Chapter 254 Let's have a few shots together!

On the sea of southern China in the northwest of Luzon Island, a small patrol gunboat flying the blood cloud dragon claw flag slowly jumped out of the sea level. While the captain yawned, his mood was still surrounded by the artillery battle in Manila Bay yesterday.

What is a real artillery battle?!

Yesterday, the earth-shaking roar in Manila Bay stunned all the captains and soldiers of the convoy. The huge fireballs, violent explosions, and the raging heat swept through, finally let the soldiers who had just changed from pirate sailors to the convoy finally know why those who came to teach and train themselves earlier. Navy officers all said that giant ships and cannons are the protagonists of this era!

A few years ago, the Spanish warship, which could scare the pirates from not dare to approach, was chopped to the ground like cutting melons and vegetables before a few shots. In the end, even the pieces of wood could not be gathered together, and even the cruiser who ran ashore were despised, and directly exploded into coke with a few shots.

This is called strong!

After the fleet shelling and escorting the landing, several gunboats of the escort were sent out overnight as patrol ships. At this time, Luzon was still very fragile. In case the blind man took advantage of the time to clean up the Spaniards, he would not cry.

The captain lowered his head and thought to himself that if he could lead the scene of the giant ship, suddenly a nervous shout sounded from the deck, which scared him to look up and saw a thick black smoke rising on the skyline.

"His grandma is really eye-opening!"

The captain cursed and grabbed the telescope. He saw several warships flying with stripes in the distance coming here and had been trained. Knowing that at that time, the captain of the American flag immediately shouted for the messengers to send a report.

A moment later, five American cruisers had passed by the small patrol gunship. Looking at the blood cloud dragon claw flag flying on the low mast, the haze on George Dewey's face deepened.

He never thought that Li Mo would ignore the upcoming second war and fight against the Spaniards in the southwest Pacific Ocean thousands of miles away. From April 10th full of strange bombings to the proclamation of war on the 20th, in just ten days, everyone was caught off guard, and there was not even a voice of persuasion. Send it out.

After receiving the domestic order, he had tried his best. He left the fleet and rushed to Manila, but after seeing the small gunboat patrol, he still sighed for a long time.

If the patrol gunboats of the Pacific Fleet have not been defeated, the patrol gunboats of the Pacific Fleet would never have appeared here. Now we can only hope that the Spanish army will not be too useless. As long as it can defend the city of Manila and Li Mo's army has not landed, there is still a little room for redemption.

Two hours later, when George Dewey arrived off Manila with five cruisers, something he didn't expect happened. In the thick smoke in the distance, a fleet flying the German flag also arrived here.

"The Germans are also here?!"

It was not only George Dewey who was surprised, but also Li Mo frowned. He didn't expect that the German fleet that came from Germany to grab territory would come here so coincidentally. Fortunately, after the resuplenishment last night, the four heavy patrols and two battleships have been resuplenished, and the Honolulu has already escorted the fleet to leave without revealing the secret of the triple suit so soon.

More importantly, at this moment, their own army has landed in Luzon and completely controlled Krabi and advanced to Manila, so even if they come in, they don't have to worry.

"Where did Liu Heng get there?"

"The first regiment of the fifth division has arrived in the city of Manila, and the second regiment has also occupied the city of Davao last night." In the temporary headquarters, Li Mo listened to Huang Fuqi's introduction while watching the staff put a flag on the sand table.

Although Luzon is very large, in fact, the Spanish control only a few major ports, so the top priority is still to take Manila as soon as possible. As long as it is here, it is equivalent to declaring the end of Spain's dominance in Luzon.

"Go and tell Polavisha, immediately put down your weapons and surrender. If you can't see the white flag for an hour, I will bombard Manila!" Li Mo waved his hand. He didn't care about the arrival of the British and German fleet at the same time, but these two were not good birds. It was very necessary to take this opportunity to be shocked!

"Hid the airship and send someone to watch it. Let the Sailfish clean up immediately. I'm going to entertain guests at sea."

Half an hour later, the American flagship cruiser Olympia and the German flagship Kaiser, which were blocked outside the waterway, slowly entered Manila Bay under the leadership of a destroyer, and other warships were ordered not to enter.

He was not interested in the German flagship George Dewey, who was traveling side by side. His mind was completely focused on the Pacific Fleet in Manila Bay. He wanted to see how many points Li Mo had taken out when the Japanese return fleet was about to return, but when two battleships and four heavy cruisers appeared in front of him, he I still took a breath of cold air.

He recently knows how much family Li Mo has. He also knows how strong the Spanish Far East Fleet has. Six capital ships were sent at a time, and it was so fast. This is obviously premeditated, and he is not prepared to give any chance to countries and Spain!

Soon, George Dewey and German fleet commander Ditrischer took a small boat at the same time and boarded the destroyer deck of the Sailfish. At the same time, Li Mo had taken Chen Ping to meet him.

"Welcome General Dewey and General Dirich from afar."

The sudden appearance of Li Mo shocked George Dewey. He didn't expect that Li Mo would personally supervise the battle this time, and Ditris was also a little surprised, but he was more concerned about the strength of the Pacific Fleet, because it was related to the whereof of the five troop carriers in his fleet.

"What a beautiful warship."

