Li Guanghao rushed out of the dense rain of bullets from the Spaniards with billowing smoke.

The convoy's return of the rifle caused confusion in the entire fleet of the Spaniards, especially since they took the lead - detonating the San Antonio in one fell swoop, adding to the panic of the Spanish and Sardinia warships.

Zhu Li would not let go of this good opportunity, and immediately led the fleet to rush towards the east, where the enemy's fleet was the most powerful.

The Ottoman I followed.

The distance between the warships of the two sides was much closer to each other in the next half hour, and rockets exploded from time to time.

But in the end, Li Guanghao and they still rushed out of the encirclement.

Although the battleships of the eight main fleets were all scarred, each battleship was damaged to varying degrees, especially the fourth-class sail battleship Zhang Fei, which was already hit by a cannonball, and was hit by a rocket during the breakout, and the entire rear deck was blown away. The sails were badly damaged, and the casualties were even more severe.

The pipe band, the first mate, and the chief sail were all killed, and the second officer and the chief navigator were seriously injured and unconscious, leaving only the boatswain acting in command.

There were 330 Austrian officers and men on the ship, and the personnel losses were as high as 100, including nearly 10 officers of various ranks.

It's just that the Spaniards and Sardinians didn't take advantage either, especially the Spaniards, and the explosion of a third-class sail battleship cost them 560 men in one fell swoop. Combined with the casualties of the other ships, the total losses could be close to 800 people.

Neither side can say that they have an advantage.

However, after the smoke of gunfire on the sea had died down, neither the Spaniards nor the Sardinians could easily say anything about continuing the pursuit to the east.

Because this war told them that the Chinese really dare to fight hard.

Li Guang is still the flagship of a door, and he was the first to try to approach 500 meters in the battle, with a rocket range. It doesn't matter if the commander was really that brave or not, but he really did that in battle.

Envel Pasha on the Ottoman I admired Zhu Li's courage.

Rockets are just too lethal.

The San Antonio is a living example, the Marlin 11 was really blessed by God, and it survived two rockets at the same time, look at the fate of Zhang Fei. If such an explosion had happened to Marlin XI, then Smarlin XI would have been removed from the fleet.

If it does not sink, it will be abandoned immediately.

Therefore, the number of ships sunk in this battle and the number of casualties on both sides do not properly reflect the pattern in the Mediterranean between China and the West. The battle of the night came to an end, but it was only one point in the whole war, and before the convoy did not pass through the Strait of Tunis and enter the waters of Crete, they still faced a frenzied interception by Spanish warships. There are still many dangers.

Fortunately, the Spanish Navy did not have the British tradition of 'fighting every enemy'. And the bounty system of the British Royal Navy is really insane.

At the port of Valletta on the island of Malta, George Hamilton is silently watching a fleet of ships passing through the Strait of Malta one after another.

The fleet was huge, and there were rare first-class sail battleships flying the Ottoman flag.

The Knights of Malta were the old enemies of the Ottomans, and they still remember the Star and Moon Banner vividly.

After Zhu Li led the fleet to break through the Spaniards' blockade again, the fleet that had just rushed out of the Tunis Strait turned around and turned into the Strait of Malta.

Zhu Mian did not ask the Knights of Malta to dock, but stayed in the waters of Malta for two days, and then crossed directly.

The Battle of the Strait of Tunis was the third battle between Zhu and the Spaniards, and they also lost ships for the first time, and two at a time.

Once again, the desperate Marlin 11 did not have the good luck of God's protection, it was hit by three rockets, and there was a terrible explosion on the ship, the pipe band, the first mate, the second officer, etc. were all killed on the spot, and the whole ship was 250 people, only seven escaped life.

However, the desperate efforts of the Marlin also caused serious damage to the main ship of the Spanish detachment, a second-class sail battleship, and then under the continuous attack of the Ottoman I, the ship's side was broken through, and the water was badly damaged, and it was already on the verge of abandonment.

But the 2nd class sail battleship eventually escaped the fate of sinking on the spot.

