The corners of the old man's mouth twitched, and he looked at Yang Hao with a smile: "It's just such a crude excuse, you dare to openly start a war?!" Isn't that too hasty? ”

Yang Hao waved his hand aggressively: "I'm okay, at least let the other party fire the first shot." Some people simply can't even bear to shell, and dare to start a war under the pretext of losing a small soldier or being attacked by someone or something, and they still fight the same? ”

Li Hongzhang thought about it seriously, it seems that he has never heard of such a war case!

Yang Haoxin said Of course you haven't heard of it, this is a good thing that Little Japan did decades later, and more than once. But if they have decided to be shameless, what excuse can't they find for going to war? It's just that I don't want to bother with that.

For example, the British started the war because China did not allow them to openly sell opium. Your uncle, who is transporting drugs to our house in a bright way, and we are not allowed to arrest and destroy them, which is the reason for this?

There is no reason to talk about it, Westerners pay attention to the law of the jungle, and whoever has the biggest fist will listen to whomever they want, and they are not at all sympathetic to the weak and tolerant and protective of others like Chinese culture. This fundamental difference is destined that even if China is strong, it will basically not deliberately start a war to bully the weak. However, as long as Westerners have strength, they will continue to invade other countries until the whole world is the enemy. It is impossible to try to permanently suppress people from resisting with great force.

The ancient Chinese saw this truth clearly thousands of years ago. The so-called belligerence will perish, and forgetting the war will be dangerous. War cannot be waged purely for profit, which will only unleash uncontrollable beasts to the detriment of others. will inevitably toss himself to death. This kind of case. Looking at the dictatorship of military generals at the end of the Tang Dynasty, you can imagine one or two.

Of course. Yang Hao is not too sincere in doing this. In order to provoke a war, the Americans even drove a useless and dilapidated battleship over, and blamed others for detonating it. It's purely a rich style, and it's so heavy to plant it.

Yang Hao didn't have so many warships to waste, so he simply held the principle of "don't fire the first shot", seized the shortcomings of the Spaniards, and killed the killer!

The group of ships trailing far behind sounded a terrible siren, and the battle flag was raised to the top of the mainmast. The ranks on the sea quickly unfolded, the black holes of the muzzles were raised, the shells were loaded, and the murderous pressure was advancing!

On the Spaniards' side, Major General Montojo was stunned to find that he had only fired a shot, and the boat on the opposite side actually ran away, and there was no intention of entanglement. The people below let out a roaring cheer, but he felt that something was wrong.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the frigate to get out of range of its main guns. He turned his head very neatly and raised the battle flag decently. The 127mm cannon bared its fangs, picked up speed and began to circle around.

Rear Admiral Montojo felt that something was wrong and hurriedly ordered all the battleships to get ready for battle! At the same time, he also came back to his senses, and the other party inevitably came too quickly! The front foot sent a telegram saying that it wanted to protect overseas Chinese, and the battleship came immediately, and besides, it was such a small ship?

If you want to protect overseas Chinese, you must mobilize the people, and if you want to evacuate people, you must at least have a few freighters and the like to help. There is only a lonely boat on the vast sea, which clearly shows that there is a problem!

It didn't take long for a qiē suspicion to be confirmed. In the distance, a shadow rises on the sea level, and as it approaches, it is a group of behemoths! Looking through the binoculars, the frontal image of the battleship is vague, but just looking at its towering bridge, you can judge its size.

Finally, the thick multi-mounted gun muzzles appeared in view, and the lookout blurted out: "Battleship!" Lots of battleships! ”

Rear Admiral Montojo almost scolded, didn't I know it was a battleship?! In addition to that kind of big guy, what other battleship can achieve this virtue, and still have such a big muzzle!

China has two 10,000-ton warships, and he knows about it. But there is a group of people in front of me, what is the situation!

Forget it, it's useless to think so much, Your Excellency the Major General looked helplessly at a few miscellaneous fish beside him, and was grabbed by a full sense of powerlessness when he landed.

Spain has long since declined, and it is frighteningly weak! Today, in the Philippines, his fleet consists of only seven warships. Flagship "Reina? With a displacement of only 3,500 tons, the "Christina" is a decent new type of battleship. Another cruiser "Kosar", still a wooden cargo! This Nima should be in the museum, except to scare the indigenous people of the Philippines, which country still treats them as a thing!

