Chapter 226

The actual person in charge of Zhenghe Port and Zhenghe Port Area is Cheng Shi, in fact, the person in charge of the main fleet of the Ning Navy is Li Zhixiang, and Cheng Shi is far inferior to Li Zhixiang in terms of rank and seniority.

Of course, Cheng Shi's only advantage over Li Zhixiang is that he is Cheng Shijie's adopted son, and in the eyes of outsiders, Cheng Shi can represent Cheng Shijie.

When Governor Juan wanted to negotiate, Cheng Shi was no longer in the port area of Zhenghe, but on the dock on the south bank of the Bashi River, where he was with Li Zhixiang.

Cheng Shi is most uncertain about the strength of the navy now: "How much time do we need to take Manila City now?" It's a city made of stone, and it's out of range of the sailors' guns......"

Li Zhixiang smiled faintly and said, "Please invite Li Weiluan, the commander of the jumping battalion, over!" ”

Li Weiluan has been following Huang Long, the commander of the Dongjiang Army, to guard Lushun, Kong Youde and others detected the emptiness of Lushun, so they led the Houjin army to attack. Huanglong defended very strictly, and the Ming army successively killed Nahai, the son of Xinfei Yingdong, Yue Leshun, the commander of the staff, the guard army academy Ede, the thousand general Cheng Guofu, and the cavalry captain Tanaka.

After the fierce battle, the Ming army ran out of gunpowder, and Huang Long's general Tan Yinghua said: "The enemy is outnumbered, and the city will be broken tonight." If you quickly hold my seal and send it to Dengzhou, you can't go, that is, you can throw it into the sea. Tan Yinghua came out, Li Weiluan and others fought manpower. Huanglong sacrificed, Li Weiluan knew that things were no longer possible, and set fire to the whole family and died, and other generals Xiang Zuolin, Fan Hualong, Zhang Dalu, and Shang Keyi were all killed.

After Li Weiluan took refuge in Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie took a divided approach to the generals from the Dongjiang Army. Like Xiang Zuolin, Fan Dalong, Zhang Dalu, and Shang Keyi, who were originally killed in history, they have all been reused. Among them, Li Weiluan was transferred to the commander of the jumping battalion. Independent command of the jumping battalion.

"Meet Lord Li, Major General Cheng!"

In fact, the current Cheng Shi, like Li Weiluan, is the rank of general of Zheng Sanpin.

Cheng Shi looked at Li Weiluan and said, "When will the jumping camp be able to take Manila City?" ”

"The end will be as soon as possible!"

"How fast is it as soon as possible?"

"Five days!"

Cheng Shi asked, "Lord Li, can the sailor cut off the support of the Spaniards and the generals and their own territory?" ”

Li Zhixiang smiled faintly: "Of course, I believe in the strength of our Ning Navy, and the most important thing is to see the needs of the commander!" ”

Li Zhixiang immediately realized that the strength of Liaodong at this time was already strong enough, and if Dayuan and Luzon were occupied again, the imperial court might not be able to sit still.

Liaodong is too powerful, and the tail is too big to fall.

Let's not talk about whether Cheng Shijie will be suppressed by the imperial court and whether he is willing to compromise with the imperial court, but the naval officers and soldiers of Kening and the Liaodong Management Committee are not very willing.

At present, the members of the Liaodong Management Committee are divided into three levels, namely, members of the executive committee, compared with the prefecture level of the Ming Dynasty, and members of the working committee, compared with the county and town level.

Chen Dayong, the former Shuangchengwei Military Management Committee, now serves as the director of the Military Management Committee, and the Military Management Committee is only a transition, and once it stabilizes, it will be like the Shuangchengwei Military Management Committee, and an executive committee will be established.

This means that the Liaodong Management Committee will have an additional director of the executive committee of the fourth grade, a deputy director of the fourth grade, and seven committees at the level of the fifth grade.

Once Luzon is taken, it will also add a position of the fourth rank and a subordinate fourth rank and seven positive five ranks, regardless of the civil and military forces in Liaodong, they hope to continue to open up the territory.