When the outcome of the battle became more apparent, this detachment of the Spaniards was no match for Zhu Li's fleet. As mentioned above, the main ships of the Spaniard's Mediterranean Fleet only had a total of 22 sail battleships of the third class or above, including four first-class sail battleships, and in addition to the battleship Santa Trinidad, which had previously appeared in the Strait of Gibraltar, two of the other three first-class sail battleships were in the waters north of Sardinia.

The Spanish Navy had a total of 16 capital ships in the waters north of Sardinia, while in the battle outside the port of Nice, Spain only dispatched 10 capital ships [above the third level]. One 1st Sail Battleship, 1st Rank Sail Battleship, 8 3rd Rank Sail Battleships!

The other six capital ships of the Spanish Navy are concentrated in the Tunis Strait. There is a 1st Rank Sail Battleship, a 2nd Rank Sail Battleship, and four 3rd Rank Sail Battleships!

In terms of the number of capital ships, this Spanish detachment is not as large as the Zhu Li fleet. Zhu Li's fleet also has eight capital ships and six fourth-class sail warships.

Therefore, in the battle of the Tunis Strait, the Chinese sailors won the battle in a serious way. The Spaniards held out on the sea for seven hours, but in the end they did not wait for the arrival of the 'reinforcements'.

- Spain after the Battle of Nice~ The Sardinian fleet did not follow closely.

When the battle ended, Zhu Lian suddenly discovered that the second-class sail battleship, which had been hit by at least 100 bullets and had been hit by Marlin 11, had actually dragged its wrecked body and did not know what to do, which made all the Chinese and Austrian officers and men present regret it.

In this battle, the Chinese fleet sank a total of three Spanish warships, including a third-class sail battleship, a fourth-class sail battleship, and a sloop warship with only one gun deck.

The other ship lost by the Chinese side was a transport ship, and the main ships of the Tunisian detachment were not as many as Chen Han's, but they had quite a few small warships, and they still saw a loophole in the seven hours of combat effectiveness, and through the small boat, they boarded a Chinese transport ship.

However, their warship was then bombarded by a Chen Han fourth-class sail warship, and they had to turn the bow of the ship and flee in the opposite direction, and the Spanish soldiers who had already boarded the Chinese merchant ship cursed when they saw this, and after killing the crew and igniting the flammable materials on the deck of the ship, they took more than a dozen small boats and rowed wildly in the direction away from the war zone.

The entire merchant ship was lost in the raging flames.

This was the first merchant ship to be burned since the operation, and the more than 200 crew members on board were all part of the logistics department, but they were all soldiers. The resistance of the Spaniards was fierce as they constantly bombarded with cannons, and then approached by small boats and climbed onto the deck of the ships. Of course, the losses are also significant.

There was not a single living person on the upper deck, and the rest of the crew retracted to the lower deck.

In the end, the Spaniards set fire to the ship and chose to evacuate, so they ran out of the bottom and jumped into the sea frantically. And in the end, out of 236 officers and men on a ship, only one hundred and three survived.

After another naval battle, Zhu Li's fleet stopped in Maltese waters for two days, and the ships repaired themselves one after another. The flagships Li Guang and Osman I were both badly damaged, especially the former, whose hull, canvas, and mast were damaged many times, but they were barely able to sail. The sailors, under the command of the officers, hurried to change the canvas and repair the planks and masts that were easily replaced.

The Spaniards never chased after him, which somewhat lightened the atmosphere in the team.

But the atmosphere in the ranks was not high, although they won the naval battle. Because they were not satisfied with the previous battle, although the fleet took three enemy warships, they let the cooked duck that Marlin 11 had exchanged for 'life' fly away from the pot, which made many people sullen.

But in fact, they didn't know that the 2nd class sail battleship didn't have to flee the battlefield very far before it had to choose to rush towards the shore - the leak was getting worse and worse, and it had to choose to run aground.

However, while rushing to shore, the second-class sail battleship ran aground again, and although the Spanish Navy tried to repair it for the next month, it was never able to get the warship to float again. A month later, in a strong storm, the second-class sail battleship was completely destroyed.

There is no doubt that this is the greatest result of Chen Hanshui's battle in this battle.

