Sun Yuzhi knew that the main firepower of European warships was now on both sides of the warships, and now the fleet of the British coalition was also divided into two fleets, speeding towards the sides of the escort fleet and merchant ships. The warships of the Ming army were designed to use the bow to meet the enemy, and the guns rushed forward, although they could rotate in a certain direction, but it was impossible to shoot backwards, but the mortars on the deck were not restricted by any direction, and the hand-cranked machine guns on the warships could also be reversed. Sun Yuzhi saw that the other party intended to outflank him from both sides. He divided his fleet into two, and blocked them while retreating.

Now the ships are driven by the wind, but the merchant ships are relatively wide, and the warships are relatively narrow, but if you drive while firing the cannons, because the cannons have recoil, the speed is not too much in comparison, but there are too many warships of the England and Dutch coalition forces, and the rotation of running does not have much impact on their speed, and the two fleets chase and retreat on the sea, but the distance is not much wider.

From morning to noon, Sun Yuzhi's escort warship because of the steam engine, the soldiers had nothing else to do except fire their guns, but the sailors on the merchant ship couldn't stand it, they didn't have enough strength for the soldiers, so Sun Yuzhi had no choice, seeing that the distance was getting closer and closer, Sun Yuzhi wanted to scold his mother in a hurry, so he had to order the soldiers to prepare cannons, destroy several coalition ships and threaten them.

Just when Sun Yuzhi was about to fight hard, the situation changed, and the fleet sailed in front of the merchant ship, which was about a dozen miles away from the distance, looking at the black smoke coming from the ship, Sun Yuzhi finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the reinforcements finally arrived.

Now that the reinforcements are coming, there is no need to retreat, Sun Yuzhi's thirty escort warships began to turn, and the forty warships in the merchant fleet also began to turn, these forty warships are all European warships that were originally captured, and there is no way to re-refit them in Ming Island, they are still the same as they were, but they are also equipped with mortars and hand-cranked machine guns, but most of them are recruits, and their combat effectiveness is limited, but they are also considered to be a supplement to combat effectiveness.

When the combined fleets of England and the Netherlands saw Sun Yuzhi's fleet stop and turn, they slowed down and prepared for a decisive battle. It's just that because of the different ship types and artillery fire settings, the formations adopted by the two sides are also different, and it is the same for the Ming army, but it is very awkward for the English and Dutch coalition forces, Sun Yuzhi's fleet directly intercepted it head-on, and they had to line up in battle formations to prepare for the bombardment, but in the process of changing the formation, Sun Yuzhi's fleet was able to catch fire and a few ships, and the Ming fleet did not receive any losses.

After the two sides fought in a confrontational style for half an hour, Xiao Hailong's combined fleet finally arrived, but it was only the Ming fleet that arrived, and the fleets of Portugal and Spain were still thirty miles away. Seeing that the Ming army came to support the fleet, it startled the allied fleets of England, the Netherlands and other countries at first, and when they saw that there were only more than 80 warships, they immediately put down the new ones and reorganized them again, intending to surround this fleet and annihilate it all, but they soon regretted it.

After Xiao Hailong's fleet joined the battlefield, Sun Yuzhi handed over the command to Xiao Hailong, and the warships of the Ming army immediately adopted the method of concentrating firepower to annihilate one by one, taking five battleships as a combat unit, concentrating cannon fire on the attacking targets at the same time, and a warship would be blown to pieces in each round, which was not expected by the combined fleets of England, the Netherlands and other countries, they did not know what kind of artillery would be so strong.

The two fleets of the Ming army combined with one hundred and twenty warships, and every group of five was twenty-four groups, which meant that twenty-four warships were sunk after each round of shelling, and the tactics of the Ming army quickly disrupted the formation of the coalition forces, and they lost the power of collective combat, and the scene of firing thousands of shells at a time was gone, and even in order to avoid becoming the target of the next attack, they began to collide with each other, and the whole scene began to be chaotic, and the combat effectiveness became weaker and weaker. On the contrary, Ming Jun gradually grasped the initiative on the battlefield.

