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The enemy of the enemy is the friend, this truth is very simple, the Mughal emperor Sha. Jahan, the Dutch military commander Wernardo all understood, so, they quickly hooked up.

The Mughal Dynasty, which was in its heyday, still had a considerable number of naval warships, and bought a lot of artillery from the British, so it is difficult to say about the combat effectiveness.

In addition, the Mughal navy was a talented man, and they had many ingenious and wonderful ideas for naval warfare.

For example, there was a general named Herasindi who once asked the Mochener Emperor Sha. Jahan offered to build yì to train the elephants rigorously and then load them onto ships for naval warfare.

According to General Hrasindi's repeated calculations, in close combat, as long as three elephants stick out their trunks together, they can overturn a warship with a displacement of 100 to 200 tons, inflicting heavy damage on the enemy.

With such a wonderful idea, the Mughal navy and the Dutch navy, which has a wealth of experience in naval warfare, are so powerful that you really don't know if their battles will skyrocket.

Imagine that in actual combat, you are likely to be first fooled by the whimsical ideas of the Mughal navy, and then be unaware of the Dutch navy sneaking up on you from behind.

Eventually, you'll be shattered in a shock similar to "God is a girl."

Anyway, Ke Chenshu had a headache, Wernerdo avoided fighting, and the Dutch fleet with twenty or thirty warships and dozens of armed merchant ships disappeared as if out of thin air, and now the Mughal fleet is also coming to disrupt the situation.

In the spacious command cabin of the treasure ship, Ke Chenshu, Du Zhishi, naval guerrilla Hua Yingnan, Li Mu and other generals were discussing the plan for the next step on the map.

Li Mu said: "Now that the number of Great Qin merchant ships going to and from India has further increased, Ceylon and the east coast of the Indian mainland, if our main force goes north, it will be difficult to control the shipping lanes here in Ceylon. After looking for so long, I didn't find Vernado. It's getting more and more unusual. ”

Hua Yingnan continued: "This season, the monsoon currents are unpredictable, and the Dutch are much more familiar with the sea conditions in this area than we are, which is very unfavorable for us in comparison. ”

The monsoon and ocean currents in the Indian Ocean vary from summer to winter, but in general, in winter (October~April), northerly and northeasterly winds blow from the Asian continent to the ocean, forming a counterclockwise circulation in the northern winter.

In the southern half of the Indian Ocean, the direction of ocean currents is relatively steady. The South Equatorial Current crosses the Indian Ocean from east to west and reaches the vicinity of the island of Madagascar. One flows south through the Mozambique Channel from the north around the island and through the Mozambique Channel, called the Mozambique Warm Current;

The other is blocked from flowing directly south along the island of Madagascar, known as the Madagascar Warm Current.

After converging in the southwest of the island of Madagascar, the two warm currents continue south along the African coast to the vicinity of Cape Agulhas, a section of the ocean current called the Agulhas Current.

The Agulhas Current, which is swept into the southern Indian Ocean by westerly winds, often surging eastward from near the southern tip of Africa, into the South Pacific.

Of course. This is just a general trend, and specific sea areas often form a certain microclimate with rapids due to differences in sea conditions. If you're not careful, it's enough to bury a fleet.

Especially during this season, when the two monsoons of winter and summer intersect, the monsoon currents often alternate and become more complex. Hua Yingnan frowned when she said this.

Ke Chenshu saw him frowning, and suddenly felt some vigilance in his heart. In the naval battle, the glider has an overwhelming advantage, and the navy from the general to the soldier unconsciously has a dependence on the glider;

And in this season of the unpredictable monsoon, there are few opportunities for the glider to take off and fight, which may be the real reason why Hua Yingnan frowned.

"Ladies and gentlemen, whether the glider can be put into battle or not, the element of luck is too heavy, we must not pin all our hopes of victory on the glider, and we must be ready to fight a tough battle at any time."

As soon as Ke Chenshu finished speaking, a golden gong suddenly sounded outside, which was an alarm from the lookout on the mast, and Ke Chenshu and the others got up and walked to the porthole.

