In Su Hao's plan, there is a very important link, that is, it is necessary to receive a request for help from Luzon, so that the Ming army has a legitimate basis to send troops to Luzon.

To put it mildly, there was no international law in the world at that time, and the European powers were doing things like the jungle, and it didn't take any name to invade a country. However, the Ming Dynasty is different from the European powers, as a state of etiquette and righteousness, the Ming Dynasty is very particular about the legitimacy and rationality of an act, although the monarchs and ministers of the DPRK and China have a consensus to enter Southeast Asia, but this name is still indispensable.

Su Hao sent Chen Guanyu and his entourage to Luzon in order to create this legitimacy and rationality. If the Spaniards were slaughtering the people of Luzon, it would be, in the words of later generations, a serious "humanitarian catastrophe" for the vassal state. As the suzerain, the Ming Dynasty naturally cannot sit idly by and watch the occurrence and spread of this kind of disaster, so there will be sufficient reasons to send troops.

Chen Guanyu has followed Su Hao for many years and knows Su Hao's belly very well. He had always done this kind of thing for Su Hao, so as soon as he heard that Su Hao sent him to Luzon, he knew that Su Hao wanted to give full play to his talent of fanning the flames.

With this understanding, Chen Guanyu went to the Lanchu Gold Mine to provoke a conflict between the miners and the Spaniards, and secretly released the captured Bentura and others and asked them to move the rescue soldiers. When the Spanish fleet approached the Lanchu Seashore, Chen Guanyu knew that his goal had been achieved, and the reason for the Ming Dynasty to send troops was sufficient.

According to Chen Guanyu's idea, it is better to have the Spaniards kill some Luzon residents and create some bloody crimes. However, Liao Yiming and other soldiers of the survey battalion strongly disapproved of his idea, and the soldiers did not object to making excuses, but sacrificing the people in order to create excuses, even foreign people, was unacceptable to these soldiers from peasant families.

Although there was a sense of a fly in the ointment, Chen Guanyu still arranged for someone to escort the patriarch of Lujia Village and several other Luzon villages to the sea ship and go to Daming to ask for help. Before leaving, Chen Guanyu secretly instructed everyone to tell them that when they met the officials of the Ming Dynasty, they must cry as if the whole village had been killed, and only in this way would the Ming Dynasty be willing to send troops.

At this point, the patriarch Lu and the others had no other choice, although the Spaniards slaughtered and killed the villagers did not happen, but everyone hid in the mountains and forests, and they could hide from the first day of the new year, but they couldn't hide from the fifteenth, even if they were not killed by the Spaniards, they would starve to death sooner or later if they were trapped in the mountains. Since they have been deceived by Chen Guanyu and them into the thief ship, do they have any other way out than to ask Daming for help?

After a bumpy ride, several patriarchs finally came to Songjiang Mansion. Patriarch Lu himself was an overseas Chinese who moved out of the Ming Dynasty, and he still had some impressions of the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. When the local patriarchs of Luzon got off the boat, they felt that their eyes were not enough, they felt fresh when they saw everything, and they felt shocked when they saw everything, and the words "the great country of the heavens" came from their hearts.

Several soldiers of the Kanyu Battalion who were in charge of leading the team took the Luzon patriarchs into Songjiang City, came to the office of the Kanyu Battalion, and asked the guards at the gate to go in to report that the village elders of Luzon had arrived.

Since sending Chen Jian Guanyu and his entourage, Su Hao, together with Deng Zilong and Li Zhen, came to Songjiang Mansion with his troops, and waited for news from Luzon while training his troops. Due to the lack of modern means of communication, Su Hao did not know that these Luzon people were coming, and when he heard the guards come in to report, Su Hao was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered to bring people to the lobby.

Several Luzon patriarchs, guided by the guards, came to the lobby and stood trembling below. Immediately afterward, someone was heard reporting in a loud voice:

"The Imperial History of the Ming Imperial Court and the Chief Military Officer Su have arrived!"

Hearing this, several patriarchs glanced at each other, knelt on the ground without a teacher, and kowtowed:

"Lu Yunchang, the grass people of the feudal country, knocked to see Lord Su, the chief soldier of the last dynasty!"

"Grass People ...... the Domain"

“…… Knock on Lord Su! ”

Several patriarchs scrambled to shout respectful words, and their hearts were also full of awe of the Ming officials they were about to meet. The people of these small vassal states in Nanyang are different from the Mongols in the north, and the Mongols are constantly at war with the Ming Dynasty, and they have won more and lost less, so they do not have too much cowardice towards the Ming Dynasty. In the hearts of the people of the Nanyang countries, the Ming Dynasty is an incomparably powerful place, and an official of the Ming Dynasty can make the land of the Nanyang shake for a while with a casual stamping of his feet.

"You are all villagers from Luzon, please get up quickly." Su Hao came in through the side door, and when he walked to the back of the public case, he was just in time for these patriarchs to greet loudly. He smiled and waved at the crowd, then motioned for the soldiers on either side to show the patriarchs their seats.

