The three gunboats immediately approached the Nuwa ship, and Lin Fei stood on the mast and saw the movements of the three gunboats clearly, but Lin Fei did not panic, because the Spanish gunboats did not have the advanced rangefinders and fire control computers on the Nuwa ships, and now the distance between the Nuwa ships and the three gunboats was about 1,500 meters, and the hit rate of the three gunboats at this distance was definitely not as good as the Nuwa ships.

The three Spanish gunboats did not turn their bows to the Nuwa and then sail over, because it would take time to make a turn, and the hit rate of the guns during the turn was very low, so they approached the Nuwa diagonally, which meant that they would be slow to approach the Nuwa, and the Nuwa would have plenty of time to attack them.

Lin Fei ordered in a loud voice: "Prepare each gun position, correct the distance change rate, fifty-six meters per second, and launch an attack on the first ship of the enemy fleet sequence!" ”

The first ship of the enemy fleet sequence is Trajan's ship, this gunboat is the closest to the Nuwa ship, and it will hit the Nuwa ship first, so Lin Fei ordered to hit it first.

The four gun emplacements opened fire again, the shells flew to the enemy ship again, and the four high-explosive shells splashed water columns on the water, and Trajan's ship was not to be outdone, and turned the two twin guns in the bow and stern of the ship in the direction of the Nuwa ship, and fired back, but unfortunately Trajan's ship was equipped with 75 mm caliber naval guns, and naval guns of this caliber could also bully and bully Muslim wooden warships, and it was a fool's dream to fight steel warships at a long distance.

Weapons are manipulated by people, how effective the weapon can be, the human factor is very important, at this point, the Spanish fleet has fallen behind, Lin Fei has long regarded the Spanish fleet as the number one rival, knowing that there will be a battle with them, so the training of sailors is very tight.

The instructors of the sailors are all served by the sailors on the Zhiyuan ship, and the Zhiyuan ship is the most rigorous and hard-working in the Beiyang Fleet, and the sailors are very high, so the sailors taught are not low.

On the other hand, the Spanish fleet lacked an evenly matched opponent for a long time, coupled with the rampant corruption in the army, from officers to soldiers who were greedy for pleasure, and the Spanish sailors were inferior in battle, taking tonight's battle as an example, the Spanish gunners were unable to accurately estimate the amount of advance needed to shoot at the Nuwa in the dark night conditions, and the shells either fell in front of the Nuwa or behind the Nuwa.

After three rounds of shelling, an armor-piercing shell finally hit Trajan's hull, and the armor-piercing shell entered through the port side of the hull and came out of the bottom of the ship, and the sea water poured into the cabin through two large holes.

Captain Antonio whispered to Commander Banderas, "Commander, I think it's better for us to retreat as much as possible." ”

Commander Banderas was taken aback and said in amazement, "What did you say? Fall back? Why? ”

Captain Antonio said, "Didn't you find out? The shells of the mysterious battleship on the opposite side could hit us, but we couldn't hit them, and we carried out five rounds of shelling, but the opposite battleship was not affected at all! ”

Commander Banderas frowned in contemplation, and at that moment, another armor-piercing shell hit Trajan's ship, this armor-piercing shell hit the bow of the ship, grazing the bow ammunition magazine and passing through, as long as it deviated by an inch, the shell would hit the ammunition depot, and the exploding ammunition depot was enough to blow the entire Trajan in half.

Although Trajan's ship avoided the deadly explosion, they could not avoid the raging seawater, which poured into the ammunition depot and soaked all the shells and propellants, leaving the bow guns without ammunition.

Trajan's hull began to tilt, and Commander Banderas had no choice but to ask the captain of Trajan's to abandon the ship, but Trajan's captain was quite backbone, and resolutely chose to sink with Trajan's ship, which made Captain Antonio's face full of shame.

Trajan's ship lost its combat effectiveness, and the Spanish fleet was left with only two gunboats, one of which was called "Hadrian" and the other was called "Charles I", "Hadrian" and "Charles I" are famous figures in Spanish history, among which Hadrian was one of the five great kings of the Roman Empire, born in Spain; Charles I was the monarch of Spain's Habsburg dynasty, which once dominated Europe.

Hadrian's ship was behind Trajan's ship, and it stands to reason that everyone who abandoned the ship should be rescued by Hadrian's ship, but Lin Fei ordered the Nuwa ship to turn around and attack Hadrian's ship after seeing that Trajan's ship began to sink, and Hadrian's ship was soon hit by two bullets, and the ship began to tilt.

So Captain Antonio and Commander Banderas and some sailors passed by the Hadrian ship and were rescued by the Charles I ship, and Commander Banderas saw that the night battle had lost a protective cruiser and three gunboats, and knew that the mysterious battleship was too powerful for his own fleet to compete with it, so he ordered the Charles I ship to retreat.

When Charles I's ship retreated, Lin Fei was still ordering the Nuwa ship to attack Hadrian's ship, and he didn't have time to take care of it, so Charles I fled.

