Chapter 1833: The Malacca Strait

Malacca Strait.

Located between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, it is an important transport channel connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

For Longyan, this port possesses extremely important strategic significance.

This place was once a colony of the Portuguese and the Netherlands, but as Longyan gradually grew stronger.

Coupled with the fact that in recent years, British pirate merchants have been plundering everywhere on this island.

The increasingly declining Portuguese had to seek help from Longyan, and this place has effectively already fallen under the control of Longyan.

But now, French Battleships have actually appeared here.

Regarding this matter, Liu Zheng is very alert.

Yet he does not take it too much to heart; these French Battleships simply cannot be mentioned in the same breath as the current Longyan Battleships.

No matter what these French want to do in the Malacca Strait, they will be expelled by the Longyan military.

Liu Zheng and his party discovered the Longyan Fleet.

The French Fleet naturally discovered them as well.

The French captain, looking at the Longyan Fleet about to pass through the strait, frowned coldly.

"General, should we intercept?"

"After all, our mission is to restrict the actions of the Longyan military."

After deep thought, the French captain said: "Intercept them."

"Yes!"

Currently, France is attacking Australia, and establishing troops here is meant to cut off Longyan's maritime supply lines.

To intercept potential Longyan support heading toward Australia in this sea area.

The French captain does not know how the Longyan military became aware of the fact that Australia was being attacked.

Australia is now completely blockaded by the French Army, and not a single bit of news has leaked out.

Although it is impossible for this to be foolproof, it is clearly somewhat strange that Longyan could learn the news so quickly.

Being able to assemble a fleet in such a short time and pass through the Malacca Strait speaks volumes.

Acting on the principle of "better to kill a thousand by mistake than to let one go," the French captain.

Decided to go to war with the Longyan Fleet.

At sea, Liu Zheng looked through his Telescope as the French Battleships began to sail at high speed, and he frowned.

He ordered in a deep voice: "Pass on my command, prepare for battle!"

"Let's see what these French want to do!"

The adjutant under Liu Zheng, the nominal commander of this fleet, replied in the affirmative.

Under Liu Zheng's command, the Longyan Fleet shifted into a battle-ready posture.

The Longyan Fleet fired three Cannonballs toward the approaching French Fleet, Boom, boom, boom, causing the seawater to surge.

This was a warning to the French Fleet that if they continued to approach, the Longyan Fleet would launch an attack.

The French Fleet indeed stopped advancing.

But they merely changed direction, sailing around the Longyan Fleet and gradually surrounding them.

Seeing this scene, the Longyan captain's expression turned cold; he looked at Liu Zheng and said in a deep voice: "Sir, these French might want to engage us in battle."

Liu Zheng snorted coldly and said: "If they want to fight, then fight; no need to worry about anything."

His tone even carried a hint of excitement; it is unknown if it was because the appearance of the French Fleet ended this calm journey.

Hearing Liu Zheng's reply, the captain was stunned, but immediately gave a standard military salute and said in a deep voice: "Yes!"

"Pass on my command, the whole fleet prepare for battle, handle the enemy with care!"

The Destroyers of the Longyan Fleet sailed at full speed, putting distance between them and the Supply Ships.

For this trip, Liu Zheng mobilized three Supply Ships and four Yinzhou Destroyers.

Such a naval configuration is enough to annihilate a country.

The French captain saw the formation deployed by the Longyan Fleet without the slightest panic.

They.

They had deployed fifteen Battleships in the sea area, just to ensure that the battle with Longyan would be foolproof.

This is not the first time their French Fleet has clashed with the Longyan Fleet; having experienced several previous crushing defeats.

The French Fleet had made full preparations; their Cannon attack range is not as wide as that of the Longyan military.

If they attacked directly, they would be subjected to the Longyan Fleet's assault.

Being hit by the Longyan Fleet, even their steel-forged hulls would be sunk in a very short time.

The attack power of the Main Cannons equipped on Longyan's Supply Ships and Yinzhou Destroyers is simply not like a weapon that could be manufactured in this era.

The attack interval is short, and the power is sufficient.

Now the Longyan military has already fired Cannonballs at them; through the calculation of the three Cannonballs just now, they have roughly estimated the true attack distance of the Longyan Cannons.

It is roughly between 400 and 500 meters, which is already a terrifying attack distance.

Within this distance, it will be the effective attack range of the Longyan Fleet, with extremely high accuracy and immense power, but beyond this attack distance, the accuracy will be greatly reduced.

However, such a terrifying distance and Cannonball power were exchanged for the sacrifice of the Main Cannon's size and weight.

Through research that their French Army paid for with their lives, they discovered that those high-power Main Cannons on the Longyan Warships, although equipped with a series of labor-saving mechanical devices.

In actual use, because the cannon body is too heavy, the gun carriage is very difficult to aim accurately.

Therefore, as long as they keep moving in a high-speed circular motion, the most powerful cannons on the Longyan Fleet cannot exert even the slightest effect, and they can even be manipulated by them.

The French captain ordered the formation of a siege circle, moving in a circular motion, closing the distance between them and the Longyan Fleet bit by bit.

Attempting to make the Longyan Fleet's Main Cannons useless in the end.

With their main cannons disabled, the Longyan Fleet's attack range was limited to those secondary cannons, only 300 meters.

The French Fleet's main cannons could reach a maximum attack range of 350 meters.

The French Fleet still held an absolute advantage.

On the Longyan Battleships, whether it was the Supply Ship or the Yinzhou Ship.

The equipped main cannons had no Method to aim at the gradually approaching French Fleet.

Just as the French captain had anticipated, under high-speed movement, the Longyan army's main cannons simply could not adjust their direction in time.

Liu Zheng saw the Longyan army on the fleet scrambling to move the gun turrets, but they could not aim at the French forces no matter what.

He let out a laugh, not expecting that after fighting so many battles against the Longyan army's fleet, the French had finally discovered the flaw in the Longyan Fleet.

Without the invention of electric motors, relying purely on mechanical structures and human power to drive these main cannons weighing five or six tons, it was indeed difficult to have electronic recoil turrets; this was a matter for which there was no Method.

But this did not mean the Longyan army had no Method to break such a dangerous situation.

Without the main cannons, the Longyan army would indeed lose more than half of its combat power, but the Supply Ship was not powerful solely because of its main cannons.

The reason the Supply Ship could roam the seas was that it relied more on speed.

Liu Zheng narrowed his eyes, silently calculating something, and ordered in a deep voice: "Pass on my order: disperse the troops, sail the Yinzhou Ship in reverse, adjust the gun turrets to this angle, and stabilize them."

"There is no need to aim; launch the attack in one minute."

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