After a fierce and short naval battle, the burning brig sailboat sank into the sea, extinguishing the last ball of fire, and the sea in the night returned to peace.

Two high-speed cruisers sailed on the sparkling sea, one after another. They were sea hunters guarding their homes and warriors who won triumph, but now is not the time to relax.

"Baldheaded Goose" driving building

The instrument of the operation table was flashing with a faint light, which could only outline the general outlines of the officers and operators in the driving building. The others were hidden in the darkness, and only the unhidden sounds of excitement came.

"Captain, we killed another brig, the second cargo ship this month. I don't know what these Dutch people think. Do you really think we can't block a lucky bay?"

"Hahaha... they come to die, we can't ask for it."

"That's right! We will collect as much as we come. Our Morez has a good appetite than the squadron!"

The officers' excitement voices came, and they had forgotten the hard work of patrolling the sea for days. In order to block the Lucky Bay, they had been patrolling the sea for 16 consecutive days, and returned to the port to replenish supplies once, only for 4 hours.

All the officers and soldiers went ashore and took a shower and immediately returned to the ship. Someone might take the opportunity to go to the brothel and steal, but time is really fast.

As a high-speed patrol ship less than 1,000 tons, it sacrifices protection and airworthiness for high speed, not to mention the living nature of the people is simply against humanity. Long-term cruises have a great test of the willpower of officers and soldiers.

Geng Baogui was proud of his brothers and said with a smile in the night. "Guys, I am proud of your performance. Here I want to announce good news. The four new warships built at the Hongshan Shipyard will soon join our squadron. In these few days, our warship team has further grown and has the ability to completely control the Lucky Bay in our hands. We cannot relax at this critical moment."

"Wow, that's great. With the support of brother warships, I can finally take a breath."

"Who said no, I'm stinky."

"Hahahaha...each each other."

Listening to the laughter of the officers in his ears, Geng Baogui looked at the sea ahead without any slacking off. The Dutch continued to pass the barriers and sounded the alarm in his heart, which showed that the other party was a little anxious.

In this case, it is necessary to prevent the Dutch from organizing large formations to land, causing the current good situation to fail.

Before April 1

Due to the blockade of the Royal Dutch Fleet, two batches of reinforcements and a large number of weapons and ammunition were sent to the Moresby area on a large scale, resulting in heavy losses from the Third Regiment of the Front Line and the Armed Militia. The Three Daoliang Positions and the Second Daoliang Positions were lost in succession, and they were forced to retreat to the current Toudaoliang Positions, and the situation was in jeopardy.

Geng Baogui still remembers how critical the situation was at that time. Almost all the Moresby area was mobilized to prepare for scorched earth combat, and to seize the enemy one by one, and to defend his home to the death.

This put great pressure on the ship team in Moresby Port. The young officers of the fleet were preparing to launch a desperate assault several times, but Geng Baogui resolutely pressed down.

He knew that the three precious warships in his hand had obvious advantages and disadvantages. He also had obvious disadvantages. He pulled open the defense loopholes of the enemy fleet in high-speed assault operations at sea and used the fierce firepower of Miss Australia to exert miraculous effects. If he broke into the enemy ship's artillery blockade line, he would inevitably die. It was ugly.

On April 1, the Queensland United Fleet suddenly landed and occupied Sanmalinda. The Dutch task force was forced to return to the port of Surabaya, Java, to guard the land, which gave the Morezby squadron the opportunity to turn over the serfs to sing.

To this day, Lucky Bay has been blocked for more than half a month.

Four new ships will join in the near future. Geng Baogui is particularly vigilant during this blank period of power handover. He carefully considered the orders in the future;

"Notify the friendly ships to expand the patrol range, from the original 20 nautical miles to the 90-degree fan-shaped area in the southwest direction of 50 nautical miles, the patrol speed is 12 knots and the distance is three nautical miles. Beware of any small formation trying to pass the barriers, so as not to miss any enemy ships."

Navy formations use flags during the day and lanterns at night.

