Li Tianqian and the other staff officers heard Lin Fei say that the Spaniards had used a poisonous trick and hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty, what kind of poison trick did they use?" ”

Lin Fei said: "They want to destroy all the factories in the city and leave nothing for us!" ”

Li Tianqian exclaimed in surprise and asked, "How did you see it?" ”

Lin Fei pointed to the various factories on the map and said: "You see the location of these burning factories, they are all in the west of the city, far away from our battle site, the fire here cannot be caused by a stray bullet, there is only one reason why the fire started, someone is deliberately setting fire." ”

"The inhabitants of the city are mainly Chinese and Spaniards, it is impossible for the Chinese to set fires, and it is even more impossible for Spanish civilians, and the only people who can set fires are those Spanish troops!"

Li Tianqian nodded and said, "Your Majesty, your analysis is reasonable, but there are many factories in the city, and we can't protect them all, how can we stop the Spanish army?" ”

Lin Fei said: "Now we can only protect the important factories first, and immediately order Niu Dalong and Niu Dahu to send troops in the city to seize the Claus Steam Engine Factory, Hill Iron and Steel Plant, and Kovor Nonferrous Metal Factory!" ”

Li Tianqian agreed, grabbed the microphone and gave an order, Niu Dalong and Niu Dahu immediately sent troops, Li Tianqian put down the microphone and asked Lin Fei: "Your Majesty, why do you want to seize these three factories?" ”

Lin Fei said: "These three factories are very useful for us to build warships in the future, no matter what, we must not let the enemy destroy these three factories, especially the Klaus Steam Engine Factory, our warships need steam engines very much." ”

Lin Fei didn't guess wrong, Racherno's poisonous plan was to destroy all the factories in the city, leaving Lin Fei with no wealth, which can be regarded as a "common end" method, so Lacheno's think tank felt that this strategy was too vicious.

When Raceno gave the order, he only talked about destroying all factories in general terms, and did not emphasize the destruction of heavy industrial factories, but the Spanish army felt that light industrial factories were full of things that could be burned and were relatively easy to destroy, so they first set fire to the light industrial factories.

Just when the Spanish army wanted to destroy the heavy industry factory, Lin Fei's troops arrived, and the Spanish army had long lost the will to resist, and hurriedly retreated when they saw Lin Fei's troops coming, and in this way, the three factories including the Claus Steam Engine Factory were protected.

When the Spanish troops in the city withdrew, Raceno gave the troops stationed on Mount Santai to retreat, and they retreated from the mountain, but as soon as they retreated to the bottom of the mountain, they were attacked by the first and second battalions of Lin Fei's troops.

It was not only the 1st and 2nd battalions that attacked them, but also the artillery company on the hillside behind, which saw that the enemy had begun to retreat, and that the mountain artillery had also withdrawn, and that it was impossible to pose a threat to itself, so it went up to the top of the mountain and opened fire.

The shells exploded in the crowd of Spanish troops, and the Spaniards were scattered in a mass of sand, and the Spanish troops were thrown into the woods after being killed and wounded by the first and second battalions, and the wolves fled.

Zamboanga is smaller than Cotabatar, which has a population of 400,000 and Zamboanga has an urban population of only 150,000, and the proportion of Chinese in Zamboanga is as high as 60 percent, because many Chinese businessmen come to Zamboanga to do business.

There were a large number of Chinese in Zamboanga, and it was much more convenient for Lin Fei to control zhì, so the situation in the city was settled down at dawn, and the Spaniards fled to death, and the Chinese completely controlled the power in the city.

Niu Dalong told Lin Fei the news that the city had settled down, and Lin Fei immediately led his subordinates into the city, the arsenal was a building suitable for being a command center, so Lin Fei lived in the arsenal and handled various affairs in the arsenal.

Lin Fei asked Niu Dalong and Niu Dahu to lead his subordinates to clean up the battlefield in the city, and then he took a few sniper team members to the Claus Steam Engine Factory, which was the object of Lin Fei's key protection, so the outside of the factory was full of soldiers from Lin Fei's army and city guards recruited from the Chinese.

Lin Fei walked into the factory compound, only to see that the yard was very tidy, there were no craters left by the explosion on the ground, and there were no bullet holes in the wall, knowing that there was no big battle here at night, he was very happy, Lin Fei walked to the door of the factory, and an old man greeted him, he turned out to be a craftsman in this factory, and became the acting director after the Chinese took power.

The old man walked up to Lin Fei and said, "See Emperor Majesty, the old man's name is Qian Delu, and he is the acting director of this factory, just ask me if you have anything." ”

Lin Fei nodded and asked, "What are the steam engines produced in our factory used for?" ”

The old man said: "Of course it's a steamer, there are often merchants from all over the world near Zamboanga, many of these merchant ships are steam ships, our steam engine factory produces parts for their steam engines, Zamboanga also has Spanish coastal patrol ships, and the steam engines used on them are also produced by our factory." ”

Lin Fei said: "It's good for ships, do you have a manual of the technical parameters of the steam engine here?" Prepare me a copy and give it to my retinue. ”

Qian Delu agreed, and ordered someone to get the technical instructions for Lin Fei, Lin Fei asked the old man to take him to visit the factory, and in the factory, Lin Fei saw another good thing - a crane.

