Dominate the Country

Just when the Spanish flag was lowered in the Spanish Royal City in Manila, a red flag was also planted on the Cebu Pier.

The air was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder. The fire in Cebu City was extinguished and black smoke was still billowing. After surrendering their guns, the dejected Spanish army was surrounded by a group of marines holding guns in a corner of the pier. In Cebu City, which used to be the second largest city in Luzon, the black smoke and crying were tightly mixed together and could not be separated.

Ye Tingyang, who waited for the reinforcements, led the fleet to float in the eastern waters of Cebu Island, while the main force of the Marine Corps of the Navy first captured Kalkar, which was left with only an empty shell. This city is located in the middle of Cebu Island, not far to the east of Cebu City.

The Marine Corps of the Navy launched an attack from land to directly capture Cebu City. The big duck navy chose to escape in desperation.

The breakthrough point was placed in the eastern waters where Ye Tingyang was located. They obviously wanted to go north into the Visayan Sea [inter-island sea]. Although the latter did not have a large port for the fleet to dock, it was well connected and there were ways out from east to west and north to south.

They did not dare to go to the western end of Cebu Island, that is, the Bohol Strait, because there were obviously a large number of Chinese naval warships there. Although the Ye Tingyang part of the eastern section had subsequent warships incorporated, it was still a small fleet overall.

The Cebu Spanish Navy Fleet was based on three third-level sailing battleships as the core, four fourth-level sailing battleships as the muscles, equipped with many three-masted and two-masted warships, and several armed merchant ships and transport ships, and rushed out of Cebu Port at dusk.

A fleet with three third-level sailing battleships and four fourth-level sailing battleships as the core is already a combat force that cannot be ignored for any maritime country. But such a force faced a Chinese fleet that was far less numerous and tonnage than itself, and the biggest goal was to escape. The biggest goal of the Spanish Navy was to escape and turn to Batavia in the south.

Even if it was docked in Batavia in the name of "disarmament", it was better than being captured by the Chinese or sunk in the sea. So this fleet was on a dead end from the moment it rushed out of the port.

What kind of army is the navy? The navy is fighting spirit and blood.

Is the navy without fighting spirit and the desire to win still a navy?

It's like a mob of the army without discipline, being killed by the organized and disciplined Chinese navy. Although some warships did escape into the Visayas Sea. But Ye Tingyang followed into the Visayas Sea with a fleet of clipper warships.

The Visayas Sea, which is 300 miles long from north to south and 200 miles wide from east to west, is not large. There are many islands in the sea area, but they are not densely packed. However, there are many islands and reefs on the island coast here. Moreover, the entire sea area is a super shallow sea, with areas with a depth of less than 20 meters accounting for half of the entire sea area, which is completely different from the Mindanao Sea separated by a water. This point should be paid attention to.

After Ye Tingyang led the team into the Visayas Sea, the fleet also dispersed and dispersed to pursue. He was lucky. Less than two hours after sailing northeast, the lookout in the mast sounded the alarm:

"A suspicious target has been found, and it is visually estimated to be a fourth-level sailing warship."

Half an hour later, the target finally appeared in Ye Tingyang's telescope at the bow. It seemed to rise from the sea surface. Three masts were exposed above the sea level and gradually became higher, followed by the tail mast, the fore-sprit, and the forecastle and poop of the Spanish sailing ship.

Double-layer gun deck!

A standard European fourth-level sailing warship. The estimated displacement is 1,200 to 1,300 tons.

He noticed that the Burgundy cross flag was flying on the mast. Yes, this is the Spanish. The Burgundy Cross with a yellow background has been the flag of the Big Duck since the day the Spaniards landed in America.

"Everyone prepare to fight!" Ye Tingyang gave the order excitedly, and his order was immediately passed to the entire ship. Rockets were taken out of the cabin one by one, and the cannons began to load ammunition.

The Spanish ship in the distance had already discovered something was wrong, and they desperately advanced to the waters between Leyte Island and Masbate Island. There are a series of small islands there. Beyond this area of ​​water is a new inter-island sea - the Samar Sea.

From the Samar Sea to the south, you can enter the Leyte Gulf, and then all the way south is Java Island.

Ye Tingyang commanded the ship to pursue in the northeast direction, just calculating this point. Sure enough, it was as he expected.

"1,000 meters away, the whole fleet fired!"

Ye Tingyang felt like a cat playing with a mouse. The naval officers and soldiers on the entire Tuna No. 12 also felt this relaxed. There was no third warship in sight. It would be too easy for a medium-sized clipper warship to fight against a fourth-level sailing warship.

