After a day and a night of sailing, the warship led by Yue Yun arrived off the coast of Manila.

Along the way, they did not encounter any attacks, and the voyage was very boring, but when they arrived in Manila, they were in high spirits.

"The Dutch have set up trenches on the beachhead, and it seems that they are ready to fight us to the end." Through the binoculars, Liu Chen spotted Dutch soldiers shuttling through the trenches.

In addition to the Dutch, they also found dark-skinned natives in the trenches, dressed in the same khaki military uniform as the Dutch, and staring at them with weapons.

"There were about 4,000 Dutch soldiers, and they trained quite a few natives, about 5,000 natives." Liu Chen continued to analyze.

Yue Yun was also observing the Dutch's beachhead, and he had to say that the commander in charge of defense still had some skills.

It's just that for him, such a defense was not enough to prevent the landing of the marines, after all, the battleships he led were mobile artillery positions at sea, and these Dutch were simply looking for death by putting their positions so close.

"Drive straight into the harbor and let the Dutch see what an ironclad is." Yue Yun had a relaxed mentality, the more than 300 mm armor of the Monarch was not an ornament.

Having received the order, the fleet sailed directly into the bay of Manila, while the guns of all the battleships were aimed at the positions established by the Dutch.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The Dutch battery opened fire first, and the shells crossed a distance of 500 meters and directly bombarded the battleships of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, exploding.

It's just that this round of artillery hits, and the exploding flowering shells did not cause any damage to the hull of the battleship.

The purpose of the ironclad ship is to defend against flowering shells, so the armor is very thick, and ordinary flowering shells cannot break the armor of the battleship at all.

In the tidal flats, Eric was observing the damage caused by the explosion through a telescope, and to his disappointment, their shells did not cause any damage to the fleet.

Then the batteries in his bay continued to bombard the Imperial fleet, but the result was the same, the explosion of the cannonball could not even deform the ironclad of the ironclad ship.

"It's time for you to recognize the reality, we can only die here." Eric said to Simon, who was looking at the Imperial warship with a telescope.

"These ironclads are incredible, how the hell are they built." Simon had fear in his eyes, for in Manila he had little contact with the Chinese Empire.

When he promised to hold on, he didn't expect to encounter such a situation, and the steel battleships lined up on the sea really scared him a lot.

But he was still lucky, he said: "Eric, hold on, don't forget our purpose, as long as we get the Han-style rifle, we can return to the Netherlands and live a good life." ”

This is also the purpose of Eric's agreement to stay, and he understands the high price of imperial technology in Europe.

Now the whole of Europe is staring at the technology of the Chinese Empire, especially the technology of weapons, and the huge bounties have sent many outlaws to Asia.

They may play the role of merchants or pirates, but their purpose is the same, to gain access to the Empire's technology.

"Are the fugitive ships really ready?" Eric asked again.

Simon nodded heavily, "Get what we want and leave." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a violent roar on the sea, and I saw fire and white smoke coming out of the guns on the ironclad ship, and then countless flames came out of the trench he had dug.

At this moment, the earth seemed to tremble.

Eric and Simon immediately lay on the ground of the trench when they saw this, and the bombardment continued, the earth was constantly shaken off by the blast wave of the explosion, and the blood of the stumps and stumps flew all over the sky.

Just this round of bombardment, the Dutch soldiers on the positions were in disarray, and this was only the beginning, round after round of shelling began.

From time to time, huge explosions kicked up a cloud of flying earth on the position, and some shells fell into the trench and blew up a trench directly.

The batteries in the bay were destroyed one by one in the exposed bombardment, and after the Wulun fire, the sound of artillery fire suddenly stopped, and the position was as quiet as no man's land.

On the Sovereign, Yue Yun watched as the six soldiers stuffed a huge cannonball into the battery, which was the 305 mm main gun.

After such a long period of technological accumulation, the empire's navy initially entered the era of ironclad ships with large artillery ships.

A shell of this size can destroy a sail ship in a single shot in a naval battle, and blow up nothing.

Looking around, he found that all the forts had been destroyed, and he said to Liu Chen, "Now it's your turn to make a come." ”

Liu Chen had already gathered the soldiers, and at this time he asked the herald to waive the flag to inform the marines of the other warships to prepare for landing.

At least twenty percent of the Dutch and indigenous troops on the positions were killed in the bombardment, but in his opinion the threat posed by the shelling was more feared than death.

Landing boats descended from the battleships into the ocean, troop transports made their way to the beachhead, and after the batteries had been destroyed, they were no longer a threat at sea, and if the Dutch ran out of their positions, they would be bombarded by the guns of the battleships.

After successfully landing on the shore, Liu Chen immediately ordered the soldiers to march to the beachhead, while the machine gunners looked for a shooting site with a wide field of vision under the protection of the soldiers.

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

"Chen Wei, lead someone to launch a charge." Liu Chen said that what he hated most was positional warfare, because the two sides would face each other for years on a long position.

Chen Wei, the company commander of the 1st Marine Corps Regiment, beckoned, and more than a thousand soldiers charged the Dutch position.

Three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters, fifty meters, getting closer and closer to the Dutch position, but the Dutch still did not counterattack.

Seeing that they were about to rush to the front of the trench, Chen Wei suddenly ordered all the soldiers to lie down and ordered: "Grenades are ready, throw a wave of grenades and rush over, don't leave your hands." ”

The orders were passed down one by one, and after waiting for a while, Chen Wei shouted: "Throw!" ”

Following his movements, the soldiers threw grenades into the trench one after another, and suddenly the front trench was boiling with fireworks and smoke.

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

At this time, Chen Wei shouted; "Kill!"

Eric had been waiting for the charge of the Chinese Empire, and for him the battle was nothing more than a trade in human life for Han-style rifles.

So he dug the trench deep this time so that the Imperial soldiers could jump into the pit and fight them hand-to-hand, so that they would have the only chance to grab their equipment. If he fails, the rest of his life will be miserable.