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He's not a fool, it's true to resist, but there has to be hope, but he has a fart hope now!

There is no foreign aid, and Spain's own two gangs are still playing their brains, and no one can send a fleet to save him! Although he declared his allegiance to Charles was tantamount to joining the Anglo-Dutch alliance, and theoretically they should provide him with assistance, the Netherlands themselves were beaten by the Ming army and almost begged for mercy! The British had sailed their fleet to Colombo at the beginning, but weren't they just the same in the end? So he couldn't get any outside help.

As for the interior......

Well, just look at Fort San Diego just across the river!

There is no foreign aid, the internal instability, the only thing that can be relied on is nothing more than thousands of soldiers, more than 10,000 old and weak women and children, and there are some small strongholds on the periphery, but it is useless, the combined strength of these strongholds is not as good as Manilado! What's more, the outer islands will definitely not be able to get by, the other troops on the main island of Luzon, even those armed Chinese can easily clean up, there are many more Chinese on this island than the Spaniards, but he also has a strong castle, Fort San Diego if it was put eight years ago, it would definitely be an impregnable wall, but now it is meaningless.

At least in front of the Ming army, there is no fortress that can be called impregnable.

In front of flowering bombs, heavy rockets, magic fire bombs, and even the recently circulated duke bombs, as well as a hundred-pound cannon, Fort Santiago will not last longer than the cities of Malacca and Jakarta.

Fighting, there is no hope.

If there is no fighting, there is still a glimmer of hope, because as long as the British fleet arrives and defeats the Ming army at sea, the Philippines will eventually return to Spain.

Five days later.

In the face of the 1st Brigade of the Ming Marine Corps and the nearly 10,000 Chinese armed men, as well as the guns of the huge fleet on the sea, Governor Gonzalez finally made a very wise choice, and the three thousand Spanish defenders in the castle of Santiago marched out of the fortress in a row, and laid down their weapons outside in turn, and at the same time, the domineering flag of the Spanish Empire was lowered on the castle.

"Your Excellency the Governor, you have made a wise choice."

Outside the castle of Santiago, amid the cheers of countless Chinese, Luo Zhang took the sword of Governor Gonzalez and said with a smile.

This is the best result.

Because once the war is fought, the Chinese ghetto in the north will be destroyed, there is a river across the San Diego castle, and the entire Chinese area is within the range of the cannons on the castle, these are the wealth accumulation of the local Chinese for several generations, although it is worth it even if it is destroyed, but it is best not to suffer this kind of disaster, just look at the cheers of those Chinese.

"Your Excellency, I hope you will be able to fulfill your promise."

Governor Gonzalez said with a small smile.

"Your houses and property will be confiscated, but your other private property will be respected, and if you are willing to leave and have the ability to leave, then we will not prohibit it, and if you are not able to leave or are unwilling to leave, you can look for work in the local area, and if you are not able to leave or find anyone willing to hire you, you can go to the concentration camps on the island of Neihu, where you can fish to support yourself."

Luo Zhang said.

Although it is said to be a concentration camp, it is undoubtedly not cost-effective for so many people to be slaves, and they have to be supported by the government, and they can't be ransomed anyway, so let them go as they like!

"Thank you very much for your kindness."

Governor Gonzalez said with some surprise.

In fact, he is not ready to leave, including the vast majority of the Spaniards here will not leave, where else can they go? If they return to China, they don't want to go back to be cannon fodder, as for the long way to other colonies, it is better to stay here, and they all have a skill, it is not difficult to find a job, and then wait here once the British fleet wins the Ming army can resume rule.

Of course, Luo Zhang was not interested in how they arranged the future.

Immediately after that, the Ming army was stationed at Fort San Diego, and then the 2nd Marine Brigade was transported, coupled with the local Chinese volunteers, and began to quickly take over the control of the islands, this work is not to be completed in a short time, you must know that there are a lot of islands in Luzon, in fact, the Spaniards in other strongholds are not all rational, the Ming army still had a few battles with them afterwards, and the process of taking over the ruling power was not so smooth. Moreover, the Spaniards still have many islands that they do not really control, such as Mindanao, but after the Ming army arrives, they must take it, and the Muslin monarchs on these islands do not accept the rule of the Spaniards, nor will they accept the rule of the Ming slave owners.

Another important task that also required force was the uprooting of churches and the rebuilding of the faith of the Luzons.

The most important achievement of the Spanish rule in Luzon for more than 100 years was to turn it into the largest Catholic pastoral area in Asia, and the Tagayans, who had converted to God, were generally mindless and therefore very religious in their faith.

And all this garbage must be cleaned up.

"They're all pretty smart."

After learning the news of the surrender of Luzon Spain, Yang Feng couldn't help but sneer.

