The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 682 Old routine, sneak attack
There are about 500 Spanish soldiers in Manila, another [-] local native soldiers, and hundreds of Japanese soldiers. The total number of soldiers is in the early [-]s.

Since taking possession of the senior officials, Ding Yi has been asking them to sell sugar to Luzon, and at the same time inquire about news and arrange detailed operations.

Manila itself is a harbor city built on the Pasig River. After the Spaniards invaded and landed, they built castles and forts on the south bank of the Pasig River. The whole city stretches across the two banks. There are six bridges connecting the two sides. There are castles and forts in the south. If foreign enemies want to invade the mainland of Mani, they will inevitably be bombarded indiscriminately by the fort.

Even if you enter the city of Manila, there is still a city within the city, which is the city of Spain.

Spanish King City, also known as City City, is a castle established by Spanish colonists in 1595. It covers an area of ​​only one square kilometer and is located between Rizal Park and Pasig River. At that time, only Spaniards and people of Spanish descent were allowed to live.

In the northwest of the city, there is Fort San Diego, which was destroyed by the pirate Lin Feng, but was rebuilt by Xiyi with stones, and it took three years to complete.

Now it is quite strong, with many forts and cannons. The thickness of the city wall is only ten meters, and it cannot be broken by the artillery of later generations.

When Ding Yi did not leave, he and Zhao Dashan studied for two days how to enter Manila with the least cost.

If you enter from the front with a fleet, you will inevitably be bombarded by the fort on the south bank, and after entering, you will be bombarded by Fort San Diego.

Like their third-tier battleships, none of them can go in, because the city is built on top of a river, connected by six bridges in the middle.

If you go in, you may hit the bridge. If the bridge is broken, it's okay. It's not worthwhile to hit a third-tier battleship.

Finally, after discussing with everyone, they decided to use the old routine and sneak attack.

Use sneak attacks to reduce losses, just like hitting big players.

As mentioned earlier, on Heping Island in the Sheliao area of ​​Keelung in the north of Dayuan, the Spaniards discovered Sandiaojiao in 1626, occupied Beidayuan Chicken Coop in the same year, and built the city of San Salvador.

Then Ding Yi captured the Netherlands and threw an olive branch to the Spaniards. At that time, Ding Yi's idea was not to offend two European powers at the same time, but to stabilize the Spaniards first.

But at the same time, Ding Yi adopted a strategy similar to that of the Dutch in history, forbidding Chinese businessmen to do business with the Spanish.

All Chinese merchant ships that have been to the chicken coop will not get the sugar and buckskin of the big man.

After doing this, there is nothing to make money on the chicken coop, but the garrison consumes too much.

Therefore, in the original history, in 1637, in order to reduce expenses, the Governor of the Philippines, Coquila, decided to reduce the number of troops and demolished a castle in order to reduce expenses. The Dutch saw the opportunity and immediately sent troops to attack in 1641. It retreated again, and after 1642, the Dutch brought a large number of cannons to attack again, and finally forced the Spaniards to surrender and monopolize the big players.

Of course, Ding Yi did not attack Spain in the past few years, and he often provided sugar to Spain. The officials also had many Spanish merchant ships, and they established a good friendship with the city of San Salvador.

San Salvador city guard Dole was Zhao Dashan's first major customer, and the relationship between the two parties has always been good.

In fact, Dan Ding Yi never forgot to take down San Salvador, but because it was too far away and in the north, he was slow to move.

And the Spanish in San Salvador are the same as in history. Because of Ding Yi's blockade, they can only get a small amount of sugar from Ding Yi, and they have no chance to make money. Yes, it was not handed over to the Western government, so in 1637, they reduced the number of troops and demolished a castle as in history.

Now the defense of the chicken coop is empty.

So Ding Yi and Zhao Dashan concluded that they first attacked San Salvador, and then attacked Manila with Spanish ships and military uniforms.

At this time, the ships of the majority of the navy had already gone to Tai O, and Zhao Dashan was not in a hurry to send troops, because the Chinese in Luzon and the Xiyi were still fighting without stopping. Ding Yi didn't know what was going to end, but the last batch The surrender of the Chinese is close to August to October.

And at this time, more than 3000 Chinese were opening new fields for Ding Yi in Dayuan. Naturally, he was not in a hurry to send troops. If Manila was captured so early, these people would definitely go back to Manila again.

So Zhao Dashan used the excuse of not enough warships for the navy to set off, so he dragged it first.

When it was dragged until July, the ships that went to Tai O also returned.

Come back with the ship, five hundred naval divisions of the Ming army and Sein Fei.

