Seeing the strength of the fleet in Wang Yin's hands, the strong ships and sharp cannons were beyond Zheng Sen's ability to resist, so he made the move of sending Chen Yonghua to attack the Portuguese in Haojingao.

In order to successfully get out of South Australia, Zheng Sen gave up the old and weak family members on Nanao Island. His actions can be described as lonely, and there is no way back.

If it was on land, successive defeats would inevitably lead to demoralization and the flight of soldiers. Fortunately, it is on the sea, and as far as the eye can see, there is nowhere to go even if you want to escape, so you can only follow a path to the dark.

The Zheng family has been running the sea for many years, first for thieves and then for officials, and naturally has a group of loyal supporters, while Zheng Sen's officers and soldiers are mostly coastal fishermen from Fujian, and people in other places regard the sea as a daunting path, while the poor people of Fujian and Guangdong have been begging for a way out in the sea for hundreds of years, and the sea is nothing to them.

For hundreds of years, countless people have traveled across the ocean, or to Luzon, Java, Borneo and other places to make a living, or to sail between the Ming Dynasty and overseas islands, and earn a lot of wealth through trade. Every year, tens of thousands of people go overseas by boat.

And the Luzon Island that Zheng Sen wants to conquer, although it is the territory of the Spaniards, the number of Ming people on the island is at least 20,000 or 30,000, which is also the confidence of Zheng Sen to dare to rashly cross the sea, because he has no lack of internal response.

However, many times, the success of a thing depends more on luck.

On the third day of the fleet's Oyuan Island, a storm suddenly came, and although it was not too big, it caused the fleet to deviate from its direction.

By the time the storm had subsided, the fleet was counted, and three two-masted galleons had disappeared, with a loss of about two hundred men.

"General, we've deviated from the shipping route to Manila." The fire chief in charge of the course stood in front of Zheng Sen with a heavy face.

"Where are we now?" Zheng Sen asked solemnly.

"About a hundred miles north of the original shipping lane." Fire Long Road.

"More than a hundred miles, that is, as long as you continue to move forward, although you can't reach Manila, you can still reach Luzon?" Zheng Sen groaned.

The fire captain nodded: "That's true, general, I suggest that we go ashore to repair it first, there are more than ten sea ships in the fleet that are damaged, the grain is damp, and there is not much fresh water......"

"Okay, let's go to the shore first!" Zheng Sen agreed.

In the distance, you can faintly see the stretch of coast, and Luzon has arrived.

Zheng Sen sent several fast boats along the coast to investigate both sides, and after a few hours, he reported that there was a bay that could be sheltered from the wind more than ten miles to the south, and that a river flowed into the bay from the island.

Where there is a river, there is fresh water, and following the river to the island can search for food materials, which is an excellent place to dock and repair, Zheng Sen immediately ordered the fleet to go south and enter this bay.

Near the mouth of the river, a large army was stationed, and Zheng Sen sent a fleet of boats up the river while he began to repair the boats damaged by the waves.

With mountains in the distance and a large amount of flat land on both sides of the river, and dense forests on them, it was natural that such a place would not be empty, and the search team sent out quickly found a native tribe of Luzon of several thousand people, and brought the leader of the tribe to Zheng Sen.

Zheng Sen ordered the translator to tell the indigenous leaders that he claimed to be the general army of Fujian in the Ming Dynasty, and that the Spaniards had enslaved Luzon and killed the king of Luzon, so he sent his army to Luzon to drive the Spaniards.

The excuse that the Spaniards had killed the king of Luzon for more than a hundred years was of course very clumsy, but the indigenous chiefs were overjoyed and wept with joy.

Over the years, under the enslavement of the Spaniards, the indigenous people of Luzon lived a miserable life. The cruelty of the Western colonizers was well known, treating the natives as pagans and not treating them as human beings at all, and slaughtering and looting at every turn.

That is to say, Spain has a small number of people on Luzon, and Spain's main focus is on running South American colonies, otherwise I am afraid that the indigenous people of Luzon Island are almost on the verge of extinction, just like the indigenous Indians of the Americas.

The natives of the islands of the South Seas have always regarded the Ming Dynasty as the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and now the imperial court finally remembers them and wants to help them drive away the hateful devils, how can they not be grateful!

Zheng Sen's fleet was very large, hundreds of ships almost covered the bay, and the number of people was as high as tens of thousands, which also gave them hope of driving away the Spaniards.

The indigenous leader Morav told Zheng Sen that the river is called the Anger River, and the harbor is called the Tortoiseshell Harbor, and that there are eight indigenous tribes in the vicinity, with about 20,000 people. Under Morav's contact, the tribes actively raised food for the army and sent troops to participate in the crusade against the Spaniards.

Looking at the rudimentary weapons of the indigenous soldiers, Zheng Sen decisively refused.

However, the repair at the tortoiseshell port made the Zheng Senjun's attack on Manila lose its suddenness, and a tax-collecting Spanish sailing ship came along the coast to the sea near the tortoiseshell port, spotted the huge fleet of the Zheng army, and then turned around and fled, and several Zheng ships went to chase after it, but they were never able to catch up.

So when Zheng Sen came to the port of Manila with the fleet, he was faced with the ships of the Spaniards who were waiting for them. A total of three Spanish sailing ships launched an attack on the Zheng army's boats, and the cannonballs splashed huge droplets on the sea, as if they were fighting against the Ming army that was attacking South Australia.

However, compared with the Ming army, the number of warships of the Spaniards was too far behind, and the number of ships in Zheng Sen's hands was a hundred times as many as theirs!

When the number reached a certain level, there was no need for any tactics, and more than a hundred ships rushed up and rushed towards the Spanish warships. Although the Spanish warships were powerful and Manila Bay was wide enough, more than 100 Zheng ships were simply not afraid of death, and after several sailing ships were sunk by Spanish artillery, they finally approached a Spanish warship, fixed it with a grappling hook and iron gun, and began to set fire. Smoke billowed into the bow of the Spanish ship, and several blazing ships burned around the Spanish ship, causing the Spanish ship to soon be surrounded by flames.

The two remaining Spanish warships, seeing that things were not going well, immediately set sail and ran away, escaping from Manila Bay and into the open sea.

Having defeated the Spanish fleet, Zheng Sen immediately sent ships to land, landed ten miles from Manila, and set up camp on the shore.

Now that the Spaniards were prepared, Zheng Sen knew that it was not a matter of a day to capture the Spaniards' castle, and proper deployment and planning must be carried out.

The Manila Castle in the distance was too strange, very similar to the castle built by the Dutch on Dayuan Island, and Zheng Sen knew that it would be very difficult to take such a castle.