"Damu, look, that Spanish ship is approaching!" Gu Jiang suddenly found another Spanish ship approaching, so he hurriedly said to Zheng Sen.

Zheng Sen turned his head and looked over there, and said disrespectfully: "The Spanish ships are much slower than ours. They can't rely on them, so don't worry." Then he turned his head to observe the impact of the Spanish cruise ship in front.

During this period, the Endeavour launched five rounds of volleys, and four more shells hit the poor cruise ship. Four big holes were smashed on the starboard side of the cruise ship and destroyed at least three artillery pieces. Zheng Sen estimated that if there were a few more rounds of such shelling, the firepower that the cruise ship could exert on the starboard side was probably not even one tenth. By then, if you really want to ravage it, you will really ravage it. If you want to make it pose, it will have to pose.

"Damu, that boat is closer." Gu Jiang shouted again.

Zheng Sen turned his gaze to another Spanish warship again, but when he saw her, he was much closer than before.

"There is no reason to let her approach so quickly." Zheng Sen thought.

"Do we think of a way to remind Captain Jack?" Gu Jiang said.

"No need, Captain Jack's vision is much better than us. He can see everything we can see, and he is more experienced in this regard than us. I think he must have his ideas when he lets this Spanish ship come up." Zheng Sen said.

"Why do you think Captain Jack does this for?" Gu Jiang asked again.

"Maybe Captain Jack wants to rely on the strength of our ship and keep both Spanish warships at once." Zheng Sen thought about it and replied.

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"After this round, let the 18-pound cannon on the upper deck change the chain shell, and prepare to bombard the Spanish warship that has followed. It is necessary to aim at the mast. This time we must attack the Spanish ship, and then rush over and leave the guy who is almost dead!" Old Jack looked at the approaching Spanish warship and issued such an order.

Old Jack knew that if he had kept a safe distance from the two Spanish warships, he would hit whoever got closer. Then he would definitely be able to fight the two ships without any danger and lose their combat effectiveness. But the limit that can be achieved by relying on solid shells alone is like this. It is impossible to sink these two cruise ships with solid shells, and it is unlikely that they would even lose their navigation ability. At that time, the Spanish would definitely turn in. If they were

If you escape separately, then the "Entertainment" can only leave one of the warships at most. What's more, the Spanish came later than expected, and it's already afternoon. If the naval battle lasted until sunset, many Spanish ships might have escaped by the cover of the night. The ships were filled with white silver dollars, and robbing them was almost the dream of Old Jack for the lifetime of his life. For more victory, for glory and dreams, Old Jack needed to fight quickly.

The ten 18-pound cannons on the upper deck soon fired another volley. Then the gunners quickly began to clean the barrel and began to load the cannons with chains. At this time, Old Jack did not raise his telescope to check the results of the volley just now, but stared at another Spanish cruiser that was continuing to approach. The ship was approaching the tail of the "Entertainment", as if he wanted to penetrate her behind and form a T-head with her stern.

"The No. 1 gun team is ready!"

"The No. 3 gun team is ready!"

The ten cannons on the port side of the upper deck had been loaded, and at this time the Spanish warship also began to turn sharply to the left to try to aim the side of the ship's stern of the Endeavour.

"Anchor on the left, turn sharply to the left!" Old Jack ordered.

The anchor chain was thrown down, and the rudder was full to the left. The "Entertainment" completed a left-hand turn at an astonishing speed.

"Cut off the anchor chain! Shoot!" Old Jack shouted.

However, he no longer needed to command this. All the soldiers understood his intention in the turn just now. At this time, the "Entertainment" that had turned sharply to the left and the Spanish cruiser that turned sharply to the right formed a relative situation on the side, and the distance between the double reversal was less than fifty meters. Because of the downwind position and the hull tilt caused by the turn, the port side of the "Entertainment" was lifted, which also gave the cannon on the deck of the "Entertainment" a greater elevation angle.

"boom!"

Ten 18-pound cannons fired one after another. At such a close distance, the shells obtained a very good hit rate. The main mast and foremast of the Spanish cruiser were broken on the spot, and the rear mast was also broken by one-third of the above.

