The first fleet prepared and set sail again.

This time they had twenty warships and twenty frigates, as well as eight troop transport ships, with the newly reorganized Nanyang Marine Brigade.

There is also the newly established Australian Golden Force.

Exploration of Australia is also under this year's plan, and these golden forces will be sent to southeastern Australia.

70% of Australia's land is dry land, and 30% is a desert where agricultural activities cannot be carried out. The areas suitable for planting are like a green circle distributed in coastal areas, among which the southeastern region is most suitable for agricultural production.

Australia is a place with numerous minerals and suitable for grazing.

Later Australia was called a country sitting on the back of sheep, with more than 170 million sheep. Although most of the areas are dry land, the groundwater is very abundant, which provides favorable conditions for the livestock industry.

It is also called the "country sitting on the mine cart" and the "country holding wheat ears". The so-called sitting on the mine cart means that there are too many minerals in Australia. The southeast region is the concentrated production of wheat. The tropical coastal areas in northern Australia are the concentrated production areas of sugar cane.

This is a huge island with an area of ​​7.692 million square kilometers. Although it is not as big as Greenland, it is already four-fifths of China in later generations.

Zhao Yan felt that America was too far away and it was too difficult to immigrate there for a while. It would be better to choose to go north and south first.

Going northward is expanding northwest, rushing head-on toward Tsarist Russia, which is expanding head-on.

Going south is expanding towards the Indochina Peninsula, Indonesian Islands, Australia. It will collide with Vietnam, Khmer, Thailand and South China monkeys.

These are the two main directions for future immigration.

By March, the battalions were almost reorganized. Although the conscripts had just been recruited, these conscripts had undergone military training before joining the army.

After all, this time recruiting recruits the population engaged in agricultural and agricultural production. Zhao Yan sent a delegation to train in every rural area. These recruits had learned to queue before joining the army. At the same time, in recent years, Zhao Yan changed the main content of training from spears to muskets and riding.

Most of the recruits this time were musketeers and cavalrymen.

Those who did not pass the barrier were transferred to the baggage troops as baggage troops.

One of the characteristics of Shandong's troops now is that their logistics are strong. On average, every three combat soldiers can be assigned to one baggage force. In addition, the logistics personnel who have not entered the battlefield can almost reach a level of 3:2.

Such logistics is unique in such an era.

The reorganized battalions will also go to the combat areas one after another.

Han Shenggang led the Nanyang Infantry Brigade to the south with the First Fleet, preparing to attack Taiwan and Batavia. Zhao Yan was very surprised. Why did the Dutch fight until now? But if they don’t come to contact, then fight! Fight down Taiwan first, then defeat Batavia, so that the trade channel between the Nanyang and the Indochina Peninsula can be opened. At the same time, you can attack Batavia from the strait next to you and go around India.

The combat target in the north this year is Mongolia!

Zhao Yan plans to surround Mongolia twice. The First Division will be responsible for fighting against Mongolia this year. Some will enter Mongolia from western Liaoning, and some will enter Mongolia from Shanxi, and at the same time, they will search their homes.

They understood that if they chased after them, they could kill these abominable Far Easterners. Twenty to five were absolutely easy, and as for the other five inexperienced pirate ships, they were not in their eyes.

The British were so persistent because they saw their warships, and the warships used by the Far Eastern people in front were from their Royal Navy.

How can this calm the British?

Both sides chased each other, from morning to noon.

With its superb navigation skills, British sailors have been biting the stuttering fleet of the American fleet, and the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer.

It's just...it's just this.

The British were about to catch up several times, but unfortunately they were all bombarded. The artillery on the bow of their ship could not hit the enemy in front.

The American fleet sent a harassing fleet to force the British ships that were catching up with their stern artillery, and often smashed shells onto the British deck.

But the shelling was very evacuated, and at most one cannon was the stern of the boat.

The distance between the two sides is quite considerable. Under the interference of artillery, the British [***] ships were unable to intersect and encircle this scrambling fleet.

You can't hit the opponent with just a cannon on the bow.

But the British still pursued them relentlessly.

Both sides chased and fled for several hours, and suddenly the harassing fleet fled towards a bay. The British relied on their absolute advantage, ignored the strangeness of the waters and directly ran into it.

According to their thoughts, even if they run into the reef and strand, there will be other ships coming to pull them, and there is no danger at all.

As a result, when they bypassed the cliffs of the bay, they were stunned!

There were actually ten warships ambushing in that bay.

When they were around the corner, the two sides were almost close. The five warships and five pirate ships that had escaped all the way did not run away, and had turned around and bumped into them.

Fifteen enemy warships plus five pirate ships.

And they also have twenty warships.

The British quickly realized that this was a trap, and their current strength was not proportional at all. The artillery of these Far Eastern people was very advanced. Once the Royal Navy lost its advantage in artillery, there was almost no possibility of victory.

The Royal Fleet Commander immediately ordered a retreat.

But the American fleet on the opposite side had already rushed over. The British had not turned around for a while. The American fleet lying in the corner was very close to them, and the distance between the two sides was only more than 30 meters.

As a result, when the British turned in a panic, the American fleet had already crashed into the British Royal fleet without any formation, and it was very pure - melee.

