Iron Dynasty

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

Along the way, they did not suffer any attack, and the process of sailing was very boring, but when they came to Manila, they suddenly became excited.

The Dutch actually built a trench on the beach. It seems that they are ready to fight us to the end. Through the binoculars, Liu Chen found the Dutch soldiers traveling through the trench.

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

There are about 4,000 Dutch soldiers, and they train a lot of local indigenous people, about 5,000. Liu Chen continued to analyze.

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

But for him, such a defense was not enough to prevent the landing of the Marine Corps. After all, the battleship he led was a mobile artillery position at sea. These Dutchmen placed their positions in such a close place that they were courting death.

Go straight into the harbor and let the Dutch see what an ironclad ship is. Yue Yun's mind was relaxed, the more than 300 mm armor of the Sovereign was not a decoration.

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

Boom boom boom...

The Dutch fort opened fire first, and the explosive bombs directly bombarded the battleship of the Great Yu Kingdom over a distance of 500 meters, causing an explosion.

Only in this round of shelling, the exploding shells did not cause any damage to the hull of the battleship.

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

From the tidal flats, Eric was watching the damage caused by the explosion through a telescope, and he was disappointed that their shells did not cause any damage to the fleet.

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

Now you should recognize the reality, we can only die here. Eric said to Simon, who was observing the imperial battleship with a telescope.

These ironclads are simply incredible, how they were built. Simon's eyes were filled with fear, because in Manila, he had little contact with the Chinese Empire.

When he promised to stick to it, he never imagined that he would encounter such a situation. The steel battleships lining up at sea really scared him a lot.

It's just that he was 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.

Eric agreed to stay for this purpose as well, he understood the high price of Chinese imperial technology in Europe.

Now the whole of Europe is staring at the technology of the Chinese Empire, especially the weapon technology, and the high bounty has made many desperadoes go to Asia.

They are either merchants or a member of pirates, but their purpose is the same, to acquire the technology of the Empire.

The escape ship is really ready? Eric asked again.

Simon nodded heavily, Go away when you get what we want.

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a violent roar on the sea, and I saw fire and white smoke from the gun muzzles on the ironclad ship, and then countless flames emerged from the trenches he dug.

At this moment, the earth seemed to be shaking.

Eric and Simon immediately fell on the ground of the trench when they saw this scene. The bombardment continued. The soil was continuously shaken by the shock wave of the explosion, and the splashed clothes and stump blood flew all over the sky.

It was just this round of bombardment that the Dutch soldiers on the position were in a state of embarrassment. This was just the beginning, and round after round of shelling began.

Huge explosions set off a cloud of flying mud from time to time on the position, and some artillery shells fell into the ditch and directly blew up a ditch.

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

On the Sovereign, Yue Yun was speechless as he watched the six soldiers stuff a huge cannonball into the fort. This cannon was the 305mm main cannon.

After such a long period of technical accumulation, the imperial navy has initially entered the era of ironclad ships with cannons.

A shell of this size could destroy a sailing warship in a single shot in a naval battle, and it would blow up nothing.

After looking around for a week, he found that all the forts were destroyed. He said to Liu Chen, Now it's your marines' turn to play.

Liu Chen had gathered the soldiers long ago. At this time, he asked the messengers to semaphore to notify the marines of the other battleships that they were preparing to land.

This bombardment killed at least 20% of the Dutch and indigenous troops on the ground, but in his view the threat posed by the bombardment was more frightening than death.

Landing boats descended from the battleships into the ocean, and the troop transports moved quickly towards the beachhead. After the forts were all destroyed, they were no longer a threat at sea. If the Dutch escaped from their positions, they would be bombarded by the artillery of the battleships.

After successfully landing, Liu Chen immediately ordered the soldiers' skirmish line to move towards the beachhead. At the same time, under the protection of the soldiers, the machine gunners searched for a shooting location with a wide field of vision.

After doing all this, the Marines made their way to 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, what he hates most is the positional battle, because the two sides will face off in a long position for years.

Chen Wei, the company commander of the first regiment of the Marine Corps, waved his hand, and more than a thousand soldiers charged towards the Dutch positions.

300 meters, 200 meters, 100 meters, 50 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 ditch, Chen Wei suddenly ordered all the soldiers to lie down, and ordered: Prepare the grenades, throw a wave of grenades and all rush over, don't keep your hands.

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

Following his actions, the soldiers threw grenades into the trenches one after another, and the front trench was suddenly filled 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 has been waiting for the charge of the Chinese Empire, and for him this battle is nothing more than a trade of human lives for Chinese-style rifles.

So he dug the trench deep this time, in order to let the imperial soldiers jump into the pit and fight them hand-to-hand. In this way, they would have a chance to snatch the equipment, and this was his only chance. If he fails, the rest of his life will be miserable.