The huge Galen ship turned its rudder rapidly in the sea, and the squeaking of the huge trees was mixed with the shouting and shouting of soldiers waving their weapons like rainbows, and the whole fleet gradually dispersed, and rushed towards the Ming fleet of one mile away with overwhelming momentum.

At a distance of just one mile, the heavy guns in the bow of the ship were fired out one after another, and the heavy stone shells that could only be stuffed into the chamber with tools by several people were fired out one after another from all directions, but there was only one target - the Ming fleet that was shot in a line and the bow was carved with funny patterns.

Those colorful patterns meant nothing to the Spaniards, like the brightly colored feathers on the American warriors, which meant nothing.

The stone cannon made an earth-shattering roar, and the huge stone projectiles smashed into the sea, and the recent one that stirred up a high wave even made the Ming gunners on the side of the ship taste salty, and even if it didn't hit, it made the heart tremble and tremble in the chest.

Shi Qi led five 500 warships on the left flank, Deng Zilong led four 1000 warships on the right flank, and the two fleets slowly drove forward with their hulls sideways, and at a certain moment, their two fleets were side by side, looking like before, as a whole.

The two collision ships that were originally arranged in the current formation now followed the right side of the ironclad ship, and several of the eighteen sailors had their pants wet when they received the order to withdraw, even if they stood in front of the formation for a while, they still couldn't stop the embarrassed heart and the horror of life and death.

However, it seems that the general has changed his mind and wants to treat them as a surprise army.

Either way, it's so comfortable to be held back by a big ship!

The enemy ship's artillery fire was one after another, and the bow guns were fired from the bow of the ship on the side and the front side chord guns, which did not pay attention to tactics and simply used what could be used, undisciplined but seemed to be intimidating enough.

Twelve sea forts approached, and all the artillery fire was sprinkled everywhere, and dozens of small boats with sailors paddled in, causing each Ming soldier to breathe heavily, and the joints of the hands holding their weapons turned white, and they almost had to exert all their strength to control the fear in their hearts.

This kind of oppression is the specialty of the Spanish fleet, and on more than one occasion in the Mediterranean and in the Atlantic, when the fleet approaches the enemy in such a posture, they are not waiting for a charge but a pursuit.

From time to time, there were shells hitting the board of the shark ship, the swaying warship was in chaos, the general flag and the small flag shouted loudly for his subordinates to grasp the sail rope and hold the boat barricade, and the subordinates urged the commander to fire the cannon again and again, but Deng Zilong on the flagship was determined to hold the troops, and even the war drums stopped, and the same was true for Shiqi on the other side, and the fleet under artillery fire was still floating slowly on the sea.

They were changing course in small increments that were barely noticeable in the face of an attack.

The two navies were getting closer and closer, one side was fierce, the other was harmless, and in just one mile, the Spanish fleet fired hundreds of guns, and the distance between their fleets became larger and larger, because the bow needed enough space to swing from side to side to blast the guns out of the two front rows.

Fortunately, most of these warships were newly built by Nanyangwei, and Luzon provided the Nanyang Governorate with a sufficient amount of sturdy wood, and the thicker and thicker hulls were able to withstand this level of blow, and even if a cannonball could break through the hull and leave a hole, it would be urgently repaired by the craftsmen in the cabin.

The ironclad ship is not afraid of this kind of damage, in fact, the ironclad of the ironclad ship is very thin, but whenever the cannonball hits the hull, the iron sheet can be broken, after all, Chen Mu's original intention of building the ironclad ship is to prevent fire, not artillery.

When a cannonball hits an ironclad ship, the iron sheet is a hole, but this can greatly disperse the impact of the cannonball, and the cannonball that breaks through the iron sheet can only be embedded in half of the hull, and cannot penetrate at all.

It is not difficult to build an ironclad hull that can protect against artillery, but what is difficult is that the ironclad hull that can protect against artillery is moved by the wind.

Deng Zilong is estimating the distance, no, he is calculating the distance.

In the world, a good captain does not have to be a good gunner, but in the Nanyang Governor's Mansion of the Ming Dynasty, a captain must be a good gunner, and the gunner must know how to measure the distance.

In the sixth edition of Longqing's "Artillery Firing Manual", Chen Mu simplified the necessary step between firing as much as possible.

Deng Zilong checked the size and distance of the bow of the Galen ship marked in the manual through the lookout hole on the gun deck of the ironclad ship, and accurately grasped the distance between the enemy ship and them—the flag army and the painter who were ordered by Nanyangwei to make this scale of the Galen ship were all drawn, and the arm was stretched out one mile and two miles away, so big that you just need to look at it to know the distance.

The error varies due to the fact that the size of the measuring ship is different from that of the Galen ship, but this is more than enough.

"Adjust the angle of the cannon, three hundred steps!"

This angle is only a little higher than the flat fire, the ironclad ships are all experienced gunners, twist half a shaft to adjust the muzzle of the gun, followed by the sound of the stern drum, so that the flag is waved and the command is ordered to the subordinate ships, several sails are full, the bottom of the big boat opens the oar window with the order, the eight pairs of large oars stretch into the sea, Lifu shouts and shakes the oars with the bottom warehouse, and the speed of the ship is suddenly faster.

The stern ships of the flotilla, which had been slowly delivered, separated at this time, and one left and one right accelerated to divide into two teams, and stabbed diagonally at the two flanks of the enemy flotilla.

"What do they want to do?"

The commander of New Spain, Mendoza, watched from afar as the enemy ships outflanked the sides, and looked suspiciously at the open sea, where there were no enemy ships.

His biggest concern was not that these pagan ships wanted to outflank them, outflanking was a joke, where could nine ships outflank a fleet of forty-one ships, large and small?

He was only worried that the two fleets would separate and expose a large number of enemy ships hidden behind them, and now he seemed to be worried that it would be obviously redundant, and the enemy army would only have this poor nine ships, although it seemed that the ships were not small, but they were still extremely weak compared to the fleet he had assembled in Guam's West Port.

"Two armed merchant ships went to intercept them, dragged them for a while, and the other ships went to chase them, and they couldn't let them escape."

Mendoza smiled softly, buckled his helmet, looked at the warriors on the ship and said, "Get ready to fight!" ”

Outflank?

Who wants to outflank?

Anyway, Deng Zilong didn't want to outflank, when the two armed merchant ships intercepted in front of him, he didn't care, just stared at the two galleons rushing straight on the side, estimated the distance of being chased to three hundred paces, clenched his fists, and then slapped the ship's barricade.

The heralds have been waiting for a long time!

"Fire!"

On the port side of the ironclad ship, nine ten-pound guns from front to back spewed tongues of fire one after another, and the cannonballs blasted straight towards the pursuing Galen ship with a loud bang.

Immediately after that, the sixteen guns on the port side of the three Liuding Liujia class thousand shark ships blasted out one after another, and they aimed at only one target, and they bombarded whoever the ironclad ship hit.

More than 50 heavy guns opened fire at a distance of 300 paces at the same time, even the Galen ship could not hold on, several holes were blasted out of the deck, and even a ship's board was lifted, and the dense cannon holes and waterline cracks tilted the ship, and a concentrated fire made it temporarily lose its combat effectiveness.

And in front of the flotilla, there was a boom almost at the same time.

The small ramming of the ship hit the hull of the armed merchant ship, and the ramming angle used against the large warship blew the armed merchant ship through the middle, and the large hole almost allowed the entire ship to be plunged into the belly of the ship.

The same scene, almost replicated on the left flank of the battlefield, landed Xiucai clenched his fists.

"And eight more!"