The Duke of Alva of Spain only led the flagship of the San Philip and another battleship, the San Carlos, to break out of the blockade, and the remaining eighteen warships were all surrounded by ships in the Luzon Sea.

Under the siege of hundreds of Fu ships, the remaining ships were hopeless, and a few smaller ones fell quickly, followed by the 1,000-ton ship Santa Anna being the first to surrender.

The other ships saw the flagship fleeing, Santa Anna surrendered, and the will to resist quickly collapsed.

The cheers began on the Santa Anna and spread to all the ships, and the sailors on deck waved their weapons and shouted to vent their joy.

After defeating the Spaniards, Luzon's trade routes would be open again, and it would once again be their paradise.

Spain and the Netherlands, the two most powerful Western empires in the South Seas, were defeated, and the Eastern world regained its maritime supremacy from the Western colonizers.

It can be said that Spain, which has been crisscrossing the sea for more than 200 years, has suffered another heavy defeat in the East.

Western Europe rose up strongly, the heroes competed, Spain was defeated by the British, and finally recovered some vitality, piecing together such a fleet, the next big war, the hard work in recent years can be said to be all in vain, completely cut off the possibility of Spain's re-rise.

After losing Luzon, a trading stronghold, Spain experienced another crushing defeat, and its power would completely withdraw from the Far East, and the entire Spanish Empire's economy would be missing a key link and suffering a huge blow.

Spain would lose the opportunity to trade with the East, and silver in the Americas would only cause inflation in the Spanish Empire, as well as the depreciation of the Spanish currency, the peso, and hasten the decline of this great empire.

Not long after the two large ships broke out of the blockade, the Duke of Alva had already decided that as long as he fled back to Sulu Island, he would immediately take the remaining ships across the Pacific Ocean and return to the Viceroyalty of Central America, so as to avoid the total annihilation of the Far Eastern Fleet and deal a heavy blow to Spain.

However, at this moment, fifteen giant ships of the Ming Dynasty suddenly appeared in front.

"Your Excellency, Commander, look!" The Spaniards beside him shouted urgently.

Before Duke Alva could catch his breath, he saw a dark shadow in the distance, which looked like a Western-style warship from a distance, but he knew that it could not be a Spanish warship, because there were not so many warships on Sulu Island.

With a trembling hand, he picked up his glasses and saw that the style of the ship was Western, like a Dutch warship, with big white sails, not bamboo ribs, but the flag on it was the sun and moon flag on a blue background.

"It's a ship of the Ming Dynasty!" Duke Alva's voice trembled, a little reluctant to believe it.

The surrounding Spaniards suddenly turned to ashes, not only because their desire to flee was frustrated, but also from the direction from which the Ming ship came, the Spaniards' base in Sulu probably did not exist.

"Your Excellency, what now?" The Spanish officers on the helm tower panicked, and one by one they had no idea, so they could only rely on the commander.

What can Duke Alva do, it is not a fortune ship that is coming on the opposite side, but the strongest three-masted gunboat of the Ming Dynasty, and there are as many as fifteen ships, and they have no strength to fight at all.

For a while, he couldn't help but take a few steps back, leaning against the guardrail to support his body, and the whole person was silent.

The Far East Fleet is the elite of Spain drawn from the mainland and the Viceroyalty of the Americas, accounting for 30% of the strength of the Spanish Navy, if all of them are destroyed, then Spain's colonies in the Americas will probably be unstable.

Britain and France have landed in the Americas, and Spain's colonization in the Americas will inevitably be challenged by France, Britain, and the Netherlands, but what else can he do now?

He looked at the white sails leaking from the sea in the distance, and then looked back at Zheng Chenggong, who had caught up with him not far away, and made a difficult decision that made him feel ashamed, "Hang the white flag and surrender!" ”

The Spaniards on the ship were silent for a while, their faces full of loss and unease, and only after half a sound did someone ask, "Your Excellency, to whom do you surrender?" Do you want to lower the sails now? ”

There was a blockade from the Daming Navy Division in front and a pursuit from the Luzon Navy Division in the rear, and it was also a question of which side to surrender to.

They were defeated by Luzon this time, but Duke Alva said: "Hang the white flag, continue sailing, and after approaching the Ming Dynasty navy, lower the sails and surrender to them!" ”

Now that he had decided to surrender and accepted the fact of defeat, the Duke of Alva calmed down and began to think about how to reduce the losses of Spain.

The people around were a little puzzled, after this battle, a large number of Spaniards would inevitably fall into the hands of Luzon, why did they surrender to the newly arrived Ming Dynasty navy?

Duke Alva seemed to know what they meant, and explained dejectedly: "Luzon is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and has no power to negotiate with us, and they cannot bring benefits to Spain, we need to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty to ensure that Spain is not expelled from the Ming Dynasty's trade system." ”

In the words of later generations, the current Ming Dynasty is the largest manufacturing power, the world's factory, and it is the only one, almost in a monopoly position, and there is not even a decent competitor.

