Iron Dynasty - Chapter 1045

After a day and night sailing, the battleship led by Yue Yun arrived in the sea off Manila.

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

“The Dutch have actually established a trench position on the beach. It seems that they are ready to fight us to the end.” Looking through the binoculars, Liu Chen spotted the Dutch soldiers walking through the trenches.

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

“There are about 4,000 Dutch soldiers, but they have trained quite a few local indigenous people, about 5,000.” Liu Chen continued his analysis.

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

But for him, this defense was not enough to prevent the landing of the Marine Corps. After all, the warships he led were mobile artillery positions on the sea. These Dutchmen were looking for death by placing their positions so close.

“Go straight into the harbor and let the Dutch see what an ironclad ship is.” Yue Yun’s mentality was relaxed, and the 300-millimeter armor of the King was not a display.

Upon receiving the order, the fleet sailed directly into the bay of Manila, and at the same time the guns of all the warships were aimed at the position established by the Dutch.

“Boom boom boom…”

The Dutch fort fired first, and the blast bombs directly bombarded the battleship of the country over a distance of 500 meters and exploded.

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

The purpose of iron-clad warships is to defend against bombs, so the armor is very thick, and ordinary bombs cannot break the armor of battleships.

In the tidal flat position, Eric was observing the damage caused by the explosion through a telescope. To his disappointment, their shells did not cause any damage to the fleet.

Then the turrets in his bay continued to bombard the empire’s fleet, but the result was the same. The explosion of the artillery shells could not even deform the armor of the armored ship.

“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 armored ships are simply incredible. How did they build them?” Simon had fear in his eyes, because in Manila, he had little contact with the Chinese Empire.

When he promised to stick to it, he never expected to encounter such a situation. The steel battleships lined up on the sea really scared him.

It’s just that he was lucky. He said: “Eric, hold on, don’t forget our purpose, as long as we get a Chinese rifle, we can live a good life back to Holland.”

Eric agreed to stay for the same purpose. He understood the high price of Chinese Empire technology in Europe.

Now the whole of Europe is staring at the technology of the Chinese empire, especially weapon technology, and the huge bounty has sent many desperadoes to Asia.

They either act as merchants or members of pirates, but their purpose is the same, to get the technology of the empire.

“The fleeing ship is really ready?” Eric asked again.

Simon nodded heavily, “Get what we want and leave.”

As soon as his words fell, there was a sudden violent roar from the sea, and fire and white smoke were seen from the muzzle of the iron armored ship, and then countless flames emerged from the trenches he had dug.

At this moment, the earth seemed to be shaking.

When Eric and Simon saw this scene, they immediately lay on the ground in the trench. The bombing continued, the soil was constantly shaken by the shock wave of the explosion, and the flying clothes fragments and residual blood were flying in the sky.

It was only this round of bombing that the Dutch soldiers on the ground were in a panic. This alone was only the beginning, and rounds of shelling began.

Huge explosions set off a cloud of mud from time to time on the position, and some shells fell into the trench and directly destroyed a trench.

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

On the King King, Yue Yun watched as the six soldiers stuffed a huge artillery shell into the fort. This artillery was a 305mm main gun.

After such a long time of accumulation of technology, the imperial navy has initially entered the age of iron armored cannons.

If a shell of this size can destroy a sailing warship in a naval battle, it will blow up nothing.

Looking around for a week, he found that all the turrets 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 messenger to send a semaphore to inform the Marines of the other warships to prepare for landing.

In this bombing, at least 20% of the Dutch and indigenous troops on the ground were killed, but in his opinion, the threat posed by the shelling was even more frightening than death.

Landing boats went up and down from the battleship to the ocean, and the troop carrier quickly advanced to the beach. After the fort was destroyed, they had no threat at sea. If the Dutch ran out of the position, they would be bombarded by battleship artillery.

After getting on the shore smoothly, Liu Chen immediately ordered the soldiers’ skirmish line to march toward the beach front position, while the machine gunner looked for a shooting spot with a broad view under the protection of the soldiers.

After all this was done, the Marines stepped forward to the Dutch position, but to everyone’s surprise, the Dutch position was as quiet as a grave.

“Chen Wei, lead someone to initiate an assault.” Liu Chen said. What he hates most is positional warfare, because the two sides will face each other over the long position.

Chen Wei was the company commander of the Marine Corps. He beckoned, and more than a thousand soldiers launched an assault on the Dutch position.

300 meters ~ ~ 200 meters, 100 meters, 50 meters, getting closer and closer to the Dutch position, but the Dutch still did not fight back.

Seeing that they were about to rush to the trench, Chen Wei suddenly ordered all the soldiers to get down and ordered: “Prepare the grenades. After throwing a wave of grenades, all rush over, don’t keep your hands.”

The order was passed down one by one. After waiting for a while, Chen Wei shouted: “Throw it!”

Following his actions, the soldiers threw grenades into the trenches, 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. For him, this battle is just a trade of human lives in exchange for a Chinese rifle.

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