Chapter 021: Spanish Warships

The patrol gunboats parked on the surface of the sea opened fire! Colonel Jack corrected the use of 25-mm rapid-fire guns from gunboats to provide artillery support to Andrei. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

A few shots knocked out the Spanish soldiers.

This firepower is too strong! They had never seen such powerful artillery fire that could tear apart a person's body and send flesh and blood flying!

The Spanish soldiers no longer dared to pursue, and stood in a daze, not knowing whether to pursue or retreat.

War makes people wise, and this is based on the experience of countless dead people piled up.

The soldiers of this era, when the two sides faced each other, the rows of human walls all stood neatly, their bodies straight, they aimed together, and they fired together, and both sides were all live targets, and they didn't know what it meant to lie down.

Lying on the ground can effectively dodge bullets and shells? Sorry, they're not that smart.

The rapid-fire guns on the "Tutu Tu ......" gunboat opened fire again.

Shells flew into the dense crowd, and another large number of Spanish soldiers were blown to the bones.

Death can make people smart, and it is true, these Spaniards were so frightened by the tragedy in front of them that they turned around and ran.

AndrΓ© jumped into the water, swam quickly to a rubber boat, paddled with one hand, pushed the dinghy forward with the other, and the speed of the dinghy suddenly increased a lot.

The gunboat had a shallow draft and was not far from the shore, and the crowd in the two dinghys quickly boarded the gunboat.

As soon as he got on the gunboat, Zhuo Shijie went straight to the rapid-fire gun at the front and asked Jack how many shells he had.

"Report to the commander, there are 46 more shells."

Zhuo Shijie nodded, barely enough.

"Great boss, hurry up, if you don't go, the Spanish galleon will come." Sun Tiezhu looked anxious and reminded behind Zhuo Shijie.

The Spanish galleon, with its great reputation, is the invincible existence of all pirates who flee from the wind.

Although the Spanish Armada had been defeated decades earlier and had lost dozens of ships, for the British, they had only lifted the Spanish blockade of their country, and the British were incapable of posing the slightest threat to the Spanish mainland, and almost never launched an attack on the Spanish mainland.

Spain, on the other hand, was defeated this time, but its naval strength was not weakened too much, for them, it was just a defeat of a fleet, and they were not broken at all, and they could still dominate the four oceans.

They relied on Spanish galleons.

Zhuo Shijie was not in a hurry, pacing leisurely on the gunboat, and did not give the order to return.

In the end, even Miss He came over to urge him, persuading him to give the order quickly, it would be too late.

"I have my own ideas, you just have to rest assured." Zhuo Shijie still didn't panic.

Zhuo Shijie's second move today is to attack the galleons of the Spanish Navy.

His men kept looking in the direction of the harbor, where at least two large Spanish warships were docked.

Suddenly, Sun Tiezhu shouted: "Big boss, it's not good!" The Spanish ships are coming towards us! ”

Zhuo Shijie looked up at this time.

Two Spanish warships were slowly approaching this direction.

The huge body, the tall mast, and the towering tail tower are the armed galleons of the Spaniards.

Zhuo Shijie came to the wheelhouse and asked Andre: "What is the data of the sailboat opposite?" ”

Andrei only glanced at it, and then said: "The ship is about 47 meters long, about 12 meters wide, has a displacement of about 480 tons, has a total of 30 cannons of 6-inch caliber, the speed of the ship is about 6 knots, and the number of crew members is unknown......"

Zhuo Shijie nodded and said, "Start immediately and meet the enemy ship!" Remember, keep your distance from them! ”

"Yes! Commander! ”

The gunboat's engine immediately roared, and after half a circle on the sea, it drove in the direction of the Spanish warship.

Sun Tiezhu and the others panicked, and they all looked at Zhuo Shijie with wide eyes.

Is the big boss crazy? What is he going to do?

He didn't want to go toe-to-toe with the Spaniards!

Even the Dutch did not dare to touch the Spaniards easily, and the big boss was going to hit the stone with an egg!

No pirate had ever dared to play tricks in front of a Spanish galleon.

Who is the best in this thousands of miles of sea? Zheng Zhilong is the best!

But Zheng Zhilong's fleet also hid when they saw the armed galleons of the Spaniards!

The heart of the big boss is too big!

On the Spanish galleon, Captain Paulino is looking into the distance with a telescope.

"It's the ship that's attacking! Well? They're coming this way? That's great! ”

He immediately ordered: "Full speed ahead!" Ram the enemy ship! ”

During this period, the combat habits of the Spanish warships were still mainly engaged in broadside battles, supplemented by artillery bombardment, and since the opposing ships were so small, it was undoubtedly the most advantageous tactic to directly ram them.

Two Spanish ships, all full of sails, sped towards Zhuo Shijie's gunboat.

Zhuo Shijie saw the Spanish warships coming aggressively, so he said to Andrei: "Go around to their left flank!" ”

The gunboat adjusted course and rushed diagonally to the left of the Spanish ship.

"It's really a fight! The big boss is crazy! ”

It was only then that Sun Tiezhu realized that Zhuo Shijie was playing for real.

The sunspot next to him was also frightened: "This, this is a Spanish warship!" This is no ordinary pirate ship! Oh my God, what does the boss want to do? ”

Although Miss Ho was happy to see the Spanish soldiers killed, the disparity between the two sides was so great that it was obviously suicidal, and she did not see any possibility of victory.

As a resident of Vigan City, Miss He knows very well how powerful the Spanish galleon is, not to mention that it is really fighting, even if it stops at the port casually, it is already a talisman of the port, and no one dares to make a mistake.

This pirate leader is so desperate that he wants to go to war with it!

"Is he doing this for me? But you don't have to fight for your life! Miss He didn't know what it was like at this time.

The gunboat was very fast, and in a short time it was in the opposite direction of the two Spanish ships, each exposing their flanks to the other.

It's just that for the Spanish ships, the distance was a bit far.

The Spaniards were puzzled by the strange behavior of this strange ship.

What kind of tactic is this? Specifically around the flanks, is this looking for a fight? When the two sides fight at sea, the biggest taboo is to expose themselves to the opponent's flank, because this is the direction of the opponent's artillery.

Unfortunately, the artillery could not reach it because it was too far away, otherwise, after a round of artillery fire, the boat would have been destroyed in no time.

"Turn the rudder right and shell it from behind!"

Since the plan to ram the opponent failed, the Spanish commander, Captain Paulino, had to change his strategy.

At this time, Zhuo Shijie was discussing with Jack how to fight in the best interests.

"Colonel Jack, do you see if you can sink them?" Zhuo Shijie asked.

Jack shook his head: "The caliber of our artillery shells is too small, and we can only sink one, which is still based on the fact that we cannot effectively kill the opponent's crew, that is, I can only do it by hitting all the artillery fire to the waterline of the opponent's hull." ”

Zhuo Shijie looked at the huge Spanish warship and felt that this result was acceptable.

"So, start attacking!" Zhuo Shijie waved his hand down.

"Sudden ......"

The 25-mm guns roared violently, and in an instant, a barrage spread out in front of the gunboats, and swooped down on one of the Spanish galleons.