The mysterious world: Start working hard from the beggar camp!

Chapter 504: The night attack failed, and the Governor of Manila planned a counterattack
"Great Commander!"

Fifteen miles outside the city of Manila, outside the effective range of the white barbarians' psychic artillery, 500,000 soldiers from the First and Second Fleets of the Renaissance Army stood in formation. Huang Lan, the chief commander of this long-range raid, had just temporarily lifted the military killing formation and came to Li Dingguo to report.

"Because our military intelligence personnel lurking in Manila City sent back the news so timely, our army seized the rare opportunity tonight and took advantage of it. We captured all the enemy treasure ships of more than 400 levels in Manila Bay intact!"

"More than 30,000 white barbarian soldiers who stayed on the treasure ship were killed by you, the commander-in-chief, using sonic attacks. The rest were also killed by our killing array magic. Not a single one escaped!"

"After our fleet used concentrated fire to attack the fortress coastal defense battery cluster at Manila Port, which blew up most of the batteries, the remaining coastal defense batteries were also completely wiped out by the enemy soldiers and defenders under the repeated attacks of our military killing array!"

"The protective magic circle that rose up in Manila City temporarily blocked the soldiers' action of attacking the enemy city. Now, except for the 100,000 naval officers and soldiers who stayed on the fleet's treasure ships and were receiving and counting the large number of treasure ships that had just been seized, the remaining 500,000 soldiers have all arrived and are lined up for orders."

There was a hint of regret in Huang Lan's words.

The main thing is the city of Manila in front of us. Due to the quick response of the enemy commander, who activated the magic protection formation in time, our surprise attack can only be considered half successful.

However, they were able to capture so many enemy treasure ships intact and eliminate the threat posed to their own fleet by enemy coastal defense artillery in the bay.

Although they failed to capture the city of Manila in one fell swoop, the results of this long-distance raid were quite gratifying.

The city of Manila ahead is already trapped in a jar, and it is only a matter of time before we take it down.

"Commander-in-chief, the current war situation is set, and the enemy's defeat is certain. The only thing we are worried about is that according to the intelligence provided by the Military Intelligence Department, there are more than two million Han Chinese living in Manila."

"There are about three million Han Chinese living in various places outside Manila, and they will not be directly threatened by the enemy."

What Huang Lan was worried about was whether the Han Chinese people in Manila would be massacred by the desperate enemy.

"Well, that's a difficult question."

Li Dingguo frowned when he heard this, and after a moment of thought, he had already made a decision. "The only way to eliminate this potential threat is for us to break through the enemy's seemingly good magic protection formation as soon as possible."

"As for the Han Chinese people in Manila, whether they can survive this disaster safely depends on their luck."

"When two armies fight, the sacrifice of innocent people is inevitable. We cannot stop attacking Manila because of our concerns."

"Hum..."

He snorted coldly, a cold light flashed in his eyes, "As long as the white barbarians in the enemy city dare to massacre the Han people to vent their anger, our Fuxing Army will definitely slaughter the white barbarians a thousand times more in revenge in the future, which can also be regarded as revenge for these innocent Han people."

Huang Lan’s worries just now were not groundless.

The white Hu people here in Manila have a history of massacring their Chinese compatriots.

According to undercover personnel from the Military Intelligence Department, the current Manila Governor Coqueira is planning a new round of massacre against Chinese compatriots in Manila.

But in the next war, it is impossible to give up the attack on Manila because of these concerns.

Otherwise, not only would the Chinese compatriots here die, but the white Hu people in Manila would be able to escape.

In a nutshell: it is inevitable that war will affect innocent people, and it has been like this since ancient times.

He couldn't just let the enemy go unchecked and do whatever they wanted because of some concerns.

"Whoosh!"

A figure flew over, saluted Li Dingguo, and said, "Commander-in-chief, our combined fleet's land artillery battalion is already in place and can launch a concentrated fire attack on Manila City at any time!"

The person who came was He Lijing, commander of the Second Fleet.

She served as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Army in the Battle of Jiangbei launched a year ago, and made great achievements in the capture of Yangzhou and the battle of Xuzhou.

It was not until the area north of the Yangtze River was unified by the Fuxing Army that she was transferred to the reorganized Second Fleet of the Navy and served as its commander.

