The vast majority of these Europeans who came to Asia to pan for gold were street riffraff, homeless and fugitives, and few of them were really hard-boned. In the face of the power of Chen Guanyu and others, where did Bentura dare to resist again. When Chen Guanyu asked him anything, he replied, for fear that if he said something wrong, his children and grandchildren would not be able to keep it.

The Spaniards had a total of 24 warships in Southeast Asia, divided into three fleets, which were tasked with escorting merchant ships and supporting the army. Ventura, who had dealt with the navy before, knew everything about the fleet. In front of Chen Guanyu, Liao Yiming and others, he told everything he knew, and as for what the other party needed to do with this information, it was not his concern.

"Do you know that's all?" Seeing that he couldn't ask anything new anymore, Liao Yiming put down his pen and asked Bentula.

"Yes, sir, you know, I'm just an overseer of a gold mine, and I don't know much about the military." Ventula replied tremblingly.

"Is everything you say true?" Liao Yiming asked again.

"It's true, there is absolutely no lie!" Bentula hurriedly confessed.

Liao Yiming looked at the transcript, nodded, and said, "Okay, let's ask here first." We'll have to interrogate the others later, and if their answers are different from what you say, you should know what the outcome will be. ”

"Dear sir, I am telling the truth! If what they say is different from what I say, they must be lying! Bentura lamented that he knew what his companion would tell him about, and that he would be miserable if they were to say something different from him.

Liao Yiming waved his hand: "Pull him down!" ”

Two soldiers stepped forward and escorted Bentura down. In order to prevent him from colluding with other Spaniards, he was placed in a separate room. The two soldiers then brought another Spanish prisoner with them.

The interrogation lasted for a whole day, and Chen Guanyu and Liao Yiming gained a lot. The Spaniards came to Asia to carry out colonial aggression, and they did not think that they would have any opponents, so they did not care about any military secrets. These overseers and soldiers of the Lanchu Gold Mine had some understanding of the distribution and strength of the Spanish army in Southeast Asia. By comparing the confessions of the captives, Chen Guanyu basically figured out the situation of the Spaniards.

"In the entire island of Luzon, there are less than 2,000 Spaniards, and I don't know what the king of Luzon eats, so he let his family destroy the country." Chen Guanyu looked at the interrogation record and muttered indignantly.

Liao Yiming said: "Listening to Mr. Li Zhen, the Luzon people have always been weak and not good at fighting. Besides, the Spaniards had warships, and it is estimated that they defeated the Luzon by attacking both at sea and on land. ”

Chen Guanyu said: "That's right, the Luzon people are easy to bully, but now that we are here, it should be the bad luck of these Spaniards." I immediately wrote back and asked General Su and Deng to prepare for the dispatch of troops as soon as possible. ”

Liao Yiming reminded: "Daochang Chen, before we came out, didn't General Su explain that he wanted to be famous?" Now this name did you find it? I heard that if there is no suitable name, the imperial court will not allow General Su to fight. ”

Chen Guanyu smiled and said, "Isn't it easy to get a name?" Today's thing is a name, and you can see my clever plan. ”

That night, the soldiers of the Kanyu Battalion, who were in charge of guarding the Spanish captives, somehow got drunk and squatted outside the house where the captives were being held and fell asleep, snoring like thunder. These houses were originally the residences of the Spanish overseers, and Bentura and others knew the structure of the houses well. Hearing that the soldiers outside were sleeping, they easily pried open the door and escaped quietly one by one.

"The Chinese are sleeping over there, should we go over and kill them?" Ventula asked the crowd in a whisper. After being bullied by the Chinese for a long time during the day, Ventula couldn't help but want to go back to the field.

As soon as he spoke, he heard Trencio scolding in a low voice: "You bastard, do you want to kill us all again?" ”

"Why?" Bentura asked.

Trencio said: "Now we should leave quickly while the Chinese have not found out, instead of killing any Chinese sentinels." If we don't succeed and wake them up, we won't be able to escape. ”

"Well, okay, let's go then." Ventula said.

