Márquez is a little blindsided, I have never seen such a tactic, in the Western Ocean, the fleet fights, it has always been the fleet to deploy, shelling with side guns, basically, if you want to win, you must have a higher combat power than the other party, it is completely hard power, but, the Ming fleet, not a hard battle, is actually divided into three columns, diagonally inserted into their own fleet!

What is this for? Want to have a partition? This is on the sea, if you want to divide and surround it, where is it so easy?

"Order, launch a fierce attack on the Ming warships, and don't let them easily approach our warships! Will they be able to overcome us by leaning over? ”

Marquez shouted.

The artillery of the Spanish fleet rang out unfatally, more than 100 main warships responded to the battle together, and the shells were overwhelmingly shot down on the Ming fleet, and one shell fell on the sea, constantly setting off monstrous waves, especially the flowering shells, which were even more powerful, and some of the shells smashed the deck or side of the Ming ship, bringing a lot of damage to the Ming army.

However, the three columns of the Ming fleet were very fast, and they were fiercely inserted diagonally towards the side of the Western fleet, but the situation of division and encirclement had already been formed.

At this time, Márquez realized that something was wrong, the forward of his fleet had run far away, and the Ming fleet had changed its formation, three columns were inserted diagonally, and all the warships were aimed at the rear half of his fleet.

However, Marquez reacted at this time, it was already a little late, because the Ming fleet maintained a huge angle with the Western Fleet, resulting in the Ming fleet not only occupied a huge advantage in the number of warships, but what was even more frightening was that the side guns and bow guns and stern guns on the Ming battleships could all be used for combat, and the artillery invested exceeded three-fifths of the total number of battleship guns, which undoubtedly occupied a considerable advantage compared to the Western Fleet with only one side of the side guns to attack.

The most terrible thing is that the bow guns of the Ming ship are equipped with the latest flowering guns with rifling and sights, which are not only powerful, but also far superior in range and accuracy to the guns equipped by the Western fleet!

The three columns of the Ming fleet have completed the cutting of the Western fleet, and without waiting for the flagship's order, they have all been put into the siege!

Boom Boom Boom Boom ......

Zheng Haotian's main force of the Second Fleet took the lead, more than 20 Tian-class warships, and more than 40 ground-class warships hit the more than 40 main warships at the back of the Western Fleet.

On the Western fleet, equipped with flowering bombs, there are also solid bullets, but the Ming fleet is all flowering bombs, the power is better than the Western fleet, although on the actual combat experience, the Ming sailors and gunners, to be slightly inferior to the Western sailors, but can not stand the power of others, more artillery, the first wave of salvo, there are nearly 100 shells hit the Western warship, a shell smashed on the Western battleship, a violent explosion, the Western battleship was blown up, the deck is full of craters, Even the side of the ship was damaged, and the first wave of attacks caused a lot of losses to the Western warships!

Not only were the Western warships damaged, but the most fatal thing was that the Western sailors suffered heavy casualties under the violent explosion of the shells!

At this time, the officers and men of the Western Fleet also played with their lives, and one artillery gun also unceremoniously launched an attack on the Ming Fleet!

The Ming army hit the superior battleships to attack a few warships behind the Western Fleet, and the Western Fleet retaliated, focusing its firepower on the nearest flagship of the Western Fleet, which was also full of firepower, and the number of single guns of the main battleship of the Western Fleet even exceeded that of the Tian-class battleships, and the ground-class battleships were thrown off, and the shells were also desperately beckoning to the Ming battleships!

At this time, the two nearest heaven-class battleships were under a lot of pressure, and shells continued to fall on the battleship, and the two heaven-class battleships were seriously damaged, and even the bow gun was smashed, which was still because the distance between the two sides was more than one mile, and the accuracy of artillery shooting was too low, only a dozen or so shells hit the battleship, if more shells hit the battleship, even if the heaven-class battleship was powerful, it would be destroyed.

Du Feng, the captain of the Kaifeng Tian-class battleship who bore the brunt of the attack, gritted his teeth angrily, grandma's, fight back, fight back with all his might!

"Rockets ready, fire them all, give me their sails,! The bow gun is aimed at Lao Tzu and hits the sidestrings of Western devils! Destroy their broadside guns! ”

Du Feng let out an angry roar.

The second wave of attack began, and the two closest Heaven-class battleships were firing at full power, and even the smaller caliber guns began to fire! Similarly, at this time, because of the proximity of the distance, almost all the guns of the Second Fleet had already entered the firing range, and more than a thousand guns of sixty or seventy capital battleships all began to fire!

Thousands of shells smashed into the position of the Western Fleet, this time not only the flowering artillery, but also a large number of rockets, artillery only one side to meet the enemy, can not all put into battle, but the rocket is different, flexible and mobile, the rocket mount can adjust the direction of launch at any time, more than 1,000 artillery pieces put into battle, and similarly, more than 1,000 rockets are put into battle!

One rocket after another with a whistling tail flame, straight into the Western warship, can be described as spectacular, the whole sky is shrouded in flames!

The rocket landed on the Western battleship, and it burned instantly, and the blazing tail flame passed by, and the sails were ignited, and the pieces of sails fell on the battleship with flames, and then burned around!

What's even worse is the bow gun, the power of one bow gun, even more than the power of three ordinary flowering shells, the accuracy is more than three times that of ordinary artillery, a shell falls on the Western warship, especially the hit bombing, more than ten shells hit a Western warship at the same time, a violent explosion, directly the Western battleship was blown up and sank to the bottom of the sea!

After only two waves of shooting, the Second Fleet completely suppressed the rear fleet of the Western Fleet, and the number of artillery used by both sides was equal, but the accuracy and power of the Ming Army's flowering bombs were superior, and the most important thing was that there were a large number of rockets to help, where could the Western Fleet parry?

In the distance, Marquez, who was at the front of the fleet, saw that his face had changed drastically, broken, his forward had left the battlefield, and the Chinese army and the rear army had completely fallen into the siege of the Ming fleet! Originally, its own Western fleet was slightly inferior, but now it is even more dangerous!

(End of chapter)