Xiao Ruxun was well prepared and confident, and he was very sure of the victory in this battle, but on the Spanish navy, this time, they were in chaos before the battle.

After getting Xiao Ruxun's declaration of war, the Philippine governor was frightened and sick, and the main peace faction had no excuse, so he could only accept the request of the main war faction, gather all the Spanish navy in Nanyang, and fight to the death with the Ming army and sailors.

Neither the Spanish victory nor the Ming victory would be beneficial to them.

The Spanish Navy took a little time to gather dozens of warships from all over the country to the Philippine headquarters, and increased its strength a little, gathering about 50 Spanish galleons with an average displacement of about 500 tons, and this number would have been higher if it had been more than ten years ago.

Unfortunately, after a major war ten years ago, the Spanish navy began to decline, the weight of warships decreased, and with 500-ton galleons as the main combat strength, Xiao Ruxun's fleet occupied a certain advantage in displacement and size.

However, in this expedition, there were 10 large ships of 700 tons, 10 medium-sized warships of 4 or 500 tons, and 20 rapid reaction firepower warships of less than 300 tons.

The Spaniards' shipborne cannons used about 50 pounds of shells with a range of about 400 meters, which was determined after Xiao Ruxun had tested some Spanish shipborne guns captured from the island after fighting with pirates for a long time.

Shipborne guns can't be made too big and heavy like the guns used on land, otherwise the ship can't carry it, a three-meter-long cannon does have a long range, but it weighs three tons, and it will be as heavy as a warship if you load twenty guns, do you want to fight?

Then it is necessary to increase the speed by reducing the naval guns, and in naval battles, speed is as important as firepower, and no one can be sacrificed.

Therefore, Xiao Ruxun can use a giant cannon of more than two meters long for the army to do the absolute main firepower, but the sailors are still equipped with smaller ship-based guns, 200 kg to 300 kg, the number is guaranteed to be more than 30, and the firepower is definitely stronger than the Spanish artillery.

After testing, it was found that the effective range of the 50-kilogram solid bullet was about 500 meters, which was about the same as that of the Spaniards' artillery, and the range of the flowering bullet was relatively shorter, and the range of the grape bullet and chain bullet was even shorter, about 200 meters.

The sailors on board were equipped with some rifled flintlock pistols and most of the arquebuses, and even cold weapons such as spears and crossbows, as well as fire oil.

Today, the sky was clear and the visibility was high, and before the battle began, Jiang Dahai roughly distinguished the number and weight of the ships of the Spanish Navy through a clairvoyant mirror.

He found that the Spanish navy was numerous, and most of them were large ships, few small ships, and the ships were basically soft sail warships, with strong wind power, and the marching speed was slightly faster than the main ships of the Ming army, but no matter how fast it was, it was not as fast as the Ming army's fast firepower ships with low weight and many oars.

When dealing with small and medium-sized ships and fireships that are not usually pirates, the big ships are not much of a deterrent, and they need to be defeated with absolutely powerful firepower by small and medium-sized fleets.

This is Jiang Dahai's best tactic, and the relative use of small ships against large ships is also what Jiang Dahai is good at, but he is not so good at using 700-ton ships to fight.

Seeing that Spain was mainly engaged in the tactics of large ships, Jiang Dahai was overjoyed, and had already ordered the fleet to be deployed in battle formation, and the sailors and sailors held their breath and concentrated, the first wave of the enemy fleet was a fast fire fleet, and the number of artillery and the power of the victory were to win.

But my ship is fast and good for evading your shelling, and your ship is heavy and slow, and I can hit you, but you can't hit me, which is one of the reasons why the British Navy defeated the Spanish Armada in the first place.

Seeing that the Spanish fleet should have also noticed them, and began to unfold the battle formation, Jiang Dahai waved the command flag, the war drums sounded, and twenty fast fireships attacked at full speed, in such a distance, whoever reacted quickly would take the lead, the battle formation of the Spanish fleet had not yet been opened, and the Ming warships had already rushed forward.

However, the first cannon was not fired by the Ming army, it was the first cannon fired by the Spanish warship, and it fell far into the empty sea, and the nearest Ming ship was almost 100 meters away, and I don't know how this cannon was fired.

But regardless of them, the Ming fast firepower ships have already marched to a certain range, and they can start the first round of shelling for target ranging.

Generally speaking, the first round of shelling is used for experiments, to see how far the shot is, how far it is from the target, and then appropriately adjust the position of the gun muzzle and the ship to facilitate the gunner's aiming, and carry out the second and third precision strikes.

The first round of shelling began by the Ming army.

Boom Boom Boom Boom ......

Twenty battleships opened fire quickly, and solid shells fell in the sea around the Spanish fleet one by one, but it seems that this time God was also on the side of the Ming army, and three of the dozens of shells directly hit a large Spanish ship, knocking the big ship out of three holes.

The captain of the Ming warship that hit the Spanish battleship excitedly took a clairvoyant mirror to look at the situation over there, and saw that the Spaniards on the ship were running around in a panic, probably to plug the loophole and change the direction or something.

Such a great opportunity, how can you miss it?

"Keep firing!!"

The captain immediately ordered the gunners to aim at the Spanish ship at the same angle, and there was a loud "boom, boom", and eight of the dozen solid shells hit the ship, which had eight large holes punched from the deck to the hull, and looked very bad.

At this time, several warships of the Spanish fleet also began to fire artillery back, but their luck seemed to be bad, and none of the more than a dozen shells hit the Ming battleships, and the Ming battleships began to move one after another to avoid being caught and aimed by the Spanish warships.

The Ming warships began their best tactics, circling around the big ships, maintaining fire while circling in circles, and the Spanish warships were relatively slow to keep up with the speed of the small ships of the Ming army with the blessing of oars.

For a while, the guns of the Ming warships rumbled, and several battleships were still replaced with flowering shells to bombard the decks of the Spaniards, and suddenly, the decks of several Spanish battleships exploded, and flesh and blood flew everywhere.

The Ming warships began to get closer to the position of the Spanish battleships, intending to take advantage of the fact that the battle formation of the Spanish warships was not expanded, and directly disrupted it, so that it could not spread its battle formation and could not calmly meet the enemy, but had to scramble to preserve itself while counterattacking the Ming warships.

As soon as the battle began, the Spaniards were outnumbered.