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Colonel Solo is also a battle-tested veteran of the Portuguese navy, and he can see through the reaction of the Ming army navy at a glance.

But precisely because of this, the contempt that Colonel Solo originally had in his heart also disappeared. Apart from other things, the courage of the Ming army to stand up to the artillery fire and insist on approaching at this moment is beyond the reach of ordinary people. own.

The most important thing is that under the bombardment of the artillery fire, the top and bottom of the Ming army's navy was able to withstand the pressure brought by the artillery fire without a single person actively firing. This is enough to show the strict discipline of the Ming navy.

"This is definitely a naval team that should not be underestimated! I don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse for the Kingdom of Portugal to provoke the Ming people!"

Almost instantly, Colonel Solo had such thoughts and thoughts in his mind.

However, at the same time that such thoughts flashed in Solo's mind, the distance between the two sides further narrowed, and almost all the fleets on the Portuguese side began to fire at this time. Splashing water column.

As the attacked party, the Daming Navy is obviously suffering from an extremely severe test at this time, and many ships are rapidly approaching the Portuguese fleet under the bombardment of artillery fire.

Under the Portuguese bombardment, the ships of the Daming Navy obviously suffered casualties. Some ships were hit by shells. Being hit by several shells at the same time can persist for a period of time without sinking.

More than a dozen ships were hit more or less, but most of them just punched a big hole on the deck, and the soldiers on the ship, apart from a little panic, collapsed under the restraint of the general in charge of the ship. Nothing went wrong either.

However, on almost all the ships of the Ming Dynasty, the cannons of each door have already aimed their muzzles at the ships of the Portuguese fleet ahead.

Li Huan, who stands on the flagship, is at the core of the fleet. Although there are shells flying by from time to time, in comparison, most of the Portuguese's attack targets are rushing to the front ships. If the ship goes there, it will not threaten the safety of Li Huan's flagship.

Looking at the dark Portuguese fleet in front of him, a stern look flashed in Li Huan's eyes and he said to Zhang Huai beside him: "Order to fight back!"

Zhang Huai, who had already been unable to restrain himself, immediately yelled at the orderling: "Send the order, order all the ships to fight back, and sink all these barbarian ships for me."

Soon after the flag bearer played the semaphore, the order spread to all the ships in the entire fleet at an extremely fast speed. Almost at the moment of receiving the order, all the generals on the ships that had already been in full battle immediately ordered The soldiers fired.

There was a rumbling sound in an instant, and hundreds of thousands of artillery pieces almost roared together, and the sound of shelling at that moment gathered together, like thunder.

A piece of gunpowder smoke can be seen above the sea surface, as if smoke is rising from the sea.

It has to be said that the number of onboard artillery of the Ming Navy Fleet is absolutely astonishing. The total number of artillery in the entire fleet is more than a thousand, and such a volley fired thousands of shells.

On the side of the Portuguese, what they saw was that along with the counterattack of the Ming Navy, countless shells suddenly flew in front of them, and these shells fell like rain.

The artillerymen of the Daming Navy have a very high hit rate. You must know that Li Huan allocated a lot of money for the training of the navy. If a gunner can't hit a high hit rate, he is not qualified to board the ship and become a hard-qualified gunner.

The rigorous training in daily life was immediately highlighted. Among the thousands of shells, at least nearly a hundred shells hit the targets they locked.

In an instant, dozens of ships in the Portuguese fleet became unlucky, and violent explosions and ignited flames suddenly came from each ship.

Unlike the solid ammunition fired by the Portuguese, what the Ming army fired was the flowering ammunition newly developed by Ming.

After improving the performance of the gunpowder, although the explosion power of the explosive ammo modified by Daming is far lower than Li Huan's expectation, its destructive power far exceeds that of the solid ammunition, at least meeting the needs of the navy.

Just like now, after the explosive bombs hit the Portuguese ship one after another, some of them smashed through the deck and fell into the cabin like solid bullets, and some of them were either embedded in the deck or Just rubbing the hull and falling into the sea.

