At dusk on the third day after the Battle of the Dyernian Sea, before sunset, this battle that took place in the middle of the Mediterranean bathtub was involved in the huge epic naval battle between almost all the major separatist forces in the Mediterranean and the navies of various countries, and finally it was barely decided to have a victory or defeat.

After sank the last large Spanish Garrion-type military ship surrounded by them, the Ottoman naval commander Hedm Affmedo Basha and his North African allies, the pirate king Barbarosha Fasr Heiding, caught dozens of Spanish sailors, Basha had to order and take the remaining dozen ships still in the formation to retreat in shame.

As for the broken ships, they didn't care about it for the time being, because a Spanish fleet appeared in the distant horizon and they had to leave.

At this time, far away from the horizon at sea level, I saw the Basha's warship slowly turning to the retreating commander-in-chief of the Spanish Invincible Fleet. The Spanish Navy Admiral Piedro de Barudis and the more than 20 warships he led did not choose to pursue, but turned a blind eye to the remaining enemy ships and fled eastward.

The active retreat of the Baxia army was equivalent to officially announcing that the Spanish Invincible Fleet won the final victory in the Mediterranean naval battle.

But in fact...

In this battle, both sides suffered extremely heavy losses. There were nearly a third of the warships and various armed ships on both sides who were not burned or sunk and were able to return in the end.

Moreover, even the remaining ones are almost all with various levels of damage and cannot be repaired in a short period of time. Therefore, it can be said that this is a war without winners!

Although Basha of the Ottoman Empire and his pirate coalition failed, they did not seem to have lost more than the loss of ships.

And similarly, the Spanish Navy Commander-in-Chief Barudis is the same.

In addition to the title of the so-called final victory of the naval battle, they did not necessarily lose fewer ships than their enemies, nor did they get any practical benefits at all. They just consumed their own strength for nothing.

As for suppressing pagans in the Ottoman Empire, it is completely no different from before the war!

Because, before the war, the fleets and merchant ships of pagans and pagans had been suppressed by the invincible fleet in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, and they had never really escaped from the Mediterranean and posed a slight threat to the maritime hegemony and overseas colonies of the Kingdom of Spain, and now they have only continued to maintain the original status quo.

"Have you run away?"

"It seems that this war is finally over..."

"go!"

"The command has been sent out, and now send half of the ships in our fleet to collect our ships in the Tyrrhenian Sea, and treat all the enemies that the soldiers who fell into the water and prisoners saw!"

"As for the time being closed, you can go to Napole to replenish and repair the ship..."

"Remember, let the captains of the relatively intact ships go and tell them that although we have won, there may be residual enemy ships nearby that are fighting stubbornly, so that they must not be careless!"

Seeing that the flagships and ships of the damn pagans of the Ottoman Empire disappeared completely at the sea level in the east, Barudis, who was very tired both mentally and physically, ordered the officers who were not much better than him.

"yes!"

"yes!!"

The two officers responded and ran directly to pass the order.

Soon, more than ten relatively intact large warships in the Spanish fleet with more than twenty warships were grouped in groups, leaving the queue of Barudis flagships, swimming in different directions of the Tyrrhenian Sea, and starting to implement the order of their commander-in-chief.

"By the way!"

"Where are those Eastern people?"

“Have you received the latest information about them?”

Finally, after breathing a sigh of relief and no longer having to worry about the damn pagans and pirates, Barudis turned to ask about something he cared about more.

"Report!"

"No news has been received about those Oriental ships at this time!"

"but……"

"Mr. Commander-in-Chief, shortly after the battle began, a ship had reported that the Easterners took the initiative to leave the battle and headed north soon."

"We once had several ships chasing, but then there was no news..."

A lieutenant behind Barudis recalled and looked through the documentary records he had with him. He did not find any more information about the Oriental ships on it, so he could only continue to report what he knew again.

“North?”

“…”

“!!”

"not good!"

"Quick, we can't continue to collect ships, nor go to the port of Napoli in Italy. We will go directly to the Strait of Gibraltar!"

After thinking for a while, Barudis, who had originally had a relaxed expression and a faint lonely appearance, didn't know what he thought of, but suddenly his face changed drastically. Then he hurriedly changed the order that he had just given not long ago.

“??”

"Your Excellency, are there any problems?"

Seeing the commander-in-chief, Galosha, the admiral of the Spanish squadron, asked strangely.

"I'll tell you later!"

"go!"

"Let the helmsman turn, we immediately return to the Strait of Gibraltar and go forward at full speed, the faster the better!"

Shaking his head with an ugly face, Barudis did not answer the questions of his confidant subordinates, and without caring about the other party's doubts, he directly issued an order without any doubt!

“…”

"Abide by the order!"

The Garosha didn't dare to ask too much, so he had to stand attentively and salute, then ran towards the stern of the boat.

Not long after, after nearly half of the ships were separated, the Spanish fleet, which seemed to be damaged, began to slowly make a big circle on the sea, and then headed towards the Mediterranean exit to the west and towards the Strait of Gibraltar.

"Hopefully I can catch up..."

Barudis is very worried about the situation in the Spanish coastal ports and the Strait of Gibraltar.

Because, as the commander-in-chief of the Spanish Invincible Fleet and the admiral of the Spanish Kingdom's Navy, he knows more than anyone else the current situation of the Spanish Kingdom's Invincible Fleet.

In fact, the five invincible fleet expeditions against the British started with Philip II, the huge military power of nearly 700 warships and tens of thousands of soldiers deployed successively had seriously damaged the maritime strength of the Spanish Kingdom. In addition, the Battle of Towns a few years ago, it can be said that the Spanish Kingdom lost all its face, and almost could not suppress the Netherlands and other places in the north.

