Xia Wanchun led 3,000 elite cavalry to the south bank of the Inland Sea, while Qin Mufeng led an army of more than 30,000 and advanced rapidly in the direction of Manila.

Not to mention the swaggering advance of the Tianxiong Army, even if it is an invisible track, so many troops cannot hide the eyes of the Spaniards, and the Spanish scouts discovered the traces of the Tianxiong Army and flew back to Manila to deliver the letter.

Manila City, now Davis has already repented, the first fleet of Cha Bolt arrived at the periphery of Manila Bay, constantly cruising in the open sea, looking for loopholes in the Spanish military deployment, ready to attack at any time, the news has already been transmitted back to Manila, in order to deal with the huge threat brought by the Ming fleet, Davis had to send most of his elite to the southern tip of the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island, ready to fight to the death with the Ming army.

Less than four days later, information came back from the southern tip of the Batangas Peninsula that a powerful Ming army had landed at the southern tip of the Batangas Peninsula and was rapidly advancing in the direction of Manila, with more than 20,000 troops!

Davis almost lost his breath after hearing this, more than 20,000 elite Ming troops, this is the main force of the Tianxiong Army, it was this force that defeated the 100,000 shogunate army of the Eastern Ying Kingdom! In the entire Luzon Island, the Spaniards now have only 30,000 troops, and now half of the elite troops have been transferred to the southern part of the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island, and the troops around Manila City are only more than 10,000 people.

Ming repairs the plank road, and the darkness Chen Cang, this Ming general is too cunning.

"Lord Governor, what can I do about this?"

Joaquin, the military counselor beside him, asked urgently.

"What to do? Dead carrying, now I can only die carry, didn't I order the recruitment? How, how many troops have been recruited? ”

Davis shouted.

Joaquin said abruptly: "Lord Governor, it's easy to recruit soldiers, in ten days, we have recruited more than 10,000 recruits, but these are all recruits after all, they have not been on the battlefield, lack of military training, where there is any combat power, it is a group of homeless people......"

"Whatever!"

Davis shouted: "Once the war starts, then these recruits will be used as shields, and they can block for a moment, I have sent people to ask the Dutch for help, and the messengers sent to the country have already set off, as long as the Dutch arrive, we will be able to stabilize our position, wait for the arrival of the main fleet at home, and hold Luzon no matter what, this is one of our few colonies in Asia!" Come, give orders, gather all our forces, prepare for war with the Ming army, send troop carriers, transfer back 5,000 elite troops from the Bataan Peninsula, and prepare for a decisive battle with the Ming army! ”

Sure enough, as Mi Dasu said, as soon as the more than 20,000 Tianxiong army appeared in the western part of the Batangas Peninsula, it attracted all the attention of the Spaniards. Stop the main force of the Ming army first......

Davis gathered more than 20,000 troops and began to advance to the south, but it is not possible to defend Manila, after all, Manila is the economic center of Luzon, once the war is fought in Manila, the damage to the economy of Manila is too great, and the economic interests of the Spaniards will be seriously hit.

The Tianxiong army landed from Batangas Bay, more than four hundred miles away from Dasmarinias, even if the Tianxiong army marched with all its might, it would take five or six days to arrive, after all, carrying a large number of artillery, it was impossible to be too fast, Davis's Spanish army had a certain amount of time to prepare for defense.

A few days later, Davis's Spanish army finally met the Tianxiong army at Dasmarinias!

Qin Mufeng heard that there was a Spanish army blocking the way ahead, and he raised his eyebrows, the Spaniards really had the courage to dare to start a battle with him? Okay, today I will learn what kind of combat power the Spanish army has here!

"Tan Guilin, command the artillery to move forward and prepare for battle, the first infantry battalion of the first town is protected on both flanks, and the rest of the infantry battalion is ready to assault!"

Qin Mufeng began to issue orders one after another, not to mention anything else, even if he was on Luzon Island, he was not familiar with the location here, Qin Mufeng still put on an offensive posture.

However, it was not Qin Mufeng who really attacked first, but the Spaniards!

The commander-in-chief of the Spanish army, Baptista, looked at the Ming army in the distance in the telescope, his face was solemn, this is definitely a well-trained elite army, the battle formation is neat, after a long and rapid march, there is still no scattered, this alone is not the level that ordinary troops can achieve, and the general of the other party is definitely a general.

"Order, mobilize our cavalry, prepare to launch a surprise attack on the artillery battalion of the Ming army, their artillery is too numerous, too powerful, if we fight head-on, we are only afraid that it will be difficult to block the opponent's artillery attack!"

Baptista shouted in a deep voice.

Cavalry, in Luzon, the Spaniards also have a cavalry, although the strength is not much, but the combat power is very fierce, the speed is very fast, are equipped with flintlock muskets and sabers, two thousand cavalry is the ace force in the hands of the Spaniards, with the cavalry equipped with muskets as arrows, to charge towards the Western infantry phalanx, is a common tactic used by the Spaniards in the West, but also has begun to use the tactics of scattered assault, and is no longer the ancient intensive charge tactics!

Two thousand cavalry discharged their own horizontal formations, one after another, more than thirty paces apart, and quickly advanced towards the front army of the Ming army!

The Spaniards had never fought the Ming army on land, nor did the Ming army, and both opponents were now blind men and elephants, fighting in the way they imagined.

Qin Mufeng is the same, since he doesn't know the battlefield combat methods of the Spaniards, then stick to his own tactics, and if there is no cavalry, then use infantry and artillery to advance together, and use the way to deal with the Manchurian Tatar elite cavalry to deal with the Spaniards!

Spanish cavalry?

A sneer appeared at the corner of Qin Mufeng's mouth, it just so happened that Lao Tzu's war horses were all taken away by Xia Wanchun's kid, then you will collect all your war horses, this war horse is more handsome than the other, but it is much taller than the Mongolian horse!

"Tell Tan Guilin, be sure to cripple the cavalry in front of me, beat people as much as possible for Lao Tzu, don't fight horses, these war horses are all from the Tianxiong Army, mobilize rockets, and prepare to attack!"

Not only Qin Mufeng was excited, but Tan Guilin was also excited, as a general who grew up from the cavalry, he had an almost obsessive fanaticism for war horses, so many tall Arab war horses, where would Tan Guilin let go?

Mine, mine, all mine!

(End of chapter)