The massive explosion of a twenty-four-pound flowering shell in the Manila's gun bay immediately turned the place full of flammable and explosive materials such as powder bags, ropes, planks, and firewood into a burning hell. The scorching flames scurried everywhere, and the air was filled with choking poisonous smoke, and there was no way to breathe.

The flames that burst out of the flowering bomb first ignited the powder bag, and the fire was ignited instantly, and the Spanish gunners and sailors, who were swept away by the shock wave generated by the explosion of the flowering shell, had never encountered such a rapid fire, and they did not know how to deal with the hellish scene in front of them, so they could only escape from the gun bay with rolling and crawling.

The fire soon spiraled out of control, and the wooden sailboat was littered with flammable materials, first dried by the hot air, then swept by the flames, and turned into a blaze!

In order not to be swallowed by this flame, the Spanish sailors who rushed to the deck had to abandon the ship and jump into the sea like dumplings.

A light Galen ship of two or three hundred tons cruising near the Manila did not realize the danger (the Spaniards had not yet realized that their fleet was being bombarded by the enemy with flowering shells), so they approached the Manila, which had been burned into a fireball, in an attempt to salvage the crew who had fallen overboard. As a result, as soon as it approached the Manila, it became a second victim because it was illuminated by the firelight!

The Ming army's twelve 24-pounder guns quickly aimed their guns at the light Galen, but three salvos smashed a 24-pounder shell on the forward bow deck of the Galen.

With a loud "boom", the "head" of this Galen ship exploded again, and a large ball of fire burst out!

"It's ......" Admiral Garcia looked at the Galen ship with its "head" on fire, his mouth open so much that he could put his fist in it.

Previously it was the "butt of the ship", now it is the "head of the ship", neither of these parts is flammable and explosive, how can they be blown up now? Could it be that the crew of this little Galen had placed a powder keg on the bow deck? The brains of Spanish sailors can't be so stupid, right?

"Boom!"

While Admiral Garcia was still dazed, another flowering bomb exploded on the stern of the ship, which had a small probability of his head catching fire!

"Admiral...... The Chinese are firing flowering shells! Barbossa had already reacted, "O God! They have a reliable flowering bomb! How did they do it? God, how did they do it? ”

Of course, someone opened the golden finger! Zhu Cihong does not have a super memory, and he was not a skilled worker or an engineer in the manufacturing industry in his previous life, so he can not open many gold fingers.

But he still knew the concepts of socket bayonets, fixed ammunition, Miner, fuse tubes, shell tails, and pointed bullets. However, knowing a concept is not an equating with creating a reliable product, and some concepts are just a layer of paper, and it is not difficult to puncture them. For example, sleeve bayonets, fixed ammunition, and Minne bullets are not difficult to get.

These three things were made out by Zhu Cihong very early, among which the sleeve bayonet and fixed ammunition have long been popularized, and the Minne bullet was ordered by Zhu Cihong to hide because the iron factory of the Ming Dynasty could not mass-produce reliable rifled guns. Zhu Cihong has ordered a copycat, but it has not yet succeeded in mass production...... So the Migne bullet can't be taken out either, because the cottage Migne bullet is much easier than the copycat rifle!

The fuse tube, the tail of the shell and the pointed bullet are all used to improve the flowering shell, of which the fuse tube has long been made, and the tail of the shell has been changed and changed, and finally it has become a butt, and the idea of asking for a Minne shell is almost the same, but this wooden bracket should be fixed on the shell. The pointed warhead is not yet mature due to casting problems.

However, in the actual use of the improved flowering shell, the shell was easily crushed by the high chamber, so it could not be used on long-barreled guns (cannons). Therefore, at the beginning, this kind of wooden pallet flowering bomb was not popular, and could only be used on mortars. It was not until before the siege of Beijing that the problem of no cannon was solved because of the appearance of Hongxing's six-year 24-pounder short-barreled cannon (actually a howitzer).

And the battle in which Mutuo blossomed and shone was undoubtedly the battle of Dinghai Anchorage that took place in the early morning of the third day of August in the ninth year of Hongxing.

The Spanish fleet, which had successfully raided the anchorage, was supposed to be a great victory, but now it was tragically turned into a live target for 12 24-pounder short-barreled guns. In a very short period of time, two Galen ships were lost, one of which was still a medium-sized Galen ship of considerable value, and the fate of hundreds of sailors was uncertain - the loss of sailors was more distressing to the Spaniard than the loss of ships!

"Admiral! You can't let the fleet be a live target! Knowing that his opponent had a new type of flowering bomb, Colonel Barbossa knew that the defeat curse of the Armada was about to kick in again, and hurriedly said to Admiral Garcia, "Give the signal to retreat!" ”

"No!" Garcia immediately vetoed Barbossa's proposal, "We're going to have to destroy those 12 Galen ships...... Otherwise, we will have to retreat from the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, and we won't be able to stop them from entering the New World!" ”

"But the enemy's flowering bullet ......"

"Signal, retreat, and regroup!"

Boom!

When Garcia gave the order, another four or five hundred ton Galen ship was concentrated in the stern by flowering shells, and a fire broke out in the butt of the ship! However, this ship had much better luck than the previous two ships, as it was hit while retreating. Now a northeasterly wind was blowing at sea, so the sailboat could escape with the wind and soon left the effective range of the 24-pounder short-barreled gun. And there are not many flammable and explosive items in the stern of the Galen ship, as long as you put out the fire with all your might, it can still be saved.

Debelasco, who had just snatched a medium-sized armed galenship, now had to give up the loot that had just arrived!

However, he would not return the ship to the Ming army intact, and before evacuating, he ordered the most flammable rope on the ship to be ignited. The flaming ropes wouldn't necessarily start a fire big enough to burn the entire ship, but the glow would make the sailboat a target for arson.

Although the Spaniards collided with a military revolution in the Battle of Dinghai Anchorage and became the target of flowering shells, from a tactical point of view, the surprise attack was still a success!

Dinghai anchorage was indeed a terrible naval base option in the era of sail battleships, with too many access channels and too many islands to obstruct the view, which was simply impossible to prevent. Moreover, it is also an important treaty port and a necessary place for merchant ships from the south to pass through before entering the port of Shanghai, and there are too many merchant ships from various countries to keep it secret......

If it weren't for the revolutionary flowering bomb of the Ming army, the Battle of Dinghai would definitely end in the crushing defeat of the Ming army!

But tonight, new weapons changed the outcome of the campaign!

Rumble!

At the same time as there was a loud bang, De Belasco, who was standing on the stern deck of the Pacific Star, was suddenly tossed up by the air wave, and then fell heavily on the deck of the ship, not only with gold stars in his eyes, but also every bone and muscle in his body trembled, as if it had fallen apart!

The Pacific Star's ass was also blown up and set on fire!

But the sailboat had turned, and some of its sails were open, and it was now able to quickly move away from the dreaded flowering bombs by the northeast wind.

As long as it can be farther away, the Spanish Eastern Armada can save a little face.

After all, the opponent's heavy artillery is not very numerous, and now it is so accurate because it is close, as long as it is far away, and then fire arson shells with artillery with absolute superiority in numbers, it should be able to burn all the twelve warships of the Ming Dynasty Navy on the dock......

But what about after the burning of twelve Ming warships? Will Garcia, having won the naval battle, dare to return to Manila Bay?

The terrain of Manila Bay is actually not much stronger than the Dinghai anchorage, and the entrance to the bay is too wide (compared to the front-loading smoothbore guns) to prevent the breakthrough of the Ming fleet with flowering shells!