With Francis's order, a triangular flag embroidered with the word "Guo" was slowly raised, and the flagbearer on the lookout also used the flag language to type Francis's words, the flagship as the most powerful force of a fleet, but also the location of the fleet commander, generally speaking, the two fleets will not easily expose the flagship of the fleet commander before the battle, so as not to use decapitation tactics to concentrate on attacking the flagship of the fleet commander, only two exceptions, one is that the commander believes that the battle is sure to win, I don't care if the opponent uses decapitation tactics, one is that the commander has made up his mind to fight to the death, and is ready to fight at any cost!

Therefore, seeing Guo Zhiyuan's recognition flag raised, and seeing such a tough and domineering flag on the flagship, the morale of the officers of the New Army, who was a little frightened because of the strong momentum of the Spanish fleet, was instantly rekindled, "Fight to the death!" Fight to the death! The chorus of cheers rang out on all the warships at the same time!

This time, Guo Zhiyuan only left more than 10,000 self-new troops to stay, and the rest were all dispatched, so the chorus of nearly 20,000 soldiers was extremely amazing, it was like a sea of mountains, earth-shattering, and even the Spanish warships that were still a few nautical miles away could be heard clearly.

Seeing the flag on Guo Zhiyuan's flagship, and hearing the chorus of the morale of the new army from afar, Acuña on the Spanish battleship frowned slightly, Guo Zhiyuan would take the initiative to intercept their fleet in such a powerful formation, which also made Acuña a little surprised, especially the three huge thousand-stone-class giant ships made him a little surprised, frowning and saying hesitantly: "How come the Chinese naval army also has such a huge warship?" I've never seen it before! This Guo Zhiyuan took the initiative to intercept us, and he also put on such a position, is he really not afraid of war with us? Where did he get the confidence? ……”

Thomas on the side said with some disapproval: "Biological people like to bluff, and they actually dare to warn our powerful Spanish fleet to stop advancing, although there are many of their ships, they are vulnerable!" Your Excellency the Governor need not pay attention to them, let the fleet speed up, and if they dare to open fire, I will sink them!" ……”

Acuña didn't object to Thomas's opinion, he came to Dongbo with the fleet so far away, naturally there was no reason to weaken the momentum as soon as he encountered it, and ordered the fleet to speed up and continue to advance, he didn't believe that Guo Zhiyuan really dared to open fire!

Francis saw that the Spanish fleet not only did not stop moving but increased its speed, and it was also a little difficult to decide, no matter how arrogant he was, he knew that with the current strength of the Dongfan Navy, there was no way to compete head-on with the Spanish fleet with strong ships and guns, once the war really started, the consequences would be serious, far from what he could afford, so he had to turn his head and look at Guo Zhiyuan behind him with an inquiring gaze.

Guo Zhiyuan squinted his eyes and held a telescope to observe the movement of the Spanish fleet in the distance, and when he saw Francis looking at him, he didn't make any reaction, just said expressionlessly: "You don't have to look at me, since I handed over the command to you, I will support you no matter what decision you make!" ……”

Francis clenched his fists hard, turned his heart sideways, gritted his teeth and said: "Order, all warships open a battle formation, the flagship has a full rudder on the right, the porthole is raised, the gunner observes the wind direction, 500 meters ahead, the broadside guns fire a salvo, open fire!" ……”

Although the Dongfan Navy has not been formed for a long time, it has never fought a large-scale naval battle, but it will regularly hold naval combat exercises, especially after Francis joined, the technical and tactical and artillery level have been greatly improved, so with Francis's order, all the warships have orderly launched the battle formation, and the gunners on the flagship have also raised their portholes, skillfully completed the loading calibration and neatly fired, after a roar, the smoke of gunpowder filled, and a row of huge splashes suddenly splashed on the sea in the distance!

The arrogant Spaniards were originally disdainful of the strength of the Dongfan Navy, but they were also a little moved when they saw this round of shelling, and the master knew if there was anything as soon as he made a move, and the broadside gun tactics were pioneered by the British, and the Spaniards' so-called invincible fleet was defeated by the British in the English Channel, and they naturally remembered it deeply, especially from the neat landing point of the cannonballs and the huge splash of water, Guo Zhiyuan's flagship would not be worse than their Spanish battleships in terms of firepower configuration, range, and gunner's handling level. What's more important is that it was only Guo Zhiyuan's flagship that fired just now, if the other party's hundreds of warships have such a level (Spain doesn't know that other warships are used by Guo Zhiyuan to make up the numbers), then there is really no need to fight this battle!

Acuña gritted his teeth in surprise and said, "Damn! When did the biological man learn the tactics of the British broadside guns? Where did they get such great firepower? How many hole cards does this Guo Zhiyuan hide?! ……”

Even the arrogant Thomas didn't dare to shout for war anymore, and said like a mad dog: "They really dare to shoot?!" They must be crazy! No one dared to take the initiative to fire on the invincible Spanish fleet! No one! ……”

Miguel was also very surprised by Guo Zhiyuan's strength, but he has always been a god stick, so he pretended to be profound: "I said earlier, we lack understanding of our opponent, so we are so passive, Your Excellency the Governor, I think that before we fully understand the strength of the opponent, we should not go to war, order the fleet to stop advancing, we are here for a friendly visit this time, the use of force is only the lowest option, by the way, it is better to invite Miss Felisa, I remember that the last time Guo Zhiyuan was in Manila, I had a great time with Miss Felisa, which may help us to understand this Guo Zhiyuan better......"

When he learned that Acuña was going to come to Dongbo with a fleet, Felisa, who had long been bored and bored in the royal city of Manila, clamored to come together, of course Acuña disagreed, he didn't come to Dongbo for tourism, and he could go to war with Dongbo at any time, so it was naturally impossible for his baby daughter to follow him to mess around, but the eccentric Felisa didn't know what to do, and the woman disguised as a man and disguised herself as a soldier mixed up on the ship, and when Acuña found out that it was too late, he couldn't send Felisa back, angry, He ordered Felisa to be locked up as punishment.

When Thomas heard this, he exclaimed, "Your Excellency, what is your idea?" It's ridiculous to ask Felisha to curry favor with that lowly biological man! ……”

Acuña glared at Thomas and angrily rebuked, "Presumptuous! Thomas, how dare you speak to Bishop Miguel like that? Stand back! Signal the fleet to stop advancing! Tell each other that we are here for a friendly visit, don't get me wrong! ......" hesitated for a moment and waved his hand helplessly: "Go and release Felisa, she doesn't understand my father's hard work, so she can only let her ......"