Chapter 403 The Disappeared Fleet

In the 16th century naval battle, the main tactic of attacking each other with fire ships was still the main tactic. No matter how huge the ship was, it was also made of wooden ones, and he was afraid of fire after all.

There are always some black oils that make asphalt on the Jiang family naval warships. These things are collected from Shaanxi for money, which is one of the few guidances from Jiang Feng to the naval army. However, this kind of black oil is a troublesome for the naval army. Black oil is easy to burn, but it is not very useful in water wars. Instead, setting fires on land are more effective, so it has never been used.

Instead, it was used in the port. The enclosures on the edge of the dock, which were piled with broken wood and firewood, were dumped into the sea after they were broken up. There were also large barrels of black oil in these enclosures. The shooting of small cannons was not enough to make them burn, but they could break the barrels.

Now the straw covered with black oil floating on the sea, of course the debris of the ships were also among them, but the warships in the port were firing desperately there, and no one had the heart to watch what was going on in the sea until the rocket shot into the water.

Two of the three 500-ton ships were surrounded by oil slicks. After the fire was ignited, they decided their miserable end. The ships on the outside were desperately sailing towards the sea, not daring to approach the sea burning in the port.

Although Jiang Feng didn't know, the Spanish read about the similar wars in their history books. The Roman Empire fought against the Vandals in North Africa. In the Mediterranean, they were fired on the sea with ships filled with black oil, and more than 100,000 people were wiped out.

By the way, black oil is oil. During the next year, the Yan'an area in Shaanxi can be seen on the surface.

When Spain arrived, there were five 500 tons, ten 400 tons of sailboats and gunboats, and thirty armed merchant ships. At this time, two of the sailboats had already sunk, and two were burned by fire. Four or five armed merchant ships had either sunk during artillery battles or were burning.

The remaining fleet was still in shock and dared not approach the port. However, since Earl Sandino fell on the dock, the fleet's attention has been on the dock. There are endless tricks on it that make these people frightened, fearing that there are still some means to know.

So a fleet approached slowly, and they did not notice it. The remaining eleven gunboats of the Spaniards, eager to avenge, slowly unfolded, preparing to launch a devastating blow to those bold and reckless people on the dock, and now there is no need to worry about accidentally hitting their own ships.

The Yizhou fleet has always been in a place where the port of Malacca City cannot see through sight. Lin Zhi gave them a simple order. It appeared again one and a half hours after the Spanish fleet appeared. If all this went smoothly on the dock, the Yizhou fleet appeared just the right time. If it didn't go smoothly, it would be rescue.

It seems that it is just right now. The appearance of the Yizhou fleet caused great panic to the Spanish people. They did not expect that such a maritime force would appear on the sea surface here. The frightened fleet commander - following the official position of substitute, he turned loudly and adjusted the fleet's formation.

The Jiang family navy did not have a ship tower. The ship type combined with East and West ships made the sails more fully utilized for wind power, making the ships much faster than Spanish ships and more flexible.

The Spanish fleet's armed merchant ships were loaded with soldiers, each ship was about ten small cannons, which had no effect on the attacks on the wharf, so they were all watching the battle outside. These armed merchant ships were the first unlucky ones. The charge of the artillery of Shunfeng and Huifeng was the particulate gunpowder used, which was much stronger than the opponent's gun in terms of range and power. Even without these gunpowder, their firepower was far greater than that of the opponent.

In the first round of volleys, four armed merchant ships were hit into the seabed. At this time, only two ships of the Spanish fleet adjusted their directions. They besieged the dock, and there were armed merchant ships on the outside. Although the sea was boundless, their space for movement was already very small and it was very difficult to move.

If the Spanish fleet in the inner circle wanted to fire the armed merchant ships on the periphery, they would definitely be attacked by accident. However, the Yizhou fleet did not care about this at all. They poured out artillery fire without mercy. At this time, Spain's sail gunboats on the inner side found that if they were heading towards the dock, there were a raging fire there, and dozens of armed merchant ships were chaotic on the outside.

After the seventh armed merchant ship sank to the bottom of the sea, the fleet commander who came over finally issued an order, ignoring the outer ships and directly firing bombardment, otherwise the sailing warship would not be able to be saved.

For the Navy, sailing warships are more valuable assets than armed merchant ships used to carry manned. Just armed merchant ships can be recruited on the Atlantic Ocean.

