Strait of Malacca.
Located between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra Island, it is an important transportation channel connecting the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
For Long Yan, this port has extremely important strategic significance.
This place was once a Portuguese and Dutch colony, but as Longyan gradually became stronger.
In addition, in the past few years, British pirate traders have been plundering this island.
The declining Portuguese had to ask Long Yan for help, and this place actually fell under Long Yan's control.
But now a French battleship actually appears here.
Liu Zheng was very alert about this matter.
But he didn't take it too seriously. These French battleships couldn't be compared with the current Long Yan's battleships.
No matter what these French people want to do on the Strait of Malacca, they will be expelled by the Longyan Army.
Liu Zheng and the others discovered Long Yan's fleet.
The French fleet naturally discovered them.
Captain France frowned coldly as he looked at the Longyan fleet that was about to pass through the strait.
"General, do we want to intercept it?"
"After all, our mission is to restrict the actions of the Longyan Army."
After Captain France thought deeply, he said: "Intercept them."
"yes!"
Now France is attacking Australia and setting up troops here is to block Long Yan's maritime supply line.
Intercepting Long Yan in this sea area may lead to support from Australia.
Captain France didn't know how the Long Yan Army knew about Australia being attacked.
Now Australia has been completely blocked by the French army, and no news has spread at all.
Although this was not foolproof, it was obviously a bit strange that Long Yan could learn the news so quickly.
To be able to assemble a fleet and pass through the Strait of Malacca in such a short period of time is very telling.
Captain France had the idea that he would rather miss one than let go of a thousand.
Decided to go to war with the Long Yan Fleet.
At sea, Liu Zheng looked through the telescope as the French battleship began to sail rapidly, and frowned.
He ordered in a deep voice: "Pass my order and prepare for war!"
"Look what these Frenchmen want to do!"
Liu Zheng's adjutant, the nominal commander of this fleet, said so.
Under the command of Liu Zheng, the Longyan fleet shifted into a battle preparation posture.
The Dragon Flame fleet fired three cannonballs at the approaching French fleet, bang bang bang, causing the sea water to rise.
This is a warning to the French fleet that if they continue to approach, their Dragon Flame fleet will launch an attack.
As expected, the French fleet stopped and continued to move forward.
But they just changed their direction, sailed around the Longyan Fleet, and gradually surrounded them.
Seeing this scene, Captain Long Yan's face turned cold. He looked at Liu Zheng and said in a deep voice: "Sir, these French people may want to start a battle with us."
Liu Zheng snorted coldly and said, "Just fight, don't worry about anything."
There was even a little bit of excitement in his tone. I wonder if it was because the appearance of the French fleet ended this peaceful journey.
Hearing Liu Zheng's answer, the captain was stunned for a moment, but then he performed a standard military salute and said in a deep voice: "Yes!"
"Pass my order, prepare the entire army for war, and be careful to deal with the enemy!"
The destroyers of Longyan Fleet sailed at full speed, keeping distance from the supply ship.
Liu Zheng went out and mobilized three supply ships and four Yinzhou destroyers.
Such a naval configuration is enough to destroy a country.
Captain France didn't panic at all when he saw the formation of the Dragon Flame fleet.
They deployed fifteen battleships on the sea area to ensure that the battle with Long Yan was foolproof.
This is not the first time that their French fleet has collided with the Longyan fleet, and they have experienced previous disastrous defeats.
The French fleet is fully prepared, and their artillery attack range is not as wide as that of the Longyan Army.
If they attack directly, they will be attacked by the Dragon Flame Fleet.
Even their steel hulls would be sunk in a short time if attacked by the Dragon Flame Fleet.
The attack power of the main guns equipped on Long Yan's supply ship and Yinzhou ship simply does not look like weapons that can be manufactured at this time.
The attack is separated and powerful.
Now the Long Yan Army has fired artillery shells at them. After the calculation of the three artillery shells just now, they have roughly calculated the true attack distance of the Long Yan Artillery.
About 400 to 500 meters, which is already a very terrifying attack distance.
This distance will be the effective attack distance of Long Yan's fleet. The hit rate is extremely high and the power is huge. If it exceeds this attack distance, the hit rate will be greatly reduced.
But such terrifying distance and shell power are obtained at the expense of the size and weight of the main gun.
After the French army spent their lives on research, they found that the powerful main guns on their Longyan battleship were equipped with a series of labor-saving mechanical devices.
However, in actual use, because the gun body is too heavy, it is difficult to adjust the turret.
Therefore, as long as they continue to maintain high-speed circular motion, the most powerful cannons on the Longyan fleet will not be able to exert the slightest effect, and they can even be manipulated by them.
Captain France ordered the formation of an encirclement and circular movement, gradually closing the distance with the Longyan fleet.
Trying to disable the last main gun of the Longyan fleet.
In the Longyan Fleet, which had its main guns abolished, the attack range was only 300 meters close to those of the secondary guns.
The main gun of their French fleet has an attack range of up to 350 meters.
Their French fleet still has an absolute advantage.
On Long Yan's battleship, whether it was a supply ship or a Yinzhou ship.
The main guns equipped were unable to target the approaching French fleet.
Just as Captain France expected, the Long Yan Army's main gun had no time to adjust its direction at high speed.
Liu Zheng saw the Long Yan Army on the fleet and hurriedly mobilized the forts, but he couldn't aim at the French army.
He laughed. Unexpectedly, after fighting so many battles with the Long Yan Army's fleet, the French finally found a flaw in the Long Yan Army's fleet.
Without the invention of motors, relying solely on mechanical structure and human power, it is indeed difficult for these main guns weighing five or six tons to electronically rebound to the turret. There is no way around it.
But this does not mean that Long Yanjun has no way to resolve such a crisis.
Without the main gun, the Longyan Army would indeed lose more than half of its combat effectiveness, but the power of the supply ship was not just about the power of the main gun.
The reason why supply ships can move freely on the sea relies more on speed.
Liu Zheng narrowed his eyes slightly, silently calculating something in his mind, and ordered: "Pass my order, disperse the troops, sail the Yinzhou ship in the opposite direction, adjust the fort to this angle, and stabilize it."
"There is no need to aim. After one minute, launch the attack."
