Chapter 227

When the only reliance was not available, the only thought of the Viceroy of Juan was to want a decent surrender, and in his opinion, he had done his best, and the next thing, that is, negotiations between the big men, a reconciliation between the two sides, he could free himself from his life as a captive and return to the Spanish Empire like a hero.

But before Louis could move, fierce gunfire was heard in the distance.

This is the Zheng He port escort led by Cheng Shi, they have been deployed in the eastern part of Manila, which used to be a gathering area for Chinese, but the massacre 25 years ago turned this place into a place of buried bones in Manila, and the local aborigines gave it a name: "Chinese Tomb"

In fact, it has become a mass grave, and few people usually come over. Due to the abundant rainfall here, the weeds here grow more than a person's height, and there are actually no roads in many parts of Luzon, but when people walk more, they become roads.

On this dirt road, which was about ten meters wide, Cheng Shi deployed thirty-six thunderbolts along both sides of the road, but before they could catch their breath, they saw a large force of indigenous troops coming in a rout.

"Fire!"

Cheng Shi barely hesitated and ordered the troops to open fire.

This was a battle without suspense, and more than 800 soldiers from the Ning Navy Guards Division took turns shooting at the simple Thunderbolt firing position.

Bursts of gunfire rang out, and the swarming Luzon natives fell in clusters as if they were harvesting wheat.

But these native Luzon armies had been beaten apart by the hoplites of the Jumping Battalion, and they wanted nothing more than to come the way they came and return the way they came.

These Luzon natives don't even have their brains, they are about a mile away from the dense bushes, although there is no road to walk, but no matter how difficult it is, it is better than braving the thunderous charge of the Ning Navy?

But the problem is that these natives who don't have big brains like walnuts were chased out of the pig-stud assault by the soldiers of the jumping battalion, and the swarming Luzon indigenous troops once rushed to the front of the camp of the soldiers under Cheng Shi.

This made Cheng Shi, who lacked combat experience, panicked, although he was not strong in combat, but the problem was that the soldiers of the Guards Division had very rich combat experience, watching the indigenous soldiers approaching, he took out a grenade casually, and the grenade seemed to be thrown out like hail, falling into the formation of the indigenous troops and exploding, blowing up their flesh and blood.

This was a battle of fighting more with less, however, what was surprising was that the Luzon indigenous army, which had an advantage of 20,000 or 30,000 people, was frantically slashed by the soldiers of the Jumping Army in the back, and was strafed by Cheng Shi's troops with thunderbolts and bombed with grenades or mines in front.

Even if there were only more than 5,600 officers and men of the two Ning Navy, they suppressed more than 30,000 indigenous troops to the death, and it was difficult to cross the thunder pond by half a step.

What's even worse is that with the passage of time, the Luzon Chinese led by Wu Shangzhi also consciously joined the battle, and more than 100 fishing boats of Wu Shangzhi's family were temporarily used as troop carriers, and one boat by boat sent out Chinese guys, nurses, and even young men from every household.

As more and more Chinese crossed the Bashi River, each group of people came over, and Cheng Shi's combat effectiveness became stronger. A large number of Chinese who had no combat experience came to Cheng Shi's hands, and Cheng Shi commanded these Chinese to be young and strong, along the way of the indigenous retreat, planted mines, and used mines to blow up the indigenous rout.

It is also necessary to let the barrel of the already hot thunderbolt be cooled with water, and the Chinese young people do not have grenades to throw, but they can throw guns, stones, or axes, wood knives, and messy things to greet the indigenous Luzon with the speed of raindrops.

These Chinese young people will not forget that 25 years ago, these natives were provoked and bewitched by the Spaniards to wantonly slaughter the Chinese.

This is a blood feud, they finally found an opportunity, how can they easily let go of these natives.

Those natives who tried to break through Cheng Shi's resistance found that there was no hope of escape, so they gave up resistance and wanted to lie down. However, the red-eyed Chinese and Ning naval soldiers launched an overwhelming attack on the indigenous army.

