Pars's Pita armament looks scary, and it does dread.

Huge stone projectiles smashed into the water at intervals of five or six hundred paces, stirring up waves higher than the freeboard of the ship, which was enough to discourage everyone.

Fortunately, Liang Bozhen was not Shao Tingda's soldier.

If the Spanish army in Mexico was hit with post-traumatic stress disorder by the cavalry of the Black Cloud Dragon, then the Shotinda Marine Division was also terrified of the Spanish catapults.

It's a very boring thing to simply compare weapons, as if Liang Bozhen's ship was loaded with all the Nanyang Zhenshuo generals, all of which were the latest, best, and longest-range guns.

The stone cannon, on the other hand, is an old thing that has been used in the fourteenth century and is now almost decommissioned, with inaccurate hits and short ranges, and there is hardly anything to be afraid of.

But the truth is just the opposite, everyone on the two Ming warships is most afraid of stone cannons.

Life is your own, everyone is scared to death, being terrible can't solve the problem, you can't jump into the sea because you're afraid, right?

Liang Bozhen's flagship Tung Chung and another warship named Baiteng Fort were both the names of the capitals under the jurisdiction of his hometown of Shunde County, and at this time, the horn on the flagship deck had already sounded, and he waved the Quartet flag to direct another warship to throw cannonballs at the enemy ship and then evacuate from the battlefield from the other side of the island.

He couldn't maintain the battle column, and he couldn't even go to battle with the western ships, and the four western warships anchored along the coast of another small island in front of him were all larger than theirs, and if they were damaged, they would be caught, and in the broadside battle, the Ming ships were completely no match for the western ships.

The two 500-gauge battleships took advantage of the wind, and the low-pressure bow of the ship swept like a bird over the flank of the Pitta, which had blasted out the bow stone cannon, and the port guns blasted out from front to back from a distance of 400 paces.

At the same time, three Spanish warships, which were turning, also fired a salvo from their gunwales.

It is worth mentioning the structure of the spondor of the Spanish ship, most of them did not have gunwales on merchant ships, and were only armed with some whirlwind guns, that is, light Francophone machines, which were forged with iron bars and hammers, and were mostly from small blacksmith workshops in Spain, which were cheap and could be armed in large quantities.

The ship's gunwales were mostly cast in bronze, with excellent performance and high cost, mixed with cast iron cannons purchased from the Netherlands, and wooden gun carriages were used uniformly, with two small wheels at the front and no wheels at the back but two elongated skid-like tailstocks to reduce the recoil.

This is the tailstock of the field gun, which can be used to move quickly on the land, but on the ship, it will obviously cause the gun to reload slowly after firing - the sailor must first lift the tailstock by manpower, pull the gun out, and then clean the chamber and load the shell.

In fact, the guns of the Spanish ships were not intended to be loaded in battle.

Artillery, what's the use of putting it on for a while? In any case, it is still necessary to rely on the side to win.

Liang Bozhen didn't have time to observe the damage of his own shells to the enemy, and when he saw the fire of the enemy's ships and guns at sea, he shouted to his subordinates to hide.

The odds of a stone cannon hitting a ship were negligible, but the lethality of the Franc and the gunwales could not be ignored, and his words were only a breath before the sound of the cannon piercing the sails and smashing into the freeboard came into his ears.

More than 30 large and small shells swept through the side chords of the two Ming ships like a strong wind, and Liang Bozhen didn't dare to straighten up to watch the hit, but he still heard the Nanyang veterans on the lookout report loudly: "General, nine cannons were hit, the enemy ship was unscathed, two cannons hit the deck, and one shot hit the bow tower!" ”

Only nine guns?

Liang Bozhen scolded: "They have more than a dozen cannons on my ship, hurry up and let General Qi deal with them!" ”

At the command of the ship, the ship immediately turned the rudder, and before leaving, it staggered and bombarded the starboard guns in the sea area where the four western ships gathered, and then the two Ming ships fled.

Two Spanish ships, including the pita, reluctantly blasted the stern stone cannons out, and the shells chased the tail of the Ming ship and fell into the waves, and the angry shouts of the Spaniards resounded on the coast.

"Why should I cut the anchor if I'm done and run?"

The combat effectiveness of the Ming fleet spread to the New World, so that the captain of the detachment, Pars, was so frightened that he wanted to flee when he saw two warships smaller than them, but after the two sides exchanged bombardments for a while, he found that the Ming army had fled.

It's easy for you to run, but my ship has no main anchor, how can it dock in a ghost place like Devil's Island, where there are no harbors on the thirteen islands?

After a few curses, Pars looked back at his men on the deck and ordered: "Either way, it is fortunate for us that they are leaving, count the casualties, check the hull damage, call back the legionnaires on the shore, pack up food and fresh water, we cannot stay here for long." ”

"Hurry up, get moving! Lucky we can catch up with them! ”

The Ming ship came and went faster, leaving behind shells and corpses on the deck, as if it had never come, but in a few moments, the wounded on the attacked Pita were counted by the officers on board.

"In the shelling, seven sailors and twelve infantry were killed, and a hapless seammer's head was blown off by a shell, breaking a knight's arm."

Pars frowned, and expressed his dissatisfaction with the officer's meticulous way of reporting injuries, and then heard about the damage to the ship: "The foremast is damaged and needs to be reinforced, the barrel of the lower No. 4 gun is smashed, and only one shell almost penetrates the hull, but it is embedded in the ship's plank, as long as the carpenter seals it does not affect the navigation." ”

"Where's their cannon?" "What does a cannonball look like?" ”

"They hit us with two solid iron bullets, close to six pounds and twelve pounds, but a little heavier."

Pars nodded slowly, straightened his shirt under the half-armor and nodded to the officer, "Understood, do what you have to do." ”

After the officer left, he sighed to the army captain and his lieutenant on the ship: "As rumored, the Ming warships have heavy guns and fast ships, and they have a huge advantage in long-distance battles of half a league. ”

The information of the Ming ship, which was well known to the admirals stationed in Lima, made Pars's eyes look worried, and he was uncertain: "Should we continue the pursuit?" ”

The situation of the battle was very frightening to him, if there was only the Pita, although their ship was much larger than the Ming ship and there were more soldiers than the other two ships, it was not difficult to imagine that they would be bombarded by the guns of the Ming warships at least six times if they could not approach quickly.

Under the six rounds of offensives, how many of their heroic armies remained, and even if they took overboard, would the remaining soldiers still be able to achieve victory?

"Is the captain also a supporter of the Lima light gunboats?"

The sergeant major of the army asked, since the naval battle of Ming Xilin, a voice has gradually appeared among the admirals of Lima, hoping that the battleship will be improved in the direction of light and heavy artillery, but it has not succeeded due to great resistance.

The biggest obstacle obviously comes from the Army and the status quo of traveling between the Old and New Continents.

"Rest assured, Captain, we have four warships, as long as we survive the first two rounds of artillery fire, we can kill them in front of them, and it will be too late to run when the time comes, not to mention the stone cannons, they are very afraid of this kind of weapon."

"The Ming army has always relied on more fleets than us, and has always fought more and less, such artillery certainly has an advantage, but when the same number or more of us, their small ships are useless, and even the hull cannot be broken, as long as the infantry is careful."

"What's more...... They were blown by the storm too, right? There were only two small islands to the east, and they must have been over there, and they were leaving in the direction of the smaller one. ”

"This war has already begun!"