Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 240 Recovering Luzon
"Good afternoon Mr. Governor Fernando..."

"Hi ma'am..."

The climate in Nanyang in October is still very warm, and places like Manila are even more warm in the [-]s.

Mani City, this is a new city, but if you really want to go back, people have set foot here as early as the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, on the basis of the Nanyang civilization and the ancient civilization of the Central Plains, it has integrated the Western civilization led by Spain to form a complex culture that combines East and West...

Half a century has passed since the Spanish colonist Li Gaisby landed from Mani in 1571.

Spanish colonists invaded and occupied Luzon, and then built castles and forts on the south bank of the Pasig River in the center of Mani City.

Since then, it has become the capital of the Spanish colonial authorities.

Today's wind is very cool, so the gendarmerie responsible for patrolling the pier is very comfortable, and many nobles are also praying in the cathedral in Manila.

For Governor Fernando de Silva, who has just been in office for three months, such a climate and calm external environment make him very comfortable.

He came to the church as usual, and spoke respect to some noble ladies and young girls, with light eyes.

However, when picking lightly, he saw some Ming people selling fruits near the church.

"Is this too expensive?"

"Ma'am, it's not expensive. These are fruits brought from Daming to Manila and cultivated in Manila. They taste very good."

In front of the fruit stand, some aristocrats who finished their prayers discussed the price with the Chinese with pained faces. Then, while selling fruit in front of Fernando and the others, they took the silver coins handed over by the other party and finally gave change.

There is nothing wrong with doing business and prices are determined by the market.

But seeing these Guangdong and Fujian people who came to Nanyang to beg for a living received the silver coins from the Spanish nobles, Fernando still had a somewhat unsightly expression on his face.

Especially after observing for a period of time, he found that the group of Chinese sold all the fruits in only ten minutes, and then when they pushed the empty cart away, he even said in Spanish to the people next to him:
"These Ming people think they can show off their power in Nanyang by defeating a few warships from the Netherlands (Netherlands) at their doorstep?"

"If it weren't for their too few people and insufficient wealth accumulation, I might have learned from Governor Francisco and killed them all while taking away the gold coins they cheated from us."

"You should really do this. Their country is said to be at war with the Tatars in the north. They don't have much sea power to help these oily sheep." Life.

"Well... wait a little longer, maybe I should make preparations when I leave..."

Fernando stroked his goatee, then turned around and went to the dining place of the church to enjoy a little comfort after prayer.

But while he was trying to enjoy the comfort, a Spanish gendarmerie captain casually glanced at the sea while yawning in the port of Manila with many trading ships.

It was this casual glance that allowed him to spot a dark spot on the horizon in the blink of an eye.

"What? Is it a merchant from the Ming Dynasty in the north?"

The gendarmerie captain walked unhurriedly from the pier to the sentry box, and then looked towards the sea with the binoculars fixed here.

This look instantly made his pupils dilate and then shrink...

"Beep~~~~Enemy attack!!!"

Accompanied by the whistle of the sentry box soldiers, the Chinese peasants and merchants from various countries in the entire pier were stunned for a moment, but at the same time they were stunned, some people hidden in the crowd made a move.

"Fire the gun!"

"Bang bang bang-"

When the dense sound of gunshots sounded, a huge wooden box was smashed open, and more than a dozen sailors holding flintlock rifles fired guns at the captain of the gendarmerie on the guard box and the gendarmerie members under the guard box.

However, at a distance of twenty steps, the three of them were shot down by rifles at the first moment, and all the businessmen on the pier also ran away.

"What happened? Someone attacked or a riot!"

The other teams at the gendarmerie wharf vigilantly picked up their matchlock guns and weapons when they heard the sound of firecrackers and whistles, but before they could react, the Chinese businessman who was still cheerful four weeks ago pulled out from his waist in an instant. The short knife stabbed towards their necks.

When the captain of the gendarmerie came back to his senses, two of the twelve people around him had fallen down, and in front of them were six desperate sea merchants holding short knives.

