Chapter 188 White Flag
After being harassed by Lin Feng's sleepless sea wolf tactics for a day and a night, the mast of the Gareles was broken and most of the sails were half broken. Although the crew members tried their best to repair it, they still couldn't keep up with the speed of destruction.
The speed of the Gallez inevitably dropped again and again, which made the Pena, who escorted it, miserable.
In order to drive away the wolves that kept biting their injured companions, the sailors of the Pena were always on high alert, and they had to control the bulky Carac sailboat to keep turning, each of them was exhausted.
When Domingo saw that this would not work. After thinking with Silva, the captain of the Pena, he had to teach these damn gangs of snatching boots to get rid of the entanglement.
Their choice was Chen Huaixiu's fleet that followed far behind. These armed merchant ships had a thin skin and poor firepower, which was suitable for creating results and killing chickens to warn monkeys.
Moreover, this will also lead the Lin Feng fleet away from the Garreles, giving the poor Garreles an opportunity to escape the pursuit of the wolves.
So Domingo suddenly turned around while entangling with Lin Feng's fleet and rushed towards Chen Huaixiu's fleet in the south.
They underestimated Chen Huaixiu. She was able to become the leader of the Sha Boat Gang because of her identity as a vassal. It was true that she was supported by Mr. Zhao. But she was able to sit firmly in this position and she still relied on her own strength.
Although she is not as aggressive as Lin Feng, she is calm and decisive as a general.
Last time, because the Portuguese had four large sailboats, Chen Huaixiu did not dare to fight hard, so he only brought twenty boats to rescue Lin Feng. After reaching his goal, he quickly retreated.
This time, Chen Huaixiu brought all the lucky ships and was trying to get the thrown back.
When Sha Chuan Gang opens movies with people, he always wins by counting.
Seeing the large sailboat sailing towards his fleet, Chen Huaixiu smiled coldly and immediately ordered the hang of the No. 4 and No. 8 battle flags to sail side by side, shooting!
More than 40 armed merchant ships immediately turned around and sailed south in a row side by side, keeping a distance from the Pena and firing with a stern gun.
Although each armed merchant ship only has two stern guns, there are too many ships that cannot be held. One hundred guns are bombarded at the same time, which is enough for the Pena to drink a pot.
Chen Huaixiu was sure that when the Pena was chasing, the powerful side firepower was completely useless, and he could only rely on a few pitiful bow cannons to fight back. His side would gain a huge firepower advantage.
And the most important point is that all five masts of the armed merchant ship are hung with blond sails, which is currently the type of ship with the best performance against the wind among sailboats in the world. Chen Huaixiu deliberately ran towards the wind, just to bully the Pena, which has poor operating ability against the wind.
After these days of war, she has completely figured out the weaknesses of these arrogant sailboats. Now that the Pena has been singled, can't we still bully it at its weaknesses?
"Why are all so shameless!" Domingo was about to be furious again when he was beaten but could not be chased but could not be chased but could not be chased. He felt in advance that the commander of the Spanish Invincible Fleet was helpless when facing the British in 1588.
Speaking of which, Lin Feng and Chen Huaixiu are also Drakes and others, so it is normal for them to use the same tactics.
As a result, both sides chased for a long time, but the Pena was broken into pieces of mast and shot several sails.
This made Domingo fully understand that those who dared to follow him would not have any soft persimmons at all.
Moreover, Lin Feng's fleet did not turn back to help arm the merchant ship as he expected, and obviously did not worry about this. This made Domingo worry about the Gareles again.
He was about to give up his pursuit and ordered to turn around and go back to protect Gareles, but when he heard the lookout's hand exclaiming, two Garen ships came over.
Domingo turned his head and saw that he was shocked. The two Garen ships that had obviously lost their ability to move had grown their masts and sails again, and were approaching Pena's full speed, less than a kilometer!
The lookout on the Pena didn't expect that these two ships would follow, so he didn't pay attention to the rear at all. He just stared at whether there would be ships in Chen Huaixiu's fleet and the north. Unexpectedly, two truly deadly warships suddenly appeared on the west side!
What's even more terrible is that at this time the Pena ship was facing the bows of the two incoming ships, and there was a danger of being brought in backwards!
Domingo stared at the two ships in a daze and murmured: "It's impossible, why was it repaired so quickly? What kind of monster is Jiangnan Group helping?"
Lin Hongzhong's face turned green, "This is too strong..."
In Lin Hongzhong's perception, the entire Ming Dynasty was in a bad mood. This further highlighted the strength of the Jiangnan Group, which could be called the "Sea Qi Family Army"!
"Prepare to meet the enemy!" Seeing that the commander was slow to speak, Colonel Silva made a loud order to ask the gunners to prepare for shooting.
"No, turn!" Domingo then came to his senses and hurriedly said: "The Pena cannot make any more mistakes!"
