Port Chilaza.

"These damn bastards!"

General Bin looked at the sea far away with grief and anger.

There, six evil Ming army steamboats were passing by at high speed with black smoke. At the same time, twelve giant cannons continued to spray flames. The terrifying 100-pound shells roared across the sky and suddenly hit the port full of ships of all kinds. Although the distance was too far and there was no accuracy at all, they still hit an armed merchant ship next to an armed merchant ship. The huge explosion power caused huge waves and threw the hundreds of tons of merchant ship upwards. Although it would not destroy it, such a close-range explosion would definitely damage the hull structure, especially if there were still people on the ship, one-third of the sudden death.

The twelve battleships patrolling outside the port were just rushing towards the enemy with their sails. Before they even entered the effective range, one of the battleships could not wait to roar.

It's been a month.

It's been a whole month.

These bastards come every day to make the British army restless day and night. Sometimes they even come over in the middle of the night. With their speed and gun range, they floated like ghosts, rushing to the port or patrolling warships outside, pouring shells at the fastest speed, and then floated away like ghosts when the British warships could hit them, disappearing in the vast sea, leaving only wisps of choking coal smoke and burning flames in the air.

And this time it's still the same.

Just after British artillery shells fell and several water columns were aroused at least two hundred yards away from a steam warship, the six steam warships accelerated their retreat without any sense of honor.

Before leaving, I hadn't forgotten to shoot another round of shells.

Speaking of which, General Bin now wants to pull the Ming army commander's collar and yell, can you be shameless?

"Order the fleet to stop chasing!"

He looked at the chasing battleships and said expressionlessly.

He dared not chase after him.

Because he didn't know whether the main fleet of the Ming army was just waiting in the distance.

The main fleet of the Ming army has been in Makassar. Normally, it only takes ten days to get here. Even if the information transmission time is added, it should have arrived at this time. However, these six steam warships were patrolling outside, making it impossible for him to send a reconnaissance ship. Although they were only six warships, it was still difficult to confront them without more than twice the battleships.

But if twelve battleships are used as reconnaissance ships, it would be equivalent to delivering vegetables to the main fleet of the Ming army.

Similarly, if he rashly ordered this small fleet to pursue it, he would be likely to be ambushed by the Ming army and be eaten in one bite. He knew very well that these bastards were for such a purpose. Although his strength had an absolute advantage, it was only the sum of all battleships. Although the strength of the main fleet of the Ming army was not as strong as him, the gap was not as big as that of him after he divided his troops, especially when he had only seventy battleships left, he needed to be more cautious.

The Ming army ran to provoke so persistently, with the purpose of luring him into division, then setting up an ambush to eat his pursuit fleet, further weakening his strength. When his strength is weakened to no longer have the advantage, he can start the final decisive battle.

Unless he kills all the battleships now, he will never be able to pursue them.

But in this case, it would be troublesome to confiscate the house. You should know that there are more than 100 merchant ships, more than 20,000 crew members and landing soldiers in the port of Zhilaza. They cannot stop the main fleet of the Ming army. After all, they are four second-level battleships and more than 20 third-level battleships. If there is no protection of the battleship fleet, these small ships will be killed by the Ming army. So what he can do at this time is to hold on here and wait for the Matalans to capture Batavia, Semarang and Sishui on land, and then he can drive all the warships and merchant ships out.

Of course, he didn't know that his enemies hoped so much.

"See Luohou!"

On the battleship Hongwu, more than a hundred miles away from the Port of Zhilaza, a colonel bowed to Luo Zhang.

Also on this sea surface, the main fleet of Ming army, which General Bin had been waiting, was floating quietly with the sunset. Twenty-seven battleships and forty cruisers formed a continuous sailing forest. However, in addition to these pure sailing warships, there were more than 30 smaller paddlewheel steamers. These ships had no other armed forces except a small naval gun, but there was a complex special device at the stern.

"How many mines have you brought?"

Luo Zhang asked the colonel.

He was the first marquis to be granted by Emperor Yang after he ascended the throne.

"Report to the Marquis of Luo, there are 3,000 in total!"

The colonel said.

"Then let's start!"

Luo Zhang said with a smile.

Well, three thousand mines are indeed not enough to create a Beihai thunderbolt, but it is enough to create a Zhilaza thunderbolt.

This insidious guy was not ready to play battle line with the British. He had a more cost-effective combat plan. His plan was very simple, which was to block the entire Port of Chilaza with a high-density mine.

