Chapter 61: Naval Battle (1)

"No, no......" looked at the pirates who had washed up on the beach,

Xiao Wu seemed more and more wrong,

After a long career in naval combat, he developed an instinctive intuition,

"Raise the battle flag, sail the flotilla to the south, and at the same time signal Li Tianyou to let him immediately lead the flotilla out of the bombardment with the Franco machine battery." Xiao Wu's expression was heavy, and he ordered He Bin.

In that sea breeze, Xiao Wu faintly smelled a trace of uneasiness,

The signal flag hung high on the mast, and more than a dozen warships, large and small, invariably chose to retreat, gradually sailing out of the range of the battery.

"Boss, those Mingmen are heading south, and we're out of contact with the Franc Battery." On the main ship of the Black Flag Gang, a leader learned the information from the lookout post and passed it on to Li Tianyou.

"Boss, the Blood Shark Gang and others have washed up on the beach, and our brothers have also rushed to the beachhead on more than twenty clippers, if we get out of the confrontation with the Franc Machine Battery at this time, then our brothers will not all be exposed to the artillery of the Franc Machine?"

After listening to the leader's report, a group of Black Flag gang leaders immediately exploded their nests.

It's all up to this, telling them to retreat, what a joke.

"Who does he Xiao Wu think he is, he really thinks that I accepted the canonization of King Ming for that title, and ordered me." Black Flag Gang Li Tianyou just sneered after listening to the report of his subordinates.

"Order the fleet to increase firepower, and all the warships will rush up and knock down the fort of the Franc machine man for me." Li Tianyou shouted viciously.

Xiao Wu's kind reminder did not arouse the vigils of alarm,

Although the rogue who has been plundering at sea all the year round has an unimaginable vigilance and ruthlessness, it is much worse than Xiao Wu, who was born as a regular sailor, not to mention that the pirates have long been carried away by the victory and the gold and silver treasures of Laoag.

For them, Lasag, full of gold, was in front of them, how could they retreat, even if it was to withdraw from the entanglement with the Spanish batteries.

Several pirate leaders on nearby ships scolded a few times when they saw Xiao Wu leading the fleet out of the main fleet, not noticing that a strange south wind was rising on the sea.

"My lord, there is an unknown warship ahead!" Suddenly, there was an exclamation from a lookout post on Xiao Wufu's ship.

It's time to come after all,

In just a quarter of an hour, with the sudden southern blowing, the formation of the combined pirate fleet was in chaos,

Before they could regain their senses, a fleet of ships quietly emerged from the distant horizon.

Xiao Wu picked up his clairvoyance from the height of the ship's building and looked at the horizon in the distance, and the silver-white waves on the endless sea level rushed towards the fleet.

As the distance approached, silver-white sails faintly appeared among the silver-white waves.

"Send a signal and prepare for battle."

When Xiao Wu saw the Spanish warship, he immediately gave a battle order.

When looking at the more than 30 warships of all sizes and sizes of the Spaniards, all the Ming soldiers looked stunned.

As the Spaniards' warships got closer and closer to the Ming navy, the huge hull also appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

The size of the Spaniards' warships was unimaginable, especially the three four-masted battleships at the head of the group, which were like giants on the sea.

"Damn the red-haired ghost, Lao Tzu thought you ran away, but he actually sent it to the door himself, so that you can taste Lao Tzu's power."

Naturally, the Black Flag Gang discovered this group of Spaniards' warships that suddenly appeared on the sea like ghosts.

When he saw the three four-masted battleships rushing towards his fleet, Li Tianyou, the leader of the Black Flag Gang, was also panicked, but he was the boss of the Black Flag Gang and the actual commander of the combined fleet, and he couldn't mess up in front of his subordinates.

He immediately ordered the fleet to be split in two, and a part of the ships continued to entangle with the Spanish batteries to cover the landing pirates,

And he led the major pirate forces, totaling more than 80 warships, to rush towards the Spaniards.

In front of them were three four-masted warships, and behind these three large warships were more than a dozen warships of various kinds.

