Chapter 819 Fighting for the Cape of Good Hope

Clouzot didn't need an order, his men had already launched a counterattack on their own.

Being shelled and not fighting back, there is no such stupid army.

Had to wait for Clouzot's order, they would have been blown away.

Before the first round of artillery bombardment of the Chinese army was over, they had already started to fight back.

Seamounts is a place the Netherlands takes very seriously, as most of their colonies are in the Asian region. South America is the territory of Spain and Portugal, and North America is the territory of Britain and France.

Colonies are all in Asia, and fleets need to pass through here.

Occupying this place would secure one's own shipping lanes and at the same time stifle British momentum in India.

At present, the development of the United Kingdom has surpassed that of Spain and the Netherlands, and is ahead of the whole of Europe.

Left unchecked, Britain could dominate Europe.

Therefore, they have deployed a strong defense force here. There are forty or fifty light artillery pieces, but they are all large-caliber artillery pieces, mainly aimed at the British.

They never imagined that the first opponent they encountered was the great Chinese.

The power of these guns is quite large, and if they are dealing with wooden ships, one or two guns can reimburse a ship.

However, when their self-proclaimed cannonballs fell on the Hongyuan, a scene that made the Dutch desperate happened.

The iron ball hit the ship's side of the Hongyuan, causing the Hongyuan to shake a little, and then the iron ball fell into the sea.

Not to mention that it penetrated the side of the Hongyuan, not even leaving too many traces.

Hongyuan is Dahua's latest battleship, a step further than the previous semi-iron armored ship, and is the first pure iron armored ship in the true sense.

It seems that the Hongyuan is not big, but the weight of the hull is at least three or four times that of the same size.

To this end, Hongyuan also sacrificed a certain speed.

This sacrifice, in exchange for a powerful protective ability.

Not to mention the primitive artillery of the Dutch, even if it was bombarded by the Chinese field artillery, it could not be sunk.

The Hongyuan, which cost nearly 200,000 yuan, was even known as an unsinkable battleship.

This battle is its maiden show, and it is specially designed to test its actual combat performance.

After these test data are sent back to China and the effect is proved, those semi-iron armored ships may face elimination, and pure iron armored ships will become the mainstream in the future.

The shaking of the Hongyuan caused several inexperienced rookies on board to fall, and one of them knocked his head on the battery and fainted.

This is the only result of the Dutch shelling.

Fortunately, at least the casualties of the Chinese army were caused, and it would not be zero harvest.

Of course, the Dutch will not be comforted by this.

They were all frightened by the protective ability of the Chinese warships, and the direct hits of the artillery were ineffective, so how could they fight?

What's worse, Dahua's artillery caused great damage to them.

A cannonball landed near a cannon, and the man from that artillery crew was directly dealt with.

Another shell landed in front of the cannon, directly destroying the cannon.

Some artillerymen began to flee, trying to retreat to the fort to hide.

Some artillerymen continued to resist, and among them there was no lack of desperadoes.

At the same time, the Dutch warships in the port had also sailed towards the Chinese army, trying to engage in a battle.

Their artillery has limited power and can only use this method.

And, they have another advantage, which is quantity.

The main battleships that the Chinese army came to attack were only three ships, and they had to battle with coastal defense artillery.

The Dutch had eight warships in the port, and their troops were much larger.

Eight warships rushed towards Hua Jun, forcing Hua Jun to turn their guns.

The distance between the two sides is not far, and after the Chinese army is adjusted, the Dutch are already very close.

However, at this time, the artillery of the Chinese army aimed at the incoming enemy and fired again.

A shell hit a warship, pierced directly through the side of the ship, and the shell went into the ship's cabin and exploded.

The entire deck was blown away, and the wooden hull was like paper in front of the Chinese artillery.

A wave of artillery shelling, the Chinese army destroyed two Dutch warships.

At the same time, the machine guns on the Hongyuan began to fire.

The heavy machine gun is a defensive artifact, and of course the Navy will not dislike it.

Artillery is used for offense, and machine guns are used for defense.

With the advantage of equipment, the Chinese army no longer likes to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

In fact, in the past two years, the hand-to-hand combat capability of the Chinese army has been declining sharply.

Soldiers cherished little life more, not as heroic as at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

However, this kind of problem is temporarily overshadowed by Dahua's weapon advantages.

The machine guns equipped on the Hongyuan are different from the machine guns equipped by the army.

The Army paid more attention to the weight of the machine gun for mobility.

The Navy does not need to consider this issue, and naturally prefers power.

Therefore, the caliber of machine guns on navy ships is very large, it can be said that they are machine guns, but it is also said that they are guns.

To be precise, these are cannons with amazing power and amazing fire rate.

A series of machine gun bullets hit the Dutchman's boat, making the Dutchman cry.

That kind of bullet can pierce through two or three people.

The hull of the ship was also shot with flying wood chips, and the soldiers hiding behind the planks followed suit.

dying.

There is no safe place on the whole ship.

Many soldiers chose to jump into the sea to escape, and staying on the boat was courting death.

When the Dutch rushed in front of the Chinese army, there were only four of the eight ships left, and two of them had very few personnel left.

Only two ships still maintain combat power, but it does not mean how good they are, just because the Huajun did not target them.

However, next is them.

As a result, the captain of one of the ships hurriedly ordered the raising of the white flag to surrender.

When you get close, you can only start the battle, but it doesn't mean you can take down the Hua army right away.

With the firepower of the Chinese army, if they aimed at them for two minutes, they would be killed and wounded more than half.

Therefore, there is no hope of victory, and surrender is king.

As a result, the officers and soldiers of the Huajun saw a rather shocking scene.

The Dutch went through hardships and paid a heavy price in order to rush to themselves and surrender.

Knowing this earlier, why not just surrender?

The Dutch did not know the thoughts of the Chinese soldiers, and if they did, they would probably vomit blood and curse their mothers.

They didn't want to surrender, but they didn't want to die.

Before they came, they didn't know that the firepower of the Chinese army would be so fierce, it was a one-sided massacre against them.

They didn't vomit blood, but Clouzot, who was watching the battle on the shore, vomited blood. His fleet was so majestic, he rushed over and surrendered angrily.

It would be a shame to say this.

The fleet surrendered and the artillerymen on the shore fled. Clouzot had lost the power to counterattack and could only retreat to the castle for the last stubborn resistance.