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Seeing this, Duan Yougui immediately shouted loudly: "Guys, retreat, evacuate the dock, withdraw to the trading post, quickly!" ”

In just a few minutes, most of the more than 100 Westerners had been killed, and the remaining dozens of people fled quickly, and everyone also adhered to the principle of poor people not chasing, under the command of Duan Yougui, retreated to the trading post.

Under the command of Duan Yougui, everyone retreated towards the trade transit station while shooting, and in the distance, those several Western warships were raising their sails and heading towards the dock.

On each of those ships, one artillery gun at a time was ready, and it was estimated that as soon as one step closer, these guns would begin to shell the dock.

"Quick, retreat, I don't want anything else."

Duan Yougui shouted loudly, at this time, the western warships are approaching, the time is very urgent, and other things must not be taken care of, the top priority is to retreat all the people to the trade transit station.

Just now, the Westerners suffered a big loss, and more than 100 people came to show off their military might, originally wanting to show off their strength and provoke trouble by the way, but who would have thought that most of the more than 100 people were beaten to death by the guys of the Oriental Ocean Trading Company, and only a few dozen people fled back.

Now, as Western warships approached, another large group of Western soldiers, armed with flintlock pistols and cats bent over their waists, approached the Chinese docks.

"Bang, bang, bang......"

The men were armed with muskets, and they returned fire as they retreated, and among the retreating men, there were some people from the civilian trading fleet, and all of them had to retreat into the trade staging station.

The trade transit station is actually a small Chinese city, with four city gates, high and strong city walls, many large warehouses in the city, and a street, with some teahouses, restaurants and inns on both sides of the street.

This is because the Chinese trading fleet often traveled to Luzon, which led to the economic development of the region, and some nimble people set up shops and did business here.

As for the city wall, it was built by the Oriental Ocean Trading Company with a large number of local people, using large blue bricks, stones, lime, and even cement, which seems to be very strong. The only thing is that the city is not big, and the length and width are only about a mile.

It is not far from the wharf, about two or three miles away, there is an avenue from the city gate to the wharf, usually, a large number of commodities, materials, after arriving at the wharf, can be transported to the city through this avenue.

On the avenue, everyone retreated towards the city while shooting, and behind them, a large group of Western soldiers chased from a distance, and these people did not dare to chase too closely, because they found that the muskets of these Chinese men seemed to be far and accurate.

"Quick, close the door!"

Duan Yougui led dozens of people to the palace in person, and when he saw that everyone had already entered the city, he immediately shouted loudly, so the heavy gate slowly closed.

It's finally safe!

Duan Yougui also breathed a sigh of relief, thinking in his heart, it was very wise at the beginning, and it cost a lot of material and financial resources to build such a small city, which is usually a trade transit station, and now this can play a role in protection and defense.

The only fly in the ointment is that the town is a little small, no more than a mile in radius, and it is not equipped with artillery, and everyone's weapons are only muskets and a small number of grenades.

There are not many grenades stored in the city, but there are many boxes of copper shells. After Duan Yougui entered the city, he quickly climbed the city wall and looked in the direction of the dock.

There, the rumbling of cannon could already be heard, and the Western warships were shelling the Chinese ships docked at the docks, a few of them were sailboats of the civilian ocean-going trading fleet, and three were the 3,000-material steam-powered ships of the Eastern Ocean-going Trading Company.

"Look, Lord Governor!"

Duan Yougui was angry in his heart, and he took our ship out of anger, what kind of hero is it, there is a kind of letting the horse come over, Lao Tzu will accompany you to fight.

One by one, large ships, under the shelling of Western warships, gradually caught fire, burned, and sank, including the three 3,000-material warships.

"Western ghosts, if you have a kind, let the horse come!"

Angry in his heart, Duan Yougui shouted loudly at the head of the city, and watched his three three 3,000-material steam-powered ships slowly sink in pain.

This time, the Westerners were premeditated and very well prepared, and there were several Western countries such as Spain, Britain, and the Netherlands, and they also formed a huge combined fleet in Indonesia, which is currently in Jakarta.

After sinking the Chinese ships next to the pier, the Western warships approached the pier and attempted to shell the Chinese trading transit point, but after firing several shots, they found that the distance was too far and immediately stopped shelling.

After about an hour, four or five hundred Western soldiers, armed with muskets, began to attack the city, but they were quickly repelled by the men defending the city.

One attacked, the other defended, the battle was fierce, and there were casualties on both sides, but on the whole, the Westerners suffered more losses.

Because the men of the Oriental Ocean Trading Company were defensive, everyone had a fortified city to defend, and in addition, everyone's breech-loading guns were far more advanced than the muskets of the Westerners.

Today is the fourth day.

The Western warships in Manila had not yet left, and on the dock, the Spanish governor in charge of the commander-in-chief looked at the direction of the Chinese trade transit station, and his face showed solemnity.

The Spanish governor never thought that the bones would be so hard to gnaw, and it had been four days, and he had not been able to take the Chinese trade transit station.

