The seaplane finally left, and when it left, there was a little ripple, and everyone was a little used to being in the sky, there was a buzzing thing, flying on it, and suddenly leaving, and it was really a little unaccustomed, and the Dutch did not realize that this was already a signal.

On the Black Dragon, the sounding balloon has flown up, compared to the aircraft, the sounding balloon can hover in the air, relatively fixed position, more suitable for commanding operations, only about 80 meters in height, but enough for the sounding balloon to find the Dutch battleship, when the telescope, the opponent's black smoke column is particularly obvious, the enemy has arrived.

The red light, constantly flickering, the entire Black Dragon fleet was nervous, this is a state of preparing for battle, Xiao Jianfeng stood in the command center, and began to issue a series of orders, the destroyers don't have to go up, their skin is too thin, the 285mm guns of the Seven Provinces Alliance are still somewhat powerful, although the rate of fire is not fast, theoretically it can't reach the speed of more than 30 knots of the destroyer, but if any shell hits, the destroyer will suffer a big loss, the gap in displacement, let the missile destroyer before, Any destroyer fighting against a higher tonnage battleship is inherently insufficient.

To put it bluntly, the appearance of destroyers and submarines was to capture prisoners, and the province made people run away, and the real main force was still three ironclad ships of more than 8,000 tons, and they quickly crossed the crowd and rushed straight towards the Dutch fleet in a zigzag shape.

The distance between the two sides is about 20 kilometers, and the Dutch side does not feel the danger, and when it is about 10 kilometers, it can be clearly seen. When there was a big chimney and a chimney column in front of me, I thought it was just a passing boat. All the way to the North-Western Front, when combat readiness began. They just found out the problem, I don't know how long, they have not been baptized in naval battles, the Dutch Navy, which has not participated in the war, it seems that the panicked callers, all the personnel, do not know what to do. In the panic, even the speed of the ship was greatly reduced, let alone forming a battle camp. There's simply no way to integrate.

Norton's loud order, the other party's ship that was obviously larger than them, looked a bit like an old-fashioned ironclad, and the appearance was not much retouched, coupled with the obvious ironclad style, made Norton make a wrong judgment, thinking that it was nothing more than that, and with Norton's efforts, the chaotic Dutch Navy was restored. Barely ready for battle, and at this time, ships such as the Black Dragon were already less than 7 kilometers away from them. In a naval battle, it was almost a bayonet distance.

Xiao Jianfeng was on the command platform, smiling slightly. I had already learned the general situation of the Dutch Navy on the opposite side through the Nanyang Intelligence Bureau. At that time he was very disdainful of such a navy. Is there still combat effectiveness, is it completely amateurish, the former sea coachman, just such a little strength.

As a commander, he knows very well that he cannot be arrogant, before the start of the war, anything can happen, in the world, in the field of the army, the weak defeat the strong, all happens, in naval battles, even more so, sometimes, maybe a shell, may decide the outcome of a war, this is proved by countless examples.

Preparation, the largest artillery of the battleship is a 285 mm gun, after a certain strategic modification in the northwest, the maximum firing range of such a gun is more than 12 kilometers, and the distance between the two sides is only about 7 kilometers.

Because it is its own ship, it does not have the kind of sealed cabin on the German ship, it is just a small machine, because of the limited space on the Black Dragon, there are only 4 observation points, 2 main guns, the first one began to roar, made its own voice, the Dutch listened to the artillery fire with disdain, less than 6 kilometers, the cannon was fired, I don't know who it is, there is not even a little common sense, the distance of 6000 meters of cannoning, it is the Dutch learned from Germany, and it is the Bible, but they don't know, Britain has increased the distance of firing from 8,000 meters to 10,000 meters, Germany has also gradually improved because of the northwest point, the Scheer fleet has basically popularized 12,000 meters, and the domestic high seas fleet, under the premise of being able to do it, has barely reached 9,000 meters, but it has far exceeded 6,000 meters.

The firing range of the Black Dragon good main gun is about 15 kilometers, the data of the aiming system is incomplete, the calculation accuracy is limited, and the relationship between the density of the artillery, the accurate shooting should be halved, Xiao Jianfeng was more cautious in the first battle, and finally fired the cannon at 7000 meters.

