The most thrilling and blood-boiling artillery battle began, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, the thunder rumbled, the steel monster of one or two tons was pushed out of the small cannon window, and then a bolt of anger slammed into the opponent's face in the roar, sawdust splashed, salty sea water spewed out jets of water, and the man's near-death roar shook the sea.

In terms of tonnage, artillery fire, and the number of wheels, the Ming Royal Navy is a lot stronger than the other party, but! More than two-thirds of the fleet was still stuck in the narrow Cebu Strait, and only a third tried to form on the east and west sides, only to face nearly double the artillery bombardment of the opponent.

On the deck, the wood was jumped up one by one, the canvas was burned out of one hole after another by the blazing gunfire, several Ming sailors panicked with blankets to cover the fire, and there was a sharp whistling sound in the cold, as the saying goes, people are mixed in the rivers and lakes, after all, they have to pay back, on weekdays, the Royal Navy has not used such a grape bomb to break the mast to kill pirates, but this time it has also tasted the taste of this big killing weapon.

Looking at the scarlet left behind after screaming on his deck, Xu Liao's face was distorted, and the eyes of this Liaoxi man also became blood-red, looking at the flames of the Western warships that kept sailing on both sides of his battleship and the guns one after another, Xu Liao smashed his fist on the wood, but he turned his head helplessly, and anxiously roared at the flag hand behind him who was also sweating profusely.

"Set off the red salute cannon and ask for help from the mothership!"

In mid-air, more than a dozen red firecracker bombs were sprayed into the gloomy dark clouds, and the red color was also reflected in the pupils of the huge sea, he had managed the sailors since the Dongjiang era, and he was also a veteran for most of his life, but this time, such a difficult battle situation was also the first time he had encountered it.

Greasy sweat kept coming out of his broad forehead, not that he didn't want to send reinforcements, but the opening out of the Cebu Strait was the narrowest piece, two columns of the Royal Navy went out, four columns of Western ships rushed forward, and the Western battleships that rushed to the mouth of the strait first hit his capital ship directly without death, no matter how the battleships behind crossed the gun bay to strike, and refused to move half a minute despite the heavy rain of artillery fire, the six rows of heavy sail battleships completely blocked the strait at this moment.

"Commander, what should I do?"

The earth-shattering cannon sound and shouting of killing in the distance are clearly audible here, and the commanders of the East China Sea Fleet, the Yellow Sea Fleet, and several sub-fleets are all anxiously asking for instructions there. The telescope barrel of the wide fist seemed to be slightly deformed, and after a while, the huge sea suddenly roared and roared.

"Wave the flag, and the forward warships will all lean on both sides of the strait and move the channel out for the mothership! The rear team becomes the front team, bypasses Dumaguete Island from the east side, and immediately marches! ”

"But the military seat, it will take at least half a day to bypass the Dumaguete Strait, can the forward fleet support it for that long?"

The female staff officer asked tremblingly, but only half of her words came out, and under the scarlet eyes of the huge sea, she had to swallow it back, and the rest of the major admirals were in a trance, and then they were helpless to say yes, and left with their fists clenched.

It is true that it may take more than half a day to make a detour, and perhaps by the time it comes, a third of the Royal Navy's main fleet has been reduced to a tattered plank, but the battlefield is the most taboo and hesitant, and the war must continue, even at such a cost, it is better than sitting and watching the enemy bombard themselves indiscriminately.

In the strait, the main battleship, which was originally in the middle channel, rowed with difficulty, slowly turned around on the spot like a turtle, and immediately pierced the two banks, and then, the Pangu-class treasure ship with two rows of ten masts and behemoths drove forward anxiously along the waterway that was let out, and after more than half an hour, it was difficult to reach the edge of the battlefield.

Four years before the opening of the Haiguo, the treasure ship mothership did not have much combat effectiveness, similar to the design of the Fu ship and the huge size made it slow to move and could not load many guns on the sideboard, its main role was to transport troops and supplies, in the deep sea ocean that is difficult for small transport ships to reach, it is enough to form a close battle group with a super transport treasure ship and six lanes and nine first- and second-class sail battleships.

However, four years after the opening of the sea country, in order to resist the wind and waves and the enemy's artillery attack, the treasure ship increased the thickened and sturdy deck, so that Mao Jue was eager to try to represent half of the Ming Dynasty's industrial level of the big killing weapon, breech overlord cannon gave them, dozens of meters wide front deck equipped with four, the towering rear tail building also pressed one, this kind of cannon has a range of five or six kilometers, originally as a naval combat support weapon, but I didn't expect it to become the only life-saving straw here.

However, the type of treasure ship is not the most suitable for this kind of super fort, before the launch, the sails blocking the view of the fort had to be lowered, and the six heavy iron anchors at the bow and stern were also thrown into the sea, and it took more than ten minutes to complete the preparations.

