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Chapter 432 The End (Part 1)

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    Commander Alfonso felt cold sweat break out on his forehead. He quickly raised his finely carved ivory telescope and looked around. As a result, shadowy sails appeared in three directions: left, right and behind!

    "Report the number of enemy ships!" Commander Alfonso shouted to the lookout. At this time, he could no longer maintain his proud aristocratic dignity!

    "There are about thirty warships in three directions, including Galen ships and Ming hard sailing ships!" the lookout yelled at the top of his lungs, and anyone could hear the despair in his voice!

    Commander Alfonso felt even colder. He looked around and suddenly discovered that the fleet he led was clearly very powerful just now, but now it has become much weaker!

    It¡¯s no wonder that Commander Alfonso has such an idea. Originally, the West-Dutch Combined Fleet under his command had thirty-six large and small warships, plus more than thirty armed merchant ships following them in the autumn wind, and the number of the fleet has exceeded seventy.  , according to past common sense, a fleet of this size is already invincible in the Far East!

    But the Dutch fleet was sent out to attack Manila, and seventeen main battleships were lost. Then those disobedient armed merchant ships went to chase the Ming merchant ships, and more than twenty ships were lost!

    Now Commander Alfonso¡¯s fleet counts his own nineteen capital ships plus armed merchant ships, and there are twenty-eight ships left, right!  There was also the sunk "Neapolitan". Without this one, there were only twenty-seven ships left!

    But the enemy came with ninety warships. Even if most of those warships were clumsy hard sailing ships like the Ming Dynasty, Commander Alfonso was not confident that he could withstand the attack of so many warships!

    What¡¯s more, the Ming Dynasty¡¯s fleet also had Galen ships, as well as cannons that could accurately shoot at a distance of two nautical miles and were extremely powerful!

    Commander Alfonso simply couldn¡¯t imagine that if the Ming Dynasty¡¯s fleet was equipped with a hundred such artillery pieces, what would happen to the Europeans in this world!

    "Sir! The Ming Dynasty's fleet is approaching, what should we do?" Adjutant Jose saw that the commander was in a daze, and quickly reminded him loudly!

    "Breakout!" Commander Alfonso shouted almost subconsciously: "Breakout towards the Strait of Malacca, we must not let the Kingdom's fleet be lost here!"

    With the commander's order, all the warships of the Spanish fleet immediately raised their main sails, and under the leadership of the "Francis", they galloped towards the Strait of Malacca!

    However, Hong Chengchou and others had already expected that the Spanish fleet would break out of the encirclement immediately and flee to Malacca, so behind the Spanish fleet were arranged all the capital ships of Wang Hua's Guards Nanjing Fleet and Li Dan and the Nanyang Fleet!

    When Commander Alfonso saw the thirty main Galenic ships ahead menacingly attacking his fleet, he had already fallen into deep despair!

    Although the Spanish fleet still has the upper hand in terms of quantity, it has already lost in quality. After all, there are only nine large Galenic ships and twelve medium-sized Galenic ships in the Spanish fleet, and the rest are armed merchant ships!

    But there are seventeen large Galenic ships and thirteen medium-sized Galenic ships in the Ming Dynasty's fleet. These are all fully manned warships, which are very different from those armed merchant ships!

    soon!

    The two fleets are about to meet!

    Commander Alfonso shouted: "Spanish warriors, prepare to fight. Use your cannons to blast those yellow-skinned monkeys into the sea to feed the sharks!"

    Following Commander Alfonso's order, the "Francis" raised the battle flag, and the Spanish fleet was also ready for battle. The gun doors on all warships were all opened, and the artillery was pushed out after being loaded.  For a time, all the battleships in the Spanish fleet had gun muzzles on their sides, and they all looked like hedgehogs!

    However, this was only the main warship under Commander Alfonso. The several armed merchant ships following the Spanish fleet were already in a panic. The sailors on them were hurriedly preparing the few cannons, but everyone's face was showing  A look of regret and despair!

    The sailors hated themselves as captains and why did they join in the fun with the Spaniards?

    Wouldn¡¯t it be profitable to travel between the Ming Dynasty and the Americas on the Pacific Ocean?

    ¡°Look now, I have become the enemy of Ming Dynasty and will be sunk by Ming Dynasty¡¯s warships soon!

    But these sailors have forgotten that when they first learned of the arrival of the West-Dutch Combined Fleet, like their captain, the first thing they thought of was to drive away the Ming people in Manila, and then loot the extremely rich Manila!

    It¡¯s obviously too late to regret now??!

    But just when the Spanish fleet was in high spirits and the armed merchant ships were miserable, no one expected that the commander of the Ming fleet opposite them was a guy named Wang Hua!

    This guy is cunning and insidious, and he is not willing to fight a head-to-head battle. Moreover, the main purpose of this battle with the Spanish-Dutch Combined Fleet is to capture, so it is even less possible for him to play cannon fire with the Spanish fleet!

    "Order the fleet to turn to the left and pass them in a straight line. Let's give these foreign devils a round of 'hundred tigers running' first!" Wang Hua looked at the menacing Spanish fleet and shouted with a sinister smile!

    The "hundred tigers running together" mentioned by Wang Hua was originally a rocket used by infantry. This kind of rocket is to add gunpowder to the arrow shaft, then stack it in a special wooden box, and then connect the gunpowder fuses in series. Once hundreds of them are ignited,  The rockets flew out one after another, and they were very lethal to the target that was not A at a distance of about 300 steps!

    But if the enemy is wearing armor, even just a face shield, the lethality of this thing will be very impressive!

    Of course it is the enemy who is moved!

    However, this kind of thing, along with other exotic firearms such as the "Flying Fire Crow", were eliminated by Zhu Youxiao from the list of infantry firearms. However, what is surprising is that the "Hundred Tigers Running Together" gained a new life in the navy.  !

    There is no other reason, just because setting fire to ships has always been a common method of water warfare. Although the intensively fired weapons of "Hundred Tigers Rush" have a much greater deterrent effect in land battles than their actual effects, they have immeasurable power in naval battles!

    Especially after the use of granular propellants and some improvements by the Gwu Academy, the range of the "Hundred Tigers Running Together" used by the navy has reached 700 steps, which is far greater than the distance used by artillery in naval battles!

    The most important thing is that the arrows of the Navy version of "Hundred Tigers Running Together" have weakened the killing effect on living targets and are instead made into sharp stingers, which are used to allow the rockets to be nailed into the ship's planks or hung on the sails.  At the same time, the gunpowder launcher is also divided into front and rear parts!

    The second half plays a propulsive role, providing thrust for the rocket. The first half of the gunpowder contains an increased proportion of sulfur, making the flames ejected more powerful!

    However, the design of the navy version of "Hundred Tigers Running Together" is very clever. The first half of the gunpowder barrel is ejected in the direction of the arrow cluster. This allows the rocket to eject the flame directly on the hull or sail of an enemy warship.  On the hull or sail, this kind of weapon can be said to be a big headache in the era of sailing ships with all wooden battleships!

    Just after Wang Hua issued the order, the Ming fleet began to turn and passed about 500 steps from the right side of the Spanish fleet in a "one" column!

    Commander Alfonso has never seen such a combat formation, but with his rich experience in naval battles, he couldn't help but feel happy. Since the Ming fleet was afraid of fighting, then his fleet could escape!

    But before Commander Alfonso¡¯s joy faded away, he saw a little light flashing on the first Ming warship that passed his fleet!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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