After listening to Liu Yu's brief description, Su Langqing immediately recalled the scene he had encountered when he and his father were on a sea voyage.

At that time, their team was about to sail into the port of Manila, and not far from them, there was also a fleet of ships heading in the direction of Manila.

Su Langqing remembers it very clearly,

When the English fleet sailed into the port of Manila, it was just in time to meet the galleons of the Spanish Navy.

The meeting of the two behemoths on the sea level left a deep impression on Su Langqing.

"Based on the verbal descriptions of the adults, I am afraid that it will be difficult for these shipwrights to build such ships."

Su Langqing, who had seen the English Queen's ship, naturally knew the difference between this type of ship and the Spanish galleon, and at this time, he couldn't help frowning when he saw the boatmen who were more than half a hundred years old.

The merchant ships built at the Vigan shipyard were themselves imitations of the galleons of the Spaniards, and the shipwrights present were not as proficient in shipbuilding as the local Spanish boaters in Manila, let alone able to build new ships without drawings or prototypes, based on Liu Yu's verbal descriptions.

"If you are really interested in this kind of merchant ship, you might as well go and consult with the English people, and let the English build such ships for you." Su Langqing said slowly.

"Buy with the English," Liu Yu was taken aback and glanced at Su Langqing.

"The English are more like merchants than the unreasonable Spaniards, who only know how to plunder."

"Your Excellency may as well send someone to the East India Company to recruit English shipwrights, who are better than these local shipwrights in Wigan, who can only build merchant ships, and are more skilled in building large warships." Looking at Liu Yu's puzzled gaze, Su Langqing explained.

Regarding Su Langqing's proposal, Liu Yu also thought about it,

When he and He Bin went to the English merchant ship to discuss with Sir Gore, they also wanted to use the power of the English people.

But at this time, the English were far away, and the Spaniards were close at hand.

At this moment, it was difficult for the Ming army to even protect itself, and it was difficult to go to the East Indies to recruit shipwrights who could build large warships.

Thinking of this, Liu Yu was a little difficult,

Seeing Liu Yu's sad face, Su Langqing smiled,

"If you want to form a naval division, you can't do it in a day, and instead of thinking about building new warships, you should think about how to buy more artillery." Su Langqing reminded.

It is not impossible to use the current merchant ships to arm and build their own naval divisions, but it is naturally not enough to compare with the Spanish Navy.

Although the distinction between merchant and warship began to emerge in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the different division of labor led to the division of warships and merchant ships into two different routes, the distinction was not very obvious until now.

At this moment, the Ming army wants to form a naval division, but there is actually no generation difference in terms of ships, and the real gap lies in artillery.

For example, the few armed merchant ships owned by the Weigan Chamber of Commerce that Liu Yu dreamed of, only prepared more than a dozen artillery pieces of various sizes on board, and the reason was very simple.

Merchant ships are used to transport goods, and their hulls and decks are used to store goods, such as the use of special gun decks, so there is no extra space for special artillery equipment.

Although the ships of the Spanish Navy were basically galleons.

However, a galleon can often carry dozens of guns large and small, as well as a large number of infantry, and even the former Armada has a galleon with hundreds of guns.

And the Ming army didn't even have extra artillery at the moment, so how could it be prepared on merchant ships.

"Uda, is it true that Vigan doesn't have a factory for the production of artillery?" Liu Yu looked at Wuda without giving up.

Uda shook his head.

"If you want to go back to your lordship, Vigan is just a seaport town, and the Spaniards only stationed here and did not build factories to produce artillery, but there are several workshops in the city that can produce gunpowder and iron smelting." Uda's reply from fifteen and ten.

"Hmm," Liu Yu didn't get angry.

At this moment, the Ming army did not lack ships, only artillery.

The craftsman who produced artillery, he did have it in Mingcheng.

Liu Yu had already sent someone to invite them to Weigan.

Since Wigan had an iron-smelting workshop and the artisans he brought with him to produce artillery, it should not be very difficult to produce some small and medium-sized artillery.

At the same time, it is also possible to go to the East Indies and invite some English people to come over according to Su Langqing's method, but these will take time.

"So be it."

"I hope to be able to speed up and step up the construction of these ships." He commanded Uda.

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As early as 1574, the great pirate Lin Feng led 62 warships and thousands of pirates to attack the Spanish colonists stationed in Manila.

However, with the well-equipped Spaniards in front of them and the formidable galleons, Lin Feng and his pirate forces were inevitably destroyed.

For hundreds of years, countless pirates have been rampant in the waters of Luzon, looking at the unsinkable golden island of Luzon, but they can't touch it.

And because of the arrival of the Ming army, these pirates saw a glimmer of opportunity.

Because the Battle of Mingcheng instantly broke Spain's defense in Luzon,

This left Luzon bisected by the Ming court, and Manila lost contact with northern Luzon.

This made many pirate forces such as the Black Flag Gang roaming the waters off Luzon smell blood and rushed up for a while.

The red-eyed pirates want to rip off a piece of flesh from the body of the Spanish Empire at sunset.

The city of Laoag naturally became the target of this group of pirates,

The name of the city of Laoag is derived from the Ilocos language, which means "light/brightness".

The birth of this ancient city begins with Magellan's landing in the Philippines.

When Magellan discovered that the island was rich in beeswax, gold, and other resources, he planted the Spanish flag in the place and built a Spanish castle.

Later, however, Juan de Salcedo, the grandson of the Spanish governor in the Philippines, came to Luzon and gained the trust of the local leaders, and later made a bloody alliance with them, and later made the northwestern part of Luzon his territory.

Centuries of Spanish rule followed, and with the arrival of Catholic monks it turned into a holy city of Catholicism.

The Spaniards, who knew that they could not resist the simultaneous attack of the Ming army and pirates, withdrew directly from Vigan and concentrated all their forces on Laoag.

Compared with the landlubbers of the Ming army, these ferocious and greedy pirates have caused more damage to Luzon.

So Governor Juan ordered Lawag to deal with the threat from the sea with all his might, and gave up Vigan.

At this moment, the city of Rawa was already ready to be replenished by the Spanish colonial army of Vigan.

Hundreds of Spanish colonists defended the city of Laoag,

Compared to his Vigan defenses, Laoag is even stronger.

At the same time, from Manila, a powerful Spanish navy had already set sail for the northwest corner of Luzon.