However, under the command of Alvado, the fleet began to change direction with difficulty and sailed to the southeast. A breakthrough was formed between the eight ships trying. Alvado's idea was to use his own ship as a barrier to cover the other four ships.

The boat escapes.

But his idea was immediately seen through by his opponent! The two fleets each slid out of a short arc on the sea, trying to maintain the I-shaped position again.

In this narrow sea area, the gunners of both sides were desperately shooting at each other. However, the Spanish fleet's shooting frequency was not high, because the opponent was smart enough to keep the bow and stern of their ships as close as possible. So even if there were shooting

Due to the angle, only a few cannons can fire, and there is no barrage density.

The Second Fleet has the initiative and can exert almost all its firepower! Therefore, the Spanish flagship and tail ship have become the targets that bear the most hits.

Because the flagship is a battleship, the material selection is more careful. So it is still supported! But the Moon Goddess at the end of the queue is terrible! Two of the three masts have been broken by chain bombs! The canvas of the front mast has also been hit hard.

The holes, large and small, could not provide power. The deck was covered with blood and corpses were everywhere!

Especially since the stern of his ship was facing the opponent's side, I don't know how many shells were fired into it from the weak spot of the stern by the Second Fleet!

The stern of the ship is usually the poop where the captain rests, and is not protected by thick wooden boards. If a shell is lucky, it can hit the bow directly from the stern! This is how the Moon Goddess was completely silenced by the intensive artillery fire from the stern.

! The sailors on the gun deck suffered heavy casualties among the flying sawdust and were unable to fight back! The entire ship floated on the sea like a dead fish! There were two large holes in the waterline at the stern of the ship that were constantly filling with seawater! Who?

Everyone knows that her sinking is only a matter of time!

Captain Alvado's experience finally came into play! With a simple adjustment of the hull, he formed a small angle with the opponent's ship, and finally unleashed all the firepower on the side! But what made Captain Alvado sad?

Yes, he only fired one round of artillery, with no results, and also attracted a crazy counterattack from the opponent! Almost all the opponent's artillery fired at him! As a result, his own hull was shot through in many places!

Alvado had no idea why his battleship was shot through so easily, but the shells he fired had little effect! This puzzled him!

At this time, all the sail warships used were spherical solid artillery shells. Not to mention the short range, the armor-breaking ability was not enough. Therefore, when the warships fired at each other, they often fired within a range of three to four hundred meters. Even at this distance, breaking

There were only a handful of times on the ship's side! Both sides often used up all their artillery shells, and each returned unscathed to replenish their ammunition. The Anglo-Spanish War

At that time, the two sides had a record of shooting at each other for a whole day, and after running out of ammunition, not a single ship on either side was sunk.

As for why Liu Pei's cannonballs can penetrate the opponent's ships at close range, this is due to the hexagonal cannons Liu Pei brought from now on. The hexagonal pointed cannonballs fired by these hexagonal cannons have incredible accuracy and

Armor-breaking ability!

But the secret was soon revealed! During the interval between the two sides shooting, a sailor with a bloody face wrapped something in a thick cloth ran to Alvado and said: "Captain, look at what's strange about this."

What? The other side used this kind of shell to penetrate our side string!"

Alvado looked down hurriedly and saw the sailor holding a twisted and shapeless hexagonal pointed iron pillar. Captain Alvado reached out and touched this strange thing, which was still scalding hot.

!

Alvado was just a captain, not a scientist, so he couldn't see anything. But he was still keenly aware that this twisted thing was of great use! So he immediately said: "Go to other locations and look for it, is it right?

Do all incoming cannonballs look like this? If you find one, put it away. If the secret of this cannonball can be cracked, maybe the Spanish flag will fill the entire sea again!

The sailor took the order. Captain Alvado temporarily put everything behind him and directed the battle wholeheartedly. But sometimes the outcome of the war does not depend on personal willpower.

After the Night Lady was paralyzed, the flagship and the Santa Maria at the end of the team encountered even more violent bombardment!

After Jack discovered that the Spanish naval guns had slightly damaged his fleet, he immediately ordered the fleet to approach and shoot to a distance of about 400 meters. This distance was already a very close combat distance. The Spanish fleet's artillery was already capable of causing losses to the fleet!

However, this distance was also within the killing range of the short-barreled bombardment cannon. As the dull firing sound of the bombardment cannon sounded, the hope of the Spanish fleet's escape was completely ruined!

Explosive bombs frequently exploded on the decks of Spanish ships! A large number of sailors were killed and injured. Not only that, the sails of four ships in the fleet were also blown to bits by the explosive bombs, losing almost half of their sails.

Without power, it can only move on the sea with difficulty. The counterattack artillery fire is also scattered and has little lethality.

Even Captain Alvado died under a lead bullet! This caused the entire Spanish fleet to be leaderless. Although someone took over Alvado's position in the shortest time, the chaotic fleet had already

There is no way back.

Under the intensive bombardment of the Second Fleet, the flagship burst into flames! The Matador that followed was hit by multiple exploding bombs. Most of the sailors, including the helmsman, were killed. It was shaking.

It swayed away from the battle line, but instead attracted more bombardment. It was slowly becoming silent along with the Moon Goddess. The fourth Tempest tried to cover the ships behind it and escaped alone, but as a result, it was attacked by eight battleships. The left one was

The sides of the ship were full of holes, and the gunners in the gun deck suffered heavy losses. They were unable to fight back and could only sink slowly! The fifth ship, the New World, was turned into a fire by explosive shells and burned on the sea!

The battle broke out suddenly, but ended normally. Because the side with more artillery won! An hour after the two sides started fighting, there were only two burning Spanish ships left on the sea, and the rest of the ships sank to the bottom of the sea.

It was full of Spanish sailors who were still alive. Only then did Jack give the order to search the battlefield.

When the fleet stopped shooting and began to search for surviving sailors, the sailors on the sea swam to the nearest warship. Then they boarded the ship with the help of the sailors on the ship. Once on the ship, they were searched and tied up. They

Although they shouted a few words of dissatisfaction, they also knew that they were prisoners, so they just shouted a few words.

But what they didn't know was that there was still a second half to Jack's order to search the battlefield. That was that all the captured people would be executed!

In fact, this order was given directly to Jack by Liu Pei. On the one hand, Liu Pei wanted to stop Jack from colluding with the West. On the other hand, it was to preserve the secret of the hexagonal cannon. At least Liu Pei could not produce the hexagonal cannon by himself.

Before, he absolutely didn't want this secret to be leaked.

The hexagonal cannon sounds very high-end, but in fact there is no complicated technology at all. According to the existing technology in the West, it is just a matter of piercing a layer of window paper. Therefore, Liu Pei is determined not to let Westerners pierce this layer of paper.

An opportunity for window paper! At least until Liu Pei becomes stronger, he doesn't want the other party to know.

Jack was reluctant to execute the Spaniard. But he still resolutely carried out the order. First of all, Jack was an Englishman and he naturally had no good impression of the Spaniards. So killing some Spaniards was no big deal to him.

On the other hand, he now knows how terrible the Intelligence Bureau is, and he doesn't want to be on the Intelligence Bureau's blacklist one day. The most important point is that he feels that the quality of life in Ming Dynasty is much higher than the quality of life in Europe!

Here there are delicious teas, endless delicacies, a considerate wife, and a generous salary. All of these were things that he could not enjoy when he was a poor sailor in Europe. In order to keep them all, he only resolutely

Carry out Liu Pei's orders.
Chapter completed!