Now Liaodong has most of Liaoning in later generations, one part of Jilin and one part of Heilongjiang, with an area of more than 250,000 square kilometers, plus Dayuan and Luzon, the area will reach nearly 400,000 square kilometers, and it will be the area of a powerful country in Europa.

Of course, even if it is placed in Daming, it is not a small province.

Li Zhixiang looked at Cheng Shi and said: "The problem we need to consider now is too early, this is a problem that the marshal needs to consider, let's take Manila first, it is easy to take Manila, it is not easy to take the whole Luzon, we have too few people, if we want to fully occupy Luzon, we need at least twenty or thirty thousand troops, and it will take up to one or two years!" ”

Luzon was different from the expansion of Liaodong, in Liaodongning the navy only Jiannu was the enemy, once Jiannu was defeated, it could expand the land of hundreds or even thousands of miles. But the problem is that Luzon is nominally a country, but the problem is that they are a loose confederation of tribes.

It needs to be fought step by step, and there are too many indigenous people in Luzon.

Li Weiluan said: "Let's fight first!" ”

"Let's just knock it down first!"

Just as the jumping camp was in formation and ready to start, the north gate of Manila quietly opened, and Louis took two interpreters and walked in the direction of Ning Navy with a white flag.

"Don't shoot, our Excellency the Governor asks for negotiations, we are members of the civilized world, we should not be like barbarians, bloody killings, we should settle disputes in a civilized way......"

These Spaniards are such double standards, in fact, all the people in Europa are such double standards, if they have the advantage in the military situation, they are absolutely unwilling to negotiate, of course, when they fall behind, they know that they can't beat the other side, they will use the way of negotiation.

Cheng Shi looked at Li Zhixiang and said, "Are they using delaying tactics?" ”

"It will take them at least four months to get away from the Spanish mainland, and it will take more than two thousand miles to get away from the big man, of course, if they are willing to transfer the warships and sailors of the big man, Lord Chen will definitely wake up laughing from his dreams!"

Li Zhixiang seems that if Chen Dayong gives up this low-hanging opportunity, Cheng Shijie will definitely deprive Chen Dayong of all his positions and let him go home to face his fifty-three concubines alone.

Of course, the matter of negotiation is not something that Li Zhixiang or Cheng Shi is good at, and this matter is entrusted to Xie Jinglin.

The matter of fighting was entrusted to Li Weiluan.

Although the results had not yet come out during the negotiations, the jumping soldiers of the Ning navy commanded the Spanish sailors and mercenaries captured from the Spanish warships, and about 500 people began to dig trenches.

This is to prevent the Spaniards from jumping over the wall and struggling to break through. The Spaniards have been administering Luzon for more than half a century, and the natives of Luzon have long been tamed by them, and once the Spaniards break out and collude with the natives, there will be big trouble.

Although the Chinese in Luzon did business and worked, the problem was that most of them had their own farms, plantations, and rubber forests. A fishing fleet of hundreds of boats, dozens of specialty warehouses, more than 240 merchants, and four money houses are all Chinese industries. Where there is wealth, you can enemy the country.

Close to the bank of the Bashi River, there is a combination of Chinese and Western courtyards, five courtyards before and after, in a cross-courtyard in the west, but there is a two-storey completely Western-style small western-style building. There are some green tropical plants crawling on the walls, which has a unique flavor compared to the surrounding Chinese buildings.

This is the property of Wu Shangzhi's family, belonging to a courtyard, covering an area of more than ten acres, when Cheng Shi arrived in Manila, Wu Shangzhi gave Cheng Shi this courtyard like this.

Cheng Shi slightly transformed this courtyard to form the Zhenghe Port District Port Authority.

In the hall on the first floor of the small western-style building in the west courtyard, dozens of people such as Xie Jinglin, Louis, Wu Shangzhi, and Li Guoqun gathered together.

"Mr. Xie, this is all a beautiful misunderstanding!"

Louis said to Xie Jinglin very frankly: "Now six or seven hundred people have died, and enough blood has been shed, we are all people from the civilized world, and we should not kill as unscrupulously as barbarians......"

Wu Shangzhi, Li Guoqun and other Chinese representatives secretly cursed in their hearts, you dogs, you didn't say that before.