On the eight-kilometer road from Manila Wharf to the east, the morale of the army was shaken, unable to resist such an attack, and it was like a urine insipidus, and countless indigenous soldiers trampled on each other, or were divided and surrounded by the Ninghai army, and became the object of slaughter, and the plains on the south bank of the Bashi River became a sea of blood......

This scene also fell in the eyes of the Spaniards, they were frightened, but they didn't dare to run, outside the city were Ning Navy officers, there were cruising Ning Navy warships on the sea, and there were red-eyed Chinese everywhere......

Seeing the blood and water everywhere, the broken arms everywhere, and the corpses of the indigenous troops, even Wu Shangzhi felt a little unbearable.

The officers and men of the Ning Navy are not uncomfortable at all, this is because Cheng Shijie has instilled a spirit and a belief in them, and the officers and men of their Ning Navy are to cast plows into swords, not swords into plowshares, this is a war for living space, and there is no room for mercy.

Once a general is successful, there are still millions of people who have become dry bones, let alone a nation that wants to rise?

The rise of a nation is destined to step on the bones of another nation or several peoples, the strong man is to step on the bones of the Huns, and the Tang Dynasty is to step on the bones of the Turks......

A group of captives of the surrendered indigenous soldiers were escorted by the Ning Navy officers to the banks of the Bashi River, cut off their heads, and dragged their bodies to the dock and burned them on the spot.

"Major General Cheng, General Li, isn't this a bit too much?"

Li Zhixiang looked at Wu Shangzhi and said, "Is your ass crooked?" In the thirty-first year of Wanli, in the thirty-seventh year of Wanli, how many people were killed by them? Do you remember? ”

"Remember!"

Li Zhixiang said: "This is a barbaric land, just like the Ming Dynasty in Annam, the Ming Dynasty defeated Annam, but because of the endless resistance of those natives, they can only give up the fertile land of Annam, if you want to survive in this hostile land, if you want to gain a foothold in this hostile land, you must do this, otherwise you will repeat the mistake of the Ming army being driven out of Annam......"

"It's just...... So many people say kill ......"

"Keep them, do you dare to close your eyes when you are asleep?"

Li Zhixiang's words left Wu Shangzhi speechless.

Li Zhixiang patted Wu Shangzhi on the shoulder and said, "Mr. Wu, we are different from the Spaniards, the Spaniards came to Luzon to plunder resources, but we are different!" ”

"What does General Lee mean?"

"We are very pure, we just want to change the owner of this land!"

Li Zhixiang looked in the direction of the Ming Dynasty in the north: "Now the Great Tomorrow disasters are frequent, either drought, locust plague, or snow plague, year after year, the disasters are endless, how do you look at Luzon?" If you are an emigrant to Luzon, how many people can be settled? ”

The soldiers of the Ning Navy and the Chinese were young and strong, and began to purge the natives around Manila, the natives could not run if they wanted to die, and they did not chase if they wanted to, as for the city of Manila, it seemed to be forgotten.

Governor Juan also had no idea of surrendering with dignity, looking at Ning Haijun's attitude towards the natives and his tough methods, he felt that these Ming soldiers were even more barbaric than barbarians.

"Gentlemen, what are you going to do now?"

Ten days ago, this question was almost one-sided, and almost everyone was shouting and shouting to kill.

As a colonel in the army, O'Moore stubbornly said: "War is not the way to solve problems, I suggest, we should negotiate, you all have also seen, the Ming people are more than ten times our army, they still have countless artillery, especially muskets, you have also heard, they have at least a few thousand muskets, our regiment is less than three hundred, the disparity in numbers, there is really no way to make up for it with courage......"

Admiral Simon shrugged: "Our battleships, five were sunk by them in the harbor, the others seem to have surrendered, I saw ......"

"We may not be able to count on the homeland anymore, and last month I received a letter from the homeland that His Majesty's army had lost another battle, and even my fifteen-year-old nephew had been drafted into the army......"

"The Ming Dynasty is a member of the civilized world, they are superpowers, more than ten times larger than our Spanish Empire, they have a population of 20,000, and millions of troops, those people outside are just their Liaodong Governor, the troops of His Excellency the Duke, a duke like him, there are more than a dozen of them!"

