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"General, the enemy has twice as many battleships as ours, and is much larger, much more firepower, and much faster than ours! Can we win? "On the battleship 'España', a staff officer asked with a desperate face!

"The Chinese have already hit, and even if we can't fight, we can only fight!" Even if it is death, the glory of the Spanish Navy must be preserved! Lieutenant General Fernando gritted his teeth and said! He knew that the strength of the Chinese navy had a decisive advantage over the Spanish navy. If the battle continues, the Spanish Navy will probably have to be completely annihilated, but he is unwilling to escape, or he can't escape! The 'Spanish-class' battleships had a maximum speed of only 19.5 knots, while the six battleships of the Chinese Navy had a minimum speed of more than 21 knots. There is no way for them to escape, they can only fight to the death!

"General, these six battleships of the Chinese are all super battleships captured from the British, each battleship is equipped with five twin 343mm main guns, the firepower is much stronger than our battleships, and the armor is much thicker than ours, we have no chance of winning!" Another officer also persuaded!

"Needless to say, get ready for battle! For Spain, we must fight to the end! Lieutenant General Fernando said stubbornly!

At 3:50 p.m., the distance between the two sides was reduced to 8,000 meters, and Lieutenant General Wu Zhiyuan gave the order to open fire. All six battleships were captured from the British Navy. Although at the time of repair at the shipyard. A fire control system was added. However, because of the design, the accuracy of the battleship's shelling is still not comparable with the battleships built by the Chinese Navy itself. However, it is already much higher than when it was used by the British Navy!

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "Orange-red flames shone in the muzzles of the battleship 'Iron Duke', and ten armor-piercing shells weighing more than 500 kilograms smashed towards the battleship 'Spain' eight thousand meters away under the action of huge kinetic energy.

Columns of water rose on the left side of the battleship 'España', and the nearest point of impact was less than 300 meters from the battleship 'España'. The first volley was able to hit such a result. Not bad, the Spanish naval officers and sailors on the battleship 'Spain' looked even more pale after seeing it. Obviously, they will never be able to achieve such results. At a time when the number and performance of warships are not comparable to the opponent, even the navy's su zhì is not comparable to the opponent. Does the Spanish fleet still have a chance of winning this battle?

After the battleship 'Iron Duke' opened fire, several other battleships joined in. Because the Spanish fleet had only three battleships, the six battleships of the Chinese fleet needed two to fight one. Among them, the 'Iron Duke' and 'Benbau' against the 'Spain', the 'Canada' and 'Daring' against the 'Alfonso XIII', and the 'Centurion' and 'Thor' against the 'Jami I'!

After the opening of fire on the Chinese fleet. The Spanish fleet also launched a counterattack. It's just that their counterattack seems so fragile. At a distance of 8,000 meters, the Spanish fleet could not hit the Chinese fleet at all, and the impact points of each bullet deviated very far, and the most outrageous ones even deviated by thousands of meters. It can be seen how bad the training of these Spanish navies is in peacetime!

At 4:02 p.m., a 343-mm armor-piercing projectile fired from the battleship 'Canada' hit the front main gun on the foredeck of the battleship 'Alfonso XIII'! The turret armor of the 'Spanish-class' battleships was only 203 mm, which could not withstand the bombardment of 343 mm armor-piercing shells. The shell tore through the armor and exploded inside the turret, overturning the entire main gun. Fortunately, there were no shells or propellants in the turret, otherwise the battleship Alfonso XIII would have suffered an even more heavy blow! However, only ten minutes after the battle began, some of the Spanish fleet's battleships were severely damaged, which greatly affected the morale of the Spanish fleet!

At 4:12 p.m., one of the salvos fired from the battleship 'Benbau' hit the battleship 'Spain', and another shell was a near-miss! A shell hit the port side of the battleship 'España', blowing up a large hole in the port side, destroying two secondary guns and wounding several sailors. The near-miss bomb exploded near the waterline behind the port side of the battleship 'Spain', and the strong pressure tore through the waterline armor of the battleship 'Spain', causing a large hole more than three meters long. Waters poured through the hole into the battleship 'España'. The Spanish Navy has also not experienced a major war for more than a decade, and the damage management personnel have not been able to plug the loopholes in time. In addition, the design of the 'Spanish-class' battleship was unreasonable, and there were too few watertight compartments, once the battleship could not be blocked by flooding, the battleship would only sink! As more and more water entered the battleship, the stern of the battleship 'Spain' was slowly sinking, and in less than ten minutes it sank below sea level, and the speed of the sinking was getting faster and faster.

