Of course, the Ruan family has no other choice, no one can do something that is not beneficial, why should Yang Feng and the Zheng family send troops if they have no grievances? What's more, they still sent troops to help them grab the land, such a result is inevitable, in fact, it is a partnership between the two families to divide the Zheng family, and Yang Feng is already very kind if he doesn't ask for everything. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, Yang Feng is not interested in sending troops to Annam now.

What he wants is for the Ruan family and the Zheng family to continue to kill, kill each other in a bloody river, and continue to reduce the population of Annan, at this time, the total number of Yue people in the area controlled by the two of them should not be less than three million, and the number of troops that the Zheng family can mobilize is usually at most 1230,000, and the Ruan family can actually maintain an army of 20,000 at most. That is to say, the total number of the two armies is only 150,000 people, and one out of five should be regarded as the limit of this kind of national maintenance capacity, that is to say, they have 750,000 young and middle-aged people, if young and middle-aged people account for a quarter of the population, they will also have a population of 3 million, plus some other mess, 3.5 million can be said to be a very reasonable number.

That's a little too much, if they have a population of two million.

So then Yang Feng did not directly order the Sixth Army to go south, but ordered Chen Shangchuan to send another battalion to the north, first to help Ruan Fuchuan hold Rong City, and then give him a sufficient amount of arms, and even ordered the Ming Imperial Bank to provide a loan to the Ruan family, so that Ruan Fuchuan can arm more troops, although the Ming Dynasty has to be north of the Red River, but if Ruan Fuchuan can get the south of the Red River, he can still say that the land area has directly doubled, so at this time, of course, he has to go all out.

As for the dead or something.

It's not worth mentioning, even if all the young adults are dead......

If they are all young and middle-aged, then Yang Feng can also give them another million seeders, it is said that Annam is more popular than Goryeo, and the poor countryside of Goryeo, especially in the north, compared with the severe cold, rice is everywhere three times a year, and there are extremely rich fishing grounds, and even Annam, who can grow rubber, is like heaven.

Well, this is the fate of Annan in the future.

In fact, this is also the fate of all Ming vassal states in the future, Emperor Yang never likes to conquer the hearts of those chaotic peoples, he only likes to leave them the seeds of the Han people.

Of course, this is just a small thing, and he needs to be busy with big things next.

"Deliver the message, order the South Sea Fleet immediately, target, Manila!"

After sending Ruan Fushu away, Yang Feng immediately issued an order.

A few minutes later, in the special telegraph room of the palace, the little female soldier in front of the transmitter kept pressing the buttons under her fingers, and the intermittent current was quickly transmitted to the south through the special line, and after reaching the next telegraph room, the switch controlled by the current continued to open and close at the same rhythm, and the new current was transferred into the line. In this way, in the relay mode, one telegraph room and one telegraph room continued to pass forward, and soon crossed Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong to reach the southernmost tip of the Leizhou Peninsula. The enhanced current obtained in the telegraph room in Xuwen County instantly passed through a special rubber insulated line through the Qiongzhou Strait more than ten zhang deep on the seabed, and then continued forward to Yazhou, controlling the continuous movement of the receiver at the end of the line, and making dotted lines on the paper tape.

The transmission of the entire information for more than 4,000 miles was completed almost instantly, and soon this special holy decree was delivered to the hands of Luo Zhang, the commander of the Nanyang Fleet.

"Command the fleet, target Manila!"

Then he said.

Outside the window behind him, in the Yazhou Military Port of the Ming Navy, soon the bell of the emergency assembly began to echo in the quiet bay, countless soldiers quickly rushed out of the barracks, and boarded the battleships at the fastest speed, and it didn't take long for the sails on the huge battleships and cruisers to rise one after another, and even the two steam warships and the same steam communication ships, one by one chimneys began to emit billowing smoke, and at the same time, a group of heavily armed marines also began to board one troop carrier.

The most powerful fleet in the Asian seas at once entered operational form.

Fourteen battleships and sixteen cruisers, including four second-class battleships, left their berths one by one, plus troop carriers and various auxiliary warships, and seventy battleships formed a huge formation on the surface of the sea and sailed mightily towards the deep blue sea, to Luzon on the other side of the sea, to Manila, the largest fortress of the Spaniards in the East.

"Quick, turn around and head back immediately!"

On a merchant ship flying the flag of the British East India Company in the distance, the captain looked at the white sails that seemed to cover the sea with a telescope, and exclaimed without hesitation.

"Admiral, do you need to intercept?"

On the Hongwu second-class battleship, an officer asked Luo Zhang, who was looking at the merchant ship.

"No, I don't."

