open sea

Chapter 394 Shipwreck
What Lin Manjue was facing was a 30-meter-long three-masted galleon with a load of [-] tons and a two-masted armed merchant ship. The size of Spanish ships has always been huge like a castle on the sea. But huge.

But he is not afraid, not only because Lin Manjue's fleet still has five [-]-barrel shark ships equipped with eleven cannons, but also because after approaching through the binoculars, he found that the enemy's gun positions were not full, and even It is also much less full of artillery than him.

In fact, he was wrong. The three-masted galleon had no fewer guns than him, and the largest caliber guns were larger than his, but the smallest caliber guns, which were numerous, were also much smaller.

Lin Manjue was the first to spot the enemy ship, and was stuck in the direction that it must pass to intercept. When the Xiyi warship approached within [-] miles, they hadn't spotted them yet, but when the two sides entered ten miles, the sight of the five hundred shark ship was huge. There is no way to escape the inspection of the naked eye.

These two ships are the offshore patrols of the New Spanish army after they landed in Guam. There are only six ships like this, and there were seven ships a few months ago. However, under the command of the commander, there is a fleet exploring the Philippine Islands westward. Once the situation is gone, there are only six teams left.

No heroic Spanish commander would assign too many fleets off the coast of Guam, and no one would worry about the enemy thousands of miles away. The most important meaning of the cruise team is to help the troop carrier when it is in trouble. information.

The league is an ancient sea and land measurement unit used in Spain, Portugal and other places. One league is usually four Roman miles, which is three nautical miles at sea, which is 500 meters, and 800 meters on land.

There are many large ships in Guam, but these large ships are now used to transport troops to and from the original home island of the Polynesians, that is, the Hawaiian Islands. There are too many of them in New Spain who can’t drive a ship and get dizzy when they get on the ship recruits.

Servant Army is what Chen Mu calls them, but the Spaniards don’t see it that way. Even if it’s a colony, even if people are classified according to skin color, race, and place of origin, without exception, regardless of Spain or New Spain, No matter which ethnic group or country they belonged to in the past, they are all Spaniards now, and the recruited troops are naturally all Spanish soldiers.

In fact, the governor of New Spain did not receive Chen Mu's letter of claim to King Philip II, nor did Philip's letter be sent to New Spain, and when he sent people to Japan and the Philippines to investigate, the army had not yet been dispatched. Almost at the same time as Chen Bazhi went to Hirado Island, the Spaniards began to transport troops from New Spain to Guam.

The Ming Dynasty has always been in the eyes of the governor of New Spain, but as the largest source of raw materials and handicrafts, the Americas have not been completely settled down, so there has been no war.

Interestingly speaking, Daming is like a cave with a closed stone door. When the Spaniards walked to the door, they felt that there must be a lot of treasures hidden inside. Only [-] soldiers could conquer Daming and have everything.

Later, some people thought that the stone gate was too heavy, and at least [-] soldiers were required to open it.

Later, Chen Mu destroyed everything that the Governor of the Philippines had on the island, which made the Governor of New Spain discover that there was an evil dragon in the cave, and it even rushed out!
Now he doesn't want to send many soldiers to conquer Daming, he just wants to send Chen Mu back to the cave.

Unexpectedly, the minions of this evil dragon had already stretched to his left and right.

In the waters near Guam, Lin Manjue fought a fierce and exhausting battle, but it was also very easy to win.

The Spanish three-masted galleons and armed merchant ships fired at his fleet with huge prow stone-shooting cannons three miles away. This kind of bronze artillery is powerful, but it is limited by the irregular grinding of stone bullets and extremely poor long-distance shooting accuracy. Can't even hit the root hair.

The big shark boat sailed in a line formation all the way, and when the distance between the two sides approached within two miles, the soldiers on the big sailboat who drank too much sugarcane rum were eager to try and drove in at full speed, hoping to jump gangs to decide the victory, the big shark boat He suddenly turned the rudder to the right, and blasted out all twelve side string guns at a distance of [-] steps.

The line-array Shark flotilla that followed it also threw dense shells in almost the same direction.

The distance was close enough, so that the line salvo was nearly half accurate. More than ten five-pound shells bombarded the bow and the right deck of the enemy ship, smashing the bow elephant to pieces, especially the ten-pound heavy artillery equipped by the big shark ship. After breaking through two layers of walls and rolling down on the deck, the terrible power of continuing to kill and injure the enemy caused the morale of the Spanish soldiers to plummet.

What is really desperate is that the artillery is difficult to aim, and the speed is far behind the big scull and the shark boat. When the line array bites the big sailboat for the third time, Lin Manjue, who is eager to win, puts the big shark boat in five Parallel to the enemy ship within ten steps, a confrontation bombardment was almost head-to-head.

The three ten-pound cannons on the waterline all hit the opponent's ship plank, and made two terrible holes. The five-pound cannon on the upper deck also blasted the sail with shotguns, and then led the team to chase after the fleeing ship without looking back. Armed merchant ships.

When the five small shark ships fired from the enemy's side and sailed away, many battalions on board looked back at the battered three-masted galleon sinking slowly.

Lin Manjue, standing on the bow of the ship and chasing after him as a victor, was not very handsome. His mainmast was built into the mast by a shell, and he didn't notice it during the battle. When he chased the mast for a ride at full speed, it snapped and smashed heavily. On the ship's plank, even relying on the sub-mast alone can't move fast, and can only watch the armed merchant ship go farther and farther.

So he fought very tiredly, because until Hangxin arrived in Guam, his flagship was rowed vigorously by big oars, and the two large grain ships were pulled by cables to borrow strength.

Although the battle was won, the big shark ship was severely damaged, and more than a dozen sailors died on board, which made Lin Manjue feel bitter.

According to his estimate, the galleons that were their enemies only had eighty to ninety people.It is written in the western seamen's art of war captured by Chen Mu that 90 tons is equipped with one sailor, and soldiers are added during wartime. Even if the ship is fully loaded, it will not exceed [-] people.

The situation left to him is very embarrassing. He has soldiers, guns, luggage, and water and food, but the big ship is unbearable. If the team catches up with him, based on his combat strength alone, if the enemy sends three large sailing ships of that kind, they will not only be able to defeat him, but also capture him.

If you don't go back, should you continue to land on the island?

Lin Manjue moved his mind, and sent two small shark boats to chase the armed merchant ships all the way to the port, and then sailed north. After the enemy was out of sight, he went west and went south in a large circle. He led the fleet in the sea area south of the port. After waiting for a whole night, he joined his subordinates the next day and continued sailing to the south of Guam, half a circle around the island, and ran aground on a wild beach with no port on its east side.

"Ten of you, take two months of rations and drive back to Dafu. The big ship can't be repaired, so we unload the guns and sink it in the open sea. We put away the mast of the small shark boat, buckle it up and cover it with turf and hide it. Fortress, keep an eye on the situation, and when you go back, you must tell the commander, Lin is here waiting for the commander to lead the army to attack!"

(End of this chapter)