Chapter 123: Great Victory
The battle continued, and by this time there was no suspense between the two sides, and among the Spanish fleet, six main ships, one was captured, two were burned, and only three were left to continue struggling.
And the speedboats they brought, even including the dinghy carried on board, have basically lost all of them at this time, only two speedboats remain, which were also injured at this time, and the Spanish sailors on board, desperately driving the boat to break out of the encirclement, ran directly to the shore to rush the beach and ran aground, and the personnel fled to the shore.
When Anthony finally broke out of the encirclement after ramming and sinking an enemy ship, and then turned his head to look, Anthony really wanted to cry, and the fleet he brought was almost wiped out in this battle.
There was only one armed cargo ship left behind him, and another professional gunboat he brought, at this time, the sails were completely destroyed, and a mast was completely broken by the opponent's chain bullet, and it was dumped in the seawater, and the half-mast was still wrapped around countless ropes, pressing on the deck of the ship, making the ship completely lose the ability to sail, and in a blink of an eye, it was drowned by many sea wolf ships, and it was impossible to escape again.
Anthony was crying at this moment, this time he was completely finished, even if he ran back to Manila, he would definitely be hanged, he brought with him more than a thousand sailors and infantry, and now only he and the tattered cargo ship behind him remained.
The craftsmen and infantry who were loaded on the ship were all unloaded to the shore at this time, and there were a lot of supplies, which were also unloaded on the shore at this time, and now he only had two boats left, and he could not afford to load them at all, and fled from here.
What's more, the war was far from over at the moment, and although their two ships escaped from the encirclement, they saw several pirates' dhows, which had broken away from the fleet and chased after them.
These dhow clippers are fast, agile and not weak, and they are clearly going to bite them all here, and if they don't escape at this time, they won't even have a chance to escape.
So Anthony, no longer caring for the infantry and craftsmen who had been thrown ashore, ordered to hoist the full sails, speed up, and flee from this hellish place at full speed.
As the time entered the afternoon, the gunfire on the sea finally gradually stopped, and the whole sea gradually quieted down, except for the wreckage of a few ships still burning on the sea, billowing smoke.
After half a day of fierce fighting, the entire Spanish fleet was almost wiped out, only the largest warship of the other side, with the strong fire protection on the ship, the strong hull, finally escaped from the battlefield, under the pursuit of several flying clippers, fled from Taiwan in embarrassment, disappeared into the sea.
Luo Xianbin led the team to catch up with Anthony's ship and another wounded armed cargo ship, and finally only intercepted the armed cargo ship, but before they could seize the ship, the armed cargo ship overturned, capsized in the sea, and slowly sank, but the place where it sank was not deep water.
The boat was too seriously injured, seeing a large amount of water into the hull, and was besieged by several enemy ships, knowing that it could not escape, it had to sail to the shore, and finally capsized and sank in the shallow water, after sinking, the ship still had half of the mast exposed to the water, and the people on board were large tribes of water, and were finally fished up by the Feizi clipper and became prisoners, and a small number of people did not have time to escape, and sank into the water with the ship.
Originally, Luo Xianbin was still unwilling, and took three flying clippers to try to catch up with the Spaniards' handsome boat, but after several fights, they found that they really couldn't gnaw at the boat, and one of their boats was seriously injured and seriously flooded, so they had no choice but to give up the pursuit and escort the injured boat back to Jilong Bay for maintenance.
In addition, the Seawolf fleet burned two Spanish warships and successfully captured two warships, of course, one of these two warships belonged to an armed cargo ship, and both ships were seriously injured, and they could not be used without major repairs.
In addition, they captured about 400 Spanish sailors, including two captains, and won a great victory.
But the sea wolf's own losses are also quite serious, there are a total of twelve ships of various types, excluding small ships, in this fierce battle, more than 300 people were killed and wounded, it is the sea wolf in history, the most casualties in a naval battle, just with the ship sunk into the sea of various types of artillery, there are dozens of guns, so that Yu Xiaotian is painful to death.
But no matter what, the sea wolf still won the final victory in this battle, which was caused by the gap in the ship's skills, and Yu Xiaotian had no better way, and it was already the best result to be able to achieve such a result.
Seeing that it was too late, Yu Xiaotian ordered the troops to be collected, leaving a few Feizi clippers to patrol the sea, in case the escaped Spanish ship came back at night and picked up the Spanish infantry and craftsmen they left on the shore.
