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Adrian hesitated slightly, although he was only an insignificant petty official, but he was in charge of this part of the dock. Desertion without permission is punishable by the Doge's Office in Spanish law, but looking at the gold coins in his hand and thinking of the other reward, he still made a decision after comparing the two: "Okay, but I can only give you three hours, during this time, please also ask your caravan to hurry up and transport the necessary goods away, if something goes wrong, I can't explain it!" ”

"Of course, we don't embarrass adults! Adult please! Xu Shan said to Adrian with a smile.

Xu Shan occupies this wharf, in addition to the berths here, there is also a relatively high terrain here, and the view of the sea is also the widest. When the Mawei Navy arrived at Manila Bay and was ready to attack, they could receive the information from the Navy as soon as possible, and then Xu Shan could order someone to light wolf smoke here and notify the soldiers in the city to do it.

At this moment, the city of Manila is still quiet. Kunpeng Merchant House is located in the southeast of Manila City, very close to the South Gate, less than a kilometer away. At the same time, the Governor's Palace in Manila is also very close, and there are no special institutions in between, and there are few military and police patrols on the streets. At this moment, there are 200 Marine soldiers hidden in the merchant hall, and their goal is to directly take the Governor's Palace in Manila, while the Hai family's warehouse in the southwest of Manila City is hidden 600 elite soldiers of the Marine Army, who will abandon other Qiē institutional targets and run directly to the camp of the Spanish garrison in the southwest of the city.

The total number of Spanish troops stationed in Manila was about four thousand people. But three thousand two hundred of them were stationary naval officers. They are usually stationed outside the city. Fewer than 800 people were stationed in the barracks southwest of the city. And there are frequent changes between personnel. The main thing is that among the 800 soldiers stationed in the city, there is a battalion of 300 mercenaries, and the number of mercenaries is constantly changing, so it causes the overall change. In this military camp in the southwest of the city, the soldiers of the Mawei Marine Army have already sent people to secretly investigate many times, and they have used several disguised identities to blend in into it. This is also to blame for the carelessness of the Spaniards. Do you think that there is no way that anyone in this city can threaten them, and even if there is an enemy, it will be from outside Manila Bay, and when the enemy comes in, they will not be able to react early? Besides, they had massacred the Chinese here ten years earlier, and the local natives had long since complied, and they had no enemies in the city, so they relaxed their vigilance.

The navy outside the city was part of the Spanish Asian Legion of Sardinia. It accounted for half of the Sardinian Legion Navy. But the army of the Sardinian regiment was only 500 men here, less than one-eighth of the total army. There is not even one cavalry. However, the combat strength of this part of the army was good, and the pirates of the South Seas did not dare to fight the Spanish merchant ships, that is, they were very honest in the waters near Manila.

"Boss, someone's coming!" One of the merchants' guards, who was actually also a soldier of the Mawei Army, reported to Xu Shanyu.

Xu Shan looked up, and sure enough, a small boat was quickly approaching the dock here, with a Kunpeng flag hanging on the sail. Xu Shan immediately shouted loudly: "Quick, pick up the brothers on the boat!" ”

In the blink of an eye, the boat docked, and Xu Shan approached to greet him. The boat quickly jumped ashore and came to Xu Shan to report: "My lord, the prince has an order, act immediately!" ”

"Okay, the prince is finally here. Brothers, do you hear me, the wolf smoke is a signal! Xu Shan said loudly to the people behind him, and the guards behind him immediately lit the wolf smoke that had been prepared for a long time, and suddenly, the thick black smoke went straight up, and the sea breeze that kept blowing from the south did not blow it away.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Just when they lit the wolf smoke and didn't have a cup of tea, suddenly a rumbling cannon sound reached Xu Shan's ears, although the sound was not loud, but he and the people around him faintly heard it. "It's time to attack!" Xu Shan hurriedly grabbed the telescope at hand, and excitedly raised his head to look at the sea in the distance, although it was too far away to see it now, but even if he saw some of the smoke caused by the artillery fire, it was good and exciting enough.

"All in line!" With Qiao Shu's shout, the six hundred Marine soldiers between the warehouses immediately stood up straight, and then quickly lined up in columns. Qiao Shu is the thousand-household officer of this Marine Army, and he is led by Geng Jingzhong, one of the two personal guard battalions of the Marine Army. They had been practicing the land battle phalanx for several years, and every movement almost went deep into their bone marrow. Each warrior pulled tightly at the strap of his gun, and the musket on his back was pulled in this way and clinged to their shoulders. Despite the fact that they are an army and form a phalanx, they are still very mobile and flexible when fighting, and it can be said that there are almost no cold weapons troops that can stop their progress.

