The Ming warships' artillery was surprisingly accurate, and in one round of shelling, the Spanish fourth-class and fifth-class ships three kilometers away suffered heavy losses, and there were already six fourth-class ships and eight fifth-class ships that were already on fire and sinking.

"Boom" a shell fell on Moreno's flagship Padro, the shell of this second-class battleship of more than 1,500 tons was still covered with a thick layer of iron plates, Mores only felt that his battleship shook violently, and the shell was shelled back into the sea by the iron armor and exploded, raising a column of water that soared into the sky. However, the explosion of the shells still affected the battleship, and a large piece of the iron covering the outside of the battleship was torn and fell into the sea.

In the blink of an eye, the Padro had received several shells in a row, but the iron plate covered by the Padro's wooden shell still effectively blocked the Ming artillery shells.

Perhaps it was because the second and third class ships of the Spaniards were covered with iron armor, and the Ming warships were specially aimed at those fourth- and fifth-class ships with a displacement of only a few hundred tons and no ironclad protection.

The distance between the two sides was reduced to only five hundred meters, and Moreno shouted: "Fire!" ”

The Spanish battleships spat out tongues of fire, and rows of cannonballs smashed into the ironclad ships of the Ming army. Except for some of the shells that fell into the water and rose into the sky, most of the shells hit the Ming ironclad ships.

But the cannonball smashed on the Ming ironclad ship, but it was like a dragonfly shaking a stone pillar, the Ming ironclad ship stood still, the shell hit the shell, like a child throwing a stone to a reinforced concrete wall, was bounced into the water.

"Damn, you can't beat the ironclad ship of the Ming people at all!" Moreno scolded.

Fortunately, however, the Ming artillery could not do much damage to the ironclad battleships of the Spaniards, and only a few shells hit the upper deck. After all, the shells of this era do not yet have armor-piercing capabilities. Although Wang Yu's Academy of Sciences succeeded in creating a cone-shaped collision fuze blasting projectile, the armor-piercing ability of the blasting projectile was too poor to penetrate those rudimentary ironclad ships.

"Knock knock" saw that on the huge Ming army ironclad ship in front of him, some small cannons on the upper deck shot violently like splashing water, and the cannonballs splashed on the upper deck of the Spanish battleship like a torrential rain, hitting the corpses on the upper deck of the Moreno Padro, and the blood flowed like a river.

Moreno saw a sailor hit directly by a cannonball, and the whole person turned into a cloud of blood and flesh with a "canopy", leaving a ground full of internal organs and reflective blood stains on the deck.

But the Spaniards were still very tenacious, they knew that the shells bombarded the hull of the ironclad ship had no effect, so they raised the muzzle a little and aimed at the upper deck of the Ming ironclad and fired a fierce artillery bombardment.

Dozens of solid shells smashed on the upper deck of the Li Dingguo, and several Ming sailors and gunners who were operating rapid-fire guns on the deck fell in pools of blood.

The Ming army counterattacked with more fierce artillery fire, in the decks of the two gun doors, a rifled gun continuously spit out tongues of fire, and the cannonballs fell on the Padro like hail, and the upper deck of the Spanish battleship was on fire, almost all the masts were broken, and they lay on the deck in a mess, and the sails fell on the deck, which was ignited by the cannon fire, and the fire was raging.

It was at this time that something even more surprising happened: several small Ming ships suddenly rushed out from behind their large ships and swooped down on an intact second class battleship behind the Spaniards.

The speed of the small boat at the head was so fast that the entire bow was almost raised, and the bottom of the ship was almost exposed, leaving a white mark on the stern.

The cannonballs fired by the Spaniards landed in the sea on both sides of the boat, raising columns of water that soared into the sky.

The boat approached about three hundred meters from the Spaniard's second-class battleship, and Moreno saw a cylindrical object suddenly jump out of the small boat, falling into the water, and a trail appeared on the sea, which was rapidly swimming towards the second-class battleship.

"Damn, what's that?" Zapatus shouted.

Before the words fell, I saw that the object in the sea collided with the second-class battleship, only to see that the sea monster under the water suddenly drilled out, and a huge column of water rose up on the starboard side of the second-class battleship, and then a loud noise came, and the broken iron armor fragments and broken wooden planks were violently exploded into the air, and a crack appeared in the middle of the second-class battleship, and the whole ship was broken in two from the middle, with its head and tail raised high, and sank to the bottom of the sea within a few minutes.

Just as Moreno and Zapates were stunned as a small boat killed a second-class ship in an instant, they were horrified to see that a small ship was killing them!

"Nope! Can't let the boat get close! Moreno was so shocked by the sheer force of this strange boat that he shouted hoarsely and ordered the gunners to open fire and sink the boat.

However, the gun door deck of this Spanish battleship was already a mess, and just now the two ships Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong fired a sweep with machine guns, and many shells penetrated through the gun doors of the Spanish Padro, killing the gunners inside, and the Padro was unable to organize effective resistance at this time.

Moreno watched as the boat rushed recklessly to less than three hundred meters away from him, and saw that the two ships were about to collide, and the head of the small boat spat out a cylindrical object and fell into the water, and then the boat turned nimbly and left at high speed.

Objects that have fallen into the water swim happily in the sea, and an object can be seen on the surface of the sea with a trail behind it, swimming towards it at high speed.

"No!" Moreno shouted in despair.

A violent explosion came from the bottom of the stern of the Padro, and the 1,500-ton giant ship shook suddenly, and the entire stern was wiped out, and the flames soared to a height of forty or fifty meters! The second class battleship, whose tail was blown out, was raised in the bow and quickly sank into the water, sinking to the icy bottom of the sea within five minutes.

Although the Spaniards had many ships, the Ming army's ironclad ships attacked the Spaniards' non-ironclad fourth-class and fifth-class ships with artillery fire, and used torpedo boats against the second-class and third-class ships, easily sinking one Spanish warship after another to the bottom of the sea.

The flagship was sunk, the fate of the fleet commander was uncertain, the Spaniards completely lost their fighting spirit, they turned around to run.

The unarmored fourth-tier ships and fifth-tier ships were relatively fast, and these Spanish battleships raised their full sails and fled at high speed downwind. But those second-class and third-class ships covered with ironclad couldn't run.

The Ming torpedo boats pursued one after another, specifically chasing the Spanish battleships that could not run. After catching up, the Spanish battleships were torpedoed to the bottom of the sea.

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