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One Man's Time and Space Smuggling Empire VIP Volume Chapter 90 On Manila Bay

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    The deep and charming sea is vast and vast. As long as people on any land land reach the sea, they will immediately be shocked by the sense of space on the sea that has suddenly expanded a thousand times.

    Generally speaking, when two people meet, the distance on land is often a few hundred meters, but on the sea, it is often a few kilometers or dozens of kilometers. This distance is so vast. If you want to say hello or establish friendship, it is so difficult.  It's a simple thing, but it's not an ordinary trouble!

    Therefore, the chase between the Manila garrison fleet and the Dutch fleet evolved into a long-lasting battle. One chase and one escape, watching from a distance, and quickly spent half a day. The Dutch Clippers detachment  They caught up with the Manila fleet several times, but because they were outflanking in the wrong direction, the garrison fleet finally changed its direction and broke out. They managed to survive until the evening. By this time, the sky was getting dark, and the Dutch had to  This dangerous sport of close contact has been temporarily stopped!  Both sides slowed down in the dark and sailed toward Manila Bay together.

    In the morning of the next day, the officers and soldiers of the Manila Fleet first saw the beacon tower erected high at the mouth of Manila Bay. They were extremely happy that they finally escaped!

    Who would have expected that not long after, the clipper detachment of the Dutch fleet appeared from the direction behind these guys, and these guys caught up again!

    "His grandmother is too arrogant! Commander, let's rush over and kill them! We are already at the door of our house, and these guys still dare to chase us, do they think the battleship we are driving is not a battleship?"

    ¡°That¡¯s it, Commander, we brothers can¡¯t bear it anymore!¡±

    Although these rookie-level navies in the fleet are not very skilled, they still have some blood.

    Brother Zhang Wu shook his head,

    "No! Now is not the time for a decisive battle! Listen to the order! Retreat! Quick! Speed ??up! Rush across this section of the sea, and under the protection of the Cavite fort, the enemy will not dare to pursue!"

    "Yes!" The ambitions of the fleet officers and soldiers suffered setbacks, but on the other hand, hope was rekindled!  The opening of Manila Bay is wide and wide, which is not suitable for building a fort for blockade. However, a sufficiently large fort was built near the shipyard in Cavite for protection.  There are hundreds of heavy cannons there, which I believe is enough to deter these jerks!

    Sure enough, after following the Manila fleet all the way to the vicinity of Cavite, the heavy artillery on the fort immediately frightened the group of clippers behind them.

    The hulls of these clippers are more streamlined than battleships, making them suitable for speeding on the sea.  But compared with battleships, the hull is narrow, the ability to withstand wind and waves is poor, and the protection ability is much worse than that of battleships. In a real artillery battle, it is no match for battleships, and it is even more difficult to shoot against fortress guns.  Suffered a loss.  Soon, these Clippers had to give up the sweet and delicious food in front of them and retreat in confusion.

    Brother Zhang Wu led the fleet to get rid of the enemy and continued to sail to the port of Manila!

    A few hours later, the Dutch fleet heard the news and arrived. Fifty or sixty main battleships and thousands of cannons were lined up in a column and formed a large arc in a tangential direction facing the Cavite fort.  Rushing to the vicinity of the Cavite fort, the ship turned sideways and began to unleash artillery fire on the fort!

    The Cavite Fort was designed for long-range firepower confrontation with more than a dozen large warships. There are only twenty heavy guns with a caliber of more than 150MM in total. The others are rapid-fire medium-sized artillery to deal with fast ships.  How can we deal with this unprecedented scale of super-large battleship detachment? Just one round of shooting can reach thousands of artillery launches, which instantly overwhelms the counterattack on the fort!

    In the blink of an eye, the Cavite fort seemed to have turned into a magnet, attracting artillery shells like raindrops that continued to fall. Blood, limbs, and the remains of the cannons flying on the fort were filled with sulfur mixed with protein and formed by burning.  That pungent smell.

    As the formation of the battleship fleet advanced, the firepower attracted by the fort became more intensive. The heavy artillery on the fort only had time to bravely fire a complete round of shells, damaging the sides of several battleships before being overwhelmed by the overwhelming artillery fire.  Submerged, artillery battle!  Artillery battle!  After humans entered the age of artillery, the firepower of these mobile giants at sea overwhelmed the land for the first time!  In the face of a sufficient scale of organized firepower, immovable heavy artillery positions such as forts almost become targets, allowing them to be ravaged by mobile firepower at sea!

    Lieutenant General Sauron held up his telescope and looked at his own artillery fire, which was blooming densely on the land like large tracts of flowers. Blood, courage and the desire to conquer were burning in his chest!  He felt extremely proud!  Ha ha!  Are these the forts of the monkeys, just like resisting this unparalleled fleet under their own?  No, that's not possible.  Manila, from the moment it appeared with its own fleet, meantIt has already fallen into my hands!

    This is the ambition of the Dutch, the sea coachmen, not only in Manila, but also in Taiwan, Macau, Champa, and Malacca!  Everything will surrender under the feet of the Dutch!

    Wait!  Monkeys of Britain, after the situation in the Southern Ocean stabilizes, this huge fleet will definitely return to the Indian Ocean under the command of Sauron and take back the colonies you took from us the previous time!

    Lieutenant General Sauron secretly made up his mind!

    After taking out the Cavite fort, the commanders of the squadron also wanted to bomb the shipyard!