The rest of the ships took the captured ships and prisoners, and temporarily entered the Jilong Bay to rest, although many of their ships were not sunk, but they were also damaged a lot, and they had to go to the Jilong Bay to repair as soon as possible, otherwise, I am afraid that some ships would not even be able to insist on going back to Nanri Island.
Yu Xiaotian also through this sea battle, to establish more confidence in his subordinates, these subordinates, in this battle, showed a strong resilience and endurance, in the initial engagement, the sea wolf was completely at the bottom of the artillery battle, a number of ships were destroyed by the enemy, many ships were seriously damaged, but all the ships, did not appear to be afraid of the battle to avoid the situation.
The flotilla always maintained a column formation, entered the shelling area, and launched an artillery battle with the enemy, in the case that the firepower of each ship was weaker than that of the other side, and the strength of the ships was weaker than that of the other side, although it was not possible to say that everyone regarded death as home, and went forward one after another, but the vast majority of sailors were not frightened and overwhelmed, and the guns on the Seawolf ships never stopped, and they kept quickly loading and firing back at the enemy.
This kind of fighting will is something he has never seen in other peers, including the Daming Navy, and this is not a show of a boat, but all the sailors on the ship, basically meeting his requirements.
It is by virtue of the will of the sea wolf tribes, in the end the sea wolf in this naval battle to achieve the most decisive victory, if there were several captains or sailors on the ship, there was a situation of fear and evasion, it may lead to the loss of the overall battle, because fear is contagious, once there is a ship to escape, it will affect the morale of most people, causing more people to abandon the military order and choose to flee the battlefield.
Therefore, although the sea wolves suffered heavy losses in this war, they gained a lot, and their biggest gain was not how many ships they captured on the other side, how many ships they destroyed, and how many prisoners they captured, but their biggest gain was to make them play majestic and build up stronger self-confidence.
The most important thing for an army is their confidence, their honor and their fine traditions, and after this battle, the Seawolf Sailor has grown into a good and daring to fight the honor of the army, as long as this confidence and tradition can be passed on, sooner or later, the Seawolf Group will grow into a strong army, there is no doubt about it.
It was not until the end of the battle that Yu Xiaotian was helped down from the stern tower and treated for his wounds by the ship's medical officer.
The wound on his leg was not very serious, a piece of broken wood hit his leggings at a very fast speed, and after penetrating the armor, it pierced into his thigh, which looked very deep into the flesh, but in fact the injury was not serious, but when he was in the fierce battle, he refused to go down to bandage the wound, but he bled more.
When the battle was over, he felt a little weak, but with his physique, this little blood was not too much of a problem, and after a period of recuperation, as long as the nutrition could keep up, he could quickly replenish it.
When donating blood in later generations, it will be 400cc every time, and this time his blood loss is less than 400cc at best, so basically it has little impact, as long as the wound is not infected and inflamed, and he has tetanus, there will be no big problem, which Yu Xiaotian believes that his pig's foot halo will still take care of him, so after treating the wound, he began to work with a limp.
The fleet sailed into Chicken Coop Bay, and most of the people of Keelung Fort, cheered and rushed to the docks to meet their victorious army.
Yu Xiaotian stood on the side of the ship with a smile on his face, accepting everyone's cheers for him, enjoying the fanatical gaze of countless people on him, he kept waving to everyone until he was supported by everyone to welcome him into Keelung Fort, and entered the Keelung Fort Chamber and sat down.
Indispensable for everyone to congratulate again, indispensable is a lot of sycophants, Yu Xiaotian also accepted it safely, at this time, he also needs to make everyone happy and happy first, relax their nerves, and the fruits of victory are indeed sweet, including himself, also enjoy this feeling very much.
It wasn't until after being busy for a while that Yu Xiaotian stopped everyone's laughter, cleared his throat and said loudly: "Today I also want to congratulate you, we can win such a battle, not because of one person's work, but because of your concerted efforts!"
Today, we have almost wiped out the fleet of the Dry Wax people, so there will not be many people who will dare to attack our sea wolf and tiger in the future!
But the war was not over yet, and Spain ...... That is, the dry silk people, let's call them Spaniards in the future! The title of dried wax silk is really awkward!
The Spaniards did not expect that they would be defeated so badly and so completely, so they unloaded most of the infantry on the ship to the shore, and just now on the ship, interrogated a few interpreters they brought, and I learned that now they are on the shore to the east, and there are still more than 400 infantry left, and there are more than 200 labor slaves brought with the ship, and they have not yet been dealt with, so we have not yet reached the time to celebrate! ”