While Chen Ping was entertaining the two, Li Mo squinted at the flagship of the Pacific Squadron of the U.S. Navy next to him.

He is very familiar with this warship. It is a large armored cruiser suitable for oceans. It was commissioned in 1895 with a displacement of 5,870 tons. It is equipped with two double 35x caliber 203 mm guns and ten 127 mm secondary guns. In addition, a large number of small-caliber rapid-fire guns are piled up on the deck. .

Two three-expansion reciprocating steam engines can provide 17,000 horsepower and reach a speed of 21 knots. It is an excellent warship that combines firepower, protection and speed in a very balanced manner, representing the highest level of the U.S. equipment manufacturing industry.

Even when I decided to build that kind of heavy cruiser in Chile, it was based on this warship. If I hadn't let Britain make a determination class in advance, this cruiser would definitely have definitely become the best cruiser in the Pacific Ocean.

Of course, now it has been suppressed by the determination level that appeared first, and because of the birth of Master Li, it has intensified the competition for building ships in various countries, which is already a little outdated.

"Dear Duke, what is your fleet doing?"

In the distance, the four determination-class patrols that were being prepared in a row made George Dewey's eyebrows jump. He hurried to Li Mo's side to ask, and even Di Trich was attracted by the busy scene on the deck and came over.

"It's a pity." Li Mo pretended to sigh, shook his head with a compassionate expression, pointed to the city of Manila in the distance and said, "An hour ago, I wrote to Mr. Governor General of Spain, hoping that he could try to avoid bleeding and take the initiative to surrender for the sake of the soldiers on both sides. Unfortunately, he is too stubborn, so my fleet is preparing. Disarm him."

George Dewey finally knew why the figures on the four heavy patrol decks were busy. The young master Li had ordered the shelling of Manila. He hurriedly said, "Dear Duke, there are more than 100,000 innocent lives in Manila. I think it's better for me and Ditri to come forward to persuade..."

Boom...!

Before he finished speaking, the four heavily patrols, which had already been prepared, spewed out several huge fireballs at the same time. Although the Sailfish was behind the side of the heavy patrol, it could not see the front clearly. When both George Dewey and Major General Detrich of the German Navy, their heads seemed to be filled with the sound of this explosion, both of them were very clear. What will happen to Manila City under this intensity of firepower?

Li Mo shrugged his shoulders and watched them deliberately spread out their hands: "I'm sorry, I don't think it's too late."

The fierce gunfire seemed to respond to Li Mo's words. Seeing that things were irreparable, the two had to put down all their thoughts and concentrate on the four heavy patrols of the Pacific Fleet that were shelled.

However, unlike yesterday's full-speed high-up angle shelling, although the details of the interior of the naval gun can be seen from the appearance, Li Mo is still very cautious. In addition, the terrain of Manila is smoother than that of Krabi, so the four heavy patrols deliberately lowered the angle of fire, slowed down the speed of shelling, and fired at Manila at the speed of one shot per minute. And it was not as neat as yesterday, which made the sound of the gun sound a little scattered.

But even so, George Dewey still frowned. As he regarded Li Mo as a potential opponent, he would never believe that this kind of lazy shelling would be launched by the long-haul-lasting Pacific Fleet. Even if his fleet carried out the shelling, it would be much more neat than the other side.

But this is not the real reason why he frowned. In this case, the other party's posture is also normal. What really makes him feel strange and incredible is that the 203mm main gun that has obviously been replaced and has a longer body at the determination level!

It's no secret that Li Mo bought the Italian naval gun technology. George Dewey got the news as early as the first moment after his purchase, and even got the detailed data of the Italian naval gun. According to the calculations of him and several naval engineers, this 45-caliber 203 mm gun is more powerful than Olimpi. The Ya is equipped with a 35 times larger gun of the same caliber, but at the same time, the recoil is also stronger.

According to the calculations of engineers, Olympia can actually carry a 40-fold caliber barrel, but if it is replaced with an Italian naval gun, the gun frame used to retreat when firing is very likely to crack the deck, leading to an unimaginable disaster.

And what does he see now?

Although the firing was not neat, the four cannons of the four determination class were still full of smoke in the distance. The city of Manila, where the city of the city collapsed, had passed, for 30 minutes. The shelling was still continuing, and there was no thing about the cracking of the deck at all.

"Is it possible that the Pacific Fleet has found a way to strengthen the hull and reduce the recoil of the naval gun? Or did Italy deliberately conceal the data and reach a secret agreement with Li Mo?!" George Dewey wanted to ask, but he finally pressed his doubts in his throat.

After an hour of shelling, nearly a thousand 203mm shells were smashed into the city of Manila a few kilometers away. Both George Dewey and Dirich were very aware of the power of this shell. It was difficult for them to imagine what the city of Manila, which lacked fortifications, would look like under this intensity of bombardment.

And more importantly, the two more powerful Arctic star battleships opened fire from beginning to end, and both of them understood why Li Mo did not put the two battleships into artillery.

Looking at the two people with uncertain faces, Li Mo finally withdrew his eyes from the city of Manila, which was like a sea of fire, and smiled: "You two, this is a rare practical opportunity. It's better to..."

"Let's have a few sex together!"

(to be continued)