Xie Jinglin smiled faintly: "What do you mean now?" ”

"We, the Spanish colonial authorities, fully respect the interests of the Ning Navy in Manila, and we fully respect the legal authority of this Manila Lend-Lease Zone, but in the future, nothing like this will happen!"

"Is that all?"

Luis nodded and said, "We have decided to extend the life of the leased area......"

"Not enough!"

"We can expand the area of the lease area to the mouth of the Bass River and all the way to ......"

"Not enough!"

Louis really wanted to take his civilization staff now and hit Xie Jinglin's head hard, this dead fat man is too hateful.

Of course, he could only think about it in his heart.

"Mr. Xie, if you have any needs, you can say it!"

"I only have one request!"

"What a request!"

"Your Spaniards surrender unconditionally, and we will guarantee your lives!"

"No, God, it's not dark yet, you don't have to dream!"

In fact, Li Zhixiang's judgment was wrong, Juan did adopt delaying tactics, as early as when Cheng Shi ordered the guards to kill two Spaniards, Juan had already decided to retaliate, and the means of retaliation was nothing more than using the local natives.

The Spaniards had already had a tacit understanding with the chiefs of the indigenous tribes, and they made them rich, and they immediately flocked to them like dogs that smelled blood.

It's just a pity that Ning Haijun doesn't play his cards according to common sense, he just fights when he says, and doesn't give the Spaniards time to react at all, and the armed men of those indigenous tribes have just set off, and with their urine, it will take at least three days or even longer.

In this case, Governor Juan can only use negotiation to stall for time.

But the problem is that Ning Haijun has already tasted the sweetness of expansion. In the expansion model of Liaodong, everyone benefits, needless to say, the officers and men of the Ning Navy are the first beneficiary group. Beheading can reward the field, promote the official, and make a fortune.

Of course, with the merger of the new site, the MC will set up more executive committees, and there are also a lot of positions to do, although the members of the MC have been promoted, but they have relatives and friends, you must know that they are all recommended powers, and they can also benefit.

As for the peasants, this is even more so.

Tuntian military households can get more land, immigrants also have land to cultivate, factories have larger cheap raw materials, new land represents the market, the new market represents consumption, and merchants can also earn more money.

Louis shrugged and said, "I can't call the shots in this matter, I need to return to His Excellency the Governor!" ”

"Yes, please!"

After Louis left, Wu Shangzhi said: "Mr. Xie, I'm afraid that the Spaniards will not surrender easily, if we force them, they will ......."

"Mr. Wu, please believe in the combat effectiveness of our Ning Navy, the officers and men have achieved absolute superiority on the battlefield, if we don't take down the benefits we deserve, I'm sorry for the sacrifice of the soldiers!"

Xie Jinglin smiled: "Mr. Wu, bosses, don't you want those cheap farms?" Once our Ning Navy takes Luzon, our Ning Navy will definitely not be able to eat all the territory of the entire Luzon, even if the remaining farms and plantations in the hands of the Spaniards, you should be able to calculate the profits produced by these things, right? ”

"I wonder what to do with these farms?"

"It's very simple, your original farms, plantations, factories and shops, we Ning Haijun fully respect your interests, but you have to pay taxes!"

"It's natural to pay taxes, I don't know how much you need to pay this tax?"

Wu Shangzhi was faintly worried, Ning Haijun, the dragon crossing the river, was too greedy.

Xie Jinglin did not speak, and directly put the "Liaodong Agricultural Tax Law", "Liaodong Industrial and Commercial Tax Law", "Liaodong Individual Income Tax Law", and "Liaodong Property Tax" directly in front of everyone.

"We rule the country in Liaodong, and all the rules are formulated!"

Xie Jinglin said: "In the future, we plan to set up a Luzon Executive Committee, and some of you here will become directors or members of the Executive Committee. ”

Xie Jinglin then explained to everyone the various regulations of Liaodong and the functions of the executive committee.

Wu Shangzhi understood, Ning Haijun was letting them be officials.

And it is an official position recognized by the imperial court, if he becomes the director of the Luzon Executive Committee, it is the level of the prefect of the fourth grade, and even if he becomes a member, he is also at the level of the fifth grade.