The role of the crane is very important, in the process of building a warship, a lot of equipment needs to be lifted by the crane and then put on the warship, such as turrets, steam engines and so on.

For the Chinese Empire, cranes have a more important purpose, because the Chinese Empire is an island country, and materials must be transported by sea, and cranes are needed for seaborne materials from ships to land.

Lin Fei inquired in detail about the lifting parameters of the crane, came up with a way to relocate it to the battleship factory on Samar Island, and then went on to inspect various steam engines, Lin Fei carefully inspected the factory for more than an hour, and then someone came to report: "Your Majesty, Niu Dalong and Niu Dahu, the two regiment commanders, have counted the results of the battle." ”

Lin Fei took the statistical report, read it again, and then returned the statistical report to the attendant and instructed: "Order the two regiment commanders to establish a Chinese government according to our practice in Kotabato and Wuduan City." ”

The squire agreed, and the Battle of Zamboanga was officially over, and the battle was divided into three phases, the first stage, Lin Fei's artillery company bombarded the artillery positions of the Spanish army under the instructions of the sniper team; In the second stage, the first and second battalions of Lin Fei's subordinates disguised themselves as Muslim warriors and moved towards Mount Shengtai to draw out the Spanish defenders; In the third stage, Lin Fei's main force attacked Zamboanga, forcing the Spanish army commander Raceno to abandon the city and flee, annihilating most of the defenders of Mount Santai.

In the three-stage campaign, a total of 1,258 Spanish troops were killed, 1,036 were captured, and the whereabouts of the rest were unknown, eight 75-mm mountain guns were destroyed and wounded, two 75-mm mountain guns were captured, 2,087 Mauser M1871 rifles, more than 250,000 rounds of ammunition, and 124 people were killed, 156 were wounded, and 13 were missing.

Lin Fei also gained a lot in this battle, not only practicing the tactics of guiding artillery fire, but also obtained a lot of wealth in the city, for example, he obtained more than a dozen factories such as a steam engine factory, a steel factory, and a non-ferrous metal factory, 300,000 taels of gold and 100,000 taels of silver from the city bank, and 200,000 tons of grain.

The attendant said as he agreed: "Your Majesty, there is also a guest at the command post, and that guest wants to see you." ”

Lin Fei asked, "Guest?" What guests? ”

The attendant replied, "He said that he was your old man, and his name was Yu Zhe." ”

Lin Fei was taken aback for a moment, thinking that Yu Zhe was the Chinese shipbuilder he rescued after sinking the Spanish warship, and after he brought him back to Samar Island, he let him stay in the shipbuilding factory as a technical consultant, how did he get here?

Lin Fei didn't have time to think about it, so he called Qian Delu to the front and said: "Your steam engine has a lot of things that can be improved, I have already thought of it, but I don't have time to elaborate now, I still have something to do, you immediately get all the Spanish technicians in the factory back, and after they are recovered, they will be paid according to their original treatment, and if they don't come back, they will be killed directly." ”

After Lin Fei finished instructing, he followed the herald out, returned to the arsenal, and when he came in, he saw Yu Zhezheng and Chen Jingui sitting in the room waiting for him.

Yu Zhe and Chen Jingui got up to greet Lin Fei when they saw him come back, Lin Fei smiled and asked the two to sit down, and then asked, "Why are you here?" ”

Chen Jingui smiled and took out a few reports, handed them to Lin Fei and said, "Your Majesty, this is the work report of various departments, please take a look." ”

Lin Fei remembered that it was time for him to read the report, so he stretched out his hand to take the report, and then Yu Zhe asked, "Your Majesty, do you read the report first, or will I talk about things first?" ”

Lin Fei put the report aside and said, "Let's talk about things first." ”

Yu Zhe nodded and said, "Your Majesty, I rushed over from Samar Island when I heard the news that you had defeated Cotabatar, and I want to tell you what I want to say, Your Majesty, do you have any plans to attack the Sultanate of Sulu now?" ”

Lin Fei was stunned for a moment, shook his head, and said: "I don't have that plan for the time being, after all, I just laid Zamboanga, the troops have lost a certain amount of troops, the bodies and wounded need to be evacuated, and the vacated troops need to be replenished, after the Zamboanga Battle, our troops consumed a lot of grenades, bullets and mortar shells, especially mortar shells, and the shelling last night was almost all gone, and these must be replenished." ”

Yu Zhe hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Your Majesty, aren't you going to build a warship?" ”

Lin Fei said: "I want to build warships, but what does building warships have to do with attacking the Sultanate of Sulu? ”

Yu Zhe said: "It turns out that many of the craftsmen who built the ship with me are scattered in the Sulu Sultanate at this time, and if you attack the Sulu Sultanate, you can collect these craftsmen. ”

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