The three small islands at the mouth of Manila Bay were fortified by Governor Velaire, with eight 320 mm guns, twelve 280 mm guns, and twelve 120 mm guns forming a group of crossfire, blocking the entrance to Manila Bay.

If we calculate on the basis of four large-caliber main guns of one battleship in the world today, the number of heavy guns on these three small islands is at least equal to the number of main guns of five battleships.

The protection of the fort is even more solid, its reinforced concrete stone wall reaches three meters thick, in order to penetrate such a thick wall, at least 300 mm caliber heavy artillery must hit a point more than three times in a row. According to the current technology, the probability of the same heavy artillery hitting the same point more than three times in a row is 1 in 100,000.

In order to penetrate this fort, theoretically you need to shoot at least 100,000 rounds of heavy artillery shells, but the cannon on this fort will never let you stop in the sea and bombard 100,000 times in a row, so it is basically impossible to use heavy artillery to penetrate the fort's defensive fortress from the outside.

Hu Zhen attached great importance to the Tadpole Island Fort and ordered the Chinese warships not to enter its firing range of less than 5,000 meters to avoid unnecessary losses.

Hu Zhen's arrangement led to the fact that since the start of the war, Tadpole Island has not had the opportunity to fire a single shell at the Huaxia Army, but the Huaxia Army would rather land on the north and south sides of Manila Bay than get close to its 5,000-meter range, which made the Spaniards very proud of the fort they had designed for themselves, and at the same time, they were careless about it, and constantly transferred troops to support other places in the situation of repeated emergencies in various places, so that the garrison of the fort was less than 4,000 people, and most of the 4,000 people were artillery with little melee training.

However, the Spaniards believed that about 4,000 men were sufficient to defend such a strong battery.

On this night, the rumbling artillery on the north and south sides of Manila Bay unexpectedly stopped, which made the defenders of the fort, who were nervous every day, even more nervous, nervously increasing the frequency of using searchlights to illuminate the sea.

But the searchlights were busy for most of the night, shining on the surrounding sea, and there was nothing suspicious to find, which made the soldiers on duty yawn sleepily.

After the second half of the night. The frequency of the searchlight is significantly reduced, and after dawn, the frequency of the searchlight is even lower, and when there is a hint of bright color on the horizon. The movement of the searchlight began to become weak.

It was clear that the defenders believed that the night had passed peacefully and that there would be no more danger.

But the danger came at this time.

In the blind corner of the searchlight, a large black shadow suddenly appeared, like a ghost that suddenly appeared. With incredible speed, he left the shallow waters and rushed towards the defenders' outposts.

These sneak attack black shadows are none other than the special combat team of the Huaxia Army led by Ma Shaohao, and they all wore diving uniforms and swam in the sea.

"What the hell is this?" Someone in the sleepy sentry spotted this large black shadow.

The other sentry was very decisive and did not say anything, raising his gun to aim and fire.

However, it was too late to say that it was too late, and at the same time, several large-caliber sniper rifle bullets flew silently and hit several sentry posts.

The snipers of these special operations teams have very accurate bullets and are extremely powerful, and anyone who is hit. The whole person bounced up, fell out heavily, fell to the ground and struggled for a while, and then he could not live; And the one who was hit in the head was even more directly burst in the head, and he died on the spot.

One of the commanders in the dark shadows shouted: "According to the tasks assigned according to the plan, go your separate ways!" ”

The Shadows immediately rushed towards their targets according to their respective mission routes.

According to the photographs provided by the unmanned aerial vehicle of the nuclear submarine, Hu Zhen had already drawn all the details of the fort's defensive position into drawings and made a model, and the members of the special combat team did not know where this terrain information came from. But everyone was convinced of this, and they had already seen it by heart, and at this time there was almost no hindrance to action.

The defenders on the battery were awakened. But the shadows had already rushed to their target's door, throwing powerful tear gas canisters into the door.

After the tear gas exploded, the defenders in the enclosed environment immediately coughed and burst into tears, and their eyes could not see anything for a moment.

And the special operators also wore wetsuits and pig's mouth masks on their faces, which just filtered out the yellow smoke from the tear gas.

Taking advantage of the enemy's confusion, the special operators rushed in alternately under cover.

Because the guns were fired in closed rooms. The bullets would bounce back and injure themselves by mistake, and the special combat team members did not use guns to shoot, but used steel knives, daggers and other cold weapons to slash and stab the enemy.

The special operators are all masters of hand-to-hand combat, and even in normal times, the five defenders may not be able to beat a single special combat member, and the defenders are so confused by tear gas that they can't see anything clearly.

In such a situation, the special operators can kill a defender almost with a single hand.

In a short time, the battery was filled with the painful wails of the defenders and the bloody human bodies poured all over the ground.

When there was a movement on the battery, more than 20 extremely fast torpedo boats and destroyers suddenly appeared on the sea level in the west and rushed towards Tadpole Island.

Farther away, there was a huge group of battleships, cruisers, and transports that were pressed by the black press, rushing towards this place.

At this time, the special combat personnel who had rushed into the fort were engaged in a fierce battle with the defenders, and the defenders of the fort no longer had the opportunity to bombard the sea with heavy artillery.

Within a few minutes, destroyers and torpedo boats rushed to the front of the three small islands, and more than 1,300 special combat personnel of the second echelon jumped into the sea and rushed onto the batteries.

After the special combat members of the second echelon and the more than 600 people of the first echelon converged, the fate of the Tadpole Island battery was already sealed.

The combat effectiveness of 2,000 special combat personnel is at least equal to the combat effectiveness of 10,000 ordinary soldiers, and the defenders of the 4,000 batteries, most of whom are artillerymen who are not good at close combat, where is the opponent?

Soon the situation was controlled by the special combat team, and the defenders of the battery were either killed or surrendered.

Looking east from Tadpole Island, I saw that the sky was already bright, and the first rays of sunlight of the day appeared on the sea.

In the morning light, the remnants of the Luzon fleet heard the warning from Tadpole Island and sped away.

The 320 mm and 280 mm on Tadpole Island finally sounded for the first time in the war, but the target of the fire was the Spanish Luzon fleet.

Twenty heavy artillery shells flew in, forming an amazing net of death!

"Damn it!" The commander of the Luzon fleet, Severa, slammed his fist on the thick steel wall, he knew that a few remnants of ships were no match for the enemy's dozens of warships, and he ordered very helplessly: "Withdraw, quickly evacuate here!" ”

No one dared to confront the well-fortified batteries in the ships, and with Severa's order, the remnants of the Luzon fleet hurriedly turned around and fled the waters of Tadpole Island and fled in panic into the depths of Manila Bay. (To be continued.) )