I have to admire the experience and sophistication of Westerners in naval warfare, and even more admire the decisiveness of the Dutch famous general Michel, who is still in the huge sea and does not know him, the distance from the port of New Vancouver to Manila is only more than ten miles, and there are Ming patrol ships constantly going to look out every day, which is almost equivalent to the huge sea under the nose, this Western combined fleet has run away!

It is no wonder that the forward reconnaissance fleet did not notice, Michel threw away the damaged dozen or so main battleships and some small boats, and the main battleships that barely blocked the gap were placed in a row on the front line, and on the side were some dilapidated small sailing ships, and these days there are heavy rains in the Luzon area, and there are no aerial photography planes these days, and in the far lookout area, a large group of ships are swaying in the rain, even experienced scouts are deceived by this tactic.

In plain terms, he got fourteen first-class battleships that lost meters, but when he saw these ships, the huge sea was so depressed that he almost vomited blood! Mao Jue handed over the main force of the empire to himself, not for the sake of a few ships, and even Mao Jue would rather not have a boat, he hoped that all the Western fleets that had finally come all the way to his nose would sink under the South Seas, so as to relieve the pressure on his allies Britons and strive for greater authority in the Ming Dynasty.

If the feudal fleet runs away like this, even if Mao Jue is tolerant and he is a meritorious veteran, Da Dahai believes that he will not be able to eat and walk around, and the military tribunal will be a must! This head directly ordered the small functional ships to tow away the empty ships of the capital battleships that were blocking the channel, and he was impatient to convene a joint meeting of officers.

More than 200 captains of capital ships and 61 commanders of sub-fleets were all gathered in the large flagship conference room of the huge sea, and sat straight on the stepped chairs like movie theaters.

In the end, it is a veteran, although he was deflated, but he did not lose the sails of the veteran, in front of so many officers, the pre-war mobilization of the huge sea was extraordinarily brief, but it was particularly shocking, and the saber scabbard in his hand knocked on the map board, and he roared with angry eyes.

"Ben will only say two things! First, the feudal clan fled south! Second! The Ming Army has 500,000 and a military expenditure of 15 million taels, while the Royal Navy has only 120,000 and a military expenditure of 12 million taels! Bunnies, Your Majesty is watching us! Tobe is also looking at us with an abacus! What do you say?"

"The last general swears to annihilate the thief clan to the death!"

There's nothing more motivating than this! Gritting their teeth, the naval officers stood up and saluted almost spontaneously, immediately picked up their hats, and hurried out of the door.

Today's Da Ming is so efficient, and he didn't say a word, and the huge sea also grabbed his helmet and strode towards his bridge.

A few minutes later, the huge fleet of the Ming Royal Navy, which was hovering in New Wind, stretched out its huge body like a strange beast, and the heavy main battleships pulled their sails round, and the eyes of the sailors lined up on the deck were also full of murderous energy, and the mighty fleet also rushed out of the harbor in the heavy rain.

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In fact, the retreat of the Western fleet is a bit strange, the entire Philippine terrain is like a bunch of broken grapes, to the west is called Palawan, to the east is a series of broken islands in the Visayas, Michel did not choose a shortcut to take the open sea along the narrow Palawan Island straight to Borneo, bypassing Borneo back to the Dutch colony of Batavia in the center of Indonesia in the future, but to the southeast, drilled into the islands vertically and horizontally, the narrow strait of the Philippine Inland Sea Baohe Sea, on the way, It's three or four days later than Palawan.

Although this one is considered the safest, and there are harbors everywhere to escape the storm, but in the face of the thunderous blow of the Ming army, Michelle's actions increased the risk coefficient of the entire fleet by more than ten percentage points.

It's just that the anxious huge sea didn't think so much, three days plus the pursuit time of the Ming fleet, even if it was a relatively far southern route, it was enough for these Western fleets to escape from the three islands of Luzon, if they were to withdraw to Batavia, the Ming Dynasty would want to annihilate this Western fleet, and the price paid would be increased by geometric coefficients, and under his anxious urging, the Royal Navy followed Michelle's footsteps all the way, impatiently chasing forward.

Chasing all the way south along the Sibuyan Sea in the inland sea of the Philippines in the later generations, it took almost three days for the Ming fleet to arrive at the waters near Cebu Island where Zhang Zhenyuan ambushed the Dutch supply fleet and encountered the main force of the Western fleet.

