The Armada had great confidence in its own superiority, so they were exposed to the Anglo-Portuguese forces without the slightest concealment.

So, when James led the army to arrive, he saw that an endless black line appeared in front of him, as if the entire sea surface was cut by this black line, which was extremely conspicuous.

As the distance approached, the black line slowly revealed its true identity, and I saw more than a hundred Spanish navies, spread out across the entire sea, and large and small ships swaying on the sea, covering the entire blue sea.

The sea breeze blows the sails, which seem to be very fast, making a whirring sound, and the sails are propped up in a crescent shape.

In particular, the heavy cannon with the black hole in the front and stern of the ship, from a distance, James could feel its freezing cold temperature through the monoculars.

The Spaniards were not much less armed than the English, and they were all heavy cannons, which, if hit, would sink to the bottom of the sea in the blink of an eye.

Turning his gaze to the deck of the ship, the dense crowd of soldiers stood on the deck, looking at the appearance of a tiger's eye, as if he hated England extraordinarily.

"Inform everyone, follow the established strategy, the Portuguese focus on informing!"

James only looked at the corner of the Armada, and his attention to the Spaniards deepened again, and the fear in his eyes became more and more intense.

"Yes, sir!" Sitting on the flagship "Henry VII Monarch", the herald agreed very simply, and then a few flag bearers, waving the flag in their hands, ruled over the surrounding ships.

As if he was not at ease, another small boat shuttled between the major ships to confirm the delivery of the news.

At this moment, on the "St. Martin", the flagship of the Invincible Fleet not far from England, the naval commander Sidoni also stared at the menacing Portuguese-British coalition forces in front of him, his eyes were deep and silent.

He did not expect that the Portuguese and England would put together a large combined fleet, and the Spanish Navy would encounter unprecedented challenges.

From the very beginning, the Armada was plagued by many disasters.

Unlike the Mediterranean, the Atlantic winds are unpredictable, blowing at one moment and turning to the westerly, playing tricks on the fleet back and forth, and sometimes there is no wind at all, and the fleet is tossed and drifted in the rough waves of the Atlantic. From time to time, a fierce headwind blows the fleet to the south.

Helplessly, the fleet could only be repaired in the Bay of Coruña.

Crucially, they suffered huge losses before they even played the English.

Sidoni held his head in some discomfort, and to this day he found it unacceptable, and as a devout believer, he thought it was God's warning to him.

Seeing the huge Anglo-Portuguese coalition army, he felt that his head hurt a little, and a bad premonition came again.

I still remember: that night, the breeze was very hot, he was a little urinating, and when he wanted to go down by the window and rush to the sea, he suddenly felt a little wrong, it was too quiet.

Late at night, a strong southwesterly wind suddenly blew in the bay. Even a sailing ship sheltered from the wind in the Gulf of A Coruña was swept away from its moorings, and another dragging anchor collided with a Galion ship and suffered serious damage.

The other ships that remained on the surface of the ocean drifted far away from the downwind land, so as to avoid the danger of being blown away and tentacles.

For the sake of insurance, the ships all went their own way, drifting with the wind, scattered, and not in formation.

By the third day, the whereabouts of 30 ships were still unknown.

Crucially, these ships carried about 6,000 sailors and soldiers, 10,000 elite army troops, and lost less than half of them overnight.

Moreover, on many ships that could withstand storms, some of the crew members suffered from dysentery and typhoid fever due to eating rotten food.

And most of the ships have been damaged to varying degrees, masts and sail booms have been blown off, anchor failures, water leaks, and so on are not uncommon.

Therefore, as soon as they encountered the port of Calais, the Spaniards took care of so much, and they directly occupied it and repaired it.

Of course, by the time we learned of this news, the Anglo-Portuguese coalition had already set off, which was also rare good news!

"Everyone, all press on. Speed up, approach the group of Englishmen, use our advantage, teach those savage England a hard lesson, God bless my king, bless us! ”

In an instant, the signal from the huge "Santin" reached the ears of the Spanish navy, which had just finished praying, and in less than ten minutes, all the Spanish ships were moving forward at a faster speed, as if they were convulsive.

If the small and delicate Portuguese and British forces were a teenager, then the huge Spanish navy was a giant, condescending, arrogant, and rampaging with an indomitable attitude, as if it could easily crush the weak Portuguese and British navy with its huge size.

Therefore, as soon as James ordered to prepare, he suddenly saw that the Spanish navy, with its indomitable momentum, broke through a huge wave, as if it was about to swallow the small Anglo-Portuguese coalition army.

Four huge ships of more than 1,000 tons rushed straight at them, and the British fleet in front seemed to be frightened, and after a while, they reacted, and eagerly began to turn the rudder and accelerate, so that they could avoid their approach.

"Scared the hell out of me!" Sir Charles, the commander of the English Channel Fleet, patted his chest and looked at the back of the rough sea, as well as the indomitable ship, the sharp ramming angles, and the dark and cold muzzles, which made him afraid.

"Damn it, hurry up and speed up, hang far away, fire—"

Charles flew on the "Sea Princess!" second only to James! Dozens of long guns were aimed at the fast-moving ship, firing a round of artillery in unison, and the huge recoil force made the ship retreat more than ten feet, and the sailors on the deck suddenly staggered.

However, this round of shooting did not have any good effect, except that the huge spray wet the Spanish sailors, and gave them a refreshing shower, for fear that they would be angry and hurt themselves.

In any case, in this history, the largest naval fleet and the second largest naval fleet in history, because they had never experienced such a battle, began a chaotic battle.

For example, Charles led the "Sea Princess", which was 300 yards (about 270 meters) away from the 1,000-ton giant ship "San Lorenzo" of the Western Army, and stopped approaching, and then began to order the ship's long guns to start attacking one cannon after another.

Even if the cannons on the ship of the "San Lorenzo" attacked hard, the distance factor made it difficult for the shells to approach the "Princess of the Sea", and they could only scream in anger.

Therefore, he simply gave up the artillery bombardment, tried to get close with speed, and then used skillful crowd tactics to defeat it in one fell swoop.

Seeing that the Spaniards had given up the shelling, Charles couldn't help but get naughty.

He ordered the sailors to speed up a little and get into enemy range, which gave the San Lorenzo some hope and began shelling again.

At this time, Charles ordered the ship to quickly retreat, out of effective range, and let the "San Lorenzo" waste a few shells, and then screamed angrily.

The same was true of the rest of the English ships, which, at effective range, teased the Spanish Navy.