The Ming army was not the only one hit by the storm.

The Spanish fleet sailing from the Viceroyalty of Peru to Acapulco to reinforce Bernal was also hit by a storm.

However, they were more familiar with the climate on the west coast of the New World, and their losses were much smaller than those of the Ming army.

This was thanks to the commander of the Viceroyalty of Peru, who, unlike Bernal's aristocratic admirals, was a captain-turned-admiral.

Admirals are in power, a situation that is extremely rare in Spain and in the whole world.

Although the Age of Discovery began early, and Spain and Portugal were close to dividing up the world, in fact, there were not many navies in this era, including the Ming Dynasty, Spain, Portugal, England, and France.

Needless to say, the Ming Dynasty would not have had a navy without Chen Mu, and the country's strategic center of gravity was still placed in the north even in the case of Japanese raids, and the former Zheng He's fleet was also a fleet dominated by land forces.

Spain's navy was more like a smaller but more powerful version of Zheng He's fleet, with roughly the same line of thought, with large ships and a large bow and many guns.

England, England has nothing to say, its ship combat concept is naturally advanced in the eyes of later generations, but in this era when artillery technology is not mature enough and its power is not stable enough, it is actually equal to Spanish tactics in terms of combat power.

In fact, there is no difference between these two representative operational ideas, and technology and tactics come from demand, and the needs of the two countries are an important factor in determining this choice.

Spanish warships needed to travel between the Old and New Continents to maintain colonial rule, required a large number of soldiers, and lacked an evenly matched enemy at sea, and the warship was also a transport ship to some extent, transporting both silver and gold as well as land soldiers, taking into account both land and sea, and the Clark ship naturally developed into a Western-style Galen ship as tall as a city.

The English warships had two purposes, one was to do business and the other was to rob, the people were small and the country was weak, so it was natural to avoid casualties in the conflict.

None of them can be called a navy, and in this era, there is no regular navy in the entire Western world, and the salient feature is that in naval warfare, the commanders of various countries are not admirals.

But if you go back a few decades, the Ottoman Empire had an independent navy, commanded by Barbarossa Hayreddin.

Docked at Devil's Island was a detachment of four warships of the Western Army, who were familiar with sea routes and docked a week earlier than Chen Ju, and the ships and the army carrying nearly 1,000 seas were not damaged.

They did not come here to avoid the storm, but the commander of the detachment, Pars, received orders to sail northwest through Devil's Island, around the California Peninsula, the boundary peninsula of the Ming Dynasty, and take advantage of the upper hand to attack the Ming fleet from behind.

Peru's commander, Ricalde, was an admiral, and it was only natural that his thinking about tactics would focus on naval warfare rather than winning it by land.

However, because of this sudden storm, the detachment that was supposed to sail to the Boundary Peninsula was stranded here at this moment, and was preparing to return to Guayaquil in a few days.

The whole army should have taken a little vacation, and as for Bernal of the Viceroyalty of New Spain?

May he live a long life!

Suddenly, a new boss was changed, and he was still close to standing on his own, and if it weren't for the support of the West India Council, Almanza sent a letter to Licard and followed the Ming army with his troops.

Or is it his turn to call the shots?

As Pars was fishing for eels in his repaired boat, he saw two large boats approaching from afar, which immediately aroused his cautiousness, and he got up and shouted, "Anchor, there is a boat!" ”

This is Devil's Island, and there is not the slightest sign of humanity except for the occasional tattered antique pottery that belonged to the Incas decades ago, and there should be no ships, especially at this time when New Spain is at war with the Ming army!

The foresight of the captain of the detachment gave the soldiers from Peru a good start, although one moment they were still dragging their nets and carrying their fishing rods, and the next they ran to their respective combat positions, and the heavy anchors that had been plunged into the sea were slowly retracted, and the sound of the chains turning like hammers on everyone's hearts.

The advantage of the Spanish ships was broadside warfare, which required high morale and discipline from the soldiers.

But it was still too slow, the recovery of the anchor was too slow, from the discovery of the two warships to the discovery of the Ming Dynasty pennant hanging on the warship, and the anchor had not yet been collected by a third, Pars was anxious, he knew very well that at this speed, when they ate the shells from the gunners of the Ming ships, the anchor would not be confiscated.

Confiscated the anchor, let alone evade the shelling, and could not even meet the fire with the ship's cannons.

"Quick, cut off the main anchor! Fast! ”

In the face of such an order from the commander of the detachment, the captain of the Western Navy, who had strict military discipline, did not dare to disobey ...... They were not English pirates, and they were to be put to death if they resisted any order from their commander.

But the captain still reminded: "The coast of Devil's Island is an open sea where there is no shelter from the wind and waves, and our ships will not be able to moor here again after losing the main anchor." ”

"I can't care so much, those two ships look big, but the Ming ship carries few sailors, as long as we can take the ship, we can win, and there is always a way to capture their warship."

The naval officers of the Viceroyalty of Peru generally had a clearer idea of the combat power of the Ming army, and most of the more than 300 people who survived the Battle of Linlai returned to Peru, and it just so happened that Peru had many monks, and their greatest energy was devoted to research except praying to the gods.

Study the Indians, study the Ming people, study the Ming army, study the warship, they love research, study everything.

With the loud sound of axes chopping and winches breaking, the heavy iron anchors fell and the winches quickly pulled off the deck, and the main anchor winches of the four warships broke the freeboard guardrail and sank into the sea.

The first to move was Pars' flagship, a Western-style Galen ship named Pitta.

The Pita was 700 tons in load, and was equipped with eight six-pounder bronze cannons and twelve small francs in the middle and aft of the ship, one cannonball weighing fifty pounds in the bow and stern, and three mortars, and a tower-like ship with a constant tonnage of one hundred and twenty-seven sailors and one hundred and seventy-five soldiers according to the Spanish Navy, and one hundred and four army men were transported because of the war.

There are frighteningly large numbers of passengers.

The remaining three ships that were moving slowly, although slightly smaller than the Pitta, were all ships of more than 500 tons, and they were also more than 200 men.

No one was more shocked than Liang Bozhen, the captain of the Ming army with a telescope, which reflected the Western warship four miles away, the huge shape of the ship even without a telescope can make people feel the majesty of facing the sea monster, but the most impressive thing is the dense crowded battle formation on the deck.

Their deck is probably only for one person!

Liang Bozhen glanced back at his empty deck, except for the gunners, sailors, and shipwrights, who had suffered huge losses in the storm, and they didn't even have guns, which looked too shabby.

Accompanied by the sound of wooden wheels pushing into the gun emplacements rubbing against the deck, the small flag officers on the left and right shouted that the loading had been completed, and he slowly swallowed the saliva in his dry throat, and then threw himself at the Western Ship with pity in his eyes.

"A ship like this, go down with one shot...... A lot of people are going to die, right? ”