Daming: Insist on 60 billion explosive soldiers unwaveringly

"Snapped!"

Thinking of this, Liu Xiang couldn't help but slapped himself, and a trace of annoyance flashed in his eyes. If he had known about this situation, he would have told Zheng Zhilong directly, and then he could sit back and watch the tigers fight, or even attack Daming directly.

However, there is no regret medicine in this world, and it is not too late to know now.

"We'll leave immediately before dawn tomorrow. It's not safe here, and the enemy can come after us at any time."

"Don't take the Manila route to go north, just take Annan and wait in Annan, and then third uncle, you go to contact Zheng Zhilong."

Uncle Liu agreed without any hesitation when he heard this, and he also understood Liu Xiang's thoughts.

At this moment, they were at their most vulnerable. Although they escaped, the spent shells and gunpowder needed to be replenished.

Although Liu Sanshu and Liu Xiang both thought that Zheng Zhilong would not be indifferent.

But Zheng Zhilong is now the admiral of Daming's navy, who knows what Zheng Zhilong will think then?

In case Zheng Zhilong didn't go to Nanyang to regain his position, but instead led people to destroy them first, it would not be surprising to use their heads and lives to dye the scarlet robe of his chief soldier into the red robe of the prince.

They have to defend.

For a while, the atmosphere around the campfire was somewhat dull and depressing.

At the same time, in the port city of Brunei, Zhu Youchen was also interrogating the surrendered pirates and captives in front of him.

Originally, he didn't intend to take prisoners, and he had to spend a lot of energy and food to feed these people, but then Zhu Youchen thought about it and temporarily spared their lives.

He needs to know the specific power of various forces in Nanyang at this moment, and no one like this group of pirates knows it anymore.

A total of more than 30 pirate captains knelt down in front of Zhu Youchen obediently like children, looking at Zhu Youchen and the cold-eyed long swordsmen around him in awe.

mighty.

Solemn!

This is a new class of swordsmen who have been promoted through killing, but the number is relatively rare, and there are only 500 at present.

At this moment, they all acted as Zhu Youchen's personal bodyguards.

Moreover, the height of people in this era is not as obvious as in later generations, and the average height of Westerners is about the same as that of Ming Dynasty.

At this moment, these five hundred long swordsmen held their shields in one hand and pressed the long swords around their waists with the other. Their indifferent eyes made the scalps of all the captives tingle, and the hairs on the back of their necks stood on end. They were always worried that their heads would fall off. .

Therefore, no one dared to lie, and there was no hesitation about Zhu Youchen's question.

"¨In other words, there are 1 Spanish musketeers and 2000 Portuguese musketeers in the port city of Manila. In addition, there are 12 local servants in Luzon."

The most basic principle of being a pirate is to figure out who can be messed with, who can't be messed with, and who can't be messed with.

At this moment, the city of Manila is a force that these pirates think must not be messed with.

After getting this answer, Zhu Youchen frowned immediately. He didn't suspect that these people were lying, but was surprised at the strength of the Spaniards and Portuguese.

"Ten thousand Spanish musketeers plus 8 Portuguese musketeers can suppress an [-] native army?"

What ratio is this?

The strength of the indigenous army is almost five times that of the Spaniards and Portuguese.

One Musketeer can overwhelm five native armies.

Although Zhu Youchen looked down on the indigenous army, the army was always the army, and its organizational ability was not comparable to that of the mob.

Moreover, this is not the whole strength of the Spaniard Yang.

The next middle-aged white man, about 40 years old, rolled his green eyes, chattered to Annan businessman Li Gu, and gestured with his hands, with a surprisingly serious and serious expression on his face.

And his words also surprised and uproared the surrounding captives, and several of them even wanted to stand up subconsciously.

Seeing this, Zhu Youchen's expression darkened immediately, he stared at Annan businessman and asked, "What is he talking about?"

Li Gu relayed it with a look of confusion: "He said that the [-] Spaniards were not musketeers, but Spanish phalanx soldiers."

He looked puzzled, what's the difference?Not all [-] people.

Hearing this, Zhu Youchen's eyes narrowed, and he said in a deep voice, "Spanish phalanx!"

This is no ordinary army! .

Chapter 75

"Spanish square!"

Zhu Youchen murmured, a gleam flashed in his eyes, and he recalled the related records of later generations in his mind.

The Spanish phalanx is actually a phalanx composed of musketeers and spearmen or halberds. Each phalanx can be large or small, with the number ranging from [-] to [-].

Generally, there are two to three rows of musketeers on the outer perimeter, and three to four rows of spearmen on the inner perimeter. A fort is set up in the center of the phalanx, and a number of cannons are assembled. .

Then the spears or halberds attack the enemy in close combat, combining the powerful power of firearms with the spearman's left stab tactics.

The most important thing is that the phalanx can fight on all sides, has no obvious weaknesses, and emphasizes absolute discipline, which makes the Spanish army so powerful that Western countries have begun to follow suit.

The Spanish Empire has always been strong, thanks to the Spanish phalanx, whose terrifying fighting power is enough to crush any enemy.

"No wonder they can suppress the 12 indigenous army with a small number of troops. They do have this strength."

"The 9000 Spanish phalanxes are four corps, and the Portuguese 12 are three phalanxes. Their firepower is enough to kill [-] indigenous troops."

"Without 15 lives, it is estimated that the city of Manila will not be captured. It may even be [-] people."

Zhu Youchen let out a foul breath immediately, a trace of solemnity flashed in his eyes, and temporarily suppressed his plan to capture Luzon.

