Just after midnight on May 1, 1898, when the U.S. detachment was about to enter Manila Bay without touching any mines, several shore guns opened fire, but the U.S. ships quickly suppressed them. ** The fleet, formed in a "one" formation, entered the bay without a single injury.

By dawn, Dewey's detachment was approaching Manila and began searching for the Spanish fleet. The city's artillery opened fire, but unfortunately all missed. In order to protect the city of Manila from the shelling of American ships, Montoho deployed his fleet in Cavite. Dewey found them here. Because there was no ammunition supply area, the American ships approached until they were only 5,000 yards away from the Spanish fleet in order to save ammunition. At 5:40 a.m., Dewey gave an order to the captain of the USS Olympia: "When you are ready, you can open fire, Gridley." "The U.S. ships re-sailed on Spanish warships, firing incessantly, reminiscent of the battle of Dupont in the Gulf of Royale. Several Spanish warships, including the "Reina. The "Christina" was heavily damaged in several attempts to storm the US ship, either sunk or repulsed.

At 7:35, Dewey decided to temporarily evacuate due to a false report that he had received a shortage of ammunition. At 11 o'clock, Dewey re-entered the battle, and an hour-long artillery bombardment wiped out the Spanish fleet. When Dewey ordered a cease-fire, all of Montojo's ships were either in smoke, buried at the bottom of the sea, or abandoned.

The Spaniards suffered 381 casualties in this battle, while Dewey's fleet suffered only 7 wounded. American ships with formal shooting training hit at least 170 rounds, while Spanish sailors, lacking shooting practice, hit only 15 rounds.

With the Spanish navy already exhausted in the region, Dewey dropped anchor near Manila to protect the Philippines from outside interference.

The arrival of 5 German ** ships complicated the problem. The Germans were always looking for opportunities, and as soon as the Americans were not interested in the Philippines, they were ready to plunder it as their own colony. It is a pity that the Americans are interested in the Philippines. 11,000 soldiers quickly set out from San Francisco to lay siege to Manila and occupy the archipelago.

At the same time, the Filipino rebel army acted aggressively, took control of the outskirts of Manila, captured many important islands and towns and established the E. The national government headed by Aguinaldo. On 13 August, the newly arrived U.S. Army landed with fleet support and used the Filipino insurgents to force the Western Army in Manila to surrender.

The Philippines has become American, and they've been here for a long time

Then, the Chinese appeared in the Philippines again, and all the way to the bamboo, Manila is already in sight!

However, the squadron, which attacked with a very fierce momentum, encountered the most formidable enemy in Manila, the marines.

Commanding the U.S. Marine Corps is Major General Marcas. His troops were mainly two distant marines, some naval sailors whose ships sank, and more than 3,000 army troops stationed in Manila also volunteered to come under his command, and when the Chinese approached Manila, the American defenders of the city together with the Philippine troops numbered about 30,000.

In order to fight to the death with the Chinese, Marcas ordered the destruction of the buildings in Manila, and sent sappers and artillery to raze the majestic St. Augusta Church, Manila Cathedral, the Post and Telecommunications Building, the bustling Santa Cruz shopping street, the impoverished Toendo slum, and the Post and Telecommunications Building, and all the bridges on the Bashi River, including Chinese-style wooden bridges, Spanish-style stone bridges, American-style cement bridges, and steel bridges.

He deployed his troops in permanent fortifications and basements throughout the city, erected barriers at every major junction, mined the streets, planted booys in thousands of buildings, and dragged the ship's cannons to the fortifications on the shore. A brutal bloody war is inevitable. …,

Jiang Baili once again used Sun Liren, who had just arrived in the Philippines, and told the brave general: "Drive into Manila." I don't care how you drive in, just drive in, and fast. To avoid casualties. You can get around the Americans, but be sure to drive into Manila and capture the Maracañan Palace and the Capitol. ”

Sun Liren organized an assault force of 1,000 people. Traveling day and night in jeeps, trucks and light tanks, they marched towards Manila at such a speed that the enemy did not have time to detonate the pre-planted bridge, and in just six hours they advanced 120 kilometers and stormed into the city of Manila before dusk on 28 November.

The 91st Division also hurried along Route 3 and entered Manila in the early hours of the next day

The fighting was still brutal.

Initially, the squadron light tanks stormed the city of Manila without much resistance!

However, when the squadron rushed to the bank of the Bashi River, countless American troops came out of the cracks in the ground like ghosts, and fired at the Chinese from behind the rubble from inside the remaining buildings. Relying on the 12-meter-thick, 8-meter-high walls of Manila's old city walls and Gothic towers, the recalcitrant US troops also brought a lot of casualties to the Chinese.

