Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 407 Call the shots for us
"General, why don't you let the musketeers land from other places and capture the fort?" someone suggested.

"No, the fort is next to the city of Manila. If you send infantry to attack, you will definitely be attacked by the fort and Manila city. If you suffer heavy losses, you may not be able to succeed." Yang Jikuang immediately shook his head in denial.

"At present, it seems that forcing login from the dock is definitely not possible."

After everyone's discussion, everyone rejected the idea of ​​attacking from the pier.

"General, I have a proposal?" At this time, someone stood up and said.

"Say." Yang Jikang nodded.

"I suggest that we let the infantry log in from places where the city of Manila cannot be attacked, and then bypass the coastal forts and attack from behind the city of Manila." The man suggested, "As long as we take the city of Manila, nothing else is worth mentioning. "

"I think this idea is very good. It can avoid facing the Spanish forts." Someone agreed: "At the same time, our warships can also bombard the city of Manila here to support the siege."

"I also agree with this method, which is much better than a frontal attack." Others also agreed.

"Okay, since everyone agrees with this method, let's use this method to attack the city. Next, let's discuss where to land." Yang Jikuang said to everyone.

After everyone's discussion, everyone finally decided to land on a coast ten miles outside Manila.

Landing from here, if the Spaniards want to attack, they can only send troops out of the city, and if they leave the city, Yang Jikang has a way to kill and injure these Spaniards in large numbers.

When Yang Jikang ordered the army to land, although Spain did not attack by itself, it sent an army of more than 1000 indigenous servants over.

It's just that these servants collapsed immediately after being attacked by several rounds of naval guns, and then fled desperately back to Manila. Although they fled back, most of them were chased and killed by Wu Jun on the way.

After Wu Jun landed outside Manila, he then went around to the side and back where the fort could not attack.

"General, the city of Manila is not easy to fight. I didn't expect the Spaniards to build a bastion here. If we attack by force, even if most of us are killed or injured, we may not be able to take it down."

Many people have come to this conclusion after going around the city of Manila.

For the bastion, these generals have all studied in the military academy under Daming University of Technology.

After demonstration, many people know how much advantage the bastion has on the defender.

If the enemy has artillery, muskets and other weapons, this kind of defense facility is unsolvable in this era.

Don't look at the small bastions built by the Spaniards. Some of the smaller bastions are more terrifying.

It's small, which means you can't invest too many troops to attack it at one time, but the defenders can take turns to defend.

In this era, most of the breaches of bastions in history have taken place from within.

When Zheng Chenggong regained Taiwan, he had no way to face the Dutch bastion, whether it was shelling or storming, there was no way to defeat the Dutch.

The reason why the recovery was successful in the end was because Zheng Chenggong built an earth wall and besieged the Dutch for eight months. The Dutch were out of food and had to surrender in the end.

In that battle, Zheng Chenggong lost more than 9000 people, while the Dutch only lost more than 600 people, a ratio of more than ten times the number of casualties.

This shows how difficult it is to break through a bastion in this era.

At this time, tens of thousands of Wu troops led by Yang Jikang encountered such a situation.

Although the strength of the Wu army is five or six times that of the Spaniards, it seems to be useless.

The Spaniard's Lingbao is not very big, but it is high and low, deep, and has many defensive points. If the Wu army attacks by force, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses.

Faced with this situation, General Wu Jun held another meeting.

"Zhen Dongbo once told us that when encountering such a bastion, the best way is to surround it so that it has to break out because of lack of food." A general said.

"But we don't know how long Manila can last. If it takes a few years to be sieged, we simply don't have that much time."

"Besides, Spanish reinforcements may arrive in a few months. Will we be able to handle it by then?"

"The best way is to let the Spaniards surrender themselves, otherwise we will lose a lot if we attack such a bastion."

"Can't we use artillery? Can't we knock down the walls and break the bastions?"

"I'm afraid not. The bastion has such a characteristic that even if you blow up a place into ruins, it will not affect the defense of the defender, unless there are powerful artillery that can razed all the walls and high platforms to the ground at the same time."

Countless people proposed offensive methods one by one, but in the end they were rejected by many people one by one.

"General, why don't we just attack once, maybe we can take Manila down?" someone suggested to Yang Jikang.

"No, you can't play with the lives of soldiers." Hearing the proposal of his subordinates, Yang Jikang sternly rejected it.

"Everyone has no good solution, it seems that they can only besieged."

Yang Jikang said: "Then prepare for a long-term siege."

"General, in fact, we only need to keep half of the troops to besiege the Spaniards, and the rest of the troops can completely take over the territories laid down by the Spaniards." Someone suggested to Yang Jikang.

"Yes, we have a large number of people, and our weapons are more advanced than the Spaniards. As long as some people are left to besiege the Spaniards, others can completely occupy Luzon Island. At that time, our food supplies will not need to be transported from the country." Others also fit.

"Okay, after we build fortifications and surround the Spaniards, we will dispatch 5000 people to occupy various places." Yang Jikang agreed.

As everyone came to a conclusion, next, more than 1 people from the Wu Kingdom began to build fortifications on the outskirts of Lingbao, Spain, as if preparing for a long-term siege.

A few days later, with the completion of some simple fortifications, Yang Jikang dispatched 5000 people to Luzon Island to declare sovereignty.

"General, there is a group of Luzon businessmen who want to see you. They say they are all Ming people who came overseas to make a living."

Just a few days after Yang Jikang besieged Manila, a Han Chinese from Luzon finally found Yang Jikang.

"Bring them to see me." Yang Jikuang ordered to his subordinates.

Soon, the subordinates led several people in.

There were five people who came this time, including two middle-aged men and two elderly people.

"Cao Min pays homage to the general." When they saw Yang Jikang, several people knelt down and kowtowed.

"Get up, why did you come to see me?" Yang Jikuang asked several people.

"General, you are finally here, we have been waiting so hard!" an old man said to Yang Jikang with tears in his eyes.

"The Spaniards are not all human beings. They killed tens of thousands of our Ming people. Generals, you must be the masters for us."

(End of this chapter)