Lord of Ming Dynasty

He didn't think the Spanish fleet was going to attack Cebu Island and Leyte Island. Suddenly he broke out in a cold sweat. The enemy knew that he was coming, so they lay in ambush outside, waiting for him to be smashed in front of the shore artillery fortifications. Come out and hunt him down.

He looked at the merchant ships on the shore that were under fire and were transferring supplies, as well as the wounded warships trying their best to fight back, as well as the thirty warships fighting the remaining Spanish warships and warships of other countries near the port, and ten warships. Ships, [-] armed merchant ships, and [-] warships that bombarded the shore artillery and the fort at the head of Manila, as well as the [-] soldiers and horses that went ashore, and the [-] to [-] wounded who suffered heavy casualties.

At this moment, he couldn't escape even if he wanted to. At such a time, he couldn't escape in a moment.

At least [-] soldiers and horses on the shore, [-] to [-] wounded, and the surviving crew and sailors, gunners, and soldiers who jumped to fight on the sunken ships floating on the sea had to be left behind.

"Let the merchant ships evacuate the wounded, let the armed merchant ships partly salvage the soldiers who fell into the water, and let the merchant ships drag the wounded ships back to the voyage immediately, go quickly." Zheng Zhi immediately took action, he was a decisive person.

When the evacuation operation was carried out until dawn, a total of thirty or forty wounded merchant ships, armed merchant ships, and warships, carrying about [-] wounded and civilian husbands, left the battlefield and headed for Cebu Island, waiting for the second batch of towed ships. When the wounded warship and the merchant ship carrying the wounded sailed out of the port ten miles away, Zheng Zhi saw the watchman shouting eagerly. What did the lookout say.

"To the southeast, there are a large number of sailing ships, thirty enemy warships, my God, those are Spanish first-class battleships, so huge."

"To the southwest, fifty galleons, armed merchant ships of the enemy, are Spaniards, merchant ships of three hundred tons,"

"They came from the other side of the island. They were armed warships of the Dutch, [-] ships of [-] tons, followed by [-] third-class warships of the Spaniards."

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The watchman kept reporting the direction of the enemy, and Zheng Zhi's heart sank into the valley.

He looked towards the shore. Thirty-five thousand soldiers suffered heavy casualties, but they had basically defended the port. The enemy's indigenous coalition forces were defeated, and the enemy's other coalition forces suffered heavy casualties and were unable to attack. A team of Spanish soldiers was dispatched from the city of Manila Horses, angry horses in fresh clothes, and artillery carts, there are a total of [-] soldiers and horses.

It seemed that the soldiers on the shore could not retreat.

His warships and warships and merchant ships don't know if they can retreat. According to the troops constantly reported by the lookouts, the enemy has at least two hundred warships, and at least fifty warships. The battleship has a large tonnage, almost reaching [-] tons of a first-class battleship.

And here, among the more than 100 warships he brought, except for the 150 wounded warships that left the first batch, there are only [-] intact and [-] warships, and now there are less than [-] or [-] warships. [-] armed merchant ships were lost in the enemy's coastal artillery fire, in the engagement with the enemy's patrol fleet, and in the battle with the Thai-Western warships in the Spanish port.

Now there are only [-] ships left, and many of them are still injured.

Escape, now he can't control so much.

The whole army immediately broke away from the battle, and desperately charged towards the southwest of Cebu Island.

At ten o'clock at noon, he saw that there were only thirty warships around him, all of which were lost, and the horrific images of being separated. He wanted to cry but there were no tears.

Although the Spaniards were hit hard, they lost all their capital.

Thirty-five thousand soldiers and horses, thirty-five thousand sailors, nearly four hundred ships, all his capital.

In the dark night, he finally got rid of the Spaniards' pursuit and fled to Cebu Island. Fortunately, the Spaniards did not attack Cebu Island, but Cebu Island was a mess.

