"You guys go, I'm not leaving, I'm going to resist here to the end, how many people can escape, and I will meet the fourth brother in the future and ask him to avenge me." Zheng Keshuang pushed the butler's hand away.

The housekeeper shouted tears and ran away with the rest of the Zheng family.

On the sea, Gerard Peak looked at the burning Nanyang Kingdom Cebu Island, looking at the gradually weakening enemy shore artillery fire, he was very proud, he had sent all the soldiers and horses to land, this time to completely eliminate the population of the Han here, and then recruit a new group of Han people to do business here, this group of Han hatred is too deep, he can't keep them.

Just when he was proud, he suddenly stopped the artillery fire, he turned around, and saw that the armed merchant ship he had arranged to patrol the perimeter had fled back in disarray, and the sails in the distance were full of shadows, and the sky and the sea were connected, and a big Hongzi flag fluttered on a warship at the head.

"That's?" He asked.

"That's the fleet of the Ryukyu Kingdom's Hongtian Cannon, and they're coming." His lieutenant jumped from a clipper to his in embarrassment and shouted.

"How many soldiers and horses are there?"

"How many boats?"

The adjutant shouted: "It is reported that there are two hundred armed merchant ships, two hundred warships, two hundred warships, and two hundred merchant ships, and they have a hundred warships that have gone to Manila, and a hundred merchant ships have followed, and here are six hundred ships, approximately." ”

"How many troops do we have?" Gerard Peak asked.

The adjutant wiped his sweat, "Our merchant ships have lost eighty, and now there are one hundred and thirty ships that docked to transport supplies and landing troops, and there are eighty armed merchant ships, and forty of them were lost, and they were defeated by the Hong family, and only fifteen of the remaining forty ships escaped back." Thirty-five warships were inside the port, sixty warships were also inside, and there were only forty warships outside, and fifty-five warships were now engaged in battle with the Hong family's fleet. ”

Gilardpeak: "What about the Dutch? ”

"The Dutch have landed on the other side, and they are killing and plundering in the city, two thousand soldiers and horses, five thousand native soldiers and horses, sixty of their warships are docked in the harbor, and eighty merchant ships are docked in the harbor, and the rest have gone to make peace with the British. They lost about seventy-six warships, warships and merchant ships, and they were in the waters on the other side of Leyte. ”

"Quick, let all the ships in the port come out, don't let the family be blocked in the port like last time, order the warships and warships outside the port, the armed merchant ships turn around, and we will meet them."

Gerard Peak feels that with their current strength, they still have the ability to fight.

The adjutant tugged at his sleeve and said, "Your Excellency the Governor, no, the enemy is fierce, many of our warships have been wounded, and we must retreat quickly." ”

Gerard Peak was pulled by him and calmed down, it does seem that there are a lot of ships on their side, and in terms of naval warfare, their Spaniards are more clever than the Hans, the sailors are well-trained, they all rely on the sea for food, they can sail so far, and defeat countless enemies, and the Dutch, French, and British in the Far East to fight to the death, do not fall behind, combat effectiveness is not said.

But the number of enemies is too much, and the Hong family's naval fleet is not bad at all, with the Qing army, they, as well as the Portuguese, British, Dutch, and even the Chinese naval division have fought tragic battles, if the number is not much different, then you can still fight, but in terms of numbers, they are full of calculations, counting the Dutch warships and armed merchant ships, but more than 400 ships, but the enemy has more than 600 ships.

They have been bombarding Zheng Zhi's Cebu Island shore artillery for so long, losing nearly a hundred armed merchant ships, warships, and warships, but the other party was not injured at all, and came to directly defeat the armed merchant ships patrolling the periphery, in his current field of vision, the enemy has appeared within twenty nautical miles, and the armed merchant ships they are responsible for the periphery have evaded, and the warships rushed up, and were immediately surrounded and beaten by the enemy's hundreds of armed merchant ships, the enemy's artillery is not bad at all, the fire is fierce, and even two warships have been sunk in less than a quarter of an hour, Three ships were damaged.

Although the enemy paid the same number of armed merchant ships and warships, the number of enemies was still able to compete for the quality of their side.

"Let the wounded ship go first, and the other ships will meet it, and notify the people on land to evacuate. Evacuate to the port and territory on the island of Leyte, which was occupied by the British and Dutch. ”

Gerald Peak gave the right order.

Then he took more than a hundred warships and warships from this side to meet him.

On the opposite side, the enemy's armed merchant ships, more than a hundred of them, lined up in a zigzag line, chasing the retreating Spanish armed merchant ships and the ships that met them.

Getting closer.

Soon it was almost ten nautical miles.

More than 30 of the enemy's 100 armed merchant ships were wounded, more than a dozen were destroyed, and they retreated, and the enemy's 100 warships behind them quickly met them and covered them behind them.

Further back, you can see the enemy's merchant ships slowly following behind, and there are scattered warships and warships around to escort them.

Here, Gerard Peak sent a hundred warships around him to meet him.

Nearly 300 armed merchant ships and warships on both sides closed each other to a distance of 400 meters in a radius of 10 nautical miles.

Every minute and every second there were casualties, and every quarter of an hour, a warship or armed merchant ship was wounded and withdrew from the battle, and then more armed merchant ships and warships rushed up.

It's like two armies fighting in formation.

After two hours, the battle of the armed merchant ships in the middle came to an end, and the Spanish armed merchant ships were completely lost, or all withdrew from the battle.

Later, merchant ships and armed merchant ships, which were constantly leaving the port, joined the battle, and the merchant ships and wounded ships began to move along the coastline towards the island of Leyte under the cover of the warships.

Later, the enemy threw in large-tonnage warships, and the firepower of the six-hundred-ton warships made the armed merchant ships and warships of the Spaniards cry bitterly, and in less than an hour, the armed merchant ships left the port and did not engage in battle, but stopped aside, and once a few wounded warships and armed merchant ships were assembled, as well as the merchant ships leaving the port, there were immediately five or six armed merchant ships, and one or two warship escorts went into the distance.

The enemy also did not intercept, because the Spanish warships and large-tonnage warships had not yet entered the battle and still had an advantage.

By four hours, all the armed merchant ships and warships of the Spaniards had been lost, and the armed merchant ships on that side had withdrawn from the warships, and the warships were coming in this direction, and Girardpeak sent an adjutant to lead the large-tonnage warships, and a large number of warships were also sent out there.

Looking back to see that the port had been emptied, that the battle on Cebu was almost over, and that the Dutch and Spaniards had largely retreated from land, Gerard Peak shouted, "Retreat." ”

Then the battleship retreated on its own initiative.

The enemy's armed merchant ships and warships rushed up at a rapid pace, and the warships behind were divided into several groups and intercepted one after another, and a great battle went on in the evening, and Gilardpeak led the defeated fleet, and all the warships and warships that could move were less than a hundred retreated to Leyte, and the enemy had to return.

(End of chapter)