The artillery fire of the forty naval warships was indeed fierce, but they were not facing a dozen small warships ready to burn, nor hundreds of ships, but a sea of thousands of ships like a meteor shower.

When Alonso and Simão discovered that a number of small boats had crossed their artillery blockade, they immediately ordered at the same time: "Ceasefire, raise the sails, and fill the rudder!" ”

The warships of the two countries turned their bows one after another, and their aim was simple, that is, to quickly evacuate while the small boats had not yet arrived, and to open fire again when they reached a safe distance.

This kite-flying tactic was often used in cavalry, and it was only when artillery could be mounted on a warship that it became popular at sea.

According to Alonso and Simao's calculations, they could have gradually consumed the huge number of fireships in Li Nan's fleet in this way, but they forgot that the battlefield was not their choice.

"Sun Bin Art of War-Moon War" records: "The time, the place, and the people, the three are not allowed, although there is a victory." ”

"Mencius-Gongsun Chouxia" said: "The time is not as good as the place, and the place is not as good as the people." ”

Now the weather is sunny and the sea breeze is not strong, so there is no difference in the time of day faced by the two fleets, and the biggest difference is that the Western Combined Fleet chose to start a war on Li Nan's territory.

Li Nan chose to blockade the port of Singapore, in fact, because of the complexity of this sea area.

There are quite a few islands in the vicinity of Singapore Harbour, among which the larger ones are Batam, Buran, Sugi, Kundur, Mendore, etc.

While the mixed fleets of the two Western countries were fighting and retreating, another fleet was transferred from behind the islands.

There were also not many large ships in this fleet, but there were as many as five or six hundred small ships, and they were exactly the same tactics that Li Nan had just used, and those small ships also fearlessly swarmed up and surrounded the western fleet from the rear.

In the face of these locust-like ships, although forty warships from the West were firing their cannons as fast as they could, the final outcome was the same as those burned pirate ships, and each huge battleship was nailed with flaming boats.

The warships of this era were completely wooden, and now they were shrouded in flames, which was a catastrophe, and all the captains were roaring and ordering all the crew to fetch water to put out the fire.

The crew threw buckets of ropes into the sea, but as they lifted the water upwards with all their might, a strange blue-white hand scorched by the flames appeared from the fireboat below, and they cut the ropes with the steel knives they clenched.

The fire grew bigger and bigger, and if the temperature around the ship was too high, a large amount of gunpowder stored in the ship would explode, so the captains of the ships had to order the sailors to pour buckets of fresh water from the cabin to relieve the urgent need.

While the ships were busy putting out the fire, a second group of zombie shooters appeared on the approaching Xiao boats, and they fired flaming rockets onto the sails of the enemy ships.

Neither the rigid sails of the East nor the soft sails of the West were particularly strong and fireproof, so the sails on these battleships were set on fire.

The Sea King and the other main battleships were all parked outside the range of the enemy warships, Li Nan looked at the Western sailors who were tired of fighting the fire, and said to Angelica beside him with a smile: "There is no sail, and there is no fresh water, do you think they can hold out for a few days?" ”

"There should also be some whiskey stored on board, but because these are naval warships, the amount of alcohol won't be too much." Angelica guessed, "About three days." ”

Looking at the battleships surrounded by flames, Li Nan smiled and said, "You are from Spain, do you think they will blow up the ship?" ”

Angelica shook her head and said: "Those cowards in Portugal will definitely not, but the Spanish warships are not easy to say, after all, the Spaniards are very loyal Catholics." ”

"You're a Catholic too?" Li Nan asked curiously.

"I may have been a religious before." Angelica said with a gloomy expression: "But for the sake of my father, I made a deal with a witch, and I guess God has long abandoned me. ”

Li Nan stroked the little beauty's frowning eyebrows, and comforted softly: "Your god looks harsh, but I think God will forgive you." ”

The Portuguese and Spanish ships were basically sail warships, there were no oars on board, and they sailed on the sea by the power of the wind, so when they lost their sails, the forty warships became forty wooden boxes that could only shake with the waves.

The small fireships that surround these warships are different from destroying the pirate ships, because Li Nan wants to take down these powerful warships, so there are not many flammable materials on the fireships.

Li Nan spent hundreds of fireships, and what he wanted to do was to destroy the sails and fresh water of the enemy's warships, without these two things, the powerful warships would be wasted.

Alonso and Simão weren't stupid, they quickly understood this, and they also guessed what Li Nan was planning.

I figured out the enemy's intentions, but they don't have many options now, do they want to surrender? Or wait for the whole ship to die of thirst, or blow up the battleship so that the enemy has nothing to gain?

Two days passed, and Li Nan was not in a hurry, he just let his fleet surround these battleships.

On the night of the third day, all the crew members of the Western warships, sewing a simple sail from torn sails, sheets, clothing, and all the cloth they could find, tried to leave the place in the night.

Li Nan, who had thought of this for a long time, destroyed the last shred of hope of the Portuguese and Spaniards with rockets and chain bombs.

On the morning of the fourth day, Simao, the commander of the Portuguese navy, finally ordered the entire fleet to surrender.

Worried that the other party was surrendering, Li Nan did not board the ship in person, but sent dozens of small boats full of zombie soldiers, and after confirming that the other party had indeed surrendered, he dragged these warships back to Singapore Port.

The Spaniards of faith were even more determined, but the unbearable hunger and thirst of the Spaniards after five days of not drinking water made most of the sailors forget their god for a while.

Realizing that the defeat was assured, Alonso, the commander of the Spanish fleet, gave the order to blow up all the warships.

No one wants to die, survival is the instinct of every species, and it is clear that there are not many people like Alonso who put honor first, so when his order was given, the sailors on the ship, led by the first mate, rushed into the captain's room in silence......

The Spaniards also surrendered, and Li Nan did not care about the life and death of the Spanish admiral Alonso, he only cared about these forty ships of the mainstream of the West equipped with the latest artillery.

If Li Nan wants to go to the Western world for an adventure, it is impossible to use this fireship tactic, and the fortune ships of the Ming Dynasty are obviously not suitable for naval warfare in this era, so these Western warships are particularly important.