On the one hand, there is the temptation of being famous in the western land, and on the other hand, there is the risk of failure once the attack is attacked, and in the position of the Duke of Rose, the fate of a fleet is decided in a single thought, no wonder the Duke of Rose is so hesitant.

There are warlike people, and there are inevitably warlike people, and the army has always been divided into two factions, which has always been a very normal thing in all countries.

General Lévy was obviously a representative of the belligerent faction, and just when he asked Duke Rose for his life, and Duke Rose obviously showed a look of hesitation, a veteran general stood up and said to Duke Rose: "Lord Duke, there is a saying among the Orientals, don't chase after the poor, the fighting power of the Ming people is extremely fierce, there is no doubt about this, once the pursuit fails, what will be the consequences, has the Duke ever thought about it......

When General Lévy heard this, he immediately said to the veteran: "General Harry, you also think too highly of the Ming people, don't you see the Ming fleet running away when they see our fleet?" Any war always has the risk of defeat, is it because there is a risk of defeat that there is no war? When did my kingdom of Spain lose the courage to fight against others? ”

General Lévy's words were loud, especially when he said that the Kingdom of Spain did not even have the courage to fight with others, and almost eighty or ninety percent of the generals around him changed their expressions, some with excitement on their faces, and some with shame.

The next moment, General Lévy said solemnly to Duke Rose, "Please make a decision as soon as possible!" ”

Duke Rose was able to put aside the glory and wealth and not enjoy it, but instead asked for orders to come to supervise the war, which shows that Duke Rose is not that kind of waste, and he has a bit of blood in his heart.

At this moment, stimulated by General Levy's words, his head immediately became hot, he suddenly got up, slapped the table, and said in a deep voice with a gleam in his eyes: "Let Akito understand the power of my Spanish Kingdom's navy." ”

After making a decision, Duke Rose looked at the generals and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the glory of the Kingdom of Spain is up to you!" ”

"For Spain, for the glory of the kingdom......"

"For Spain, for the glory of the kingdom......"

It was only about half an hour before the Spanish fleet, which had withdrawn from the port, sailed out of the port again.

Hundreds of warships sailed out of port, which was really amazing, and Spain at this time already had a bit of the momentum of the later Invincible Armada.

At the peak of the Spanish navy's power, the naval fleet was known as the invincible armada, invincible across the oceans, but was defeated in a battle at the hands of the Empire, and since then the Empire has stepped on the Kingdom of Spain to become the world's first naval power.

Therefore, the strength of the Spanish navy today can definitely be called the first naval power in the West, Portugal was defeated by Spain, and the empire is still trying to catch up, only Spain's warships crisscross the sea, and it is difficult to meet opponents.

The mighty ships were scattered on the vast sea, and chased in the direction of the Ming fleet.

More than ten miles away on the sea, Yu Dayou, Yue Buqun and others were on the flagship, not long ago everyone discussed the result, that is, to temporarily avoid the edge of the Spanish Navy, not afraid, but limited by their own lack of logistics materials, if you say that it is too risky to fight with it.

Yu Dayou suppressed his belligerent heart and ordered: "Pass my order, the army will withdraw to the port of Blair and wait for the supply of domestic logistics materials!" ”

The order was conveyed, but soon a rapid alarm sounded, and the people who had been slack off couldn't help but be shocked, and suddenly looked up at the herald who was rushing to him.

I saw the herald running over with a panicked face, walked to the front, and saluted Yu Dayou, Yue Buqun and the others solemnly: "My lord, the big thing is not good, I found that the enemy fleet is coming towards our fleet!" ”

Yu Dayou was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then reacted and couldn't help laughing: "Okay, good, General Ben was not willing to fight with them, but I didn't expect them to send it to the door themselves, that's really good!" ”

While speaking, Yu Dayou looked at Jiao Yuan, Yue Buqun, and Lin Pingzhi and said, "What do you think we should do?" ”

Just look at Yu Dayou's high-spirited fighting spirit to know what Yu Dayou thinks in his heart at this time, whether it is Yue Buqun or Jiao Yuan, in fact, there is a sense of arrogance in his heart.

The Great Tomorrow Dynasty is the upper country, except for the Ming Dynasty, the Quartet is a barbarian, as a Ming person, he has a point of arrogance.

Previously, they took the initiative to retreat, not because they were afraid of the navy of the Kingdom of Spain, but because they were unwilling to fight with it in the case of insufficient logistics.

But not to retreat is not to be afraid, and now the Spanish fleet has taken the initiative to come to provoke, which is a kind of red fruit provocation in the eyes of Yu Dayou, Jiao Yuan and others.

"I'm Da Ming, why not be afraid of a battle!"