The sound of the cannon sounded, and the Spanish warship in front was immediately shrouded in a group of water columns.

A distance of one thousand meters is definitely beyond the effective range of the smoothbore cannons of this era. In many cases, the distance between each other in naval battles of this era was pulled to two or three hundred meters.

Therefore, the British Royal Navy, which began to reform at the end of the 18th century, began to abandon long-barreled cannons and use more short heavy cannons. The latter is a large-caliber naval gun that can be fired horizontally, which is improved from a large-caliber mortar used by the army. Because of its short body, the cannon installed in the same space is more powerful and easier to load.

Finally, it is powerful. The iron balls they spit out are large in size. The salvo firepower of the warship can be increased several times instantly.

At this time, the Spanish and the Chinese navy, which learned European technology, were all equipped with long-barreled cannons on their warships.

It has a long range, but it's not accurate.

This time the shooting of Marlin No. 12 was completely in vain. Marlin No. 12 began to circle toward the stern of the Spanish warship.

An orthodox sail warship and a clipper bow sailboat of similar tonnage, the two compete in a relatively open position to see who is more flexible. The final result does not need to be guessed.

"Boom boom boom..."

It was like a red sun that suddenly jumped out of the sea, casting countless endless rays of light on the sea. Along with the explosion, countless broken boards, lifeless bodies, and broken limbs whose owners were unknown, were floating in the bloody waves, colliding, stirring, and merging with each other.

The tail of the century-old sailing warship was hit by two heavy rockets. It's finished!

The weakest link of Western-style sailboats is their stern, which is like the back door of a wild boar that has been severely dug by a dog's claws.

After cutting through the bow of the ship, Marlin No. 12 rewarded the Spanish sailing ship with a few cannonballs from the stern. The burgundy cross flag with red traces on a yellow background fell from the mast, and a white flag was raised.

The hunting of Marlin No. 12 is only part of the entire operation. Such scenes have been staged time and time again throughout the Visayan Sea.

The Chinese Navy ended the entire Battle of Manila and the Battle of Cebu with a clean rhythm, which greatly shocked the local indigenous people and the local Spanish colonial forces. After taking Manila, the Marine Corps They neither sent people to contact the rebels in Luzon nor the Spanish colonial troops in the area. Instead, they directly went to a reorganized brigade sent from Wanwan, plus a thousand Japanese security teams, to clean up the area. Luzon. At the end of October, when Ye Tingyang arrived in Zamboanga, Mindanao with his warships, the entire Luzon belonged to China.

China, which easily ended the war against Manila, did not immediately attack the Netherlands.

In Chen Ming's consideration, it would be better for the Netherlands to wait for a while. After the news of the fall of Manila on behalf of France reached Nanjing, Perrier immediately submitted a very firm protest to China, because he was now not qualified to declare war on China on behalf of France, otherwise the relationship between China and France would have completely broken down. However, at Perrier's request and urging, Pierre, who was more of a businessman than a government official, was taking action on his own property, which was eaten up by the expanding Li family. There are also many industries of the French East India Company that have been almost eaten up.

Although some interesting anecdotes happened in the process, the French's firm determination made Chen Ming murmur in his heart. If he eats the Netherlands now, will the British be forced to break off diplomatic relations with China?

For Britain and France, Europe's interests undoubtedly far outweigh their interests in China at this time.

The French have a huge industrial chain of interests in China, but compared to the British, they are absolutely the younger brothers.

If the French want to say goodbye to China, it will only have some adverse effects on China's foreign trade. Now that China has two more territories, Malay and Luzon, the economic benefits brought by these places can make up for China's losses. But if John Bull also says goodbye to China, it will be very painful.

At least half of China's current trade volume with Europe is with the British. To a certain extent, China really cannot afford to offend Britain. Although after China and Britain turned against each other, both sides suffered losses.

So Chen Ming temporarily put away his sharp minions.

In the Far East, whether on land or in the sea, China is already the most powerful presence after defeating Russia and Spain. After China abandoned Batavia, Chen Ming directed China's diplomatic spearhead towards Malay.

Strike while the iron is hot?

Even to deal with the Malays, China does not need to send troops.

First, the Thonburi dynasty of Siam from the north sent 30,000 troops to attack Kelantan. This is Chen Ming's show of goodwill to Zheng Xin. He has always been obedient and Chen Ming can't find an excuse to beat Siam. Now Chen Ming's tendency to devour Siam has been greatly weakened.

Kelantan is the place where Chinese people first entered and where Chinese influence is strongest in Malay. Kedah and Johor are not included. That was directly controlled by the Chinese government. Kelantan is where Chinese people from the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong voluntarily migrated.

The local Chinese organization raised troops to echo the Siamese soldiers, and Zheng Xin captured Kelantan without any effort. Then the envoys of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs set out from Singapore to Johor, Selangor, Pahang, Perak and other places. Except for Malacca, which was still left to the Netherlands, the rest of the Malay territories were all given to China.

China would not use a substandard name like "colony". When he picked up a Chinese history book and flipped through it, Chen Ming saw the word "渻".

This policy has a long history in ancient China. It started in the pre-Qin period. King Hui of Qin merged with Bazhong and made Bashi the head of the barbarians. Qin women were respected in the world, and their titles were no higher than those of Bazhong. In the Tang Dynasty, Jisi Prefecture entered its heyday. After the Song Dynasty, this policy disappeared in Chinese history, and was replaced by the chieftain who had a long influence.

Chen Ming’s current policy in Malay is ‘Toast’. It's just that many innovations have been added to the traditional toast policy.

The permanent cession of places like Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Penang is called land donation;

All cities and towns within the territory were opened to Chinese merchants for free passage and business;

Absolute consular jurisdiction, not even the Joint Court;

These chieftains have no diplomatic rights, and no land, ports, or minerals may be ceded or leased to foreign countries;

China will assist the chieftains in establishing government agencies and armed armies, and the chieftain governments should employ powerful Chinese as political, financial, and military advisers.

Bilateral joint police agencies.

China will guarantee the integrity of the chieftains' rights and interests.

China has the right to preach anywhere in the territory of each chieftain.

All Chinese hospitals, temples, schools, etc. established in the chieftain's territory are allowed to have land ownership.

Chinese subjects have the right to do business, live, farm, mine, and other rights in Malaysia.

If there is another time traveler in this world, when he sees the regulations presented by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to these chieftains, he will definitely feel very familiar. Because this is the set of rules that Japan gave to Yuan Datou in the history of the original time and space - the 21 Demands to destroy China.

It is enough to replace Japan with China and China with the chieftains. The Twenty-one Demands that destroyed China became the Twenty-one Demands that destroyed Malay. Those clauses gave a good buff to those who had entered the Buddhist sect in Malay.

The British were so envious of these laws, not to mention the Dutch.

Imagine their two hundred years of hard work in the East, and then look at the Chinese style of eating meat and drinking wine, they really envy them.

By the end of November of the fourth year of Chengtian, not only had the Ministry of Foreign Affairs signed the agreement with the Malay chieftains, but the Malays were not unaware of how harmful these conditions were to them, but they dared not not sign. After signing, they could still enjoy their lives. If they did not sign, they would be the Sultan of Kelantan, and they would lose their lives.

In this cruel jungle society, weakness is the greatest original sin, and these Malay sultans do not even have the qualifications to resist. Think about a tiny country smaller than Japan, with a population of only two or three hundred people, but scattered into n "small" tribes of hundreds of thousands of people. How can they decide their own destiny?

At this time, the lower class people in Malaysia did not have any large demonstrations. They did not care about what the superiors did, and their sultan did not think that such things should be announced to everyone.

After signing the agreement, they were the chieftains of China, not the devil sultan.

Portugal and the Netherlands also signed all the agreements on Timor Island with China. With the precedent of Manila duck, the Portuguese and the Dutch easily surrendered.

In the Qianqing Palace, Chen Ming looked at the Mala and Luzon Islands that had been dyed red, stroked his short beard, and smiled very complacently.

Beyond the blue Java Island and Sumatra Island, there is the entire Nanmingzhou in the south. Unknowingly, China's territory has become much larger than the traditional territory.

Chen Ming did not spend the winter of that year in Nanjing. Although the navy has made a lot of contributions, the main force will reach Xiangzhou [Alaska] along the northern route next year, and then start attacking California's big duck, and take over the Seattle and Vancouver areas in the future. In the future, it will be carefully managed as a transit point for communication between Xiangzhou and Jiazhou [California].

But Chen Ming just didn't listen to the nagging of those generals in Nanjing. Chen Erbao even pulled Chen Ming to be the commander-in-chief. If Chen Ming really stayed in Nanjing for the New Year, he would definitely not be comfortable this year.

Chen Ming chose to go out.