The Spanish phalanx is a professional soldier, which represents absolute professionalism, which cannot be compared with the Dutch soldiers in Brunei.

Of course, if he insisted on forcibly attacking, Zhu Youchen was also confident in taking it down, but the price was not worth it.

And these are only superficial information that Zhu Youchen knows.

What is even more frightening is that the Spanish phalanx is not a simple infantry battle formation, it covers the corresponding ideas, and is always modifying and evolving its own battle formation to make it more powerful.

The previous Spanish phalanx was still dominated by spearmen, but with the popularity of broken hair muskets, the number of musketeers expanded rapidly, accounting for 70.00% of the phalanx soldiers.

Even, four musketeer phalanxes were added to the four corners of the original phalanx.

The firepower delivery density of the flintlock gun is simply not comparable to that of the matchlock gun.

Queuing up to be shot is out of the question.

Unless the ammunition and food are exhausted, or there is a corresponding suppression force, no matter how many people attack the city, they will die.

The defense of Manila City or the Manila Fortress is not comparable to a newly built small city like Brunei City.

However, Zhu Youchen only temporarily suppressed this idea, and he still wanted to capture Manila or Luzon.

Luzon has the mineral resources he needs, and gold is a vital resource at this moment.

Wanting to understand this, Zhu Youchen's eyes fell on the prisoner in front of him, and he continued to ask: "Then what's the situation with the Dutch?"

Immediately, some prisoners began to chatter, and Li Gu immediately relayed their words.

"The Dutch established Rezhayan City and Prominzia City on Yizhou Island, and stationed one or two infantry regiments respectively to maintain their rule."

"There are also four third-tier warships of the Dutch on Yizhou Island, each of which has thirty to thirty-two cannons."

"There are also Dutchmen in Batavia, where 50 soldiers are stationed, and there is an artillery fleet of [-] warships. There are ten first-class battleships alone, and each battleship has more than [-] artillery pieces. .”

When a group of pirates said this, they had mixed expressions of envy and fear, but their words surprised Zhu Youchen, and they asked immediately.

"There are so many Dutchmen in Batavia?"

Moreover, the strength is still so strong?

What is this place?

Immediately, a blue-eyed, brown-haired pirate leader immediately raised his head and replied, "This is where the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company is located. Their board of directors stationed heavy troops to protect their wealth."

Headquarters of the East India Company?

Zhu Youchen's eyes lit up, and his heart beat wildly. That turned out to be the headquarters of the East India Company!

Suddenly, a voice kept ringing in Zhu Youchen's mind, and the voice became louder and louder.

"Take it. It has to be taken. Take Batavia at any cost."

What the East India Company does is to plunder wealth, and as the headquarters of the East India Company, Batavia has accumulated absolute wealth without saying.

Even if it is bad, at least it will surpass Brunei City.

Although the Brunei city has not been demolished at this moment, not to mention the rest of the resources, but gold alone has provided nearly 50 units.

The city of Brunei is just a new city, and the place that can serve as the headquarters of the East India Company is definitely an old city that the Dutch have worked hard for many years.

Wealth is absolutely indispensable!

The income of a colonial city can always exceed that of the natives of Qiongzhou Island, and at least it can increase his gold by 500 million gold units.

At least 500 million, maybe more.

Thinking of this number, Zhu Youchen's heart jumped wildly, and his eyes immediately turned red.

Immediately, Zhu Youchen looked at the blue-eyed pirate leader with bright eyes, and immediately asked, "Apart from the soldiers and horses you mentioned, are there any other armed forces there?"

Zhu Youchen's words seemed a little impatient.

If it weren't for the night, he would have immediately summoned the rest of the fleet to kill them.

The blue-eyed pirate Slim was taken aback by Zhu Youchu's bright eyes, but he was too familiar with the light.

This is greed.

It is the desire of red fruit.

He had the desire too, every pirate had the desire.

What shocked Slim even more was Zhu Youchen's demeanor that he was clearly planning to attack Batavia!

Attack Batavia! ! !

Attacking the city of Brunei may not necessarily arouse the anger of the Dutch, but attacking Batavia, the Dutch will definitely never die...

However, this did not prevent Slim from replying. After thinking for a while in his mind, he continued:

"There should be aboriginal troops hired and trained by the East India Company on the island, one hundred thousand aboriginal troops without muskets."

"One hundred thousand native troops?"

A look of contempt flashed in Zhu Youchen's eyes. He didn't pay attention to the aboriginal army at all. In front of his spearmen, the aboriginals were just experience for upgrading.

However, if this is the case, the [-] troops he sent over before are not enough.

However, Zhu Youchen is not worried, as long as his troops land on Sumatra Island, he will immediately explode.

Explode one hundred thousand spearmen first.

Exploding another 20 farmers will directly raise the level of the town center to level ten again.

Storm is coming!

The enemies he faces are getting stronger and stronger, and he needs to speed up his development...

Chapter 76

The next day, the red sun rose in the east.

The entire port city of Brunei has completely restored its former vitality, and the sea breeze has completely blown away the gunpowder smoke from yesterday's battlefield.

Whoa! ! !

Two thousand fishing boats raised their sails and rushed out of the port like waves, starting a day of fishing.

Thousands of sails are racing forward, mighty and mighty!

And in the houses adjacent to the festival in the port, there are even more black farmers, and they have started their day's work at this moment.

Logging, farming, and recycling Brunei City, the endless flow of people has brought a busy scene.

Standing alone on a high place, Zhu Youchen had a panoramic view of all the scenes, a brilliant light flashed in his eyes, and a burst of pride surged in his heart.