Wang Hubiao climbed to the top of the mountain in one breath, without even lifting his binoculars, and saw with the naked eye that on the sea 4,000 meters away, a group of battleships and cruisers of the Luzon fleet were slowly raising their guns and pointing at land.

"Get out of here!" Wang Hubiao knew that the enemy's battleship gunners were measuring and obtaining the data of the artillery bombardment at this time, and once the target of the shelling was determined, they would definitely fire 10,000 artillery guns in unison and bombard the target area into a sea of fire, and the army's artillery of several tens of millimeters was not at all the opponent of the heavy artillery of the navy ships with more than 100 millimeters, and the only plan now was to quickly leave this place.

But where is it safe to get out of here?

The company commander commanding at the top of the mountain asked as he walked: "Where are we going?" ”

Wang Hubiao said without hesitation: "We immediately rushed into the enemy's position and mingled with the enemy, so that the enemy's naval heavy artillery could not distinguish the target shelling!" ”

"But what if the enemy shells even their land forces together?"

"I can't rule out the possibility of this kind of madness, but it's better to pull a bunch of enemy land forces to the bottom than to continue to wait here for death, and the radio must immediately report to the superiors, and let the headquarters mobilize our fleet to encircle and annihilate the Luzon fleet!"

Sure enough, when Wang Hubiao commanded the troops to rush towards the position of the Western Army, the Luzon fleet opened heavy fire on the top of the hill just now, and hundreds of shells covered it at once, exploding into a sea of gunpowder smoke and fire.

However, at this time, the 18th Regiment, under the command of Wang Hubiao, fiercely rushed into the position of the Western Army, and mixed up with tens of thousands of Western Army soldiers, so that the Luzon fleet did not dare to shell the land casually.

A staff officer rushed into the operations command room of the headquarters from the telegraph room and reported to Hu Zhen: "The 18th Regiment of the Army has discovered the traces of the enemy's Luzon fleet!" ”

Hu Zhen took the telegram, quickly read it, and immediately ordered: "The Luzon fleet has finally been found, and our fleet will immediately dispatch to destroy the Luzon fleet!" ”

Su Wenzhen reminded: "Sir, let our fleet rush there, I'm afraid it's too late, our army troops will be in danger on the seaside!" ”

"In addition to ordering the fleet to rush over and have a final decisive battle with the Luzon fleet, it's time for our air fleet to come out and practice!"

"Yes!" I heard that Hu Zhen was about to order the latest weapons to be dispatched again. Su Wenzhen was very excited.

Severa commanded the last few warships of the Luzon fleet to bombard the hill occupied by the Huaxia army for a while, and he did not know what the effect was, but all the lookout sailors watched vigorously, but there was no movement on the hill. I just saw that other places were boiling over.

The commander on land called a flag saying that in the current melee with the enemy, in order to avoid accidental damage, it is better for the naval ships not to shell first.

Severa knew that it would be difficult not to injure his own army by shelling land several kilometers away. I had to sigh and say, "Then stop the shelling first!" ”

"Commander, our tracks have been discovered by the enemy army, do you want to get out of here quickly!" An officer made a proposal.

"That's just that the enemy's army has discovered our whereabouts, they have to use fast horses to notify their superiors, and the enemy's superiors will use cable telegraphs to report to the high command, and then send small boats to the sea to find the fleet, and it will be a long time in between, and I will continue to wait here for two or three hours to help the army fight is safe!"

This was just the mode of operation in Severa's mind, and he did not know that the Huaxia Army had been equipped with wireless telegraphy, and the mode of operation had completely changed.

When talking. Severa still sighed secretly in his heart, he didn't know, if he left here, he didn't know where to go, Tadpole Island at the mouth of Manila Bay had been captured, and the Luzon fleet had been trapped in Manila Bay, and sooner or later it would be discovered by the Huaxia fleet and rushed up to surround and annihilate.

On land, the Chinese army was very cunning, that is, it was to rush up and fight with the Western army in a dog-like melee, and did not give the Luzon fleet warships a chance to shell at all.

Unbeknownst to Severa, danger was looming.

Half an hour later. Suddenly, one of the ship's lookouts exclaimed, "Oh my God, what the hell is that!" ”

The people on the deck of the battleship looked up in the direction indicated by the lookout, and saw a large area of black pressure in the sky, flying towards the Luzon fleet.

"That's an airship!" Severa, of course, knew about the airship, the machine that soared through the air. Some people in Europe have long built all kinds of pedal-driven airships that have little practical significance, and their speed is extremely slow, and the carrying capacity of the gondola is very small, and they cannot be used in actual combat at all, but today it is the first time that more than a dozen huge airships have been seen to form an air fleet. He was very surprised: "What are these yellow people going to do with airships?" ”

After pondering for a while, Severa suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly ordered: "The enemy's air fleet may drop bombs, all the battleship steam engines immediately accumulate maximum power, and the whole fleet quickly implements a mobile evacuation!" ”

However, it was already too late.

Fifteen airships of the Chinese Army's air fleet had already flown over the head of the Luzon fleet.

The airship of the Huaxia Army is different from the flammable and explosive hydrogen filled airship used by Europeans, but a hard cigar-shaped airship that uses safe and reliable helium as the lifting power, with an internal gas engine as the power, with a maximum flight speed of 42 knots (77.8 kilometers) per hour, and in addition to the weight of the operator and his heavy machine gun and other weapons, it can carry two 500-kilogram bombs to bomb the warship on the sea.

The Huaxia Army's air fleet has been training for a long time, and today is the first time it has been put into actual combat, and Senior Colonel Du Li, who is in charge of the command, is very cautious, and he carefully commands fifteen airships to approach the enemy fleet in three echelons.

At this time, there were the battleships Pelayo and Carlos V of the Luzon fleet, as well as the cruisers Erickson, Castile and Iberian, as well as a destroyer and two torpedo boats, a total of eight ships, which were in chaos at this moment.

All the officers and men of the Luzon fleet did not know what kind of attack the air fleet would use, so they could only obey Severa's orders and desperately maneuver to avoid the airships flying in the air.

After all, Severa is a veteran who has fought for most of his life, he carefully observed the buzzing airship, he looked at the battleship under his feet, and saw that all the guns could not shake the muzzle, and fired into the air at an angle of more than 60 degrees, so he had to quickly give a helpless order to all the officers and men: "All ships use rifles to shoot into the air to prevent the enemy's airship from flying into the sky!" ”

In fact, without Severa's order, there were already sailors who were panicked and used their rifles to shoot into the air.

And sailors who have never been trained to shoot into the air, how can they shoot with cramming on their feet?

Even if the bullet hits the airship, it will have no effect, and a few bullets in the huge airship are like an elephant being bitten by a small mosquito, and it will not even feel itchy.

But the weapons on the airship pose a great threat to the battleship!

(This book is first published at the starting point, please go to the starting point to read the original version of this book.) (To be continued.) )