But when the flowering bombs that fell into the cabin or embedded on the deck exploded, they caused secondary damage to the Portuguese ship.

The ships of this era are completely made of wood. It is conceivable that when the flower bomb explodes, even if it cannot blow up a ship, it can still blow up a big hole.

Many Portuguese were directly stunned by the sudden explosion. Blossom bombs are no strangers to Portugal, a Western maritime military power, but the power of Blossom bombs is so touching that even the navy I have no interest in flower bombs.

However, this time facing the Ming army's explosive bombs, it made them truly see the destructive power of the explosive bombs.

Colonel Solo was not bad luck. Although the warship he was on was quite eye-catching, he was not shot in this round of shelling, but Colonel Solo could clearly see a ship tens of meters away. The scene where a ship is hit by a flowering shell and explodes at the same time.

Several Portuguese soldiers were directly injured by the fragments blown by the flowering bomb and fell on the deck, wailing mournfully, which directly affected the morale of the rest of the soldiers on board.

"How is this possible? Why are the shells of these Ming people so powerful? The hit rate of their soldiers is almost comparable to that of the most elite soldiers in our army."

Solo looked at the damaged ships around with an unbelievable expression on his face.

But before Solo digested what he saw, there was a continuous roar from the Ming Fleet, and another round of shelling struck.

Colonel Solo came back to his senses, and ordered all the ships to disperse with a solemn expression, and fought fiercely with Daming.

The Portuguese side reacted quickly enough, and soon spread out from gathering together, and surrounded the Ming army fleet in a fan shape. However, in response to the Portuguese reaction, the Ming army side seemed very calm and did not change their formation. , but the output of accelerated firepower.

The distance between the two sides is only a few hundred feet away, and even with good eyesight, they can clearly see the situation on the enemy ship in the distance.

In the midst of gunpowder smoke, cannonballs were flying all over the sky, falling down one by one, like a sickle for life.

The two sides have hundreds of ships in total, such a large-scale naval battle is definitely the first time in the South Seas, and it is also the first large-scale naval battle between the East and the West.

Of course, relatively speaking, in this battle, although the Portuguese said that there was a regular navy fleet involved, it was only a part of the fleet sent by the Governor of India after all. Although there are quite a few ships of the forces, they are obviously inferior to the real and regular navy of Ming Dynasty.

This point can be clearly seen from the gap between the two sides in terms of firepower output and the military literacy displayed by the soldiers after the two sides entered a state of intense firefighting.

There was a loud bang, and a Portuguese ship seemed to be detonated by a shell, and the gunpowder barrel exploded directly from the cabin, bursting with dazzling flames, and the several-foot-long hull was directly broken from it. It sank at an extremely fast speed.

There are burning ships all over the sea, and many ships are trying to extinguish the flames while shelling hard. On the deck, you can see fallen corpses everywhere. It can be said that the scene is extremely bloody and tragic.

Standing at the bow of the ship, Li Huan was watching the naval battle from a distance under the protection of several personal soldiers. After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, both sides had their own ships sunk, among which the Portuguese sank. There were as many as twenty or thirty ships, but the Ming army also had ships sunk, but in comparison, there were less than ten ships, and the ratio of battle damage between the two sides was almost one to four.

Zhang Huai, who was dressed in military attire, said to Li Huan with excitement on his face, "My lord, the Portuguese are definitely not our opponents this time. In one or two hours, we will be able to wipe them all out."

At this time, anyone who is not a fool can see that the Portuguese are already at an absolute disadvantage.

Li Huan was not surprised at all and said calmly: "If I can't even take down these pirates, then wouldn't all the money and materials my Daming invested in the navy be in vain?"

In Li Huan's view, it was normal for the Daming Navy to annihilate the Portuguese forces in Manga, and it would be strange if it failed.

