From the very beginning, the naval battle was mired in a fierce battle that never stopped, there was no temptation, no tactics, and the two sides opened fire desperately as soon as they met each other, pouring out the firepower of the whole ship.

In terms of numbers, the pirates had significantly more ships than the Spaniards, and even with the addition of armed merchant ships, the Spanish Navy had only twenty warships, while the pirates had more than eighty three-masted ships alone, not counting all kinds of small and medium-sized ships.

But from a qualitative point of view, whether it is the size of the hull or the number of guns, the pirate or the Ming army sailor is not an opponent of the same level at all.

Although the Ming army's three-masted Fu ship or pirate's big ship could carry twenty or thirty guns, limited to the ship's load and the gap in artillery technology, the heavy artillery prepared by the Ming army or the pirate ship was about ten pounds of artillery, like a cannon of more than twenty pounds, which they could not think of.

Unlike the Spaniards, like the navy of the same period, Spanish ships prepared all their guns, including cannons, and a second-class battleship could carry between thirty and forty guns.

Even the rotary guns, which were used for close-quarters killing, were not counted in the total number of artillery pieces, since they weighed only one or two pounds.

And the Ming army was still the largest warship of the pirates, and all the artillery guns added up to only thirty or forty guns.

Coupled with the gap in artillery technology and the amount of gunpowder loaded, the firepower of the Spanish Navy was overwhelming for a while.

"Fire! Nimu Nanma, all on time! Give Lao Tzu a call! ”

On a large pirate ship, a pirate leader cursed and was directing the ship's artillery to bombard the Spanish warship not far away.

Shell after shell flew out in a roar and a puff of black smoke as it slammed into the Spanish ship.

Although the firepower of a single ship was far inferior to that of the Spaniards, it could not withstand the large number of pirate ships.

Although more than two dozen ships had been wounded or sunk, a large number of pirate ships were still firing cannonballs at the Spanish battleships.

The hull of the Spanish battleship was unusually strong, and the lower weak points of the ship were also wrapped in copper to enhance the strength of the hull.

In addition, the galleons of the Spaniards were much higher than the pirates' ships, and as a result, the pirates' artillery was still feint.

As a result, quite a few shells hit the Spanish ships, but did not cause much damage to the Spanish ships.

On the other hand, the firepower of the Spaniards' warships was extremely fierce, biting several pirate ships on one side, and the overwhelming cannonballs flew in, which immediately set fire to several pirate ships rushing in front, and one was even directly hit by three 32-pounder heavy cannons, and was broken into two with a roar and quickly sank into the icy seawater.

"Boss, the shell of the red-haired ghost's warship is too hard to sink." A pirate leader on the main ship of the Black Flag Gang yelled at Li Tianyou.

Not to mention that they couldn't be sunk, the three Spanish battleships present didn't even have obvious scars, and their firepower did not decrease at all, but after a while, the more than a dozen big ships that rushed up either caught fire, or only the canvas and the mutilated corpses were left floating on the sea.

"Hard?"

"No matter how hard it is, you have to fight! Give me a hard beating! Lao Tzu doesn't believe it, this red-haired ghost's ship can't be sunk? Li Tianyou gritted his teeth and looked at the Spanish warship in front of him, his eyes were blood-red at this moment,

But as soon as he said this, a cannonball from a Spanish battleship not far away whistled and flew over his head.

Li Tianyou's brain suddenly clouded, and his ears buzzed.

He looked back and saw that the pirate leader who had roared ahead of him was gone, and there was only a blur of flesh on the deck.

As for the shell, it didn't land on the main ship, but flew straight over, otherwise it wouldn't have been as simple as killing a pirate leader.

"Nimu Nanma," even the leader of the Black Flag Gang, who had been licking blood on the knife for many years, was frightened by this sudden shot, and couldn't help but curse at the Spaniard in the distance.

"Boss, the ship of the Sea Dragon Gang has run away," suddenly, a word that Li Tianyou least wanted to hear finally came,

He clung to the pirate who told the news,

"What did you say?"

"Boss, see for yourself," the pirate snapped, his fingers trembling and pointing not far away.

General Skoll's plan finally came true,

These pirates themselves were just a bunch of rogues who plundered off the coast of Luzon.

Fighting merchant ships and making a living by plundering and setting fires is their forte.

This time, in order to attack Laoag, the plundering of Laoag's wealth made this group of sea giants unite, but as soon as they reached the city of Laoag, they were defeated by three battleships led by Admiral Skoll and suffered heavy casualties.

Not to mention that there are more than a dozen warships of various sizes in the Spanish Navy behind him.

How does this work?

Many pirates have long since retreated,

As more than a dozen large ships of the Ichthyosaurus Gang slowly sailed away from the Spanish warships and fled south,

The Blood Sharks and other large maritime forces followed suit and began to gradually break away from the entanglement of Spanish battleships.

"General, the Admiral of the Clitis has sent a signal flag, and the pirates are retreating." An adjutant reports to Admiral Skoll on the situation.

"Order the Clitis to pursue it immediately, and at the same time raise the command flag and order the follow-up fleet to outflank it, and I will completely deal with these thieves in the waters of Luzon once and for all." Admiral Skoll commanded with a contemptuous glance at the fleeing pirate ships in the distance.

The pirate ship that was about to flee south was instantly run over by the Spanish warship;

The Spaniards, who had already beaten these pirates to the bitter end, who would have thought that a pirate fleet of more than 100 ships of all sizes would be crushed by just three Spanish warships.

Like three wolves into a flock,

I thought that attacking Laoag was just a hard and flattering business, but it turned out to be a heavy loss, how could I not make these pirates angry.

It's okay now, I thought I couldn't beat it, I just couldn't run,

As a result, these Spaniards didn't even give them a chance to escape, and holding them was a baptism of artillery.

It's a mud man who has three points of anger, not to mention these perennial domineering and arrogant pirates.

"Damn, so many brothers have died, you can't even give the red-haired ghost a way to live, so ruthless."

"them, brothers, they're all horizontal, who's afraid of whom,"

"I don't believe that this red-haired ghost has cast a demon spell and bumped into Lao Tzu."

These pirates have always been ruthless, watching their own pirate ships around them sink one by one,

The brothers who had been licking blood from the knife all year round were blown up by the Spanish artillery and had no corpses, and they were not even left alive at this moment.

The fear in everyone's hearts was replaced by incomparable anger,

They were no longer afraid of life and death, their eyes were red, and they stared at the Spanish battleship in front of them, and there was only one thought in their hearts, that is, even if they collided, they would sink each other.