According to Seinfeld, they went well. They went to the west of the Philippines, passed through Manila, and returned from the east of the Philippines.

On the way there, there happened to be a massacre in Manila. Along the way, they encountered Chinese merchant ships and asked them to attack Manila, but Seinfeld refused on the grounds of military affairs and said that they could protect their safety.

But he is also smarter. When the Chinese businessman asked who they belonged to, Song Fei said it was Zheng Zhilong.

At that time, Zhao Dashan's face was full of black lines, you can't do this, if you let Zheng Zhilong know, you will misunderstand again.

Sein Fei scratched his head, I remember that when Mr. Ding did bad things, he always reported other people's names, I also learned from it.

Zhao Dashan was speechless.

But at this time, he didn't have time to take care of it. Seinfeld and the others traveled with the wind for most of the time, and it took 56 days to reach Tai O.

No ships were lost in the middle, but a dozen people died.

In recent years, Ding Yi's navy has become stronger and stronger, and he is actually very experienced in handling sea navigation. However, many Mongols, Jurchens, and Fanren have never experienced such a long voyage, and they still died a wave.

When we arrived, we landed at Darwin Port in later generations. Fortunately, there was a map drawn by Ding Yi for the location, otherwise it would be really hard to find.

They named it Tai O Port, and then began to build a city and camp near the port.

According to Ding Yi's method, the local aborigines were first captured as migrant workers.

In the local area, they will not exchange food and things like in Dayuan. They will use cannons and swords to conquer the aborigines just like the European powers in history.

When Priel, Mutu, and Duoqi launched their campaign to conquer the natives, Seinfeld rested for a few days and returned with the fleet.

According to Ding Yi's instructions, every year from now on, the senior officials will send a fleet to Tai O once or twice, and they will choose the season with good wind to transport some supplies and manpower there.

"It took us more than 80 days to return." Seinfeld said in a deep voice, "Fortunately, we brought a lot of dried sweet potatoes and orange peels."

Citrus peels are a specialty of Jeju. They are dried and processed. They are sweeter and can be stored for a long time. The key lies in the sea, which can supplement vitamins and prevent diseases.

"It's good to come back, and I will go to see the results next year." Zhao Dashan didn't care, he couldn't reach Da'ao now, and they had to do a good job in Luzon.

After the warships of the Ming army came back, Xu Gonglie urged them to send troops many times, but Zhao Dashan refused because of the weather.

At this time, these more than 3000 Chinese have planted thousands of acres of rice and sweet potatoes in Dayuan, and cultivated a lot of fertile land. In the early stage, Ding Yi only received 10 taels of silver. wisdom.

These Chinese may not settle here after hoarding the fields. After that, these fields may belong to Ding Yi.

It dragged on until the end of October, and the weather was slightly cold. Zhao Dashan finally decided to send troops, but not to attack Luzon first.

At the end of October in the 13th year of Chongzhen (1640), Xu Erxian, Song Fei, Pilut and other generals led seven naval warships (including three third-class battleships), and requisitioned Xu Gonglie and his ten Chinese merchant ships with [-] soldiers and horses. Ship guns, with another fifty guns, conquered the city of San Salvador.

For World War I, Seinfeld unloaded thirty 32-pound guns that defended the city, all of which were built by the Portuguese in Macau. The other 42-pound guns were too big to be moved around, so forget it, because Zhao Dashan Evaluation is almost enough.

In early November, a warship of the Ming army, led by the third-class battleship Tainan, suddenly appeared outside Heping Island.

The Spaniard was shocked.

What happened in Luzon at this time has long been spread here, but the Spaniards didn't take it to heart, because the Ming court never cared about the lives of the common people and the common people, and even Zheng Zhilong on the other side didn't respond, let alone have a relatively close relationship with them. What about Zhao Dashan?

Therefore, when so many ships suddenly appeared, they were caught off guard immediately.

Especially when they saw the huge third-tier battleships, their two warships in the port did not dare to leave the port at all.

Dole Gonzalez, the commander of the garrison, saw that it was a warship of the Ming army.

He is the first VIP customer of Da Yuan Selling Pot, and he is an iron buddy with Governor Zhao.

He was preparing a small fishing boat and wanted to send someone to ask the Ming army. Suddenly, boom, boom, the 32-pound and 42-pound cannons on the third-tier battleship of the Ming army opened fire one after another.

There are more than 100 guns on the three third-tier battleships, and more than 70 guns fired from one side of the ship, almost continuously roaring.

At the same time, the civilian ships on the other side landed from the east of Heping Island with infantry and other artillery, and circled behind the defenders.