10,000+ indigenous people besieged all the places where the Han people lived on Cebu Island. The slave army in Southeast Asia rebelled. The Japanese servant army refused to fight. Also fighting everywhere, some Han businessmen seized these warships and were fighting fiercely with his loyal deployment.

When he brought hundreds of sailors to calm down the fierce battle in the port and wiped out all the rebels, there were still 21 warships left, and the others were either taken away, fled, or were sunk, damaged, and unable to be used.

Only thirty or forty merchant ships escaped.

He counterattacked the city with 3000 soldiers and horses organized, and met his servants and horses who were loyal to him along the way. However, more than [-] soldiers and horses, after subduing the Japanese servant army, obtained [-] soldiers and horses, and organized them immediately Cleared up the indigenous people who had broken into the city, fought all night, gathered [-] soldiers and horses at dawn, killed [-] to [-] indigenous people who rushed into the city, wiped out the rebellious merchants, Cebu Island has become a ruin , smoke and fire everywhere.

However, the more unfortunate news is that Wright Island was taken by the British and the Dutch. There were 3 to [-] enemy soldiers and [-] to [-] natives.

Only ten warships and about a thousand soldiers and horses escaped back.

Zheng Zhi was still directing his men to extinguish the fire and was discussing with the merchants what to do when a bad news came. Zheng Keshuang’s reinforcement fleet was wiped out by the Dutch and British fleets at sea. Zheng Keshuang died and escaped with only three armed merchant ships.

The only good news is that the ship that reported back told him that Hong Tianpao had decided to lead [-] warships to support him, as well as [-] troops.

Chapter 942 The Siege

It took three days for Manila, where Gerald Pick was located, to completely clear the soldiers and horses on the land of the fleeing Nanyang Kingdom. It was a tragic victory. Gerald Pick looked distressedly at the ruined port, the devastated port fortress group, and the Manila city wall that was blown down by a corner, and the city was destroyed by solid bullets from the battleships of the Nanyang Kingdom. The smashed and broken church roofs, and the houses of the Spanish expats who were on fire and smoking everywhere.

A total of 430 people were killed in the city, and 830 people were injured. The destroyed houses, including houses and palaces, reached 35 in total. One church was completely useless, and [-] priests and two priests died.

Twenty-three thousand houses of the aborigines outside the city were destroyed, burned, and more than 1000 shops were robbed. Although many of them were Han shops, it also made him feel distressed. Those were taxes and gold.

All the 1000 Spanish soldiers and horses who fought in the battle had more than 560 casualties, as many as 32 artillery pieces were destroyed, the port was destroyed and had to be rebuilt, and there were only three solitary forts and nine [-]-pound cannons left.

The artillery killed and wounded nearly 100, and nearly wiped out all Spanish artillery in Manila.

There are 150 merchant ships in the port that belong to them, 380 merchant ships that come here to trade with Han people, [-] merchant ships that come here to trade from other Thai and Western countries, and there are also [-] rounds of native canoes.

More than 100 Spanish warships and armed merchant ships were destroyed, and more than 30 warships were destroyed.

The Poles and Swedes in the other combined fleets were all wiped out, including their infantry and ships, the ships and merchants sent by these two countries, and the infantry were all wiped out.

Fifteen Italian merchant ships escaped bad luck and went to Mumbai. Three warships of 300 tons escaped bad luck and returned to the port. More than [-] infantrymen were wounded in the temporary hospital set up by the Governor's Mansion.

More than 30 warships of the Dutch escaped, 20 warships of the British were destroyed in the port, and more than [-] ships were destroyed outside the port. Only five warships were iron-clad ships because of their fierce firepower. survived.

Of the infantry, cavalry, and artillery on land, the British had only 900 people, with 500 dead, and the French had [-] people, with more than [-] dead and [-] injured.

It can be said that except for most of the Spanish warships and warships that left the port and lay in ambush on the sea thirty miles away, the ships, infantry, cavalry, and artillery of other countries in the fleet did not fall well, and almost all were wiped out.

