The Prosperous Era of Longwan

Just as Yu Dayou was worrying about how to relieve the tension and anxiety of his soldiers at sea, after a few days of sailing, the expedition sent by the Spanish had approached Pengaslan Bay, found a bay fifty miles away from the bay, and began to unload the troops on the ship.

The Spanish would not be stupid enough to drive all the ships directly into Pengaslan Bay and then be sniped by the Lin Feng pirate group when they forcibly landed.

More than 2,000 people got off the ship and quickly set up camp on the shore, preparing to build this place into a forward base.

However, not all of the dozens of warships were docked here. One of the small armed merchant ships continued to sail north under the leadership of Lieutenant Miguel, naturally to contact the Ming army.

At least, so far, the Spanish and the Ming Dynasty still maintain a superficial alliance relationship and cooperate to encircle and suppress Lin Feng.

In this way, the vassal army here carried various supplies from the ship under the command of the Spanish officers, while the armed merchant ships operated by the Spanish sailors continued to cruise on the seashore. Their mission was not on land, but to block the bay.

In this encirclement, Commander Savella set the task for the vassal army and the Spanish army to launch an attack from land and surround the city of Daimao.

The naval force that was temporarily assembled was to raid the bay and destroy all the sea ships of Lin Feng's army as much as possible to prevent them from escaping again, and at the same time blockade from the sea.

They only knew that there were three warships in the Philippines, two of which were gunboats, which could also undertake the task of raiding Lin Feng's sea ships in the bay this time.

Well, this is the task they think the Ming army can perform, so Commander Savella did not take the Ming navy seriously at all.

They were too weak, and they only needed to send two large armed merchant ships to defeat the Ming navy.

This was his understanding, but he would soon pay the price for his contempt.

The small armed merchant ship led by Lieutenant Miguel deliberately took a long detour through the Pengaslan Bay to avoid the patrol of the pirate ship under Lin Feng and not give them a chance to notice.

For this reason, it took more than a day for them to arrive near the bay where the Ming army was stationed.

However, as soon as they arrived at the bay, Lieutenant Miguel, who was standing on the bow and observing, was stunned.

In his eyes, the bay that should have only three lonely sea ships had six or seven sea ships docked at this moment, and he knew at a glance that they were Ming people's sea ships.

The big Fu ship was too obvious, full of the style of Chinese sea ships in front, behind, left and right, which was very different from the sea ships in Europe at this time and was very easy to identify.

"Why are there so many ships?"

While Lieutenant Miguel was still in a daze and talking to himself, a Fu ship had already rushed towards this side quickly from the side in the distance.

With the return of the two small fleets, Deng Zilong's men now have seven ships under their control, so several sea ships take turns to patrol the sea, and it is no longer the gunboat patrolling that Miguel saw when he first came.

Obviously, the Ming warships that suddenly appeared here scared him. Who would have thought that the Ming people would assemble a fleet in Luzon so quickly.

Well, in the era when the Ming Dynasty still called the navy the navy, the East and the West called it differently, but the meaning was similar.

Although the additional ships were all Fu ships, Miguel knew from his understanding of Chinese warships that the increased combat power was not much, but after all, the troops had doubled.

If there were more Ming navy fleets coming later, I really don’t know what would happen.

After contacting the Ming warships, they were soon allowed to enter the bay.

Led by the Fu ships, the Spanish merchant ships sailed towards the shore. The closer they got to the coast, the heavier Lieutenant Miguel’s heart became, because he actually saw more than a dozen large ships made by the Filipino natives on the shore.

What this means, even a fool can figure it out.

The Ming people have made contact with the natives on the island, how obvious it is.

At this time, Miguel suddenly remembered that he seemed to have heard the former commander say that before they came here, the Philippines seemed to be called Luzon by them and was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, but there had been no contact for two hundred years.

Thinking of this, Miguel's worries became even stronger.

According to what he heard at the time, it seemed that it was not that the natives of the Philippines were unwilling to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, but that they did not have a sturdy sea ship to take them to the Ming Dynasty.

