Chapter 943: The Great Ming Ironclad Ship

The colonies of Britain, France and the Netherlands in South America were not large, and after the main force was in Panama, the resistance of the three colonies together was less than one-third of Brazil's, and the area was smaller, and it was soon occupied by the Ming army, and some of the colonial troops and immigrants of Britain, France and the Netherlands withdrew from South America with their fleets.

Immediately afterwards, the Ming army continued to move south, attacking Argentina, Chile and other last Spanish colonies.

When Brazil was captured by the Ming army, the Portuguese evacuated in disarray, and the Ming army began to sweep through the British, French and Dutch colonies, the commander of the Spanish army in Uruguay, Marquis de Aretoleca, had already persuaded the Spanish Supreme Commanders of Argentina and Chile to abandon Argentina and Chile and evacuate the South American continent.

The Spanish Supreme Commanders of Argentina and Chile saw the crushing defeat of the Portuguese, and also knew the strength of the Ming army, and knew that they had no possibility of resisting the Ming army to hold the South American colonies, and that they could only be slaughtered by the Ming army if they stayed, so they agreed to abandon Argentina and Chile and evacuate South America with the Marquis of Yaretoleca.

The evacuation of the Spaniards greatly accelerated the progress of the Ming army in capturing Argentina's Chile, and after the Ming army passed through Argentina, it advanced towards Uruguay at a very fast speed, with the intention of intercepting the Spaniards fleeing from Uruguay in South America.

Fortunately, the Spaniards evacuated quickly, and the evacuation was completed before the Ming army arrived.

"God, our beautiful and rich continent of America, which has completely left our Spanish Empire!" The Marquis of Arretolyca and a large number of Spaniards looked at the coastline of the Americas, which was getting farther and farther away, and their hearts were filled with grief beyond words.

"Nope! Our Spanish Empire is a God-favored country, we should not have such a fate, and one day, we should fight back to South America, expel the Ming people, and reclaim our colonies! Many Spanish generals swore viciously.

Of course, this is more of a ruthless talk, after all, after seeing the strength of the Ming army, they can't raise any confidence at all while they speak.

However, this sentence comforted a large number of Spaniards, and they all nodded firmly, as if one day their Spanish Empire would come back to defeat the Ming army.

The cruel words have been said, but their withdrawal does not seem to be as simple as that of Britain, France, the Netherlands and Portugal, and it will be fine to leave the coast.

In the southwest sea, at least thirty warships appeared in the rear of the evacuated Spanish fleet.

"Bell ---- bell bell -----" The alarm bells on many Spanish battleships were sounded, attracting the attention of the entire fleet, all the Spaniards.

On one of the ships, the Marquis of Yarettoleka saw through the telescope the Daming Golden Dragon Banner hanging on at least thirty unknown warships, and the identities of these warships were confirmed at once.

"They are ---- Ming warships!" Marquis Yaretolaika's eyes widened for a moment, and he could also see clearly the number of Ming warships, which were a full forty warships.

"Ou! No -----" The Spaniards on the other Spanish ships were all frightened.

"Shh----, what kind of monster is that!" Suddenly, the Marquis of Yaretolaika's hand shook, and the telescope almost fell unsteadily on the deck, what did he see, there were eight particularly large battleships among the forty Ming warships, and the hulls were obviously different from ordinary warships.

The hull is gray, there are no sails, in the middle of the ship is a huge smoking tube, and more importantly, the ship does not appear to be wooden, but more like iron.

"How is this possible! No! It's completely impossible! How can a battleship be driven without sails, and how can an iron battleship float in the sea! It was not the Marquis de Yaretoleka who uttered this, but the Spanish admiral of the sixty ships of the Spanish fleet.

The Spanish admiral had twenty years of naval experience, which he had never seen before, let alone heard of iron being able to float on the surface of the sea, so he couldn't believe it, he thought it was his hallucination.

However, no matter how much he rubbed his eyes, what he saw was still the same, the gray, huge Ming warship.

"It's horrible!" The Spanish admiral's words trembled a little, obviously he was terrified, he didn't know how to defeat such an unknown and massive, probably all of the Ming warship made of steel.

They have seen the strength of the Ming Army, and it is desperately strong, and the strength of the Ming Fleet, as early as more than ten years ago, the eight-nation joint fleet went on an expedition to the Ming Dynasty, but the result was a disastrous defeat, which has also been proven.

And now, the Ming fleet also has those eight huge unknown warships.

Although it seems that the number of Ming warships is only forty, and their Spanish fleet has at least sixty warships and hundreds of ordinary ships.

However, don't look at the size of their Spanish fleet, but only those sixty warships can really resist the Ming warships, but they obviously don't have the confidence that they can resist the forty warships of the Ming Dynasty with their own sixty warships, especially the fleet mixed with these eight unknown huge warships, once their sixty warships are sunk, then the remaining hundreds of ordinary transport ships in their fleet can only be slaughtered.

The Spaniards of the entire Spanish fleet, including such high-ranking generals as the Marquis of Yaretoleca, were filled with fear.

"The fleet is moving at full speed, get rid of them!" The Marquis of Yaretolaika and the admiral of the Spanish fleet were all roaring.

In utter fear, the Spanish fleet sailed at full speed while praying to their god that they would be able to shake off this terrifying Ming fleet.

Southwest sea, on the side of the Ming fleet.

On one of the flagships, Zheng Sen went to the telescope to see the fear of the Spaniards on board the Spanish ship.

The corners of Zheng Sen's mouth hooked up a cold smile: "For so many years, it is the first time that my Ming Navy has an ironclad ship, so it's better to wait for you to open the meat first!" ”

Since more than 12 years ago, the first ironclad ship of the Ming Dynasty was launched, and the Ming Dynasty has built nearly 100 ironclad ships, but the ironclad ship is a secret weapon that appeared in this world for the first time, and it is not suitable to be exposed to the enemy in the absence of a suitable one to exert its power.

In the Battle of Malacca that year, although the Ming Dynasty achieved an absolute victory and defeated the combined fleet of the eight European countries, it did not interrupt the trade with European countries after the war, but in order to avoid the premature exposure of ironclad ships, more advanced technology of the Ming Dynasty was prematurely exposed, so the Ming Dynasty blocked the passage of the Strait of Malacca into the South China Sea, and all the trade with European countries was transported by rail to Kuala Lumpur in the middle of the Strait of Malacca, and then shipped and sold to European countries along the coast of Kuala Lumpur.

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