After a day and night of sailing, Trump led the fleet to the Sukanada area southwest of Kariman Boat Island.
Although at this time, the Sultanate of Brunei was the only country on Kalimantan, the Sultanate of Madaland, located on Java, also occupied two small areas on Kalimantan, one in Kalimantan. The southernmost part of the island is Ma Chen, the other one is Sukanada in the southwest. After the Dutch army in Brunei failed, it retreated to Ma Chen, because it is far away from Brunei and is safer, and Trump set out. Afterwards, he also ordered the two men to come to Sukanada immediately and meet with the large army.
Sukanada is a small alley in the southwest of Kariman Boat Island. It is home to only more than 2,000 indigenous people. It was in the early 17th century when the Madaland Sultanate expanded outward during its heyday in Kariman. The occupied areas on Dan Island were originally intended to be a frontier base for attacking Brunei, but at this time, European colonists came to the Nanyang area to establish colonies one after another, and Madalan was naturally the first to be hit. Therefore, the national strength was weak and he was unable to expand outward. In fact, the Sukanada region is now equivalent to semi-autonomous.
Sudannada is 200 kilometers away from Kuching, the southernmost city of Brunei. Now the Madaland Sultanate is the closest South Asian country with the closest relationship with the Dutch East India Company, so it is used as a military service. The frontier base for fighting is of course the most suitable.
After the two Dutch fleets met in Sukanada, Trump immediately recruited De Witt and Ronald Fred and asked them about the detailed battle situation of the battle with the Chinese army. They did not dare to Concealed the battle and told his commander the entire process.
After Trump finished listening to their speech, he had long greeted Governor Matt Sokol and the female members of the 17th Board of Directors, including those who had passed away and were not yet born. What is this called Spain The strength of the army is similar. Judging from the process of this battle, the performance of the Chinese army's warships is no worse than that of the Dutch warships, and it is larger and has stronger firepower. Although it is slightly worse than that of the Netherlands in terms of flexibility and speed, China The military navy obviously took the British navy's path, attaching importance to the tonnage and firepower of warships, and in combat, it mainly uses column tactics and strictly observes combat discipline. This is also the tactic that makes the Dutch navy the most headache-inducing, and it is in the enemy's army. The tonnage and firepower are stronger than ourselves.
The Navy can also be said to have both sides' strengths, but in terms of the army, in order to surprise Trump, judging from the statement of Colonel Ronald Fred, the range of muskets used by the Chinese army is greater than that of the Dutch army. The musket has more than doubled, which is too terrible. Therefore, after hearing this, Trump's first reaction was that he didn't believe it, but Ronald Fred took out several cylindrical bullets from the Chinese army. Trump also had to believe it, because the Dutch army's smoothbore guns all use pill-shaped soln bullets, and only rifled guns use vertebral bullets.
In this era, Europe had invented rifled rifles and knew that the range of rifled rifles was farther than that of smoothbore rifles, but the Minnie bullet was not invented. Therefore, the thickness of the rifled rifles was the same as the size of the gun barrel, so why would it be slightly larger? One thing is that when filling bullets, it is slower than a smoothbore gun, and it has to be knocked down with a hammer to get in place, which also limits the development of rifled guns. Of course, Trump, as a soldier, knows these common sense, but he sees Trump also had to think that the cylindrical bullets used by the Chinese army were difficult to say that China's technology has solved the difficulty of filling rifled gun bullets, which would be terrible.
Therefore, Trump had to curse. What kind of report was sent back to the domestic market by the Dutch East India Company? It was really a scam. In fact, at this time, Trump could guess a few points. This must be for the Dutch East India Company. In order to inquire about the domestic military, I deliberately suppressed China's military power in the report, otherwise the domestic military would not be sent. In fact, if China's military strength reaches this level, the goal of this expedition will be difficult to complete, and at most I can Only one or two wins can be won, but it is basically impossible to completely defeat China.
But the current situation is that even though he knows that he can't beat it, he has to fight it, because Trump has served in the Dutch Navy for more than 30 years and has seen the tricks of finding scapegoats and scapegoats in order to promote the responsibility of the superiors. And now in the Netherlands, he is accustomed to the tips of finding scapegoats and scapegoats. East India Company still has a considerable influence in China, so once it refuses to fight, the Dutch East India Company will put all the blame on itself, and it doesn’t matter whether the report is true or not. Now The only way is to fight with all your strength. Of course, it is basically impossible to defeat China. You can only minimize your own losses until the East India Company can't hold on and have to end the war so that you can get rid of your responsibilities.
