The Spaniard's battery ignored Dewey's restless mood, but remained silent as usual, the black hole did not spew out fiery flames, nor burst into a thunderous sound, but still slept as usual, silent.

The silent fleet quietly rushed into the wide Manila Bay from a narrow waterway, as if returning to the boundless sea from a new time, the speed of the entire fleet also increased from a few knots to 10 knots, the roar of the surging steam engine gradually spread from the engine room to every corner of the ship, everyone's tense nerves were completely relaxed, and the most difficult moment of the fleet passed.

Now the American fleet is like a good guy who has quietly opened a door and broken into the house of an old lady, all he needs to do is find the unsuspecting old lady and beat her up in her astonished eyes, so that she can show her how terrifying the cowboy's iron fist is.

In the early hours of the morning, Manila's dilapidated harbor was presented in the telescope of the Americans, the whole port was empty, and the three batteries in Manila City and the two batteries in Cavite were like sleeping beauties, ignoring the approach of the American fleet, and without saying a word, looking at the Americans flaunting their might on the sea.

At about 4 a.m., the American fleet crossed the perimeter of the battery range in Cavite and continued to search for the Spanish Asian detachment, which was supposed to be there in history.

At about five o'clock, the American fleet led by General Dewey completely searched the entire Manila Bay, but the Spanish fleet disappeared, and there was not even a single ship in the entire Manila Bay.

At about six o'clock, Dewey ordered the fleet to approach the city of Manila, and sent a strongly worded letter to the Spanish governor, ordering the Spaniards to surrender or shell Manila.

But the Spanish governor contemptuously tore up the letter and replied in a receipt, pardoning General Dewey's impudence in the name of the King of Spain, and allowing Dewey to surrender with dignity in order to ensure the lives of the ignorant children of the United States.

At 6:50 p.m., the U.S. fleet approached Manila City and prepared to launch an artillery bombardment on Manila City, but five hot air balloons were raised one after another from the three batteries in Manila City and two batteries in Cavite, and then the guns on the batteries began to fire test-firing, and the monotonous and dull rumble sounded one after another, and columns of water rose one after another about a nautical mile in front of the American fleet.

At 7:30 a.m., the American fleet drew an arc and left Manila City beyond the range of the Spaniards' batteries and began cruising in Manila Bay at a speed of ten knots.

It was a very stupid act to shell a city under the fire of a battery, especially with a vanished fleet, hidden in the shadows, and Dewey did not dare to let the fleet suffer any damage.

By this time, in fact, everyone in the entire fleet understood that they had fallen into the trap of the Spaniards, and that Manila Bay was a trap for the American detachment in Asia, a trap that made the American fleet advance and retreat.

If the Spaniards were not stupid, it is conceivable that they must have blocked the southern waterway in and out of Manila Bay, the Boca Grande Strait, with mines or shipwrecks, while the northern waterway was so narrow that ships could only enter and exit in single or double columns, and when they braved the fire of the batteries on Corregidor Island to rush out of Manila Bay, they were greeted by a volley of fire from the Spaniards as if they were named.

When the night completely covered the sea, the American Asian detachment approached the mouth of Manila Bay and began shelling the batteries on Corregidor Island from a distance, trying to attract the batteries on Corregidor Island to counterattack, but the batteries on Corregidor Island were silent, ignoring the Americans' inaccurate provocations.

At 11 p.m., after several hours of sporadic shelling of the periphery, the US fleet suddenly opened fire on the batteries on Corregidor Island, and the entire fleet accelerated toward the Boca Grande Strait, the southern waterway of Manila Bay, in a vain attempt to break out of Manila Bay under the cover of darkness.

But it is very sad that although the batteries on Corregidor Island were still not fired, when the flagship of the fleet, the ship of General Dewey, the Olympic, rushed into the Strait of Boca Grande in the lead, and before it could advance a mile, it gradually floated in the middle of the strait like a dead fish in the midst of a roar and rising waves, and it was hit by a mine.

The ships following behind the flagship slowed down and released their boats to the rescue, and then slowly withdrew from the mine-ridden Strait of Boca Grande.

At 12:15 p.m., the flagship of the U.S. Asian fleet, the Olympiad, struggled on the surface of the sea for nearly an hour, and sank two nautical miles from the Boca Grande Strait due to a large amount of water in the cabin, General Dewey was rescued and transferred to the Baltimore, most of the other crew members were rescued, and only less than 20 casualties were killed, but the Americans' attempt to rush out of Manila Bay completely failed, and they also boarded a cruiser of the latest type, which also cast a shadow on the Spanish-American war.

Of course, the specific layout and implementation plan were not formulated by him, a novice who had no experience in naval warfare, but were perfected and implemented by the three marshal comrades little by little.

He only according to history, after the American consul in Manila left Manila, according to the plan, he issued a generous compensation to all the ships that left the port of Manila afterwards, of course, you can not leave, but once the naval battle broke out, no one paid attention to the losses, and under the guidance of turnips and sticks, the next evening, all the ships in Manila Bay except for the Spanish ships left Manila Bay.

Then it was simple, El Murray, the marshal of the two historical countries, was in charge of the defense of Manila City and prevented the Americans from jumping over the wall to carry out landing operations, Gao Hongsheng and the other two marshals joined up with Montojo, the commander of the Spanish fleet, to leave Manila Bay at night, and after deploying the latest magnetic induction mines on the south waterway in and out of Manila Bay, they wandered around the open sea and waited for the Americans to fall into their trap.

The plan went very smoothly, and the Americans' Asian detachment was like a bull, plunging into the bullpen designed by Gao Hongsheng and them, and completely set up a stupid cow trapped in the pen, and as for the two supply ships that did not enter Manila Bay with Dewey, they raised the white flag early under Gao Hongsheng's guns, and set up Gao Hongsheng and their trophies.