Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 485

The Spanish fleet on the opposite side is an out-and-out large fleet, with a total of 67 warships of all levels, including more than a dozen battleships of level three or above. This era has not yet reached the peak of sailing warships. Before that, the early single-deck sailing warships were almost eliminated, and the era of full-sail warships began.It's just that the presence of such an aggressive class in the Ming Navy is already the configuration of the former dreadnought, which also forms an exaggerated comparison of combat power.

As an admiral of the navy, Van Gent often puts himself in the position of the opponent and considers how he should respond if he were the commander of the opponent.But at this very moment, Van Gent had no intention of putting himself in the position of the other party, because that was too scary.

The Spanish navy has not formed its own fleet at this time, obviously they also have a strong sense of uneasiness about the sudden appearance of the Ming navy fleet.

As the commander-in-chief, Bai Mingxiu, looking at the appearance of the Spanish fleet, could feel that the opponent was trying his best to disperse the battleships, so as to avoid being formed into a battle line by Da Ming's warships.

Tedman also saw the Spanish's behavior and laughed: "These Spanish guys are really out of their minds. They actually want to divide their troops at this time?"

However, Van Gent could understand the Spaniards, he said: "It seems that the Spanish Navy already knows that the Daming Navy has extremely terrible firepower, even if it is hit by one shot, it will cause the ship to sink, so they are trying to avoid clusters contact with the Ming warship."

The Dutch could see it, and Bai Mingxiu could see it even more.He has not been a fool in these years, he has learned a lot, and even his avatar of Wang Kai also has a lot of naval experience that is almost muscle memory.He knows exactly what the opponent wants to do.

"The opponent's strategy is actually in a state of being torn apart. The Spaniards know that they cannot defeat our fleet, but they can't do nothing and hand over the Mediterranean Sea to us. This contradiction caused them to send The fleet patrolled the Strait of Gibraltar, but their attitude was not firm, and after seeing us, the tactics they adopted were still this kind of tactics with a certain escape nature. However, they were indeed right. A few ships are just a few ships.”

Bai Mingxiu understood the mentality and tactics of the other party, and immediately arranged: "The whole fleet adopts the sixth formation mode, and start attacking the other party separately. Our battle goal is very clear, which is to annihilate the entire Spanish fleet!"

The 32 main battleships of the Ming Navy were divided into four ships as a small formation, and they used to cover and cooperate with each other, and attacked each other with a small battle line and multiple layers.

After the battle line of the Ming Navy cut into the battlefield at high speed, it quickly selected its enemy. The four warships turned their artillery to their sides and began to violently bombard the opponent who was separated from them by a thousand or two thousand yards.This distance made the Spaniards desperate.

The most terrifying thing is the 305mm naval guns on several battleships of the Ming Navy. These terrifying cannons with a range of more than 10 kilometers are fired at a relatively short distance. Although their rate of fire is relatively slow, their power is unparalleled of.

Van Gent and Tidelman stared at the 305mm cannons almost without blinking.There was only a bang, thick smoke came out of the cannon, and the fire burst out of the barrel like thunder, directly hitting the enemy.

Although the distance was far, after many attempts, a 305mm shell finally hit a Spanish warship directly.Both Van Gent and Tidelman anxiously held the binoculars to look at the scene over there, and that scene almost made them unforgettable for the rest of their lives.

Just like being bitten by a monster, the stern of a Spanish sailing warship was directly wiped out.Van Gent couldn't imagine what had become of the people who had been there. The ship was about to capsize almost immediately, and it looked particularly scary.

Tidelman's body felt a little chilly, and he said quietly: "This can't be called war at all!"

Van Gent uttered a sentence of embarrassment: "This is simply a war between gods and humans..."

More and more Spanish warships are being hit by Ming army artillery. Even if it is not a main gun with an abnormal caliber such as 305 mm shells, just a 155 mm caliber naval gun is enough to cause damage to these wooden-shelled sail warships. Fatally wounded.More and more Spanish sailors have appeared on the water, holding barrels and incomplete templates in an attempt to survive by floating.The Spaniards, who originally had sufficient strength, had no time to rescue the soldiers who fell into the water at this time.

In the past, it took a very long time to fight against the navies of European countries, so things like rescuing those who fell into the water could be done more calmly.But when they met Daming's giant steel ship, they couldn't even talk about persevering. Basically, it was over if they were hit.

Teideman sighed: "The Spaniards should surrender immediately. These are meaningless struggles."

Only 10 minutes after the start of the war, some Spanish ships had already hoisted the white flag, put down their sails, and stopped fleeing. Fighting is the most meaningless thing. It is courage to fight when there is a possibility of victory, but it depends on the slightest chance of victory. Without it, fighting is meaningless.

The Ming Dynasty steam warships, which were billowing black smoke, continuously sent out small formations to chase the Spanish ships trying to escape. Naturally, they could not escape. The Ming Dynasty warships with only a few knots of speed could not outrun the more than ten knots of the Ming Dynasty warships.

It was at this time that the dark clouds gradually approached this side.

Both Van Gent and Tidelman were shocked: "It's going to rain, and their artillery may not work well. This battle is coming to an end."

When the raindrops, not too big or not too small, began to fall on the sea, Van Gendt and Tidelman were surprised to find that the cannons of these Ming naval warships had no intention of stopping at all, and were still repairing the Spaniards.

"Their artillery is not afraid of water?"

"It should be, either it is well sealed, or it is really gunpowder that is not afraid of water!"

The two looked at each other, and they didn't know how many surprising things were still in Daming's pockets.

In the narrow Strait of Gibraltar, Spanish warships began to withdraw from the battle.After realizing that they could not escape at all, these Spanish naval ships began to fly the white flag under the leadership of the captain and surrendered to the Ming Navy.

At this time, someone was the happiest, none more so than the Portuguese, because according to Bai Mingxiu's agreement with them, the captured sailing warship Daming was useless and would be handed over to Portugal.

(End of this chapter)