Zhu Yijun gave Yin Zhengmao not only the construction method of leveling the gun, but also the clairvoyant mirror made from the humble optical laboratory.

This hand-held clairvoyant is a stable, portable ten-fold clairvoyant, which is not that Daming does not have the ability to make a higher magnification clairvoyance.

The forty-fold clairvoyant mirror placed in the Wenchang Pavilion of the Quanchu Guild Hall, the one in the Wuying Building in Beitucheng is twenty times, and the clairvoyant mirror specially given to the little emperor for stargazing in the dark room laboratory is fifty times, and the one in Qin Tianjian is forty times the clairvoyant.

The reason why I chose ten times is the result of many experiments.

The higher the magnification of the claircase, the darker the image, and although the magnified image is larger, the field of view becomes extremely narrow, and it is difficult to focus the image, and at the same time, any slight tremor will cause the image to be unstable.

Yin Zhengmao's use is at sea, and on the battlefield, dim images and narrow field of view, as well as vibrations, will lead to the failure of the high-magnification clairvoyance, and ten times is practice, this multiple is just right.

Zhu Yijun also sent four bottles of Guojiao, which has a common name, sweet potato roast, which is a highly refined liquor, which is generally used for navigation.

At sea, the mixture of spirits with freshwater collected can effectively reduce the number of sick people, which is a secret sailor often boasted by the sailors of the red haired fan.

In the Ming Dynasty, during the Yongle period, it was not uncommon for spirits to go to sea with the ship to mix fresh water.

Regarding the distillation of high spirits, distillation and separation technology is not a new technology, in the Tang and Song dynasties, there was already a mature distilled liquor technology, and in the Ming Dynasty, distilled spirits even developed two factions in the north and south.

In the Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen accurately recorded: use strong wine and dregs into the retort, steam the gas, use the vessel to take the drip dew, and all the sour wine can be steamed.

Zhu Yijun fought against Yin Zhengmao and provided all the support he could.

After giving a detailed explanation, Yin Zhengmao took a boat to Nanao Island on the second day.

On August 15, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, 150 boats from Nanao Island began to set sail.

The main battleship of the Ming Dynasty is a 400-material battle-mounted ship, 8 zhang 6 feet 9 inches (about 27 meters), the ship is about 1 zhang 7 feet (about 5.2 meters), the tree is two masts, the load is 400 materials, the ship is equipped with a long tower of the battle shed, and there are windows on the side wall of the battle shed for spears and crossbows to attack.

If attacked, the windows can be closed, the paving on the windows can be used to defend against arrows and small stone pills, and the stern of the ship is raised and a lookout pavilion can be used to keep an eye on the enemy.

Even such a pitiful battleship, a battleship with only two masts and a little smaller than a three-masted sail, was already the best warship of the Ming Dynasty.

The ship refers to the flagship of the general, and among the one hundred and fifty ships, there are only two such battleships.

Battleships relied mainly on ramming, fire attack, and white-knuckle combat, with only one general cannon on the foredeck, and on either side of the ship, four bowl-mouth guns, which were melee shotgun firearms.

There are also four 200-material warships, about 6 zhang 2 feet 1 inch (about 19.3 meters), about 1 zhang 3 feet 4 inches (about 4.1 meters) wide, two masts of trees, and a load of 200 materials.

The largest ship of the Red Hair Fan, about 2,000 materials, with four masts and seven sails, has a towering overhanging bow tower, stern and deep cargo holds, with two decks, the whole ship has more than 50 guns, with more than 300 soldiers and sailors, rampant on the sea, never invincible.

The guns on the ship are also varied, whether it is breech-loading and heavy main battle guns aimed at destroying ships; or breech-loading small guns designed to kill people; It's all daunting.

Those long-barreled heavy cannons, known as Hongyi cannons, had more than eight feet of barrels, six-inch boreholes, and fired more than twenty-five pounds of solid bullets, and they were placed in the bow like crouching monsters.

It only takes a few rounds to destroy a ship.

