The Lanfang Navy made a smooth breakthrough, and its powerful firepower sank almost half of the Spanish ships. The remaining half raised the white flag, gave up resistance, and chose to surrender to the Lanfang Navy.
After the Spanish Navy surrendered, the Lanfang Navy broke into the military port and used powerful and overwhelming firepower to sweep across the land-based shore defense artillery around the military port. All firepower points inside the general port that could hinder the army's landing were destroyed.
The Spanish Army inside the military port did have strong troops. They ignored the navy's retreat and fired back at the Lanfang Navy.
However, the difference in firepower was too great, and it failed to pose any substantial threat to the Lanfang Navy. The navy's naval guns concentrated fire and cleared them all.
Subsequently, the Lanfang Army began to land in an orderly manner.
In about half a day, at dusk, the Lanfang Army completed its landing and successfully occupied the military port. About 500 Spanish soldiers inside the military port who had not had time to escape surrendered.
After Zhao Xuening landed, he looked at the surrendered Spanish soldiers and found that there were only more than 70 white Spanish soldiers among them, and the rest were a hodgepodge. There were even more than 20 Chinese speaking Chinese with Cantonese and Fujian accents, which made Zhao Xuening confused. I can't laugh or cry.
That night, Zhao Xuening led the army to rest at the military port. Early the next morning, after having breakfast, the army marched toward Manila calmly and calmly.
The news of the navy's defeat, the fall of the military port, and General Porter's suicide had already spread to the city of Manila along with the defeated army. When Lanfang's army was resting, the city of Manila was already in chaos.
Governor Jose fell into isolation, squatting in the corner with his head in his hands and feeling at a loss.
Other colonial government employees were running around anxiously, looking for people to discuss whether they should stick to Manila or take the opportunity to escape and run far away.
After much discussion, some colonial officials chose to escape during the night.
Although some people believed that Manila's city walls were strong enough, had enough soldiers to guard them, and had enough artillery to compete with Lan Fang's army, they still believed that Lan Fang's army was invincible and could only flee.
Jose originally wanted to escape, but the militant faction within the colonial government stopped him and refused to let him escape. They asked him to lead everyone to resist resolutely and defend the dignity of the Spanish royal family.
"We have lost too much in the war three years ago. The royal family is already very dissatisfied with the Philippines and asked us to take back the copper mines. Not only can we not do it, but now we have to give up on Manila, which we spent so much effort to build? That way? If so, if we return to Madrid, we will definitely be sentenced!”
Jose wanted to make one thing clear to these people.
Before considering whether we will be sentenced if we go back, can we first consider whether we can go back?
The damn Lanfang army is coming to Manila, are you still thinking about going back to Madrid?
Can you still go back?
But looking at the blushing faces of this group of warring factions, each one of whom was about to change from white to red, he was very worried that he would be defeated by these people on the spot after saying such words, so he could only bite the bullet and order everyone. Mobilize the city, and all those who can mobilize for resistance must do so.
He distributed the weapons in the arsenal, cobbled together more than 4,000 soldiers and boarded the tower to prepare for defense, waiting for Lan Fang's army to arrive.
Not long after dawn the next day, the leading troops of Lanfang's army arrived outside Manila. After observing from a distance for a while, they sent a man holding a Lanfang flag to shout, asking the Spanish in the city to surrender voluntarily to avoid Manila was in ruins.
An officer from the main war faction raised his gun and shot him with one shot. If his marksmanship had not been so accurate and he missed the target, the Lanfang messenger would have died at the gate of the city.
After failing to persuade him to surrender, Chu Teng blew his beard and glared angrily.
"Fucking red-haired thieves, how dare you hit my messenger? It seems they are tired of living! They are looking for death!"
Chu Teng threw away the big cake he was holding and roared angrily: "Captain of the heavy artillery! Where's the captain of the heavy artillery? Set up your general's cannon for me! Damn it! Even if this city wall is thicker than the Great Wall, I will also blast a gap for him!"
The Lanfang Army does not have many general cannons, only three in total. Because they are too heavy and lack enough enemies, they generally do not bring such heavy attack artillery during expeditions.
