"Bang,"

Bursts of black smoke rose from the gun mount, and from time to time there were flashes of fire.

"Ah,"

A scream accompanied by a plopping sound,

An iron bullet flew out of the billowing black smoke and hit the iron shield directly.

Directly knocked the iron shield away, cutting off half of the head of one of the shieldmen.

Before the pirates on the clipper could react, another iron bullet flew and hit the clipper's strings, shattering into pieces of hot iron and piercing the pirates.

The Spanish gunners next to the gun carriage quickly loaded the shells, and as the distance approached, the Spaniards directly replaced the solid shells with grapeshot shells.

The lightweight, quick-reloading cannon became a nightmare for the Clippers pirates.

But the most pirates lack is clippers,

Although the Spanish warships were huge, sturdy, and had heavy gunfire, they also had their disadvantages, and the ships were not very maneuverable, especially the large ships.

And the Clippers are different, the so-called small boat is good to turn around, that's what it says.

Although the battleship's spiral guns inflicted heavy losses on the surrounding clippers, as the distance approached, the guns and guns on the clippers also frequently burst into flames.

The Spaniards on the battleships also began to suffer casualties.

"General, the pirates have too many clippers and their firepower is not weak, several cannons have been destroyed, and more than 20 people have been killed or wounded."

At this time, the three four-masted battleships were entangled like huge whales that were swarmed by sharks that smelled blood.

Admiral Skoll frowned, looking at the pirate clippers that were constantly surrounding the sea level,

"Hang the battle flag and let Admiral Terry in the rear lead the fleet to kill in."

Skoll faintly felt a kind of uneasiness, the pirates were even more crazy than before, countless clippers were killed, even if they were broken into pieces and blood clots by cannonballs, they still rushed over desperately,

Their own warships have also suffered a lot of artillery, because the pirate artillery is less powerful, and the losses are not very large.

But after accumulation, the casualties of his own warship are not small, and they are not as sharp as before.

The madness of the pirates was somewhat unexpected by General Skoll, but after fighting so far, the fleet in the rear did not even come in to join him, which made General Skoll a little worried.

The reason why Skoll dared to stop all the pirates here was not only because he was confident in the three warships, but also the five third-class warships in the rear and more than a dozen armed merchant ships.

With his three second-class warships, he threw the pirate group into disarray, and then the rear fleet arrived and completely annihilated it.

But it had been a quarter of an hour since he led three second-class warships into the pirate group, but the rear fleet had not yet been killed.

For Xiao Wu, the pressure on him at this moment is too great.

When Stehl led three second-class ships into the pirate horde, he immediately knew the Spaniards' intentions.

He then led the officers and men of Sailor Town and the outer pirate ships between the Skoll fleet and the subsequent fleet.

The battle situation at this moment is very delicate.

Three majestic second-class warships sank and damaged many pirate ships.

The pirates didn't flinch, as if a shark that smelled only blood was desperately surrounding and trapping Skoll's army.

The Spanish fleet in the rear naturally knew that Skoll's fleet was already under siege, and at this time it was desperate for a crazy attack.

Warship against warship, the Ming army and pirates naturally did not have the slightest chance of winning.

The Spaniards had five third-class battleships, each carrying between 20 and 30 heavy guns.

On the other hand, on the side of the Ming army, there were not many heavy artillery itself.

Even the two giant Fu ships under Commander Xiao Wu only carried about thirty guns.

And the 18-pounder to 24-pounder guns that could threaten the Spanish battleships were even rarer.

Even the lucky boat that Xiao Wu was riding on was hit several times.

"My lord, the firepower of the Franc machine is too fierce, and the sailor can't hold it."

He Bin on the side said anxiously.

It's not that he's cowardly, but that more than half of the ships in the Navy Town have been sunk, and more than half of the officers and men have been killed or wounded.

If even this last little bit of family wealth is wiped out.

So what's the point of going on in the war.

"The king's arsonist ship is almost here." Xiao Wu stood between the buildings that had been blown up, watching the small boats quietly sailing towards the sides of the Spanish fleet in the distance.

Xiao Wu's tactic was simple, the ships of Marinetown stopped the Spanish follow-up fleet and prevented them from joining up with Skoll's main fleet, and at the same time let the clippers carry the fire directly upwind, and then cut into the enemy's ribs as fast as possible to set fire.

Back then, Zheng Zhilong defeated Liu Xiang and the Dutch combined fleet with fire in Xiamen, and now he Xiao Wu also wants to try to use this trick to deal with the Spaniards.

"Brothers, it's up to us whether we can kill these red-haired ghosts,"

On a speedboat laden with fire, the king yelled at his brother, who was now riding the tailwind, and the speed was extremely fast, and the oncoming wind and the waves were constantly lapping on the bow, and the splashing waves were beaten away by the iron shield.

On the clipper, a large number of pirates were looking at the outline of the Spanish warship that was gradually becoming clear not far away with a cold face.

A company of more than 20 clippers acted as arsonist ships, and under the cover of artillery fire from the naval division, they killed the Spanish fleet.

These clippers had poor firepower, some were armed with several small cannons, and some had only one gun.

"Huerry, look, Clippers."

On a Spanish armed merchant ship, a Spanish sergeant who had been temporarily deployed shouted,

The armed merchant ships of the Spaniards did not rush to the front, after all, they were only large merchant ships loaded with artillery, and they could not be compared to those Spanish warships.

The fact that the artillery of the Ming army and pirates could not defeat the Spanish battleships did not mean that they could not defeat these merchant ships.

Therefore, these armed merchant ships were used as a supplementary force to follow the five Tier 3 battleships and act as bodyguards and fire support.

"What's the matter?" Captain Huerry was preoccupied with directing the sailors to open fire,

It's a pity that his sailors' shooting skills are not very good, and several rounds of attacks failed to bring much damage to the Ming warship, but his own armed merchant ship was carelessly hit by the opponent's Fu ship with two cannons, a mast was hit by a Ming cannonball, and several Spanish sailors nearby were crushed to death by the fallen mast.

At this moment, the speed of his merchant ships has slowed down a lot,

"Look, over there," the Spanish officer said, pointing panickedly to the nearby sea.

The captain just gave him a casual look, and then muttered,

"But it's just a few mosquito boats, just a few small cannons, as for the shouting?"

"Idiot," the Spanish officer, who had been temporarily assigned to the merchant ship, almost lost his breath.

"Are you an idiot, who said their clippers are armed with artillery, have you seen them fire at us." The Spanish officer shouted.

"What did you say?" It was only then that the captain of the merchant ship turned around and looked carefully in the direction pointed by the Spanish officer.

Due to the previous artillery battle, black smoke was billowing from the merchant ship at this time, and the captain standing on the ship's floor took advantage of the gap in the black smoke to see the rushing clippers clearly.