Chapter 338: It's All Expired Fault

Fortress artillery is a nightmare for battleships, and this matter also depends on the caliber of the artillery, and the artillery placed by the Spanish on the batteries in the port of Manila is a three-pounder gun, for them, this caliber of artillery fire is enough.

According to previous investigations, ships on the seas of East Asia were not at all a problem with firearms, so they were confident that under their own guards, Manila would not fall.

There was only one possibility of a three-pounder gun on the Huifeng and Shunfeng, and that was the army field guns being transported, and on these two six-hundred-and-fifty-ton ships, the smallest caliber guns were six-pounder guns.

The Spanish soldier on the turret had a good idea at first, preparing to put the ships of unknown origin within range of the guns and shoot, but when the two giant ships appeared in his field of vision, he had no other emotion in his heart than shock.

However, after the soldiers on the battery reacted, they also understood that the opponent's fleet was far out of the range of the battery and could not hit it at all.

The port of Manila was already a mess, and no one was blind, and seeing so many ships in the harbor, it was impossible to see any goodwill in it, and there were already ships that had come back from outside the port to report that there were nearly 200 ships coming this time.

The tragedy of the massacre of the Chinese in Spain will not happen until decades later, and now in Luzon, many Chinese are working hard to survive here, being oppressed by the Spaniards, and harassed by the natives. However, the Spanish governor of Luzon racked his brains in the governor's palace and couldn't figure out why the warships of the Ming Dynasty came to attack him.

Although the ships that reported the news were very sure that these ships were all warships of the Ming Dynasty, didn't they all say that that the country was implementing a maritime ban, and there were no official warships on the sea except for those merchants' ships, so these ships came out of there.

Several Spanish warships did not dare to leave the port at all, but the naval officers on the battleships were not stupid, even in Europe, such large ships were pitiful, let alone in the East, they did not dare to let their men make any preparations for battle, but rather uniformly let the sailors and crews disembark and go ashore.

The soldiers and artillery on the shore were ready to face the battle, looking at the Ming Dynasty warship on the sea, with the flag of the tiger's head flying high on the warship.

The Luzon side did not dare to react at all, but waited quietly for the order of the Doge's Palace, and was so stunned, when suddenly, a Spanish soldier saw that on the side of two large ships, suddenly two people stretched out their hands and threw two iron balls into the sea.

This happened at this time of tension, which was obviously quite strange, but then the two big ships began to adjust their angles, and the baffles on both sides of the hull opened one after another, revealing the swarthy cannon muzzles inside, and before everyone on the shore could react, the ship guns were already firing.

All the people near the harbor covered their ears, and a huge whistling sounded, and the battery on the left side of the harbor was already smashed to pieces.

The artillery fire on the sea ship is indeed not very accurate, but so many guns are fired at the same time, it will always be covered, and after the first round of fire from the Shunfeng, the Huifeng also fired, and the other battery also suffered the same fate.

The Spanish soldiers on the harbor were far ahead of the armies of any country in East Asia in terms of the concept of firearms, and when they saw this scene, they all gasped, and the cannons of more than ten pounds were more than ten pounds, and such a density of firepower was not at all something that the Spaniards in Luzon could deal with.

So the Spanish soldiers immediately showed that in the so-called Western civilization that their governors and natives and the Chinese boasted of on weekdays, everyone ran inland as fast as they could, and the few small cannons on the port were thrown there, and no one paid attention to them.

After the artillery bombardment on the sea knocked out the forts in the harbor, several of Jiang Feng's ships with a relatively small displacement, that is, the six ships of about 300 tons, slowly approached the wharf, the warships slowly approached the wharf under the cover of artillery, and the soldiers rushed ashore under the orders of the officers.

However, the Spaniards, who observed from afar, found that these soldiers were only at the landing place, using the rubble and some debris just now, to build simple fortifications, and then did nothing.

Originally thought that the next mysterious Ming army would go ashore to attack, many people had already made up their minds, of course, not the determination to die, but the determination to surrender, looking at the people on the other side were also holding arquebuses in their hands, and they were also holding spears. This is not in the mouths of those Ming Dynasty maritime merchants, like soldiers like Huazi, who are clearly elite, and these Spanish soldiers are not willing to take such a risk.

The two sides were in a stalemate for a long time, and when the sun was about to set, the Spanish governor on the shore suddenly understood that the relationship might not be as bad as he imagined, and there might be a turnaround.