The group took advantage of various obstacles as cover, raised their legs high, landed lightly, and tiptoed outside the mining area. Luckily for them, there were no patrols in the mine, and no awake sentinels. They made it out of the mine gate without any danger, and then ran to the sea.

"Oh my God, there's a boat here!" Trencio, who was the first to run to the beach, saw a small sailboat parked on the seashore and couldn't help but shout with joy.

"This is given to us by God, let's pray!" Pentula hurriedly drew a cross on his chest, but did not stop at the bottom of his feet, and rushed straight towards the sailboat.

The sailboat was tied to the shore with a cable and was not guarded. The group came to the side of the boat, took a closer look at the situation, and then scrambled to jump onto the boat, untie the cables, and rock the boat away from the shore in unison under the command of an overseer who knew some skill in boating.

"I can't see that these Hongyi ghosts can really sail a boat."

In the bushes on the shore, Liao Yiming held the binoculars, watched the small sailboat slowly sail away, and muttered softly.

Chen Guanyu squatted beside Liao Yiming and said proudly: "If you pinch your fingers, you know that they will definitely be able to drive the boat away." ”

"Daochang Chen, let's not brag like this, okay? Obviously, when we interrogated them during the day today, someone said that they were sailors. Liao Yiming ruthlessly exposed Chen Guanyu's lies.

"If he was born as a sailor, will he sail the ship?" Chen Guanyu retorted.

"Won't sailors sail yet?"

"Will it?"

"Won't it?"

Chen Guanyu hurriedly interrupted the fruitless argument and said, "Uh...... That's a long story, by the way, Lao Liao, we have to go back and move quickly. These Hongyi must have moved the rescuers, we have to leave quickly, or let them make dumplings. ”

"Shouldn't we also remind Mr. Lu that the Spaniards' rescue is coming, and I'm afraid it will be unfavorable to them." Liao Yiming said.

Chen Guanyu said: "You are stupid, don't we just want the Spaniards to deal with these Luzonians?" If we don't let the Spaniards kill a few Luzonians, how can we send troops in the name? ”

Liao Yiming said: "But, Daochang Chen, don't forget, Mr. Lu, they are overseas Chinese, and they are also our Ming people." ”

"What happened to overseas Chinese?" Chen Guanyu didn't react, in his opinion, Luzon people are Luzon people, is there any difference between overseas Chinese?

Liao Yiming said: "Overseas Chinese came out of our Ming Dynasty, if General Su knew that we put these overseas Chinese in danger, I am afraid that he would be furious." Daochang Chen, you dare to do this, I don't dare, I'm afraid that General Su will cut off my head when he is angry. ”

"Well...... this" Chen Guanyu was also a little timid, he naturally knew that Su Hao had always been very concerned about his compatriots, even if he was an overseas Chinese, he also had an important position in Su Hao's mind. He thought for a while and said, "In this way, let's tell the news to those overseas Chinese, and as for the locals in Luzon, forget it...... Maybe Hongyi won't embarrass them? ”

"Well, Hongyi shouldn't embarrass those Luzon locals, right?" Liao Yiming pretended to be confused.

Such a small boat stolen by Bentula and others could not cross the ocean, but could only sail offshore. They rocked their boats and sailed south along the coastline for a day and a night, until they finally reached their destination, a port where the Spanish fleet was docked.

"Stop the boat! This is a military base, and no one is allowed to enter without permission! "The Spanish soldiers in the harbor saw a sailing ship without a flag approaching, and hurriedly shouted loudly, and at the same time moved the muzzle of one of the shore guns and aimed it at the sailing ship.

"Don't fire, don't fire!" Ventula and the others stood at the bow of the boat and shouted in unison.

Their Spanish became the best letter of introduction, and the soldiers on the shore removed their guns and let them sail to the dock. As the group stumbled down from the boat, Ventura shouted to the Spanish soldiers who were coming towards them: "Okay, please give us something to eat, we haven't eaten for two days!" ”

It's no wonder that when these people escaped from the mines, they didn't bring any food with them. Chen Guanyu sent a small boat for them to escape, which was already a great favor, where would he prepare fresh water and dry food for them in the boat. These Spaniards were afraid that the Ming would chase them by boat when they found out they had escaped, so they did not dare to delay along the way, and they were hungry all day, and their eyes turned green with hunger.

