Chapter 27 The curtain opens

By the second day, the sporadic fighting on the entire island of Luzon had ended, and the more than 30,000 garrisons of the Spanish authorities concentrated on the island had been annihilated, and all six high-ranking officials, including the governor Fiore and his wife, had been taken prisoner.

At this time, the real attention is the dozens of Spanish Navy warships cruising off the coast of Manila.

Early in the morning, the fortress area of the past.

Chen Zeyu is holding the military high-magnification double-barreled telescope produced by the Avalanche Group and looking at the ocean in the distance, the existence of these ships seriously threatens the transportation of the Huameng at sea, you must know that at this moment, Chen Zeyu has ordered the army of the Huameng to take merchant ships to capture other islands around Luzon......

However, Chen Zeyu was not very nervous, he had just seen in the shelling that although dozens of Spanish warships were equipped with a lot of artillery, their hulls were all old iron-ribbed wood-hulled steam warships built in the early nineteenth century (that is, wooden hulls, iron keels, and the Nanyang naval divisions of the Qing Dynasty were equipped with a large number of iron-ribbed wood-hulled steam warships), and even a few of them were sail warships.

As the sun above his head continued to tilt in the early morning, the time passed by minute by minute, until the submarine team attached to the navy sent a wireless telegram reporting that it had sunk most of the Spanish ships, Chen Zeyu, who was still on the shore, breathed a sigh of relief.

Wireless telegraph, this technology Chen Zeyu asked Tang Yuanzhan of the Avalanche Company to start research and development in this area as early as the year he first came back.

In the previous time and space, Chen Zeyu was a radio enthusiast himself.

Wireless telegraphy looks like a high-class thing in the eyes of many people, and they think it's all for spies. In fact, this thing, if you understand the principle, it really isn't complicated.

At the end of the 19th century, without any integrated circuit tube components available, the Italian Marconi completed the experiment of transatlantic radio communication with the help of a very rudimentary wireless telegraph machine.

Because Chen Zeyu had specific technical and design drawings in his hands, and the factory had various integrated components available, it didn't take long to get out of the production line.

In this regard, Chen Zeyu did not go too far, and only took out the electron tube in terms of technology.

More advanced integrated circuit components were temporarily hidden by him, even so, because the production process is very advanced, and the integration of various produced tubes is very fine. The wireless telegraph machine produced by the radio factory in the end was not as cumbersome as the wireless telegraph machine developed by various countries in the early days of history, and the smallest wireless telegraph machine made in Sichuan and Zhejiang could even be carried by individual soldiers, which completely reached the scientific and technological level of the late Second World War in the original time and space.

The corresponding shipboard radio equipment has also been developed for a long time, because the antenna can be directly laid above the top mast of the battleship, and the usable area on the battleship is very abundant, the shipboard wireless telegraph itself is the most powerful machine configured. This kind of developed shipboard radio equipment can enable various warships of the Huameng Navy to communicate with each other over a long distance of thousands of nautical miles on the sea surface, and even achieve global communication with the help of radio amplification facilities in various bases.

As for submarines, it was originally one of the projects that Chen Zeyu has always attached the most importance to, and several fully enclosed docks of the Sizhejiang Shipyard have been intensively manufacturing the "Sui-I" class offshore combat submarines.

The "Sui-I" class submarines, which have just completed sea trials and entered service, have a floating displacement of 740 tons and a submersible displacement of 960 tons. The whole ship is equipped with one 75mm deck gun and two 325mm torpedo tubes, and the whole ship can carry ten torpedoes, with a maximum depth of 45 meters. The fastest speed on the surface is 16 knots, and the fastest underwater speed is 12 knots (the submarine battery is a combination of lead-acid batteries + a small number of high-speed rail rechargeable batteries), with a maximum range of 1,700 nautical miles and a crew of 30.

The commander of this submarine team is Ding Chongji, an international student who has just returned from his studies at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, England, this year.

Chen Zeyu has been teaching these naval officers the skills of submarine work for these naval officers since the submarine was launched, and now the results are visible, and the Spaniards, who fought the submarine force as soon as it was born, were dumbfounded.

