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- Chinese-style sails can withstand winds from all directions. As long as the angle is adjusted to match the ocean current and wind direction, it is not a big deal to reverse the boat.
"Sail against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat."
Wang Rulong predicted the Marquis of Santa Cruz's prediction, chose an angle and waited for the opponent, and suddenly reversed the ship before the San Felipe hit it.
As a result, the Kaiyuan was once again inserted between the Isabella and the San Felipe, parallel to the former and intersecting with the latter in a 'ÈÎ' shape.
"Fire!"
The Kaiyuan opened fire on both sides, with bullets flying, beating Isabella into a cripple.
The Felipe also suffered heavy damage, and its foremast and center mainmast were smashed to pieces. Sail, rigging, lifeboats, transoms, everything that had ever existed on the main deck had been damaged beyond recognition by the shells.
The soldiers all lay on the deck, covering their heads with shields or wooden boards, praying not to be smashed into pulp by the fallen mast.
On the command platform, the Marquis of Santa Cruz and his soldiers struggled to recover everything from the chaos. Suddenly, an unexpected situation made the Marquis overjoyed. He immediately beat the drum himself and urged the soldiers to charge!
¡®But the Marquis of Santa Cruz didn¡¯t care. He personally took the helm despite the flying shells and wood chips, and steered the San Felipe straight towards the enemy¡¯s flagship! ¡¯
Cervantes, beside the Marquis, recorded desperately:
¡®Just like he did at the Battle of Lepanto. That time, God blessed us, and we were lucky enough to turn defeat into victory. This time, at least for now, we are lucky. Just when the enemy's flagship accelerated its retreat and was about to pass us by. The collapsed foremast of the San Felipe hit the foremast of the enemy ship. The two masts immediately hung together, and the sail rigging became tangled. ¡¯
¡®The Marquis and his soldiers were greatly boosted in morale, shouting for God¡¯s blessing, and immediately hooked the enemy ship with spear hooks, then set up pedals and started a crazy gang-hopping battle. Many sailors even rushed directly from the collapsed foremast to the enemy ship! At least at this moment, I saw the bravery and fearlessness of Lepanto again! ¡¯
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On the Kaiyuan ship, Wang Rulong looked as normal and even lit a cigar for the first time.
Although being hung up by the mast that you blew off is really evil, it is not uncommon for accidents to happen on the battlefield.
The key is whether you have absolute strength! In the face of absolute strength, any accident will be stifled!
The Kaiyuan is not a small ship like the Haima. It has sufficient manpower and firepower to resist the enemy's gang-hopping battles!
Sure enough, the Spaniards were happy too early. Even if God helped, facing the overwhelming firepower gap, it would be very difficult for them to even attack the Kaiyuan Hao.
The twenty swivel guns installed at various places on the starboard side began to fire intensively, as well as even more intensive Gatmu fire, weaving into a fire net, cutting the Spaniards who rushed to the steps into pieces like wheat. Put down. Then it fell into the sea like dumplings.
The Marines also assembled on the starboard deck immediately, but it was not a mandarin duck formation, but a two-line shooting formation.
The Marine captain pulled out his command knife, the drummer beat the military drum, and the Marines loaded, compacted, aimed, and pulled the trigger to the beat of the drum.
The bullets fired from the volley of guns completely sealed the mesh of the firepower net, knocking down all the fish that rushed forward and slipped through the net.
This is not over yet
The Marines behind the line opened boxes of tea grenades, lit them with match ropes wrapped around their wrists, and threw them towards the opposite side in a standard bomb-dropping motion.
The swollen grenades flew over the heads of the line infantry and flew towards the San Felipe. Some exploded when they landed on the deck, and some exploded in mid-air. The shock wave of the explosion carried broken porcelain pieces and iron nails, and the Spaniards who gathered the hedgehogs there and were about to rush across the steps were blown into pieces. blood gourd.
"It's so cruel" On the command platform of the San Felipe, Cervantes wrote with trembling hands:
¡®In more than ten years of military service, I have never seen such efficient massacre. In just a few minutes, hundreds of heavily armed soldiers were killed and injured under the terrifying firepower of the Ming army. ¡¯
As he wrote this, Cervantes glanced at the Marquis of Santa Cruz, and saw that this commander, who could remain calm even in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and who could remain calm at the most critical moments, now had an ashen face and eyes. He was flushed, and his face was covered with fine drops of water, whether it was cold sweat or tears.
After recording the facts truthfully, the secretary wrote down his thoughts at the time: ¡®This is different from any previous battle. The bloody battle of life in Lepanto can inspire people's courage and sense of honor. This battle will only completely defeat the person, and he will be unable to get rid of this fear for the rest of his life. ¡¯
?sp;The Marine Corps officers and soldiers immediately burst into boos.
"I tell you, Marshal, soldiers are treacherous. There are only justice and injustice in war, there is no fairness or unfairness!" This was Wang Rulong's voice.
"We, the Marquis, are not complaining, we just hope that at the end of the war, we can have a fair knightly duel!" Cervantes said: "He wants to challenge your commander-in-chief according to European tradition!"
"Fart! Why should our commander-in-chief duel with a defeated general?" The Marines immediately became furious, and Pan Qiaoyun and others raised their muskets again.
"As long as your commander-in-chief is willing to fight, no matter who wins or loses, our Marquis will order everyone to surrender!" Cervantes said loudly: "How about it, don't you dare to fight under such conditions?"
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