Chapter 596： Engage in battle

A large-scale naval battle is not just a fight.

Although Portugal is very close to Ceuta, the Portuguese royal family has also been arguing for two days before finally determined to fight Dahua.

They sent one-third of the navy in the entire country, the other one-third were in overseas colonies, and one-third was reserved for the final capital.

If it is sent out all at once, in case something happens, such as a sneak attack from behind Spain, then the navy of their entire kingdom will be completely destroyed.

If this happens, the next step is to consider negotiating to merge into Spain.

And this kind of thing is very likely to happen, Spain wants to annex them all the time.

Prior to this, Portugal had been annexed many times.

Basically, as soon as Portugal weakened, Spain beat them up, and then everyone came to the negotiating table and announced their annexation.

When something happens in Spain, or Portugal develops a little strength on their own, they can declare independence instead of Spain.

Nothing wrong, this is very European.

One-third of the fleet is also quite a lot. There are 30 main battleships of 500 tons, and there are nearly 30 other auxiliary ships.

Sixty ships against the nine ships of the Chinese Army, occupying an absolute advantage in number.

This is also one of the important reasons why the Portuguese dared to fight decisively.

They and the Dutch were the first Western European countries to reach China, and they knew relatively well about this country on the land of China. They knew that Dahua was a behemoth and not easy to mess with.

If it were not for the confidence that they could definitely win this battle, they would not easily choose to offend Dahua.

Today, the Portuguese royal family is thinking about winning this war, and then grabbing that batch of goods and making a fortune in the war.

With that batch of goods and ships from Dahua, Portugal will be able to rise again.

Sixty warships, led by the commander of the navy, Mencius, set out from Lisbon and headed straight for the Mediterranean.

The Majestic Navy has already exited the Strait of Gibraltar, waiting on the Atlantic Ocean.

They did not want to fight the Portuguese in the Strait of Gibraltar. The strait area was too small for the Chinese army to use its speed advantage to maneuver and find favorable fighters.

I also don't want to fight in the Mediterranean, worrying that the Portuguese will give up their attacks and attack Ceuta directly.

Although Ceuta had a lot of coastal defense guns, all of them were sailors hired by merchants.

Of course they will also fire, but the ability to withstand casualties will be a big question mark.

If they were defeated and re-boarded Ceuta by the Portuguese, the big Chinese on Ceuta would basically be in a different place.

This is something Bao Shunan will never allow to happen.

After thinking about it, he finally intends to put the battlefield on the Atlantic, using the advantage of speed to grasp the initiative in the battle.

Relying on speed, they can move around and freely choose a comfortable combat position.

And this, if used well, can also greatly weaken the Portuguese's quantitative advantage.

The Spaniards, the British, and even the French, who had long received the news, sent ships to watch the battle.

This professional spectator ship is not equipped with any artillery and has no attack power.

Reduced all the weight in order to increase the speed, so that it is not easy to be killed by the two warring parties.

After all, the two people who are fighting definitely don't like being watched like monkeys, and they don't want to reveal some of their secrets.

They are more willing to unite first and kill those who come to watch the show.

And after the spectators put on this special speedboat, the two sides in the battle are helpless, unable to catch up, and can't get rid of, they can only default.

If you insist on attacking and entanglement with those rascals, it is easy to delay major events.

On the Atlantic Ocean, Dahua and the Portuguese navy met.

"Turn the rudder to the left thirty degrees."

The Chinese Army made a change in direction. After turning 30 degrees to the left, their ship's gunwale could be roughly aligned with the bow of the Portuguese navy, so that they could shoot out as many shells as possible while suffering the least shelling. .

In naval terms, they are preempting the T prefix.

The Portuguese will naturally not let this happen. They are also turning the rudder to the left, trying to maintain a parallel state with the UOB Navy.

In a parallel state, their fleet is numerous and dominant.

As for seizing the T prefix, they also thought about it, but they worried that after they seized the T prefix, Dahua's navy would flee without fighting.

At that time, chasing is also a hassle.

They still don't know enough about Dahua, thinking that the businessmen on Ceuta are desperadoes just like the businessmen in their country.

Therefore, they did not intend to attack Ceuta for fear of losing too much.

Both parties want to solve the problem on the sea, but it saves trouble. Without conspiracy and tricks, they just do it directly.

Both sides are adjusting their course, and while adjusting, the distance between the two sides is also approaching.

At this time, the speed advantage of the Huajun was revealed.

By being faster, they turned faster.

Although the Portuguese tried their best to avoid falling into the T suffix, when they were about to enter the firing range, they still formed an angle of about sixty degrees with Dahua's navy.

Only less than one-sixth of their artillery can be aimed at Dahua warships, and at least half of Dahua’s artillery can fire.

However, the Portuguese were not completely incapable. They used the method of dividing forces, and another fleet rushed towards the Dahua navy from another angle.

In this way, as long as the adjustment is good, at least some of the ships can maintain parallel with Dahua's navy, and even maintain the T-head for Dahua's fleet.

Of course, this is their vision, and the UOB Navy will also have a corresponding countermeasure.

Naval warfare is to seize advantageous positions and shell each other, which is very monotonous.

Before entering the firing range, they played the game by adjusting the course and speed in this way.

And in the process of this game, the most dazzling thing is the steam engine of Dahua.

In the absence of additional power, everyone's speed is the same, and Dahua is unlikely to take advantage of the T prefix.

However, because Dahua has a steam engine to accelerate, it did this.

This is actually very scary.

Portugal now has a large number of ships, and this battle can still be fought.

If the numbers of the two parties are similar, and one of them has an absolute advantage in speed, the picture is almost flat. The slower party will undoubtedly lose.

Speed ​​is a very critical part of naval battles.

Many people are studying how to speed up the ship, but unfortunately there is no progress.

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