On the side of the Combined European Fleet, a Dutch soldier who was looking through a telescope at the belvedere on the mast of a Dutch warship sailed at the front suddenly had his eyes wide open.

He saw the front of the fleet, and suddenly the shadow of a faint gray ship appeared on the distant horizon.

If you look at it from the shadow alone, this ship is so weird, not only can you not see any sails on this vague ship, but in the center of this ship, there is a huge circular 'pillar' that is constantly smoking.

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More and more of the same ships appeared on the blurred horizon, each ship was more or less the same, without the sails of a traditional ship, the huge 'pillar' in the middle of the hull was smoking, and the gray hull added to the strangeness of these strange ships, like ghosts.

The Dutch naval soldier in charge of the lookout couldn't help but shudder.

"Ding Ding Ding Ding -----" Some of the combined European fleet warships sailing at the front have begun to ring the alarm bell, and on the central mast of each battleship, the soldiers in charge of looking out are trying to look.

They have also spotted the ghostly flotilla ahead, and they are trying to confirm the 'identity' of this flotilla.

Even if the Combined Fleet's warship group is huge, it should not be afraid of any sea power, but this ghostly fleet in front of them is really too weird, and they can't help but feel palpitations in their hearts.

Finally, as the two fleets approached, 10,000 meters and 8,000 meters, the soldiers of the Combined Fleet finally confirmed the 'identity' of the strange ghost fleet in front of them.

"Hiss---, Golden Dragon Banner! They are the fleet of the Ming Empire! There were soldiers of the Combined European Fleet who exclaimed loudly.

"God, what kind of warship is this in the Ming Empire, so weird!" The Supreme Commander of the European Combined Fleet, Duke Peter Burston was shocked.

Archbishop Spabot also looked through the binoculars, his eyes widened, his face full of shock and incredulity.

The other commanders were equally shocked and incredulous.

"It is worthy of the mysterious Eastern Empire that has created such a strange warship!" A glimmer of light flashed in Archbishop Spabot's eyes: "However, such a strange warship of the Eastern Empire, although it is not sure how powerful it is, there are not many of them, only less than a hundred, and this will collide with our combined fleet, just look for death!" ”

Over the years, Daming's ironclad ships have always been hidden, except for a few ships dispatched during the last interception of the Spanish fleet, they have never been exposed in front of other Europeans, so now they suddenly appear in front of the European Combined Fleet, which will cause the shock of the European Combined Fleet.

"That's right! Although these Ming warships are weird, they can only be destroyed by our huge battleship group! The Supreme Commander of the Combined Fleet, Duke Peter Burston nodded, with a firm expression.

As the best naval marshal in England today, and one of the best naval marshals in Europe, Duke Peter Burston has reason to believe that the Combined Fleet warship group under his leadership can undoubtedly tear apart all enemies, even if this kind of strange warship that he has never seen or heard of in the Ming Empire.

Duke Peter Burston knows very well that a new type of battleship may be stronger in combat than all old warships, but it will never be much stronger, and their combined fleet of 1,221 warships is more than ten times that of the strange Ming fleet in front of them, and the absolute number is enough for them to occupy an absolute advantage in all aspects, so the balance of victory has always been on their side.

"Order all ships of the combined fleet, prepare for battle, and destroy the Ming fleet in front of you!" Duke Peter Burston ordered.

"God forbid! Destroy them! Archbishop Spaport also grimaced and said, no matter what, the Ming Empire must be defeated by the combined fleet, and the brilliance of God must be sprinkled on the land of the Ming Empire in the hands of his Spavid Archbishop.

The huge European Combined Fleet warship group was in a black area, and the soldiers of all countries on each ship were urgently preparing, and the muzzles of each cannon began to adjust, especially the 200 European super warships with a range of 5,000 meters that rushed to the front.

Come to think of it, the commanders of the fleets of various European countries hope to use these 200 5,000-meter super warships with the longest range to shoot the first shot, and first give the weird Ming fleet in front of them a dismount.

On the side of the Ming mixed fleet.

Shen Jingchao and other admirals of the Ming Fleet were also using telescopes to observe the huge warship group of the European Combined Fleet in front.

"Hehe, the fleet of the European barbarians is really huge, a group of more than 1,200 warships, such a number can really scare people, but it's a pity that -----" Shen Jingchao had a disdainful smile on the corner of his mouth, and he didn't finish speaking, but listening to his tone, he knew that he didn't take the European Combined Fleet as many warships as many as their Daming fleet more than ten times the number of warships in his eyes at all.

Not only did Shen Jingchao, the supreme commander of the Ming Mixed Fleet, disdain, but the entire Ming Mixed Fleet, from the naval soldiers to the generals, did not take the huge warship group of the European Combined Fleet into account.

Because as the generals on the ironclad ships, they know too well how great the combat power of the steel battleships under their feet is, not to mention that the number of warships in the European Combined Fleet is more than ten times that of theirs, even if it is twenty times or thirty times, they also have full confidence that the European Combined Fleet will not come back.

Soon, the distance between the two fleets was reduced from 8,000 meters to about 7,500 meters.

"Prepare for war!" Seeing that it had entered the firing range, Shen Jingchao ordered.

The cannons of all types on the ninety-six Daming steel battleships began to adjust their muzzles and aim at the European Combined Fleet warship group in front.

"Fire!"

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "Seven thousand meters away, the dozen or so Daming steel warships sailing in the front were the first to start firing.

Dozens of shells crossed a distance of more than 7,000 meters and flew towards the battleship group of the European Combined Fleet.

"Ou! Don't -----" The generals of all levels of the European Combined Fleet widened their eyes in disbelief.

They deployed 200 super warships with a range of 5,000 meters at the forefront of the fleet, and originally wanted to give the Daming fleet in front of them a dismount and destroy them a few thousand meters away, but they didn't expect that the battleships of the Daming fleet had a longer range, and they began to fire at them from more than 7,000 meters away.

"Bang! Boom! Bang -----" huge columns of water were blown up.

Half of the hull of the battleship that was hit by the "bombardment ----" was shrouded in flames, and the splinters of wood, the corpses of naval soldiers, and the cannons lost the support of the wooden batteries and were overturned into the sea, and the barrels of the guns weighing several thousand pounds smashed on the sea, and then smashed out huge splashes.

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