Chapter 380: Philippine Strategy (1)

At 9 a.m. on June 7, the Chinese Empire issued a notice to the outside world: the Chinese Empire would personally send troops to the Philippines to solve the indigenous violence. Messy questions!

At the same time, the Philippine dispatch army of the Chinese Empire, which had been assembled in Taiwan, officially set off under Chen Haojie's order. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Philippine Dispatch Army of the Chinese Empire is a mixed corps of the army, navy and air force, with a total of 30,000 people in two army divisions, 5 warships in the navy, and 13 airships of various types in the air force.

After Chen Haojie's order was issued, the 3rd Division took the lead in boarding the troop carrier, escorted by 5 warships and 13 airships, and went to the Philippines first, while the remaining 25th Division, waiting for the second batch to land in the Philippines.

From north to south, the Philippines is composed of three island groups, namely Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Indigenous Filipinos in motion.

After all, the Spanish colonial army in the Philippines was only 42,000 men, less than one-tenth of whom could fight, and the rest were old, weak, sick and disabled.

And the indigenous Filipino violence. Throughout the Philippines, the Spanish colonial army could only retreat in a few fortified cities such as Manila, and did not dare to go out to suppress the indigenous rebellion. Move.

This is the power of Spain, which has declined, even the indigenous violence of its colonies. Nothing can be suppressed.

Under the leadership of Chen Haojie, the Philippine dispatch army of the Chinese Empire set off from Fengshan County, southwest of Taiwan, all the way to the Philippines in the south, Chen Haojie as the commander-in-chief, his car is a Kunpeng-6 light airship, you can see more in the air, which is convenient for Chen Haojie to command.

In addition, the Chinese Empire also has a new technology application,Make it more convenient for Chen Haojie to command battles in airships,This new technology is radio communication technology。

At this time, the radio communication technology of the Chinese Empire had just developed, and the communication equipment was relatively large, but it was still possible to place radio communication equipment on battleships and airships, which made it easy for the dispatch army to receive orders from Chen Haojie in the command airship whether it was day or night.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the Philippines of the Chinese Empire sent troops to march to the Babuyan Islands, the northernmost part of the Philippines, and the rest of the way was the main force of the dispatch army, which reached Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

The Babuyan Islands are the islands north of Luzon Island in the Philippines, between the Babuyan and Balintang Strait, are mountainous volcanic archipelagos, with a total of 24 islands including Galayan, Camiyin, Fuga and Dalupiri, etc., with the largest Carayan Island, the total land area of the Babuyan Islands is 582.8 square kilometers, and the population is only a few thousand.

Don't look at the small land area, small population, and barren land of the Babuyan Islands, but in the future, the Babuyan Islands will serve as a more important part of the Chinese Empire's rule over the Philippines.

The Chinese Empire treated the Philippines as well as Korea by first ruling it as a colony, then sending away the natives from the territory and immigrating from the country after vacating large tracts of land.

The Babuyan Islands is one of the locations selected by the Chinese Empire for indigenous Filipino immigrants, and I don't know how many Filipino indigenous immigrants will come to the Babuyan Islands in the future, but before the indigenous Filipino immigrants come, the Chinese Empire needs to make some changes to the Babuyan Islands, and the Filipino indigenous people cannot be allowed to flee the Babuyan Islands.

There are so few Filipino natives in the Babuyan Islands, and even less the Spaniards, it is very simple for the dispatch army to take the Babuyan Islands, and after the dispatch army controls the Babuyan Islands, it will continue to move south, and then land in Santa Ana, a city in the north of Luzon.

Santa Ana was a city fortified by the Spanish colonists, and the Spanish army in the city plus other Spaniards totaled 22,000, while the Spanish army that could fight was less than 1,000. The natives did not let the natives break through Santa Anna, although the Spanish army did not have much combat effectiveness, but it was still possible to hold the fortified city.

According to the previous plan, after the dispatch army took Santa Ana, it would continue to move south, and join the main force of the dispatch army to suppress the violence of the indigenous Filipinos. When the 25th Division arrives in the Philippines, it will go to Visayas and Mindanao to suppress indigenous violence. Move.

On the evening of June 8, the main force of the Philippine Expedition of the Chinese Empire arrived off the coast of Manila, where they rested and recuperated, and waited for the start of operations on the 9th.

In order to be able to quickly take the Philippines, the Chinese Empire is not only the sending force, but the South China Sea Fleet also sent a submarine formation to assist, plus the airship in the sky, Chen Haojie can clearly observe the deployment of the Spanish colonial army in the Philippines.

The Spaniards had a small fleet in the Philippines, and apart from a light cruiser with a displacement of 3,500 tons named "Rena Christina", the remaining battleships were old and dilapidated, and the tonnage was relatively small.

In the face of the arrival of the Philippine dispatch force of the Chinese Empire, the Spaniards also made some preparations and seemed to be stubbornly resisting, because the submarine formation had mines arranged by the Spaniards in the channel of Manila Bay, but with the help of submarines, the dispatch army could easily pass through this sea area.

"Are the Spaniards going to be stubborn? Then destroy you all together! Commanding the airship,Chen Haojie muttered to himself。

In the early morning of 9 June, the main force of the dispatch force continued to advance towards Manila, but one Kunpeng-9 super airship, one Kunpeng-8 heavy airship, and two Kunpeng-7 medium airships of the airship formation escorted by the air accelerated and flew towards Manila.

Less than an hour later, four airships came over Manila, and from the airships they could clearly see the city of Manila and the port of Manila, where the few warships of the Spanish colonial army were docked.

The flight altitude of the four airships is relatively low, about 2,000 meters, according to this flight altitude, any anti-aircraft artillery modified from other types of artillery can hit the airship, but in the Philippines, the Spanish colonial army did not have anti-aircraft artillery.

Spain has declined, the weapons and equipment of the Spanish army have not kept up with the mainstream of the world, the army is still equipped with "single-one" rifles, old-fashioned breech guns, and in the colonial army, it is even equipped with backward breech guns and breech bubbles; The navy is even more speechless, Spain's once invincible fleet crisscrossed the sea, and now the navy is very weak, not only does it not have a single new warship, but most of its warships are old warships, and their combat effectiveness is very low.

As for the Air Force, Spain is only following the trend to build an empty shelf, and the Spanish Air Force does not even have an airship, only some hot air balloons.

Anti-aircraft artillery, maybe there are still a few in Spain, but in the Philippines, a Spanish colony, it is impossible to exist at all.