As the sky brightened, the fog on the sea surface was completely blown away, and Colonel Tiago finally had a clear understanding of the situation.

In the 16th century, the artillery technology in Europe was still very limited, which made long-range firepower inaccurate, and often it was useless to shoot for a long time. That is why Spain despised the status of artillery and always insisted on boarding battles.

However, the accuracy of the Ming warships' artillery was far beyond his imagination. At a distance of 200 meters, almost every bullet hit the target. As long as they caught a Gallese warship, it would soon be shot from end to end. Even if the hull was still intact, a large number of rowers would have died, causing the warship to lose power.

In less than an hour this morning, one-sixth of his escort ships were sunk, and five were severely damaged and fell behind.

And this section of the strait is still 40 leagues away, which takes a day and a night! If we continue to passively take the beating, everyone will have no choice but to die.

When the colonel realized that it was difficult for him to get rid of his opponent, he finally started to think and came up with a countermeasure.

The colonel ordered the messenger to take a small boat and row to find Lieutenant Colonel Capone, the commander of the rear escort, and convey his order to him - to have the twelve remaining galleys turn around, break away from the main team and speed up to intercept the Ming pirates and cover the treasure fleet... Of course, this also included the colonel's departure from the battlefield!

At noon, the order was finally delivered safely. Lieutenant Colonel Capone immediately followed it and ordered the rear fleet under his command to turn around, while shooting at the pirate sailboat with the largest caliber artillery.

In the galleys of the Gallaemonte.

Hearing the order from the deck, the officer directing the rowing raised his left fist, the rower on the left side immediately stopped rowing, while the rower on the right side continued rowing, and the bow quickly turned around, pointing towards the stern of the enemy ship in the left front.

Then the officer put down his hands and continued to blow the whistle rhythmically. The rower on the left continued to row hard to the rhythm. The fourteen Gallais warships rushed towards the Ming warships like wild horses.

At this time, their bow main guns could finally play a role. One cannon and a half roared in competition with each other, as if to sweep away the frustration caused by the start of the war.

And now they are facing the most vulnerable stern of the Ming fleet, and what's more, they have the upper hand.

I have said it many times, having the upper hand in a naval battle means you have the initiative, which means you can do whatever you want...

Lin Feng quickly realized this unfavorable situation. There was nothing she could do, because she only had a few boats. If she wanted to swallow an elephant, she would lose something.

She immediately issued a response order, and it took only three minutes for her order to be received by the communicators of each ship and correctly conveyed to the captain.

This is the gap. Although this technical gap is not as difficult to bridge as the technological gap, the effect is the same before breaking through this layer of window paper.

The Eternal Sinner Liu Daxia began to retract its sails, while the four warships behind it raised their full sails. As the speed of the three frigates and a transport ship increased, they quickly passed the heavy flagship from the right.

At this time, those Spanish galleys with amazing acceleration pounced on him like a pack of wolves, aimed at Liu Daxia's huge butt in a fan shape, and began to attack crazily!

Orange flames spurted out and shells whizzed in, hitting Liu Daxia's buttocks, making crackling sounds and sending wood chips flying!

However, when the smoke cleared, the Spaniards were horrified to find that the rear of the huge Ming Dynasty ship was only slightly scratched!

Nani?! Oh no, the Spanish should say 'Keyoupasa'?

According to the common sense of the Spanish Navy, the stern is the most vulnerable part of all large sailing ships. Once it is attacked from behind, it will immediately fall to its knees.

How come the stern of this huge Ming Dynasty sailing ship is so durable?

This is caused by the differences in shipbuilding technology between the East and the West.

Western warship designers imagined the ship as a fish, relying on the skeleton to bear the force and the hull to prevent leakage, so they put a lot of effort into the keel and ribs. Therefore, from the perspective of the hull mechanical structure, the design of Western carracks, galleons and even later sailing battleships was actually wrong. It was not until Buzinner proposed that "the hull is a beam structure" that they returned to the correct path. By that time, it was already the 19th century.

But as the saying goes, great efforts make miracles happen, even if Europe had wrong guidance in shipbuilding, they spared no expense and made the work meticulously, and with the support of their peers, Western warships were still able to dominate the world.

The shipbuilding craftsmen of the Song and Yuan dynasties realized hundreds of years ago that only the hull was the main body of the structure that bore force, and that the keel and ribs were actually useless.

Therefore, the designers of the treasure ship focused on strengthening the wooden hull. They mainly took two measures. One was to reduce the length-to-width ratio of the treasure ship, so that the whole treasure ship looked chubby.

This also caused the shortcoming of Liu Daxia being clumsy. Of course, the term for high emotional intelligence is steady and domineering.

Secondly, in order to withstand the total longitudinal bending moment, the ship's planking was thickened by the process of "layer by layer of thick planks, stacked up layer by layer". As a result, the thickness of the ship's planking exceeded 50 centimeters.

And because the four-story stern is the main crew area, where the leaders live, the command room, the infirmary, the conference room, and the rudder room are all here, it was specially reinforced and the thickness reached one meter.

In addition, this was a design from more than a hundred years ago, and there were no gun ports on the hull. The entire hull was integrated without even a hole. It was basically a wall of sighs for spherical cannonballs.

