"His Majesty!"
"According to the Jinyi Guardian in the Chen family, except for those who are serving as officials and studying in the Imperial College, no descendants of the Chen family have gone to sea."
While Shen Ruliang and Li Fei were complacent about the burning of Penghu's army granary, and Zhu Yijun here ordered Qi Jimei to lead troops to Wengyuan, Guangdong, Zhang Jingxiu hurriedly continued to report to Zhu Yijun the situation related to the Chen family.
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun looked at Tian Yi: "Where is Dongchang?"
"Dongchang has not received any secret reports that the Chen family's children have moved or transferred their property."
Tian Yi replied at this time.
then.
Zhang Jingxiu took out a private letter and said: "In addition, Weng Yuanbo replied to the minister, but he did not go through the official post, but asked a friend to forward it, so it was delayed for some days, and what Weng Yuanbo said in the letter was This statement is not so much a promise to the minister as it is a promise to your majesty, so your majesty please take a look at it!"
"His Majesty!"
"Actually, although Weng Yuanbo had bad deeds, he was not unfaithful or unwise. It's just that he was really greedy and did not hesitate to play with the people of the world in order to make great achievements and gain great profits."
Zhu Yijun took the letter, read it carefully, then raised his eyebrows slightly and said:
"Excessive!"
"The decree given to Qi Jimei will not be taken back! No matter how honest the Chen family is, they still have to show off to others!"
Zhu Yijun laughed after saying that.
"In addition, we must strictly investigate the leakage of water from the Penghu granary. If these people think that I can't challenge Lu Song, then I can't let them live too peacefully!"
Zhu Yijun continued to give instructions.
"yes!"
…
Lingayen Bay, Hawksbill Port.
"You don't want the court to challenge Lu Song, so you are trying every possible means to defeat Lu Song this time, but you still don't understand His Majesty!"
"In fact, the more you don't want His Majesty to do a certain thing, the more His Majesty will do it. Therefore, if you know His Majesty well enough, you will know that if you cannot succeed in defeating Luzon this time, His Majesty will only use greater means to To regain Luzon at the price!"
"Who will bear the price?"
"Could it be Xiaomin? Of course not!"
"Then it will be us, the big coastal families! And no one can bear the price, unless you really want to rebel and have the guts to overthrow the Ming Dynasty!"
"So, don't underestimate the emperor's determination. If you push him too hard, he may give up his position as emperor and turn the world upside down."
Chen Lin looked at the harbor with the outline of land appearing more and more in front of her, and spoke to Li Wenhe, who was about to be ordered to go here in the name of a merchant ship.
Said.
Chen Lin couldn't help but think of the incident when Zhu Yijun coerced and lured them to massacre them in the palace and forced the emperor to kill Zhang Juzheng's civil servants.
From that moment on, he clearly realized that the current emperor was not an emperor willing to compromise.
"Master Governor, now I am determined to serve the country, and I have completely severed ties with them!"
Li Wenhe said solemnly after hearing what Chen Lin said.
Chen Lin smiled slightly and then patted him on the shoulder:
"Then go! Once we capture the Tortoiseshell City Gate, we will light up the smoke as a signal!"
"yes!"
Li Wenhe then really took an armed merchant ship that was transformed from a warship to Hawkeye Port. Hundreds of swordsmen and axemen selected from Chen Linbiao's camp, disguised as his slaves, also followed him. go.
After Li Wenhe arrived at Tortoiseshell Port, Captain Lada, the commander of Xiyi stationed here, had no doubts. He really just thought that he was a smuggler here because of Chen Lin's relationship, especially after seeing many After the tea and porcelain were moved down, Li Wenhe was allowed to live in Tortoiseshell Port.
But in the early morning of the next day, Li Wenhe really captured the Tortoiseshell City Gate with a hundred swordsmen and axes, and burned thick smoke to let the Ming fleet parked at sea know.
After the Ming fleet learned about Li Wen and the gate of Tortoiseshell Port, they immediately broke into Tortoiseshell Port through wind and waves.
Seeing this, the Xiyi soldiers on the high platform in the city quickly informed Lada of the situation.