The natives agitated by the Spaniards, and the surrounding indigenous tribes with a radius of 20 miles, almost wiped out more than [-] tribes in the battle four days ago, and the remaining tribes also suffered heavy losses, with a sharp drop in population. People are dead.

According to statistics, after two days of fighting and three days of fighting for recovery, all the Han people in this area were wiped out. The supplies were all destroyed by the flames of war, and even the wounded who were shipped away were mostly wiped out in the subsequent pursuit and ambush.

The Spaniards kept 80.00% of the five intact on Manila Island, and the others were either completely wiped out, or only 20.00% of them were left, or even a very low number of 5.00% to [-]%. After that, the Spaniards on Manila Island The power of the family dominates.

They still have [-] soldiers. Although about [-] soldiers have actually lost their combat capabilities, there are still [-] soldiers who can participate in the battle. Among them, [-] are soldiers who were originally stationed, and the others are Soldiers of the expeditionary army, these soldiers are nothing more than homeless people who have nowhere to go and come here to find opportunities, civilians, unsatisfied fallen nobles, many of them died on foreign lands.

Although the losses were heavy, although Spain still needed to pay these countries compensation and compensation in the end, they seized a lot of materials from the Nanyang Kingdom and the belongings of the fearless Han merchants who came to do business in this area, as well as some exterminated natives The land and property of the tribe, Gerald Pick believes that at least there is no loss. If Cebu and Wright Island can be taken, then he will completely wipe out the Han forces that suddenly appeared against the Spaniards and regain the Spanish colonies , can be regarded as an explanation to the kingdom.

After tidying up, the Italians, British, and French suffered heavy losses and scarred warships and ships, five hundred wounded soldiers and one hundred soldiers were left in the port, five hundred soldiers were left in the Governor's Palace, and one hundred cavalry were left to maintain order here.

Gerald Pick led [-] soldiers and horses, recruited [-] native tribe warriors, took all the warships that could go to war, and rushed to make peace with the British and Dutch, preparing to besiege Cebu Island, the base camp of the Nanyang Kingdom .

Yesterday the Clippers sent news that the British and the Dutch had occupied Wright Island and completely annihilated the fleet of Zheng Keshuang, the brother of the Nanyang Kingdom who came to aid. They lost [-] armed merchant ships, [-] warships, and captured [-] enemies. warships and warships.

He was very envious of them, because the British and the Dutch took advantage of it. The main force of Zheng Zhi's Nanyang Kingdom navy came to attack him, destroying at least 20.00% of his battleships and warships, and allowing them to break through.

On the third day of the two-day voyage, he came to the outer waters of Cebu Island.

The British fleet in the outer waters has surrounded Cebu Island. There are probably more than 100 enemy ships in the port of Cebu Island, and almost 50 of them are merchant ships, leaving only more than 50 warships.

From the binoculars, it can be seen that half of the warships are intact, and the rest are heavily wounded. It seems that the enemy's strength has been weakened to an extreme.

On the flagship of the Knight, he met the initiator of the alliance, the Dutch governor Ike, the British governor.

Ike said: "The enemy has no combat power, and the future battle will be on the shore. We need you to launch the indigenous tribal fighters on the shore to attack them, and then we will land on the beach next to the port. The enemy's soldiers are running out due to civil strife. Look, the whole island is full of fireworks, the enemy is suppressing the rebellion, the resistance of the natives, and their internal resistance, one after another."

The British Governor looked at the Spanish Governor Gerald Pick and said, "That's right. We hope to have Mindanao after the war, and the Dutch hope to have Wright Island after the war. What do you think?"

Gerald Pick was furious, "Impossible, this is our Spanish colony, no one can touch it, at most, at most, I will pay some more gold coins, and I will give you [-]% of the future trade share. Go back. I won’t join such an alliance anymore.”

Ike laughed and said: "Don't be impatient, we are just a proposal, a proposal, don't hurt your peace, um, then don't, in the future this place will belong to you Spaniards, we will seize Koh Kong Island, Palawan Island, Indonesia, how about the British taking Australia?"