"Damn! Are you crazy?!"

The captain of the gendarmerie drew his sword and was about to fight the merchant, but at this time there was a booming cannon sound in the distant sea area, and then the roaring stone bullets almost covered the entire pier.

"Boom--"

The dense stone bombs kept falling, and the well-prepared merchants hid behind the bunkers, but the Spanish Gendarmerie and merchants from other countries were killed on the pier in an instant.

Even if there were a few people who survived by chance, the Da Ming merchants' supplementary swords soon let them know what is called internal cooperation and external cooperation...

It's just that it's not enough to break through Manila's defense line, because some Spanish soldiers who responded in a timely manner have already hid in the fort and began to control the artillery to counterattack.

But as the black spot on the sea gradually enlarged, some soldiers on the fort instantly widened their eyes.

At this moment, the sea reflected in their pupils was almost covered by a huge armada.

Hundreds of warships with a total tonnage of more than [-] tons, and more than [-] baggage ships of nearly [-] tons arrived in the coastal waters of Manila, almost covering the entire bay.

Just a breath of hesitation, thousands of [-]-jin artillery guns fired together, and head-sized stone bullets flew out, spanning a distance of two miles, and smashed directly into the defense line of the Manila coastal defense fort.

"Fixed shot reloading, three quarters before the direction, ready... release!"

"Bang bang bang-"

The booming cannons sounded again, and this round of shelling was more violent than the previous round.

Hundreds of warships and more than [-] artillery pieces ranging from ten to twenty-four catties fired one after another, and the stone bullets they fired almost rained down, destroying a large number of coastal fortifications and forts.

Some Spanish gunners were stoned to death before they even had time to fight back. The scene was miserable...

"continue!"

Seeing the fortress of Mani City collapsed under the bombardment of the fleet, Huang Long, the captain of the Ming Navy, observed the battlefield with binocular clairvoyance, and issued military orders sternly.

The gunners on the ship cleaned the barrel in an orderly manner, while on the deck, Li Dan beside Huang Long smiled heartily:
"When these big French people slaughtered the people of my Han family in the early years, did they ever think that I would come across thousands of miles from the sea?"

"Today, it's time for them to suffer retribution!"

What Li Dan was talking about was the massacre committed by the Spaniards out of fear of the increasing number of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty in Manila, also known as the "Dalun Mountain Massacre".

Due to the abolishment of the navy at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty only evacuated overseas Chinese once in the [-]nd year of Wanli, and there was no actual action.

After that, they only threatened the Spanish colonists with words such as "severing the sea", "burning jade and stone", "destroy Busan, and the bones of Banzhou are in sight" in relevant documents to stop the massacre of Chinese, but the Spanish colonists did not take it seriously.

Therefore, no matter how Daming warns, the massacre of the local people still cannot be avoided.

It's just that the way of heaven is reincarnated, and the colonists who like to slaughter other tribes finally suffered a counterattack from Ming Dynasty.

At this moment, thousands of artillery are using the sound of artillery as a roar and stone bullets as punishment, constantly bombarding the fort defense line of the Manila port.

"After destroying the forts around the port of Mani City, our troops can land and fight. As long as the battleship docks, the battle will be over!"

Hearing Li Dan's words, Huang Long also put on a stern face, and confidently stated his tactics.

He didn't look down on the Spaniards, but compared the strength of the two sides and the number of artillery pieces, the Ming Dynasty's four first-class fleets could undoubtedly sweep the entire European navy.

Once the defense line of the fort is lost, after the ten-jin cannon on the Ming army ship is unloaded, the two-step guard horses staying on the troop carrier will drive troops to the island and bombard the city of Manila.

"Bang bang bang-"

When Huanglong opened his mouth, the Spanish forts around the harbor began to fight back.

The distance of the shells fired by the Spanish cannon turret was almost the same as that of the Ming army's [-]-jin cannon, so a Ding-class warship was hit without any precautions, but due to the long distance, the hit did not hit the warship. If too much damage is caused, it only needs to be repaired for a month after the war.

