Although the general Europeans believe that the Huaxia Military Fleet has only been established for less than three years, and that it has only relied on sneak attacks and intrigues to defeat the Dutch and Mi navies, according to the standards of the inheritance of European naval powers for hundreds of years, it is only a navy that cannot even reach the kindergarten level, but after more than two years of unremitting construction by Hu Zhen and the naval officers, and the capture of the warships of the Netherlands and the United States in naval battles, the warships of the Huaxia Navy have:

There were three battleships, the Dahua and Daxia ordered in Germany by South American countries, and the Maine captured from the Mi Army.

The Huaxia Army originally had 23 cruisers, but in the Battle of Hawaii, four more cruisers of the Mi Army were captured, and now there are 27 cruisers, including 14 cruisers with a speed of more than 18 knots and 13 cruisers with a speed of less than 18 knots.

The rest also have 16 fast destroyers and 16 small torpedo boats.

And the strength of the Spanish Luzon fleet were: two battleships, four armored cruisers, three cruisers, eight old cruisers, eight gunboats, eight torpedo destroyers, as follows:

The battleship Pelayo had a displacement of 9,745 tons and a crew of 520 people; 2 35x caliber 320 mm guns, 2 x 35x caliber 280 mm guns, 1 x 35x caliber 162 mm guns, 12 x 35x caliber 120 mm guns, 3 x 57 mm Haqikai rapid-fire guns, 13 x 37 mm rapid-fire guns, 4 machine guns, 7 torpedo tubes; The horsepower is 9,600 horsepower, the speed is 16.7 knots, the armor belt is 300-450 mm, the deck is 51-70 mm, the turret is 50-80 mm, and the command tower is 155 mm.

The battleship Carlos V had a displacement of 9235 tons; 2 280-mm main guns, 8 140-mm secondary guns, 4 100-mm guns, 2 70-mm guns, 2 55-mm guns with 6 torpedo tubes, a capacity of 590 people; The horsepower is 18,500 horsepower, the design speed is 20 knots, and the actual speed is 16 knots. Turret armor 250 mm, deck armor 62 mm.

three armored cruisers of the same class, the Princess Maria Teresa, the Almirante Okendo, and the Viscaya, have a displacement of 6,890 tons; Capacity 497 people, 2 280-mm guns, 10 140-mm guns. 8 x 57 mm Havkes rapid-fire guns, 8 x 37 mm (1.65 in) Havkes guns, 2 x 22 mm machine guns, 2 x 2.75 in bronze salutes, 8 torpedo tubes, 13,700 hp, speed 20 knots.

Armored cruiser USS Cristóbal Colón. Displacement 6840 tons, capacity 543 people, 2 254-mm main guns (not installed), 10 152-mm secondary guns, 6 120-mm rapid-fire guns, 10 57-mm rapid-fire guns, 10 37-mm guns, 2 22-mm machine guns, 5 torpedo tubes, 14000 hp. Speed 19.5 knots.

Four unprotected cruisers of the same class, the Reyna Cristina, Alfonso XII, Reyna Masti and the Erickson, with a displacement of 3,090 tons, a crew of 380 people, 6 120 mm guns, 2 70 mm rapid-fire guns, 3 57 mm rapid-fire guns, 2 42 mm rapid-fire guns, 6 37 mm guns, 3 350 mm torpedo tubes, 3,900 horsepower. It has a speed of 16 knots, a coal load of 720 tons, and a cruising range of 3,900 nautical miles.

the wooden-hulled cruiser Castile with a displacement of 3342 tons (3650 tons with added armor); The capacity is 360 people. 4 150-mm guns, 2 120-mm guns, 6 rapid-fire guns of 57-mm; 3 x 350 mm torpedo tubes at a speed of 15 knots.

Christopher, Madrid, and Iberian are three cruisers of the same class, with a displacement of 2,700 tons and a crew of 290 people. 3 150-mm guns, 2 120-mm guns, 6 57-mm rapid-fire guns; 3 x 350 mm torpedo tubes at a speed of 14 knots.

Don Juan de Austria, Cuba, Luzon, Guam four cruisers of the same class, displacement of 1,130 tons, crew of 130 people, 4 120 mm guns, 3 57 mm rapid-fire guns, 2 37 mm rapid-fire guns, 5 Gatling heavy machine guns, 2 360 mm torpedo tubes, speed 12 knots, 220 tons of coal.

Four Deuloya-class cruisers with a displacement of 1,160 tons, a crew of 140, four 120-mm guns, two 42-mm rapid-fire guns, four 20-caliber 37-mm guns, two 356-mm torpedo tubes with a horsepower of 1,600 hp and a speed of 12.5 knots.

Five Velasco-class gunboats, 1,152 tons, 145 men, 3 150 mm guns, 4 rapid-fire guns, 13 knots.

Four Marquis Duaro-class iron gunboats with a displacement of 550 tons, a crew of 96 men, 1 160 mm breech guns, 2 120 mm breech guns, a speed of 13 knots.

