Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

The Dutch Navy is the highest leadership department of the Dutch Navy. The Minister of the Navy is a civilian and is subordinate to the Department of Naval Operations. The Minister of the Navy is an admiral. It is the highest military command organization of the Navy. Currently, the Dutch Navy has four major fleets under its jurisdiction.

The headquarters of the Pacific Fleet is in Brisbane, Queensland Province, in the eastern part of the Australian mainland. The fleet commander has the rank of admiral. The Pacific Fleet has five major squadrons of the Pacific Fleet: Hawaii Fleet (Honolulu, also called Honolulu), New Zealand Fleet (Wellington), Alaska Fleet (Anchorage), and New Guinea Fleet (Manokwari). The commander of the squadron is For the rank of lieutenant general.

The Atlantic Fleet is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe. It has the Dutch European Fleet (Amsterdam), and it also has two squadrons: the Suriname Squadron (Paramaribo) and the Congo Squadron (Cabinda).

The Indian Ocean Fleet is headquartered in Perth, the capital of Western Australia, in the west of the Australian continent. It has the Madagascar Squadron (Toamasina), the Tanzania Squadron (Dar es Salaam), and the Dutch East India Fleet (Jakarta).

There is also the Australian Indigenous Fleet, headquartered in Port Adelaide, South Australia. Defend the homeland and silhouette the other three major fleets.

The New Zealand Squadron Headquarters has a four-star general, a three-star major general, a deputy commander and a chief of staff, a total of 5 chiefs of staff in charge of operations, intelligence, command and control, logistics, and currently working, as well as direct subordinates such as the command center and intelligence center. unit. The total strength of the New Zealand fleet now reaches 28,000, with more than 30 surface ships and more than 20 submarines.

Because the New Zealand fleet needs to defend its homeland, its strength is equivalent to that of the Dutch East India Fleet, but it exceeds the Dutch East India Fleet in terms of submarine strength.

The current commander of the New Zealand Fleet is Lieutenant-Admiral Braga. Lieutenant-Admiral Braga became the colonel of the Dutch stationed in the Congo in 1863. In 1870, he became the deputy commander of the African Congo Squadron. In 1875, he was transferred to the New Zealand Fleet and became the commander of the fleet, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General. This time, almost half of the New Zealand fleet dispatched its ships to Chile in the Eastern Pacific to compete with the United Kingdom. This can be said to be the largest event in the Netherlands in the past century.

Vice Admiral Braga this time sent two Rear Admirals, David Porter and Chief of Staff Stephen Decatur, the deputy commander and chief of staff of the fleet, and Captain James Barron of the steam battleship USS New Zealand and the USS Wellington. Battleship Flagship Captain William Bainbridge and Marine Corps Captain Jesse Elliott of the New Zealand Fleet participated.

September 11, 1878, in a valley south of Concepción, the capital of the Bio-Bio region in Chile.

Rogers and Porter stood aside, Bainbridge and Elliot were discussing, Barron polished his glasses nervously, and Decatur was absentmindedly playing with his pistol.

The admirals of the New Zealand Fleet came here not to enjoy the scenery or have a picnic, but to have a duel or watch a duel. This is near the front line of the battlefield between the northern and southern forces of Chile.

"Everyone, before we come here, we have already made it very clear. We are here this time to kill the British fleet, or in other words, we are here to defeat them.

I think Britain also came for this purpose.

A proxy war was launched on the land of Chile, while we came to the coast of Chile to engage in a naval battle."

David Porter, deputy commander and chief of staff of the New Zealand Fleet Command and the person in charge of this operation, said loudly: "As long as we defeat the opponent this time, the reputation of the Dutch Navy will be rectified, and you will become The most famous and brave naval figure in the Netherlands and even the world, because you have killed the strongest naval opponent in the world for a hundred years.

If it loses, the British Navy will continue to be arrogant and do whatever it wants in all major sea areas of the world, while the Dutch Navy's emphasis on the development of these years will be brought back to its original shape and it will continue to face the British Navy in the future. lower your head and stay away from the opponent's ship.

Are you willing to face such a result? "

"unwilling"

"Faced with something like this that damages the dignity of the Netherlands, are you willing to let it happen?"

"unwilling"

"Are you willing to let the Netherlands lose everything it has gained so far?"

"unwilling"

"good very good"

David Porter encouraged him sternly: "In that case, let us use your most powerful skills and most powerful combat effectiveness in the next battle with the British to give them a good fight. Let’s take a class”

At the same time, in Puerto Montt in southern Chile, the British fleet is currently engaged in almost the same scene. However, the British side is mainly motivated to maintain the British naval hegemony in the world, unlike the Netherlands, which is for superiority.

The ships of the British naval fleet are from the South African fleet this time. The commander is Nance, a British nobleman. He was previously the chief of staff of the Channel Fleet immigration in the English Channel. Because of the rich combat operations, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom were wrestling in the Far East. The United Kingdom The military decided to drop him into the South African Fleet, a fleet close to the front line, in order to use him to assist the Indian Fleet and prevent accidents.

Originally a war maniac, he was very dissatisfied when he was not transferred to the Indian fleet, but he did not expect that things would turn around. At least that's what he thought. The coup that took place in Chile was actually before the war in the Strait of Malacca. He, The deputy commander of the South African fleet actually came out on top and was ordered to come to Chile to confront the Dutch first.

This is like pie in the sky to him.

So this time he is very much looking forward to the war with the Netherlands.

Of course, as arrogant as he was, he actually never thought about losing the war, because during the Channel Fleet period in the English Channel, he had no fear when facing the French Fleet, the second largest fleet in the world at the time, and sometimes even more so. He provocatively traveled along the coast of France. The feeling at that time made him extremely happy.

Now facing the Netherlands, which has had very few naval wars in the past century, and has experienced the same defeat for more than a hundred years, will Nance be afraid?

To be afraid of the Dutch fleet seemed to him a joke.

"Everyone, according to the information we just obtained, the Dutch fleet is currently stationed in San Diego, which is only half a day's flight from us. What do you think?"

"Your Excellency Nance, we have 9 naval warships participating this time. The Netherlands is said to have 15 ships, and we are only two-thirds of them. Faced with this hugely different battle, I am worried that we will be besieged three to two. scene"

Nance looked around and saw that this person was White, the chief of staff of the South African fleet. This person was always known for his caution, and he was always at odds with Nance. It could be said that different personalities led to different ways of doing things. Nance felt disgusted with this person. But in extraordinary times, he covered it up.

"It's good for Chief of Staff White to be worried, but what you don't know is that we don't have fewer ships than the opponent, and we should have more ships."

Nance's words made everyone including White look at him involuntarily.