"The shore artillery of this big Frang robot is really powerful!"

Seeing the power of the Spanish coastal defense cannon, Li Dan was a little scared.

"It's not surprising. Many of the cannons in my dynasty are also products of imitating Western cannons a hundred years ago. It's not surprising that the artillery of the big Frang robot can compare with the Yanshan General's cannon in my dynasty. We will continue to study it in the future!"

Huang Long patted the sea water on his body, while Li Dan was concerned:

"Commander, Hongmaoyi's artillery is sharp, you should go to the cabin to take shelter first, and when the army captures the port, you can command the army to attack the city!"

Hearing Li Dan's words, Huang Long shook his head and said with a contemptuous smile:

"What is there to fear from the little barbarians? Within half an hour, these fortresses will all collapse..."

"Bang bang bang-"

While Huanglong was proud, the Ming navy, which had cleaned up the barrels, began to launch a counterattack against the Spanish coastal artillery. At this time, Fernando, the governor of Spain and the Philippines, also came to the defense line of the fort.

But before he could issue any effective military orders, the Ming army's stone bullets fell like a shower again.

Granite stone bombs cleaned the entire fort defense line, and screams rang out incessantly. This made Fernando, who had only taken over as governor for three months, completely lose his previous attitude of clamoring to massacre Chinese, and some were just looking for shelter to hide like a bereaved dog.

"Quick! Load the shells and sink those monster-like ships for me!"

The Spanish captain at the fort urgently directed the gunners to load the shells.

It's not that he is timid, but that the number of warships and artillery of the Ming army is too terrifying. Even if the sea power of the whole of Europe is gathered, it is difficult to repel the opponent, let alone their Far East colony with only two to three thousand soldiers.

"Bang bang bang-"

When the Ming warship was fully loaded, the artillery on the other side of the warship began to bombard the Spaniards' coastal artillery.

Thousands of stone shells fell like hail, even though most of the shells were empty, dozens of shells still hit the shore artillery.

Seeing his side's coastal forts being continuously destroyed, Fernando, who was avoiding and watching the battle, only felt his blood surge.

"Mr. Governor! I think you should consider retreating! Ming's fleet and soldiers are beyond what we can handle. They have too many artillery pieces. Even if you stick to it..."

"Bang bang bang-"

The captain's words were interrupted by another round of shelling by the Ming army, and he could only tremble and hide, taking advantage of the end of the shelling to continue to shout:
"I think we should surrender!"

Seeing that the forts on the coast were destroyed one by one, the captain decisively suggested to Fernando.

"Surrender? No! The soldiers of the Castilian Empire will not be defeated, even if the fort is lost! We can still use muskets to tell these Ming people who is the master of this land!"

"Kars, you must shoulder your responsibilities and keep your glory!"

Fernando grabbed the collar of Captain Kars hysterically. Who would have thought that Kars twisted Fernando's hand away and shouted angrily:
"Go to **** glory!"

After all, he threw his helmet on the ground and ran out of the fort alone.

Not only him, but a large number of Spanish soldiers abandoned the fort defense line, because their fort with thirty artillery pieces had been knocked down nine out of ten.

At this moment, they are all trying to escape towards the city of Manila.

As the governor, Fernando, after seeing all the soldiers under his command running away, followed their footsteps and fled to Manila in a panic.

But not long after they escaped from the pier, they saw hundreds of Ming soldiers in armor occupying the city of Manila, and the Spanish soldiers at the city were retreating steadily.

"Damn it! What happened?!"

Fernando caught an escaped employee and asked, but the other party panicked:

"They hid in the cargo and launched an attack when passing through the city gate..."

After finishing speaking, the man pushed away Fernando's hand, and then ran towards the dilapidated buildings outside the city.

At the same time, the artillery of the Ming army also stopped, and one troop carrier began to approach the coastline, and then put down the troop carrier, and groups of naval infantry soldiers began to land on the coastline by boat.

