However, after a while, both Max and Anthony soon came to their senses and couldn't help but complain.

The reason for this is that it has to be discussed with the terrain of the Hormuci Strait.

The Strait of Hormuz is located between the Arabian Peninsula and the southern part of the Persian Empire. It looks like a herringbone and is the only exit from the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean. It is about 150 kilometers long from east to west, with a widest point of 97 kilometers, and a narrowest point of only about 38 kilometers.

In addition, this strait has many islands, reefs and shallows, and the safe channel is only a few kilometers wide. If that is the case, it is nothing. The most important thing is the location of Gamplum.

On this strait, there is a largest island called Geshm Island. It is narrow and long, extending parallel to the mainland coast, and is separated from the Hulan Strait. The coastline is winding. It is 112 kilometers long, and the width is between 11 and 32 kilometers, and the area is about 1,336 square kilometers.

On this Gershm Island, there is a military castle built by the Portuguese. However, during Abbas I, he turned to the British and Dutch fleets and drove the Portuguese away.

Originally, the British and Dutch fleets were docked on this island. However, Abbas II ran to Kumbrunn to build a new capital, and the two families stopped the fleet, guarding Kumbrunn's side to the sea, and using An Abbas II's heart to seek future benefits.

So, the key question arises.

This Gumbrun, which is later Abbas Port, is in the northeast of Geshm Island. Now the Ming army is pushing it horizontally from outside. Thanks to Geshm Island, if the British and Dutch fleets cannot break through the opposite Ming army, they can only retreat into the Hulan Strait. Not to mention that the Hulan Strait is too narrow, there is even a sea forest called "Hara" that is more than 100,000 hectares.

This means that if the British and Dutch combined fleets want to run back, they basically won't work.

At this time, Max and Anthony were experienced after all, and knew that they could no longer fight each other. They had to adjust their formation and break through immediately, otherwise they would be completely wiped out.

However, there is another feature in this Hormuci Strait.

Since the evaporation is much greater than the precipitation, the salinity of the seawater in the strait is increased. The salinity of the strait and the Persian Gulf is greater than that of the Gulf of Oman, resulting in a gradient of seawater density. It causes seawater with less salinity in the Gulf of Oman flows through the surface of the strait to flow to the Persian Gulf, while seawater with greater salinity in the Persian Gulf flows through the bottom of the strait to the Gulf of Oman.

In other words, this sea area flows from east to west on the sea surface, and the seabed flows from west to east on the seabed.

In this way, the Ming Navy, which came from the east, completely occupied the geographical advantage. The fleet drove very quickly. Before the joint fleet of Britain and the Netherlands were adjusted, the Ming Navy warships rushed over.

There was no other way, Max and Anthony had to fight in a hurry and fight first.

But at this moment, the two of them discovered that there was a new situation.

I saw the warship rushing in the front of the Ming fleet, and the outer shell of the hull reflected sunlight. There was no doubt that it was metal!

Also, the warship in front actually had a big bucket on its hull, emitting thick smoke. What was going on? Is it on fire? Is it rushing over, or arson ship? But why is the shell of a metal that burns the enemy ship?

A series of doubts emerged in the minds of every Dutch and British. It’s really strange that there are every year, why are there many this year?

Before they could figure it out, they suddenly heard a loud noise.

"Boom..."

Fired at such a long distance, are the sailors on the Ming army warships novice?

As soon as this thought came to mind, Max saw that the mast of a warship in the Dutch fleet was broken by a chain bounce. The huge mast fell down with the sail above, with a great momentum.

Seeing this, he was stunned. He could hit the mark even if he was so far away? He was simply favored by the goddess of luck, right? But the goddess of luck is not from the Ming Dynasty!

He naturally didn't know that the caliber of the gun on this steam armored warship is not only large in diameter, but also carved with rifles. On the premise of ensuring power, the accuracy and range are much higher than that of ordinary guns.

At this time, although the Dutch warship was hit, Max did not feel gloating at all.

"Boom..."

The Ming army artillery that rushed over first fired again. Without surprise, another Dutch warship was hit on the side of the ship, with wood chips flying around and the screams of sailors. Of course, it was impossible to hear it if it was far away.

Everyone knew this time that it was not that the goddess of luck betrayed them, but that the Ming army's artillery was too powerful!

Recognizing this, both the British sailors and the Dutch sailors were panicked and their morale was even lower.

Just when they were panicking, the first battleships of the Ming army had already entered the range of artillery of some of their warships. Of course, they would not be polite and immediately fired their guns and vowed to take revenge.

