When Li Haoran drove his plane into the sky, Miao Shengye's battleship fleet was using its fiercest firepower to cover the beachhead of the defenders of the Ming Empire. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

One after another, shells fell, causing a huge explosion on the positions of the defenders of the Ming Empire. The battle went on, leaving every soldier who went through it desperate.

On the ground, a machine gun group of the defenders of the Ming Empire, hiding in the bunker, was slaughtering the enemy who had nowhere to hide on the opposite side with intensive firepower.

They look through the narrow shooting holes, aim at distant enemies, and calmly pull the trigger. Machine gun bullets gushed out from the narrow shooting holes and even cut off the branches outside the bunkers that covered the shooting holes.

This cramped machine-gun bunker was covered with steel plates on top and reinforced with buried earth. The entire bunker is overgrown with plants and blends in with the surroundings.

There was a narrow exit behind it that connected to this section of the trench, and inside the trench stood the soldiers covering the bunker, also firing with rifles.

Farther away, on an open-air machine gun position, next to the wreckage of a Weiyuan machine gun, lay several soldiers of the Great Min Empire, who had just been hit by a small-caliber shell, still emitting light smoke.

Directly in front of this position, countless Ceylonese soldiers, with bayonets stuck in their rifles, shouted over the trees and charged at them.

Further afield, there were more trenches and machine-gun bunkers, more permanent pillboxes. They are waiting for the arrival of the enemy, waiting for the moment to open fire.

Ceylonese soldiers walked in a straight line with tracer bullets, and some of them fell to the ground screaming as they were hit by the bullets. Their shoes were filled with sea water and sand, but they could only keep going.

Although countless shells fell on the enemy's positions, they also had to face the artillery fire of the defenders of the Ming Empire.

The island has long been fortified with numerous fortifications and bunkers that were built decades ago, some of which are outdated, while others are still effective at slaughtering invading enemies.

Many of the mountains have 360-degree circular firing of large-caliber guns, some of which are from 1810 and have not been used for about 20 years.

However, these cannons are quite carefully maintained, so in this battle, they can still be put into the sequence of counterattacks. Many shells have been discontinued, and one shot is one less.

These cannons covered most of the beachhead in Luzon, and because Luzon was not small, many of the fortified artillery in the center were designed to aim at the beachhead.

Now, although the guns of the Ceylon fleet are large in caliber and firepower, the beachhead of the Ming Empire cannot be functional. But on the other hand, the shore artillery system of the Ming Empire is also causing trouble for the enemy on the beach.

What kind of trouble does it cause? At least 200 cannons were raining shells on the sandy beaches controlled by the Ceylon landing force, many of which were not very powerful, but still killing and wounding Ceylonese soldiers.

The explosion kicked up sand, some of which slammed into the sea, knocking out the surrounding Ceylonese soldiers. The sea was even red with blood, and corpses were floating everywhere, alluvial on the beach in a straight line of corpses.

The Ceylonese soldiers continued to attack the jungle area, having taken control of some of the trenches and pillboxes, and finally realized what kind of enemy they were facing.

Most of the opponent's machine-gun bunkers are hidden by dense jungle, and the vegetation on them is camouflaged, making them appear to be non-existent.

Therefore, the Ceylon soldiers could only grope horizontally along the discovered bunkers little by little, find the hidden soldiers of the Ming Empire, and destroy these enemies who had killed an unknown number of Ceylon soldiers.

What was even more irritating was that the attacking Ceylonese soldiers stormed a trench and found that the trenches and bunkers were not interconnected.

Most of the bunkers are relatively independent existences, and such positions cover each other and rely on each other, which is simply the most complete set of killing traps.

Occasionally, strange mines were scattered around these positions, catching Ceylonse soldiers off guard and losing brave soldiers.

After an hour of attacking, they had only captured some positions and covered the landing force to gain an unsafe landing ground despite the fact that they had already lost more than 8,000 men.

Why is it not safe? Because the artillery positions of the Ming Empire in the distance are still bombarding the beachhead, and the bombers of the Ming Empire will fly back and drop bombs on these areas.

Some of the wreckage of stranded ships on the surface of the sea was abandoned, and some of the sunken ships were left with only a tiny mast. Floating corpses and blood flowing, making the beach look apocalyptic.

After losing a number of landing ships, the Ceylon Navy recruited transport ships were still desperate to unload their own soldiers, hoping to win the brutal landing battle and take control of the island.

By now that this battle had been fought, Ceylon had seen the determination of the Ming Empire to defend Luzon. The other side also wanted to be accurate in strategic prediction, and strengthened the defenses of Luzon in advance.

However, Miao Shengye has no intention of retreating, he occupies the advantage at sea. If you don't storm the Ming Empire here, how can you attract the other side's navy to come and fight to the death?

"Sir! The news from the 1st Ceylon Division that landed on the ground came back that the enemy had deployed a fairly tight defensive line far from the beach, and we needed to adjust our artillery fire near the beach. A Ceylon officer walked up behind Miao Shengye and reported.

"Pass my order, order to cover the artillery that fires, adjust the distance by 100 meters in the direction of the beach, and continue firing!" Miao Shengye opened his mouth and ordered: "Let the 2nd Division attack!" ”

"Sir! The opposing planes have disappeared for some time...... In this case......" The officer behind Miao Shengye reminded.

Miao Shengye sighed, because he didn't have a good way. Against the enemy's aircraft, he can only rely on the size of his troops to forcibly endure, and there is no means of counterattack.

The warships of this era do not have many anti-aircraft weapons, let alone stop the opponent's aircraft from wreaking havoc, and even self-protection is a little difficult.

In such a situation, instead of worrying about the opponent's planes continuing to make trouble, it is more practical to devote more troops and strive to take the opponent's beachhead as soon as possible.

What Ceylon's fleet is doing now is to send the troops floating on the sea to the enemy's shore as soon as possible!