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"Surrender!"

Hearing this word, many of the remaining Spanish soldiers all breathed a sigh of relief, the enemy on the opposite side was too fierce, and they were about to turn around and escape, but it was estimated that there was not much hope of escaping, but at this moment, the commander ordered surrender, which was a good idea, but I just hoped that the army on the opposite side would not be too cruel.

The gunfire was too loud for the Spanish soldiers in the distance to hear, so both sides continued to shoot back and forth. However, some of the Spanish soldiers had already put down their guns and raised their hands to show their surrender, and Qiao Shu also took the opportunity to ask his subordinates to shout the slogan of surrendering their guns and not killing them, and treating prisoners preferentially. This sentence was shouted in Spanish, in order to reduce casualties and solve the battle as much as possible, Qiao Shu specially learned these two sentences from the soldiers, and now it comes in handy. Soon, the remaining 300 or so Spanish soldiers gave up resistance, put down their guns, and surrendered with their heads in their hands

Here, on the sea surface of Manila Bay, Xu Shan took a boat and quickly headed towards the Mawei Naval Fleet, although there was some headwind, but the two sides walked opposite each other, and in less than an hour, Xu Shan saw the Mawei Fleet coming downwind. Xu Shan also rarely saw the scene of the whole Mawei Army dispatching, the dense white sails in front of him, the red hull, he was covered in blood boiling. Not only him, but also more than a dozen sailors on the ship were shocked. They are all Chinese in Manila, and there are children of other families such as the Hai family and the Li family. was sent to the merchant hall to be sent by Xu Shan. Originally, even if they knew that the Mawei Army was relatively strong, they were still a little unimpressed. But at the moment to see such a majestic fleet. Suddenly, I felt that the decision of the patriarch and the patriarch of the clan was so wise!

"Xu Shan, the person in charge of the subordinate Kunpeng Commercial Pavilion, see the general!" Xu Shan was picked up on the Zhenyuan battleship, and after seeing Wang Zhenbang, he saluted and said. I didn't see the prince, it seems that the prince is not on the battleship, and he didn't come to preside over the battle! In fact, Geng Jingzhong wanted to come, but at the moment he was the prince. Yao Qisheng, Li Guangdi and others resolutely disagreed with him sailing out to fight.

"Your mission accomplished?" Wang Zhenbang already knew about Geng Jingzhong and Li Guangdi's deployment, so he didn't talk nonsense and asked bluntly.

"Yes General!" Immediately, he explained the Spaniard's requirements to Wang Zhenbang in detail.

"Fart! We are blocked here and dare to put forward any conditions, our army is besieged, and the strength is more than three times that of him, if they do not take the initiative to surrender, they will surrender, talk about the conditions, don't think! Hmph, it seems that I don't want to give them some color. They don't know how powerful my ponytail master is! Wang Zhenbang's eyes narrowed and said coldly.

"The general is right. The Spaniards simply did not shed tears when they saw the coffin, and the Admiral begged the general to give them an order to show them the power of our navy! In their opinion, the other party even offered to let them leave safely when they surrendered, this request was simply too much, and they didn't take their Mawei Navy into account at all.

Although Wang Zhenbang said so, he was not prepared to wipe out all the Spaniards. This is also what Geng Jingzhong means. If the Spaniards were forced to surrender, then when the Spaniards counterattacked again, these prisoners would also be an excellent means of coercion, even if Geng Jingzhong was not afraid of the Spaniards' retaliation. Their main purpose was not to destroy the Spaniards' army, but to force them to surrender, so that they could get dozens of intact warships without firing a single shot. Moreover, according to the intelligence knows, the total number of troops sent by Spain to Nanyang plus India is only a little more than 10,000, if this army can be captured, then it will definitely make the Nanyang Spaniards greatly damaged, at least within a year, not to mention to counterattack Luzon. Besides, there will be the British next to it in the future, and it is a question of whether Spain will counterattack at that time.

"Get out of the way and speed up!" Wang Zhenbang ordered. As the order was conveyed to the ships, several detachments immediately dispersed, formed an attack formation, and accelerated towards the front.

For Alex's side, two hours have passed, and at the speed of the ship, the enemy should also appear at this time. As soon as he had the idea, the first mast appeared on the sea in the distance, and with the first one there was a second, and soon a forest of giant trees of masts appeared on the whole sea. As the masts grew taller and taller, tall battleships appeared on the surface of the sea, and Alex's jaw dropped when he saw these familiar ships in the binoculars.

"The battleships of the British? No, the horsetail navy of the Qing people? Alex muttered unconsciously, he had heard more than once about the battleships of the Mawei Navy, which were extremely similar to the British warships, and if he hadn't seen them with his own eyes at this moment, it would have been a little unbelievable. It is not wrong that the battleship is the style of the British, but the sailors and soldiers on it are unified blue military uniforms, the style of the military uniforms is not from the Qing Dynasty, but it is not like a European country, the faces of the sailors and soldiers are all Orientals, and all the faces of these battleships are tiger flags, so there is no doubt that it is the Mawei Navy!

With a fleet of this size, they would definitely not be able to resist such a small number of warships, and they could only die in vain if they rushed up. Needless to say, the rest of the Spanish soldiers thought the same way. It's just that most of the Spanish soldiers on the battleship are looking up at their commander at this moment, and if he gives the order to rush forward, he really doesn't know whether to obey the order or not. Afraid. It is not the characteristic of any country, and it is preserved in any place.

When it comes to patriotism, Alex is definitely the best Spaniard here. It can be seen from his strict insistence on military training that he is a patriotic person. But at the moment, he was in a very hesitant position, hesitating whether to surrender now.

