The war between the Ming and Franc in Luzon lasted intermittently for a year, divided into three stages.

The first stage was when a Francois merchant claimed that the Han Chinese had encroached on his territory to drive out the trading houses that had established spice plantations on the island.

These trading houses spontaneously landed in northern Luzon and opened spice plantations in the valley. When they first landed, the Frangi did come, but they didn't say anything, and they even had a small trade with these trading houses.

Now that the first batch of spices on the plantation is about to be harvested, the Frangi man has arrived, and it is obvious that this gang of robbers has come to rob it.

The spice plantation merchants paid no attention to the Francois merchant, so the Francois merchant returned to the city founded by the Francois on the south bank of the Bashi River, and hired more than a hundred Francophone adventurers and Dutch mercenaries in an attempt to violently "reclaim" the plantation.

Because many islands in Nanyang have Kunlun Nu tribes, the Han people who opened up manors in Nanyang generally used the Tulou fortress used in Fujian to deal with the Japanese Kou decades ago.

On the premise that the Fran machine man did not bring artillery, he could not attack at all, and the two sides were deadlocked.

The Ming merchant ate and drank spicy food in the tulou, but the Franco merchant endured mosquito bites in the jungle. Seeing that the timing was right, the dart master who protected the trading house led a night attack to break down the ranks of the Francois merchants, capturing a third of them, killing a third of them, and escaping a third of them.

When the Francois merchant fled, he approached the Governor of the colony, saying that his spice plantation had been overrun by a group of pagan pirates, and that he was willing to hand over one-third of the plantation harvest to the Governor every year, asking the Governor to help him retake it.

And so the conflict expanded.

Many of the spice estates in northern Luzon were from Yizhou, Fujian and Lingnan, and it took five days for Canton ships to return to the mainland.

The firm chose to hold on and sent people back to the mainland to pull in the rescuers.

This incident attracted the attention of the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate and the Maritime Safety Bureau, and they sent a small number of southern troops to land by ship.

The two sides soon met on land and there was a draw.

The Southern Army couldn't drive away the Fran man, and the Fran man couldn't get into the tulou.

The war is in phase 2.

The colonial governor knew by this time that he was not facing pirates at all, but the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, but he was also dazzled by the constant spice plantations in the valleys of northern Luzon, and vowed to recapture the plantations that "belonged" to the Francis.

I have to sigh here, Europa, a group of robbers, really can't do anything but rob. The Luzon Islands have been occupied by them for decades, and nothing has been built on the island, except for the port used as a transit point for the treasure fleet.

Moreover, they occupied the richest central plain in the Luzon Islands, and the Han merchants only occupied the northern valley plain, which was far less fertile than the central plain.

It is no wonder that under the title of Governor of the colony, the impoverished Governor Francisco was actually going to take the plunge of this huge spice plantation.

He ordered the fleet to blockade the trading ports on the north shore of Luzon and prepared to force the merchants to surrender by means of siege. This aroused the anger of the Protectorate of Annam, so the Ming officially declared war.

And the Navy was defeated at this stage.

The Furlan's navy had lost to the English decades earlier, the first naval battle in human history to be won using shipborne artillery on a large scale.

After that naval battle, the Franciscans, who had not been injured, learned from the pain, changed his accustomed tactics of broadside battles and white-knuckle assaults, and learned from the English to carry a large number of artillery on the ships.

It is a pity that the Ming Navy at this time is also accustomed to broadside battles and white-knuckle assaults, but it is more skillful: the treasure ships are bombarded with Furlong machines in the back, and the small boats are scattered and advanced. Although there are early imitation Furlong cannons on the treasure ship, there are not many of them, and most of them are still fixed gun mounts.

In the face of the bombardment of 15 large and small Karak ships and more than 100 artillery pieces, the Ming Navy was crushed and the waters of Luzon were blocked.

The war entered Phase 3.

In cooperation with the Maritime Safety Bureau, the Protectorate of Annam abandoned the use of treasure ships to transport troops ashore and switched to merchant ships.