Juan's delaying tactics, by the time Luis returned to the port area of Zhenghe, it was already evening, and the Spaniards made another demand: "Triple the area of the port area of Zhenghe, and cede it permanently!" ”

Xie Jinglin and Li Zhixiang recalled.

"They're procrastinating!"

"Let them procrastinate!"

Li Zhixiang said with a smile: "In a short period of time, Spain's native forces will not be able to come for a while and a half, and their only reliance is on those natives, just right, we can collect some interest!" ”

Xie Jinglin pretended to be in the middle of the plan, and rubbed with Luis little by little, and the two sides launched fierce negotiations on the negotiations.

Until three days later.

On April 29, the seventh year of Chongzhen, tens of thousands of indigenous armed men appeared outside the city of Manila, and these natives poured into Manila's South Port like a tidal wave.

When Cheng Shi saw this scene, he was faintly nervous: "Do you want to open artillery support?" ”

Li Weiluan smiled: "No need, I'm still afraid of beating them away, these indigenous monkeys are very flexible, we don't have cavalry, and we may not be able to catch up!" ”

Cheng Shi said: "If you can't catch up, let me come, let's close the door and beat the dog!" ”

Li Zhixiang looked at Cheng Shi and said, "There are only 800 people under your hands, can you hold it?" ”

"However, there are thirty-six thunderbolts, and they are also equipped with more than 3,000 mines, and my father has long been guarding against the Spaniards!"

Li Zhixiang listened to the thirty-six thunderbolts, which was equivalent to a salvo of one thousand and eighty muskets, once the formation was opened, it was definitely enough for these natives to drink a pot.

"Be careful!"

"Don't worry!"

Cheng Shi led more than 800 soldiers under his command along the banks of the wharf river, all the way to the east, preparing to bypass these natives and attack from behind.

Juan watched the arrival of the native army of Luzon, but felt a little uneasy.

"They don't look like the army of the Ming Kingdom!"

Juan really can't imagine that if the Ming Dynasty has such a strong strength, how can it be the turn of the Dutch and the Spaniards to be so presumptuous?

Just as Juan was thinking, these earth pig armies suddenly accelerated, and they raised scimitars and bows and arrows to attack the Ning Navy on the dock.

Li Zhixiang was a little incredulous: "They didn't even try to charge directly? ”

In fact, the natives of Luzon will not be able to fight anything, they are like hooligans fighting in groups, they will only make one move, and they will be reckless. If you are reckless against the other party, then you will win, and if you are reckless against the other party, then you will turn around and run.

It is a pity that the jumping soldiers of the Ning Navy are not equipped with muskets, but because the muskets have never met Cheng Shijie's expectations, they have not equipped the troops on a large scale.

The Ning Navy is known as the strongest army, but in fact, it is blessed by strong artillery.

However, the Jumper is an outlier.

"Woo Woo ......"

More than a dozen sharp arrows tied with red ropes shot out and inserted a hundred meters away, and the red ropes danced in the wind, which was very conspicuous. This arrow marked a hundred meters of the shooting range, which was the best killing distance for the pulley compound bow in the hands of the jumping soldier.

Although the natives of Luzon did not know the power of the pulley compound bow in the hands of these bloodthirsty Ning naval officers, they also knew that the other party was marking the line of fire, and they let out a terrible roar in their throats, gritting their teeth and speeding up against the arrows pointed at them.

The feeling of rushing head-on to the arrow array will naturally not be wonderful, but they have no choice, the more afraid they are of dying at this time, the faster they will die, and only by crossing the fire network of the enemy archers as soon as possible can they have any hope of survival, all, let's go hard! The surging crowd crossed the arrow tied with the red string.

Li Weiluan roared angrily: "Release the arrow!" ”

"Boom Boom Boom ......"

The whistling sound of sharp arrows suddenly rose, and the triangular arrows turned into cold stars, and headed towards the indigenous soldiers of Luzon, and immediately screamed miserably!

These natives had no armor at all, and the arrows that were fired brutally tore through the thin bodies of the natives, entering and exiting their chests, bringing out a rain of blood.

