Clouds of white smoke came out of the Hong family's fleet, aimlessly consuming their ammunition, watching the sixteen warships of the Huaxia Navy fleet that were gradually approaching them firing cannonballs in panic.

Seeing that the Huaxia Navy fleet turned to leave, and came towards them, the Hong family's fleet panicked a lot, their fleet changed from a trailing line to a white wave-like horizontal column across the embankment, and the Huaxia Navy fleet gradually formed a lying triangle situation, the sixteen ships of the Huaxia Navy fleet gradually rushed towards the ships that they outflanked at the end, and the ships at the head of the Hong family's sailor fleet began to turn, gradually forming a closed triangle bottom, The bow rushed towards the last thousand-ton battleship of the Huaxia Army.

There were still 400 meters to go, the 800-ton battleship in front opened fire, the 30 guns on the side fired shells one after another, and the two 300-ton Hongjia armed merchant ships in the distance continued to splash in the middle of a distance of 100 meters.

"Hit crookedly, the enemy's ships have moved dozens of meters, and the shells that fired sequentially from approaching that ship to moving away from that ship did not hit the enemy in the end." The captain was a little sorry.

And the Huaxia 310 ship, continued to fall behind to the end of the naval fleet, because Zhang Qiang needed to protect these slow thousand-ton warships, their fastest speed was only six knots, and it was unlikely to be improved, at this time, the new warships were needed to provide cover for them, and the six-hundred-ton battleships were hung at the end with the new warships to protect the new warships, because they could increase the speed to eight knots, and if necessary, they could throw off the enemy and run away by themselves.

From time to time, the lookout reported the distance and speed between the Hongjia fleet and the Spanish fleet in the rear, and at this time, the Spanish fleet saw the Huaxia Navy fleet that was about to escape, and it had begun to turn, and they were parallel to the Huaxia Navy fleet three nautical miles away, and began to turn and chase, but they were not close to the Hong family's fleet.

Their speed reached eight knots, and it was very fast to catch up.

"Order the warships at the head to turn to the side of the Hong family's fleet, parallel to them, and let the Hong family's fleet block the Spanish fleet for us, the two of them still have grievances, they will not cooperate so closely, as long as they still have contradictions, they will not dare to pass through the Hong family's fleet to chase us." Zhang Qiang gave orders to the captain and asked him to convey his orders.

"Three hundred meters, the Hongjia fleet stopped us, and the artillery on their armed merchant ships could already reach the second and third eight-hundred-ton warships in front." The lookout shouted desperately.

"Hit, our second battleship hit an enemy armed merchant ship of one hundred and eighty tons, the enemy's armed merchant ship was hit by at least five shells, the mainmast was broken, at least five enemy guns were destroyed, thirty to fifty people were wounded. The enemy loses power. ”

"The first battleship was hit by an armed merchant ship of the enemy, and the two sides gathered two hundred meters, and the battleship did not suffer many casualties, and rushed over, and there were at least six sixty-ton transport ships around them, two three-hundred-ton ships, one one-hundred-hundred-ton patrol ship, and one thousand-ton fortune ship, which was the last ship of the enemy."

With the shouts of the lookout, the Huaxia 310 ship also approached the enemy's frantically rushing ship for 300 meters, and the captain shouted to get out of fire to meet the battle.

"The Spanish fleet is a thousand meters away from us, and they want to outflank us." The lookout shouted.

Zhang Qiang's telescope was not idle, turned left and right, looked this way, looked that side, the first thousand-ton battleship rushed into the top of the enemy's triangle, the sea was full of gunpowder smoke from artillery fire, the Hong family's fleet was already covered in a gunpowder smoke, and then it was quickly blown away by a strong sea breeze, and the wind was strengthening.

As long as they rushed past the interception of a dozen ships at the top of this triangle, the Huaxia Navy could get rid of the enemy parallel to the enemy.

The right-hand guns of the 310 ships of the Huaxia opened fire fiercely, and after three rounds, they hit a 600-ton enemy warship that was approaching, and the bow guns of the enemy's warships only fired one shot, and the artillery speed of the new warships of the Huaxia Army was much faster than that of the guns of the Hongjia Naval Division, and even more powerful than the naval gunners they trained.

An hour had passed, and the four Spanish galleons of 180 tons had already detoured to the periphery of the Hongjia fleet, and all 16 warships of the Huaxia Navy fleet had fallen into the encirclement of about 20 ships of the Hongjia fleet, the nearest being the 800-ton warship at the beginning, which was only 50 meters away from the enemy, and the farthest was the 600-ton warship at the end, which was 150 meters away from the enemy.

This is tantamount to using their own disadvantages to scare the enemy's advantage, although the enemy is some old ships, running slowly, but the artillery on their ships can also smash the ships of the Huaxia Navy fleet and the sail ropes and masts on them.

The artillery on both sides of the naval division began to fire fiercely, firing on both sides, and the fleet of the Hong family was simply vulnerable to the quality of the well-trained artillerymen of the naval division of the Huaxia Army, and soon five ships were sunk, three were heavily damaged, and one lost power, but was still able to fire.

"Eight more ships of the Spanish fleet will have overtaken our heads, and they will fire at us across the ships of the Hong family, and the first battleship will be on fire, and the men will be lost, but they will finally rush out, about a thousand meters from the ships of the enemy fleet on both sides. The Hong family's fleet is in chaos. ”

After the lookout finished speaking, the guns on both sides of the Huaxia had already hit two enemy ships, one was only casualties, and the other was hit by the waterline, and the hull was tilted, and the Huaxia didn't care about those, because they also dropped a lot of shells on the ship, and the sound of "Bangbangbang," was heard on the skin and iron sheet of the hull.

There were also some casualties.

But the record was brilliant, and the Huaxia had sunk three enemy ships in a row, one seriously wounded and one lightly wounded.

As the enemy approached, the enemy's artillery shells became more dense, but most of the flotilla had completely broken out of the enemy's encirclement, leaving only two thousand-ton warships and one six-hundred-ton warship, the Huaxia.

"Get out of the way, the enemy is coming, they're going to ram us," shouted the lookout.

On the left, caught between the Huaxia Navy and the Spanish Navy Division, most of the ships that had begun to burn and sink, a 180-ton patrol ship drove at a high speed and rushed from a distance of 30 meters.

The bow gun hurriedly turned around, banged twice, white smoke came out of the bow, enveloping the bow, the enemy rushed over the ship was hit on the bow, after two consecutive clicks, the enemy's bow sank suddenly, and then hit sideways, the Huaxia slid forward ten meters away, the guns on the left side fired continuously to break it, and the sixty-ton warship in the rear opened fire again at a distance of thirty meters, hitting it and completely erasing it from the sea.

However, the 600-ton warship was hit by the enemy's fierce pursuit of the warship rushing up from the right, half of the hull was shattered, and it barely drove forward to the original position of the Huaxia, and after firing two shots in succession, it was hit by many enemy shells, and the main mast collapsed and lost power.

Zhang Qiang could only see the flagbearers and lookouts who had fallen from the mainmast, and the dozen or so sailors manipulating the canvas above falling into the water, and then could no longer be seen.

Because the Huaxia slid forward a hundred meters away, it was once again shrouded in the smoke of a salvo from both sides.

(End of chapter)