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Under the blowing of the monsoon, the clipper can reach a speed of more than 10 knots per hour, and the speed of 20 kilometers per hour was not completed in the 18th century, it is definitely the fastest ship in the world. Even if you make half of the margin, the 1,200-kilometer journey from Nanjing to Dagou Port in Wanwan will only take four days.

But in fact, the means of bilateral communication are faster than this 'four days'.

This Nanjing's communication route to Nanyang is not all by sea, that is a supplement, to be fast, the first choice is to fly pigeons. After all these years, pigeon nests have long been established in various parts of China, and Nanjing uses flying pigeons to contact Lingnan, and it only takes one day and one night for the entire Southeast Navy Division and the Nanyang Navy Division in Guangdong to be mobilized.

Then the pigeon flew from Guangxi to Annam, from Hong Kai City to Da Nang, from Da Nang to Quy Nhon, and then the news was passed all the way to Ha Tien Town. Only then did someone carry the news and take the flying scissors bow clipper ship to the main base of the Nanyang Naval Division on Zengmu Island.

In fact, the news from Nanjing City and Ye Tingyang's sneak attack on Dabanya could not be missed for two days, and when the flying shear bow sent by Ye Tingyang arrived in the Sulu Islands, many naval warships stationed in the latter were moving, and then reported to Zengmu Dadao, and the latter's warship had already sailed out of the port.

China now dies every year the 'flying pigeon soldiers' are hundreds of thousands, but the scale of the pigeon nest is getting bigger and bigger, the investment is getting higher and higher, and a special research laboratory has been formed, with the intention of cultivating flying carrier pigeons, for which it has not hesitated to set up a special code compilation department, which is responsible for the compilation of the communication code of the flying pigeon biography, which can be said to have invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources. That is to be able to receive information and receive news faster!

Many times, a day early in the news will earn all the investment back.

Zhu Li [Zhu Li's younger brother Zhu Wu should have discovered Hawaii, sorry, Zhu Li is a full-time naval officer] took a small boat into the Bashi River, this river is also known as the Passy River, forty or fifty miles long, connecting Bay Lake and Manila Bay, and on its south bank there is a Spanish royal city and a fort.

The Chinese here mainly live on the north bank of the Bashi River, and most of the Chinese who can live on the south bank are people who are more closely related to Dabanya, such as those who work in the royal city or are of mixed Chinese descent, or their daughters are attached to foreigners.

"This is Manila, huh? Haven't they all been built for 200 years, and this place doesn't look as good as my hometown Yantai. ”

Among the guards who accompanied Zhu Li was a small Shandong, a native of Yantai, Shandong, who had just returned home to visit relatives in the summer. After coming back, he talked about Yantai every day, obviously shocked by the changes in his hometown in Yantai in the two years since he joined the army.

At this time, he looked around at Manila on both sides of the Bashi River, and was quite disappointed.

This Manila's status in the minds of many people is not inferior to Batavia, and it is one of the few big cities in the South Seas, so what is the result?

"I don't think it's any better than the river fairy." Zhu Li himself agreed with the guard's words.

Seriously, he was a little disappointed. This Manila is not as good as he remembers, and it is really not much better than Hexiangang, let alone Yantai.

There are only a few ports in the whole north, Tianjin in Hebei, Yantai, Jiaozhou and Weihai in Shandong, Lianyungang in northern Jiangsu, deducting the northeast region, the whole north is just these natural harbors, so how can it not be developed?

Moreover, Yantai is the first batch of places in Shandong to open a port, and in recent years, it has only done entrepot trade for contracted slaves, so it has become the largest 'labor' export market in the north.

Manila had already declined after the trade in galleons declined in the second half of the 18th century.

There are no smooth roads, no neat street lights, no clean and orderly docks, no tall steam cranes and rumbling horse-drawn carriages. There are very low houses everywhere, and although there are tall coconut trees everywhere, they don't feel bright at all. The whole world seems to be covered with a layer of gray.

It was the first time he had come to Manila, and he was not the representative sent here by the Nanyang Navy Division to make Carlos surrender.

Last time, Carlos angrily refused to surrender. Then the Marines of the Nanyang Naval Division, which had already occupied Danba, began to march towards Manila along the northern side of Manila Bay, while another group of Marines who had landed at Lingayen also began to attack Manila from north to south.

The Chinese guards everywhere should not take the initiative to attack, their main task is to protect the safety of the local Chinese. Only Lingayan's Chinese Guards sent a part to follow the Marines, and their main task was to guide.

Fight? It was all the Marines.

The rocket launcher in their hands is completely a weapon of great destruction, and the eyes can only see that their big ducks have suffered a lot under this weapon.

The ninth month of the Chinese lunar calendar is still at the end of the rainy season in the Philippines, and there is a lot of rain, which has a great impact on the use of muskets and artillery. Therefore, the Marine Corps of the Marine Division did not even need the light artillery attached to it, and carried all light and medium mortars, and a large number of detachable rocket artillery.

