The structure and shape of the mixed river dragon are basically the same as those of the underwater dragon king cannon. It's just that instead of incense sticks to start the fire, the fire is pulled with a rope. According to Song Yingxing's "Heavenly Creations", this kind of mine is carried by an indexing machine on the shore, and the flint and fire sickle are suspended in the bag, and the cable machine moves, which is spontaneous. This is a type of mine that is detonated by a controlled detonation on the shore.

Of the three types of mines mentioned above, two are manually operated on the shore to ignite the fire, which is easy to expose the target. And it is not suitable for laying in wide waters. One is to start a fire with incense, which can only hit moored targets. Tactical use is very limited. In the twenty-seventh year of Wanli, Wang Minghe used the principle of touching the line fuze to make an underwater thunder. This kind of mine is laid on the bottom of the water, and a tripline is drawn from the mine, allowing it to float on the surface of the water. When the enemy ship hangs on the tripline, it fires the fuse, causing the mine to explode.

The mine used by Zhang Hai is the underwater dragon king cannon, but it is much larger, one master has more than 100 catties, and it contains 30 catties of new gunpowder. This big guy is dealing with capital ships of more than 1,000 tons, and a ship can be sunk with a single mine.

Zhang Hai led all six warships out of the port that night, and there were more than a dozen small boats hanging behind the six big guys, which were the mine boats of the water ghost team.

At noon the next day, Zhang Hai came to a place 50 kilometers outside Manila, found a small bay to rest, and waited for dark

The Zhang Hai fleet, which was parked off the coast of Manila, waited until it was dark and was finally ready to move. Zhang Hai and others entered Manila Bay in the middle of the night, at this time the Spanish fleet entered the dream, and the fleet commander and other officers were on the shore to exchange life ideals with the Spanish noblewoman, Westerners believe in Christianity, can only have one wife, so each magnate has a large number of lovers.

At the mouth of Manila Bay, Zhang Hai asked the fleet to lower its sails and float into the bay only by the current. Entering the bay, Zhang Hai saw that the Spanish fleet was not guarded at all, and said to his son Zhang Liang and son-in-law Zhang Quan behind him: "Child, each of you should bring a team of mine boats, try to get as close as possible to the big ship of the Francophile, and the detonation time is set in two hours, let's go!" At this critical time, Zhang Hai sent his son and son-in-law, and made up his mind to blow up and sink the big ship of the Francophone in the first wave.

Zhang Quan and Zhang Liang led people down to prepare. One of these two people is a water bandit who has been accumulating years, and the other is a pirate who robs houses and houses at sea, this kind of small work is a small scene.

The two men each carried five mine boats and quietly sailed to the large convoy of Spaniards. Each mine ship carries five 100-pound mines, which have been newly designed by Zhu Hongsan and can be used for various purposes such as floating mines and anchor mines.

Zhang Quan's current official position is the pipe belt of the gunboat of the Nanyang Navy, Zhang Quan has made outstanding achievements in recent years, and the land allocated in Dongguan has hundreds of acres, plus his wife gave birth to two sons for himself, and he has a very happy life. Governor Fu has already communicated with him, and when the battle in Manila is over, Governor Fu will appoint him as the commander of a detachment. Thinking that he could also lead the fleet across the South Seas, Zhang Quan couldn't help but feel hot.

But the more critical the moment, the more careful he must be, Zhang Quan told himself that there must be no mistakes at critical times, so he commanded the ten sailors on the mine ship to carefully sail to the big sea.

Zhang Quan's first target was the 1,200-ton "Philip I," the flagship of the Spanish fleet. The mine ship slowly approached the giant ship, which had a few lanterns lit, but there were no soldiers patrolling the ship, probably hiding somewhere to sleep. Seeing the Spanish sailors slacking off like this, Zhang Quan couldn't help but secretly despise it. Zhu Hongsan's navy adhered to the army's harsh military law, and if a night watch soldier was found to be inappropriately on duty, he would be whipped the first time and beheaded the second time. Zhang Quan was a victim of this kind of military law, and the thought of the old whip wound on Zhang Quan's back made me feel a faint pain.

Although Zhang Quan did not dare to relax his vigilance when he saw that there were no soldiers patrolling the ship, he ordered the sailors to slowly lean towards the enemy ship and try not to make a noise. In fact, Zhang Quan was careful, his mine ship was less than five tons, while the other party's ship was more than 1,000 tons, and even if he hit it hard, there would be no big movement. What's more, it's on the water now, and although the waves are much smaller in the bay, they are enough to drown out all the sounds.

The mine ship leaned on the big ship with a soft "bang", and Zhang Quan ordered the sailors to start installing mines. Because the current hulls are all wooden, far less convenient than the magnetic mines used in the steel hulls of later generations, Zhang Quan can only choose the drill bit very bulkyly. That is, first drill holes in the hull of the ship, and then install iron chains to fix the mines.

This work is so physically demanding, a sailor can only drill three or four holes, and it takes two holes to install a mine, which is a waste of time. But fortunately, there were enough people on the ship, everyone worked together, and the hole was drilled in a while, Zhang Quan was afraid that one mine would not be powerful enough, so he installed four mines on this big ship.