Before this, the Ming Dynasty sent warships here to pick up their king to the Ming Dynasty and meet the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

No, the situation here must be reported to Commander Savella as soon as possible, and Governor Ravisalli must know it. We must find a way to cut off the connection between the Ming people and the natives on the island.

Lieutenant Miguel made his own judgment in a very short time. It was difficult to cut off the connection between the Ming Dynasty and the natives, so the only way was to end the war as soon as possible and send them away.

Soon, the merchant ship approached the shore, put down the boat, and Lieutenant Miguel landed with only Lin Bixiu and two soldiers.

At this time, Deng Zilong had received the news and went to the shore to greet him.

After all, the two sides were still on good terms and it was not time to break up.

"Oh, dear Deng, it's nice to see you again."

Seeing Deng Zilong coming, Lieutenant Miguel stepped forward and said loudly with pretended enthusiasm.

"I am also happy to see you, Lieutenant Miguel."

Deng Zilong could barely understand Miguel's half-baked Chinese, so he responded enthusiastically.

However, when Westerners meet, regardless of gender, they call each other "honey". This is something Deng Zilong could not say no matter what.

After standing on the shore and chatting for a few words, Deng Zilong introduced Miguel into his military tent and asked people to bring him tea.

Both of them are soldiers, so naturally they are not used to the behavior of civilian officials, so the conversation quickly got on track.

"Your army has arrived?"

Miguel asked before revealing that their army had arrived.

"You mean those warships? No, I brought them all. I sent them out to find Lin Feng's whereabouts before, but they were recalled recently."

Deng Zilong smiled.

"I see."

Miguel pretended to be surprised and said, "This way our power will be much stronger.

By the way, I see there are many more indigenous people in the camp this time. Were they recruited by you? "

"No, no, my friends, they are here to help us."

Deng Zilong smiled and said: "The people I sent out found no trace of Lin Feng, so when they saw people moving on the shore, they went to the shore to ask them.

You know, this is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, so they knew that we were soldiers of the Celestial Dynasty and came to hunt down bandits, so they took the initiative to help. "

"I saw a lot of their boats on the beach, and there must be a lot of people coming."

Lieutenant Miguel asked, continuing his probing.

"There are already 1,600 people, people sent by several tribes, but I am worried about their food, and you are here."

Deng Zilong smiled and said, "Tell me, how much food will you bring to me this time?"

Miguel heard that the Ming army carried limited supplies, so they could not provide food for these more than a thousand locals. Even their own supplies were somewhat insufficient.

In fact, his arrival this time was to fulfill the previous agreement between Deng Zilong and Governor Ravi Sari to provide part of the food for the Ming army.

Fortunately, Deng Zilong didn't know if he could recruit soldiers and horses from Luzon at that time, and he was worried about alerting the enemy, so he only reported the number of soldiers in three ships and reduced the remaining supplies on their ships to 10%, so as to get more from the Spanish. Ordered more food.

Now, when faced with Miguel's question, Deng Zilong certainly would not say that the locals had brought a lot of food, enough for them to eat for half a month, so he complained first and then asked how much food was brought on board.

"According to the agreement between you and the Governor, the food is on the boat, and they can be moved down later."

Miguel was even more worried now. The Ming people actually recruited 1,600 people on Luzon Island in such a short period of time, which was already half of their servant army.

Although these people obviously lack training, they are still people, not pigs.

Standing together and standing on the battlefield can also bluff people.

Yes, the Spaniards now look down on the indigenous people, who are lazy and delicious. If their efforts are not needed, staying here is a waste of resources.

"Thank you very much, Lord Governor, for your generosity. By the way, have your troops arrived?"

Deng Zilong first smiled and thanked him, then put away his smile and asked.

"We have arrived. There is a secluded harbor more than a hundred miles south, and the army has come ashore to rest.

As long as we complete the task assignment with you, we can take action. "

Although Miguel didn't want to reveal their actions, he also knew that they couldn't hide it from the Ming people.

As long as they send ships to search south, their whereabouts will be exposed.

Regardless of his final relationship with the Ming Kingdom, Miguel believed that there was no need for him to have any quarrel with the Ming Kingdom generals.

