"Silly girl ......",

When Beiwei saw Cheng Cheng's thick stack of complaining letters, he just smiled. He was so busy that he didn't have time to take care of his little wife's thoughts.

North Latitude was not in Manila or even on Luzon when it received the letter.

His current location is another Spanish colony in the Philippines, near the port of an island called Cebu, which was first occupied and developed by the Spaniards in the Philippines......

At present, in the Philippines, the war between the Joan Navy and the Spaniards has just entered the second phase, or the second half. This expedition order issued from the European mainland was unprecedented for the Spanish kingdom itself - with the small area of Spain in the European mainland, the understanding of war and campaigns was still mostly stuck in the stage when the lords gathered their peasants and agreed on a time to fight a group fight, and it was too difficult for them to organize a war across the Pacific in its entirety.

Therefore, the battle order issued from Europe was simply a day and a place, "requiring the fleets to arrive at a certain place by this date and form a combined fleet before carrying out operations." As for how the fleets of the various divisions will arrive, it is not up to them.

Since the people who issued this order also knew that it would be impossible for a fleet departing from Europe and America to reach its target at the same time, they set aside a generous date for the rendezvous, with the result that their European fleet arrived in the Philippines for almost three full months. For the European knights, who had just come down from the religious battlefield and were still bathed in the splendor and glory of God, "Do you want them to stay in this place for three months, and after a hundred days before they can trouble their opponents?" This is obviously a very inexplicable thing.

Therefore, after scolding the idiot who set the date for the fleet rendezvous, the European fleet did not even go to the assembly place, and went directly to Manila to find trouble with those [Chinese" people, and finished the fight early, "Finish work early, go home early, they think very well."

The result was indeed a very early battle, but the battle was just the opposite of what they expected.

And by this time the fleet from the Americas had not yet arrived. As a result, this sea battle of Europe, Asia and the United States, which should have been vigorous, was divided into two halves. The first half of the Eurasian competition ended quickly, and the second half of the Asian and American matches was about to start......

The Spanish sailing fleet from the Americas was completely different from the previous European fleet, they were divided into several groups and came to Southeast Asia in a scattered manner. There are quite a few of them, but most of them appear in small fleets of one or two, two or three ships in the waters of Southeast Asia.

According to some of the newly captured captives, the Spaniards had little contact with each other in the two viceroyalties of the Americas during this period, and after receiving orders from the European mainland, they weighed the pros and cons and selected ships that could be dispatched to organize their own expeditionary forces. And even within these Governorates, their connections are not unified~

In fact, a few years later, the two Spanish viceroyalties in the Americas were divided into four viceroyalties, because the distance was too far for the government to be smooth, and the administrative system had to be continued to be fragmented.

As a result of the dispersal operation, it was almost impossible for these small fleets to pose little threat to the prepared Joan navy, but it was also nearly impossible to defeat them in one or two battles.

After the Battle of Manila, the Qiong Navy "transferred all the maritime forces, including the Qionghai, and removed the net in the Philippine Islands, because it wanted to capture as many enemy ships as possible.

Only when the whole or most of the Spanish American fleets that came one after another were captured, and the "great gift" of sending the Kingdom of Spain to Asia was completely accepted, so that the Admiral Qiong, who had an appetite for food, could be satisfied. Of course, it is not easy to do this," but Zhao Lide carefully consulted the opponent's overall battle plan, and with his presence in Ade, the so-called "expedition to China" battle plan of the Spaniards had been completely exposed to their Qiong navy.

Of course, the rumors in the plan such as attacking the mainland of China after retaking Manila do not need to be ignored. However, Ade was very interested in their early arrangement, and after comparing the expressions of those people in battle, Ade finally found out where the opponent's key flaws were......

That's why the northern latitudes appeared here, Cebu (***), one of the first colonies occupied by the Spaniards in the Philippines, next to Mactan, where the great navigator Magellan died. It was conquered by the Spanish general Legaspi in the first year of the kingdom, and the castle of San Ro and the Basilica of the Holy Child were established.