"We will indeed humiliate the Spanish Empire if we retreat in the face of a small country, but the Ming Dynasty is a superpower......

At 10 a.m. on the fourth day of the fifth month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Governor Juan opened the city of Manila with high-ranking officials of the Spanish colonial authorities and the commander of the Spanish army, Colonel O'Moore, a total of thirty-one members.

The gates of Manila were wide open, and he no longer begged for any dignified surrender, and he and all the Spaniards came to surrender with a generous gift list of all the proceeds of Spain in Luzon, totaling more than 4,900,000 taels of silver, as well as a large amount of property, including the transfer of silver ships from New Spain (Mexico) and 2,300,000 taels of silver, and 180,000 taels of gold.

Outside the city gate, there were more than 2,000 soldiers in the dense jumping battalion, these soldiers held cold and shining swords, their eyes did not squint, and in front of the victorious army, they felt a sense of oppression.

The high-ranking officials of the colonial authorities behind Juan are now somewhat glad that they finally don't have to fight, and if they face such an enemy and fight them, their brains will definitely be caught in the door.

"Your Excellency the General, please accept the surrender of me, Juan, Sir of Utah to you!"

Juan handed over his sword, as well as the seal of the governor of Luzon, to Cheng Shi's hand.

Cheng Shi was slightly stunned.

Handed these things to Xie Jinglin.

"I accept your surrender!"

"Oye......"

The Spaniards breathed a sigh of relief and began to cheer.

The Spanish flag in Manila was officially lowered and the Ming flag was raised.

The early national flag of the Ming Dynasty was the sun and the moon in the same frame, symbolizing the "sun and moon", and later after a period of development, the Ming Dynasty's status in the international arena changed, and only the enlarged sun was left in the national flag, which means that all countries are coming, and the flame around the sun represents the twelve horns, and it also represents the twelve hours.

Outside of Manila, there is a scene of devastation after the catastrophe. Everywhere you look, warehouses and houses have been shattered by shells or burned through the roofs. One by one, they cleaned up the corpses left behind after the mess, and sprinkled lime water everywhere.

The original noisy and lively city has been depressed and quiet.

The Chinese began to cheer: "We have won!" ”

"We are now the masters of Luzon!"

"Luzon is ours!"

Cheng Shi was a little dazed at this time, and shelled Manila in a fit of rage, this decision was made by Cheng Shi, but in just seven or eight days, Luzon changed hands in this way.

Until this point, he was a little incredulous.

What's next?

Cheng Shi has never regretted what he has done, and if he does it again, he estimates that he will do it again.

Anyway, after the shelling of Manila. He has become a foreign devil, at least, the Spaniards will consider their butcher.

In fact, not only the Spaniards, but even in the eyes of the Luzon Chinese, Cheng Shi has become a butcher, at least more than 20,000 Luzon natives died under his command, and at least tens of thousands of people moved their heads because of his words.

Looking at the proceeds from beating Manila, Cheng Shi looked at Xie Jinglin and said, "Mr. Xie, this place is handed over to you, hurry up and explain the situation to my father!" ”

Xie Jinglin was slightly stunned: "Major General Cheng, what do you mean ......?"

"I caused such a big trouble and caused so much trouble for my father......"

Xie Jinglin actually knows that this matter can be right or wrong, the key is what Cheng Shijie thinks.

Now it is a decent battle between Spain and the Ming state, and it is not up to Cheng Shi to decide what to do next.

……

Chongming Island, Cheng Shijie's news at this time is quite closed.

It wasn't until the Dutch governor of Dayuan, Pettmans, arrived and raised a serious protest to Cheng Shijie, that Cheng Shijie knew that the Red Lady used Liujiazhen to launch a head hunt in Dayuan.

In just over a month, a total of 165 Dutch were assassinated or kidnapped. The most serious of these was that on 22 April, a team of 65 members of the Dutch East India Company, under the protection of 104 mercenaries, went deep into the Taichung area to investigate.

Sixty-five members of the Dutch pioneer team were beheaded on the spot, while two survivors of the mercenaries reported to Putmans, which the Dutch East India Company called the 422 Massacre.

