The Strait of Malacca is a strait located between the Malay Peninsula and the island of Sumatra.

The waterway connecting the Andaman Sea (Indian Ocean) and South China Sea (Pacific Ocean), the West Bank is the island of Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies colony, and the eastern coast is the British colony of West Malaysia and southern Thailand.

The port of trade on the coast of Malaysia is named after Malacca (el, formerly l), the city was an important port in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Relations between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom were not close, but the business contacts were very close.

Since the dissolution of the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch major colonies in Southeast Asia have been closely linked to the British East India Company.

Although the Dutch now have many of their own ocean trading companies, the Dutch still work closely with the British East India Company, in large part of the reason for finding a large tree that can rely on it, and the trees are cool.

After all, the territory of the Dutch East Indies, from the Strait of Malacca to the north, to the edge of Australia, and these two places are on the edge of the British colony.

Many times, the Dutch also need to rely on British strength in the Far East, which is the basis for cooperation between the two sides.

A large number of goods from the Dutch East India were sold directly to the British East India Company in the port.

However, none of this has anything to do with the Red Guards, at least for now.

At this time, a five-thousand-ton coastal defense battleship and a 3,800-ton protective cruiser in the Netherlands are returning to Sumatra from Malaysia.

On board, the Dutch sailors did not know the war in the colony, and in the era when the news was closed, there was no long-distance wireless communication, and with the intentional blockade, these Dutch navies seemed to be doing nothing.

Since the Dutch colonized the Dutch East Indies, it has only been in the Napoleonic era that the Dutch East Indies have changed masters once, and from the end of the Napoleonic era to the present, the Dutch East Indies has not experienced any external threats.

This also makes the Dutch here, become very numb, there is no sense of worry and enemy consciousness, some just daily routine patrols, occasionally escorting merchant ships, even pirates are extremely difficult to encounter.

The same life, the Dutch sailors, has already been numb.

It was as if, now, looking at the contours of two ships that appeared in the distance and sailed over the sea under the night, they were also purely regarded as British warships.

This picture, they have encountered many times, flashing a few light signals, just pure greeting, as if walking on the road to meet acquaintances, say hello, and then normal.

International greeting lights, there are regular flashes of lights on the other side, the two sides said hello, according to the normal situation, both sides to find their mothers, each do their own things.

Of course, when the two ships in the distance continued to approach, the sailors and officers of the two Dutch warships did not suspect anything.

After all, in this strait, the opportunity for the two navies to meet is too much.

The other two warships, one after the other, quickly adjusted their direction, just forming a parallel line with the two Dutch warships.

The distance between the two sides is less than three nautical miles, and at this distance, the two sides can only dimly see the contours of the other's warships.

It was also at this distance that the Dutch sailors seemed to find something strange.

The two ships opposite, from the outline, can not see the huge chimney, sailing, can not see the smoke column produced when burning coal.

“Is this the British new warship?”

"It doesn't seem like, I haven't heard of it, and the two ships, the big one, looks like a battleship, and when did England bring in such a strange warship?"

"It's not like a battleship, it's like a big cruiser, the other like our coastal battleship, but it's not in the British Far East Fleet."

“It won’t be a new warship built in secret by the British.”

"Don't joke, all countries are staring at each other, where there is a possibility of secret construction, not to mention the fact that it has been cold to the Far East."

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A group of Dutch sailors on deck, looking at the contours of warships in the distance, were discussing, but no one thought that it would be the enemy.

Don’t joke, who will attack the Dutch Navy?

Even the captains of the two Dutch warships stood on the bridge with curiosity, looking at the two warships, and were speculating on whether it would be a warship secretly built by the British, and did not think in the direction of the enemy.

The guns of the two Dutch warships were also dressed in guncoats to minimize the corrosion of the gun barrel by seawater.

On the opposite side of the two warships, the Red Guard soldiers had already been in combat positions, and the artillery radar constantly calibrated the two warships of the Dutch Navy, and the data was transmitted to the hand-shaking computer, and the artillery commander in the War Information Center was closely watching the direction and speed of the two warships.

The artillery on the warship, whether it is firing or the steering of the guise and the angle adjustment, is done through the war information center on the warship, the hand-shake computer will calculate the as accurate ballistic as possible, the assistant of the artillery commander will adjust the direction and angle of the gun according to the data derived from the hand-shaking computer, and then manually press the firing telepress button.

Inside the turret, the artillery responsible for loading can fire artillery, but it is purely responsible for the loading of the shells, and after filling, press the button to notify the War Information Center, indicating that the artillery is loaded.

The whole process of attack requires close coordination of all people, in fact, compared with the artillery on the warships of this era, the steps fired by the artillery, this mode of attack on the warships of the Red Police Corps is not only more advanced, but also more efficient.

The War Information Center has a gun controller for each turret, which is a very complex compass with multiple rotationable areas that controls the direction of each gun and the elevation angle of each barrel.

At this time, one by one, the artillery operators are slightly adjusting the elevation angle and turret direction of the barrel according to the number displayed on the hand-shake computer.

On the controller, there is a detailed number display, which is actually super simple to operate, as long as the number aligned with the controller pointer is controlled in the same number as the hand-held computer.

Even a primary school student can complete this control, after all, the device on the compass turned up, very light, do not need to be very hard.

In the indicator light in front of the controller, a red and a green, red when the design button will be fixed, can not be pressed down, green, when the insurance cover is lifted, gently press the gun will be fired.

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