Chapter 155 The sea battle that gradually kicked off

"How is it? these boys are doing a good job, right?" Xu Shoushan looked at Lu Han, who was reading the telegram carefully, and asked with a smile.

"Hehe, of course it's good!, but those of us who are masters are surpassed by our own disciples in the end, this face is really a little unpleasant!" After putting the thick newspaper on the table next to him, Lu Han couldn't help but say with some self-deprecation while looking happy!

Chen Jin, Cao Zhijie, Ling Ziyun, Yue Zhongqi, and Cui Chengxiu were all his first batch of students! They were also among the first batch of 300 cadets of the Ship Command Department of the Huo Jiajun Naval Academy! He was very impressed!

"Yes, but these boys really dare to do it, and they ate five ironclad battleships of the Dutch in their own way! And their own losses are so small, the future is terrifying! Gungtang, my current pressure is a little great!"

"It's okay to have some pressure, but they can grow up so quickly, which is also a rare good thing for our Huo Jiajun's rapidly expanding navy!" Lu Han said after glancing at him with a smile.

"Well! This is true! When this war is over! When our own warships and the captured warships of the Netherlands and Portugal are combined, it is estimated that the total tonnage of our navy will be close to 150,000 tons! Moreover, hundreds of warships also need a large number of qualified captains! Speaking of which, if this is the case, our navy will already be one of the top 10 fleets in the world in more than two years! The No. 1 Navy in the Far East! This title is really quite good!

After listening to his words, Lu Han couldn't help but smile and nodded, the growth of the navy is something that every navy person wants to see!, "You're right, but before that, we have to defeat the combined fleets of the Netherlands and Portugal!"

"I know, but after the loss of those five ironclad ships, the strength of the fleet of the Dutch and Portuguese has plummeted! There are only three ironclads left in the entire escort fleet, and they are no longer our opponents! As for those wooden-hulled cruisers and gunboats, they are afraid that they will not even be able to catch a single 130mm shell from our naval guns! With the strength of our ambush fleet, if we can't win in the face of such a fleet, it will really be a dereliction of our duty!" Xu Shoushan looked at the fleet that was sailing outside, and said confidently.

After listening to his words, Lu Han smiled faintly, and didn't say anything! Just like what Xu Shoushan said just now, if they couldn't defeat these enemy ships that were basically wooden when their own warships could clearly dominate, then they really didn't deserve to be the fleet commander of Huo Jiajun's most jīng sharp fleet! Of course, he never thought about failure, he was thinking about how to defeat and capture as many local warships as possible with minimal losses! After all, at this time, the sea area of the Huo family army is huge, and there is still a shortage of various patrol ships, frigates and other small warships!

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"Commander, you've been standing here for a day, go down and rest!"

Looking at the three battleships that followed closely behind the fleet, Blake still had some hard time believing that the five ironclad ships he sent out had all been lost! However, the cruel facts in front of him told him that the Dutch escort fleet did not have a single ironclad except for the Seven Provinces Alliance ironclad ship under his feet!

"Welbeck, do you say that our expedition will be able to achieve a final victory?" Blake asked in a low voice, looking sadly at the sea in the distance.

Listening to his words, Welbeck couldn't help frowning, he understood that the loss of five ironclad ships had hurt the bones of the Royal Dutch Navy! Moreover, he also admitted that the Chinese People's Army Navy was unexpectedly strong! But now they still have more than fifty warships! Their strength is still very strong, and he believes that there is no country in the Far East that can stop such a powerful fleet!

"General, although we have lost five ironclad ships now, we still have a lot of warships left, and I believe that this will allow us to give full play to the strength of these warships!

Glancing at the proud and confident god Sè on Welbeck's face, Blake God Sè shook his head slightly gloomily, Munch also thought so he promised, but now he can't even see a shadow! Moreover, it is likely that he has become a prisoner of the Chinese or sank into the Indian Ocean with the corpse of the warship!

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"HY006, HY007, HY008, judging from the numbers, none of them are any of the original five battleships!" Baker put down the telescope in his hand and turned his head solemnly. Since confirming that the five Dutch battleships had indeed failed, his attitude towards the Chinese fleet had changed significantly!

"Yes, there are three more ironclad cruisers! But I just don't know if this is their last strength! If not, then what level has their navy developed to now? Speaking of these, I'm really a little curious! This mysterious army, the mysterious Chinese People's Army! How powerful are you?" Henrik looked at the three smooth-lined battleships in the distance, touched his own clean-shaven jaw, revealing a faint green stubble, and muttered thoughtlessly.

"Baker, you know what, we're really lucky!" said Henrik after a moment of silence.

"Oh, Captain, why do you say that?" asked Baker with a curious look on his face! He knew that this old friend who had been with him for nearly six years had always been a serious fellow, and since he said so, he must have discovered something from it!

"Beck, why do you say that these Chinese ** ships are always following behind the combined fleets of the Netherlands and Portugal?"

"Maybe they want to confirm the location of the combined fleet of the two countries at any time!" Baker replied with some uncertainty after thinking to himself for a while.

"Hehe, is this really necessary? If their own fleet is not strong, even if they know the location of the Dutch and Portuguese escort fleets, what will they do?

Listening to his words, Baker couldn't help but be startled, and at this time he also heard some of the meanings of Henrik's words, and couldn't help but say with some disgust at the moment: "Could it be that the Chinese want to use their own fleet and the Dutch and Portuguese fleets to fight a naval battle at sea! Oh my God! This is really crazy!"

"Can you find a better explanation than that?" asked Henrik, raising a long brow and a look of anticipation on his face.

God shook his head in shock, Baker understood that what Henrik said was probably the truth! Otherwise, the Chinese would not spend coal burning, and several ironclad ships were always following behind the fleets of the two countries!

"Think about it, even if the combined fleet of the Netherlands and Portugal has lost five ironclad ships and its strength has dropped a lot, their total number of warships still exceeds fifty! And if Chinese wants to defeat them, they must come up with a fleet of the same size! In that case, ......!"

"In that case, the number of warships on both sides will exceed a hundred!It means that it will be the largest naval war of the nineteenth century since the Battle of Trafalgar between the Kingdom and France!, and we are witnesses to a war destined to go down in history!" Beck took Henrik's words, and said excitedly.

"Hehe, yes! We will become witnesses of history! The huge naval battle, the final showdown of the ironclad ships, I am really looking forward to it more and more!"