The first wave of arrow rain has not yet fallen, the second wave of metal storm again, and more than 2,000 sharp arrows shot out like the wind, the charging indigenous soldiers fell again a large piece, many of the wounded who fell to the ground screaming by the arrows were directly nailed to the ground by sharp arrows, and the people were all dead, and their bodies were slightly spasmed.

The equipment of the natives is too poor, and the equipment of the jumping soldiers of the Yining Navy, even the red-armored soldiers of Jiannu will be crushed, not to mention these indigenous soldiers who are almost unequipped? Only a few indigenous tribal leaders had a set of leather or wooden armor, and many more had only coarse cloth clothes, and some of the indigenous soldiers had bare bodies with a cloth wrapped around their waists.

What is the difference between such equipment and running naked in front of the rain of arrows poured out of the jumping battalion, the rain of arrows is roaring, endless, the storm of death sweeps across the battlefield, every second there are piles of people falling, screaming and splashing blood makes the hearts of the natives who are lucky not to be hit by the arrows tremble, and their steps involuntarily hesitate.

As the so-called ignorant and fearless, these indigenous soldiers in the front row fell down screaming, but those in the back could not see what was happening in front of them, and continued to pour in. The crowd of indigenous people rushed up in a row like a swarm of zombies, like moths to a fire, and a group was shot dead.

Juan, who was standing at the head of Manila, suddenly changed his face: "These Ming troops are too barbaric, this is not a war, this is a massacre!" ”

When there was a battle on the dock on the south bank of Manila, Wu Shangzhi and others also observed through the telescope, and he said with some worry: "There are too many natives, and if you don't get the Ning Navy, you will suffer!" ”

"Shall we?"

Li Guoqun muttered: "There are also six or seven thousand guards from each of our families......

When the news that Wu Shang was going to ask to participate in the war reached Li Zhixiang's ears, Li Zhixiang said angrily: "Where are they cool, where are they staying, and who do they look down on?" ”

Finally, after more than a dozen rounds of arrow rain shooting, the arrow rain on the battlefield stopped abruptly, although the jumping soldiers are well-trained, but the problem is that after more than a dozen rounds of arrows, they will also be tired.

But more than 50 meters in front of their formation, the corpses of the indigenous soldiers were already densely laid, and in just a quarter of an hour, the indigenous people were shot and killed by the jumping soldiers.

The original natives were already frightened by the terrible arrow array, but the problem was that these natives were still very smart, and they shouted frantically: "They don't have the strength to shoot arrows, rush up and kill them all!" ”

Well, the archers of the jumping soldiers really don't have the strength to fight, but the problem is that the more than 2,400 Mo knife fighters haven't started yet, and the Mo knives in their hands are already hungry and thirsty.

Seeing these indigenous soldiers rushing over, they naturally would not be polite, these heavily armored Mo swordsmen did not retreat but advanced, wielding Mo swords like a wall to advance.

"Slash!"

With an order, hundreds of thousands of indigenous soldiers were cut in two, and before the indigenous soldiers could react, they shouted again: "Cut!" ”

The Mo knives in the hands of these jumping heavy armor soldiers were like wheels, picked up again, and fell again, hundreds of indigenous soldiers were chopped apart, and their thin bodies flew backwards with a rain of blood.

In Juan's eyes, it was definitely the most savage and bloody battle.

In his understanding of the battle, the battle should be set up first, repeatedly trying to find the flaws of the other party, and the generals should send a round of letters to greet each other to show politeness, and even give each other a little gift, and only start the fight with sufficient demeanor, and the war seems to be just a game for them to show off their talents and prove their courage.

After tens of thousands of dead and wounded, the native forces finally collapsed, frightened and howling and running towards the rear.

But the heavily armored soldier Mo swordsman behind them chased after him.

Some natives were so frightened that their legs and feet weakened, and they knelt on the ground and surrendered, but the problem was that the jumping soldiers did not accept their intention of surrendering, so how could Lao Tzu have time to accept prisoners?

Cutting off a head is seventy-five acres of land, who can't get along with money?

Juan watched as the crumbling native soldiers were fleeing, and his last hope was dashed: "It's over!" ”

"Louis!"

"In!"

"Go again and tell them that if they are still a member of the civilized world, please accept a decent surrender from us!"

(End of chapter)