Chapter 22 Indonesian naval war

Chapter 22 Indonesian naval war

"The captain has discovered that the Dutch warship is chasing us at a speed of 18 nautical miles per hour. At the same time, two Dutch naval battleships were found on both sides of the left and right sides. However, it is observed that they are old wooden iron armored battleships, with speeds of only about 17 nautical miles per hour." At 6 o'clock in the afternoon, under the afterglow of the sunset, several lookouts on the battleship cruiser of the Tarzan discovered a cluster of Dutch warships. This time, the Dutch fleet in the Far East almost came out in full swing, but most of its warships were old warships, except for the former dreadnoughtsman, the other two battleships were iron armored battleships from the end of the last century, and because they had not received nursing for a long time, the speed was less than twenty nautical miles.

"Haha, I originally thought we were going to face such a powerful navy. It turned out that it was just a group of old masters. After the power generation was generated, the fleet immediately went to the sea area and defeated the Dutch Navy head-on." Originally, in Chen Jiliang's analysis, although the Dutch Navy was out of date, it could not be so broken. However, when his navy appeared in front of him, he felt at ease and was more confident in this battle, because the warships on both sides were not of the same level at all.

The armored defense of the former dreadnought is not as good as that of the Taishan. The armored cruiser, and those iron-armored battleships are even more incomparable. What makes Chen Jiliang feel most incredible is that the speed of the opponent's warship is only less than twenty nautical miles. It can be said that even the cruiser of the Su-An government's coast patrol-class destroyer is much higher than that of the opponent, and it is not something that the opponent can catch up with.

The radio sent the message back, and Lin Nutao was standing on the large cruiser of the Haidong. He felt incredible when he saw the telegram in his hand.

"The speed is only eighteen nautical miles per hour? There is also the old iron-armored battleship? There is no suspense this time. It seems that the head of state is also picking up soft persimmons and pinching it. The two large cruisers of the Lingbi are divided into two naval units, and they are quickly sailing towards the Indonesian Strait from both sides of the east and west. The troops transport fleet is led by one destroyer and three river patrol gunboats." After receiving the information, Lin Nutao was relieved and directly led two large cruisers, five coast patrol class destroyers to the battlefield. The troops transport ship behind them are slowly moving forward under the escort of the river patrol gunboats, waiting for the outcome of the war ahead.

At seven o'clock in the evening, three Indonesian battleships had reached the range of the Taishan naval gun. At this time, the Taishan was in the north direction of the three Dutch battleships. The Dutch laughed secretly that the Chinese Navy did not understand naval battles and was in the lower vent, because at this time it was Xiachu, they were mainly southeast winds.

"Optimize the main gun, prepare to shoot." On the Taishan, Chen Jiliang ordered a double-equipped main gun in the rear to aim at the Karl Durmann, while the other five double-equipped main guns aimed at the Dutch Ran Koohaas armored battleship rushing over from both sides and the Mariner armored battleship.

When the "fire gun" was about 10,000 meters away from the two armored battleships, five double-equipped 210 mm main cannons spewed out flames, and huge shells flew towards the two old warships.

"How could bastards and their artillery be so far away? Dodge quickly..." The two armored battleships naturally knew the threat of the large-caliber artillery of this era to old battleships like them. After the Taishan gun fired, the two Dutch warships began to turn to dodge.

"Boom..." The battleship Ran Koohaas in the West was lucky enough to avoid the four shells of the Tarzan, but when the shells fell, the commander Schroeder couldn't help but sweat.

"It is definitely more than 45 times the modern advanced heavy artillery. This kind of shell, armored battleship, will die even if it is wiped, how could the Chinese have such an advanced warship?" The main gun on the Taishan was made of 12 German-made 210 mm inch)/45 caliber guns. Each shell is one or two hundred kilograms. For old warships like them, even if they are hit, they will kill them. Although they are equipped with eleven inches of naval heavy artillery, they are only artillery from the last century, and they are not the same as the current artillery. The artillery with a lower multiple may not penetrate the current all-steel armor at all. Among the ships of the entire Dutch Far East Navy, only the Karl Durmann is equipped with advanced artillery.

As Schroeder predicted, the Sailor battleship in the east was very lucky to avoid the five heavy artillery shells, but was hit by a heavy artillery shell. The shells fell from the air and smashed in without any obstruction, almost penetrated the front deck. Then with a loud bang, a violent explosion occurred, and the powerful explosion force knocked away the entire front part. A raging fire was also ignited from the front part of the Sailor, but it was made of wood and had not sunk for the time being. The wooden hull quickly burst into flames.

