Chen Mu pinched a cold sweat for Deng Zilong in his heart, especially when two giant ships that were rare in East Asia passed by by mistake, he also ordered the ship's soldiers to prepare to take over.

If the ironclad were to be hit by the San Pablo, it wouldn't be much of a problem with that slow hull, but the ironclad would probably lose the battle if it had too few sailors. Other small ships had to climb up by hooking up if they wanted to board the ship, and only the Red Sea ships could win if they joined the shipboard.

But after seeing the two giant ships bombarding each other and the wrong ship, the worry in Chen Mu's heart disappeared - they won.

The deck lost most of its soldiers, and the right side of the ship was cracked almost everywhere by the bombardment of nine heavy guns at close range, because the support column collapsed, causing a large chunk of the upper deck to collapse, and the dead and wounded soldiers were everywhere inside and out, and the captain's room was on fire after two rounds of artillery bombardment.

Facing two large ships and four fleets around, Philip II's captain knew that the tide was turning, and before committing suicide, he set the house on fire with gunpowder in an attempt to sink the treasure ship into the sea with him, but the remaining survivors surrendered without any intention of fighting, and the flag army boarded the ship and escorted the prisoners, and the fire was extinguished before it could further expand.

Most of the captives were tied up and guarded, and later they were taken to small boats. The galleon was not in danger of sinking, and Deng Zilong, who had cleared the ship, sent a message to let Chen Mu board his best trophy.

"On the occasion of life and death, Xiyi threw the corpse of Pao Ze into the sea, and did not know how to cut it, and the wounded and prisoners in the cabin were all taken to the upper floor, more than 70 people." Deng Zilong saluted and clenched his fists, his face did not show the joy of victory, and after showing his hand to the prisoners who knelt down and were being guarded, he said: "I need to send a family soldier who understands Yi to interrogate him, if Luzon and Xiyi are all warships like this, I am only afraid of ...... when we go south."

Deng Zilong didn't say that Chen Mu also knew, what he wanted to say was that there was more luck and less luck.

The casualties of the various fleets were counted after the battle, and the two fleets of Shi Qi and Huang Dexiang were extremely damaged, and Huang Dexiang was directly beaten in the back when he was shot by muskets when he led the people to seize Clark's ship. Fortunately, it was just an ordinary arquebus, not a Spanish heavy musket.

Even so, it took all the two layers of cuirass and chain mail to pick up a life, and he was just woken up by the military doctor, grinning and crying out in pain.

A piece of chain mail ring directly deformed the breastplate pressed into the chest, and it was strange that it didn't hurt.

Sunk, crashed, burned, lost one big shark ship and five small shark ships in the First World War, but many sailors on board were saved, even so, fighting with this Spanish treasure fleet caused Chen Mu to lose more than 200 good hands.

Huang Dexiang's remaining ships were directly incorporated into Shi Qi's command, and he had to recuperate his injuries on the Chihai ship.

Chen Mu waved his hand, and the family members who were proficient in Spanish around him scattered to ask the prisoners on the boat, Chen Mu clapped his hands at Deng Zilong and said: "How much is a big victory, don't worry, there should be no more ships like this in Manila, and there are only two more worst plans, and there will be no more, but I will have to find Brother Chaojue to discuss it later, and I have to change the plan." ”

The damage of the shark ship can be repaired directly at sea, but the ironclad ship is seriously damaged, and its iron hull cannot be repaired at sea, so it must be repaired at the shore. The latter ship could not go through the war again, and had to be led by two or more large shark ships for two days.

Deng Zilong looked around at the blood stains on the deck that had not yet been cleaned, and nodded: "Xiyi is stubborn in battle, although the ship battle formation is scattered, but it has its own rules, and the sea attack on Luzon is likely to cause heavy casualties. ”

"When we meet up with the court's brother, we will first find a small island to repair the ship, and then explore where the northern Luzon is suitable for landing, I have heard that there is a hawksbill harbor over there, maybe we can go there first, and we will be there in one day at most."

Chen Mu looked back at the shark boat coming and going to sea to pick up the corpses of the fallen flag soldiers and transport them to a big shark boat, gently patted the side of the ship that had not been damaged, and said to Deng Zilong: "Let's go, go and see what you gain." ”

Needless to say, armor, muskets, ammunition, food and fresh water, Chen Shuai was most concerned about artillery and goods, goods shipped from Manila to the Americas.

The goods were counted by their own families, and Chen Mu carefully observed the ship's artillery and various wartime utensils, while letting the flag army take a tape measure to measure various data, and the army clerk took a notebook to record it rigorously.

The ship's long guns were all heavy guns, mostly twelve-pounder guns, and a few eighteen-pounder guns or even larger.

The shells of the four guns in the bow and stern of the ship are very heavy, larger than the largest caliber guns of the Chihai ship, and the one who is beaten is the ironclad ship, and if the stone bullets are replaced by iron bullets and bombarded on the Chihai ship, I am afraid that it will be smashed into a big hole.

Some of the old heavy guns still had the same head-to-tail ratio, but there were also more scientific shapes like the Nanyang cannon, which helped to release bore pressure and save weight, which was called the Hongyi cannon in another world.

Chen Mu saw the reason for the rapid progress of Western science and technology on this ship, which stemmed from their constant war and trade, in which different cultures absorbed each other, and the pressure of survival forced progress.

This kind of exchange is most beneficial for technological ascent when it is evenly matched, and the Ming Dynasty is also advancing, but there is no such thing as a close match.

"Do you know why I'm always guarding against Xiyi? Battles like this, they've been fighting. Chen Mu looked at the muzzle of the bronze stone-shooting heavy cannon, raised his hand and knocked on the wall of the gun, and said: "Shuangyu Island, Daming got the Francophone and the bird gun, imitated it, and used it for decades. If we hadn't turned off the artillery, in today's battle, we would have obtained the Xiyi cannon, and we would have gone back to copy it, but without the cannon and the shark boat, we wouldn't have been able to win this battle. ”

"Is it hard to make a franc machine? It's not difficult, it's much easier than building a clock; But is this thing hard? It's a little more difficult, it takes man-hours, and you have to sharpen the breech. ”

"This era belongs to the sea, the sea and the ship connect the world as one, they are constantly communicating, they are getting stronger and stronger, if we stay at home, sooner or later we will be beaten. It seems that the Hao Jingyi people are extremely weak, although the ship is full of guns, but there are only a few hundred people, and they can be flattened with a wave of their hands. ”

Trade and land are only the gifts of the Great Voyage, and the exchange of different cultures and technologies is the real meaning of the Age of Discovery.

There are too few Europeans who can reach the East, and they cannot put pressure on the Ming Dynasty or even the early Qing Dynasty, China only needs to defeat their marines, and the Europeans have already overcome great difficulties when they arrive in the East.

It seems that the toddler Europeans will fall down in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, and the Europeans crossing the ocean are like falling into a deep pit, with only two hands on the edge of the pit, and the Ming Dynasty can only see their hands, and only need to step on them to make him fall again.

No matter how strong it is, it doesn't work.

"With vast land and countless people, Daming can't miss such an opportunity." Chen Mu, who was standing on the bow of the San Pablo, opened his arms and embraced the whole world in front of the knight's bow statue: "Starting from Luzon, this is the Ming Dynasty's era of navigation!" ”