Aragones stood on the roof of his mansion, looking gloomily at the Spanish fleet advancing on the sea in the distance.

As he expected, DeSantis's fleet did not prioritize rescuing the settlements, but decisively abandoned the territory of Aragones and rushed straight to the Haihan base deep in the bay.

Objectively speaking, there is actually nothing wrong with DeSantis's choice. Seizing the fleeting opportunity and defeating the Haihan fleet in chaos is the only way to change the current situation. If he chooses to rescue him first

The nature of settlements is no different than fighting fires with wages, and will only miss precious fighter opportunities.

But for Aragones, this is DeSantis digging his own grave.

"Since you don't plan to save me, then I can't save you!" Aragones murmured to himself.

DeSantis didn't know that he had already half-stepped into the gate of hell. In front of him was the narrowest channel in the bay. After driving through it, he should be able to see Haihan Base.

However, judging from the thick smoke rising in the distance, the fire at the Haihan base should not be extinguished yet, and the Haihan fleet must not be able to resume combat capabilities so quickly.

Thinking of a large group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered ahead, DeSantis couldn't help but get excited and shouted to the sailors on the deck: "Let the Haihan people know today what the real Invincible Fleet is!"

Everyone on the deck responded in unison, everyone was in high spirits and wanted to accept the military exploits that came to them as soon as possible.

The fleet passed through this section of the strait at the highest speed. In front of it, next to the mouth of the Chicano River on the east side, is the Haihan base and temporary port.

There was a raging fire on the coast and smoke was rising. DeSantis picked up a monocular and planned to see how many Haihan warships were burned in the fire.

But when he saw it, he was so shocked that he almost couldn't hold the telescope.

Those fires were not the burning wreckage of warships, but piles of bonfires on the coast. Judging from their condition, it was clearly a man-made fire scene, not caused by a fire.

The port was completely empty, with no warships at all, let alone capsized wrecks.

DeSantis' heart sank, and he quickly rushed to the right side of the ship to observe the situation on the west side of the bay.

After sailing out of the narrow strait section just now, the bay turns sharply south here, and Haihan's base port is located on the east coast, so the west side naturally becomes a blind spot for vision.

It didn't matter. Once he saw it, DeSantis's heart beat faster and he shouted that something was wrong.

At least two digits of Haihan warships are charging straight from the west coast. The large warship at the head is at least twice as big as the other warships next to it. It should be the legendary warship.

Majesty-class battleship.

However, according to the information provided by Aragones, Haihan only stationed one Majesty-class battleship in San Diego Bay, and this ship should have capsized and sunk in the previous fire.

The answer is obvious. Either the Haihan people knew witchcraft and parachuted another Majestic-class battleship into the bay, or the information provided by Aragones was wrong, and his so-called night attack and arson had nothing to do with it.

The side of the ship.

Judging from the bonfire burning in Haihan Port, the truth of this matter is obviously not simple. But DeSantis can no longer think about the role Aragones played in this matter. He must first deal with it.

Make a judgment on the current situation and then immediately issue orders to the fleet.

The Haihan fleet is approaching fiercely, and it is obvious that it has been ambushing here for a long time, waiting for its opponent to appear.

If you want to turn around and escape at this time, you need to make a big circle in the bay. But if the Haihan fleet directly blocks the channel where DeSantis came from, the entire fleet will be stuck here and will be passive.

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For the current plan, we can only bite the bullet and accept the challenge. If we can defeat the Haihan fleet face to face, then the risk will be in vain.

DeSantis immediately ordered a signal to be sent, and all ships in the fleet faced off.

The total number of ships in the Spanish fleet is slightly more than that of the Haihan fleet opposite, which makes DeSantis seem to see a glimmer of hope of victory.

However, he obviously didn't know enough about the combat methods of the Haihan fleet. The tactics used were still the long-used boarding battles of the Spanish fleet. He expected that after the close-range naval gunfire, he would use gang jumping to shorten the combat distance to face-to-face.

In this way, the Spanish fleet may be able to rely on its superior strength to fight Haihan to the death.

However, the Haihan fleet did not fulfill his wish. It began to turn at a relatively long distance, opened its formation, aimed its broadside at the Spanish fleet, and then opened fire and bombarded it.

This distance was beyond the range of the Spanish naval guns, but it was still within the strike range of the Haihan naval guns, so the battle became a one-sided attack.

Moreover, the Haihan fleet controlled the distance of the engagement extremely well and did not give the Spanish warships a chance to get close at all.

There were two Spanish warships that tried to rush close to engage in a firefight. As soon as they adjusted their direction, they were immediately hit by a round of concentrated fire. The cannonballs like raindrops hit their heads and faces, and in an instant they opened fire on the sides of the two ships.

A bunch of holes were opened, and then the flammable materials in the cabin were ignited.

The sailors on the ship could only give up the fight, turn away from the crossfire zone, and concentrate on dealing with damage control issues first.

After the two fleets moved towards each other and completed the stagger, the Spanish fleet unilaterally withstood a round of artillery fire. Almost all the ships participating in the battle were more or less eaten by artillery shells, but their reluctant counterattacks rarely hit the target.

The dominant Haihan fleet did not turn around for the next round of fighting, but rushed straight towards the direction from which the Spanish fleet came, apparently intending to block the enemy's retreat.

Seeing this, DeSantis scolded Haihan for his lack of martial ethics and actually escaped after one round of fighting. At the same time, he ordered the fleet to turn around quickly to seize the only channel out of San Diego Bay.

He knew that if his fleet was blocked in the bay, even if the Haihan people did not take the initiative to fight, it probably wouldn't be able to survive for too long - could he still count on Aragones to raise troops to rescue him?

DeSantis secretly vowed that if he could successfully escape today, he would make Aragones' deeds public. He has now figured out that if Aragones hadn't colluded with the enemy, the other party would have set up a trap in the bay.

Even if he lays an ambush, he won't be able to induce him to take the initiative to attack.

The so-called night raids and arson, the so-called once-in-a-lifetime fighter planes, were all Aragones' methods to lure him into a trap.

DeSantis really doesn't understand why Aragones can't cooperate with him honestly and wait patiently for a real fighter to appear.

The two local settlements are located on both sides of the bay. With a little arrangement, they can block the waterway in the bay. If Aragones is determined to fight Haihan to the death, plus the fleet brought by DeSantis, he can also

There is no chance of winning.

Just as DeSantis was thinking, artillery positions actually appeared near the colonial settlements on both sides of the bay, with their muzzles all pointed at the sea, forming a pincer attack. However, their target was not Haihan, but
Chapter completed!