Start 1861: I just inherited the Dutch throne

Chapter 677 The steam battleship South Africa is also going to sink.

At the same time, in the northern Chilean government, Army Minister Messip and Dutch instructor Schreck were also organizing the Chilean Army to launch a large-scale border war against Valdivia, the northernmost city in southern Chile.

"What a pity. If our army and your Dutch navy had fired a salvo of artillery at the three warships at sea just now, then maybe the remaining two warships might have been hit by the round of shelling just now."

Mesip said with pity on his face.

The British support the southern government, so for Mesip, the British fleet is the enemy of the northern Chilean government. Naturally, it is best to annihilate the enemy's fleet.

Standing next to him, Schreck, a Dutch instructor in Chile who helps the Chilean Army train military forces, shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "There is no way, the gunboat cannot achieve such accurate shooting."

But as soon as he finished speaking, a cannonball fired from the sea hit the outside of the position. The ground shook, flames ignited all over, and dirt flew in all directions.

This is a cannonball fired by a British warship.

Shrek was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Look, the British cannons are worse than our Dutch warships."

Messip also laughed loudly, and then shouted an order to the adjutant next to him: "Order the whole army to advance, advance quickly. In addition, order all the artillery to suppress it a little to prevent one team from seizing the opponent's high ground and turrets, especially It’s the latter, don’t worry about the loss, just hurry up.”

Under Messip's supervision, 5 northern Chilean troops braved artillery fire and clashed towards the Valdivia position. Although they were hit by several cannons from the opponent (a total of 10 cannons, several of which had been destroyed), several of them were shot down. Ten people, but the Northern Army moved forward and was close to the high ground and the turret. Even many Chilean soldiers who were slightly injured by the artillery struggled to charge up the hillside. At this time, the Northern Chilean Army had already defeated the Northern Chilean Army and arrived at the turret. From the position below, he was shooting at the opponent's position with the Mauser No. 1870 rifle developed in the Netherlands in 2.
At the same time, in the Chilean military positions in the south.

"Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, lower your head, do you want to die?" Lower your head, rush out to block the opponent, don't hide inside and wait for the opponent to attack our bunker.

So the cold-blooded scene got stuck.

The Chilean officers were so self-righteous that they forced the soldiers below to "step forward." Even one fringe army pointed a gun directly at his soldiers and ordered them to come out of the bunker to confront the extremely powerful Dutch soldiers.

In the distance, Messip and Shrek, the Minister of War of Northern Chile, were holding telescopes and also saw this scene.

Messip said to Shrek quite excitedly, "Instructor, it seems that the artillery fire continues to suppress, maybe in just a quarter of an hour we can occupy Chile, their high-slope position, and win it. Our battle today is half successful." .”

After seeing Shrek nodding, Messip turned around and gave the order: "Concentrate and use your power to fire at the breached positions. We must suppress the artillery fire of the remnants of Mascaiano's army."
With the officers and soldiers of the Chilean Army in the north and the Chileans in the south, both the Chilean Army in the north and the Chilean Army in the south have understood that this highland is almost undefendable. It is only a matter of time before it is breached. At this time, they are desperately resisting the north. The attack was just to buy more time to retreat to Puerto Montt.

Along with this, the same is true at sea.

In less than 40 minutes from the start of the war to now, eight British warships stationed in Puerto Montt have suddenly appeared on the sea outside the town of Osorno. In 8 minutes, they will arrive at the battlefield where the battle is taking place.

When the time reached 6:30, when they arrived at the Port of Valdivia, they saw only one British warship alone in the entire port.The harbor was surrounded by smoke and smoke from artillery fire.

At the same time, everyone suddenly saw that in the city behind the post, the sound of gunfire became smaller and smaller, and finally the national flag of the Chilean Northern Government was erected throughout Valdivia.

Everyone's heart skipped a beat, looking at the British warship left there alone, which was surprisingly strange.

At this time, the leader of the fleet was hesitating because of fear. Suddenly, he was dumbfounded and looked up to see a strange sight.

Not only him, but all the people in the port looked at the British warship. Suddenly, on the already calm sea level, from all around the warship, something with huge waves was actually coming directly from the water in three directions. It attacked the warship. Five seconds later, the warship's hull suddenly shook violently, followed by thick smoke rising from all sides. After 5 seconds, due to serious injuries, it finally began to slowly and silently enter the water. One minute later, the entire ship had completely disappeared on the sea.

It was as if it had never appeared.

So when the British saw this scene, they immediately took a few breaths of air-conditioning.

submarine!

And this is the most advanced Dutch submarine in the Netherlands.

The Ghost One did not have this stunning effect, as the British also purchased the Ghost One from the Netherlands.Then it can only be said to be the Ghost II submarine currently in service in the Dutch army.

Suddenly, the face of the leader of the British fleet changed drastically, and he hurriedly ordered a retreat to Puerto Montt.

Because he suddenly woke up, the other party had just deliberately left a battleship, and he and others were still wary of it, and it also attracted their attention when they first came here, so that they couldn't see their brother at face level when they came here. Afterwards, I felt confident to participate in the action, but now it was because of the British battleship, I and others had omitted this step, and the British army who had omitted this step was facing unprecedented danger.

Suddenly, the person in charge took a telescope and saw the underwater submarine that had just launched a Dutch torpedo, but turned his head in the direction of his eight warships.

The person in charge couldn't help but exclaimed: "Oh, God complain, what are these damn Dutch people going to do? This is really the Dutch submarine Ghost [-], oh, my God, they are going to launch torpedo bombs from the water towards the bottom of our ship." ?”

The person in charge has also seen it.Although the number of submarines could not be clearly seen as they were hundreds of meters away under the sea surface, through the telescope, they could see a dozen black shadows swimming slowly and slowly under the water surface, approaching here.
Seeing this, he couldn't help but get goosebumps.
"The battleship weighs anchor immediately. Damn it, we are just wasting steam engines and coal here. Hurry up, let's return to Puerto Montt quickly. Otherwise, without knowing the situation under the water, we may really be annihilated here."

The person in charge remembered that his eyes were red and he shouted loudly at the naval officers and soldiers around him.

However, it was a pity that his order was a little late, because the battleship under his feet suddenly shook and then shook greatly.Under the attack of more than 10 torpedoes, the steam battleship South Africa he was on shook violently, causing everyone to stagger.

(End of this chapter)