Chapter 791: The Battle of Luzon (1)
When the Fourth Army and the East China Sea Fleet began to send troops and were already approaching Luzon, the Spanish governor of Luzon in Manila had just met several Spanish envoys who had returned from the Ming Dynasty.
Because only four or five days have passed, the scars of several Spanish envoys who were thrown out of Nanjing City are still there, especially the one who kowtowed.
Seeing this scene, the face of the Spanish governor of Luzon instantly darkened, and he thought that several envoys had been abused by the Ming Dynasty.
"How can Da Ming be this envoy who abuses my Spanish Empire, this is the most serious provocation to my Spanish Empire, unforgivable! They will be punished by God! The Spanish governor of Luzon roared.
Of course, it was just a roar, and the Spanish governor of Luzon had not dared to say anything about sending troops to attack the Ming Dynasty.
Luzon Island is located south of Taiwan, north of the Indonesian archipelago, both of which were originally the territory of the Dutch, a few years ago, the Ming defeated the Dutch fleet, recovered Taiwan, and drove the Indonesian archipelago of the Dutch to occupy the Indonesian archipelago, the combat effectiveness shown, so that the Spanish governor of Luzon had to put away a lot of arrogance.
Since the defeat of the Armada by the English a few decades ago, the Spanish Empire has sunset, and in recent decades the Netherlands has risen to become a coachman at sea, with a large fleet and warships, although the Spaniards, who have always been arrogant, do not think that Spain is much worse than the Dutch. However, arrogance does not mean that their minds are full of water, there are only 13,000 Spanish soldiers on Luzon Island, and there are only 14 warships! Compared with the combined strength of the Dutch in Indonesia and Taiwan, the Ming Dynasty was able to defeat the Dutch and occupy the Taiwan and Indonesian archipelago, which shows that the strength of the Ming Dynasty is still very strong, at least not the strength of Luzon Island that he can deal with.
The reason why the Spanish governor of Luzon planned to save the Marquis of Larsie and the three thousand Spanish soldiers who were captured by the Ming Dynasty was not because of how much he had to do with the Marquis of Larsi, but because of the three thousand Spanish soldiers.
Although the 3,000 Spanish soldiers are under the command of the Marquis of Larsi, but the Spanish governor of Luzon is also a marquis, if the Marquis of Larsi can be rescued, he has every excuse to be able to annex the 3,000 Spanish soldiers of the Marquis of Larsi and enhance his strength, and then there will be 16,000 Spanish soldiers under his command, and the Marquis of Larsie, because he was rescued by him, even if he has an opinion, it is useless to report to the king, he is at most supporting the Marquis of Larsi to return to the Spanish Empire with a little money.
"I'll tell you all over again!" The Spanish governor of Luzon said to several envoys.
The Spanish governor of Luzon did not give up his intention to redeem the Marquis of Larsi and the three thousand Spanish soldiers from the Ming Dynasty, so he had to find out what had happened from the beginning to see what had gone wrong.
"Yes, Lord Governor!" Several envoys were about to tell the story of Daming's encounter from beginning to end.
Several envoys added fuel to the fire first said that the Ming Dynasty was rude and negligent, especially the Ming Emperor did not meet them in person, and only sent a courtier to them, and then the courtier did not take them seriously, they had just finished speaking, and they were expelled from Nanjing City without receiving any reply.
From beginning to end, several envoys talked about the arrogance of the Ming Dynasty, but their own arrogance was not mentioned, especially the words they threatened the Ming Dynasty.
After hearing this, the governor of Spain and Indonesia immediately frowned.
Da Ming is so arrogant, it really surprised him, this has seriously hurt the honor of their Spanish Empire, generally speaking, they should face the crusade of their Spanish Empire, but Da Ming is not weak, it is not possible to crusade casually, or rescue the Marquis of Larsi first.
"You didn't name the price the Governor offered?" The Spanish governor of Luzon asked again.
At the beginning, the Dutch had redeemed two prisoners with Daming, and the price offered by Daming was two hundred taels of silver per person, that is, two hundred silver coins, and although the Spanish governor of Luzon did not have as much money as the Dutch, he also opened a hundred silver coins per person, even if Daming did not agree, it was not impossible to bargain.
Several Spanish envoys glanced at each other, their expressions a little flustered.
Because the Ming Emperor did not see them in person, they felt insulted, and under their arrogance, they naturally wanted to show the strength of the Spanish Empire first, so not only did they not tell the price of the governor of Luzon, but directly threatened the Ming Dynasty to unconditionally release the Marquis of Larsi and three thousand Spanish soldiers.
They were going to threaten first, and then they said that they would negotiate with the bid, but where did they think of it, and they were expelled as soon as the threat was finished.
However, several of the messengers were apparently afraid of being punished for telling the truth.
"Back to the Governor, I said it, but Da Ming didn't say anything, and directly expelled us, Da Ming is too arrogant!" Several messengers opened their eyes and said nonsense.
At this time, the governor of Luzon in Spain was completely embarrassed, although the arrogance of the Ming Dynasty also made him angry, but the Marquis of Larsi and the three thousand Spanish soldiers could not give up. After all, the population of Spain is not large, and 3,000 Spanish soldiers are also a lot of wealth and strength.
Just when the Spanish governor was in a dilemma and considered whether to send an envoy to the Ming to redeem the prisoners again, the Ming East China Sea Fleet carrying the Fourth Army had also appeared in the northern edge of Luzon.
"My lord, two Spanish warships have been found!" A Ming Navy soldier came to Shen Jingchao and Yan Yingyuan and said.
Shen Jingchao immediately picked up the binoculars to watch, and sure enough, he saw two Spanish warships on the sea in the distance.
"Sink them!" Shen Jingchao ordered.
"Yes!"
As the order passed on, the Daming fleet sailed at full strength, and several Daming Shenwei-class battleships adjusted their guns and aimed at the two Spanish warships.
At this time, the Spaniards on the Spanish battleships also discovered the huge Ming fleet.
"Maiga, that's the fleet of the Ming Dynasty! What are they going to do! The Spanish general on one of the battleships exclaimed.
The Spaniards on the two battleships looked through binoculars, and when they saw that the guns of the Ming warships were already aimed at them, their eyes widened one by one.
"Boom! Rumble! Boom: "The cannon on the Ming battleship fired.
"No" the Spaniards on both battleships were shocked.
"Get out of the way!" There was chaos on the Spanish battleship, trying to dodge the cannonballs fired by the Daming battleship, but unfortunately the cannons on the Daming Shenwei-class battleship were better than the cannons on the Spanish battleship, and dozens of shells pierced the air and flew quickly.