First of all, he knows that his strength is the first place, and if he wants to know the situation in Manila, he must rely on Xie Jiucheng. Xie Jiucheng's Jinyiwei Xiaoqi is inherited, don't look at the history of two hundred years, Xie Jiucheng's ancestral Jinyiwei kung fu has not been left behind at all, plus I am talented and good, it can be said that the ability is stronger than that of my ancestors.

The Chinese who stayed in Manila with Xie Jiucheng's ancestors were basically married to local indigenous women, but their descendants also knew that their roots were in the distant Ming Dynasty, and most of the male descendants would have some Chinese, including those sent by Xie Jiucheng to the pirate army.

Xie Jiucheng, who was born and raised in Manila, was naturally very familiar with the streets of Manila, but he was not very familiar with the situation in the Spanish castle, because it was almost forbidden for them to enter there, and as for the power and position of the artillery, there was no way to know, and now their task was to find out these things. Xie Jiucheng was a carpenter, and there were other people who did other jobs, so they crossed the sea to show their powers, and with their own expertise, they began to sneak into the castle to check the terrain and military configuration of each one, and calculated the effective distance and power of the shot according to the thickness of the barrel of the city defense gun.

A few days later, Xie Jiucheng finally drew a map of the military defense of the Spanish castle, like a fort, a barracks, a pasture, a restaurant, etc., these facilities were clearly represented on the map. Looking at this map, Yu Hualong and Chen Qing were a little dazed, this is a stone hedgehog, all the cannons can't blow up the city wall at all, the three-zhang thick stone city wall is difficult to blow up with *, the cannons are hidden in the cannon hole, the outside can't be hit at all, and the range of the cannon is five miles away, except for the latest warship, the other shells barely hit, if you want to rush to the city wall to climb the city, it is impossible, just these 5,000 people are not enough to protect the city at all, and they will die almost if they can't get to the front. If you want to send someone to get in, it won't work, first of all, you can't bring weapons in, and secondly, if there are fewer people, you can't do anything, and if there are more people, it's impossible.

After many days of careful study, Chen Qing finally discovered the flaws of this castle, most of its batteries are in the direction of facing the sea, and there are few batteries on the back, and there are dead ends for shooting, on the small hill behind, the position of the shooting dead ends can be completely placed on mortars for attack, with the help of telescopes can see all the personnel activities in the city, since they can't be stormed, then they want to trap them in the city, no matter how many supplies they have in the city, there will always be a time to run out, In addition, mortars are placed in the dead corners on both sides to cut off the flow of their personnel, and then shelling them non-stop, and they don't need many shells, as long as they don't let them rest peacefully, they will fight when they see people moving during the day, and shell them from time to time at night, so that they can't rest and see how long they can last.

In fact, there is no good way to deal with this kind of stone hedgehog not only for Hualong and Chen Qing, but also for this era when there is no large-caliber artillery, no one has a very good way, and wars besieging the city for several years abound. Therefore, the method proposed by Chen Qing is still feasible, as long as they are not allowed to come out, they will surrender sooner or later if they are blocked in the city and beaten, the ancients said: There is no fortress that cannot be attacked, which is probably what it means.

After determining the siege tactics, all that remained was how to besiege, Yu Hualong's idea was to confuse the Spaniards as much as possible, so that they would think that the pirate troops would not be too many, would not attack for too long, or that they would not have much combat power, and kill and wound their living forces outside the castle as much as possible, and then drive them into the castle to besiege. So, 2,000 marines secretly entered Manila with weapons and ammunition, and began to operate on the back of Manila City, and 2,000 naval soldiers assisted in the attack as reserves, and the other navies controlled the port, harassed and blocked the sea five miles away, anyway, the Spanish fleet had been almost defeated.

The attack of the Marines began in the morning, and the two thousand men began to attack all the Spaniards outside the Manila Castle, and the swift soldiers and civilians outside the city were driven into the castle, and by the time the Spaniards came to their senses and organized the Spanish army to begin a counterattack, the Marines had already built simple fortifications. Sure enough, the Spaniards saw that there were not many marines, so they organized soldiers to start attacking, and the marines began to shoot at the Spaniards with simple fortifications, and repelled three attacks without using mortars, because the Ming army's firing rifles were obviously faster than the Spaniards' flintlock muskets in terms of range and speed, and they had fortifications to rely on, and the casualties were not proportional at all.

