Wang Siqi was excited by Lin Fei's words, and he roared loudly: "Yes... I'm going to hit Manila. After Wang Siqi finished speaking, he led his subordinates to rush towards the gap in the city wall, at this time part of the Spanish general reserve had already attacked the city wall and fought with the first regiment at the head of the wall, and some of them had driven the first battalion of the first regiment to the outside of the gap, and the first battalion did not show weakness, and fought fiercely with the enemy outside the city, wanting to fight back into the city.

The second regiment led by Wang Siqi carried the ladder and rushed to the city as fast as possible, because the two sides on the city were fighting at this time, so there was no need to use any tactics to send people to the city, the second regiment directly put the ladder on the city, and the soldiers climbed to the city one by one.

The soldiers of the second regiment killed the city wall, the situation was reversed again, the Spanish general reserve on the city wall was defeated, the remnants fled down the city wall in a hurry, and the soldiers of the second regiment immediately followed Lin Fei's instructions to come down from the city wall and outflank the Spaniards behind the gap.

The Spaniards who had fought their way out of the gap saw the soldiers of the Huaxia Empire outflanking them from behind, and they hurriedly retreated to the rear for fear of being attacked on their backs, and Lin Fei's troops immediately fought back to the gap.

The two regiments joined forces in one place, expanding to the depth near the gap, and the street fighting began immediately, Lin Fei formulated a plan for the street battle in Manila to divide the street battle, in this plan, after Lin Fei's troops entered Manila, they did not occupy the whole city in one go, but first lay down a piece of territory, establish a solid defense line, and then continue to attack the next area, step by step, occupy the whole city.

The key to establishing a solid defensive line in urban warfare is to control the commanding heights, and only by controlling the commanding heights can the enemy forces that intend to launch attacks be detected as soon as possible.

Another major advantage of controlling the commanding heights is that the firing points set on the commanding heights have a longer firing range and strike at the enemy for a longer time, which can inflict greater casualties on the enemy troops and even force the enemy commanders to abandon their original combat intentions.

Before attacking Manila, Lin Fei relied on Chinese businessmen to figure out the distribution of buildings in Manila and determine the commanding heights to be controlled at every step of the attack.

In accordance with the first step of the block street fighting plan, Liu Jun and Wang Siqi's troops stopped as they advanced to No. 6 Avenue and occupied the two commanding heights on No. 6 Street, the Amer Department Store and the Manila Middle School.

Liu Jun and Wang Siqi deployed the captured Makqin heavy machine guns on the commanding heights, while the other troops were scattered in the houses on the side of the street, and then stopped the attack and reported the news of the completion of the first street battle plan to Lin Fei.

When the news was delivered to Lin Fei, Lin Fei said loudly: "Our army has just gained a foothold in the city now, and the enemy will definitely take the opportunity to counterattack, and order the third regiment to enter the city immediately and assist the first regiment and the second regiment to defend the area controlled by the first street battle plan." ”

Liu Chaofan, commander of the Third Regiment, was ordered to set off, and Lin Fei immediately ordered Li Mingming, chief of the General Staff, to arrange reserve troops to replenish the first and second regiments that had suffered combat attrition.

At the same time as Lin Fei gave the order, the Spanish Governor Sanders also got the news that the general reserve was defeated and Lin Fei's troops established a defensive line on Sixth Street, and the Governor Sanders frowned when he received the news, he knew that Manila was the last stronghold of the Spanish Empire in the Philippines, and if he gave up this place to the Chinese Empire, the entire Philippines would be finished, so Lin Fei's troops must be driven out of the city.

Governor Sanders called Nacolino to the front and asked, "How long will it take for our troops to move to the east of the city?" ”

"It takes twenty-five minutes for the troops south of the city, thirty minutes for the troops north of the city, and about forty-five minutes for the troops west of the city. ”

Governor Sanders pondered for a moment and said, "Then let the troops south and north of the city support the east of the city, don't all come, the defense of the south and north of the city will be empty, let them send two thousand five hundred men each." 5,000 people were thrown into the battlefield, which was enough to drive away the Chinese pigs. ”

Nacolino hurried to convey the order, and the commanders north and south of the city immediately sent their troops at the request of Governor Sanders, and more than 5,000 men rushed to Sixth Street at once, and at four o'clock in the morning the Spanish troops reached the position where the attack was launched, and immediately began the attack.

The commander of the Spanish unit also knew the important role of the commanding heights in the street fighting, so as soon as the Spanish troops came over, they directly launched a siege on Amer Store and Manila Middle School.

The two commanding heights were located on both sides of No. 6 Street, each under the jurisdiction of a section of the area, the first regiment was stationed in the area controlled by the Amer store, and the second regiment was stationed in the area under the jurisdiction of the Manila Middle School, these two commanding heights were also the headquarters of the two regiments, Liu Jun and Wang Siqi immediately ordered the attack after discovering the enemy's siege attempt.

The heavy machine guns on the commanding heights immediately opened fire and strafed the charging Spanish soldiers, and on the roofs of the houses on both sides of the commanding heights, the ambushed soldiers formed a crossfire with rifles, and the Spanish troops could not move an inch for a while, and the soldiers were constantly hit by bullets, and the dead fell to the ground.