At this time, the 15 Spanish cannons also started. They originally planned to fire at the tail of the Endeavour, which generally would not have too thick hull, so the loaded were solid shells. These 12-pound and 8-pound iron balls hit the Endeavour hull like heavy rain, making a dull impact sound.

However, beyond the Spanish's expectations, even at such a distance, the shells they fired still did not even penetrate the hull of the Endeavour. Some 12-pound shells even fell directly from the hard hull of the Endeavour to the sea, so that some Spaniards couldn't help but exclaim: "Oh my God, the shell of this ship is not iron, right?" Because of this sentence, the Endeavour won her first nickname: "Old Iron Craft".

The Spanish did not have time to marvel at the sturdyness of the Endeavour, because the window on the second-layer gun deck of the Endeavour was opened, and ten 24-pound guns fired a fatal blow to the Spanish ship.

At such a distance, the gunner almost didn't need to aim. Ten 24-pound iron balls hit the Spanish warship hard, easily tearing open its fragile hull. Ten blood alleys drifted from the gun deck of the Spanish warship, and then hit the hull on the right side of the Spanish warship, and was bounced back... Just this round of artillery attacks, the "Enprogress" brought more than 100 casualties to the Spanish warship.

"This boat can't run away. Don't worry about them, let's kill that warship!" Old Jack shouted excitedly, took out the wine pot stuck around his waist, and took a big sip: "Go forward at full speed! Let's get closer and use such a volley to smash the Spanish warship!"

Then the old pirate simply sang a song on the back deck: "We are pirates, fierce pirates, holding a bottle of wine in their left hand and treasure in their right hand..."

Of course, the Spanish ship also noticed the changes here, and saw that their friendly ship was beaten and paralyzed after just one round of shooting. The terrible impact of the Endeavour made all the Spanish gasp. So the cruise ship called "Determination" began to try to speed up leaving the battlefield. However, the amazing speed of the Endeavour made them quickly understand that they had no possibility of escape.

"Call them to them and ask them to cut off their masts and surrender. I think they should have known that they cannot be our opponents. It is easier for us to destroy them than to trick Don Juan into bed with an inexperienced girl." The old pirate laughed, and the gold teeth in his mouth shone under the sun.

The old pirate was a teacher of almost all the sailors on the ship. In the past, in addition to teaching sailors to learn navigation skills, he also taught them English and Spanish. When the old pirate taught these foreign languages, the textbooks usually used were stories with some colors. Of course, the old pirate also learned some Chinese by the way. The textbooks used by nature were the most outstanding novel in the Ming Dynasty - "Jin Ping Mei".

Therefore, when the old pirate talked about Don Juan, a playboy who had to change to a woman tricked by his sweet words in his bed every night, all the sailors who heard this followed the old pirate and laughed. Taking advantage of the wind, when the "Entertainment" approached a certain distance, several loud sailors began to shout and persuade the Spaniards to surrender.

However, the Spaniards did not cut off the mast immediately, and they did not even do anything like putting away the sails. They just raised a blood-red long triangle flag on the top of the mast. This flag had only one meaning, that is, to fight to the last person, would rather die than surrender!

"St. George's flag, the courage and despair of the warship! I really didn't expect to see such a flag in such a battle." The old pirate looked at the flag that was flying against the sea breeze and couldn't help but put away the smile on his face. He stood attentively, and then said to the sailors: "First, let us sound the salute and pay tribute to these opponents with unyielding belief and courage."

All forty-two cannons were sounded in turn as salutes. When the last salute silenced, Old Jack pulled out his command knife from his waist and pointed at the Spanish warship in front and said, "Young men, let us complete our mission now-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Endeavour continued to go from the port side, which is the starboard direction of the Spaniards. After all, the opponent was attacked many times in the previous battle, losing several cannons, and the soldiers also suffered casualties, which greatly weakened the firepower of their self-defense on the starboard side. In addition, the previous battles have proved that the Spaniards' 12-pound cannons and 18-pound cannons were not enough to threaten the Endeavour, so the old pirate simply took the gunfire of the Dedeavour, which narrowed the distance between the two sides to less than a hundred meters, and then used the twenty cannons on the port side to fire five consecutive rounds of volleys at the Dedeavour.

After five rounds of volleys, all the artillery fire on "Determination" was dull.
Chapter completed!