Chapter 35 Intentions
Looking at Liu Quan's hideous face, Liu Yu was silent for a long time.
He also knew what kind of catastrophe the Tartars were for the Han people.
Looking at the Ming soldiers on the streets, as well as the Han people in Luzon who were sincerely afraid, an unknown feeling came to my heart.
"Hanfa cannot be broken, and Hanfu cannot be destroyed." He said to himself.
Suddenly, he felt that everything he had done was meaningful, at least now he was seeing the last Hermes-Epitek in this plane.
"The last Han people who were not enslaved by the Manchus!"
"Anti-Qing," Liu Yu murmured,
"Okay, uncle is going to inspect the West Gate," Liu Quan came back to his senses,
"I heard you gathered that Franc machine artilleryman." Liu Quan asked.
"Yes." Liu Yu nodded.
In fact, at the time of the court meeting, he did not mention the matter to Li Daoan and King Lu.
"I have informed General Li of the surrender of the Franc machine artillery, and General Li has acquiesced in your actions." Liu Quandao.
Liu Yu was stunned for a moment, and then said:
"In this way, the formation of Huben Town can incorporate these Franc machine people into it."
Liu Quan didn't say anything, just nodded.
He didn't have a good impression of these Franc people,
In fact, among the soldiers of the entire Ming City, there was a trace of contempt for these Franc machine people.
Just like their contempt for the Manchu Tartars.
"You kid are going to train me well," Liu Quan patted Liu Yu on the shoulder, and walked towards the West Gate City Wall with a smile.
Looking at his uncle who was drifting away, Liu Yu continued to wander around the city aimlessly.
The streets are full of soldiers of the Ming army drinking and having fun,
And today's Mingcheng is immersed in the joy of victory in the war, and seems to have forgotten the bloody wind before.
Except for some uneasy Luzon Chinese, most of the people on the street fell into madness.
Drinking, gambling money is endless.
The soldiers of the Ming army who had just driven away Shengban and Furang Jiren naturally needed to vent their emotions, which was understandable.
Even those generals were drinking and staggering at this time, scolding and shoving.
"Franc is nothing more than that,"
A kind of arrogance and arrogance took root in the hearts of the generals of Mingcheng.
At previous court meetings, many of the rewarded generals threatened to attack Manila.
Even a general like Li Daoan persuaded Zhu Honghuan to attack Manila,
A night attack battle that was originally a desperate fight and coincidence,
A difficult battle to win, but the Ming soldiers took it for granted.
Only the soldiers of the Ming army who had experienced that war knew the hardships of the war, and the firearms and equipment of the Francophone were powerful.
But for these generals, they don't care about this.
They just sighed at not taking part in the battle that defeated the Franc Robot.
It seems that defeating the Franc Robot is an extremely easy thing to do.
Liu Yu was not surprised by the thoughts of these generals,
Because of the so-called Ming,
The so-called Ming generals are actually just a group of rabble.
They themselves are only insignificant middle- and lower-level generals in Taiwan's Zheng clique, and they basically do not have any strategy and foresight except for ruthlessness and brute force.
Naturally, there is no understanding of the Western colonizers entrenched in the South Seas.
Europe in the seventeenth century had already surpassed the Middle Ages in military terms.
This point, after experiencing the defense of Mingcheng, Liu Yu firmly believed.
Attacking Manila is tantamount to looking for death,
This can be seen from the historical Battle of Yaksa.
As early as the first half of the 17th century, Tsarist Russia repeatedly invaded the Heilongjiang River.
From Shunzhi to Kangxi, the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia had more than one confrontation.
It is also a rare face-to-face confrontation between China and the West.
And the battle that took place in the twenty-fourth year of Kangxi to recover the city of Yaksa is already very telling.
In order to completely solve the problem of Tsarist Russia, Kangxi mobilized financial and material resources from the north, and officially attacked Yaksa City in 1685 after clearing the Russian strongholds around the city of Yaksa.
