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The three warships completely ignored the opponent's bombardment, and the hitting firepower bombarded more than 100 shells.

Even if only half of the shells hit one of the enemy warships, the wooden hull of the United Fleet would be blown apart and sink to the bottom of the sea in an instant.

Zheng Chenggong's aggressive style of attack was something that the United Fleet had never encountered before, but they relied on the superiority of the battleships and dumped thousands of shells on the Daming iron-clad battleship.

Almost at the same time, the warships of the United Fleet on the two wings of the Ming army also entered the range of their naval guns, and they began to bombard the iron-clad warships of the Ming army from three directions.

Fifteen ships vs. 120 ships, the gap is too great. Fortunately, all of Daming's battleships are iron-clad warships, otherwise they must have sunk to the bottom of the sea.

For a while, shells rained down on the warships of the Ming army, and some shells occasionally hit the gun ports of the iron-clad battleships, which caused some casualties to the Ming army.

Feeling that he had won the battle, Colonel Netherland immediately stepped onto the deck of Figaro and waved to the Netherland flagship Barcelona. He wanted to take advantage of the chaos to capture the warship of the Ming army.

Zheng Chenggong saw that twenty warships had been sunk by the opponent, but they were still attacking frantically without retreating at all, so he grabbed the walkie-talkie:

"Shi Lang, you can launch an attack."

"Yes"

The eight warships led by Shi Lang have come three nautical miles away from the United Fleet. The United Fleet never thought that Da Ming would have warship support.

The United Fleet observation post only looked at the battlefield ahead, and didn't pay attention to what was behind them.

However, the warships led by Shi Lang quietly approached the United Fleet and formed a battle formation two miles away. The direction they were in was still downwind.

Shi Lang picked up the binoculars and took a look. Instead of ordering to fire, he sent an order to release [-] small merchant ships behind them. More precisely, they were the arson ships arranged by Zheng Chenggong.

These merchant ships are not very big, the largest tonnage is less than [-] tons, and they are full of sails. When the wind is downwind, they are very fast, already close to ten knots.

Following Shi Lang's order, [-] arson ships quickly sailed towards the joint fleet. Each ship contained five Ming navy troops, and their task was to ignite the fire.

Thirty arson ships were one nautical mile away from the United Fleet. At this time, the United Fleet finally found the thirty arson ships behind them and rushed to report:

"Report, dozens of small merchant ships suddenly appeared behind the fleet."

Seeing that the United Fleet had gained the upper hand, the Spanish commander was complacent, when he suddenly heard a merchant ship attacking behind the fleet.

Garcelo hastily raised the binoculars, in fact, he could see clearly without a binoculars.

Sure enough, he found dozens of small merchant ships approaching. After carefully looking at the configuration of the merchant ships, he didn't find a single artillery piece, so Gasello relaxed his vigilance.

"It doesn't matter, they are all ordinary merchant ships. If they continue to approach, they will be sunk directly..."

Halfway through Garcelo's words, he suddenly saw thick smoke coming out from behind the merchant ship, and his face changed immediately.

This guy was sweating at the time. He didn't know how many Ming warships were behind the merchant ship, so he immediately ordered to sink the merchant ship:

"Hurry up, there is a Ming warship behind the merchant ship, bombard the merchant ship immediately, and don't let the sails of the merchant ship block our sight."

"Yes"

The United Fleet has more than 100 warships, and the flagships of the two captain commanders are all behind the fleet.

If the Ming army were to fire from behind, Garcelo would be terrified even thinking about it. Others could die, but he absolutely couldn't.

The eight warships led by Shi Lang were behind the arsonist ship, all of which were blocked by the arsonist ship's sails. The combined fleet could only find the Ming warships by sinking the merchant ships.

"ignition"

Before the United Fleet fired, Shi Lang gave the order to fire.

After receiving the order, the Ming army on board immediately ignited the withered grass in the cabin, which was covered with sulfur and gunpowder, and it ignited immediately.

After igniting the arson boat, the Ming army immediately jumped off the sea and swam to the rear.

As soon as they jumped into the sea, the merchant ship burst into flames and rushed towards the sailing battleship of the United Fleet.

"Crack..."

Seeing the merchant ship on fire, Gasello dropped the single-tube telescope on the deck, and hurriedly shouted:

"Fire, fire quickly, don't let the fireboat get close to the United Fleet, these cunning dogs don't talk about martial arts..."

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Chapter 611

Chapter 611

"Fire, fire quickly..."

The Spanish colonel saw the merchant ship suddenly burst into flames and rushed towards the combined fleet, and immediately panicked and ordered to fire.

A dozen Dutch and Spanish warships immediately opened fire on the fireship.

"Rumble..."

"Rumble..."

Hundreds of naval guns bombarded the Ming fire ship fiercely, and several fire ships in front were shot one after another.

The sea is very stormy, the warships are constantly undulating with the waves, and the target of the merchant ships is small, resulting in a very low hit rate of the combined fleet's artillery.

But after all, there were so many artillery shells bombarding at the same time, and in the end dozens of shells bombarded the arson ship.

The sawdust of the arson ship that was hit immediately flew, and sparks flew everywhere.

But the Ming Dynasty merchant ships all have airtight compartments, even if the bow of the ship is blown off, they are still rushing forward.

With the violent bombardment of the Spanish warships, some arson ships began to slow down, but they still approached the United Fleet.

"Boom bang bang..."

The United Fleet's guns kept bombarding, and finally several arson ships rushed to the front and were sunk.

However, there are still more than 20 arson ships, taking advantage of the wind to quickly approach the warships of the United Fleet.

While Garcelo was dealing with the Ming Dynasty's arsonist ship, Colonel Netherlands commanded their warships to approach the right wing of the Ming Fleet desperately.

Cruy wanted to capture the Daming Ironclad Battleship wholeheartedly.

"Commander, there are five Dutch warships approaching on the right flank, and the Wendi has sunk two Dutch warships in a row."

The Wendi sank two Dutch warships one after another, but there were still five Dutch warships rushing up from the right flank.

Haijiao, the captain of the Wendi, reported the situation to Zheng Chenggong while ordering the bombardment of the Dutch warship.

After Zheng Chenggong heard the report from Haijiao, he immediately judged that the Dutch wanted to fight against Ming.