Vice Admiral Fernando, commander of the Spanish fleet, gave the order to abandon the ship, but he himself did not leave the ship, but sank into the sea with it! Vice Admiral Fernando had lost faith in the battle, and the Spanish fleet had just begun when one ship was sunk and the other heavily damaged. The command of the Spanish fleet was thus decided!

When the battleship 'Spain' sank into the sea, this naval battle could be drawn! When Vice Admiral Fernando sank himself, the chief of staff of the fleet immediately gave the order to surrender! The officers and men of the Spanish Navy had already been frightened by the strength of the Chinese Navy, and they no longer had the courage to continue fighting. In order to survive, the vast majority of them chose to surrender, and only a very few tried to escape, but they were all chased by the light cruisers and destroyers of the Chinese Navy and then sunk!

In less than half an hour of fighting, the Spanish navy was completely annihilated. The two 'Spanish-class' battleships were not taken seriously by the Chinese Navy. However, although China does not look down on these battleships, they can be handed over to friendly countries after the war is over, as a bargaining chip to win over these countries!

For Vice Admiral Wu Zhiyuan, chief of staff of the Indian Ocean Fleet, this battle was too enjoyable, the strength of the Spanish Navy was too weak, and even the aircraft carrier had not been dispatched to annihilate the other side, and there was a feeling of killing chickens with a knife! However, having eliminated the Spanish Navy, the fleet did not leave, but continued to cruise in the Bay of Cádiz. The fleet transporting the Army's 2nd Army will arrive in the Gulf of Cadiz tomorrow morning, and the fleet will have to escort the 2nd Army's landing operations.

At 5 a.m. on May 16, a detachment of the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Navy, led by Vice Admiral Wu Zhiyuan, escorted the convoy of the 2nd Group Army of the Chinese Army. During the operation across the Atlantic, some warships of the Home Fleet and the Pacific Fleet provided escorts for the Army, and the British Navy was now cowering in the North Sea, so there was basically no danger along the way!

At 7 o'clock in the morning, a huge fleet of ships appeared off the coast of Puerto Santa Maria, and the sea was densely packed with transport ships and merchant ships, a scene that shocked the inhabitants of Puerto Santa Maria. Many Spaniards knew yesterday that China had declared war on Spain, but they never expected that the Chinese army would appear on their doorstep the next day!

After consulting with Lieutenant General Wu Zhiyuan and General Xie Dingkun, commander of the 2nd Army, they decided to immediately launch an operation in the port of Santa Maria!

At half past seven o'clock in the morning, six battleships of the detachment of the Indian Ocean Fleet led by Vice Admiral Wu Zhiyuan sailed into the sea only five kilometers from the port of Santa Maria, and all the main guns were aimed at the coastal city.

After Vice Admiral Wu Zhiyuan gave the order to open fire, 6 battleships opened fire one after another!

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "All the main guns of the six battleships began to roar, and one after another 343-mm high-explosive shells flew towards the port of Santa Maria. Because the war against Spain was very sudden, the squadron did not know how many Spanish troops were stationed in the port of Santa Maria, let alone distinguish between military and civilian targets. Therefore, the whole city is within the strike range of the Chinese Navy!

"Boom!" A three-story building was hit by a 343-mm shell, and the entire building was destroyed in an instant, the building collapsed, killing a lot of people!

Shells exploded in the city, turning buildings into ruins, and many Spaniards were either killed or crushed to death by the collapsed buildings, causing heavy casualties!

"Oh God! Help us! "Many Spaniards pray to God in desperation, but to no avail.

Many Spaniards began to flee outside the city, they didn't know how long the squadron's attack would last, they only knew that if they wanted to survive, they had to flee here!

In addition to the 6 battleships, other warships of the fleet also joined in the shelling, and for a time, the entire port of Santa Maria was covered in gunsmoke.

In fact, the Spanish army had only one regiment garrison in Puerto Santa Maria, and after the Chinese Navy began shelling, this regiment knew that it could not withstand the attack of the squadron and immediately fled. On the contrary, many civilians in Puerto Santa Maria were killed in the shelling, but there is a shortage of soldiers, and it is impossible to count them specifically. But according to the Spanish after the war, the port of Santa Maria suffered heavy losses in this shelling, with at least 20,000 people killed in the shelling by the Chinese navy. Of course, the Chinese side did not admit this! (To be continued......)