In Manila, Luzon, in the Spanish Governor's Palace, Governor Diego asked the Dutch leader West who had just entered the door with some concern: "Is your Batavia Governor Anthony arriving soon?"
"According to His Majesty the Governor, it should be here soon!" After hearing this, West found a chair to sit down on, shook his buttocks to feel comfortable, and then continued: "But what's the point? Relationship? Even if His Excellency the Governor hadn't arrived, would we still be afraid of these eastern natives? It's hard to say on land, so what should we be afraid of at sea?"
The combined fleet of Spain and the Netherlands has a total of nearly fifty warships. This maritime power is a fleet that cannot be ignored even if it is placed in Europe.
However, Diego always felt condescending to his tone, which made him feel very uncomfortable.
It's like Spain is very afraid of Mingguo and is bullied by Mingguo. But these Dutch people are not afraid of the Ming Dynasty at all, and they feel as if they can easily defeat the Ming Dynasty.
Diego felt that it would not work if this situation continued. I, Spain, are still the suzerain country, and at home, you, the Netherlands, are still rebellious! So, he was about to speak, using a roundabout tone to remind the Dutchman to pay attention to his tone.
However, before he opened his mouth, he heard West cross his legs and continued to say to him: "The Ming Dynasty can rely on their army on land to attack Luzon. However, there are few land troops. It’s not enough, and this determines that they must have a lot of food and supplies..."
After hearing him start to talk about specific things, Diego suppressed his desire to speak and listened to what he said first.
"...Such a lot of grain and grass supplies would be transported from Annan to Luzon, which is a bit far. If there is a storm or something, it would be a trivial matter if the ship transporting grain and grass supplies disappears. What will the army that arrives in Luzon eat? So? "Say..." When West said this, he said with a very confident tone, "The grain and grass supplies of the Ming army must not have been transported from Annan."
After hearing this, Diego thought for a moment and it seemed to make sense. But just as he nodded, he heard West say again: "And there's another point. Annan has just experienced a war. As far as Annan is concerned, there definitely won't be that much food and supplies for the Ming Dynasty to attack Luzon." Therefore, the grain and grass supplies of the Ming army must be allocated from other parts of the Ming Dynasty. If they come through Annan, it will obviously be unnecessary..."
Having said this, he paused and said in a very affirmative tone: "So, the grain and grass supplies needed by the Ming army to attack Luzon must have come from Fujian to Taiwan and then to the northern part of Luzon. And from The Ming army coming from Annan will only bring ten and a half days' worth of food and grass, and they will eventually meet up somewhere in Luzon."
After hearing this, Diego had to admit that the Dutchman's analysis made sense. This means that the Dutchman still has the ability to pull off.
However, before he could nod, he heard West say to him in a scolding tone: "Why are you still standing there? This should have been done long ago! We were given a silver reward, and some of the natives tipped us off. "
Reaching such a conclusion made Diego feel very uncomfortable.
However, for the sake of the overall situation at hand, he still did not show it. Instead, he asked in a humble manner: "Then how should we deal with it?"
"No need to ask?" After hearing this, West looked at Diego as if he were an idiot, and then said in a commanding tone: "Immediately send someone to inquire about the news to see if there are any movements of the Ming army in northern Luzon. Check In which harbor will their food be stored? As long as we get this exact news, we will dispatch a fleet to catch the Ming army by surprise and burn their food and grass. In this way, the Ming army will either retreat or run out of food and grass and be defeated!"
After finishing speaking, he added triumphantly: "This is the way to deal with the eastern natives. No matter how powerful they are, as long as we fight at this point, no matter how huge the army is, it will fall apart and it will be easy to fight!"
Yes, that's what they did when they fought against the Javanese native army.
Although West's attitude made Diego very dissatisfied, his suggestion was indeed pertinent, so he had no choice but to endure it. He called for Filot and told him: "Take two clippers and go north along the coast. , search for traces of Ming ships, and if you find a place where the Ming army hoarded food and grass, come back quickly and report."
After hearing this, Filot agreed quickly, but before he said anything else, West interjected and explained as if he was talking to Diego: "You also offer rewards to the natives along the way, anyway. Using coercion and inducement to make them our eyes and ears can also prevent you from being blind and missing something..."
Filot was so angry when he heard that, just forget about the governor telling me to do things. Who do you think you are, a traitor, and you are here to point fingers and call me blind? My ears were cut off by Akito, but where are my eyes blind?
