"Fire!" After the preparation was completed, Thomas, who was standing on the roof of the aft ship, gave the order, and in just a few moments, the other party had rushed to within three hundred meters.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

A series of fires flashed from the side of the galleon, and nineteen projectiles of different sizes flew towards the rapidly approaching warship almost at the same time.

"Bang!" The first projectile hit the bow of the 400-material warship.

No one on board panicked.

"Bang bang bang!" A series of projectiles smashed into the bow of the ship, and sawdust flew, and soon a huge hole appeared in the bow, and the Hongyi cannon and three thousand pound long machine guns arranged at the bow of the ship all rolled into the sea, and many sailors also fell into the sea.

The shells of the galleon, most of which hit the bow.

The violent shaking slowed down the speed of the ship, and the warship, which was already a little shaky in the wind and waves, shook even more.

"My lord, the bow of the ship is in the water!" A subordinate's report made the military attaché's face gloomy.

"No matter, rush over!" Now it's too late to turn.

The military attaché's mind was to use the sacrifice of a ship to attract firepower and complete the outflanking, otherwise there would be no chance to get close at all.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

The warships on both sides were also firing guns, the artillery fire was sparse, and the firing gap was long, which could not be compared with the Spanish warships on the opposite side.

Again, it can only speed up and prepare to complete the outflanking for the receiving battle.

After the first round of shelling by the Spanish ship, the barrels that protruded from the side of the ship retracted, and soon the barrels protruded again from each porthole.

"Fire!" When the ship on the opposite side was already close to the Spanish ship at a distance of 100 meters, Thomas gave the order to open fire again.

"Boom, boom, boom......" A series of dense shells again fell on the bow of the battleship, which had already been smashed.

In the midst of the flying wood chips, the bow of the warship was torn open, and a large amount of seawater poured into it, and the bow of the ship began to tilt towards the water, which became slower and slower, and then, another round of shelling, the speed of the warship's sinking accelerated.

Many people on board jumped from the boat towards the water, and the two small boats at the stern were all lowered into the water.

The bow of the ship was so broken that it was too late to repair it. A large amount of seawater poured in, and it has begun to sink, and if you don't dive, you can only sink with it.

"Your Excellency!" Seeing that the ship was sinking, the military attaché's subordinates shouted anxiously.

"Abandon ship!" The military attache looked at the Spanish ships close at hand, and the faces of the savage Caucasian people on board could be seen clearly, and he could only grit his teeth and order to abandon the ship.

A small boat stopped not far away, and the military attache turned over and jumped over it, then reached out and grabbed the cable hanging from the mast, and jumped down, landing firmly on the boat, which was less than two feet long.

Seeing this, the other two ships gave up their outflanking and quickened their speed to this side, and the small boat at the stern was also quickly lowered to save people at sea.

"Leave us alone, continue to outflank, only by engaging in a ship battle, will you have a chance!" When the military attache saw the two ships turning, he couldn't help but roar!

"My lord, you have to attack with fire! Burned their ship! The attendant also swung down.

A very constructive suggestion, but he was slapped on the head by the military attaché.

"The ship is burned, and the gold and heavy artillery on it can be fished up? It's unfathomable here! The military general said coldly, "The things on this ship, the marshals all attach great importance to the extraordinary!" The order was given personally. ”

The ship was sinking, and the soldiers who jumped into the sea did not panic and struggled, and many of them bit the back of their knives with their teeth and swam towards the Spanish galleon not far away.

Even if Zheng Zhilong was recruited by the imperial court, his subordinates were still fierce pirates, not to mention that these pirates did not wear imperial court uniforms when they carried out looting missions.

"Well done Thomas, go ahead and kill them, let them see the power of the Empire's most advanced battleships!" Kent was a little excited to see that he had killed an enemy ship.

Thomas's face was not at all relaxed, "Sir, they don't give up just because the ship sinks, look at those people!" ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the pirates who were struggling to swim towards him on the sea.

Kent couldn't help but wonder when he saw a large number of people swimming over quickly!

At such a distance, before they could swim to the side of the ship, they would be killed by archers and musketeers.

Besides, the boat is so high, how can it be possible to climb up, there is no place to borrow strength in the water.

"Archers! Musketeers in place! Stop them! The steel knives in the mouths of those who swam by them gleazed in the sun, but they did not frighten Sir Kent.

"Fire!" Seeing that the commander arrived at the small boat, the warships on both sides no longer had any scruples, and ordered the gunners to quickly fire at the Furlong machine ship in the distance, but after each cannon fired, it was necessary to clean up the residue left in the barrel of the cannon, and had to reload the propellant and shells, and the shooting speed was too slow.

When the military attache arrived at the ship, he personally picked up the oars and rowed the boat towards the Spanish galleon not far away, and on the way he kept pulling the sailors he met to the boat......

The same is true of the other two small boats that were lowered to save people.

While quickly rushing towards the Spanish warship, he rescued people.

Apparently preparing to risk the death to charge.

Seeing this situation, the artillerymen on the galleon were a little flustered for a while, and most of the guns were aimed at the small boat that was approaching quickly.

The shells all fell into the sea and splashed high waves, and they could not hit the small boat that was almost close to the water, and the target was not large.

The cannonballs smashed into the column of water, but the boat moved swiftly in the column of water, getting closer and closer to the sailboat.

"Leave the boat alone, aim at the big ship and fire!" Seeing this, Thomas's face was heavy. "Musketeers, archers prepare, don't let them get close to our ship!"

Thomas, who knew these bandits of the Ming Empire, gave the most correct order at the first time.

Once the bandits are on board, even if the sailors and soldiers on board are the most experienced and elite in the Kingdom of Spain, they are far from being compared to the bandits.

On Spanish warships, sailors and armies had a professional division of labor, and the sailors who operated the ships were experienced, but their combat ability was not strong.

Under the captain's order, the fighters carried muskets and bows and arrows and quickly entered the various firing positions on the deck on the top of the warship, bent their bows and arrows and waited for the approaching pirates.

At the beginning, the two small boats laid down on the sunken warship moved quickly in the waves, attracting the opponent's cannonballs and relieving a lot of pressure on the two warships, but later the other side gave up shelling the small boats and directly shelled the warships, and the military attache could only order the small boats to slow down and wait for the four small boats laid down on the other two warships to come and make a collective charge.

In the distance, the top of the mast of a huge sail battleship gradually emerged from the sea level, and the person on the mast who was observing the situation with a telescope suddenly screamed.

"Captain, their reinforcements have arrived!"