But this time is different. Manila City can be regarded as one of the top strong cities in the entire Philippines and even the Spice Sea. Therefore, not only were the army's three general cannons pulled out, but also the naval battleships originally provided to the navy's battleships. The large general cannon was also dragged ashore and transported to the city of Manila.
Dozens of powerful general cannons concentrated their firepower at Chu Teng's request, selected a location on the city wall, and conducted concentrated bombardment.
According to the strength of the Manila City Wall, without concentrated firepower, even with the presence of high-intensity artillery such as the General Cannon, it would be quite difficult to break through.
The city walls were mainly bombarded with solid bullets instead of explosive bombs. The artillerymen skillfully constructed artillery positions, calculated the distance and direction from the bombardment target to the artillery position according to scientific principles, and then adjusted the barrel and muzzle of the general's cannon. Thirty or forty Iron projectiles weighing several kilograms were fed into the barrel of the general's cannon, tamped down, and finally ignited.
There was a loud boom, and as the earth trembled, the fierce solid artillery shells burst out, drew a beautiful trajectory in mid-air, and hit the bombardment target position designated by Chu Teng.
The solid fortress-like walls of Manila also trembled, and some marks were left on the solid walls by bombardment.
This is the first time, but by no means the last time, that not only one general cannon is bombarding like this, but dozens of general cannons are bombarding like this.
They were divided into three groups and took turns to bombard. One group had a cooling time after the bombardment ended, and the other group went on top, and then the third group took turns to bombard and take turns to cool down to ensure that the firepower was uninterrupted and did not give the Spaniards a chance to repair the city wall.
The Spanish also had heavy artillery. In order to cover the bombardment of the city wall by the general's cannon, Chu Teng ordered the rest of the artillery to specifically bombard the Spanish firepower points on the city wall, using their numerical advantage and firepower advantage to beat them to the point where they could not lift their heads, thus protecting the general's cannon. blasting operations.
The skillful skills and rich combat experience of the Lanfang Artillery fully demonstrated their advantages at this time. The Spanish artillerymen on the city clearly had a geographical advantage, but they were limited by the excellent shooting skills of the Lanfang Artillery and it was very difficult to attack the Lanfang Artillery. Counter.
Finally, we found a good firepower point to fire artillery, but only a few shots were fired. The Lanfang gunners outside the city fired more than a dozen shells in turn, knocking the people they hit off their backs. If one of them was unlucky, he would be beaten badly. Bloody and bloody.
In order to better suppress the firepower of the Spanish in the city, there were brave gunners who rushed to a position closer to the city wall with light mortars, bravely fired explosive bombs, and sent the explosive bombs behind the city wall.
With a loud bang, a group of Spanish artillerymen were blown to pieces by the power of the explosive bombs.
The Spaniards in the city fully understood the ferocity and sharpness of Lanfang's artillery. They gradually realized that Lanfang's artillery was difficult to fight against. However, in this case, they had lost their right to choose. They could not even open the situation with infantry.
In this way, the artillery battle continued for a whole day.
The next day, the solid Manila wall finally failed.
Under the indiscriminate bombardment of the general's artillery, a gap was finally blown out of the city wall. Chu Teng, who was supervising the battle on the front line, was overjoyed and immediately ordered the cavalry general's artillery team to launch an attack, firing a large number of light solid bullets and explosive bombs to further expand Manila. Gaps in the city wall.
A large number of artillery shells poured down. Even though the Spaniards in the city knew that a gap had been blown out of the city wall, they were unable to fill the gap or organize a temporary defense line in the face of the fierce firepower of Lanfang artillery.
The soldiers of the 1st Battalion and 1st Company of the 3rd Corps of Lanfang Army were fully armed. Under the leadership of company captain Qiu Yong, they bravely rushed to the gap and became the first batch of Lanfang troops to rush into Manila City.
Then the second company and the third company, led by company captains Keio Finney and Ruan Xiangshan respectively, followed the pace of Qiu Yong's first company and rushed into Manila.