After hearing this, Lada hurriedly woke up, and then saw a large number of Ming warships approaching his Tortoiseshell Port, covering the sky and the sun. He was shocked and said: "The damn Easterners have lied to us. They have lied to us. These Ming warships have deceived us." The army did not go to Maris, but came to Tortoiseshell Port. My God, I have five hundred soldiers here!"
"Captain!"
"The city gate was captured by the Easterners who came yesterday!"
Radha was about to despair.
But at this time, a second lieutenant under his command ran to him holding his injured arm and reported another bad news to him.
"Isn't Mr. Li here to trade?"
Rada couldn't help but ask, and then quickly understood: "We have been deceived by the Easterners. Quick, quick, go to Manila immediately and tell the governor that the wealthy families in the Ming Dynasty did not really forgive us, but deliberately deceived us. We have been fooled, none of these damn infidels can be believed!”
boom!
boom!
boom!
At this time, the Ming army had already begun to fire artillery to attack the city. A large number of infantrymen also boarded the wave boats and invaded Tortoiseshell Port over the mountains and plains.
In less than half a day, Tortoiseshell Port was completely occupied by the Ming army, and Lada and others were also captured.
"General Wang, General Zhang!"
"The general is here!"
As soon as Chen Lin arrived at Tortoiseshell Port, he issued a new order, and first named Wang Rulong and Zhang Shijue, the two commander-in-chiefs: "According to the scheduled opportunity, you will immediately bring 20,000 troops each to the east and west to outflank Manila!"
"yes!"
Then, Chen Lin ordered Deng Zilong: "After a day's rest, the old general should continue to take the lead in sending the fleet to Manila!"
Deng Zilong also said yes.
Then, Chen Lin looked at the other generals and said: "Except General Qi who stayed behind to guard Tortoiseshell, and the guerrilla Mao Guoqi led his troops to attack outside Banjara City, the rest, although I will start the day after tomorrow, the navy will use small boats, and the horse infantry will advance along the beach, by land and water. Bingjin, use the tactics Taizu used to defeat Chen Youliang, and make all the twenty additional sailing ships of the Western Yi ours!"
"yes!"
Qi Jin and others immediately said yes.
Stay until the third day.
When Li Wenhe and Chen Lin came to Manila together, they saw the Ming Army's land and horse infantry heading south in both directions from the Tortoiseshell Port in the northwest of Luzon Island. Along the way, carrying There were so many artillery carts that one could not see the beginning or the end, and the rows of advancing artillerymen seemed to be being spit out continuously by the city gate of Tortoiseshell Port. A large number of Ming army banners were densely packed into a forest, and in the Under the sea breeze, it is even more flying.
at the same time.
There are a large number of Guangdong ships in the coastal and offshore areas also heading south, and the ships are filled with ready-to-go divine fire crows, rocket launchers and large ship-borne bronze cannons.
Luis, the Spanish governor of Manila, was surprised when he learned that the Ming army occupied Tortoiseshell Harbor first.
"We were deceived. The Ming army did not come directly to Manila, but allowed the Ming army to land in advance. Now it is difficult to fight! The key is not just the naval battle!"
Archbishop Lei Shili couldn't help but said with a depressed face at this time.
Lewis looked solemn and kicked Du Gongyan, a representative of a wealthy family from the southeast coast who had smuggled in, to the ground on the spot. He drew his knife and pointed at him and asked:
"How dare you big people from the coast lie to us?!"
Du Gongyan apologized with a look of panic: "I don't know either! Li Wenhe, the aide next to Chen Lin, said it himself. I didn't expect it to be like this!"
"ah!"
As soon as Du Gongyan screamed, his head flew off.
Then.
A bloody human head rolled to the ground.
Louis then took back the bloody knife and ordered the entire Spanish infantry force to immediately go north to recapture Tortoiseshell Harbor, because he did not want the Ming army to have a foothold in the port on Luzon Island.
But the main force of the Spanish infantry was led by Aguna. Just one day after setting off, Deng Zilong's advance fleet arrived in Manila Bay.
Louis quickly dispatched his Spanish fleet to fight.
"These warships are large sailing ships drawn from our invincible fleet. Even if these Ming forces have the upper hand, they cannot win the naval battle."
