Gao Hongsheng's plot is very big, otherwise what would he be doing tossing and turning?

Even if Rear Admiral Montoho did not mention lending him the Vienna and Queen Elizabeth, Gao Hongsheng would definitely do everything possible to give these two ships to Montojo, so that he could use them to draw hatred for the Spaniards and teach the Americans a hard lesson.

The next step is to make a detailed deployment around this plan, and several people have improved the whole plan little by little, and finally obtained a plan that everyone agrees on.

The Castile of the Spanish Asian Detachment was to be towed to the North Channel of Manila Bay, where it would be moored in the middle of the channel. Installing explosives, once the Americans break into the North Waterway, they will blow up and sink this old ship, block the North Waterway in and out of Manila Bay, and at the same time prevent ships from other countries from entering Manila Bay through the North Waterway, and at the same time, it is necessary to arrange some additional mines in the North Waterway to partially block the waterway, so that the entire waterway can only sail according to a specific route, and increase the blocking ability to enter and exit this waterway.

The remaining boats will cruise on the periphery of the South Waterway to prevent other countries from entering the South Waterway in Manila Bay, of course, if they want to break in, it has nothing to do with them, the South Waterway has been blocked by mines, and the insurance for mine failure is a year later, if they have the good fortune to break through, Gao Hongsheng should settle accounts with Archduke Ferdinand.

However, it seems that there is no hope for this thing at all, and during the trial production, the success rate of mine triggering was more than 80 percent, so there are always a few good mines, and one good one can send these current ships to the bottom of the sea.

The ships attacking Hawaii and the continental United States San Francisco formed an attack fleet, the flagship of which was the battleship Vienna, which would be captained by Count Rudolph, Colonel House would continue to be the commander of the cruiser Queen Elizabeth, and Rear Father Montoho would continue to command his cruiser Rena Christina, who would also be the commander of the entire fleet.

A coal carrier and supply ship that had captured the Americans would accompany the fleet, and the Crescent and two other cargo ships brought by Gao Hongsheng and others would also accompany the fleet, but these two ships would first carry 600 native Filipino colonial troops in the port in Mariveeles Bay, which entered and exited the mouth of the North Waterway in Manila Bay, and would be the main force for future landing operations in the United States.

Because they still needed to occupy the Hawaiian Islands, Gao Hongsheng and his team finally reluctantly brought two slightly better ships from the original Spanish Asian fleet, namely the Cuba Island and the Luzon Island second-class protection cruisers.

The tonnage of these two ships is more than 1,000 years, the classic ship built by the British Armstrong shipyard in 1887, the maximum voyage is less than 2,000 nautical miles, and the firepower can be described as extremely weak, that is, it is okay to fight pirates, but it is okay to use them to occupy Hawaii and expel pirates or something, in Gao Hongsheng's eyes, those two ships are antiques in a bunch of antiques, or the kind of weak antiques, but there is really no warship to use, so they can only be used improvly, After all, they don't have any combat missions, they just maintain their dominance.

The whole plan was that the ships, after being loaded with supplies, would first sail to Guam, where they would load a small number of Spanish army officers, and then resupply and search for merchant ships to carry out all the Spanish army and navy in Guam.

After replenishing Guam, the fleet will sail to the Hawaiian Islands and occupy them. Some of the old cannons in one of the cargo ships that Gao Hongsheng and his family brought with them will be installed in Hawaii, where the entire fleet is expected to finally rest for a week before setting sail for San Francisco, the American mainland.

After arriving in San Francisco, they first solved the maritime defense forces guarding San Francisco by force, and then threatened San Francisco to surrender, if the American San Francisco refused to surrender, they would carry out deterrent shelling, that is, shelling San Francisco, and then under the cover of warships, the army forcibly landed in San Francisco, occupied San Francisco, and finally took San Francisco as the central point, swept the entire west coast of the United States, and forced the United States to negotiate peace with Spain.

Two months after the operation, whether or not the Americans negotiated with the Spaniards, they were to withdraw to Hawaii and defend Hawaii.

Gao Hongsheng and Feng Laosi moved with the fleet, and Hong Jincai and Major Horti led the remaining two cargo ships to Tianjing Port to unload their cargo and transfer the arms and supplies back to Shandong.

The plan is beautiful, but Gao Hongsheng can't help but feel a pain when he thinks about drifting at sea for nearly a month.

The speed of the warship in this era can be described as turtle speed, but if he wants to go to the United States, he must go with the ship, but this operation is full of uncertain factors, he really dare not use the artifact to shuttle back and forth between Hawaii and San Francisco without knowing it, this is simply too risky.

In the following days, Gao Hongsheng and his men were busy preparing for the voyage, and the Americans' Asian detachment had not been idle, taking advantage of the night to sneak attack Manila City from time to time, adding some remnants of bricks and tiles to the already dilapidated Manila City.

Earmeerly, who was defending Manila, was using this precious time to familiarize the artillerymen on the three batteries defending Manila with the guns, and to practice shooting every day against the American ships.

On the other hand, the colonial troops stationed in Manila were ordered to attack the independent armies, and at the same time they were familiar with the use of new weapons, especially the arrangement and use of machine guns, which had to be verified by the colonial forces.

In the subsequent sneak attack and counter-sneak attack operations between the US Navy and the Spanish coastal defense battery, the Americans also suffered a little loss, and all the ships were provoked by the shore defense guns a few times, and basically suffered a little injury, so frightened that the Americans did not dare to get too close to shell Manila City when Gao Hongsheng and the others were about to leave, but only demonstrated a few shelling from a distance, announcing that they were still insisting on fighting.

However, in the words of the telegram sent by Earmerley, the day of the surrender of the Americans is not far away, and at most they will be able to hold out for about half a month.

On 14 May, the cruisers Lena Cristina, led by the flagship cruiser Lena Cristina, followed by the cruisers Cuba and Luzon, escorted a coal carrier and a supply ship, and set out for Guam, now German.

The Austro-Hungarian battleships Vienna and Empress Elizabeth, as well as two of their cargo ships, still flying the Austro-Hungarian flag, followed the Spanish ships on their way to Guam.