In the distance is the lonely ship of Amsterdam, while in the nearest Utrecht has almost all sunk, leaving only a few buildings on the deck, and the nearby sea is full of broken warship components and Dutch soldiers struggling in the sea.

In fact, the Amsterdam did not escape at this time. With the speed of the Qingzhou and Yizhou, it was possible to catch up with the Amsterdam within half an hour. Therefore, Lei Meng asked Zhang Wei for orders to chase the Amsterdam and sank it.

But after Zhang Wei considered it, he decided not to pursue Amsterdam. Because of the battle that has been fought until now, the People's Army Navy has two warships against six Dutch warships and sunk 5 ships. This has achieved a very brilliant victory. Even if one warship escaped, it will not affect the victory of the People's Army. Moreover, Amsterdam is the strongest combat-capacity of the Dutch fleet, with the caliber of the main gun reaching 240 mm, which is already the caliber of the main gun at the level of the battleship. For Qingzhou and Yizhou, it is the same as the Qingzhou. When the big threat was that in the battle just now, the Qingzhou shot two 210mm shells, causing two most damaged injuries. The power of the 240mm shells is almost twice as powerful as the 210mm shells. Even if they only scored one shot, they were still enough. There was no need to take risks even if they had achieved a major victory. Moreover, this was just the beginning, and there might be battles behind them. In a short period of time, the Java waters could only rely on these three warships, so they still had to preserve some strength.

So Zhang Wei ordered that he would no longer chase the last Dutch warship and would cease to fight the warship, and seize the time to renovate the warships, treat the injured crew, and at the same time rescue the Dutch soldiers who fell into the sea, and of course they would also capture prisoners. The Dutch soldiers who fell into the water were also very honest. After being rescued from the warship, they did not resist at all. Even the Dutch soldiers who fled to the lifeboat were surrendered.

This naval battle was not long, only more than an hour, and the Dutch fleet was sunk five warships, only the flagship Amsterdam fled back to the port, 1,047 soldiers were killed or captured, and 27 were injured. Of course, the soldiers on the Amsterdam were injured. Among the two warships of the People's Army Navy, the Yizhou was basically intact. Although the Qingzhou suffered a certain amount of injuries, it could maintain about 70% of its combat effectiveness. 31 soldiers were killed and 43 injured. In addition, 267 Dutch soldiers and 11 lifeboats were captured.

This is also the first formal naval battle that the People's Army Navy participated in after the establishment of the People's Army Navy was also the first naval battle carried out by the time travelers without modern warships to assist in the war. Of course, due to the air command of helicopters, it cannot be considered as completing the naval battle with the technology of this era. However, achieving such a victory was already very successful, and this victory also gave the People's Army Navy a good start.

While cleaning up the battlefield, Sher said to Zhang Wei: "General Zhang, congratulations on your success in a brilliant victory. I believe this will be a classic battle that can be recorded in history."

Zhang Wei laughed and said, "Major, you are too rewarded. This is just an ordinary battle of gains. There is nothing worth overly boasting about."

Scher said: "But I have a question I hope to ask you. I remember seven years ago, a Guanjian naval battle between the Qing Dynasty and Japan. The Beiyang Fleet of the Qing Dynasty used horizontal team tactics to fight against the enemy with the bow of the ship, while the Japanese joint fleet responded with linear column tactics. As a result, this war ended with the great victory of the Japanese joint fleet. After this naval battle, the linear column tactics replaced the horizontal team tactics against the enemy and became the mainstream tactics of naval battle. In this battle, you did use horizontal team tactics, but successfully defeated the Dutch fleet that used linear column tactics. So which one do you think is stronger, the horizontal team tactics and the column tactics,?"

Zhang Wei said: "Tactics are dead, while people live; so there is no best tactic, only the most suitable tactics. There is an old saying in China, "There is no constant force in the army, and the water is no constant shape" means the choice of tactics. It depends on the actual situation of the battlefield and the advantages and disadvantages of the enemy and me. We cannot mechanically and rigidly implement a certain tactic. Take this battle for example. Our warships are small in number. If we use column tactics, it will definitely be unfavorable to us. Therefore, we use horizontal tactics to fully utilize our warships' advantages of fast speed and horizontal strides.

Tactics quickly insert into the enemy's array, win by surprise, and disrupt the enemy's position, and have a chance to win. In the Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson also moved against the trend, dividing the British fleet into two columns and directly into the column line of the Faspisode Combined Fleet, which disrupted the Faspisode Combined Fleet and achieved a brilliant victory with fewer victory. If Nelson still adhered to the dogma at that time and used column line tactics and the Faspisode Combined Fleet to conduct line-arrays, then Nelson would not have been able to win the Battle of Trafalgar."

Sher nodded repeatedly when he heard this. At this time, he admired Zhang Wei's tactical arrangements and on-the-spot command ability. In fact, Scher himself could also analyze the reasons for tacticality, but Zhang Wei could raise his tactics to the theoretical level, and also brought out the Battle of Trafalgar to prove his tactical theory.

