Chapter 136: The First Battle of Spain (Page 1/1)

The envoy said: "In the thirty-first year of Wanli, we think that the Chinese want to capture Luzon for internal response, so there will be such a misunderstanding, in the thirty-seventh year of Wanli, not only the Chinese were killed, but also a large number of locals, please check it clearly." ”

Chen Houfu sneered: "Misunderstanding? It's really easy to say, Luzon was originally a subject country of our Ming Dynasty, how can I say that I will capture it? You don't want to kill the locals, you can't kill the Chinese, you go back and tell your governor, I, the Ming Imperial Navy, in accordance with the Ming Emperor's holy decree, came to crusade against Spain, which killed the Chinese, you better surrender, we are not as barbaric as you, and we will not kill you all. ”

The envoy hurried back, and the Spanish governor Philip listened to him and said: "Since they want to fight, let it be war, although Spain has experienced wars with England and the Netherlands, it is still the number one power on the sea, and these yellow-skinned monkeys should want to defeat us in a naval battle, which is really wishful thinking." They don't know how to fight at sea, and if they suddenly storm the port, then we may still have some losses, and if we fight on the sea, we can quickly beat them to the ground. ”

The Battle of the Downs had not yet taken place, and Spain, although it had suffered a great blow in the process of forcibly conquering England, still had naval superiority in the world, and could be called the first maritime power. Although Spain did not dare to fight with the Ming on land, but in the sea, they were absolutely sure to defeat the Ming army, and the reason why they wanted to repair the Ming was because they still had the Netherlands, a strong enemy, on the sea surface of Asia.

Chen Houfu had the Ming navy stay forty miles outside the port of Manila, out of range of the batteries on the coast. In fact, the number of these forts is small, and the firing range is only two miles, and most of them have not been built, but of course Chen Houfu has to leave some places to fight with the Spanish warships, so it is more reassuring to stay away.

The Spanish fleet began to pull anchor and set sail, slowly heading towards the Ming fleet. Chen Houfu commanded the fleet to line up and prepare to meet the enemy ships. In fact, the Ming Navy formulated two plans, one of which was to hit the Spanish by surprise and annihilate the Spanish warships in the port, and later considered that the Ming Dynasty has always been famous for its divisions, such a sneak attack made most generals feel unacceptable, so another plan was adopted: using the artillery advantage of the Ming Navy to wipe out the Spanish warships on the sea.

The admirals of the Ming Dynasty had seen the Portuguese warships, and their firepower could only reach half of the three-masted gunboats, the main warships of the Ming Dynasty, and not to mention the Fuship. The Portuguese said that the Spanish warships were similar to their own, so Chen Houfu felt that he could beat the Spaniards without a sneak attack.

The Ming Navy had a total of 70 three-masted gunboats, 10 Fu ships, which were warships, and the other 100 were used to transport people and materials. Spain sent a total of forty warships, which in Philip's opinion was more than enough to deal with the Ming army, of course, because he only had more than forty warships in total.

The weather was very good, it was noon, Chen Houfu issued a flag order on the flagship, and nine Fu ships and 30 three-masted gunboats except the flagship went up to meet them, and the remaining 40 three-masted gunboats were on guard outside.

The bow gun of the first ship opened fire first, hitting the bow of a Spanish ship, and the shell hit the ground and exploded, igniting the ropes and other objects piled up in the bow.

The Spaniards were shocked that their ships did not really attach much importance to firepower, and the general combat process was to first damage the enemy ships with artillery, and then engage in gang jumping. Their guns were all solid or chain-bullets, and they were momentarily frightened when they saw that the ship caught fire after being hit.

Of course, they didn't think that the Ming army was using a new type of shell, but they thought that it should be a coincidence that the hot shell hit the flammable material on the bow of the ship. So after being frightened for a while, they rushed forward together.

The Ming army won the first battle, and its confidence was greatly increased. The gunfire of the first ship opened fire and hit another Spanish ship, but it happened to be near the mast and burst into flames. The flowering bombs used by the Ming army now add fire oil to them, and during the experiments of the senior officers, it was found that as long as the ship is dry, the fire will definitely be able to burn.

The ships passed in front of the Spanish warships in turn, and a large number of fire and oil bombs fell on the Spanish warships, and with the sound of explosions, fires continued to rise from the shells. Now the Spaniards knew that it was the problem of the shells, and the solid shells would not explode and catch fire.

Since the Spaniards knew that it was the problem of cannonballs, they naturally had a way to deal with it, and a large number of sailors used buckets to carry water from the sea, wet the deck, or extinguish the fires.

The next Ming warships used different kinds of shells to deal with the Spaniards, they combined fire oil bombs and iron nail shells, which caused great damage to the people who fought the fire on the Spanish ship.

By the time the nine ships had passed, six of the Spanish ships had caught fire, and the Spaniards were in distress. And when the three-masted gunboat came, they made up their minds, because the three-masted gunboat was not as tall as the lucky ship, similar to the Spanish ship, and the Spaniards were the best way to attack.

Moreover, since the Spaniards fought a few battles with the British, they also paid attention to firepower. However, it was still a little difficult to rely on their firepower to attack the giant Fukufu, but the much smaller three-masted gunboat naturally did not have much of a problem in their opinion.

When the three-masted gunboat's head-slicing shells flew by, the Spaniards realized that they had thought too beautifully. Although the shells of the three-masted gunboat were not as large as those of Fufufu, because of their small size, the rate of fire was much faster than that of Fukufune. Moreover, the shells were not solid shells, but flowering shells mixed with iron nails and lead bullets in the middle, and the solid shells of Spain were compared with them, not to mention, unless they hit people or masts directly, otherwise the Ming warships would have almost no losses.

After thirty three-masted gunboats fired a round of guns, the remaining vigilant ships slowly stepped forward and watched the Spanish ships from a distance, because by this time the Spanish fleet had basically lost its offensive ability, three ships were sunk, fifteen ships caught fire, and the remaining ships were more or less wounded.

At this time, the flagship sounded the flag: attack, annihilate the enemy ships. The vigilant three-masted gunboats stepped forward together, one against several Spanish ships, all of them only firing their guns at a certain distance, and soon sank two more Spanish ships.

Finally, the Spanish flagship was raised with a white flag, and the Ming flagship was raised with the slogan: Keep your distance, monitor the enemy ships.

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