This big world is at least hundreds of times larger than the Earth in Li Dingguo's previous life. Although the city of Manila was built near the harbor, the main city is still about thirty miles away from the coastline. Even the psychic cannons on the treasure ships of the Renaissance Army Navy cannot pose an effective threat to it.

If you want to break through the magic protection formation of Manila City, you need the Marine Artillery Battalion to come and cooperate with the soldiers to use the military killing formation and launch continuous concentrated fire attacks to break it.

This was also the reason why the first and second fleets of the Restoration Army, which had just made a long-distance attack and had just captured all the enemy's treasure ships anchored in Manila Bay and cleared all the fortress coastal defense artillery groups, temporarily stopped the siege operation.

There was no way. Even if they launched a surprise attack under the cover of night, the noise they caused was too great, enough to make the white and barbarian commander in Manila city activate the magic protection formation in time.

"Well, now that the Marine Artillery Battalion is in place, let's start the assault on Manila City immediately."

Upon hearing this, Li Dingguo nodded and gave an order, "The faster our army breaks through the enemy city's magic defense formation, the more we can ensure the safety of the lives and property of the Han people in the city, and vice versa."

How rich is his war experience?

Naturally, we know what is the best option for our side in the current situation where the enemy and we are facing each other.

The only way to most effectively protect the Han people in the city is to capture the huge city of Manila as soon as possible and leave the enemy no time to consider other things.

"Huang Lan, you must immediately arrange for the soldiers of the combined fleet to form five large-scale military killing arrays of 100,000 men and stand by. Cooperate with the Marine Firearms Battalion to jointly launch a concentrated fire attack on Manila City. Maintain a high-intensity attack force and prevent the enemy's magic protection array from having time to recover and replenish its energy!"

"The Manila City ahead is different from what the military intelligence department provided us before. It looks like a magical protective formation with faith crystals as the core energy source. But as long as our army's concentrated fire attack is strong enough, the enemy won't be able to hold out for long."

Li Dingguo speculated that the reason why the city of Manila had the crystals of faith to supply the city defense formation was mainly because the white Hu people who had ruled this large island for nearly a hundred years had successfully preached to the indigenous tribes on Manila Island.

Valid intelligence data shows that the total number of indigenous people living on the entire island of Manila is as high as billions!

Not only had they been initially brainwashed by the white barbarians, but they had also built a large number of churches all over the island. More than half of the natives had become believers of Western religions and were extremely hostile to the Chinese.

Thirty-five years ago, during the Manila purge initiated by Governor Luis, the main force among the executioners who massacred Chinese compatriots were the indigenous tribes that had been successfully brainwashed by the white barbarians.

A total of 2.5 million Chinese compatriots died tragically, most of whom were caused by the indigenous people of Manila Island.

Not only did these natives become the loyal lackeys of the white Hu people, but they also provided them with a large amount of faith power all year round, allowing the white people in Manila to refine a large number of faith crystals every year through the Great Light Array.

It is precisely because of this that with enough and valuable faith crystals, the defense formation of Manila City was able to exert a power many times stronger than that of ordinary defense formations, blocking the original action plan of the Renaissance Army to capture Manila City, making this long-distance raid unsuccessful. Originally, before Li Dingguo was preparing to lead his army in person, he thought that there was no super defense formation in Manila that used faith crystals as the energy source.

As a result, an unexpected event occurred, causing major twists and turns in this round of battle plan.

Otherwise, there would be no need to worry about the safety of Chinese people in the city.

You know, in the Western world, the Crystal of Faith is considered to be the best rare resource for improving cultivation, and can be used by both magicians and fighters.

Moreover, for the white Hu practitioners who take pride in believing in the ancient Western gods, it can be said that there are no side effects at all, and it is more precious than most of the treasures from heaven and earth.

This also resulted in very few towns in Western countries being able to afford the luxury of using faith crystals as energy to power their city defense formations.

In the southeastern offshore area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, except for the unexpected city of Manila, only the city of Batavia, the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company, has a super magic circle that uses faith crystals as the energy consumption of the protective magic circle.

However, Li Dingguo knew better that any city defense formation in the world today had a limit.

At least in front of the hundreds of thousands of troops led by Li Dingguo and the two main fleets, there would be no unbreakable city defense formation.

It just takes some time.

Li Dingguo’s three-piece set of natal artifacts have all been unlocked, and they are not to be trifled with.

