The forty or fifty battleships of the Portuguese fleet pounced too quickly, and soon entered a position less than six miles away from the battery, and completely entered the effective range of the battery's artillery.

Five miles away, the artillery shells of the Ming army accurately smashed on the Portuguese battleships, a burst of shells, the Portuguese fleet was extremely embarrassed as soon as it came up, several battleships were hit by artillery, and the violent explosion scared the Portuguese fleet general Christoan to the point of death.

"Shoot back, shoot back!"

Christoan roared frantically, and the warships began to fight back ferociously, but after all, Portugal is in decline, in this era, Western powers have begun to use flowering shells, breaking the defense with solid bullets, and attacking with flowering shells, which are hugely powerful, but Portugal has never used flowering shells, and naval guns are still in the era of solid shells, and a ship gun is hitting in the direction of the battery!

However, the distance of five or six miles is still too far for the naval guns, although the shells can barely reach, but most of them hit the coast, or under the battery, but it cannot threaten the top of the battery, and the firing speed of the naval guns is not as good as the shore defense artillery, a shell is flying all over the sky, like flying locusts, but for the battery, there is no threat!

Christoan stomped his feet hatefully and wiped it, fighting like this, too passive, he couldn't hit others!

"Order, the fleet advances three miles and continues the attack!"

In order to be able to test the military strength of the Ming army's battery, Crisdoan now had to continue to advance, and advanced three miles again under the fire of the battery, which was less than three miles away from the Ming army's battery.

The Portuguese fleet once again opened fire, more than 40 warships, lined up, with side guns to start the attack, more than 300 guns fired at the battery at the same time, the shells overwhelmingly smashed towards the battery, this time, it was finally able to hit the battery, a shell smashed on the bluestone slab of the battery, and even smashed a spark, the bluestone slab appeared cracks one after another!

The soldiers of the Ming army hid behind the bluestone one by one to avoid being injured by the flying rubble, and the artillery on the fort also launched a counterattack with all their might!

Obviously, the number of artillery on the battery is not at all in the same order of magnitude fifty to three hundred compared with a fleet, a difference of six times, but, compared to the power of the shells, the Ming army is far superior to the Spanish fleet, the power of the flowering shells is too powerful, the black powder has also been improved several times, the power has increased a lot compared to before, coupled with the application of rifling, the artillery is fast and accurate!

The sunset naval guns fired a shell every two minutes, but the firing speed of the Ming army's coastal defense artillery was one shot, which was twice as fast as the Western naval guns, and when the Portuguese battleships were still aiming, the shells of the people's coastal defense guns had already arrived, and when the guns of the Western battleships were discharged, the second wave of shells of the Ming army's coastal defense guns had arrived.

In just a few moments, the Portuguese fleet ushered in more than ten waves of covered shelling, and was completely stunned by the flowering shells of the Ming army!

More than ten waves of shooting, that is equal to the attack of five or six hundred shells, according to the hit rate of twenty to one, at least more than thirty shells hit the Portuguese battleship, and paradoxically, the Ming army held down a few giant ships to attack, auxiliary warships, not caring at all, the most unlucky one of the main battleships was accurately hit by six shells, and two shells hit the side of the ship, blasting the weakest side of the battleship, and the entire battleship was completely destroyed, directly more than two meters of the big hole, it could not be blocked at all, The sea poured in like crazy, and it didn't take long for it to sink!

Crisdogan is not unprepared, the strength of the Ming army is piled up with victories, but he really didn't expect that the artillery fire of the Ming army would be so fierce!

"Retreat, retreat!"

Christoan didn't dare to fight alone, in a quarter of an hour, he wasted more than a thousand shells, so many shells poured down, a few shells of others, almost not moving, this fort is too strong, if you continue to fight, your own losses will be even greater, for this expedition, the kingdom used more than half of the strength of the fleet, if they are all lost here, it will be a big loss!

Christoan turned around and ran, anyway, the strength of the Ming army has been exposed, and the next thing is the matter of the other fleets, didn't you say that we don't need our Portuguese fleet to attack the battle, then come on, such a ferocious artillery fire, we don't want to face it a second time!

"Hehe, these stupid guys, who have only been attacking for a quarter of an hour, want to test our true strength? It's just a dream, the best thing about Lao Tzu must be left for the future......"

Lu Mingting had a sinister sneer on his face.

The Western fleet, the Portuguese fleet was quickly withdrawn, and Christoan picked the flagship of the Dutch fleet, very depressed!

In the short battle just now, Portugal sank one main battleship, severely damaged two main battleships, and sank one auxiliary battleship, and the Ming army's attack was too fierce.

"Generals, have you all seen it? The artillery group of the Ming army is too powerful, our naval artillery can't threaten them at all, and then it's up to you......"

Christoan muffled.

"Hahaha, is the battery group powerful?"

Trope laughed and said, "Christoan, it's not that the Ming army fortress is too powerful, but you are too incompetent, you look at your battleship, there is not even a single flowering cannon, where did the shells go, all fell under the battery, the weapons are backward, the training can't keep up, if it goes on like this, you Portugal is not worthy of being a Western power!" ”

"Tlop, you!"

Gomez on the side waited for Trope viciously, this guy's mouth is too poisonous, I really want to slap him in two mouths, but unfortunately I can't beat him!

"Gomez, don't be angry, Trope is not wrong, you Portugal is really in decline, let you see how the fleets of our other countries fight!"

Blake, who was on the side, laughed, "This time, the general? ”

As he spoke, Blake looked at Molde, the commander of the French fleet, "General Molde, why don't you France take the lead first?" ”

Molde sneered: "Don't mind, if it's a landing war, or a land war, we in France will not let it go, I don't need you to say it, but the naval battle, it's avoided, it's better for you to go, haven't you English always boasted that you are the first in the navy?" ”

(End of chapter)