Chapter 508 Indiscriminately attacked the Manila Governor's Palace, the huge council hall, which was empty and empty at this time.The Spanish governor in Manila, Colaquay, stood on a chair like an ant on a hot pot, looking at the door from time to time, he seemed a little anxious and a little uneasy.As a governor of a colony, he is simply a supreme emperor with supreme power.However, Coraqua was extremely uncomfortable, as he was the colonial governor of the Spanish Empire.The rise of the Spanish Empire, unlike other Chinese dynasties, was annexed through wars.They were through a series of marriages.Maximilian's elaborate political marriage made his grandson Charles V (known as Carlos I in Spanish) the hegemon of Europe.In 1506, after the untimely death of his father, Philip the Handsome King, Charles succeeded him as Duke of Burgundy and became the first ruler of the Spanish Netherlands (the Netherlands and Belgium).In 1516, Charles' maternal grandfather, King Ferdinand II of Spain, died of illness, making him King Carlos I of Spain.From then on, the whole of Spain, Sicily, Sardinia, the Kingdom of Naples, and the Spanish colonies in the Americas became Habsburg powers.Anyway, the position of the boss is not easy to do.The first to jump out to challenge Spain was the United Kingdom, which ended with a hurricane that destroyed the Spanish armada, followed by Portugal and the Netherlands......
In addition to dealing with a group of unconvinced younger brothers, Spain also had to resist the Ottoman navy and pirates.By the time of Philip IV, Spain had experienced a crushing defeat at the Armada and then a thirty-year war.This thirty-year war can be seen as a world war in the Middle Ages, also called a religious war, because of the war between Protestants and Catholics.The warring parties were Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, the Grand Duchy of Austria, the Kingdom of Hungary, Norway, the United Kingdom of Denmark (which changed sides in 1636), and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.The opposing sides were the Kingdom of France, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (Netherlands), the Electorate of Saxony, the Electorate of the Palatinate (Landenburg, Germany), Brandenburg-Prussia (Berlin), Braunschweig-Lüneburg, the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Scotland, the Duchy of Transylvania, the Hungarian anti-Habsburg rebels, the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Tsardom, the German Protestant princes and the support of the anti-Habsburg movement in Bohemia, Transylvania, and Italy.The whole war can be said to be a world war in the medieval era, which directly led to two consequences, the first was that Spain's position as the hegemon of Europe was pulled down, and the second result was the formation of the German nation and the national subjects of European countries.At this time, although Spain had a large territory, it was inevitably going into decline.Portugal was on the verge of independence, the Dutch had been provoking Spanish hegemony, and Britain was eyeing it, and in this case, as the governor of the Philippines in the Far East, Coraqua was not supported by the Spanish kingdom's forces and fleets, but was still a behemoth close at hand.Just then, there was a knock on the door."
Come in!""
It turned out to be Colonel Vargas, is there something wrong?"
Vargas said with a wry smile: "Your Excellency the Governor, there is news from the Ming Kingdom!"
”"Let me guess, if it's good news!"
Coraqua smiled, as the governor of the Far East, he knew that he had spent a lot of energy to understand the huge empire of the Ming Dynasty, which was almost the same as the Spanish Empire, and the Ming Empire was now also suffering from internal and external troubles.The Ming Empire was not like Spain, and the powerful naval fleet of the Ming Empire was once more powerful than the Spanish Invincible Armada.It's just a pity that now this formidable and powerful fleet, like the Spanish Armada, has become a term of history, and Spain's biggest advantage is that they also have a powerful Mediterranean fleet, which can basically guarantee the territorial waters of the empire.It's a pity that the Ming Empire doesn't have such a powerful navy.The Philippines does not directly border the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty's two million troops cannot cross the sea."
Your Excellency the Governor, your guess is wrong, the Ming people are coming, they are coming!"
Coraquay looked at Vargas in disbelief: "This joke you made is not funny at all, the Ming Empire is worried about internal and external troubles, and it is too busy to take care of itself, ten years ago, the Dutch obviously lost, but they occupied Taiwan, if it ......"
"Your Excellency the Governor, I very much hope that today is April Fool's Day, but the problem is, this is really, they have arrived, hundreds of warships, have arrived in Manila Bay, if you walk to the dock now, you can see their warships!"
”"Oh God!"
Kolaqua covered his forehead in pain, as the so-called fear of something, when he launched the massacre of the Chinese, many things were out of control, and he did not deal with the Chinese as easily as his predecessors.In fact, even without Quan Xu's intervention, the massacre lasted for more than 120 days, and now more than a month has passed, except for most of the Chinese in Manila who were slaughtered, many Chinese farmers have been trapped in their own estates, and those natives ......
It made Colaquay very speechless, although they occupied a tenfold numerical advantage, they had no way not to capture those castles.That's right, in Kolakoy's eyes, the Chinese landlords' plantations are like castles, but in fact they are just landlords' compounds.Now that the huge fleet of the Ming army is coming, what now?
