"Dangdangdangdang..."

The last day of the twenty-fifth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month. In the past, due to the large number of Han people living in Manila, Manila was full of New Year flavor every year at this time. This time, not only was it no longer festive, but it ushered in a burst of joy.

Urgent alarm bell.

‘The people of the Ming Dynasty broke their promise and came to kill them even if they were not even old enough. Could it be that...’

On the Spanish flagship Icanafiel, looking at the beacon towers that were still emitting the remaining black smoke, de Villa suddenly couldn't help but tremble.

As a once-old maritime empire, thanks to their long-term overseas survival experience, the Spaniards built a large number of fire towers on the coast leading to Manila. The Ming Royal Navy fleet had just arrived at Corregidor Island and Carvalho Island.

When they reached the sea area, they had already received news of the Ming fleet's incoming attack.

"Leave a squadron to station in the waters here to block the escape route of these Xiyi ghosts. I will make sure that none of them survive!"

Just when the Western Yi coalition forces got the early warning from the peak fire tower and drove out of the harbor to fight, on the Corregidor and Carvalho islands, Wang Bing didn't pay attention to the peak fire at all.

Let Chen Lin leave a squadron to station here to intercept the defeated and escaped Xiyi Fan warships.

Speaking of which, the sea area of ​​Manila Port is a pot-shaped terrain with a small mouth and a big belly. As long as the Corregidor Island and the Cavallo Island are blocked, the entire coalition warships will not be able to escape even if they want to.

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"Hiss! Doesn't it mean that the Chinese only have more than a hundred warships? Doesn't it mean that their largest warship is only the size of our second-class ship? So what are these? Are they all fishing boats?"

When the Western Yi coalition fleet rushed out of the port to meet the enemy, they looked at the huge fleet in front of them, which used ships as bricks to build a 'Great Wall' on the sea, as well as the giant ships that were like floating islands and hills.

Vera, Conde and Van Linberg were all dumbfounded at this moment.

'If I had known that the Ming fleet was so powerful, why would we join in the fun!'

Different from the shock of De Vera and others, Andre, who was also shocked by the power of the Ming fleet, brought the only few second-class battleships of the British in the Far East to participate in the war, was regretful!

It's just that I regret it now, but it's too late!

"Bring over all the Xiyi people who were fished out earlier, behead them, and sacrifice them to the flag!"

Just when all the Western Yi ghosts were shocked, Wang Bing, on the Ming Royal Navy's flagship "Zhenhai", finally revealed his previous intention of rescuing those Western Yi soldiers and beheaded them to sacrifice the flag!

"We have surrendered, you cannot kill prisoners!"

"Please, please spare us..."

Although he couldn't understand the language, looking at the Ming soldiers holding bright swords on the side of the ship, how could the soldiers from the Western Yi countries not know what they were about to face!

Therefore, regardless of whether the Ming army in front of them understood or not, these people immediately started to struggle, either 'reasoning' or pleading. In order to survive, some strong men even broke away from the escorting soldiers and knelt down to rush forward.

Wang Bing and other generals kowtowed to Ling's head.

"Come one by one, leave no one behind, and be sure to let those Xiyi ghosts on the opposite side see clearly!"

Facing these wailing Xiyi people, Wang Bing didn't feel the slightest emotion in his heart at this moment.

Even in order to let the Xiyi people on the opposite side see it more clearly, he had previously made the Zhenhai sail a further distance past the 'Great Wall' formed by warships.

"cut!"

Soon, amidst the wails of the Western Yi prisoners of war, an extremely cold word "kill" popped out of Wang Bing's mouth.

"Whoa!"

Following Wang Bing's order, a cold light flashed in the hand of Shuerhaqi, who was personally operating with his personal guards, followed by a cavity of dirty blood, and a Xiyi ghost head with a frightened expression 'dong'

With a loud sound, he fell into the cold sea water.

Then, he raised his leg and kicked the headless corpse, which had lost its head, into the sea.

"Swish, swish, swish..."

Without any pause, just after Shuerhaqi chopped off the head of the Xiyi ghost in front of him with a knife, the guards who followed him also started to complete their respective tasks smoothly.

For a moment, the bloody air accompanied by the sea breeze drifted towards the Western Yi coalition forces on the opposite side!

"Oh my god, those are Almeida and Alberto! They, they were also captured by the Ming army?"

Just when Wang Bing ordered these Xiyi ghosts to be beheaded and sacrificed to the flag, a group of Xiyi ghosts in the Western Allied Fleet opposite saw this scene through the telescope and immediately recognized that this was the person they had sent.

Joint patrol fleet soldiers going out.

"These barbaric Ming people, I will tear them apart!"

Seeing their own soldiers being beheaded and thrown away by the Ming army, the officers and soldiers of the Western Yi Allied Army were immediately filled with righteous indignation and cursed loudly in the direction of the Ming army.

