"Why, how did it happen like this? How did the good Cavite become like this? What happened? Tagawa, did you do all this? Baga! Baga... "
The person who jumped on his feet and cursed "Baga" was not a Japanese, but Anthony Van Diemen, the governor of the United East India Company.
He never dreamed that an ordinary landing operation would turn into a massacre of the profits of the United East India Company!
When Anthony Van Diemen excitedly disembarked from his flagship Hector, he saw that the originally prosperous commercial port of Cavite had now been turned into a hell on earth.
Almost all the shops had been burned and must have been robbed. There were corpses everywhere on the street, blood stains everywhere, and fire everywhere.
What made Anthony Van Diemen even more unbearable was that Tagawaemon, who could speak Dutch, told him that there were more dead people outside the west gate of the Eighth Chinatown... There was a whole trench. There are dead people inside! The west gate of Balian Chinatown is almost blocked by dead people.
When he was talking, Anthony Van Diemen had already left the port area and was walking on the streets of Cavite. He saw the body of a man who looked like a Spanish businessman lying on the ground, and there was a headless female body beside him. Look. The skin color should be that of an indigenous woman - Europeans doing business in Southeast Asia rarely bring families, and usually keep a few mistresses or buy several concubines in the local area.
"That's a businessman...and his woman!" Anthony Van Diemen's eyes turned red. He stopped and said in an extremely angry tone, "You barbarians are so outrageous. , if you still have any civilization, you should kidnap them, torture the woman, and force the businessman to pay a sufficient ransom!"
He is really civilized, not killing people randomly, but kidnapping and extorting!
"Governor, it was not my people who did this... My people are all civilized people and are very familiar with the job of kidnapping!" Tagawaemon also felt helpless. The Yamada Party was so jealous of killing people that he There is nothing we can do!
If he can stop the Yamada Party, he will never let the Yamada Party kill people randomly. Although Chuan is also a Japs, he is really a civilized Japs and rarely does kidnapping and extortion... Only maritime merchants who are unwilling to pay protection fees may be kidnapped. If they pay protection fees, You won't be kidnapped. Zheng Zhilong has integrity!
If other forces kidnap the businessmen protected by Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong will also step in to smooth things over. If anyone doesn't give face, then Zheng Zhilong will send troops to annihilate them.
"Who is that?" Anthony Van Diemen asked.
"It's a member of the Yamada Party... It's Yamada Chotai, the son of the Liukun King Yamada Nagamasa. He didn't know when he went into exile in Luzon and defected to the Spanish. But when we landed at noon today, Yamada Chang Tai thought that we were the real army of the Japanese Tokugawa Shogunate, but he turned against us and defected to our side. The Spanish sent Pampanga people to massacre the Japanese towns in Cavite. As a result, the Yamada Party went crazy. I can't stop killing people at all."
"Damn..." Anthony Van Diemen gritted his teeth, "Why did you forget the Yamada Party? Where is Yamada Chotae? Where is he?"
Tagawa Ubei said: "He led people to attack the Pampanga village."
"What?" Anthony Van Diemen rolled his eyelids, "He is still going to massacre?"
Tagawa shrugged, speechless. Yamada Nagata and his Japs are addicted to killing. After the Ming army completed their landing, they set out for the Pampanga settlement near Manila to continue the cause of murder and arson.
"What about Commander-in-Chief Qin and Vice-General Zheng?" Anthony Van Diemen asked, "Are they not taking care of them either?"
Tagawa smiled bitterly; "Vice General Zheng wanted to take care of it, but General Qin didn't want to interfere... He thought it would be good to let the Yamada Party kill him once to establish his authority."
What? Establish authority?
No ransom required?
"Boom boom boom..."
Just when Anthony Van Diemen wanted Tagawa to take him to see Qin Yiming and Zheng Zhilong, the sound of artillery shelling suddenly came from the Santiago Fortress.
Tagawa Youbei turned around and looked, "It's the Spaniards who are bombarding the Eighth Company Chinatown with cannons."
