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Cotabatar, Sultan Yusuf of the Maguindanao Sultanate, and the important ministers of the government and the military are waiting for the envoy of the Sulu Sultanate, Ibn and the army of the new country, to negotiate! They hoped that the Sulu Sultanate's warning would scare the damned Chinese and retreat to northern Mindanao. The leaders of the Maguindanao Sultanate no longer believed that they would be able to defeat the Xinhua State. As long as the Sultanate of Sulu can be used to force back the Xinhua Kingdom, it is already Allah blessed!

At 3 p.m., Hassan ran into the palace hall of the Maguindanao Sultanate in a panic. The expression on his face made the hearts of Sultan Yusuf and the high-ranking officials who were waiting for the news tighten, and they couldn't help but think, could it be that the envoy of the Sultanate of Sulu and the Chinese had collapsed?

"Hassan, how's the situation going? What was the reaction of the Chinese? Yusuf asked directly.

"Your Majesty, something is wrong! The king of the Chinese killed Ibn! It also claimed to attack the Sultanate of Sulu! However, before attacking the Sultanate of Sulu, they must destroy us! Hassan said with a sad face.

"What? How dare the Chinese kill Ibn? How is this possible? Aren't they afraid of reprisals from the Sultanate of Sulu? The high-ranking officials of the Maguindanao Sultanate in the main hall exclaimed. Although they had been prepared for the possibility that this meeting might fall apart. However, they never expected that the Xinhua side would behave so fiercely that they would directly kill the envoy sent by the Sulu Sultanate, which clearly wanted to fight the Sulu Sultanate endlessly! Those Chinese people are too ignorant of the sky! No matter how powerful they are, will they still be able to defeat the Sulu Sultanate? Almost all of them couldn't believe that this would be the case!

"O Allah! How dare those Chinese be so bold? "Sultan Yusuf of the Maguindanao Sultanate was also stupefied. He had pinned all his hopes on the Sultanate of Sulu. Now those Chinese don't even give face to the Sultanate of Sulu, and the fate of the Maguindanao Sultanate can be imagined! I'm afraid that soon the Xinhua army will launch an attack on the Maguindanao Sultanate! As for whether he can withstand the attack of the Xinhua Army, at least Yusuf does not have much confidence!

"Your Majesty! Those Chinese killed the emissary of the Sulu Sultanate! The Sultanate of Sulu will certainly not rest on its laurels! We'll have a chance! Alimu, a military minister of the Maguindanao Sultanate, said.

"General Alimu, it takes more than a day to travel from Cotabato to Holo Island, even if it is a clipper. If you come and go, it will take at least three days! Even if the Sultanate of Sulu sent troops to attack those Chinese, it would probably take five days or even longer for them to reach Morro Bay! Will our army be able to hold out for such a long time? Hassan asked. You must know that it only took one day for the Xinhua army to destroy the Buayan Sultanate. The reason why they stayed in the Buayan Sultanate for so long was only to extinguish the resistance of the Buayan Sultanate and to recover the wealth of the Buayan Sultanate!

"Humph! We still have 20,000 troops! Although I can't guarantee that I will be able to defeat those Chinese! However, I believe that it will be no problem to hold out until the reinforcements of the Sultanate of Sulu arrive! Alimu said confidently.

"Good! Just do what General Alimu said! From now on, we must do everything we can to resist the attack of the Chinese and wait until the reinforcements from the Sulu Sultanate arrive! Sultan Yusuf ordered. Now the Buayan Sultanate has reached the most critical moment, and they have no other way but to hold on and wait for help!

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The high-ranking military and political officials of the Buayan Sultanate replied one after another. Now, they can only hope that the troops of the Sulu Sultanate will arrive as soon as possible, so that the crisis in the Buayan Sultanate can be resolved. As for defeating those Chinese on their own, this is simply unimaginable!

On the sea, the First Fleet of the Xinhua Navy was escorting the merchant ships loaded with the First Brigade of the Army to continue their advance. On the cruiser 'Xinhua', the blood stains on the deck had already been washed away. No one cares anymore about the slain messenger of the Sultanate of Sulu, Ibn, and for the people of the new kingdom, it is like swatting a fly to death, there is nothing to say!

"We have destroyed the Buayan Sultanate before, and now only the Maguindanao Sultanate remains! After the destruction of this country, the whole of Mindanao will be ours! Of course, the war will not end there, since the Sultanate of Sulu is so arrogant, when we destroy the Sultanate of Maguindanao, we will march to the island of Holo! I want to see if this country that has dominated the Sulu Sea for hundreds of years is worthy of its name! Long Yufei said to Luo Sangu and Niu Meng.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, neither the Sultanate of Maguindanao nor the Sultanate of Sulu will be our opponents! As long as the navy can cover us ashore, then the rest will be left to our army! Niu Meng patted his chest and said. As the leader of the Xinhua Army, second only to Long Yufei, his irritable temper has not changed. However, he is very loyal to Long Yufei, which makes Long Yufei very satisfied!

