In the sparkling waters of Luzon, a sailboat is speeding along the northwest coast of Luzon. It was a three-masted Caravel-type clipper, and the flag on the mast appeared to be an armed Spanish merchant ship from Manila Bay in Luzon.

Hongyi on the boat was surprised to find that a long series of small dots seemed to appear in the sea area of the northwest corner of Luzon not far away.

The cautious Spanish colonists opened the gun window on the side of the clipper.

"Whoosh,"

A shocking column of water set off a huge wave on the side of the clipper.

The Spaniards on the boat were instantly staggered by the impact of the waves.

At this moment, the Spanish sailors on board were surprised to find that a series of small dots in the distance gradually emerged.

At the head of it was a huge ship of fortune.

In the frightened eyes of the Spaniards, a black mist suddenly appeared on the outline of the fortune ship, which was gradually clear.

Columns of water lifted around the three-masted Caravel clipper,

The choppy waves crashed against the fragile side of the ship, causing the Caravelles to shake for a while.

The Spanish sailors on board turned in terror and fled towards the waters south of Luzon.

Liu Yu also followed the Ming army at this time and advanced towards the interior of Luzon.

The sea breeze wafting from the nearby sea made the Ming soldiers who were carrying the load particularly comfortable.

Luzon Island is the largest island in the Philippines, and Luzon in the Ming Dynasty is known as Greater Luzon and Little Luzon.

Greater Luzon refers to the Philippines in a broad sense, and Little Luzon refers to the Luzon Kingdom recorded in Chinese historical sources, that is, Luzon, the largest island in the northern Philippines, with an area similar to that of Zhejiang Province.

Liu Yu instigated Xiao Wu and others to take not the Philippines, but the northern part of Little Luzon Island occupied by the Spaniards as a base for counterattacking mainland Taiwan (the Philippines is divided into three parts: Luzon in the north, Misha in the center, and Mindanao in the south.

As early as more than 20 years ago, after the recovery of Taiwan, the national surname had the intention of occupying Luzon.

As a result, a number of people were sent to survey the terrain in Luzon.

And this time, there were also many Han Chinese who fled from Luzon to Taiwan in the southward fleet.

Therefore, the Ming army that groped for progress did not have to worry about getting lost.

Most of the scouts sent out by Liu Quan yesterday had already returned at this time.

The terrain of more than ten miles nearby was also figured out by them.

The Ming fleet was fortunate that they landed at the same time as no Spaniards were deployed.

With the fall of the Armadada, it was impossible for the declining Spaniards to deploy soldiers on every coast of Luzon.

Of course, Liu Yu didn't know at this time. Ming's fleet had already exchanged fire with the Spanish colonizers' patrol boats.

After passing through a vast forest, the three hundred soldiers of the Ming Army finally saw the plain.

It was a patch of rice paddies, and the sun's rays reflected a strange brilliance in the fields.

The Ming soldiers present could hardly believe their eyes, not all of them had been to Luzon.

Most of the Ming soldiers were Han Chinese who fled to Taiwan from Zhangzhou and other coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

In their cognition, the places outside the Ming Land are all outside the land, and they are wild.

Even when they marched into Taiwan, they relied on their own hands to reclaim pieces of land little by little the treasure islands that were originally in the wilderness.

When they saw the patches of fertile land in front of them, a sense of intimacy of agricultural civilization arose.

Thanks to the political landscape of the Filipino tribes and chiefdoms, Spain's domination of Luzon was not as rapid as the conquest of the Americas.

After all, mass martyrdom of Native Americans for rulers like Atahualpa and Montezuma was impossible, and Filipinos were influenced by the Indian Ocean world and were far more immune to viruses carried by European colonists such as the Spaniards than American Indians.

As a result, the population of the Philippines did not show a large-scale reduction in the entire island of Luzon after the Spanish colonization, which forced the Spanish colonists, who never numbered more than 10,000, to consider the peculiarities of Luzon.

