Gerald Peak stood at the top of the castle in the glimmer of the morning light, looking at the fleet of the Nanyang Kingdom that had been fighting on the sea all night, and said to the adjutant Captain Edward beside him: "It's time for our fleet to fight, while the night has not dispersed, we can get as close to the battlefield as possible, and in another hour, I am afraid that those allies of ours will be wiped out, which will be a shame for us, and we may offend our allies." ”

When he said these words, there were only thirty warships on the sea still resisting, and the merchant ships and warships in the harbor were all sunk by the fleet of the Nanyang Kingdom, Zheng Zhi came this time to destroy, and he did not think about capturing these merchant ships, so he did not leave a single one for the enemy.

Half of his ships were lost, fifty-six were sunk, thirty-six were damaged, and the enemy's shore guns were still being shelled, and seventeen seriously wounded ships were dragged close to the shore to extinguish the fire, and those who could fight still used their artillery to support the soldiers who kept laying down on the shore.

On the shore, a coalition of 15,000,000 French, Swedes, Dutch, Italians, Poles, and Spaniards was attacking the port, and nearly 30,000 native soldiers and horses were besieging the port.

The 10,000 Japanese servants, 5,000 Goguryeo servants, 10,000 Han soldiers, plus sailors and artillery who were constantly scooped up from the water joined, and there were nearly 35,000 soldiers and horses attacking Manila in Spain.

The battle seemed to be more advantageous to the Nanyang Kingdom, but after Zheng Zhi calmed down, he replaced a warship as the flagship, but he thought of a question, the port was full of warships flying the flags of merchant ships of various countries, and the ships of the Spaniards could not be seen, where did their ships go?

He did not think that the Spanish fleet was going to attack Cebu and Leyte, and suddenly he broke out in a cold sweat, and the enemy knew that he was coming, so he lay in ambush outside, waiting for him to come out and encircle him when he was bleeding in front of the shore artillery fortifications.

He looked at the merchant ships on the shore that were under fire and were transporting supplies, and the wounded warships that had tried their best to fight back, and the thirty warships that had fought the remaining Spanish warships and other foreign warships near the harbor, and the ten warships, and the twenty armed merchant ships, and the thirty warships that had shelled the shore guns and the batteries at the head of Manila, and the thirty-five thousand men and horses who had come ashore, and the six or seven thousand wounded who had suffered heavy casualties.

At this moment, he can't escape if he wants to, and he can't walk away at such a time.

At least 35,000 men and horses on the shore, 6,000 or 7,000 wounded, and the surviving crew and sailors, gunners, and soldiers of the sunken ships floating on the sea.

"Let the merchant ships evacuate the wounded, let the armed merchant ships go to salvage the soldiers who fell into the water in part, and let the merchant ships tow the wounded ships back immediately, go quickly." Zheng Zhi immediately took action, he was a decisive person.

When the retreat was carried out until dawn, there were a total of thirty or forty wounded merchant ships, armed merchant ships, and warships, carrying about 3,000 wounded and civilians from the battlefield and heading towards Cebu Island.

"To the southeast, a large number of sailing ships, thirty enemy battleships, my God, that's a Spanish first-class battleship, it's so big."

"To the southwest, fifty sailing ships, armed merchant ships of the enemy, are Spaniards, merchant ships of three hundred tons,"

"They came from the other side of the island, and they were armed ships of the Dutch, six hundred tons, fifteen, followed by thirty third-class ships of the Spaniards."

……，

The lookout hand was constantly reporting the direction of the enemy, and Zheng Zhi's heart sank into the valley.

He looked over to the shore, 35,000 soldiers had suffered heavy casualties, but they had basically held the port, the enemy's indigenous coalition army was routed, and the enemy's other coalition forces suffered heavy casualties and were unable to attack, and from the city of Manila drove a convoy of Spanish soldiers and horses, freshly dressed and angry, and artillery wagons one by one, a full of 5,000 soldiers and horses.

It seems that the soldiers on the shore will not be able to retreat.

His warships and warships and merchant ships did not know whether they could retreat or not, and from the constant reports of the lookouts, the enemy had at least two hundred warships, and at least fifty warships, or the kind of super warships in the Spanish population, with a large tonnage, almost fifteen hundred tons.

And here he brought with him more than a hundred warships, except for the first thirty damaged ones, only twenty were left intact, two hundred warships, now less than fifty or sixty, and the armed merchant ships lost one hundred and fifty in the enemy's shore artillery fire, in the engagements with the enemy's patrol fleets, and in the battles with the ships of the Tessians in the Spanish harbor.

Now there are only eighty of them left, and many of them are still wounded.

Run, now he can't care so much.

The whole army immediately broke away from the battle and desperately assaulted in the direction southwest of Cebu Island.

At ten o'clock in the afternoon, he looked at the tragic image of only thirty warships around him, all the battleships were lost, and he wanted to cry but there were no tears.

Although it inflicted heavy losses on the Spaniards, it lost all its capital.

Thirty-five thousand soldiers, thirty-five thousand sailors, nearly four hundred ships, all his capital.

In the dark of night, he finally escaped from the pursuit of the Spaniards and fled to Cebu Island, fortunately, the Spaniards did not attack Cebu Island, but Cebu Island was a pot of porridge.

More than 100,000 natives besieged all the Han inhabited territory on Cebu Island, the servant army in Southeast Asia mutinied, the Japanese servant army refused to go to war, the Han soldiers and horses fought everywhere, and the merchant ships and armed merchant ships left behind in the port and thirty warships also fought everywhere, and some Han merchants seized these warships and were engaged in fierce battles with his loyal deployment.

By the time he had quelled the fierce fighting in the harbor with a few hundred sailors and eliminated all the rebels, twenty-one ships remained, and the others were either taken and fled, or sunk, wounded, and unusable.

Only thirty or forty merchant ships escaped.

With the organization of a thousand soldiers and horses to attack the city, along the way will be loyal to their own family, soldiers and horses, but more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, after subduing the Japanese servant army, obtained 10,000 soldiers and horses, immediately organized to clear the natives who have broken into the city, a night of fighting, by dawn gathered 20,000 soldiers and horses, killed the 20,000 or 30,000 natives who rushed into the city, exterminated the rebellious merchants, Cebu Island has become a ruin, smoke everywhere, fire.

However, the more unfortunate news was that the island of Leyte was taken by the British and the Dutch, and the enemy had 20,000 or 30,000 men and horses, as well as 50,000 or 60,000 natives.

Only ten ships escaped, about a thousand soldiers and horses.

When Zheng Zhi was still commanding people to extinguish the fire and discussing with the merchants what to do, a bad news came, the fleet of reinforcements Zheng Keshuang was wiped out by the Dutch and British fleets at sea, Zheng Keshuang died, and only three armed merchant ships escaped.

The only good news was that the ship that reported it told him that the Flood Cannon had decided to lead 600 ships to support him, along with 100,000 soldiers and horses.

(End of chapter)