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Chapter 263 Manila Offensive and Defensive Battle (4)

After seeing the explosion succeed, Zhang Hai sent information to the landing fleet anchored twenty miles away. At this time, Fu Wenlong and Wang Jinbao on the ship had received the good news. The Spanish ships were all sunk, and the remaining ships were fighting with Zhang Hai.

After hearing this, Fu Wenlong was overjoyed and said to Wang Jinbao: "Secretary Commander Wang, Admiral Zhang's progress is going well. The next step depends on your army. You won't let the navy surpass you, right?"

After hearing Fu Wenlong say this, Wang Jinbao shouted: "Don't worry, Governor, the final solution must be our army. Can their navy go to land? Is it possible for me to land now and start attacking Manila City!"

"Okay, come, send orders, go to the dock immediately, and put down the army soldiers!" The commanders outside went down to convey the general order of the Governor.

Wang Jinbao's transport fleet came to ten miles outside Manila Bay in the middle of the night and waited for orders. There was a small fishing village in this place, a village of local natives. Wang Jinbao knew that these people knew the methods of local natives to treat Han people, so he had already sent a company of soldiers ashore last night and quietly dealt with everyone in this small fishing village.

The entire fleet of twenty sea ships were given military orders, and the army soldiers on the ship began to disembark in an orderly manner under the organization of grassroots officers.

Zhao Hu is also in this team now. After more than a year of training, Zhao Hu has completely adapted to the hot climate of Southeast Asia. At this time, he has accumulated merit and promoted to the platoon leader, and he has 30 troops under his command. The climate in Southeast Asia is hot, and Zhao Hu is sweating all over his face, but his military uniform is still very straightforward. When he heard the battalion commander conveying the order of the governor to land, Zhao Hu led his soldiers to wait for disembark.

Wang Jinbao brought a total of 8,000 men and left 2,000 guards at Daimao Port. He brought all heavy equipment, a total of 160 cannons, all of which had to be lifted from the ship. The work intensity was very high. Fortunately, Wang Jinbao asked someone to get ashore to build a few simple trestles at the latest, and there were no ships and two booms on it, but it took three hours to unload all the cannons.

Through the guide brought by Daimao Port, we learned that this place is fifteen miles away from Manila, not far away. Fortunately, the Spanish built a simple path by the sea, which can follow this path to the bottom of Manila.

It took a long time from the beginning when we got ashore and the equipment was unloaded. Wang Jinbao looked at it almost noon, and he didn't know what was going on in the naval battle.

"Quick, speed up your journey and arrive in Manila before dark!"

At this time, the naval battle was coming to an end. The Spanish warships were no match for Zhang Hai in the naval battle. They were not as fast as humans, their firepower was not as good as humans, and their equipment was not as good as humans. This battle could not be fought.

Zhang Hai's ship age is very new, and the sailors have fully adapted to the equipment after this little work, so Spain is not advantageous in all aspects except in terms of quantity.

Zhang Hai's flagship "Guangdong" is no less than that of Spain's main battleship in tonnage. It has 96 artillery pieces and more than 500 sailors. Twenty-four pounds of naval heavy artillery can fully exert firepower at a distance of 500 meters, and each shot can cause damage on the Spanish fleet.

Now there are only six 500-ton warships left in the Spanish fleet. The others are either sunk by mines or bombarded by artillery and have lost their power, and are struck by crossing the bay. The entire bay is full of fire, and dead and living sailors are floating on the sea.

Seeing that the remaining Spanish warships had no hope of winning, they all retreated into the fire circle of shore artillery and sought protection of shore artillery.

The shore artillery is different from the naval artillery. In order to ensure the loading speed, the naval artillery has a shorter body tube, so the range is also relatively close, but the shore artillery does not have this disadvantage. There is no need to move on the shore, and the weight is not a problem, so the range can be guaranteed to the maximum extent. Therefore, the range of the shore artillery in this era is three to four miles away.

Zhang Hai's largest naval artillery is a twenty-four-pound cannon. With the help of new gunpowder, the range can reach four miles, but the accuracy cannot be guaranteed.

Seeing the Spanish Navy retreating to the shore, Zhang Hai had no choice but to order the heavy artillery to fight back against the cannon on the shore. The accuracy could not be guaranteed, and he just made a sound to remind the Spaniards of their own existence.

Zhang Hai looked at the sky and it was already afternoon. "I don't know where Wang Jinbao and his group of land ducks went?"

At this time, in the north of Manila City, outside the city of Balian District, there was a second-story brick and stone sentry tower. This was the outer post of Manila City. The massacre that half a year ago was burned all over the entire Balian District by the natives. Now, one or two Chinese bones can be seen in the rubble from time to time.

There was a platoon of Spanish soldiers on the outpost, but their attention was not outside the city, but they looked into the bay. Now that the battle in the bay was coming to an end, the Spanish warship was huddled in the port, leaning against the shore cannons and breathing. The soldiers on the outpost were very angry when they saw their warships.

"Captain, do these shameless Chinese pirates have no naval dignity?"

Captain Diego, the platoon leader, was also very angry, "This is what the Chinese are like. They only dare to do sneak attacks, and they are the same as the despicable British!"

The soldiers were watching the fun, and no one noticed that there was a team of 8,000 people coming from the woods outside the city. This was Wang Jinbao's army.

Wang Jinbao stood outside the team and looked at Manila a mile away. This place is about the same size as a mansion in mainland China. When the Han people were there, there were 70,000 to 80,000 people. Now most of the Han people have been killed. There are only more than 30,000 indigenous people and more than 10,000 Spanish people in the city.

In Manila, only the Spanish lived in the city walls, and the natives and Han people lived outside the city. Wang Jinbao looked at the towering Governor's Mansion in the distance, and this battle should not be difficult to fight. There were only a few Spanish outposts outside the city. If they were to clean up, they could drive straight in.

Wang Jinbao said to Ma Kun behind him: "Start, knock off the outpost first, and then attack their city gate. After entering, all the natives were killed."

Makun agreed to start preparing.

At this time, Captain Diego was encouraging his warship, and suddenly found countless soldiers rushing out of the woods outside the city, all wearing red clothes and blue pants. Captain Diego was shocked. When did the British come to Manila? Could it be that the Chinese pirates in the bay were pretended to be the British?

Surprisedly, Captain Diego quickly organized soldiers to start shooting, preventing the British outside the city from entering Manila City.

After getting closer, Captain Diego finally found that these people were not British. They were not as tall as the British, and were obviously Chinese. Unexpectedly, the Chinese came here. Could it be the Ming army?
Chapter completed!
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