Annoyed, the Spaniards quickly concentrated almost all their soldiers in an attempt to completely annihilate the pirates at once, because no mortars were used, and the Spaniards still did not understand who attacked the city of Manila. Not long after, the Spaniards' artillery also pulled out, and there was a fierce bombardment of the Ming army's position, and the big iron bullets flew over, and the Ming army, which had long been prepared, piled up the soil in front when building the fortifications, unless the soldiers who were directly hit died, and the iron balls could not hurt a few people at all. Yu Hualong insisted on not allowing the mortars to counterattack, and he hoped that the Spaniards would get closer and break their confidence with mortars, and kill and wound the main Spanish army as much as possible outside the city.

After the shelling, the Spanish soldiers began to launch a general attack, and the whole group of Spaniards swarmed up to see that it was almost over, and Yu Hualong ordered the mortars to start firing. First bombarded in dense formations, then rushed from the back to front, and as for the artillery of the Spaniards, while shelling the soldiers, there were specialized mortars against it. When the Spanish soldiers were bombed from the back to the front, mortars, hand-cranked machine guns and musketeers were fired, and in less than two quarters of an hour, the Spanish soldiers broke up, the mortars continued to blow up their butts, and the marines began to pursue, and the Spaniards could not resist and began to retreat to the castle.

Accident happened at this time, the Spaniards began to retreat, they saw countless natives swarming up, also rushed in the direction of the castle together, quickly entangled with them, at first the Spaniards did not pay attention, only later to find that the natives entered the castle with them, and began to rob. It turned out that Xie Jiucheng saw a large number of natives surrounding the Ming army and the Spaniards to watch the excitement, and he wanted to fish in troubled waters after the war to rob, of course, the main purpose was to rob the Chinese, but now that the Chinese have won, they are a little disappointed. Taking this opportunity, Xie Jiucheng and his accomplices shouted, "The Spaniards have been defeated, go to the castle and grab the silver!" "Take the lead and rush to the castle, as soon as the other natives heard that they had robbed the Spaniards, there was more silver there, since there was a leader, then rob it, and tens of thousands of people rushed up like a swarm.

The Spanish soldiers are running for their lives, how can they manage anything else, the soldiers in charge of the city gate have no time to close the city gate, they can't close the city gate, a large number of teams are still outside the city, the people at the city gate are crowded into persimmons, the Spaniards are in a hurry to flee for their lives, the natives are in a hurry to go in and rob, this mess, it is definitely a pot of porridge. As soon as Yu Hualong saw that the situation had changed, he ordered the soldiers to quickly seize the gate of the castle, most of the Spanish soldiers who had already entered, and tens of thousands of natives, and the rest of the people outside the castle surrendered one after another, Yu Hualong blocked the city gate and let them fight in the city, as well as the natives who entered the city again, Yu Hualong also put them in, and let them kill and rob inside.

The city was in chaos for two nights and a day, and finally it was quiet, neither the natives who rushed into the city again, nor the Spaniards who came out again, and the natives who lived on the outskirts of Manila were almost all inside, except for the old and the young, there were almost no one left, and those who went in and thought out of the natives died inside the city gates. In short, everything was quiet, and the shouts of killing and gunfire were gone.

When Yu Hualong led the Ming soldiers into the castle, it was definitely a hell on earth, the natives who were killed were piled up into a hill, and there was hardly a living person in sight, and the few Spanish soldiers were also staring at the Ming soldiers who entered the city with demented eyes, and turned around numbly, the white flag had been hung on the governor's palace, and the remaining Spaniards were less than five hundred, including many women and children. Let them line up, hand over their weapons and let them go, as for whether they can survive or not, it is not up to the Ming soldiers to manage. Yu Hualong asked the soldiers to start cleaning up the castle, first cleaning out all the dead bodies, and then starting to count the seized property, this inventory really made Yu Hualong happy, the gold, silver and jewelry were all piled up. The Spaniards who went out really didn't get out, and they joined the old and young of the natives not far from the city, and now there are only Chinese left in the whole of Manila, so Yu Hualong let them be armed, and then went to the neighborhood to catch the natives as slaves, there must be someone to work, although these natives are lazy.