Each airship was armed with a heavy machine gun with 5,000 rounds of ammunition, and when it flew to an altitude of 350 meters above the Luzon fleet, it was expected that the Spaniards would use their rifles to shoot heavy machine gunners in the air, and 7.92 mm heavy machine guns to fire heavily to suppress the sailors who ran to the deck and fired with rifles.

One side uses a single-shot rifle to shoot into the air, firing one bullet and then reloading another; On the other hand, the long canvas chain was used to strafe continuously, and you can think about it with your knees.

But after a while, anyone who dared to expose the deck was either knocked over by the heavy machine gun bullets on the airship, or they hurried to find a place to hide.

Having cleared the threat, five airships of the first echelon pounced on the Luzon fleet.

Severa observed that a strong wind was blowing, and the huge airship was shaking, and understood that the wind had a great effect on the airship's navigation, and that if it entered the vast sea where the wind was blowing, the effect of the airship's attack would be greatly reduced, so he ordered the ships to issue a flag: "Hurry up and sail towards the wide sea and the wind is strong!" ”

The remnants of the Luzon fleet hurried to the depths of Manila Bay, while maneuvering frantically to avoid bombs falling from the airships flying overhead.

Five airships down a string of swarthy bombs.

But most of the bombs fell to the surface, and only one bomb smashed into the deck of the cruiser Iberian, sinking deep into the bilge and exploding.

A 500-kilogram bomb was equal to a shell from a 305-mm gun, and the force of its explosion made the Iberian, with a displacement of 2,700 tons, immediately stall and sink into the water.

The ship's damage management team knew that the Iberian could not be saved, so they quickly jumped into the water and fled, and the other crew members also fled, and the captain had no choice but to give the order to abandon the ship.

In just seven minutes, the Iberian vanished from the surface of the sea, where there were just more than two hundred officers and sailors struggling to swim.

The other ships of the Luzon fleet did not have time to save their comrades who had fallen overboard, and continued to sail frantically into the depths of Manila Bay. Because they all saw that the second echelon of the airship had rushed over like a group of evil eagles pounced.

Colonel Du Li saw very clearly that this time, the ship group had already spread out on the sea, and it was definitely not possible to imagine the first echelon attacking like that. So he used a radio station to give an order to the second echelon: "Concentrate on attacking the enemy's slowest cruiser, Castile!" ”

This cruiser Castile is wronged! In fact, it originally had a speed of 15 knots, which was the fastest main battleship in the Luzon fleet, but it was seriously injured in the sea battle, and after emergency repairs, the speed could not be restored to its maximum speed. Now it has a speed of only 10 knots, making it the slowest in the fleet.

Five airships took turns rushing to the top of the Castile to and pee.

The Castile used its strength to dodge, and the bombs kept whistling into the sea and exploded a column of water more than 30 meters high, forming a forest of water columns and surrounding the Castile.

But no matter how the Castile tried to evade it, a bomb hit his amidships, and the sea water sprayed in, and the speed immediately dropped to less than six knots.

The captain of the Castile commanded the entire crew to rush desperately towards a small island, ran aground on the shore, and was completely incapacitated. Although he could only wait in place to be captured by the Chinese army, this could be regarded as saving the lives of all the personnel, and he might be able to return to Europe safely to reunite with his family after the war.

Du Ligao knew that this airship was greatly affected by the wind, and the effect of attacking the enemy's ships on the sea with strong winds was unsatisfactory, and it was difficult to achieve any results by pursuing it at this time, and he understood that if the commander-in-chief Hu Zhen was here, he would definitely want to capture more powerful ships of the enemy, so he ordered the third echelon:

"Perhaps our navy will capture this Castile. Make a good start and then capture those two battleships, even if they can't be captured, they can't run in Manila Bay, don't waste bombs. The Commander-in-Chief ordered us to come here to drive the enemy's ships to the shore and avoid the threat of his artillery bombardment, and now that the mission has been accomplished, we will now turn around and bomb the enemy army. ”

Unexpectedly, the third echelon did not fail to pursue the Luzon fleet, which was already far from the shore, and Severa finally relented. Reached out and wiped the sweat from his face.

However, the lookout on the mast exclaimed: "The enemy's great fleet is coming!" ”

Severa looked to the southwest and saw dozens of black plumes of smoke getting thicker and thicker. Obviously, it was the whole fleet of the Huaxia Army that came.

"It's time for it all to end!" Severa knew that since her defeat in the Battle at Sea, this moment was inevitable.

"This will be handed over to the navy, and we will all attack the enemy army!" Dulico ordered even the last airship to spy on the enemy's ships to join the land attack.

Fifteen airships flew over the land area where the two sides were fighting.

When the soldiers of the Chinese Army saw that their air fleet had sunk and damaged one enemy ship, and that they had flown to land to help in the battle, they were immediately inspired and shouted wildly, launching a tidal offensive against the Spanish colonial army.

The morale of the Spanish colonial army was low on this side, and what was even more terrible was that the airship was about to when it flew overhead:

Ten 500-kilogram bombs screamed and fell, raising ten mushroom clouds, setting off countless human bodies and garbage, and finally floating on the ground.

In addition to the bombs, the heavy machine guns on each airship fired wildly at the enemies on the ground.

In fact, the weight of the weapons carried by these fifteen airships is limited, and the damage they bring to the enemy is limited after all, and the greatest damage to the enemy is a heavy blow to morale.

Amid the screams of bombs falling in the air and the roar of heavy machine-gun fire, the first line of troops of the Spanish colonial army collapsed!

Wang Hubiao watched on the ground as the enemy, who was more than ten times larger than his team, and collapsed under the blow of the airship group, and couldn't help but be a little indignant: "Nima's! Just these few airships have made the enemy collapse, what do you want our army forces to do in the future? ”

One of his subordinates asked: "Regiment commander, the enemy has collapsed, should we pursue!" ”

"Chase, why not? Chase, of course! Everyone rushed up with me! ”

Under his leadership, more than 2,000 people of the 18th Regiment rushed forward, driving 30,000 or 40,000 enemies like ducks.

This opened a big hole in the ambush position of the Spanish Second Army.

After receiving the news that the front-line navy had been defeated and the army was retreating step by step, Velaire drew his pistol, killed a signal soldier who came to report the news, and ordered the officers around him like thunder: "We have no way back, no, we must plug this loophole!" (To be continued.) )