"Hide!" The Spanish army was somewhat knowledgeable, and when the rockets fell on their heads, the officers commanded the soldiers to hide in the woods, bushes, and some simply ran into the trenches. But many of the indigenous soldiers just watched dumbfounded, and there were quite a few Spanish soldiers, who had seen rockets fired for the first time.

Suddenly, the thunder poured out, and the earthquake trembled. With every rocket and artillery shell as the center, the fire was shining, blowing dry and pulling wood, and screaming in the sky.

In the eyes of the marines thousands of 800 meters away, it was a sudden burst of small mushrooms on the ground, and bright orange-red flames rose violently from the ground, and the flames rolled towards the surroundings and expanded into the air. After a few seconds of bright flames, the black mushrooms began to expand and finally dissipate under the influence of the wind. The whole process lasted more than half a minute!

After the explosion, the Marines sent their vanguard to attack.

This is the usual number of routes used by the Chinese troops.

After being blown up, the big duck and the indigenous soldiers have completely messed up the array, and at the beginning, there were still many people who were stupid, and they were approached by the soldiers of the Marine Corps, and they couldn't run anymore, so they could only choose to fight or surrender, and many people who had been sober early ran cleanly.

Later, after being devastated by rocket artillery two or three times, there was often no need for the Marines to send troops to assault, and all those who could run ran away.

The Chinese guards who were in charge of cleaning the battlefield would always look up at the landing team with the eyes of the gods, and the ruins of the battlefield, the large dense jungle staggered as if it had been swept away by a storm, and the coffins could be buried in the big potholes on the ground.

The tree fortifications, and the sandbag breastwork, were all in ruins.

Many of the corpses were intact, with no signs of shrapnel, but their mouths were wide open, and when they peeled off their clothes, they could see the dense small red dots on their bodies. The more people hide in the tunnels, the more they die.

The faces of the dead were distorted, and the fear and pain of death seemed to freeze on their faces.

After one or two battles from Lingayan to the south, the Marine Corps feared that the big duck would be broken into pieces, and pulled the troops into the rainforest to fight guerrilla warfare.

However, the course of the war soon proved that their fears were unfounded. In the course of their journey south, the Marines adopted the method of washing the ground with rockets and artillery shells whenever they encountered the enemy's heavy troop assembly points. But it has been successful again and again!

Two or three times to buy a lesson, four or five times to make people feel that they don't take it, six times or seven times can still succeed, that's the opponent's problem.

After encountering the enemy's irresistible firepower superiority, they also gathered troops again and again to fight frontal battles, which in the eyes of the Chinese is an incomprehensible fool, and everyone has never seen such a stupidity. Obviously, if they gather together, they will be devastated, but the big ducks are piled up like death. The concept of war that had developed in the European armies made it difficult for Spanish officers to think about how they could fight a war after dispersing their troops.

Guerrilla warfare was not in the minds of European officers in this era.

They may lure the enemy, but after luring the enemy, the final choice is to fight a frontal battle, or to concentrate a large number of troops.

Luzon is a tropical region, with dense rainfall, inconvenient land access, and even more inconvenient for heavy artillery to accompany the movement. The Spaniards suffered a heavy setback.

With more than 10,000 army forces, Carlos left 3,000 men to hold Manila, he abandoned many cities, and sent heavy troops from the previous suppression of the indigenous rebellion to attack the Chinese Marine Corps in Lingayen, and the Spanish army of six or seven thousand faced the 2,000 marines, but the result was a complete defeat.

Offensive! Offensive! Offensive! Striding forward! The smooth march of the Marines was entirely unexpected.

It's just that the Spaniards fled too much, and the terrain in this place is not suitable for pursuit, which gives the Spaniards the opportunity to fight again and again.

The Spaniards on the opposite side, faced with a disadvantaged situation, immediately abandoned the initial offensive plan and adopted a defensive posture, not knowing whether they were lagging behind in military command or simply did not understand what kind of enemy they were facing.

The Qing army in the Opium War in the original time and space, if it can't be defeated in the field, can it be held by turning to defense?

Even if it's defense, it depends on what kind of ground you're defending, right? How much better can the defense of Tara, Karpass, and Malolos be than the chest trenches?

After the Spaniards' course of battle changed, the only convenience for the Marines was the captives, and as soon as they were surrounded, they shouted a few times for them to surrender, and the Spaniards in the surviving army took the lead in surrendering. With these men taking the lead, the indigenous soldiers immediately surrendered. During the whole battle, the wind swept away the clouds and marched forward.

And the captives were quite obedient. Let them assemble where they are, and they will assemble there. Except for the refusal of the Spanish officers to work when they set up temporary prisoner camps by themselves, everything else can be said to be tame and obedient.

Of course, there were also Spanish soldiers who were unwilling to work, and then they were beaten badly, and they all obeyed.

These people are much easier to fiddle with than Lao Maozi.

Almost no one will run away.

