Due to Zhang Qiang's hesitation, or Zhang Qiang's foresight, Xie Lan fell into the siege of Zheng Zhi and the Great Prince, so that the improvised patchwork fleet led by Perrin was ordered to deal with the Spanish fleet before completely defeating the remnants of the Great Prince's fleet.

This is not Zhang Qiang's hesitation, but the caution of a traverser, because he remembered that the cunning and betrayal Du Ge has not yet appeared, and he is worried that his Third Fleet will be fooled or deceived by Du Ge, and will be destroyed like the Fifth Fleet, so where is the killer weapon that can resist the enemy in the end?

Undoubtedly, the thirty-six ships that he personally led now are now thirty-seven new-style warships in China.

This is dangerous for the Kingdom of Huaxia.

It is not an option to pin the survival of the kingdom on one or two new pieces of equipment.

Do you believe too much in the advantages of equipment?

In fact, what really works is the ambition of the careerists, and their adventurous spirit.

Zheng Zhi is one, Du Ge is one, and there are failed Zhu Yujian and You Haibo, so how many people in China still want to subvert their Huaxia Kingdom?

When Zhang Qiang was entangled in these things, Kodak, who stayed by Zhang Qiang's side, had faithfully fulfilled his mission, commanding thirty-seven new warships, the Huaxia, diligently and quickly assaulted the right flank of the Spanish fleet with an ordinary speed of eight knots, and the fierce artillery was heading towards the Spanish fleet that was fighting to the death with the temporary fleet commanded by Perran.

Francis Drake never imagined that the powerful Spanish fleet he had high hopes for would not be able to defeat the temporary fleet organized by the Huaxia Kingdom.

Those who looked the same as the Spanish Galen warships, but with slender bodies, lower buildings, faster guns, and longer ranges.

In an hour's battle, their fleet sank only one six-hundred-ton ship and three three-hundred-ton ships.

And their own side lost thirteen armed merchant ships and one 700-ton warship.

This is just a loss of more than 100 warships, and the captured warships of the Huaxia Fifth Fleet assigned by Zheng Zhi, the thirteen armed merchant ships assigned to Zheng Zhi, and the huge fleet of nearly 210 warships, but in Drake's opinion, if this situation continues to develop, will the Spanish fleet still be able to return to port safely?

Although Manila was not far away, he did not think that he could lead most of the warships back to Spain, and could not escort the departing governor back to Spain, who was anxious to leave the territory.

Previously, due to the willfulness of the governor, Luzon Island was already a hell on earth, due to the resistance of the Han people organized by Zheng Zhi and them, the Spanish soldiers on Luzon Island were 1,700 people, lost more than 300 people, and more than 400 people were wounded, and had to shrink their forces back to Manila City, and then Du Ge's envoy came to the door, and the two sides discussed the status of the Han people, or the joint division of forces.

Zheng Zhi and his men gained some indigenous territories in Manila and expanded their territories in Luzon and Borneo, allowing him to expand his influence from an island to Luzon, while Du Ge and they also gained some territories close to Borneo and officially recognized the Dutch rule over Borneo.

The three parties signed a series of agreements, and then let the eldest prince and the second prince also get some land, and the five parties all obtained their own interests, but the Dutch, the British, and the Spaniards demanded that they open up the trade of their territories, and send some people to their territories, especially the Han population, which was requested by the new governor, otherwise relying on those natives, he did not think that he could obtain as much wealth as the previous governor when he left office, and he did not want to be an aboriginal governor.

So the new Governor, who was also with him, asked him to lead a fleet to help the traitor of the Han people to rebel against the Han rule.

But at present, the strength of their parties is still too different from that of the Huaxia Kingdom, and the opponent is too strong, they got the news yesterday that the fleet of the second prince and the little prince on the side that signed with them was wiped out off the coast of Saigon.

Zheng Zhi had already hurriedly sent people to take over the people and territory there, and Du Ge and them hurriedly returned from the sea area two hundred nautical miles away from intercepting the Han Third Fleet, and only arrived here this morning, and then hurriedly met with one side and set up such an ambush.

Thinking that he would have to pay for the greatest benefit, he chose to appear as soon as possible and go out to encircle the enemy's fleet.

The more enemies they sink, the more last spoils they get, this is the thinking of the Westerner, but he does not know that in the East, it is not the hardest people who get the fruits of victory, but the people who sit behind and plot the most fruits of victory.

Who is this person, it is Zheng Zhi and Du Ge.

While Drake was thinking about it and commanding the fleet, he saw the enemy's flagship fleet come out, and in the far sea, thirty Galen galleons of the British also came out.

Over there, Zheng Zhi also invested his maximum force, the last fifty battleships.

"Attention." The lieutenant beside him jerked him to the ground.

A clipper from the Huaxia 5012 suddenly swept past their flagship at a speed of ten knots and fired a salvo at them with one of the few guns on one side of the ship.

Four eighteen-pound solid shells, four eighteen-pound flowering shells, ravaged the Spanish Navy's ninety-six-gun second-class battleship.

The solid shells only smashed a few holes in the hull, killed a few sailors and a gunner, and smashed some deck debris, while the flowering shells doomed the helmsman and some soldiers who were ready to shoot the enemy jumpers, as well as some powder kegs, wood, shells, cables, canvas piled up on the deck of the ship.

More than two dozen soldiers were killed, eleven sailors were killed, the helmsman was wounded, and the explosion of the powder keg damaged one of the masts, and although it did not fall, the sailors who operated the canvas suffered, and two pieces of canvas fell violently, killing several sailors lying on the ladder.

The entire upper deck was in shambles.

Even the upper gun window on the side was hit, two nine-pounder guns were blown up, and five or six gunners were wounded.

The entire second-class battleship lost the inevitable side of the hull and threw some sailors and soldiers out of the hull and into the sea.

Drake scrambled to his feet, his lieutenant screaming as he was stabbed in the thigh by a wooden thorn.

"Come, carry the wounded into the cabin, except for the sailors on deck, everyone else goes into the cabin to take shelter." He stood up, spat out some flax and a mouth full of gunsmoke, quickly came to his senses, and commanded the crew to take control of the entire ship.

It was the only second-class battleship they had come to the East, and even Spain did not have many such large battleships.

That's hundreds of thousands of pounds to make.

(End of chapter)