A Western major next to him suggested: "Mr. Governor, we have lost more than three hundred men, and we must change our strategy. ”

The Spanish governor said slowly: "Your Excellency, what do you suggest?" ”

"It's very obvious that we lack siege artillery, and with our muskets, I think it will be difficult to take this trade staging station, and my suggestion is to postpone the siege and wait for our combined fleet to arrive." ”

The combined fleet of the Westerners has several of the latest sail battleships, equipped with a large number of heavy guns, and the heavy guns on board can easily fight a trade war from the dock position.

With the development and expansion of Western colonization, Westerners have developed a large number of various warships, and shipbuilding technology has also advanced by leaps and bounds, especially about a year ago, the Dutch were defeated by Zheng Chenggong's fleet in Taiwan, and the news spread to the West, knowing that there was an advanced warship using steam power in the far East, Westerners accelerated the development and construction of large sail battleships.

The newly built large sail battleships were immediately put into service, and this time they were transferred to the Combined Fleet.

Battleships in the Age of Sail refer to armed ships that served as the main force of operations at sea from the 17th century onwards. Before 1840, sail warships were built almost entirely of wood, sometimes clad in copper below the waterline.

The power is the sail, the weapon is the breech-loading gun, which fires round projectiles for destroying the hull, as well as anti-personnel shotguns and chain shells for destroying sails.

Because it was powered by wind power at that time, and the powerful range of a single ship's guns was not enough to cause effective damage to an enemy ship, the battle line (all combat warships lined up in a line) was used to fight, so it was a standard combat method, so the cloud sail battleship.

Sail battleships generally have a displacement of about 1,000 tons, and the ships are equipped with smoothbore guns that can fire solid shells. After the Anglo-Dutch war, its tonnage gradually increased, the displacement of the top battleships increased to tons, and the number of guns increased from dozens to hundreds.

For the sake of common interests in the Far East, Western countries have actually formed a unity and unanimity, formed a joint fleet, and mobilized several sail battleships to prepare to deal with the newly rising Chinese navy.

The drive out of the Chinese in Manila is only the first step in many actions by the Westerners, the second step is to enter Manila with the combined fleet as its home port, and then attack Taiwan, and even attack China.

Thinking about the strength of the combined fleet, the Spanish governor finally smiled and said happily: "Then we will postpone the attack and let those Chinese live a few more days." ”

In this way, the Westerners no longer violently attacked the trade transit point on the Chinese side, and at most sent troops to harass it occasionally, and the time passed day by day......

………

Chicken Coop Harbor, Taiwan.

After nearly a year of construction, great changes have taken place here, a large military port has gradually taken shape, and on Heping Mountain, a large number of fortifications have obviously been built, and a lot of large-caliber naval defense guns with breech loading have been deployed.

In the Chicken Coop Harbor, there are many large warships, all of which are steam-powered ships, which are the warships of the Second Fleet, not only a large number of 3,000 warships, but also ironclad ships.

The number of ironclad ships has reached six, with three ironclad ships of the "012A" type with a displacement of 1,800 tons, and three "012B" ironclad ships with a displacement of 2,300 tons.

The Second Fleet has been basically war-free for nearly a year, and its main task is to build a military port and vigorously develop and grow. At the command of the Second Fleet, a large group of naval officers were meeting on the topic of moving south to Manila.

A naval officer, hurriedly entered, stood upright, and reported loudly: "Commander, the latest news, a few days ago, Westerners attacked the trading post of the Oriental Ocean Trading Company in Manila and sank a number of Chinese ships docked at the port of Manila. ”

What the!

It's worth it!

It's like eating leopard gall!

Zheng Chenggong stood up with a "brush" and said loudly: "We haven't gone to trouble them yet, it's good that they took the initiative to jump out." ”

"Commander, give the order, hit them!"

"Yes, hit them hard, didn't say anything!"

Zheng Chenggong raised his hand, pressed it down, signaled everyone to be quiet, and then said with a straight face: "This battle must definitely be fought, pass on my order, the Second Fleet will all be dispatched, and the target is Manila!" ”

Of course, the news was also quickly transmitted to Beijing, and a few days later, Zhang Feng also learned the news, Zhang Feng was furious, and strictly ordered Zheng Chenggong to find these Westerners to take revenge, beat them, beat them, and drive them out of Luzon.

Not only that, Zhang Feng also issued a secret order to Zheng Chenggong, after gaining a firm foothold in Luzon, to march towards the Strait of Malacca, where a military port was built to control the Strait of Malacca.

The Strait of Malacca is the throat from the Indian Ocean into the Pacific Ocean, and Zhang Feng believes that such a place must be controlled in his own hands.

The Second Fleet was dispatched almost entirely, leaving only the necessary personnel in the chicken coops, almost all the sailors on board, and the Marines dispatched a full 2,000 men, divided into several steam-powered transport ships of 3,000 materials.

Starting from Taiwan, the goal is directly to Manila, Luzon.

After several days of sailing, the fleet began to arrive in Manila Bay.

……… (To be continued.) )