Luo Zhang said lightly.

"What if they know?"

Then he added.

Indeed, what if they knew? On the seas of Asia, the Ming Navy is the master, the Ming Navy does not need to be afraid of anyone, nor does it need to care about anyone, and there is no need to do anything secretly, that is something that only the weak play, and the strong is like the cannon muzzle stretched out on the battleship, so that all Xiaoxiao who dares to disobey the will feel trembling despair......

Well, seven days later, Gonzalez, the Spanish governor in the Philippines, felt this despair deeply.

"Fengtian carries the emperor's edict.

The Luzon Islands have been subjugated to the Ming Dynasty for generations, and are the sacred and inviolable territory of the Ming Dynasty, although it is difficult for the Jiashen State to come to rebel against the chaos in China, and the imperial court has no time to take care of the remoteness, and even has been stolen by you so far, but the Holy Dynasty is prosperous, and I am the lord of the world. How can I not reach far from the front? Today, I will send the Nanyang Fleet to declare my will, and return the Luzon Islands within five days, and I will be able to forgive my sins for ignorance, and if I continue to stubbornly steal the land of the Ming Dynasty, the army will punish you on my behalf! ”

In front of him, a Ming official was reading the sermon with a holy decree that had been prepared long ago.

Next to a translator is constantly translating into Spanish.

"Damn, why do you want us to go?"

Governor Gonzalez roared angrily.

In fact, he was mentally prepared for the Ming army to reach out to Luzon, after all, up to now, the Portuguese and the Dutch have all been driven out of East Asia by the Ming army, and there are only them left, even if it is the turn of the queue, it is still a little difficult for him to accept, not to mention that the other party is still in such a high-spirited way, what we steal from Luzon, we have been colonizing since the 16th century, okay, at that time it was still your Wanli years.

"Why? That's it. ”

The official who read the decree smiled faintly and pointed to the sea behind him.

On the sea behind him, the huge Ming fleet lined up, and the gun doors of the giant battleships were all opened, especially the four second-class battleships, more than forty gun ports on the third floor were densely arranged on the side side, as if the next moment would be like a volcanic eruption to spray blazing flames, even if only one side of the cannon of the thirty battleships could point to this side, it was also the terrifying firepower of nearly six hundred cannons, and the Ming army was all flowering shells, once the shelling began, no matter where it hit, it would turn into a sea of fire in an instant.

Governor Gonzalez immediately calmed down.

"Your Excellency, I am only a Viceroy appointed by His Majesty the King of Spain, and I have no right to decide whether or not to evacuate Luzon, but must report to the country and obtain His Majesty's consent, and this is a diplomatic matter for our two countries, and should be decided through diplomatic negotiations, and not by the will of His Majesty the Emperor of your country."

He said with a deep breath.

He decided to stall for time, he knew that the British had already sent a fleet to Asia, and it was estimated that it was almost time to cross the Cape of Good Hope, as long as it could drag on for a few months, then the British fleet would arrive, plus the fleet of the East India Company. In addition, with a few warships under his command, plus a fleet of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, he could gather a terrifying force of more than eighty battleships in Asia, which would be enough for a decisive battle with the Ming army. If we win, we don't have to think about any evacuation, and if we can't win, then the Philippine Islands will not be able to hold on.

"Your Excellency the Governor, here the will of His Majesty the Emperor can decide everything."

The official who announced the decree said lightly: "So you have no bargaining rights, this is not a diplomatic negotiation, this is our ultimatum, you only have two choices, obey the will of His Majesty our emperor, or obey the will of the cannon, five days, you only have five days, after five days all your soldiers must all surrender their weapons, including your families, go to the concentration camp we have set up for you, and wait for your king to send ships to pick you up."

In five days, if you refuse to surrender your weapons, then we will begin our assault on Manila.

I need to warn you that if you become prisoners of war, you will be sent to our country to work as coolies until your king is willing to pay a fine for you and send a ship to pick you up, so you had better choose wisely, because your wrong choice may make you die of exhaustion on the railroad site one day, or your wife will have to work as a cheap bridge to make ends meet, please do not ignore my advice. ”

With that, he left Gonzalez, who had a gloomy face, and re-boarded the dinghy.

But he did not return to sea.

His dinghy rowed directly north of the Citadel of San Diego, across the Pasig River, where all the young men of Manila's main business district, which was also a Chinese neighborhood, were quickly pulling out their muskets and arming themselves, waiting for the cannons to open fire and attack the city. To the north of them, troop carriers were heading for the docks on the shore, and the Spanish soldiers and policemen, under the threat of the armed Chinese, looked at the troop carriers helplessly. (To be continued.) )