"Trope, why, why? Why, there is no problem with the other warships, but our Spanish fleet was bombed one after another, you give me an explanation, you give me an explanation! Why, the two or three thousand officers and men of our Spanish fleet must not die in vain, how did you lead the way? ”

Filled with grief and indignation, Phelock roared and rushed over, grabbed Troppe by the collar, and was about to do it!

"Pheroke, Feloc! Calm down, calm down! ”

The Dutch chief of staff on the side, Delien, roared angrily: "Why do you ask us? Didn't you see that the Prince Philip, the flagship of the former army of our Dutch fleet, was blown up? The more times like this, the more you can't panic, calm down, calm down! ”

Blake said urgently: "Troop, we can't move forward, we must not move forward now, it's too dangerous, we must not move forward until the danger is identified!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Troppe came to his senses and shouted urgently: "Order, order, order all warships to stop advancing, stand by in place, lower the sails, lower the sails!" ”

It's just that this is on the sea, the fleet stretches for more than ten miles, and even if there is no sea breeze, it is not easy to make the battleship completely stop sailing!

The generals of the Combined Fleet, who had been blown apart one by one, were now desperately lowering their sails, trying to slow down the speed of the fleet's sailing, so as not to touch the unknown danger.

Trope then shouted: "Someone, immediately put down the boat, send someone to pilot the boat, sail around the nearby waters, and take a closer look at what caused our warship to explode!" ”

The battleships that received the order threw down their boats and began to look around, carefully looking for clues.

It's just that the clues have not been found, and the fleet, which still has not completely stopped, has triggered the mine again......

This time, it was the British who were unlucky, and in the middle of the combined fleet, the two main battleships of the British fleet, exploded again without warning!

"No, buy it!"

Blake closed his eyes fiercely, it's over, the two capital warships of the British Empire, just like that, these two battleships are the main ships with a displacement of thousands of tons, and each battleship has more than 80 guns deployed alone, more than 600 naval officers!

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

Blake, who had been gloating a little, was now completely furious, like a mad lion!

In a short period of time, the Western Fleet lost seven warships, seven, and five main warships alone, such losses are too great!! The most bizarre thing is that more than 100,000 soldiers don't even know where the danger comes from! It's as if this fleet is half haunted by ghosts!

No one knows how to deal with it, all the generals are stupid, they have never encountered such a strange situation!

"Left side, there is no explosion on the left side, there is no explosion on the left side, the order, the fleet is slowly moving to the left, you must be careful, move to the left, maybe the channel on the left side is safer!"

After a few minutes of silence, the commander of the French fleet, Pixon, said, "Now it's safer only on the left side!" ”

After all, now only the battleship on the left has not yet encountered an explosion!

However, as soon as Pixon's words fell, a violent explosion was also heard on the left, and this time it was the turn of the French fleet on the left to be unlucky!

In the violent explosion, the two auxiliary warships disintegrated and split apart in an instant, and the battleship plunged directly into the sea!

"God, have we met the devil? Have we met the devil? Damn Satan! ”

Pixon couldn't wait to slap himself in the mouth, his words were simply a talisman, and as soon as the words fell, it was his turn!

"Don't move!"

Klopp roared: "Stay put, stay put, the ones that encounter the explosion are all moving battleships, as long as we don't move, we must not encounter an explosion!" All in place! Damn, have the boats been released, find out for Lao Tzu, what is the troublemaker! ”

Time passed little by little, in the blink of an eye, it was an hour, and the combined fleet did not dare to move on the sea, to be exact, it did not want to move, moving, it may be necessary to go to see the king of Hades, or stay where you are honest......

However, if you don't want to move, it doesn't mean that the battleship won't move, after all, this is on the sea, there is no wind and three feet of waves, not to mention that there is a slight breeze now, and if the battleship wants to stop moving, it is simply a dream!

"Boom ......"

Two more explosions, coming!

Another auxiliary ship was blown up, and it was still the Dutch naval fleet in front, and now the Dutch navy was the most powerful and the most dangerous!

"See clearly, see clearly!"

An officer on a Dutch warship behind him roared frantically, "Our exploding battleship knocked down an object like an iron lump, and after it hit, the warship exploded!" Ten of the ** is the explosion caused by that iron lump! ”

Although the mine is not conspicuous, but a mine, still the size of a bucket, if you look closely, you can still see, although the Dutch officers are not 100% sure, but now they have found a clue, or the fleet is shocked, as long as the reason is found, then the next is much simpler!

The discovery of the Dutch officers soon spread to the flagship, and the generals became excited, as soon as the problem was discovered, it would be much easier!

"Come on, send someone to clean up these iron lumps immediately!"

Trope shouted.

"Wait!"

Blake said in a deep voice: "Trope, how many such iron lumps are there on this sea, we don't know, obviously if it is an explosion caused by these iron lumps, it must have been deliberately planted by the Ming army, from this position to through the Java Isthmus, at least there are dozens of miles, within the range of these dozens of miles, there must be thousands of them, we clean them up like this, when will we clean them up?" Moreover, if we can't clean it all out in time, our warships may still hit mines! This path is no longer working! The only way we can do it now is to retreat and take a detour to the other shipping lanes! ”

"Take a detour to other shipping lanes?"

Trup said angrily: "You think beautifully!" Blake, this Javanese Isthmus, almost never a large merchant ship has ever passed, almost all maritime merchants know that the Ming army has deployed these iron lumps here, do you think that on the Magellan Channel, it will be ignored by the Ming army? How can it be! We only have to force our way through this area now! ”

(End of chapter)