Louis also said to Leili because of this.
Lei Li said: "Let's not underestimate them. The last time they came to pick up people, their warships were not small. What's more, don't forget our experience of a disastrous defeat in the English Channel."
"It's okay, I will personally direct the naval battle!"
"I'll leave Manila to you."
After speaking, Louis personally led twenty Spanish galleons to dispatch and began to fight against the advance fleet led by Ming Dynasty veteran Deng Zilong.
Lei Deli led the remaining Spanish infantry and mercenary infantry composed of Japanese and natives to stay in Manila.
The war is about to break out!
At first.
Deng Zilong and other officers and soldiers of the Ming Navy were quite shocked when they saw the giant 20 Spanish galleons cutting through the waves.
Especially the big mast covered with soft white sails and surrounded by white clouds, like a whale emerging from the water, splitting the red sun directly from it, making people look at it with fear.
"You lead the big ship to stay, turn around, and engage with the cannons on the sides. I will personally lead the small ship to advance quickly and attack the side of the ship with cannons!"
"If you are too badly damaged, don't even think about fighting. Retreat quickly and arouse your arrogance!"
At this time, Deng Zilong gave orders to the commander-in-chief Ji Jin.
Ji Jin couldn't help but said: "The old general stays behind on the ship, let the boy go!"
"What are you going for! The guns and cannons on the big pirate ship have no eyes, and you are still young, so you should stay behind!"
After Deng Zilong said this, he jumped onto the boat and ordered:
"Raise the yellow flag, the commander of each ship, sail forward quickly!"
After Deng Zilong said this, dozens of single-layer bird ships from the Ming army suddenly launched an attack on the Spanish Armada like an arrow.
"These Chinese are indeed as cunning as the Anglo-Saxons!"
Seeing this, Louis guessed the Ming army's intention and said: "Prepare the side cannon! Sink one ship and reward fifty pieces of silk and twenty slaves!"
Kaka!
As a result, the cannons on the side of the Spanish Armada's galleons began to be pushed out of the holes, and dark muzzles began to appear on the sea.
boom!
The small warships sent by the Ming army were directly embedded in the flanks of the Spanish Armada's large sailing ships.
After the Ming warships were embedded, the Spanish artillery began to fire shells wildly. As soon as many Ming warships came in, their hulls were cracked and sawdust flew everywhere. Many soldiers had their legs and feet broken and screamed on the spot, or they fell directly. Into the sea.
At the same time, the Xiyi soldiers fired wildly with heavy matchlock guns. Many Ming officers and soldiers were shot on the spot, bleeding all over the place.
But the Ming army also began to beat drums and fire cannons. Amidst the thunderous drums, the Ming Qi bronze iron core cannons began to roar, hitting the Spanish galleon and directly breaking a large hole in the hull.
Then, the rockets from the Ming army spread out with a large amount of kerosene, igniting the interior of the Spanish sailing ship on the spot, causing the people inside to scream. Many Westerners ran out of the hole in the ship with the fire and jumped directly into the water. .
There were also a large number of sacred fire crows flying directly across the sky, like big black bats, entangled in the white soft sails of the Spanish galleon and killed them.
It's like the black and white sides fighting in a game of Go, and the fighting is very fierce.
Moments later, the raging fire spread from the mast to the hull.
Although the clumsy Spanish galleon was huge, it was difficult to turn around. Seeing this, Louis simply ordered the big ship not to turn around, but concentrated all his troops on both sides, risking being burned to death, and shooting at the Ming army from above.
A large number of Ming troops suffered casualties as a result, and numerous corpses were found on many ships.
Commander-in-Chief Shen Yourong couldn't help but shout to Deng Zilong: "Old General, the bandits have not been fooled. They seem to want to fight to the death. Kill us first. Why don't we withdraw?!"
"Withdraw what!"
Deng Zilong stood on the boat and shouted loudly, letting the silver whiskers under his chin fly in the wind, and shouted: "Fight back! Bring up the big wind-chasing gun and shoot!"
"yes!"
Many sailors on board the Ming army hurriedly brought up the big wind-chasing blunderbuss invented by Zhao Shizhen.
