Guo You knows his warships very well. They are the warships with the most combat experience in the escort navy.

The previous battle with the Spanish fleet in Luzon accumulated valuable experience for them.

The Dutch fleet in front of me is only slightly stronger than the Spanish.

"Commander, we can use T-shaped tactics this time." Standing next to Guo You was Fleet Chief of Staff Li Dehua, the original first officer Richard.

T-type tactics are a combat plan specially designed by the Chinese Navy for steam battleships.

This plan makes full use of the speed advantage of Chinese steam battleships.

Cut the fleet across the front of the sail fleet in a single column, and use snake-like maneuvers to prevent the opponent's side firepower from being used.

But he could concentrate his firepower to defeat the enemy fleet one by one.

In order to deal with these sail warships, the Chinese also specially developed more powerful explosive bombs, chain bombs and incendiary bombs. The enemy's deck and sails were the main attack targets.

Those old-fashioned battleships are relatively sturdy, and it is very troublesome to sink them.

As long as the sails can be broken, these warships can only stop at sea and cannot move.

"Then let the six ships Yangwu, Feiyun, Fubo, Ji'an, Jiansheng and Zhenwu form a formation to intercept the Dutch fleet, and let the two ships Futai and Fusheng respond from behind as a support fleet. Let's

Ce Dian, Jun He and four other frigates went to the port to support the Lan Fang Chinese in the city."

Guo You quickly came up with a well-thought-out battle plan.

The First Fleet was divided into three parts on the sea.

The flagship "Yangwu" drove six steam-hulled cruisers of almost the same model toward the southwest with full power.

These six warships are of similar models and have similar speeds, making them very suitable for traveling together in formation.

The speed of the Dutch battleships gradually increased, but because they had to leave the harbor, they did not have a favorable wind.

At this time, there was a westerly wind, and the First Fleet was also heading into the wind, but at this time they had already furled all the sails and relied entirely on steam power.

The newly installed triple-expansion steam engine is powerful and more coal-efficient than before.

The propeller was also replaced from the previous bronze propeller to a lighter alloy steel propeller.
Chapter completed!