But now, he had to admit that this was true, these eight huge and strange Ming warships were really built of all-steel, because if it weren't for the all-steel warships, it would not have been possible to have such a strong ability to resist strikes.

Not only the Count of Lancas, but also the Spanish naval officers who were ordered by Lancas to meet the Ming warship backwards, or the entire Spanish fleet of hundreds of ships, were terrified, full of powerlessness and despair, their fighting spirit was completely crushed, and they could no longer afford to resist except fleeing for their lives.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "At this time, the eight Ming ironclad ships opened fire again.

Under the violent explosion, the hull of the ship was shattered, and several Spanish warships were sunk.

At that moment, only eleven of the thirty Spanish warships that turned their heads to meet the Ming warships were intact, and two were heavily damaged.

The losses were too heavy, and the powerful combat power of the Ming battleship completely crushed the will of the Spaniards, and the remaining Spanish battleships did not hesitate to turn around and flee wildly!

However, the main guns of the eight Daming ironclad ships have a firing range of more than seven thousand meters at the most, and the dozen or so Spanish warships that escaped are less than three thousand meters away, not to mention them, even the main force of the fleet of hundreds of ships of the Marquis of Arletoleka and Count Lancas at the forefront is still within the cannon range of the eight Daming ironclad ships.

"Did you run?" On one of the 5,000-ton flagships, Zheng Sen sneered.

Obviously, the entire Spanish fleet could not escape.

After another three volleys, all the remaining thirteen Spanish warships were sunk, and the guns on the eight Ming ironclad ships were once again aimed at the hundreds of Spanish ships at the front.

Because the thirty Spanish warships that were attacking backwards could not stop the time and speed of the Ming warships, the large force of the Spanish fleet with hundreds of ships in front had actually been narrowed to a distance of less than four thousand meters.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "Eight Ming ironclad ships continued to fire their guns.

One Spanish ship after another was sunk in full.

It was a one-sided, one-sided massacre, only the Spanish ships were sunk, and the Spanish ships could not hurt the huge Ming warship at all, such a psychological pressure was huge, and all the Spaniards in the fleet were pale.

"You can't escape at all, and you can't resist it!" The commander of the battleship fleet, Count Lancas, and the supreme commander of the fleet, Marquis Yaletleka, both knew this in their hearts.

But in this way, hundreds of ships were all sunk by the Ming warships, and they didn't want to see it, and they had a more important task, that is, to return to Europe and report the situation of the Ming warships to various countries. In the face of the common enemy of the Ming Dynasty, they must unite together, not only the unity of the land of the countries, but also the fleet, otherwise they can only fall victim to the Ming Iron Cavalry.

Both the Earl of Lancas and the Marquis of Arretoleka gritted their teeth, in fact, they had the only way.

Then it's a scattered rout!

It is to disperse the fleet of hundreds of ships and flee on its own in all directions.

The dispersion of hundreds of ships, while the number of Daming warships was limited, and it was impossible to stop the scattering and rout of a fleet of ships more than ten times their number.

This is also the only choice that can be made when the fleets of European countries are attacked and cannot resist.

As the Spanish soldiers on the ships of the Count of Lancas and the Marquis of Arletoleka successively waved the flags of scattered and fled to the entire fleet, the entire Spanish fleet, which still had about 400 ships left, all of them as individual ships, each broke in all directions.

The rout of more than 400 ships was huge, and it was immediately seen by Zheng Sen.

The Earl of Lancas and the Marquis of Arletoleka thought that if more than half of the more than half of their fleet of more than 400 ships scattered and escaped, they ignored a very serious problem, that is, the speed of the eight Daming ironclads was nearly twice that of their sail-powered ships, and even the thirty-two Daming Shenwei-class warships that were still five thousand meters away were faster than them.

Therefore, the Spanish fleet, which still had more than 400 ships left at the moment, would not necessarily be able to escape even if it was scattered and fled.

Different from the flag language of the Spanish fleet, the forty warships of the Ming fleet relied on radio communication, which was more convenient and faster. Therefore, the Spanish fleet had just begun to make a move to disperse and flee to the west, and the forty warships of the Ming fleet followed suit.

I saw that the eight Ming ironclad ships were the first to draw circles on both sides and sail, relying on a much higher speed to 'draw' a large circular encirclement to block the Spanish ships from scattering and fleeing in all directions.

On the 32 Shenwei-class wooden warships farther away, most of them also sailed in circles on both sides, and a small number of warships continued to pursue in the center.

Relying on much faster speeds, the eight steam-powered ironclads in particular continued to bombard the Spanish ships within range while quickly drawing circles and roundabouts from both sides.

Originally, each Ming ironclad required two rounds of artillery bombardment to sink a Spanish ship, but now the eight Ming ironclads have given up their intention to sink the Spanish ships, and have carried out a round of artillery bombardment on each Spanish ship, aiming to destroy most of their power and make them lose the ability to flee in all directions.