Eight General Leso-class torpedo destroyers with a displacement of 520 tons, 2 120-mm guns, 2 57-mm rapid-fire guns, 1 torpedo tube, a crew of 150 people, a speed of 20 knots.

Six small torpedo boats of fifty tons.

In comparison, the Huaxia Army had 30 capital ships, 16 destroyers, and 16 torpedo boats; The Spanish Luzon fleet consisted of twenty-two capital ships, nine gunboats, eight torpedo destroyers, six torpedo boats.

Although the number of capital ships of the Spanish Luzon fleet was inferior to that of the Huaxia Army, its two battleships reached more than 9,000 tons, and the four armored cruisers reached more than 6,800 tons, and the speed of each was not less than 19.5 knots.

The 17 capital ships of the Huaxia Army had a speed of more than 18 knots, but only the Dahua, Daxia, and Maine warships of more than 5,000 tons were the Dahua, Daxia, and Maine, and the rest of the capital ships were only under 5,000 tons.

The comparison of the main guns of the battleships that decided the outcome of the battle between the two sides was:

The Luzon fleet had two 320-mm guns, ten 280-mm guns, and two 254-mm guns.

Eighteen 210 mm guns of the Huaxia Army Fleet (in order to increase the rate of fire, the 254 mm main guns on the battleship Maine, which was captured from the Mi Army, were removed and replaced with six 210 mm 45 times the diameter main guns of the same caliber as the Dahua and Daxia).

Comparison of cruiser main guns: more than 70 main guns of 120 mm caliber or more in the Luzon fleet; The Huaxia Army has more than 120 main guns of 120 mm caliber or more.

Judging from the data on paper, although the number of ships and the number of main guns of the Huaxia Army are superior, the armored tonnage of a single capital ship is far inferior to that of the five battleships and armored cruisers of the Luzon fleet.

In the eyes of outsiders, there is a more serious problem: the Spanish Navy has more than 400 years of fine heritage, and the Chinese Navy has only been established for two years, if according to the so-called "100-year navy" standard, the Chinese Navy is still just a young baby in the learning to crawl and babble, although it was lucky to win the naval battle with the Netherlands and the United States, but in any case, the accumulation and inheritance of this time is not even a kindergarten level!

It is really unclear who will be killed in the naval battle, and most European public opinion is optimistic about the Spanish Luzon fleet and disdainful of the Chinese fleet.

Some European newspapers and media claimed that "the Far Eastern barbarians only defeated the Dutch and the Americans by sneak attacks, and if they open a dignified battleship formation for a decisive battle, they will definitely not be the opponent of the Spanish navy."

In this case, many European countries have opened a lot of bets, most Europeans buy Spain to win, and the odds of buying the victory of the Huaxia army fleet are more than 100 or even 1,000 times, but there are not many people who buy the victory of the Huaxia army. In the telegram sent by Zhang Suan, Hu Zhen knew about this matter, and immediately ordered Zhang Suan to mobilize millions of pounds and intervene in multiple gambling games, hoping to make a windfall after the war.

But what outsiders don't know, Hu Zhen, based on the experience of later generations, gave the Huaxia Army three top-secret technical advantages: artillery rate of fire, artillery aiming rangefinder, and radio station.

Moreover, the Huaxia Army also has a top-secret killer move: the nuclear submarine controlled by Hu Zhen himself uses micro-drones to accurately measure the shelling data underwater.

However, the Spaniards themselves estimated that even if they had slept in the naval battle and had been defeated, they would have no fear of retreating into Manila Bay and hiding, because they were relying on Tadpole Island, which guarded the entrance to Manila Bay, Caballo Island and Carabao Island The artillery group of eight 320 mm guns, twelve 280 mm guns, and twelve 120 mm guns on the gun just happened to firmly control the entrance to Manila Bay.

(These small islands, in the history of war, but famous, after the Japanese army attacked Pearl Harbor in World War II, swept through the entire Luzon region and defeated the U.S. army, but there was nothing to do about these small islands, and finally it took two months to besiege day and night, before forcing the defense of the U.S. troops who ran out of food to surrender, but the position was not broken at all under the day and night bombardment of the Japanese army's heavy artillery, and the Mi army did not even die in the position, which shows that this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack.) ）

After Willier became the governor of Luzon, in order to deal with the threat of the Chinese army, he took a fancy to these small islands stuck in the waterway of Manila Bay, and specially ordered the construction of defensive batteries that formed crossfire on the sea.

With the strong defensive batteries on the Manila Channel, the Spaniards made up their minds that if they could win the naval battle with the Chinese army, they would take advantage of the victory to pursue and attack Pontianak, or even occupy the entire Borneo, and if they lost the naval battle, they would retreat into Manila Bay, rely on the artillery groups on Tadpole Island to carry out a steady counterattack, and wait for the European countries to intervene and directly defeat the Chinese army, an alien of the yellow race in the Far East, back to its original shape. (To be continued.) )