During Deng Zilong's investigation, he estimated the power of the heavy artillery, which could effectively damage enemy ships within a range of at least 300 steps (about 400 meters).

This is called the Galese battleship, which can be called a sea monster.

Fortunately, however, this sea behemoth, capable of effectively destroying enemy ships at a distance of three hundred paces, was not deployed to Luzon.

Yin Zhengmao can actually wait, wait for the Ming Dynasty to understand a series of old cases such as Zheng He's envoy to the water, design and manufacture a ship that can at least be called a warship, and then go to Luzon to conquer the red hair, this was also Yin Zhengmao's plan, he trained those recruits on Nanao Island, and waited for the construction of the ship.

But the news that Deng Zilong brought back made Yin Zhengmao have to eat this bowl of raw rice.

Because Deng Zilong's reconnaissance on the island found that those Hongmaofan were making Galese battleships, which were regarded as glorious warships by Hongmaofan.

In the fifth year of Longqing, in the Battle of Lebando, Hongmaofan defeated the invincible Rumi Kingdom (Ottoman Empire) with the Galese warship, destroyed more than 200 warships of Lumi State, captured and killed more than 90,000 soldiers of Lumi State, and established Hongmaofan's hegemony in one fell swoop.

Whether it was the governor of Luzon, Francisco, the commander-in-chief, Gaudí, Le Bisari, or the red-haired beauty Lorianne, they always puffed up their chests without hesitation when talking about this victory.

In Luzon, in that castle in the port of Manila, in the shipyard, the battleship Calaise is being built, and it will be completed by March next year, and Deng Zilong saw with his own eyes that the keel of the battleship and the corresponding artillery were being built.

This sea monster can't help Hongmaofan go deeper into the inland, but it can completely control the sea routes and the entry and exit of the harbor, which also means that Hongmaofan can attack Daming from any point of the long coastline.

This kind of threat is absolutely unacceptable to Yin Zhengmao, so he set off.

Yin Zhengmao's fleet sailed extremely smoothly on the sea, and the route from Dianbaigang in Guangzhou to Luzon was extremely mature, and it was able to recruit enough boatmen to cross the ocean.

After a long 25-day voyage, when they arrived at Banshilan, a seaport on the coast of southwestern Luzon, seven of the 150 ships of the Ming fleet escaped and three sank, all of which came from Lin Fengjun.

One hundred and forty boats remained.

And the place where Yin Zhengmao led the crowd to arrive is called Ban Silan.

Originally, this place was not called Ban Silan, but should be called Mi Yan.

The red-haired general of Miyan Harbor was named Sashilo, and when the Ming ships arrived, Sashilo immediately retreated in the direction of Manila after a little resistance.

And at this time, two voices also appeared in the fleet.

"After more than 20 days of sailing, we need to rest and recuperate, and then march to Manila to eliminate the red hair in Manila in one fell swoop." General Liang Shouyu expressed his opinion, twenty days of sailing, everyone was very tired, especially the Haikou who came from Zhao'an, after repairing, and then continued to attack.

Deng Zilong said very disapprovingly: "The enemy's defenders have fled, and it will inevitably warn the Hongmaofan army in Manila, the soldiers are fast, if we rest, we will miss the fighter, and at this time we should immediately set sail and attack Hongmaofan, and take him by surprise." ”

"Hongmaofan has no obsession with these lands at all, so they will retreat at a touch, their foundation is the castle that stands in Manila, the castle is here, everything is there, the castle is not there, everything is not there, everything is closed."

"As long as that castle is there, no matter how much land we occupy, when the red hairy fan in Manila is reinforced, and when the galleons return, we will immediately cut off our harbor and eat away at our army in Luzon, little by little, and only the fastest capture of that castle is the key to victory."

Zhang Yuanxun looked at Kanyutu and said, "I think what Deng Zilong said makes sense. ”

"Is it possible that my men are no longer able to fight?" Lin Afeng said in a low voice: "As everyone knows, after more than 20 days of sailing, they can no longer fight. ”

The 3,000 Zhejiang soldiers are still alive and well, and the more than 5,000 Haikou have been struggling to survive, and they have no combat effectiveness at all.