"Your Excellency Commander, it's not what you said. Do you have to teach these damn hang-boot ghosts a lesson to get rid of the entanglement?!" Silva openly confronted him. He had had enough of Domingo's loss of advance and retreat, and could no longer let his ship be killed alive.
"Crashing their two Garen ships is more effective than sinking twenty armed merchant ships!"
"But if those two boats are attached, we can kill us!" Domingo still remembers the terrifying 'ang' posture and never wants to do it again. He jumped in a hurry and said, "We must keep a distance from them, so we can only turn to the wind!"
"When turning at this time, you will be hit by a cannonball." Silva looked at the foremast with distress, and flatly refused to change the order and said, "Mr. Commander, I have the right to decide the course of my ship!"
There is no difference between a ship turning and a fleet turning. Both have to turn with a fixed point as the axis, so the enemy ship will change from hitting a mobile target to hitting a fixed target, and the hit rate will naturally be greatly improved. The Carac ship like the Pena, which has a heavy turn, will definitely suffer from the sailing cables.
The Pena is not a warship belonging to the Macau Fleet, but a battleship of the Malacca Fleet. It is just temporarily under the control of Domingo in the name of the Governor of Malacca to support this battle against the Jiangnan Group.
"You will regret it soon!" Domingo was left with incompetence and furious. His Macau fleet had lost nothing and had no one left. He could only live on Silva's ship. How could he suppress this senior colonel?
Silva deafened his warning and insisted that the Pena keep his course and responded!
So, angrily.
Xuande cannons roared again, and pairs of twin bullets roared out from the orange fire snakes, smashed the thick oak guardrail of the Pena, and shot the flowering bullets into the cabin, sweeping everything on the artillery deck!
The Pena's upper gun also opened fire at the same time, destroying the newly repaired masts of ships 102 and 103 again.
Silva was also stunned when he saw one gun position after another on the artillery deck, and the trunk of the boat was opened one after another.
Only then did he realize that Domingo was right this time. Faced with such a desperate madman who was obsessed with his face, even if he killed the other party, his warship would be seriously damaged.
Thinking of the tragic experience of the Galiles, he sweated heavily and quickly ordered: "Turn and turn!"
102 and 103 were finally attached, so how could they miss this opportunity to destroy the other party's hull? The two ships also turned together and continued to output with their faces.
And this time they learned to be smart. After sweeping the Pena artillery deck, they no longer waste shells, but instead lowered the muzzle and used solid bullets to bombard the Pena waterline.
After the Pena finally turned around and left the battle, more than a dozen holes had been opened on the waterline. Fortunately, the sailors of the Oriental Beauty and the Duke of Goa were well-manned, otherwise they would not be able to block so many leaks.
Chen Huaixiu, who had been surfing the formation, immediately directed the fleet to chase after him, and continued to use bow cannons to attack the opponent's mast.
The reason why ships 102 and 103 were thrown away is because their masts were reimbursed again.
And this time it was during the day, and the opponent's gunner's accuracy greatly improved, destroying all eight masts of the two ships, making them bare board boats, completely losing power.
Fortunately, the personnel losses were not large. The two ships killed more than ten people and seriously injured dozens of people.
Now the Ryukyu fleet did not use the mast for them, so the two warships withdrew from the battle and were pulled back to the Qing'ao Bay base by four galleys.
Zheng Dao led the remaining galleys to continue moving forward, looking for his own warships that had lost their power, and towed them back.
This move was very necessary. In the next night and day, the Ryukyu fleet encountered nine ships of Lin Feng Fleet and Chen Huaixiu Fleet along the way, and the mast sail was destroyed by two large sailboats. They had to tow one to return one, and the galleys were barely enough.
It can be seen how fierce the subsequent battle was!
Because both female generals strongly realized that the opportunity to kill two large sailboats was right in front of them! When the opportunity arose, both of them decided without hesitation and wanted to seize it at all costs!
If a woman gets crazy, there is nothing wrong with a man.
Under the swaying of two wolves led by two mother wolves, the Gareles did not dare to wait for the Pena. The same severely injured Pena did not care about the Gareles. The two ships had to fight each other and used all their strength to drive out the wolf pack.
At night, the two sailboats were still in peace. The wolves then approached them in the night, and continued to fire artillery and rockets, adding wounds to the two ships' hulls full of holes, causing them to lose blood.
The next day at dawn, the Gareles finally couldn't hold on and raised a white flag!
Because it exhausted all the ammunition and the hull was leaking severely, there were no more sailors to rescue the risk...
The Lin Feng fleet, which was also exhausted, stopped chasing with satisfaction. He led his men to board the Gareles and robbed them.
Ship 104 naturally would not get involved in this kind of thing. He released the reconnaissance balloons, determined the direction of the Pena, and went to support Chen Huaixiu's fleet.
Chapter completed!