The envoy said: "In the 31st year of Wanli, we thought that the Chinese wanted to invade Luzon for internal reasons.
That's why we had such a misunderstanding.
In the 37th year of Wanli, not only the Chinese were killed, but also a large number of locals.
Please General check it out."
Chen Houfu sneered and said: "The misunderstanding is really easy to say.
Luzon was originally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
Why did we conquer it?
Let's not talk about killing the locals.
Killing the Chinese is not enough.
You go back and report it to your governor.
I, the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty, serve the Ming Dynasty."
The emperor's decree comes to attack Spain, which is good at killing Chinese people.
You should surrender.
We are not as barbaric as you and will not kill you all. " The envoy hurried back.
After listening to his words, the Spanish Governor Philip said: "Since they want to fight, let's fight.
Although Spain has experienced wars with Britain and the Netherlands, it is still the largest maritime power.
These yellow-skinned monkeys actually want to Defeating us in a naval battle is really wishful thinking.
They don’t understand naval warfare at all.
If they suddenly attack the port, we may still suffer some losses.
If we fight on the sea, we can quickly defeat them. " The Battle of Downs has not yet occurred.
Although Spain was severely damaged in the process of forcibly conquering England, it still has naval superiority in the world and can be regarded as the number one maritime power.
Although Spain did not dare to fight the Ming Dynasty on land, they were absolutely sure to defeat the Ming army in the sea.
The reason why they wanted to repair the Ming Dynasty was because they still had a strong enemy, the Netherlands, on the seas of Asia. .
Chen Houfu asked the Ming Dynasty navy to stay forty miles outside the Manila port and stay out of the range of the coastal forts.
In fact, the number of these forts is small, the range is only two miles, and most of them have not been completed.
But of course Chen Houfu wants to leave some space to fight Spanish warships, so it is more secure to stay farther away.
The Spanish fleet began to pull anchor and sail slowly towards the Ming Dynasty fleet.
Chen Houfu commanded the fleet to line up and prepare to attack the enemy ships.
In fact, the Ming Navy formulated two plans.
One of them was to catch Spain by surprise and annihilate the Spanish warships in the port.
Later, considering that the Ming Dynasty always paid attention to the reputation of its troops, most generals found such a sneak attack unacceptable, so they Another plan was adopted: using the artillery superiority of the Ming Navy to eliminate Spanish warships on the sea.
The Ming navy generals had seen Portuguese warships, and their firepower could only reach one-half of the three-masted gunboats, the main warships of the Ming Dynasty, let alone compared with the Fu ship.
The Portuguese said that Spanish warships were similar to their own, so Chen Houfu felt that he could defeat the Spanish without a sneak attack.
The Ming Navy has a total of seventy three-masted gunboats, ten Fuchuan, which are warships, and the other hundred are used to transport people and supplies.
Spain dispatched a total of forty warships.
In Philip's opinion, this was more than enough to deal with the Ming army.
Of course, it was also because he only had a total of more than forty warships.
The weather was very good, and it was exactly noon.
Chen Houfu issued a flag order on the flagship.
In addition to the flagship, nine Fu ships and thirty three-masted gunboats rushed forward, and the remaining forty three-masted gunboats were on guard outside.
With.
The bow gun of the first Fu ship fired first, hitting the bow of a Spanish ship.
The shell exploded when it hit the ground, igniting the ropes and other objects piled on the bow.
The Spanish were shocked.
Their warships did not pay much attention to firepower.
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The general combat process was to use artillery to damage the enemy ships first, and then engage in gang-hopping operations.
Their artillery used solid bullets or chain bullets, and they were frightened when they saw the ship burst into flames after being hit.
Of course, they did not think that the Ming army was using new artillery shells.
They just thought that it was a coincidence that the hot shells hit the flammable material on the bow of the ship.
So after being frightened for a while, they rushed forward together.
The Ming army won the first battle and their confidence increased greatly.
The broadside of the first Fu ship opened fire and hit another Spanish ship, but it happened to hit near the mast and also burned.
The blooming bombs currently used by the Ming army are filled with kerosene.
During the experiment, officers found that as long as the ship was dry, the fire would definitely burn.
The fortune ships passed in front of the Spanish warships one after another, and a large number of kerosene bombs fell on the Spanish warships.
With the sound of explosions, flames continued to rise from the impact point of the shells.
Now the Spaniards knew that the problem was with the shells.
Solid shells would not explode and catch fire.
Since the Spaniards knew that the problem was with cannonballs, they naturally had ways to deal with it.
A large number of sailors used buckets to lift water from the sea, soak the decks, or put out the ignited fires.
The next Ming warships used different types of artillery shells to deal with the Spanish.
They combined kerosene bombs and nail bombs, which caused a lot of damage to the people fighting the fire on the Spanish ships.
They had just brought up the water. , after the nail bomb exploded, a piece of it fell on the deck.
By the time the nine ships passed by, six of the Spanish warships were already on fire, and the Spaniards were complaining endlessly.
When the three-masted gunboat came over, they calmed down, because the three-masted gunboat was not as tall as a lucky ship and was similar to a Spanish ship, and boarding and jumping gangs was the Spanish's best attack method.
Moreover, the Spaniards have also paid attention to firepower since they fought several battles with the British.
But it is still difficult to rely on their firepower to attack the giant Fuchuan, but the much smaller three-masted gunboat naturally does not pose much of a problem to them.
When the three-masted gunboat's cannonballs flew over, the Spaniards realized that they were thinking too beautifully.
Although the three-masted gunboat's cannonballs are not as big as those of the Fuchuan, because of their small size, the rate of fire is much faster than those of the Fuchuan.
Moreover, the cannonballs are not solid bullets, but explosive bullets with iron nails and lead bullets mixed in the middle.
Compared with theirs, the Spanish solid bullets are slower, unless they hit people or masts directly, otherwise the Ming army will The warships suffered almost no losses.
After thirty three-masted gunboats fired a round of cannons, the remaining alert ships slowly came forward and monitored the Spanish ships from a distance, because at this time the Spanish fleet had basically lost its ability to attack, and the three ships were sunk, fifteen ships were on fire, and the remaining ships were more or less damaged.
At this time, the flagship signaled: Attack, annihilate all enemy ships.
The vigilant three-masted gunboats came forward together.
One of them dealt with several Spanish ships, but they only fired their guns from a certain distance, and soon sank two more Spanish warships.
Finally, a white flag was hoisted on the Spanish flagship, and a semaphore was hoisted on the Ming army's flagship: Keep your distance and monitor enemy ships
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