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 the enemy 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 victory over 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, which is located at the center of the exit of Manila Bay, 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 Mills 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 solid reinforced concrete forts 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 with the cover of aircraft and tanks.
So 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 problem 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 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, the Spanish encirclement and suppression was quite successful.
Karen said politely: "Haha, there are specialties in the art. We also have a large number of rainforest areas in East Africa, so tropical jungle operations have always been the focus of the East African National Defense Force." Lieutenant Karen has been in the Congolese rainforest in East Africa all year round, and is very familiar with the rainforest. The remaining indigenous forces in the depths were encircled and suppressed, so they accumulated a huge amount of jungle combat experience.
This time he led the team, and with the cooperation of the Philippine 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 was prominent in the previous life and became a classic of combat in jungle areas 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 had no good results. The turning point was the military export of the Eastern powers to Vietnam. Not only did the Filipino natives say that they could not compare with Vietnam, but even some African natives could not compare.
This is Karen's intuitive feeling. After all, as high as the road is, so is the devil. During the encirclement and suppression in East Africa, the indigenous Africans will also make progress, but in the face of the continuous flow of immigrants from East Africa, their efforts are destined to be in vain.
The Filipino natives are different. The Spaniards are undoubtedly a minority there, and the technological advancements brought by Spain have caused the Filipino native population to surge. Therefore, the Philippine resistance forces have a steady flow of blood injection, and Spain was not good at jungle warfare before. , they just relied on their superior firepower to suppress the local indigenous people.
However, with the local forces supported by the Americans, they are also rapidly following up on 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 cannot be lost, and Karen taught them a lesson today.
Of course, Karen also draws nutrients from these fragmented battles. After all, indigenous people fighting with thermal weapons are almost never encountered in East Africa, but the indigenous people of the Philippines are different. The geographical location of the Philippines is destined to have connections with the outside world. Closely, Spain simply could not stop these indigenous sources of external weapons.
“In this battle, the weapons were also effective. 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.”
Through actual combat, the Spanish garrison in the Philippines has turned its doubts about East African firearms into recognition. After all, this is the result of more than ten years of research in East Africa.
Karen is also very interested in the country's firearms. Currently, the m1895c jungle combat rifle is only equipped by a small number of troops in East Africa. After all, East Africa is mainly dominated by savanna terrain, and conventional rifles have greater advantages. However, the Southeast Asian colonies in East Africa and The climate in the Philippines is the same, so he believes that this new rifle should be widely popularized in his own colonies in East Africa.
There is no doubt that Spain's "bandit suppression" this time has made up for the manpower to build Manila's 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 I can’t control it anymore.
The U.S. Navy is a major enemy. If it loses the war, the Philippines will have nothing to do with Spain. Especially most of the staff in the colonial government may lose their jobs. Therefore, under the encouragement of the East African Military Advisory Group, the U.S. threat theory is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the entire The Spanish and Philippine colonial governments actively cooperated with East African military personnel in preparing for war.
Although many projects and training did not meet the psychological expectations of the East African Military Advisory Group due to conditional constraints, this was still dozens of times better than Spain's previous preparations in the Philippines.
Apart from anything else, the large number of mines deployed in Manila Bay alone will make it impossible for the US military to enter Manila Bay as unscrupulously as it did in previous lives.
(End of this chapter)