On behalf of the Dutch East India Company, Putmans made representations to Cheng Shijie, demanding that the Ning Navy stop its aggression against the senior officers and compensate the members of the Dutch East India Company who were killed in 422.

Cheng Shijie categorically dismissed the 422 incident as having to do with the Ning Navy, and strongly condemned the attack on the people of Tamsui by the Dutch colonial authorities.

Of course, for Cheng Shijie's accusations, Putmans also flatly denied it, even if Ning Haijun submitted evidence to prove that those "horse bandits" were wearing Dutch cavalry uniforms, the Dutch Governor's Office also denied that those people were Dutch cavalry.

Costumes can be faked, so nothing can be proven.

Although the corpses appeared to have many Dutch characteristics, one hundred and sixty-five people were missing in the Netherlands in a period of more than a month, so it was impossible to prove whether the horse bandits were the Dutchmen who were killed.

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "You can't think that because we Ning Haijun counted it as a military merit by beheading, we Ning Haijun did it, this judgment is too arbitrary, this can't prove anything, it is said that there are many indigenous people in Dayuan, they all have the habit of headhunting, maybe they did it!" ”

"Your Excellency, you are playing with fire, and I must solemnly remind you that such irresponsible remarks of yours are likely to lead to a war between our two countries."

Putmans knew very well that if it was just those large indigenous peoples, although they had the custom of headhunting, the problem was that they could never be the opponents of the Dutch, and the occasional assassination could be done by them, but the problem was that the pioneer team had more than a hundred hired protection, and the members of the pioneer team also had a large number of muskets and pistols, and they could have an absolute advantage in the face of the warriors of the primitive tribes.

Cheng Shijie patted the table and said: "As long as you dare, we will resolutely accompany you, don't use war to intimidate me, I'm not scared, I'm not an indigenous person who hasn't seen the world, if you dare to talk to me in such a tone again, I will send you back to Dayuan, I can assure you that the Ning Navy army will be able to occupy the entire territory of Dayuan within a month, and your local reinforcements will not be able to give you any support no matter what." ”

"Don't forget Zheng Zhilong!"

"You can try to unite Zheng Zhilong, as long as you get the proof that Zheng Zhilong is connected to you Dutch, I will go to the capital, take away all the officials of Zheng Zhilong, and clean up Zheng Zhilong. No matter how Ben Shuai and Zheng Zhilong fight, and what kind of fight they look like, Ben Shuai has the absolute strength to destroy you first! ”

Cheng Shijie stared at Putmans and said fiercely: "Admit it, compared to our Ming Dynasty, you Netherlands are just a small country, you should maintain enough respect for the superpower of Daming, instead of provoking everywhere like now!" We have a lot of internal problems, but the problem is that any of our governors can easily crush you Dutch, including your so-called East India Company. ”

Putmans' face turned red as he listened to the translation, but he didn't dare to say anything harsh. He stiffened his neck and said, "I will relay the words of His Excellency the Governor to the Board of Directors of the Dutch East India Company as they are!" ”

"It's your power!"

Cheng Shijie is determined to win the big guy, the big guy is not only like a fish bone, it will make Zheng Zhilong like a fish in the throat, but also make the Dutch very unhappy.

Cheng Shijie was not an indigenous official of the Ming Dynasty, and the Netherlands at this time was still under the administration of the Spanish Empire, so it did not have enough autonomy at all.

Now the Spanish Empire has been defeated in the face of the coalition attack of Europa, and the Spanish Filipe III does not dare to provoke the Ming Dynasty easily.

Although Da Ming is weak, he still has a huge shelf, just like a super fat man, don't care if Da Ming can fight or not, at least it looks very bluffing.

What's more, the three battles between Zheng Zhilong and Cheng Shijie all failed, and now Zheng Zhilong's prestige has been greatly reduced.

Putmans was a little puzzled when he looked at Cheng Shijie's tough attitude.

Because everyone knows that Cheng Shijie and Zheng Zhilong are competing for hegemony on the sea, and although Zheng Zhilong is strong, he has lost the upper hand, while Cheng Shijie occupies the initiative.