The battle for national interests is a political matter. I just follow the order to deliver food to the Ming army and communicate the cooperation between the two sides.

“We didn’t have enough troops before, so what we initially said was that we would block the bay together with your fleet.

But now we have more than a thousand people, and we can mobilize 200 people from each ship to go ashore. In this way, we have 1,800 people, and we should be able to blockade the north of Tortoiseshell City. "

Deng Zilong waved his hand and asked his soldiers to take out a scroll and unfold it, which marked the terrain around their camp and Tortoiseshell City.

"This is a nearby map that I sent people to draw before. With the current strength of our army, we can be responsible for the north. The east and south are still arranged by your country."

Deng Zilong proposed to modify the original plan, but Miguel didn't think there was anything inappropriate.

In this case, they would be more confident to besiege Tortoiseshell City because they had more troops.

But looking at the map, it took Miguel a long time to identify it.

There is no way, the map drawing of China and Europe is completely different. No matter what is drawn here in the Ming Dynasty, it seems to be more "abstract" and artistically processed.

The maps in Europe are more realistic, at least they think they are more intuitive.

It seems like maps like this were only used hundreds of years ago.

Miguel looked at the map displayed by Deng Zilong and complained in his heart.

"I will go back immediately to report the matter and then make a decision. Or, Deng, will you come with me to meet Commander Savela?"

Miguel tentatively put forward his own suggestion, completely treating Deng Zilong, or Daming, as equals to them.

Of course, the Spaniards would not play any trick of imprisoning the opponent's generals. This seemed to Europeans to lack the spirit of chivalry.

Moreover, unlike the Philippines or other colonies, the Spanish knew that the Ming people had their own history and were very powerful, so they did not regard the Ming people as barbarians or blacks. They recognized that the Ming people were white people like them.

They even knew that nearly two hundred years ago, the Ming navy had been to the Indian Ocean and the east coast of Africa.

With such navigation technology, they should not be black people in any way.

Although the Ming technology, in their opinion, had defects, such as navigation technology and firearms, their handicrafts were indeed very exquisite and could be sold at a good price in Europe.

In fact, dividing humans into so-called white, black, and yellow people according to their skin is racial discrimination at the moral level.

In the 16th century in history, there was no concept of yellow people. Europeans at this time only divided humans into two types: white and black.

In fact, these two types are not completely distinguished by skin color, but by their subjective recognition.

The white people defined during this period actually covered a very wide range. It can be considered that most of the Eurasian continent was white, that is, except for Europeans, the Arabs in the Middle East and the Ming people were actually white in their eyes. They all had their own national history and culture, and were not barbarians.

In other places, not only most of Africa, but also the population of the colonies they conquered, were black, without culture and religious beliefs, and were useless.

In fact, the concept of yellow people only appeared in modern times. Before this word appeared, Western countries called Chinese people Mongolians.

This originated from the deep impression left on them by the historical memory of the Huns and Mongols invading Europe from the west, and the fear and panic caused by the "yellow peril".

In modern times, the Boxer Rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty and the subsequent Russo-Japanese War once again aroused European concerns about this, so the term yellow people began to appear.

In fact, classifying races by skin color is discriminatory. They use this term to name the yellow people, which means discrimination against the yellow people.

China and Japan were both classified as yellow people. The concepts of "yellow people" and "Mongoloid race" were quickly combined and widely recognized and cited by Europe.

In fact, this happened in the early 20th century.

However, after the term "yellow people" appeared, the Japanese did not recognize the classification of yellow people and disdained to be classified as the same race as the Chinese.

But later, Japan began to invade Korea and China. In order to meet the needs of invasion, the Japanese played the "yellow people" card and widely publicized that China, Japan, Mongolia and Korea were all yellow people and should cooperate and prosper together.

Miguel's suggestion, Deng Zilong just thought about it for a moment and smiled: "I won't go, you just convey my meaning to Savella."

"Okay."

Miguel had to agree, and then the two began to arrange people to unload the cargo on the ship and transport the food they brought off the ship.

Deng Zilong was reluctant to go to the Spanish camp, mainly because there was no news from the fleet sent out before, and he was considering whether to send two ships to find them.