Boom! Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
From far away, the rumbling, thunderous cannon fire from the Li family fleet that had come from the East reached the flagship of the Spanish Armada's commander-in-chief, Admiral Pedro de Baludis of the Spanish Royal Navy.
Then came the terrifying cannonballs, which accompanied the thunderous gunfire and rained down all at once on the sea around the fleet's vanguard, throwing up strings of splashes and pounding onto the decks of the armed fast ships!
"..."
Seeing this, Baludis lowered his spyglass, and his face darkened another few shades.
After encountering the Ming Li family fleet from the East in the Strait of Gibraltar and enduring the distant taunts of their bombardment, he had decisively led the nearly three hundred ships of his Armada, dividing them into three massive fleets—front, center, and rear—and pursuing the five damned giant warships in a sweeping semicircle formation.
Unfortunately, even with the wind against them, he soon discovered to his dismay that the rumors of the Li family fleet's ships being the fastest in the world were no exaggeration. His Spanish Armada had pursued them for half a day, yet couldn't even catch up with the fast ships sent out as the vanguard. All they could do was let the enemy keep their distance and "kite" them, while they were forced to suffer the indignity of silently enduring bombardment from more than a thousand yards away.
Boom! Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Before long, after reloading, the Easterners' cannons unleashed another broadside, raining fire down on them!
Although most of the cannonballs splashed harmlessly into the sea, sending up columns of water, a few still struck the medium-sized armed ships at the forefront of the pursuit. They killed and wounded many sailors, and one ship even exploded on the spot, catching