Chapter 942: Siege

It took three days for Gerard Peak's Manila to completely clear the land of the fleeing Nanyang Kingdom, and it took five days for the navy to give up the pursuit of the ships of the Nanyang Kingdom that broke through and escaped, this was a tragic victory, Gerald Peak looked at the port that was bombed into ruins, and the devastated port battery complex, as well as the Manila city wall that was blown down a corner, and the tattered church roof in the city that was smashed by the solid bullets of the Nanyang Kingdom warship, and there were fires everywhere, Smoking house of the Spanish diaspora.

In all, four hundred and thirty-five people were killed, eight hundred and thirty-one were wounded, the number of houses destroyed, including houses and palaces, amounted to 1,300, a church was completely unusable, and thirty-five priests and two priests died.

Twenty-three thousand houses of the indigenous people outside the city were smashed, burned, and more than 1,000 shops were looted, although many of them were Han shops, but it also made him feel distressed, those were taxes, they were gold.

All the 5,000 Spanish soldiers and horses in the battle, more than 1,000 dead and wounded, as many as 560 guns were destroyed, the port was destroyed and had to be rebuilt, and the batteries were left with three lone batteries and nine 32-pounder cannons.

The artillery killed and wounded nearly 31,000 people, and almost wiped out all the Spanish artillery in Manila.

There are 150 merchant ships in the port, 80 of which are Han Chinese who come to trade here, 380 of which are merchant ships from other Taixi countries who come to trade here, and there are 50 canoes of indigenous people.

More than a hundred of the Spaniards' warships were destroyed, and more than thirty were destroyed.

The Poles and Swedes of the other combined fleets were all wiped out, and even their infantry and ships, the ships and merchants sent by the two countries, and the infantry were all wiped out.

Fifteen merchant ships of the Italians escaped their doom and went to Bombay, three warships of three hundred tons escaped doom and had returned to the port, and the infantry had more than 300 wounded in the temporary hospital of the Doge's Palace.

More than 30 Dutch warships escaped, the British had 30 warships destroyed in the harbor, more than 20 were destroyed outside the harbor, and only five battleships fought to the end and survived because of the fierce firepower and ironclad ships.

The infantry and cavalry, artillery, the British were only about 500 people, more than 200 dead, the French 3,000, more than 1,900 dead, and more than 500 wounded.

It can be said that except for most of the Spanish warships and warships that left the harbor and lay in ambush on the sea thirty miles away, the ships, infantry, cavalry, and artillery of the other fleets did not fall well, and almost all of them were destroyed.

The natives instigated by the Spaniards, the indigenous tribes within a radius of a hundred miles around them, fought four days ago, almost wiped out more than 20 tribes, large and small, and the remaining tribes also suffered heavy losses, and the population was sharply reduced, and it was impossible to resist the Spaniards in the future.

According to statistics, after two days of fighting and three days of chasing and retrieving, the Han people in this area were all wiped out, of course, there were those who fled, but it didn't matter, the 35,000 soldiers and horses, 5,000 people, and dozens of tons of materials that came ashore in the Nanyang Kingdom were all destroyed by war, and even the wounded who were loaded and transported away were mostly wiped out in the subsequent pursuit and ambush.

The Spaniards kept 85 percent intact on Manila, and the rest were either completely wiped out or only 20 percent were lost, or even a very low number of 5 to 1 percent.

They also had 7,500 soldiers, and although about 3,000 soldiers had actually lost their ability to fight, there were still 4,000 soldiers who could participate in the battle, of which 1,500 were soldiers who were originally stationed, and the rest were soldiers of the expeditionary force, and these soldiers were nothing more than homeless people who had come here in desperation to find opportunities, civilians, unfortunate fallen nobles, and many of them died in foreign lands.

Although the losses were heavy, although in the end Spain still needed to pay these countries remuneration and compensation, they seized a lot of materials from the Nanyang Kingdom and the property of the Han merchants who were not afraid of death who came to do business in this area, as well as the land and property of some exterminated indigenous tribes.

After packing up, the Italians, the British, and the French were left with heavy losses and scarred battleships and ships, five hundred wounded soldiers and one hundred soldiers were left in the harbor, and five hundred soldiers were left in the Doge's Palace, and a hundred cavalry were left to maintain order here.

Gerard Peak led 3,000 soldiers and horses, recruited 10,000 warriors from the indigenous tribes, took all the ships that could go into battle, and hurried to make peace with the British and Dutch, and prepared to besiege Cebu Island, the stronghold of the Nanyang Kingdom.

Yesterday the clipper ship sent news that the British and Dutch had occupied Leyte Island and completely annihilated the fleet of Zheng Keshuang, the brother of the Nanyang Kingdom, who had come to the rescue, and had lost 30 armed merchant ships, 10 warships, and captured 50 enemy warships and warships.

He was quite envious of them, and let the British and Dutch pick up a bargain, Zheng Zhi's main force of the Nanyang Kingdom Navy Division came to attack him, destroyed at least 20% of his warships and warships, and let them break through.

On the third day of the two-day voyage, he came to the waters off the island of Cebu.

The British fleet in the outer waters had already surrounded Cebu Island, and there were probably more than 100 enemy ships in the port of Cebu Island, almost 50 of which were merchant ships, and only about 50 warships remained.

From the binoculars, you can see that half of the ships are intact, the rest are wounded, and it seems that the enemy's strength has been weakened to an extreme.

On the flagship of the Knight, he met with the initiator of this alliance, the Dutch Governor Ick, the Viceroy of England.

Ike said: "The enemy has no combat effectiveness, the future battle is on the shore, we need you to launch the indigenous tribal warriors on the shore to attack them, and then we land on the beach next to the port, the enemy soldiers are not many because of the civil strife, look, the whole island is full of fireworks, the enemy is quelling the rebellion, the indigenous resistance, their internal resistance, one after another." ”

The British governor looked at the Spanish governor Gerard Peak and said: "That's the case, we want to have Mindanao after the war, and the Dutch want to have Leyte after the war, what do you think?" ”

Gerard Peak was furious, "Impossible, this is our Spanish colony, no one can touch it, at most, at most, I will pay some more gold coins, and I will give you fifty percent of the trade share in the future, and if you have more, please go back." I'm not going to join such an alliance anymore. ”

Ike smiled: "Don't be impatient, we're just a proposal, propose, don't hurt the peace, well, then don't, in the future, this will still be your Spaniards, we will seize Kogong Island, Palawan, Indonesia, and the British will seize Australia, how about it?" ”

(End of chapter)