The Kingdom of Spain can be said to be the most unlucky Western country, first the Luzon Islands were robbed by the Ming Empire, and then the Ming army expedition fleet was attacked in Mexico, the loss is not small, and now taking advantage of the army to the east, the whole of Mexico was captured by the Ming army, there is no more unlucky than the Kingdom of Spain, other Western countries have not suffered much damage, and Spain is unlucky.

However, this is not the most unlucky, the most unfortunate thing happened after the Spanish sent troops.

In half a month, Felipe IV gathered more than 50,000 troops, and under the protection of the main Spanish fleet, left the mainland and went to Mexico.

Just a few days after leaving the port of A Coruña, and before even leaving the Portuguese seas, he encountered the main force of the Ming fleet that had come from an expedition.

"Duke Bonnes, I have found a large fleet thirty miles to the south, and it is sailing quickly towards the north!"

The Lord of the Navy, Duke Bonnes, was lying on the wicker chair on the deck basking in the sun, when he suddenly heard the alarm from the sentry above the mast, Duke Boness frowned, came to the top of the mast, and said indifferently: "A huge fleet? Is it the Portuguese fleet? We had already informed the Kingdom of Portugal before we sent our troops, and they shouldn't have sent a fleet to intercept it......"

"No, no, it's not the Portuguese fleet, Lord Duke, look......"

The sentinels were shocked and almost speechless, the huge fleet is definitely a huge fleet, not to mention the Portuguese fleet, even the most powerful Dutch fleet, I'm afraid it doesn't have such a large scale, right? This battleship is densely packed, and there are at least 300 warships!

Bonnes raised his monocular and looked into the distance, and was really taken aback, good guy, there are at least two or three hundred warships, too many, dense, forming a huge formation on the sea, spectacular, even the Dutch fleet is difficult to send such a large fleet!

"Could it be, is it the victory of the Combined Fleet? Wouldn't it, defeat the Ming Empire so quickly and return home? That's too fast......"

Bonnes said in shock.

The two fleets walked in opposite directions, and soon, the main fleet of the Ming Dynasty appeared in Bonnes's field of vision, and the fleet became clearer and clearer, and it could be seen clearly without even a telescope!

"That's not right!"

Boness suddenly shouted, "It's not our combined fleet, the flag is wrong, the flag on this battleship is not the flag of a Western country, it's a bit like the flag of the legendary Ming Empire's fleet!" Strange, isn't the Ming fleet on an expedition to Mexico? How could it suddenly appear here? In two or three months, even if the Ming fleet has wings, it can't fly! ”

However, the Duke of Boness, as the Minister of the Navy, is an admiral who has grown up step by step from the captain of the navy, and has rich experience in actual combat, although he was shocked, he did not dare to be careless, and immediately ordered the fleet to be ready for battle, regardless of the rest, at this time, you must be careful to take precautions, once the war starts, you will not suffer a big loss!

"Signalman, give the order, the fleet immediately reverses course, sails in a southwesterly direction, avoids the fleet ahead, it's none of our business, meet head-on, it's too dangerous for us, immediately send two small boats, inform the ports of Portugal and A Coruña respectively, and get ready to avoid being attacked by enemy forces!"

Bonnes exclaimed.

On the opposite side came the main fleet led by Xu Yifan himself, he didn't expect that on the way, he would encounter a fleet of not small size, look at the flag, it should be the main fleet of Spain, after all, the ordinary fleet is definitely not such a large scale, hundreds of warships, and there are many main warships, the largest warship, at least has a displacement of 12300 tons, absolutely not to be underestimated!

"Lao Cha, order the heaven-level battleships to rush forward and prepare to attack, just take advantage of their isolation and kill them first!"

Cha Zhu immediately ordered people to start waving the signal flag, the first fleet and the second fleet began to change formation, the main battleship Tian-class battleships began to approach the Spanish fleet, and now the two fleets are only more than ten miles apart, the Spanish fleet is very difficult even if it wants to get rid of the main fleet of the Ming Dynasty, and soon, the Ming fleet is forced up.

"Sure enough, it's the Ming Fleet!"

Bonnes was horrified, and shouted: "Quick, prepare for battle, prepare for battle!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the heaven-class battleships and earth-class battleships that rushed to the forefront suddenly began a fierce attack, all the guns in the bow of the ship fired, hundreds of guns were all thrown into the attack, and the shells covered the sky and the sun, and shot down at the Spanish battleship!

The distance of three miles, for rifled guns, is the time of great power, cannonballs all over the sky, one after another fell on the Spanish battleship, the flagship of the Barcelona battleship at the forefront, was hit by two shells on the side of the ship, exploded in an instant, almost disemboweling the flagship, even so, a large amount of seawater began to pour in towards the flagship!

Boness's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly ordered the sailors to urgently plug the gap in the explosion and start pumping water, and the sealed compartment on the side of the ship was blown up, which was the most dangerous for the battleship!

Almost at the same time, the Spanish fleet began to return fire, a shell whistling out of the muzzle, straight to the Ming fleet, three miles away, above this distance, the Spanish naval artillery is almost anti-aircraft guns to hit mosquitoes, there is no crosshair, nearly a thousand shells hit over, only more than ten shells smashed on the Ming army's battleship, for the Tian-class battleship, this is just a tickle, insignificant at all, but the Ming army's shells, not scratching, the power of the flowering cannon is too powerful, If you put it on, you have to take off a layer of horses!

In just a quarter of an hour, the Ming fleet formed a three-fold copy of the Spanish fleet, began the siege, a piece of artillery into the artillery battle, the Spanish fleet of battleships were shot one after another, the flames were raging, and some of the unlucky battleships were directly hit by the shells, split apart, and began to sink!

Boness was so frightened that he couldn't possess his body, and shouted to order the battleship to withdraw from the battle, this battle can't be fought, the Ming fleet is too powerful, the main battleships are equipped with flowering shells, even if there are many flowering cannons on the auxiliary battleships, the number of battleships is almost three times that of the Spanish fleet, I really don't know where the Ming Empire got such a large-scale fleet from......

Bonnes didn't dare to fight, turned around and ran, at this time, if you want to get out of the battlefield, where is it so easy? The battleships of the Ming fleet squeezed in from three directions, and the shells and rockets hit them unfatally, and more and more battleships were shot and suffered heavy losses-

The main Spanish fleet, in danger!

(End of chapter)