This is a sea battle that will decide the fate of Luzon, and all forces are very concerned about it. Huo Ran Wen w?w?w?.?

At 13:1o p.m., when the two fleets were in the midst of a fierce battle, seven warships under the English flag came to the vicinity of the battlefield.

This made both warring sides nervous.

The Spaniards were even more nervous than Hu Zhen, because they knew too well that the English were masters of falling into the ground.

This fleet was the English fleet in Singapore, led by the commander, Vice Admiral Edward Simon, and included two battleships; Good Collingwood), displacement 9652 tons, main armament You4 3O4mm, 6 152mm guns; Temeraire, with a displacement of 8,677 tons, the main armament: 4 28omm, 4 254mm guns; There were five other cruisers.

On the deck and lookout post of each ship of the English fleet, dozens of officers and men used dozens of binoculars to closely observe every detail of the battlefield and recorded it in detail with pen and paper.

This is an observation fleet sent by England to observe the strength of the fleets of both sides, especially to observe the Huaxia Army, which has just emerged as a brand-new head.

The English people are not optimistic about the backbone of the navy that the Huaxia Army has just returned from the English Naval School.

According to the standards of England, these people who served as the main captains of the Huaxia Army were at most the lowest-level officers in the navy, and it was almost impossible to rise to such important general positions as naval captains and fleet commanders without more than ten or twenty years of training, but the Huaxia Army used these young officers who had just come out of school as the main backbone force.

Although this navy used such young men, it actually defeated the two fleets of the Dutch Navy, which had the title of sea coachman, and defeated the newly rising American navy in Hawaii.

This made the English have to look at the Chinese army and navy with admiration, but there are still many doubts, thinking that the victory of the Chinese is just a use of intrigue and trickery, and when they heard that the Chinese army and the Spanish sides were engaged in a naval decisive battle outside Manila Bay, they urgently sent a fleet from Singapore to observe the engagement between the two sides. It is necessary to see clearly the true strength of the Huaxia Army.

At this time, the balance of victory had already tilted in favor of the Huaxia Army, and Hu Zhen received a nuclear submarine to observe the situation of the English people rushing to the vicinity of the battlefield, and immediately pulled out the Boston and Atlanta from the third team to use the flag to ask the English what they were going to do here.

The flagship of the English fleet immediately replied in the language of the common flag: "Please rest assured. The Great English Fleet was only observing the situation on the battlefield on the high seas! ”

For the English, Hu Zhen was really relieved, and simply ordered the Boston and Atlanta to be in charge of monitoring in front of the English, and if it suddenly became difficult for the Huaxia fleet, it would be better to block it and wait for the main force to withdraw and come back.

An English officer said, "Look. The two cruisers in front of us were captured from the Mi Guokees! ”

"Hah, a fleet of captives!"

"Hmph, these yellow warships were either bought or captured!"

"Don't laugh at it, pay attention, this yellow man's artillery is really accurate!"

Some officers immediately calculated: the artillery of the Huaxia Army hit at least twice as much as the artillery of their English fleet, and the hit rate of some warships was even more than twice as high!

"How is this possible? At such a distance, it is difficult for the best gunners in Great Britain to achieve such results? ”

"Yes, my God! How did these barbarian artillery from the Far East hit so accurately? And what about a unified precision salvo? ”

"How did they do it?"

"My God, have you abandoned white Europeans. Ran to the barbarians of the Far East? ”

This is a shocking result!

Great Britain is the number one in the world today, how can it not be compared to a naval fleet that has only been established for less than three years?

When the English fleet came out of Singapore, it was not without the idea that no matter who won the battle, they would have to pick up a little bargain and blackmail, after all, the English people have been doing this kind of thing for hundreds of years.

Therefore, under the banner of going to the battlefield to watch the battle, it is also necessary to mobilize the army and send seven warships to come.

But the accurate artillery bombardment of the Huaxia Army completely shocked the English, from the fleet commander to the ordinary sailors, there was no idea of picking up a little cheap after the war - if it was an engagement, wouldn't just seven warships be eaten by the powerful Huaxia Army Fleet to the point that there were no bones left! That's simply sending a "captive fleet" to the Huaxia Army in vain!

Vice Admiral Edward Simon, commander of the English Singapore fleet, saw this. He was also stunned, but he had a different idea from the officers: "After the war, you must ask these students of the British Navy, why their shelling can be so accurate, even more powerful than the English teachers!" If the Great English Fleet learns the secret of the accuracy of this shelling. It is of great benefit to the consolidation of the world's first navy. ”

At this time, there was also a French warship Armide (Armide) near the battlefield, with a displacement of 3,569 tons, and from the appearance of its three huge masts and dense cables pulled on the ship, it was clear that the French did not intend to come to find trouble, because this ship was launched in November 1867. An old guy who has been over twenty years old, any new cruiser of the Huaxia Army can be smashed to pieces.

Half an hour later, there came another sail steam engine warship of about 4,000 tons, judging from the flag, it was a German warship, and later Hu Zhen figured out that this was the German "Hansa" (Hansa) battleship, displacement: 44o3 tons, and it was also an old guy who was launched in January 1872, and he came here just to see the excitement.

It turned out that the Huaxia Army fleet had been in the limelight for some time recently, and France and Germany had already begun to pay close attention to it, and when they heard the news of today's decisive battle between the Huaxia Army and the Spaniards at sea, how could they miss the excellent opportunity to observe the battlefield.

The warships of the three European powers were next to the battlefield, and the more they watched the precise artillery bombardment of the Huaxia Army, the more frightened they became, and their commanders all secretly made up their minds that they must interact more with the Huaxia Army after the war and find out the secrets of the Huaxia Army.

After the battle, the warships of the three countries congratulated the Huaxia Military Fleet with flags, in order to make a good impression in the eyes of the commander of the Huaxia Military Fleet and to win the opportunity for interaction and exchange.

As soon as it got dark, the warring sides ceased fighting altogether, and the fleets of the three onlookers left the battlefield as quickly as possible, returned to their bases, and reported the Luzon War to their governments by wire.

A day later, this was destined to be a shocking piece of news that shook Europe and even the world: the newly rising Chinese army in the Far East had defeated the Spaniards, who had been operating in Luzon for 400 years, and the Luzon Islands were about to fall into the hands of the Chinese Guild!

Hu Zhen also hoped in his heart that these messengers would quickly report the astonishing news back to Europe for him, so that the glasses of the arrogant white people would be shattered, and he would greatly profit from them. (To be continued.) )