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Chapter 338 Cebu
Fort San Pedro, Cebu Island.

The governor of the Philippines, Regaspi, was in a bad mood. In a few days, he dropped most of the porcelain cups in the castle. The servants had to hide the rest of the porcelain and replace them with silver ones. Knock Knock can still be used.

After all, it may be difficult for them to buy porcelain for a long time in the future-they have started a war with their imaginary enemy country in the most unimaginable way.

But don't get me wrong, Legasby's bad mood wasn't because his grandson was captured and killed instantly.

"That Chen Mu is a lunatic. He sailed to the Philippines to fight in the rainy season. My God, he can do stupid things! Mr. Pedro Sarmento, the mayor, do you know what is more stupid than this?"

Mayor Sarmento of Manila, who escaped the siege of East Asian pirates by boat from Manila and escaped back to Cebu Island, stood tremblingly in front of Regaspi, wiping the fine sweat from his forehead like a sheep in front of a tiger, and quickly echoed Said: "Sorry, Your Excellency Governor, I don't know anyone who is more stupid than Chen Mu."

"You do not know?"

The aged Legasby was like a violent lion, with light yellow beard and blue eyes, but his eyes were full of anger at this time. After asking a question, he slammed his fist heavily on the table and roared: "The more stupid is We let them win!"

From beginning to end, this battle was a complete mockery for Legasby.

To be the governor of the Philippines as an adventurer, Regasby asked himself wise enough or cunning enough.

After receiving Chen Mu's letter asking him for compensation, he laughed it off and spent a few days seriously thinking about it, carefully deducing the various situations that will happen next in his heart-it's just that the physiological person arrived in Manila after October , their weak fleet would be defeated by the Spanish fleet at sea.

Even if the lucky ones successfully landed, they would have to pay a high price, and then besieged in the jungle with their outdated muskets and a small number of arquebuses, as well as rockets with negligible damage.

According to Regasby's estimate, this war will last for a long time, half a year to a year, because the country of the biological man is very large, he is not like those bald missionaries who are blindly arrogant to their own side, there are many people in the Ming Dynasty, and the military strength It must have been huge too, but that didn't work for him.

As long as Manila is not lost in the first half of the war, when the navy from the Iberian Peninsula blocks the island from the sea in the second year and destroys their supply lines, these people will starve to death in the jungle and become a large pile of cheap fertilizer .

Just a month ago, in his letter to King Philip II, he mentioned in a mocking tone the joke that the Ming general Chen Mu asked him for 27 taels of compensation, and hoped that Manila, the city he personally shaped, could Obtained the coat of arms of the king and established it as the capital city of the East Indies.

Without receiving any news, Manila sent a battle report, and was frustrated by the bravery of the biological army on the way to attack Suleiman.

They are all physiological people, but no one told Regasby whether it was the army of biological people who crossed the ocean or the mercenaries of biological people on Luzon Island. He thought it was the result of untrained servants, but he didn't expect—— What he saw was not a rout.

There was no rout at all, only a small boat of people fled and brought back the news that Manila was captured by the Ming army and the main road was blocked by countless pirates.

Before the Governor of the Philippines even realized the war had begun, the war had already ended with him losing the capital.

Is there anything more stupid than this in the world?
Legasby couldn't imagine it.

"I don't want to blame you, but as you can see, with the huge infidel army landing and the fall of Manila, for His Royal Highness, the Philippines is out of control." Legasby lowered his fingers, pressing them on the table as if Wanting to impress, "We only have San Pedro."

Fort San Pedro is not worth mentioning compared to the planned royal city. This is the stone fort that Regaspi first landed and built.It is also a bastion type, but its circumference is only 370 meters. One side faces the sea and the other side faces the land. As the first fortress to defend against the Sulu people's attack, the defense of this stone fortress requires a lot of artillery.

But now what Regasby lacks the most besides fighters is artillery.

"We will defend until next spring, 670 soldiers and 27 artillery pieces, I sent the best things to Manila, and now Manila has fallen." Regasby asked the city magistrate Sarmento: "Have you seen the physiology?" Human army, besides standing there and wiping your sweat, do you have any better suggestions?"

seen?

Sarmento has never seen it!

He even dared to guarantee that none of the people who fled back saw the army of physiological people with their own eyes. All he saw was the damned Li Dan and those Japanese. He couldn't see anything clearly under the night except for the light of artillery fire. I can only know from the reports of my subordinates that dozens of ships loaded with artillery are rampaging in Manila Bay.

Then they lost Manila, and he got away with saving a life by making a quick escape.

But he couldn't tell Legasby that, and who knew if the old bastard, already on the verge of madness, would hang him as soon as he knew the truth.

There are no cultivated aristocrats in the Philippines. The real aristocrats all stay on the Iberian Peninsula. Who will come here?He even dared to swear to God that the physiological generals on the opposite side were the same. They must be the most dangerous bastards who are not liked in the country, so they were sent here to die.

"Mercenaries, Your Excellency, we need brave mercenaries." Samento leaned his upper body forward slightly, tilted his head and said, "If you are willing to pay three thousand silver coins, I just know a mercenary leader. Employed by the Portuguese, fighting in the Mughals, which is very close to us, it takes only a month or two to reach the Philippines."

"There is no artillery, but he is well-equipped and heroic. If you can pay him silver coins first, I think he can bring six companies, or even more."

"You are not as useless as you look, Mr. Samento." Regasby raised his hand and hammered on the table, saying: "Recruit him, three thousand silver coins, and let the merchant buy artillery from the Portuguese at the same time, if the merchant If you can go to sea."

Sarmento opened his mouth and hurriedly said: "But there are still some minor problems, for example, the mercenary leader is called Diego, Diego from Madrid."

Diego?
Regasby's excited expression cooled down, and he said, "Is that Diego who came back alive from Vinadaga and was accused of treason and imprisoned in the Inquisition? He seems neither pious nor loyal."

"But he has skilled fighters, sir."

"Go, write a letter for him to come over, but you don't have to go, I still need you to do something." Regasby looked at Sarmento and smiled, and said: "I need you to go back to Manila, and that Ask Chen Mu's biological general to talk, if I don't hold him accountable for attacking Manila, can we make peace?"

(End of this chapter)