"Admiral, look at ......"

The captain of the New Spain, Colonel Barbossa, had spotted a fireball rising from the sea...... Not one, but two don't know that three fireballs are rising at the same time!

"That's, that'...... Is it our ship? Admiral Garcia's voice was a little hoarse when he asked, for he already had a very ominous, and familiar, premonition!

It's going to be bad!

"Yes, the San Sebastian, it should be the San Sebastian......" By the light of the ship's burning hull, Colonel Barbossa quickly recognized that it was the San Sebastian from several medium-armed Galen ships that had followed Admiral Garcia from the Americas. It was a "new ship" that had been in the water for less than 10 years, the fastest ship in the fleet of New Spain, very useful in the pursuit of pirates, and now it was over?

"Boom ......"

Before Garcia and Barbossa could shed tears for San Sebastian, two more fireballs rose on the sea! The location is right where "Ibusuki" takes place, very close to the beaches of the Satsuma Peninsula.

Barbossa squinted his eyes for a moment: "It's the saint. Pedro...... It's still rushing towards the beaches of the Satsuma Peninsula, probably trying to run aground there, right? ”

This St. The Pedro was the same 200-ton boat that had just bombarded the Flying with a six-pound cannon, and the six-pound shells it fired could not hurt the Flying at all, but the 24-pound flowering shells fired by the Flying bombardment crippled it.

However, Garcia's previous move to have the ships unload the excess gunpowder and keep only the amount needed for a battle clearly worked.

Saint who was blown up by two 24-pound flowering shells (with three hits). Although two flames erupted from the Pedro's hull, it did not detonate the terrible powder magazine, and insisted on sailing to the beach of the Satsuma Peninsula to run aground......

But the disaster of the Spanish fleet did not end everywhere, and only half a pillar of incense was passed before the third Spanish battleship was engulfed in two or three more fires.

It was an armed merchant ship of three or four hundred tons, originally belonging to the Pacific Trading Company, requisitioned by the Spanish Oriental Armada, the tonnage was not small, but there were only 6-pound guns on it, and the hull was not strong, but now it was besieged by two Dutch East India Company ships, and five 24-pound flowering shells were hit, three of which exploded...... This armed merchant ship is also finished!

"Admiral, what should I do?" Barbossa was already a little at a loss, "three boats have already been lost...... Why don't we rush out of Kagoshima Bay! ”

This is going to run away......

But as soon as his words fell, the hull of the New Spain shook, and it was not a bullet, but a chain bomb to bombard the Jiangnan.

It turned out that the artillery battle between the New Spain and the Jiangnan was still going on, and both warships were hit by a lot of chain bullets from each other, the sails of both sides were punched out of many holes, and there were many bloody corpses lying on the deck.

It's all like this, how can you get out of the fight? How do you get out of Kagoshima Bay?

Just when Garcia and Barbossa looked at me and I looked at you, and they didn't know what to do, a roar suddenly sounded in front of them. Both of them looked up and found that there was also a fire in front of them, which was about the Sakurajima Strait, and there were not only two clusters, but one after another.

"That'......" Garcia was a little confused, not understanding what was going on for a moment?

Barbossa, the captain of the New Spain, reacted relatively quickly, and Tui already understood, and he said to Garcia: "Admiral, it must be those bird ships of the Eight Nations Fleet that are rushing into the Sakurajima Strait." ”

"What? Okusura Strait? What do the Chinese want to do? "Garcia is still a little confused.

"They, they're probably afraid of being attacked by us, and they want to rush into Inner Kagoshima Bay to take refuge, right?"

I really guessed it for Barbossa! Although Garcia and Barbossa didn't even think of attacking the dozens of large bird boats, which also had bombardments and were difficult to deal with, Zheng Jiangong and Shi Lang didn't dare to think so. Because those big bird ships were still carrying a lot of equipment and supplies for the army and the army, they had to vomit blood in distress when they were sunk.

