Chapter 62 Naval Battle (2)
From the beginning, the naval battle was in an endless fierce battle. Without temptation or tactics, the two sides fought to death and poured out the firepower of the entire ship.
In terms of number, pirate ships were obviously more than the Spanish. Even if they added armed merchant ships, the Spanish Navy had only twenty warships of all sizes, while the pirates had more than eighty three-masted large ships, which did not include various small and medium-sized ships.
But in terms of quality, whether it is the size of the hull or the number of artillery guns, the pirates or the Ming Navy are not opponents of the same level at all.
Although the Ming army's three-masted lucky ships or pirate ships can carry twenty or thirty cannons, due to the ship's load and artillery technology gap, the heavy cannons prepared on the Ming army and pirate ships are about ten pounds of artillery, such as cannons above twenty pounds, and they dare not even imagine them.
The Spanish are different. Like the navy of the same period, Spanish warships prepared all artillery, including cannons, and a second-class battleship could carry thirty to forty artillery pieces.
Even the Spindle cannons used for close-range killing personnel, the Spaniards are not counted in the total number of artillery artillery, because they weigh only one to two pounds.
The Ming army was the largest warship of pirates, and all the artillery were only thirty or forty.
In addition to the gap in artillery technology and the amount of gunpowder loading, the Spanish Navy's firepower gained the upper hand for a moment.
"Fire the fire! Nimnanma, shoot it right! Fight me!"
On a pirate ship, a pirate leader cursed and was directing the cannons on the ship to continuously bombard the Spanish warship not far away.
One after another, shells flew out in the roar and bursts of black smoke, hitting heavily at the Spanish warships.
Although the single ship's firepower is far inferior to the Spanish, it cannot withstand the number of pirate ships.
Although more than 20 warships have been injured or sunk, a large number of pirate ships are still firing shells at Spanish battleships.
The hull of the Spanish warship is extremely strong, and it is wrapped in copper at the weak lower part of the ship to enhance the strength of the hull.
In addition, the Spanish sailing ships were much higher than those of pirates, so the pirate's artillery still had a feint attack.
As a result, many shells hit the Spanish warships, but did not cause much damage to the Spanish warships.
On the other hand, the Spaniard's warship had extremely strong firepower. It bit several pirate ships on one side and flew overwhelmed with shells. It immediately fired several pirate ships rushing in front. One was even hit directly by three 32-pound heavy cannons, and was interrupted in two pieces and quickly sank into the cold sea water.
"Boss, the war hull of the Red-haired Ghost is too hard and it won't be sunk." A pirate leader on the Black Flag Gang's ship shouted at Li Tianyou.
Not to mention that the three Spanish battleships present had no obvious scars and their firepower did not diminish. However, in a short while, more than a dozen large ships rushing up either caught fire, or only canvas and pieces of broken corpses were left floating on the sea.
"hard?"
"No matter how hard you are, you have to fight! I will beat you hard! I won't believe it. Will this red-haired ghost ship be sunk?" Li Tianyou gritted his teeth and looked at the Spanish warship in front of him. At this moment, his eyes were red.
But as soon as he finished speaking, a shell from a Spanish warship roared over and wiped his head and flew over.
Li Tianyou's mind was stunned and his ears were buzzing.
He looked back and saw that the pirate leader who was yelling with him in front was gone, and there was only a vague mass of flesh and blood on the deck.
As for the shell that did not land on the main ship, it flew directly over, otherwise it would have been as simple as a pirate leader's death.
"Nimunanma," even the leader of the Black Flag Gang who had been licking blood on the knife for many years was frightened by this sudden shot and couldn't help but curse at the Spanish in the distance.
"Boss, the ship of the Hailong Gang ran away." Suddenly, a word Li Tianyou didn't want to hear came after all.
He grabbed the pirate who reported the news tightly.
"What did you say?"
"Old, boss, look at it yourself," the pirate was stunned, and his fingers trembled and pointed at a distance.
General Scoll's plan finally came true.
These pirates themselves are just a group of bandits who plundered outside Luzon's seas.
They are strong in fighting merchant ships and robbing and setting fire.
This time, in order to attack Lavag, plundering Lavag's wealth led to the group of sea thieves uniting. As soon as they reached the city of Lavag, they were killed and injured by three battleships led by Admiral Scoll.
Not to mention that the Spanish Navy has more than a dozen warships of all kinds behind it.
How to fight this?
Many pirates have already given up.
As more than ten large ships of the Yulong Gang slowly sailed away from the Spanish warships and fled to the south,
A large group of maritime forces such as the Blood Shark Gang followed suit and began to gradually get out of the entanglement of Spanish battleships.
"General, Admiral Critis sent a signal flag, and the pirates are retreating." An adjutant reported the battle to General Scoll.
"Order the Crites to pursue immediately, and at the same time raise the order flag to order the subsequent fleet to encircle them. I will completely deal with these thieves in the Luzon waters once and for all." Admiral Scoll looked at the pirate ship that was fleeing in the distance and ordered.
The pirate ship that was about to escape south was instantly crushed by Spanish warships again; the Spanish with strong ships and powerful guns had already beaten these pirates to great pain. Who would have thought that a pirate fleet of more than 100 ships of all sizes would be crushed by just three Spanish warships.
Just like three wolf into a flock of sheep,
I thought that attacking Lavag was just a life of no effort and promise, but I was beaten to suffer heavy losses. Why didn't these pirates furious?
Now, I thought I couldn't beat it, so I could just run away.
As a result, these Spaniards didn't even leave a chance to escape, and they were baptized by a cannon.
It's a clay man, not to mention these pirates who have been domineering and arrogant all year round.
"Damn it, so many brothers have died, you don't even give me a way out for survival, you're so cruel."
"Go to their mother, brothers, they are all arrogant. Who is afraid of whom?"
"I don't believe that this red-haired ghost has used a magic trick and hit me."
These pirates have always been ruthless, watching the pirate ships around them being sunk one by one,
The brothers who had been licking blood on the edge of the knife for many years were killed by the Spanish artillery fire, and they were not even left for them to live.
The fear in everyone's heart was replaced by incomparable anger.
Chapter completed!