"Hmph, if the tragic charge had really worked, the poorly equipped Indians would not have perished before you Spaniards!" Hu Zhen looked at it and shook his head. ???????? w?

At this time, the Almirante Okendo had already rushed within 3,000 meters of the three battleships of the Huaxia Army, and Hu Zhen did not need to send shelling data to each ship, and each ship could maintain continuous and accurate shelling with only the observation and sighting instruments on its own ships, and even the small-caliber secondary guns on each ship joined the ranks of the shelling.

Knowing that death was inevitable, all the crew of the Almirante Okendo calmed down, and simply stuck to their posts, using all the guns at their disposal to frantically bombard the Chinese army, and firing torpedoes at all costs.

At this time, the three battleships of the Huaxia Army happened to be in front of the Cristobal Colón, shielding the four weakly armored cruisers with thick armor screens.

The shelling of the Almirante Okundo, suppressed by the powerful artillery fire of the Chinese army, did not have much effect, and the torpedo fired ran away without a shadow.

Before the hundreds of guns of the three battleships and four cruisers of the Huaxia Army were bombarded with more than 500 shells per minute, the Almirante Okendo endured an astonishing rain of more than 5,000 shells in 10 minutes, and at least 100 shells hit its hull.

In just ten minutes, the tragic charge of the Almirante Okendo turned into a tragic explosion and sinking.

In the violent explosion, none of the 497 crew members of the Almirante Okendo were able to jump into the sea to escape, and all of them died heroically in the line of duty.

Later generations describe this naval battle that decided the fate of the Luzon Islands, and they all believe that the tragic charge of the Almirante Okendo is the last glimmer of the Spanish naval empire of 400 years, and after this remnant sun, Spain will never again have the glory of the empire that never set the sun on the seven seas 400 years ago.

But at the moment, this heroism did not mean much to save the entire Luzon fleet.

At the time of its sinking, the Pelayo and Carlos V, under the command of the fleet commander Severa, hurriedly turned around and fled in the direction of the Tadpole Island battery, while the Maria Princess Teresa continued to descend below ten knots, and it was difficult to escape.

Only after the captain of the Viskaya was killed. Finding an officer-acting captain to continue commanding the ship from the collapsed bridge, it seemed that he had recovered a little luck, and was able to turn and escape at nineteen knots.

"The flag orders Princess Maria Teresa and the Viscaya to surrender quickly, or they will be sunk immediately!" Since the capture of the ships of the Dutch to create a navy. After capturing a battleship in the Battle of Hawaii, Hu Zhen fell in love with capturing enemy ships to strengthen his fleet, and he was determined to give the Spanish crew a chance to survive.

Princess Maria Theresa did not accept Hu Zhen's affection, and even fired at Hu Zhen's Dahua flagship under the condition of low sailing.

It's a real death. Don't do it, don't die!

Hu Zhen looked at it and said nothing, but the soldiers of the Huaxia Army were furious.

The rage immediately turned into an overwhelming network of artillery fire, which swept over the hull of the Princess Maria Theresa and the surrounding sea.

The shells exploded on the surface of the sea, creating a dense forest of water columns that obscured the orange flames that exploded aboard the Princess Maria Teresa.

Five minutes later, the water had cleared, and it was only a matter of time before the Princess Maria Theresa had become a huge bonfire with explosives and shells rumbling and drumbling.

In the firelight, some crew members desperately jumped into the sea to survive.

At this time, the Biscaya, which could only travel on the surface of the sea, saw this, and it didn't care about the four-hundred-year inheritance of the naval empire. A bunch of crew members forced the captain to order to raise the white flag and surrender quickly, and save their own lives first.

At the time of the surrender of the Viscaya, the 2nd and 3rd warbands of the Huaxia Army had also won a decisive victory, sinking the recalcitrant cruisers Rena Cristina, Alfonso XII, Rena Masti, Madrid, and Christopher.

It's just that this battleship is not something that a few hundred or dozens of tons of small boats can intercept.

The guns of the Pelayo and Carlos V turned the front of the road into a sea of fire, and the water column of a torpedo boat of the Huaxia Army that exploded a 32o mm shell directly overturned, and the sailors on the boat sank to the bottom of the sea before they had time to escape, except for the sailors on the deck who had a little time to escape.

There was also a destroyer hit by a 28o-mm shell. Blown into countless fragments and sunk to the bottom of the sea, only sixteen sailors survived.

At a distance of 2,500 meters, the destroyers and torpedo boats of the Huaxia Army fired a wave of torpedoes, but the distance was too far. The enemy ships easily dodged without any success.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the remnants of the three cruisers, the Erickson, Castile and Iberian, hurriedly joined the fleeing under the cover of the battleship's gunfire.

When Hu Zhen arrived with the capital ships, the five fleeing enemy capital ships, one destroyer, and two torpedo boats were already within a 7,000-kilometer distance of the defensive batteries on Tadpole Island.

Although the battery needs to be within 3,000 meters of the enemy ships in order to hit accurately, 7,000 meters is already within the range of the battery. If you're lucky, eight 32o mm guns and ten 28o mm guns on the battery can sink any ship, but the cannons on the battleship will have a hard time penetrating the well-defended batteries.

Hu Zhen almost didn't have any thoughts, so he ordered: "In order to avoid unnecessary losses in front of the fort, the whole fleet stops pursuing!" ”

The Huaxia fleet fired a volley of demonstrative shells in the direction of the Luzon fleet's escape, and then the whole group retreated, away from the range of the battery on Tadpole Island.

From 8:34 a.m., when the Huaxia Army fired the first shot, which was deliberately inaccurate, to 16:45 p.m., when the sun set, the eight-hour naval battle ended.

In this naval battle, the Huaxia fleet won a great victory in annihilating 17 cruisers, 9 gunboats, 7 destroyers, 4 torpedo boats, and the captured armored cruiser of the Luzon fleet at the cost of losing the cruisers Baltimore, the USS Lever, three destroyers, and two torpedo boats!

Although there were still two battleships of the Luzon fleet, which fled into Manila Bay under the shelter of the Tadpole Island battery with three cruisers, a destroyer, and two torpedo boats, they were no longer able to fight the fleet of the Chinese Army.

The Huaxia Army dispatched hundreds of thousands of 6 Corps to launch a large-scale Deng-6 operation against the Luzon Islands, and there were no longer any maritime obstacles. (To be continued.) )