Anyone who saw the grimace in the sky guessed that the other pillars of light must have come from the sight of other devils. If it was swept by the pillar of light, it was the devil's gaze sweeping over his body, so when the Ming warships approaching pointed with searchlights, the Spanish officers on the deck all trembled involuntarily with fear, adding a hideous devilish face to the dazzling pillar of light.

"Christ, the Chinese have a deal with the devil." The captain of a Spanish warship finally realized that they were being attacked by the Chinese, but now his most important enemy was not the Chinese, but the terrible devil. The captain tried in vain to direct the ship to dodge the incoming pillars of light, but this was obviously impossible, and several armed merchant ships of the Ming army were staring at the same target, and seven or eight pillars of light illuminated the Spanish warship.

The captain's eyes were white, and he couldn't see anything behind the light, and the pillar of light shot on his body, making the captain's hair stand on end, because he knew that the devil was staring at him without blinking.

"God is my shield." The captain screamed in despair, trying to scare off his invincible enemies with the name of the god. Until now, he hadn't figured out whether he should order the artillery to shoot between the two pillars of light—the searchlights were fixed on the deck, and between the two searchlights in the air was certainly not the hull but the air, but in the captain's mind, it was the bridge of the devil's nose, and some of the more up, the devil's head. If you want to fight the devil, the face door must not be missed - but despite the captain's strong faith and the belief that God will protect him from threats, when he does come face to face with the devil, the captain's legs and stomach tremble. The thought of more than one devil staring at him made the captain unable to muster up the courage to give the order to fire at the devil's face.

However, not everyone is being stared at by the devil, and there are some people who fall into complete despair and fight without hesitation. Realizing what kind of enemy they were in front of, one of the spear captains of one of the ships ordered to fire at the devil's forehead in order to repel him.

"It's going to anger the devil." One of the gunners replied in a panic that, in his opinion, firing at the devil would not have the slightest effect, but would only provoke these invincible and formidable enemies.

"Do you just watch them take our souls?" The gunslinger roared. He believed in God and his strong faith did not allow him to compromise with the devil. At the order of this gunner, the gunners finished the loading of gunpowder and projectiles, and before firing, the gunners kissed the cross in his hand fiercely, stuffed it into the chamber without hesitation, and while lighting the fire himself, he roared and spat out all the air in his lungs: "God is our shepherd!" ”

The artillery shells whistled over the Ming ships, and immediately the Ming soldiers saw the muzzle flames on the hull of the Spaniards, and immediately two searchlights swept towards the position where the flames were spitting out just now, and the Ming artillery who was shooting also adjusted the muzzles of the guns and aimed at the position of the Spanish counterattack artillery according to the instructions of the searchlights.

In the hold of the Spaniards, the sailors could clearly see that the cannonballs they fired, and the crossed ones, did not repel the devil, and the devil did not even let out a terrible howl - many people had just imagined that the cannonballs should at least hurt the devil, and that the cross would also burn the devil - if there was a howl, no matter how terrifying it sounded, it would greatly encourage the fighting spirit of these gunners, and make them feel that the enemy could be harmed, Thus motivating them to fire more shells.

But now it only drew the devil's gaze, and when the light of the searchlight came through the gun window into the cabin, the Spanish sailors bathed in it were all stunned, and sweat was pouring from their foreheads. The spear chief, who had fought back just now, was now stunned, as if all his extraordinary courage had been fired along with his cross; And beside this pale, trembling gunner, another non-commissioned officer actually took two steps to the gun window in the bright light, and bowed deeply to the devil's gaze: "I'm sorry, sir. ”

The apology was echoed by the heavy sound of cannonball, which by this time was surrounded by several Chinese ships, bombarding it incessantly with more than thirty cannons. And the battleship, which had forty-two cannons, was constantly beaten, the sails were not raised, and the iron anchors were not pulled from the bottom of the sea. Even the Imperial Navy never guessed that the resistance would be so weak during the previous exercises, although they knew that the searchlight could dazzle the eyes of the Spaniards, and hoped that the big grimace could make the Spaniards stunned for a while, but the Imperial ** team never expected the effect to be so remarkable - because the Imperial ** people knew what the searchlight was all about, and they would not believe what kind of demon it was; And that grimace Deng Ming felt that there were a lot of flaws, as long as he looked carefully for ten minutes, he could realize that it was man-made, and what the emperor ** team wanted to fight for was these ten minutes. I didn't expect the Spaniards to think that there was a real devil behind every searchlight because of that grimace.

