The Spaniards finally couldn't hold it anymore and had to abandon the defensive strategy of retreating into the city under the threat of heavy artillery from the Ming army.

At the command of the Spanish governor in the Philippines, nearly 3,000 Spanish soldiers suddenly set out in the dim darkness of the evening.

The attack at this time was intended to catch the Ming army by surprise.

The Spanish soldiers were lined up in the famous Spanish phalanx, with a large group of pikemen as the core, and musketeers in each of the four corners.

It was like a mobile fortress, pressing towards the Ming army's battery. Although it is a little bulky, the turret will not run!

In the idea of the Spaniards, they could retreat as long as they ran their way through, and then destroyed the batteries and heavy artillery.

The idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

The Spaniards' initiative was indeed a surprise to the Marines, but the Marines were not blind, and as soon as the Spaniards left the city gates, the operational command in charge of the assault on Manila received a report. Immediately afterward, the alarm sounded and the order was given to assemble.

The Ming army soon gathered more than 5,000 people and directly blocked these Spaniards.

The Spaniards only discovered at this time that the phalanx of the Ming army did not even have a single pikeman, all of them were musketeers, and those musketeers did not even have leather armor on them.

The Spanish commander was overjoyed on the spot, feeling that the victory was gone.

Although it is true that the Spanish phalanx has not been so good in Europe in recent years, the performance of the musket is far from so good! It's just that it's cheaper and faster to train soldiers. These Orientals actually formed an army that used pure muskets, isn't this looking for death?

"Forward."

With high-pitched commands and a burst of beeping military music. The phalanx of the Spaniards slowly pressed towards the Ming army.

Such a speed. In the eyes of the Ming army, it is simply too oppressive. There was no sense of oppression that cavalry had at all.

"Don't use infantry artillery, these Spanish reds have finally come out, don't scare them away." The command gave an order to hide the ultimate move of 'Shotgun Baptism'. So the Spaniards were put in the phalanx.

The two sides got closer and closer, and soon they reached a distance where they could clearly see each other's expressions.

"Sixty Meters ......"

"Fifty Meters ......"

Bang bang bang......

The Spanish phalanx was the first to fire, but their musketeers were divided into four corners of the phalanx, and only two horns of musketeers could be played. It was like a drizzle.

Some Ming soldiers were shot by lead bullets and fell to the ground, but no one cared. The formation remained motionless.

"Shoot."

At the sound of an order, the Ming army opened fire in an instant.

Bang bang bang......

A volley, a large number of lead bullets with devastating power, instantly knocked down a large area of the Spanish soldiers fifty meters away.

In an instant, the Spaniards were stupefied.

Although the firepower of the salvo was not as good as that of the three-stage shot, the lethality of the instant burst brought an unparalleled impact to the Spaniards. Many Spanish soldiers were so frightened that their legs went limp.

They don't know if they can survive the next salvo of the Ming army, but look at the momentum. Many Spanish soldiers felt hanging.

I'm going to die!

Many Spanish soldiers panicked on the spot, just a salvo. The morale of these Spaniards was devastated.

"Charge the whole army." As soon as the Spanish commander saw this, he immediately gave the order to charge. The firepower of the Ming army is too terrifying, line up the gun, and kill is definitely not an opponent.

However, the phalanx of the Ming army was not protected by pikemen, and the musketeers had no protective armor, so as long as they closed the distance, they could slaughter (harmoniously) these Ming troops.

Under normal circumstances, such a judgment is very correct.

However, the Ming army still needs bayonets! It's just that the Ming army didn't even have to take bayonets, because the Spaniards, who began to charge, quickly ran into trouble. Because they stepped on a mine, the place where they came up was densely packed with mines.

The sound of explosions was incessant, and Spanish soldiers stepped on the steel wheel lighter, which in turn triggered a series of explosions of mines.

Laying mines is a major habit of the Ming army today, and detonating through a steel wheel ignition machine and setting up a chain of explosive mines is a good means to prevent the enemy's surprise attack.

In this era of warfare in which the phalanx is the mainstream, the enemy's formation is bound to be relatively dense. As long as the drum ignition is buried in the enemy's path, someone will always step on it.

The second volley of the Ming army came again just twelve seconds later.

Through the rapid reloading of paper bullets, as well as rigorous training, the Marines have reached the rate of fire of regular army musketeers of the High Command.

This indicator is 5 salvos a minute.

The Spanish soldiers, under the explosion of mines and the salvo of lead bullets, suffered heavy losses again in a matter of moments. A large number of soldiers died in front of the battle, and many others suffered leg injuries from landmines. Some of the unlucky ones were killed directly by the mines, but these black powder mines usually injured their legs.

The Spanish phalanx, which was originally in order, soon fell into chaos.

In such a state of confusion, the third salvo struck again.

Bang bang......

The sound of gunshots like fried beans is simply a talisman. To the despair of the Spaniards, they found that there was still a trench in front of the Ming army.

Such fortifications are simply frenzied, for Mao, you Orientals don't play cards according to the routine?

Volley, salvo again!