The two sides are now attacking around the trade line.

Zheng Zhilong actually couldn't bear it anymore, he decided to first sea and then land, destroy the main fleet of the Ning Navy, and then attack on land.

In this case, will Cheng Shijie take the initiative to set up a strong enemy in the Netherlands?

Could it be that there is something wrong with this?

Is Zheng Zhilong doing ghosts?

Thinking of this, Putmans feels that it is very likely, because once the Netherlands fights with Cheng Shijie, the person who will benefit the most is Zheng Zhilong.

Putmans took a deep breath and almost fell for Zheng Zhilong.

Otherwise, they would have fought with Cheng Shijie, and Zheng Zhilong would have had no trouble getting the support of the Dutch East India Company.

"It's dangerous!"

When Putmans left Chongming Island, he hurriedly wrote to Batavia, informing the board of directors of the Dutch East India Company of his judgment and suspicions, hoping that the board would make a decision.

After Putmans left, Cheng Shijie gave Chen Dayong an order to temporarily stop his military operations in Dayuan.

In fact, Chen Dayong did not dispatch the Ning Navy soldiers, if the Ning Navy soldiers were really dispatched, Cheng Shijie could now drink tea in Tainan Port.

After all, Ning Haijun is now fighting Zheng Zhilong, he is really worried that Zheng Zhilong will join forces with the Dutch, for Zheng Zhilong, what is the festival and how much can it be worth?

When Cheng Shijie negotiated with Putmans, Zhu Weiyuan was not present, but she also heard that Cheng Shijie had a lot of fire.

Zhu Weiyuan was worried that Cheng Shijie would be angry, so she asked people to boil a bowl of Poria Huaishan soup for Cheng Shijie to reduce the fire.

But the problem is that when Zhu Weiyuan came with Poria Huaishan soup, she was wearing a light green dress like a light gauze, and she was only wearing obscene pants and no trousers under the skirt, revealing her beautiful and moist ankles.

Cheng Shijie finally extinguished the fire, and it got up again.

Cheng Shijie guessed that Zhu Weiyuan must have done it on purpose.

Of course, if you see through it, you can't say it.

At night, Zhu Weiyuan said: "Ziyi, did the horse sleep?" ”

"I don't know, the slave maid went over and took a look!"

"Good!"

Gu Ziyi came to Cheng Shijie's study, Cheng Shijie did not return to Liaodong during this time, on the one hand, the development of Liaodong was on the right track, and on the other hand, Cheng Shijie was also making a show to the imperial court, making a happy look to alleviate Chongzhen's concerns about him.

However, Gu Ziyi came to the outside of the study and found that the light was on in the room.

"Pony, princess asked the slave to bring you fruit......

Gu Ziyi listened to the sound in the study, and then walked to the direction of the bedroom suspiciously, and there was no Cheng Shijie either.

Gu Ziyi returned to Zhu Weiyuan's bedroom: "Princess, it seems that there is someone outside!" ”

"Ahh

"Slaves have been paying attention for a long time!"

"What?"

"The colt disappears at night!"

Cheng Shijie travels through two time and space, in fact, there are doubts in both aspects.

Xiang Hui also wondered if Cheng Shijie was someone outside, but the problem was that Cheng Shijie's firepower was reduced, and occasionally, she also used Cheng Jiayue's children, pretending to accidentally put them in Cheng Shijie's pocket, and positioning the watch to locate Cheng Shijie.

Of course, Xiang Hui found out every time he positioned, Cheng Shijie left Longyue Company, just went home, and did not move for a long time, asked the doorman, and found that Cheng Shijie did not leave their community.

This made Xiang Hui dispel his doubts.

In the past, Cheng Shijie's mysterious disappearance was that no one had the right to ask him, but now it is different, after he married Zhu Weiyuan, Zhu Weiyuan has this right.

When Zhu Weiyuan heard this, her heart was a little bitter.

Cheng Shijie has not been married to him until now, which shows that Cheng Shijie still has a problem in his heart, and now it is certain that Cheng Shijie is normal, and she decided to find an opportunity to let Cheng Shijie bring people back.

(End of chapter)