Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 405 Confrontation
Historically, Europeans relied on advanced civilization and weapons to conquer the Americas, the Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia...

When they decided to conquer Ming Dynasty, the governor of Spain and the Philippines once wrote to the King of Spain saying: If you want to conquer Ming Dynasty, you need at least [-] soldiers to win it.

In the eyes of the Spaniards, only 5000 troops were needed to conquer Ming Dynasty, which shows how few people they used to conquer other nations around the world.

Historically, the governor of the Philippines proposed a detailed battle plan, first taking Fujian as a breakthrough, first capturing Fujian, and using Fujian as a base to attack the entire Ming Empire.

The army needs about 6000 to [-] people, plus some indigenous miscellaneous troops, attacking with advanced weapons, there is a high chance of success in conquest.

The plan formulated by the Governor of the Philippines at that time was very detailed, so the king agreed to his plan.He also increased the number of the regular army to 1, plus [-] non-profit troops. He thinks that the number of nearly [-] should be enough, right?

The king thought that with such a large number of people, it should be safe to take down Daming.

In European countries during this period, a battle of more than 10 people was a big battle, and a battle of more than [-] people was a super big battle. They could not imagine the concept of the Ming Empire having a million troops.

Fortunately, they didn't know because they didn't know anything about the Ming Empire.

Historically, the reason why Spain did not implement this plan to conquer the Ming Empire in the end was mainly because Spain's "Invincible Fleet" was defeated when it was fighting for hegemony with Britain.

At this time, Spain has no time to take care of other places at all, and it would be nice to be able to keep one-third of an acre of land.

At this time, Spain had already lost to Britain in the battle for hegemony. At that time, Spain dispatched more than 100 large warships and more than 3 troops.

At this time, Spain had already failed in the battle for hegemony for more than ten years, and all the troops left in East Asia did not exceed 5000, which was the result of being distributed in many places.

In East Asia, there are less than ten large Spanish warships. On Luzon Island, there are only two large Spanish warships. The others are small ships and merchant ships.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty already had more than [-] large Galen warships in Europe. When Zhu Changxun, the king of Wu State, was in the feudal domain, Emperor Wanli gave him five ships.

At this time, it seemed that Wu's five warships were more than enough to deal with the two Spanish warships in Luzon.

There seems to be no problem with five thousand musketeers against two thousand Spanish musketeers.

With such a double-strength battle, Wu Wang Zhu Changxun was soon tempted.

In April 1616 AD, King Wu Zhu Changxun ordered five Galen warships, 1 armed merchant ships, and more than [-] musketeers to go to sea and go south across the Balintang Strait to launch an attack on Luzon Island.

The fleet set off quietly, and arrived in Manila, where the Spanish governor was located half a month later, blocking two Spanish warships and a group of seagoing ships in Manila Bay.

"Your Excellency, it's not good. There are foreign warships blocking Manila Bay."

Soon, the news reached the Spanish Governor in the Philippines.

"What?" Spanish Governor Juan de Silva looked surprised. "How many ships does the enemy have?"

"There are almost five warships and more than 30 armed merchant ships." The men replied.

"What? So many?" Hearing the number, Juan de Silva was taken aback. "Is it Dutch?"

"I'm not from Henan. It looks like a battleship from the Ming Dynasty." The subordinate replied.

"hiss!"

Hearing the words of his subordinates, Juan de Silva gasped.

He ordered: "Let our ship retreat to the dock area. There are coastal defense forts here, which can stop the warships of the Ming army."

Different from the arrogance of the Spanish governor in history, this time and space showed a strong naval combat power because Ming defeated Japan. European countries have evaluated the strength of Ming warships.

They evaluated and found that the combat effectiveness of Ming's warships was not weaker than theirs, and this news shocked them very much.

Now, five warships came from Ming Dynasty at once, and the two Spanish warships in Manila could not possibly be the opponents of the Ming army.

So instead of going out and fighting for your life, it's better to retreat and defend.

"General, the Spanish have sent an envoy."

It was not long before the Spanish Governor sent an emissary.

In a situation like today, it is definitely necessary to send envoys to communicate, and you can't just fight with others without knowing it.

If the enemy has an advantage, it would be a good idea to negotiate to resolve the threat.

"Let the Spanish envoys come up."

A young man named Yang Jikang led the five Wu Kingdom naval fleet.

This is one of the first batch of students to graduate from Daming Institute of Technology. He once participated in the war to destroy Japan with Wei Zhongxian and Chen Guangping, and has rich combat experience.

Soon, the Spanish envoy arrived on Yang Jikang's boat. This envoy also brought a yellow-skinned middle-aged man with him, who was an interpreter.

"General, I am the envoy sent by Governor Juan de Silva. My name is Asso Ekoto..."

The Spanish envoy first introduced himself and asked the translator to translate his words.

Then he continued to say to Yang Jikuan: "Your Excellency General, our governor wants to know why you are here? In order not to cause misunderstanding, we hope you can leave here. If you are just here for trade, you can allow a small number of merchant ships to enter the port... "

The Spanish envoy said a lot, but Yang Jikang just listened attentively.

Finally he said to the translator: "Tell him, 13 years ago, the Spaniards massacred more than 2 people in my Ming Dynasty. Today I came to avenge them. Let him tell the governor, or surrender immediately. That way we can still let them live, or kill all the Spaniards when we get in."

Hearing Yang Jikang's words, the middle-aged translator's eyes suddenly lit up, and his expression became excited.

Afterwards, he translated a lot to the Spanish envoy.

Just hearing his translation, the face of the Spanish envoy became very difficult to look at.

Afterwards, he chattered a lot.

Hearing what the Spanish envoy said, the interpreter translated to Yang Jikang and said, "You Daming are just a group of weak maggots, and you are not qualified to surrender the great Spanish Empire. You'd better withdraw from Manila, otherwise you will not be able to bear the consequences..."

"You bastard, how dare you threaten us here, believe it or not, I'll throw you all into the sea to feed you bastards?" Hearing the translator's words, one of Yang Jikang's subordinates suddenly became furious.

Hearing what this man said, the interpreter quickly translated the words to the Spanish messenger.

Soon, the Spanish envoy said a lot with excitement.

The middle-aged translator translated the words of the Spanish envoy again: "You humble ants, the power of the Spanish Empire is beyond your imagination. I give you two hours to leave, otherwise we will sink your boat……"

"You bastard, come here, throw this Spanish envoy into the sea and feed the fish..."

"No, the two armies are not fighting, so let them go back." Yang Jikang stopped the actions of his subordinates, and he said to the Spanish envoy, "Go back and let your governor prepare to accept our anger."

PS: I fell down while riding a motorcycle yesterday, and my hands hurt and my back hurts. I put on painkillers, but the pain is still very painful, and I can't bear it.

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