    Howard, the director of the company stationed in the Grand Fleet, jumped out to stop him!

    "Oh! No! Don't! Gentlemen, please don't. When we capture Manila, this shipyard will provide us with services. Look, gentlemen, what a good slipway this is, what a big dry dock, my God! It's even better than  The dry dock in Batavia is even bigger. I bet they can build a giant ship with a displacement of two thousand tons!

    Gentlemen, isn¡¯t such a good shipyard exactly what we need?  We are not barbarians and do not need to destroy everything. What we want is to occupy and sow the seeds of civilization, gentlemen!

    "As you wish, sir!" The proud Sauron gave the order to stop the attack. The fleet reorganized its formation and continued to move towards the depths of Manila Bay!

    In the distance, there is the delicious Manila Port!

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    In the afternoon, the Dutch fleet approached Manila. The unprecedented scale of the fleet made the lookouts at the Manila port so scared that they almost fell off the overpass!

    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Oh my God!  There are fifty or sixty battleships of over 600 tons, with more than a hundred clippers guarding their wings!  The huge fleet opened a wide arc-shaped front and headed towards the port!  In the distance, far behind the main fleet, there are hundreds of heavy armed merchant ships with oval-shaped hulls, obviously carrying land combat troops and various materials to support the army's long-term operations. This fleet,  It seems that preparations for a long-term siege were made from the beginning, and everyone in the family was brought over.

    The entire fleet has a total number of nearly 300 medium-sized ships and a total displacement of nearly 100,000 tons, which is almost comparable to the Spanish Armada. In this era, this is undoubtedly a force capable of destroying a city.  The decisive force to destroy the country!  The determination of the Dutch to dominate the South Seas was fully demonstrated in the formation of this fleet!

    The fleet gradually sailed in, and it was almost reaching the firing range of the Manila Port fort.

    "Come! Let's say hello to our dear friends!" Lieutenant General Sauron said contemptuously,

    With his order, part of the fleet sailed away.  The second guerrilla detachment quickly moved forward and headed towards the Manila port fort. Under the gaze of the gunners on the fort facing the front, the cannon muzzle on the bow opened!  Aiming at the heavy artillery on the fort, the gunners next to them held torches, waiting for the moment to put their prey into range!

    ??Naval battle is the kind of war that most tests one's courage!

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    The Manila Port Fort, formerly known as the Santiago Castle, is tall and majestic, like a lion guarding its territory entrenched at the mouth of the Bashi River. Its scale is far larger than that of the Cavite Fort, and its artillery configuration is much more powerful than that of Cavite. It is now about to  Meet the challenge from the Dutch fleet!  "Coming, coming!" The gunners on the fort had prepared everything and were looking at it from a distance. When the enemy's ship was still nearly 600 meters away, they gave the order!

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    The gunners trembled with excitement and lit the powder thread with their hands. The two thirty-six-pound front-loading smoothbore cannons on the largest fort in the castle roared with force. The huge cannonballs that whizzed out turned into stars in the sky in the blink of an eye.  Black spots, a large amount of white smoke emitted from the barrel flooded the fort in the blink of an eye!

    Immediately afterwards, all the nearly 60 heavy artillery pieces and 130 medium-sized artillery pieces on the fort fired simultaneously, and the spurting white smoke turned the entire castle into a giant beast hidden in a white mist in the blink of an eye!

    The third and fifth ships at the front of the Dutch Second Clippers Guerrilla Squadron were hit. With a bang, a small round hole appeared in the hull of the third ship, and then, high-speed projectiles were inserted into it.  The hull caused vibrations like ripples on the surface of the hull. The violent shock waves spread rapidly along with the vibrations of the hull. Under the squeezing of the strong internal stress, a section of the ship's side that was more than three meters long finally could not support the change.  It shattered into pieces, roared and disintegrated, and turned into deadly flying objects flying into the sky!

    The gun warehouse on the first floor below the ship's deck was hit by a 36-pound large-caliber heavy cannon. The entire hull collapsed and nearly one-fifth of the deck was shattered. The projectile broke through the shackles of the ship's hull and flew into the cabin.  , completely destroying the two heavy guns in the gun warehouse.?Smashed to pieces, the scattered heavy artillery parts turned into countless deadly metal flying objects, sweeping across the entire gun cabin. In the blink of an eye, all signs of life in the cabin completely disappeared. The black powder pot next to the heavy artillery was ignited by the high temperature, and violently  The fire burned quickly!  Filled the cabin!

    On the Strong, all the sailors acted urgently, squirming back and forth on the deck like ants, using piston water guns, large wooden barrels, and all imaginable tricks!

    Oh my god!  The sailors on the deck shouted in despair!

    The fire in the cabin spread quickly and quickly reached the deck. The sails also started to catch fire. Chatting's spray of water was useless. The desperate sailors who were squeezed into the cabin and could not get out looked up to the sky in the cabin.  Cursing, the remaining people began to line up on the side of the ship and jumped into the sea!  Strong number!  It's going to end!

    "Compared with the Fortitude, the fifth ship in the queue was much luckier. It was only hit by a medium-sized shell on the mast!  But even so, the mast fell and the sail locks flew horizontally, causing a dozen unlucky people to fall on the deck at once!

    Lieutenant General Sauron saw this scene in the telescope:

    "Oh! Gentlemen! It seems that we have finally encountered the enemy's elite! Five hundred meters! A single hit? Oh! God! I really hope such a good gunner is on our side!" (To be continued!  . Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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