Although Zhao Long City issued a very fast attack order, the advection fog on the Peru coast came faster than his orders, and soon turned into thick fog with visibility of less than 100 meters. Raphael's reaction was also very fast. He realized from the beginning that the only hope of the thick fog, the guard fleet, would also fail. At this time, Raphael chose to preserve his strength.

This is something Raphael often did in the past. When he was young, he mainly fought in the East. The imperial navy had an absolute advantage. Only when his own fleet existed, could he have the right to speak there. Raphael had to protect the fleet. When he was old, he was in charge of the Lima fleet. The navy here was scarce. It took only twenty years to accumulate more than a dozen heavy gunboats. Raphael had to ensure that the fleet existed.

But unlike in the past, Raphael did not choose to save himself. However, the tragic wiring battle only broke out with Bogota and Santa Fe, which is the opponent of the two flagships of the Expeditionary Fleet.

The reason is very simple. Zhao Longcheng's flagship Zhiyuan reacted the fastest, while Weiyuan rushed the most fiercely. Zhao Longcheng's last flag-language order was an assault decisive battle. According to the combat regulations of the Imperial Navy, when he knew that he was going to launch a platoon war, the battleships against the enemy's flagship must set an example and rush hard. Even if he knew it was a death, he must rush forward, because capturing the opponent's flagship was too great in terms of the battlefield or political significance.

The captain of the Weiyuan naturally knew the regulations. If he chose not to enforce them, it would be completely done. Other ships that did not have a ship that had a platoon battle would not be questioned, but the Weiyuan would definitely be questioned.

But the captain of the Weiyuan is not afraid, because according to the Navy regulations, the two warships in front and behind the Weiyuan should also rush to the enemy's flagship regardless of their own behavior, rather than entangling with the opponents he faces. Of course, the Weiyuan is at the end and only receives support from one warship, but that is enough.

When Zhao Longcheng issued an assault order, the Marine Commander on the Zhiyuan immediately came to Zhao Longcheng. In the event of a certain battle on the sidelines, he had to ensure the safety of the commander Zhao Longcheng. The young major said to Zhao Longcheng: "General, please follow the Beizheng to the lower artillery deck."

Zhao Longcheng smiled and understood the major's meaning. The Zhiyuan was not a serious battleship. She was modified from the heavy patrol. Because the technology of the modified shipyard was limited, the winch was not modified and could only be left in its original position, that is, the upper artillery deck. Although the grid-shaped detachable open-air deck can ensure that the winch can still be used, it obviously does not include this chaos in preparing for the battle of the boarding. The winch could not be used, and the boat could not be put down, and Zhao Longcheng could not leave by boat.

So the Marines could only take him to the lower artillery deck and leave through the artillery window. Before that, the crew had tied a small boat to the side of the ship between the two artillery windows. Although they could not take away all the staff, they could save Zhao Longcheng's life.

"Major, I can go with you, but let's wait a moment, don't get on the boat first, see how the result is?" Zhao Longcheng asked with a smile, using a tone of discussion, not a command. So what if he is a lieutenant general, now he will be under the command of this major.

The major nodded, grabbed Zhao Longcheng's men's gun deck, leaving two men on top. There were only a small number of people on the lower gun deck, and the rest were still firing at the enemy ships. The rest were all involved in the boarding battle. The guns and cannons kept ringing, and what was even more invasive was the screams of the wounded. A marine squad led by a captain to the gun deck, personally directed the guns to continuously bombard the hull on the opposite side. After breaking a big hole, he led people in. His mission was to capture the gunpowder depot of Bogota. This was very important, especially when facing the Spanish, the Spaniards were religious madmen, and it was difficult to avoid them from detonating the gunpowder depot and dying with their own side.

"Maybe we should leave now," said the major. If the Spaniards detonate the powder depot, it would not be safe to stay here.

Zhao Longcheng smiled: "Major, in my experience, the Spaniards are going to detonate the powder depot, and they just detonated when the two ships collided."

