Chapter 465
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For some reason, Wang Wei felt that something was not right.
No, that's not right. A battleship had already reached this stage. Just like a dying warrior, knowing that he could not survive, a brave warrior would choose to abandon everything and drag someone down with him. Only then would he be worthy of being a warrior.
However, this warship was acting like a coward. It had already reached this stage and still wanted to escape. It was a disgrace to its identity as a warship.
Wang Wei was extremely dissatisfied. He felt that this was an insult to the warship, an insult to naval warfare. Hence, he pushed away a gunner and personally operated a cannon. He loaded a solid bullet into it and used the front sight and the method that Xiao Ruxun had trained them to aim, trying his best to increase his accuracy.
"Shoot that ship down!!!"
Wang Wei shouted.
More than a dozen cannons roared again. The heavy solid bullets rolled up a hot and violent air current and rushed towards the tottering warship.
One shot, two shots, three shots, four shots, five shots!
The accuracy of the cannons was a little unsatisfactory. It was the same on the road and on the sea. When the distance was extended, it was unknown where the cannons could fly to. The flintlock muskets could be used to increase the accuracy, but Wang Wei did not know how to increase the accuracy of the cannons.
Xiao Ruxun knew, but one or two of these cannons were meaningless to the battle. The old craftsmen did not seem to have any good ideas.
Forget it, I'll leave it at that. That ship is finished anyway, isn't it? The five cannons were the last straw that broke the camel's back. Five solid bullets hit the ship and set off a wave of air.
It was unknown whether or not it had hit the final vital point. Accompanied by a wave of vibration, the ship actually split open from the middle. The two sides of the ship actually tilted to the sides and slowly sank, forming a small whirlpool around it.
It seemed that someone had tried to escape from the ship with a small boat. Unfortunately, they were sucked into the whirlpool and could not escape. They sank together in the bottomless sea. The surrounding Spanish warships did not dare to rescue them … That was true. No one wanted to be dragged into hell by this giant ship.
"Hahahahaha! We hit it!!! "
Wang Wei was overjoyed and shouted with the surrounding soldiers. The Ming Army had sunk another Spanish warship. Their victory increased again. They could imagine the glory and money they would get when they returned. They could drink and eat meat, and enjoy to their heart's content.
Perhaps it was a symbol, but after the ship was sunk, the surrounding Spanish warships completely lost their will to fight and tried to escape.
Wang Wei saw that they were all trying to escape. He immediately ordered his B Squadron to follow them closely and not allow them to escape. He chased them with all his strength until they sank.
The Spanish's counterattack became weak. They seemed to only want to escape. Facing the fierce Ming Army, they did not retaliate as firmly as before. Wang Wei himself did not understand what was going on.
The main fleet was fleeing the battlefield. Very quickly, the Spanish fleet that was fighting with the Ming gunships seemed to realize something and started to retreat. In an instant, their morale and fighting spirit were greatly diminished. Their formation was also in disarray. The Ming army, who was fighting bitterly, was confused.
Jiang Dahai was equally perplexed. Looking at the sudden change in the battlefield, Xiao Ruxun was also a little surprised.
However, taking advantage of the enemy's weakness was the six-syllable mantra that Xiao Ruxun had passed to the navy. One could not be soft-hearted on the battlefield. As long as it was an enemy, they had to attack them until they died. They had to do everything possible to eliminate them and not give them any chance to live or take revenge in the future.
Jiang Dahai deeply understood Xiao Ruxun's six-syllable mantra and used it as his guiding ideology. He attacked the enemy ferociously and rarely captured captives. Basically, he would shoot the remaining soldiers after sinking the warships to death or fish them up to cut off their heads for silver. He had never let them go.
Wasn't this the right time?
Therefore, Jiang Dahai and Xiao Ruxun looked at each other and nodded.
"Pursue relentlessly! Attack relentlessly! Until all of them sink!! "
The Ming Army's flagship gave the second general attack order. The majestic drumming once again rang through the entire battlefield. All the Spanish people were horrified to find that the Ming Army did not stop chasing and cheered for victory because of their retreat. Instead, they pressed forward even more ferociously, looking like they wanted to fight to the death with them again.
Not only were the cannons of the Ming Army sharp, more importantly, their guns were even sharper. After a few Ming Army warships caught up with their warships, they not only used cannons to shoot, but also used guns to shoot. They didn't know how they could shoot so accurately with guns. One shot landed on the top of their heads, killing them with one shot.
One tried to escape to the port while the other chased crazily. The battle finally became a one-sided situation.
The resistance of the last Spanish warship ended when the sun was setting. When Xiao Ruxun could already see the coastline with the telescope, the last round of bombardment from the Ming Army finally sent the last Spanish warship into the depths of the sea.
So far, except for the five Spanish warships that fled in a panic without knowing which direction the Ming Army could not chase, the Ming Army had sunk more than forty Spanish warships in total. They basically destroyed the Spanish Philippine Alliance Fleet and captured a large Spanish warship.
Speaking of which, the reason why this large warship was captured was quite funny. The reason was that the native Filipino sailors on the ship didn't want to die, so they collectively rebelled.
They used the advantage of numbers to kill most of the Spanish soldiers who resisted. Then they captured the leaders of the ship and took control of the entire ship. Then they surrendered to the Ming Army.
After Xiao Ruxun brought all the Chinese back to Myanmar, there were no more Chinese sailors in the Philippine Islands to be recruited.
The Spanish had no manpower. Their people had to be used as marines to attack, but they still needed sailors to drive the ships. They had no choice but to bribe the native tribal leaders with large amounts of money in exchange for their support.
Those leaders were greedy for money and sent their own people to help. In the end, they didn't expect that this group of people would be so unlucky. Not only did almost all the Spanish people lose their lives, but a large number of native Filipino sailors also lost their lives.
Only the native sailors on this ship were brave. Seeing that they were going to sink to the bottom of the sea to be fed to the fish like those people, they were unwilling to accept their fate. They didn't want to be fed to the fish, so they thought of ways to survive.
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