In the eastern part of the Philippines, deep in the eastern Pacific Ocean, there is an island called Hawaii, which is not very famous during this time period, but Honolulu, as the place where Sun Cannon studied, is still familiar to the country.

Hawaii as the youngest territory of the United States, joined the United States in 1900, history, until 1959, officially became the 50th state of the United States, as an important force to control the Pacific Ocean, plus Hawaii's sugar production, occupy a considerable share of the world, Hawaii's status is constantly improving, although the United States naval force is not very strong, but in Hawaii, there is still stationed in the US Pacific Fleet, a total of 37 large and small ships including 3 heavy cruisers.

However, at this time, Hawaii's Pacific Fleet was hiding in the dock and did not dare to go out at all, and the Scheer Fleet, in the whole year of this year, swept across the entire Asia, even if it was a big guy like the British and French former dreadnoughts, in front of him, they had to fold Changsha, not to mention the 37 small ships of the United States, which were simply not enough to fight.

Even though it was known that the Philippine defenders would be very difficult, the Pacific Fleet only sent 2 destroyers to Manila, symbolically, and the rest were all in Pearl Harbor. Even these two destroyers were not destined for the Philippines for combat, they were used as a last resort to escape, and in the event that the Philippines was in danger of falling, some high-ranking officers could take them to escape.

The U.S. military knew that Lan Fang's next target was the Philippines and would not stand still, so they prepared a large number of artillery batteries in order to make Lan Fang throw a rat trap. But now it seems that under the cutting-edge warship. These batteries simply can't resist, at this moment. I can't think too much about it, and the commander of the Pacific Command, Wagri, attached the current situation in the Philippines and Hawaii as Richardson called for help.

In the United States, the focus of attention is now on Europe, and this time to participate in the European war, the Americans have made great efforts, and as far as the US troops sent to Europe are concerned, hundreds of thousands from the beginning. To the back of more than 1 million, now, the total number of US troops sent to Europe has exceeded 2.5 million, and even produced millions of casualties, but even so, the number of US troops is still increasing, and it will definitely attract a large number of attention from the War Department.

But Asia is also one of the directions of the United States, and in addition to the Americas, the Philippines in Asia is the largest overseas colony of the United States. Although it is backward, the Philippines, which is known as the Spice Islands, still has a lot of wealth if it is squeezed. This is more or less a supplement for the United States.

Now, the colony is in danger of falling. The Americans had nothing to do, before more than 100 11-inch guns. It is the last thing to be able to draw, and it seems now. It is possible that nothing will work, the cutting-edge battleship is too powerful.

Generally speaking, in the face of dense land defense, few people will face a defensive hard attack, compared to land-based artillery fire, battleships are more valuable, for land even if dozens of batteries are destroyed, it doesn't matter, as long as there are enough barrels, it can be restored to the original state soon. Not to mention that it takes a long time to replace the gun barrel of a battleship, it is more difficult to repair the hull near the battery, which is attacked, and even damaged, so it is absolutely not worth exchanging it.

Not to mention naval guns and land-based artillery of the same caliber, since land-based artillery can be built on a hill and can endlessly increase defenses, in a sense, it is unlikely that anyone will shoot at land-based artillery with a warship.

Lan Fang is like this, of course, it is another matter, in the navy's attack on the port, there is an exception, if the range and accuracy of the attacker are far above the defender, he can almost press the defender to fight. This is the situation that the US military is encountering now, the location of the battery, the US military has considered it as much as possible, it is all on the mountain, and the layout is quite perfect, even if the US dreadnought comes to attack, it will suffer a big loss, more than 100 land-based batteries, not a joke, the degree of protection is far above the navy, shoot at each other, and the victory must be the battery.

When I met the Scheer fleet, I knew that it was worthy of its name, at least the power of 14-inch caliber guns, earth-shattering, and the range was far above the fort, at least more than one-third, and the opponent's leisurely stroll attack, but there was no way here, let alone take advantage of the night, in the early morning when the most lax sneak attack, even in the daytime, how could they, one after another, clear their land-based artillery fire, and then advance step by step, as long as the time is enough, it is possible to completely clear it.

Let Richardson guess to death, he would not have thought that the reason why the other party chose this time period was not for safety, but to prevent the Americans from knowing that Scheer's capital ship was not there, and the huge battleship of more than 30,000 tons, or even close to 50,000 tons, was quite eye-catching in a fleet, even if it was hundreds of ships, it could not cover such a striking eye-catching, in this case, the news of the departure of 9 capital ships would definitely be leaked.