After learning that the British fleet had entered the port, he had put on this plan, including the harassment of the high-speed cruiser fleet, which was also for this plan. He had to lay mines without the British's awareness. Although the minecraft ships could work specifically at night, they had to have a safe enough sea area. The harassment of the high-speed cruiser fleet was to force the British fleet into the port, forcing them to patrol to avoid going to the sea far away from the port, so that they could clear the safe gap for the Ming army to lay mines.

Then, the minecraft ship was at the fastest speed, and at the farthest distance of 50 miles from the port, a dense mine belt of hundreds of miles long was laid.

The interval is thirty feet horizontally and one hundred and fifty feet vertically.

There are three thousand water mines, and he can set up six water mine lines.

These six mine lines form a five-mile depth and a hundred-mile length. They embrace the shallow waters of the coast at both ends, blocking all death-for-death areas with water depths exceeding five meters.

Once this mine belt is completed, it can block all seventy battleships, one hundred and fifty armed merchant ships and cruisers of the entire British fleet in the Port of Chilaza. Then his main fleet blocks outside the mine belt and bombards the British who want to break through the mine belt. Then when the Eighth Army on the land solves the Java monkeys, it will then surround the Port of Chilaza. This huge British fleet, and tens of thousands of sailors and crew, can only be trapped in this port, watching the Ming army swarming on the land surrounded them.

After the Ming army set up cannons and rockets on the shore, would they have any other choice?

How can you sink a huge fleet that is equivalent to half of the British Navy to the bottom of the sea be as good as capturing them and turning them into their own warships?

Well, this is why Emperor Yang fully supports Luo Zhang.

But this plan is not that simple.

You should know that this is a big project. Of course, it doesn’t matter, it’s just a trivial matter, but how to keep it confidential requires a nod, especially since some of this mine belt must be close to the coast, which requires even more caution.

Immediately afterwards, Luo Zhang even transferred small patrol ships to come over, and these patrol ships were responsible for clearing the entire sea area. Not to mention those merchant ships, all the small fishing boats rowed out of the shore were sank with cannons, completely clearing the entire outer waters of the Port of Zhilaza and cutting off all the intelligence sources of the British fleet. At the same time, the rapid cruise fleet continued to block outside Zhilaza Port and provoked. In addition, the news that the main fleet of the Ming army had long sailed out of the Longmu Strait was spread through the Javanese traitors, firming the British's judgment that the rapid cruise fleet was deliberately seducing.

In fact, Luo Zhang was indeed planning to do this.

Although the main task of the Rapid Cruiser Fleet is to cover the minecraft ships, if the British were foolish enough to chase after him from Chilaza, he wouldn't mind swallowing them in one bite.

Of course, Admiral Gun would not be so stupid.

Admiral Bin is not in a hurry now. Such sea generals are usually very patient. He only needs to wait for the result of the battle on land in Chilaza. There is no need to take risks at all. Anyway, the provocation of the Ming army cruiser fleet is like that. Although it caused some losses, it is no big deal to count it. It is just a bit annoying. He has fought a naval battle all his life, and he will not be overwhelmed by anger.

Well, if he was impulsive, it might be better.

In this way, General Bin's caution was of course mainly because of his ignorance of mine war. He and his huge British fleet continued to shrink into the port, allowing the Ming army's minecraft ships to continuously throw down one chain-covered anchor thirty kilometers away from him, completing the cage that encircled them.

In fact, there are not only British warships, but also eight Spanish battleships and a group of Dutch people. However, the latter flew British flags and participated in the war as British warships. It has to be said that the Netherlands has become much smarter this time. They are actually still maintaining a peace talks with Yang Feng. In theory, they are only waiting for the domestic approval of the original negotiation results. But if they win this time with the British, the negotiation results will of course be invalid. If this time fails, they will accept their fate honestly.

At this time, the Javanese had already begun to attack Batavia. In addition, another Javanese army led by Surabati was also attacking Sishui, and all the way was attacking Semarang. The three routes actually exceeded 250,000 Javanese troops. Basically, it can be said that on Java Island, any man with a little courage joined this great shooting battle, which is why General Bin is full of confidence. In his opinion, the Ming army was nothing more than three cities, and a fortress in the Sunda Strait. How could the 250,000 soldiers full of hatred be defeated?

But he was wrong.

Poor Admiral Bin soon had to face a very frustrating reality.

The 250,000 army seems useless...
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