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"Order all ships to prepare for battle!"

He yelled with excitement.

Between the blue sea and sky ahead, countless white sails stood, and one after another warships with elegance and majesty lay across, and in a trance he seemed to have returned to the past, to him and George. The era when Marshal Rook galloped the sea, this was the battlefield he dreamed of, this was the real enemy, this was the real battleship, not the evil, ugly, dirty, spitting smoke monster.

"For the Motherland, for England!"

He drew his sword and shouted and pointed ahead.

"Forward!"

Then he yelled.

On the smooth sea, seventy battleships quickly separated, with all three decks of the capital ships as the middle oblique cut, the remaining forty or so battleships were divided into left and right wings and went straight to the head and tail of the Ming fleet, and the three roads finally formed a triangular encirclement to trap the Ming fleet, in order to sink it all, if it can succeed, then it is basically equivalent to completely abolishing the entire Ming navy, and smashing this emerging maritime power directly back to land.

The sea belongs to England.

However, at this time......

The Ming army stopped.

All the Ming warships stopped advancing, lined up in a strange head-to-tail opposite way on the sea, and all the battleships opened their gun doors, showing more than 1,500 cannons of various calibers on the port side, waiting there quietly, like a great wall on the sea.

Admiral Bing frowned.

This is not normal, no matter what the Ming army wants to do, it should not stop, because this will make it easy for him to complete the encirclement, once he falls into the predicament of being flanked, then it is equivalent to a complete end, the Ming army commander cannot even understand this minimum common sense, in fact, he knows very well that the Ming army commander who defeated the Dutch is definitely not easy to deal with, so what is he trying to do?

Of course, Admiral Bin would not have known that Luo Zhang stopped advancing only because he had hit a mine any further!

However, he quickly put aside this question, no matter what the Ming commander on the opposite side wanted to do, it was in his favor, and he once again raised his sword and shouted: "St. George's flag is on it, all ships are ready to ......"

"Boom!"

An explosion rang in his ears.

Suddenly, the fire shone in front of him, and the bow of the battleship Neptune, with a displacement of more than two thousand tons, seemed to be hit by a mountain peak, and suddenly turned into countless fragments in the firelight and sprayed into the sky, almost at the same time, the explosion of air waves fiercely hit his chest, like a galloping war horse, knocked him upside down, and then fell on the hard deck. Admiral Bing subconsciously screamed, but he couldn't hear his own voice at all, he couldn't hear anything, and even at this moment his consciousness went blank, until he struggled to his feet in a senseless tinnitus, and then watched the foremast of the Neptune fall like a broken sugar cane overhead, slamming down on the mainmast, and watching countless pieces of wood fall from the sky.

Suddenly, he regained his senses.

But he preferred not to recover, because at the same time the sound of explosions like the earth was shattering, and the battleships on both sides of him were constantly being lifted by the waves of explosions, and at the moment they were lifted, the Prince, the Mars, the Berry Island, the Neptune......

A whole eight battleships were reduced to burning wreckage almost instantly.

Black billowing smoke rushed into the blue sky.

He threw himself desperately to the side of the ship, as if he was about to jump into the sea, and looked out with all his might, and just below him, less than fifty meters away, there was a faint black shadow under the azure sea.

He raised his head with a wry smile, as if he saw the smug smile of the Ming army commander opposite.

Luo Zhang was indeed laughing.

Laughing like an old farmer with a good harvest.

He held his binoculars and looked at Admiral Bean aboard the Neptune, and although he didn't know his opponent, he instinctively guessed his identity.

The latter also seemed to be watching him.

At this time, the Neptune was sinking rapidly, the bow of the second-class battleship was hitting a mine, and the huge force of the explosion of one hundred and fifty pounds of gunpowder almost blew the entire bow away, and the battleship at this time did not have a watertight compartment, under heavy pressure, the sea water was frantically pouring into the cabin, and the seven hundred sailors on the ship sank rapidly.

Admiral Bin, who looked at Luo Zhang from three thousand yards away, stood up straight, straightened out his military uniform, and then raised his middle finger to him expressionlessly, and kept this posture until the sea water submerged his body.

"Fire!"

Luo Zhang said with a smile.

Fifteen hundred cannons on the surface of the sea suddenly erupted into flames.

At this time, the British fleet on the other side of the mine belt was completely confused, the sudden blow, especially the sinking of the flagship, made those captains completely overwhelmed, many people didn't even understand what was going on, still maintaining the original course, some understood that they turned around in a hurry, this mine belt was too dense, there was no chance of any luck, and then three more ships hit the mines.

