Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 723 Decided to attack Luzon, bravely fight the barbarians!

Because it has only been two months since the Spaniards conspired to massacre the Ming people in Luzon, and the Spaniards did massacre the Ming people on the island again in later history, so Aimee Zhu pays special attention to the things in Manila.

After hearing Zheng Sen's words, she immediately took the telegram and read it.

The content of the message is not much, but it points out that the lurking personnel and hoarding weapons of the Manila Jinyiwei are very likely to be discovered by the Spaniards.

Chen Jitai, the governor of the South China Sea, suggested immediately dispatching troops to the sea near Manila to prevent the Spaniards from massacring the islanders again.

After reading it, Aunt Zhu didn't care that it was almost noon, so she immediately summoned the Minister of Military Affairs to discuss the matter.

A quarter of an hour later, the seven military ministers all came to the Hall of Martial Arts.

After understanding the situation, Li Yan was the first to say: "Your Majesty, I agree with the suggestion of the governor of the South China Sea—this matter concerns the lives of tens of thousands of overseas Chinese, and there must be no chances."

Ye Tinggui followed and said, "It will take at least five or six days to transfer troops from Dongfan Island to Manila. Therefore, this matter should not be delayed. One day later, the previous massacre in Manila may happen again."

Yuan Jixian asked: "How many troops and warships do the Spaniards have in Luzon now? We rush to attack, can we be sure?

If we fail to win, not only will we not be able to save the tens of thousands of overseas Chinese, but it will also have a very bad impact in Southeast Asia and the country. "

Obviously, Yuan Jixian is still on the conservative side, or he hopes that this matter will be done in a more stable manner.

Li Yan said: "The Military Information Department has already investigated the Spanish troops, battleships, forts and other military arrangements in Luzon.

Because Spain mainly used Luzon as a transit base for navigation, colonization was only incidental, so there were very few warships left in Luzon.

In the past one or two years, in response to the pressure from our Daming Navy, we increased the number of Tier [-] warships to six.

Spain does not have Tier 36 warships, but there are 100 cruisers (also called frigates, actually light warships, depending on their mission) and more than [-] gunboats in Luzon.

Its military strength on Luzon Island is 500 regular troops, and there are about 2 natives and ronin as thugs and cannon fodder.

But whether it is ships or troops, they are distributed all over Luzon Island, not concentrated in Manila..."

After Li Yan's explanation, Yuan Jixian and other military ministers from the cabinet discovered that Spain's military defense in Luzon did not seem to be difficult to break through.There are not many warships and troops, and they are scattered everywhere, that is, coastal defense artillery, forts and other fortifications are difficult to attack.

However, as long as the Ming army defeated the Spanish squadron in Luzon, they could easily destroy those coastal defense forts and fortresses with ship-borne heavy artillery.

As long as Ming's army can land, the Spanish regular army, Turpans, and Ronin mercenaries on Luzon Island will not matter at all...
After more than half an hour of discussion, Aunt Zhu stood up and said, "Since you have no more objections, the Military Affairs Council will dispatch troops as soon as possible to Manila to protect our Ming citizens!"

"According to the order!"

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Zhaowu five years, July [-]th.

At this time, it has been six days since Lin Tianyou sued Chen and Lin for hoarding weapons, and the Spaniards bombarded the settlement of Balian.

Looking from the sky, under the dense cloud, the eight-unit residential area with a radius of more than three miles, whether it is the town in the middle or the surrounding villages, are all in ruins.

Governor Diego and Oscar stood together on the highest watchtower of a fortress, scanning the ruins over and over again with a monocular, but they couldn't even see a single person.

Oscar gritted his teeth and said: "These hateful pigs from the Ming Dynasty have almost turned into gophers. Almost all the houses in the Eighth Alliance have been bombarded and collapsed. They can't even be forced to show up."

Diego didn't need to look at Oscar's expression to know how angry and aggrieved he was.

