There were more than twenty Sulu people on the island, screaming and waving their weapons at the Ming army as they prepared to land.

For the sake of insurance, Wang Xinyu ordered the landing of sixty sword soldiers at one time, followed by ten personal soldiers to suppress the formation.

Wang Xinyu felt very curious, how could these backward Sulu people come to Huangyan Island, which is nearly 100 kilometers away from Luzon Island, just by virtue of their canoes?

This is actually Wang Xinyu's unfamiliar speculation about history, in fact, the shipbuilding technology of the Sulu people is not too bad, the Sulu Kingdom at that time, with Luzon, Kalimantan, Java, Sulu Islands, Natuna Islands and other islands, although most of the Sulu Shengfan is still in a primitive state, but as early as the Song and Yuan dynasties in China, the Arabs who sailed to China to trade brought their advanced civilization to the islands of the South Seas, and also brought Islam to the Sulu people. This is why countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia later believed in Muslims. As for the Philippines, because of the colonial rule of the Spaniards and the fact that the Americans operated in the Philippines for many years, they believed in Christianity.

The Sulu people were not bad at seafaring, they were able to move freely between the islands, and even crossed the South China Sea to claim a reward from the Ming Dynasty. In addition to building canoes, they were also able to build larger sea boats.

And these Sulu people that Wang Xinyu met were born who had not spread civilization through the Arabs, although they were born fans, but they also had contact with other more advanced people of the same race, and knew how to observe the sun, moon and stars sailing on the sea. And Scarborough Shoal, they came here by chance, and they remembered this place.

The Sulu people, who had a certain level of civilization, already had the concept of land possession. When they found out that the Ming army was about to go ashore, they tried to resist with the weapons in their hands.

The weapons of these Sulu were very primitive, except for the iron knife in the chieftain's hand, the rest of the Sulu were stone.

In the landing operation, Wang Xinyu's soldiers could not wear iron armor, and musketeers and archers were useless, but they could land in wooden armor. Even these wooden armors were not able to penetrate the Sulu's primitive weapons.

While the sixty short swordsmen went ashore in small boats, the Sulu people on the island attacked the Ming army with bows and arrows made of stone arrows.

The most primitive bow and arrow in the hands of the Sulu people had extremely poor penetrating power, and the arrow could not penetrate the wooden armor at all. These Sulu people watched as the Ming army jumped out of the boat, waved the short knives in their hands, and rushed towards them.

"Yikes!" The Sulu people grabbed their spears and slaughtered the Ming army.

The Sulu spear was made of wood, and the spearhead was made of stone and simply tied to the wood with a rope. This primitive weapon could not pose any threat to the Ming army at all.

Sixty Ming soldiers stepped on the beach, the sharp steel knives in their hands danced, and where the sword light passed, white rainbows swayed, and dazzling blood swords spurted out.

It was a one-sided massacre, and in the blink of an eye, more than twenty Sulu people all fell in pools of blood, and the Ming army suffered no casualties.

And the ten pro-soldiers who followed behind and pressed the formation had no chance to make a move at all. They didn't come up to do it, but to suppress the formation, so that the recruits would not dare to kill and be forced back into the sea by those natives, so that they could only do it with their veterans. But what I didn't expect was that all the recruits rushed to kill, and no one was afraid, which shows that the training during this period was still very effective, and these recruits dared to kill people the first time they went to the battlefield.

But what happened next made the veterans stunned: the recruits were faced with stumps all over the ground, human heads falling on the ground, and gutting out of their stomachs, these recruits could no longer control it, and they bent down one after another and vomited profusely.

Instead of insulting the recruits, the veterans patted them on the shoulder and comforted, saying, "Don't be afraid! It's like this for the first time on the battlefield! If you have seen blood, you will be veterans in the future! ”

Wang Xinyu stood on the boat and watched the battle with a telescope. From the time the Ming army stepped on the beach to the end of the battle, Wang Xinyu calculated the time with his pocket watch, and it was only a short three minutes!

At the same time as the one-sided massacre began on the island, a one-sided massacre was also going on on the sea: the Ming warship caught up with two Sulu canoes that were trying to escape, smashed them to pieces, and crushed them to the bottom of the sea. The Sulu people who fell into the sea were struggling in the water, but they were killed in the sea by flintlock bullets fired from the Ming warship.

After solving the Sulu people on the island and on the sea, a group of small boats docked on the beach, and Wang Xinyu personally brought a group of soldiers ashore.

"It's still early, let's erect a stone monument here, add some fresh water, and sail straight to Luzon." Wang Xinyu took out his pocket watch and glanced at the time, it was only ten o'clock in the morning. After calculating the time, he sailed due east from here to Luzon for only fifty or sixty nautical miles, and at a speed of six knots, he could reach the shores of Luzon in the evening. Once you're at the coastline, head north to find the bay you're looking for, and you'll probably find it before dark.

Wang Xinyu thought: With a pocket watch, it is really much more convenient! When I arrived in Manila, I sold the goods and bought more pocket watches from those foreigners, and each of my backbones had to be equipped with pocket watches, so that they could grasp the exact time. And this telescope, I also have to buy a few more pairs to use.

With a pocket watch and a telescope, when fighting with the Qing army in the future, we will be able to better grasp the time of the battlefield, and we will be able to observe the opponent's movements from a long distance, and with advanced reconnaissance means, we will be able to firmly grasp the initiative on the battlefield.