The Spaniards only launched one charge, and the streets were full of their corpses, and the Spanish commander saw that a simple siege could not be done, so he retreated to the back of Sixth Street, and at this time the advantage of the commanding heights was manifested, and the people on the commanding heights spotted the Spaniards at a glance, and the heavy machine guns immediately aimed at them and opened fire, and many Spaniards were killed, and the surviving Spaniards could only hide in civilian houses.

Wang Siqi saw that the Spaniards had died a lot, and said with a smile: "The Spaniards will definitely not attack like this again, I wonder what new ideas they will come up with?" ”

A staff officer at the regiment headquarters said with a smile: "They found that it was not possible to attack the commanding heights, and they would definitely attack the surrounding houses." ”

Wang Siqi smiled proudly and said: "It's not so easy to attack the houses...... Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a dense burst of gunfire from the position of the Spaniards on the opposite side, and countless bullets hit the houses on No. 6 Street, and several soldiers were hit on the spot.

Wang Siqi frowned, and said in a deep voice: "The enemy is coming so fast, we can't be idle." He turned to look at the Heavy and said loudly, "Keep fighting for me..."

The bullets from the heavy machine guns whistled and fired at the Spanish soldiers, but the Spanish soldiers changed the direction of the main attack, and the bullets were limited by the angle, and the lethality was reduced a lot, so many of the Spanish soldiers rushed to the front of the house.

The two sides immediately began to fight room by room on No. 6 Street, and the battle was very fierce, Lin Fei's troops had received special training in urban warfare, and they had an advantage in street fighting, while the Spaniards were familiar with the terrain of Manila and often used the terrain to cause casualties to Lin Fei's troops, so the two sides were at a stalemate for a while, and no one could eat anyone.

A regimental staff officer raised his binoculars and looked into the depths of the enemy army, and suddenly his face changed drastically, and he shouted: "Not good..."

Wang Siqi heard the voice and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with you?" What the hell? ”

The regimental staff officer shook his head in surprise and said, "I see ...... No, I must have seen it wrong, I'll take a look at ......" The regimental staff officer was about to raise the telescope and look at it again, Wang Siqi stretched out his hand and pressed the telescope, and asked, "What did you see?" ”

The staff officer of the regimental headquarters said in a deep voice: "I see that many Chinese are helping the Spaniards..."

Wang Siqi asked in surprise, "How did they help the Spaniards?" ”

The regimental staff officer stretched out his hand and pointed into the distance and said, "Many of them are helping the Spaniards to transport ammunition, and they don't look like they were forced." ”

At this moment, a soldier suddenly ran in and said, "Commander, no, we have found that there are many Chinese in the enemy fighting us. ”

Wang Siqi thought for a moment and said, "The Spaniards recruited some Chinese to join the army, which is not surprising. ”

The soldier said anxiously: "No, regimental commander, they are all Chinese people who have not worn military uniforms, they did not have guns at the beginning, and when they saw the Spaniards being shot and fell to the ground, they took the initiative to pick up their guns and shoot at us, which we have seen with our own eyes." ”

Wang Siqi was stunned for a while, at this moment, a violent gunfire suddenly came from No. 7 Avenue on the east side of No. 6 Street, No. 7 Street was behind No. 6 Street, the Spaniards had not broken through the defense line on No. 6 Street at this time, how could they suddenly appear on No. 7 Street?

Wang Siqi stretched out his hand and pointed to No. 7 Avenue and said, "How did they break through to No. 7 Street?" Hurry up and investigate. ”

A few soldiers ran out, and at this time the gunfire on No. 7 Street gradually subsided, and after a while, several soldiers also ran back and said to Wang Siqi: "Regiment commander, I have found out that the enemy has penetrated from a gap in our army's defense line. ”

Wang Siqi asked in surprise: "How did they find the gap in our army?" Has our army shown great flaws? ”

One of the fighters said: "Report to the regimental commander, according to a Spanish prisoner of war, the reason why they found the gap was entirely because a few Chinese provided them with information. ”

Wang Siqi exclaimed in surprise and said, "The Chinese in the city actually helped the Spaniards so much, hurry up and report this matter to Your Majesty..."

Lin Fei was in the command post outside the city, listening to the dense gunfire in the city, watching the battle reports sent back by the three regiments continuously, knowing that there was a stalemate in the city, he was secretly anxious in his heart, and desperately thought of a way to solve the stalemate.

At this moment, a soldier hurriedly ran in and said to Lin Fei, "Your Majesty, the commanders of the three regiments have sent urgent military information. ”

Lin Fei hurriedly asked, "What emergency military situation?" ”

The soldier said loudly: "The three regiment commanders said that the Chinese in the city are helping the Spaniards..."

Lin Fei suddenly exclaimed in surprise, walked a few steps to the front of the warrior, and asked, "What's the matter?" You elaborate. ”

The soldier replied: "Many Chinese are helping the Spaniards, some are taking the initiative to transport ammunition for the Spaniards, some soldiers are volunteering to serve as reinforcements, and even many Chinese residents are smuggling information for the Spaniards, telling the Spaniards where our troops are empty, causing us a lot of losses." ”

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