On the sea south of Taiwan Island and west of the Bass Strait, Zhou Kun has sailed all night, and the morning light is gradually revealing its grandeur, but the fog on the sea is too heavy, and the visibility does not exceed ten nautical miles.

Zhou Kun stood on the deck of the "Chengdu", his face showed a tired look, last night under the urging of his own soldiers, he barely slept for two hours, anxiety and worry, before seeing the Dutch battleship, he was really difficult to feel at ease, even if he was lying in bed, it was difficult to fall asleep, he could only think about the possible battle next.

This was perhaps the first naval battle of the South China Sea Fleet.

The last message from the sentinel ship was that the Dutch fleet had appeared on the south side of the two-day voyage, but that was yesterday afternoon, and there has been no news since.

Zhou Kun took off the telescope hanging on his waist and glanced south, but in the lens, there was only a white mist, how could there be a shadow of a battleship?

Maybe when the sun comes out, the fog will clear?

Zhou Kun understood that the South China Sea Fleet sent sentinel ships to look for the Dutch fleet, and the Dutch would definitely send sentinel ships to look for the South China Sea Fleet!

The fleet of the Dutch, at the moment hidden in an unknown fog? Still on the way to sail......

This voyage can be regarded as an encounter, he did not carry transport ships, in addition to seven warships, there are also two captured Portuguese warships, dozens of old ships and small sentinel ships, the size of the fleet is greatly reduced, I wonder if it can avoid the Dutch sentinel ships?

The speed of the battleship is obviously faster than that of the old ship, so there is no full speed sailing, and there is constant contact along the way, but not many ships are left behind, and the front and rear of the battleship are all kinds of ships of their own.

Zhou Kun swept to the south again, but there was still no movement, and even the water birds were nowhere to be seen, so he asked the soldiers to pass the order and let the soldiers take turns to have breakfast.

The battleship was busy, and the soldiers who had already gotten up came to the special dining room, and the soldiers who had not yet gotten up did not need to be too anxious, the dining room was so big that it was impossible to accommodate all the soldiers to eat at the same time.

Zhou Kun threw the telescope to his own soldiers, ordered him to stay on the deck, keep on guard at all times, especially in the south, and went back to the cabin to eat.

When the soldiers on each ship had almost eaten, Zhou Kun returned to the deck again, "How is it, is there any news from the Dutch?" Knowing that it was redundant to ask, he still couldn't help it.

"Commander Hui, I haven't ...... yet"

In Zhou Kun's eyes, there was a faint haze, as psychedelic as the mist on the sea that had not yet dissipated, "Order, reduce the speed by half again, and send the sentinel ship by half!"

"Yes, sir!"

The flagbearer on the mast waved the colored flag in his hand with both hands, and after a while, all the ships began to slow down, but the course did not change, and the bow of the ship remained south.

After walking for about half an hour, the sun had pierced all the mist, and Zhou Kun scanned it with a telescope, but there was still no information from the Dutch fleet.

At this moment, there was a "knocking" footsteps on the deck, perhaps someone had deliberately suppressed the footsteps, but the deck was too quiet, and the footsteps were still very loud, as if jumping on the flat ground.

Zhou Kun just turned around, and saw his own soldiers coming over with a herald, "Tell your lordship, you have found the Dutch battleship......"

"Where?" Zhou Kun was a little impatient.

"To the south," said the herald, "there is still half a day's voyage, no, two hours at most if the two sides go in the opposite direction!"

Zhou Kun didn't speak, only

With a wave of his hand, he asked the herald to get up, and after thinking for a while, Fang said, "How many warships do the Dutch have?" ”

"There were four large ships, seven or eight medium ships, and twenty or thirty small ships......"

Zhou Kun silently calculated, this scale is stronger than the South China Sea Fleet, the South China Sea Fleet only has seven main warships, and the rest of the small warships, after entering Huguang, the Ming army's tiger squat cannon was installed, not only the number is small, the range is only five or six hundred steps, can only scare the bandits......

Really fighting on the sea, these small ships, mainly for hand-to-hand combat, but will the Dutch give the South China Sea Fleet the opportunity for hand-to-hand combat?

The haze in his eyes deepened, and he said, "Where is Deputy Commander Zheng, have you been contacted?" This sentence is obviously to ask the pro-soldier behind him.

"Lord Hui, we haven't found Commander Zheng yet......"

Zhou Kun waved his hand and let the herald go down, thinking silently in his heart.

In the event of the defeat of the South China Sea Fleet, will it be necessary to keep the warships or the soldiers? With the emperor's temperament, he must be a soldier, but how can he keep the soldier?

In a naval battle, it is impossible for a transport ship to follow behind, and the speed of the transport ship is slow, and even if it follows behind, it will be difficult for the transport ship to escape if the fleet is defeated.

If you want to keep the soldiers, you must keep the battleship!

How can I keep the battleship?

Zhou Kun thought for a while, and the only way was to win.

Will the South China Sea Fleet win this naval battle again? Zhou Kun has no confidence, he only has the determination to die, naval battles are different from land battles, in case of defeat, if there is no advantage in speed, there is no way to escape.