Of course, he understood why the Spaniards surrendered so simply, and in fact he already knew the news that the main British fleet was coming, and when Deville set off from France, this huge fleet of forty-two battleships, including three second-class battleships, had just sailed out of Portsmouth, but unlike Deville, who crossed the Mediterranean Sea and rode through Egypt in the port of Suez on the Ming steam schooner, this fleet had to make a detour to the Cape of Good Hope to reach Asia, so at most it had just arrived in East Africa.

It was clear that the Spaniards were waiting for this fleet.

"The British Navy has a total of forty-two battleships, the British East India Company currently has twenty-four battleships, and there are two newly built second-class battleships, and there are eight Dutch battleships in the Cape of Good Hope, so that the total is seventy-four battleships, and the Spaniards went to Bombay before six battleships in Asia, so that the total is a full eighty battleships, which is terrifying enough."

Zhang Hui, Chief of the General Staff of the Navy, said.

This scale is indeed terrifying enough, in fact, the British Royal Navy dispatched almost two-thirds of the battleships this time, although the French Navy has been beaten to the ground, but when the European war is in full swing, the British can run to Asia with such a large fleet, and the British can be regarded as ruined.

Eighty battleships.

Even if this is put in Europe, it is a fleet that is enough to destroy the country, not to mention five second-class battleships.

What's more, the British have a large number of the latest cast steel cannons and flowering shells, although the cast steel rifled guns they purchased from the Ming Dynasty are only twenty pounds at most, and they themselves have no ability to cast larger caliber rifled guns, but even if they are twenty-pound guns, the lethality of the battleship is still very strong, especially now that even the British smoothbore guns are equipped with cast steel flowering shells with wooden tube fuses, and these shells also pose a great threat to the Ming battleships.

In addition, they had an excellent commander, the number one thug under Marshal Rook, who led the fleet to capture Gibraltar's George Brown. Admiral Bing, who served as Commander of the Far East Fleet of the Royal Navy.

"Thankfully, we were prepared."

Yang Feng said indifferently.

"Garrisons were transferred from those places where bandits had been pacified, organized into two infantry brigades, and then one brigade each from the Second and Sixth Armies, and then the Tenth Army of the Army was formed, and the Luzon Economic and Strategic Envoy was established, and the commander of the Second Army, Han Zong, was transferred as the Luzon Economic and Strategic Envoy, and the Tenth Army was led south to Luzon to take over the Marines, and was fully responsible for the follow-up operations in Luzon, and the Nanyang Fleet was immediately moved to Xijiang, so that Luo Zhang was there waiting for the British fleet."

Then he said.

The Xijiang River, also known as Makassar at the southern tip of Sulawesi, is just one of the Ming army's many naval bases on the Spice Islands.

If the British fleet wants to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army, it can only enter the Ming Inland Sea, that is, from the Malay Peninsula to the island of Guinea, which is within the island chain, so the most important choke point is the Strait of Malacca and the Sunda Strait, but it is not excluded that they go to the Small Spice Islands, that is, the Maluku Islands, and the steam patrol ships of the Ming army can ensure that they are found in time, and then the fleet from the Xijiang River can reach them in the shortest time, as for the Strait of Malacca and the Sunda Strait, that Yang Feng has other good things to greet them.

To be honest, a simple sea duel, in fact, Yang Feng is not very confident in his heart, after all, the strength of the two sides is very different.

So he can only rely on plug-ins.

If the British fleet takes the route of the Maluku Islands, then he will avoid a decisive battle at sea for the time being, because this route is very long, and it is a worthless place, he will let the Nanyang Fleet follow, and then let the Zhenwu and Baiyue attack and disturb, and there are also two paddle fast cruisers with two propellers, the latter is also equipped with two eighty-pound guns, which are iron-ribbed wooden ships, which are much more bearable than the two ships of the Zhenwu with a pure wooden structure, and there is no pressure to load two eighty-pound guns.

These six latest steam warships, although they are different, are actually unprotected cruisers like the Super Brave Yangwei, but they are not made of steel.

Although they are all garbage in the first noon, but in the era of sail battleships, they are sea beasts, they will rely on speed to constantly harass the British fleet, with a powerful eighty-pound naval gun long-range attack to weaken the British fleet's strength, anyway, the latter can not catch up with them, and the range of artillery is far inferior to them, they will continue to bite off pieces of meat like lions chasing migratory wildebeest, until the British fleet sails into the South China Sea, then the South Ocean Fleet can have a decisive battle.

If the British did not take this route, but went straight to Malacca or the Sunda Strait, then Yang Feng ......

Then it is what Yang Feng is looking forward to the most. (To be continued.) )