The fierce melee broke out.

Under such circumstances, the British have no choice but to avoid it.

The two sides were less than ten meters apart, and some were only a few meters away, violently bombarding each other's hulls. For a moment, wood chips on both sides flew.

The soldiers on the deck held muskets and began to shoot at each other.

The longbow and musket in the hands of the British sailors were very sharp, and they were hard to distinguish with the sailors of the American fleet. However, the sailors of the American fleet began to shoot poisonous balls at the other side in a short while, and suddenly fainted.

This is a smoke bomb made of oil and some mixture. After ignition, it emits a lot of pungent smoke, which is no different from the smell when it is ignited with a paper-wrapped ping-pong ball and then stomped off.

The poison ball equipment is very small and has low cost interference weapons. It is projected with a reduced version of the catapult. One projection is a lot of thrown out, but the range is not long. The Shandong Navy, which wins with long-range firepower, rarely uses this thing.

More than poison ball ejection, these flasks are made of alcohol and some mixture of viscosity increase. Dip the gauze outside with alcohol, then use a little heat and throw it out directly.

With a crisp sound, the glass bottle shattered, and it immediately exploded, burning the British deck.

The Rockets are not used at all. The rockets have a long range. They can easily fly around everywhere after hitting such a close. It is okay to fly into the sea, but it will be bad if they shoot at their own people.

Under the interference of poison balls and mooring bottles, the sailors of the Royal Navy either covered their noses to avoid the smoke or were busy putting out the fire. Under the suppression of the firepower on the opposite side, they were unable to fight back.

The artillery battle was even more intense.

The artillery soldiers of the American fleet fired desperately, with a speed of fire that was 4 times that of the British Royal Fleet, and the power of the artillery was more than twice as strong. At such a close distance, it was a big hole and the shells shot into the hull would explode.

As a result, the shooting became a tragic situation.

After the first round of artillery attacks of the Royal Fleet and the second round was not ready, the American Fleet had already begun there.

The shells smashed into the cabin of the British ship from the broken place just now.

Many British artillery soldiers in the cabin were killed by shells shot in, and the gunpowder in several British ships even exploded.

Such a situation is undoubtedly extremely tragic for the British.

But for the American fleet, they are also reluctant to choose a head-on style of play. Although they are very hard and much harder than the enemy, they will also cause damage to themselves.

If these British ships can be eliminated, this head-on strategy is worth it.

There were two solutions when setting up this trap before, that is, if the British [***] ship catches up, they will eat them as fast as possible in this bay.

If they don't catch up, the ten warships lying in the bay will retreat.

...The Royal British Fleet, which was interspersed, was completely tragic. Under the violent firepower of the American Fleet, they were blocked before they could retreat.

There was no big suspense. The two sides only had about five minutes to shoot, and the warships of the British Royal Fleet were ruthlessly disintegrated one by one. It was impossible to sink the opponent in such a close-range shooting, because the artillery could not hit the waterline and could only hit the opponent's hull.

The American fleet's shells are much more powerful than the British shells. They will explode after being bombed in, and they are heavy artillery shells. The power is simply unimaginable in this era.

The British ship was beaten to pieces with holes and could not escape the American fleet that was bitten like a mad dog. Several British ships had escaped the range of attacks. Unfortunately, they were crossed by Shandong warships and knocked off their sails with side guns. At such a close distance, it was easy to hit the sails with naval artillery known for their accuracy.

The artillery in Shandong is the best among the navy, and the artillery in the army is almost the only one left by the navy.

The American fleet will not be captured this time, just sink!

Twenty minutes later, the American fleet killed the last British ship to escape and resolved the battle. The American fleet did not stop much and returned directly to Kingsoft.

This battle was an ambush battle of great significance for the American fleet.

This time, the British Royal Fleet in the coalition was directly crippled, which also destroyed the fast-speed warships in the coalition. The Dutch and French warships were not very fast in speed.

Under such circumstances, the American fleet could boldly send the five captured British ships and pirate ships to harass the coalition forces.

As soon as the American fleet left, the huge joint fleet behind arrived.

The Europeans of the Joint Fleet looked at the large number of floating objects on the sea ahead in amazement. From these floating objects, they could see that a naval battle occurred in this place not long ago.

And it was a very fierce naval battle, with so many floating objects on the sea! Even the most experienced naval officer had never seen so many floating objects on the sea. These floating objects were all parts on warships and oak barrels on the ship.

What stunned them even more were the British sailors floating on the sea. You don’t need to think about it and it was the British who lost.

When the Joint Fleet caught the British sailors, they were stunned by the battle described by the sailors. The British Royal Fleet chased this bay and was ambushed by the Far Easters. What was even more shocking was that the twenty warships of the British Royal Fleet were wiped out.

None of them escaped from the hands of those Far Eastern people and were all disintegrated. No wonder so many floating objects appeared on the sea.

The British Royal Commander in the Joint Fleet was also killed in a despicable ambush launched by the Far Eastern people.

But this did not disintegrate the fighting spirit of the joint fleet. On the contrary, they became angry and their fighting spirit increased.

They believed that the Far Eastern people were too despicable and they must catch them head-on, teach them a lesson, and completely remove their strongholds.

They want to take revenge!
To be continued...