Some Spanish officers would also offer to cooperate, and the indigenous soldiers were very obedient to the Spaniards.

Because of the cooperation of the prisoners of war after surrendering, the follow-up workload of the offensive department was greatly reduced, and the attack was more rapid.

As an enemy of the Marine Corps, the army commander of Spanish Luzon suffered greatly. The disparity in firepower made him defenseless in front of the enemy. In fact, he was much luckier than his colleague, the commander of the navy, and did not go to their master at the first gun.

But if you can't stop it, you can't stop it!

These people have used advanced weapons to defeat their own great colonial empire in 200 years, and now they will also be beaten by the enemy with advanced weapons.

An army of six or seven thousand men, only two thousand were left when they were brought back to Manila by the army commander.

At this time, the governor of Carlos in the Spanish royal city, who had frequently received news of the defeat of the army, had ordered all the naval guns to be transferred to the shore, and at the same time all the sailors on several warships were also concentrated on land.

Carlos also enlisted local Spaniards and loyal natives in the army, and together with the 2,000 remnants of the army commander brought back to Manila, the total strength of Manila reached 8,000.

Although these 8,000 people are mixed and uneven, there are even soldiers with no morale who have been defeated in successive battles.

Zhu Lian was a member of the leadership of the Naval Division in the Luzon Campaign, and when he came to Manila to talk with Carlos, his status was not at all low.

He led people into the star-shaped gate of the Spanish royal city, and was immediately welcomed into the governor's palace, which covers an area of sixty-four hectares and is not small, but there are indeed too many people inside. Even the Cathedral of Manila and the Church of St. Augustine are full of people, just like the Antique Church on the south bank of the Bashi River, near the entrance to the river in Manila Bay, which is full of people. In addition to Governor Carlos, the chamber was Bishop Elmer, as well as Lieutenant Governor Bolocón and Justice Artemio Loiton. This is the entire Manila hierarchy of power.

The former commander of the army was also among them, but now his status has dropped too much. Or Carlos thinks that putting a defeated general in this chamber will weaken their momentum.

There was no politeness on both sides of the meeting, and Zhu Li said directly: "Your Excellency the Governor, the purpose of my visit this time is to persuade you to surrender. I hope you will be able to make a decision on whether or not to surrender unconditionally by eight o'clock tomorrow morning. "Zhu Li's time plan is eight o'clock tomorrow morning, unless the Spaniards detain his party. Then the Chinese side will not show any mercy to Manila because of this, and the right to treat Zhu Li as if they were killed by the Spaniards, and the military only considers revenge for them.

Carlos's face turned red, his body was full of anger, his eyes were fixed on Zhu Li, with his golden hair, the whole person looked like an angry lion. Even if Zhu Mian had spoken to them in a threatening or even abusive tone, the governor would not have been as angry as he was now. Because he felt an extreme humiliation.

The Chinese did not put Manila in their eyes at all, nor Spain in their eyes, and the tone was like drinking boiled water, without the slightest strong breath, as if he was not a negotiator but an errand runner who passed the word, and such a gesture from the look to the heart, from all aspects, was to show Carlos, the governor of Manila, one thing - China did not put Manila's army and navy in its eyes at all. For them, the Manila gang is just a small piece of grass that they can easily settle on their own. It's good to surrender, but it's okay not to surrender...... Distinguish.

Yes, Manila has no weight, and it makes no difference whether you surrender or not.

"Manila also has 8,000 warriors loyal to the kingdom, with strong defenses and ample artillery." The Spaniards, who completely dragged the naval guns of the Navy to the shore, had plenty of artillery fire. "With endless food and ammunition, and tens of thousands of loyal Spanish naval and army troops outside, how dare you demand our unconditional surrender?" Carlos said to Zhu Li in the most mocking tone of his life.

Zhu Li's expression was still calm, and Carlos's taunt did not make his expression fluctuate in any way. He continued to say to Carlos in a tone of course: "Of course, we are asking you to surrender unconditionally. A series of previous wars have proven who is stronger. What His Excellency the Governor said is meaningless, and I'm sure you know why. I sincerely advise you to surrender unconditionally and quickly. For you have no better choice than to choose unconditional surrender. ”

"Otherwise, I would suggest that you write your suicide note, pray to your Lord, and then welcome death."

Zhu did not think that the Spaniards were capable of withstanding the saturation of rocket shells in Manila. There are so many people here, which in itself limits the survival of the big duck.

"I'll wait in the hotel until eight o'clock tomorrow morning."

Carlos clenched his fists, looked at Zhu Li, who had only walked into the conference hall and turned to leave, resisted the urge to give him a shot in the back, and said in an arrogant tone with his head held high: "Manila will definitely not surrender!" ”

"We are all devout believers in the Lord, and God will not abandon Manila!"

Zhu Mian stood at the door, not looking back, but there was an absolute sneer on the corner of his mouth, "Really? Then all you have left is God. (To be continued.) )