Zhang Zhuo's second group of ships was opposite to the Spanish fleet, he had sixty or seventy Canton ships and Fu ships, plus a large number of Cangshan ships, the front part of the column had far exceeded the Spanish tail, and the ships in the front had lost their target, so they had to turn left and roll upside down from the downwind, completely blocking the retreat of the Spanish fleet to the south.

The commander of the Spanish fleet, Maros, despaired, and this was all his ships in the South Seas.

Since the sixteenth year of Wanli (1588 AD), Britain destroyed the Spanish Armada, Spain has never recovered, the navy has declined sharply, and the whole country has also declined sharply, and has fallen from a maritime hegemon to a second-rate country in Europe, or the Netherlands cannot become independent from Spain.

Now Spain is still expanding overseas, but the weight of their expansion is already the American continent, and in the South Seas, there is only one Southern Ryukyu Islands left, and the ships are thirteen ships participating in the decisive battle today.

However, now there are only eight ships left that can participate in the battle.

These are the only eight ships in Marlos.

If these eight ships were destroyed by the Ming army, Spain would have no navy at all in the South Seas.

In order to protect the last spark of the Spanish Navy in the South Seas, Marlos chose to surrender.

After the white flag was raised, the Spanish ships took the initiative to stop the shelling, and Zhang Zhuo also raised the flag, ordering the fleet to stop shelling the Spanish ships, and sent the ships Fu and Cangshan to approach them, preparing to take over the Spanish ships.

The Spanish fleet surrendered to the Ming army in order, and the Dutch fleet, which was still fighting hard, was suddenly annoyed and angry, the Portuguese had fled from the battlefield, and now if the Spaniards surrendered again, they would face the Ming fleet alone.

Maybe it was the deputy commander of the fleet who played the flag, anyway, Zheng Zhilong didn't see it, the Dutch ship suddenly abandoned the South China Sea Fleet, turned the muzzle, and fired fiercely at the Spanish ship.

Zheng Zhilong was furious, the Spanish fleet had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, they were prisoners of the South China Sea Fleet, and they should be disposed of by the South China Sea Fleet, that is, to sink them, it was also a matter of the South China Sea Fleet.

@⊙dǐng@⊙diǎn@⊙ small @⊙ said, .2≡3.os_(); He asked his soldiers to raise the flag: concentrate artillery fire and hit the Dutch ships hard.

The artillery fire of the South China Sea Fleet became more intense, but in fact, the number of naval guns did not increase, but the targets were reduced and the artillery fire became more concentrated.

Another Dutch ship was sunk, and the Dutch no longer had the heart to strike the Spanish ships, and they again aimed their guns at the South Sea Fleet.

But there were too many Ming warships on all sides, almost surrounding them, and they didn't know which Ming ship to target, and in the end, they would target whoever they caught.

Zhang Zhuo took the opportunity to command the Fu ship, took over the surrendered Spanish fleet, and escorted the Spanish soldiers off the ship one by one.

The Dutch found that something was wrong, their original twenty-two ships, now only fourteen remained, and the number of Ming ships exceeded theirs by ten times.

Now it is a completely unequal naval battle.

In fact, from the very beginning, it was an unequal naval battle, except that the combined fleet ignored the number of ships of the Ming army.

It's not too late to know.

Seeing that victory was hopeless, the Dutch began to break through, and the bow of the fleet went all the way to the west, and they chose to break through from the west.

The Dutch fleet opened fire on the South China Sea Fleet on the one hand, and on the other hand, it accelerated the speed of its march, hoping to throw off the Canton ships and Fu ships in the rear and on the right, break through the obstruction of the Canton ships in front, and return to the Batavia base.

"Want to run? Are you thinking this is on your doorstep? Zheng Zhilong could think of it with his toes, what the final result of this naval battle that took place west of the Bass Strait was, and he had already relaxed.

"Commander, the Dutch ships are about to flee for their lives, they are too close to the Guangzhou ship in front, and they are about to enter the blind spot of the ship's guns."

"The Dutch are calculating!" Zheng Zhilong estimated that the Dutch were preparing to use the ship to hit the Kaiming ship, and then turn south and escape one by one, he sneered slightly: "The fire dragon goes to sea, let the Dutch try it." ”

The soldiers of the Canton ship in front of the Dutch ship suddenly became busy, and they took out thin bamboo tubes from the cabin, with a dragon's head in front and a dragon's tail in the back, and the whole artifact looked like a straight dragon.

The dragon's body was placed on a shelf on the deck, and a long lead # was dragged out of the four bamboo tubes below.

"diǎn fire."

The soldiers set the #line under the dragon's body on fire.

The soldiers on the Dutch ship also saw this qiē, "What are the Ming troops doing here?" Are they now celebrating naval victories? These ancient peoples will never be incomprehensible. ”

The Dutch soldiers did not understand that the Ming army was not celebrating the victory, but the final blow to the Dutch before the victory.

"Whew...... Bang ......"

The lead# line burned out, the dragon seemed to come to life, and with a loud bang, the dragon's body suddenly flew into the sky and flew towards the Dutch soldiers.

The height of the dragon's body slowly decreased, and after gliding on the surface of the water for a mile or two, several rockets flew out of the dragon's mouth and flew towards the Dutch ship, and then the dragon's body fell into the sea.

After flying some distance on the water, the rockets crashed into the Dutch ships, or the decks, or the sides, or even the bodies of the Dutch soldiers.

But after the rocket hit these obstacles, it exploded again.

The Dutch soldiers who were directly hit by the rockets suddenly transformed into countless soldiers—every piece of flesh and blood was a new life born to them.

A fire broke out on the Dutch ship.

