The Saint Martin is a warship that swams outside the sea of ​​Krabi, with a double-layer artillery direct-through-deck second only to the Saint Paul. Of course, its tonnage is slightly smaller than that of the Saint Paul, and the largest artillery is twenty-four pounds. Even so, it is still the second-largest warship in the Philippines Governor's Region to which the Kingdom of Spain belongs - the third-layer sailing ship was pregnant with the Viet Madonna, and the Saint Ambrose was even more so after the crash.

In the Governor's District of Manila, there is also a large ship anchored on the Pasir River, which is the San Juan, a pure battleship similar to San Martin.

The three warships of Sao Paulo, Saint Martin and San Juan, each carrying six or seven armed merchant ships, and less than twenty warships are all the maritime forces near Manila.

Of course, if all ships from important islands in the southern Philippines are gathered together, the total number will definitely exceed fifty.

But that was impossible. The Moors, Sulus, and Mindanao in the south would definitely not easily obey the Spanish rule. "Upgs" and "rebellions" came one after another, and the Spanish must have arranged considerable military power there.

At present, the Sao Paulo is anchoring in the harbor between the north and south capes of Krabi. From time to time, the harm caused to the castle is almost ignored, and it is nothing more than to boost morale to the army outside the city.

In addition, there are also Spaniards patrolling on the north, east and west coasts of Luzon Island. It is not easy for foreign enemies to enter and reach the vicinity of Luzon.

However, with the strength of the Spaniards at this time, it was completely impossible to completely cover up the entire Luzon Island. This is also an important reason why Yanagawa Jingyun's Swift can dock on the west coast of Luzon Island on a heavy rainy day and let Yanagawa Jingyun and others down.

"Capro!"

This is the captain of the Saint-Martin. A swear word commonly used in the Aragon region that Domingo from Valencia, Aragon, is almost the same as the famous "Fuck" in later generations.

I saw a brigade of ships sailing from the southwest, covering the sky and the sun, "almost" the entrance of Manila Bay.

This is of course Domingo's exaggerated view. The mouth of Manila Bay is thirty miles wide, and from there it is sixty miles to Krabi, which he could not see.

His ability to see these ships means that they have already sailed near Krabi!

Today, near the Philippines, Zheng Zhilong is the "friend" of the Spanish. Spanish ships are also the most traded Western ships to Yuegang, Zhangzhou, but his ships had already left Manila Bay a few months ago.

The Dutch and the Spanish have a secret agreement, and the two sides are currently in peace.

The Portuguese are now a family with the Spanish, and they have to wait until next year if they want to go independent.

Others such as the Brunei Sultan, Palawan pirates, and Sulu pirates were afraid to come here. The merchants of the Ming Dynasty are now locked in the port and are not allowed to be dispatched.

Could it be that Mingguo is coming to stand up for their businessmen?

Domingo quickly shook his head. It was impossible to think about it. It was a closed and self-contained old empire, and it was unlikely that it would have traveled all the way to the Philippines for its own people.

"British!"

With a very fast and slender ship first jumping into his eyes, Domingo couldn't help but exclaim. Now in Europe, the British have a systematic plan for the development of the navy. How to combine various ships and what roles they play, they have begun to think and practice.

Domingo also heard about it, but he quickly gave up his thoughts.

In this era, all European ships that traveled through the ocean, no matter what type, the head and tail of the ship would be carved beautifully. The country built them with a large amount of gold and silver, mostly themed with religious stories or characters.

The ship was obviously not, without any carvings, but there was a large flag hanging on the main mast, with a rectangular, red background, and a golden pattern, "Tiger, Dragon, Capro! Musket! Mongolian!"

Although the Hanhai Kingdom and Nikan's large numbers had spread throughout Asia at this time, Westerners, after privately learning about the specific geographical location of this country, still called them "Mongols and Tatars", and some even called them "Huns", Mongols and Huns had a profound impact on Europe.

The ship with a large cluster of sails with numerous sails was naturally the Swift. It was just exploring the way forward, quickly passing by the St. Martin and continued to sail northeast along the southeast coast of Manila Bay.

Soon, two ships of about the size of the St. Martin also sailed in.

A huge ship followed behind the two ships. At this time, the artillery windows of the ship were all opened. When Domingo saw it, he couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning.

"Three-layer cannon!"

Just as Domingo was dumbfounded, the two big ships had suddenly turned, one sailing directly towards the Pashi River and the other sailing directly towards the St. Martin.

"Prepare for the fight!"

Although there are many enemy ships and they are obviously powerful ships, Domingo was not discouraged. His St. Martin has two gun decks, twenty heavy artillery mainly 24-pound guns, and the upper layer is medium-sized artillery mainly 18-pound guns. On this Philippine coast, no one except the Dutch dared to come out to challenge it blatantly.

Because there were too many enemy ships - he had seen that behind the huge ship, there were two large ships, and dozens of large ships behind the two large ships!