Jiao Yuan's face was solemn, and he said categorically.

It was Jiao Yuan who opposed the war with him before, and that was because Jiao Yuan considered the overall situation, but now it was Jiao Yuan who was the first to respond to Yu Dayou, but it was because Jiao Yuan knew that this battle was related to the glory of the Ming Dynasty.

Just like on the Spanish side, General Lévy persuaded the Duke of Rose to use the banner of the glory of the Spanish kingdom, and now the Ming Dynasty is also fighting for his own glory.

Yue Buqun and Lin Pingzhi naturally didn't have any opinions, and several people glanced at each other and unified their opinions, only to hear Yu Dayou say in a deep voice with a little excitement: "Pass the order, hang out the battle flag, and meet the Spanish fleet." ”

The horn sounded, and I saw a bright and distinct battle flag being slowly raised, and suddenly the captains of the various warships around saw the raised battle flags, and one after another the battleships began to raise their sails, and a soldier returned to his position, ready to go to war at any time.

When the two sides were almost four or five miles apart, they could clearly see the figures of the soldiers and generals on the ship through the clairvoyant mirror.

Daming flagship is naturally quite eye-catching, with the prosperity of Daming's domestic shipbuilding industry, Daming ships are updated very quickly, a few years ago, when they went to sea, Yu Dayou their flagship is still the first generation of new warships, but now their flagship is the second generation of new warships.

Although it is said that the logistics supply in Daming is only two or three times because it is thousands of miles away, just last time, several new second-generation warships replaced Yu Dayou's flagship.

Therefore, now Yu Dayou's flagship is even larger than before, and the firepower is more ferocious.

On the Spanish warship opposite, several Spanish generals were looking at the Ming fleet opposite them through a clairvoyant mirror.

For the Ming fleet, to be honest, there is still a bit of a psychological shadow in the hearts of the Spanish generals, after all, many Spanish fleets have had the experience of fighting against the Ming Dynasty, and it can almost be said that they will lose every battle.

Once or twice, that's enough, the key thing is that there has never been a victory, you can imagine that under such circumstances, in the face of the Ming fleet, what kind of pressure and shadow these Spanish generals will have in their hearts.

The reason why General Levy encouraged Duke Rose to fight was because he saw Da Ming retreating, thinking that Da Ming was afraid, and wanted to win a battle through this battle, so as to save the military heart of the Spanish fleet.

As a famous admiral of a generation, General Levy won the trust of Duke Rose, and this time he was appointed by Duke Rose as the commander of the Ming Dynasty.

General Levy couldn't help but exclaim when he looked at the very conspicuous Ming fleet opposite: "God, the Ming people can build such a huge warship, what do our craftsmen eat, and the Ming people can build it, can't we build it?" ”

It can be seen that the appearance of the new Ming warship has a considerable impact on the soldiers of General Levy.

Especially at this time, the navies of various countries are still in the era of sails, of course, during this period, even the Ming fleet has been upgraded for three generations, and even the latest third-generation warships are also in the era of sails.

However, Daming has already started the research on steam warships in China, Chu Yi is not a fool, upgrading the technology tree requires a foundation, and it is obviously difficult to jump directly into the steam era, but it does not prevent Chu Yi from leaving the design and imagination of steam warships.

Sometimes the emergence of new things is a concept, and across such a piece of paper, only this piece of paper needs to be pierced, and new things are born naturally.

According to the momentum of Daming's crazy development now, if there is no accident, I am afraid that within three or five years, the first generation of steam warships may be launched, and at that time, Daming will open a new era.

Compared with the sail warships that occupy the mainstream in the West today, Yu Dayou's flagship has at least surpassed the mainstream warships of the West for decades, and it is no wonder that General Levy and others looked shocked when they saw the flagship.

Standing behind General Lévy, a general said with a bit of greed: "Grab it back, and then let the craftsmen in the country build it, the navy of our Spanish Kingdom is the strongest." ”

Decades or hundreds of years of overseas expansion have made most of Spain's admirals greedy and want to take back anything good they see.

Since they don't have such advanced warships, then grab them back and copy them.

Through the clairvoyant mirror, General Levy saw many ships of the Ming fleet a few miles away, among which there were not many huge warships like flagships, only three, which made General Levy breathe a sigh of relief.

Although I have not seen with my own eyes the combat effectiveness of this new warship, just looking at the huge hull can imagine that the firepower of such a warship must be fierce.

If there are many such warships in the Ming fleet, then General Levy will have to consider whether to withdraw to the port.

After all, although General Levy belongs to the belligerent faction, he has the qualifications of a famous general, and he has his own judgment in his heart when he can fight and under what circumstances he can't start a war.