With his current cultivation level of late level six, as well as the concentrated fire attacks launched by 500,000 elite naval officers and soldiers and hundreds of spirit bird cannons of the Marine Firearms Battalion, not to mention the city of Manila, even Nanjing, the capital of the Southern Ming Dynasty, could not hold out for long!

Although the super magic protection formation of Manila City is good, its strength cannot exceed that of the Ming Dynasty’s imperial city Jinling.

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief!"...

Huang Lan and He Lijing immediately took the order and left, informing all the soldiers to make final preparations for the attack on the enemy city.

As Governor Coqueira and treasure fleet commander General Wittes in Manila watched in horror, a quarter of an hour later, with the waving of battle flags in the hands of several commanders, hundreds of psychic cannons from the two land-based firearms battalions of the Restoration Army began to roar intensively!
"Rumble..."

Hundreds of psychic shells hit the magic protection array of Manila City in one wave, and then exploded with a deafening roar, which immediately made the light of this super magic protection array flicker in uncertainty!

"Your Majesty the Governor."

General Wittes, who was furious before, turned pale instantly after sensing the powerful attack force of the enemy. He quickly asked Governor Coquila, "The enemy's psychic cannons are too many and extremely powerful, far exceeding our similar cannons."

"How long can our magic protection formation hold out under this intensity of concentrated fire attack?"

This was the first time he had felt such a massive concentrated fire attack from the enemy, so it was understandable that he was frightened.

What are the biggest shortcomings of various ethnic groups of white people in the West?
Without a doubt, it’s the fear of death!

In the wars of the Eastern world, there are many examples of soldiers fighting to the end, or even being completely wiped out.

But this was not the case at all in the wars of the Western world.

Under the constant brainwashing manipulation of the Great Light Church and the Dark Church, in all the wars in the history of the West, the most that can be sustained is about 30% casualties of the soldiers on both sides, and then the defeated side will surrender in a very gentlemanly manner.

After surrendering, the defeated soldiers can be released through operations such as paying ransom or signing a defeat treaty, and they can even receive preferential treatment in prisoner camps.

These operations, which seemed like child's play in the wars of the Eastern world, have become the norm in the Western world.

Over time, the profit-seeking white barbarians in the West developed an extremely fearful personality.

"General Wittes, don't worry."

Although Governor Coquila was also terrified in his heart, he pretended to be calm and waved his hand and said, "Our Manila City Magic Guardian Array is a real super magic array."

"Before the faith crystals stored in the city are used up, there is no need to worry about being breached by the enemy."

"Given the current intensity of the enemy's concentrated fire attack, our city defense formation will have no problem holding out for a few days."

"These powerful enemies who suddenly attacked must have limited magic cores, soul beads and other energy crystals that they could bring with them. It is impossible for them to carry out an uninterrupted concentrated fire attack for several days."

"What I am considering now is not the issue of the city defense formation, but whether we should organize the soldiers and form a military formation to go out of the city and fight back."

"Otherwise, it would be too passive."

He said this, but in fact he was reluctant to let the hundreds of thousands of faith crystals that he had painstakingly accumulated be consumed so easily.

That is a huge amount of top-level cultivation resources that cannot be bought even with money.

Every time they endured a wave of concentrated fire from the enemy, at least hundreds of faith crystals would be consumed, which made the extremely greedy Governor Coquila so heartbroken that he wanted to vomit blood!

Since the establishment of Manila, it has never encountered such a situation. The team was unprepared for the war, and now its shortcomings have been exposed, allowing the enemy to successfully take advantage of the situation and break into the Manila Harbor.

"Go out of the city and fight back?"

General Wittes' eyes lit up, and he immediately agreed, "We have a total of six level six warriors, and the enemy only has three."

"Your Excellency the Governor is now a sixth-level magician and can cast forbidden magic spells."

"I heard that the forbidden spell Meteor Shower that His Excellency the Governor has practiced has amazing group attack effects, which is just right for the current situation."

"The enemy troops outside the city number about 500,000. The combined number of our soldiers is not far behind the enemy, about 400,000."

"There are also hundreds of thousands of indigenous believers and warriors who have settled in the city! We can definitely fight the enemy, and the chance of winning is very high!"

"By the way, Governor, judging from the enemy's flag, who are these enemies?"

He had spent most of his time in America and was not familiar with the various major powers in the Eastern world, so he was completely confused by the super fleet that attacked tonight.

(End of this chapter)