Although Van Dimen was angry, he was not dizzy, he had already analyzed the defense of Manila City, don't think about it in the north, the royal city of Manila City was built on the south bank of the mouth of the Passy River, and the fort on the north side of the royal city was equivalent to being under the dual protection of the Spanish fleet and the cannons of the royal city wall, even if he had the advantage in firepower, he did not want to test whether the stones on the city walls and batteries were hard or the deck of his ship was hard.

The southern fort is different, the south of the royal city is a low civilian area, which means that the southern fort is only protected by the city wall artillery on the north side, and there is no defensive measure at all in the south, so Fan Dimen is ready to attack from the south, knock out the southern fort first, and then attack from the southeast corner of the royal city.

The naval guns of the Dutch are basically cannons, characterized by long range and strong impact of shells, but he also has shortcomings, that is, the elevation angle of the fire is small, the trajectory is low and flat, and the accuracy of hitting the target on the same level is generally higher.

The Spanish battery was about 30 meters high and 400 meters long, but the surface height of the Dutch battleship was less than 20 meters, so if the naval guns wanted to hit the batteries, they had to increase the elevation angle.

After thinking about it, he immediately ordered: "Order, the red team should load solid shells on the right side, elevate at an angle of thirty degrees, line up five nautical miles south of the enemy's southern battery, three nautical miles from the coast, and immediately leave the coast and return after advancing in a straight line to bombard the battery." ”

A herald with a red command flag immediately ran to the middle of the deck, climbed the middle mast, and made a string of flags, and soon fifteen battleships broke away from the main group and moved south.

Soon the Red Brigade reached about five nautical miles there, and one after another began to slowly move out of the fleet alone, and the fifteen battleships soon formed a column and slowly headed for the southern battery of the Spaniards. As soon as the first battleship sailed into the range of the battery, the right side of the battleship remembered the roar of the artillery, "boom, boom, boom", and more than fifty shells flew towards the battery, and the Spanish guns on the battery also remembered the roar at the same time: "Boom, boom, boom, about two hundred shells fell towards the Dutch fleet."

At that time, the artillery really had no accuracy at all, if it was a fixed launch, it could be accurate to within ten meters, and the accuracy of the artillery on a battleship like this could reach within fifty meters, so the Dutch's shells were flying everywhere, some fell directly into the sea, some fell on the beach in front of the battery, some smashed into the stone wall of the battery, and some flew directly above the battery, and only about a dozen of the more than 50 shells of the first battleship smashed on the battery, maybe a few people were killed, the battery was so high, they couldn't see it.

The cannons of the Spaniards are mainly based on the howitzers, which are characterized by fast loading speed, but the firing range is shorter, and the impact force is smaller, although their cannons are fixed fired, but the opposite battleship is moving, so the hit rate is not high, only more than 20 shells fell on the first battleship, more than 10 shells fell on the second battleship, and the others basically failed.

The Dutch did not stop advancing, they still lined up in a neat queue and drove north, more and more warships entered the range of the battery, the Dutch battleships kept roaring, this and that came, the shells rained down in the direction of the battery, the Spaniards were not to be outdone, their sub-munitions were fast in loading, and a round could be fired in less than a minute, and in less than ten minutes, four or five thousand shells were fired from each side, as for this effect, there was no problem with the deck of the Dutch battleship, There were only a few more holes in the side and sails, and on the side of the Spanish battery, there were only some masonry on the arrow stacks, and there was almost no damage.

This is the sorrow of artillery in the black powder period, the lethality is basically smashed, as long as the defensive measures are better, it is basically difficult to cause casualties, unless the number of piles is used, so the battleships at that time were desperately increasing the number of naval guns, naval guns from the very beginning, developed to more than ten, and then developed to dozens, and finally developed to more than a hundred, if it were not for the limitation of the size of the hull, it is estimated that there were thousands of cannon super warships at that time.

The battle between the fleets has also become a contest of the number of artillery, dozens of guns will not work, hundreds of guns, hundreds of guns will not work, even if a shell can only smash a hole in the side of the ship, thousands of shells can smash your ship's side!

After a round of testing, Fan Dimen had a rough grasp of the accuracy of the naval guns, and he directly ordered: "All the battleships move five miles south, adjust the elevation angle of the guns to 32 degrees, and load the right side with scattered shells ready to fire, and the blue team will immediately send all the musketeers to land six nautical miles south of the local south battery, led by the deputy leader of the blue team, Odlon, and prepare to attack the battery."

Three heralds holding red, white and blue flags climbed the mast at the same time and began to give orders, the fleet began to move south, and after reaching the south five miles, more than 30 battleships stopped, and the other fifteen battleships moved another one nautical mile to the south, and then began to approach the coast, put down a bunch of small landing ships, and a group of musketeers began to land in batches, and about half an hour later, more than 4,000 musketeers landed on the beach to the south and began to line up in a phalanx under the command of Odron, and the fifteen battleships of the blue team also began to leave the coast and sail towards the main fleet.