Anthony Van Diemen stopped talking nonsense with Tagawa and hurriedly walked towards Balian Chinatown. Before they even reached the Ming Army's Chinese Army Camp, which was setting up defenses to the west of Eighth Company's Chinatown, a fire had already broken out in Eighth Company's Chinatown.
"Damn Spaniards!" Anthony Van Diemen's expression changed again, "They are firing arson bombs... They are all a group of destructive maniacs!"
Tagawa Youhei quickly followed and said to Anthony Van Diemen: "Most of the people in Chinatown have already evacuated. Today they also participated in blocking the Spanish and Pampanga people in Cavite from evacuating into Fort Santiago. Fight and kill many Spaniards and Pampangas!”
"Why stop them? Wouldn't it be better to let more people into the city?" Anthony Van Diemen muttered in a low voice.
If more people enter the city, they will get more meat votes when they surrender in the future! You can let that crazy Spain redeem it with American money!
On the way to Luzon, he had already calculated that this time he would extort a ransom of at least 20 million silver pesos!
It's great now, all the meat tickets are almost gone, where can I get ransom?
...
"Lu Peter, please go into the city and tell Governor Coquilla that this time the Ming Dynasty, Japan, and the Netherlands are joining forces to attack him. He cannot hold the Santiago Bastion... and our Ming Dynasty Our soldiers are the best at attacking forts. We can take down his fortress in 15 days. So don’t let him take any chances. He should leave the city and surrender as soon as possible. Don’t let the explosive bombs blow him up!"
When Anthony Van Diemen and Tagawa Youbei arrived at the central camp of the Ming army, the commander-in-chief Qin Yiming took his staff to survey the terrain and prepare to find a place to dig an approach trench. The deputy general Zheng Zhihu was talking to Lu Peter, who had known him for a long time. Zheng Zhilong had also been with the Spaniards in his early years and had been to Manila. Later, he felt that it was too dangerous, so he took people away. However, he has been doing smuggling business with Manila, so he maintains a relatively good relationship with Peter Lu.
Now, Zheng Zhihu wants another opportunity for his old friend to make a great contribution - to persuade the Spaniards in Fort Santiago to surrender.
"Governor Diemen is here... let me introduce him to you." Zheng Zhihu saw Anthony Van Diemen entering the tent and quickly introduced him to both parties.
"This is Mr. Dimen, the Governor of Batavia of the United East India Company. This is Mr. Peter Lu, the richest man in Manila..."
Peter Lu almost cried when he heard what Zheng Zhihu said about the richest man! After all this trouble, bankruptcy is not far away. How can I get rich again? And now he has to be forced into the Santiago Fortress to persuade him to surrender. It is very likely that he will never return!
Dimen greeted Lu Peter and said to him: "Mr. Lu, please tell Governor Coquilla that our East India Company can guarantee that all Spaniards who lay down their arms can be redeemed at a reasonable price. So their lives are guaranteed.”
Peter Lu was still crying, no matter how he looked at this matter, he was in doubt!
"Go ahead and give it a try..." Zheng Zhihu said with a smile, "If it works, your family will still be the richest man in Manila! If it doesn't work, the Spaniards won't do anything to you, because within 15 days at most, we will We can send explosive bombs into Manila."
15 days at most, Peter Lu was a little skeptical. This is a bastion! What to use to attack?
However, he didn't dare to disobey Zheng Zhihu's orders, and he would still point to the Zheng family for protection in the future!
It’s true these days, nothing is reliable, not even the Spaniards, and they actually surrounded Manila.
.......
"What? 15 days? How is this possible?"
Governor Coquilla is still very confident in the strength of the Santiago Fortress, "Let alone 15 days, even if it takes 150 days, the fortress I hold on to will not be broken by the barbarians from the east. This is impossible! And once it happens Let His Majesty Philip IV know the atrocities of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will be overwhelmed by the wrath of the King of the World! "