"That's what I mean, I can't fight anymore." Liang Shouyu expressed his thoughts, the Zhejiang soldiers can still fight, Haikou has no morale at all, the next thing is to attack the fortification, there is no cannon fodder, how to attack?

There were a total of 3,000 Zhejiang soldiers, and the elite attacked the fortifications, and the Ming army could not accept the casualties.

Yin Zhengmao opened his mouth and said: "Lin Afeng, you take the department to start unloading the ship immediately, within two hours, it must be unloaded, and it must be built on the spot, and after two hours, all the boats in the water village must set off with my ship." ”

"Deng Zilong, you take a thousand people, and fifteen ships are the vanguard, and now immediately set sail and raid the Manila harbor."

"Liang Shouyu, you bring a thousand people, fifteen ships to respond to the horn pressure formation, once Deng Zilong's troops are unable to conquer the port, immediately support, if there is a rout, immediately go to respond."

"General Soldier Zhang, with a thousand people, a ship, suppress the castle to support the ships and sergeants in the port, be sure to stop the enemy reinforcements before Deng Zilong conquers the port, and if you can't catch it, you will be responsible for the queen of the palace."

"Let's go."

Yin Zhengmao directly began to order, he personally led the troops to fight, he had done many deductions in Guangzhou Mansion before, but he found that he might be wrong, the other party was weaker than he imagined, of course, it could also be that the two countries had different combat methods, and this difference occurred.

How can anyone flee as soon as there is a fight?

Lin Afeng's subordinates crashed into the coast with a boat, and then jumped off the boat, rushed up with a roar, and the red-haired fan put three guns on the sky and retreated directly.

Even the Zhejiang soldiers who pressed the formation did not move, Miyan Port had already fallen into the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and the enemy's will to resist was no longer weak, but a rabble that would be defeated with one blow.

Yin Zhengmao decisively adjusted his previous battle plan, he had planned to break through Miyan Harbor, rest for three days, and then attack Manila step by step, and now Yin Zhengmao has chosen an aggressive style of play.

Yin Zhengmao waited for two hours, Lin Afeng and his subordinates completed the task as scheduled, and the time came to the afternoon, and Yin Zhengmao set sail for Manila.

Deng Zilong, Liang Shouyu, Zhang Yuanxun and others have taken the lead in setting off, and have even begun to fight with the red hairy fan in Manila.

The moonlight was bright and bright, and when Yin Zhengmao arrived, it was already night, and Deng Zilong had completely occupied the harbor.

Yin Zhengmao took out a clairvoyant mirror to observe the battlefield, the boat was sailing on the sea, this was his own eight-oar fast sentry ship, the sentinel ship shot an arrow and nailed it to the target illuminated by the torch, and the commander passed the news to Yin Zhengmao's hands.

Yin Zhengmao looked at the sea, and a staff member took advantage of the light of the fire to read: "General Deng took the harbor, killed 28 enemies, burned five enemy splint ships, captured one plywood ship, destroyed more than 50 thief boats, and seized armor, swords, compasses, and sea charts. ”

Yin Zhengmao's clairvoyant mirror looked at the harbor, the battle in the harbor was nearing the end, the flames spread, and the five plywood ships, like five large torches, illuminated the sea.

The plywood, also known as the Caravel Galleon, is a three-masted ocean-going sailing ship with a load of about 200 materials, which is considered a type of armed merchant ship.

There are a total of five plank roads deep into the sea, each of which is occupied by Zhejiang soldiers, and on the plank road, only sporadic gunshots sounded, and the aftermath of the battle, Deng Zilong is still in the harbor to ask for the enemy, and the red hair fan has raised a lot of Japanese people, black fans, and outlaws, which are all the targets of pursuit.