Barbossa said, "Admiral, why don't we rush into the Sakurajima Strait and attack those Chinese bird boats in Kagoshima Bay!" ”

"No, no......" Garcia shook his head as he looked at the fireballs rising on both sides of the Sakurajima Strait, "Those bird boats are very firepower!" ”

"So what do we do?" Barbossa looked back and saw that there were more and more fires at the entrance to Kagoshima Bay, and there were at least seven or eight groups burning!

This means that seven or eight Spanish ships have already been set on fire! Although there was not much gunpowder on those warships to detonate, they could not stand the bombardment of the warships of the Eight-Nation Fleet with flowering bombs!

As for the rest of the warships, they have either run away, or sooner or later they will be floating torches!

What about the New Spain and the seven Galen ships that are still with the New Spain? Where to hide? If you don't have a place to hide...... When the Eight-Nation Fleet finishes cleaning up the Spanish ships at the entrance to Kagoshima Bay, it's time to deal with the eight armed Galen ships in the bay, right?

"Let's, let's go to the Sakurajima Strait!" Garcia thought about it for a long time, and finally he came up with a place where he could live temporarily!

"Is it a rush into the strait?" Barbossa still didn't react.

"No, no, you can't rush in." "We stuck in the middle of the strait, anchored in the sea near the port of Kagoshima Castle, and faced the channel with our side facing the strait. ”

"Admiral, you mean to block the strait?"

Garcia nodded: "Yes! It's safest there. Because the strait is too narrow, it is difficult for ships to turn and turn around there, and it is also difficult to maneuver in an artillery formation. In addition, there are forts held by the Japanese outside Sakurajima and Kagoshima Castles...... At night when visibility was poor and the enemy's situation was unclear, the Eight-Nation Fleet did not dare to rashly storm the strait. His voice suddenly lowered, "And it's close to Kagoshima Castle, so it's easy to swim through!" ”

What the? You can swim over...... When Barbossa heard this, he was really impressed!

I can think of such a good way, and I am indeed one of the seven captains of Spain!

......

"Xiamen Hou, we have rushed across the strait!"

Standing on the stern of the Fukushimo, Shi Lang watched the strings of lanterns hanging from the mast of the owner of the Otori ship swaying in the wind in the dark night, slowly moving away from the burning Kagoshima Port Town, the castle town of Kagoshima Castle, the economic center of the Satsuma Domain, with many flammable wooden buildings. The fort used to block the Sakurajima Strait was built on the edge of Kagoshima Minato, and during the artillery battle, many flowering shells landed on the wooden buildings of Minato-cho, causing a fire after the explosion.

Zheng Jiangong also craned his neck to watch, and asked Shi Lang: "Are all our ships lost?" ”

"I'll count ......" Shi Lang was silent for a while, and then said, "Thank God, it's all there!" And not a single one of them is on fire! ”

"That'...... How is the situation with the decisive battle of the main fleet? Who won? ”

"I'll see!" As he spoke, Shi Lang took off his boots and climbed the stern mast barefoot, looking like a chimpanzee. When he climbed higher, he saw the light of the fire in the distance.

"What a fire!" After getting off the mast, Shi Lang didn't have time to put on his shoes, so he said to Zheng Jiangong excitedly, "It should be the Spanish warship burning......

Master Hou, it seems that we have won! The Spanish fleet was defeated, and this time in the western Pacific...... It belongs to our Daming! ”

At the same time, on the Gangnam, which had disengaged from the New Spain, Chen Shangchuan also craned his neck to watch the fire at the exit of Kagoshima Bay, and his position was closer to the exit of Kagoshima Bay, so he could see it clearly.

The battle there continued, but the victory and defeat had been divided, the main force of the Spanish fleet had been crushed, and there were no less than 10 warships on fire, all of which were Spanish warships, plus 8 warships blocked in Kagoshima Bay, their Eastern Armada had probably completely collapsed!