At this moment, there are thousands of troop transport boats on the coastline, and nearly ten thousand Ming troops are crowded on the sea surface, making people unable to see the beautiful sea surface in the past.

Some Spanish soldiers who survived by chance struggled out of the ruins, wiped their faces in disgrace, and when they opened their eyes again, they saw only Ming soldiers landing on the coast.

At this moment, like a red tide, they covered the yellow sand on the beach, and as far as their eyes could see were red mandarin duck battle jackets and shining armor, as well as rifles on their backs and long knives at their waists.

"Beep--"

The observer of the Ming army found the group of Spanish soldiers who survived by chance. He blew the wooden whistle, and then raised the rifle in his hand to shoot.

Facing the black gun barrels and the nearly ten thousand Ming army, this group of disgraced dozens of Spanish soldiers raised their hands without hesitation.

"They are surrendering! Don't fire the guns!"

At this time, the officials of the Siyi Pavilion accompanying the army and some translators under Li Dan stopped the army from shooting, and Huanglong, who heard that he led the army to land, ordered people to disarm them.

More than sixty surviving Spanish soldiers did not resist, and were easily disarmed by the Ming army, and at the same time they squatted obediently in the corner of the ruins.

"Crack-pump-"

At this time, the sound of arrows sounded in the sky, and Huanglong, who had just boarded a boat and landed on the shore, drew out his long knife when he heard the sound, and ordered to the deputy general beside him:

"Bang the drum and march, the gate of the city has been captured by the vanguard."

"Boom—boom——"

Hearing the words, the lieutenant general ordered people to send orders to thousands of households without hesitation, and at the same time ordered the army drummer to beat the drums and march.

The banner of the Chinese Army was lifted up. After hearing the sound of hundreds of drummers, the whole army followed the banner of the Chinese Army and marched towards Manila.

At the same time, on the gate of Manila, a steady stream of Spanish soldiers were besieging Ming soldiers, while the Ming soldiers who were responsible for sneak attacking and seizing the gate relied on tiger squatting guns and rifles to fight back.

Thirty catties of tiger squatting guns were filled with scattered stone bullets, iron ingots, and clusters of iron bones. After igniting the wires, they roared, like harvesting autumn rice, and swept across a group of Spanish soldiers.

Immediately afterwards, the Ming army began to stick to the platoon of guns and defeated the rows of Spanish soldiers.

More than [-] Spanish soldiers besieged [-] Ming troops and [-] pirates under Li Dan's command, but they couldn't move forward for a while.

"kill--"

"Boom...boom...boom..."

While the battle was raging, a large amount of red tide silver armor surged on the building roads outside the city, which made Fernando, who was in a panic at the head of the city, anxiously want to regain the city gate mechanism.

But no matter what he said, the Spanish soldiers could not wipe out the Ming army at the top of the city in an instant.

Even though they had already begun to fight hand to hand, the fierce Ming army was obviously not something that this group of southern European soldiers with an average height of only five feet could resist.

Although the Navy did not require a height of more than five feet six inches like the Shangzhi Sixteenth Guards, the marine guards who needed to land and fight had to be five feet five inches (1.76) or more.

People of the yellow race with the highest testosterone, as long as they keep up with nutrition and train hard, can often burst into strong strength in battle, and are superior to other races in coordination and organization.

In a dynasty with strong martial arts, as long as the generals do not make mistakes, the Han people are natural soldiers.

Therefore, when the Spanish soldiers broke through the platoon line of defense, what the Ming army had to face was not the tall Nordic knights in the eyes of later generations, but a group of low Southern European soldiers wearing simple breastplates and simple military uniforms, each with a head of about [-] meters.

However, the Spanish soldiers in southern Europe have to face naval drafters who are a head taller than them!

"kill!"

The long knife was pulled out, and the iron bones were smashed, like a boulder standing under the turbulent waves. Seeing the arrival of the reinforcements, the Ming army no longer stood firm, but chose to take the initiative to attack.