To make matters worse, the wrecked wooden ship was broken and could not move. The other five battleships were only 500-ton gunboats, and the large ones were no more than 1,000 tons. In modern warfare, however, there is no qualification to even play suicide attacks.

Seven battleships combined, not enough for one battleship on the opposite side to clean up, this large group of enemies, how to play!

In order to show his strength, Yang Hao didn't even have time to think about it, and the aggressive army pressed closer, ten kilometers away, and gave the order to fire.

All the battleships brushed up on a right-hand rudder, tilted their turrets across their bodies, and their guns were aimed at the poor enemy ships that were floating and sinking in the distance, and each of them fired a test projectile.

The earth-shattering momentum can be seen clearly from afar. The moment the fireworks shone brightly, Major General Montoho couldn't help but tremble! Immediately afterwards, the rumbling and whistling of cannonballs across the sky was heard, and the heavy grenades exploded not far from the battleship, and the columns of water that rose into the air were lined up in a row, and a small gunboat that was closest to it was hit by a near-miss bullet, and the hull of the ship made a piercing explosion, and it cracked on the spot!

Major General Montoho yelled in a different tone: "Raise the white flag immediately, we surrender!" Damn, this battle can't be fought! ”

What are you kidding, the guy on the other side is too bullying, just a test shot is so accurate, the next time you fire a salvo, won't you have to hit the target directly?

Especially with such great power, one shell can reimburse one's flagship, such a strict asymmetrical battle, it is impossible to fight at all!

Someone was sharper than him, and the order was exported. Several white flags were raised to the mast. Yang Hao's raised right hand didn't even have a chance to slash down. The salvo order was stuck alive in the throat.

The fierce look in his eyes changed several times. His arm swayed and couldn't be put down, a large group of people in the command room stared at him, and Li Hongzhang laughed wildly: "You kid also has times when it is difficult to decide!" It's so interesting, the Spaniards are decisive enough to die if they hesitate! ”

Yang Hao clenched his fists fiercely, gritted his teeth and hummed, "Count them lucky!" Deliver the order, stop the attack, send someone to receive the enemy ship. All naval guns were aimed at shore defense batteries. Be wary of being attacked by them! ”

The surrender of the ships does not mean that they are really honest. In case of stubborn resistance from that crippled head, you have to count on the naval guns to sweep them away.

It's a pity that Yang Hao's expectations are destined to be disappointed. The frightened Spaniards were not only Rear Admiral Montojo and other members of the ship, but also the defenders on the battery were already terrified!

Theoretically, if the battery attacks the battleship, it must be the battleship that suffers. But there is a premise that the gap in the performance of everyone's artillery cannot be too large. The Spanish forts are all old antiques built many years ago, and the power of the broken guns cannot even catch up with the Chinese coastal artillery. How do you play if you are still at the level of dealing with sail-mounted wooden boats?

The cannon on the opposite side is so sharp, I'm afraid the battery can't carry it. What's worse is that. Manila was too close to the coast for naval artillery to blast through with ease. The Spaniards were used to it, but they could not afford the terrible consequences of the bombardment of the city.

Large groups of soldiers swarmed in speedboats to the Spanish battleship. Among them, only one-third are marines, and the others are all from Goryeo, and they are the "Goryeo Volunteers" secretly organized by Yang Hao!

That's right, it's such a group of fierce and ferocious stick army.

At the beginning, Yang Hao became the savior of Goryeo and divided the north and south, he focused on cultivating a large number of pro-China forces, and after supporting Dayuan Jun to ascend to the throne, he sent an advisory group to help them train the troops. After so much time, a very effective armed force has been formed, but it has never been useful.

This time he went overseas, in order to achieve the sudden goal, Yang Hao's domestic army did not use it at all, but quietly mobilized the Goryeo Army, which was picked up by the rear fleet in a circle and secretly transported.

The government of North Korea can't ask for this! They had long wanted to help Yang Hao work, showing the value of saving. As soon as he heard that it was to help the Celestial Empire expand its territory and recover the lost land, he was overjoyed and rushed to be the first. Even some impulsive young people heard that they might not all be dispatched, so they hurriedly took a knife and cut off their little fingers, and wrote a blood letter to vow to fight.