Looking at the flaming ships that were already burning on the surface of the Bohol Sea, the huge sea that was already impatient waved its command knife violently, and several behemoths finally released their belated anger, in mid-air, the shells rubbed the air, and bursts of piercing screams that tickled the eardrums came out, and then, the deafening explosion burst out in the fierce battlefield.

Bang~

Although in terms of navigation technology, Da Ming Zhao is still a lot worse than these Western powers, but in terms of trajectory, it is definitely more than surpassed! Thanks to Mao Jue's glass in order to make money, the Ming army cannon has been equipped with a fairly advanced scale telescope sight, and various types of cannons will be tested before production, distance, landing point, wind influence, by the empire's artillery flower Sun Chun chief of staff personally compiled, detailed records in the artillery course.

As Michel and Curt watched through the telescopes, the tall and mighty bow of the French battleship Virgin Mary was flattened with a bang, and the benevolent but majestic Madonna statue had only half of its ramming horn left, as if it had been decapitated, and the sailor dolls that had been blown up by the explosion flew to the four sides with a scream.

After the shelling, the Western fleet in range was obviously chaotic, and it seemed to hesitate to encircle and wander around, however, the shelling of the huge sea support was eager to push his encircled fleet into a more dangerous situation.

The skin covered with old age spots on his face twitched violently, and looking at the sky, the aging Dutch star suddenly pulled out his command knife and swung it murderously at the Tai'a, the flagship of the Great Ming Fleet, which was not far from him.

Xu Liao, who was commanding his warship to fight hard, suddenly heard his subordinates behind him turn around in horror, and in his incredible gaze, the enemy ship that had been swimming on his side and opened its guns was actually aimed at him with a ramming angle, and he rowed the oars regardless of it, raised the full sails, and the barbarians rushed over like that.

It was so frightened that he also pulled out the command knife, and Xu Liao roared in horror: "Six o'clock on the port side, concentrate on launching!" ”

The Royal Navy artillerymen, who were already fighting in the gun compartment, also turned the gun horn anxiously, and suddenly pulled the flint engine, and the dense artillery fire instantly rained down on the Dutch flagship Rotterdam, and a large column of water evaporated, and the originally sharp bow was like a pockmark, crackling and tearing apart.

However, after all, there was no yellow powder, just with black powder, two rounds of shelling, it was not enough to defeat the Rotterdam, on the deck, in the fear shouts of the sailors, the distance of more than four hundred meters was instantaneous, and there was a loud bang, Xu Liao was almost shaken off the deck, and the impact that was far heavier than the cannonball cut directly into the side of the Tai'a, on it, the Dutch mercenaries who had been preparing for a long time jumped off the deck like madmen, wielding pirate scimitars and short muskets, and bombarded the heads of the Ming army fiercely.

Full of anger, with a revolver in his left hand and a saber in his right hand, Xu Liao also rushed down from the bridge of the command ship, but at this moment, there was a violent roar of artillery behind him, and the earth-shattering explosion almost shook him into the sea.

Since 1590 A.D., after the Anglo-Spanish naval battle in which the sea supremacy was handed over, the traditional method of landing on the side of the past has been gradually eliminated and replaced by a linear method of warfare.

What Mao Jue used was also this kind of linear warfare, and he devoted a lot of energy to the upgrading of heavy artillery, but in history, at the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth century, when linear tactics were at its peak, there was a rebellion against the tactics of naval warfare, Admiral Nelson of the British Royal Navy.

He changed one line to two lines, surrounded the enemy battleships from both sides, and the battleships on the left attacked with ramming angles, braving the artillery fire to stick to the enemy with all their might, taking advantage of the disrupted artillery fire of the enemy ships, and the battleships on the right side were doing their best to output artillery fire.

The Anglo-French Battle of the Nile Estuary, relying on this method of warfare, Nelson almost completely annihilated the French expeditionary fleet, annihilating Napoleon's grand plan to conquer the Middle East, and the Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson also defeated the main force of the French Navy with this method of warfare, which shattered Napoleon's dream of conquering the British mainland and laid the groundwork for the fall of Napoleon's empire.

And Nelson's tactical thinking, a large part of which comes from the Dutch veteran Michel, this attack battleship tactics, more than a hundred years earlier, came in handy in advance in the sea battle in the East, on the deck, flintlock pistols and scimitars continued to neigh, under the ship, almost attached to the cannon bombardment in front of it, so that the Tai'a couldn't stop trembling, finally, I don't know that the cannon penetrated the deck, bombarded the keel, in Xu Liao's desperate roar, the huge crack was torn apart violently.

Taia, sunk!

This is just the beginning, relying on the local superiority of forces, more Western battleships slammed into the Ming ship!