At this time, everyone understood, and all the battleships turned around in horror.

And it was at this time that the shells of the Ming army began to fall, and the result of the cannon after stopping the ship was that the accuracy was greatly improved, and soon those British battleships were hit by shells one after another, and the fire exploded intensively on the battleships, although forty catties and twenty-four catties of flowering shells at such a distance may not necessarily be able to penetrate the oak planks of the battleship, but it will definitely not be better to hit one.

Especially when those steam warships also joined the bombardment, the British panicked even more.

At this time, they were three thousand yards away from the Ming army, and they couldn't really aim at such a distance, and they didn't have a rangefinder, and except for those twenty-pounder guns, most of the others were smoothbore guns, and this distance was completely beyond the aiming range of the smoothbore guns, in fact, most of their guns could hit so far at most. What's more, even if they hit the Ming warship, it is useless, their flowering bomb is a woodpipe fuse, which itself is not very accurate, so unless it is unlucky, it is difficult to hit at such a long distance, and then you have to ensure that you will not be shot into the sea, and you have to ensure that the fuse explodes just after hitting the target.

It can be said that such a battle is pointless.

After realizing that they had actually fallen into the trap carefully set by the Ming army, the captains quickly made the right choice, and they withdrew from the range of the Ming army at full speed.

Eventually, the first battle between the two sides ended, eleven British battleships were sunk by mines, including their flagships and fleet commanders, and two were subsequently destroyed by Ming artillery fire, and only 57 of the 70 battleships that attacked escaped the range of Ming guns. But they could not escape this carefully laid trap, and then the regrouped British fleet tried to go in another direction, only to pay the price of sinking a battleship, and finally determined that the Ming army had actually locked them in with mine belts.

Having understood all this, the British withdrew to Chiraza.

They knew very well that they could not escape this trap, although they did not believe that the Ming army would really lay a mine belt of more than 60 kilometers, and they also knew that if they let out a dozen merchant ships, they could also crash into a passage, after all, this mine belt was only less than 3,000 yards deep, and they had more than 100 armed merchant ships, and they used this thing as a victim to detonate those mines, and then those battleships could follow behind and rush through the mine belt.

But the problem is that the Ming fleet outside will not give them this opportunity.

No matter how they solve this problem, they will have to pass the 1,500 cannons outside first, and then they can use merchant ships as shields to break through the passage, but the Ming warships outside will definitely not let them achieve this goal, and those cannons will mercilessly blast all the efforts to rush out to pieces. What's more, even if they pass through the mine belt, it is useless, because they are not capable of fighting a decisive battle with the Ming fleet at this time, fifty-six battleships against twenty-three battleships plus forty cruisers, and six steam battleships, the balance of strength is no longer on their side.

They had no choice but to ......

"Surrender, or be sunk by us."

Cilazar Port, Colonel Li Hua, a colonel of the Ming Army who came to give an ultimatum, said.

"Your Excellency, we have fifty-six battleships, a brigade of infantry, and nearly twenty thousand armed sailors, do you think we need to surrender?"

General Norris, the commander of the British army who succeeded Admiral Bing, said with a gloomy face.

"General, as I just said, if you don't surrender, you will wait to be sunk by us, our army is coming, maybe tomorrow you can see them appear in your field of vision, and then this port will be subjected to continuous bombardment of all kinds of shells and rockets every day, including air bombs, we still have millions of these shells and rockets in the arsenal of Coconut City, if you like it, then wait here for them to fall."

Li Hua said with a smile.

General Norris was silent.

He knows very well that if he can't break through, then he can only face a steady stream of Ming ground troops, of course, there are those terrifying shells and rockets, although he does still have the strength to fight, but there is no ammunition supply failure is only a matter of time, not to mention that the combat effectiveness of the Ming ground forces is equally terrifying, in fact, compared with the navy, the Ming army's land is the most terrifying, they spent eight years to build a huge empire and annexed almost half of Asia.

As far as the port of Chiraza is concerned, it is really not enough to see in front of them.

"If we surrender, we want to be treated in accordance with our status, not to be used as slaves, not to demand ransom, and we must be given adequate food guarantees, and we must be released unconditionally once the war is over."

He said.

"Your Excellency, General, you are the losers, and we are the victors, and the losers are not qualified to make any conditions to the winners."

Li Hua said very seriously. (To be continued.) )