Hadrian's ship also sank under the attack of armor-piercing shells, and the sea finally returned to calm, and it was already three o'clock in the morning of the next day, and after several hours of fierce fighting, the Nuwa ship sank one protective cruiser and three gunboats of the Spanish fleet, but it did not suffer any damage to itself.

At half past three in the morning, the Nuwa ship simply cleaned up the battlefield, and Lin Fei immediately used a microphone to inform the whole ship: "We have won this battle!" ”

The sailors of the whole ship gave a high-pitched cheer, after a few days of fighting, the Nuwa ship sank a protective cruiser, an unprotected cruiser, and five gunboats, and the Spanish Navy in the Philippines only had two unprotected cruisers left, which were unable to threaten the transportation lines of the Chinese Empire, and it would take at least four months for the Spanish Navy to be transferred over at home, and they still had to defend the mainland, so it was impossible to transfer them all, so the threat of the Spanish Navy was completely lifted!

Liu Daming laughed at Lin Fei and said, "Lao Lin, if only there was wine now, you can have a good drink!" ”

Lin Fei let out a faint "um" and said, "When you return to Samar Island, you will definitely be allowed to drink enough wine." ”

Liu Daming saw that Lin Fei didn't look a little excited, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong with you?" Isn't it worth rejoicing over the defeat of the Spanish fleet? ”

Lin Fei smiled reluctantly and said, "Happy, of course happy!" ”

Liu Daming brushed his face and said angrily: "If you still treat my old Liu as a brother, tell me what is in your heart." ”

Lin Fei sighed lightly and said, "We won this battle very reluctantly, don't you think?" ”

Liu Daming was stunned for a moment and asked, "Reluctantly?" How do you say that? We sank four of their warships without any damage ourselves, which can still be considered barely? ”

Lin Fei shook his head and said: "Among the four battleships we sank, the Casillas ship was old and vulnerable, and the other three gunboats were too small and had poor sinking resistance, so we won, and then look at the various naval powers in the world, such as Britain, France and Russia, are equipped with large warships with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons, armor-piercing shells and high-explosive shells can sink small warships, but it is extremely difficult to sink large warships!" ”

Lin Fei's words are true, large warships, especially those with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons, are extremely resistant to sinking, and if the shells cannot hit the ammunition depot and other key parts, they basically cannot be sunk, and in the naval battles of Lin Fei's era, there are very few large warships that were sunk by shells.

After listening to Lin Fei's words, Liu Daming's face was full of disdain, and he said, "It turns out that you are crying for this." ”

Lin Fei frowned and said, "Our navy's strength is too poor now, how can I be happy?" ”

Liu Daming laughed and said: "Don't worry, when the fleets of those countries come, I will row a small boat and take a torpedo to sneak attack, there are torpedoes on the Nuwa ship, I just happened to do my old job, even if I die, it is worth it." ”

After Liu Daming said this, he went out to celebrate with the others, his words made Lin Fei's heart move, and then he thought, torpedoes are indeed a killer weapon for attacking large warships, but the torpedo range of this era is too close, the hit rate is too poor, and it can't be used at all, so can I use my ability to improve our torpedoes?

Lin Fei disassembled the various parts of the torpedo in his mind, analyzing the technology inside one by one, and at this moment, Zhang Chuang walked into the command room and said to Lin Fei: "Captain, what should those Spanish prisoners of war do?" ”

Lin Fei frowned and said, "They killed Chinese men, **Chinese women, don't have to keep them, kill them all." ”

Zhang Chuang replied "yes" and turned around to leave, only to see Yu Zhe coming in from outside and saying to Lin Fei: "Captain, these Spaniards are unforgivable and should indeed be killed, but wouldn't it be better for us to imprison them and let them be coolies for us?" ”

Lin Fei shook his head and smiled: "There are dozens of these talents, too few, it's not much use to be coolies, these people are sailors after all, they will definitely want to escape, I still have to guard against them, it's better to kill them, Zhang Chuang, go." Brother Yu, what are you doing here? ”

Yu Zhe said: "Your subordinates knocked out the Spanish fleet in one fell swoop, I think it is better to go directly to the island and occupy the Sulu Sultanate, I know the terrain of the island, and I can be your staff officer." ”

Lin Fei laughed and said, "I didn't bring the army with me this time, and in the future, I will definitely take the Sulu Sultanate as my own!" Now let's go back first. ”

Zhang Chuang led people to kill all the Spanish prisoners of war, and the Nuwa ship began to sail back, and the Nuwa ship traveled for three days, crossed the Bohol Sea, and returned to Samar Island, Lin Fei did not have a radio, so he could not inform the people on the island in advance of the news of his return, but Lin Fei set up a watchtower on the high mountains of Samar Island, and the observers on the watchtower discovered the Nuwa ship and the Pangu ship, and immediately notified the people on the island.

Everyone rushed to the dock to greet them, the Nuwa ship and the Pangu ship docked on the dock in the eyes of everyone, Lin Fei stepped off the battleship, and suddenly saw Ling Xue squeezing out of the crowd, grabbed himself, and said nervously: "City Lord, hurry up and follow me." ”

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