Liu Yu returned to the ship and reported the conversation in detail with Xiao Wu and others.

Xiao Wu and the others were very satisfied,

He Bin on the side looked at Liu Yu and stopped talking.

For the southern flight to Luzon, the two generals can be said to have been premeditated for a long time.

From premeditation to high tide defection, it was only in the middle of the night, and the two actually collected more than 20,000 taels of silver in Dongning.

And that's not counting the gold and silver collected by thousands of rebel officers and soldiers.

And these will be their start-up capital in Luzon.

Looking at the British merchant ships that were gradually moving away, Liu Yu, who was standing at the bow of the ship, clenched his fists.

The sun never sets on the empire of the future.

Watching the British fleet fade out of his sight, a thought that had never existed before came to him.

What does he want to change?

At least within your means.

China and Britain are now like two giants standing on the same starting line.

A war that has just been pacified and completed the unification at the end of the Ming Dynasty,

A maritime trade that is just beginning to challenge the traditional powers.

The fates of the two are diametrically opposed.

Today, as a representative of the isolated island regime that is about to fall, he can talk to the British merchant captain on an equal footing.

However, as a diplomat of the Qing Dynasty 150 years later, he could only sign the Treaty of Nanjing in humiliation under the coercion of British gunboats, and cede land and pay compensation.

"The Manchu Qing Dynasty is immortal, and the heavens are intolerable." Liu Yu bit out eight words.

Maybe it's God's last mercy on the Han people.

On this trip south to Luzon, the fleet did not encounter bad weather.

With strong winds, the fleet sailed for more than ten days.

"Shore, Shore ......"

Early one morning, the officers and soldiers at the lookout post suddenly shouted.

The heart-rending roar woke everyone up.

The crowd rushed to the bow of the boat.

I saw that at the junction of the sea and the sky, a piece of land appeared in front of everyone.

"Ahh

I don't know who suddenly shouted, and in an instant it infected everyone, and everyone shouted in unison at the bow of the ship, bursting into tears.

Liu Yu was also in ecstasy, standing on the bow of the boat and looking out.

Looking at the land that is gradually becoming clear in the sky not far away,

Liu Yu knew that his own stage had finally arrived.

The flotilla began to approach the coast, and some of the smaller bird boats, centipede boats, loaded with officers and men, began to speed to the shore.

The place they chose to land was on the west coast of Luzon, which was close to the ** plain.

Luzon, in the northern part of the Philippines.

Also known as Little Luzon.

To the south is Manila, the core of Spanish rule.

But when the group that fled south to Luzon really set foot on the coast of Luzon, a problem inevitably appeared in front of Liu Yu and more than 1,000 Zheng officers and soldiers.

How to deal with the Spaniards.

late at night

The blessing ship is brightly lit,

In the cabin, Xiao Wu, Huang Liangji, Liu Yu's uncle and nephew, and King Lu were discussing some necessary matters.

"It's been a while since we fled, and Liu Guoxuan must have already surrendered to the Qing court with the young master." Xiao Wu guessed.

"Yes, we can't use the title Zheng anymore." Huang Liangji nodded.

"As you can see, we should fly whatever flag we want." Xiao Wu looked at the four people present and asked.

"Why don't you use Ming's flag?" Huang Liangji said.

"We originally wanted to overthrow the Qing court, so it is easier to win the hearts of the people with the name of the previous dynasty, not to mention that we still have a prince." Huang Liangji glanced at King Lu, who was silent beside him, and proposed to everyone.

"Nope."

"You must not use the title of Ming." Liu Quan shook his head.

"Why?" Seeing that his proposal was rejected by Liu Quan, Huang Liangji was very dissatisfied.

"Don't forget that we only have more than 1,000 people now, and we can't face the Franc Machine, if we use the Ming banner, it is very easy to be retaliated by the Qing Dynasty, if we let the Franc Robot and the Qing Dynasty unite, how should we deal with ourselves." Liu Quan analyzed.

This is naturally what Liu Yu mentioned to Liu Quan,

"That's up to you." Xiao Wu asked.

Liu Quan is also in trouble, and he doesn't have any good opinions.

"Let's still play the banner." Xiao Wu nodded,

"Luzon is not a place to stay for long."

"The reason why we are here is because the defeat urgently needs the local Han population and grain and grass in Luzon, and the banner of the previous dynasty can resonate more with the Han people." Xiao Wu affirmed Huang Liangji's proposition.

"Now we have to think about what it looks like today." He Bin then leads to more important questions.

After all, he didn't want to debate too much about what to do.

"At this stage, we're just stationed around the beach." Liu Quan's fingers were crossed on the map for analysis.

"There are some people in our fleet who have been to Luzon before, and I have sent some of them out as scouts, and I believe that the actual situation will be known soon." Liu Quan explained to several people.

"We landed in the northwestern part of Luzon, where the main terrain was plains and hills." Liu Yu took over.

"In order to avoid the alarm of the Franc Robot stationed in Laoag, we deliberately avoided this port town." Xiao Wu looked at the map of Luzon.

Speaking of which, this map of Luzon was drawn by the lord of the country when he wanted to attack Luzon, and he sent people to Luzon.

After the death of the national surname, he went south to Luzon, and the Luzon map was also hidden, and it was not until recently that Xiao Wu got it.

But I used it today.

"If we're sailing the right way, we'll be landing near Vigan." Looking at the Luzon map, Xiao Wu pointed to the location of Laoag a little below.

"Viganco is a heavily guarded place for the Franc Man,"

"We must immediately build a walled city on favorable terrain and bring some light artillery ashore to use as garrison artillery, in the hope of holding back the encirclement of the Spaniards." Xiao Wudao.

"Bring the guns ashore, what about the warship." Huang Liangji asked.

"We can't even defeat Shi Lang's Fujian sailors, do we still expect to rely on these ships to fight with the navy of the Francophiles?" Liu Yu, who was standing beside King Lu, shouted.

"Navy?" Xiao Wu muttered.

"Build a walled city, gather the Han people, and resist the colonial army of the Francophiles, this is what we should do." Liu Yu said.

Liu Yu does not intend to challenge the Spaniard's position here at this stage.

With the existing more than 1,000 people, they want to attack Manila City, which is a fool's dream.

In fact, going south to Luzon has these considerations.

Taiwan had been unified by the Qing Dynasty, and he needed a rear base, and Luzon was the most suitable choice.

Moreover, there are still a large number of Han Chinese in Luzon.

Although the Spaniards and local natives carried out four massacres against the Han Chinese, thousands of Han Chinese were killed.

However, due to the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, countless coastal Han people had to go south to Nanyang to pray for a way to survive, so the number of Han people in Luzon and other places was still considerable.

At the same time, Luzon is rich in gold, silver, and grain, and is also a transit point for trade, and occupying Luzon Island can not only solve the problem of money and grain, but also provide a lot of manpower, which will definitely have more advantages than when the national surname entered Taiwan.

"I agree with Brother Liu." King Lu, who had been silent, actually spoke at this time.

"With the banner of my dynasty, we will gather the Han people who have fled overseas, turn the wild land into the king's land, and let the Han people rest and recuperate, this is what we should do." King Lu said softly, word by word.

On this night, after consultation with everyone, it was decided to take Ming as the banner.

At the same time, continue to use the Yongli as the era name.

After more than 20 years, the Han army once again raised the Ming flag and established the Ming regime in Luzon overseas.

The next day, the scouts sent by Liu Quan who were familiar with the terrain of Luzon also sent back information.

After being fully prepared,

early morning

A group of 300 Ming troops, with Huang Liangji as the main general and Liu Quan as the deputy general, advanced towards the northwestern hinterland of Luzon.