A stone tablet was erected on Huangyan Island, which reads: Huangyan Island of the Ming Empire. The back is signed with the signature: Da Ming Ding Xibo Wang Yuli, July of the 14th year of the Ming Yongli.

The fresh water on Scarborough Shoal is not bad, not only for drinking, but also for cooking and cooking, and there is no need to dig a well, these Sulu people have already dug a well, and the Ming army's naval auxiliaries only need to draw water from the well, put it in a barrel, and it can be transported back to the ship.

Before leaving Scarborough Shoal, the corpses of the island's Sulu people were stoned and sunk to the bottom of the sea, turning them into a delicacy for the fish in the nearby sea.

The fleet pulled anchor and set sail, leaving Scarborough Shoal and sailing due east.

After a long day of sailing, in the evening, a large area of land appeared directly in front of the bow.

"Land! Land! The people on board cheered. After sailing at sea for so long, people are naturally very excited to finally see a large area of land. Especially those people who have crossed the ocean and are ready to go to Luzon to open up their land, they have been adrift at sea for so many days, and they can finally live a peaceful and stable life.

"Left helm, sail due north along the coastline, full of search for the entrance to the bay!" Wang Xinyu asked people to pass the order. He didn't want the fleet to dock here casually, because the coastline off the west coast of Luzon was not safe. This is the only way for the Dutch to go to Taiwan through the South China Sea. At that time, the seafaring skills were not so high, and the average seagoing ship liked to sail close to the coastline. If you stop at any random place on the west coast of Luzon, you are likely to be spotted by the Dutch.

The fleet passed through several bays, but none of them were the big bays that Wang Xinyu was looking for, they were just some very shallow small bays.

The Subic Bay that Wang Xinyu is looking for is the territory of the Olongapo tribe, a primitive tribe of the Tagalu people, an uncivilized group of the Sulu people. The Sulu people they had killed during the day were the Visayas, most of whom were not from Luzon, but a relatively advanced tribe that had migrated to Luzon from other islands. It's just that Wang Xinyu doesn't know the ethnic names and tribal names of those Sulu people.

The sky is gradually getting dark, but because it is the seventeenth day of the lunar calendar, the moon in the sky is very round, the moonlight is bright, and the view on the sea is very good.

The fleet slowed down and slowly searched north along the western coastline of Luzon. Late at night, he hadn't found the bay Wang Xinyu was looking for.

At three o'clock in the morning, there was a big bend in the coastline ahead, and the coastline that had been running from south to north turned east.

The flotilla also turned a corner and continued to sail slowly east along the coastline.

At about four o'clock in the morning, someone finally shouted: "Bay! Gulf! We've found the bay! ”

Wang Xinyu didn't fall asleep at all, and when he heard the shouting, a carp jumped up from the bed, walked onto the deck, picked up the binoculars, and observed the bay with the help of the moonlight.

The fleet had entered the bay, which was surrounded by hills and dense forests, and the bay was very wide, with estuaries visible from time to time along the coastline. Looking into the estuary, I saw that the river was not narrow, and the banks of the river were lush primeval forests.

"It must be here! This is the Dingguo Bay I'm looking for! Wang Xinyu couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart.

But not only is the historical knowledge not very good, but Wang Xinyu, who has very poor foreign geography, doesn't know at all that the bay he has worked so hard to find is actually not Subic Bay, but Lingjiayan Bay! However, Lingayen Bay is also a famous bay with deep waterways and multiple rivers flowing into the sea, making it a natural harbour with fertile land on both sides of the river suitable for farming. In addition, because the bay faces the sea in the north, and the land is used in the west, east, and south, and the typhoons north of the equator are all from south to north, and the land blocks the typhoons, so it is also an excellent haven. The estuaries of the rivers here are also very good ports, and large ships can drive directly into the river.

In fact, Subic Bay is very close to Manila, just outside of Manila Bay. It's just that Wang Xinyu didn't know that he mistook Lingayan Bay for Subic Bay.

But this mistake made Wang Xinyu a blessing in disguise, because Lingayan Bay is far from Manila, and unlike Subic Bay to choke Manila's mouth to the sea, the Spaniards simply do not pay attention to a group of Chinese who are far away from themselves and have no threat to themselves to develop in the north-central part of Luzon, so Wang Xinyu can develop steadily here, until he declares war on the Spaniards, he has not been hated by the Spaniards.

The fleet sailed slowly south along the coastline within the bay, reaching the bottom of the bay, where a large delta appeared in front of it.

"There are rivers and dense mountains here, and there will definitely be wild people nearby!" Wang Xinyu said, "Let's wait until dawn, get up from the mouth of this river, and land at the mouth of the river!" ”

The estuary that Wang Xinyu found was later the mouth of the Agno River, but now this river was decisively renamed Yanping River by Wang Xinyu.

The delta at the mouth of the river is somewhat intertwined and complex, and it is necessary to use small boats to explore the way, find a channel, and enter the river to build a large military port. At present, it is very hidden, and few Westerners can explore it. When the foreigners discovered this place later, Wang Xinyu had already built a fort at the mouth of the river, whether it was the Dutch or the Spaniards, don't think about entering!

On both sides of the Yanping River, there lived the Banshilan tribe of the Tagalog, a large tribe of the Tagalog, and the later president of the Philippines, Aquino, was also a descendant of this tribe.

Before dawn, Wang Xinyu ordered the fleet to anchor and wait for dawn before sending a small boat to explore the way.

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