New Ming Empire mixed in America

Li Mingqi pretended that he had not said anything, nodded to Ding Yi, and motioned for him to continue speaking.

Ding Yi was relieved to find that His Majesty had no intention of blaming him, so he quickly came up with the next battle plan.

"I hope the airship can lower down a little bit and shoot with a rotating machine gun or drop bombs without small umbrellas."

"If the advance team only has one company, the Spaniards' counterattack will not be too strong. With the threat of airships, a beachhead should be established."

After placing a yellow flag representing the National Defense Forces in the port area, he continued:

"After the beachhead position is stable, I will lead the soldiers of the third regiment directly to press forward. The Imperial Guards..."

At this point, Ding Yi turned back and glanced at Liu Erhe, but did not continue to say the rest.

Liu Erhe thought for a while and nodded directly, saying: "Our Imperial Guard can mobilize two battalions to cooperate with you. Don't worry, they are all good players!"

This was the first time that the Imperial Guard and the National Defense Force fought together, so both of them were very cautious.

It's not like we haven't acted together before, but the Imperial Guard was only responsible for Li Mingqi's safety at that time and was conservative about fighting.

This is the first time that I have seriously participated in a combat meeting.

Li Mingqi listened to the discussion of these people and began to think about the landing craft in his mind.

This kind of beach landing would not be so troublesome if there were special landing craft.

Later, the advance team could only rely on inflatable boats to land on the beach. It was okay here, but if it were a close battle, the casualties would be huge.

In the future, if the enemy uses machine guns, barbed wire, and trench anti-aircraft guns, the Wehrmacht will suffer a huge loss.

After being distracted for a while, Li Mingqi suddenly found that everyone in the conference room was looking at him.

"Your Majesty, if there are no special instructions, I will go down and prepare for battle..."

Ding Yi asked cautiously, because he just rejected Li Mingqi's plan to drop incendiary bombs from an airship, so he was hesitant now.

The commander of the Pacific Fleet, Cheng Yuanliang, was all over the place. Anyway, this was a matter for the Army and had little to do with their Navy.

"Okay, I'll do as you say. By the way, take these young staff officers with you to practice."

After finishing speaking, Li Mingqi saw the eyes of the newly graduated staff officers light up.

For these very confident young staff officers, only having been on the battlefield can they say they are qualified soldiers.

Soon, transport ships carrying the National Defense Forces in the Pacific Fleet began to approach the dock.

Then the transport ship put down one inflatable boat after another, and the selected sharp knife companies would ride these inflatable boats around the dock to land from the destroyed fort.

Because the fort has a natural bunker and is connected to the main road in the port area.

To be honest, if there weren't too many garrison troops in the port area, this attack on Manila port would be no different from previous battles.

Seeing the landing force taking action, Spanish Governor Birmingham, who was inspecting the front line, directly ordered the soldiers to launch a counterattack.

After receiving the order, Colonel Butler almost spat out blood.

I don’t know since when, it seems that it has become normal for these big shots to point fingers during battles.

Launch a counterattack now?

It's good to be able to defend this place, but counterattack?

After spitting secretly, the sullen Colonel Butler had no choice but to obey the governor's order.

But after he finished selecting his soldiers, he received the latest order from Governor Birmingham.

"Waiting where you are?" Butler was really angry this time.

It was not because Governor Birmingham was playing tricks on him, but mainly because he found that there were not many Easterners who landed in the early stage. It seemed that there were only a few hundred people.

"We have to launch a counterattack to drive those Easterners back into the sea when there are fewer people on the other side. If we wait until they gain a firm foothold..."

Unfortunately, no matter how loud Colonel Butler's voice was, it was of no use. The Governor had already announced the order and he could only carry it out.

After the messenger announced the order arrogantly, he ignored Colonel Butler and went back to resume his duties.

This was not the most troubling thing for Colonel Butler. What was even more troubling was that he found that the only troops he could command now were the militiamen he had just selected as death squads.

The remaining soldiers were now in the hands of Governor Birmingham.

After cursing a few times, Colonel Butler suddenly realized that Governor Birmingham might not be ignorant of military matters. He...maybe just...was trying to seize power...

Mudd, all those who engage in politics are dirty!

After losing the right to command the army, Colonel Butler could only stay behind the defense line and smoke in dejection.

He was right. These were the measures of the Governor of Birmingham. There were more than 15,000 people gathered here in Manila, and there were more than 10,000 troops nearby who were gathering towards here.

If so many soldiers were completely in the hands of Colonel Butler, Governor Birmingham might have to sleep with one eye open.

Now he just used some tricks to easily remove Colonel Butler from his army, and now Governor Birmingham is relieved.

"Let the servants in the rear launch a charge and try to drive those Orientals who have just landed back to drink the sea water!"

Governor Birmingham looked at the ruins of the fort with a telescope and found that the Easterners had begun to use readily available materials to build fortifications, so he issued an order that he regretted very much.

Although these servants didn't have much fighting power, they were forced to come from nearby by him, so he didn't feel any pain at all when they consumed them.

So the chaotic army of indigenous servants was gathered.

All the previous servants had fallen on the main road in the port area, so these later indigenous servants were somewhat resistant to the coming battle.

However, after executing a dozen of the most vocal indigenous leaders on the spot, Governor Birmingham successfully 'persuaded' these guys.

"What are you afraid of? There are only a few hundred people there. You can defeat them as long as you rush over..."

Pointing in the direction of the ruins of the fort, Governor Birmingham loudly encouraged these indigenous servants.

Although most of the natives couldn't understand what he said, it didn't matter, as long as the supervising team could understand it.

After seeing that the target of their attack was not the main road in the port area, the resistance of these indigenous servants became much less strong.

Driven by the Spanish war team, these natives temporarily forgot why the fort was in ruins, and launched a charge towards the ruins of the fort with howls.

If Li Mingqi were standing here, he would definitely be able to connect the charge of these indigenous people with the biological crisis.

These indigenous people armed with simple weapons had no formation at all, and filled the entire street leading to the fort with a group charge.

The scene of more than two thousand people charging and screaming was really scary, especially since some of these natives were holding shields and long knives, and it was very rare for them to use muskets.

"Damn it, are these guys crazy?"

A Wehrmacht soldier in charge of a swivel machine gun felt his scalp numb as he watched the native servants rushing towards him.

They did not see the scene where the gunboats approached and shot at the native servants, but they still knew about the loss of four gunboats.

But now that something like this is happening in front of them, the National Defense Forces are still a little uncomfortable.

"What are you doing standing still? Why don't you shoot quickly!"

The squad leader's voice brought the soldier back to his senses, and he habitually held the shooting handle as ordered.