George Hamilton was an Englishman, and although he was a member of the Order of Malta, he served more in London. He knew that the fleet in front of him was a fleet of Chinese, and their destination was to go to Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire to trade. Prior to this, they had already engaged in three encounters with the Spanish Navy's Mediterranean Fleet.

Under the current circumstances, the process of fighting between the Chinese and Western fleets is still very fierce, and the result should end with the Chinese gaining the upper hand. This has caused many people to fall through their glasses, and Hamilton is one of them.

Hamilton could not imagine that the powerful Spanish Mediterranean Fleet in his memory would be 'defeated' at the hands of a weak Chinese fleet tens of thousands of miles away from his homeland, which even made Hamilton feel a little unreal.

The Spanish Navy has nearly 50 capital ships, most of which are deployed in the Americas and the Atlantic, and as many as 22 in the Mediterranean, including four first-class sail battleships.

The Spaniards were reluctant to use a first-class sail battleship to compete with other countries' third-class sail battleships, or even fourth-class sail battleships, in the Atlantic.

This Mediterranean fleet is no match for nothing.

Even the powerful British Mediterranean Fleet has to keep a great deal of interest in it.

But it is inconceivable that such a powerful fleet, which makes the British feel threatened, should be taken advantage of by an escort fleet that is less than half as strong as half in successive battles.

But this is the case, the last battle of the Tunis Strait between China and the West, the battle was fought under the watchful eye of a British sixth-class sail warship. In fact, George Hamilton now knew that the badly damaged second-class sail battleship had hit the reef directly when it was rushing to the shore after leaving the battlefield. It can be said that it is unlucky and tragic.

These three naval battles initiated by the Spaniards only caused the Chinese to lose an innocuous flying shear bow warship and a transport ship, while they themselves ran aground a second-class sail battleship and silenced two third-class sail battleships, which can be said to have lost blood.

This must not make the British feel the good luck and courage of the Chinese.

The British have always been very concerned about the construction of Chinese naval divisions and their real combat effectiveness.

It's a pity that they can clearly know only the former, and the 'model' built by the Chinese one by one warships falling into the water like dumplings makes London feel Alexander.

The total tonnage of Chinese warships is not as strong as that of the Kingdom of Great Britain, but the Chinese's warships are concentrated. It's just in the Pacific Ocean, and I've only recently peeked into the Indian Ocean. The Kingdom of Great Britain's mighty naval fleet, on the other hand, was 'torn apart', which was London's greatest disadvantage.

And the actual combat effectiveness of the Chinese Navy is really impossible to talk about.

After they formed an army, they also moved with the Spaniards, and it was adults beating children, and they couldn't see anything at all.

So much so that inside the British Royal Navy, more than one voice shouted: the Chinese are a flower shelf. No matter how powerful the fleet is in their hands, it is useless.

But the details of the three battles at the moment, after the details were revealed, George Hamilton believed that they must have shut the mouths of the blind and arrogant in the British Royal Navy.

Zhu Li led the fleet to anchor in the waters of Malta for two days, and some news had already been delivered to some people through the extremely fast contact methods of the British. That includes some details of the Battle of Nice! George Hamilton is one of them.

Of these three battles, the Battle of Gibraltar was an appetizer, the Battle of Nice was a major meal, and the Battle of the Strait of Tunis was a dessert after the meal.

The commander of the Chinese dared to lead the flagship to always rush to the front in battle, and dared to be the first to let the flagship approach a distance of 500 meters and play rockets. Whether this commander is brave or not, he must be extremely brave.

Just like the officers who lead the charge of the soldiers in the face of dense grapeshotballs.

And among his subordinates, such as the sunken flying shear warship, the captain commanded the warship to approach the enemy ship at a distance of 500 meters to launch rockets in the two battles between the front and rear battles with extremely short intervals, which was also bold enough to single-handedly take on the dragon.

The naval tactics of the Chinese are very decent, but the fighting spirit and courage of the officers and men of the navy cannot be ignored.

If all the officers and men of the Chinese Navy were like this, then the Chinese would at least be an enlarged version of the French Navy.

This is not good news for London or for the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom.