When the Ming army was ready to stop and have a showdown at the negotiating table, the army of the Indian governor had already arrived in Manchurianga, and Ezeger was also desperate to try.

In order for the fleet to arrive in time, the Indian fleet can be said to march at night, although the driving power comes from the endless sea breeze and does not need to be driven by manpower, but the non-stop sailing day and night still makes the whole army tired.

When the army arrived, Ezeger looked at the magnificent fleet and almost wept. Twenty warships, twenty of them! This is almost all the main warships of the Portuguese Navy that controls the Indian Ocean.

The Governor of Albuquerque was taking a risk, gambling with him. The god of war, who had been adventurous all his life, gave him absolute trust and once again demonstrated his ambition for the Far East.

This was almost all the Portuguese garrison in India, and if it failed, and the fleet suffered great trauma, Albuquerque's political life would be over, and he would even be impeached and tried for it.

The Royal Portuguese Navy will be powerless not only in the Far East, but also in the Indian Ocean, and this power gap will soon be filled by the Spanish, Arabs, and Ming forces.

Therefore, on the 14th of July of the Chinese, the legend of the ghosts haunted by the masses, these ghosts in the mouths of the people of Fujian and Guangdong were not idle, dispatching troops, carrying arms, and more than 40 warships were ready to go, and Aizeg must fight to the death for the ideal, for the future, and for the trust of General Krk.

When the news that the Ming army had attacked was reported back by news speedboat, Ezig, as the commander of the theater, immediately ordered all the warships to set sail and fight the Ming army to the death in the open sea of Manchuria.

Their warships, together with the Ming warships, would not have been able to fight a decisive battle in the Manchurian Strait, and if the Ming army took the opportunity to rush ashore and occupy the land first, they would be forced to engage the enemy at sea and on land.

The Ming army is not a palace guard full of thorns, and it is not easy to regain the lost territory at that time, only to fight to the death at sea and annihilate the main force of the Ming army's naval division in one fell swoop, then the Ming army can only retreat to land, and the South China Sea and the East China Sea can become their own water park.

In order to give full play to the power of the side guns and quickly mobilize the guns of the ships that coordinated the operation, the battleships still adopted the shape of wild goose feathers in which each ship gathered horizontally at a certain distance, and more than 40 battleships lined up in three rows with wild goose wings, each line separated by about three nautical miles, and greeted the Ming army.

The warships in the first row are the Japanese people, Spanish pirate merchants, and mercenaries, these motley armies are uneven in combat power, and even less able to cooperate with each other, and the meaning of putting them at the forefront is self-evident, Ezig is not a fruit seller.

This 'joint [***]' fleet had a Portuguese warship in the center. The captain of the ship was Captain Luis of the Royal Spanish Navy. Diego, a warlike soldier and a favorite of Ezig's generals, was also a nobleman, and his father was a knight.

Dressed in a crisp military uniform, Diego climbed the lookout and looked into the distance. At this time, the light was sufficient, and the only thing that was not conducive to fighting was that the wind was blowing from the direction of the Ming army at this time, so that the speed of the Ming army was faster than theirs.

Diego didn't care much about that, though, as this was the site of their decisive battle, not the place of the boat race, and if the two armies were engaged, it would be useless to move quickly. His sailors and helmsmen can make subtle adjustments to make his battleships fully combat.

Diego saw the Ming army's warship clearly, and at this moment he couldn't help but widen his eyes in surprise: "Oh my God, this is the Ming army's sailors who made the commander worried, and even transferred all the main naval forces of the Indian base to meet the battle?" ”

There were a lot of ships, really many, more than Diego had ever seen anchored in the most prosperous port of trade, but these ships were large and small, uneven, and some could even see their sails tattered, and the formation of the ships was uneven and irregular, and it was unbelievable that if the cannon was fired in such a situation, the rear ship might even break the mast of its own friendly ship.

Diego can swear to God: he is in St. When he was studying at the Maritime Academy of Francisco, no genius professor ever told him that he could launch an attack on the enemy using such a formation. This is the sailor of the first power in the East?

Lewis. Diego resisted the feeling of wanting to laugh: we waited for such a water division, and they looked stupid and no different from the backward indigenous tribes.

Diego ordered the fleet to slow down and turn sideways, and more than a dozen warships lay across the sea, forming an attack formation.

"Their tactics are stupid, but there is no doubt that they are brave, why are ignorant people always braver?" Diego muttered in a noble tone of superiority and pity, looking at the Ming fleet still rushing towards his muzzle, and habitually stroking the clan and school emblems on his chest.

The badge of graduating from the Maritime Academy, the youngest beautiful female instructor in the school, was chartered by the king for her special contribution and was promoted to captain. Baron Adney wore it on his chest with her own hand.

The year he graduated was the year Adeni went to teach at the school, and when he saw Adeni for the first time, he fell in love with this noble, beautiful, and elegant aristocratic girl.

He had almost decided to revisit it for three years, and if it weren't for his father, Sir Louise, who had asked for a duel with his sword, he would have done it.

"It's a pity that her family supported the rebellion, and went from being a nobleman to a sinner in the empire. Alas, Miss Adney is not sure whether she is still alive or not, and perhaps she has now become one of the dozens of wives of a fat, three-hundred-pound native chieftain, and has bore him several children, and is now sitting in a skirt made of leaves and animal skins, basking in the sun in front of a tent at the foot of a certain mountain."

Diego sadly drew a cross on his chest for his brief crush, then gracefully took off his military hat and waved it forward, chanting as if reciting: "Fire, my soldiers, send these foolish wretches back."

A series of dull cannon sounds rang out, and tongues of fire erupted from the muzzles of the cannons, and columns of water rose in the Ming fleet in front. Such an unexpected lineup of the Ming army surprised Captain Pedro and Hiroshi Miyamoto, who had fought with the Ming army, but they didn't have time to think more, and as Diego ordered the cannon, they also hurriedly attacked the approaching Ming ships.

The dense artillery fire set off more waves, some Ming warships had already been hit, and a small warship with multiple shells was even blown apart, but the Ming warships did not make a posture of counterattack, and still rushed over without hesitation.

"Do they want to sink us with these broken ships? Or are you ready to risk huge casualties and jump into a melee fight? Diego's eyes were a little confused. While ordering the fleet to continue the heavy artillery attack, he also briefly reported the battle situation to the rear team in flags, asking them to pay attention to the sea on both flanks in case the Ming army attacked from the flanks.

The Ming army had already been shot by a number of ships, some of which had been pierced through the bilge, apparently leaking and sinking, and still staggered over, and behind these dense ships, large warships of similar size to the Portuguese fleet began to appear.

"That's the main force of the Ming army", Diego stared at the main battleships of the Ming army that appeared in the distance and were neatly formed, and a kind of wariness swelled up in his eyes.

It was the official fleet led by Han Wu and Adney. Adney stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the Portuguese fleet in the distance still in a horizontal artillery position, and couldn't help but sigh faintly: "I think, even if Commander da Gama is here, I am afraid that the first battle will also suffer a big loss." With us, it is impossible to imagine an attack with such a large number of ships, it is too imaginative".

Han Wu also noticed that the Portuguese army still hadn't changed its formation, and couldn't help but smile lightly: "This kind of tactic can only be won by surprise, and once it is discovered, it is worthless." But so far, it seems that we have succeeded."

He looked back and said: "Order, speed up, change formation on the march, lead the way, take the sickle line."

Adney shook her body and repeated, "Scythe? Blade of Death".

Han Wu looked at her strangely and said, "What are you talking about?" Scythe", he slowly drew a curve in the air, and said at the same time, "It's just a piece of household work for mowing the lawn."

Diego in the distance wrinkled his eyebrows, also analyzing the strategy of the Ming army: "What's going on with these ships of different models ahead?" It's not specifically designed to consume our shells, is it? ”

There are too many shells, and it is indeed necessary to clean the barrel and cool the barrel, which will relatively delay the time of the shelling, but the Portuguese army has so many warships, and now only one side of the gun, the impact is very slight, this will be the purpose of the Ming army?

Or, is it a wolf pack tactic? Use these small boats to fight a large number of casualties in close melee combat, creating opportunities for the main warships behind? What chances? Indiscriminate attacks? Diego laughs at his own ridiculous thoughts. As a general trained in Western-style naval warfare, Diego couldn't think of any other purpose for sending such a large number of ships.

At this moment, a large number of Ming warships had approached within thirty zhang, and at this time the decks of some ships could be seen clearly, and there was no one on them, no wonder they resisted the artillery fire and never resisted. This strange phenomenon stunned Diego, who had wanted to order the fleet to raise its sails and sail sideways, forming a triangle with the rear fleet.

At this moment, the warships of the Ming army burned one after another, and the wind borrowed the fire, burning very quickly, and it seems that a large number of flammable materials were filled with flammable materials on the ship and things were set on fire at regular intervals. Although he had never seen the use of a large number of warships for fire attack tactics, by this time Diego finally understood the intentions of the Ming army: it turned out that Yang Ling was not selling fruit either.

The range of attack of the Portuguese warships with more than ten horizontal guns was too large, Diego decisively ordered to stop the shelling, and all the warships turned to face the Ming ships, taking advantage of the narrow hull and although there were many fireships of the Ming army, there were still gaps between the hulls that could be passed through to speed up.

It was too late to move to the sides, and as a soldier, he could not tolerate being chased by a bunch of fireboats without even seeing a single enemy. The warships that the Ming army really used to attack were still quite a long distance away, and at this time they were walking in a circle, and he had time to get rid of these fireships and re-set up the attack formation.

The Portuguese ship quickly turned its bow and rushed towards the Ming ships that were spitting flames and burning mast canvas "crackling". The first row of burning fireboats had passed by, and at this moment, there was a "tom" sound, and one of Miyamoto Hiroshi's boats was hit by the Ming army's fireboat, and the hull shook a little, and continued to move forward.

"What a bunch of fools!" Diego cursed, but his eyes widened in surprise.

The fireboat that hit Miyamoto Hiroshi's warship was on the other side of the ship, and he could only estimate that it had collided with the Ming army's fireship, but he didn't know the details, but now he clearly saw that a fireboat on this side, as if it had life, suddenly turned around and hit Miyamoto Hiroshi's warship.

There was another "tom" sound, and the burning fireship slammed into the fast-moving battleship, and the impact of the hull made the fire even more intense after a beating, and as the warship moved forward, the fireship actually moved closely to its hull, because the sails had been burned out at this time, so these fireships were unhindered, and the flames burned Miyamoto Hiroshi's ship, and sudden flames appeared on the gunwale, and the crew who wanted to put out the fire could not even get closer.

Diego could no longer call himself a fool, for his ship, and all the other ships that passed through the middle of the fire, had all suffered the same fate. At first, the bottom of the ship seemed to be stagnant for a moment, and then the fireships on both sides swung quickly and leisurely like meteors, slammed into the planks of the ship, and began to burn the warship.

"There must be underwater cables connecting the fireships, these fireships are all connected to each other, my God, it's just a net, back back, back immediately!"

The sailors and helmsmen nervously adjusted the ship, and a strange scene appeared on the sea. Three-masted battleships, dragging the flaming wooden ships on both sides, slowly moved back. Directly ahead, more large and small fireships were rushing towards them one after another, chasing after their bows.

In the distance, the large warships of the Ming army were rapidly approaching, and a row of battleships was about to enter the best artillery position at the bottom of the arc in turn. Diego was so anxious that he told the second echelon to come forward and fight the Ming army from both flanks, and accelerated backwards, but the damned fireships were like conjoined babies, biting at his ships.

A sailor avoided the side of the ship, which was burning to the sky, and pushed the ship with a long pole, and after his skin was about to crack in the flames, he finally dropped the burning pole and returned in despair: "Captain Diego, there are countless long iron nails installed on the side of the ship, and when they hit, they have been driven deep into our ship, and there is no way to separate them."

"What?" Diego stared at him with strange eyes, and this unconventional way of playing cards made him feel like a rookie at a loss.

As a commander, he dealt with a wide variety of enemies, from Machete-wielding Arabs on horses, to indigenous savages hiding in the grass with blowguns and oil paint on their faces. As for naval battles with European countries and large and small Eastern countries, including India, he had also experienced many battles, but this was the first time he had encountered such an encounter.