Although the Francos blockaded the waters of northern Luzon, they could not prevent them from sending people ashore with sampans at night, and the Ming Dynasty relied on a large number of merchant ships and fishing boats along the coast to send more than 5,000 Southern troops and armaments ashore.

These more than 5,000 southern troops are the key factor for the Ming Dynasty to win the whole war, if it were not for the fact that they defeated the Franji army and mercenaries many times in the later period, and approached the city established by the Franji people on the south bank of the Bashi River, the governor of Franco was worried that the land would be lost, and the treasure ship transit station could not be lost, so he chose to take the initiative to sue for peace.

Throughout the 3rd stage, the Navy made two more attempts to break through the blockade, but both were defeated by the fire of the Franz Navy. At the same time, the shortcomings of the bulky open sea of hard sailing ships were exposed.

In the end, the navy was forced to rush and gathered 5 treasure ships to prepare to shoot at the Franco navy. The sturdiness of the treasure ship was proven, but the result of the naval battle was still a failure, the five huge treasure ships were bulky targets, and the Franc Navy did not shoot at the treasure ships at all, relying on flexibility to fight guerrilla warfare, and every time when the treasure ship was turning slowly, it rushed up and took advantage of the exchange ship to fight randomly and then leave quickly.

The guns on the treasure ship fired slowly and had a short range, which did not pose much of a threat to the Furlong Navy.

Although the five treasure ships returned to Guangzhou safely, all of them were facing retirement, and the deck of the flagship was the one that His Majesty later erected in front of the gate of the Naval Governor's Palace.

After listening to the story of that year, Yang Changbai and the three were indignant. From the time they were born, what they heard was how Da Ming crushed the enemy, and it was the first time they heard how Da Ming was defeated by the enemy, and he was defeated so badly.

"No wonder His Majesty later wanted to vigorously develop the navy." Wu Sangui sighed.

"Now that we have the Zheng He class, the Francosis will definitely not be our opponent." The naval officer shook his fist fiercely: "It's a pity that the Franz people realized that Luzon Island was too close to the Ming Dynasty and too far away from their homeland, so they chose to cut the land and sue for peace." Over the years, we have also been actively participating in the Nanyang trade under the auspices of the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate, and we can't find an excuse to go to war! ”

Everyone in the cabin was silent, and the Wanli Dynasty was the dynasty that used the most troops in the Ming Dynasty except for the Hongwu Dynasty and the Yongle Dynasty. Although it is not good to expand the territory, in fact, there are many scholars inside and outside the court who say that His Majesty is reckless.

Moreover, the current Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty has not ended, and the Western Expedition has begun again, although there will be no more land and water wars in the south to destroy those vassal states, but it is still entangled with the Kunlun Nu natives. There have been voices within the imperial court to weaken the navy, and the military department has been asked to focus on land.

Of course, the weakening mentioned here does not mean retiring Zheng He-class or Nanyang-class, but maintaining the status quo and not expanding the army again.

The naval officer sighed, "If only there could be an enemy of the level of the Fur Navy." ”

"If only there was an enemy of the level of the Fur Navy." Under the same sky, in another city built by Daming in Dongshan Prefecture, a man in the uniform of a naval officer said this sentence drunkenly and fell headlong on the table.

Zheng Zhilong, Feng Shuo and Li Hongji, who were drinking with him, were also immersed in the embarrassing situation faced by the navy and didn't know what to say.

"Lao Liu, he's drunk again."

Liu Yifeng rolled his eyes, because he had warned the three of them half an hour ago not to let him drink too much.

"The old rule, throw the firewood room, remember to cover him with 3 layers of quilt, I have never seen someone who sleeps so badly."

Looking at Feng Shuo and the others carrying away their regular customers, Liu Yifeng lowered his head and stroked Siha, and said to himself in a satisfied snort: "Actually, it is very simple for the Navy to find an opponent like the Furlong Navy, and the Furlong Guy is in the south." ”

(A little cold, headache first invented the day and then changed)