Chapter 1505: Battle of Batavia (7)
The second column quickly approached Marquez's Spanish fleet, even in its heyday, the Spanish fleet was barely comparable to the second fleet, not as strong as the first fleet, and now the Spanish fleet has been defeated, but it has to be besieged by the two major fleets of the Ming Dynasty, where can it parry?
Márquez was originally facing the siege of the first column and the third column, and he was already a little unable to support it, and he was defeated and retreated, and more than a dozen warships were sunk by the fierce artillery fire of the Ming fleet, Marquez complained bitterly, he really didn't expect the Ming fleet to be so fierce, Marquez secretly regretted it in his heart, it was better to collect the troops directly just now and retreat into the distance, at least he could save his strength, but now he was entangled by the Ming fleet in front of him, even if he wanted to retreat, it would cost a lot of sharp weapons.
Just when Marquez was anxious, in the southeast, the second column of Cha Bolt quickly rushed up.
When Márquez saw a fleet rushing up, he was completely panicked, and now he can't stand it, and dozens of capital warships have come over, so if he fights again, he will die!
"Order, the whole army retreats, don't fall in love with the battle, retreat into the distance at full speed, throw off the Ming fleet, and make a detour back to Batavia!"
Márquez yelled.
However, now that the second column of the investigation has blocked the way to the southwest and is running in the direction of Luzon, isn't it getting farther and farther away from the Java Islands, and sooner or later it will have to become a dish of the Ming fleet, running in the northwest direction!
At Marquez's order, the remaining warships of the Western Fleet began to retreat in a northwesterly direction.
Where will Zhu Jie give Marquez the opportunity to retreat calmly, Yang Geng has already received the order, the army has been moving in the northwest direction, as soon as he saw that the Western Fleet was about to run, the first column suddenly accelerated, obliquely inserted it, and blocked the northwest direction, and the second column and the third column formed a three-sided attack on the Western Fleet!
Oh, my God!
Marquez almost lost his soul, the battlefield response of the Ming fleet was too fast, this Ming general's judgment of the battlefield situation was fast and accurate, besieged on three sides, he was afraid that he would be surrounded and annihilated by the Ming fleet before he rushed out!
Run!
Run to the East!
Marquez didn't care about anything else, and led the Western fleet to start rushing all the way down to the east!
The Western Fleet was in front, and the Ming Fleet was only pursuing behind, constantly launching artillery bombardments on the battleships of the Western Fleet.
At this time, the strength of the Tian-class battleships and ground-class battleships of the Ming Fleet was fully revealed, although the number of guns of the Western Fleet battleships was more than that of the Ming warships of the same level, but there were very few bow guns, and even if there were, there were very few, but the main battleships of the Ming Fleet, the bow guns were four to six of the most advanced flowering guns, or all of them were rifled, and the power was far greater than that of ordinary artillery, and the most suitable was the pursuit battle!
The heaven-class battleships and earth-class battleships of the Ming fleet pursued with their bow guns, and the shells continued to pour towards the Western warships, and the Western warships were constantly hit by flowering shells, emitting thick smoke and flames.
Two hours have passed, and the Western Fleet has still not been able to get rid of the pursuit of the Ming Fleet, and the Western Fleet has no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground!
In the east, a large fleet of ships has faintly appeared.
However, this fleet does not want to be the main warships of huge size like the Ming fleet, but mainly small and medium-sized warships.
On top of the only Heaven-class battleship, there were two generals, constantly looking into the distance.
Suddenly, the watchtower shouted downward, "Master Overseer, there is a situation, a large number of warships have appeared in the west, and they are rushing in our direction, and we are only twenty miles away!" ”
On the battleship, Qin Mufeng suddenly turned around and shouted: "Show Lao Tzu clearly, it is our own fleet or the fleet of Western devils!" ”
The sentry carefully identified it for a moment before shouting: "Master Inspector, it's not our fleet, it's definitely not our fleet, there is no Ming flag, and many warships still carry fireworks, and the small ones seem to faintly hear the sound of artillery!" ”
"Haha!"
Qin Mufeng shouted: "Then you can't be wrong, it must be that we defeated the fleet of Western devils, and the emperor drove the remnants of the Western army to our direction!" Dou Huai, the herald, all the troop carriers, retreat back five miles, all the big and small warships are full of sails, and they must be intercepted if they move forward! ”
This is where Qin Mufeng's Tianxiong army is located, this expedition to Batavia, must be ahead of the Western fleet, the Tianxiong army to follow, on the sea will only become a burden, not the slightest effect, Zhu Jie left Qin Mufeng Tianxiong army behind, at the same time transferred a heaven-class battleship, three ground-class warships, and fifty or sixty small warships around to protect, once there is a sneak attack by the Western fleet, it can also protect the troop carrier retreat.
Qin Mufeng was happy when he saw the battle, where did he care if he didn't understand naval warfare, he directly ordered all the warships to attack, and Dou Huai, the staff general of the First Fleet on the side, was also excited, fighting, he was a staff member who finally seized the opportunity, and he had to go up to practice his hands if he said anything!
Dou Huai commanded dozens of warships to pounce towards the west!
Marquez was now panicking like a lost dog, just trying to flee for his life, and he didn't even notice that there was a fleet blocking the way in front of him, and when he found out, Qin Mufeng's Tian-class battleship was less than ten miles away from the Western warship!
"Order, fleet turn, first array, prepare for sidestring engagement!"
Dou Huai kept giving orders, and the battleships began to change their formations from afar, and the battleships were lined up in horizontal formations, blocking the entire line.
When Márquez saw the fleet in front of him, his heart suddenly flipped over, it's over, it's completely over, why is there still a Ming fleet here, how many warships have they mobilized......
"Order, go full speed, go straight to the past, and be sure to break out of the encirclement of the Ming fleet!"
Marquez can only fight hard now, break through the encirclement, maybe he can still escape, escape from death, once he falls into the encirclement, the entire fleet will only be defeated, no matter what, he must rush out, and if he can rush out, a battleship can be counted as one!
"Order, shell with all your might! Shoot me all the shells and rockets! Be sure to intercept the Western Fleet! ”
Dou Huai soon discovered the intention of the Western Fleet and shouted loudly.
Shells fired the Western Fleet without a fatality, blocking all the roads in front of them, and the shells and rockets rained down!
(End of chapter)