So they chose to rule peacefully, and the indigenous Luzon population, whose population far outnumbered that of the Spanish colonizers (at least the Spaniards did not choose the bloody mass murder of Luzon as they did with the American Indians). ）

Through the system of feudal and feudal feuds, officials such as township chiefs were sent to rule over the major tribal chiefdoms, and indigenous products or silver were collected as taxes, and hundreds of thousands of natives of Luzon were educated through the Catholic Church through the missionary system.

The Ilok people in the fields also looked in disbelief at the Ming army coming out of the nearby rainforest.

These indigenous people of Luzon have been farming in the Central Plains of Little Luzon for generations.

At this moment, they were looking at this group of strange guests with a look of horror.

They were accustomed to seeing red-nosed Spaniards armed with spears and shields, but the man who appeared before them today was very strange to them.

They were also armed with firearms and wearing Ming armor, but these heavily armed soldiers were not the appearance of the Hongyi they were familiar with, on the contrary, they were very similar to the Chinese merchants who had fled here for refuge.

The three hundred Ming soldiers did not disturb the cultivation of the Ilok natives, and they looked at the natives with hoes with the same astonishment as they advanced towards the village.

The natives of Irok ran to the city in a panic, and the local natives looked terrified.

The Spaniards strictly forbade the natives to carry weapons that could threaten them, so when they looked at the heavily armed soldiers of the 300 Ming Army, the only thing they could do was flee in terror.

But soon, hiding in thatched huts, the natives of Luzon in the walled city suddenly realized that these guests, both familiar and strange, seemed to be a little different from the Spaniards.

Except for a few soldiers armed with firearms standing on the high ground, most of them sat on the ground in groups of three or five.

After a period of observation, the natives of Ilok were surprised to find that these strangers did not go around swasting their crops as the Spaniards had done in the past.

They didn't drag the heavy artillery through the fields like the Spaniards, they didn't trample around the rice paddies on horseback, and they didn't even search from house to house like the Spaniards.

Even some Ming soldiers even picked up the hoes they left behind and went to the rice fields to skillfully cultivate.

The natives of Luzon gradually turned from panic to curiosity, and some of the brave ones even returned to the rice fields, picked up discarded farm tools and continued their work.

Farming people always have more of a common language, and despite the language barrier, they rely on gestures to communicate, and they are surprised to find that the two farming methods are strikingly similar.

In just half a day, the local natives let down their guard against these guests who came from afar.

Even if these people were in the same armor as the Spaniards who had broken their peaceful life, carrying muskets and flashing broadswords, dragging the cannons that thundered like thunder.

Seeing that the natives closed the walled city, Liu Yu decisively stopped Huang Liangji's order to attack the walled city, and he chose to let the soldiers rest temporarily, anyway, there were no Spaniards nearby, and these natives were just out-and-out farmers.

Soon, their friendly gesture impressed the local natives.

The walled city slowly opened, and several natives dressed in alien costumes and looked like Southeast Asians walked over.

Seeing that the local natives were willing to communicate with themselves, Liu Yu and the others were overjoyed and hurriedly stepped forward.

Han Chinese who had lived in Luzon acted as interpreters, and although the translation was not very clear and sometimes needed to rely on gestures to communicate, Liu Yu and others still knew a lot of useful information.

The Spaniards didn't come here very often, and they set up posts and forts between the plains and the rainforest.

In the south, is their core area.

And here, it's not that they come to bother them very often.

When Liu Yu asked them for information about the local Han people in Luzon,

These natives seemed a little hesitant,

But soon they pointed to the walled city, and motioned for them to go in and talk to their chief.

Huang Liangji did not enter, but chose to lead the troops to stay, and Liu Yu followed his uncle Liu Quan into the city with several personal soldiers and translators.

The local indigenous patriarchs welcomed them.

I don't know if it was out of sincerity or fear of the muskets in their hands.

They served a large amount of food and fruits to entertain Liu Yu and his party.

Liu Yu greeted him politely and gave him some silver as a return gift.

This surprised the Luzon people present.

In their memory, when they received the Spaniards, none of the red-nosed Yiren were arrogant.

When they offer gold ornaments, their eyes light up.

And now these guests appeared in front of them very kindly.

This surprised the indigenous patriarch of Iroek.