In just one minute, the Ming army poured five rounds of musket salvos at these Spaniards, and the lead bullets swept through again and again, and the Spaniards' pikemen were simply targeted. The plates on their bodies were completely useless at a distance of fifty meters, and the buckshot still penetrated.

A large group of Spaniards collapsed.

Then the Ming army showed their bayonets and charged the Spaniards under their command.

Look at the Ming soldiers who crossed the trenches one by one and rushed over, and the bright bayonets on their muskets. The Spanish soldiers were really in utter despair.

They simply didn't have any formation. There is no way to win.

And this is exactly what happened. After the Ming army charged, the Spaniards were quickly routed. The battlefield entered the hand-to-hand fight with bayonets, and some of the Spaniards who resisted were quickly stabbed to death with bayonets. Most of the Spaniards knew each other very well, and when they saw that the situation was not right, they simply surrendered.

As a bandit group, the rules of war of these Europeans are basically to grab if they can fight, run if they can't fight, and surrender if they can't run.

What combat beliefs, they only believe in money.

The battle was soon over. There were not many Spaniards who managed to escape, and these Spaniards consumed a lot of physical strength when they charged the Ming army. In addition, the Spanish soldiers were mainly pikemen, wearing plate armor, and it was obviously very difficult to escape, and it was about two kilometers away from the city gate, and they were caught up by the Ming army before they ran back into Manila.

Only a few musketeers who had run relatively early made it to the city and were picked up by the Spaniards in the city with hanging baskets.

The Spanish governor in the Philippines was completely stupid on the city walls, and finally understood a problem thoroughly. That is, once the Ming Dynasty decided to go to war with Spain, Spain would not be able to gain a foothold in the East at all.

The work of cleaning up the battlefield soon began. Nearly three thousand Spanish soldiers. More than 1,000 were killed, and all the others were captured. Most of the captives were wounded Spanish soldiers, many of whom were not saved. There are also many people who have been injured in the thigh and have to have their limbs amputated. Many others were injured by lead bullets, and some could not be saved.

Especially in this tropical region, wound infections are so fast that many are untreated.

The military doctors of the Ming army are just trying their best to treat them, and they are not forced to save them, and they are just humanitarian.

The Spaniards in the city knew that Manila would not be able to hold it, because the city was too empty. The governor of the Spaniards had returned to the mansion, and he did not care about the army at all, but shut himself up in the mansion and drank heavily and drunk himself.

After learning from the captives that there were not many troops in the city, the Ming army immediately persuaded the Spaniards in the city to surrender.

After these Spaniards found out that their governor was already drunk, several soldiers opened the city gates, while others did not stop them.

The Ming army then entered the city, disarmed the Spaniards, and took over Spanish rule over the Philippines.

The Ming warships outside the harbor soon sailed into Manila.

The night in Manila was quiet, and nothing happened about bloodshed. The Ming army that entered the city did not loot property on a large scale, and there were no strong (harmonious) and violent (harmonious) women. Instead, a curfew was imposed on Manila, and all the natives hid in their homes in fear.

And in the Governor's Palace, Sun Yiguo looked at the large pile of silver in front of him with some dumbfounded. When the Ming army entered the governor's palace, they were also stunned by the pile of treasures in front of them. And the governor of Spain was lying drunk in the pile of silver.

After some counting, there were tens of millions of taels of silver.

This silver was prepared by the Spaniards to trade with the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and it was the trade capital for nearly two years. For the Spaniards, they are already increasingly dependent on buying goods from other countries. The Spaniards, despite their money, were still very productive.

As the country with the most exquisite goods in the world, Daming was naturally an important trade object for the Spaniards.

Sun Yiguo immediately had the silver sealed, and then sent the good news to the capital as quickly as possible. At the same time, while controlling the indigenous puppet regime, he received the benefits of the Spanish rule over the islands of the Luzon archipelago.

When Zhu Youxiao received the good news, it was already after the summer harvest.

The summer harvest in the northern provinces this year is still relatively good, especially in the northern Zhili and Liaodong regions.

However, Zhu Youxiao soon encountered big trouble, because after the summer harvest, there was a locust plague in Jinan Prefecture, Shandong, and locusts covered the sky and the sun, eating up all the autumn seedlings that the farmers had just planted. And Yan'an Mansion in northern Shaanxi suffered six (harmony) months (harmony) snow, and it still continued to rain for more than a month without listening, and the ghost knows how long it will rain.

The news that the navy had defeated Spain and occupied the Luzon Islands shocked Zhu Youxiao's spirit, especially the seizure of tens of millions of taels of silver.

The Spaniards had previously slaughtered more than 30,000 Han Chinese in Luzon, so Zhu Youxiao decided to send an investigation team to the Luzon Islands to thoroughly investigate the matter and hold the natives and Spaniards responsible for the crimes. and ordered the navy to transport the captured silver back to Beijing.

After dealing with the navy's good news, Zhu Youxiao immediately focused his energies on disaster relief, and issued several holy decrees to Jinan and Yan'an in the past few days, and promulgated several disaster relief policies. (To be continued.) )