As I thought about it, my face immediately became a little ugly.
However, West didn't care at all and continued to say: "If there is no trace of the Ming army, either you are blind and missed it, or the Ming army is still over in Taiwan and has not come over. You can also go to Taiwan. Look over there, as long as we can find where the Ming army is hoarding food and grass, we will have won half of this battle. Maybe when our Governor arrives, we will be able to deliver some good news that will make His Excellency happy!"
Oh, are you ordering us to do this or that just to have a meeting ceremony with your Excellency the Governor after his arrival? Filot suddenly realized it and thought in his heart extremely angrily.
But before he could object, Diego waved his hand and said to him: "Go and do what he wants!"
Having said this, he raised his voice again and emphasized: "The most important thing now is to repel the Ming army and stop the Ming emperor from wanting to reach out to Nanyang."
Philot knew that the Governor was right, so he gave the Dutchman a hard look, endured it, turned around and left, ready to carry out the order.
However, West quit and immediately shouted: "What are you staring at? Did I say something wrong? If you losers hadn't begged us in the Netherlands, do you think I was happy to come here and join forces with you?"
Felot's feet stopped and he was furious. These rebellious people were really lawless!
When Diego saw it, he quickly stood up, turned around from the table, came to the front, pushed Filot and said: "Why don't you go and execute the military order?"
He knew that if he ignored this, there would definitely be a quarrel later. The relationship between the two parties was not good to begin with, but if there was a quarrel, accidentally, the two sides of the Ming army would start fighting before the Ming army came over.
Being pushed by His Excellency the Governor, no matter how angry Filot was, he had no choice but to walk away.
But when he arrived at the door, he heard the Governor behind him saying to the Dutchman: "How could he stare at you? His eyes are so big."
"..." Felot's footsteps stopped again, and he was so angry that my eyes were always as big as bull's eyes? You are a Spanish governor, why should you be so submissive to a rebel? Especially because the court officials in the country are so virtuous, so these Dutch people rebelled, and the Portuguese also rebelled!
However, after thinking about it in his heart, he did not turn around and go back to argue about how big his eyes were. He sighed helplessly and left.
In the office, Diego and West were talking. Suddenly, a guard came in from the door and reported: "Your Excellency, Fednandi from the Bonda Department is outside the door asking for an audience."
When Diego heard this, he immediately frowned and said, "What is he here for?"
Even so, he still knew that there must be something going on when the indigenous leader came to see him. So, he still asked the guards to bring the person over.
"Dear Governor!" Ferdinandi immediately saluted respectfully after entering the door, and then said, "I'm afraid there are many remaining Ming people gathered outside Manila Bay. I would like to ask Your Excellency the Governor to send troops to help. Let’s go together and destroy those damn Mingren remnants!”
Hearing this, Diego frowned again and said a little unhappily: "I gave the reward, but you still want to come to me for the rest of the pursuit of Akito. Don't you want the reward?" Is it done?"
"That's not what you mean!" Fednandi was a little panicked after hearing this, and quickly replied, "The people I sent before never came back, so I sent people over again, but there was still no news. This time There were almost fifty people before and after. It would be no problem for me to send more people. However, I am worried that if more people are sent, the remnants of the Ming people will run away. If there are fewer people, they may not run away. , it will be easy to catch them!”
West, who was standing next to him, had been listening with his legs crossed. When he heard that about fifty people had been quietly eliminated by the remnants of Akito, he felt a little strange, so he interrupted and asked: "You sent them?" What kind of crooked melons and cracked dates were they solved so easily by a group of remnants of Ming people? Could it be that the people who passed by later didn't even learn a lesson and didn't leave a message? "
Of course Fednandi knew who this person was, and he did not dare to offend him, so he quickly defended: "No, they are all strong men from my tribe. There were nearly twenty people in the last batch. I also specifically told them, In the end, no one came back!"
Hearing this, West became even more curious. There was such a thing. Could it be that there really were many things that slipped through the net?
Thinking this, he stood up and said to Diego: "Then let me go and take a look!"
Diego was eager to hear this and quickly agreed.
West immediately walked out and said at the same time: "All the trophies will belong to me!"
He knows Mingren to some extent, he is just an old scalper, he often hides the money he earns without spending it. Those remaining Mingren will definitely have a lot of property on them. This time I came here and I didn’t get any other benefits, so I just collected some interest first.
