Although Gerard Peak was annoyed, he also knew that he couldn't offend these two guys now, these two countries, the Spaniards were okay in the Far East, but the two joined forces, they were not opponents.

It would be wise to go through this article.

However, he was not kind, and said to Ike: "I only brought 3,000 troops this time, 10,000 natives, 80 armed merchant ships, 20 merchant ships, 50 warships, and 35 warships, you know, the main force of the naval division of the Nanyang Kingdom went to fight Manila, Manila was almost beaten into ruins, the coalition fleet lost 200 warships, 100 armed merchant ships, and we lost at least 150 warships, fifteen warships, and more than 500 merchant ships in the port, so this main attack, you need to go to the main attack, and we cooperated." ”

"One hundred and fifty thousand gold coins," Ike said.

"Two hundred and fifty thousand gold coins," said the British Governor-General.

"100,000 at most, 150,000, no more." Gerald Peak.

"Okay, deal," Ike was satisfied, although the alliance was initiated by them, but at this time, it was to help the Spaniards gain sovereignty over Luzon, and they had to pay, right?

The British governor said: "We sent 5,000 troops, 80 warships to attack, you sent 500 troops, and 1,000 natives were responsible for transporting shells and supplies, carrying supplies for us, and at the same time covering us with warships." ”

"Okay," Gerard Peak can solve the problem with money, without their warships and warships rushing up, you must know that the beach landing is a kind of battle with great casualties, Spain's population and troops here are insufficient, although the loss in this battle is not large, but the future pattern is that the three countries are fighting for territory here, and they can lose a little less is a little.

After the three men had agreed on it, the attack began at noon, the British attacked from Leyte Island, the Dutch attacked from the frontal port, the battleships covered the warships, and the warships covered the merchant ships to transport soldiers to the beach on the side of the battery.

And their Spanish fleet watched the excitement from ten nautical miles away.

An hour later, in the middle of the day, the heat made it feel hot even when the sea breeze was blowing.

The Dutch attacked first, and the ships approached the harbor for a nautical mile and shelled the batteries on Cebu Island from outside the harbor.

Nearly 100 warships, more than 2,000 guns that can be used to bombard cannons, with solid shells and flowering shells, the fire near and on the batteries exploded, limbs flying, but the enemy's batteries still did not give in, stubbornly counterattacked, close to the port of a nautical mile, just within the range of the battery, or effective range.

Boom, boom, boom, the return fire of the batteries was obviously more accurate than the cannons of the ships on the sea, and in less than an hour of shelling, the Dutch lost fifteen battleships, five were sunk, ten were seriously wounded, and the others were slightly wounded, and the enemy's artillery and shore guns actually numbered hundreds, not only behind the batteries, but also behind some hidden hills, and those battleships that were hit were hit by the fire of the hidden batteries near the shore from behind the hills.

The Dutch governor Ike and the Spanish governor Gerard Peak were very surprised that the enemy was hiding in the unprotected hills and woods, using the fort as bait.

However, since those shore guns were exposed, and there was no protection from the batteries, then their fate was tragic, and as the battle progressed, it also confirmed their ideas, after the transfer of artillery fire, the enemy's concealed shore guns were constantly hit, fired, and exploded, and the enemy's concealed fire was gradually destroyed, but the fire on the batteries was successful.

Five ships rushing to the shore were sunk and fifteen were damaged, two were sunk and three were heavily damaged, and they had to withdraw from the shelling.

After fighting until dark, nearly 45 warships were lost here, and more than 50 were wounded, including the warships that rushed to the beach to join the shelling, and the enemy's shore artillery fire became sparse, only four or five were firing, and all the others were dumbfired, either destroyed, or there was no artillery operation, and the morale of the Han people in such a battle would definitely not last long, so in fact, many artillery men ran away.

The Dutch took advantage of the darkness of the night to cover the merchant ships and sent the soldiers ashore, and when the ships had lost two and one more, the enemy's artillery was completely muted, so the Dutch became more bold and successively sent supplies and men, as well as natives from Leyte and from Malacca.

Merchant ships approached the shore and transported soldiers and artillery in rowboats and rafts.

In the middle of the night, when they concentrated 15,000 men and 5,000 soldiers, and were about to advance inland, suddenly a large area of artillery opened fire, like a rain of shells smashed into the crowded beach, and some artillery even opened fire on the merchant ships gathered less than 500 meters on the shore, and the fierce artillery fire caused nearly 1,000 people to lose their lives at once, 15 merchant ships capsized, and two warships were severely damaged.

It also gave the Spaniards and the Dutch a head start.

They didn't expect the enemy to ambush them here.

The procession of the Dutch who had landed ashore was disorganized, and many of them threw themselves into the rowboats and rafts, rowing away with all their might, towards the merchant ships.

Enemy shells fell every two minutes, and Ike estimated that the enemy had at least fifty cannons firing, scattered very large, and the enemy had at least five thousand men and horses somewhere, firing some old guns, but the caliber was equivalent to those of their eighteen to nine pounder guns.

Many natives could not grab rowboats, boats, and rafts, and jumped into the water and swam to the merchant ships, and the merchant ships were damaged by more than thirty more than thirty in the second wave of enemy blows, and many merchant ships were also in chaos, desperately hoisting their sails, and turning away from this place of death, and some armed merchant ships opened fire in return, and Ike ordered the ships and warships that had retreated to sail immediately to the shore for three miles, and while firing, they drove forward, and the enemy was two or three miles away, and they were ten miles away from the sea, and although there were torches and fires everywhere, they could not reach the enemy, In other words, even if there is artillery that can hit it, it will not be able to do much damage to the enemy.

Ike said to Gerald Peak, "We need your help to get your armed merchant ships close to the shore to meet the soldiers. ”

Gerard Peak said calmly: "No, I think that the soldiers should be ordered to attack, attack ahead of the front, the enemy is not many, the artillery rate is slow, we should attack forward, I will immediately let the armed merchant ships put 10,000 natives into battle, and the enemy should be able to be solved at dawn." ”

Ike calmed down and thought about it carefully, the enemy seemed to be thundering loudly, but in fact, the rain was small, and the artillery bombardment alone only caused them confusion, and there was no soldier attack, which proved that the enemy was also afraid of the firepower of their warships and warships at sea, so they could only lead them to land, but on land, according to their intelligence, the enemy's strength did not seem to be running out.

"Okay, let your men and horses attack at once, and the artillery will bombard the enemy's gun emplacements."

(End of chapter)