Two hours later, two hours later, a guard stumbled into the Governor's Palace, shouting, "Your Excellency, the NLD forces are coming." ”

Since the occupation of Manila in 1571, Spain has a colonial history of nearly 300 years in the Philippines, implementing feudal autocracy, and the Spanish governor is the head of the colonial authority, monopolizing administrative, judicial and military powers.

In order to prevent competition from other European countries and protect the interests of the merchants of the suzerain, the colonial authorities also implemented a policy of economic closure and monopoly in the Philippines, and gave the most fertile land to the Catholic Church, levied tithes on the people, and controlled various cultural undertakings such as education, which became the pillar of colonial rule.

If the British are stuffy, then the Spaniards are robbers, due to the brutal rule of Spain, since the sixteenth century, the anti-colonial uprisings have reached more than dozens of times, throughout the entire archipelago, but the Spaniards colluded with the indigenous upper class, brutally suppressed the uprising, and lived a stable life, at least in the past three hundred years, it has never been invaded by foreign enemies.

The full name of the contemporary Governor General in Manila is Juan. Paulino. Emene Hildo. Teodulo. Franco. Bamond.

At this time, Juan was basking in the warm winter sun unique to Southeast Asia in the courtyard, chatting and laughing with a Spanish lady from a famous family.

"What? The NLD is coming? How did they get here? How many people are there? How many boats? How far is it from Manila? As soon as he heard the words "Democratic Alliance", Juan reflexively jumped up from his beach chair.

"Isn't it Chinese? Look at what you're fuss about. The young lady pouted with disdain.

Juan said with a serious face: "Miss Teresa, our fleet is besieging the Democratic Alliance forces with the coalition forces. However, he actually came from afar to attack the Philippines, which shows that he still retains part of his naval strength in the open sea. It must not be taken lightly. ”

"Didn't you hear that the coalition forces blocked the Chinese navy in a big river? How can there still be a navy running out? Do coalition forces all eat? "This young lady, Teresa, is about twenty years old. With black curly hair, a long dress, a slender figure, a big nose, high cheekbones, a square face, and big eyes, she is a standard Spanish beauty, but what she said makes people speechless.

Juan shrugged his chest. Eyes on the guard.

Only then did the guard say: "Your Excellency the Governor, the Democratic Alliance Army has about sixty ships, because the distance is relatively long, so the number of warships is not clear, but they are landing on the south side of Manila Bay, about thirty kilometers away from Manila, and there are about a few thousand people, and it may be noon, they should be heading for Manila." ”

"Only a few thousand people dare to attack Manila? Don't the Chinese know that Spain has nearly 30,000 troops in the Philippines? Teresa chuckled: "The Chinese are so stupid." If you want to come, you should be sneaky to sneak attack, how can you land openly, my esteemed Baron Juan, do you say yes? ”

I heard that the NLD army was only a few thousand people. Juan also relieved his heart, nodded and said, "Beautiful Miss Teresa, I am willing to share the honor of victory with you." ”

"Thank you. I'm honored. Teresa slowly stretched out her white-gloved right hand.

Juan took it cautiously and half-bent down to kiss it. Then he turned around and said, "Send an order to General San Jose and ask him to bring the fleet to find the Chinese ships." I hope that the news of victory will come before dark, and that I will personally lead fifteen thousand Spanish warriors to meet the invading enemy! ”

"Yes!" The guards walked away quickly.

"My hero, I wait for you to come back and share the victory with me." Teresa smiled and threw a wink, Hu Anxin swayed, laughed and walked away quickly.

After about two hours, 15,000 Spanish soldiers were assembled in pikemen, cavalry, artillery, and military bands.

I have to say that the traditional European army is not good compared with the Ming army and the Song army in terms of appearance, because the cultural tradition and the positioning of the army are different, and the equipment and clothing are naturally different, but they are thousands of times better than the Qing army.

Juan just looked at the soldiers in the audience with satisfaction, raised his arms and said: "Warriors, in the past three hundred years, no foreign enemy has dared to invade the Philippines, including Britain and France, but today, there is a small group of enemies invading, what should we do?" ”

"Tear him apart, kill him, throw him in the sea and feed the sharks!" The audience roared.

Perhaps due to the influence of bullfighting, the Spaniards were irritable and impulsive, and the soldiers were really angry, as if they had been hit by the enemy and suffered great humiliation, 15,000 people shouted in unison, and the Chinese and natives who were watching from a distance all changed their faces drastically, and even some of them had trembling legs and stomachs.

"Good!" When the shouting stopped, Juan waved his arm again: "There are thousands of people from China who are landing in Manila Bay, warriors, let's take up arms and tear them to pieces to defend the dignity of Her Majesty Queen Isabel!" ”

"Hooray, iViva!" The audience shouted long live.

"Warriors, go on the march!" After a heart-rending roar, Juan stepped onto a snow-white steed.

