The warships of both sides are heading towards each other again, preparing for the final showdown.
With the addition of the Tiago cannon, the pattern of naval battles will be greatly changed.
If it were a showdown like this before, I am afraid that a day's work would not be able to determine the outcome. tし Now the huge destructive power of the Tiago cannon will play a decisive role.
Whether it is destroying the hull of an enemy ship or killing enemy personnel, its power is unprecedented.
This time, the first ships were Li Ji and Cheng Zhijie.
The two ships, which looked pretty good, advanced amidst the sound of each other's shelling.
When they arrived at the location of the bombardment, they became disgraced and their armor was crooked, but their counterattack also began.
The sixteen thirty-six-pound and forty-eight-pound Tiago cannons that were still functioning normally on the sides began to roar.
Seven of the cannons hit the enemy ship, and several irregular rounds were fired across the complete sides of the opposite battleship as it turned around.
The big hole silenced most of the opponent's artillery.
Qian Er once again lit the artillery match, and this time his men were not nervous.
Every Spanish warship opposite the Hou Junji at the end was repaired by the can openers of the ships in front.
When Hou Junji came on stage, the resistance he encountered was weak and scattered, and there was no neat volley.
The gunners of Hou Junji could fire step by step as in drills, replenishing the opponent's warships with guns.
It was very Comfortable.
This time the confrontation is over, and there is no suspense about the outcome of the battle.
They are all 500-ton battleships, but the heavy artillery of Li Hu’s fleet is 36-pound and 48-pound cannons and Tiago cannons.
The Spanish fleet only has Twenty-four pounder.
There were a few thirty-six-pound cannon on board the San Martin and San Francisco.
Isn't it impossible to get a handle on it?
As a result, the appearance of Li Hu's fleet was seriously damaged.
However, the damage inside was not serious.
The Spanish warships had skylights all over the sides.
The gunners suffered heavy casualties.
Now not even a quarter of the complete gun crews can be saved, and they have basically lost their combat effectiveness.
The two sides passed each other, and the two Spanish warships sailed directly eastward without turning around.
I couldn't care less about anything.
Let's run first.
The Hou Junji and Heiji Changzhi, which were at the rear, hurriedly turned around to catch up after being reminded by the clipper ship.
We couldn't let an enemy ship escape.
The longer we kept this secret, the better.
At this time, the remaining five Spanish frigates were in chaos.
Although they did not escape, looking at the messy tracks, you can see that the sailors were confused.
When the two fleets fired at each other again, in just the first round, the top-ranked Saint-Andre had its forward sprit mast destroyed.
The rear mainmast was shattered, and three large holes were opened in the gun deck.
Now the St.
Andre is full of holes.
The most terrifying thing is not this.
It is very common to be beaten with holes all over the body in naval battles.
Some of the warships in Li Hu's fleet opposite also had holes everywhere.
However, there were only three complete gun crews in the St.
Andre.
The captain and the first mate of the St.
Andre discussed it neatly. raised the white flag.
They thought they had done their best and lived up to their mission as soldiers, and now it was just an honorable surrender, which is very common in the West.
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The San Diego behind it also followed the same example.
It was also bloodbathed by the battleships on the opposite side.
Only five gun groups were left, the main mast was completely destroyed, and there was no hope of victory.
The three ships at the back looked at each other and said, okay, they are running away and falling.
Our three ships are rushing forward.
It is the gate of hell.
If we run back, are we going to return to the ocean?
The problem is that the damage is so serious that there is no escape at all.
My hopes have been lowered.
So five white flags, large and small, were raised and lowered in various parts of each ship.
Domingos stood on the deck of the San Martin with a livid face, silent and speechless.
It was really embarrassing.
He failed to persist in three rounds of battles.
The Spanish navy, which had been in all the oceans of the world for hundreds of years, had completely fallen.
Without his instructions, the captain of the San Martin, Lucas, also raised the white flag, and there was no point in continuing to fight.
However, Federo, the captain of the San Francisco, did not order the white flag to be raised because after consulting with Ferdinand, the first mate, he believed that there was a possibility of being silenced.
After all, there was no news about the missing ship crew last time.
The Portuguese are still a vassal state of the Spanish.
If they robbed the Spanish treasure ship on the way, they were most likely to be killed and silenced, so that the secret would not be known to the Spanish king.
So they decided to have Conditional surrender.
It can be said that they thought a lot, some were close to the truth, and they took action, but the ending was very bad.
When the approaching Li Jing heard the other party calling for conditional surrender, and they just followed without disarming, Li Hu on the Li Jing laughed angrily.
It was really wishful thinking.
If we agree to their request, what will happen to the other surrendered ships?
Could it be that they did not surrender their weapons like they did, and the fleet fought with other forces on the way.
They escaped and may even help the enemy.
Who came up with this idea at once?
Li Hu Immediately ordered, no, and then ordered the Li Jing to approach and coerce the enemy.
At this time, Federo decided to use the thirty-six-pound cannon on the ship to intimidate his opponents.
I also have heavy artillery.
If you defeat me, you will also pay a heavy price.
Boom, boom, four thirty-six-pound cannons opened fire.
Three of them hit the Li Jing.
One projectile broke the forward mainmast, and one projectile hit the lower deck.
Fortunately, it was not the artillery deck.
The last one hit the Fore cabin.