The flashing light signal will be transmitted, and the friend ship will immediately reply to the light signal; the command will be received and executed immediately.

The two ships on the sea covered by night set apart and searched towards the distant sea...

Southwest direction of Shangri-La Island

Based on this, a mixed formation of eight ships traveled on the sea surface about two days, with an average speed of about 11 knots.

Among them are six fully loaded three-masted sailboats, which have certain self-defense capabilities. The 1,150-ton steam iron armored ship "Lupev" and the fully armed second-class sailing battleship "The Netherlands Giant", carrying 20 artillery pieces, ammunition and supplies up to 1,300 tons and 1,200 reinforcements, were heading towards Moresby.

This is a small landing formation sent by Batavia, with the purpose of transporting reinforcements to the island and reinforcing troops to support the Dutch landing forces to stick to it.

After the second Malacca naval battle

The Dutch colonists quickly tracked the source of the leak, which was the wired long-distance telegraph office located in Banda Aceh, so strict measures were taken to block the telegraph office's sending and receiving, and strictly prohibited all telegraph information from the Governor's Office and the military.

At the same time, Sanmalinda in Borneo was blocked, preventing it from receiving any telegram information from Java to prevent the leak of military information.

This brought great difficulties to the Batavian intelligence station to transmit intelligence. Therefore, the intelligence station manager, Mr. Qingsong, agreed with the joint fleet stationed in Sanmalinda that the joint fleet would send a warship to hover outside the sea of ​​Madurah Island, and there would be important intelligence to send fishing boats to sea to hand over.

Sisai Port is the second largest city in Java. It is located in the northeast corner of Java Island, at the "l"-shaped intersection of Madura Strait and Sura Strait. It looks opposite Madura Island and has an extremely important geographical location.

But it is precisely this geographical location that determines that the Dutch cannot block the news of the fleet, and the reason is very simple.

Sishui Port is located at the "l" junction of the Madura Strait and the Sishui Strait. It goes north through the Madura Strait, which is dozens of kilometers long. The narrowest part of the strait is only 3 to 4 kilometers, and the widest part is 8 to 9 kilometers. It can be seen clearly by the naked eye when standing at a high place and cannot be hidden at all.

If you go east, you have to pass through the Sishui Strait. The Sishui Strait is wider, with a widest area of ​​55 kilometers and a narrowest area of ​​more than 20 kilometers. The problem is that there are a series of small islands in this strait, and the waterways suitable for navigation are easy to monitor.

The fleet had just received a tip from the Strait Observatory of Surabaya;

Two days ago, the steam ironclad ship "Lupev" and the sail battleship "Netland Giant" sailed away from the Port of Sisawa, with unknown whereabouts.

After careful investigation by the Black-Clothing Guard Intelligence Station, it was found that in the past few days, the three-masted sailing ships in major ports such as Surabaya Port and Batavia Port have shown signs of a decrease in the number, with the number of about 5 to 8.

Who will judge based on this?

The Dutch were desperate and tried to continue organizing a fleet to send reinforcements to the Moresby theater, with a possibility of up to 60%.

Although the "Seven Provinces" and more than ten sail warships were anchored in Surabaya Port, this may be a trick played by the Dutch to confuse the Queensland United Fleet.

Opportunities must not be missed, and no more mistakes will come.

He Fang decided to attack decisively. At most, he would have to go for a vain. It was impossible to catch the Dutch fleet on the vast sea, but he would definitely be able to catch a direct person near the Lucky Bay.

Borneo Sanmalinda Port

An alarm sounded throughout the harbor, and a large number of crew members boarded the warships one after another. A large stream of black smoke emerged from the thick chimneys of the warships in the harbor. The boiler was heating up and pressurized to prepare for sailing, and there was a tense and murderous atmosphere.

Leading the four ships of albatross, flamingos, pelicans and herons, they led four seagull-type patrol ships to sail in the dark, and immediately began to accelerate and headed towards the northeast.

On the bright moonlight on the sea
Chapter completed!