Zheng Zhi hesitated in waiting, he was stalling for time, not knowing why the Taisi people didn't attack.

He also knew that many people in his court, accounting for more than half of the people, actually did not want war, they all wanted to make peace with the Spaniards, they just wanted to do business, but forgot how many times when the Spanish governor left or took over, he always carried out a purge of the Han people, robbed all the wealth they had accumulated, and then transported it to the West by ship for their royal family to consume and make up for the losses in various places. Do you think there is no place for reason in this world?

Tessie people are also people, they are human beings and have to be reasonable, so many people are very stubborn and have lost their blood, especially some people of the younger generation, who feel that they are mixed with their own people, not trendy, and follow foreigners to mix is the trend, and shamelessly took refuge in the Spaniards and delivered news to the Spaniards.

Zheng Zhi's troops and horses were assembled, where they were assembled, how many troops they had, and the domestic trends and ideological dynamics of the Nanyang Kingdom, the Spaniards had long known through these people.

The Spaniards still used the usual method, sending people to contact the local natives, and then instigating them to do something to the Han people, first messing up the Nanyang Kingdom, which was the reason why they didn't do it.

As the minutes passed, and the liaison ships sent from various places reported back the news and the situation of the action, the Spaniards instigated the indigenous tribes that supported them to attack the indigenous tribes friendly with the Han Chinese.

That night, around the Nanyang Kingdom, the indigenous tribes around the country fought each other, there were bloody fights everywhere, the guns rang out all night, and the next day more indigenous tribes joined the vendetta, a daytime time, the news reached the Nanyang Kingdom, Zheng Zhi was even called back for a meeting, but the meeting was held in the evening, many people proposed to give the Spaniards some gold and silver, send them away, the things that can be solved with money, there is no need to start a war again, and the lives of the people are ruined, and everyone has already known that the Taixi people are fierce this time, and many people question Zheng Zhi, who is the main battle, whether it can block the attack of the Spaniards, if not, it is better to negotiate peace.

Zheng Zhi had no choice, he had to rely on their support, so he followed their advice and sent a peace envoy to the Spaniards.

While anxiously waiting for a response, he knew that he could not defeat the Spaniards by relying on these people, no, it should be said that it was the Taixi coalition, he had to wait for the support of Zheng Keshuang and Zheng Jing from the two brothers.

Others can't count on it, he thinks that the most hopeful thing is Zheng Keshuang, if it is faster, there should be an echo tonight.

Zheng Keshuang had actually received his request, and after some discussion and contact with the local garrison commander and governor of the Huaxia Kingdom, he took a hundred warships and warships, and led two hundred merchant ships, loaded with 50,000 soldiers and horses, and sailed towards Leyte Island.

It's only three days away.

It's been two weeks now.

And the ships bound for the kingdom of Australia, where Zheng Jing was located, were still sailing on the sea.

It was another seven or eight days, a month, for them to reach the port of Darwin.

And those who went to the Ryukyu Kingdom were still hesitating in Hong Tian Pao, anxiously waiting for Hong Tian Pao's reply.

In the evening, the news returned, and the head of the peace envoy was cut off and hung on the flagpole in the port of Manila, which completely cut off the dreams of all merchants in the South Seas Kingdom.

The Nanyang Kingdom was in turmoil, and many merchants began to use their merchant ships to load their wealth and prepare to flee the place, and the situation became extremely difficult.

By the next morning, the chaos in the Nanyang Kingdom continued, and there were no pedestrians on the streets, but there were natives who took advantage of the chaos and robbed, Han Chinese hooligans, gangsters, and some Taixi homeless people who wandered around the Nanyang.

Zheng Zhi knew that war was inevitable.

The militia was sent to maintain order, and the militia engaged the troublemakers, and there were gunshots and fighting everywhere, and Zheng Zhi's soldiers and horses, who were patrolling the streets, also joined in the pursuit of those who took advantage of the chaos and looting.

Finally, Zheng Zhi decided to take the initiative, he ordered to leave some warships and warships to guard the port, and then led a large group of sailors towards the port of Manila, preparing for a decisive battle with the Spaniards, as long as the Spaniards' sailors were defeated, he felt that the Spaniards could at least sit down and negotiate with him, lose some benefits but maintain their rule.

"Raise the sails and set sail." He stood on a 1,300-ton former main battleship of the Huaxia Army and calmly said to the captain of the ship.

Five hours after his fleet left the port, a clipper ship sailed into the port of Manila, and at the Manila Governor's Palace, Governor Gerard Peak received a Nanyang merchant who had come to report the news, "Your Excellency the Governor, I greet you, the Han traitor Zheng Zhi has come to the port of Manila with his fleet, and may arrive in two hours." ”

"Okay, okay, Mr. Zhou, I promise, in the future, your family can still do business in Luzon, we are very welcome to you businessmen, we just want to take back the rule of Luzon, not to do anything to you, you think, if there is no you, where will we collect taxes, rest assured, we will not be cruel to those of our friends." As long as you don't rebel against the Empire's rule, then the Empire will treat you well, and don't listen to the instigation of those who rebel against the Empire, it's a pure nonsense, understand? ”

"Yes, yes, Lord Governor, we know that the Han people in the Nanyang Kingdom, led by me, only want to do business, and don't want to see swords again."

Having sent the merchants of the South Seas, Gerard Peak said to the commander of his fleet: "Go out, lie in ambush thirty nautical miles outside the harbor, and when the enemy bombards the harbor, you will surround you from all sides." Oh by the way, let the Portuguese and French, and the Italians, Poles, Swedes stay in the harbor with armed merchant ships, and do not tell them that the enemy is coming, just say that we will go out and meet the fleet of the British. ”

The Tessians who were bent on coming for a piece would not have thought that the Spaniards had sold them to Zheng Zhi in the blink of an eye, allowing them to consume Zheng Zhi's fleet, and they all went out of the harbor to avoid Zheng Zhi's fleet.

The Taixi people also calculate with each other, and they play this very skillfully, and they are not inferior to the Chinese at all.

In the evening, Zheng Zhi's fleet arrived at the outskirts of Manila's port thirty nautical miles, and the advance clippers had repeatedly exchanged fire with the Spanish ships arranged on the periphery of the port, after Zheng Zhi came, he took the fleet directly to the port, and reached the periphery of Manila in an hour, and the huge fleet blocked all the Manila ports within a radius of ten miles.

The Portuguese, French and other Tessians who found that they were blocked in the harbor panicked, and they quickly took rowboats on their warships in the sound of vigilant cannons, and set up anchors to run out of the port, and were blocked in the harbor, which was definitely not what a qualified sailor general should do, or it was definitely a dead end, they had to run to the vast sea, and the port could only be hit by enemy artillery, but could not maneuver, and the losses were definitely heavier than the enemy.

They were busy and fled in a hurry, while the Spanish batteries on the shore rumbled and fired, and huge balls of fire burst out in the night, which was very beautiful.

And Zheng Zhi's fleet also crossed the battleships, nearly thirty battleships blocked the perimeter of the port, and dozens of cannons on each battleship burst out with greater fire in turn, hitting the enemy with solid shells one after another.

(End of chapter)