Major Ding Chongji, who was newly promoted to the Navy, did not disappoint himself.

According to the reported battle situation, just in the naval battle, the Spanish Navy was so unconscious that it sailed into an ambush circle composed of twelve Sui-1 submarines, and after the U12 submarine team fired dozens of torpedoes in turn, most of the Spanish warships sank to the bottom of the sea.

And the few remaining Spanish sail warships that were excluded from the list of sinking values, and who narrowly escaped with their lives, did not end well.

As soon as these old Spanish Navy sail warships broke through the blockade line composed of submarine forces, a huge wave of black smoke in front of them instantly plunged the Spanish naval officers and sailors on the ships into an ice cave.

What broke their last hope was a huge steel steam fleet composed of a large number of surface ships of the Chinese Navy, including one "Luzon"-class ironclad battleship and five "Taiwan"-class ironclad cruisers.

These steel giants raised all kinds of large and medium-caliber naval guns aimed in their direction, which instantly made the Spanish naval officers and men on the opposite side lose their will to fight.

The remnants of the Spanish ships wisely raised the white flag one by one on the orders of the captain......

So far, including the Governor of the Philippines, Fiore. Including high-ranking Spanish officials such as Blanco, the Spanish power on Luzon was completely annihilated by their own side.

The crews of the naval vessels of the Chinese League began to salvage the Spanish sailors who had fallen overboard on the sea.

Shaking his head, since Chen Zeyu had made up his mind to comprehensively solve the Philippine issue, he gradually found that he still greatly overestimated the military strength of the Spaniards, and even Chen Zeyu himself did not expect that the naval and army units of the Huameng could make such rapid progress......

For more than a month after that, the troops continued to make good progress.

The Chinese League's troops began to occupy the areas of Apari, Laoag, San Fernando, Quezon, Manila, Legazpi, Ilo, Puerto Princesa, Cebu, Zamboanga, and Davao.

By the time the Batan Islands, the most remote part of the Philippine archipelago, were also occupied by the Chinese Alliance, it was already two months later.

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On January 24, 1893, in Luzon, the Chinese armed riot that spread throughout the Philippine Islands caused by the forcible annihilation of a Chinese woman by two Spanish colonial soldiers shocked the whole world in an instant.

The public opinion warfare between the public opinion media of the world's major countries, directly planned by the intelligence department of the China League, has shown its power in a very short period of time. Through a large number of pictures and sensational texts (provided by Chen Zeyu), the mainstream media in various Western countries have criticized the Spanish approach. Although the demands of the armed rebels on the island are not necessarily certain, at least the mainstream consciousness of the countries will no longer support the Spaniards.

But what is even more unexpected is that in just over a month, the colonial rule of the Spanish authorities in the Philippines was completely overthrown by the insurgents, and the local Chinese armed forces even declared the founding of the country and established their own ruling order.

Privately, politicians in some countries are beginning to reassess the national strength of Spain, an old power in the traditional sense.

The Iberian Peninsula of Europe

As soon as the news of the defeat came, the Spanish political axes and parliamentarians did not believe it at first, but when the Dutch brought the exact news through the cable under the Indian Ocean, the unbelievers could not sit still.

As early as the eighties of the nineteenth century, the Spanish political axe cooperated with the Dutch to lay an undersea cable between the Philippines and the island of Kalimantan in the Dutch Indian archipelago. The situation was so bad that the Spanish colonial authorities did not even have time to report the situation through the telegraph room, which was just a wall away from the Governor's Palace in Manila. When the news of the Dutch came, all the Spanish political axe officials were dumbfounded.

In the early days, the Dutch-Indonesian colonial authorities, who received the news, also considered supporting the Spaniards in suppressing the armed uprising of the Chinese.

After the Dutch were the first to get the news, they even sent a few warships to cruise off the coast of Manila Bay, but after they saw the huge ironclad warships of the Chinese Alliance Navy, they immediately launched a "water escape" and hurriedly withdrew.

Thinking of how evil he had also done to the Chinese under the colonial rule, the current governor of the Dutch colonial authorities stationed in Batavia, Desmendler, couldn't help but wonder in his heart......

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