This chapter is released regularly, because it is estimated that it will take one or two days to go on a business trip. I will update the chapter on Monday after I come back.

Lieutenant Falcao, who took a traffic boat to the Bishop of Lima, was frightened and looked at the water splashing around the boat from time to time. They were shells falling in the water. He kept begging God to bless the Tatans' shells not to land on his small traffic boat.

Another round of artillery shells came, and more than twenty large and small iron projectiles flew over the sea with the scream of the god of death and fell down. These cannons were fired in advance, and each cannon had a firing table accumulated from a large amount of live-fire data. When formulating the firing table, even the wind speed was taken into consideration, so the accuracy of these cannons was terrifyingly high.

The poor Bishop Lima was shot on a large scale again, and this time the hardest hit area near the stern was a severely affected area. Two shells were hit on the deck of the stern, and one stern gun was hit apart. The army soldiers accompanying the deck on the gun were also seriously injured, and six or seven people were killed by shells and wood chips. The spinnaker on the rear mast was hit again, and the sail surface was completely unusable; the open air corridor platform at the stern was hit for the second time, and the control bar of the rudder's cabin was damaged, and two rudder wheelmen were injured...

In short, the Bishop of Lima was over. When Lieutenant Falcao finally boarded the deck of Bishop of Lima after great hardship, the captain told him. The 500-ton warship is now unable to move and has become a veritable target ship. The sailors who are still able to act put down their lifesaving boats and began to prepare for abandoning the ship. The gunners were no longer interested in shooting, and they were all crowded on the deck. The priests were praying for the dying soldiers at their utmost, and there was an atmosphere of panic everywhere.

Diego Garcia's face was a little ashen, and her hands holding the monocular lens were trembling slightly. I don't know if it was because of the long-term holding of the telescope or the violent mood swings. Maybe it was both. I originally wanted to test the firepower of the Tatans' turret, but I didn't expect the price to be paid so high. The frigate "Biography of Lima" was severely damaged, no, it was not just because it was severely damaged. The warship was completely unable to move now. Even if the Tatans no longer tried to attack her, Diego Garcia would order the sinking of the warship, so as not to become the trophy of the Tatans and humiliate the kingdom.

Damn Captain Torres! How did he come to the conclusion that the Tatans had only 18-24 cannons? Did he find out from a nonsense drunk in the bar? This is a dereliction of duty! Diego Garcia cursed in his heart. These damn Tatans and the 32-pound cannons that the Kingdom Navy rarely equipped, and it was obviously a long-barrel heavy cannon! This heartbreaking fact made the fleet commander almost unable to control himself. It seemed that the show was over quickly and no more warships could be lost. Diego Garcia once again recruited an officer to pass the order. The energetic action ended like a slash, which made the Tatans watch a big joke. It was really entangled!

Major Carlos looked at the scene in a complicated mood. He was happy that Diego Garcia, the descendant of the pig-herder, was defeated, and was also shocked by the superior performance of the Tatan artillery. The 32-pound, 24-pound and 18-pound artillery were generally much stronger than the Spanish Navy's active artillery in terms of range. The shells had such powerful penetration kinetic energy after flying over a thousand meters, indicating that the diameter ratio of the opponent's artillery had reached an astonishing number.

How did they do this? When did the Tatans have such superior artillery casting technology? How did the artillery barrels withstand the high pressure generated by the burning of gunpowder in the explosion chamber? Major Carlos was not an ignorant person. On the contrary, his youth was spent in Italy and had a good education. He did not think that those Tatans, who occupied the vast areas from Ukraine to the East, had such excellent artillery casting technology. Could it be the Turkish technology?

However, this is difficult to explain, because the Turks would not spread the technology that they mastered to the Tatans, which was ahead of the whole world. Then, there is only one explanation, that is, the so-called "Tatans" occupying this land are not real Tatans at all. They must have come from a country or region with quite advanced technology. So where is this country and region? Is it the East? It doesn't make sense. The fleet of the kingdom travels throughout the world, and the technology of those Orientals is not as good as that of the kingdom. Is there a continent or new world that has not been explored? Major Carlos, who has no idea after thinking about it, simply stops engaging in this issue, because he is about to face a more tangled fact. That is, since the naval guns of these "Tatans" are so excellent, then their field army guns must be equally excellent, and they will be themselves who will bear the bombardment of these army guns. It's really tangled!

