As we get closer and closer to the depths of the Java Isthmus, we are naturally getting closer and closer to the minefields deployed in this sea area, and more than 5,000 mines are enough to deploy a large area above the sea area. At the very least, the depths of the Java Isthmus are cut off horizontally, without the slightest problem.

The fleet was moving forward when suddenly there was a violent muffled sound from the right side, followed by a violent explosion, and a huge wave rose into the sky!

Trope and the others suddenly jumped in their hearts, and they all looked to the right!

I saw an auxiliary warship in a violent explosion, disintegrated in an instant, and was blown off by the waist, and some unlucky sailors had already flown directly into the sky with broken wood, and Trope and others were a few feet away, and they all felt their eardrums buzzing!!

The explosives contained in this mine weigh several pounds, all of them are the latest yellow explosives, the power is endless, a mine is enough to top the power of more than a dozen shells to explode, this auxiliary warship, but the volume of 600 tons, how can it withstand such an explosion? In addition to the explosion of mines, there is also gunpowder stored on the battleship, in order to ensure that the fleet can fight on a long voyage, the gunpowder stored on each battleship has been found thousands of catties, and the explosion of the mine directly detonated the ammunition depot on the battleship, and in an instant, the entire battleship was wiped out, and the flames were blazing!

Not only was this auxiliary battleship blown up, but even the two nearest auxiliary warships, because of the explosion of this battleship, also suffered from the pond fish, broken wood, iron tools and even cannonballs on the battleship flew in all directions, smashed into the battleships on both sides, the sails were directly destroyed, and even the deck was smashed out of a lot of big pits, and the unlucky soldiers, caught off guard, were directly knocked down on the deck by broken wood, vomiting blood!

"What's going on? What the hell is going on! ”

Trop was furious, at this time, it was the most critical moment, such a violent explosion was enough to spread twenty or thirty miles away, and it was easy to disturb the garrison of the Ming Empire in the distance!

"Trope, it must have been the improper operation of the sailors on the battleship that detonated the ammunition depot of the battleship, and the gunpowder stored on each battleship is as high as thousands of catties!"

Blake, who was on the side, frowned and said in a deep voice.

"Damn, that's a Spanish battleship, Phelock, how did you do that?"

Fei Luo almost died of distress, why is he so unlucky, he has just lost thousands of elite troops, and now even his own warship has exploded, is there any reason?

"I—Who am I going to ask? Damn, why did the battleship suddenly explode at this time? What the hell is going on! ”

Fallock was shocked and furious, and before he could recover from his anger, the explosion happened again!

This time it happened right in front of the fleet!

A capital battleship that burst out of the front suddenly exploded!

However, this time it was two violent muffled sounds, and two violent explosions sounded directly in front of the main battleship and behind the side and back!

The huge warship, with a tonnage of more than 1,000 tons and a volume of dozens of zhang, was cut off in an instant in the violent explosion, and the side deck in front of it was directly destroyed by the explosion. How can it be? Not to mention that there are only a few hundred people on this battleship, even if it is thousands, it is impossible to block the huge hole in the side and rear, not to mention that the front half of the battleship has been blown up!

I drop God! What the hell is going on!

Troppe almost turned his back on his back in anger, the main battleship Prince Philip, this battleship has just been launched for less than five years, and it cost the Kingdom of the Netherlands 50,000 taels of silver, as for the 600 admirals above, it is the elite force of the Dutch Navy, even if it is holding 100,000 taels of silver, it will not be changed!

The Prince Philip, who lost one-third of its body at the front end, didn't even pause, and as soon as its ass sank, it sank to the bottom of the sea, the front was blown up, and the battleship lost its balance, so naturally even the gods couldn't save it!

"No, no, definitely not! This is not the self-detonation of the battleship, it is attacked, our fleet is under attack! ”

Delien, the chief of staff of the Dutch fleet on the side, suddenly roared, "General Troppe, you see, the ammunition depot of our Prince Philip did not explode, all the gunpowder is stored in the powder compartment in the middle, if the gunpowder explodes, then the entire warship will be torn to pieces just like the Spanish warship!" ”

What the? Attacked by an enemy?

Everyone was shocked, and immediately became confused, such as today's high atmosphere, cloudless, looking around, within twenty or thirty miles, there are no enemy warships, how can they be attacked by the enemy? Impossible, simply impossible! Even the most advanced artillery in the world doesn't have a range of more than five miles, right? What's more, if you are attacked by enemy artillery, you must also hear the sound of the opponent's artillery, and you must also see the shells in the sky, right? Nothing was found!

However, if it was not attacked by the enemy, why did it cause the explosion of the battleship?

The entire combined fleet, now on the sea, with 400 warships and more than 100,000 people, is now in a panic, not knowing what to do, and the sentries on the mast are holding binoculars, constantly looking into the distance, looking for clues of the enemy!

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Although there was an explosion in the Combined Fleet, Trop and the others did not know what was going on, and in shock, they did not give an order to stop the battleship from sailing, and this time the Western Fleet was even more miserable!

Now the entire Western fleet, the goose-shaped array is arranged, the Dutch fleet is in front and makes the head goose, the British fleet is in the center, the Spanish fleet and the French fleet are on both sides, the whole fleet is fully stretched out for more than ten miles, and the width is also seven bars, such a huge formation, in this end of the strait, the probability of hitting a mine is too high!!

This time it was still the Spanish fleet that was unlucky, with three battleships in succession, two main warships, and one auxiliary warship, which almost simultaneously touched the mines floating in the water, and once again set off a violent explosion above the sea!

The three battleships touched five or six mines at the same time, and the mines exploded one after another, and the three battleships were torn to pieces again, and the rising flames were two or three feet high, and the sky was full of blood rain, and the wreckage of the battleships flew in all directions, smashing the surrounding battleships into a mess, and the Spanish army suffered a large number of casualties, and wailed constantly!

"Ahhh......hh

Philok's eyes were split, four warships, two main warships, two auxiliary warships, including two or three hundred artillery pieces, nearly two thousand naval officers, just buried in the sea, in such a violent explosion, the Spanish soldiers were lucky to be able to leave a whole corpse!

(End of chapter)