If the Battle of Manila in history is an isolated proof that cannot be counted, then the Battle of Santiago is enough to show how rubbish the quality of the Spanish Navy really is! Let's see how the 4 capital ships of the Spanish fleet died!

Flagship Maria. PRINCESS THERESA, 2 ROUNDS FROM 12-INCH GUNS, 3 ROUNDS FROM 8-INCH GUNS, 4 ROUNDS FROM 6-INCH AND 5-INCH GUNS, 1 ROUND FROM 4-INCH GUNS, AND 12 ROUNDS FROM 57MM GUNS. This damage is very average. After all, this is a warship of more than 6,000 tons, and if the damage is well managed, it will not be destroyed. But this is already the best ship in the Spanish fleet!

THE OKENDO WAS HIT BY 4 ROUNDS OF 8-INCH GUNS, 4 ROUNDS BY 6-INCH AND 5-INCH GUNS, 1 ROUND BY 4-INCH GUNS, AND 53 ROUNDS BY 57MM GUNS, AND THEN THESE PICRIC HIGH-EXPLOSIVE SHELLS BURNED THE BATTLESHIP ALIVE. ALTHOUGH THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH A SMALL DEFENSE AREA, IT IS SHAMEFUL ENOUGH TO BE BURNED ALIVE BY A 57MM GUN. AFTER ALL, THE SHELL OF THE 57MM GUN WEIGHS ONLY 6 POUNDS!

Even worse than the Skaya! A CRUISER OF MORE THAN 6000 TONS WAS HIT BY 8 SHOTS WITH 5 SHOTS, 5 ROUNDS FROM 6-INCH AND 5-INCH GUNS, 4 ROUNDS FROM 4-INCH GUNS, AND 9 ROUNDS FROM 57MM GUNS! Then the ship surrendered. That's it, surrender!

Of course, the worst thing was the Cologne, the ship was hit by 6-inch and 5-inch guns for 4 shots, and 57MM guns for 3 shots! Then the Spaniards surrendered, and please, you are Garibaldi! In the afterlife, it will be a sacred relic of a certain god! In the end, not to die in battle, but to surrender! This way of dying is too embarrassing, right? This will to resist is not as good as the Qing Army during the First Sino-Japanese War!

And according to these hits, we can also see how poor the quality of the Americans is, in a battle in which the other side has no fighting spirit and the other side is completely beating children, they actually hit such a little hit! What a pit dad this TM, none of the 12 13-inch guns on the 3 battleships hit! A full 46 8-inch guns hit 12 shots! The Americans won, not because of how elite they were, but because their opponents were too weak!

And in this battle, the performance of the Spanish people also surprised Majifen, "They are literally firing at the sun!" The shells fired from a distance of 2,500 meters were no threat to us at all, and we barely felt the slightest pressure from our opponents, except for the splashes of water that were far and near reminding us that the opponent was firing at us! After the war, Magifin described the Spanish gunnery.

OF COURSE, THE AMERICANS' GUNNERY WAS NOT SHREWD, EXCEPT FOR THE 57MM GUNS WITH AN EXTREMELY FAST RATE OF FIRE, THE SHELLY FLEET DID NOT HIT THE OPPONENT WITH A SHELL OF MORE THAN 5 INCHES FOR A QUARTER OF AN HOUR! At this time, the distance between the two sides has been narrowed from 3,500 meters to 1,800 meters.

However, in terms of strategic purpose alone, the purpose of the Shelly fleet had been achieved, and they further delayed the retreat of the Spanish fleet. With Dewey's acquiescence, the cruisers of the American fleet finally abandoned the slow-moving Iowa, and the remaining five armored cruisers approached at a speed of more than 20 knots, and the battle line formed by the five armored cruisers passed quickly from the tail of the Spanish fleet like a swimming dragon.

Dozens of medium-caliber guns and nearly 100 small-caliber guns projected several tons of ammunition in a very short time, and a wave of fire formed by a single shell directly drowned the two Spanish unprotected cruisers lined up at the rear. The explosion of the high-explosive bomb was almost one, and the two battleships were instantly covered by an orange barrage, and a cloud of flames jumped and spread on the deck, and the hull without any protection was torn to pieces by the violent explosion, and most of the Spanish soldiers were beaten into a pool of flesh by the tyrannical fire before they could make any evasion. The two unprotected cruisers did not even hold out for 5 minutes before they were sent to the bottom of the sea!

"It's horrible!" Sevela never dreamed that he would encounter such a formidable fleet in the Far East, and he even thought that even a war with the Royal Navy's Far East Fleet would be nothing more than that. The frenzied firepower of the other party caused him to lose his square inch immediately, and then he issued an order that would be controversial for later generations: "Disband the fleet and flee for your life!" ”

And when this order was given, the Spanish fleet, which was already on the verge of collapse, immediately fell apart, and the only three remaining large ships began to scatter and flee, and the Americans reacted quickly enough, but they made a mistake in their busyness, Brooklyn and the New York immediately went to catch the nearest Maria Princess, Rurik and two other Russian armored cruisers went to catch the Okando, and the strongest, fastest, and best defended Carlos V was ignored! The closest battleship to this Spain was actually three protective cruisers under the command of Commodore Shelly! And the remaining American and Russian warships are either busy with something else, or they are too far away!

"Let's go catch the biggest, it will be the most bragging right target in this naval battle!" Shelly, who was on the battlefield for the first time, naturally would not miss an opportunity to beat the water dogs, and the three dome cruisers chased after them at the fastest speed, which made Ma Jifen wipe a cold sweat and said in his heart: "As long as the other party has a little fighting spirit and the level can be considered okay, it will be a proper anti-killing plot!" ”

However, Majifen clearly overestimated the fighting power of the Spaniards, or rather, temperance. The Princess Mary surrendered after being strafed by high-explosive shells for ten minutes, lowered the battle flag, and then stormed the beach and began to evacuate. And the performance of the Okendo was not good, after being caught up, it struggled for more than half an hour, and announced its surrender, but the Spanish people could not do anything else, but they still remembered that the sea valve was opened, and the armored cruiser finally sank to the bottom of the sea.

The only one who survived this naval battle was General Severa's flagship, the Carlos V! This armored cruiser ran for more than 3 hours in one breath with the output of 3 American dome cruisers! When Shelly and the others suddenly found that there were not enough ammunition, they were already more than 50 nautical miles away from the main battlefield! "Just let this guy run away, the German ship is sturdy, we have almost used up all the ammunition, and we can't even slow it down!" Looking at the armored cruiser Carlos V on fire on the deck in the distance, Shelly said indignantly.

The battle, which later became known as the Battle of Morro Bay, was the first naval battle fought by the American fleet since it entered the Steam Age, and it was also the first victory in the Steam Age, in which the Americans easily crushed their opponents with absolute superiority, and the Spanish lost 3 gunboats, 2 unprotected cruisers and 2 armored cruisers. The total tonnage is close to 20,000 tons, and the only one that slips through the net is General Severa's flagship.

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