If Zheng Zhilong's third battalion is here, the South China Sea Fleet may be able to fight to the death with the Dutch......

An hour later, in Zhou Kun's telescope, two crossed black lines had already appeared, no need to ask, it must be a Dutch warship!

The observer on the mast also sent back a message: an unknown object has been found in the southern sea!

Zhou Kun immediately sent orders to all ships: prepare for battle!

Fighting at sea, if nothing else, the first round will be an artillery battle, testing each other's strength, after mastering the strength of the other party, and then making a decision, whether to continue the artillery battle, keep a safe distance, or hand-to-hand combat, completely capture and destroy the opponent's warship!

Although Zhou Kun has seen Dutch warships at the Anhua Outer Harbor Wharf, those are small and medium-sized warships, which are not comparable to the current large warships, who knows what the Dutch's large warships look like and how strong their combat effectiveness is?

In the telescope, the black lines gradually turned into black dots, and sure enough, it was the Dutch battleship!

Zhou Kun seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

Even knowing that there are many unknown dangers in fighting at sea, no one wants to wait.

Waiting is more anxious than the fight itself, especially on the side that is in the opposite direction.

Zhou Kun did not have much experience in naval warfare, at most he drove fishermen and bandits off the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian, but he still let the battleship fight horizontally according to the original plan, and used starboard guns against the Dutch warships.

The Dutch battleships, which were also horizontal, were facing the South China Sea Fleet, but they were with port guns.

Fortunately, it is a northwest wind, and the South China Sea Fleet is in the upper hand and has a certain battlefield advantage/

Both sides were led by the largest warships, followed by medium- and small-sized ships, and the Kyushu flag of China was fluttering in the wind.

The flag of the Dutch fleet was the flag of the East India Company, and in addition to the red, white, and blue colors, the white part in the middle of the flag was also written with letters"

The letters "O" and "C" are strung together, and above the V, there is a large "A" word.

Zhou Kun didn't know the specific meaning, he just remembered this kind of flag, the flag of the Dutch.

The distance between the two sides was only three or four nautical miles, and it was about to enter the range of the South China Sea Fleet's naval guns, and the flagship "Chengdu" was the first to test the water.

Naturally, testing the water is not to measure the depth of the water, but to test the distance between the two sides, and the range of the flowering projectile at this time is the largest distance.

"Boom...... Long ......"

In the first round, the "Chengdu" only fired two flowering bombs, both of which landed in the seawater, splashed a small wave, and disappeared in the waves in an instant.

Zhou Kun saw from the telescope that the landing point of the flowering bomb was still a short distance away from the Dutch battleship, at least half a mile.

In a naval battle, the battleship itself is tossed in the waves, and a small half mile is not much of an error, not to mention that this is just a test of the water, measuring the distance between the warships of both sides.

On the flagship of the Dutch, the governor of the East India Company, Di Men, looked suspicious, and the warships of the two sides gradually approached, why did the Chinese fleet open fire first to test the water?

What made him even more suspicious was that the range of the Huaxia naval guns was actually beyond that of the East India Company's naval guns......

How is this possible?

Isn't it the Ming Dynasty that Huaxia inherited, when did the Ming Dynasty have such a terrifying naval gun? Isn't Zheng Yiguan the governor of the Ming Dynasty's naval division, whether it is a battleship or an artillery, even the medium warships of the East India Company are inferior to ......

Fortunately, there were only two naval guns that tested the water just now, and perhaps these two naval guns were obtained by accident in China, either from the old Spaniards or from the Portuguese who were dying......

Fortunately, Huaxia has not yet mastered the real technology of making naval guns!

Regardless of the real situation, Dimen believed that Huaxia would never be capable of producing such a naval cannon......

While Dimen was thinking about it, the naval guns of the South China Sea Fleet began the second round of water testing, and this time, there were twenty or thirty guns tested the water, accounting for almost thirty percent of the starboard guns.

Without exception, all the flowering shells fell into the sea, but they were closer to the Dutch battleship, and two flowering shells splashed water droplets, almost falling on the battleship.

"Damn! How did the range of the Huaxia naval guns exceed that of the East India Company? Dimon cursed, but he was faintly panicked in his heart, because he found that the naval guns of the Huaxia Fleet were almost the same range, which was not originally estimated, and only two naval guns surpassed the East India Company in range.

Naturally, Dimon did not notice that the small warships in the rear of the South China Sea Fleet did not test the waters.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer little by little.

Although Dimon was angry and panicked, he had no intention of retreating immediately, since the fleet was coming, if he retreated out of fear, he, the governor, should change hands.

You must fight, even if you know it is a failure!

At least from the battlefield, we know how powerful Huaxia's fleet really is.

Zhou Kun had already left the deck, he poked his head out of the porthole, and scanned the Dutch battleship with a telescope, and even more so at the landing point of the flowering bomb.

Estimating that the distance was almost over, he waved his hand and asked his pro-soldier to give the order to "shoot".

"Boom...... Long ......"

The starboard guns of the seven battleships, a total of eighty-six, completed a salvo, and the dark flowering shells, arcing, roared towards the Dutch battleship, and at this time, the Dutch battleship had not yet begun to test the waters.

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