The patriarchs thanked them again and again, and then carefully sat down in their chairs. Su Hao looked at everyone and asked hypocritically: "Fellow villagers, I heard that you all came to my Daming from Luzon Island and died all the way, so I don't know what business you have." ”

"This ......" Patriarch Lu turned his head to look at the other patriarchs on the left and right, suddenly stood up, came to Su Hao's case, knelt down again, and said with tears in his eyes: "Lord Su, save our Luzon people!" ”

Several other patriarchs were also inspired, and they got up one after another, knelt down with Patriarch Lu, and cried loudly: "Help us!" ”

This tear was brewed all the way by several patriarchs, and it was really real when it erupted at this time. It's just that several patriarchs are all sixty or seventy years old, and the collective howling sound of Tao criing sounds, which is more grits than the wolf howl on the grassland, although Su Hao is somewhat mentally prepared, he also has goosebumps all over his body at this time.

"This ...... Elders, don't be so sad, please get up and sit down first, if you have any grievances, even if you explain to the official, the official will definitely make the decision for you. Su Hao said.

The patriarchs cried for a while, and then stumbled back to their seats, and then the Lu patriarch took the lead, and told the story of the Spaniards' invasion of Luzon, the seizure of the mines, the destruction of Buddha statues, and the threat of sending warships, and when it came to the villagers having to hide in the mountains and forests to escape the revenge of the Spaniards, the patriarchs were really a little sad and couldn't help but shed tears again.

"How unreasonable!" Su Hao slapped the case with his hand, "The hateful Hongyi dares to offend my Ming Domain, where do you want to put my Ming majesty?" Rest assured, your business is my business. As the chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty, this officer will definitely lead my Ming soldiers to Luzon in person, expel the Hongyi, and restore your homeland. ”

"Thank you, Mr. Su!" Several patriarchs said in unison.

"It's just ......," Su Hao changed his words, "This matter of using troops is not something that this official can decide, and it must be determined by the will of my Great Ming Sage." Therefore, you have to work harder, go to Beijing immediately, meet the Holy One, and report what you just said to the Holy One again, what do you think? ”

Do the patriarchs have any other opinions, they can only respond in unison: "I would like to listen to Lord Su's arrangement!" ”

"Okay, everyone has been tired all the way, let's go rest first, and we will leave for Jingyi City tomorrow." Su Hao explained.

After sending the patriarchs down, Su Hao ordered his own soldiers to invite Deng Zilong, Li Zhen and others, and asked the soldiers of the Kanyu Battalion who came back with the patriarchs to introduce the situation in Luzon to everyone. Several soldiers recounted what they had seen and heard, and sent information about the Spanish army obtained by Chen Guanyu, Liao Yiming, and others through the interrogation of the prisoners.

Deng Zilong read the information and laughed: "Change it, it's really you, send a few people over, and it will make the Spaniards in Luzon uneasy." ”

"Win in chaos." Su Hao said with a smile, "Mr. Deng, after reading this information, what do you think?" ”

Deng Zilong said: "What is there to consider about this, the Spaniards only have more than 20 warships in total, and the firearms are far less sharp than our army." The old man was sure that he would finish his work in one battle, and as long as he fought a battle, he would be able to completely annihilate the Spaniards and take Lu Xian Song over. Now we will wait for the will of the imperial court, and see when the imperial court orders us to leave. ”

Su Hao looked at Li Zhen again and asked, "Mr. Li, what do you think?" ”

Li Zhen said: "Listening to Matteo Ricci, a few years ago, the Spaniards and the English fought a naval battle in Europe, and the Spanish Armada suffered heavy losses and lost its vitality. We're going to fight the Spaniards for Luzon, and now is a good time, and if we wait for them to recover, it's going to be a little difficult for us to do it again. So, what the old man meant was, without further ado, set off immediately. ”

Deng Zilong looked at Li Zhen and asked, "What does Mr. Li mean is that we don't wait for the will of the imperial court?" ”

Li Zhen said: "The matter of sending troops to Nanyang was decided a year ago, and all the court needs is a name. Now the village elders on the Luzon side have arrived in Daming, begging us to send troops to protect it, and this name is already there. Instead, we can immediately send people to send these villagers to Jingyicheng, let's set off first, and the will of the imperial court will definitely arrive later. ”

Deng Zilong nodded: "What Mr. Li said is extremely true, as the saying goes, the speed of the army is very fast, we will send troops to Luzon, and there will be a more than ten day trip along the way, and when we and the Spaniards are handed over, it is estimated that the will of the imperial court will have arrived, and no one can say that we are acting without authorization at that time." ”

Su Hao said with a smile: "We didn't act without permission from the beginning, the secret decree of the saint is in my arms, whether there is a will of the imperial court or not, we can send troops." Now that Chen Guanyu and the others have opened up the situation in Luzon, let's set off as soon as possible. ”

Deng Zilong said: "Okay, the old man will go and give an order, let the team start to prepare, and within seven days, we can send troops." ”

The patriarchs from Luzon were escorted to the city of Jingyi the next day, and as soon as they left, the Kanyu Battalion and Deng Zilong's naval army, which were stationed in Songjiang Prefecture, were mobilized before the war. The logistics department was at full capacity to procure food and other items for various applications, and large quantities of munitions were moved into the ship's holds.

In the 23rd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, that is, in the spring of 1595 AD, the Ming expeditionary fleet composed of 2 6,000 treasure ships, 6 2,000 material transport ships, 6 1,000 material warships and 12 400 material warships set off from Songjiang Mansion and sailed to the South Sea.

(To be continued)