On October 13, about the third day of the destruction of Burma and other southeastern countries, a group of Spaniards, known as the envoys of the Spanish Empire, came to Nanjing.

The purpose of this group of Spanish envoys was clear: to capture the Marquis of Larsi and the 3,000 Spanish soldiers who had been captured under the city of Yangon.

Little emissary, still known as the Spanish Empire? Zhu Cihe, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was naturally too lazy to see such a group of envoys, so he sent Li Yan to meet him, and only then did he report the request of the Spaniards to him.

On the same day, Li Yan was ordered to meet the Spanish envoys.

The Spanish envoy was very dissatisfied with the fact that the Ming Emperor did not summon him, but only sent a minister to meet him, but he still told Li Yan his request, of course, his attitude was inevitably a little arrogant.

Spain has been defeated by Britain, France and the Netherlands in recent decades, and it has long been without the glory of the first generation of the empire on which the sun never sets, but the Spaniards are obviously still immersed in the glory of the empire on which the sun never sets, no matter which country in the world, they have fully demonstrated their arrogance, as if only such arrogant performance can make them feel that their Spanish empire is still brilliant.

The corners of Li Yan's mouth hooked up a hint of mockery, and he didn't even bother to raise his eyelids, allowing the Spaniards to talk at length about the strength of their Spanish Empire, and finally said the purpose of their visit this time.

The purpose was nothing more than to get them to unconditionally release the Marquis of Larsi and 3,000 Spanish soldiers who had been captured under the city of Yangon, and of course, they also wanted the Ming to apologize to them in Spain.

In order to show enough momentum and show the strength of their Spanish Empire, the Spanish envoy even said that if the Ming did not agree, it was likely that he would suffer the wrath of the Spanish Empire and be defeated by the invincible Spanish army.

"Finished?" When the Spanish envoy finished speaking, Li Yan asked lightly, except for mockery, he didn't care about the threat of the Spanish envoy.

After the translation, the Spaniards looked at Li Yan and did not understand the meaning of Li Yan's words, but they immediately understood.

I saw Li Yan wave his hand, and immediately ten guards rushed in, instantly restraining several Spanish envoys.

"The Spanish envoy has an arrogant attitude, does not respect the Ming Dynasty, and dares to threaten the Ming Dynasty, and now expel him from Nanjing City immediately!" Li Yan said with a solemn face.

The guards immediately drove several Spanish envoys out, and in the process, the Spanish interpreter translated Li Yan's words to the Spanish envoys. At this time, the Spanish envoy had already been driven to the door, and after listening to the interpreter's words, the Spanish envoy's eyes widened and were full of incredulity.

"Da Ming can't do this to me, this is a serious provocation to the Spanish Empire, and it is to pay" The Spanish envoy roared loudly while being dragged out, but his voice became farther and farther away, and soon he could not be heard.

Daming's translator also planned to translate the words shouted by the Spanish envoy to Li Yan, but Li Yan gave up and said that there was no need to translate.

"Xiao Xiaoer, it's not enough to worry about it!" Li Yan sneered. Indeed, already knowing the purpose of the Spaniards, Li Yan no longer cares about what the Spanish envoy shouted just now, and with Li Yan's intelligence, the meaning is nothing more than that, he doesn't bother to guess, let alone care about any threats.

"Bang!" Soon, several Spanish envoys were thrown outside the Nanjing gate.

One of the messengers was unlucky, with his mouth open, his teeth knocked on the hard concrete road, and his mouth was covered with blood, and he lost two teeth.

The other messengers were also not having a good time, and were thrown all over in pain.

Having been expelled from the city of Nanjing, these Spanish envoys could do nothing but continue to curse at the city of Nanjing and continue to shout threats, so they could only leave the Ming Dynasty and return to Luzon Island.

At the same time that several Spanish envoys were thrown out of the Nanjing gate, Li Yan also returned the Spaniards' demands to Zhu Cijiao.

The Spaniards' demand was naturally for the Ming to unconditionally release the Marquis of Larsi and the 3,000 Spanish soldiers who had been captured in Rangoon, and to apologize to the Spanish Empire.

"Crazy enough, are they really Spain the strongest country in the world? In front of my Da Ming, it is enough to dare to call himself an empire, and his attitude is still so arrogant. Unconditionally release the Marquis of Larsi and 3,000 Spanish soldiers, and still want Daming to apologize to their little Spain? Hum! Zhu Ci sneered and snorted angrily.

"I haven't pursued his Spanish involvement in the war in Burma, but I actually came to the door first. Perhaps since they are so arrogant, I am preparing to conquer their Luzon colony, so I will use this as an excuse! Zhu Ci's eyes flashed with a hint of sharpness.

"Yes!" Li Yan also smiled, bowed and retreated.

In the expansion strategy formulated by Zhu Cijiao, the Ming Dynasty originally had the intention of attacking the Spanish colony of Luzon after destroying the four southeastern countries and completely unifying the entire East Asia.

Previously, the Ming Dynasty did not want to find any excuse, that is, the army directly landed, hit it, and forcibly annihilated all the Spaniards on Luzon Island.

However, the so-called excuse is moral, although it seems hypocritical, but always have to give the people of the Ming Dynasty an explanation, after all, there is an excuse, there is a reason, there is a reason, there is a reason, the Ming people think it should be, it is the Spaniards themselves.

All in all, the Spaniards can't give them all the excuses, he doesn't need them.

On the same day, Zhu Cicheng issued a holy decree to summon the Spaniards for their crimes, and ordered Yan Yingyuan's Fourth Army, which had already been assembled on the island of Taiwan to prepare for war, and Shen Jingchao's East China Sea Fleet to start attacking Luzon Island.

Since the decree was issued almost on the same day that the Spanish envoys were expelled from Nanjing, and the island of Taiwan was closer to the city of Nanjing than Luzon, the Spanish envoys had not yet returned to Luzon when Yan Yingyuan and Shen Jingchao received the edict to attack Luzon.

On the same day, the East China Sea Fleet mobilized more than 1,000 ships that had already been prepared.

In the afternoon, the Fourth Army and a large number of military supplies began to board the ships.

Due to the dense forests and islands of Luzon, which was not suitable for cavalry combat, and did not need the mobility of cavalry, the Fourth Army did not bring a single war horse, only a few hundred cattle to carry artillery and supplies.

On October 17, the tenth year of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army set sail from southern Taiwan and officially started the war to conquer Luzon Island.

Luzon has been a Spanish colony for more than 80 years, and Spain has always attached great importance to the construction of Luzon Island because of its proximity to the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese Kingdom, and as an important place for maritime trade.

Over the past 80 years, the Spaniards have built more than a dozen castles in Luzon, mainly in Lasag, Manila, and Santa Cruz, and there are about 13,000 Spanish soldiers on the entire island of Luzon.

Of all the Spanish colonies in the world, Luzon had the largest number of Spanish soldiers except for the Americas.