On the Shunfeng, this expedition may be called the captain of the infantry of the various warships of the Jiangjia Expeditionary Force, and the captains of the large and small warships are all on the building of the Shunfeng, the chef on the ship made a good meal with vigor, and the spirit of the officers at all levels is very relaxed.

On weekdays, the whites of the Jiang Army, including Jason Hogan, are always saying that the so-called Spain is the most powerful country in Europe, and you must know that the phalanx of the Jiang Army is also trained according to the Spanish phalanx exercises, and most of the Jiang Army's operations are fought with cold weapons troops, and it is the first time to fight with similar firearms troops, everyone is worried and worried in their hearts, they didn't expect that after killing the other party's port, it would be so simple.

These people all understood that as long as the warships at sea maintained the support of artillery, at least within the firing range, the Spanish troops would not be able to resist at all, and after pulling the guns on the warships, they would not have to worry about any failure, so they all relaxed.

Someone even asked Jiang Feng:

"My lord, why don't we knock this port down, it's too much more profitable than our Incheon!"

Jiang Feng shook his head and smiled:

"The two thousand people here are not worth mentioning, but there is a good thing here, a large number of Franc ships are transiting here, and a lot of the whole sea trade must come from here, and after playing here, the money is not much, and there is one less chicken that lays eggs, it is not worth it."

In fact, after Jiang Feng was afraid that he would exterminate the Spaniards in Luzon, the passage between Asia and the West would be cut off, at least the current Western colonies in the East, which could really play a base role, that is, the Spanish colonies in Luzon and the Portuguese colonies in Goa.

A large amount of silver flowed to the east through their hands, and then changed into silk, ceramics and then pulled back to Europe, Jiang Feng was not afraid of not being able to beat at this time, but afraid of beating, and defeated, just like in modern times, many fierce beasts in the mountains were eaten raw and became rare animals, wouldn't the gains outweigh the losses.

Everyone below nodded as if they didn't understand, Jiang Feng was too lazy to say, Chen Lei and a few businessmen who were sitting on the side were very happy in their hearts, thinking that this time they were going to sell the whites on Luzon Island to us, seeing that these people are stronger than the North Koreans, and they are estimated to be very capable of working, but there don't seem to be many people here, how to divide it!

When the sun was about to set, the soldiers on the warship had already pulled several six-pounder guns ashore, and the fortifications had advanced two hundred meters to the front.

Seeing the quality of these soldiers, as well as the artillery that had been dragged ashore, the Spaniards finally knew that victory was impossible, and the Doge's Palace, after thinking about it, had to send an envoy with a white flag to see if there was any discussion in this matter.

The trembling messenger shouted with an interpreter:

"I am the emissary of the Spanish Governor in Luzon, and I ask to meet your commander!"

The events of this day are of greatest interest to those who study diplomatic history hundreds of years later, and among them are the so-called several public cases, which have remained unresolved.

When the messenger came to the building of the Shunfeng with the interpreter, he saw Jiang Feng, Jiang Feng was now neatly draped in armor, and the people around him were also dressed quite decently, and sat there with great momentum, but the interpreter was a Han man, seeing this situation, he involuntarily knelt on the deck and kowtowed a few times. The Spanish envoy had some courage, and asked in a whisper:

"General, Luzon is the territory of the Kingdom of Spain, and your rash invasion is against international morality and rules!"

The interpreter translated this sentence very tactfully, the invasion became "enter", and the violation became "is it incompatible" or something like that, or an accurate translation of the Dutch there, after Jiang Feng heard this sentence, his face was full of sincere smiles, and he said gently:

"Ben Jiang checked the chart just now, but found that it did not match the terrain, it should be the use of expired charts, please understand the inconvenience caused to you."

When the Spanish envoy heard this, a mouthful of blood almost didn't spurt out, expired charts, can this kind of reason be taken out, but who has the biggest fist and who is justified in this kind of thing, how dare he refute it.

"It is certain that some inaccuracies in China's maritime surveying and mapping at that time were the main cause of this misunderstanding, but it is understandable, after all, it was the ...... of the 16th century," Nanjing Book Company, 1890 edition of The Road of Glory - The Age of Exploration in East Asia.

"Blackmail, this is all blackmail of the powers, this is the beginning of the evil of the Eastern hegemony......" Latin Torch, an underground publication of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, United Dutch States.

In history textbooks hundreds of years later, this incident was ranked as "Expired Sea Pattern"...