After thinking about it, Coracoux made a decision immediately.It was decided to send someone to test what was going on with this Ming army, if it was sent by the Ming court, then the situation would be very tricky, if it was just a general's private behavior, then there was still a chance that the matter could be reversed.At the same time, Corracue decided to send people to contact Portugal and the Netherlands, both of whom were nominally under the administration of the Kingdom of Spain, and should abandon their previous suspicions and unite with the outside world.…… Mao Yuanyi held the binoculars and watched the five Spanish warships in his line of sight begin to slowly evacuate, and he said with some puzzlement: "Master Hou, why didn't the fight start, the Spaniards retreated!"
”Quan Xu said with a smile: "Actually, it's very simple, the biggest problem with these Xiyi is that their number is very small, and there are no more than five thousand Spaniards in the entire Philippines."
Even if they are strong, how strong can they be?
”The main warships of the Spaniards are almost equivalent to the 10,000 warships of the current family army, but the whole family army has an advantage in artillery and rocket artillery, regardless of the rate of fire or the range, the whole family army occupies an absolute advantage.Yuan Zongdi asked curiously: "Hey, why did the Spaniards surrender?"
Quan Xu could see a small boat driving in the distance ahead, this kind of boat had no mast, and it was all moving forward by rocking the oar, and there was a man in Hanfu at the bow of the ship, holding a small white flag and shaking it constantly."
Surrender fart, just come over and negotiate!"
Quan Xu smiled disapprovingly: "Wait and see, the people on this boat are Chinese!"
”"Chinese?"
Mao Yuanyi was a little puzzled: "These Xiyi have already raised their butcher knives to the Chinese, how can they ......
How?
”Speaking of which, this is another tragedy for the Filipino Chinese.Although the Spaniards occupied Manila, in fact they did not have many manpower, during the second massacre of the Chinese in Manila, the Spaniards in Manila only had more than 1,400 people, although the Spaniards had muskets and artillery, but the Chinese were not the natives who knelt on the ground in fear when they heard the gunshots.In the course of the massacre, the Chinese Federation also organized the arrival, the resistance once numbered more than 10,000 people, at this time, the Spaniards used the indigenous armed forces, the Japanese expatriates, although the Chinese United Resistance Army killed and wounded more than 4,000 people, but the fighting has been stalemate, four months later, until the Chinese pious Catholics, tried to shake hands with the Spaniards.The Spanish colonial army pretended to return some of the Chinese property and released some of the captured Chinese women, and then the Chinese resistance army was slaughtered.In fact, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, overseas Chinese had the opportunity to build an independent country abroad, but it is a pity that these Chinese, who were mainly bankrupt farmers, small traders, and merchants, lacked pattern and foresight, and were deceived again and again.Sure enough, not long after, more than a dozen Chinese representatives came over on this small ship.The Chinese representative led by Lin Feng was still acquainted, Lin Feng looked at the middle-aged man led by him and said, "Tell the general, he is Sun Fangsheng, the head of the Eight Chambers of Commerce." ”Sun Fangsheng looked at the three or four hundred warships densely packed with the navy of the whole family, and was a little uneasy: "Sun Fangsheng, a grass man outside the party, pays a visit to the general of the Heavenly Empire!"
”"Get up!""
What are you here for?""
The grass people were ordered by the governor of Kolakoy (to mark the point, this blood debt is the culprit of the blood debt) to ask the general why he came?""
There is only one thing for Ben Shuai to come over, the Spaniards slaughtered the people of my Celestial Empire, and the Celestial Empire will not sit idly by and ignore this matter!"
Hearing Quan Xu's words, Sun Fangsheng said with a smile on his face: "General, I'm just afraid that there will be a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!"
”In fact, what the Philippines discovered, Quan Xu knew, Mao Yuanyi also knew, of course, Lin Feng knew better.Quan Xu smiled playfully: "What a misunderstanding!
”Sun Fangsheng said: "There was a rebellion in Manila, the rebels rushed into the city, killed people and set fires......
Hearing this, Lin Feng couldn't hold back anymore, he stepped forward and asked Sun Fangsheng: "Despicable and shameless, reversing black and white ......"
"You can't ...... your lord" Quan Xu looked at Sun Fangsheng and said coldly: "Yuan Zongdi!"
”"Palm!"
Yuan Zongdi did not hesitate, raised his broken saber and hit Sun Fangsheng's mouth."
Pap ......"
After only three or five strokes, the teeth in Sun Fangsheng's mouth were knocked out."
Let the Spaniards prepare for war, don't say that I will bully more and less!"
Sun Fangsheng had no choice but to leave in a huff.The negotiations lasted only five minutes."
Fire, fire!"
Quan Xu picked up the walkie-talkie and said loudly: "Sink all the ships of all the Spaniards in front of you, whether they are warships or merchant ships!"
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