Zheng Jiangong's name is really reversed, because he always returns "without merit", and it is more appropriate to call Zheng Wugong.

This time, he led the Ming Expeditionary Fleet and rushed to Manila Bay to copy the nest of the Spanish Oriental Armada, but he pounced in the most beautiful posture, but it was still useless.

Speaking of which, the posture of his fleet pounced on Manila Bay and the posture of Garcia's fleet raiding the anchorage of Dinghai were almost identical! They all used the cover of night to pass through key waterways and then plunged straight into the anchorage where the enemy fleet was anchored. The difference is that Garcia formed a large column of 29 warships, while Zheng Jiangong divided the 33 warships into three formations, each of which was a "Flying" class plus ten large bird ships.

The Flyer class leads, and the Big Bird Ship forms a column behind the Flyer class. The three formations took advantage of the night to break into Manila Bay, and then rushed straight to the Krabi anchorage, but unfortunately they pounced on Krabi Land!

The Krabi anchorage is empty, and there is nothing!

But Zheng Jiangong refused to give up, and led his fleet around the Krabi anchorage until the early morning of the sixth day of the eighth month (his fleet broke into Manila Bay on the night of the fifth day of the first month of August), not only did not find the Spanish warship, but was also discovered by the Spanish Krabi Fort.

As a result, the Spanish batteries opened fire and bombarded, and Zheng Jiangong found that the opponent's firepower was weak (the Krabi batteries were built decades ago, and the guns equipped with them were relatively old, and there were no flowering shells), so he simply formed a horizontal formation of 30 large bird ships under his command and bombarded the Krabi batteries with a total of 60 24-pounder cannons placed in the bow, and fired a total of more than 600 flowering shells in front and back, so that the Spanish artillery on the Cavite batteries did not dare to counterattack.

But it was so undesirable to come so far and go back without even catching a single hair, so Zheng Jiangong didn't go far after exiting Manila Bay, and found a very good-looking bay on the edge of Manila Bay and got in.

After arranging for two large bird ships to "stand guard" at the entrance of the bay, Zheng Jiangong summoned the remaining commanders of the ships to a meeting on the flagship Flying.

"Teacher, we have 1,000 flintlock pipers on hand, and we can't fight Fort Santiago! It's enough to fight the Krabi Fortress, right? Now the fleet of the Spaniards is not there...... We can't wait, we have to escort the expeditionary force to Siam! ”

Hao Feng, the captain of the Jiangnan who spoke, was the first mate of the Feixiang before, and was promoted to the first captain of the Jiangnan after the Jiangnan was delivered ahead of schedule. He graduated from the Naval Academy and was still a student of Zheng Jiangong, so he now calls Zheng Jiangong "teacher".

"Yes, teacher, we can't just wait at the gate of Manila Bay...... Who knows where the Spanish Eastern Fleet will go? ”

Nie Hanzhu, the captain of the Fujian, also supported Hao Feng's opinion, but he was not willing to return empty-handed.

It's hard to come back, but you can't go back empty-handed, right?

He and Hao Feng were classmates in the Naval Academy, and of course they were also students of Zheng Jiangong.

He is a native of Huzhou, Zhejiang, Chongzhen has been a person for 15 years, and has participated in Enke for 18 years. However, because he did not support the imperial court's expropriation and tyranny, he handed over the white scroll, so he missed the opportunity of the Zhongjinshi. After he went home, he was scolded by his Xiucai father, and he was punished to go to the ancestral hall to ask his ancestors for his guilt, and he didn't give him food for three days - he finally met a good opportunity to pick up Jinshi for nothing, that is, the blessing of his ancestors!

If you have a jinshi to pick you up, you won't pick it up...... How can you be worthy of the ancestors of the Nie family in Huzhou? This is a great unfilial piety! It's a rebel! So big a rebel still wants to eat? Hungry!

After starving for three days, Nie Hanzhu finally repented - if he didn't repent, he would really starve to death!

But after repentance, Chongzhen's eighteen-year jinshi can't come back, and the imperial examination is not a make-up exam!

In desperation, I had no choice but to put pen to paper and was admitted to the Shanghai Sailor School...... He is a scholar who is a scholar, he is young and flexible, so he has always been among the best in the Sailor Academy, and he has stayed in the school to teach, and now he is the captain of the capital ship, and the future is bright!

