Chapter 939 Manila Defense System

"Manila Bay should enter a military state now, especially the exit of Manila Bay. Mines and other obstacles should be placed to prevent enemies from entering."

As one of the few large bays in the world, although it is easy to defend, Manila's exports are also very large. If the Spanish Navy is strong, there will be no problem. But the current situation is that the enemy is strong and we are weak, so the Spanish Navy must use external forces to achieve its goal of defeating the U.S. Navy. The advantages.

"At the same time, the shore defense artillery on both sides of the Manila Bay outlet must be maintained in time. This time we in East Africa have provided a lot of large-caliber shore defense artillery. Some antiques can be replaced. Of course, these obsolete artillery must also be used to increase the number of Manila ships as much as possible. The artillery coverage in the bay and effective cooperation with the local navy.”

"Especially Corregidor Island. It is located in the center of the exit of Manila Bay. It should be modernized immediately. After all, the military facilities built on Corregidor Island are too old. Now artillery and warships are no longer sails. Compared with the times, the original military facilities cannot cope with current weapons.”

The important position occupied by Corregidor Island is destined to be a battleground for military strategists. In the ninth century, Spanish colonialists occupied this small island. The island was equipped with 250 mm cannons with a range of 2,000 meters, and A gate is set up here, and all ships entering and leaving must pass their verification.

Later, after the United States occupied the island, it paid more attention to it and spent huge sums of money to build the fortress Fort Mill on the island, equipped with barracks, hospitals, cold drink factories, cinemas, churches and other infrastructure.

In order to defend Corregidor Island, the United States built a solid reinforced concrete fort and 23 artillery positions on the island.

The coastal artillery is very huge, with a caliber of 300 mm and a range of 28,000 meters. The two mortars have a range of 130 meters and can shoot in any direction. Later, a large number of tunnels were built on the island, which can be said to have made the local construction impregnable. .

Of course, Japan later broke through the U.S. defenses, dropped tens of thousands of bombs in just nine days with relentless bombing, and finally captured the island under the cover of aircraft and tanks.

Therefore, if you want to hold on to Manila Bay, you must carry out large-scale transformation of Corregidor Island, which is obviously a difficult task for the Spanish Philippine colonies.

Anthony said: "General Bruce, is the question urgent?"

Bruce: "Even if the war is going to start, it should start with Cuba first, so Spain still has time before Cuba is attacked, and the current negotiations between the two countries are to gain time to prepare for the war. As far as we know in East Africa, the United States has already prepared "We have already prepared for war, so it is unwise for your government to declare war with the United States in advance at this time. Therefore, it is best to carry out renovations around Manila Bay within three months. As for the manpower, you need to deal with it yourself."

Is there a shortage of people in the Philippines? The answer is yes, otherwise the Philippines in its previous life would not have simply abandoned the north and fought the US military in Manila.

But the shortage of people in the Philippines does not mean that there is a shortage of people near Manila Bay. This should be the area with the most concentrated population and economy in the Philippines. It just so happens that the Philippine government is going to encircle and suppress the local resistance forces in the past two days, and this person is here!

Of course, there is still a shadow of East Africa behind this. When the East African military advisory group headed by Bruce was dictating the defense of Manila Bay, East African instructors had already led Filipinos equipped with new jungle combat rifles into the jungles around Manila Bay to encircle and suppress the resistance organizations. .

"Bang..." The sound of gunshots echoed in the Philippine rainforest. Under the leadership of indigenous spies, this Spanish encirclement and suppression was quite successful.

"Lieutenant Karen, it is indeed no accident that you can defeat the British in East Africa. In the past, it was difficult for us to organize battles in the rainforest. If it were not for your expertise this time, I am afraid we would have failed as usual."

Karen said politely: "Haha, there are specialties in the art, and we also have a large number of rainforest areas in East Africa, so tropical jungle warfare has always been a key area of ​​attack for the East African National Defense Forces."

Lieutenant Karen has been in the Congo rainforest in East Africa all year round, encircling and suppressing the remaining indigenous forces deep in the rainforest, so he has accumulated a huge amount of jungle combat experience.

This time, he led the team, and with the cooperation of the Filipino indigenous spies, the nine locked jungle dens were immediately captured.

After all, jungle guerrillas are indeed a headache, but not everyone can handle jungle warfare. The Filipino natives on the opposite side do not have much tactical acumen, so facing Karen, who specializes in dealing with jungle guerrillas, The old fox has no power to fight back.

One of the main reasons why the Vietnam War stood out in the previous life and became a classic of jungle warfare is that the local people were exported by the military thinking of the Eastern powers.

Otherwise, Vietnam would not have been so completely suppressed by France before, and there was no impressive record. The turning point was the military export of the Eastern powers to Vietnam. The natives of the Philippines had not long said that they could not compare with Vietnam, and even some African natives could not compare.

This is Karen's intuitive feeling. After all, the devil is as high as the Taoist. During the encirclement and suppression in East Africa, the indigenous Africans will also make progress. However, in the face of the continuous flow of immigrants from East Africa, their efforts are destined to be in vain.

The natives of the Philippines are different. The Spaniards are undoubtedly a minority in the local area, and the technological progress brought by Spain has caused the native population of the Philippines to surge. Therefore, the Philippine resistance forces have a steady stream of blood injection, and Spain was not good at jungle warfare before. They just relied on their firepower advantage to suppress the local natives.

But with the support of the Americans, the local forces are also following up quickly in terms of weapons. This has caused the Spanish colonial government to have no good way to deal with them before, resulting in a situation where the tail is too big to be cut off, and Karen taught them a lesson today.

Of course, Karen also draws nutrients from these fragmented battles. After all, natives fighting with hot weapons are almost never encountered in East Africa, but the natives of the Philippines are different. The geographical location of the Philippines is destined to be closely connected with the outside world. Spain cannot stop the external source of weapons for these natives at all.

"In this operation, the effect of the weapons is also good. The m1895c jungle combat rifle is more powerful, not easily restricted by terrain, and has strong structural stability. This rifle is more useful for the Philippines."

The Spanish garrison in the Philippines has turned its doubts about East African firearms into recognition through actual combat. After all, this is the research result of East Africa for more than ten years.

Karen is also very interested in his country's firearms. Currently, only a small number of troops in East Africa are equipped with the M1895C jungle combat rifle. After all, East Africa is mainly dominated by tropical savanna terrain, and conventional rifles have greater advantages. However, the climate of East Africa's South Sea colonies and the Philippines is the same, so he believes that this new type of rifle should also be widely popularized in East Africa's own colonies.

There is no doubt that Spain's "suppression of bandits" has made up for the manpower needed to build the Manila defense system to a certain extent, but more gaps still need to be drawn from ordinary indigenous people. As for arousing more serious resistance, the Spanish colonial government can't control it.

With the US Navy as a great enemy, if the war is lost, the Philippines will have nothing to do with Spain, especially most of the colonial government personnel may be unemployed. Therefore, under the advocacy of the East African Military Advisory Group, the US threat theory has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the entire Spanish Philippine colonial government has actively cooperated with East African military personnel to prepare for war.

Although many projects and training cannot meet the psychological expectations of the East African Military Advisory Group due to limited conditions, this is also dozens of times stronger than Spain's preparations in the Philippines in the previous life.

Apart from anything else, the large number of mines deployed in Manila Bay alone makes it impossible for the US military to enter Manila Bay as recklessly as they did in the past.