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

Although Portugal is very close to Ceuta, the Portuguese royal family finally made up their minds to fight Dahua after two days of debate.

They sent one-third of the navy of the entire country, the other third in various colonies overseas, and a third as a last-ditch capital.

If they are sent out at one time, in case of any accident, such as a sneak attack from the back of Spain, their entire kingdom's navy will be completely destroyed.

If this happens, the next step is to consider negotiating the annexation of Spain.

And this kind of thing is very likely to happen, Spain is thinking about annexing them all the time.

Portugal has been annexed many times before.

Basically, as soon as Portugal weakens, Spain beats them up, and then everyone comes to the negotiating table and declares annexation.

When something happens to Spain, or Portugal has developed a bit of strength in their own way, they can declare independence without ignoring Spain.

No problem, it's very European.

One-third of the fleet is quite a lot, with thirty main battleships reaching 500 tons, and nearly thirty other auxiliary ships.

The nine ships of the sixty battle against the Huajun had 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 arrive in China. They were relatively familiar with this country on the land of China. They knew that Dahua was a giant and was not easy to mess with.

If it wasn't for the confidence that they could definitely win this battle, they would not have easily chosen to offend Dahua.

Now, the Portuguese royal family wants to win this war, and then snatch that batch of goods and make a fortune in the war.

With that batch of goods and ships from Dahua, they will be able to re-emerge in Portugal.

Sixty warships, led by Admiral Mentius, departed from Lisbon and headed for the Mediterranean.

And Dahua's navy has already left the Strait of Gibraltar and is waiting in the Atlantic Ocean.

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

Nor did they want to fight in the Mediterranean, fearing that the Portuguese would abandon their attack on them and go directly to Ceuta.

Although Ceuta has a lot of coastal defense artillery, but all above Ceuta are sailors hired by some merchants.

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

If they were defeated and the Portuguese re-boarded Ceuta, the great Chinese on Ceuta would basically be dead.

This is something Bao Shunan will never allow to happen.

After thinking about it, he finally intends to put the battlefield on the Atlantic Ocean and take advantage of the speed to take the initiative in fighting.

With their speed, they can move from side to side and freely choose a comfortable fighting position.

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

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

This professional spectator ship does not carry any artillery and has no attack power.

All the weight has been reduced in order to increase the speed, so that it is not easy to be killed by both sides of the war.

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 prefer to unite first and kill the people who come to the theater.

After the spectators put on this special speedboat, the two sides in the battle were helpless, unable to catch up, unable to get rid of them, and could only acquiesce.

If you have to attack and entangle with those rogues, 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 side could be roughly aligned with the Portuguese navy's bow, so that they could shoot as many shells as possible while suffering the least amount of shelling. .

In naval warfare terms, they were grabbing the t-word.

Naturally, the Portuguese will not let this happen, and they are also turning the rudder to the left, trying to maintain a parallel state with the Dahua Navy.

In a parallel state, their fleet is large in number and has an advantage.

As for seizing the T-suffix, they also thought, but they were worried that after they seized the T-suffix, Dahua's navy would flee without fighting.

At that time, chasing is also a hassle.

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

Therefore, they did not have the idea of ​​attacking Ceuta, for fear of losing too much.

Both sides want to solve the problem on the sea, but it is easy to do it directly.

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

At this time, Hua Jun's speed advantage was revealed.

The faster they lean, the faster they turn.

Although the Portuguese tried their best to avoid falling into the T-suffix, when they were about to enter the range, they still formed an angle of about 60 degrees with Dahua's navy.

Only less than one-sixth of their artillery can aim at the Dahua warship,

And at least half of Dahua's artillery can fire.

However, the Portuguese were not completely helpless. They adopted the method of dividing their forces, and another fleet rushed to Dahua's navy from another angle.

In this way, as long as the adjustment is good, at least a part of the ships can keep parallel with Dahua's navy, and even keep the T prefix to Dahua's fleet.

Of course, this is their assumption, and the Dahua Navy will also have corresponding countermeasures.

Naval warfare is to seize a favorable position and bombard each other, which is very monotonous.

Before they entered the range, they relied on this way to adjust the course, speed, etc. to play the game.

In the process of this game, the most eye-catching is Dahua's steam engine.

In the absence of extra power, everyone's speed is about the same, and it is impossible for Dahua to take advantage of the T prefix.

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

This is actually pretty scary.

Now that Portugal has a large number of ships, there is still a dozen of them in this battle.

If the number of the two sides is similar, and one of them has the absolute speed advantage, then the picture is almost one-sided. The slower party will lose without a doubt.

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

A lot of people have been researching how to speed up ships, but unfortunately no progress has been made.

And now, Dahua's steam engine has stunned naval observers from Western European countries.