I heard General Levy give an order: "Pass the order, press on my whole army." ”

In General Levy's opinion, there was obviously a reason for Da Ming to take the initiative to retreat before, although he couldn't guess it, but General Levi also knew that this might be their only chance.

Even if there is a glimmer of possibility, General Lévy is willing to gamble, if he wins the first battle, he Spain is still the number one power in the West, if it loses, it will naturally be all Hugh.

Yu Dayou noticed that the entire Spanish fleet was pressed up, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he said to the herald on his side: "Herald, ready to go to war at any time." ”

As the two sides gradually approached, the range of the guns carried by the Spanish fleet was obviously inferior to that of the Ming Dynasty, and when the Spanish fleet entered the range of the Ming artillery, the captains who had been staring at the flagship found that the flagship did not display the flag of opening the gun.

As a civil servant, Jiao Yuan has experienced more than one naval battle in the past few years, and has grown from a literati who knows nothing about naval warfare to a qualified general.

Just looking at Yu Dayou's failure to give the order to open the artillery, it is clear in his heart that it is not that Yu Dayou does not want to rely on the advantage of artillery range to hang the Spanish fleet to fight, but that if the distance is too far, the hit rate of the artillery will drop significantly.

If there is enough artillery fire, this way of hanging and beating is naturally very suitable, but their biggest problem at the moment is that the logistics are not enough, the artillery fire is insufficient, if they are far away, although they can be said to be able to strike first, but they will also waste a lot of shells.

With a sigh in his heart, Jiao Yuan opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything, he knew that Yu Dayou's choice was not wrong, even if it was put into the fight, the fleet might suffer a lot of losses, but with the advantage of artillery fire, under the condition of limited logistics and materials, it was able to achieve great results.

After many encounters, the Spanish fleet still had a certain understanding of the range of the Ming artillery, so after entering the range of the Ming artillery, the Spanish fleet was ready to come and make various defenses in the process of form.

However, the artillery strike they had imagined did not come.

General Levy looked at the Ming fleet on the opposite side and slowly pressed up, not a single shell was fired, but a great pressure came to his face, because he couldn't guess what the Ming fleet was brewing.

Obviously has a firepower advantage, but he doesn't take advantage of such an advantage to take the lead in the battle and occupy a certain advantage, if it were him, he would definitely not put it into the fight, and the fool knows that it is the right choice to open the distance and rely on the advantage of artillery range to hang.

I'm afraid that General Lévy could not have dreamed that the reason why the Ming fleet did not fire when they were within range was not because of unwillingness, but because of insufficient logistics.

The same shells, obviously, the higher the hit rate, the longer and greater the results, since the logistics are insufficient, then you can only take some risks.

"Fire!"

General Levy let out a low roar, he himself did not expect that the two sides were fighting, and this first shell was actually fired by them.

With General Levy's order, hundreds of warships roared in unison, and in the midst of the smoke of gunpowder, columns of water suddenly splashed on the sea.

Several Daming warships were obviously hit, but on the flagship, Yu Dayou, who noticed this, did not look surprised at all, all this was expected by him, his eyes flashed with essence, his voice was hoarse, with a little excitement, he stared at the Spanish fleet opposite, and muttered in a low voice: "Closer, closer!" ”

Suddenly, Yu Dayou waved his hand violently and said, "Open the cannon." ”

With more than a dozen guns on the flagship firing together, the warships around them had long been holding back their strength, and they opened fire almost at the same time, and suddenly one shell after another shot out, heading straight for the Spanish fleet opposite.

Boom, boom.

Compared with the solid bullets of the Spanish battleship, the Ming side has completely hit the street, in this case, the two sides are just fighting, and the results can be imagined.

Even though General Levy had already been mentally prepared, when he saw the shells exploding on the ship, General Levy couldn't help but grit his teeth and shouted: "Damn, use flowering shells for me, quick!" ”

War is the best way to promote the upgrading of science and technology, after all, with the Ming Dynasty several times, it is impossible for the Spanish side not to upgrade the shells, but the quality and quantity of the flowering bombs created are so poor, so these limited flowering shells are regarded by General Levy as a treasure at the bottom of the box, and they are easily unwilling to use, but at this time, seeing the fierce firepower of the Ming side, General Levy knows that if he does not use it again, there will be no chance.

With General Levy's order conveyed, the Spanish side finally used the flowering shell at the bottom of the box, when a flowering bomb exploded on a Ming warship, although the power was not better than the Ming shell, but this showed that the Spanish side was rapidly upgrading in terms of artillery.

Seeing this scene, Yu Dayou couldn't help but clench his fists, stared at the Spanish fleet opposite, and said quietly: "Even if you fight hard, you have to destroy this fleet, and you will definitely not be able to give it time to grow!" ”

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