Cebu Island, Fort San Petro.

The Governor of the Philippines, Regasby, was in a bad mood, and in a few days most of the porcelain cups in the castle were knocked out by him, and the servants had to hide the remaining porcelain and replace it with silverware, at least it could be used if it was broken.

After all, it will be difficult for them to buy porcelain for a long time to come—they are at war with their imaginary enemies in the most unimaginable way.

But don't get me wrong, the reason for Regasby's bad mood is not that his grandson was captured and his grandson was killed on the spot.

"That Chen Mu is a madman, sailed to the Philippines to fight in the rainy season, my God, he can do stupid things! Municipal Governor Mr. Pedro Sarmento, do you know what is more stupid than that? ”

Manila City Governor Sammento, who escaped from Manila by a small boat to avoid the siege of East Asian pirates and fled back to Cebu Island with nine deaths, stood tremblingly in front of Regasby, like a sheep in front of a tiger, wiping the fine sweat on his forehead, and hurriedly echoed: "I'm sorry, Your Excellency Governor, I don't know what could be more stupid than Chen Mu. ”

"You don't know?"

The old Regasby was like a grumpy lion, with light yellow hair and blue eyes, but at this time his eyes were full of anger, and after a question, he slammed his fist on the table and roared: "What's even more stupid is that we let them win!" ”

The fight was a complete mockery to Regasby from start to finish.

To become the Governor of the Philippines as an adventurer, Regas is wise enough to ask himself or cunning.

After receiving Chen Mu's letter asking him for compensation, he did spend a few days thinking about it carefully, and carefully deduced in his heart what would happen next—it was just that the biological people would arrive in Manila after October, and their weak fleet would be crushed by the Spanish fleet at sea.

Even if the lucky ones make the landing, they will have to pay a lot of money, and then they will be surrounded in the jungle with their outdated muskets and a small number of arquebuses, as well as rockets with negligible lethality.

In Regasby's estimates, this war will last for a long time, half a year to a year, because the country of the biological man is very large, and he is not like those bald missionaries who are blindly arrogant to his side, and there are many people in the Ming country, and the army must be very large, but this is useless for him.

As long as Manila is not lost in the first half of the war, when the navy from the Iberian Peninsula blockades the islands from the sea the following year and destroys their supply lines, these people will starve to death in the jungle and become a pile of cheap fertilizer.

Just a month earlier, in his own letter to King Philip II, he mockingly mentioned the joke that the Ming general Chen Mu had asked him for 270,000 taels in compensation, and hoped that Manila, the city he had shaped, would receive the king's coat of arms and establish itself as the first city of the East Indies.

Not receiving the slightest news, Manila sent a war report, and on the way to attack Suleiman, he was frustrated by the bravery of the Orbarian army.

They were all biological people, but no one told Regasby whether it was a tropic army that had crossed the ocean or a mercenary army of biositics on Luzon, and he thought it was the result of the untrained servant army, but he didn't expect that what he would see again would not be a rout.

There was no rout at all, only a small boat of men fleeing to bring back news that Manila had been captured by the Ming army and that the main road had been blocked by countless pirates.

The Governor of the Philippines had not even realized that the war had begun, and it had already ended with him losing the capital.

Is there anything more stupid in this world?

Regasby couldn't have imagined it.

"I don't want to be angry with you, but as you can see, with the landing of the huge infidels and the fall of Manila, the Philippines is out of control for His Highness the King." Regasby lowered his fingers, pressed them against the table as if to press the seal, "We only have San Petro." ”

Fort San Petro is nothing compared to the planned Intramuros, which was the stone fort that Regasby first landed on. It is also a fortress type, but with a circumference of only 378 meters, facing the sea and land on one side, this stone fort required a large number of artillery to defend as a fortress against the Sulu attack.

But now Regasby has the most in his hands, in addition to the warriors, is artillery.

"We're going to hold until next spring, 670 soldiers and 27 guns, I'll send the best to Manila, and now Manila has fallen." Regasby asked Sarmento, the city magistrate, "You've seen an army of biological people, and do you have a better suggestion than to stand there and wipe your sweat?" ”

Ever seen?

Samento has never seen it!

Even he dared to guarantee that the boatload of people who fled back did not see the army of the biological man with his own eyes, and all he saw was the damned Li Dan and those Japanese, and he could not see anything clearly in the night except the light of the artillery fire, and could only know from the reports of his subordinates that dozens of ships loaded with artillery were rampaging through Manila Bay.

Then they lost Manila, and he was lucky enough to get his life back by escaping on the spot.

But he couldn't tell Regasby that, who knows if this old bastard who was already on the verge of madness would hang him as soon as he found out the truth.

There is no cultivated aristocracy in the Philippines, the real aristocracy stays in the Iberian Peninsula, who will come here? Even he dared to swear to God, the biological generals on the other side must be the most dangerous bastards in the country, so they will be sent here to play with their lives.

"Mercenaries, Your Excellency, we need brave mercenaries." Sarmento leaned forward slightly, tilted his head and said: "If you are willing to pay three thousand silver coins, I happen to know a mercenary leader, who was hired by the Portuguese some time ago to fight in the Mughals, very close to us, and it only takes a month or two to reach the Philippines." ”

"No artillery, but well-armed and valiant in battle, and if your Excellency could pay him silver coins first, I think he would bring six companies, or even more."

"You're not as useless as you seem, Mr. Sarmento." Rhaegasby raised his hammer on the table and said, "Recruit him, three thousand silver coins, and let the merchant go and buy artillery from the Portuguese, if the merchant can go to sea." ”

Samento opened his mouth and hurriedly said: "But there are some small problems, for example, the mercenary leader is called Diego, Diego of Madrid. ”

Diego?

Regasbi's excited expression cooled down, and he said, "Is it the Diego who returned alive from Venadaga and was accused of treason and imprisoned in the Inquisition?" He seems to be neither pious nor faithful. ”

"But he has skilled warriors, Your Excellency."

"Go ahead, write a letter and ask him to come, but you don't have to go, I still need you to do something." Regasby looked at Sarmento and smiled, "I need you to go back to Manila and talk to that biological general named Chen Mu, if I don't pursue him to attack Manila, can we make peace?" ”

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