The staff continued: "General Zhang led his troops to intercept Hongmaofan's reinforcements, and the enemy tried to get out of the water gate, but Zhang Zongbing blocked the water gate and couldn't get out, and then tried to support the harbor from the camp fort three times by land, but they couldn't make it and were blocked back. ”

Yin Zhengmao looked at the camp fort, the camp fort was coated with a layer of white silver film by the moonlight, on the wall of the camp fort, the fire was shining, and there were also figures occasionally flashing, and at the location of the water gate, two two 200 material bucket boats were in front of the water gate, and Zhang Yuanxun and his 1,000 soldiers had completed the deployment, and it was difficult for the red hair to get out of the city again.

Some Luzon people rushed out of the city gates, as if trying to break through Zhang Yuanxun's blockade, but were blocked back by arrows and firearms.

"What about the casualties?" Yin Zhengmao asked in a low voice.

The staff said quickly: "Led by General Deng, three people were killed and five were wounded, General Liang was still in the formation and there were no casualties, and General Zhang was led by five dead and twelve wounded." ”

Yin Zhengmao found that Zhang Yuanxun and Deng Zilong had completely controlled the situation, so it was Yin Zhengmao's turn next.

"There is only one hard bone left, this fort that the red-haired fan relies on to survive." Yin Zhengmao waved his hand and said, "Let's start." ”

Yin Zhengmao specially prepared a big surprise for this camp fort, starting from Deng Zilong's report on the enemy's situation, Yin Zhengmao was thinking about the biggest confidence of this red-haired fan, this seemingly unbreakable castle, how quickly it should be breached.

The method given by Yin Zhengmao is called one force to ten meetings.

An hour later, Deng Zilong and Zhang Yuanxun joined forces and began to attack the camp and fort, but this kind of attack, the thunder was heavy and the rain was small, and the firecrackers, artillery, bows and arrows kept shooting, and slowly the firecrackers and artillery did not sound.

When the commander-in-chief Gaudi saw that only bows and arrows were shooting into the city, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Lebizari next to him: "Like the natives we have encountered in the past, we have stopped by the cannons of the castle, but we want to break through here, because all the riches are hidden at our feet. ”

"They have some firearms, but they're just ordinary pirates."

After seeing that there was no fire outside the city, Lebizari said with a smile: "The commander is very right, their current offensive has begun to weaken, we can choose to have a drink, and then sleep well, and wait until dawn, when they are most tired, to launch a counterattack?" ”

"Maybe you can find a beauty?"

Gao Di laughed a few times, shook his head and said, "Since Luo Lian saw that oriental, she sold her soul to that man, and she may not be able to find a beauty." But it's a good idea to have a drink, and there's a batch of sugar wine from Mexico, and the sweet taste is a soul-punching alcohol. ”

Francicos stood on the city wall, looked at the arrows that kept falling into the city, hid behind a few shield soldiers, and said angrily: "I don't know where the pirates came from, so rude!" Commander and Deputy Commander, you must drive them out to sea tomorrow morning! ”

Francecos left the city walls and prepared to return to his governor's palace for a good night's sleep.

No one had breached their forts, and since the beginning of the voyage, the natives had never been breached by the natives with their irregular walls, women's walls, moats, gentle slopes, and water gates.

Francicos, Gaudí, and Lebizari judged the pirates outside the city to be pirates, and some of them had iron cannons, which were very backward firearms.

After the three of them left, the red-haired fan's pro-overseer guards became more and more lazy, how many years, if the natives could break through this kind of camp, why did they run rampant all over the world?

Hardly anyone noticed that the two bucket boats blocking the door were slowly being dragged away under the cover of night.

After two different ships blocked the water gate again, and then the crew seemed to abandon the two ships, jumped into the water one after another, and swam to the shore, which created the illusion that the pirates just wanted to block the water gate with their boats, so as not to let the people inside, and to plunder and leave.

There was a loud bang, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the thunderous roar spread farther and farther, and the firelight exploded from the two ships, and the earth shook violently, and the firelight was as dazzling as a round of bright moonlight, and a huge pit was formed on the surface of the water, and then the water began to flow back rapidly, stirring up a splash more than four feet high, and the Lingzhi-shaped smoke cloud slowly rose and surged after the explosion.

