Chapter 445: Engagement Four

Gunpowder detonation is a small probability event.

The gunpowder of this era is not the explosives of later generations, but nothing more than black gunpowder.

Moreover, the shells of this era are not flowering shells, so the probability of causing gunpowder detonation is also extremely small. However, Zhu Houhuang's combat effectiveness with the Nanyang Fleet is beyond doubt.

After this earth-shattering explosion, the Nanyang Fleet did not say that it desperately stepped forward to conquer the big ship of the Franc Robot like a siege, even if it was unable to contain the Franc Robot Fleet. Zhu Houhuang watched as the Nanyang Fleet was defeated and retreated.

Zhu Houhuang couldn't wait to immediately give an order for those who retreated to die, but he looked at Xu Dongzai and forcibly held back the words in his mouth.

He is still self-aware, and he understands that his ability in naval battles is far inferior to Xu Dong. Listening to Xu Dong's words is far more effective than commanding indiscriminately.

Xu Dong's orders came out one after another,

The five Western warships brought by Magellan have already been sent to support the South Ocean Fleet.

Xu Dong turned around and said, "Your Highness, there are still about two hours before sunset, let's prepare to retreat." ”

Zhu Houhuang was a little unwilling, but he looked at the ships that were shooting at the Franc machine, and they were silent one after another.

So far, the Yongjun army has sunk three or four large ships, seven or eight small ships, and there are many warships that have lost their combat effectiveness and can only float on the sea. It's just a moment and a half, and I can't see it yet.

Zhu Houhuang can be regarded as having seen the combat effectiveness of the Franc machine man.

Yongjun is far from being able to compare, on the sea, people and ships are active as units, and Xu Dong did not give an order, such as letting a certain ship move to a certain place, there are not many people who can really do it perfectly, and there are even uneven phenomena, which are all flaws, and they often affect the shooting boundary between each other, although there are many ships, but there are opportunities to open fire, but the first few are only. The rest of the ships were piled together, first squeezed by the Franc ships, and then they were in a mess of their own, looking embarrassed. Where is like the Franc fleet, the formation is very clear, even because of the enemy's offensive, the trend changes, and the integrity of the fleet is always maintained.

When the Franco-man attacked, it was a two-way attack, first an inverted V-shaped formation, and then slowly turned into a straight line, and then there were two ships in the middle that were captured, so that the connection between the two sides was disconnected, and they decisively fought separately, always keeping a distance from the Yongjun fleet, and bombarding the opponent with firepower and artillery.

Zhu Houhuang should be glad that most of the Franc machine fleet is now equipped with Franc cannons, which can be regarded as medium-sized artillery in nature, and the area of engagement between the two sides is about 100 meters, maybe a little farther, maybe a little closer. The Franc cannon was not lethal enough, but it could only make a large hole in the side of the ship.

If the artillery technology goes further, the spacing of the artillery battles is a little wider. Zhu Houhuang couldn't resist the attack of the Francophone at all.

Zhu Houhuang thought of this and said, "I listen to Second Brother Xu." ”

Before, Zhu Houhuang also expected a miracle, but now he knows that things that don't happen often are miracles. There are many things that cannot be desired.

Zhu Houhuang can only admit the reality.

Just when Magellan exchanged fire with the Francophone fleet. With Zhu Houhuang's ship as the center, the fleet has begun to slowly retreat eastward.

In fact, when it comes to Magellan's five warships, it seems that the firepower is almost the same as that of the Franco-engined ship, because these are all Western-style ships, and they are all of the same kind of cargo. But in reality, it's far from it.

Let's start with the three ships that Magellan brought from Spain, these three ships have been rampant on the sea for several months, sailing tens of thousands of miles to Luzon, and it can be said that the ships have long been riddled with holes. Although simple repairs were carried out in Dongyong, the focus of Zhu Houhuang's ships was to study the shipbuilding technology of warships.

