Waiting is always a painful ordeal, especially when a team with high morale is ready to meet the enemy, when the enemy is not here for a long time.

It was not a disciplined army, and after waiting for a while, there was no shadow of the Ming warship, and the attention began to be distracted, and after waiting for a while, there was still no movement, and some soldiers began to desert.

James on the flagship is also full of doubts, what does the Ming army want to do? Is it still going to be a fight?

Thinking that the Ming fleet would arrive soon, James did not send a patrol speedboat.

Seeing that the sun had begun to turn westward, James finally realized that something was wrong, at this time, he would definitely not be able to take the initiative to go out to find the Ming army fleet for a decisive battle, and according to the analysis of the current situation, the Ming army did not mean to divert the tiger from the mountain.

Thinking of this, James immediately ordered someone to send a patrol speedboat, and then the fleet here was ready to pull anchor and return home.

Night fighting at sea is a taboo, James asked himself if he didn't have the guts, and it was even more impossible for the Ming army to launch an attack at this time, and set up a defensive line in the coastal sea, if the Ming army really attacked at night, they would have no return.

Before the patrol ship could leave, the soldier in charge of the lookout on the mast suddenly shouted.

"Your Excellency, look, there are ships coming, and there are many ships..."

James couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, there was nothing wrong with his eyes, is there a ship at sea that can't be seen?

Frowning, he took the clairvoyant mirror from the hand of the attendant and leaned forward to his eyes to look at the sea in the distance.

Sure enough, there were many small boats floating on the sea in the distance, but there were not many real boats among them, most of them were temporary wooden rafts, and the boats and wooden rafts were bulging, as if they were filled with a lot of things, densely packed, and it was impossible to see how many there were.

At this time, the sun has begun to turn west, and under the influence of light, if you don't pay attention, it is really not easy to find these small boats at such a distance.

There was not a single figure on the boats or wooden rafts, and they drifted down the river in the direction of the Spanish fleet.

Seeing this, the corners of James' mouth couldn't help flashing a sneer, no need to ask, the boats and wooden rafts must be filled with gunpowder or flammable things, after hitting their own ships, those Ming troops hiding in the boats will ignite them, so as to achieve the purpose of burning their own warships.

Is the commander of the Ming army so capable?

"Give the order to go down and put these boats and rafts on either side, and don't let those boats come to our boat."

There are too many small boats and platoons, and they are not yet aggregated, and with artillery, it is not easy to aim, and it is too wasteful of gunpowder.

According to James's idea, the speed of the boat and the wooden raft is not fast, and when it is approached, it is turned aside with a long pole and let it float down the river on both sides of the battleship, and nothing will happen, even if the Ming army is hidden on the small boat and the wooden raft, under the close supervision of his own soldiers, there will be no wind and waves.

There was still no sign of the Ming warship in the distance, and the Spanish soldiers had completely relaxed their vigilance, and after receiving James's order, they dropped their weapons one after another, and giggled and prepared their long poles, ready to move with the boats and wooden platoons that came with the waves.

Soon, the boat and the raft came to him, and some soldier reached for it with a long pole, and after setting himself on the boat, he moved it to the side.

But an unexpected situation happened, after the small boat swung to the side by the force, the boat or raft on the other side directly hit the warship.

Only then did the Spanish soldiers discover that there were ropes connected to the boats or rafts, and not only that, but the boats or rafts that hit the warship were firmly attached to the warship after they collided, and they were inseparable.

"There are iron nails on it! ...”

The voices shouted one after another, and soon reached James's ears.

In fact, James has already discovered the problem, and it is conceivable that once these dog-skin plaster-like boats or rafts catch fire, his own warship will definitely suffer.

In a hurry, he couldn't help but shout: "Go down and get those damn boats out of the way, you idiots..."

Before James could finish speaking, the exclamation of a sentry was heard again from the mast.

"Look, Lord Governor! The Ming warships are coming! ”

This is really afraid of anything, most of their warships have been entangled by these plaster-like boats, not to mention exercising, even turning around is difficult, if there is a war for a while, won't it become the target of the Ming army?

Without James's order, the soldiers in charge of the lookout on each ship also discovered the Ming warship, and the piercing sirens sounded on the ships, and the soldiers who were originally busy getting rid of the boats and rafts suddenly made a mess when they heard the siren, and they didn't have time to care about these dog skin plasters, and they climbed back to the ship to prepare for battle.

Looking at the Ming warships that were getting closer and closer, James was about to vomit blood, and although he had the grievances of the plan in his heart, he also had the shock of the Ming fleet.

It turned out that Jack was right, the Ming fleet was really much stronger than he imagined, especially the battleship first, was it a ship? It couldn't be that the Ming army built a mobile castle on the sea, right?

Just when the attention of the Spaniards was focused on the speeding Ming fleet, countless water ghosts came out of the boat, lit the boat, and plunged directly into the sea.

There are boats all around, and there is no need to worry about the water ghosts sent by Jack yesterday to become real water ghosts.

"Fire! It's on fire..."

An exclamation immediately interrupted James' contemplation, and when he first saw the Ming fleet, he was pondering what tactics to use to deal with the enemy.

Hearing the exclamations of the men beside him, he turned back in astonishment, only to see that several small boats or rafts beside the warship were already on fire, and the fire quickly spread to his own warship by the wind.

In order to defeat the Ming fleet in a battle, James brought out all the main warships in the harbor.

Although the plaster ships that had just floated over to get those plasters did not trap all the battleships, there were still nearly ten battleships that had been pasted, so that the combat effectiveness of their own fleet would inevitably be greatly reduced, how could this battle be fought?

Before a shot was fired, James had already sprouted the intention of retreating, and like Ye Xun, he couldn't afford to lose this battle.

Even if Ye Xun is defeated, after returning to the mainland, he still has a chance to make a comeback.

Otherwise, James can't beat Luzon, but if the fleet is gone, then he will really be sent to the gallows.

"Order the battleships that are not on fire to come out and form an attack formation to buy time for the ships that are on fire."

In a moment, James had already decided to fight against the water, and according to his idea, while the fire was not very big, he would try to extinguish the fire under the protection of other warships, so as to restore combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

The idea was very beautiful, but James forgot that the fire on the boat was not his own, but was ignited by the Ming army water ghosts, and the distance was too far for the Ming army water ghosts to return to their own warships, so at the beginning, the tasks of these water ghosts were not only that.

The battleship that was not caught is just like that, and since it has been entangled, you still want to put out the fire and go to war? Dream on!

I have to admit that the Spanish battleship reacted really quickly, and with James's order, in a short time, the ships pulled anchor and set sail into a combat state, and at this moment, a loud noise suddenly came from the Spanish battleship that was left to fight the fire.

"Boom!"

James looked back at the sound in amazement, only to see a large hole in the side of a battleship, and the sea water was pouring into it at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye...