Wu finally fled to Palawan with two warships, and hid in the port of Palawan Island with the help of the frigate of the Chinese Third Fleet.

The five warships and fifteen armed merchant ships that the British followed, as well as two third-class sail battleships, hesitated for a while before leaving.

The news started from Palawan and was passed on, and half a month later, Zhang Qiang sat in the new palace in Yanjing and watched the news that came.

Because he has been busy with domestic construction, busy with the conquest of the Western Regions, busy with vigilance against the Qing Dynasty and Japan, Zhang Qiang has taken a disregard for Hong Tiancang's actions, and he did not expect that after a month and a half, the Nanyang side has become a pot of porridge, and Zheng Zhi's Nanyang Kingdom and the Spaniards' Manila have almost been wiped out by their opponents, and it is the Dutch and the British who now dominate the Nanyang.

I haven't been ignoring this matter before because where the more chaotic the better, it's best for everyone to die together, now I think about it, that's impossible, there is always a winning side, even if it is a miserable victory, the winning side will get a large piece of land and spoils, so as to become the overlord of the South Seas, emotionally Zhang Qiang wants to see the Zheng family of Han blood, from a rational point of view, Zhang Qiang wants to see the Spaniards, not the British who want to dominate the world.

Why not the Dutch?

Because the Dutch were too weak in both the west and the east, especially after being beaten by the Chinese army, only a small and narrow island of Malacca remained.

"What are the Dutch and British doing now?" Zhang Qiang asked Jin Qi.

Jin Qi said: "The British warships are invincible, Zheng Zhi ran to Gogong Island, Hong Tian Cannon returned to Manila Island, now Manila Island is besieged by the Dutch and the Spaniards, the British went back to besiege Cebu Island, Cebu Island still has Zheng Zhi's 100,000 troops, and more than 100,000 people, in general, he once again sent the people to the hands of the butcher." ”

Wu's so-called retreat to Palawan was accepted by our army, and the British, Spaniards, and Dutch sent people to negotiate many times, asking us to surrender the enemies of the Nanyang Kingdom, otherwise we would attack our territories in the Nanyang, Indonesia and Palawan.

"It's just an excuse, these Taixi people are like this, when you are weak, don't say anything, fight directly, when you are strong, you always like to stand on the moral high ground to break you down, let you bear the attack of public opinion, and then they can justifiably obtain their interests through the compromise of our insiders, but they don't know, in the Huaxia Kingdom with me, if it is not through war, they don't want to get even an inch of land from me, a point of benefit."

"So what are we going to do in response to them?" Jin Qi asked.

"Don't respond, to respond is to admit your cowardice, and to have the soldiers wipe their guns clean, set up the cannons for me, raise the sails, and if the enemy comes, call me back. I'll talk about the rest. ”

As Zhang Qiang's words arrived, the commander-in-chief of the Third Fleet, Peilan, breathed a sigh of relief and ordered Kodak, the original commander of the Fifth Fleet on Palawan Island, to be ready to deal with the enemy's attack at any time.

Kodak had been very experienced in two major naval battles with the Spaniards, the Dutch, the British, and Zheng Zhi in the anti-China alliance, and he managed the Third Fleet detachments in Palawan and Indonesia.

In fact, the Third Fleet Squadron is almost the one with the highest equipment, the most ships, and the largest number of personnel among all the fleets, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the main fleet.

Because his main combat warships are as many as sixty-one, which is more than the largest Third Fleet, which is more than the battleships brought by Kodak from the Fifth Fleet and the Royal Fleet, and as many as eighty frigates, it can be said that he is the main fleet, and no one believes it, compared to the Fourth Fleet, which is in the rear and can only serve as patrolling the coastline and supporting tasks, the Third Fleet sub-fleet seems to be the main combat force.

Even the Saigon base of the Third Fleet, which is in the rear, has only 20 warships and 15 frigates, mainly patrolling the waters of the Gulf of Siam and the treasure island, while the detachment of the Third Fleet patrols as many as 5,000 nautical miles, circling more than 10,000 nautical miles around the South Seas Indonesia, Australia, Luzon, Malacca, and other places, and the smallest circle patrols from Palawan to the main island of Indonesia, and nearly 1,000 nautical miles near Mindanao.

The order was conveyed to the fact that it was already half a month later, from Yanjing to Indonesia to Palawan, there was also a distance of tens of thousands of nautical miles, and the carrier pigeon plus the fast horse was 800 miles expedited, arriving at the station of the Fourth Fleet detachment in the Trench Gate, sent to the Fourth Fleet Qiongdao station, and then sending a clipper ship to Palawan Island, after Kodak received the news, the atmosphere was already very tense.

In three months, the huge fleet of the Hongtian Cannon was besieged by the Dutch and the Spaniards, with heavy casualties, and only more than 50 ships fled back to the Ryukyu Islands.

Eight hundred ships, such a huge fleet, were destroyed by the Tessie coalition, and a million Han Chinese and naturalized people from Southeast Asia, as well as some of the remaining Han Chinese who fled back from hiding on Manila Island, were killed by the Spaniards who had re-landed.

Luzon was in a bloody storm.

And Cebu Island, despite the fierce offensive of the British, but the resistance of 100,000 Nanyang soldiers and horses, still made the British unhappy, the British are different from the Dutch, the Spaniards, slaughtering the colonial people, they have more brains than the other two countries, just manage, so many people settled down and lived under the rule of the British.

The soldiers and horses of the Nanyang Kingdom who withdrew from Cebu City, under the leadership of Zheng Zhi's henchman Feng Xin, moved to the mountains and forests of the island and continued to resist.

In fact, this coalition also suffered heavy losses, first of all, armed merchant ships, these ships that seem to be not high in combat effectiveness, but they are very useful, even higher than battleships, sail battleships, what are these people doing here?

Except for the British who want to seize a little more colonies, the others just want to trade, want to make money, armed merchant ships have been lost four months ago now, they have lost 2,000 merchant ships and armed merchant ships, which is equivalent to smashing their money-making tools, this is the Dutch and British East India Company's merchant ship reserves for three years, and now they are all pieces of wood, floating on the sea.

The Spaniards suffered the heaviest losses, and five or six hundred ships were sunk in the port of Manila by Zheng Zhi.

Zheng Zhi and the others also had so many merchant ships and armed merchant ships that they were sunk in the harbor, making it impossible for the Spaniards to compensate themselves through capture.

The British Governor-General, Thomas Blackburn, slapped the table and said: "We should end this damned war, for months, we have not earned a cent, but lost a million pounds, no, ten million pounds of merchant ships, warships, and the lives of nearly 8,000 British soldiers, 35,000 colonial soldiers in Indochina, we should negotiate with the Kingdom of China, we just need to do business with them." ”

(End of chapter)