At this time, staff officer Wu Jianzhu hurriedly rushed in and said loudly: "General Ke, I found two Dutch warships, and the other party hurriedly turned the rudder and fled to the northwest. ”

Ke Chenshu immediately said: "Order the two warships of Dijing Zhenshou and Yu Zhongnan to immediately catch up and strive to intercept the enemy ships." ”

"Whoa."

"The rest of the warships, with Ben will turn the rudder of the flagship and chase after him."

"Whoa!"

Du Shi Ren Zhong muttered: "General Ke, the Dutch have been hiding so well for a while, and now two warships suddenly appear here, which is quite intriguing." ”

Guerrilla Nan Yinghua and Li Mu had already hurriedly returned to their battleship in a small boat, and at this time, in the huge command cabin, only Ke Chen, Ren Zhong, and a staff officer were left.

Among them, Zhuge Chengcang, a staff officer, couldn't help but say: "General Ke, now the northwest wind is blowing on the sea, and as soon as the enemy shows up, he will flee in the northwest direction, presumably because he knows the characteristics of our army's flying scissor warships very well;

If it is a tailwind, their speed is nearly half of us, and it will not take long for us to catch up, and driving against the wind, most of the sails of the clippers cannot be used, and the advantage in speed is not obvious. According to my analysis, the flight of these two Dutch warships to the northwest must have been a well-planned operation. ”

Zhuge Chengcang's words were clear enough, according to his conclusion, the two Dutch warships were simply here to lure the enemy, and they were by no means inadvertently bumped into each other.

During this time, in order to prevent the Dutch from rushing to the sea east of Ceylon to plunder the merchant ships of Daqin, the ocean-going fleet needed to defend the north-south route of Ceylon;

The entire fleet was actually split in two, with one treasure ship and twelve clipper warships cruising along the Pauk Strait. The remaining two treasure ships and twenty-two clippers patrolled the south of Gaolangbu Harbor.

Ke Chenshu said lightly: "What should come will always come, we may not be able to choose where to fight, but I think we can choose where not to fight." ”

Ke Chenshu had this confidence, because he felt that with the speed of their ships, even if it was unfavorable, it should not be difficult to get out of the battle.

Ren Zhong was still a little uneasy, and said cautiously: "General Ke, if this is really the enemy's trick to lure the enemy, and Wernardo has avoided us for so long, and coming out at this time shows that he has made all the preparations." We'd better be careful, or we'll probably be dragged into a decisive battle we don't want. ”

Ke Chenshu nodded, and once again ordered the four flying shear warships to speed up the push of the well, responsible for reconnoitering the enemy situation and exploring the ocean currents and sea conditions, so as not to be ambushed by the enemy.

On the rough sea, the sky is vast, the sky is clear, the sea breeze hunts and blows the black sails, the drum is blowing, the waves are three to four feet, and the hull of the ship rises and falls.

The two huge treasure ships, the twenty-two flying shear warships, sailed against the wind, although they kept walking in a zigzag shape, and the ship's path was like a sharp blade, quickly cutting through the waves.

Ke Chenshu held the binoculars and looked at the two Dutch warships fleeing in front of the command cabin on the top floor.

Where is Wernardo hiding at this moment? What kind of trap did you set to rush into?

The Dutch could not afford to lose this battle, and once they lost, they could only fully withdraw from the Indian Ocean. Ke Chenshu can't afford to lose, if he loses, Daqin's blade will be broken, and the ministers of the DPRK and China will question the policy of vigorously developing the navy, and whether Daqin can make a comeback Ke Chenshu is not sure, but his personal future will definitely be ruined.

The two Dutch warships desperately fled, the time of their appearance was obviously carefully calculated, Ke Chenshu and they chased for thirty miles, and when they were about to catch up, the sun in the western sky began to sink into the sea, the sky was only red, and the light on the sea began to dim.

Night has fallen.

Perhaps Wernardo had calculated precisely, and he was likely to have to fight an unprecedented night battle.

Shu Chenshu hesitated for a moment, did he really want to fight a night battle with the enemy?

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PS:Guys,I'm sorry.,It's a little bad these days.,I got up early in the morning.,It's only now that a chapter has been coded.,I'm sorry.,Okay.,Okay.,I'm going to continue to work hard to code words (to be continued......)