Six ironclad ships lined up in a column spat out fireballs one after another, and as if a lightning bolt crossed the sea, eight 203-mm shells and 24 152-mm shells landed accurately on the Spanish batteries with a piercing whistling sound. At a distance of only a thousand meters, at this distance, rifled guns have almost a 100% hit rate. All the shells fell on the battery, and suddenly the smoke and dust billowed from the battery, and the rubble flew between the pieces of flesh and blood.

"Twenty degree angle cut!" Zhang Yukun asked his soldiers to issue a flag order.

Six ironclads cut at an angle of twenty degrees at a speed of eleven knots to the Spaniards' battery. The speed of eleven knots, about 5.6 meters per second, and the 20-degree angle is obliquely cut, and it takes more than 1,000 meters to enter within 800 meters from 1,000 meters, which means that it only takes about four minutes for six ironclad ships to enter a position of 800 meters from the battery.

On the ironclad ship, one machine gun lifted off the gun jacket, revealing the black hole of the gun, and aimed at the Papora Battery. Four old ironclads opened their gun hatches, and the seventy-six-mm guns under the main deck protruded from the muzzles.

"Fire!" The officers on the lower gun decks of the ironclad ships roared.

Twenty-four seventy-six-mm guns spewed fire in turn, and a volley of shells smashed into the Spanish battery. Although these 76mm guns were not very powerful, they fired all flowering shells! Rows of shells fell on the positions of the Spaniards, and immediately a volley of fire was raised.

The Spaniards' batteries were covered with blood, the gun emplacements were scattered everywhere, and the corpses of the gunners were scattered all around the crooked cannons. But the Spaniards stubbornly reloaded their shells and prepared to open fire again.

Before the Spaniards could load the gunpowder and shells, the huge body of the Shandong ironclad had appeared less than 800 meters away from the battery, and the Spaniards on the battery only heard a strange sound of "dong dong", which sounded like thousands of people beating a huge drum at the same time, but the sound was so dull that it sounded like thunder. When the Spaniards looked up, they saw a dazzling fire flickering on the sides of the battleship on the sea, and countless small columns of water rose from the sea in front of the fort.

"Whoosh" Torrential rain of machine shells suddenly spilled onto the fort, and a burst of sand and rocks flew on the ground. As the sand pillar progressed, many Spaniards were hit by shells, and immediately their flesh flew sideways, turning into scattered blood and flesh.

The six ironclad ships slowed down, and the hand-cranked four-barreled 40-millimeter guns and the hand-cranked 11-barreled 30-millimeter guns spewed fire one after another, and a total of 12 four-barreled 40-mm guns and 18 11-barreled 30-mm guns fired continuously, and within a minute, more than 6,000 shells were sprayed on the battery.

"Press it all up, destroy the fort!" Wang Yu gave the order.

The soldiers sent out a fireworks signal, and the sail steam battleships guarding 1,500 meters away immediately drove up, these sail battleships converted into sail steam dual-power battleships because there was almost no iron armor, and most of the guns installed on them were still old-fashioned front-loading rifled guns, due to the poor protection of the wooden-hulled hull, for the sake of insurance, Wang Yu did not let those dual-power battleships participate in the shelling of the battery at first. Only after the ironclad ships completely suppressed the fire of the Spaniard battery, did the sail-steam dual-powered battleships press up and participate in the shelling.

Five sail-steam dual-powered battleships, twelve armed transport ships, fifteen flying scissor cargo ships equipped with guns, and five armed flying shear mail ships pressed on them at the same time, the breech-loading rifles, front-loading rifled guns, and machine guns on the sail-steam battleships spewed fire almost simultaneously, the smoothbore guns on the armed transport ships and the armed merchant ships also opened fire one after another, and hundreds of guns of various types let out a deafening roar, and the shells covered the Spanish batteries over and over again like a torrential rain.

After a morning of shelling, the Papora battery was bombarded into ruins.

At noon, the huge fleet turned around and launched a fierce attack on the Subic battery. As in the morning's bombardment, Wang Yu opened the way with six ironclad ships, killed and wounded a large number of Spaniards on the fort, dumbed down all the Spaniards' heavy artillery, and then pressed all the ships on it, and a violent artillery bombardment like a storm destroyed the Subic fort.

After clearing the two batteries on the outskirts of Manila Bay, the fleet flying the sun and moon flags on a blue background headed for Manila Bay.

"There are only a few small batteries in Manila Bay, and if we press them, we can raze them all to the ground with a single round of artillery fire. I guess we'll be able to land in the evening. Wang Yu put down the binoculars and said.

The Ming fleet sailed into Manila Bay, and the marines, who had already discovered the route in advance, were responsible for diverting the water, leading the fleet to avoid the underwater piles and artificial reefs placed by the Spaniards on the seabed, and directly pounced on the port area.

A total of six ironclad ships, five sail steam battleships, and thirty-two armed transport ships all joined in the bombardment, and the whistling shells were overwhelming, smashing onto the small batteries on the shore, and in the blink of an eye, the Spanish batteries were shrouded in smoke and flames.

Many of the shells that fell were flowering shells fired from smoothbore guns, after all, the flowering shells of smoothbore guns were relatively mature, and if armed transport ships joined the shelling, the flowering shells fired by smoothbore guns could cause great losses to the Spaniards on the shore.

Wang Yu picked up the telescope and observed the effect of the shelling, he found that several small batteries on the shore had been razed to the ground, the Spanish artillery had been destroyed, and there were few people who could stand on the turrets that had been turned into ruins, so he put down the binoculars and said: "It's almost time, we can launch a landing operation!" ”

One transport after another lowered their galleys, and a total of ninety-six galleys rowed toward the beach, each carrying fifty heavily armed marines.

On the Manila Castle, the Spanish Governor of Manila stood on the top of the castle, watching the Ming fleet only take one day to bombard the Manila Battery, which is known as the impregnable fort, into the ground, and then the fleet rushed into the harbor and destroyed the small fort near the pier.

"It's horrible! How can their ships be so powerful? Their cannons hit very accurately, and when they got closer, there were all kinds of small artillery salvos, and our two large batteries couldn't hold it for a day! The priest said, drawing a cross on his chest.

"It seems that we must immediately withdraw the soldiers besieging the Han area! It's too late to attack now! Damn the Han Chinese, their resistance is really tenacious! Now we can only hold on to the castle. The Governor gave the order.

"But there are so many natives that they can't all enter the castle." The priest said regretfully.

"Only those natives can be sacrificed!" Governor said.