"God, jump into the sea quickly." The bow of the ship in the front was blown away, and the fire had not yet burned to the middle and rear, Dutch sailors rushed into the sea one by one, waiting for the cruisers and destroyers behind to rescue.

The frontal distance of Taishan was 8,000 meters. Chen Jiliang deliberately launched the Karl Durman so close. The hit rate of Taishan's front main gun could reach at least 50%. Of course, at this time, he was also within the opponent's range.

The battleships of the Netherlands Karl Durman and Ran Koohaas have rushed to their respective ranges. The main guns on their battleships are aiming at the Tarzan, and the main guns of the Tarzan are also aimed at the opponent.

"Boom...boom..." Three large warships fired at the same time, and all the shells from both sides flew towards each other.

"Boom...boom..." The two Dutch warships fired eight shells in total, three of which hit the Taishan, and two were shells fired by the main gun of the Ran Koohaas battleship. When they hit the starboard side of the Taishan, the Taishan felt a shaking, but only left two traces on the right hull. The main gun on the Ran Koohaas cannot give Taishan much damage.

"Boom..." A shell of Karl Dullman fell on the edge of the turret in front and passed by, but an explosion occurred before it landed in the sea. Fortunately, no crew members were on the deck during the battle, but the railings on the edge were broken a lot, and the flying monolith did not cause any other damage to the hull.

At the same time, one of the two shells of the front main gun of the Tarzan also hit the turret of the front main gun of the Karl Durmann, and the thrust shell exploded directly on its turret.

With a loud "boom...", the front turret of Karl Dullman was immediately overturned. Fortunately, the artillery launching medicine inside did not explode, but the Karl Dullman, with only four double-mounted main guns, also lost one-quarter of its combat power.

The luckiest thing is that the battleship Ran Koohaas was hit by two shells. One of them hit the turret and exploded, but it only exploded one of its double-mounted turrets without hurting its hull too much. The other hit shell passed through directly, and it was on the waterline. It was a blessing in disgrace. If the first shell entered the hull and exploded, or the second shell exploded, it might be scrapped.

The artillery on both sides of the battlefield only fired several guns, but at this time the Taishan was almost surrounded by the Indonesian navy. Chen Jiliang wanted to take advantage of the situation to rush over and sink Ran Koohas or Karl Durman, but just a little move, he was beaten by the surrounding destroyer cruiser, and smoke was everywhere on the hull.

"Directly hit the old cruiser behind, the main guns on both sides opened fire, firing against the opponent's small ships, and rushing out of the siege." Although the Taishan trembled, it did not hurt the roots at all. The carrier-based artillery on the Dutch destroyer cruiser could not threaten the Taishan.

The Taishan ship headed north with full force, and its speed soared from 18 nautical miles to 23 nautical miles, and it was still rising. An old heavy cruiser in the north, this cruiser weighing 4,000 tons, was a behemoth in the era of the Beiyang Navy, but it seemed so small in front of the Taishan, which weighed 17,000 tons.

"Steer, turn... the Chinese warship is coming." The commander of the Dutch cruiser commanded his soldiers in fear. The Tarzan was rushing towards them at high speed. At the same time, the Tarzan's twelve main guns, eight 150 mm secondary guns, and sixteen 88 mm anti-torpedo boats and carrier-based guns opened fire at the same time. Now the torpedo boats and destroyers of the Dutch Navy are still far away from him and have not launched a torpedo attack. Although the Tarzan is not afraid of the other party's naval guns, even the torpedoes cannot stand even the torpedoes, even the torpedoes of the old era.

The shooting of thirty-six artillery fired, and the Taishan brought out a burst of smoke as it marched, and at the same time, the shells flew towards their targets.

"Avoid...Avoid..." Faced with the dense artillery fire of the Taishan, all the Dutch warships were evasive in panic, but seven warships were still shot. In front of these old small warships, even the 88-mm anti-torpedo boat carrier-based artillery was their evil star

"Boom... Boom..." There were bursts of explosions, and many destroyers and cruisers hit by heavy artillery or sub-air artillery exploded violently. Several warships were even lifted up, and two of several destroyers hit by small-caliber artillery also exploded into a ball of flames.

