Chapter 491: Battle of Manila (3)

The European coalition forces met overnight to study tomorrow's offensive. There were considerable differences among the representatives of various countries, and some advocated concentrating superior forces to violently attack the last line of defense in Manila and break through Manila in one fell swoop. There are also advocates of capturing more Luzon natives and slowly depleting the Far East.

While they were tearing each other apart, the First Attack Fleet had already arrived in the waters off Luzon.

"Report to the commander that the fleet has arrived in the waters north of Luzon."

Qiao Haipeng stood on the bridge of the ship, heard the report of an operational staff officer behind him, and said in a deep voice: "Contact the Luzon Theater Command and report to the commander-in-chief Li Ming where our fleet is located." ”

Pick up the microphone and say: "The No. 1 and No. 2 landing craft, quickly break away from the fleet and choose the nearest beach to land." ”

The two landing craft received Qiao Haipeng's order and slowly left the fleet. They carry six delta-wing aircraft from the Air Department and will land on the coast of Luzon and then assemble there. Two helicopters were also lifted into the sea by landing ships and flew to Manila with six delta-wing aircraft to strengthen the air strike force in the Luzon garrison.

Li Ming received the order of the First Attack Fleet and immediately summoned all the commanders above the battalion level in the Luzon garrison area for a military meeting. The Luzon Garrison Command was brightly lit all night, and everyone gathered in front of a huge sand table, and Li Ming, commander-in-chief of the Luzon Theater, deployed combat missions.

"The Second Assault Fleet will enter Manila Bay in the early hours of this morning, two () overseas brigades and a daredevil's brigade will land overnight in Rosario, and it is expected that tomorrow morning it will be possible to establish an improvised line of defense on a frontline of fifteen kilometers between Rosario and Montinrupa to prevent the enemy from fleeing south. The task of the Luzon garrison was to be responsible for a frontal assault. Now it's up to the 1st Strike Fleet to reach Manila on time, if ......"

Suddenly, a communications staff officer next to him excitedly shouted: "The 1st Assault Fleet has a telegram......"

Li Ming walked over in a few steps, took the telegram from the hand of the communications staff officer, and read it. After reading the telegram, he smiled and said: "The first attack fleet has arrived in the waters north of Luzon. We will be in Manila tomorrow morning. ”

Everyone was very excited when they heard his words, winning or losing this battle is not a problem, but total annihilation and defeat are completely different things, their troops are still relatively thin, four overseas brigades, two daring army brigades, if you want to wrap tens of thousands of European white skin dumplings. Still a little reluctant.

With the arrival of the First Assault Fleet, Li Ming had an additional field division and a daredevil's wing, both of which were the most elite troops in the Far East. He can arrange it calmly, and don't even think about running away from tens of thousands of white skins.

After he finished speaking, he excitedly came to the sand table, pointed to the southern coast of Manila, and said with a smile: "The two fleets will meet in Manila Bay this morning, and I have decided to let the two fleets enter Manila Bay overnight and attack Cavite. On the basis of the two overseas brigades, the blocking force of the southern front wanted to add one field division and two regiments. Fifteen kilometers of frontal defense. There are only two overseas brigades and one daredevil's brigade, which is really a little reluctant.

The Luzon garrison formed an assault force, equipped with vehicles and all mobile artillery, to carry out frontal assault missions. Lao Ding, you will be the commander of the Luzon Battle Air Force Command, and tomorrow morning, the Air Force Command will strengthen two helicopters and six delta-wing aircraft. The logistics department of the Military Commission, the air force material reserves in the Luzon logistics division. Whether it can support the air force unit to conduct a campaign. ”

Ding Weiguo hurriedly straightened his chest and said solemnly: "The air force material reserves of the Luzon Logistics Division are very sufficient. Fuel, ammunition and logistical support were in good condition to support a major campaign. ”

Li Ming nodded, turned his head to Ye Changsheng and said, "Ye Changsheng, tonight you are responsible for reorganizing the attack troops, and tomorrow morning the troops will launch a general attack." Comrades, we must not only win this battle. And to win the pretty, don't let a white skin let him run. Okay, let's go and get ready. ”

After listening to Li Ming's words, everyone responded violently and saluted Li Ming one after another. Then they each hurried away.

