I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 369

The Ming warships destroyed two Spanish warships face to face. They really did so.

The explosive bomb that hit the Spanish warship exploded violently. Rather than setting the Spanish warship on fire, it was better to say that it directly sank it.

"Plop~plop~~"

The two Spanish battleships were burning with flames and quickly sank to the bottom of the sea. The surviving soldiers on the battleships jumped overboard to escape.

"Boom boom boom!"

The Ming warships calmly cooperated with the Dutch fleet to surround the Spanish fleet and fired continuously at the same time.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

Another Spanish battleship was hit by a shell.

The most terrifying thing about the Spanish fleet is only three large hardwood sailing ships. The rest of the warships are small warships, not much more powerful than the Sino-Dutch coalition.

The Spaniards were completely stunned and did not dare to engage in battle.

Three Manila galleons took the lead in trying to break through, and they broke out southward.Because to the north is the Chinese fleet, which has explosive and extremely destructive artillery shells.

"No, stop these damn Spaniards quickly, don't let them escape."

Seeing this, the Dutch ignored the mysterious artillery of the Chinese fleet and hurriedly ordered the fleet to encircle them.

Behind the Spaniards, Liu Sheng also shouted an order: "Quickly, catch up with the group of big Folang robots, don't let those three big ships run away."

Liu Sheng was coveting the Spanish Manila galleon. The tonnage of those three galleons was much larger than the largest warship of the Ming Navy.

Moreover, the Manila galleon adopts a shaft wood structure as a whole, and the keel, rudder, etc. are all made of Philippine molafi wood, and then covered with solid wood on the outside.

This means that the structure of the battleship is extremely strong, and ordinary artillery shells cannot penetrate it at all.

Although the Ming Navy had many battleships, the main battleships were inherited from the Fujian Navy.In a naval battle with Spain, we have to rely on superior forces and add sugar and ammunition to catch them by surprise.

The fine nanmu wood harvested from Qiongzhou has been brewed in Fuzhou Shipping Bureau for more than a year, and the next step is to dry it in the shade.This wood will not be used to build ships for ten to eight years.

Needless to mention artificial drying and steam wood drying kilns, the former is mainly used to make furniture, regardless of whether it is reliable or not.

The latter's technical content is too high. In this time and space, it is basically equivalent to a hand-made fighter jet.

The so-called century-old navy is no joke. To tell a joke, the Danes lost the war in 1807, so they spent 200 years planting century-old hardwoods. Finally, in 2007, they informed the navy that they could receive it.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty also imported century-old teak from Ruan, Zhenla and other countries.

This is a top-notch material for shipbuilding. It was still used in World War I. It is as strong as an ironclad ship.

The Ruan family has been canonized as King Annan by the Ming Dynasty, and the Ruan family's "grandson" also wants to study in the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, he will not refuse the Ming Dynasty's request to import teak.

Anyway, those teak trees are basically of no use to Ruan.

The French turned this place into a protectorate, partly because of the centuries-old teak trees on Nguyen's territory.

"Boom boom boom!"

After the Ming fleet approached the Spanish fleet, they fired intensively.

Many shells were fired directly into the sea due to insufficient distance and lack of accuracy.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

Among the rumbling sounds of cannons was the violent explosion on the sea.

The already uncalm sea surface was stunned by the cannonballs, creating the scene of huge waves.

"Boom boom boom!"

Although the Spanish fleets were escaping, they did not forget to fire at the Ming fleet that was pursuing and encircling them from behind.

But it was useless, not to mention that the Spanish warships were already few, and they were caught off guard and instantly lost three ships.

The Spaniards on the other battleships had long been stunned, and they were all rushing to break out of the encirclement at this moment.

The formation could no longer be maintained. It was only due to the encirclement and the need to follow the three main sailing ships that they managed to get together.