As the three four-masted battleships rushed into the battlefield first, a large amount of black smoke suddenly rose on the sea level,

Since the mixed fleet of pirates had been bombarding the Spaniards' coastal defense batteries,

Therefore, when Li Tianyou gave the order,

For a time the entire fleet was in chaos,

These pirates themselves come from different forces, and they are used to being scattered, so how can they adjust the ship as easily as the Ming Navy or the Spanish Navy.

With bursts of stinking and black smoke, the chaos of the formation itself due to the lack of coordination between the artillery battle and the pirates completely broke out at this moment due to the sudden appearance of the Spanish navy.

Hundreds of warships were in chaos on the entire sea, some continued to bombard the batteries, and some turned around to meet the Spanish ships.

The confusion of command and formation caused several warships to collide directly, and a three-masted ship was directly faced by another large ship and a large hole was broken in the hull.

"Nimu Nanma." Seeing the chaotic pirate coalition, Xiao Wu almost ran out of breath to turn his back.

By this time, the three Spaniards' large ships had already rushed into the pirate fleet.

"Order the fleet to stay in formation, fire freely, and crush the pirate fleet with maximum firepower."

On a four-masted battleship, General Skoll was in full swing directing this battle.

He was not an admiral stationed in Laoag, in fact he was an admiral of the Spanish fleet in Manila.

Due to Laaag's urgency, the Manila authorities urgently dispatched Admiral Skoll to lead three second-class warships and five third-class warships directly to the northern coast of Luzon.

Since they were on the eastern route and a month before the Pirate Alliance, they reached the waters near Laoag early.

After assembling Spanish warships and armed merchant ships from Laoag and Vigan, General Skoll assembled a fleet of three second-class battleships and five third-class battleships, as well as more than a dozen armed merchant ships.

It was also Skoll's idea to entangle the pirates with the battery,

The pirates themselves were united for the sake of profit, for the sake of Laoag's wealth.

Then General Skoll naturally took advantage of the pirate's desire to get rich, and used Laoag as a bait to gather the pirate's fleet near Laoag.

When the pirates were in a tight fight with the Laoag shore defense battery, Skoll immediately led the fleet to a sudden attack on the south wind.

In order to surprise and create as much chaos as possible, Skoll personally led three four-masted battleships to the mixed fleet of pirates.

Despite facing hundreds of large ships against more than 20 sea bandit forces, large and small, such as the Black Flag Gang, Admiral Skoll and all the Spanish sailors were not very afraid, because they firmly believed that the battleships under their feet were invincible.

The difference in size and preparation of the galleon, which was the war horse of Spain, was quite noticeable,

As a second-class battleship transferred from Manila, the three four-masted battleships that rushed into the pirate group at this moment had a displacement of about 700 to 800 tons, and were preparing more than forty or fifty guns, including more than thirty heavy guns.

Both the density of firepower and the strength of artillery far exceed that of any warship in the pirate coalition.

As soon as they rushed into the pirate room, the three flotillas in the shape of geese immediately opened fire on the pirate ships on either side of the ship.

For a time, thunder rolled on the sea level,

Billowing black smoke rushed into the air with pieces of meat and sawdust, and then fell heavily on the water.

It's just a face,

A total of hundreds of guns on the three battleships roared in unison, and in an instant, more than a dozen pirate ships were severely damaged.

In just a few breaths, several pirate ships that were hit by twenty-four pound heavy cannons capsized in the midst of the earth-shattering noise and firelight.

In the earth-shattering explosion, the pirates on the ship, along with the artillery, were directly flipped into the air and fell on the sea like fallen leaves.

"Put,"

"If you shoot Lao Tzu, you can't believe that you can't kill these red-haired ghosts." Li Tianyou roared,

Just three warships dared to kill hundreds of pirate coalition troops, and also sank several of his own large ships, which made Li Tianyou feel an inexplicable insult and deep fear.

The terrifying density and power of the cannon can actually beat several three-masted ships to fire and disintegrate in one shot, how can he not be jealous.