After repairing thirteen Spanish warships, Xiao Chen quickly began to train his troops, although Xiao Chen didn't understand this, but those pirates understood! Xiao Chen's cruelty and viciousness made these pirate soldiers very afraid. However, Xie Jiucheng sent more than 30 loyal personnel to the Ming Dynasty, plus there were more than 200 soldiers in the East China Sea Fleet, so Xiao Chen's pirate fleet was quickly established, and the combat effectiveness was needless to say.

Now, Xiao Chen began to speak frantically again: "Brothers, we are pirates, and we are pirates of the Chinese, do you know? Piracy was legal with Westerners, as long as the government issued a license to plunder. Now I tell you, we are also legal now, we have obtained the plunder license of the Ming Dynasty, as long as we do not plunder the legal merchants of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the merchants who have paid taxes in the Ming Customs, and the others are legal.

"Brothers, you have all done this work, and from this day on, you can continue to do it, what a wonderful process! The men who killed them, and took their gold and silver treasures, and plundered their women, and robbed their ships. Go ahead and enjoy! Brethren! Whether it is the Westerners in the past or the little people of the Japanese kingdom are the targets of our robbery, and the local natives are also our robbery targets, they have been bullying our honest comrades for so many years, and now they must be punished, kill them, and rob them all. Let's fight! Pirates! ”

"Fight! Fight! Pirate! Pirate! The pirate warriors responded to Xiao Chen's call loudly, their faces full of excitement and excitement, as if they had just met a prisoner from prison who had just met an amnesty, oh, they were the prisoners who had just been pardoned by Xiao Chen.

From this day on, this sea area began to kill bloody pokes, whether it was the Dutch, the Spaniards or the merchant ships of the Japanese Kingdom often disappeared in this sea area, and disappeared inexplicably, because Xiao Chen's pirates absolutely did not leave a living mouth, and every time they killed people and sunk ships after robbing, leaving no trace at all. Three months later, only Chinese merchant ships were left in the area, which alarmed the Dutch and immediately began patrolling the area. When this situation was discovered, Xiao Chen immediately moved to the battlefield and stopped robbing merchant ships.

Xiao Chen's pirate fleet began a sea guerrilla war, relying on the local warriors and pirates sent by Xie Jiucheng to be familiar with the nearby seas, constantly robbing the seaside cities occupied by the Dutch and Spaniards. The warships of the Dutch did not dare to disperse the encirclement and suppression, and the Grand Fleet could not be used up for a long time at sea, and the final result could only be nothing.

When they stopped, the Spaniards began to be unlucky, Xiao Chen did not attack ordinary merchant ships this time, just circled around the Philippine Islands, as long as he found a ship transporting silver sailing towards the Strait of Malacca, he robbed, making the Spaniards defenseless, the most deadly is that the Spaniards' arms ships were also robbed, and a few ships of arms made Xiao Chen's pirate troops more confident. Coupled with the increasing number of Xiao Chen's pirates, Xiao Chen has now begun to attack and occupy small towns far away from Manila, and even many small islands have begun to fall into the hands of Xiao Chen's pirate troops, and many gold, silver and tin mines have also been mixed up by Xiao Chen and cannot produce normally.

The Dutch and Spaniards, who were so disturbed by Xiao Chen that they could not live in peace, later sent people to make peace with Xiao Chen, hoping that he would stop attacking merchant ships and mines and towns again, and that he could consider giving him a place as territory. Xiao Chen also considered that there was a lot of trouble now, and the ammunition was almost consumed, and he had to replenish it before he could organize the operation again. He proposed to occupy Zhenghe Island and have the sovereignty of Zhenghe Island. The Dutch agreed, but the Spaniards were not very satisfied, so Xiao Chen said that he would continue to attack the occupied areas of the Spaniards, so the Spaniards had to hold their noses and remain silent.

After legally recapturing Zheng He Island from the Spaniards, Xiao Chen began to reorganize the pirate fleet, and secretly plundered the indigenous people from Mindanao and Luzon to develop mines as slaves, and prepared for farming in the eastern plains. The other is to send some ships back to Daming to transport arms and prepare for the next stage of operation.

Besides, after Niu Jinxing returned to Daming, he immediately went to see Zhu Youxiao and explained in detail what he saw in Nanyang, especially the Spanish massacre of more than 20,000 local Chinese in the 30th year of Wanli. Zhu Youxiao only knew that there had been several massacres of Chinese in Indonesia, and that the Dutch treated the local Chinese as sheep, slaughtering Chinese and looting property every few decades, just like shearing wool twice a year. The massacre in the Philippines is the first time I have heard of it, and I have only heard that the indigenous Filipinos are lazy, the Chinese are diligent, and the status of the children married and born to the locals is higher than both, and I think that the Chinese treatment is higher than that of Indonesia, so later the Filipino Chinese were assimilated by the locals under the policy of the Spaniards, or assimilated with each other. Now that he heard that he had been slaughtered, and that more than 20,000 of the 27,000 or 8,000 people had been slaughtered, he was furious and asked Qi Jin to send a fleet with enough weapons and ammunition to meet Xiao Chen and prepare to capture Manila.

Qi Jin is now urging a large number of craftsmen to build ships in Quanzhou, the time is a little short, and the method of combining Western-style warships with the warships of the Ming Dynasty is not very mature, and it is in the experimental stage, and the ships that want to be built must go through rigorous planning and skilled craftsmen. Now that only a few experimental ships have just been built, they cannot form combat effectiveness, so Zhu Youxiao has no choice but to change his plan, asking him to mobilize enough arms and materials for Xiao Chen, and then send some warships and generals who are familiar with naval warfare, depending on the situation at that time.

After Yu Hualong heard the news, he was the first to ask to go to the South Seas, but it was impossible to take the ironclad ship, so he let him take all the small warships equipped with the "Iron Ox", and sent a warship that was testing a combination of Chinese and Western culture, and installed eight "Iron Bulls" and six cannons on it, and handed them over to Yu Hualong. So Yu Hualong took such a small fleet of thirteen and ten Fu ships with munitions to Zheng He Island and Xiao Chen Huihe, and there were 2,000 marines on the Fu ship.

Seeing the warship that came to meet the peace, Xiao Chen was overjoyed, and immediately handed over the pirate fleet of more than 20 warships to Yu Hualong, according to Zhu Youxiao's will, Xiao Chen also restored his name - Chen Qing, and Zhu Youxiao no longer let him retain the identity of Jinyiwei, and appointed Chen Qing as the chief of staff of this fleet, which was newly called by Zhu Youxiao according to the title of later generations, and the position was second only to Yu Hualong.

Nearly 40 warships are also a fairly large fleet in the South Seas, and the first plan proposed by Chief of Staff Chen Qing to Yu Hualong is to occupy the Philippines, which is a crazy plan, because this fleet has less than 5,000 people, and at this time there are more than 30,000 Spaniards in the Philippines, and the army alone has tens of thousands. It's just that Yu Hualong is also a bold person, Chen Qing's plan is very suitable for his appetite, but how to implement this plan still needs to be well designed, especially the need to understand the specific situation of the Spaniards, the idea of not fighting an unprepared battle is always the most correct strategy, the things left by the ancestors for thousands of years are absolutely correct, whether it is Chen Qing or Yu Hualong, the rude is only superficial, and he is still very careful about fighting. Every battle or campaign, as long as it is not a hasty encounter, must be rehearsed, this is one of the tutorials of the military branch of the Ming Officials Academy, and now to capture Manila, Yu Hualong must be fully prepared, and truly know himself and his opponent in a hundred battles.