"Your Excellency Baron, the Ming Dynasty's fleet is turning forcefully. If this continues, we will collide!"

The person appointed by Alfonso to be the commander of this battle line was a Baron named Rubio. After receiving the prompt from the navigator, he quickly raised his telescope and observed it carefully, and then turned his head

Asking, “If we turn now, is it still too late?”

"Our ship Numancia can escape, but the follow-up battleships in this battle line are hard to say. Moreover."

The captain conjured an atlas from nowhere, and then drew something on it: "And even if we escape, we will lose our T-position!"

"Damn it!" After cursing loudly, Rubio's face turned ferocious. "His Majesty's soldiers will never be afraid of any challenge from the enemy. Notify the entire ship and prepare for collision. No matter what the battle situation is later, let's first make clear

The Chinese warships will disembowel them."

"As you command, Your Excellency!"

Cengcengceng~, Kara, Kara~

In a heart-breaking collision, the side of the Yue-2 in Wang Mengxiong's battle line was hit by the bow of the Spanish Numancia. The bow of the Numancia began to break.

, at the same time as it collapsed, the entire hull of Yue-2 was almost disintegrated!

"Brothers, this ship is dead. Pick up the guy, jump to the opposite ship, and chop those red ghosts to death!"

"Take orders! The Ming Dynasty is mighty!"

Following the command of the captain of the Moon 2nd, hundreds of Ming army soldiers who had been prepared for a long time first threw a circle of wooden handle grenades in the direction of the collision between the two ships, and then moved forward in unison.

jump!

What greeted them was sparse flintlock bullets, causing them a small number of casualties.

Then, the sailors from both sides fought each other with various weapons such as swords, Western swords, and daggers.

"Captain, No. 2 has collided with the enemy ship. Oops, No. 3 has also collided with the enemy ship behind it."

"Okay! Order the brothers below the deck to fight one last round, and then everyone will come up and prepare for the battle!"

At this time, on the western end of the battlefield, the two battle lines were like two straight lines that had been parallel for a long time. Due to the angle adjustment, they quickly moved closer and then almost overlapped!

During this process, the two sides originally maintained a fighting distance of four to five hundred meters, but it quickly shrunk. When Zheng Wei on the Yue-6 ordered his ship to fire the final round of salvo at the nearest enemy ship, the distance between the two sides

The distance is already less than a hundred meters.

At such a close distance, the power of the artillery attack was of course extremely powerful, and the hit rate was naturally close to 100. Therefore, on the 6th, it naturally caused great damage to the opponent. However, the Spaniards were not fools, and of course they would also resist at this distance.

A close shot, the result was that in this short moment, the Moon Sixth took more than twenty shots, and half of the hull almost fell apart.

"Huh, I finally got over it." Looking at the port side of the ship that had no visible shape at all, Zheng Wei tightened the bandage around his waist tightly, and then stepped hard on the wooden board under his feet, "Brother,

Although we have only been together for more than three months, I will always remember that you were the first battleship I commanded."

After whispering these words, Zheng Wei raised his head and said, "Brothers, charge forward!"

"The Ming Dynasty is mighty!"

…

"Your Majesty the Viscount, Mr. Rubio's battle array has collided with the Ming Kingdom's battle array."

"Fernando, I saw it all."

Putting down the telescope in his hand, Alfonso originally wanted to maintain his aristocratic demeanor, but in the end he couldn't hold back.

He slapped the side railing hard and cursed loudly, "Rubio is a waste, stupid pig!"

After patting the railing several times in succession, he stretched out a finger angrily, "Those battleships of the Ming Dynasty emitted so much black smoke after being hit. This fully shows that the wooden planks of these battleships of the Ming Dynasty were not completely dried at all!"

As long as he has the patience to slowly struggle with it, he will fall apart sooner or later! In a battle, what happens if he loses the prefix "T" once in a while? Is it going to be doomed? Risking the enemy's temporary superior firepower, through maneuvering

, wouldn’t it be nice to get rid of this disadvantage? Ah, it’s better now. The fleets of both sides are entangled. Even if we arrive, there is nothing we can do... Oh, God, I really want to bomb these two fleets together.

hell!"

"Your Excellency, you cannot do this. Baron Rubio's uncle is the Duke of Osvalles, who is His Majesty's Prime Minister."

"aldita sea!" After cursing the Spanish version of 'dan it', Alfonso reluctantly ordered, "Order the sailor to adjust the sail. We will go straight west first, and then south, so that we can attack the Ming fleet.

the right side of.”

"Yes, sir, there is a report from the lookout post."

"Sir, at six o'clock, five thousand meters away, a large number of warships from the Ming Dynasty were discovered."

"What?" He raised his telescope in surprise, and after careful observation, Alfonso began to murmur to himself, "I understand, I understand."

"Your Excellency, you?"

"Fernando, haven't you figured it out yet? What do you think is coming from the south? A total of thirty-five first-class battleships! Including the batch we saw three hours ago, the Ming Dynasty has invested a total of money in this battle.

75 first-class battleships!"

"Your Excellency, how is this possible? If the Ming people had so many warships, how could they avoid fighting us last year? Or in other words, the Ming people launched fifty warships in one year? This is impossible! Even in the kingdom itself

, all the shipyards in the colonies do nothing but build warships, and they can't do this!"

"Hey, Fernando, you are such an honest man. Didn't I just say that many of the opponent's warships had their planks put on without drying at all?"

"Ah?... So that's it. Your Excellency, you mean to say that the people of the Ming Dynasty built such a large number of warships in a rough and crude way just to have a decisive battle with us. And then..."

"Yes, we have all been fooled. If we can see through this conspiracy early and endure three to five months of naval blockade, this advantage will return to our side."

"So, Your Excellency, what should we do now?"

"Well, I need to think about it."

And on the other side.

"Commander, a large number of warships are found ahead. One of our fleets is engaging in a boarding battle with some of the other side's warships. The other side also has a fleet to the north. It can be determined that the fleet to the north is composed of 17 first-class warships.

."

"TD, after detouring this far, we still haven't detoured. The width of the battlefield has been stretched too wide."

Speaking of which, Li Guozhu was also helpless. He set off from the east side of the Ryukyu Islands, sailed west for an hour, drove at least 10 kilometers, and then turned north. Even so, the battlefield was not completely bypassed.

"No matter what, look at the flag over there, it's General Wang's battle formation, right? It's all turned into a battle on the side. The situation must be critical. Let's pull them first...what's going on?"

"Commander! The enemy ship has sent a communication ship."

"Communication ship? Don't slow down our warships. Put down the boat to receive them and see what they want."

After a while, a commander climbed onto Li Guozhu's ship and said, "Commander, it has been confirmed that the other party is the Spanish Manila fleet. Their commander asked his subordinates to send you a message that the Spaniards want to withdraw from this mission."
Chapter completed!