The military meeting of the European coalition forces was held until midnight, and it is better that there was no agreement. Crassie, commander of the eight-nation combined fleet in Europe, could only announce the adjournment of the meeting and resume the meeting tomorrow. They didn't realize that there was a net that was covering them.

They had some wary sailing ships in the waters off Manila Bay, but they had long since been swept away by the Second Assault Fleet. Six new sailing ships led several improved sailing ships to form a fleet of six, and using the radar equipped on the new class sailing ships, the European ships around Luzon had nothing to hide.

Even if they wanted to, they couldn't run. What are you kidding, trying to avoid the pursuit of cutting-edge sailboats, isn't that nonsense?

Qiao Haipeng's 1st Attack Fleet joined Zhou Cheng's 2nd Attack Fleet outside Manila Bay at midnight, and the European Fleet arranged patrol ships near Manila during the day, but anchored at Colosibbo Island at night. Zhou Cheng sent a small detachment to launch a night attack on the island of Kolosibo and occupied the island. Then the two fleets sailed into Manila Bay.

Two overseas brigades and two regiments of the field division successfully landed in Rosario and quickly moved forward, advancing overnight in the direction of Montinrupa. They will set up a 15-kilometre-long improvised line of defense from Rosario to Montinrupa before dawn the next day.

The next morning, the parties of the European Combined Fleet gathered again to continue to study and discuss the next offensive action. At present, tens of thousands of European whiteskins are moored on the coast of more than 10 kilometers south of Manila to Cavite. The people on the ship basically went ashore and camped, making a mess of the beach of this generation.

Several European sailors who stayed on the ship were sitting bored in Class A and bragging about, when one of the sailors suddenly widened his eyes, pointed to the distance and stumbled and said, "You...... Behold...... Boat...... What a lot of boats......"

Several other European sailors were made to laugh by him.

"Joey, what are you crazy about, where did you come from, haven't you woken up yet?"

Joey hurriedly said, "Boat...... Really a lot of ......."

Several European sailors laughed, but this time they turned around and glanced into the distance. But they were also frightened by the scene in the distance, what was the situation of this Nima, where did so many ships come from, especially the three huge iron ships rushing to the front, they were even more dumbfounded.

One of the sailors reacted first, and he hurriedly got up from the ground, rushed to the middle of the deck, and shook the ship's bell violently. The boatswain hurried out of the cabin to the deck, and he was stunned by the sight of the sea.

A large shadow of sails appeared in the distance, approaching them, and the sailors on the ship shouted loudly at the distant shore, but they were hundreds of meters from the shore, and many people on the shore had not yet gotten up, and many of them were bored basking in the sun, or gambling and drinking in groups.

They ignored the cries of the sailors on board in the distance, and no one paid any attention to them. It was still the boatswain who was more clever, and he quickly asked the ship's sailors to light a cannon. A loud "bang" broke the silence on the coast.

The European whiteskins on the shore were also startled by the sound of the cannon, and several captains saw the sailors on the ship in the sea shouting vigorously, so they took their binoculars and looked at the sea in the distance. So many boats were about to rush to the shore, and they began to shout loudly, and the beach was in chaos.

The sailors on the shore pushed their boats into the sea one after another, wanting to go to the sailboat in the sea, and the scene was chaotic for a while. The three landing ships that rushed to the front had already rushed over at this time, and they did not care about the sailing ships moored in the sea, but rushed directly to the beachhead. More than a dozen PK general-purpose machine guns and 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns on the ship fired wildly, shattering the small boat in the sea.

The three landing ships rushed to the beach quickly, opening the huge front tongue door, and six BTR-60 armored vehicles roared to the beachhead, followed by ten jeeps, and then galloped wildly along the beach on both sides, the machine guns on the vehicles opened fierce fire, beating the chaotic European sailors on the shore all over the ground.

Fujita jumped off the landing ship, drew his katana behind him, slammed it at the daredevils behind him, and then rushed into the chaotic crowd on the beach, followed by the fierce samurai of the daredevils, who also screamed and killed.

Qiao Haipeng stood on the bridge and said to the communications staff officer behind him: "Send a report to the commander-in-chief that the fleet has successfully seized the beach." (To be continued......)

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