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At 5:40 in the morning on October 10, 1878, on the steam battleship New Zealand.

When Lieutenant General Braga of the Dutch New Zealand Fleet looked very serious at this time, he looked at his watch and walked to the bottom map to look at it. Lieutenant General Braga ordered: "Order the Ghost 6 submarine formation (10 Dutch submarines for A formation, counting from serial number 1) uses torpedoes to attack the British warships in the port of Valdivia. During the submarine attack, other surface ships should not act rashly and are not allowed to take unauthorized actions. The warships should be prepared and wait for the British warships to pursue the submarine. After the port of Valdivia, our warships bombarded from the side. At the same time, our No. 7 submarine formation was ambushing all around and ready for support at any time. The goal was to annihilate the 7 British warships in this port and prepare to ambush the south of Puerto Montt and head north. 9 battleships to support.”

After the staff officer recorded the order, he ran out to deliver it.

Dutch radio communications are already at the forefront of the world, so when the order from the steam battleship New Zealand was transmitted by radio signal, the order was received by various battleships and submarines.

The war has not yet begun, but the Dutch fleet is already far ahead of the British fleet thanks to Vice Admiral Braga's communication lead.

Therefore, when the sneak attack was planned in advance and the order was issued without any delay of fighter planes,

After giving the king's order, Lieutenant General Braga walked to the viewing window and looked at it. At the same time, he couldn't help but look at the watch with his pocket watch.

When the minute hand was approaching 5:40 in the morning, Lieutenant General Braga couldn't help but feel nervous and muttered: "It's coming."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a loud noise, followed by a roaring sound not far away. Well, in the port of Valdivia, less than 5 kilometers away from the beach, there was another loud noise, and boom. There were several rumbles, like the earth was shaking, and the entire wave seemed to suddenly reach about half a meter in height and came from the front of the battleship, like a small tsunami.

A few minutes later, the integrated Dutch surface fleet had already seen the hull of the British fleet ahead. Although it was not very clear, it was enough for the fleet's gunners to target the opponent.

Without any further hesitation, Lieutenant General Braga gave the order, and nine Dutch warships lined up in a row, firing at the British surface ships and ports in the distant port.

A series of artillery shells roared in the air from the time they were launched, and the shells exploded like thunderous rumbles in the Far East port, drowning out all the sounds.

Lieutenant General Braga's ears twitched and he couldn't help but cover his ears with his hands. It took him a while to adapt. Through the telescope, one can see the smoke of war spreading from the port, especially the port of Valdivia, which was mostly reduced to ashes after several rounds of shelling.

Lieutenant General Braga was expressionless at this time, holding a telescope and observing the direction of the port. There, the intelligence showed that two of the seven warships had sunk, and another one was emitting thick smoke and seemed to be slowly moving. sink into the water.

There are four more ships that are constantly adjusting their positions, and one even seems to be shelling the water.

Needless to say, it must be dealing with Dutch submarines.

So Lieutenant General Braga will naturally not let the hateful thing go.

After two minutes of bombardment by nine warships, the warship still couldn't escape the fate of sinking into the water to feed the fish.

Just as Lieutenant General Braga was preparing to continue bombarding the opponent's remaining three normally active warships, he received news that eight British warships in Puerto Montt had arrived in the southern waters 15 nautical miles away.

"8 British warships", Braga couldn't help but frowned.

The Netherlands currently has only 9 warships and 20 submarines here.

The British sank 3 ships, one was smoking and unable to fight anymore, and the other 3 were in a long-distance defense posture. If the 8 British warships in the south were gathered together with the 3 in front of them, Then the advantage the Netherlands just gained will be lost in an instant.

In this way, it will definitely be a tough battle with an indisputable outcome, and even if it is won with the help of a submarine, it will be a miserable victory.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Braga decisively issued an order: "All submarines will surround these three British ships underwater. I want the opponent's eight warships to sink to the bottom of the sea when they arrive to feed the sharks."

The battle on the sea was very tragic. Looking at the waves stirred up by a cannonball, one couldn't help but feel in awe.

At this time, in the secretly built forts on the hillsides at both ends of Valdivia Port, many people under President Mascaiano accompanied the British staff officers here and looked anxiously at the gunpowder smoke all over the harbor.

Immediately receiving the order to fire artillery, all the officers and soldiers immediately tensed up and began to take action. The camouflaged trees were pushed down, revealing several powerful muzzleloaders. At this time, soldiers from the northern government on land appeared, so under the supervision of these British officers and officers from the southern Chilean government, the fort opened fire.

However, it seems that Lady Luck will not only be here. The attacking northern government also has artillery, and it is a breech-loading rifled gun that is farther away, and it is the Dutch 1875 version.

After doing the math, it's quite a lot of 20 doors.

"Oh God, hurry up, point all the muzzles at the opponent's artillery, and you must destroy the opponent's artillery," the southern government officer who was commanding there suddenly shouted. But he didn't notice that the British officer next to them was turning blue and white, and he was mumbling. If he listened closer, he could hear it clearly. He said: "Oh my god, that's the most advanced in the world." The Dutch army has breech-loaded rifled guns in active service. It’s over. This is 1.2 times the range of the front-loaded rifled guns. The port of Valdivia is going to be over.”

However, he was smart and knew that these South American country guys would definitely be dissatisfied if he told them at this time, so he started to make excuses at this moment and prepared to leave here.

The British officer standing next to him shook his head and smiled bitterly: "There is no other way. We can't reach such a long range now."

As soon as he finished speaking, the shells of the Dutch 1875 breech-loading rifled gun had already roared. Even if there were no shells, the hillsides of the two positions extended all the way to the port pier, rolling up huge waves several meters high. The three British warships next to them The huge wave forced the ship forward several tens of meters. At that moment, the shells flying from the sea hit the warship in the middle, which seemed to be the Cape Town ironclad in the South African fleet. , and suddenly thick smoke rose.

Fortunately, it was an ironclad ship and was not sunk by a single shot, which made the two British army officers heave a sigh of relief.

But in fact, they were happy too early.

Because just when he breathed a sigh of relief, a torpedo also penetrated the bottom of the Cape Town like a flying fish under the water. Suddenly, the side of the Cape Town's hull quickly began to draft water in the cabin. In 2 minutes, two-thirds of the hull that was originally exposed to the sea was submerged. After everyone saw this, they knew that the Cape Town was also finished.