463 March to Manila
The war is over.
Xiao Ruxun and Jiang Dahai boarded the ship under the guidance of Wang Wei and saw seven Spanish officer-like people who were tied up by five flowers.
They trembled, looking at the Ming army with loaded guns and live ammunition and bright armor with frightened eyes, and they muttered something they didn't understand, probably begging for mercy.
Xiao Ruxun glanced at the seven people, and didn't know what they were talking about, but after looking left and right, he realized that he didn't bring Matteo Ricci with him, and he didn't have a translator.
I don't know what these guys are talking about, and I don't know if there are people on the island who are fluent in both Spanish and Chinese, otherwise this negotiation would not have been negotiated.
Heck, it's really necessary to learn a few more languages!
Xiao Ruxun thought so, waved his hand, and ordered six of the seven people to be beheaded, and then put the six heads in front of the last pale guy, and kindly wrapped him in a cloth.
When the Ming army pursued the Spaniards, Chen Longzheng, who was familiar with this area of water, said that this was the port where he arrived to welcome the Han people.
These Spaniards were also panicked and just wanted to flee for their lives, and directly led the Ming ships to the port, and the Ming army effortlessly killed the only Spanish defenders and seized the port.
Next, Xiao Ruxun first threw the Spanish sailor who was left on the shore, pointed in the direction of Manila, and asked him to get out of the way with this bag of heads.
I can't speak the words of a Spaniard, I can't tell him more, it's really frustrating!
As for the indigenous Filipino sailors who robbed the boat and presented it to the Ming army, Xiao Ruxun ordered one of them to be rewarded with a little silver, and then gave them three small wooden boats and let them go by themselves, these people knelt on the ground and kowtowed a few times, and then also set up the boat and left.
I can't communicate either, it's really frustrating!
Xiao Ruxun began to think about cultivating some talents who knew foreign Chinese, so that it would be convenient to communicate with them later.
The port had been taken continuously, and Xiao Ruxun ordered Wang Wei to take a thousand sailors to guard the ships and be responsible for the patrol of the foreign oceans, to prevent the five ships that had escaped from coming back, and if they dared to come back, they would be sunk immediately, without mercy.
Xiao Ruxun himself took Chen Longzheng and Jiang Dahai, and took the soldiers of the 2,000 Marine Corps of the Marine Division to Manila.
The whole Philippines was nominally under the colonial rule of the Spaniards, but in fact, the previous Philippine regime was overthrown, the Spaniards took over, and the central government was changed, but the local indigenous leaders were still in power.
The Spaniards also have to have a good relationship with these natives, otherwise the strength of one or two thousand people will definitely not be able to support the hundreds of thousands of troops of the natives.
Although there is the sharpness of the weapon, the most reliable on the battlefield is the people, just those people, when the weapon is not beyond the times, the other party can push you even if it uses the tactics of the sea of people.
The center of Spanish rule, near Manila and some ports with warships, was the real power of the Spaniards.
And the combined fleet that was eaten by Xiao Ruxun before was eighty percent of their force, and in addition, the Spaniards had no stronger force, and even self-protection was a problem.
Xiao Ruxun could believe that once the Filipino natives who had left the ship returned to their own tribes and reported the news of the Spanish defeat to their tribal leaders, many tribes would soon join forces to ask Manila for explanations and compensate their dead people.
If the Spaniards don't handle it well, the rest of the Spaniards will die very miserably, even those Catholics will be miserable, without the deterrence of force, those natives don't care whether you believe in Buddha or Taoism.
At this moment, the Spaniards had no way out, and whatever they asked, they had to accede.
Unless they all decide to die and die to die for the country, then Xiao Ruxun will be a little embarrassed, he will have to face those natives alone and become the new Filipino owner to replace the Spaniards, but at this moment, Xiao Ruxun simply does not have enough energy to focus on the Philippines.
There is also a group of natives in Myanmar who are eyeing him, and the natives in the Philippines are even more troublesome, and they still leave their troubles to the Spaniards, who only need money and spices, and whether the Spaniards will come to him for revenge......
They estimated that they did not have enough troops and financial resources to support an expedition, and even if the Philippines was robbed by Xiao Ruxun here, they estimated that they would not be able to send troops to attack.
But in Europe, in the Mediterranean, although Xiao Ruxun wooed Genoa, Genoa's military strength was not strong enough, so Xiao Ruxun recruited France to help.
With France and Genoa paying money and one man, Spain at the end of the strong crossbow is estimated to be unable to set off any bloody storm, Xiao Ruxun did not tear his face with the Holy See, and the Holy See will help find a way to restrict Spain, but the merchant fleet after that will probably need the escort of the sailor fleet.
There is no way, if you want to get something, you have to pay some price, for Xiao Ruxun, this kind of price is bearable, not terrible, and it is completely within the range of bearability.
However, for the Spaniards, for the Spaniards in the Philippines, the price to pay this time was unbearable in their lives.
The Spanish sailor, who had been released by Xiao Ruxun, fled back to the Governor's Palace in Manila, bringing back a message they could not accept, along with six bloody human heads.
The power that the Spaniards are proud of, occupying the Philippines, the combined fleet of fifty warships, which is almost the main force of their fleet in the entire Southeast Asian region, has been completely wiped out, and the remaining two or three kittens are no longer in the climate, and they don't know where to escape.
The Spanish Imperial Navy was once very powerful, but their main naval force had suffered heavy losses ten years ago, and more than fifty large ships were already all the combat force they could use.
In recent years, the Spanish government has gone bankrupt three times, and most of the ships in Southeast Asia have been withdrawn, and it is already very difficult to keep these behind, and they can no longer organize more warships.
If there is time, it may still be built, and there are still many merchant ships that can be taken out, but how can merchant ships be compared to regular warships?
In terms of troops, this expedition involved a full 2,000 Spanish sailors and many more indigenous sailors, almost 80 percent of the strength of the Spaniards in the entire Southeast Asia.
The Spaniards took out their blood capital, and many of the small islands that were still being explored were not wanted, so they simply discarded them, and set up ships to bring people back to prepare for battle.
As a result, the battle went to the sea, and it never floated.