After the rocket exploded, the huge energy and scorching temperature not only destroyed the personnel and equipment on the ship, but also set fire to a piece of wood in the center, including the cabin and the ship's side.

The Dutchman on board was stunned for a moment, and even if he was not injured, it was as if he had been diǎn by the shock wave of the rocket.

"Hurry up and put out the fire!"

I don't know who it was, but when I was roasted by the fire, my mind became sober.

The Dutch soldiers forgot about the terrifying rockets for a moment, and covered the burning utensils with the sand prepared on the ship.

However, the fire here has just been extinguished, and another place is on fire, and the Ming army is still launching the "fire dragon out to sea".

These "fire dragons go to sea" just make up for the blind spot between the range of naval guns and flintlock guns.

The maximum range of the "Fire Dragon to the Sea" exceeded the range of the naval guns, but the soldiers adjusted the angle of the launcher to reduce its range.

This was the first time that the "Fire Dragon went to sea" to fight on the sea, and the soldiers were inexperienced and the hit rate was not high.

After dǐng dǐng the initial fear, the Dutch soldiers still controlled the ship and continued to move forward, but this time they learned to be obedient, and they did not know what secret weapons the Ming army would come up with.

The ships of both sides were getting closer and closer, and the Ming army saw that the naval guns could no longer shoot, so they had to turn and turn their bows at the Dutch ships.

But when the ship turned, the angle of rotation was too large, and there was a huge gap between the ships that took pity on each other.

The Dutch ships did not care about anything, they aimed at these openings, trying to rush out of them, once they broke out of the encirclement of the South China Sea Fleet, taking advantage of the smooth wind and water, they could escape from the battlefield.

"Bang, bang, bang......"

The flintlock pistols of the Ming army began to shoot, and at such a close distance, even the "fire dragon going to sea" could not hit the Dutch ships, so the soldiers had to operate the flintlock pistols.

The Dutch soldiers also used their fire # guns.

The soldiers on both sides began a melee battle on the sea like an army meeting on a narrow road.

The Ming army became more and more courageous, and the Dutch ships fled by the way.

Although there were many ships of the Ming army, these ships surrounded the Dutch ships on all sides, and there were not many ships that really blocked the front.

The sail or helmsman of the two Dutch ships was shot and killed by the Ming army, and the ships were unmanned, and were finally intercepted by the Ming army, while the other 12 Dutch ships broke through the defense of the South China Sea Fleet and fled south.

A large number of ships of the South China Sea Fleet are closely following behind.

The Dutch ships went south, and now it is a smooth sail, except for the Cangshan ship, the Guangzhou ship and the Fu ship cannot catch up, and the distance between the two sides is getting farther and farther.

The tonnage of the Cangshan ships was too small, and the number of naval guns was insufficient, and if they were allowed to pursue them alone, they would catch up and not be able to annihilate the Dutch ships.

The sky is getting dark, and the enemy situation in the southern seas is unknown.

Zheng Zhilong ordered to stop the pursuit, he gathered the fleet and began to clean up the ships that had lost power left on the sea, as for the soldiers who fell into the water, the soldiers of the Ming army had already been salvage, and the soldiers of the combined fleet who fell into the water did not need to be salvaged now, and there was no trace of them on the sea for a long time.

Zhang Zhuo's ship approached Zheng Zhilong's flagship "Nanhai", he climbed the gangway and came to Zheng Zhilong's side, "Commander, we still have fifty Fu ships and some Cangshan ships to pursue south, and we haven't come back yet." ”

"Oh, I forgot about it." Zheng Zhilong looked to the south, but a layer of mist had already spread on the sea, and the sky was beginning to darken, and the visibility was less than ten miles.

Except for the splashes and waves left behind by the escape of the Dutch ships, nothing could be seen on the sea.

"Commander, what should I do? Do you want to send a ship to pick you up? Zhang Zhuo hesitated.

"Now that it's getting dark, how easy is it to find these ships in the vast sea?" Zheng Zhilong also regretted a little, he shouldn't have let these ships chase too far, he had known that this was the case, it was better to let these ships wait in the south of the battlefield, maybe he could intercept these Dutch ships.

"Commander, these lucky ships, once they stop pursuing, they will definitely stop near the coastline, or pursue along the coastline, if we look for them along the coastline, we will definitely not miss it." Zhang Zhuo's gaze was also aimed at the far south.

The sea gradually became quieter, and the sea breeze blowing from the sea, with a strong smell of blood, made Zheng Zhilong feel strongly uneasy, but he still shook his head: "Commander Zhang, the sky will soon be dark, the south is our unfamiliar sea area, where we can moor ships, where there are reefs, we don't know anything, we can't put the entire fleet in a dangerous situation." ”

Zhang Zhuo was also diǎn head, "Commander, otherwise, we will send a few Cangshan ships to search along the coastline, and the fleet will anchor here?" ”

"Okay, send eight Cangshan ships to search along the coastline, limit two hours, two hours later, if you don't find the lucky boat, you don't need to look for it at night, temporarily drop anchor, and wait until tomorrow after dawn to find it," Zheng Zhilong thought for a while, "There are fifty of our lucky ships, plus there are Cangshan ships guarding the periphery, even if we meet Dutch ships, we won't fall behind, maybe when we wake up, we may have an unexpected joy." ”

"I hope so."

Zheng Zhilong prepared to let the fleet anchor in the sea and anchor on the spot, and let the Cangshan ship patrol the perimeter to strengthen vigilance.

However, Maros, the commander of the Spanish fleet who had just been captured, offered to lead the South China Sea Fleet to anchor in the port of Pasalon in order to make meritorious service to Zheng Zhilong.