One thousand three hundred and four years ago, there was a general who commanded an army of 100,000 people, holding a sharp broadsword, screaming angrily at the fire burning around him, and then he left 100,000 troops and fled in embarrassment like the king of the stove, the general was called Xiahou Dun.

Louis Diego is even more panicked than Xiahoudun, at least Xiahoudun's enemy has twenty or thirty thousand soldiers in addition to fire, but now just with these fireships, will I burn more than ten of my warships?

"Boom!" There was an explosion on the side of a ship, and the side of the ship was cracked by the flames. It was because the fireboat was burning so badly that the cannon that was placed next to one of the cannons on the firehead did not have time to be carried away, causing an explosion.

"What should I do?" The people on all the ships ran in panic, the fire burned too fast and fiercely, and there were no people standing on the side of the ship, they could not extinguish it, and they could not get rid of the fire ships, could it be that more than ten warships with nearly 300 cannons, with such strength, could completely overthrow the powerful naval forces of many small countries, and be wiped out by some tattered fireships?

Diego suddenly became anxious and came up with an unconventional solution, and he ordered loudly: "Sail sideways, ram Miyamoto's warship with all your might, ram it with its flanks, and smash the fireboat!" ”

The battleship moved in its direction, and then slammed into the top of Hiroshi Miyamoto's ship. With a "tom", the hulls of the two ships shook violently, and the crew of Miyamoto's ship did not receive warning, and the collision was immediately 'overturned' by Captain Diego, and they all came into close contact with the deck, the ship's side, the mast, the cable column, etc.

The fireship itself was not solid, and after it crashed out, it cracked open in a "squeak" sound, and after another impact, the hull of the ship was completely shattered, and some of the smashed fireship was still burning on the side of the ship, but the fire was much smaller.

Seeing this, the other warships began to draw gourds in the same way, and collided with each other. The iron cables of the fireships were still connected, and the collision dragged more fireships over, and if one was not careful, it was impossible to point to where it was nailed. With the exception of Diego, who was the first to use this method, left and right and withdrew from the warband, the ramming of the other warships only attracted more fireships to their bows and sides.

At this time, the warships of the Ming army approached, and the battleships were sideways, drawing a beautiful arc, like a military parade. Rows of black holes with holes in the muzzles, "boom, boom, boom", and the shells were dense like rain.

The 'joint [***]" who was playing "Bumper Boat" was like a mess, and the more entangled they became, the tighter and tighter they became, and the ships and fireships were all entangled together, and they had lost their ability to move.

Their ships were crowded with each other, their hulls were entangled with fireships, and the sides of the ships were blazing, some of them were badly damaged, and under the violent impact, the remaining guns also broke up the gun carriages, rolling everywhere, and could not be used for combat at all.

This is one of the strangest examples in the history of naval warfare, when one side of the warship platoon attacked, the other side did not return fire. Diego looked sadly ahead, the dozen or so warships belonging to the Spanish pirates, the pirates of the Zoben and the native mercenaries had turned into a pile of tatters, ten times more broken than the broken ships of the Ming army he had just seen.

The ship's side, which had been burned by fire and torn apart by shells, had become the best incendiary material, and now it would be impossible to extinguish the flames even without a fireship.

"My fleet is finished!" Diego sighed.

"Hehehehehe", Peng Shark smiled, and his beard and hair were red with a red flag on his head, which looked very much like a Huode Xingjun. Although he couldn't see the battle from here, the billowing smoke from the sea told him that it was done.

If the fire attack fails, it is impossible for the scattered fireships to form such a thick and concentrated smoke. Although the plan of fire attack was continuously supplemented and improved after repeated discussions among many generals and staff, he was the original initiator.

In the first battle, the company camp was burned, and this first effort naturally couldn't run away from him.

When the Diego ship, which had lost its combat strength, retreated to two nautical miles away, the second echelon, seeing that the situation was not good, had already zigzag, and decisively abandoned the rescue of Diego's fleet and directly intercepted the scythe winding.

The communication boat on the sea transmitted the command signal of the Han Wuzao ship, and Peng Shark perked up, rolled up his sleeves and said, "It's our turn, let's go!" ”

(To be continued)