Luzon? Red thieves landed on Luzon?

Ye Mingchen has endless questions in his heart, and wants to make it clear to this consul gentleman that the troops used by the red thieves to land now are only more than 1,000 people, and they were originally scheduled to land in Guangdong.

Are they lost at sea? Or is it deliberate? They are only a thousand people, how can they land on Luzon? You must know that there is a Spanish army on Luzon, Jincheng Tangchi, how dare they land?

Ye Mingchen poured his question to the Spanish consul, and the consul had to reveal a little truth.

That's right, Luzon, no, the whole of the Philippines has been a Spanish colony for hundreds of years, and Spain has never wanted to run this colony well, you must know that they are not very well run in the country, let alone a colony in the Far East.

They just wanted to run the Philippines into a colony for thousands of generations, and after a few hundred years of operation, the cross and the Bible had spread to every inch of the island nation, and the Spanish colonization seemed to have reached the point of fame, so that when they reached Mafang Nanshan, a few years ago, they met a religious madman like Hong Xiuquan, who was also caught off guard and suffered heavy losses.

But a religious madman in the Catholic Church, or a heresy who proclaimed himself the reincarnation of God, caught the Spaniards off guard, and such an onslaught did not make the Spaniards more vigilant in the colonies, and even before the Spanish-American War, the Spanish army in the entire Philippine colony was only 42,000 men, and among these 42,000 people, there were hardly any combat-ready troops.

The situation was even worse now, and the entire Philippine colony, including Luzon, did not have a Spanish army of more than 30,000 people, and almost all of the soldiers were native, and the officers were all Spaniards. The troops were poorly equipped, and there were even individual units equipped with flintlock pistols from the Napoleonic Wars - these armaments were enough anyway to suppress the rebellion of the natives.

But in order to resist a heavily armed invader, even if the invader had no more than 1,000 troops, the Spanish colonists still felt great pressure, and they had to withdraw the 3,700 volunteers sent to Canton to Luzon.

Ye Mingchen had to carefully study the problem that the Spanish volunteers who reinforced Guangdong looked good, and he naturally did not want these volunteers to withdraw, and the Spanish consul revealed an astonishing fact in a whispered debate, that is, this so-called volunteer army. At present, the more than 20,000 Spanish troops on the island of Luzon have not only reduced these 3,700 elite mobile troops, but even 1,200 elite infantry have been withdrawn from the coastline because of the redeployment of defense, and are now on board ships and set sail for Canton.

Other words. Because of the reinforcement of Guangdong, not a single shot was fired, and the red thieves had already reduced the defenders of Luzon by one-fifth of their strength, not to mention that these defenders belonged to the kind with better quality, Ye Mingchen gasped.

Ye Mingchen still held on to a glimmer of hope, and he asked: "Britain and France have already stated that the Red Thief Sailor is not allowed to visit Yueyang, otherwise he will bear all the responsibility, why is the Red Thief now invading Luzon." Why don't you see them come out in protest? ”

The Spanish consul has given Ye Mingchen a zero score for international geopolitics, since the two sides reached an agreement to lease Guangzhou Bay, the British and the French have regarded the soon-to-be-established Dayue country as an enemy, the British consul and the French consul asked Ye Mingchen several times to submit an ultimatum, but even Ye Mingchen did not meet, they agreed that this was a plan by the Spaniards.

In the end, they turned a blind eye to the fact that the Red Thieves landed in Luzon, which was a shame for the Westerners, as long as the Spaniards could save face in the Philippines in the end, anyway, what Britain and France demanded was that the Rainbow Army fleet should not enter the waters of Guangdong, not the coast of the Philippines.

Since the middle of the sergeant. He had never been hit so hard. Even if it is a joint threat from the British and French consuls, or a small frustration in officialdom. It was not enough to make his soul fly, but at this moment, he was really daring

Shocked: "The Volunteer Army must not be withdrawn, if it is withdrawn, my Dayue country will still have face?" At this moment, if your country wants to forcibly withdraw the volunteers, I ......"

He made a difficult decision: "I had to fire on the volunteers with my troops......"

It's a painful choice, but let's die together.

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The golden sand, the lively crowd, and the ups and downs of the light boat made Lin Mengchu's mood relaxed.

In countless landing exercises, he had never encountered such a situation, not even a single bullet, directly landed on the gentle beach, and for the first time, the landed troops also seized a pier, allowing some light ships to unload directly.

This is the largest landing operation organized by the Rainbow Army in history, and a total of 2,300 army, marine, and naval personnel will go ashore to fight, including an independent marine battalion of the Navy, two elite infantry battalions of the Fujian Military Region of the Army, and most of the ships of the Rainbow Navy.