Of course, Liu Daxia's butt was not perfect either. Although the two rudders at the waterline were made of the finest ironwood, they were likely to be destroyed at such a close distance.

But there was no time to care about so many things at the moment. Lin Feng, who never looked ahead or behind, decisively "chose the lesser of two evils" and let Liu Daxia expose his butt to the Spaniards to shoot and break his balls... Oh no, it would be my bad luck if the rudder was broken, but it won't sink anyway!

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At this moment, Lieutenant Colonel Capone's entire attention was attracted by the huge ship in front of him, and he no longer paid attention to any other ships.

Although Liu Daxia's butt was harder than he had imagined, he decided to concentrate all his strength and bite it off first.

It makes sense for Lieutenant Colonel Capone to think this way. As the saying goes, to catch a thief, you must first catch the leader. If the Ming people's flagship can be destroyed and their leaders can be captured or killed, the remaining four ships will not be a threat.

If you look down from the sky, this scene is still very terrifying. More than a dozen centipede-like galleys surrounded a huge ship and tried to bite it desperately, which made people sweat.

However, Lin Feng and all the crew members of the Liu Daxia, the eternal sinner, withstood all the pressure and launched a strong counterattack against the Spaniards.

The gunners used the more intensive and sharper firepower from their own ships to drown out the Spanish fleet's bombardment.

The Marines used rifles to snipe the enemy ship commander and important crew members, and used rockets to try to burn the enemy ship's hull and create chaos.

Non-combatants also joined in, transporting ammunition, carrying the wounded, and providing support to the best of their ability.

One of them, Liu Yishou, worked particularly hard. He kept running up and down, carrying shells from the ammunition depot to the gun positions in a canvas backpack, and shouting in his local accent with a ferocious look on his face, "Protect our ancestors' **" and so on!

The two sides continued to shoot at each other until noon, and the first to give in were the Spaniards, who were outnumbered.

They found out with frustration that there are some things in this world that you can't get by just by being persistent. For example, a licking dog chasing a goddess, or wanting to shoot through Liu Daxia's ass...

There were thirty-six main guns on the front of the twelve galleys, which fired hundreds of shells at Liu Daxia's butt, but only left a lot of holes and did not break the defense.

If he hadn't managed to break one of the rudders, Lieutenant Colonel Capone would have wanted to kill himself by hitting himself with a piece of cheese.

Although the Liu Daxia only had twelve stern guns, all of which were on the top deck, thanks to my nephew, the guns can now adjust the muzzle height.

When the breech block was raised to its highest position using the adjusting screw, the muzzle was aimed directly at the top of the Gallaesey.

In fact, compared to the stern, the top of the ship is the most vulnerable position.

Because of the need to row, the side of the Gallais battleship is very low, and the top of the ship is less than half the height of the Liu Daxia's open deck. It is very convenient to shoot from a high position!

Moreover, when the shells were fired from a high position, gravity would not hinder them, but would increase their power. One shot could easily penetrate the thin roof of the boat and make a big hole in the bottom of the boat. Immediately, the seawater poured into the cabin, and the rowers did not need to row anymore, so they had to get up quickly to drain the water and plug the leak. As a result, they were still wearing shackles, and three or four people were tied together in a chain, which was very inconvenient.

Fortunately, Liu Daxia had limited cannons, otherwise he could have destroyed all of these dozen galleys...

Lieutenant Colonel Capone had to give up the bombardment and ordered his men to rush forward to ram the enemy ship and engage in boarding battle!

Hearing the drummer's exciting drum beats, the officers in the cabin immediately shouted orders:

"Never mind the leak, everyone get back to rowing!"

After a commotion, the slaves paddled the boat hard and rushed towards Liu Daxia in a fan shape!

Lin Feng discovered their intention immediately. But at such a close distance, the heavy Liu Daxia had no way to maneuver and dodge. Moreover, one of the rudders was broken...

She held the railing with both hands and sighed, "Be prepared for impact."

"Prevent impact!" Ma Yishan quickly shouted the order through the copper trumpet. He said "attack" instead of "forbid", which made him more civilized than the commander.

Soon, bang bang bang bang...

A series of hair-raising collision sounds rang out one after another. At least eight galleys completed the ramming attack on Liu Daxia within five minutes.

If Liu Daxia was an actress from an island country, this scene... bah, what are you thinking about.

But when the damage control officer hurriedly checked the bottom cabin, he did not find any damage or leakage...

Liu Daxia, how thick is your skin? Even the corners of the head can't penetrate it.

"May our ancestors bless us, they are so awesome!" Liu Yishou knelt on the ground with tears streaming down his face and raised his hands to the sky.

The reason for this is that the hull of the treasure ship was too thick and was made of oak.

Also, although the Calais regatta restored the ram that had disappeared for hundreds of years, the length of the ram was greatly shortened, generally less than one meter long, and was mainly used to fix the enemy ship for boarding combat.

Moreover, the sprint distance was not enough. It was only inserted less than half a meter before it was stuck by layers of solid wood.

ps. I posted it first and corrected the typos later. It’s gone tonight.