Although the troops in Qiao Shu's hands are not many, they are all the elite of the elite, and they are the best battalion of the Marine Army compared to marksmanship. At this moment, in front of these six hundred people, there are four land guns, although the power is far less than the naval guns on the battleship, but it is also very powerful, it is an improved eight-pounder Furlong machine gun, light and practical, and the fire speed is very fast. And the Spanish army garrison they were about to face, although there were six guns in the barracks, they were all small cannons under eight pounder, so they were not to be feared. Moreover, they were all musketeers, and the Spanish army still had a quarter of pikemen, which was the configuration of their army, and the Spanish army phalanx of a hundred years ago was still retained. If this cold weapon is against a hot weapon, the result is really self-evident, not to mention, the muskets of the horsetail army are still a few levels ahead of them!

After the army was assembled, Qiao Shu immediately ordered the entire army to advance, and the target was the Spanish military camp less than a thousand meters apart. This military camp is against the corner of the wall, and this side is relatively remote, there are no shops around, and ordinary people dare not come here. In fact, it wasn't a barracks before, and it was still very lively, since these Spanish soldiers were stationed here. Discipline is not good. It has a bad attitude towards Chinese and locals. I didn't give any money for anything, so I was scared away.

Six hundred men divided into two groups approached the gate of the barracks from two directions, and the Spanish garrison had not yet noticed anything unusual when they were less than a hundred meters from the barracks. A sneer appeared at the corner of Qiao Shu's mouth, these Spaniards have always been so arrogant, and there are only two watchtowers in the military camp, and no one has been sent up from above. It seems that they have not woken up much in the morning.

"Cannons! Hit the door and boom! Qiao Shu ordered in a cold voice.

"Yes!" The adjutant next to him replied, and then waved his hand back. Suddenly, sixteen fighters came to the front carrying four Furlong cannons, and the other fighters immediately set up iron gun mounts, and then set up the Fran cannons. The biggest advantage of this Furlong machine gun is that it is relatively lightweight, only more than 400 catties, and it is not very laborious to be lifted by the joint efforts of four big men. But the shortcomings are also obvious, the firing range is not very far, only less than three hundred meters. Two hundred and fifty or sixty meters. Only within 150 meters can the hit rate be guaranteed.

"Blossom Bomb!" The nearby fighters also recognized the shells in the hands of the artillerymen, and they were all smart. They've seen it so many times, and each time it's incredible. Everyone was silently mourning for the Spaniards.

"Fire!" As soon as the artillery was ready, Qiao Shu immediately ordered.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! ”

"Change!" Qiao Shu ordered.

In fact, there was no need for him to order, the gunners immediately took the sub-guns that had been prepared long ago and loaded them.

"Put!" Qiao Shu then ordered.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! ”

There were four more cannon shots, and the Spaniards on the opposite side did not have much of a strong gate, and under the ravage of the flowering shells, they had fallen by the end of the first round of shells, and after the second round of shells, more than a dozen Spanish soldiers had fallen at the door.

"Put it again!" Qiao Shu still gave the order.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The soldiers did not stop, and they fired nine rounds in a row, and after the nine guns of each cannon were finished in the shortest time, Qiao Shu ordered: "Brothers, the meritorious service is at this moment, kill!" ”

The soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the Marine Corps behind them couldn't wait, and rushed to the Spanish barracks with muskets. As expected, the Spaniards did not fully react in these few minutes, and did not organize any effective counterattack at all, and as soon as they appeared, they were greeted by bullets from the marines.

At the same time, the two hundred soldiers on the side of the merchant port also launched an attack on the governor's palace, and their actions were just as smooth, and the sneak attack was indeed the most labor-saving tactic. There were also 200 soldiers of the Guards Battalion, who had already been distributed among the shops of the Hai family and several other families, and as soon as they heard the signal, they divided into small groups and began to purge the Spaniards in the city of Manila, according to the order, they only cleaned up those who tried to resist, and all the others were rushed together and imprisoned.

The Spanish military police in charge of patrolling the city could not stop their attack at all, and were soon beaten all over the ground by the soldiers of the Marine Corps. Fortunately, Geng Jingzhong did not give the order to slaughter the city, because he was not a butcher and preferred to leave an intact Manila city. Historically, the road to colonization has been paved with corpses, and as colonists, their hands are also full of blood, no matter how beautified they are in later generations, but when this beautiful coat is removed, it will be found that there is nothing else under the coat except corpses and blood.