Richardson didn't think about it so much, his only doubt was that if the artillery placed in the port was cleaned up by Lan Fang's navy, it was normal, it was what was placed on the surface, but it was distributed all over Manila, and some were even placed on the hill in the suburbs, and he even blocked the vicinity of the hill for this, why did Lan Fang know what went wrong, he didn't think about it at all, what Lan Fang attacked at night.

Lan Fang is not worried about the US military in the Philippines, it is almost a turtle in the urn, he is still concerned about Scheer's fleet, Britain and the United States are not Russia, they have a perfect military system, at present, when the Entente forces Germany to fight a decisive battle, one of Germany's reactions is to transfer 9 capital ships back, and then conduct a decisive battle.

Although the number of warships of the Entente countries, even if they add 9 capital ships, they are still far above Germany, and they can defeat the opponent with less strength and fewer losses, who is willing to spend a greater price, the strength of the 9 capital ships in Asia is definitely a first-class warship, if they join the high seas fleet, not only will the number of capital ships of the high seas fleet increase to 27, but also bring huge variables, so it is impossible for the Entente to let these nine warships merge with the high seas fleet.

For this reason, the Entente has a layout all over the world, and all corners of the world have their eyes on various ports, and once Germany transfers 9 capital ships back, it must send these warships to the bottom of the sea while they do not converge. For the opponent, only a silent battleship is a good battleship and there is no threat.

Scheer's carefulness and Lan Fang's arrangement, so that the 9 capital ships, at least before entering the Gulf of Guinea, were not discovered, but their luck was also coming to an end, the Entente joined forces, set up eyes and ears in most of the world's ports, and stared at the German warships, this is just a passive investigation, the Entente also knew that if the Scheer fleet returned home, it would not be so stupid and run to a neutral port, this is just in case, the real killer feature, at the junction of Africa on the west coast of Africa and Europe, There were at least 120 destroyers and frigates of all types patrolling there, laying out a wide net and waiting for the arrival of the German fleet.

The order from the American headquarters demanded that Richardson must rely on defense and resist as much as possible, and of course, if there is really no way, they will be allowed to surrender on the premise that they have caused enough casualties.

That's right, in the British and American concept, killing oneself and fighting to the death without retreating is never the last choice, and on the premise of doing everything that can be done and fulfilling one's obligations, in order to save one's life, surrender is not a very shameful thing, and even among many famous generals in the US military, there are also experiences of surrender.

Richardson, as the commander of the Philippines and a senior general, he knows very well that it is impossible to get help when he asks for help from home, and he knows very well how many troops and fleets there are in the United States, Hawaii, and he knows very well that one or two divisions may be useful for the rebellion of the natives, and for a mature country like Shanglanfang, and has such a maritime advantage as the Scheer fleet, once the battery is pulled out, it will be the moment of general attack.

At 4 o'clock in the morning and 8 o'clock in the afternoon, these two time periods, each operation once, except for the first time, the effect is greater, the rest, the effect is not satisfactory, sometimes, 5 minutes of attack, at most destroy five or six batteries.

After all, the artillery batteries on land, as long as there are barrels, it is not difficult to recover, but the American troops do not, they have turned all the barrels into batteries, looking forward to concentrated combat power to resist Scheer's powerful task force, but the final result is in vain.

If you destroy one, you can't recover one, which means eternal loss, 5 today, 10 tomorrow, and only a little bit of loss can be achieved under the premise that there is no way to replenish it. For 7 consecutive days and 14 strikes, the US army's batteries were almost completely lost, and the remaining scattered ones were almost unintact, and there was no way to resist the strong attack of the Lanfang army.

At the same time as the fleet attacked the U.S. batteries on land in the Philippines, Lan Fang's army had already begun to land in the Philippines, which is an island country with a long coastline, and there was not enough fleet protection, and there were sieves almost everywhere, and there were too many places for landing, almost countless.

Lan Fang did not choose to land far away from Manila, but landed 55 kilometers south of Manila, which is just outside the influence circle of Manila, and the safety is guaranteed, and the most important thing is that it is convenient to deploy troops here, as long as the landing is successful, whether it is to attack Manila from the land in reverse, or to sweep the surrounding cities, it is in Lan Fang's control. (To be continued.) )

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