Thousands of elite Tartars besieged a city of Yaksa, which was only a makeshift construction and defended only by more than 800 Russian invading troops.
It was fought for several months, and in the end, the Russian army was forced to withdraw because it could not hold on.
You must know that it was the Tartar army outside the Qing Dynasty that attacked Yaksa,
These Tartars outside the pass are not comparable to those Eight Banners soldiers who have entered the customs and gone south to be corrupted.
Unlike the Eight Banners soldiers who entered the customs gradually corrupted and sank into the peaceful and prosperous era of singing and dancing, the Jurchens outside the customs still lived in the bitter cold land, so they still retained their fierceness and hard-working ruthlessness.
It can be said that the Tartars outside the Guanxi were an important source of troops for the reorganization of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty.
But that's it, in front of the power of the whole country, in front of the Eight Banners Army composed of Tartar soldiers outside the Guan,
The Qing army attacked twice in a row, and finally took the city of Yaksa with huge casualties and manpower and material resources.
Yaksa was only a small city, and the Tsarist army had no more than 800 troops, and most of them were not really soldiers.
Compared to the city of Manila, which was carefully built by the Spaniards and guarded by thousands of Spanish colonial troops and mercenaries, Yaksa can be said to be a drop in the bucket.
With Ming's troops and supplies, what to use to attack Manila, not to mention that the sailors led by Xiao Wu have not returned so far.
Even Liu Yu was very worried about the next encirclement and suppression of the Spaniards,
After all, the Spanish Navy has not shown up to this day,
During the Battle of Mingcheng, the Spanish army only carried six nine-pounder Saikou cannons, and the Mingcheng was almost lost.
If the Manilan authorities were unable to draw heavy artillery from the Spanish colonial forces stationed in Manila, the Spanish navy did not have such a problem at all.
There was not even a need to mobilize the army, an armed Galen ship was enough to carry dozens of guns, and some heavy guns over fifteen pounds.
If such a ship appeared in the waters outside Mingcheng, Mingcheng would have no possibility of holding it.
Therefore, Luzon is by no means a place to live for a long time,
For Ming, there was only one way to perish in Luzon.
Lieutenant Brewster's words were right, the Spaniards would never allow a regime like Ming to stay on Luzon, and would inevitably send more troops to encircle and suppress Ming, and might even negotiate with the Manchu government, which was aware of the latter.
After all, Spain had also cooperated with the Ming court to exterminate the pirates who had invaded Luzon, and such a thing was familiar to them.
"Presumably the current Kangxi is still having a headache for the Tsarist Russia that invaded Heilongjiang." Liu Yu muttered.
For Ming, in fact, there is still the possibility of a reversal.
It is now the twenty-second year of Kangxi, and the border conflict between the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia in the Heilongjiang River valley has already broken out.
The Qing court's attention has long been outside the gate,
And in the northwest of the Qing Dynasty, the Dzungar Khanate was also eyeing it.
At this moment, although the Qing Dynasty quelled the rebellion of the three feudatories and recovered Taiwan, the pressure on the northern frontier was too great.
There is not much energy at all focused on the south, especially the Jiangnan region.
For the Qing court, Jiangnan is not chaotic, and the taxes that can be collected are already thankful.
This is also the reason why Xiao Wu and his entourage could not escape Luzon, and the Qing court has not taken action so far.
The Qing court also did not have the ability to pay attention to the Nanyang issue when the external problems in the north were so huge.
This was good news for Ming, who was trapped in Luzon.
At least for Jiangnan, which experienced the rebellion of the three feudatories and the battle to recover Taiwan, both financial resources and people's livelihood have reached a critical point.
All that is needed is an attack to break the current stable situation in Jiangnan.
Faced with an empty southern coast, it is entirely possible for Ming to counterattack and recapture Taiwan, and to start trade between Taiwan and Luzon before making plans.