He decided to move gradually towards Manila, where more than 20 ships under Sebastian were also located.

However, the big ship behind was obviously not going to give him this opportunity. Soon, the big ship suddenly turned around and turned northwest!

At this time, the entire starboard position of the ship was exposed in the direction of the stern of the St. Martin!

"Tail cannon, prepare to fire!"

In this era, among the Europeans, the popular tactics of two ships narrowing to a certain distance and then slamming each other against each other. In Europe, the British and Dutch have begun to try the tactic of "seizing the upper hand T-head" because their men already have some large battleships, and the time to try new tactics has come.

However, the Spaniards were a little behind, and the battleships were still exploring, and the tactics at sea were still mainly on counterattack and boarding battles. Even Europe was like this, not to mention the Philippine Governor's District tens of thousands of miles away.

Therefore, the tactics of the big ship made Domingo a little puzzled. At this moment, the cannons between the two layers of artillery on the other side's ship almost burst out at the same time!

"Capro!"

Amid Domingo's curse, the ship's two layers of artillery bombed out eight shells in one go, including two chain shells with a harsh and sharp sound in the air!

"Cha!"

A chain blast hit the tail mast of the St. Martin, and the strong kinetic energy broke it on the spot. After cutting off the mast, the residual momentum remained unchanged. It continued to rotate and sweep it across everything. It soon cut a large number of support ropes between the rear mast and the main mast to pieces, and finally even the sails on the upper and lower parts of the main mast drooped down.

Two solid shells also hit the stern of the St. Martin, and one happened to hit the tail plate carved with the angels surrounding the Ascension of the Virgin!

A cannon window suddenly penetrated into the tail, and the harsh sound of touching metal objects instantly sounded!

Before the St. Martin could recover, another large ship in front also used the guns in the sideways to bombard the starboard position of the St. Martin!

At this time, the remaining artillery at the stern of the St. Martin began to fire, but because another artillery was hit by enemy shells just now, the shell was completely unpredictable, and it flew across the opponent's ships and fell into the sea.

.....

What came were Sun Jiaji's new fleet and Suna's three Baikal-class ships, with twenty Sahalian Class II ships behind, and sixty Shang Kexi's big ships behind!

Under the sudden attack, the St. Martin soon lost its combat effectiveness and a white flag was raised on the ship.

At this time, the St. Paul also came out when he heard the movement, but when he saw so many ships, he naturally did not dare to fight and ran quickly towards Manila. Perhaps because he heard the movement here, a group of ships also came from the sea in the northeast direction.

The St. Paul's heart was immediately relieved.

The San Juan is here with more than twenty armed merchant ships!

But the St. Paul couldn't leave anymore. The two Peregrine Falcons followed it closely, one left and one right, and the Golden Eagle followed its butt, and the bow of the ship was two layers of four doors and twelve pounds, and the 18 pound cannons kept spitting out anger.

Because the southwest wind was hanging at this time, the Hanhai Kingdom's fleet was in a downwind position, and the fleet led by the San Juan was heading against the wind. It could only sail to the outer sea first, then either circle the back of the new fleet of the Hanhai Kingdom, or approach the east coast of Manila Bay through a zigzag shape. In this way, the new fleet gave the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the Sao Paulo!

...

After half an hour passed, I originally wanted to go around behind the new fleet, but perhaps I saw ships constantly emerging from the mouth of Manila Bay. The San Juan became frightened and turned the bow to sail towards the mouth of the Bashi River.

Hide in the Bashi River!

There are a large number of artillery on the walls of Fort Santiago that block the sea and estuaries on that side!

...

Near the Krabi land, the surrounded Saint Paul was extremely brave. He persisted for more than an hour under the siege of the Golden Eagle and the three Peregrine Falcons. In the end, a 24-pound heavy shell on the bottom of the Golden Eagle hit the area near his waterline. In addition, the shotguns fired by its upper artillery almost cleaned the sailors exposed to the deck, resulting in the Saint Paul finally raising the white flag.

However, it was a large warship with 32 pounds of artillery. During the battle, it caused serious damage to a Peregrine Falcon, and the destroyer also suffered a loss of up to 30%!

When all the crew members of the St. Paul handed over their weapons and came to the Golden Eagle, when the Peregrine Falcon was on the sea, the St. Paul had only the long headmast with the bow of the ship hanging in front of the slanted sail on the front.

When the brigade of ships arrived at the mouth of the Bashi River, the sound of heavy artillery sounded from Fort Santiago.

Seeing that it was getting late, Sun Jiaji decided to rest in Krabi for one night before talking.

As the brigade of ships sailed into the bay between the north and south capes of Krabi, the Spanish soldiers, Japanese and natives surrounding the castle dispersed.

The siege of Krabi has finally been resolved!

But this is just the beginning of the battle.
Chapter completed!