Since the Governor of New Spain, Armanza, led the guards to the Dividing Peninsula controlled by the Ming army, the Ming army's fleet patrolling the coastal areas became increasingly unscrupulous.

In order to collect enough intelligence, Shao Tingda, who drove the huge Six-Class warship, went south to the coast of Mexico City, and rushed to explore the Spaniards' harbor and shipbuilding facilities.

The west coast of Asia is the back garden of the Spanish. Even the three-masted Grand Garen is not common here. Most of the two-masted merchant ships running by the sea are about 150 tons of double-brigged merchant ships, transporting goods back and forth between the two governors of Peru and New Spain.

"This is already the third big ship. Let me remember. The Spanish governor is different from the governor of our Ming Dynasty. Their governors all ran to the camp of the Dividing Peninsula, and the generals of the Westerners were still dispatching troops."

On the distance, a Garen ship with a similar shape to the body of the Hexa hull led two smaller armed merchant ships to sail north, allowing Shao Tingda to hurriedly command the fleet to avoid it.

The first shark shipyard to build a shark ship that can carry several heavy artillery was inspired by the combination of Portuguese armed merchant ships and local ships. Later, it demolished several large Spanish ships, and finally even demolished a royal treasure ship belonging to Philip II.

The Ming army was very familiar with the shape of the Spanish Grand Garen.

Shao Tingda's fleet was a single one, with only one Liuxia ship, and he didn't even carry a supply ship. Although the ship had strong firepower and thick armor, there were few sailors. With few enemies, there were many enemies and many were easily entangled in the battle of the boarding battle, not to mention that the Spanish Grand Garen looked larger than his thousand-stuffed ship.

In fact, the two ships are similar. If you have to count, Shao Tingda's ship will be bigger, but it cannot stand the Spanish sailboat spreading on the sea, looking like a fortress, and the towers are loaded with countless sailors, which is really shocking.

Shao Tingda said unwillingly: "This time the Lord is investigating, and the battlefield is really in sight. Let's teach him how good it looks."

There were three ships. Since occupying the Dividing Peninsula, he saw the third Great Garen ship gathering in the waters near Mexico. If calculated based on the water discharge of the ship, each of these three ships is larger than the Thousand Materials Ship, which casts a layer of haze in his heart.

His combined fleet with Fu Yuan's advantage in the waters near Mexico was tied by the Spaniards in less than a month.

This even made him think of leading a fleet to intercept these Spanish warships in the Governor of New Spain in the New Spain region.

But this was destined to be just an idea. Before the declaration of war was passed on, no one could have been the first to make the prelude, especially him.

Chen Mu was never a pure Ming Dynasty soldier, but he had the purest Ming Dynasty soldiers. They followed the generals across the ocean to do business, but to fight.

On every night wandering towards the south, Shao Tingda cheered up and even stood on the mast and looked at the calm and dark sea for an hour.

It's like waiting for something.

Until an interesting ship was found in the telescope.

On the 27th night of the sixth year of Wanli, it started drizzling in the sea 300 miles south of Mexico. Shao Tingda on the observation deck was wearing a fine straw raincoat and repeatedly wiped the agarwood telescope that carved and painted the King of Henry.

The lanterns on the Rokka ship were not ignited. The fine spring rain in the subtropical zone was filled with the unstoppable bone-black coolness, which made the upper deck artillery useless and tried its best to hinder the eyesight of people following the waves in the sea.

Shao Tingda thought that in such bad weather, if he encounters a single Spanish warship, he should stick it up and sink it. He hopes that the negotiation results will still be the same.

In this kind of weather combat, the Ming army had a huge advantage over the Western army in warships.

The Spanish warships still stayed in the lateral infantry formations to advance at sea, carrying a large number of infantry, attacked the enemy ship with bow guns in pursuit, and then moved closer to the port.

Perhaps their tactics were changed during the battle in Luzon, but these warships made before the establishment of the Nanyang Military Palace were not so easy to change their shape.

Shao Tingda knew very well that the Spaniards liked to concentrate heavy artillery on the bow, and the ship did not turn heavy artillery on the side of the ship, and there were eighteen artillery in his cabin.

The sound of rain can hide the sound of fire and cannons, and the surging waves can take away every unsaved enemy, and then burn a fire with tinder oil. Although it is a dream to make a warship disappear silently, these are the most likely processes to achieve this goal.

Even if people found a wreckage of a warship under a cliff a year or two on the west coast, who would know what had actually happened?

Under the fine rain curtain, the mountains near the coast in the distance were casting sporadic lights in the shadow of the night. They were two lights. Although there was only darkness that blended with the sea and cliffs around them, Shao Tingda could still outline the general appearance of the ship in his mind through these two lights.

The first light was at the position where the bow was close to the water. The dim color should be reflected through the opaque glass windows outside the bow cabin, which means that the ship was not a ship of the Spanish royal family or aristocratic family, but probably another ordinary armed merchant ship.

The Spanish royal family and the great nobles had extraordinary wealth. Their windows would never use the red and green variegated glass made from natives. They would choose transparent glass produced by Venice Murano.

The second light is at a slightly higher position, which is the chandelier on the mast, and it should also be a candle lamp covered in glass. During the long voyage, I expect these things to guide others to prevent collisions at night.

The ruffian had always envied the two transparent crystal windows in the command room of the Jiutou Prince Consort. Just as he watched the armed merchant ship leave, he secretly calculated how many enemy ships he would need to deal with after the war started. Suddenly, violent light and deafening cannon sound burst out from afar.

On the side of the armed merchant ship, there was also a warship hidden. The fire on the side of the ship made Shao Tingda suddenly think that his warship was appearing here.

The target of the ship was not Shao Tingda's warship, but the harmless Spanish armed merchant ship with two lamps on it.

Shao Tingda, who was still several miles away from the battleship, didn't know what happened in the middle. He only saw a ship surrounded the armed merchant ship and fired wildly with artillery on the lower deck, while another Spanish merchant ship could only use muskets protruded from the cabin. The bow guns of their ship could not be used in rainy days.

This was a carnival of naval battles of guns. Spanish armed merchant ships were completely beaten to the point of being able to fight, and their fighting will was extremely low. They probably could not bear the bombardment of four-wheeled guns and surrendered to another ship.

Not long after, two Spanish ships drove from behind, surrounding the surrendered armed merchant ship. The cargo on the ship was plundered, leaving only a few small paddle boats to send the surrendered merchants back to the land.

The four large ships of the sailors redistributed continued northwards.
Chapter completed!