Because the Spaniards were completely incomprehensible to the searchlight, and the grimace in the sky was the best explanation for the mysterious pillar of light that suddenly appeared. From the well-educated captain to the illiterate sailors on the lower deck, there was no difference between them in the presence of the searchlight, they were completely ignorant of anything, so they quickly accepted that this was the devil's hint without any difference.

Cannonballs that fall into the cabin or deck of a ship are different from the iron projectiles of the past, they will explode, which is of course also a spell of the devil. The Spanish officer knew what the flowering shell was like. Nowadays, flowering shells usually have a fuse, and when a cannon shoots out of the muzzle, the flame may ignite this fuse, and when the fuse burns out, it will detonate the shell - this kind of flowering shells have a very high rate of mute fire, and they are very unsafe to use and store, so countries are reluctant to use them on a large scale. But as a non-commissioned officer, the Spanish Navy would make their officers aware of the weapon so as not to make a fuss if they came across it suddenly.

But the shells fired by the Chinese are obviously not such flowering shells, they do not have a hissing fuse, they look no different from ordinary shells from the outside, and they do not make any abnormal noise, but they will suddenly explode and kill a large number of surrounding sailors.

"Devil, go back to hell!" The military priests, who were originally non-combatants, are now on the front line, and as the most steadfast of faith, they will never bow to the devil and apologize, but now the first thing they have to do is deal with these enchanted shells. The priests held the Bible in their arms and stretched out their arms to point the cross towards the suspicious shells: "Go back to Hell!" ”

Similar things happened on other Spanish warships that were attacked by searchlights and cannonballs, and there were priests who soaked their crosses in water and urgently created holy water that would subdue the devil to help the soldiers in battle. However, holy water is not omnipotent, some cannonballs were indeed exorcised by holy water and did not explode, but some cannonballs overcame the suppression of holy water and still exploded. Moreover, holy water cannot block the devil's vision, and even a bucket of holy water splashed on the pillar of light will not extinguish it. In the same way, even if you apply holy water to your eyelids, you still can't open your eyes, let alone see through the devil's pillar of light to observe the enemy's movements, even if you wash your eyes with holy water.

Some of the Spanish warships farther away from the battlefield began to open fire at this time, and the sailors on these ships were less panicked because they were not directly fired by searchlights. The captains of several ships even reacted by giving orders to lift anchor and raise sails, and the sailors on the deck were awakened from their stunned state by the officers' scolding, and they could not wait to escape from the devil's grasp.

The target of these ships' cannons was the faint grimace in the distant mid-air. The target was so striking that the gunners were firing at it in a frenzy, even though it was far out of range of the Spanish ships to the west.

At first, it may have been the work of individual people, but when they realized that they were not met with a counterattack from the devil, the Spanish gunners began to shoot wildly, as if every time they fired a shot at that distant grimace, they were an inch away from hell. While many warships began to lift anchor and move, the priests on these warships also made buckets of holy water. Even if it greatly increases the chance of a dumb fire, the gunners first soak the cannonball in holy water, kiss it, and then stuff the sacred cannonball, which holds their faith and hope, into the chamber of the cannon, and then shoot it at the evil devil.

The Spanish ships were firing at full power, not paying any attention to concealment and changing course, but kept going backwards and shooting, and many of the gunners fell into a state of madness, carrying and loading their guns at full speed, and only complete prostration could stop these fanatical soldiers.

At this time, the Chinese fleet continued to approach and attack the Spanish ships in their vicinity, and the Spanish counterattack and resistance were weak, which made the Chinese ships more confident and bold to attack with all their might; The sailors on the deck and in the gun compartments of the Spaniards appeared to be unresponsive, many of them did not make any dodging maneuvers at all, and a large number of people were killed.

By this time, some of the warships were already very close together, and many of the sailors on the Chinese ships had already picked up their rifles and were guided by searchlights to shoot at the personnel of the enemy ships - the flintlock pistols in Chengdu had been continuously improved over the years, and the rifles had become lighter and better, and they could meet different requirements. For example, this naval flintlock pistol is specially made, and its barrel is only two-thirds as long as the land model, but it is more convenient for sailors to use on sea vessels. If rubber were to become rich enough to make its way into the gun industry, arms dealers would consider designing better waterproof structures for this naval rifle.

On the deck of the brightly lit Spanish warship, the enemy did not pick up their rifles to resist, nor did they manipulate the short-range cannons deployed on the deck - these Spaniards, bathed in the light, could not see the enemy on the approaching enemy ships, nor the rifles aimed at them, but most of them knelt straight on the deck with crosses in their hands, their eyes closed and their mouths full of words; The braver gathered around the priest, looking up from time to time at the approaching bright light, still trying to make holy water and try to ward off evil spirits.

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