In this way, although the eight Ming ironclads were not able to sink the Spanish warships again, each round of shelling caused eight Spanish ships to be severely damaged and lost most of their power.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "Eight Ming warships shelled round after round, and after more than a dozen rounds of shelling, more than a hundred Spanish ships were severely damaged and lost most of their power.

At this time, none of the scattered Spanish ships could escape the limit range of more than seven thousand meters of the eight Ming warships, and even because the Daming warships had already detoured to the center, some Spanish warships were even only more than a thousand meters away from the eight Daming warships.

In this way, these Spanish ships that were too close to the Ming ironclad ship were suddenly tragic, and each Ming ironclad could not sink a Spanish warship at a time, but when these Spanish ships got too close, increasing the hit rate of the Daming battleship's cannon, each round of artillery bombardment of the Ming ironclad ship could sink a Spanish ship.

The naval battle became more and more intense, and even some of the Shenwei-class warships were already enough for their range of three thousand meters, and began to bombard the Spanish ships within the range. These were more of the Spanish ships that had been bombarded by the ironclad and lost most of their power.

This so-called naval battle can still only be a one-sided slaughter, hundreds of Spanish ships are powerless to fight back, as long as they are included in the firing range, it is basically difficult to escape.

The rate of fire of the cannons on the Ming ironclad ship is too fast, the huge 250 mm caliber main gun can have more than three rounds a minute, and those smaller secondary guns have a rate of fire of more than four rounds a minute.

It is conceivable that more than a dozen rounds of shelling by the Daming warships actually took less than ten minutes, and in such a short period of time, even if the Spanish ships scattered and fled, they could not escape much distance.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

"Bang! Boom! "One of the Spanish transport ships on which Yaretoleka was located was also hit by two shells, three masts were blown off, half of the hull was destroyed, and the ship undoubtedly lost most of its power.

The Marquis of Yaretoleka got up from the deck in disarray, and although the shell did not kill him or throw him into the sea, he was still wounded. A few injuries were secondary, and more importantly, he sadly discovered that after being hit hard and losing most of its power, it was impossible for the ship he was on to escape.

Boundless despair filled the heart of the Marquis of Arrettolyca.

Count Lancas's side is not much better, there were originally sixty warships under his command, and now there are less than ten of them still intact, during this period, it is not that there are no warships that have fired at the Ming ironclad, but without exception, they can only cause some tiny damage to the Daming ironclad ship that can be almost ignored, after a few rounds of shelling, the flagship of the Spanish South American fleet where Count Lancas is located was also hit by two shells, and half of the hull was shattered, although it did not sink, but it also lost most of its power.

More and more wooden warships of the Daimei Kamui class reached range and joined the bombardment.

Can't escape! Even if hundreds of ships scatter and escape, they will not be able to escape!

The speed of the Daming battleships was faster than them, especially the speed of the eight Daming ironclad ships, which was almost twice as fast as them!

One by one, the Spanish ships, which had lost most of their power, were sunk by the cannons of the subsequent wooden battleships of the Daimyojinwei-class ships.

When more than two hundred and fifty Spanish ships were heavily damaged, thirty of them sunk by the subsequent wooden battleships of the Daimyikamui-class, the will of the Spaniards broke down again, the last time the will to fight, and this time the will to flee.

Having lost the will to flee and not wanting to be buried at sea, many Spaniards made the painful decision to surrender to the Ming fleet.

One Spanish ship after another raised the white flag in surrender.

Spread to the two ships where the Count of Lancas and the Marquis of Yaretoleka were located, seeing that the general trend had gone at this moment, the fleet could not escape the encirclement and pursuit of the much faster Daming ironclad ships, especially when the two ships they were on had already been hit, lost most of their power, and there was no possibility of escape, the Count of Lancas and the Marquis of Yaretoleka both chose to surrender.

As the two ships of Lancas and Arretoleka raised their white flags and surrendered, the other Spanish ships also felt that it was impossible to escape, and they also raised the white flags to surrender to the Ming fleet that attacked them.

The Spanish fleet surrendered, and the entire fleet of nearly 400 remaining Spanish ships surrendered, including nearly 100,000 Spanish soldiers and immigrants, which was huge.

Among them, the most tragic is the Marquis of Yaretoleca, as one of the five commanders of the original five-nation alliance, the Marquis of Yaretoleka escaped the Panama rout, and fled from Colombia to northern Argentina, and finally before the Ming army completely occupied South America, he boarded a ship off the coast of Uruguay and fled from the South American continent, thinking that he could escape back to Europe smoothly, but unfortunately he did not do it after all, and was captured by the Ming army with hundreds of Spanish fleets.

For the first time, the Daming ironclad battleship went into battle, and only eight of them were dispatched, and with thirty-two Shenwei-class wooden warships, they achieved such brilliant results.

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