With such sparse firepower, the command system was close to a semi-failed state, and it had no effect at all against the encircling Sino-Dutch coalition fleet.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Another Spanish warship was hit by intensive artillery fire.

Although the hit was not an explosive shell, it was extremely unlucky to be hit by the ship's mast, and one shell even penetrated the cabin.

Once the mast was broken and water continued to seep into the holey cabin, the warship was considered useless.

The Spaniards on board jumped ship skillfully and escaped, and there was no danger of coexisting with the battleship.

On the other side, the encircled Dutch were already engaged in a boarding battle with the Spanish.

These Dutch navy were not afraid of death. They braved the Spanish muskets and forcibly joined gangs to fight.

This was the case in the Age of Discovery. The army was basically stationed in local areas. It was very difficult to suppress the indigenous people, but they often failed to win.

The navy is engaged in war every day, especially the outrageous Dutch.

That sentence is reversed: What a weak army!

The naval battle on Mindoro Island lasted less than two hours. The Spanish fleet was almost wiped out. Four of the 12 warships were forcibly sunk by the Ming fleet. The rest were killed by the Chinese and Dutch coalition forces in a gang fight with their numerical advantage. .

"Quick! Charge over forcefully. Don't charge at the Chinese fleet. They are all pagans and have devil's weapons. Go and charge at the warships of the natives and the Dutch." Spanish commander Fernando shouted.

Three Spanish galleons ran rampant against the encirclement.

The largest 1000-ton sailing ship even relied on its tonnage advantage to ram and sink three old Bruneian warships on the spot.

There is no way to fight a boarding battle, because this kind of large sailing ship is too tall and can have several decks.

If a boarding battle is forced, it can easily turn into a siege battle.The Spaniards on the large sailing ship only needed to stand down, raise their muskets and shoot, and they could block the attacking Sino-Dutch coalition forces.

"Surround it, fire, and sink it. Don't let it escape!"

Liu Sheng was also decisive. He knew that he could not keep this 1000-ton sailing ship, so he simply could not let him escape, which would only increase the threat.

"Boom boom boom!"

"Boom boom boom!"

The artillery of the Chinese-Dutch coalition fleet surrounded it and bombarded the 1000-ton Spanish galleon, which was also the main flagship.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

Under the violent explosion, accompanied by intensive artillery bombardment, even the solid structure covered with century-old hardwood could not withstand such bombing.

The power of sugar bombs was so great that many of them were hit into the sea and exploded underwater.

Such power is almost equivalent to a weakened version of depth bombs.

In later generations, even warships covered with iron armor were completely unable to withstand depth charges.

The keel of this 1000-ton sailing ship was directly blown out of shape, and several huge holes were opened in the cabin by the explosion. A large amount of seawater seeped into the cabin.

The Spanish galleon, which was almost the top warship of this era, was destroyed by the Ming army's indiscriminate bombardment.

The Dutch commander De Wit witnessed the war personally and quickly wrote to the governor, informing the Dutch in Batavia that the Chinese emperor was invincible.

That kind of mysterious weapon that looks like a devil is not something that the Netherlands can compete with.

The main flagship was sunk, and the remaining two Spanish galleons finally lost their will to fight.

They did not surrender, but chose to disperse and break out. Even commander Fernando was on the main sailing ship.

Naturally, the Chinese and Dutch coalition forces could not let go, so they quickly led the fleet to encircle and pursue them.

The indigenous coalition fleets of Brunei and Sulu also saw the situation clearly and rushed to intercept and block the attack regardless of casualties.

The encirclement and blocking battle lasted less than an hour. The two Spanish galleons of [-] tons and [-] tons finally had no way to escape after successively ramming and sinking a Brunei warship and three Sulu warships.

Because the Chinese and Dutch coalition fleets surrounded them.

　Shipbuilding wood should be soaked in water for a long time to prevent it from drying out and cracking.

　　Wood can only be dried in the shade, as it will easily crack when dried in the sun.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)