The firepower of the Tessie coalition almost blew up the fort like a boat in the sea, swaying left and right, and the fort made of iron and cement was obviously much stronger than the turret made of stone glutinous rice.

Hiding inside, the Huaxia Army's latest cannon with a barrel of nearly ten meters has three guns per battery and fifteen guns in a battery group, blocking the access to the port through crossfire, and at the same time dealing with threats on the sea.

The long barrels, improved round-tipped shells, and flowering shells could hit at least eight nautical miles, and even the innermost harbor batteries of the batteries could bombard groups of enemy warships anchored outside the harbor for three nautical miles.

When enemy fire began to rage, the side began to counterattack.

In less than an hour, the fifty warships that had taken part in the shelling had to retreat without destroying a single gun, losing thirty ships, badly wounding fifteen and lightly wounding five of them.

The battleship three nautical miles away, fifteen third-class battleships were sunk, two second-class battleships capsized, and had to be dragged out of the enemy's fire zone by other battleships and dragged to Leyte Island to repair.

The fierce artillery fire made the British iron ship unable to withstand it, a cannonball smashed over, did not hit the deck, but hit the hull on one side, the hull has been covered with a finger thick iron plate, but the cannonball still relies on the kinetic energy of the long barrel, very easily tore the iron plate, and exploded in the back, the impact of the explosion made the thick oak planks of the city wall bricks were blown apart, although not below the waterline, but the terrifying explosion shock wave, or the ballast of the bottom bin and the sailors of the bottom bin were all swept away, Most of the people were bleeding from their ears and noses, their mouths and eyes were crooked, and some of them were directly torn apart and turned into pulp.

The huge force of the explosion made the whole ship be pushed back nearly ten meters, and the deck on the other side was pressed into the water, after the kinetic energy of the explosion was released, the whole ship threw off at least dozens of people, and there were tons of seawater on the deck, all the sundries, corpses, were swept into the sea, and the sailors and lookouts lying on the mast of the ship either fell to their deaths on the deck, and then were thrown out of the deck and transferred into the sea by the impact force, or directly transferred into the sea and pressed into the sea by the huge waves set off by the shells. In short, the ship lost most of its combat strength and sailors at once.

It took almost five minutes for the ship to recover, and the British officers shouted for the wounded, rescued the crew who had fallen overboard, and continued to operate the cannons.

Before they could continue firing, another shell hit the mainmast, which, after a click, was lifted off with the air wave of the explosion and fell into the sea, and the whole ship was dragged out of the queue by the mainmast and drifted several hundred meters.

Seeing that the ship had lost its power and combat effectiveness, a warship in the rear drove over at the risk of being hit by a shell, threw out hundreds of hooks, tied it, and dragged it away from the battlefield.

The British governor's flagship, also hit by at least two shells, was forced to evacuate, and as soon as he left, the other British warships withdrew, as did the Dutch and the Spaniards, and in less than an hour they were out of range of the shore guns and returned to their anchorage ten nautical miles away.

At this time, several people sat down together again with a dejected look, and lost one hundred and fifty warships and armed merchant ships, forty-five sunken battleships, thirty seriously wounded, and the remaining battleships were only a dozen.

Even if they bombarded with nearly five or six thousand artillery pieces, they would only damage the port and blow up four or five of the enemy's battery groups.

By this time the pursuing fleet had returned, and almost all of its one hundred and twenty armed merchant ships and warships had been destroyed, and only about thirty had escaped, and they had met the enemy's fleet eighty nautical miles away.

After a day's attack, they had lost 230 armed merchant ships and warships, and the main warships had lost more than 60 percent, and now they had more than 300 warships and warships, armed merchant ships, of which less than 30 were armed merchant ships.

Moreover, these thirty armed merchant ships were all wounded, and had to be dragged back to Leyte Island with the wounded warships and warships, and now with minor injuries, only one hundred and eighty were still able to fight, and those that were not engaged in battle.

It seems that the strength is still strong, and in the face of the small Palawan Island, which has no ships, it can still be surrounded and fought, but their sneak attack failed, and they couldn't take the Huaxia Naval Division, and the news came back, and the Huaxia Military Naval Division might come to the nest, so their strength in this generation became a disadvantage.

They didn't know that since last night a frigate sailing at a speed of fourteen knots per hour had sent the news to the Third Fleet base in Saigon, the Third Fleet base had mobilized the thirty warships left behind, thirty frigates had set off, and at the same time sent liaison ships to the Fourth Fleet Qiong Island base, and now it had arrived at Qiong Island, and the Fourth Fleet on Qiong Island had sent all thirty-six warships, twelve frigates, towards Palawan, and the news was still on the road, a day later, Twelve frigates of the Fourth Fleet at the Trench Gate Territory will depart, twelve frigates and five warships from Treasure Island will also depart two days later, and thirty-six battleships and forty-eight frigates of the Second Fleet will also depart three days later.

They've stabbed a hornet's nest.

After a week, the royal fleet of Jinling Province will go south, with twelve warships of 1,000 tons, 12 frigates of 580 tons, and 8 frigates of 380 tons.

The First Fleet will send their fleets out to patrol the waters of the three fleets, and take over the patrol ships of the three fleets on patrol.

At least 260 of the 380 warships and frigates of the Huaxia Army will strike at them.

"We have to retreat, the firepower of the Huaxia Army is so strong, we will not be able to shake them," Gerard Peak showed timidity.

"No, if we retreat, the Huaxia army will retake Cebu, Leyte, and your Luzon, and we must defeat them at sea." Dutch Governor Road.

"I also think that since this is the case, then we will fight to the death with the Huaxia army at sea." The British Governor also said.

"Yes, we can't retreat, otherwise which strong monarch will never put up with our sneak attack, they will land in India, sweep the Indian colonies, and send troops to occupy Malacca, and if we want to trade in the Far East in the future, it depends on which monarch wills."

Dutch Governor Ike Dao.

The Spanish governor said: "You can say whatever you want, that's your business, we have lost all our combat effectiveness, the infantry of our expeditionary force is almost completely wiped out, and now there are still five hundred and seventy people, plus the indigenous soldiers are only two thousand, the warships, this battle from Europe is completely destroyed, there are less than thirty wounded warships left, if the fifteen third-class battleships and one second-class battleship on Leyte Island can be repaired, we may still be able to fight, but to be honest, everyone, I think I have to go back." ”

After saying that, the Spanish governor Gerard Peak left the Dutch governor's goddess and returned to his new flagship, the Madrid.

It was not dark and he sailed to Leyte Island with his tattered thirty warships.

Anyway, they couldn't help if they stayed there, and they couldn't provide fire support for the next battle, they couldn't fight.

The main force that remained was the Dutch, but the strongest fighting force was the British, although they did not have many warships, but they were all ironclads and huge sail battleships, and there were still as many as fifty-six.

(End of chapter)