The end of the entire battle can be changed in a short moment on the battlefield, not to mention that this Spanish commander who does not have much experience in commanding the fleet has been wasted so much time. The main gunboats of the Jiang family navy are already curved on the sea surface, and the Spanish fleet is wrapped on the ground.

Now all they have to do is to load and launch the bullets continuously. Eleven ships have an advantage over the tonnage of sixteen ships and occupies a favorable position. In the naval battles of this era, we can basically draw the conclusion of victory or defeat. As for the armed merchant ships sandwiched in the middle, the one-pound and two-pound cannons on their ships cannot even penetrate the boards of the Yizhou fleet, and they can only serve as targets.

The naval battle lasted for two hours, and the sky gradually darkened, and the ending was not powerful. The Spanish Navy, which had four sailing warships and ten armed merchant ships, chose to surrender. Two 400-ton gunboats in the Yizhou fleet were sunk, and three lost their combat capabilities.

This result is not perfect, but Lin Zhi, as the commander of the fleet, knew that the Jiang family navy was too dominant on the seas in Asia, so he had little combat experience, while the Spanish navy had extremely rich combat experience in the Atlantic Ocean.

If it weren't for the fact that so many traps and layouts were set up on the dock this time and the fight on the sea, although it would be very sure to win by relying on its advantages, it would be difficult to wipe out the opponent and prevent the news from spreading.

After the fire on the sea burned for several hours, it finally went out. The ships of the surrendered Spanish fleet leaned on the already riddled dock. On the shore were two thousand soldiers of the Jiang family army, six hundred of whom were the Dutch.

The Spanish Expeditionary Fleet had a total of more than 3,000 people, but less than a thousand survived.

Because Jiang Feng did not receive specific orders, we have to wait for news to deal with these prisoners. After transporting all the items that could be moved on the Spanish ships, Lin Zhi directly ordered the ship to burn, and no traces of the Spanish Expeditionary Fleet's past in Malacca were left to others.

A few days later, the merchant ships passing by Malacca City had no trace of battle except for occasionally seeing broken wood or floating corpses on the sea.

In addition to sending ships to deliver letters to Jiang Feng, Lin Zhi temporarily stationed the Yizhou fleet here. As the commander of the fleet, he came from a pirate family and discovered the great value of Malacca City at a glance. The people of Yizhou are now close to 400,000, and there is no big problem in self-protection. Huazhou is constantly producing new ships and launching them, so there is no need to worry about other forces entering the entire Asian sea surface.

As long as he guarded the city of Malacca, he would look forward to the portal for Jiang Feng. The prisoners of Spain and Portugal originally thought that there would be a chance to redeem after surrender, but on the one hand, the Jiang family army was not short of this little money, and on the other hand, the wharf was full of holes and needed labor repairs. After all, hiring local Han people and natives required money, so these prisoners were driven to work for the best of their own use.

Although there are nearly 3,000 people in Malacca City, and dozens of warships are buried in the sea of ​​fire, a battle of this scale can be said to be a sea battle in Europe, but no one wants the news to spread. Except for Goa, where this fleet once docked, there is no one in Asia until this incident. The Yizhou fleet will not say it, and the prisoners locked in the prison will not say it, and the Governor-General of Luzon Levire has always claimed that he has not received letters and news from the kingdom government.

The disappearance of the fleet became a unsolved case in Spain, and it was not until thirty years later that a released sailor answered the answer.

In this era, it took Spanish ships to come to the east to eleven months or a year, and the news would take two years to pass on the message. In two years, Malacca City was already a strong fortress port by the Jiang family army. When the result of this battle was passed to Jiang Feng, it was already the winter of the 18th year of Jiajing. This victory was the first time that the Jiang family navy faced an enemy of the same order of magnitude. Although it also suffered great losses, the result was extremely important.

Jiang Feng's reward was also extremely generous. He added all the vacancies and ships to Lin Zhi's fleet, and transferred two thousand from the regiment training in Yizhou to garrison, awarding Lin Zhi Xingzhou Jiedu, allowing him to manage his own strategy in Malacca.

It is too far from Huazhou. If Lin Zhi does not give the right to make decisions on his own, there will be trouble at that time. Everyone has no objection, but it is just a strange reason why Jiang Feng made it "Singzhou".

Before traveling through time, Jiang Feng made a fried rice dish called Xingzhou fried rice, which is said to be from Singapore...
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