After breaking through the encirclement, the Huaxia was also scarred, with more than a dozen sailors killed, two gunners killed, three wounded, and a nine-pounder gun lost.

"The fleet turned left, approached the small warships of the Spaniards, bombarded them, sank them, and our Huaxia went to pick up the ships of the Hong family." After breaking through, Zhang Qiang issued a new order, asking the fleet to deal with the Spanish warships that caught up with speed, and then the Huaxia relied on its speed advantage to bully the Hong family's fleet, and at this time the Hong family's fleet had been left behind.

So the fleet began to turn and sail in the established direction, and the Huaxia broke away from the fleet, and Zhang Qiang already realized that he could not use his disadvantages to fight for the enemy's advantage.

The advantage of the new warship is that it can strike the enemy from a long distance and quickly, and it cannot rush to a close place to fight with the enemy, which is too much of a loss.

By this time, it was completely dark, and both sides could only see the light of artillery fire, but not each other's battleships.

The faint light of the sky could not accurately locate the opposing ship.

But the Spanish clippers, the small-tonnage ships can still chase and fire at close range, and the small-tonnage ships of the Hong family can only fire, Zhang Qiang's purpose is to use the Huaxia to repel these ships, and then the whole fleet will turn off the lights and use the darkness to get rid of the enemy.

As long as the distance is reached, the enemy will not be able to chase the fleet through the spray of the waves in the stern.

The Zheng fleet was thrown five nautical miles in an hour, their fast boats were sunk and destroyed, and the slow ones were still chasing after them at a speed of four knots, while the Spanish three-hundred-ton warships were stuck like psoriasis, and the brigade was less than two nautical miles away from the fifteen warships.

Zhang Qiang ordered the other warships to go first, and he turned around with the Huaxia to meet the battle.

A close 300-ton Spanish armed merchant ship had just advanced to more than 300 meters, and the guns in the bow of the ship continued to bombard the tail of the Huaxia for a distance of about 10 meters, and the Huaxia had already fiercely returned fire from two 18-pounder guns to the enemy.

"Boom," a shell hit the bow of the enemy's ship, it was a flowering shell, and in one fell swoop the bow of the enemy ship was torn apart, two of the enemy's twelve-pounder guns fell into the sea, two of the four six-pounder guns on top were also blown away, and the gunners of the other two were also killed and wounded and fell into the sea.

The enemy's ship spun around sharply, blocking the route of a 180-ton armed merchant ship that was advancing behind, and the armed merchant ship had to make a detour, and its speed slowed down, and when it bypassed a distance of 100 meters, it rushed to the front, and the Huaxia had opened a distance of 400 meters, and the Huaxia rushed diagonally, and suddenly aimed at it with a side spin, and with a salvo, a gun crew of five 18-pound cannon shells smashed to its side to form a close miss, and the entire armed merchant ship was suddenly lifted two or three meters high, and the hull of the ship rolled 60 degrees. Many sailors and sailors did not have time to grasp the fixtures around them, so they all fell overboard, and the canvas on the mast suddenly spread out and became entangled.

So the ship lost its forward momentum, and came to a halt in place, and when it regained its balance, half of the sailors on deck were gone, and there was a lot of water on one side of the huge wave set off by a near-miss, and it could only sail at a speed of one or two knots while putting order in order.

The Huaxia came around and fired another salvo of five guns at it, one of which was loaded with flowering shells, and hit its deck at once, and several barrels of gunpowder were hit, and exploded violently, and the raging fire flooded its deck, and the crew jumped ship, and after a while the fire began to burn into the cabin, and it slammed, and then with a loud bang, the ship that ignited the ammunition depot burst into a huge bright fireball on the sea.

The Huaxia reflexively intercepted the Spanish armed merchant ships that had bypassed on the other side, and with a fierce salvo, it sank four 180-ton armed merchant ships in succession, severely damaged the small warships that the enemy was rushing in pursuit, and then pulled up the sails in the direction of the fleet and chased away.

At this time, the fleet in front had already sailed out of five nautical miles, and it was a thousand-ton warship in the rear that kept signaling the traffic light in the coming way, so that the Huaxia could find them, otherwise the Huaxia would lose contact with them.

After all, the sky is darker, the sea and the sky are the same, black.

In the dark night, the Hongjia fleet and the Spanish fleet chased more than ten nautical miles, only to return in vain, the two sides stopped at anchor at a distance of 800 meters, and could not travel any further, so many ships had to collide with each other at night, and the losses would be great.

The next day, both sides turned and left, and in the afternoon arrived at an island on the outskirts of Manila, where thousands of warships had already gathered.

On an island, in the main entrance hall of a Chinese-style courtyard house, Zheng Zhi, the British Ike, Du Ge, the King of Siam, Zheng Xin, the Great Prince, the Great Prince's Master, the Second Prince, the Little Prince, Lei Gang, and the Spaniards' fleet commander, Colonel Francis Drake, and his adjutant, Major Morgan, gathered together.

Zheng Zhi sat at the top of the conference table of the two Eight Immortals tables, and on the other side, the little prince and Lei Gang were arranged side by side, he glanced left and right, then looked at the little prince and Lei Gang, and glanced at the commander of the Spanish fleet, Colonel Francis Drake, and then said: "Yesterday we didn't find the target for a day, King Zheng Xin's fleet landed on the beach on the side of Qiong Island and attacked several villages, but there was no success, my fleet sailed to the sea area of the Fifth Fleet and did not catch a single warship of the Chinese Navy, according to the prisoner's confession, Where they still have ten thousand-ton warships, eight eight-hundred-ton warships, five six-hundred-ton warships, fifteen ships under three hundred tons, and thirty-six new-style warships of the Huaxia Navy Division, which I heard are new additions, there is still an existence that we cannot mess with. ”

He paused, looked at Du Ge, who was contemplating, and then continued: "We must trick them out, and then concentrate on destroying them, I need someone to lure them in. He looked at the little prince and Lei Gang.

The little prince was a little angry on his face, slapped the table and said: "We can't go, we suffered heavy losses yesterday, that king Zhang Qiang of the Huaxia Kingdom was too cunning, he was not fooled, we did not surround him, but because we wanted to eliminate him, we lost thirty armed merchant ships and warships of three hundred tons and less than three hundred tons, six six-hundred-ton warships, one thousand-ton warship, and three eight-hundred-ton warships were sunk."

Now there are only seventy warships in my fleet, and there are only seven warships, these warships and warships are too old for us to catch up with them, and the only result is to sink one of their lone 600-ton warships, and in the melee we seriously damaged the enemy's 600-ton warship, but the ship was so badly damaged that we had to sink it in the end.

If you want us to continue to do things, you must compensate us, originally we didn't want to mess with the Huaxia Kingdom, but because of your idea, our Hong family's warships have lost nearly fifty, and now our strength has been weakened, yesterday we lost two thousand sailors and gunners, and two hundred soldiers. ”

The second prince sat beside him, pulled him, and then said to Zheng Zhi: "Mr. Zheng, we think you should send a fleet to lure them, our Hong family has lost twice in a row, although we have also received a lot of supplements, some old ships of the Fifth Fleet, and ships of the Fourth Fleet, but my eldest brother's ships and fleets are far inferior to you, now it's time for you to go out, you just rely on your mouths to let our Hong family lose so much, why don't you go up in person?" ”

(End of chapter)