The old navy's tricks are already in the most favorable position before they can be started.

The Chinese fleet obviously did not adjust its formation because of this, and was still in ignorance. Perhaps, they did not expect the Dutch to fire first.

Ma Dayong did not expect that the first shot was actually launched from the Dutch battleship. A huge black dot hit from far to near, and with a thunderous force. Even the helmsman of the Jinling and the sailors were stunned and had no time to dodge. The huge black dot hit the side of the ship under the Jinling turret. The Jinling shaking suddenly, and the sailors next to the turret were even scared to the ground.

Then, in the smoke, countless dense black dots flew up from the Dutch ships, pouring in like raindrops, and water columns emerged from the sea.

Small ships such as Guangzhou and Lingbo were avoiding the Dutch artillery fire and even left the fleet's V-shaped formation. Zhenhai and the stern were shot and fired.

The Dutch's key target was obviously the flagship of the Chinese, Jinling. Bang bang bang bang, Jinling was shot several times, and several sailors were blown away on the east side of the ship's side.

Ma Dayong had the heart to commit suicide. The first time he broke the fire with the foreign devils, he suffered a great loss when he came up. This was a damn thing! But he knew that it was useless at this time, and he had no time to be upset. He shouted to open the fire and staggered into the command room under the escort of his personal soldiers.

As soon as Wu Guanghuai woke up, he saw a huge black ball flying over his head, and the sound of cannons roaring everywhere. He couldn't help but get dark in front of him and fainted again.

On the foggy sea, artillery fire was flying. The Chinese navy, who had come back, hurriedly fought back. On the Jinghai, Ding Ruchang, although his hands were weak, still tried his best to push the shells into the barrel. The gunner just opened fire and aimed at the black spots in the distance. He didn't know where the shells were flying.

In the mist, I couldn't see the situation of the Dutch fleet clearly. I could only faintly see the light of fire rising. In the blink of an eye, Ma Dayong saw that the "Heshun" was slowly tilting and sinking into the sea.

The "Heshunhao" was purchased by a wooden steam gunship with a displacement of 900 tons by the owners of Chinese merchants and Shunxing.

Looking at the soldiers struggling in the water and falling, Ma Dayong's eyes turned red, and he saw that the fire on the Zhenhai was getting thicker. This naval battle was going to be wiped out?

"Transfer! Go forward at full speed! Target! Opposing flagship!" Ma Dayong yelled with red eyes.

The helmman was stunned for a moment, then gritted his teeth and turned the rudder hard. The Jinling suddenly blew out a huge black smoke and rushed towards the Dutch fleet.

The Guangzhou, Lingbo and other cruise frigates obviously discovered the admiral's intention, and then quickly caught up with him, fired while running side by side with the Jinling.

Compared with the three half-sail battleships with ten artillery each equipped with the highest number of artillery, the Jinling, the Jinghai and Dinghai, the Jinling ships had the least artillery, with only thirty-six. The armor on the side of the armour was made of thirteen millimeter iron plates, and two layers of staggered 200 millimeter timber placed in staggered timber plus a layer of wrought iron armor and riveted with nuts and bolts. There were collision angles in front, which was the most advanced iron armor concept in the southern country today.

The thirty-six artillery pieces are all rifled guns and blasting bombs. The design of the turret uses the Guangzhou rotating turret, which is even more improved. The cannon is installed in a fixed turret. In this way, the cannon is just turned when turning, and the thick armored wall is not necessary, which greatly reduces the burden on the rotating mechanism. The aiming and observation field are relatively wide, and the pitch angle of the cannon can be adjusted relatively large, and there will be no problem that the smoke cannot be dissipated after the cannon is fired, because the cannon itself is a fixed armored turret wall connected to the cabin, which avoids the problem of "spinning the spiral joints" of the rotating platform on the surface of the ship.

The bow heavy artillery, even the latest iron armored steamship built by the French, with a displacement of nearly 6,000 tons, has never been as important as the Jinling.

When the fire from the bow heavy artillery of the Jinling ship was sprayed heavily on the side of the Matalan ship, causing the Matalan to catch fire and tilt slowly, the scouts on the Jinling discovered that three or four Dutch ships had sunk, and the rest of the ships were preparing to retreat.

In the 19th century, the battle between the spear and shield of ships had never subsided for a moment. If the naval battle between the Russians and the Ottoman Empire a few years ago showed how vulnerable the blasting bomb was, and how steam power was far superior to sail power, then the Sino-Dutch Pontianak naval battle in 1860 announced the arrival of the Iron Armor Age. The Dutch's solid shells hit the Jinling more than twenty times, but almost failed to damage the Jinling's combat effectiveness.

The Sino-Netherland naval battle has an unprecedented impact on modern naval concepts. "Crazy War" is a new term that reappeared in the world's naval tactical field after entering the artillery era. The general style of this tactic is to use the overall formation to approach the enemy fleet and then dissolve it into a scattered tactical team, break through the enemy ship formation at multiple points, engage in melee battles, and rely on melee weapons such as angle collisions to win in chaos, "several groups of attack the enemy, or a group of groups of responding to the enemy's formation."

The first gun, the angle of the collision, and the horizontal formation began to be valued. The rotating turret completely replaced the side guns of the ship, and gradually became the standard configuration for the main naval ships of various countries.

"Range the array and pursue the enemy! Dingbian and Fuyuan ships rescued the wounded soldiers who fell into the water!" Ma Dayong gave a loud order.

Ships such as Jinling, Guangzhou, Lingbo quickly gathered their formations and chased the Dutch ships that fled in a panic. At this time, the sea fog gradually dissipated, and several Dutch warships powered by sails were quickly caught up by ships such as Jinling, Guangzhou, and the blue sea was roaring. The Dutch ships without steam could not avoid the artillery fire of the Pingyuan Navy.

The extremely light and agile Guangzhou ship caught up with an opponent's escaped steam wooden shell battleship, dodging the opponent's artillery fire, and at the same time poured its shells into the enemy ship. The Guangzhou ship was equipped with rifled cannons and blasting shells, like the Jinling, and white fog rose on the deck. The Dutch warship was soon hit by a big hole at the waterline of the ship, the sea water poured in, and the hull was tilted a little bit.

Ma Dayong stood on the deck, looking at the battlefields everywhere, and thought to himself that it was so dangerous. Perhaps? The Regent had known that this trip was safe, right?

In fact, in nearly fifty years at the end of the last century, six of the seven Dutch naval provinces did not allocate a penny to the navy. More than 30 years ago, because the Netherlands was annexed by France and became a vassal state of France, it was also involved in the British and French war, and its South China Sea fleet was devastatingly hit by the British Navy in the Strait of Malacca.

The Dutch's naval power in the South China Sea is no longer comparable to that of a hundred years ago. Although it is not a paper tiger, it is obviously a bit powerless to challenge the Chinese new ships. Its brilliant naval tradition has gradually been unable to make up for the gap with new technologies in the current era of the transition from wooden sailboats to armored steamships.

Perhaps it can be said that it is not that the Dutch South Ocean Navy is weak, but that the Chinese navy has gradually become a force that cannot be overlooked in the regional waters.

On the sea, Dutch merchant ships fled everywhere, including several armed merchant ships that had just participated in the naval battle.

The Jinling signal was sent that the merchant ships were not allowed to be pursued. The Guangzhou and other cruise frigates who were eager to try were then slowly turned.

Ma Dayong passed the orders one by one, and ordered the communication ship to quickly inform the logistics transport fleet. After the transport ship arrived, the Navy Infantry Regiment immediately landed in Pontianak Port to deploy artillery defense. If there was an obstacle, whether it was a Chinese or an indigenous person, the fire of the gun warning could be fired and injured.

The Jinling also slowly approached the Zhenhai, preparing to drag it into the port.

Although Ma Dayong found that the Dutch were not as powerful as he imagined, and his ships seemed to be a little behind, such a Western maritime power cannot be underestimated. Moreover, even in such a completely aberrational battle from the total tonnage of ships, artillery count to technology, one of the four main battleships, the Zhenhai hull was seriously damaged, which shows the gap in tactical qualities between our side and our opponents.

Even though I was a little busy just now, I even had the idea of ​​dying with the other party, which made the Jinling approach the enemy ship at full speed. But I didn't know that under the artillery fire of our own fleet, the Dutch warships suffered even more serious losses.

If it weren't for the mist, the Dutch wouldn't have fired first. If the Dutch didn't fire first, perhaps their own losses would be smaller. How could they explain the pros and cons of the encounter?

In any case, this naval battle is extremely important in enhancing the confidence and morale of the Pingyuan Navy. Ma Dayong felt even more vaguely that he had touched the threshold of naval combat tactics, rather than the dogmatic naval combat knowledge instilled by British Navy officers.

But now is not the time to reflect and summarize. It is the most urgent task to occupy the Port of Pontianak as soon as possible and prevent the Dutch's massive retaliation.

From the Dutch stronghold Batavia to Pontianak, and the Dutch mobilized fleets to make decisions, I thought I could have at least five days to prepare for the war to prepare for the Dutch counterattack.