The forts on the city of San Salvador are all 32-pound guns and 24-pound guns, which are not as powerful as the naval guns of the Ming army, and there are only eight guns.

The key point is that the Ming army preemptively struck. More than half of the first wave of artillery hit the city of San Salvador. The city of San Salvador was riddled with holes, and several artillery pieces were useless.

San Salvador City reacted at this time and quickly fought back.

But the Ming army was too numerous and fierce, and he could withstand it in a small city of San Salvador.

The key point is that in order to reduce expenses, they demolished a city and reduced their troops.

There were only more than 200 people in the entire city of San Salvador at this time.

The Ming army fired heavy artillery and killed more than a dozen Western troops in the first round. Because the Ming army fired so fiercely, the Western army hardly dared to stand on the fort.

Because in this era, no one's navy, like the Dutch, used two tiers of third-tier battleships to install dozens of 42-pound and 32-pound large-caliber artillery.

As mentioned earlier, warships of such a large size in other European navies are basically flagships, and they cannot go ocean-going.

The Dutch used to have only one in Dayuan, so the Spanish castle design is no problem against ordinary artillery and a small number of cannons.

But Ding Yi successively obtained three ships from the Dutch, and built several more ships himself. This time, the ships were few, but they were almost the most powerful navy in the world.

These giant cannons may not be easy to fight against moving warships, but they are very powerful against fixed castles.

Hundreds of shells flew together in each round, and by the third round, the Spaniards couldn't stand it anymore.

At this time, he saw the Ming army landing on land again. Dole didn't know what happened, but he quickly chose to surrender.

Facts have proved that the Dutch carried too many cannons in history, and it was really useful. Zhao Dashan forced Dole to surrender with only naval cannons.

After the city of San Salvador was captured by the Ming army, Dole already faintly felt something was wrong.

Especially when the Ming army asked them to take off all their military uniforms, Dole knew he was going to die.

On November 1th, keep Song Fei, Zhu Xiangyang, Yao Xinhan and other guards, Zhao Dashan personally led Xu Erxian, Pilut, Yu Liangtai and other generals, and another thirty navy warships, fifty Chinese merchant ships, Dispatched [-] sailors, [-] infantry battalions, [-] people and [-] refugees as auxiliary soldiers, a total of more than [-] soldiers and horses went to Luzon. Zhao Dashan also brought the latest weapon, petrol bombs.

After Ding Yi built this thing, he never even used it in Lushun. There really is no enemy worthy of his use.

Ding Yi now regards him as a secret weapon, and he can use it when he plans to attack Gaizhou City in the future.

Gaizhou and other cities of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are now being imitated by Ding Yi by Huang Taiji. They have dug holes everywhere and built countless blockhouses. It is impossible for ordinary Ming soldiers to capture them.

Huang Taiji also thought that it was impossible for Ding Yi to capture.

Little did he know that Ding Yi had created the ultimate weapon of this era, the petrol bomb.

Zhao Dashan chose to attack in November because of the weather.

When the weather cools down in November, the Ming army can wear iron armor. With the power of matchlock guns in Xiyi at this time, the Ming army can wear cotton armor or lock armor inside the iron armor. Basically, it is impossible to be seriously injured if it is more than 30 meters away. 50 It is impossible to break the double armor even meters away.

In mid-November, the Spanish battleship San Salvador first appeared in the port of Manila, with the Spanish royal flag flying high above it, flying head-on.

The defenders on the fort at the port of Manila saw it with binoculars, and waved their hands to greet them from afar.

At this time, the fighting in Manila had just ended.

Philippine Governor-General Coquico issued an order in April: "Fanhua should be shot or killed."

By August of the 13th year of Chongzhen (1640), according to the government's own statistics, 2.2 to 2.4 people had been killed, the Chinese property loss was at least 700 million pesos, the government looted more than 350 million pesos, and soldiers plundered countless individuals.

At that time, there were more than 4000 Chinese surviving in Manila, and they were concentrated in Santa Cruz and Birenlo by believers and non-believers. Xiyi built a fence in the place where the Chinese lived and asked not to leave half a mile away. In other provinces, Chinese are not allowed to live.

It's like keeping the Chinese in captivity like dogs.

In September, Governor Coquera announced the end of the counter-insurgency victory. While counting the results of the battle, he commended the brave warriors and meritorious personnel.

But soon they discovered that all the Chinese had been killed and raised in captivity, and Manila was paralyzed.

In October, even Governor Coquila found that something was wrong. Now Manila has no barbers, no tailors, no shoemakers, no cooks, no farmers and nomads. Many nobles are calling, we have "no food to eat, no shoes to wear , Even if you pay a very high price, you can't buy it.

(End of this chapter)