Yang Hao really planned to mobilize some people to come, but when he saw that they were so enthusiastic, he suddenly felt that it was difficult to resist, so he simply pulled over with a brain. Anyway, there are not 20,000 people in total, and even if they are all pulled away, South Goryeo will not dare to make the slightest move.

When these people were released from the cage, they immediately showed the nature inherent in their nation of bullying the weak and fearing the hard, and being cruel and vicious.

A large group of stick soldiers, speaking stiff Chinese, followed behind the officers of the revolutionary army, and after rushing to the battleship, they kept waving their guns and ordering the Spaniards to be treated like pigs and dogs.

Rear Admiral Montoho was kicked several times by them, and the noble gentleman, who had never enjoyed this treatment, protested loudly, and the officer who led the team could not stand it, stopped the thugs who wanted to beat him with a club, and ordered the officers to be escorted back to the fleet according to their rank.

Subsequently, more than 10,000 soldiers rushed to the beachhead, quickly opened up the formation, and launched an orderly attack on the front and rear of Manila.

Yang Hao's timing to start the war was too accurate. Manila was now empty, the Spanish army was pinned down by the rebels at Novilleta and Binakayan, and the governor Blanco personally commanded the troops, and it was even more difficult to get out of the unprecedented bitter battle.

Multiple rebel forces occupy strategic locations in the vicinity, not far from Manila, but it is difficult to go any further. The Spaniards held the defensive line around the bay and the city so strong that it was almost impossible to break through from the front, except by attacking from the sea.

Yang Hao was from the sea to avoid the real attack, and suddenly attacked, so that the Spaniards had not even reacted, and the infantry had already landed.

The equipment and suzhì of the Marines and the Stick Volunteer Army were not comparable to the Spanish colonial army. The news from the side of the battery has not yet been confirmed, and the vanguard has rushed forward lightly to block the passes. The scouts, who had infiltrated in advance, sent back the latest observations from the high ground, and found that the Spanish defenders were showing signs of turning back, and immediately reported the coordinates to the fleet.

All the naval guns were hungry and thirsty. As soon as a report is received. Artillery of large and small calibers suddenly turned. It didn't take long. A loud bang burst through the air, and the cannonballs swarmed into a high arc trajectory and smashed into the distance!

Governor Blanco received the news a few hours later. At first, he didn't pay much attention to it. Chinese Overseas Chinese Protector? What are you kidding, do you have that ability? We don't need to pay attention to him.

But the ensuing urgency reminded him that something was wrong! Let people investigate carefully, the navy has actually surrendered, and the battery has been lost!

Your Excellency the Governor angrily scolded! How can there be such an out-of-tune guy! It's the core of the whole Philippines. Surrender and give up like this, where is the glory of the soldiers?!

Blanco was not allowed to entangle with the rebels on the opposite side, so he hurriedly retreated with his troops, preparing to hold on to Manila and wait for domestic rescue. Fortunately, the Spanish troops were higher than the rebel army, and the retreat was orderly. But they never expected that they would gather together and walk back, and a rumbling roar swept through the sky, followed by huge cannonballs smashing near them!

More than 300 kilograms of heavy shells, not to mention the amount of charge, the kinetic energy of the volley smashed in the air is already beyond imagination! Sink deep into the ground. Violently set off large craters, turning dozens of tons of sand and gravel into projectiles scattered in all directions. Countless fragments rushed and strafed, blowing up brilliant and dazzling clouds of rising mushrooms, prompting bursts of shock waves to sweep across the land!

In the first round of test firing, they did not hit the target, but the Spaniards were so frightened by the explosion that they almost collapsed en masse!

Governor Blanco had never seen a large-caliber naval bombardment in his life, and at this time, his head was buzzing when he was shocked by the nearest shell, but he coldly understood why the navy was so weak. In the face of such a terrible force, those poor battleships are simply vulnerable! Although they are not heroic and honorable enough to surrender, if they do not surrender, they will become slag in the explosion and die without a place to be buried!