After the installation is completed, the incense of the ignition is installed on the top of the mine, leaving enough space for two hours, and the sailor gently pushes the big ship with his oars, and the mine boat leaves the big ship and sails to the next target.

Zhang Hai, who was waiting for news outside the bay, watched his son and son-in-law sneak into the bay with a boat, and couldn't help but think that the child was now older and could take charge on his own. Zhang Hai let Zhang Quan and Zhang Liang get this first credit because he wanted to cultivate them. Zhang Hai is fifty years old this year, which is considered a high life in the Ming Dynasty, not to mention a pirate like him who licks blood on the tip of a knife? So after recruiting an the year before last, Zhang Hai was ready to wash his hands and not dry it, but at that time his son Zhang Liang was still too young, but after his own support in the past two years, Zhang Liang has become much calmer and can take charge on his own. Thinking of this, Zhang Hai decided that after the war in Manila, he would tell Master Fu that he would return to his hometown and go back to Dongguan by himself, so that he could still be active and have a peaceful birthday in a few days.

Time passed in Zhang Hai's cranky thoughts, and at this time the sky was already slightly bright, and it was almost the appointed time. At this time, Zhang Hai saw the ten mine ships on the opposite side coming back, and it seemed that the plan had succeeded.

Zhang Quan and Zhang Liang got on the boat to return to Zhang Hai, and the next step was to wait for the mine to detonate.

At about three o'clock, the sky will be bright, and it will be bright in another hour. By this time someone had already risen from the Spanish fleet, and it was the ship's cook who had risen. The sailors didn't have to prepare any breakfast, they just ate some black bread, but the noble officers couldn't, and they almost had to whip the hapless cooks at every meal. But the cook is also lucky, these days the governor on the shore is having a ball, many noble officers go to the ball to look for sexual encounters, and those who remain on the ship are some unlucky guys on duty. Therefore, breakfast can also be prepared less.

The cook got up, got dressed, and was ready to go out to the toilet and began to cook breakfast for the nobles, and went to the deck to take out the guy who was about to sprinkle water. But he saw six black shadows appear in the distance, the first one was like a castle, about the size of the flagship he was riding.

At first, this guy thought it was other ships of the fleet going to sea, but when he thought about it, didn't all the officers and men go to the ball yesterday? Who can sail to sea without officers? The cook wiped his eyes, and when he looked closely, the ships on the other side were a mile away, and he could clearly see that the mast was not a Spanish naval flag, but a strange flag with the sun and the moon.

This cook, who had also been floating on the sea for many years, knew that something was wrong, that it was an enemy attack, and was about to shout a warning at a loud voice. At this moment, the big ship under his feet suddenly made a loud noise, and the middle of the ship seemed to be lifted by a giant hand, and then fell heavily to the sea, and the hapless cook, who was urinating on the edge of the deck, was immediately thrown off the ship, becoming the first unlucky man to die in the Battle of Manila.

The Spanish flagship "Philip I" is a cutting-edge warship of the Spanish Navy, with a total of 410 sailors and 94 guns on board. You must know that each of the mines defended by Zhangquan weighs 100 catties, and the combat charge is as high as 30 or 40 catties. Basically, it is a thin layer of iron wrapped with a layer of gunpowder, not to mention this kind of 1,000-ton wooden ship, that is, the ironclad ship of more than 1,000 tons in later generations, it is enough to choke under the waterline, not to mention that Zhang Quan placed a total of four in order to ensure the power.

When the first mine exploded, the flagship was blown into two pieces, and the other three explosions reduced it directly to wood chips.

Now other Spanish warships in the bay have also begun to explode, and seven or eight large ships of more than 800 tons have been sunk by mines one after another.

Seeing the start of the naval battle, Zhang Hai didn't have time to see how powerful the mines were, so he immediately raised the flag and ordered his six warships to seize the T-shaped prefix and start shelling the remaining warships.

The naval artillery bombardment of this era is basically an ornament, and the cannon only has an accurate hit rate when it enters 200 meters, and it basically relies on Mongolia before 200 meters, and it can hit a cannon at 500 meters, which is the same probability as the six * lottery in later generations. That's why the Spanish Armada was completely abused by the British in the Battle of Trafalgar.

Now there were fourteen or fifteen five-hundred-ton ships left in the Spanish fleet, and after hearing the explosion, the officers on board rose one after another and organized sailors to set sail and prepare for battle. But the Spanish Empire really set sunset, and after suffering the losses of the British in Europe, it did not change the old-fashioned way of naval warfare. The officers were still ordering the sailors to lean in and prepare to jump into battle.

Zhang Hai was also a veteran of gang jumping before, so he naturally knew the thoughts of these Francophone people, which could give them the opportunity to command the warship to take the Spanish warship far away and start to circle in Manila Bay. At the same time, the artillery below the deck was ordered to fire a salvo from time to time, and the Spanish navy was disrupted.

The commander of the Spanish fleet was so angry that he ordered to speed up and have a big battle with this group of hateful Chinese.