The major was helpless. Just as he was about to force Zhao Longcheng to board the boat, the captain returned to the Zhiyuan. Although he was covered in blood and had a broken hand, it brought good news. The gunpowder depot was occupied and water was filled, which relieved the biggest danger of the Zhiyuan.

The news that Zhiyuan had the upper hand kept coming. The reason was very simple. Zhiyuan, which had more than 80 artillery guns, had more than 700 crew members. In order to gather these people, many Marines boarded the ship and became sailors. Bogota originally had a quota of 600 people (the Spanish ships were always more crowded), but after rocket attacks, there were only more than 200 boarding the ship. The temporary forced sailors brought the number of this ship to 450, but the early shelling caused at least 170 casualties, while only 19 people of Zhiyuan lost their combat effectiveness before the battle.

The gunpowder deck, open-air deck, bow building, stern building, two-story artillery deck, officer cabin, anchor cabin... One key place is occupied, and these news continues to come. Zhao Longcheng smiled and said, "It seems that I, a lieutenant general, don't have to take a boat carrying only six passengers. To be honest, I have never taken such a small boat in my life."

The major stood up and said, "I'm sorry, general, I'm humble in my duties."

Zhao Longcheng smiled slightly, without blaming him, and said, "You can arrange for someone to restore the winch immediately, put the boat down, pass the orders to each ship, and assemble to the location No. 4 of A."

The major went to do it immediately. The thick fog rose sharply, the battle line no longer existed, the visibility was less than 100 meters, the flag language was completely invalid, and the only reliable command was to send it to a small boat, but it might not be possible to find its own ship, but it didn't matter. Zhao Longcheng had already formulated a plan and demarcated the sea area. If it encountered heavy fog, ships that fell behind at this longitude and longitude would go to the prescribed location to assemble, but Zhao Longcheng hoped to assemble the fleet earlier, because although this naval battle was won, it did not wipe out the enemy navy.

The sudden thick fog lasted for four days. On the battlefield, the flagship only found the Fuyuan. The news that the Potosi, which Fuyuan had sunk, had already sunk. Except for the 114 prisoners rescued by Fuyuan, all the others died with the ship. The Potosi did not sink because of the battle with Fuyuan.

The sinking of Potosi was due to the trauma caused to it by Fuyuan, as well as the captain's fanaticism and bravery. The captain of Potosi did not see the flag of the disbanded battle line issued by Raphael, or he was a fanatical religious figure like Laonia, so when facing the Jingyuan approaching attack, Potosi chose to turn to fight and remained unstoppable.

It was this steering order that killed the Potosi. The large hole that was temporarily repaired near the waterline was submerged below the sea because the steering was infiltrated, which directly led to large-scale rupture and water inflow. The center of gravity of the Spanish ship was already high (the stern and bow buildings existed). In addition, everyone was on the left at that time, and the left side was heavy. The hole was in the water and left turn caused the Potosi to overturn directly.

When the small fleets temporarily formed by the two warships arrived at the A-4 assembly point, they saw the Weiyuan, Zhenyuan, several gathered schooners and Horayshaun's cruise ships. Zhao Longcheng directly ordered these light ships to go to the surrounding port coastline for reconnaissance and find the location of the enemy fleet.

Zhao Longcheng finally saw the body of his opponent Raphael. He was still wearing gorgeous clothes, almost spotless, with only a look of pain and unwillingness on his face, and Weiyuan had figured out everything.

Raphael's original plan should be to kill a few Chinese who had fought with him for most of his life, then detonate the gunpowder depot, and die with the two enemy ships. Therefore, after sending away Laonia, he immediately deployed all this, but not all Spaniards had this awareness. Especially those crew members who were forced to be recruited on the merchant ships, they did not want to die, and the crew members knew very well that the Chinese were not bloodthirsty.

During the battle between the Peru Governor's Governor's District and the American companies, American companies often choose to exchange prisoners before redeeming them. Because the Spanish in the colonies have sixteen levels, American companies all price according to the level. Whether it is an official or a private bid, they can be redeemed and even give discounts such as group purchase prices.

Especially those mixed-race children, Indians and blacks, they will not be killed. Even the devil in the eyes of the Spanish, Zhao Longcheng, every time they revenge, they will kill white people, especially the native Spanish white people.