This time, it will be a real test and a test to truly test the combat effectiveness of the Pingyuan Army Navy.

"Military Gate, I've found Mr. Wu!" Two personal soldiers brought Wu Guanghuai over. He didn't know which corner of the deck he had just gone. In the thrilling naval battle, Ma Dayong naturally felt that it was only a moment, but in fact, several hours had passed, and now it was shining brightly.

A basin of sea water was poured down, and Wu Guanghuai said "Yeah" and slowly opened his godless eyes. Then he was so scared that he hugged his head with both hands and shouted: "Don't kill me, I surrender, surrender--!"

Ma Dayong frowned slightly, and the personal soldiers beside him sucked the big ears of melon seeds. After a few cracklings, Wu Guanghuai slowly came back to his senses. He looked at Ma Dayong in a daze, and was startled and said, "This, this..." Looking around, his mouth wider and wider.

"Fight, have you finished?" He obviously couldn't turn his mind.

"Yes." Ma Dayong smiled and said, "I'll ask Mr. Wu and the infantry team to land together to declare the meaning of South China with the local overseas Chinese."

"Where is the Dutch?" Wu Guanghuai asked blankly.

The personal soldiers next to him smiled and said, "All of them were broken! Fifteen red-haired ships, sunk and eight were captured, and two were surrendered. Where did you think they went?"

Wu Guanghuai raised his head in disbelief, but looking at the sea, just to the left side of the Jinling ship, a ship with a white flag was slowly dragged by. On the deck of the ship, there were red-haired soldiers standing with their hands raised.

Wu Guanghuai swallowed his saliva, not knowing what to say for a moment.

"Report to the military gate, fall into the water and catch the largest red-haired soldier, commander!" A personal soldier came to report happily.

In a short while, Kalimans was pushed over. Although he was soaked and embarrassed, he still raised his head high.

Before ordering fire, he never expected this to end. When the Chinese shells easily tore the armor of their fleet's main battleship, Kalimans knew that he had made a fatal mistake.

The Chinese were actually using blasting bombs. Kalimans could hardly believe his eyes. When the Sapé was the first to sink, the entire command room was silent. The officers who were just preparing to hunt Chinese ships and making jokes were all bitterer than Coptis.

It was too late to retreat. When the mist gradually faded, looking at the steel ship that rushed towards the sea, and looking at the anger ejected from its bow, Kalimans knew that everything was over.

"General Kalimans, I accept your request for surrender." Ma Dayong looked at the senior Dutch Navy general with a solemn look on his face. Suddenly, an emotion surged in his heart, proud, excited, excited, solemn, and all kinds of emotions were mixed together, and it was difficult for him to feel.

"I did not surrender!" Kalimans raised his head and fell into the hands of the Chinese. He was filled with shame. When the flagship Matalan where he was located was shot, he was slowly sinking, indeed, officers began to hang up the white flag, but this was not what he wanted to see. He would rather sink into the sea than accept the humiliation of surrender.

When he came to the East Indies, he naturally brought a translation that was proficient in Dutch. After listening to the translation of Kalimans, Ma Dayong nodded slightly and said, "No matter what, as prisoners of war, we will give you humane treatment in accordance with the Southern War Act."

Kalimans was stunned. This sentence may have surprised him more than the sharp artillery fire of the Chinese, because in his old impression, China was a barbaric and backward country, and enjoyed killing prisoners of war. Although the Dutch also abused the indigenous people, it was because the indigenous people were lower nations and animals, and were completely different from their own compatriots.

Ma Dayong also said: "As for the brutal sneak attack on our fleet, your country will be regarded as your country declared war on our country. I will report to the Regent. At the same time, in the East Indies, our navy will no longer guarantee the safety of Dutch merchant ships, and will also have the power to carry out any form of attack on your country's armed forces."

Kalimans snorted and said, "This is just my personal behavior." At this moment, he realized how serious the mistake he made was. The Chinese, the Chinese who became increasingly powerful, were completely likely to declare war on their country. If a war really broke out, the result of this battle was unpredictable. At least he felt that the Dutch Legion in the East Indies was not sure to defeat the Chinese.

Ma Dayong smiled and said, "General Kalimans, do you think your statement works?"

Kalimans was silent. Ma Dayong immediately waved his hand and his personal soldiers pushed him down.

The first encounter between China and the Netherlands began and ended in such a chaotic situation. The first step of the Chinese Navy's attempt to move towards the deep sea seemed so immature, but it was so firm.

Ma Dayong stood on the deck, looking at the deep sea in the distance, for some reason, his eyes were slightly wet.
Chapter completed!