"Boom! Boom!" The fourth round of the Tatans' shells came so quickly. The crew crowded on the deck of the Bishop of Lima were in trouble. Two 18-pound shells blew a bloody path from the dense crowd and then hit the deck, which exhausted the kinetic energy. More shells hit the upper building and the side deck. The hard and thick boat board at the starboard waterline finally cracked a big hole under the ravage of 32-pound shells.

As the sea water surged in, the Bishop of Lima began to tilt a little right, which aggravated the confusion among the sailors on the deck. Some people began to fight for the opportunity to escape, and even the officers could no longer stop them. As more and more sea water flowed into the bottom cabin, the trend of ships tilting right became more and more obvious. Many desperate sailors jumped into the sea without hesitation, at least in the sea they did not have to endure the shells falling like raindrops by the Tatans.

The warship "Judge of the Prosecutor" in the north had already pulled its anchor and raised its sails and was about to withdraw. However, after seeing the tragic situation of the "Bissary of Lima" about to overturn and sink, the captain refused to ask the fleet commander to retreat immediately, but stopped and put a large number of life-saving boats on the sea, so that the crew of the "Bissary of Lima" would not die in the cold sea water in vain. The heroic behavior of the warship "Judge of the Prosecutor" saved the lives of dozens of Spanish Navy soldiers, and of course, this put them themselves in a dangerous situation.

The 24 artillery on the main turret began to turn to bombard the "Judge of the Prosecutor". In a short period of time, this new warship that had been launched for only ten years was hit by more than ten shells, and the crew members on the deck were quite injured. At the critical moment, the God of Luck favored them. The 8 32-pound cannons on the main turret needed to be cooled due to the long continuous shooting time. The "Judge of the Prosecutor" warship took advantage of this short period of time and quickly turned around and dragged its scarred hull away from the battlefield.

Due to intelligence errors, the six main warships of the Kingdom Navy bombed against the Tatans' artillery. The ratio of the number of artillery was 174:32. In fact, since only one-sided artillery could be fired at the same time, the number of artillery ratio was about 2.5:1, and the caliber was not as good as the other party. It was not surprising to achieve such a bleak ending. Diego Garcia quickly adjusted his mind. The remaining six main warships gathered outside the range of the Tatans' artillery. Then, accompanied by a large number of transport ships and armed merchant ships sailing south, only a few small offshore warships were left on guard and patrol outside the Dayu River.

"Is it running?" Li Yi, who was so excited that he saw from the telescope that there was only a small piece of mast left on the sea, slowly sank. Li Yi, who was flushed with excitement, asked in surprise.

"It shouldn't be running away." Wang Qinian pondered, "They are probably looking for the landing place south. This time they are coming. Looking at the posture of so many transport ships, there are probably nearly two thousand people coming. Haha, the two thousand soldiers in Europe at this time are not very large at all, but in the New World, it is a huge force, especially in such a remote and desolate La Plata area. The Spanish really look down on us, crazy! It's so crazy!" At the end of the day, Wang Qinian's face was full of bitter smiles.

The latest trends of the Spaniards were immediately transmitted back to the Executive Committee and the Army Department. The Army Department immediately sent a large number of cavalry along the coastline to try to track the traces of the Spanish fleet, but the Spanish fleet turned and disappeared at sea level after sailing along the coast for a period of time. Peng Zhicheng speculated that the Spaniards deliberately stayed away from the coast in order to avoid being controlled by crossing people. They must still wander on the nearby sea and wait for an opportunity to land.

Based on this judgment, Peng Zhicheng sprinkled all the cavalry units that had been expanded to three posts, and expanded the search scope to try to find the Spaniards as soon as possible. Two days later, Leonid Feodorovic, the first post of the cavalry, finally found a large number of landing Spanish Army units near Rochao.

The Spanish were landing in chaos. Artillery, cavalry, spearmen, musketeers, etc., near the desolate Luoqia Beach, more than a thousand people gathered, and the people shouted and neighed, making a mess. Of course, the Spanish were not without defense. Some cavalry and Gao Qiao were scattered on the periphery to prevent sudden attacks during the landing, resulting in major casualties in the army.
Chapter completed!