It was home to Cebu City, the second largest city in the Republic of the Philippines, and is the second core settlement of Spaniards in Southeast Asia after Manila. In view of this, "in the "expedition to China" war plan drawn up from the European mainland, "Central Cebu Island was identified as the meeting place of the two major fleets of Europe and Asia" is also the www.biquge.info of the planned recapture operation against Manila.

But now, Zhao Lide has decided to do the opposite~ secretly control Cebu Island in his hands, and then wait here with peace of mind for the American galleons that come one after another to throw themselves into the net. As long as we strictly control the situation and do not let the information leak out, in this era when the means of information transmission are still very backward, this is the best and complete means of capturing enemy ships.

When they first occupied Manila, "a Spanish silver ship of this size rushed into the port, and in the end even the ship and cargo became the trophy of the Joan navy." It's a pity they didn't think much of it at the time."

did not deliberately control the information, only deceived a boat, and after only one ship, the Spanish treasure ship did not come again, "presumably because of the news", and was on guard.

By this time, the Joan Navy had experience. When the Northern Latitude was quelling the European fleet, it paid great attention to the blockade information, and sent people to control the exit of Manila Bay in advance, and even after forcing the entire army and navy of the other side to surrender, the actual combat situation of the Manila defense battle did not spread, at least not on a large scale.

However, according to the interrogation of the captives, the Cebu side had already learned of the arrival of the European fleet "and knew that they were going directly to besiege Manila, because the commander of the fleet had sent someone to inform them before." The arrogant fleet commander even sent someone to Cebu to declare that it would not be long before they could take Manila, so that the American fleet could go directly to Manila City to rendezvous, "There is no need to wait stupidly in Cebu."

After getting this news, in front of Zhao Lide, there were three choices: first, if he liked to play mystical like Pang Yu, maybe he would also come up with a "three strategies for the upper, middle and lower" for the staff group: the best strategy was to let the captured commander of the European fleet continue to falsely send orders, informing Cebu that "Manila City has been captured" and that after the American ships arrived, let them come to Manila to rendezvous, and then close the door and beat the dogs in Manila Bay. Come and grab one by one, it's comfortable, and you don't have to run too far.

The middle strategy is the one they are now implementing to control the Spaniards living on Kirishima Island, and the "closing the door and beating the dog" tactic is carried out in Cebu Harbor, which is slightly more troublesome than the best policy, but it is better to be safe, and this is the reason why the so-called "best policy" was finally abandoned.

It looks good to let the opponent take the initiative to come to Manila to throw himself into the net, but there are too many uncontrollable factors in the middle. Those Spanish galleons who had been at sea all the way from South America would certainly not have known anything about the situation on the ground. But once they were in the archipelago, "it is hard to say that they would not have learned about the battle of Manila from a small port that was temporarily anchored for supplies." After all, the means of information transmission are very backward in these years, but it is also difficult to block them. No matter how powerful the Qiong Navy is, it is impossible to control all the wandering sailors and smugglers who are scurrying around between the Philippine islands.

Even if you can't know the details, if you run into a certain vigilant captain and get some clues, it is difficult to say that such a thing as a false order can only succeed for a while, and it is expected to remain unrevealed for several months, even Ade is not sure of this.

And those who can be the captain of the ship will certainly not lack caution, if they hear the relevant news "become suspicious, even if there is no concrete confirmation, the first reaction of the smart person will definitely be to leave the dangerous place first" and will no longer be stupid to stay at the assembly point and wait for death. And once they escape into the archipelago in the Philippine waters, you must know that the Philippine archipelago has more than 7,000 islands!

These tropical islands are lush with vegetation and complex terrain, and many of the small islands have secret bays that can accommodate ships to anchor temporarily. However, in this era when there are no satellites and radars, searching for Spanish galleons hiding in them with human eyes is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, so the decision is only made as a last resort.

Therefore, it is safer to control Cebu Island, the assembly point set by the Spaniards in their own hands, and the reason why their navy has been able to repeatedly gain the upper hand in the war is that in addition to the technical superiority, "the most important thing is that they never despise their opponents."