While speaking, he suddenly saw that many ships in the Portuguese fleet that had been desperately resisting on the opposite side began to turn around and flee towards the distance.

"No, these barbarians want to escape!"

Seeing such a situation, Zhang Huai couldn't help exclaiming.

Li Huan smiled lightly: "Even if they escape, where can they escape?"

Even if some of these Portuguese escaped, as Da Ming won this battle, then Nanyang would fall into the hands of Da Ming, and then Da Ming would start to control the entire Nanyang. The navy wiped it out, or fled Nanyang by itself.

It's just the vast sea. If there is not enough supplies, even if you want to escape, you can't escape too far.

After all, these Portuguese came out to fight in a hurry, but the ship didn't even have the most basic supplies, and there was nothing to eat and drink. Even the hardened people couldn't bear it.

Needless to say, Scarlett, the one-eyed man, Earl Hevens and others were the first to run away. These people saw that the situation was not good, and almost instinctively made the move to run away.

But they didn't know that their actions directly harmed Solo's main fleet. After all, the Portuguese fleet at this time was completely dominated by the Portuguese naval fleet brought by Colonel Solo, supplemented by Earl Hevens and his men.

Now that Earl Hevens and the others are escaping, those people under them have been frightened by the fierce artillery fire of the Daming Navy. Earl Vince and the others followed suit.

This escape naturally put Colonel Solo's men in a trap.

After all, it is the regular troops of the Portuguese Navy. At least when they did not receive the military order to retreat, these regular Portuguese navy troops were still fighting desperately with the Daming Navy.

In the twinkling of an eye, the Portuguese side, which was already at a disadvantage, dropped by more than half, leaving only dozens of ships under Colonel Solo still barely supporting the situation.

However, with the artillery of hundreds of ships from the Daming Navy aiming at the ships of Solo's subordinates, amidst the sound of gunfire, one Portuguese ship after another began to be hit and set on fire or to be sunk directly. .

Colonel Solo gritted his teeth watching this scene and ordered to his subordinates: "Send the order, everyone will disperse and escape, and one can be counted as one."

Now that it is confirmed that this battle has been lost, what Colonel Solo has to consider is how to preserve the ships under his command as much as possible. The strength displayed by these Ming navy divisions is too amazing, and this is only an hour In a short period of time, their side was completely defeated.

Just looking at the strength displayed by the Daming Navy, Colonel Solo feels that the strength of the Daming Navy is no worse than Portugal's local fleet.

Even if the Portuguese native fleet is pulled out to fight the Ming army fleet in front of it, even if it wants to win, it may be a miserable victory.

The strength of the Great Ming Navy made Solo feel extremely uneasy. It was nothing more than a Spain competing with Portugal in the sea. As a result, a stronger Ming Dynasty suddenly appeared in the east. This news must be reported to the Governor of India as soon as possible. , Let the nobles in the country know the whole story of this battle.

With such thoughts in mind, Colonel Solo chose to escape with the ship without hesitation.

As the Portuguese fled in all directions, Li Huan also ordered the ships to disperse and pursue the fleeing Portuguese.

Soon, on the surface of the sea outside the Strait of Malacca, within a radius of tens of miles, the navy of the Ming army could be seen everywhere chasing the Spanish ships that fled in embarrassment.

This pursuit battle lasted from noon to evening, until no more Portuguese ships were seen above the sea, and the pursuing Ming army navy gathered towards the port in the Straits of Malacca.

At this time, the Portuguese staying in the ports in the Strait of Malacca had already been overwhelmed by the results of the naval battle. They never thought that hundreds of warships would fight, but only a few dozen ships fled back. It can be described as a complete defeat. .

In the port, a group of people headed by the Earl of Hevens and others looked like ants on a hot pot, watching the dark Ming army fleet approaching the port. With those crude coastal defense artillery resisting, they still choose to surrender directly to save their lives.

[There is one day left, and those who have a monthly pass will be smashed, please. 】