The projectile penetrated, but the large number of wood splinters it spattered knocked down the guards around Li Hu.
The iron armor on Li Hu's right arm was also penetrated by a wood splinter, causing bleeding.
Fortunately, he was not directly hit by the projectile. , all were skin injuries.
Li Hu was furious.
He thought the war was over.
Unexpectedly, at the end of the battle, the commander of the fleet took the honors.
At this time, the artillery deck did not wait for Li Hu's order, and the twenty-one heavy cannons on the sides and bows fired.
Since the San Francisco was just floating and had no ship speed, it was simple.
Seventeen heavy artillery projectiles hit the target.
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In an instant, more than ten large holes were opened on the side of the ship on this side, and the entire ship tilted.
Fortunately, this ship was a behemoth of 1,200 tons.
More than a dozen holes were drilled into it, but it had no fatal effect.
Six or seven guns even fired back, and two more holes were opened on the Li Jing.
Caused casualties.
The Li Jing and another approaching ship, the Cheng Zhijie, roared with more than forty heavy cannons on the side, opening nearly thirty new large holes in the San Francisco.
Then, after a hundred breaths, they fired one after another, almost destroying the ship.
The San Francisco's sides were honeycombed.
Then, the cannons on the Li Jing and Cheng Zhijie used shotguns to clear the deck of the San Francisco, and twenty cannons sprayed more than a thousand iron particles on the deck of the San Francisco.
Immediately, the soft sail was broken, the mast was damaged, and dust flew up.
Most of the sailors on the deck were killed and injured.
Blood and minced meat splashed on the deck, which was particularly dazzling under the clear sky.
The sailors' miserable howls could be faintly heard for miles.
The people on the ships of both sides, who were preparing to surrender and those who were preparing to accept surrender, were dumbfounded as they watched the two sides fight, not knowing why the battle became so fierce.
Domingos, who was closest to them, yelled at them for being stupid.
Without the escort of battleships, the San Martin and San Francisco were stronger.
The advantage of being able to take more shots was that I really don't know what happened to Federo's neck.
Is it the head that grows?
Li Hu ordered the Cheng Zhijie to continue the bombardment, while the Li Jing approached the enemy ship and prepared to fight with help.
After the Cheng Zhijie opened more than 20 large holes in the San Francisco in two rounds, the Li Jing approached the San Francisco.
Since the opponent's deck was several meters higher than the Li Jing, Li Jing's hundred armored men were hooked with rope hooks.
The guardrails of the enemy ships were boarded one after another.
At this time, the interior of the San Francisco was in chaos.
Federo, the captain of the San Francisco, ordered his sailors to attack.
The sailors scolded him for being stupid and wanted to ruin the lives of all the crew members.
No one came forward to fight.
At this time, the Li Jing's armored hands holding long knives, shields and firecrackers boarded the wide deck of the San Francisco.
They were also shocked by the massacre scene on the deck.
The scene was too bloody, and the scene of raging shotguns remained.
It lingers in their minds.
The armored men bravely rushed across the deck to various cabins and lower decks, taking control of the entire deck in a matter of seconds.
The dejected Phaedrus was captured in the bow cabin, and other sailors were gradually brought to the deck.
At this time, the reception of other ships was also in progress, almost one ship docked with another, armored ships were disarmed, and spare sailors also began to board enemy ships to take over the ships.
Every time they go out to sea to plunder Zhao Lie's fleet, they always bring their own reserve sailors, because almost every time an enemy ship is captured, it is absolutely impossible without sailors.
Domingos and other people on the San Martin were also taken to the lower deck and detained, waiting for Li Hu's decision.
At this time, Li Hu was furious and asked people to use sticks to interrogate who ordered the resistance.
At this time, his image with his arms hanging was certainly not much better.
Li Hu vented his anger on the enemy prisoners.
It soon became clear that the captain and first mate decided to resist after discussion.
Li Hu was about to order the two men to be executed to scare the monkeys, when the sailor reported that the lower deck of the San Francisco was leaking seriously and asked for instructions to move the items quickly to prevent the ship from sinking.
Li Hu personally took a look at the bottom tank and found that the ship plate at the rear of the bottom tank was deformed by the impact of the gunpowder explosion, and the water seepage was serious.
Originally, the Spanish had plugged the leak, but the subsequent artillery battle expanded the cracks, and the exposed water had already filled the bottom tank.
Nearly half submerged.
Li Hu finally calmed down at this time and regained his determination as a commander of the ocean-going fleet.
He ordered all efforts to plug the leak and rescue the giant ship.
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He knew that Jeju's transportation capacity was tight.
If the ship was rescued, it would be greatly relieved.
The pressure on Jeju to transport Liao people.
At the same time, he ordered the armored sailors of the Cheng Zhijie to reinforce here and try their best to transport items to the Li Jing and Cheng Zhijie.
In this way, the operation to save the San Francisco began.
In the evening, Li Hu was told that most of the water seepage on the San Francisco had been stopped, and personnel were now transporting the accumulated water in the bottom cabin outwards.
Li Hu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, all seven ships had been received.
Because the ships were so large and numerous, all the 500 reserve sailors who arrived were put on duty before they could be put into operation.
After all, more than 100 sailors had been placed in a few ships.
A captured small merchant ship was aboard.
At this time, the manpower shortage was extremely severe, and even the sailors who changed shifts were all on duty.
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