However, these Western Yi tribesmen who consider themselves superior to others have forgotten how complacent they were when they killed the so-called "natives" everywhere in the past!

"Boom!"

Not long after, as Man Hai kicked the last headless corpse into the sea, more than a hundred Western Yi ghosts were all killed in front of a group of Western Yi allied forces.

"attack!"

After using more than a hundred Xiyi ghosts to sacrifice the flag, Wang Bing fiercely pulled out the sword from his waist and slashed at the Xiyi coalition forces on the opposite side!

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"Boom boom boom boom..."

With accuracy far exceeding that of the opponent's artillery, and with a favorable wind, the Ming Royal Fleet was naturally the first to open fire!

Just like the previous Dutch Eastern Expedition Fleet and the Allied Patrol Fleet, the Western Barbarian Allied Fleet was also dismissive of the Ming army's 'unprofessional' behavior of opening fire ten miles away.

However, when the Ming army's flintlock shells exploded on their warships, these people were shocked to discover that the Ming army artillery, which they looked down upon, could be so powerful!

"Fire, fire back!"

At this time, just like the previous joint patrol fleet, the coalition forces also ignored the imprecision and launched a counterattack directly against the Royal Navy fleet.

Speaking of which, although at this distance, they didn't know where the shells they fired would fly. Fortunately, there were enough Ming warships and the target was large enough, so they didn't have to worry about the shells completely missing the target!

It's just that whether the target they hit is the target they want to hit, they naturally can't care that much.

However, after a burst of intensive artillery fire, to their surprise, the artillery shells they fired were still a long way away from the Ming army fleet, and they fell into the sea one after another, only stirring up

Huge water columns came one after another.

"Increase the charge, use the maximum charge!"

Seeing this result, a group of coalition officers reacted and quickly directed the gunners to increase the charge.

It turns out that although the theoretical range of the artillery of these Westerners is more than ten miles, the long-term habit of the distance of naval battles caused them to keep the charge amount at most equivalent to the Ming Dynasty 56 when loading the shells.

at a distance of miles.

Therefore, in their haste, they never thought that the amount of charge of the artillery loaded earlier could not allow the artillery to reach its maximum range, and a firing opportunity was wasted.

"Boom boom boom boom..."

However, just as these Westerners were nervously reloading their artillery with the maximum range of gunpowder, the second round of bombardment from the Ming royal family arrived again.

No way, the loading speed of breech-loading artillery is not comparable to that of front-loading artillery. In this era, the loading speed of front-loading artillery is not like in movies and TV shows, where you can ignite and launch an iron ball.

Not to mention clearing the barrel and loading charge packs, but especially resetting the artillery and re-aiming. The operations are so complicated that if you can keep each artillery firing every ten to fifteen minutes, you are already quite well-trained.

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You know, in the time and space of original history, until the 19th century, the rate of fire of the artillery on the British warship "Indomitable" was only one shot every three minutes!

Therefore, the Western-Barbarian Allied warships, which had already launched a dazzling salvo, could not even fire two cannons to build up their courage.

On the other hand, since the first and second-level battleships of the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty all use breech-loading 'Hongyi' naval guns, although their rate of fire cannot be compared with those of the 'modern' warships in the original history, they can fire two to three rounds per minute.

The shooting speed is actually much faster than these Western Yi coalition forces.

Therefore, not long after the second round of shelling, the third and fourth rounds of shelling followed.

"These damn Ming people, why do they fire so fast? What kind of magic did they use!"

Faced with the situation of being beaten but unable to fight back, a group of Western Yi coalition forces who were howled by the bombing even guessed the magic.

"Boom boom boom boom..."

Finally, after suffering more than 20 rounds of bombardment from the Ming Royal Navy and losing most of the more than 100 warships in the entire coalition fleet, the remaining coalition warships finally let out the roar of artillery once again.

"Bah, bah, bah..."

Soon, with the distance between the two sides shortened to five or six miles, these large iron balls fired by the coalition artillery hit many Ming army warships.

However, since the Ming army at the forefront were all first- and second-level warships upgraded from treasure ships, when faced with these large iron ball solid projectiles fired by the coalition artillery, although they were hit with sawdust flying,

For them, who are rough-skinned and fleshy, the most they can do is scratch an itch!

Therefore, except for some unlucky ones who were stabbed by the wooden thorns that hit them, so far, the Ming army has not even suffered a "serious" injury.

There is no way, this is the dimensionality reduction blow caused by the huge gap in weapons and equipment between the two sides!

In the original historical time and space, the "Battle of Dinghai" between the Pig Tail Dynasty and the British more than two hundred years later was in this situation where they could not win despite being beaten. Two people were killed by the British in less than thirty years.

More than 3,000 people were killed at the cost of injuries!

Now, relying on this comprehensive crushing of hard power, the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty has also perfectly reproduced the 'Battle of Dinghai' between the Pig Tail Dynasty and the British, and it is even more perfect.

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