any further movements!

"Colonel, we have failed! Do you want to take all these soldiers to the bottom of the sea?" said Munch, who had been sitting beside him, with an ugly face. He doesn't want to die, he still has a beautiful wife and lovely children in Europe! He is only halfway through his life, and he has not lived enough! At this time, he is defeated and captured, at least he still has his life, but if he continues to resist, then after solving the Grand Duke! The Jewel will use three naval guns against the enemy's eight warships and sixteen 130mm caliber heavy guns, which are powerful and extremely fast! God, this result does not need to be thought about to know, except for being sunk, they will not have any accidents! And this is what Munch will never allow!

Hearing his words, Meng Deli's face changed several times, although he already had the will to die with the ship! However, looking at the officers and men of the Prince with pale faces and frightened expressions, and the hopeful eyes that flowed from their eyes, he understood that they didn't want to fight anymore!

"Colonel, you have performed very bravely just now, you have fulfilled the obligations and responsibilities that a captain of the Royal Netherlands Navy should fulfill! The defeat is not your responsibility, it is really that our battleship can fall too far behind the enemy!" Munch walked over and patted him on the shoulder, and said with some emotion!

If he hadn't understood the superiority of the enemy's warships in speed, he would not have given the order to pursue them separately! He fell into the trap set by the enemy long ago and scattered his own strength! He was defeated by the enemy with more and fewer defeats, and each one broke through, which eventually led to the defeat of the entire pursuing fleet! Of course, there was also a big reason for such a heavy defeat was that Munch' The idea of white supremacy' swayed his judgment, and he did not believe that there were any warships in the Far East that were more advanced than the Dutch warships, so he gave the wrong order by claiming his superiority in tonnage and artillery caliber!

Now without these five ironclad ships, the strength of the Dutch and Portuguese escort fleets has been greatly weakened, and it can be said that their defeat is not far off!

"Oh! Victory!!We defeated the Dutch!!"

When the battleship Jewel lowered its battle flag and finally raised a white flag, all the officers and men on the eight Seahawk-class frigates let out a roar of excitement!

Looking at the officers and soldiers who rushed out of the gun position, ran out of the cabin, gathered on the deck to hug each other, and threw their white naval hats into the sky, Chen Jin couldn't help but show an excited smile from the bottom of his heart!

"Victory!!" Taking off his white military hat, holding it in his right hand, and holding the military emblem on it, Chen Jin's heart swelled with an indescribable sense of pride! Although their warship had only been tested at sea for less than two months, even if they themselves had just stepped out of the school gate, the soldiers on the ship had just completed half a year of recruit training! However, relying on their own intelligence and outstanding performance, they defeated the enemy's five ironclad warships in one day! I believe that after this naval battle, after a period of tempering, these soldiers who have experienced artillery fire on their eight Sea Hawk ships will be able to truly grow up! and become the foundation for the next Huo Jiajun naval growth!

"Captain, this time we have captured five enemy warships!" Chen Changshan, who was standing on the side, looked at him excitedly and said very quickly.

"Yes, these ironclad ships built by the Dutch are really thick-skinned, we fired so many guns, and we didn't sink them!" Chen Jin said with a smile.

"Isn't it just right, with these five warships, after repair, our navy can grow a lot! In addition, although these five warships are seriously damaged, they are still worth a lot of money, and I believe that each of our soldiers can receive at least 500 silver dollars in bonuses this time! 500 silver dollars, I have never seen so much money!"

Hearing his words, Chen Jin smiled and nodded, as long as he won a battle in the Huo family's army, the rewards were generally very rich, and it was the same for both the army and navy! However, compared with the large amount of wealth that was about to arrive, what he valued more was the training he had obtained and the meritorious service he had obtained through this war! Perhaps, the epaulettes on his shoulders would have to be replaced after the war!