In February of the first year of Tianjiao, the royal driver was fortunate to come to Fuzhou, and there were 100 people kneeling on the street to shout grievances.

The emperor stopped Luanyu and inquired in person, only to know that he was the remnants of the Luzon massacre, and he was hoarse and bloody, and he was crying when he smelled it.

The emperor was angry, issued an edict to crusade, and declared war on Spain, the chief of Western thieves, and the holy decree said:

"The people of Luzon, where the projectiles are, have mostly reefs, and their people are rarely good, so they can be described as a place that is hated by the heavens, and people who are not nourished by the thick soil. There is no land route to other countries, and there are no big ships to sail the seas, so they have to be willing to fall and fool the years.

There is no Confucian and Mencian virtue in the country to educate the people, because it is a barbaric nature, and the people regard human life as nothing, and they are as cheap as ants.

There are also Western countries named Spain, also the country of projectiles, who came across the ocean to capture Luzon, slaughtered the Chinese people, and the foreign chiefs first lied that there would be a war, and bought Chinese iron tools at a high price, and then lured the Chinese into the hospital on the grounds of recording the names of the Chinese, and they were annihilated immediately. The Chinese were forced to fight the Spaniards on the island of Luzon, and tens of thousands of people were killed.

However, in ten years, Manchuria Jiannu went south, and the Chinese fled to the sea, not forgetting the Han Dynasty and not accepting slavery. The people are innocent, and they are slaughtered, and I hear about it now, and I am angry with thunder, and I am angry with the soldiers.

It is difficult for foreign Yi to have a friendly heart, and China does not leave overnight hatred. The enmity of Xianggong Fu IX is great in the Spring and Autumn Period. I will destroy these two kingdoms and kill all the murderers, Fang Xue hates.

Today, Zhang Jiayu, the governor of Liangguang, was in command, Chen Bangyan, the commander of the Fuzhou Navy, Chen Zizhuang, the commander of the Qiongzhou Navy, and Yao Qisheng, the governor of Manchuria, a total of four troops and horses, marched together to take Luzon first, and then went on an expedition to the West on a certain day. ”

Most of the Chinese who were slaughtered in Luzon were coastal people, and their relatives were all over Fujian and Guangdong, especially Fujianese.

Fujian Province is narrow and densely populated, and grains are scarce, so the people of the border and the sea all take the ship as their home, the sea as their field, and the selling of overseas trade as their life.

Hearing the holy decree, all the wealthy businessmen and magnates in Fujian Province donated money one after another, and some even took out half of their property.

Merchants in other parts of the Yangtze River valued the commercial value of the battle more, and taking Luzon was equivalent to opening another door to a treasury. There was an endless stream of donors, and the court was stunned to find that it could fight a naval battle without paying for it.

Chen Bangyan, the commander of the Fuzhou Navy, Chen Zizhuang, the commander of the Qiongzhou Navy, and Zhang Jiayu, the current political envoy of Guangdong, were known as the three loyalties of Lingnan in later generations.

Especially Zhang Jiayu, in a cry of mourning, repeatedly defeated the Qing soldiers. He was an absolute civilian official who lectured at the Hanlin Academy and compiled the emperor's living notes, and after he became a military general, he led the old and weak remnants of Emperor Longwu, and defeated the Qing soldiers several times, which can be called both civil and military.

During Hou Xuanyan's Northern Expedition, Zhang Jiayu contained Zheng Zhilong in the rear, and he also made several meritorious contributions, so he was promoted the fastest and had already achieved the position of the governor of Liangguang.

In the palace in Fuzhou, Hou Xuanyan gathered Fujian officials to discuss the war. This time it was a declaration of war on the way out, and it was too late to discuss with the Chinese martial arts officers of the DPRK, which was a little hasty. But Hou Xuanyan also knows from memory that the current Spain is at the end of its power, and the glory of the past is long gone.

This country that first began to colonize and sail, because of its arrogance and indulgence, used the plundered money for enjoyment, which led to the complete reduction of the future to the second-rate country of Europe, and never turned over.

Hou Xuanyan had long been holding back his strength to have a naval battle with the Europeans, to test the gap between the Eastern and Western sailors, and it was only appropriate to start with this yellow flower of yesterday.

Luzon has a population of 7.5 million, which is a medium-sized country in the South Seas, and after being colonized by Spain, the degree of resistance is not as great as that of the Chinese on the island. These natives bully the weak and fear the hard, and the Chinese Tianshan are kind, so they look down on the Chinese from their bones and want to rob them of their wealth.

Since the war broke out, Fuzhou was the natural forward command post, and after Hou Xuanyan declared war with the holy decree, people from all walks of life urgently prepared.

A war is a test of a country's heritage. The two elders Chen Mingyu sat in Jinling, Ma Shiying had already set off for Fuzhou, and Jiang Jianxun, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was also there.

The Fuzhou Sailors had already set off almost on the same day, and Zhang Jiayu boarded the ship in Zhaoqingfu, Guangdong, and soon joined the Qiongzhou Sailors and slowly sailed to Luzon.

A hundred years ago, the Portuguese controlled the entire Indian Ocean with just 20 warships.

The disconnection of the oriental seafaring power was undoubtedly revealed from that time, only because the only overlord in the east, the Central Plains Dynasty, was in decline, and did not develop sailors.

A hundred years have flown in a flash, and now Hou Xuanyan has thousands of warships and 100,000 sailors in his hands, and he is about to take back the seas and island countries in the east.

There were Spanish boats all over Luzon, and there were Spanish merchants even along the coast of Dahua, and they had already received the news.

Seven days after the declaration of war, and the entire island of Luzon was heavily guarded, the Spanish governor Oquaido stepped out of Manila, commanding his naval divisions and armies, ready to resist.

The Spaniards have been colonizing Luzon for a long time, where they established a complete system of slavery, and in the royal city of Manila, only "Caucasians" were allowed to enter, the so-called Caucasians, that is, Spaniards or Hispanic whites born in Luzon. The tax law he made is also very interesting, the white race does not have to pay taxes, the Luzon natives pay normal taxes, the Han Chinese and the indigenous people pay three times, and the authentic Han people pay four times.

The Intramuros is home to the University of St. Thomas, built forty years ago, as well as churches, monasteries, the Doge's Palace, the Town Hall, hospitals, arsenals, and more. As long as Manila is taken, the whole of Luzon is under control.

Diego furrowed his eyebrows, standing by the sea in a very unhappy mood, having just arrived from the Spanish mainland, thought that Oquedo's attitude towards the Far Easterners was too nervous, which was ungentlemanly.

"Their boat will be sunk by cannonballs before it arrives, and they will take the poor sailors to feed the fish in the deep sea, my Lord Governor."

Oquaido, dressed in a crisp military uniform and a tapered military cap, glanced coldly at the nobles who had come from the homeland, this chubby boy had royal blood, and was still very arrogant in Luzon. Oquaido had been the emperor of Luzon for so many years, and he was no longer used to being disrespectful to him. Thinking of his grandmother, Oquaido still held back his anger and said, "Diego, if you had seen the Battle of Manraka, you would not have despised Dahua and their sailors so much. ”

Diego smiled comically, and just wanted to mock the Governor of the Bun who had been in the Far East for a long time, when suddenly a smile on his face froze on his face, and he cried out, "Hell, God has brought something to us. ”

On the horizon, black-pressed warships poured out, like a group of deep-sea beasts suddenly appeared on the surface of the sea, trying to choose people to devour.

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