"Boom boom boom..."

With the continuous sound of artillery artillery, iron bullets, chain bullets, etc., whistled out, nearly half of them hitting the Ming warships. I have to say that the level of their artillery is still unexplainable.

The mast of the Ming Dynasty warship was not made of iron. It was hit by a chain blast and of course it was broken. The mast collapsed with a sail, which was also the most eye-catching.

However, before the Dutch sailors cheered, they saw that the ones shot on the hull of the Ming warship were at most a pit without a single hole.

“…”

At this moment, they were all stunned. Is this fucking Ming Dynasty warship really a solid one?

This iron is made of, so you can figure it out, but why can it run so fast?

Just as they were stupid, the artillery on the Ming Dynasty warship also fired.

"Boom boom boom..."

At this time, the distance was already very close, and the power of the rifled cannon was even greater. It hit the hull of the Dutch warship and directly smashed a big hole, and it was also penetrated and injured, causing damage to the Dutch warship behind it. Although the damage was not great, it was indeed true.

"..." The Dutch sailor who saw this scene, at least the sailor who was hit on the warship behind him, was stunned again.

There are so many unexpected things this time when the battle with the Ming fleet!

The captains on the Dutch fleet all had rich combat experience. At this time, they were no longer caring about these things and shouting loudly, because the armored warship of the Ming Kingdom was about to crash into. No matter what, can the wood collided with the armor?

What's more, the Ming army had the advantage of geographical advantage and had faster speeds with the help of the flow of sea water. Dutch warships were all the ones that came across because they had to fire artillery.

However, at this time, under the deliberate intention of the armored warship, they had no time to avoid it, and even had no time to adjust the direction of the warship.

"Bang bang bang..."

The head of the armored warship was like a sharp sword, which split the Dutch warship in front of him in half. The thick smoke then emanated more, and the warship continued to move forward and then crashed into the next one.

Behind this steam iron armored warship, twenty transformed warships, deliberately transformed for the impact, with the hull wrapped in iron sheets. The impact immediately followed immediately hit the formation of the already terrible Dutch fleet.

Anthony's flagship was behind and was not affected, but when he saw the situation in front, his back suddenly felt a chill. He knew that not to mention the thousands of Ming warships behind, just the hundreds of warships rushing in front would be over!

He was stunned when he heard someone on the boat shouting hysterically: "The armored warship is coming, here, it's coming to hit us. Turn the rudder quickly, avoid it..."

After being called back to his senses by this voice, Anthony saw a huge warship coming majestic. It was not until he approached that he realized that the armored warship was so huge.

Anthony did not panic or shout, because he knew that nothing was useful. He could only smile bitterly in his heart, look at the iron-armored warship that bumped into him, and murmured to himself: "It's finally witnessing the rise of the Ming Dynasty's sea overlord!"

With a loud bang, the flagship of the Dutch fleet was knocked into two pieces by the steam armored warship.

Max behind saw the Dutch fleet in front of them, facing the twenty warships of the Ming army, and had no power to fight back. He watched these warships rushing towards them again, and the Dutch fleet landed on the ground and was soon submerged in the sea of ​​Ming warships. He was desperate and did not command, so he directly let the flagship run back, as far as he could.

Unlike him, Yan Yingyuan, who was on the flagship of the Ming Navy, looked straight at his long beard on his forehead, and his face was full of smiles.

According to Zheng Chenggong's meaning, it was fleet combat.

However, Yan Yingyuan finally ordered the army's transport ships to follow all the fleet. Anyway, the enemy did not know the truth and the current Ming Navy had all used all the lucky ships as transport ships, not warships.

In fact, if you really want to fight, you can also fight. Without flowering bullets and high-explosive explosives, if you want to completely defeat the enemy, you will eventually have to rely on the battle on the sidelines. However, the sailors on the transport ship have no problem with this.

Of course, the premise is to be able to handle the sidelines. If it was in the previous era, it would be a difficult point. It is also for this reason that more than a dozen Dutch sailing warships dared to be arrogant along the coast of the Ming Dynasty. In the end, although they were defeated by Zheng Zhilong with a trick in the Battle of Liaoluo Bay, they escaped most of the warships.

This situation no longer exists now. The Ming Dynasty not only had sail fleets, but also had steam-powered propeller-propelled iron-armored warships.

"Governor, this European fleet is just like this!" A personal guard was excited to see it and said to Yan Yingyuan, "It's not as powerful as the legendary one!"

"Haha, they were scared." Yan Yingyuan replied with a smile.
Chapter completed!