The flagship did not convey the command's orders, and the ships did not know how to fight at all, whether to launch a battle formation according to the previous reservation or fight guerrilla attacks on their own, and first kill the small gunboats of the Ming army, and the captain did not know what to do at all.

Speaking of which, this is also the pot of several people from the main battle faction.

This Spanish Combined Fleet was formed by warships drawn back from various parts of the South Seas, and most of them were of other formations, cooperated with other warships, and did not fight in the coastal waters of the Philippines, so they were not very familiar with each other.

This time the battle was quite urgent, except that the commander-in-chief was formulated, the flagship was designated, and the second and third levels of command were not determined.

There is no other commander appointed except for one commander-in-chief, and what if the commander-in-chief dies and the deputy commander-in-chief dies?

They were too anxious and they didn't have time to specify, so they set sail, originally thinking that the Ming army sailors would not be so strong, and they could also cope with it, so they didn't care too much, but no one expected that a few Ming gunboats rushed into their inner circle to attack the flagship, and the flagship was full of holes.

The battleships that were far away from the flagship did not know what was wrong with the flagship, because they did not have binoculars, and could only rely on the good-eyed crew to stand on the top mast and watch.

But no matter how good a person's eyes are, there is a bottom line, and it is impossible to see exactly what should be seen, so except for a few warships around, the rest of the warships do not know that the flagship has been attacked.

Besides, they themselves are also difficult to protect, the Ming gunboats rushed into their formation and fired everywhere, and it was not easy for them to deal with the Ming gunboats, as soon as they were bombarded at close range, they were dizzy and difficult to maneuver, so it was really very difficult to fight.

And right in front of them, the main fleet of the Ming army had sunk four Spanish warships, solved the obstacles in front of them, and the main fleet began to rush over and start attacking the Spanish fleet, but the Spanish fleet was not ready, or could not prepare, and there was still no news from the flagship.

"Captain? What to do? The flagship does not have any instructions! The Chinese are so fierce that we can't continue like this! ”

Many captains have encountered their subordinates to persuade themselves like this, while there is no order, on the other hand, they have the previous order to launch the battle formation, time has passed, the battlefield is changing rapidly, if the order to expand the battle formation continues to be carried out, it is estimated that many warships will be sunk by the Ming army before they arrive at the predetermined position!

The captains of many battleships were very contradictory, but the firepower of the Ming army did not weaken at all, and the sound of cannons stimulated their nerves.

One or two ships did this, but after one or two did this, the rest of the warships did not know the situation, and thought that the flagship had given the order to fight freely, so all the warships did so, and the battlefield was completely chaotic, and the Spanish battleships began to fight separately and no longer stick to the battle formation.

Wang Wei spotted the strange movement of the Spanish fleet, thought about it for a while, and knew that they seemed to be planning to start a counterattack, but the scale of the counterattack was not large, and there seemed to be little cooperation between them.

He didn't know that the opponent's flagship was attacked, he thought it was a tactic to deal with the Ming gunboats, so he felt bad, the gunboats were smaller than the opponent's big ships in vitality and tonnage, and now they had an advantage in speed, once they were caught up in the battle alone, the gunboats would suffer, so they had to catch up as soon as possible to support those gunboats.

Of course, small ships have a disadvantage against big ships.

They have more guns, and their hulls are stronger, and the Ming gunboats are not as big as their big ships, and their endurance is not so strong, because they are modified ships, they are not as strong as the big ships produced by Xiao Ruxun himself in the Burmese Navy Shipyard, so it is still a little difficult to take a few cannons.

After the Spanish Navy began to fight separately, the firepower also began to increase, they began to look for their own targets, and gave up forming a formation to fight, so that the Ming gunboats became the main target, and the vitality of the Spanish warships in the liberation battle rose sharply, which caught the Ming gunboats a little off guard.

After a few rounds of fire, several gunboats were shot one after another, and one gunboat was hit by two solid shells, the stern was broken, and the hull was also punched into a hollow, and the Ming army immediately began to rush to repair, and then increased the speed of the march to avoid the Spanish fire.

At this time, speed is indeed a savior, once the speed of the Ming gunboats is raised, the disadvantages of the large and clumsy Spanish battleships will be revealed, and the Ming gunboats will not be tough with them, then they can only choose to pursue.

Their artillery could not accurately aim at the Ming gunboats, the speed of the Ming gunboats was too fast, and there was still a little time before shooting after the aiming and ignition, and if they moved quickly during this time, they could still dodge the ammunition, and whether they could hit accurately was also a problem.

Rao is like this, more guns and firepower on the Spanish battleships still put a lot of pressure on the Ming gunboats, so when the Ming gunboats found that the Spanish battleships began to counterattack sharply, they also tried their best to dodge, not to directly face to face with the Spanish ships.

After confronting the pirates, the Ming army sailors also learned quite a lot of pirate-style tactics, although it seems a bit obscene, but it is still quite useful to use.

Pirates are very life-sparing, and generally they are not absolutely sure that they will not rush up and fight violently, but as an army, they must have this spirit, and the combination of the two is a sports war.

Shoot while moving, without stopping.

Moreover, they also found that the great ships of the Spaniards would pursue them, and thus broke away from their original formation, and instead of continuing to nest together, they separated.

This made the Ming gunboats shine, and almost at the same time, even if there was no unified command, the Ming gunboats began to try to break away from the battlefield, and at least one large Spanish ship followed.

This tactic was very successful, and the Spanish fleet, which had been nested together and had an absolute advantage in numbers, dispersed the main fleet of the Ming army, which did not know how to speak!

Wang Wei was overjoyed, and when he was about to order the whole army to attack, a signal of the main force attacking had already come from the Zhennan ship not far away, and three more large ships had joined the attack sequence.

Wang Wei knew that he had gained the numerical and firepower superiority on the local battlefield, and when the gunboats attracted part of the main force of the Spanish ships, he led the main force to pounce on the rest of the Spanish warships, and the two sides immediately fought fiercely.