Because Diego also felt angry and aggrieved.

In the past six days, except for the first day when they bombarded the settlement of the Eight Unions twice, they bombarded them at least three times every day thereafter, which turned the villages and towns of the Eight Unions into ruins.

In addition, every day they would urge Pampanga and Ronin to rush in to find and hunt Ming people who were hiding—whether they were Ming people or Minyong, they would kill them when they saw them.

In the first two or three days, they did kill many Ming people, about three to four thousand in total, but most of them were ordinary people.

But after three days, the Ming people became very difficult to kill, while the casualties of the Pampanga and Ronin skyrocketed.

As of today, more than 800 Japanese ronin have been killed or injured, and nearly [-] Pampanga people have been killed or injured!
In addition, Oscar watched a certain battle yesterday that drew out the musketeers of the Mingren Brigade, and decisively sent more than 100 Spanish soldiers into it.

As a result, not only failed to annihilate the large group of Ming musketeers, but also caused heavy casualties to one's own side. More than 100 Spanish soldiers finally survived and only a dozen survived!
This battle directly terrified the Spaniards, Pampanga, and Japanese ronin, and they never dared to enter the ruined Eighth Union, so they had to stop fighting yesterday.

To say that in that battle, Mingren's fighting skills were really not that good, not to mention far worse than the Spanish soldiers, even worse than the Japanese ronin.

Of course, Ming people are not afraid of death.

Not to mention those musketeers, many Minyong held big knives, directly pushed through two platoons of guns, and rushed into the formation of Spanish soldiers to kill them.

It should be noted that at that time, although the more than 100 Spanish soldiers did not pose in the famous Spanish infantry phalanx due to the terrain and the threat of Ming people squatting guns and muskets, they were still fighting in an organized manner.

The Ming army swordsmen rushed and beat randomly, just relying on their fearlessness of sacrifice and fear of death, they defeated more than 100 Spanish soldiers.

Many Spaniards are unwilling to believe that these are the Ming people who were allowed to oppress and humiliate them before.

However, the facts were in front of them, and they had to believe it.

Afterwards, fear of the unknown began to breed in the army.

Fortunately, God bless them, they waited for a "good weather" - today is cloudy, and there will be heavy rain soon.

Boom!

The sound of thunder came to mind, and then lightning illuminated the ruins of the Eight Unions.

Oscar became excited, and said loudly: "The torrential rain will fall in a while, and the rain will flood the cave. Let's see where these Ming country gophers will hide!"

Diego was not so optimistic, and reminded: "Don't be too happy - our matchlock guns won't work well in rainy days, and the only thing we can rely on is the advantage of artillery and the number of soldiers."

In order to quell the "rebellion" of the Ming people in Manila, in the past few days, Diego spent a lot of money to get all the aborigines who were hired for reasons around him, and now he has accumulated an army of tens of thousands of aboriginals in Manila.

Therefore, Diego believes that they still have an advantage in the number of troops.

wow~
After the thunder and lightning, the rain poured down.

Oscar shouted: "Your Excellency, don't worry, today I will let the cannon bombard them a few more times, and then send out those natives—today, I will definitely let these Ming pigs die!"

After speaking, Oscar turned around and left.

Not long after, the surrounding cannons rang out, bombarding the ruins of the eight joints with flowering shells.

At several entrances and exits of the ruins of the Eight Unions, large groups of indigenous men, holding cold weapons, squatted or stood in the rain, all showing expressions of awe and excitement.

They were in awe of the Spanish cannon.

But they were extremely excited about the upcoming robbery and killing.

As for the power of the Ming people, they just came here two days ago, so they don't know, or they don't believe it after hearing it.

After several rounds of shelling, the rain was also a little lighter. Under the command of the Spanish military officer, tens of thousands of natives rushed into the ruins screaming.

It was also at this time that clay figurines emerged from the ruins of the Eight Unions, their gazes determined...

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)