The Spaniards fell into disadvantage at the very beginning of the battle and fell into chaos, the Ming army's fast firepower ships traveled much faster than the Spanish ships, and the Spanish ships were slow to move, and they were forced to meet the Ming gunboats before they had time to start the battle formation, and they were quite in a hurry.

However, in the end, it is the strongest navy that is rampant in the world, even if it has been pampered here for decades, it has not lost its strong nature, although their guns are slightly inferior to the improved copper cannons of the Ming army, but the gunners are full of experience, and the Ming army can also bring some threats to the Ming gunboats.

At this moment, the artillery power is not too great, and a dozen guns may not be able to sink a large warship, and the Spaniards, relying on the sturdy hull of the ship, forcibly ignored some Ming artillery shells and forcibly returned fire to the Ming gunboats, so that the Ming gunboats had to move at high speed to avoid this kind of shooting.

Xiao Ruxun, who was watching the battle from a distance, was silent.

And Jiang Dahai couldn't help but explain to Xiao Ruxun: "Xiao Hou, Xiyi has rich experience in naval warfare, the sergeants are well-trained, the weapons and equipment are not under our army, and the ship is solid, our army can't help them for a while, but they will always show flaws, at this time, our army has the advantage, they can't even expand the battle formation, the formation is chaotic, and they will not be able to hold on for a long time." ”

Xiao Ruxun smiled slightly and put down the clairvoyant mirror.

"I said, the sea, don't bother with me, you just command your own, I'm here waiting for you to win this battle, and then let's land together, Xingshi ******** the sea took a deep breath, nodded, walked to the deck in front of the sea and began to direct the big ship to advance and attack, provide fire support to the gunboat, and attack head-on, and the Zhennan ship also advanced, closer to the battlefield for easy command.

"Master Hou, it doesn't seem to be very safe here, let's leave here and go to other ships to watch the battle!"

Chen Longzheng looked at the battlefield and seemed a little uneasy.

"Are you scared?"

Xiao Ruxun looked at Chen Longzheng funny.

"How is that possible? I, Long Chen, happened to have killed the enemy! It's not a rotten man who has no power to restrain his hands! Master Hou doesn't want to look down on me! ”

Chen Longzheng was very proud of his achievements, and could not bear to be despised by others for his status as a literati.

"Hahaha! You, you, forget it, since you're not afraid, what is Benhou afraid of? The sea is a genius of water warfare raised by Ben Hou, and our naval division has fought dozens of large and small water battles, without a single defeat.

Xiyi's weapons and equipment are indeed excellent, ours is better than theirs, there is no reason to lose, you look at it, the sea will bring us a hearty victory! ”

Xiao Ruxun said so happily.

Chen Longzheng pouted, he seemed to be very dissatisfied with Xiao Ruxun's trust in this big man who didn't know 300 characters, as a literati, he despised those illiterate a little, although everyone knew hundreds of words among these officers, but for Chen Longzheng, he was still illiterate.

He just doesn't trust illiteracy.

Although Xiao Ruxun is a general, he has a high level of cultural literacy, and he can also write poems and articles to govern the place, Chen Longzheng admires him very much, but Jiang Dahai ...... In addition to being able to fight, that is, to fight, Xiao Ruxun helped find his wife, which is not romantic at all.

He was unhappy, and the Spaniards were even more unhappy, as soon as the battle began, the formation was disrupted, and the battleships could not be effectively deployed, unable to effectively achieve firepower, but were beaten dizzy by one Ming gunboat after another.

Although they had completely expected the strength of the Ming Army's naval division, they did not expect the strength of the Ming Army's naval division to be so strong.

They fought pirates in Europe, fought with sailors from other small countries in Southeast Asia, and fought with the sailors of the Ming army at the beginning, and found that their firepower was weak, and they were still using backward tactics such as gang jumping, and they especially liked to use fireboat tactics to burn their ships.

These backward tactics were not in the eyes of the Spaniards, who had more powerful cannons than their original artillery and were not afraid of fireships.

They naturally felt that the Ming army sailors who defeated the pirates were strong, but they were not strong enough for them, and they were ready to deal with the Ming army's fire ship tactics, but they didn't expect that soon after they saw the Ming army's fleet, the Ming army's fleet quickly approached them and began to shoot artillery.

After the first round of shooting, they were directly stunned.

This is the Ming Army Sailor? What about fireships? What about ramming tactics and gang hopping tactics? Why did you start the formation so quickly? Why did you fire so far away? Aren't they still using the old guns we we've were? How can the range be so far? Even farther than ours?

The Spaniards found that when they were firing the same fire, they couldn't hit the Ming gunboats, but the Ming army could hit them, and those gunboats with many oars ran very fast, they didn't have time to aim and shoot, and the Ming ships had already shifted their positions and were still moving.

The ships of the Ming army were moving, but their ships were not so fast to move, and as a result, they became targets, and they were beaten by the Ming artillery, and there were many holes in the hull, if the ships were not strong enough, I am afraid they would have sunk in this offshore area.

Such a fierce battle scene also reminded Xiao Ruxun of the annihilation of the Japanese Navy at the beginning, and the Spanish fleet, the Japanese Navy is simply scum, not only small tonnage, small size, but also has no cannon on it, if such a fleet is now against Xiao Ruxun's sailors, three times five divided by two can be cleaned up for him.

The Spaniards' naval warfare skills are still good, although the Ming army seized the opportunity, but the combat effectiveness is still considerable, and the artillery return fire is not weak, so Jiang Dahai dispatched a large ship to attack the Spaniards with more powerful artillery fire, the number of guns loaded on the big ship is slightly more, and the range is longer.

What's more, there are many soldiers armed with rifled guns on the big ship, and these soldiers have the task of shooting at the other side's soldiers or officers from a distance when the ships are close to each other, shooting at the other side's helmsman or gunner, and even officers who are dressed differently.

After Chen Longzheng's big victory last time, Xiao Ruxun knew that the Spaniards did not have a few rifled guns in their hands, and they definitely did not have as many rifled guns as he had, and he could occupy an advantage in this sense.

Fifteen large ships attacked under the leadership of Wang Wei, deputy chief of the Sixth Fleet, and Wang Wei's ship was the Weiyuan, with a displacement of 700 tons and 40 guns, which was one of the strongest warships of the Sixth Fleet and one of the 27 warships with a ship's name.

The soldiers on the ship are all experienced soldiers, and each of them is good at beating pirates, and this time they are facing enemies that are much stronger than pirates, and each of them is very excited.

There is no point in fighting pirates anymore, only by fighting stronger enemies can we arouse their fighting spirit and make them move forward even more.