The cannon sound that sounded again was not from the guns of the Jiangnan and New Spain, but from the Spanish and British battleships that followed behind the two battleships!

First the two ships opened fire on each other, and then more, more ships joined in, and a sea chorus played by cannons was staged in Kagoshima Bay at dusk.

When the artillery battle began, the distance between the fleets of both sides was more than three miles, and both maintained a column. But if you look down from a high altitude, you can turn the two sides to the point that the routes are not parallel, but slowly approaching!

As the distance between the two sides slowly approaches, the hit rate of the shelling will definitely get higher and higher!

And to a certain extent, it's time for the bombardment to exert its power.

And how to grasp the distance between the two fleets is where the command level of Admiral Garcia is reflected.

When the artillery battle between the two sides was going back and forth, Admiral García, who was once one of the seven captains of the Spanish ships, no longer cared about the shelling, but began to concentrate on directing the sailors to steer the New Spain - the standard of the ship was indeed the biggest advantage of the Spaniards in this twilight!

It's not that the Spaniards can sail better than the Dutch and the English, don't even think about that...... But today, on the side of the eight-nation coalition fleet, there are mainly eight Chinese Flying Ships. Therefore, the Dutch, Spanish, French, and Portuguese ships had to follow these 8 Chinese ships.

And the level of operation of soft sailing ships by Chinese sailors is still far inferior to that of the Spaniards...... They are a proper century-old navy!

And the level of operating a soft sailing boat, when the sails and masts are intact, is actually not reflected. The performance of the ship is more important at this time, and the performance of the Flyer class is definitely better than that of the New Spain.

Therefore, for a period of time at the beginning of the artillery battle, the Jiangnan continued to narrow the distance between it and the New Spain by virtue of its superior performance.

And as the distance approaches, the chain bullets on both sides begin to exert their power!

Two iron balls tethered to an iron chain spun and flew in the air, and you came and went, hitting the open sails, and after a few rounds, the sails of the two sailing ships were broken into rags.

However, this does not mean that the sailboat will slow down significantly, as neither side has full sails, and in the event that some of the sails are broken, the sails can be raised to give the boat more power.

The Spanish has a greater advantage in this regard, not only the level of sailors is higher, but also the ship's sail area is larger (the ship is larger), and relatively speaking, the ability to withstand sail damage is stronger.

However, the Jiangnan also performed well, and in the face of the superior firepower of the New Spain (more guns) and the continuous damage to the sails, it still tried to maintain its speed, and chased the New Spain to the Satsuma Peninsula. At this time, the fleets of the warring sides began a second turn...... The location of this turn was close to Ibusuki Onsen, so it was called "Ibusuki Turn" by later naval experts.

The reason for such a term is that in the course of this turn, the Eight-Nation Coalition began to implement the tactic of splitting the fleet - in the 17th century, it was a completely new naval tactic!

The reason why the tactic of dividing the fleet was able to be carried out was, of course, related to the turn from west to north this time. When advancing against each other before, the fleet of the Eight-Nation Alliance was downwind, and of course it could not attack the Spaniards' battle line against the wind. Therefore, the first turn could only be made with the Spaniards, at which point the fleets of both sides began to move westward in unison, rushing towards the Satsuma Peninsula. And as soon as he approached the Satsuma Peninsula, Admiral Garcia commanded his warship and began to turn north. If the Eight-Nation Allied Fleet did not adopt detachment tactics, then the next step should be the whole team to the north, and the two sides continued to maintain a distance of about 3 miles, slowly approaching.

However, after the first detachment turned, David . . . The second detachment commanded by Jones spread its sails and continued to charge westward. To a certain extent, the T-slot was ceded to the Spaniards, but when the Flying charged, it was not the mighty New Spain that occupied the T-slot, but a small 200-dwt Galen. With only nine 6-pounder guns on one side, it couldn't help the Flying's sturdy bow. After several rounds of ineffective shelling, just before it was about to get dark, Davy. The detachment commanded by Jones suddenly cut the large fleet of the Spaniards in two.

Because the Spanish fleet had previously been ordered to follow the flagship, and now in the case of a sudden cut off of the battle line, the dozen or so Spanish Galen ships immediately lost their unified command after cutting off their positions.

The 3rd and 4th Detachments of the Eight-Nation Allied Fleet also began to turn to the southwest and launched a charge, cutting diagonally into the Spanish battleship formation, completely disrupting their formation.

It's just a disturbance, not a partition and encirclement. Because after the completion of the attack, the three detachments of the Eight-Nation Allied Fleet were also chaotic by themselves -- the Eight-Nation Allied Fleet was put together temporarily, and there was no long-term running-in training, so it was impossible for them to play the detachment encirclement tactics in the big night.

However, the chaotic war was originally the goal of the Eight-Nation Coalition fleet!

Losing their queue and thrown into disarray, the Spanish ships soon discovered that they had become mixed with the ships of the Eight-Nation Alliance. At this time, the sky had not completely darkened, and the two warring sides could still distinguish between friend and foe, and the fiercest exchange of fire in the entire naval battle began immediately.

The first to make contributions was the Zhejiang ship of the Eight-Nation Alliance Fleet, the captain of this battleship was named Hong Rihai, who was born in a family of Shandong Shui Kou (pirates), and was later supervised by Su Guansheng Zhao'an, who supervised the Tianjin Naval Division, and the family became officers and soldiers, and then mixed into the Beiyang Naval Division, and Hong Rihai was young and clever at the time, and he knew the words, so he was escorted to the Shanghai Sailor School. His grades in the academy were quite bad, and he almost didn't graduate. But this guy is fierce and abnormal at sea! Dare to fight and rush, he was the first person to sink a Spanish warship (flying the Mongolian flag) among all the Han captains of the East China Sea Fleet of the Ming Navy. Because of his excellent military achievements, he became the captain of the Zhejiang ship.

This time, he still carried forward his usual courage to fight, and with red eyes, he personally operated the ship to rush a Spanish Galen ship of four or five hundred tons. Because it rushed too hard, the commander of the Spanish warship thought that the Chinese warship was going to fight a broadside battle! As soon as the deck crew was ordered to prepare for a collision, the Zhejiang came to pass by.

Taking advantage of the passing opportunity, five 24-pound bombardment guns opened fire together, firing five deadly wooden shells.

Because the distance was too close, it was impossible to miss, and all five flowering shells hit, causing sawdust to fly on this Spanish ship, and several frightening holes were opened in the side plank and upper deck.

However, the Zhejiang was also beaten, and the guns on the Spanish warship hurriedly sprayed many chain bullets, some of which hit the thick board of the Zhejiang, but did not penetrate; Some of them swept across the deck, but caused quite a few casualties! Although the lethality of this cannonball composed of two iron balls and an iron chain is not as lethal as that of a shotgun, it can cause terrifying consequences! Anyone who was hit by those two iron balls was all broken bones! And the chain is even more terrifying, it can easily cut a good human body into two pieces like a hot knife cutting cream!

The deck of the Zhejiang's amidships suddenly became filled with a mist of blood, with the dead and wounded lying on their heels, and the seriously wounded and dying wailing in despair...... Victory is never easy to come by!

However, Hong Rihai's attention was not on his own brother, who was dead, but on the Spanish warship that had been hit by five flowering shells.

After the two ships passed by, his eyes were still fixed on the Spanish warship.

He was waiting for five 24-pound woodpipe fuses to work!

Boom Boom Boom ...... Three fires with a loud bang rose from the Spanish Galen ship of four or five hundred tons almost at the same time!