As long as the military pay is sufficient and the generals are not harsh, they will regain the martial arts of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

It was just a face-to-face meeting, and the three hundred Ming troops on the horse path on the city wall beat back more than two thousand Spanish soldiers.

They were still burying their heads in the rush, and Spanish soldiers were constantly scared back by them, and even stepped on the wall from the wall, fell to the ground and smashed into flesh.

"Flee with me!"

Huanglong led people into the city of Manila, especially the forwards selected from the twelve guards of the navy beside him.

At this moment, hundreds of draft picks with a height of five feet eight inches (1.85) exploded with a huge ability to break the formation.

Without the need for a large army to line up their guns, they rushed up to the city wall with short soldiers in their hands at an elevated angle, pinching and killing the Spanish soldiers who tried to retreat.

It was the first time for the short Southern European Spaniards to see so many tall soldiers. At this moment, they finally knew why Marco Polo called the Central Plains people "the kingdom of adults".

The formation was pierced in an instant, and all that remained was the slaughter.

Behead one person from Xiyi, and reward you with twenty taels of silver...

This was Zhu Youjian's promise before the war, and the so-called Xiyi, in the eyes of the Navy's twelve guards, was far less threatening than the North and Jianlu in the north.

"I surrender!"

"I surrender……"

During the battle, some people tried to surrender, but in front of the red-eyed Ming army, these Xiyi who could not understand the "bird language" were just playing tricks.

Even if someone recognized that their surrender posture was the same as that of the fort defense line, they pretended not to see it for the sake of the post-war head reward.

In the end, two thousand Spanish soldiers were engulfed by the red tide, and the unlucky Spanish governor Fernando fell in the chaos and was trampled to death on the horse road by the Ming army. .

"Pfft..."

Huang Long drew out his long sword, and ended the life of the last Spanish soldier. He wiped his face and said:

"This group of Xiyi has some backbone, but they didn't surrender until they died."

"..." Li Dan hesitated to speak when he heard Huang Long's words, but continued to keep his mouth shut.

When the Spaniards surrendered just now, he saw it, but he stopped the translation under his command because he wanted the Spaniards to experience the feeling of being slaughtered.

Looking at it now, although the massacre was successful, it actually made Huang Long think that this group of Xiyi had grown up...

"Huang Fei!" Huang Long shouted, and the lieutenant beside him put away his long sword and ran over.

"Captain..." Huang Fei bowed in response, and Huang Long put his long sword back in its sheath and said:

"You lead people to ransack all the homes of Xiyi in this city, and let them write letters after they are detained."

After all, Huang Long looked at Li Dan and said, "The ransom matter is up to you to set the price."

"Yes..." Li Dan responded with a smile on his face, then pointed to the city of Manila and said:

"Captain, since the city has been captured, do we need to change its name?"

"Well, of course it is necessary." Huang Long nodded slightly, then took out Zhu Youjian's letter from his arms, opened it again, and put his eyes on the end of the letter and said:
"Honor the military order of His Royal Highness, this city is renamed "Qiyi City", and it will be the governing place of the Luzon Mansion in the future."

"In addition, Huang Fei, you send someone to go north according to His Highness's blueprint, find the gold mine on the map, and send the news pigeon to Nangang as soon as you find it."

"The prince's first birthday is approaching, this gift cannot be delayed."

"The last general takes orders!" Huang Fei responded, and then led the Wanming Army infantry to arrest all the Europeans in the entire Yiyi City, while Li Dan was in charge of leading people to persuade them to write letters to his relatives and friends. Demand a ransom.

The price given by Li Dan is "very in line" with the market, one hundred taels of silver per person, and those who can't afford it should stay in Luzon as a worker to pay off their debts.

In this way, Daming avenged Lu Song, who had been exterminated for half a century, and successfully completed his status as the suzerain state.

As for the remaining Luzon people on this land, Daming will naturally find good jobs for them, so that they can support their families and no longer experience the life of being exploited by European colonists...

(End of this chapter)