In fact, the Hongjun Navy has always been along the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian, and it is an almost impossible task to suddenly let them enter the ocean to fight and perform such a difficult combat mission, but fortunately, it is a fairly simple task to hire foreign seamen and naval personnel with old qualifications in this time and space.

With the assistance of Western allies such as De Mons and Rusya, Zhang Sigui's navy not only hired hundreds of Western seafarers who often ran Philippine routes, but even hired a large number of merchant ships that often ran Luzon routes, forming the most powerful Chinese fleet since Lin Feng's expedition to the Philippines.

But Lin Mengchu didn't expect things to be so simple, originally thought that they would be intercepted by the Spanish Navy, at least according to intelligence, the main force of the colonial navy in Luzon is still dominated by sail warships, but it also retains a small number of steam warships, and even one or two real steam warships, to deal with these steam warships, Zhang Sigui and Lin Mengchu's only magic weapon to win is the four steam warships transferred from the French, and even most of the sailors on it are Europeans, It's just that who will win and who will lose in the naval battle between the two, no one knows.

But until now, not only have all the infantry been landed, but even the heavy equipment has landed, Lin Mengchu still hasn't seen the legendary Spanish steam warships and galleons, but as long as he lands, it is enough, and the land is where he can use all his skills.

Originally, he was the new regiment commander of the army, but in order to land in Taiwan to fight, Zhang Sigui specially recruited him from the army to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Taiwan operation -- although the strength of the Taiwan operation was only an independent marine battalion, Zhang Sigui had promised that when the Taiwan battle was over, he would be the commander of Taiwan's garrison.

But the end was a great tragedy, Sun Huzi of the Fujian Military Region did not wait for the independent battalion of the Marine War to carry out the Taiwan operation, and simply seized the entire island of Taiwan with two infantry battalions, and there was not even a bone left for the navy, and the navy had to consider its own new base -- now the whole island of Taiwan is under the control of Sun Huzi, and Sun Huzi even sent a third infantry battalion, and is also preparing to form a fourth infantry battalion on the spot.

Soon, Sun Huzi put forward his own suggestion that the army and navy jointly land on the coast of Guangdong, so that they could obtain the support of the anti-Qing forces along the coast of Guangdong, and deal a fatal blow to Ye Mingchen, who was entrenched in Guangzhou, but this plan was soon opposed by the navy -- because both Britain and France had already proposed that the navy of the Hong Army should not enter the coastal area of Guangdong to fight, and even if the landing operation was successful, it would inevitably cause further deterioration of relations between the two sides.

On the contrary, the navy put forward its own counter-suggestion, the strength of these three infantry battalions should be on Luzon Island, repeating Lin Feng's expedition to the Philippines, but with the support of the entire mainland, this expedition to the Philippines will inevitably achieve comprehensive success, and Lin Mengchu also thinks that conquering Luzon is the right choice.

To this end, the Navy has sent several intelligence teams to the Philippines and even has several small gray forces in the vicinity of possible landing sites, but these parties do not understand their true intentions, and the Navy does not confirm the implementation of the landing operation until the end.

It was the acquiescence of the British and the French that made the landing operation truly feasible, and the Spaniards annoyed them by setting aside the actions of the Great Powers to act alone or even exclusively, and they repeatedly instilled in Zhang Sigui and the senior officers of the Hongjun that "the Great Powers would very much like you to give the Spaniards a blow, and even be willing to help them as much as they could." ”

This was enough, even the British and the French did not expect Zhang Sigui to be bold enough to carry out the operation of landing on Luzon - in fact, Zhang Sigui did not understand the difficulty of organizing such a large-scale long-distance landing operation, so he had such a bold idea.

And now Lin Mengchu has stood on the land of Luzon, and the indigenous defenders of several nearby outposts have either fled or surrendered after a short firefight, and in addition to the 2,300 combatants and logistics personnel in his hands, there are also several gray armed forces that have been lurking and ready to respond, and now his intelligence staff is trying to contact these people.

According to the actual combat, the indigenous defenders were equipped with firing rifles that had been eliminated by the participating troops, and the landing troops were all equipped with better Mini rifles, and according to Lin Mengchu's understanding, if it wasn't for the haste of this operation, Liu Chang was even ready to equip them with better rifles.

Moreover, the morale of the indigenous troops was low, their training was limited, and they were not the opponents of the landing force at all, so Lin Mengchu quickly made up his mind: "The next goal is ...... Manila! ”

ps: I made a low-level mistake yesterday, Guangzhou Bay is in Zhanjiang, not in Guangzhou, the New Year is here, I wish you all a happy New Year and all the best