In less than half an hour, after ten rounds of artillery bombardment by the Ming army, half of the allied warships had been sunk, and this was still because the scene was chaotic and the Ming army did not dare to open fire casually. Under normal circumstances, when the army loses 20 percent of its combat strength, it will collapse, and the coalition army, which has now lost half of its warships, has collapsed, and the Ming warships began to disperse their ranks to pursue one by one.

The sailors of the fleet who had been chasing for a long time were already very tired, and now they were beaten to pieces, so some warships began to hang up the white flag and surrender, but the Ming army did not plan to take prisoners at all this time, especially Sun Yuzhi's escort fleet, which was chased for a long time and could not open fire, and had long been holding back his anger, whether it was hung up or not, all the places were sunk, and none of them were spared, even the soldiers who fell into the water would be hit with machine guns for a while, and Xiao Hailong, who was only angry, scolded the loser, these soldiers who fell into the water did not need to waste bullets at all, They're all going to be drowned.

The battle did not last more than an hour, including cleaning the battlefield to clear the overboard enemy, all the enemy battleships were sunk, and none of them escaped, all the overboard soldiers were either drowned or killed by the Ming army, the machine gun was not used, Xiao Hailong would kick his ass, but Xiao Hailong still supported the firing gun practice marksmanship. This is the result of the difference in artillery fire, and also the result of the comparison of the power of the steam engine with ordinary manpower, and science and technology are the perfect interpretation of this battle.

By the time the Portuguese and Spanish warships arrived two hours later, the Ming army had already finished cleaning the battlefield, except for the debris of wood planks everywhere, floating corpses, and even the shadow of the warship could not be found, they would never have dreamed that the Ming army would annihilate a combined fleet of nearly 500 warships so cleanly, even the merchants on the merchant ship team did not know how many warships the Ming army had sunk, they only cared about fleeing for their lives, who would worry about the victory or defeat of the battlefield.

The Portuguese and Spanish soldiers knew that the Ming fleet was strong, but they could not have imagined that it would be so strong, if they encountered nearly 500 warships, it was estimated that it was more likely to escape. They didn't see the battle with their own eyes, and the merchant ships only saw the artillery fire from a distance, so they could only have an assessment of the strength of the Ming Navy, and there was no actual data comparison, which made them very depressed.

This Atlantic naval battle basically wiped out the elite navies of England, the Netherlands, France, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark and other countries. There are almost more than 100,000 soldiers on nearly 500 warships, and the annual output of more than 15,000 warships is not a big deal for the Dutch, and a fleet can be rebuilt in a few months. This means that within five years, the navies of these countries will be in the weakest state, and the navies of Portugal and Spain will be able to dominate Europe again, and those pirates who have been robbing Lisbon will be surrounded and suppressed by the navies of the two countries, and even the newly independent Netherlands will be swallowed up by Spain again, and the sea carriage will lose its coachman.

The merchant ships will be escorted by the escort fleet led by Sun Yuzhi to Lisbon in Europe, and Sun Yuzhi will negotiate an agreement on the joint division of the world colonies with the kings of Spain and Portugal on behalf of the Ming Dynasty, and the specific agreement arrangements will be a matter for a later date. Xiao Hailong returned to the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean with the Combined Fleet to settle accounts with the Dutch East India Company, because it was very clear that the Netherlands was involved in this war, and they would have to pay the price for this war, and it was a heavy price.

After returning to Ming Island, Sanchez, the Portuguese consul in Macao and in charge of Asian affairs, was still waiting there. Xiao Hailong only told all the intentions of this plan when he set off, Sanchez has been waiting for the result with fear, but when he saw the return of the combined fleet that had not suffered the slightest loss, he thought that there was no battle, and when he knew that he had encountered the main fleet of the coalition forces of England, the Netherlands and other countries, and annihilated them all, he was almost shocked. Sanchez never dreamed that he would win a complete victory, and that it would be the Ming fleet that would complete the mission on its own. He now re-evaluated the strength of the Ming fleet, and was deeply glad that he had decided to unite with the Ming Dynasty, and he also regretted the decision of the Netherlands, after all, it was once a country. But now it's too late to say anything, instead of participating in their own side, they have become enemies, this is their own decision, and now they can divide the fruits of victory.