"Quick! Turn the rudder! ”

Captain Xiren gave a loud order, and at the same time did not forget to use a few cannons on the side chord to blast out a burst of small shark ships that turned around and made a comeback in front of him when he turned the rudder, grabbed a sailor with his open hand, raised his arm and pointed at the slow-moving Clark ship not far away: "Let the merchant ship return to Manila!" Shit! These shameless bitches! Boys, we've met Li Ma Ben! ”

Li Maben is Lin Afeng, who was pronounced from the Min merchant who lived in Luzon to the Roman alphabet, called Limaben, so Lin Feng was called Li Maben in Luzon.

To the north, this sea area is Lin Feng's territory in the impression of the Spaniards.

Although the Caravel ship in front was nearly half smaller, the smallest of the three ships was the gunboat, with a row of furlong guns on the side of the ship, and three guns sticking out of the rear porthole to roar in protest against the fall into the encirclement.

Poof!

A sailor in a sleeveless leather jacket jumped overboard and struggled to swim towards Clark's ship.

The Clark was an excellent merchant ship, even twenty years ago it was the best merchant ship in the world, with double or even triple decks that could accommodate more guns, thick hulls that could hardly penetrate the waterline even with twelve-pounder guns, huge ships and huge sails like sea fortresses, which could maintain a high speed in headwinds, and generally carried huge numbers of soldiers and cargo.

There is only one disadvantage, the large hull brings difficulty in handling, and the center of gravity is unstable when the wind is too strong, resulting in capsizing.

The Spaniards' usual method of attack at sea was not artillery warfare, but for the most part the first choice was ramming and engagement, and now was the time when Clark's sailboat was in danger. They originally planned to catch up with the little shark ship and use the ramming method to win and capture this 'Ming Kingdom merchant ship', they suddenly saw several enemy ships on the sea chasing after them, and they all hurriedly turned around, causing the hull to shake non-stop.

The speed of the voyage also almost came to a standstill, which allowed the opposite shark ship formation to quickly approach them.

"What's that formation?"

The captain of the Caravel ship watched from a distance at the surging shark ship formation, and the six shark ships caught up with the small shark ship led by the second shark ship, because the second shark ship was so large that it almost completely covered the ships behind it, which made him laugh easily in surprise, "Their bow cannon was blocked by their own people!" ”

Rumble!

As soon as the words fell, the most skilled gunner at the stern of the Caravel operated the heavy artillery and blasted out, and the shells grazed the sailbones of the small shark ship at a distance of several hundred meters and landed on the front face of the big shark ship, causing the hull to shake violently.

On the shark boat, Shao Tingda leaned on the railing and scolded loudly: "Lao Tzu's Kunpeng out of the sea chart!" ”

The bow of his ship was a painted Kunpeng map carefully drawn by a painter, and the sound of wood cracking could be heard even in the stern of the heavy bombardment, which made him angry and ordered: "Prepare for the bow gun!" ”

The Spaniards are right, in a formation like his, the bow guns of a ship are all useless except for the first Little Shark ship and Shao Tingda's seat ship, and it is impossible for them to aim at their own people to fight, but the problem is that the bow guns of more than ten catties are only available to the ships of the reckless worms, and the bow guns of other small shark ships are no more than ten catties, which is the same as the regulation of the gunwales on his ships.

Rumble!

The fourteen-pound cannon in the bow of the ship roared, and the cannonballs shrieked and screeched down the side of the Caravel ship, splashing water higher than the side of the ship, which made the hearts of the Spanish on board palpitate, and this momentum was different from the rumors they had heard of Lin Feng in Luzon, which was not the same as the rumors that there were no heavy guns on board, but this kind of cannon sound could only be heard often in the war in the Mediterranean!

I am afraid that the person they met was not the pirate Li Maben, but probably ...... Ming Army!

Under the banner of the inlaid dragon, Shao Tingda drew his waist knife, the stern rudder turned to the whole fleet to follow the deviation, the butterfly sail turned around, and the fleet unified the right side of the ship diagonally towards the enemy ship, with an interval of hundreds of steps, and the captain of the enemy ship took off his hat with wide eyes.

The seven ships with their bows like sharks cracking their mouths showing their flanks, the double decks showing two to eight gun windows, the swarthy breeches with the rumbling drums of the ships turned diagonally towards him, and he saw the red flags waving on the big ships.

"Dodge—"

The voice has not yet completely exited, and it has been abruptly stopped with a long note.

More than 40 large and small heavy artillery pieces bombarded one after another, and under the control of the well-trained Nanyang Banner Army, almost all seven warships sailed to the same place and fired in the same direction.

The cannonballs shrieked like a storm around the Caravel ship, and the tremendous force it swept across the deck from back to front in an instant, destroying everything, and the fragile stern, which had been raised as a stable center of gravity, was riddled with holes, and the spinnaker was torn out of holes.

The captain was struck in the shoulder by a cannonball that had been smashed on the deck, and although most of his strength had been removed by the oak hull, he still threw his body like a rag around the cannonball, and then slammed against the railing.

The mast of the huge spinnaker was swept by a cannonball, the plough broke in half, and smashed a terrible dent, the damaged mast was not strong enough to withstand the strength of the sea breeze blowing the spinnaker, and the slow and loud sound of the giant log breaking fell heavily on the bow of the ship, and the intricate sail stumbled over the sailors who fled in fear in the face of their unrivaled opponents.

Wailing everywhere, there is no power to fight back.

It was not completely powerless to fight back, and the port four-pounder gun seemed to be panicked by the gunner and fired a shot at the sea where no one was around, and the momentum was still very amazing.

The most important thing is that the waterline was hit by several Zhenshuo General cannons, and the huge iron shells bombarded the hull again and again, causing the hull to crack, and even one cannonball directly penetrated the hull and smashed into the cabin, and Caravel leaked.

In the midst of the fire, the two Clark sailboats, which had already set sail and escaped two miles, saw that the gunboat's mast had been broken, one completely turned around, and the other was also turning around, preparing to return to rescue their sailors. Their huge, thick hulls are not afraid of the fire of small ships at sea.

What's more, even if the artillery battle is defeated, as long as you can close the distance and collide with it, you may not be unable to win.

However, this impassioned mentality lasted only half a minute in the minds of the captains of the two ships.

They heard the sailors on the mast lookout shout in a terrified burst pitch: "Two more fleets, more!" ”

Shi Qi and Fu Yuan's two nearby fleets also came to support, and the three fleets gradually wrapped the two Clark ships in a semicircle in a closed circle, they did not have an advantage in speed, and now they missed the best opportunity to escape, like two lost turtles, withdrawing, turning back, and exiting again at a slow speed.

Shao Tingda, who was watching them with a telescope, took this as a provocation and was furious.

"What are those two stupid dicks going around, with birds and monkeys!"

At the sound of an order, the fleet quickly bypassed the slowly sinking Caravel and pursued the two large Clark ships, and behind him, the other two fleets also broke the waves, one left and one right.

This is their sea fortification, and if any ship leaves Manila, don't think about going back!

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