This status determines the active position of the Ming Dynasty in the trade process, and all countries come to the Ming Dynasty to let them trade, because only the Ming Dynasty has tea, porcelain and other items, and there are no other places to buy.

This status was maintained for thousands of years, and it was only later that the British grew their own tea and Western countries began to imitate Chinese porcelain, which reversed this status.

Spain is a country that expands in a very crude way, relying on American silver to get rich, but it is precisely because there is silver to dig that Spain does not pay much attention to domestic development.

It is simple to dig silver, but it is difficult to run an industry, and the Spaniards hold mountains of gold and silver, so they naturally choose to come simply, so all walks of life in the country have to get development.

They lacked much direct purchase and consumption, and like the old wealth of the Middle East in later generations, it caused Spain to prosper on the surface, but did not give birth to the germination of its own capital, and it immediately declined once the silver was dug up.

At this time, it can be said that there are no industries worth mentioning in Spain, so they especially need to import goods from the outside world to meet their own consumption, otherwise silver is just a stone, and it will cause inflation in the country.

Spain's development model was destined to be short-lived, and it was destined to be caught up by Britain, which adopted a new way of colonization.

Luzon was only a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and it was sparsely populated, and it did not produce any goods, so Spain had nothing to talk about with Luzon, so Duke Alva decided to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and get the opportunity to contact the Ming Dynasty's high-level officials.

On Zheng Chenggong's ship in the distance, the guard in charge of the lookout suddenly shouted: "Guogong, the Spaniards have hoisted the white flag!" ”

Zheng Chenggong always paid attention to the two warships that escaped in front of him, and from the clairvoyant mirror, he saw two Spanish warships, which hung up the white flags one after another, but did not lower the sails, but continued to sail westward, and his face couldn't help but change.

These two Spanish warships were clearly going to surrender to the oncoming Ming Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong put down the clairvoyant mirror, and immediately smashed his fist on the fence in annoyance, "Damn Xiyi!" ”

Luzon was small, manpower was insufficient, and shipbuilding was far behind the Ming Dynasty, and in the past two years of sea tug-of-war, Zheng Chenggong had realized the gap between them and the Spaniards in the sea, so Luzon urgently needed to replace the warships, and needed faster and more powerful warships.

It's just that Luzon is weak and does not have the ability to manufacture Western-style warships on a large scale, so these Spanish thousand-ton warships are particularly important to Luzon.

On the sea, the two Spanish warships continued to sail westward, and the five warships of Luzon chased after them, but their speed was about the same as that of the Spanish ships, so they could only watch them surrender to the Ming Dynasty sailors.

In this battle, Luzon and the Ming Dynasty were on one side, and Luzon was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, but after all, it was not a real family, and the competition for the spoils was inevitable, and the two Spanish warships fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty sailors, and the sailors did not give Luzon any more reason, and the Ming Dynasty sailors also needed these Spanish warships.

The westernization of the Daming Water Division began a long time ago.

Although I don't want to admit it, the warships of the West have indeed surpassed the warships of the Ming Dynasty.

The characteristics of the Fu ship are stable and the cargo capacity is large, but in the sea operation, what is needed is the advantage of speed and artillery, so in terms of the same tonnage, the Fu ship has no advantage over the Western sailing ships, and the slender hull plus the multi-deck gun is the direction of the development of the warship.

Before the war of the Ming Dynasty, there were already fifteen Western-style warships imitating the Netherlands, and after defeating the Dutch, the Ming Dynasty captured more than a dozen Dutch ships, and the number of Western-style warships exceeded 30, so it can be said that there was already a fleet that was invincible in the South China Sea and even the Indian Ocean.

However, the Dutch warships, in fact, also have many shortcomings, the Ming Dynasty found that the structure of the Dutch ships was not stable in imitation, although the speed was fast, but the firepower configuration, keel, and thickness of the ship plate were defective, but the Ming Dynasty craftsmen had not yet found a solution.

The defect of the Dutch ships is that in order to maintain the advantage of the Netherlands in ocean transportation, they are able to have a faster speed and transport more things, so they have moved on the structure of the ship and sacrificed a lot of things, but the sailors of the Ming Dynasty do not need to transport anything, their mission is to protect the route and fight, so it is not a good choice to imitate the Dutch ship.

Spanish warships, especially the 1,200-ton St. Philip, were also of great interest to the Ming Dynasty.

Not long ago, the two three-masted gunboats of the Ming Dynasty sailors, patrolling on the west coast of Borneo, met a Spanish thousand-ton warship, two against one, did not take the other party, one of them was also heavily damaged, so the Ming Dynasty sailors were very interested in the Spanish warships, and the Ming army rushed to participate in the war after capturing the Spaniards on Sulu Island, just to get a piece of the Luzon sailors·······

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