The Ming army was not the only one who was hit by the storm.

The Western fleet sailed from the Peruvian Governor to Acapulco to reinforce Bernard was also hit by a storm.

However, they are more familiar with the climate on the west coast of the New World, and the losses are much smaller than those of the Ming army.

This is due to the commander of the Peru Governor's District. Unlike the noble generals like Bernard, Peru's Li Calder was a captain-born admiral.

The navy generals are in power, and this situation is extremely rare in Spain and the entire world.

Although the Age of Discovery began long ago, Spain and Portugal were close to dividing the world, in fact, there were no naval forces in this era, including the Ming Dynasty, Spain, Portugal, England, and France.

Needless to say, the Ming Dynasty would have no navy without Chen Mu. The country's strategic focus was still placed in the north even when Japanese pirates attacked. The Zheng He fleet was once a fleet dominated by army forces.

The Spanish navy is more like a narrower but more firepower version of Zheng He's fleet, with roughly the same combat ideas, with a large bow and a high man on the front.

There is nothing to say about England, England. Its ship combat concept is naturally advanced by future generations, but in this era when artillery technology is not mature enough and its power is not stable enough, it is actually inconsistent with Spanish tactics in combat power.

These two representative combat ideas are actually no different from the best. Technology and tactics come from demand, and the needs of the two countries are the important factors that determine this choice.

Spanish warships needed to travel between the old and new continents to maintain colonial rule, requiring a large number of soldiers, and lacking evenly matched enemies at sea. To a certain extent, warships were also transport ships, which had to transport both silver and gold and land soldiers. Taking into account both sea and land, the Clark ship naturally developed into a tall Western-style Galen ship.

English warships have only two purposes: one is to do business and the other is robbery. There are few people and small ships, and the country is weak. Naturally, they must avoid conflicts and casualties. With the fast ship, the guns are high and the guns are high, the mid-range guns are determined to win and lose. After the robbery is taken, they will run away. They have developed from Clark ships to high-speed British Garen ships.

They all called the Shanghai Army. In this era, there was no formal navy in the entire Western world. The prominent feature was that during naval battles, the commanders of various countries were not naval generals.

But if we go forward for decades, the Ottoman Empire had an independent navy, commander of Barbarossa Heiding.

Docked on Devil Island is a squadron of four warships in the Western Army. They are familiar with the sea route and dock one week earlier than Chen Ju. The ships and the army carrying nearly a thousand naval forces were not damaged.

They came here not to avoid the storm. The commander of the squadron leader Pars received was to sail northwest through Devil Island, to the California Peninsula, the Ming Dynasty's Dividing Peninsula, and to use the superiority to attack the Ming fleet from behind.

Peru's commander Li Calder is a naval general. Thinking about tactics will naturally focus on naval warfare, rather than considering winning the war from land.

However, because of this sudden storm, the squadron that was supposed to sail to the Dividing Peninsula was stranded here and was preparing to return to Guayaquil in a few days to face the storm. The squadron leader Pars knew that his commander Li Calder would not take risks and would definitely return to the nearby shelter.

The whole army is just a small holiday, as for Bernard of the Governor of New Spain?

May him live long!

Suddenly, he changed his new boss and was still close to the independent position. If it were not for the support of the West India Committee, Almansa would have led his troops to help and fight with the Ming army.

It's his turn to give orders?

Pars was fishing for eels on the repaired boat, and saw two large boats coming from afar. This immediately aroused his caution, and stood up and shouted, "Hit up, a boat is coming!"

This is the Devil's Island. There is no sign of humanity except for the occasional encounter of tattered antique pottery belonging to the Incas decades ago on the island. No ship should have appeared, especially when New Spain was fighting with the Ming army!

The foresight of the squadron commander gave a good start to the soldiers from Peru, although they were pulling the fishing net and carrying the fishing rod the moment before, and the next moment they ran towards their respective combat positions. The heavy anchor pierced into the sea was slowly closed, and the sound of the chain turning was like a heavy hammer hitting everyone's heart.

The advantage of Spanish warships lies in their platoon combat, which has high requirements for the morale and discipline of soldiers.

But it was still too slow, and the recovery of the anchor was too slow. From the discovery of two warships to the discovery of Ming Dynasty pennant flags hanging on the warships, the anchor had not yet been collected by one-third. Pars was anxious. He knew that at this speed, when they ate the shells from the Ming ship's side cannon, the anchor had not yet been collected.

Confiscated the anchor, let alone avoid shelling, even with cannons.

"Quick, cut off the main anchor! Hurry!"

Faced with the orders of the squadron captain, the captain of the Western Navy, who had strict military discipline, dared not disobey... They were not English pirates, and any orders against the commander would be executed directly.

But the captain still reminded: "The coast of Devil Island is full of open seas that cannot escape the wind and waves. After losing the main anchor, our ships will not be able to tie them here again."

"I can't care about that much. Those two ships look big, but the ships carry few sailors. As long as they can handle the sidelines, we can win. There is always a way to seize their warships."

Naval officers in the Peruvian Governor's District generally had a clearer understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army. Most of the more than 300 people who escaped by chance in the Linlai naval battle returned to Peru, and there were many monks in Peru, and their greatest energy was devoted to research except praying to the gods.

They studied Indians, Ming dynasties, Ming army, warships, they loved to study and study everything.

Accompanied by the loud sound of axe chopping and the winch breaking, the heavy iron anchor fell on the winch and pulled out of the deck quickly. The main anchor winches of the four warships hit the freeboard railing and sank into the sea.

The first thing that moved was Pars' flagship, a Western-style Garen ship named Pita.

The Pita carries 700 tons, with eight six-pound bronze cannons in the middle and rear of the ship, twelve small Francos, and one bronze stone cannon weighing fifty pounds each at the bow and stern of the ship, and three mortar cannons. The tower-like giant ships, according to the regulations of the Spanish Navy, have a constant tonnage of 127 crew members and 175 soldiers. At the same time, they transported 104 army troops due to the war.

There are terrible numbers of crew members.

Although the remaining three ships that were slowly moving were slightly smaller than the Pita tonnage, they were all ships with a capacity of more than 500 tons, and they also carried more than 200 people.

No one was more shocked than Liang Bozhen, the captain of the Ming army, who was holding a telescope. The lenses reflected the Western Army warships four miles away. The huge ship shape could make people feel the power of facing the giant beasts on the sea without using a telescope. But the most impressive thing was the battle formations listed by the crowded soldiers on the deck.

Their deck is probably only allowed to pass by one person!

Liang Bozhen looked back at his empty deck. Except for the gunner, sailor and boatman, there was no gunner, and there was not even a gunner. It looked too shabby.

Accompanied by the sound of the wooden wheel pushing the cannon into the cannon position rubbing against the deck, the small flag officers on the left and right reported loudly that he had finished loading and slowly swallowed the saliva from his dry throat, and then threw it towards the ship of the Western Army with pity in his eyes.

"A ship like this, if you shoot it in one shot... there will be a lot of people?"
Chapter completed!