However, here, the formation of the huge Ming fleet was inevitably stretched, and the narrowest part of the Cebu waterway was only one or two kilometers, and the strait could not be put down in the formation of the previous six detachments advancing in unison, so it had to be changed to two detachments and two detachments side by side in a long snake formation.

As a mothership, the Pangu-class treasure ship transport ship of the huge sea was lagging behind, and it was almost an hour before it was his turn to merge into the queue and move forward slowly.

Standing on the towering rear bridge, looking at his own fleet passing through the strait, the huge sea still couldn't hold back the anxiety in his heart, and from time to time he turned around a few circles with his hands behind his back, but at this time, like Huang Degong, Xia He, who was also a female staff officer specially assigned by Mao Jue, suddenly pointed to the west anxiously.

"Throne! Look!"

There are also Ming immigrants on Cebu Island, which is still the golden port of the three islands of Luzon after Manila, but due to the invasion of Western colonists, the manor on Cebu Island has been destroyed a lot, and a large group of Ming immigrants are gathered on the mountains next to the strait, shouting at the advancing fleet and not knowing what to say.

Turning his head to watch, Da Hai couldn't help but shake his head with emotion and said: "The thieves burned my homeland and killed my border people!, this revenge will definitely be avenged for them!"

"That doesn't seem right! Throne! Those people seem to be holding up words!"

The advantages of the female staff officer are radiated here, and the heart is as careful as a hair! Holding the binoculars, she exclaimed in dismay. These words finally attracted the attention of the huge sea, and then he also picked up the telescope suddenly, dragged the mirror barrel to the longest, and looked hard at the big square words, but because the distance was reduced to not much bigger than a fly, after a while, the brow of the huge sea suddenly rose.

There are thieves!!

For a moment, I felt an electric current flow through my back, and after a moment of silence, I suddenly felt an extraordinarily heavy palpitation, and the huge sea finally screamed violently.

"Order, the fleet stops advancing!"

"Mark and obey!"

Listening, the flag bearer immediately held the flag in both hands and waved it at the lookout hand located on the mast. In order to maintain maritime contact, the Royal Navy set up complex flags, and the flag whisperers on the bird's nest waved quickly as they watched the commands.

However, this is the era when there are no telephones after all, especially in this narrow bay, in the formation where the two ships advance side by side, the speed of command transmission is even slower, and the latter boat sees it, swings it out, and notifies the previous one, and the previous one notifies the previous one, and the long queue of more than fifty boats really takes time.

But on the battlefield, the most lacking thing is time!

The order has only been passed halfway, and the Tainan Base Squadron, which is the vanguard fleet, has already emerged in the Cebu waterway, Cebu Island is like a twisted peanut, half of the butt is tilted to the east, and the adjacent Bohol Island is in the shape of a peanut kernel, and it has reached the end here, and the special topography makes it appear to be a flare mouth sloping to the east.

On the Tai'a at the forefront, Xu Liao, the commander of the fleet, had just walked out of the bay to enjoy the sudden enlightenment, and on the edge of the sloping coastline in front of him, a dense and large area of black things suddenly broke into his telescope.

It's all boats! Western battleships! The expeditionary warships of the Netherlands, Spain and other Western powers were all crouching at the end of the strait, waiting for the Ming Royal Navy! obviously felt bad, and under a spirit, Xu Liao shouted loudly: "Send the flag, Shuanglong go to sea!" Open fire on the side of the side!"

In his anxious shouts, the two Ming battleships side by side quickly separated from each other, one east and one west, and in the creaking sound, the heavy gun bay was pulled up violently, and the whole formation, like separate flowers, opened to both sides.

But what Michelle was waiting for was today, in Xu Liao's anxious look, the originally calm Western battleship group was also restless for a moment, the four main battleships gathered into a row, and they were also full of sails, and even below were oarsmen struggling to shake the oars like centipedes, and the sails and oars were used together, and the narrow Western battleships rushed towards themselves like arrows off the string.

Seeing that the enemy ships were getting closer and closer, the gunners of the Tai'a, who were at the forefront, finally couldn't hold their breath, and the fully open side faces the enemy ships to the west, and suddenly pulled the flint engine, and in the slightly dreary weather, rows of artillery fire were like muffled thunder, violently exploding in the narrow bay.

The Battle of the Cebu Strait, which was enough to affect the maritime history of the East and West in this time and space, was kicked off!