However, under Alvardo's command, the fleet began to change direction with great difficulty, heading southeast. A breakthrough was formed between the eight ships that were attempted. Alvardo's idea was to use his own ship as a barrier to cover the escape of the other four ships.

But his thoughts were immediately spotted by his opponents! The two fleets each glided in a short arc over the sea, trying to maintain the I-shaped position again.

On this narrow stretch of sea, the gunners of both sides fired desperately at each other. However, the Spanish fleet did not fire very often, because the opponents were clever enough to keep their bow and stern positions as much as possible. So even if there is a shooting angle, only a few guns can shoot, and it can't form a barrage density.

And the Second Fleet has the initiative and can exert almost all its firepower! So the flagship and tail ships of the Spaniards became the targets of the most hits.

Because the flagship is a battleship, the selection of materials is more cautious. So also support the live! But the Moon Goddess at the end of the queue was miserable! Two of the three masts have been broken by chain bullets! The canvas of the foremast was also punched out of the canvas, which was unable to provide power. The deck is full of blood, and the corpses are littered!

Especially with the stern facing the side of the opposing side, I don't know how many shells were fired by the Second Fleet from the weak point of the stern!

The stern of the ship is generally the stern where the captain rests, and is not protected by thick planks. If you're lucky, a cannonball can hit the bow straight from the stern! This is how the Moon Goddess was completely dumbfounded by the dense artillery that came from the stern! The sailors on the artillery deck were so killed and wounded in the flying wood chips that they were powerless to fight back! The whole ship floats on the surface of the sea like a dead fish! There are also two large holes in the waterline at the stern of the boat that are constantly filling with seawater! Everyone knows that her sinking is only a matter of time!

Captain Alvardo's experience has finally come to work! With a simple action of adjusting the hull, he formed a small angle parallel to the opponent's boat, and finally exerted all the firepower of the side side! But to Captain Alvado's grief, he only fired one round of artillery, not to mention the results, and attracted the opponent's crazy counterattack! Almost all the artillery of the opposing side is shooting at him! As a result, his hull was shot through in many places!

Alvardo had no idea why his ship had been shot through so easily. And the shells fired by themselves are not very effective! This made him puzzled!

At this time, all the sail warships used were spherical solid shells, not to mention the short range, and the armor-piercing ability was insufficient. Therefore, when warships shoot at each other, they often shoot at a range of three or four hundred meters. Even at this distance, there are only a handful of times when the ship's side is broken! Both sides often ran out of shells and went back unscathed to replenish their ammunition. Anglo-Spanish War

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

As for why Liu Pei's cannonballs were able to penetrate the opponent's ships at close range, it was thanks to the hexagonal cannon that Liu Pei brought from now. The hexagonal pointed shells fired by these hexagonal cannons are incredibly accurate and armor-piercing!

But the secret was soon revealed! In between the two fires, a sailor with a bloody face wrapped in a thick cloth ran up to Alvardo and said, "Captain, look at what strange thing this is?" That's how the other side pierced our sidestrings with this kind of shell! ”

Alvardo hurriedly looked down to see the sailor holding a twisted, shapeless, hexagonal pointed iron pillar. Captain Alvardo reached out and touched this strange thing, which still had a hot temperature on it!

Alvardo is just a captain, not a scientist, so he can't see anything. But he was keenly aware of the usefulness of this twisted thing! So he immediately said: "You go to other locations and look for it, are all the shells that come in like this?" If you find it, put it away. If the secret of this cannonball can be solved, maybe the Spanish flag will be re-planted all over the sea!

The sailors took the order and went. Captain Alvardo put everything behind him for the time being, and took command of the battle with all his heart. But sometimes the outcome of war is not dependent on the willpower of the individual.

After the Goddess of the Night was paralyzed, the flagship and the Blessed Virgin Mary at the tail of the team were subjected to even more violent shelling!

When Jack noticed that the Spaniards' naval guns had done little damage to his fleet, he immediately ordered the fleet to shoot at a distance of about 400 meters. This distance is already a very close engagement distance. The artillery of the Spanish fleet was already able to inflict losses on the fleet!

It's just that this distance is also the killing distance of a short-barreled bombardment. With the dull firing of the bombardment, the hope of the Spanish fleet to escape was completely ruined!

Flowering bombs frequently exploded on the decks of Spanish ships! A large number of sailors were killed and wounded. Not only that, but the sails of the four ships in the fleet were also blown up by flowering shells, and almost half of their power was lost, and they could only move around the sea with difficulty. The artillery fire of the counterattack was also scattered and not lethal.

Even Captain Alvardo died under a flowering buckshot! This led to the entire Spanish fleet mass being leaderless. Although someone took over Alvardo's position in the shortest possible time, the chaotic fleet was powerless.

Under the intensive shelling of the Second Fleet, the flagship was ablaze! The Matador that followed was hit by multiple flowering shells, and most of the sailors, including the helmsman, died, and it shook

Shaking off the battle line, it instead attracted more shelling. Together with the Moon Goddess, it was slowly silent. The fourth Storm tried to cover the ships behind it and fled alone, but he was set on fire by eight battleships, and the left side of the ship was full of holes, and the gunners in the gun deck suffered heavy losses, and they were unable to fight back, so they could only sink slowly! The fifth ship, the New World, was smashed into a fire by a flowering bomb and burned on the sea!

The battle broke out suddenly, but ended normally. Because it was the side with more artillery that won! An hour after the battle began, only two burning Spanish ships remained on the surface, and the rest sank to the bottom of the sea. The sea was filled with Spanish sailors who were still alive. That's when Jack gave the order to search the battlefield.

When the fleet stopped firing and began to search for the surviving sailors, the sailors on the surface swam towards the nearest warship. Then board the ship with the help of the sailors. As soon as they got on board, they were searched and tied up. Although they shouted a few words in dissatisfaction, they also knew that they were prisoners, so they only shouted almost.

But what they don't know, Jack's order to search the battlefield is still halfway there. That is, all these captured people will be put to death!

In fact, this order was given directly to Jack by Liu Pei. On the one hand, Liu Pei wanted Jack to get rid of his thoughts of colluding with the West. On the other hand, it is to preserve the secret of the hexagonal cannon. At least before Liu Pei couldn't produce his own hexagonal cannon, he definitely didn't want this secret to be leaked out.

The hexagon cannon sounds lofty, but in fact there is no complicated technology at all. With the current technology in the West, this is a matter of piercing a layer of window paper. Therefore, Liu Pei resolutely cannot let Westerners have the opportunity to pierce this layer of window paper! At least until Liu Pei became stronger, he didn't want the other party to know.

Jack of the Spaniard was reluctant to execute him. But he still resolutely carried out the order, first of all, Jack was English, and he had no natural affection for the Spaniards. So killing some Spaniards wasn't a big deal for him.

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

There are delicious teas, endless delicacies, empathetic wives, and good salaries. All this he simply could not enjoy when he was a poor sailor in Europe. In order to save all this, he only resolutely carried out Liu Pei's orders.

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