"Ha Luha, that's good! After destroying these Moro countries, it's time for us to march on Luzon and Borneo! When the time comes, we will have to fight with the Western powers! The regular armies of the Western powers are no match for these natives. Our army needs to be further strengthened! Long Yufei advised! In the face of these indigenous countries, the advantages of Xinhua are too obvious, and almost every war is directly crushed by the other party with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai. However, in the face of Western powers, I am afraid it is not so easy! The Navy, in particular, will bear the vast majority of the force! The West is too far away from the South Seas, and if they can't gain sea supremacy, they can't pose a threat to Xinhua at all! However, since the Age of Discovery, the Western powers have attached great importance to the construction of their navies. The current Xinhua State is not yet capable of comparing itself with the Western powers in this respect.

Luo Sangu and Niu Meng both nodded with serious faces. Now the strength of Xinhuaguo is getting stronger and stronger, and it has exceeded their expectations. However, the more this happens, the more they are able to feel the heavy pressure! Since the establishment of the Xinhua Kingdom, countless human corpses have been scattered all over the field. However, they have no way to retreat, they can only continue to forge ahead, otherwise, the Chinese will be like those natives who were wiped out by the Xinhua Kingdom tomorrow!

The fleet entered the Gulf of Iliana from Morro Bay, and the capital of the Sultanate of Maguindanao, Kotabato, was just south of the Iliana Bay.

At 4 p.m., the 12 'Shark-class' cruisers of the First Fleet of the Xinhua Navy lined up on the sea more than 1,000 meters from Cotabato and faced the shore with their side sides.

Compared to Davao, Cotabato's coastal defenses are not much stronger. Although there are several batteries on the shore, they are also in disrepair. The cannons on the fort have long been rusty, and I don't know how long they haven't been used.

However, the troops of the Maguindanao Sultanate knew that the naval artillery of the Xinhua Army was strong, so they did not take the initiative to defend on the beach, but hid in the city of Cotabato and tried to defend with the help of the buildings in the city.

"Fire! Direct shelling of Cota Bato! I'd like to see how long those Moro people can be shrunken turtles! Long Yufei put down the binoculars and gave the order to fire. Although fire was fired at Cotabato, the live resulted in civilian casualties. However, no one cares about the life and death of these Moro people. Since the army of the Maguindanao Sultanate wants to fight in the streets, then the Xinhua army does not mind destroying the entire city!

Kota Barto is slightly larger than Davao and has only 50,000 people living in the city. However, if you add the Moro people living on the shores of the surrounding Gulf of Illyana, the total number can reach more than 100,000, which is already concentrated in most of the population of the Maguindanao Sultanate!

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "Under Long Yufei's order, the 12 'Shark-class' cruisers on the sea opened fire one after another, and the dense shells fell into the city of Cotabato, and in the explosion, a large number of buildings were destroyed, and some thatched houses were even ignited!

The Moro people living in Cotabatar, with the exception of a very few powerful people who were able to live in beautiful brick and wood houses, were poor, and it was nice to have a thatched house. And the shelling of the Xinhua Navy is undoubtedly the most harmful to these poor people!

The royal palaces of the Maguindanao Sultanate, as well as Islamic mosques, were also targeted. Sultan Yusuf fled at the beginning of the battle, not wanting to be captured and killed by the Xinhua army like Sultan Gamar of the Buayan Sultanate. It's just that the coastline has been blockaded by the Xinhua Army, so he can only flee to the outskirts of Cotabato and hide, waiting for reinforcements from the Sulu Sultanate to arrive, and then make a comeback!

The shelling by the Xinhua Navy lasted more than half an hour before it ended. At this moment, Cotabato was completely covered in smoke, and the army of the Buayan Sultanate, who was hiding in the city and intended to resist stubbornly, also suffered heavy losses, and many people simply threw away their weapons and fled.

After that, three infantry battalions of the First Brigade of the Xinhua Army and two infantry battalions sent by the Third Brigade began to land. And launched an attack on the city of Cotabato!

The army of the Buayan Sultanate, hiding in Cotabatar, launched a counterattack! It's just that these armies are mainly equipped with cold weapons such as spears and bows and arrows, and only a very small number of people are equipped with muskets, and their stubborn resistance can't resist the attack of the Xinhua army at all! By nightfall, the entire Cotabato had been controlled by the Xinhua Army!