The Big Wind Gun is a heavy matchlock gun historically called the Yingyang Gun. It is almost the same as a cannon. Because it requires two people to carry it to fire, it is also called a carrying gun in history. It was very popular in the 18th century.
The big gun, also known as the gun, was very powerful and could kill a large number of Spanish soldiers through the planks of the ship.
For a while, both sides were fighting each other, causing heavy casualties.
However, due to the limited investment in naval forces of the Ming Dynasty, and the fact that they were fighting away from home, they were not more willing to fight to the death to protect their homeland than in offshore battles. Therefore, many Ming troops mostly hid in the cabins and fired blindly in the end. Lower position, so for a while after a large number of elite casualties, it gradually became exhausted.
Louis was overjoyed when he saw this. While he ordered people to put out the fire on the white sails, he directly ordered the formation of a death squad to jump off the ship and fight the Ming army. But for a moment, some Ming army warships could not bear it and began to run back.
Seeing this, Deng Zilong wanted to grit his teeth and ordered: "Fight my banner and rush deeper to reduce the pressure on other places and boost morale!"
"Old General! This..."
Shen Yourong couldn't help but shout.
Deng Zilong said: "Follow your orders!"
Shen Yourong had no choice but to say yes, and then ordered people to raise the "Deng" flag.
Lewis narrowed his eyes when he saw this, and immediately pointed to Deng Zilong's boat and said: "Concentrate on that Ming Ship!"
For a while.
Many Spanish artillery and cannons were aimed at Deng Zilong's boat. While the pressure on other open ships was greatly reduced, Deng Zilong's boat was under doubled fire pressure.
The entire hull felt like it was in a stormy sea, and it seemed that it was about to sink in a moment.
boom!
Suddenly, a cannonball flew directly over, hit the back of the boat, bounced up and hit Deng Zilong's chest, knocking Deng Zilong away on the spot.
"Old General!"
"Old General!"
"Old General!"
…
On the spot, President Shen Yourong and the officers and soldiers on the ship were all speechless, and they all started shouting after a while.
Louis smiled proudly at this.
As for the Ming army.
Upon seeing this, Huang Da, a navy soldier who volunteered to join the army, immediately jumped into the water to search for Deng Zilong, who was hiding in the huge waves of smoke and flames. Many other navy officers and soldiers also forgot about the battle and jumped into the water one after another.
When Shen Yourong saw this, he shouted on the spot: "No rescue! No shouting!"
Seeing this, Shen Yourong simply drew his sword and slashed at a soldier who was about to jump. He slashed him directly and shouted, "If you jump again and shout again, behead him!"
In this way, the soldiers of the Ming army resumed their fighting order and continued to fight against the Xiyi.
Shen Yourong also ordered not to remove the "Deng" flag.
Louis therefore put away his smile and pointed at Shen Yourong: "That Ming army young general is quite calm! These Ming troops are also well-trained, pass on the order, don't underestimate the enemy, continue to jump ship for a decisive battle!"
boom!
Sudden.
As soon as Louis finished speaking, his ship shook violently.
Then, Louis raised his eyes and saw more divine fire flying crows flying over like covering up the sky and landing on his sailboat.
Louis couldn't help but look back and saw a large number of Ming army boats coming over the sea, coming from the direction of Manila.
"Manila!"
"My Manila was captured by another Ming army?!"
Louis was shocked.
He hurriedly picked up the smuggled high-definition telescope made by the Ming Dynasty, and then saw that on the land in Manila Bay, a large number of Ming army horsemen were using the beach flats to rush into their shore artillery camp in groups and kill them crazily. Kill the families of the mercenaries living along the coast.
The shadows of knives kept coming, like snow.
At the same time, a large number of Ming army infantry appeared in lines on both sides of the strait and were forming formations to attack Manila City.
On the sea, a steady stream of Ming army boats emerged from the land on both sides of the coast. The boats were filled with Ming army soldiers holding sacred fire flying crows.
Louis took a few steps back and murmured: "It turns out that the main force of the Ming Navy has already gone behind me!"
A bigger chapter
(End of chapter)
