Tagben in Manila Bay, Luzon.

It's a small place, not even a city, but its location is extremely important, at the entrance to Manila Bay in Luzon, which guards Manila Bay, to Manila City, the city of silver and sex.

The Tagben area is very underdeveloped, there are no white people, and there are no hard-working Chinese, and the people living in Tagben are all local aborigines.

The scenery of Tagben is good, with blue sky and white clouds, blue sea and silver sand, and green trees.

Passing merchant ships often pass by Tagben, so beware of Iboba and his buddy Yuzo Yamashiro.

Iboba was a local indigenous chief, fat and strong, he wore a golden hard shawl, made by the Ming people, and the cloak was knocked with gold leaf, I don't know where the order was, sent to Manila, and he was robbed.

He was very pleased with the gold shawl, but he wore plain shorts and no shoes (they had no concept of shoes at all), and his body was brown and black like chocolate.

Sometimes he wonders if he should order a gold trouser from Mingren and match it like this!

He was brave and powerful, with a command of as many as 5,000 men, one of the best tribes in the surrounding area, and he was arrogant by nature, with high eyes and looked down on people, except for his companion ---- Yuzo Yamashiro.

Yuzo Yamashiro is a Japanese man, less than one meter five tall, but he is very spirited, with two Japanese knives around his waist, he is very flexible, the knife is fierce, and he is not afraid of death when PK, which won the respect of Iboba.

Yuzo Yamashiro lived in Iba with a group of Wa people, who were outcasts of the Wa Kingdom.

The Edo shogunate closed off the country, and the Japanese who did not come back were not allowed to return, and the Japanese people such as Yuzo Yamashiro had no home and country from then on, so their temperament became more and more tyrannical, and even Iboba was afraid of them, and they were afraid of the three-point -----, and the people who were afraid of death!

On this sunny day, two like-minded guys were lying under the coconut trees by the sea, enjoying the cool breeze, which was very pleasant.

Iboba's sleep was like a big ball of stinky meat, and many flies were circling around him, and I could easily kill him! ------Yuzo Yamashiro squinted his eyes and looked at him with bad intentions.

But he knew that this was impossible, and he had to have a cover, otherwise it would be difficult for his group of widows to survive in this white supremacy and native-like place.

Yuzo Yamashiro suddenly felt a little lonely, but unfortunately the Chinese woman who was snatched back last time was tortured and was killed by him, so he has nothing to do now.

Iboba didn't defend against him, and the indigenous women let him do it, but those indigenous women were stinky and fat, and they really couldn't arouse Yuzo Yamashiro's interest.

It's time to do another vote, there should be a passing Chinese merchant ship!

Those Chinese were robbed and killed by them, but there were so many of them, like moths to a fire, they kept coming to Luzon just for money!

Silver is a good thing, Yuzo Yamashiro knows very well that he can bring it back to the Wa Kingdom, and those gentle women can eat as much as they want, and they can eat whatever they want!

However, can not go back.

The ancestors of Yuzo Yamashiro, who wielded a katana, were none other than the Toyotomi family, who opposed the Tokugawa shogunate, and fled overseas......

Yuzo Yamashiro was thinking about his thoughts when he suddenly heard a shout, and he looked up and saw Kugano, one of Iboba's confidants, brandishing a telescope, running as fast as he could, muttering something.

This telescope was snatched by them by killing a Chinese merchant shipowner, and it brought them great convenience by standing on a high place to observe the sea.

Iboba, who was still asleep just now, opened his eyes with sleepy eyes, and after listening to Kugano's words, he excitedly said to Yuzo Yamashiro: "Go, I found a large fleet of Chinese!" ”

……

About 200 tribal warriors, armed with spears and shields, and thirty heavily armed widows, boarded twenty crab ships.

The crab boat, which has four wooden supports sticking out on both sides of the boat, and a horizontal wooden link on the left and right supports, is actually a mutated trimaran, which is more stable than ordinary boats, and is a good way to go out to sea without cost. (It's naturally better if you have a plywood boat or a Daifuku boat, but where do the natives get such technology)

The tribesmen and the Japanese rowed their crab boats out to the open sea, and everyone rowed vigorously because of the benefits that were coming.

The small waves on the sea were rolling, but the crab boats were still very stable, and they went out to the open sea and saw the fleet of the Ming people through the binoculars, which looked like a lot of boats!

Wonderful, the natives and the Japanese thought greedily.

The Ming boat came with sails, one, two, three...... They were all ships he had seen before, and on the largest crab boat, Iboba casually lowered the telescope in his hand.

Yuzo Yamashiro, who was in the same boat as him, didn't pay much attention at first, but as Ming Fue got closer, his eyes widened.

He took the binoculars and looked at them, and confirmed that he was right: "Splint boat!" Akito actually has a white man's plywood boat? Or three plywood boats! ”

Yuzo Yamashiro struck a sense of foreboding.

……

On the sixth-class cruiser Kaohsiung 8, the star captain Hong Xiguan is with Mr. Zhang Yunhe, the leader of the caravan, he is the home of Mr. Zhang, a maritime merchant in Guangdong Province, who has a large sea ship, in addition to self-management, but also rents out the ship, and among the fleet of 25 ships that came this time, three of the ships are his Zhang family, and the ship is also the largest, so he became the leader.

Zhang Yunhe didn't run to the warship on his ship because the captain couldn't leave his warship in the military system, so Zhang Yunhe had to come.

Hong Xiguan has the function of a certain diplomat, and treats people not like ordinary soldiers, and Zhang Yun and businessmen are even more long-sleeved and good at dancing, the two talk very happily, Hong Xiguan knows a lot of foreign trade matters, and Zhang Yunhe is more and more enthusiastic about the southeast mansion as he gets to know more and more, and the two call him brother and brother.

The leader of Kaohsiung No. 8 took the lead, and when he saw the ugly crabs in the sea area in front of him, Hong Xiguan was extremely disdainful, and said to Zhang Yunhe: "Brother, there are natives blocking the road in front, I was ordered, saying that I want to cooperate with you, and I am not allowed to act first. ”

Zhang Yunhe nodded and said: "What my brother said is good, in fact, our big ship really wants to rush over, and there is no problem!" ”

"But the natives are cunning, they are everywhere, we are passenger ships, and we are the ships that are anchored at night, and they come and attack at night? If you can't attack the ship, throw the torches? How can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves, after all, we are not an army, so we have to make money in harmony. ”

Hong Xiguan nodded and said, "It makes sense!" ”

He looked at the sea and thought to himself: "Go back and write a report, when you advocate attacking the vicinity of the South China Sea, as a foothold for our southeast province, if it is still a guest land, the cruise will not last!" ”

Other officers just obey orders, regardless of 3721, but Hong Xiguan will calculate economic accounts, knowing that if he escorts for a long time, he is afraid that the water collected will not be enough to spend, and if he is unlucky, the typhoon will sink a warship or two, and some soldiers will have to pay pensions for the death, so he will lose a lot of money that year.

Luzon itself had no silver sources, it was all silver mines in the Americas, and it seemed that the Overseers would not send a fleet to the Americas to occupy the silver mines.

Then it is right to take Batavia, leave Luzon and let the stupid Spaniards get us the silver!

Just as he was thinking, the fleet approached the crab ships in the sea.