So, at the beginning, these crew members launched a riot. Some of them killed Raphael's men. Although they did not break through the gunpowder depot occupied by these people, they did not prevent them from digging through the cabin walls and pouring water into it. Of course, it was nothing to slap Raphael in the chaos, but the slap directly killed the veteran.

The Santa Fe eventually sank due to the explosion, but only a small amount of gunpowder was detonated. It only exploded a large hole and did not cause damage to the Weiyuan. The Weiyuan crew not only had time to rescue the enemy, but also time to bring Raphael's body back to the Weiyuan.

Zhao Longcheng led a fleet to wait for three more days in the A-4 waters. This is the waters he specially selected. There is a river on the nearby coastline that can replenish fresh water, along the river and woods. Not far north of this is a small town of Spanish colonists, where you can rest and replenish, and even repair ships.

According to the agreement, we must reach this sea area within seven days after the war. In these three days, all cruise ships and battleships arrived. The Jingyuan warship almost did not participate in the naval battle. As a leading guide, the distance was too far from the incident and went back to support it in the fog, but did not encounter its own warships. They searched one after another in the fog for four days, but found some Spanish prisoners and finally arrived at the agreed time.

Raphael was dead, but the navigator on the Santa Fe was captured. Zhao Longcheng knew that since Raphael dared to issue an order to disband the battle line in the end, it means that he had also selected a gathering point like himself. After handing the navigator over to other prisoners for a while, the guy confessed and determined that the sea area selected by Raphael was Chimbot Bay.

Considering that the enemy was already a frightened bird and his side had been delaying this sea area for seven days, Zhao Longcheng immediately ordered to go to Chimbot Bay at full speed, leaving behind the serious injury Fuyuan, which was repairing the ship, waiting for Horayshaun and other reconnaissance ships to come back to assemble.

After arriving at Chimbot Bay, Zhao Longcheng immediately understood why Raphael chose the assembly point here. This was an excellent naval base. Two headlands surrounded the wide bay in the middle. There were reefs and islands of all sizes at the entrances and exits, and the widest passage was only two kilometers. After Laonia arrived, artillery barricades were immediately set up on the islands on both sides of the waterways to block the entry and exit channels.

The only regret is that it is still in an untapped place and is rarely visited, but the coastline is relatively straight and the coastline is rare, and bays like this are very rare.

"This... here, and here... all of them were arranged with artillery barracks, all sixteen and twenty-four pounds of artillery, equipped with land warriors, and even fortifications were built. And three places had barracks, and they were obviously ready to fight land with us...."

"They are repairing the ship. For some reason, there are seven heavy gunboat-class warships inside. Perhaps one of them is a civilian ship or other possible. Because of the lack of materials, our scouts saw that they demolished four ships, all of which were civilian ships. They should be local ships that were captured when they fled north."

In the Zhiyuan operation room, the Marine Corps officer reported the reconnaissance intelligence, and the Chief of Staff said: "This is a fight to trap beasts."

Zhao Longcheng shook his head: "No, I think it's all illusion for them to set up turrets and deploy land forces. If they encounter a heavy enough fog, they will still escape, and even give up those turrets may not necessarily be given up."

"General, Horayshaun is here." The adjutant walked in and said.

The Chief of Staff said: "Let him wait outside for a while."

Zhao Longcheng smiled: "No, let him come in, Horayshaun, a pirate captain, has different thinking from the navy, and maybe he can provide us with some new ideas, not necessarily."

Soon, Horayshoen was invited in, and his cruise ship was arranged in the cruise fleet. In the last naval battle, except for entanglement with the enemy's schooner for a while, and in the early stage he used three masts to deceive the Spaniards, he did not participate in any decent battles, and Horayshoen and his men were both dissatisfied with this.

Li Junwei offered Horayshaun the same salary as the Imperial Navy, but it was obvious that the pirates did not want to get a bounty for this. If it weren't for Horayshaun, these pirates had already begun to rob the Spaniards' coastal towns after the Lima fleet was defeated.
Chapter completed!