With a roar, the gates of the Water Gate and the city walls were completely enveloped in flames, and then they burst violently and slowly collapsed.

The shock wave from the explosion spread out in all directions, and even Deng Zilong's hat, which was nearly a hundred steps away, was knocked to the ground.

"Is Yin Butang playing so big?" Deng Zilong took off the tampons in his ears, stared blankly at the rising column of Ganoderma lucidum smoke, and muttered to himself.

Yin Butang prepared a method to break the enemy, and the two ships were full of gunpowder and then sent over, and the trick of directly blowing up the water gate really made Deng Zilong dumbfounded.

This kind of combat method is really too extravagant, Deng Zilong has never fought such a rich battle!

"Why don't you prepare a tampon in advance?" Zhang Yuanxun was also amazed, Yin Butang was simply smashed out of the silver.

One force will drop ten.

Yin Zhengmao, the culprit of all this, put down the clairtelescope in his hand, took off the cotton in his ear, and said quite calmly: "Give the order to attack." ”

The drums went out, and the drums covered the sound for a while, and the Ming army began to attack, and the red hair fan seemed to be stunned, and in the face of the approach of the Ming army, they did not fire or fire.

Deng Zilong and Zhang Yuanxun led the Zhejiang soldiers and stepped into this unbreakable castle without any obstacles, and the killing began.

There is no mercy in war, and to kill the enemy is to show the greatest respect to the enemy.

The next morning, the sun was still rising in the east, and the morning glow was sprinkled on the water, scattered by the waves, and sparkling.

And Deng Zilong also ended the battle in the camp fort and began to check his trophies, all the armor, swords, compasses, charts, ship records, firearms, artillery, etc. were all kept, and the sergeants cut their heads on the battlefield.

Deng Zilong captured the commander-in-chief Gao Di, he knew Deng Zilong and became angry when he saw Deng Zilong, drew his sword and asked for a duel, but Deng Zilong was released in one round, and Zhang Yuanxun captured Francisco, the governor of the Luzon Governor's District, and Liang Shouyu went to pursue the fleeing deputy commander-in-chief Lebisari.

Deng Zilong also captured a person, Luo Lian, this woman was particularly surprised when she saw Deng Zilong's face, this person in Manila, who was suave and charming as an oriental gentleman, was actually a military general.

Yin Zhengmao stood in the morning sun, standing still, the golden red glow sprinkled on his cloth armor, he looked at the buildings of the city hall and the governor's palace, and kept nodding and said, "Quite a beautiful building complex." ”

Above the square, there is a group of statues, these statues have different expressions and high morale, and between the stone pillars of the statues, there are iron fences at intervals, and the nameplate is engraved with a few words, which say: The battle between the giants and the gods.

Through the iron fence, you can see the gate of the town hall inside, there is a huge coat of arms on the gate, it is a family coat of arms, representing the royal family of the Great Buddha Langji, Yin Zhengmao has seen that coat of arms on the silver coin of the rial, and under the huge family coat of arms, there are the coats of arms of several vassal countries, it is not clear what it represents.

Different from the sharp edges and corners of the Ming Dynasty, it is full of various curves, the proportions of various lines are just right, the semicircular arches, and the elements of various column compositions, and the building complex centered on the dome is indeed very exquisite.

"The only regret is that there is a lack of a place to take a bath." Yin Zhengmao said with a smile at Deng Zilong, who came to him.

Deng Zilong nodded approvingly and said, "Indeed, what to do next?" In one day, we finished the work that we had planned for five months or even a year, and breached this fort. ”

Among all Yin Zhengmao's plans, there was even a plan for defeat, but there was no plan to break through the camp and fort in one day, all of this came too fast, so fast that Deng Zilong was a little confused.