Although the Spanish Invincible Armada has made considerable progress after several years of development, the battle of the Tyrrhenian Sea has almost completely wiped out the reserves of several years!

Can result...

The most important thing is that the ultimate goal of the Oriental ships that they wanted to capture was not achieved, but instead allowed the Orientals to flee to the north. If the Orientals do some terrible things, such as destroying Spanish ports along the coast, then their invincible fleet may be in a slump, and the fleet commander must resign!

So, thinking of all the above possibilities, he felt worried and wanted to return to the Strait of Gibraltar as soon as possible, and then see if with the fleet that stayed there, could those cunning Orientals stop the kind of likely happening?

As for capturing or intercepting the other party, he really didn't dare to think too much at this time.

...

In the 17th year of Chongzhen, the beginning of winter in the first year of Tianshu.

When the Empress of the Ming Empire took office, settled the northwest and began to officially command the world, the continuous battles in the Mediterranean finally came to an end.

Now the entire Mediterranean is known. The super sea battle in the Tyrrhenian Sea, led by the Invincible Fleet led by the Admiral of the Spanish Kingdom Navy, Piedro de Barudis, and the armed merchant ships of the Italian merchant Pao Rou Chanterio, the commander-in-chief of the Ottoman Empire Navy, and the leader of the North African pirates. In the end, the Kingdom of Spain won the victory.

However, that was a tragic victory!

Because the Invincible Armada itself also sank or burned down at least 300 warships, nearly 30,000 sailors were killed or missing, which was a great loss of strength!

However, what is even more terrifying is that during the three days and two nights of the war between the two sides, the initiator, the devil admiral from the Eastern Ming Empire, led her devil fleet out of the battlefield and headed north to Genoa, and began to sweep the major European ports on the northern coast of the Mediterranean, burning most of the docks, shipyards, and cargo warehouses that belonged to Spain's sphere of influence, making the powerful Kingdom of Spain and the remaining invincible fleet worse and indignant.

Although Piedro de Barudis, commander-in-chief of Spain's Invincible Fleet and admiral of the Spanish Kingdom Navy, led the remaining fleet to rush back behind, in the end, he still did not return to the Strait of Gibraltar in time.

Before he led the remaining fleet back, the large and fast Li family fleet once again fought to the Strait of Gibraltar and faced the dozens of warships left behind. In the confrontation, the Li family fleet successfully destroyed and injured more than a dozen ships, and rushed out from the narrowest part of the strait in a strait, completely leaving Barudis's plan empty.

In November of the first year of Tianshu, the winter solstice.

Seeing that there was no hope of victory and had been exhausted and heavy losses, the Kingdom of Spain, after struggling for two months, finally had to compromise with reality and headed south again and captured the port of Madeira. It was rumored that it would continue to attack the port of Las Palmas in order to completely block the routes to the New World and Africa, the Li family fleet of the Ming Dynasty issued a letter of armistice and sent an envoy to the peace talks.

Finally, outsiders have no way of knowing what treaties and agreements the Invincible Fleet signed with the Devil Admiral of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce.

But anyway, after this battle, countries and forces along the Mediterranean coast suffered heavy losses and were no longer able to dominate the Mediterranean. Even the Invincible Fleet began to officially fall from the altar of the ocean overlord, and no longer had the glory of dominating several oceans back then.

At this point, Anne Hasta, the devil admiral of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce in the Ming Dynasty, and her devil fleet finally stopped and stopped tormenting the neurasthenia Mediterranean countries.

Soon, it was Christmas Eve of the same year...

Lilu Agot, the leader of the private chamber of commerce in the Netherlands in the North Sea, came to Port Madeira in person, and before Christmas, he sent a commercial North Sea battleship and a letter from the New World to the devil Admiral of the Li family fleet.

The letter was actually written to Li Huamei to Lilu Agot two months ago. They obviously didn't know what was happening here in the Mediterranean. Anyway, the letter only informed Lilu about Li Huamei's difficult situation in the New World and about to investigate related matters in the south of the New World.

As for the current whereabouts of the First Fleet of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce, it is unknown for the time being.

At the same time, Lilu Agot also brought relevant commitments from countries in the North Sea to prepare to open ports and trade agreements to the Li Family Chamber of Commerce, and sincerely hoped that the Li Family Fleet would not go to the North Sea and Nordic waters to make a big fuss like they did in the Mediterranean.

"It's probably that..."

"Anyway!"

"Our Chamber of Commerce has delivered the ship that I promised to you, and now you can deal with it yourself."

"but……"

"As an ally, I still hope to ask you not to make trouble in Beihai again. Our Agot Chamber of Commerce will try our best to persuade the countries and chambers of commerce in Beihai, so that everyone can open ports and a certain trade share to your Lijia Chamber of Commerce."

"So, please, yourselves."

Standing in the Governor's Mansion in Madeira, looking at the little girl Devil Admiral who was sitting in the main seat, wiping her face with her oily little hands while reading Li Huamei's letter to her, Lilu Agot didn't know what it felt like.

To be honest, it would be absolutely impossible for her to not panic at all!

You know, she almost witnessed her great achievements in dominating the Ottoman Empire during this period, defeating the pirate king Haileding, overwhelming the Italian Chentelio Chamber of Commerce, and the Italian military defeating the encirclement of the Spanish Invincible Fleet, and using only five ships to dominate the Mediterranean!
To be continued...