Sun Liren was furious and demanded that bombers be sent to drop incendiary gasoline bombs at those places, and that the Japanese who were hiding in the walls and towers should be burned to death with strong air waves and raging flames.

Jiang Baili did not agree to this request. He felt that bomber bombing was too inaccurate, especially since napalm would burn down centuries-old buildings in the city. However, he agreed to use heavy artillery.

The artillery used 155 mm and 105 mm howitzer battalions and 75 mm guns assigned to the army team to carry out devastating shelling of various stubborn US strongholds in Manila.

The 155mm howitzer was the most powerful artillery of its time, and when fired at a direct fire, a single shell could cut off a concrete building. The entry of 155mm guns into the battle accelerated the process of the demise of the American army, and at the same time made the street fighting in Manila more brutal.

Much of Manila's urban area was in flames, and most public buildings were completely destroyed.

The flame is 1000 meters high ̈

On 30 November, the remnants of the U.S. Army retreated to the South Marina area, hiding in hospitals, government buildings, the Army and Navy Club, LaSalle University, the Manila Hotel, and Fort San Diego, in an attempt to make a final stand-up with a large amount of weapons, ammunition, food, and water that had been stockpiled in advance.

On December 1, the battle for the capture of the Manila Hotel by the squadron began.

On the 2nd, seeing that there was no hope of breaking through, the commander of the US army, Major General Marcas, chose to surrender.

On the 3rd, three weeks of fierce fighting in Manila came to an end. 20,000 U.S. and Filipino soldiers were killed, 3,500 casualties in the squadron, and the biggest loss was unarmed civilians, with as many as 100,000 dead, and only 4 public buildings in the entire city were fortunately preserved, but they were blackened by thick smoke.

While the gunfire in Manila had not yet stopped, Jiang Baili had turned his attention to the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island. There are strong defensive positions on the Bataan Peninsula, and the Chinese estimate that there are about 6,000~8,000 people defending there. Corregido Island controls Manila Bay, and without seizing it, it is impossible to use the Manila Bay anchorage and the ports of Cavite and Manila. Moreover, these two places were also the last positions held by the US military in the Philippines a few years ago, and the fighting on Luzon was far from over until the Chinese flag was planted on the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island!

On 4 December, the battle to retake the Bataan Peninsula began. Sun Liren's troops landed on the west coast of Luzon. This force cut off its connection from the base of the Bataan Peninsula from its roots, and another regimental battle group landed on the southwest coast of the Bataan Peninsula to attack the American forces in the center of the peninsula.

At first, Chinese commanders thought that there were only more than 900 people on the island of Corregido, so they tried to use a joint operation of airborne troops and amphibious forces to occupy this strategic point in one fell swoop. It wasn't until the battle started that I realized that it wasn't like that at all. …,

A few days later, the Chinese Navy's convoy docked at the dock and began to fully open Manila

Given that the Corregido Fortress was a thorn in the throat of Manila Bay, Jiang Baili was determined to scoop down the island at any cost. The specific plan was to send the 9th Parachute Regiment to carry out an airborne landing on the island, and to send an amphibious force to land on the coast. Due to the long and narrow beach of Corregido Island, which faced a towering cliff after going ashore, which was extremely unfavorable to the landing force, the squadron decided to use the airborne troops as a surprise force. However, there is a lack of a proper airborne field on the island, except for a slightly flat piece of ground at the eastern end of the island, and a two-hole golf course near the Topside parade ground, although it is surrounded by cliffs.

General Sun Lianzhong, who commanded the battle of Correcido, made a bold decision: to parachute on a golf course.

The only reason for this is that the Americans would never have dreamed that there would be paratroopers falling from the sky.

On 6 December, 2,000 paratroopers landed on the grass of the golf course, while more than 1,000 infantry landed on a narrow beach at the bottom of the cliff.

The attack came as a complete surprise to the Americans.

Also unexpectedly were Chinese soldiers. They found themselves facing not a small force of a few hundred men at all, but nearly 5,000 dead soldiers hiding in strong tunnels and caves, and they were ready to die with the Chinese with the determination to break the net!

Sun Lianzhong hurriedly reinforced another 1,000 paratroopers on the island, and sent heavy bombers to bomb almost all of Corregido with napalm, and the naval destroyers also approached the island as close as possible to shoot directly at the entrance to the caves and tunnels on the island.

Jiang Baili's biggest concern was that the Americans were too fanatical and self-confident, and they would stick to the tunnel and not come out, so that the battle would drag on for a long time and would not end for several months. Fortunately, a few days later, the American commander decided to rush and prematurely ignited tons of explosives.

On December 8, 1940, the fighting on the island of Corregido was largely over!