"General, the enemy ship is less than four kilometers away from us! What should we do? The adjutant beside him asked Alex, and the adjutant was also stunned, and the battleship group on the opposite side was densely packed. Definitely more than a hundred. And among the large warships. That is, a third-class battleship, twenty times that of them, and this battle can't be fought at all!

"Herald!" Alex said loudly. "All the other ships lowered their sails and prepared to surrender. Soldiers who are willing to surrender can be transferred to other ships immediately, and others who are willing to storm the enemy formation with me can stay and gather here! "He's made up his mind and he's ready to sacrifice himself. Serve the country by example. It's just that he had to consider the life and death of the other soldiers, and in the end, he gave this order.

"General! What are you? "The adjutant was shocked, he didn't understand what Alex meant." Do as I command! ”

Soon, except for Alex, who gathered more than 300 Spanish soldiers on the ship, five or six of the other warships lowered their sails, but there were still more than two dozen that did not move, ready to wait and see. The three hundred soldiers on Alex's ship were also put together by other ships, and it seems that most of the soldiers still chose to surrender in their hearts.

"Let's go!" Alex clenched the command knife in his hand tightly and gave the order loudly.

"General. What are the Spaniards doing on the other side? Instead of lowering its sails, the ship came toward us. Are they going to attack? So why not all the impacts? Wang Zhenbang was not the only one who was puzzled by the Mawei Navy, and the captain of the Zhenyuan was the first to ask.

"Regardless of him, since they are looking for death, it will fulfill them. It's a pity, a third-class battleship is worth hundreds of thousands of taels! When Wang Zhenbang saw the Spaniards lowering their sails and preparing to surrender, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but when he saw that one of them not only did not lower the sails, but rushed over, he was first angry, and then very admired. At this point, those who still have the courage to impact are all heroes, pure masters, worthy of admiration.

The Zhenyuan was the first to sound an alarm gun, and then the other ships were ready to fight, especially the Seventh Fleet, which was close to the left, and was the first to spread out and surround it. The naval soldiers who had experienced the naval battle of conquest and Japanese no longer knew what tension was, and they all followed the order and began to operate the artillery, loading ammunition, closing the gun door, inserting the lead, resetting the artillery, aiming, and then shouting "Ready!" The report sounded on the deck.

Alex led the ship straight towards the Mawei fleet, Alex's idea is relatively simple, they are just a battleship, and they can cause the greatest damage to the enemy. So they charged diagonally to the left, gaining the upper hand, and then prepared to deal a fatal blow to the enemy with their artillery. And he didn't think that the naval guns of the Mawei Navy were as good as them, and they could only become the target of the Mawei Navy when they got close, and the Mawei fleet outflanked more than twenty large and small warships, and the number of guns was more than ten times that of Alex.

The Seventh Squadron soon approached Alex's battleship, and after looking at the distance of about seven hundred yards, Sun Shan, the commander of the squadron, said in a deep voice: "Eighteen pounds and more guns are fired in a salvo!" ”

Of the Mawei Navy's sail warships, only the fifth-class battleships were equipped with ten eighteen-pounder guns, five on each side, but none of the other warships had less than twenty eighteen-pounder guns. This salvo was actually fired one after another, but it was enough for more than 400 artillery pieces to fire in unison.

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

A succession of cannons rang out.

Seeing that the Mawei Navy was running at such a distance, Alex regretted it a little, it was impossible to have a hit rate at this distance, they usually fired at about three hundred and fifty yards, so that those unfavorable factors on the sea could be excluded in order to have a higher hit rate. "Hmph, seven hundred yards away, really" Before he could finish speaking, his eyes widened immediately, and his mouth was open enough to stuff an egg. Their ships are shaking, they have been shot, and there are quite a few hits! How is this possible? How did the opposing gunners fight?

Wang Zhenbang was behind, and also used a telescope to check the results of the first round of shelling, although the position of the first round of firing was not very certain, and most of the shells fell into the sea, but still a small half of the shells hit the Spanish battleship. Even this small half of the shells, there were sixty or seventy rounds, so many shells hit the battleship, even if this was a third-class battleship, it could not withstand it, and suddenly, it was hit with thousands of holes.

Although the distance was a little far, the shells did not penetrate the thick deck of the third-class battleship, but the huge impact force could not be ignored, and the soldiers standing behind the deck had absolutely no chance of surviving. When hit by a cannonball, the huge impact force will cause the inner wall of the deck to burst, and the wooden blocks will burst out, which can also cause great damage. After the baptism of shells, the battleship was basically paralyzed, the sailors and soldiers on the ship did not react at all, and it was still out of range, how could their battleship be hit by such a dense cannonball?

Seeing the enemy ships in the distance struggling under the shells, the Seventh Squadron did not need to stop, and all the naval soldiers were greatly excited, but Sun Shan continued to order: "Keep firing a salvo!" ”

The second wave of eighteen-pounder guns had a higher hit rate than before, and the "thump" sound of the Spanish battleship was heard as soon as it boarded, and the ship's mast was also broken, and the huge sails were overwhelmed, with an astonishing sound. This round of artillery fire not only knocked down the sails of the battleship, but the entire battleship began to disintegrate. No ship could withstand more than two hundred shells, and the entire ship quickly turned into a puddle of broken wood, and as the waves sank into the sea, none of the three hundred Spanish soldiers on the ship, nor Alex, were spared. Soon after, the Spanish mainland called these 300 people the Three Hundred Warriors of Spain and erected a monument to commemorate them. (To be continued......)