Chapter 872: The Miserable Combined Fleet

The Combined European Fleet was finally defeated after losing more than seventy percent of its ships.

In total, there were about 150 warships left, either turning around or fleeing to the sides, and the seas of Malacca were littered with a large number of fleeing Combined Fleet warships.

In terms of the Ming fleet, there are about 230 warships left, which not only crush the European combined fleet in terms of quantity, but also crush the combat effectiveness.

More than 230 Ming warships also began to disperse and pursue the European Combined Fleet warships that wanted to break and flee in all directions.

On the flagship of the South China Sea Fleet, Zheng Sen sneered.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty was 100% sure from the beginning, the reason why it chose to fight a decisive battle in the Strait of Malacca is because the width of the Strait of Malacca is narrow, and there are only two exits from the east and west, the European Combined Fleet collapses, no matter which direction it goes, in the end it can only escape to the west entrance, only by escaping to the vast Indian Ocean, they can have a glimmer of life, but this is undoubtedly not easy.

While the Ming battleship was pursuing, the artillery did not stop shelling.

At present, many Combined Fleet warships are only less than 1,500 meters away from the Daming Fleet, and even if they break out, it will be difficult for them to escape the range of the Daming warships for a while.

Basically, all the cannons on every Ming warship were fired at the cannons of a combined fleet.

At a distance of about 1,500 meters, the hit rate of the guns of the Ming warships could even reach the ratio of one out of eight.

A French battleship of the Combined Fleet in a rout was fired by 32 cannons on a Ming battleship, hitting four shells at once, half of the hull was shattered, and dozens of French soldiers were overturned and thrown into the sea.

On the surface of the sea, a large number of corpses and severed limbs floated, and large swaths of the sea water were stained red.

"Boom Boom" was only about six breaths apart, and the French battleship was hit by four shells again.

After a loud bang, not only was most of the hull of the French battleship blown to pieces, but the entire ship was also blown in two, and it quickly sank into the sea with a large amount of smoke.

As with this French battleship, there were many more warships from other countries.

The flagship of the Portuguese fleet was also targeted and followed by a Ming warship while escaping, and the commander of the Portuguese fleet, who had been observing the rear with a telescope, was pale and his legs were trembling.

"No" In the horror of the commander of the Portuguese fleet, the Ming battleship opened fire on his flagship.

Although this Ming battleship was not a complete battleship, and several cannons had been destroyed in the naval battle just now, there were also twenty-eight shells flying towards the Portuguese flagship.

With a few loud bangs, the Portuguese flagship was enveloped in flames.

"Ahh

Before falling into the cold water, the commander of the Portuguese fleet could no longer feel his legs, and he must have been blown off in the explosion.

Thump! With a thud, the commander of the Portuguese fleet fell into the sea, and after losing his legs, he could no longer struggle, and was soon swept to the bottom of the sea, leaving only a patch of water red with his blood.

This is the second flagship of the five major sea powers to be sunk after Spain.

At this moment, the so-called eight-nation combined fleet only has the flagships of Britain, France and the Netherlands left, among them, the flagships of Britain and France have been more or less hit by one or two shells, and more importantly, they are all less than two thousand meters away from the pursuing Ming fleet, which is completely within the range of the Ming warships.

On the contrary, the Dutch flagship of the commander of the Dutch fleet is a class of warships, located in the Dutch-class battleship group about 2,700 meters away from the Daming battleship group.

At this moment, although dozens of Dutch-class warships can fire at the Ming fleet from a distance of nearly three thousand meters, the extremely poor hit rate of the class cannons can not pose much threat to the Ming fleet with two hundred remaining warships.

The Duke of Havelan ordered the seventy ships to leave the other Combined Fleet ships behind them and flee to the west, to keep the last few dozen ships for the great Netherlands.

"Damn Havelan, you will be punished!" The commander of the French fleet, now Havelan, intended to abandon them and flee by himself, and was immediately so angry that he cursed.

Pursued by the Ming fleet, it may be sunk at any time, and the commander of the British fleet is also full of despair, but he has no heart to scold the Duke of Havelan, he only thinks about how to escape from Malacca, escape back to Obarro with the only remaining warships of Great Britain, and escape back to Great Britain!

It's a pity that although they want to escape, all the British and French battleships are within the range of three thousand meters of the Ming fleet, and if they want to escape from the range of the Ming battleships, they must at least escape more than one thousand meters later, but the navigation degree of the Ming battleships is not slower than that of the British and French combined fleet warships, and it is simply impossible for the British and French combined fleet warships to escape the death line of more than 1,000 meters.

In addition to the seventy-class warships of the Netherlands, the remaining warships of various countries were all within a distance of more than 1,500 to 2,000 meters from the pursuing Ming fleet, and there were less than forty left in total at this moment.

The British flagship was also hit by shells poured by the Ming fleet.

The commander of the British fleet was not killed directly, nor was he thrown directly into the sea, but into the broken cabin.

At the same time, the French flagship was hit by two shells, and the entire battleship was severely damaged, and the voyage was greatly slowed down.

There are still more than two hundred warships left in the Ming fleet, but all the cannons are aimed at them, and there are less than forty warships, so you can imagine their fate, even if they scatter and flee, there are two or three Daming warships behind each battleship in pursuit.

More than two dozen Combined Fleet warships were sunk, and despair permeated the remaining Combined Fleet.

"God, they are all devils!" Finally, some of the warships could not bear the fear of being sunk at any time, and found a large number of white flags symbolizing surrender and kept waving towards the Ming warships that pursued them.

The remnants of the Combined Fleet battleships began to surrender.

On the French flagship, on the orders of the commander-in-chief of the French fleet, a white flag was also raised, indicating that it was going to surrender.

Seeing that the remnants of the Combined Fleet warships began to surrender, the pursuing Daming battleships immediately stopped shelling, preparing to capture the surrendered Combined Fleet warships, and also give the Combined Fleet warships that had not yet surrendered a chance.

After all, every surrendered Combined Fleet warship had hundreds of soldiers of the Combined Fleet on board, as well as a large amount of supplies, and after being captured, not only did it add a lot of free coolies to the Ming Dynasty, but the battleship itself was also worth a lot of money, and there was no need to sink them all.

After a while, the commander of the British fleet was also helped out of the broken flagship cabin by British soldiers, and the British battleships also raised white flags and surrendered.

Except for the seventy battleships of the Duke of Havelan, which were about three thousand meters away, all the remaining Combined Fleet battleships surrendered.

"Keep the pursuit!" Shen Jing and Zheng Sen began to set their sights on the last remaining Dutch seventy-class warships, and after ordering some of the battleships to stay behind and capture the other combined fleet warships that surrendered, they pursued the Duke of Havelan and the seventy Dutch-class warships with two hundred warships.