"What's going on with you, how did you make such a mess?" A Spanish officer on the shore stepped forward and asked Bentura and the others, his name was Kevin, and he was the commander of this fleet.

"Sir, something big has happened, some Chinese soldiers disguised themselves as civilians and attacked the Lanchu gold mine. The captain of the guard in the gold mines, Mr. Roger, and his soldiers were all killed, and we, the overseers of the mines, managed to grab a boat and escape. Ventula said to Kevin.

"What do you say? Chinese soldiers? Kevin was taken aback, "Isn't China thousands of miles away, how did they get to Luzon?" ”

Ventura added fuel to the events of the gold mine and made a report to Kevin, some of the details of which were naturally to be withheld, especially the revelation of information after they were captured by the survey camp, which could not be told to outsiders. When they were on the ship, several of them had already sworn to each other, and they would never admit their experience of being captured and betrayed, only saying that they had escaped by taking advantage of the chaos and robbing the ship to escape for their lives.

"It's so damnable!" Kevin listened to what Bentura and the others had to say, and was furious. Dozens of Spaniards died, and that's a big deal.

"Herald, go and tell all the ships to get ready, we will go to Lanchu and kill all the hateful Luzon and Chinese who killed our compatriots." Kevin ordered.

The herald ran away to give orders, and Kevin asked the soldiers next to him to take Bentura and the others down, give them some food, and arrange a place to rest. He himself went to the headquarters and began to study the map of the Lanchu area. His job was to protect the merchants in the Luzon area, so he was familiar with the surrounding geography.

"Captain Kevin, what's wrong, I heard you ordered to prepare for battle?" Raphael, the staff officer of the fleet, hurried to the command headquarters and asked Kevin.

Kevin said: "I just got the news that a group of Chinese invaded Luzon and killed dozens of our heroic soldiers in the Lanchu gold mine. Several overseers of the Lanchu Gold Mine escaped and reported the letter to me. ”

"Chinese?" Raphael's reaction was the same as Kevin's initially, a little incredulous, "It can't be that these overseers are mistaken, right?" Maybe just the Chinese diaspora on Luzon. ”

Kevin said: "No, you can't be wrong, I asked several of them, and they all agreed that they were indeed attacked by well-trained Chinese soldiers. You know, the local forces in Luzon have been cleared by us, and they can't possibly have the ability to kill dozens of Spanish soldiers. The only thing that can have such combat effectiveness is the armed forces from China. ”

"If that's true, then Captain Kevin, I think we should be more cautious. It is very disadvantageous for us to rush to war with the Chinese. Rafael said.

Europeans don't know much about the Ming Dynasty, but from the mouths of missionaries and merchants who have been to the Ming Dynasty, they still know what a powerful empire the Ming is. Millions of square kilometers of land and tens of millions of people alone are enough to send chills down the spine of a small country like Spain. This is the reason why the Europeans colonized Southeast Asia, but they did not dare to invade the Ming Dynasty. Now that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have actually arrived on Luzon, special attention must be paid to this.

Kevin said: "Of course I know that you can't rush to war with the Chinese, but this is Luzon, and I suspect that they are just a pirate from China." You know, some pirates came out of the army in the first place, and it's not surprising to have military training. There is no reason why the Chinese would send regular troops to Luzon. ”

"I still strongly urge you to be cautious and avoid conflicts with the Chinese." Raphael said.

Kevin said, "I see, thank you for the reminder." I would not easily clash with the Chinese, but as a commander of the Armada I felt obligated to protect Spanish interests in Luzon. What happened to the Luzon ** Spaniards, I can't sit idly by. ”

"That's ......," Raphael said, "let's sail the fleet to Lanchu first, see the situation, and then decide what to do." ”

"Come on, Mr. Raphael, let's study together how best to march in." Kevin said. (To be continued.) )