In their opinion, the safety of Manila City is naturally more important, as long as the army of the Ming Dynasty can protect the safety of Manila City! If the army went out to pursue the Spaniards, it would be too risky!

Now Zhang Zhijie has understood the combat power of the Spaniards, there are only two or three hundred Spaniards outside, and they only have arquebuses in their hands, not machine guns, and they can still turn to the sky! These Luzon people are really scared by the Spaniards, and they are about to demonize the Spaniards!

Zhang Zhijie completely forgot that he was dismantling artillery and consolidating the city defense, and now after seeing the combat power of the Spaniards with his own eyes, he is relieved.

So Zhang Zhijie sneered in the face of these people's worries: "You guys, don't be frightened by those foreigners, those foreigners are only two or three hundred people left, and it is only a snap of a finger for the governor to destroy them!" ”

Those Manila people want to say that only a hundred foreigners can occupy Manila City, and kill them! However, seeing that the generals of the Ming Dynasty had made up their minds, they could only bury their worries in the bottom of their hearts and pray that the heavenly soldiers of the Ming Dynasty could defeat the foreigners.

Zhang Zhijie led 1,500 men into battle lightly, and immediately pursued westward after leaving the city. Compared with the worries of the people of Manila, these Ming soldiers did not have such deep worries.

It's all arquebuses, why can't they beat the foreigners? Therefore, they are not convinced by the concerns of the Manilans, which inevitably underestimates them too much, and the Admiral!

These soldiers have saved a sigh of relief, they must beat these Spaniards to the ground, they must be wiped out, and they will return to Manila City with their heads, so that these timid Manilans can see the power of the Ming soldiers!

It's just a pity that they are destined not to get their wish, Zhang Zhijie was originally on the city tower for a while before deciding to lead the troops to pursue, and then mobilized a large army, and was stopped by the people of Manila when he finally went out and delayed time.

So Zhang Zhijie led the soldiers all the way to the west to pursue, and marched for more than ten miles, but there was still no trace of the Spaniards, which made Zhang Zhijie a little speechless! These Spaniards slipped away so fast that they chased them for more than ten miles, and they didn't even see a shadow.

What Zhang Zhijie didn't know was that these Spaniards slipped away quickly, because they had already figured out the situation of Manila's guards and knew that it was impossible for them to attack Manila! On the contrary, if the defenders of Manila pursued them, they would probably be wiped out.

These Spaniards all have this consensus, and they all have a sense of crisis, so they retreat quickly, intending to stop when they are safe enough. At the beginning, Zhang Zhijie attached great importance to these Spaniards, but now these Spaniards pay more attention to the defenders of Manila.

Seeing that there was no shadow of the Spaniards, Zhang Zhijie had to stop, seeing that the sun was already setting in the west, and it was not a way to chase down, after all, he took the soldiers into battle lightly, and he didn't bring them to raise at all, so he couldn't camp in the wilderness, so he could only go back to the city.

Although it was a pity that the Spaniards were not pursued, Zhang Zhijie still ordered to return to the city. Not only Zhang Zhijie was a little regretful, but the soldiers were also very unwilling, they were all holding their breath, and they didn't pursue the Spaniards and went back, how could they be willing?

Therefore, the generals all asked for their lives, and wanted to continue the pursuit, but it was a big deal to be hungry at night, and if the pursuit did not reach it all night, they would return to Manila City tomorrow morning.

However, Zhang Zhijie gave up after thinking about it, it is good for the soldiers to have such determination, but he is not willing to take such a risk, or there is no need to take such a risk.

If you pursue hungry, you will pursue the Spaniards in the second half of the night, and they are hungry and sleepy and very tired, and they will definitely suffer in the face of the Spaniards who have already rested, even if they annihilate the Spaniards, they will lose a lot.

So Zhang Zhijie still decisively ordered to return to the city, anyway, Luzon Island is not much bigger, Luzon people hate the Spaniards to the core, these Spaniards will soon show traces, and it is not too late to officially organize the army to pursue the Spaniards.

The army returned to Manila at sunset, which caused a sensation in Manila, and the people of Manila were worried that the Ming army would lose, and now the Ming army has finally returned, and it doesn't look like it has been defeated.

In fact, it didn't seem like there was a war at all, and in the face of the ministers and people who came to greet him, Zhang Zhijie was a little embarrassed and said: "Those Western grandsons fled too fast, and the army of this governor didn't catch up!" They were allowed to escape! ”

These ministers and the people were relieved when they heard this, and the ministers bowed down and said: "The general is powerful in Luzon, and these foreigners are afraid of the prestige of the adults, so they have already fled in the wilderness!" ”

Zhang Zhijie waved his hand and said: "What is not prestigious!" Pay attention to where they have fled, and then the Governor will go and destroy them in one fell swoop! ”

The soldiers left behind have cleaned up the battlefield and collected mainly the weapons of the Spaniards! As for the corpses of the Westerners, after pulling down the valuable things, they threw them into the sea.

Now that the Spaniards had fled without a trace, the army began to rest and defend the city in turns, and the city of Manila was completely restored to life because of this great victory, and the foreigners they feared had been defeated under the city!

The heavenly soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were really powerful, and they easily defended the city, killing hundreds of foreigners with almost no damage to themselves! You must know that before, they had only seen these foreigners slaughtering them, but they had never seen foreigners killed!

Therefore, when the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty went out to clean up the battlefield, many people dared to go out of the city to watch from afar, and they hated these foreigners to the core! These foreigners were bloodily suppressed in Manila and killed many people, and many of these people died at the hands of foreigners.

Seeing the corpses of so many foreigners at this time, these people in Manila felt very relieved! Seeing these Ming soldiers throwing the corpses of these foreigners into the sea, they all applauded!

Now that these Ming armies are guarding in Manila, they don't have to be afraid of the foreigners coming back, and they don't have to be afraid that they might be killed by the foreigners one day! From today onwards, they can finally put their hearts in their stomachs and sleep peacefully.

The people of Manila were at peace, but the Spaniards were not, and they went all the way away from the city of Manila, and strayed from the main road to loot a village and settle down.

(End of chapter)