The Battle of Trafalgar is of course a jihad in the minds of every naval officer of this era. The significance and influence of this naval battle and the Battle of Trafalgar are of course incomparable to the same. The Battle of Trafalgar was a negotiable naval battle between Britain and France in the late 18th century. It was also the most important naval battle in the world before World War I and World War II. In this naval battle, the defeat of the French-Swiss Combined Fleet broke Napoleon's plan to attack Britain's mainland and completely shattered Napoleon's dream of conquering Britain by force. Therefore, no matter how many times Britain failed on land in the future, its local area was absolutely safe, and could regroup and make a comeback, which laid the ground for Napoleon's later failure. At the same time, this naval battle also established Britain's maritime hegemony from now on.

However, the process and results of these two naval battles do have certain similarities. First, they both defeat the more with less, and secondly, they all go against the trend, and use recognized backward tactics to compete with mainstream tactics and win. Therefore, Zhang Wei brought out the Trafalgar naval battle to prove his tactical theory, which also makes sense. In addition, he is the winner now, which makes it more convincing.

Of course, in addition to tactics, Scher admired Zhang Wei's command in front of the battlefield even more. Because the command and dispatch of the two warships are almost perfect, and the control and dispatch of the two warships is just right, and the naval battles in this era are very difficult to communicate with warships due to the backward communication and strategy. However, the commander's overall control ability of the battlefield is insufficient. Another advantage of the column line tactics is that it is better to command. Anyway, the flagship leads the way in the front, and the warships behind follow the warships in front.

However, there should be an effective contact between overseas Chinese warships so that Zhang Wei can command like an arm, but this cannot deny Zhang Wei's command and dispatch ability. Of course, Scher did not know that overseas Chinese actually have air monitoring and command.

"Old Wang, you can really brag about this guy. He said that he took all our credit for himself, just like Nelson's reincarnation."

"Haha, just fooling foreigners, this also represents the image of our East China government. We are still shameful now."

It turned out that the voice of the command room could be heard on the helicopter, so Wang Xinping and Zheng Zongming heard the words Zhang Wei fooled Sher, so Zheng Zongming couldn't help but complain.

At this time, Liu Guangqing's voice came from the radio station: "Yinying, this is the Kunming ship."

Wang Xinping immediately said: "Kunming ship, Silver Eagle received it."

Liu Guangqing said: "The battle on your side has ended. You will return to the Kunming ship immediately. Now you have a new mission."

Wang Xinping said: "Okay, let's return to the ship immediately."

After the communication was over, Wang Xinping immediately operated the helicopter and returned to the Kunming ship.

Zheng Zongming said: "Lao Wang, what new tasks do you have?"

Wang Xinping said: "I know, let's talk about it when I go back."

Zheng Zongming looked back at the battlefield on the sea and said, "It's a pity that I didn't put a single *. In fact, Ship 1 escaped. We can catch up and give you one * and wipe out all the enemy."

Wang Xinping laughed and said, "Save it a little bit, we don't have many people. Don't let the Dutch lose their lives. There will be opportunities to use them in the future. Moreover, this tactic has proved the value of air command. I think this will have a great effect on us in promoting the development of fixed-wing aircraft."

Zheng Zongming said: "By the way, in that year did the Wright brothers fly for the first time? I remember it seems that it was in these two years."

Wang Xinping said: "It was this year, December 17, 1903."

Zheng Zongming said: "If we develop fixed-wing aircraft, can we snatch the records of the first flight? The aircraft in this time and space were invented by us Chinese."

Wang Xinping smiled and said, "What can I do if I grab it? There is no practical significance to strive for such a first place, and it cannot prove anything. It is better to develop a truly practical fixed-wing aircraft down-to-earth."

While the two were talking, they flew back to the sky above the Kunming ship and landed smoothly on the Kunming ship's helicopter platform.

Before the two of them got off the plane, the ground crew on the ship came immediately and pulled off the helicopter mounted. Several people also brought a Type 89 12.7mm caliber heavy machine gun and bracket, which seemed to be ready to be installed on the helicopter.

Liu Guangqing came directly to the door of the cab. Wang Xinping lowered the glass of the window. Liu Guangqing handed him a U-disk and said, "There are troubles on the shore. Now a group of indigenous troops are attacking the farm. I heard that there are thousands of people. The army has sent a company to rescue him. However, Captain Shang was worried that the troops were not strong enough and that the naval guns were inadvertently hurting his own people. Therefore, he decided to send you to see it. At that time, he would help the army with his armies. This is the route map."

Wang Xinping took the U disk, inserted it into the interface, and imported the data of the U disk into the helicopter system. He opened the side door of the cabin and asked the ship ground crew to install the machine gun.

Liu Guangqing said again: "Try to use machine guns. There are not many shells for machine cannons, so save some use."

Wang Xinping pulled out the U disk and handed it to Liu Guangqing, saying, "I understand."
Chapter completed!