In tens of seconds, 2 guns passed through a distance of 7 kilometers, and finally hit the area of the Dutch fleet, Norton and several other warships The captain of the captain changed, 2 shells, in the nearest 300 meters, the farthest 700 meters inspiring a huge splash, a little bit of knowledge of water warfare sailors and officers, did not speak anymore, is this a joke, for so close, for naval warfare, a few hundred meters, is already within the target range, this has not been test-fired, has not been calibrated, can be so easily penetrated into this area, who is the other party, is it the elite British gunner?

The main gun of the Black Dragon, after modification, the loading speed is quite fast, the second round of artillery, about 30 seconds later, has been turned on, this time, it is a big step forward, the most recent has been about 200 meters, in a sense formed a cross-fire, the farthest will not exceed 300 meters, closer and closer, does not mean that under the next round of shelling, there is a great possibility that it will hit the range of the ship, or even a direct hit.

Norton ordered the fleet to disperse to avoid artillery fire, unable to give the other side a chance, but the Dutch navy, which lacked communication tools and lost morale, was completely disorganized to dodge, just running around like a fly without a head, and the dodge effect was not good, so the counterattack was not to mention.

In fact, the third round of artillery bombardment was really attacked, an ordinary warship of less than 900 tons, was directly hit by 285 mm naval guns, directly hit the front, the foredeck and small machine guns were overturned, the whole ship was beaten into a crooked ball, many seamen hurriedly fled, did not dare to continue to stay here, but unfortunately the speed of the ship sinking too fast, a large amount of sea water entered, in less than a minute, the battleship formed a whirlpool on the sea surface, sank to the bottom, some did not have time to escape the Dutch sailors, Swallowed up in a whirlpool.

The whole process of the battle was very large, from the beginning, it was decided that it was over, when one ship after another was hit by artillery, the Dutch seamen who had not gone through the war completely collapsed, and when the white flag kept waving above the flagship, the battle was over from the beginning.

In the northwest, the fleet fired a total of 17 theories, 34 shells, hit 12, almost one-third, this hit rate, not the average high, the elite gunners of Britain and France, at this distance, absolutely dare not say that the performance is better than the northwest, 12 shells, sank 3 4000-ton light cruisers, and some armed merchant ships, the largest 7000-ton Seven Provinces Alliance, a total of three shells, was heavily damaged, lost most of the power, and lay on the beach.

From the beginning to the end, it took more than half an hour at most, the Dutch fleet has been completely wiped out, and there is not even the ability to go back to report the news, and Norton, who is full of ambition and wants to restore the glory of his ancestors, did not have an outstanding performance at all when the artillery fire came, and the generation gap in weapons and equipment, and the gap in naval concepts, so that they did not send a cannon to counterattack, almost unilaterally, creating the glory of the Black Dragon Navy.

In the Black Dragon, Xiao Jianfeng, who has already won, is not happy, this battle can be said to have been prepared for a long time, and he did not even order the submarine to fight, just because, exercise the team, let the navy really go to the battlefield, now it seems that it is not as good as the exercise, the previous anti-artillery drills, manual damage management, fire extinguishing and battlefield ambulance, none of these subjects were carried out, the Dutch sailors did not fire a single shot, this battle is more like an exercise than the exercise, a little movement of the bones, the Dutch surrendered.

Xiao Jianfeng didn't feel it for long, next, they need to continue to march and attack the transport fleet, more than 200,000 Dutch troops, coming by transport ships, whether they are captured or sunk, it will be of great benefit to Indonesia's strategy, after this living force is killed, the Dutch resistance will be reduced to a weak degree, and it will be much easier to attack Jakarta and other military ports that the Dutch have operated for many years.

Naval war is not the ultimate goal, take the whole of Indonesia, for China to expand the living space, is the key, located in tropical Indonesia, not only a vast area, with a lot of resources, China lacks copper, tin, oil and other resources, especially rubber, Indonesia is one of the main producers of rubber in the future, when the car gradually becomes an important tool, rubber has also become a strategic resource.

These are very important, and the most important point is food. China's land is vast, but except for a few places such as Hunan and Guangdong, there is not much really fertile land, China's 5,000-year history of cultivation, so that China has created a brilliant civilization, but also let the land continue to use, despite the fallow, fertilization and other many remedies, long-term use, or let the fertility of the land decline, plus the temperate zone is not high yield.

On the contrary, Indonesia is different, the development of the Chinese and the colonizers has only been a few years, hundreds of years of history, the land has not been completely developed, it is a fertile land that has not been cultivated for thousands of years, it is still in the tropics, it can be harvested three times a year, just take Southeast Asia, China can increase its population by at least one-third in the future. (To be continued.) )