Chapter 1043

After a day and night's voyage, Yue Yun's warship arrived off Manila.

Along the way, they did not suffer any attack, the voyage was very boring, but when they came to Manila, they suddenly got excited.

"The Dutch have set up a trench at the beach. It seems that they are ready to fight us to the end." Through the telescope, Liu Chen found the Dutch soldiers shuttling in the ditch.

In addition to the Dutch, they also found in the trench swarthy natives, who were wearing the same Khaki uniforms as the Dutch, staring at them with weapons.

"There are about 4000 Dutch soldiers, and they train a lot of local natives, about 5000." Liu Chen continues to analyze.

Yue Yun is also observing the Dutch beachhead. It has to be said that the commander in charge of defense still has some skills.

But for him, such a defense is not enough to prevent the landing of the Marines. After all, the warships he leads are mobile artillery positions on the sea. These Dutch are looking for death if they put their positions so close.

"Go straight into the harbor and let the Dutch see what a frigate is." Yue Yun's mind is relaxed. The armor of the king's number of more than 300 mm is not a decoration.

On command, the fleet sailed directly into the bay of Manila, while the muzzles of all the warships were aimed at the positions established by the Dutch.

"Boom boom..."

The Dutch fort was the first to fire, and the Huahua bomb directly bombarded the warship of Dayu kingdom over a distance of 500 meters, causing an explosion.

But in this round of shelling, the exploding bomb did not cause any damage to the hull of the warship.

The purpose of armored warships is to defend against blossom bombs, so the armor is very thick, and ordinary blossom bombs can't break the armor of warships at all.

In the beach position, Eric is watching the damage caused by the explosion through a telescope. To his disappointment, their shells did not cause any damage to the fleet.

Then the fort in his Bay bombarded the imperial fleet, but the result was the same. The explosion of shells could not even deform the armor of the armored ship.

"Now you should recognize the reality. We can only die here." Eric said to Simon, who was looking through a telescope at the imperial warship.

"It's incredible how these armored ships were built." Simon's eyes were filled with fear because in Manila he had little contact with the Chinese Empire.

When he promised to stick to it, he didn't expect to encounter such a situation. The steel warships lined up at sea really scared him.

But he was still lucky, he said: "Eric, hold on, don't forget our purpose, as long as we get the Chinese rifle, we can live a good life back in Holland."

Eric agreed to stay for the same purpose. He understood the high price of imperial Chinese technology in Europe.

At present, the whole Europe is focusing on the technology of the Chinese Empire, especially the weapons technology. A lot of outlaws have been sent to Asia by the bounty.

They are either businessmen or pirates, but their purpose is the same, to get the technology of the Empire.

"Is the fleeing ship really ready?" Eric asked again.

Simon nodded heavily. "When we get what we want, we'll go."

As soon as his words were over, there was a loud roar from the sea. Fire and white smoke came out of the muzzle of the armored ship, and then countless flames came out of the trenches he dug.

At this moment, the earth seems to be shaking.

When Eric and Simon saw this scene, they immediately fell on the ground of the trench. The bombing continued, the soil was constantly shaken down by the blast wave, and the splashing pieces of clothes and blood of limbs were flying all over the sky.

Just this round of bombing, the Dutch soldiers on the positions were in a mess. This was just the beginning, and round after round of shelling began.

Huge explosions raised a mass of flying soil on the position from time to time. Some shells fell into the trench and directly destroyed a trench.

And the Bay's battery was destroyed one by one in the exposed bombardment. After Wulun shooting, the sound of artillery fire suddenly stopped. At this time, the position was as quiet as no man's land.

On the king, Yue Yun watched six soldiers shove a huge shell into the battery. This gun is the 305 mm main gun.

After such a long period of technical accumulation, the Imperial Navy initially entered the era of armored warships.

A shell of this size can destroy a sailing warship in a naval battle with nothing left.

Looking around for a week, he found that all the fort had been destroyed. He said to Liu Chen, "now it's your turn for the Marine Corps."

Liu Chen had already assembled his soldiers. At this time, he asked the herald to flag the Marines of other warships to land.

This bombing killed at least 20% of the Dutch and Aboriginal troops on the battlefield, but in his view, the threat of shelling was more frightening than death.A landing boat from the warship down to the sea, the troop carrier quickly to the beach, after the fort was completely destroyed, at sea they have no threat, if the Dutch run out of the position, they will be bombed by warship artillery.

After landing successfully, Liu Chen immediately ordered the soldiers to march to the beach position along the line of scattered soldiers. Meanwhile, the machine gunners looked for shooting places with open vision under the protection of the soldiers.

After all this, the Marines moved step by step towards the Dutch position, but to everyone's surprise, the Dutch position was as quiet as a grave.

"Chen Wei, lead a charge." Liu Chen said that what he hates most is positional warfare, because the two sides will confront each other for many years in a long position.

Chen Wei is the company commander of the first Marine Corps. He waved and more than 1000 soldiers charged to the Dutch position.

Three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters, fifty meters, the distance from the Dutch position is getting closer and closer, but the Dutch still did not fight back.

Seeing that they were about to rush to the ditch, Chen Wei suddenly ordered all the soldiers to lie down and said, "prepare for the grenades. After throwing a wave of grenades, all of them will rush past. Don't keep your hands."

The orders were passed down one by one. After waiting for a while, Chen Wei called out: "throw it!"

With his action, the soldiers threw grenades into the ditch one after another, and suddenly the front ditch was filled with fireworks and smoke.

At the same time, they heard the screams of the Dutch before they were killed.

At this time, Chen Wei called out, "kill

Eric has been waiting for the Chinese Empire to charge, and for him, this battle is just a trade of human life for Chinese rifles.

So this time he dug the trench very deep, in order to let the imperial soldiers jump into the pit to fight with them, so that they had the chance to seize the equipment, and this was his only chance. If he fails, he will be miserable for the rest of his life.

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