When Fan Dimen saw the return of the blue team, he immediately ordered: "Order, the red, white and blue teams will begin to line up, and take turns attacking the enemy's southern fort at 2.5 miles along the coastline, the white team will go first, the blue team will follow, and the red team will attack five rounds of scattered bombs." ”

The herald with the red, white and blue flag climbed the mast and began to give orders, and the whole fleet, except for Van Dimen's flagship and the four battleships next to it, the other forty-five battleships formed three columns, one of which began to slowly advance northward, approaching the Spanish battery.

It is said that the artillery of this battery should be facing the sea, and the shore defense cannon is generally fixed on the base, even the barrel with the base is a few thousand catties, if you want to adjust the elevation angle, it takes half a day, if you want to adjust the direction of shooting, it is impossible without a day or two, how can the Spaniards defend?

Naturally, Kokuian had already taken this into account, and he arranged 3,000 men on both the north and south batteries, of which 1,000 were responsible for firing cannons, and the other 2,000 were responsible for defense.

As soon as the Dutch had landed, the Spanish commander on the fort called out all 2,000 musketeers from the fortifications and lined up behind the women's wall to the south, ready to meet the Dutch attack.

A big battle was officially kicked off at this time, the Dutch battleships began to line up in turn to dump scattered shells on the Spanish battery, and the Spanish batteries also kept returning fire with live ammunition, and the two sides were injured by each other, generally speaking, the Spaniards were more damaged, because their musketeers were on the battery, and it was necessary to pay attention to the enemy musketeers in the south and to avoid the shells at sea, and if you were not careful, you might be shot, although the shells of that period had no explosive power, But if an ordinary person is hit, it will either be dead or injured.

After the white, blue, and red detachments had taken turns attacking for about a round, Van Dimen gave the order, and the herald flag waved, and the Dutch musketeers on the coast began to scatter and approach the battery. The gunfight at this time has a very interesting name, called 'line up to shoot', because the arquebus has a delay, they have to stand there to aim, waiting for the bullets to fly out, so this strange method of fighting is formed, basically both sides stand in a horizontal queue at the same time, and then they just stand there and shoot at each other, whoever is hit is unlucky.

Of course, the bullets at this time did not have the powerful lethality of the bullets of later generations, and generally as long as they did not hit the vital parts, a few bullets could not kill people.

This 'line up to shoot' method naturally gives the defending side an advantage, because they can hide behind the women's wall or arrow stacks and shoot, as long as they show their heads, while the attacking side basically has no cover and simply stands there as a target.

In this way, it should be that the Spaniards took advantage of it, but it was not easy for them to take advantage of it, because they had shells flying all the time above their heads, and being hit by a shell was much worse than being hit by a bullet.

The Dutch have an absolute advantage in the number of artillery, because they have forty-five super battleships participating in the battle, even if there is only one side of the cannon, it is more than 2,000 cannons, and the Spaniards only have a total of more than 300 cannons on the battery, even if they load shells faster than the Dutch, but they can't withstand the bombardment of more than 2,000 cannons in turn, so the casualties of the Spaniards on the battery are getting bigger and bigger.

The casualties of the Dutch musketeers under the battery were also not small, they also used a formation similar to stacking waves, divided into four rows of 1,000 people each, after the first row fired, they reloaded on the spot, the second row went up a few meters to shoot, and then reloaded on the spot, and then the third row and the fourth row were in the first row and the second row, and they naturally could not advance fast step by step, and the closer they got to the battery, the greater the casualties, when about 500 meters, only a few dozen people were injured in a round of guns, and hundreds of people were injured in a round of guns at 400 meters. At 300 meters, people were injured all the time, and by 200 meters, they couldn't bear it anymore.

After all, people are fleshy, although they have armor protection in key parts, but no matter where they are on the body, it is not so comfortable to have an iron bead embedded in it, one or two may be able to endure it for the time being, and ten or eight of them get into the flesh, and no one can stand it.

Odron saw that there were more and more people lying on the ground and swinging, and had to order the whole army to retreat, he had to go and tell Fan Dimen that it would not work hard like this, take the meat and eat the bullets, why didn't he eat a few of them himself!

Soon after the Dutch musketeers retreated, the ships at sea also stopped roaring, and the battle had been going on for almost an hour, and the red, white and blue teams had fired five rounds of scattered shells.

The first confrontation between the Dutch and Spain in Manila was over, and no one was able to bargain for the battle, the Dutch lost dozens of musketeers, wounded no less than a thousand, and suffered considerable damage to the battleship; The Spaniards lost more men, musketeers and artillerymen, and the Dutch could not hide under the women's wall without returning fire, so they lost more than 100 men in this battle.

After an hour of fierce fighting, the soldiers were already exhausted, and Van Dimen had lost the desire to attack, so he simply ordered the entire fleet to move to the south coast of Manila Bay and anchor to rest, ready to fight again at another day.

As the defending side, the Spaniards naturally will not risk sending people to pursue, and the two sides began to enter a short truce, as for how long this truce will last, it depends on Fan Dimen's patience, but his patience is estimated to not last long, because Shi Daxuan They still have a bunch of merchant captains in their hands, one can't come two, two can't come to three......, as long as the constant stimulation, there is always one that can make Fan Dimen crazy!