Figured it out, but it didn't work! The navy raised the white flag so that the other party could immediately discover that they were all on land, separated by such a long land, no one could see each other, and no one heard the shouting of grievances!

The scouts on the high ground played a correction exercise, and soon after, the sky roared again. This time it's not a scattered fall, but a swarm!

What's worse is that this time the shells landed on a terrifying spot, forming an explosion group that covered the earth, encircling the returning army, and after an earth-shaking explosion, hundreds of soldiers disappeared out of thin air, and were simply evaporated by the wild explosive force!

Governor Blanco was carried on horseback by the guards, and not long after he ran out, he was knocked down by a wave of air set off by a cannonball, and the horse broke its neck on the spot with a fragment, and when it fell sideways, it was right on his thigh.

The sound of His Excellency the Governor's broken thigh sounded so crisp, and his loud wail of pain was so harsh!

It's also strange that he likes to put up a noble score too much, and the war horse he chose is majestic and wide, and after he falls, he can't move even if he is pressed down, no matter how the guards toss. On the contrary, he swayed from side to side, causing him to suffer again and again, and finally simply rolled his eyes and fainted.

Governor Blanco was happy, and after fainting, he didn't have to witness the tragedy that followed.

After the battleships on the sea locked onto the target, they launched an increasingly intensive bombardment. Yishui'er's newly installed naval guns are all big killers with a range of more than 20 kilometers, whether it is 152mm or 203mm or larger, spitting out piles of shells frantically at a large angle.

The horror of the naval guns is vividly presented! The most equipped ships are 152mm guns, which are modeled after the 47 times the body of the US military MK16 in World War II, which can fire 8-10 shells per minute and have a range of up to 23 kilometers. When the collective fire was fired, dozens of cannons kept spitting out the flames of death, as if several artillery divisions were using a big bomb to force the collective to wash the ground! With a breath of effort, you can form a fireworks belt covering a kilometer section in the predetermined coordinate area, which is really stained and died, and next to each other you die!

The Spaniards were probably the first army in the world to be blessed with such intense artillery fire, and undoubtedly the unluckiest of the bunch. Before they could figure out what was going on, the soldiers were drowned in without cover.

The scouts on the high ground are a little unbearable, where is this Nima fighting, it's purely a massacre, okay! No matter how many people you have entered such a Hades Palace, you will only end up with broken bones!

Not only this one front, but the artillery fire then shifted to the battlefield around Manila, and everywhere it went, the Spanish defenders were miserable, and some of the rebels who charged too quickly were also killed!

They hadn't received any news in advance that someone would be attacking with such a powerful aid. At first, when they saw the Spaniards drowning in the hell of the explosion, they thought God would help, and they all cheered and screamed. But they were all a group of inexperienced rabble, and they rushed forward without knowing the form, only to be covered by the follow-up shells that stopped to adjust Zhu Yuan, and were killed and injured in an instant!

The rest of the people were terrified! Hurriedly retreating, what to take the opportunity to seize Manila and other delusions, don't count on it.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Marines and the Stick Volunteers calmly landed, and after all the troops were reorganized, they rushed to Manila, which was empty inside, in separate order. In response to Neiying, Shun Lì occupied the governor's palace, arsenals, banks, barracks and other major targets, raised the military flag, and declared the success of the occupation.

The whole battle was completed in less than a day from beginning to end.

Li Hongzhang personally watched the continuous changes on the situation map of the enemy and us, and couldn't help but be dizzy and unable to help himself when Yang Haoye cooperated smoothly and advanced by sea and land. Only then did he know why the revolutionary army was always able to defeat the enemy like a withering and decaying victory, which was really powerful and unreasonable!

A few days later, the remnants of the Spanish army were surrendered and regrouped into prisoner-of-war camps. The rebel army, which finally understood what was going on, sent representatives to negotiate with the representatives appointed by Yang Hao, and finally reached an agreement.

China recognizes the Philippine national regime and is happy to see them gain independence, but it does not want to see all sides engage in internal splits for their own interests, let alone allow their disputes to spread to the Chinese. Once such a problem arises, China will resolutely safeguard the interests of overseas Chinese.

In addition, it was inevitable that they would naturally want to lease the military port and build a military base to temporarily help them block the Spanish troops who came to retaliate. (To be continued......)