"The first thing we have to do is fix this water gate." Yin Zhengmao pointed to the water gate that was blown open and said, "Everything else is as usual." ”

"Business as usual?" Deng Zilong asked with a puzzled expression.

"Yes, do nothing first, change doesn't happen overnight." Yin Zhengmao said quite precisely: "We have to adapt to everything here, everything here also has to adapt to us, this camp is very good, now it is ours, the way of ruling of the red haired fan, when we do not find a better alternative, do not move for the time being." ”

"I overestimated the Hongmaofan, to be more precise, I overestimated the combat power of the Hongmaofan who came from afar, they are about the same strength as Lin Afeng's subordinates."

Yin Zhengmao stood in the perspective of a victor and objectively evaluated the combat effectiveness of the red haired fan, which was no different from that of pirates.

Yin Zhengmao further explained: "The red-haired fans who came to Luzon were all desperate people who went to sea to make money, and most of these red-haired fans were criminals, tenants, or outlaws who wanted to make a fortune. ”

"They have no better way, so they came here to seek a fortune, and there is no cohesion at all, let alone combat power, it's just because these overseas emperors of Luzon have no way to break their camp."

"That's why they lose so easily, carelessness and arrogance."

"It's the same as our Da Ming."

Deng Zilong said unconvinced: "Same as us? ”

Yin Zhengmao said with a smile: "Yes, like us, we are negligent and dismissive of the enemy from Haijiang, and we hold the mentality of the Heavenly Empire, and confuse it as one and the other. ”

"It's okay, it's not too late."

Zhang Yuanxun also finished disposing of the prisoners of war in his hands and came towards the governor's palace.

Before Yin Zhengmao stepped into the Governor's Mansion after visiting the city hall, he frowned and looked at the sea, and said calmly and confidently to Zhang Yuanxun and Deng Zilong: "The war has just begun. ”

The attack on the Manila Castle was just the beginning of the war, and the unwilling Hongmao Fan would never look at the seaport they had been operating for more than ten years, and give it to people, even if this place itself was a tributary state of the Ming Dynasty, even if this place, the Ming Dynasty had appointed the governor of Luzon as early as the Yongle period.

To deal with robbers, use the logic of robbers.

Liang Shouyu, who pursued him, came back at noon, and the deputy commander of the red haired fan, Lebizari, was beheaded, Liang Shouyu failed to capture the other party, and the other party fought and retreated, and the will to resist was extremely strong, and Liang Shouyu had to kill them all.

And the guard Sashilo, who escaped from Miyan Harbor, is the next target to be eliminated, and these red hairs must be exterminated one by one, and Sashilo, after learning that the castle of Manila was breached, immediately united with the Luzon army to recapture the territory that belonged to them.

The allied army of Hongmaofan and Luzon led by Sashilo did not bring much trouble to Yin Zhengmao, and the southern soldiers of the Ming Dynasty recruited An Haikou, and their combat power was a little stronger.

The battle continued, and the deck ships loaded with all kinds of loot slowly left the port of Manila, escorted by a battleship and two fighting ships, heading towards Daming.

And this time the route of the plywood ship's return voyage is not to Guangzhou Prefecture, but directly to Keelung, because of the Kuroshio, it only takes four days to Keelung, and then to Songjiang Prefecture City, this voyage only takes a short fifteen days, the Kuroshio Current, sure enough, is a river in the ocean, and the speed of going down the river is extremely fast.

It took fifteen days to get from Songjiang Mansion to Daming Jingshi, and when the good news was sent back to Jingshi, it was already late October.

This good news came very suddenly, and even Zhu Yijun was not prepared.

"Summoning Yuansuke to come over and play the right one." Zhu Yijun said excitedly: "I thought Yin Zhengmao could win, and Yuan Fu thought that Yin Zhengmao was not easy to win, but Yin Zhengmao was still Yin Zhengmao, and he really won." ”

The Spanish army in Luzon itself was not very strong, and it fought back and forth with Lin Afeng, who had not been strengthened. Asking for a monthly pass, woo!!!!!!!

(End of chapter)