458 Battle of the Philippines (2)

The Ming army boosted its morale and spirits, and launched an attack on the powerful Spanish Navy more bravely.

On the opposite side of the Ming army, the commander-in-chief of the Spanish Philippine fleet, Giovanni, who was being beaten by the Ming gunboats, also received a report from his subordinates - the main battleship of the Chinese fleet was heading towards us at high speed, and it seemed that they were planning to fight us in a decisive battle!

Giovanni had not yet settled the harassment of the Chinese gunboats, when the main warships of the Chinese naval division arrived, and he was so shocked that he immediately ordered several warships to meet the main Chinese warships, delaying for a while, so that he could concentrate his superior firepower and destroy this Chinese fleet of fast gunboats.

Damn it! Where did these Chinese learn the tactics of the British?!

He was furious!

"Sir! Watch out!! ”

Just as he was angry, one of his subordinates suddenly flew up and threw him to the ground, and then he heard a loud bang, and a strong air flow suddenly rolled up around his body, which shook his ears with a burst of tinnitus, so that he was temporarily deaf.

Looking up blankly, something fell off his body, and Giovanni looked down to see that it was his subordinate, his face covered in blood, and he reached out to probe his snort, and found that this subordinate was dead.

He looked around, and there was a big hole blown out of the place where he was standing, several soldiers were blown to the ground, and one soldier had his leg broken, and he was holding his broken leg and screaming in pain, but he couldn't hear his miserable screams.

He stood up in a daze, and before he could stand up, another powerful gust of air swept in, pushing him backwards and slamming him on the deck, and he felt a sharp pain in his back, which caused his brain to be strongly stimulated.

He regained his hearing.

"Sir! Sir! We were shot by the Chinese! Our hull is damaged! It's flooding! ”

A panicked subordinate ran up and picked up Giovanni, who had fallen to the ground, and he looked at his subordinate panting in pain.

"Shoot back now! Find the target and shoot back! Repair the hull now! The Chinese must not be defeated!! ”

"Yes!!"

The subordinate ran out in a panic, but in an instant, another flowering bomb exploded on the spot where he was standing, so in Giovanni's eyes, the subordinate seemed to be shattered, his entire body was shattered, blood was spilled all over the ground, and the broken limbs flew to the unknown place.

He was probably one of the most unlucky Philippine governors, and three times in a row he was knocked to the ground by the air currents of the shell explosions, and although he was not injured much, he was destroyed and could not be accurately commanded, while the Chinese gunboat aimed at the large ship and fired constantly did a great job.

Of course, they didn't know that they were shooting at the flagship of the Spanish Navy, and the commander-in-chief of the navy was on it, and they just saw a particularly large battleship, and they were very unhappy to see it, so all the guns on the ship were aimed at this big ship.

After several successive shots, the big ship was blown up to the ground, and they accelerated their fire even more aggressively, and when they saw that there was a advantage to be taken, another gunboat joined in and fired together, and the two gunboats bombarded the big ship indiscriminately, blowing up the big ship to the ground, and there was a great posture of sinking it in one fell swoop.

But I have to say that the shipbuilding skills of these Spaniards are really good, they have not sunk after being bombed to this extent, they are still driving tenaciously, clumsily transferring, and they can also fire back, forcing the Ming gunboats to change their positions, if this is a pirate ship, it would have collapsed a long time ago.

The Spaniards are so tenacious!

But not only did it not hit the Ming soldiers, but it also made the Ming sailors excited.

The teacher fights those pirates who are greedy for life and afraid of death, they are tired of it for a long time! In addition to the earliest pirates were still a little fierce, after the three major battles, the pirates have been frightened, and when they saw the ships flying the Ming military flag, they turned around and ran, some of the ships ran fast, and the sailors couldn't catch up, what is the point of fighting with this kind of enemy?

Fighting with such a powerful navy is fighting! It's fun to fight such a stubborn enemy! That's where the real fun lies!

The fighting spirit of the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division, which had not been ignited for a long time, was ignited again, and the fighting will of the Daming Navy Division has reached a higher level!

At this time, Wang Wei, deputy chief of the Sixth Fleet, had already led the main battleship to the battlefield, and the naval guns of the capital ship began to rumble.

The Spaniards immediately felt a different kind of artillery pressure.

The firepower of these big ships is more ferocious, and the number of guns seems to be a little larger, and the power of the cannon is completely different when the cannon rumbles.

The captains of the five Spanish warships facing them felt the tremendous pressure, and the overwhelming artillery fire of the Ming army smashed down, and before they could open fire, the Ming army preemptively opened fire and took the lead.

Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom ————

The solid bullet mixed with a few flowering shells smashed on the Spanish battleship, and as soon as the two sides looked at each other, a Spanish battleship was hit by countless shells, and then it was directly smashed into a sieve, and the crew could not be rescued, and the battleship was already hopeless.

Seeing this, the captain had no choice but to order to abandon the ship and escape, but the dominant Ming army sailors would not let go of this opportunity, Wang Wei saw that a battleship was about to sink, and immediately ordered three battleships to besiege the past - want to escape? Do you think it's possible?

One cannon after another, with more and less shots, the ship accelerated and sank, a large number of sailors did not have time to escape, drowned alive in the sea, and the people who tried to escape on the small boat were even more unlucky, they were targeted by the Ming soldiers on the ship, more dense bullets targeted at them, they also tried to return fire with firearms, but their guns simply could not reach the Ming soldiers who were shooting condescendingly.

The first sunken ship appeared, it was the Spanish Navy's Courage, the ship sank, most of the more than 200 crew members on board drowned in the sea, a small number tried to escape, and were caught up by the Ming ships and shot to death with guns, none of them survived.

Seeing that they had sunk an enemy ship, the morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted, Wang Wei ordered the ship to beat the war drums, blow the horn, and issue the second general attack order, so as to boost morale.

The Spaniards were puzzled, but suddenly found that the attack of the Ming army had become sharper, not to mention the onslaught of the big ships, and those small ships actually attacked those huge ships that were twice as large as them with an indomitable posture, and the Spanish fleet was in a hurry for a while, further chaotic.

What's worse is that the command order that was supposed to come from the flagship has not been conveyed for some time!.