However, although his officialdom has a bright future, the credit book is empty...... In this way, you will not be able to get a knighthood, and it will be difficult to go further.

"Teacher, the students think that the bay we are in is very good," Nie Hanzhu said, "The harbor is not big or small, it has a good sheltered anchorage, and there is a gatekeeper island at the entrance of the harbor. The entrance to the harbor is not very wide, but it is now divided into two waterways, east and west, by this small island. The width of the East Road is no more than three miles, and the width of the West Road is about five miles. All we need to do is set up watchtower forts on the islands and hold the east-west waterways, and we can keep the Spaniards out of the harbor!

The student suggested that we leave all 1,000 flintlock musketeers here, leave two large bird ships and an 800-ton battleship, and unload a dozen artillery pieces from the three ships of Feixiang, Jiangnan, and Fujian, and place them all on the gate island. ”

The harbor that Nie Hanzhu looks at is Subic Bay!

Although not as large as Manila Bay, the harbor is very easy to defend and is an ideal anchorage for the fleet.

"That's a great idea!" Hao Feng also agreed with Nie Hanzhu's suggestion, "Teacher, let's just leave some troops to guard here, watch the gate of Manila Bay, and wait for the Spaniards to come back...... It's not in vain! ”

Zheng Jiangong also felt good in total, and his eyes swept over Hao Feng and Nie Hanzhu, "Which of the two of you stays?" ”

Now there are four 800-ton ships in the Oriental Fleet, of which the Flying is the flagship and the captain is the Dutchman Davy. Jones, of course, can't stay in "Subic Bay", and Chen Shangchuan of the Henan is still in North America. Therefore, the only way to keep Subic Bay to command a detachment is to choose one of Hao Feng and Nie Hanzhu!

"Students stay!" Nie Hanzhu volunteered, and Hao Feng didn't compete with him, after all, the idea of stationing troops at the gate of Manila Bay was proposed first.

"Good!" Zheng Jiangong nodded lightly, "Then the governor will name you to lead a total of five warships of Fujian, Lianjiang, Luoyuan, Changle, and Fuqing, plus two marine battalions, to stay in the bay here...... Does the bay have a name? ”

There must be a name, but Nie Hanzhu and Hao Feng didn't know it, so they asked Zheng Jiangong to give it a name.

"Let's call it Success Bay!" Zheng Jiangong said, "In this name, I wish our navy a success!" ”

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When Zheng Jiangong divided his troops to stay in Chenggong Bay, the Spanish Oriental Armada once again "succeeded in shipping", and this time the place where the Armada succeeded was the Ryukyu Kingdom.

The Ryukyu Kingdom is not an important base in the first island chain now, but a small window for tomorrow's trade. Because the Ming Dynasty had already opened the country, and Japan's lockdown policy had been greatly loosened, the Ryukyu Kingdom was inevitably heading for decline. For the Satsuma Domain, which occupies half of the Ryukyus, their power in the Ryukyus is not so much a profit as a burden that cannot be shaken off!

At least in the opinion of the Shimazu family's Ryukyu clan in the Ban Commission, the Shimazu family's colonization of the Ryukyu Kingdom also lost money...... Not only did he not make any money, but he was also affected by the loyalty of Toyotomi who came out of nowhere, and became a thorn in the side of the Tokugawa shogunate!

Caused the feudal lord Mitsuhisa and Seji Tsunaku to live in seclusion together, so that Mitsuhisa's grandson Tsunagui became the lord of the domain, although the power in the domain is still in the hands of Mitsuhisa and Tsunahisa, but the feudal lord and Seji lived in seclusion at the same time, which still pushed the Shimazu family to the forefront.

Now the ronins and ill-intentioned powerful feudal lords all over Japan are looking at Satsuma Shimazu, just waiting for the Shimazu family to come forward and the king is overthrown!

And within the Satsuma Domain, there were also many bitter feudal lords and ronins who were looking forward to the Shimazu family and the shogunate......

The top brass of the Satsuma domain, including Kiyoo Tsuyoshi (the grandson of Shimazu Ichichi and Iehisa), who owned 5,000 kokuroku, were at a loss......

When he was worrying in the Satsuma Jinya under Shuri Castle, the sound of thunder suddenly sounded in his ears, and when he looked up, it was clearly a sunny day!

While he was wondering, one of his samurai, named Togo's trainee feudal lord, came in and shouted, "Old man, it's not good, the Spanish fleet is coming!" ”