Maybe it was because the Ran Koohas battleship had run out of luck. As the main battleship, it immediately chased after seeing the Taishan escape, but she didn't expect that she was hit by two main artillery shells, one hit the fore deck and the other hit the battleship bridge.

All the naval soldiers and commanders of the Ran Koohaas felt the warship trembled, and they knew that Ran Koohaas was shot, but then they knew how terrifying it was to be shot.

"Boom...boom..." There were two huge explosions in a row. First, the entire front deck of the front of the battleship was blown away, and then the shell that hit the bridge exploded and did not explode. However, the entire Ran Koohaas was bombed up, and the battleship began to disintegrate from the middle, broke into two sections, and quickly began to sink.

"No..." The soldiers and officers on the Dutch cruiser ran to the side of the ship in fear and forgot to fire torpedoes or fire artillery. Taishan was moving too fast. They saw that they were hit by the Taishan immediately but had not turned successfully. They all were cold all over and jumped out of the sea.

"Crack...boom..." The battle cruiser of Taishan hit the Dutch cruiser in front of him fiercely. The entire Taishan shook, and then the Dutch cruiser in front quickly broke into two knots, and the Taishan also dropped from a speed of 25 nautical miles to 21 nautical miles. However, after passing through the other side, the Taishan speed soared again.

"God, help..." After the Tarzan rushed over quickly, the soldiers who jumped into the sea from the Dutch cruiser cried and called for help one by one, but there was no chance at all. The whirlpool formed by the shipwreck quickly swallowed them.

After escaping for more than ten nautical miles, the Taishan turned his head again and waited for the other side to come here. In just over half an hour of naval battle, the Taishan sank two main battleships of the Indonesian Dutch Navy. Although the two battleships were wooden ironclad ships, at the same time, if you look at it from a high altitude, you can see the remaining ten Dutch warships chased the stationary Taishan under the leadership of Karl Dullman, while the East China Sea Fleet of the Su-Anhui government was surrounded by two groups at a faster speed than the Dutch fleet.

"Enter the range... Shoot..." The Tarzan, who was on the horizon, waited until the enemy entered the range and immediately launched a shooting. The first one to rush towards him was the front gun of the Karl Durmann, which had destroyed a former dreadnought warship.

"Boom..." The shells of the twelve heavy artillery and four secondary artillery flew over, and in the dark, they could only target the lights on the opponent's warships, and the accuracy rate was even lower.

"Boom..." A dazzling flash flashed in the darkness, illuminating the Dutch fleet ships behind Karl Dullmann. Karl Dullmann also stopped advancing instantly, but one of these dozen shells hit him. Unfortunately, the boiler was hit and a fire broke out, causing the warship to lose its power and cannot move. The sailors on the ship were also busy extinguishing the fire, and the commander of the warship, the Royal Rear Admiral Karl Dullmann of the Netherlands, was also buried under the shell.

"His Excellency Karl Durman has been killed. Now I, Brigadier General Ferrank, commanded the fleet. All soldiers are transferred to the cruiser Blauer and retreat immediately..." Karl Durman was killed. Ferrank, deputy commander of the Navy Fleet, immediately took over the command. The entire Netherlands would not have thought that only one warship in China would almost destroy their Far East Fleet. Of course, their Far East Fleet was too trash.

"Chasing..." Seeing the other party escape, the Tarzan began to pursue, and the newly arrived Haidong fleet also began to chase after him. In addition to the advanced cruiser of the Blauer, the remaining nine Dutch warships, two of the other eight warships were sunk, and six raised their white flags.

The naval battle lasted only five hours and was settled before twelve o'clock in the evening. The entire Dutch Far East Fleet, except for one cruiser, was wiped out or captured by the Su-Anhui East Fleet.

"Report to the head of state, the naval battle was won, and the Dutch Navy eliminated one cruiser and wiped out all the troops... At the same time, the troops transport ships behind were ordered to advance, leaving behind the Lingbi cruiser and the sea patrol gunboat to escort. The Haidong and our Taishan immediately rushed to Jakarta to understand the Jakarta coastal defense artillery." After the naval battle ended, Chen Jiliang immediately sent a telegram to Dengson, and at the same time led the Haidong to prepare to clean up the Jakarta shore defense artillery.

Sorry, I've just finished sleeping and I just wrote a chapter now. There are two more chapters today. I hope everyone will support it.

Chapter 22 Indonesian naval war
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