Manila City, Provisional Governor's Palace, Commander of the Spanish Colonial Fleet, Legazpi, hid in his room, looking at the boxes full of gold ingots in front of him, and his eyes were full of greed.

I traveled thousands of miles, ventured to the Far East, and really made a fortune!

He was originally a down-and-out nobleman, that is, the kind whose ancestors had been knights in the palace and did not even have a title.

This kind of aristocracy, in Spain, can be said to grasp a lot of people, so depressed that they can't eat, he is still good, the family conditions are not bad, and he himself is relatively hard-working, he studies hard, and his legal and military achievements are very good.

However, he didn't start his career in the military, a few years ago, he was a lawyer!

He also saw that his former classmates who had served as officers had all grabbed huge amounts of wealth from the colonies, so he decided to take the risk and try it out in the army.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the army, he was given a heavy responsibility, because the Spanish expeditionary fleet had returned from Luzon many times without success, and most of the officers were unwilling to lead the army to the Far East to adventure, so the post of commander of the expeditionary fleet fell to him.

Who made him outstanding in military affairs and a nobleman, if he were a commoner, I am afraid that this position would not fall on his head.

His luck was surprisingly good, he didn't encounter any strong winds and waves all the way from Spain to the Far East, and the sailors and crew did not suffer any diseases, so they arrived in Luzon with little loss of strength.

As for how to attack these natives, it was a piece of cake for him.

You know, the legendary adventurer Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire with a population of more than 10 million people with only 600 people, and the legendary adventurer Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire with a population of millions with more than 100 people.

He quickly captured the island of Cebu, his first colonial stronghold, and then pursued it all the way to capture Manila, the capital of Luzon.

At this time, he should have led the army to destroy the Luzon royal family, but because of selfishness, he did not do so.

Because after the destruction of the Luzon royal family, this will be regarded as a Spanish colony, and then the country will send colonial officials, although the governor is his nine times out of ten, but the plundered wealth is not his!

In other words, no matter how much wealth is plundered after this place becomes a colony, it is basically public, and even if he does it, he will not get much benefit.

Therefore, he let the Luzon royal family not pursue, but let his subordinates loot everywhere, and robbed all the rich people's homes in the occupied area.

He didn't ask for spices, cloth, or even silver, after all, he ate meat and his subordinates had to drink some soup, and he gave all those things to his subordinates, he only wanted gold, and this box of gold was his income these days.

This Luzon is really rich in oil, you can grab so much gold by plundering it casually, if you take their gold mines, and then make the natives here go crazy to mine, wouldn't it be a lot of money!

He was daydreaming there when the anxious voice of his cronies suddenly came from outside: "Your Excellency Commander, it's not good, the fleet of the Ming Empire has rushed into Manila Bay." ”

What's wrong?

Li Yashibi slowly closed the treasure chest, pushed under the bed, and then got up and opened the door, and said majestically: "What's the panic, isn't it the fleet of the Ming Empire?" They didn't declare war on us again, besides, what about the declaration of war, are they very strong? ”

The reason why he said this was because he didn't understand the strength of the Daming Water Master.

There are no telephones, no satellites, and the only way to understand a country's military strength is to look with your eyes or ask around.

It is naturally impossible for the Spanish scouts to run tens of thousands of miles to Daming to see Daming's military strength, even if they come to see it, they can't see anything, Yang Cong didn't let the sailor fleet show off everywhere, thousands of miles of coastline, outsiders like Spain, can't find the fleet of the Daming sailor at all.

As for the inquiry, the Spanish had inquired, and the object of their inquiry was Portugal, because Portugal had recently fought a war with the Ming Empire.

However, this is not close at all recently, and it has been thirty or forty years since the time is calculated.

Spanish officials have always believed that the military strength of the Ming Empire has remained stuck in thirty or forty years ago!

This can't be blamed for their loneliness, the distance between the two sides is too far, under normal circumstances, it takes more than a year to go back and forth from Spain to Daming, and it is normal to be thirty or forty years behind.

Besides, what can you do in thirty or forty years, for a country, thirty or forty years will not change anything at all, unless there is a change of dynasty or the sudden emergence of particularly powerful scientists.

Therefore, Li Yashibi is not panicked at all, and the Ming Empire can only be a little stronger than Portugal in his impression, so what is there to be afraid of.

It is true that Daming has not changed the dynasty, and there have been no particularly powerful scientists, but Daming has a strange Yang Cong.

Of course, Yang Cong is not a scientist, he is more terrible than a scientist, because he has more than 400 years of insight ahead of this era, under his leadership, the development of the Ming Dynasty is a bit insufficient to describe as rapid, and the military strength has undergone earth-shaking changes.

At this moment, the fleet of the Great Ming Naval Division is comparable to the existence of the Spanish Invincible Armada!

The cronie still said anxiously: "Your Excellency Commander, according to the personnel on duty at the entrance of Manila Bay, the fleet of the Ming Empire has hundreds of warships, and most of them are larger than our warships. ”

Hearing this, Li Yashibi couldn't help frowning.

It is no secret that the Ming Empire had huge ocean-going sailing ships, as early as more than a hundred years ago, and this is recorded in the records of the European continents.

In fact, there is nothing to be afraid of when the ship is big, and now the war is not bigger than anyone's ship, but more than whose artillery, the Spanish warships are famous for their artillery, and these primitive ocean-going sailing ships of the Ming Empire are not opponents at all.

However, this number is indeed a bit terrifying, more than a hundred, that is not able to carry tens of thousands of people.

Two thousand against ten thousand, I'm afraid this battle is not easy to fight!

Lyashbi frowned, and then said calmly: "Pass my order, all the warships will assemble in Manila Harbor." ”

It's not certain whether this battle will be fought, so let's get ready first.

Until this moment, he was still quite calm in his heart, more than a hundred primitive ocean-going sailing ships were a bit troublesome, but he didn't think that the more than 20 warships under his command couldn't beat, you know, there were more than 300 guns on these more than 20 warships, the Ming Empire, could there be so many artillery?

Soon, he knew how many artillery pieces the Daming Navy Division had.

Here, he had just assembled more than 20 warships under his command, and over there, Yang Cong had already led 50 Fuchuan warships and 50 Cangshan warships to Manila Port.

At this time, Yang Cong had already ordered all the Fuchuan battleships to open their gun doors, and the steel jungle-like cannon barrel had already revealed its terrifying fangs.

How can it be?

How could the Ming Empire have so much artillery?

A giant ship has hundreds of guns, and fifty giant ships are more than 5,000!