The military band was at the forefront, some playing drums, some playing flutes, infantry, artillery were divided into several phalanxes, and the cavalry were on the two wings, marching neatly out of the city.

At the same time, fifteen Spanish warships also pulled their sails and gradually left the harbor.

The NLD weapons and personnel had recently all gone ashore, and after eating and drinking, the marines and navy kept a visible distance from each other and steadily advanced towards Manila.

Another hour passed, "Commander Zhang, look, the Spanish army is coming!" "With the steady and passionate beat of the drums and the melodious sound of the flute, a very beautiful army gradually emerged.

The red and blue colors and the neat queue do give people a pleasing aesthetic feeling.

"Huh?" A Marine Brigade Commander was surprised: "What are the Spaniards doing? Playing flutes and drums in war? Is he here to send him to death or to give a concert? ”

A staff officer chuckled: "I said Lao Lu, tell you not to study, a hundred years ago in Europe, the troops used flintlock guns, and they could only fight in line, that is, they formed a group to line up in a straight line and put guns in a row, in the process of marching, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the guns were fired in unison, and it was difficult for the soldiers to walk in unison without a unified sound, and playing the drum and flute played this role, of course, the performance of the military band may also improve morale." ”

A soldier scratched his head and asked, "Staff Officer Li, have you seen it, the band and the officers are at the forefront, are they so brave?" Aren't you afraid of death? ”

Staff Officer Li explained: "On the battlefields of Europe at that time, there were two unwritten rules, one was not to fight officers, and the other was not to fight military bands, unless they were unlucky enough to be hit by stray bullets, and the casualty rate of these two was much lower than that of combat troops. ”

Lao Lu was puzzled: "I can understand if you don't play the military band, the military band has no weapons and is not counted as a combatant, but why don't the officers fight?" Wouldn't it be twice the result with half the effort to kill the officer? ”

Staff Officer Li said again: "Soldiers are generally ordinary people, and it is meaningless to die as much as they want, and those who can become officers must be nobles, and many of the European nobles are related by blood, and the two hostile commanders on the battlefield may be relatives, can this be fought?" Asked you to shoot your cousin, can you do it?

Therefore, Europeans were not allowed to fight officers when they fought, and the European wars of this period were also glorified as gentlemen's wars. ”

"It's my day!" Lao Lu muttered: "It turned out to be Song Xianggong, what era is this, and there are still people playing Song Xianggong's set?" ”

Zhang Tianxi shook his head and said: "Lao Lu, don't look down on Song Xianggong, I remember that once the commander-in-chief gave us a lesson, specifically mentioned Song Xianggong, not only did not have any contempt, but respected it."

In the battle of Hongshui, Song Xianggong first rejected Muyi's proposal to take advantage of the Chu army's half-crossing to attack, when the Chu army crossed the river, and ordered to wait for the Chu army to line up the formation, the result was naturally a big defeat and loss, but after the defeat, Song Xianggong also cheered up and said: a gentleman with a benevolent heart, can not attack the wounded enemy during the battle, nor can he attack the gray-haired elderly, although the widowed Song State is about to perish, but still can't bear to attack the enemy who is not in good formation.

It is precisely because of this that Song Xianggong was portrayed as a pedantic and stupid model, and was ridiculed by later generations, including Chu Ling Yin Cheng Dechen, Li Zongmin, the leader of the Li Party in the late Tang Dynasty, and many other celebrities such as the great Confucian Qian Shi, Su Shi, Su Zhe, and many other celebrities spoke disrespectfully to Song Xianggong.

It is undeniable that Song Xianggong has a pedantic side, but we must understand that Song Xianggong lived in an era of collapse of etiquette and music.

In that era, Zhou Tianzi existed in name only, the countries were intrigued, deceitful, abandoned benevolence and righteousness for the sake of profit, and abandoned the bottom limit of being a man, only Song Xianggong could stick to his heart and adhere to benevolence and righteousness as the code of conduct, which was extremely commendable, and he did not hesitate to ruin the country and die for this.

The commander-in-chief said that in Song Xianggong, he saw the spirit of the scholar, which is a kind of persistence, but also a kind of persistence, and it is the fearless spirit of knowing that he cannot do it, what is the most indispensable thing for a person?

The commander-in-chief believes that it is not wealth, nor fame, but the pursuit of one's own ideals, and if a person cannot adhere to his beliefs, he is mercenary, and he goes with the flow, and what is the difference between this and the walking dead?

Therefore, we must see the spirit of the scholar that radiates in Song Xianggong, and this spirit is exactly what is lacking in our era when people's hearts are not ancient.

For the time being, our army is invincible, our government is well-governed, and China is moving forward on the road to rise, but the country has developed, the people have become rich, if there is no spirit, no vitality, and only interests in their eyes, sooner or later they will degenerate into a degenerate country. (To be continued......)