In the end, it is being put together, can it be seen that the condition of these three ships can be good? Most of the other two boats were salvaged from the sea, and if there was nothing wrong with them, how could they sink into the sea. So the Magellan fleet ships are not in good condition. It's just that there's something worse than that, and that's the sailors.

Any mental equipment needs a run-in period before it can exert the power of the equipment.

Magellan's men, apart from a few posts that could not be replaced, did not have a single old man, all of them were newly called, and the Western ships were completely different from those of the Eastern ships, and the experience of all their Eastern ships sometimes did not bring them good, but rather bad.

Therefore, it is a bit absolute to say that they are far from forming combat effectiveness, but it is not wrong to say that they cannot fully exert the combat effectiveness of this warship.

And Magellan has only been accepting the entire fleet for a few days, and he is afraid that he has not even figured out the character of the captains. Therefore, although Zhu Houhuang has high hopes for Magellan's Mingtou, in fact, he only hopes that under Magellan's leadership, these five ships can give full play to their combat effectiveness in an orderly manner. That's good.

However, Zhu Houhuang found that he looked away.

Magellan commanded these five ships with only one style, and that was stability. It's a steady mess. The five boats lined up in a row, as if they were nails nailed in front of the Franco's fleet, and the Franco's fleet was in close contact with the Franco's fleet, fighting back and forth.

Magellan is very familiar with the other party's command style, so he uses the simplest response to be targeted, as if a rock is stuck in the opponent's throat, so that he can't swallow.

Aberqua frowned and said, "Who is this man who commands these five boats?" ”

The people around Aberkui didn't know that Zhu Houhuang had Jinyiwei by his side, and Portugal also had its own intelligence agency in the East, but most of their intelligence agencies relied on the transmission of Francophone merchants in various places. Not everything can be figured out.

"It should be the commander of the Spanish fleet, it's a shame to be serving the barbarians." The man next to Aberqua said.

"No, I don't think, the person on the other side is a Spaniard, Spain will not be so aware of our tactical changes, the commander on the opposite side should be a Portuguese, or a Portuguese who has served in the army," Aberqua said. ”

When many officers heard Aberqua's judgment, their hearts burned with rage, "For God's sake, I must burn this man at the stake." Let him be eternal in the midst of fire. ”

There is a saying that traitors are more hateful than enemies, and before you know it, Franco's fleet changed the focus of its offensive and focused on Magellan's fleet.

Wei Ruizhou is not a person who does not understand priorities. He first withdrew his fleet, and set off from both sides of Magellan's fleet to attack the other side. Slowly, a situation was formed in which Magellan's five warships were the center, and the rest of the ships were auxiliary. They slowly passed the time with the Francophone fleet, but they couldn't help it.

However, the change in circumstances soon made them change their attention.

"Your Excellency. The enemy as a whole is retreating, retreating to the east. ”

"What?" Aberqua listened to the lookout's report, and immediately held up the clairglass to watch the battle, and saw the entire battlefield in his eyes, the current battlefield has filled the sea for several miles, and there are more sunken ships, fragments of sea ships.

But what made Aberqua even more noticed was the situation in the lookout's report just now. It is the overall backward movement of the enemy's fleet.

After observing this, Aberkui couldn't help but sneer: "I really don't know whether to live or die, if he can fight me desperately, as long as he holds on until dark, there is still the possibility of withdrawing, but if he retreats now, he won't see when?" ”

Aberqua immediately gave the order to ignore the enemy in front of him and bypass the enemy's rear path to attack and deal with it. However, after Aberqua passed the order, he once again set his eyes on the fleet in front of him, and he knew that if he did not defeat this dogskin plaster. It is simply not possible to complete the pursuit of the enemy army.

At that time, he could only watch the situation and the enemy fled, and Aberqua was determined not to allow such a thing to happen, so Aberqua immediately gave an order: "The whole army surrounds and annihilates the enemy." I want to see who the commander of the Yongjun is. ”