Thinking of this, Trump couldn't help but smile bitterly. It seemed that his biggest opponent in this battle was not the enemy, but his own people. But if he thought so, he still had to continue fighting. Judging from his own understanding, Obviously, it is inevitable to lose when fighting a land war with the Chinese army. Although Trump still has some doubts about the Chinese army's muskets, he does not dare to take risks, because he needs a victory now, and there are not many Dutch army. It is impossible to withstand the consumption, so it is better to wait until the Ma fights the native soldiers of Lan to let the indigenous soldiers be this cannon fodder after they arrive. Therefore, it is only more reliable to fight naval wars with the Chinese army.
So Trump also ordered Ronald Fred to lead the army to garrison in Sukanada and build positions. He and De Witt led forty warships to attack, find the Chinese army's fleet to fight, and target China. Trump also specially selected a group of larger warships from his fleet to meet the Chinese army's warships in firepower and tonnage.
The last forty warships are composed of two warships above 1,000 tons, six warships ranging from 800 to 1,000 tons, six warships below 500 tons, fast Among the three ships, two of which are more than 1,000 tons, one is the flagship Bridrod, the Dutch Expeditionary Fleet. It weighs 1,250 tons, is equipped with 92 artillery guns, and is also the Dutch Expeditionary Fleet. The largest warship, while the other Saint-Lorens, weighs 1,080 tons and is equipped with 84 artillery pieces. In this battle, it was the ship of Germany × Witt, and Germany × The original ship of Witt, His Highness William, was severely injured in the previous battle, so he stayed in Sukanada for maintenance. He did not participate in the war this time. There is also a thousand-ton warship in the Dutch fleet, all of which are The St. Mary, which weighs 1,150 tons and is equipped with eighty-eight fire bags, remains in Batavia.
However, this is also the maximum tonnage ratio of the Dutch fleet. Therefore, Trump believes that if the number of warships on both sides is roughly the same, the Dutch fleet should not be inferior to the Chinese fleet in terms of tonnage and firepower. In fact, it is almost at the same level as the Chinese Army's other squadrons except for the flagship squadrons.
After leading the warships from Sukanada, Trump and De XWitt drove north along the coastline of Kalimantan, and when they were near the Badas Islands, the westernmost end of Kalimantan, they were with the Chinese army. The fleet meets.
The Chinese army's fleet was the Fourth Squadron of the South China Fleet, namely the Li Huamei Fleet. After Brunei surrendered, the Chinese army also entered the Kuching area at the southernmost end of Brunei, preparing to launch an attack on the southern end of Kalimantan Island. At this moment, the Dutch fleet also arrived at Kalimantan Island. After several consecutive victories, the Chinese army was in full swing, so the commanders of each fleet also asked Shang Yi for battle and wanted to go. When attacking the Netherlands, Li Huamei was eager to fight and hoped that his fleet would fight the second battle between the Chinese and Dutch navy.
Because since the First Battle of the Chinese Navy, the Chinese Army's generals have repeatedly studied the process of this battle, and have basically studied the process and tactics of this battle thoroughly, and at this time they are full of all With confidence, Li Huamei, who had the most battles with the Dutch Navy, was naturally eager to try, hoping to fight another battle with the Dutch Navy.
After the generals asked for a fight, Shang Yi finally agreed to Li Huamei's request and ordered Li Huamei's fleet to attack and launch an attack on the Dutch fleet.
Of course, Shang Yi's arrangement was not because of his special relationship with Li Huamei, but because he had thought carefully. Although the Chinese army fought well in the first battle and won very beautifully, it was only based on this battle The result does not fully explain that the current comparison of strength between the two sides is beneficial to the Chinese army. It is even more wrong to think that using the tactics of the First Battle to fight the Dutch fleet to win, it is even more wrong, because more than a dozen The battle between ship battles and the showdown between large fleets is completely different. In addition, after the last defeat, it is impossible not to summarize and find countermeasures. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct more tentative battles. Only then can you understand the new response tactics of the Netherlands.
The most suitable person to fight the second battle is of course the Li Huamei fleet, because the Li Huamei fleet is one of the eight squadrons of the Navy Department, and now has the most warships. There are 37 main warships in total. Although the tonnage is small, it is only In terms of the number of warships, it is nearly twice as many as when they went to war. Moreover, Li Huamei is the Chinese general who fought the most with the Dutch fleet and the most experienced naval general. Therefore, Li Huamei's fleet is responsible for carrying out the Dutch fleet. The second test battle is of course the most suitable.
Of course, Shang Yi would not let Li Huamei's fleet take risks, so he sent the second Beiyang fleet to respond and also warned Li Huamei that if the war is unfavorable, he would retreat immediately and not fight in love. After all, this battle is not a must. It's just a test of the Chinese army's tactics.
After receiving the order, Li Huamei immediately took the fleet and met the Dutch fleet after driving for half a day. So Li Huamei immediately ordered the fleet to line up in a column and launch an attack on the Dutch fleet.
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