As the first generation of Spain's colonial empire, their hands were stained with blood, Africa, India and the South Seas, and other places, there were countless people who died at the hands of these colonists, and even a considerable part of them were old and weak women and children, and it is even no exaggeration to say that the Spaniards in this period were actually a group of beasts, with their expansion, countless innocent people fell under their minions, and it can be said that every time they took a step forward, they stepped on the corpses of countless slaughtered. Geng Jingzhong also wanted to kill all these Spaniards, but after thinking about it, forget it, as long as they wiped out all the rebel forces, there was no need to slaughter ordinary people and merchants

Manila Bay is similar to Kagoshima Bay and Edo Bay, but Manila Bay is wider than the latter two. At the mouth of this bay, there is a small island. The Spaniards called it Correcidos, and the Spaniards also set up forts on the island. The fort here is not worse than the fort of the Wa Kingdom at all, and it can even be said to be more powerful. There is a battery on the left and right sides of Correcidos, and it is all set up with heavy artillery. But at this moment, the defenders on these two batteries suddenly found such a large Western fleet in front of them, and they couldn't help but be dumbfounded, almost exactly the same as the expressions of those Japanese soldiers when the Mawei Army went out to attack the Japanese country.

Hearing the siren, the defenders on the two batteries immediately rushed to their respective batteries in a chaotic manner, since the Spanish occupied Luzon, except for a previous Chinese rebellion, the others have not encountered other places, fifty or sixty years, most of the defenders of these batteries have not been baptized by war. When I boarded the fort and saw such a large fleet, all of them were the same, and they all had an expression of disbelief. Is this a British battleship, the British called? No, the tiger flag on a blue background hanging on the battleship is the horsetail navy of the Great Qing Kingdom!

Wang Zhenbang raised the binoculars and took a closer look, then ordered with a sneer: "Order the fleet ahead, pull out this fort!" ”

The Second Fleet was now on the left, and after receiving the order, the Second Fleet immediately dispatched its entire army, preparing to first take advantage of the long range of artillery to start a tentative bombardment of the batteries. The Sixth Detachment on the other side was the same, and began to attack tentatively.

Within half an hour, ten rounds of shelling in a row, the two batteries were no longer in shape, and it was estimated that there was not a single living person on them. The horsetail army used flowering shells, which were hundreds of times more powerful than solid bullets, and the Spaniards' artillery was not as good as the giant cannons on the battleship, and it was good to be able to hold out for so long. In fact, by the third round of artillery fire, some Spanish soldiers had already begun to flee to the hills on the island!

The navy continued to march towards the bay, and the Spanish admiral Alex, who was anchored in the bay at this moment, had also received the alarm, and immediately ordered the soldiers to quickly board the ship and greet the Mawei army. After they all boarded the ship, they didn't go far before they encountered an envoy sent by the Mawei Army to negotiate.

"General, we're meeting again!" It was Xu Shan who spoke, and as soon as he saw the Spanish warship begin to board and set off, he drove the ship to meet him, which was also one of his tasks. At this moment, Xu Shan looked at Alex in front of him with a smile.

"Is that you?" Alex also looked at the envoy sent by the enemy army in front of him with some surprise, isn't this Xu Shan, the person in charge of the Kunpeng Merchant Pavilion? I had bought goods from the Kunpeng caravan several times and dealt with him. Could it be that the enemy is none other than the Mawei Navy?

"General, my lord sent a villain to persuade you to see the current situation, Manila City has been completely occupied by our army, and the prince himself led a hundred warships to come, the scale is five times that of your army, and it should be almost there at this moment. You can say that you have been trapped in Manila Bay, so my prince hopes that the general can understand the practice and prepare for surrender as soon as possible, so that everyone does not have to meet each other on the battlefield to avoid unnecessary casualties! Looking at Alex's shocked look, Xu Shan said with a smile again.

Seeing that Xu Shan had actually come to persuade him to surrender, and the smile on his face made him extremely disgusted, he snorted coldly at the moment: "You Qing people are really despicable, you actually took advantage of our unpreparedness to attack, is this what you call the state of etiquette?" ”

Hearing Alex question himself in turn, Xu Shan smiled dumbly and said: "We have always been a country of etiquette, and we naturally treat our friends with courtesy, but you Spaniards have burned and looted all the way, and slaughtered our Chinese several times, what can you say!" ”

Xu Shan had already been instructed to be tougher, after all, Zhou Zhong knew that these Europeans had always been afraid of power and not virtuous, and it was useless for you to persuade them with kind words, only by showing that they were tougher than them, it was possible to make the other party submit. (To be continued......)