On 16 June, the fleet flying the flag of the Nanyang Company arrived off the coast of Manila Bay. When the Spaniards in the harbor saw the arrival of a large Western-style soft-sail fleet, they immediately felt like they were facing a great enemy, and all the batteries were ready. The Spaniards were relieved to see the signal from the fleet, but sent a small boat to confirm it.

The boat docked on Wang Xinyu's flagship, and the Spanish officer who boarded the Drake knew Wang Xinyu. Seeing Wang Xinyu, the Spanish officer was dumbfounded: "It's really Mr. Wang's fleet!" It's incredible! ”

The Spaniards knew that the Nanyang Company had Western-style ships, but they didn't expect that there were so many Western-style ships, and most of them were warships! I really don't know what the hell this Nanyang company is doing when it drives so many warships to Manila.

"Let's sell some goods and fix the ship. Also, I would like to be able to meet your governor, and there are some things I would like to be able to talk to him face-to-face. Wang Xinyu told the Spanish officer.

After all, it's an old acquaintance, and there are so many ships to repair, but it's a big deal. This time the Spaniards were surprisingly efficient. After Wang Xinyu went ashore, he waited only two hours at the Manila branch of Nanyang Company before he was invited to San Diego.

"I was born in Manila since I was a child, but I've never been in such a big castle, can you take me in?" Pan Ying tilted her little head, looked at Wang Xinyu with a pair of big watery eyes, and begged with a pitiful look.

Seeing that Wang Xinyu didn't answer, Pan Ying said again: "Brother Wang, I can be your translator, I am familiar with Spanish!" Take me in, okay? ”

"I went to the Spaniards to discuss dealing with the Dutch, do you know how to fight? Be obedient, wait for me here. Wait for a chance later. Shall I take you in again? Wang Xinyu stretched out his finger and gently scratched Pan Ying's small nose.

"Humph! If you refuse to take me, I won't go!" What's the big deal! Pan Ying turned her head angrily.

Wang Xinyu finally relented, and gently pulled Pan Ying's shoulders to turn her around: "Okay, my aunt, I'll take you in as a translator." ”

"Humph! Isn't it just a broken castle? I'm not going to go unusually! Pan Ying was happy in her heart, but her mouth was still tough.

"You're not going? All right. Then I'm leaving! Wang Xinyu pretended to ignore her and turned around to walk out of the door.

"Wait for me!" Pan Ying chased after her from behind.

The two followed the Spanish soldiers to the castle of Santiago.

Manrik had already received the soldier's report, and had been waiting for a long time under the inner city building. Seeing Wang Xinyu arrive with a beautiful girl, Manrik stepped forward, stretched out his hand, and asked in Cantonese, "Mr. Wang, this beautiful lady, but Madame?" ”

Wang Xinyu shook Manrik's hand. His level of Cantonese was so stinky that he could barely hear it, and just as he was thinking about how to answer, Pan Ying preemptively replied in Spanish: "Dear Lord Dudu, the little woman is the daughter of the chairman of Nanyang Company, and this Mr. Wang is a senior employee of our company, our general manager, and he is still my subordinate." I told him to go east. He did not dare to go west. As he spoke, he turned his head away. looked at Wang Xinyu with a smug smile on his face.

"It turned out to be the chairman's daughter!" Manlick let go of Wang Xinyu's hand and stretched out his hand to Pan Ying.

After all, Pan Ying is not a girl who grew up in China, and she is still very familiar with the etiquette here, so she stretched out her hand generously.

According to European etiquette, Manlik grabbed Pan Ying's hand and kissed it: "Respected chairman's daughter." It's a pleasure to meet such a beautiful lady as you! But this Mr. Wang, he is handsome and capable, you can consider marrying him. ”

Wang Xinyu couldn't understand a word of the two of them, and asked anxiously, "Hey." What are you two talking about? ”

"Didn't say anything, you don't need to understand, let's talk about some personal topics." Pan Ying said with a smile.

The three of them walked into the castle together, walked up an unknown number of steps, went up to the top floor, and sat down in the drawing room.

"I don't know what happened to me in Manila this time? Do you want to sign a new contract? Manlick asked.

After listening to Pan Ying's translation, Wang Xinyu replied: "Dear Governor, I am here mainly to ask your shipyard in Manila to help us maintain our warships. Because a big war is about to break out! Our country is already at war with the Dutch! I'm ready to take my fleet with me and go to trouble with the Dutch! ”

"Oh my God!" After listening to Pan Ying's translation, Manrik was taken aback, "You want to trouble the Dutch?" That's good news for us, but for you, can you beat them? Damn the Dutch, they occupied Java, they occupied the island of Jinzhou, and even the power of the Portuguese in the Malay Peninsula opposite was compressed by the Dutch! If you go to trouble them, isn't that an egg hitting a stone? Do you know how many ships they have? There were more than thirty warships alone, as well as other small ships, adding up to hundreds of warships of all sizes. ”

Of course, the Spaniards wished that Wang Xinyu would defeat the Dutch earlier, so that the Spaniards would not have to shrink in the port of Manila all day, and they could also come out and seize other colonies. But Manrik did not want his collaborator to die at the hands of the Dutch, which would be too great a loss to him.

Wang Xinyu replied: "We also have more than 20 warships, all of which are large warships. ”

"You have about the same number of big ships as theirs, but your naval combat skills are certainly not as good as theirs, and they have a large number of small ships, what do you want to compete with them?" Manrik shook his head and said worriedly.

Of course, it is impossible for Wang Xinyu to say the secret weapon in his hand: the naval special combat team. So he said, "I hope that the Governor will help us with some help, such as repairing our ships and providing us with some supplies." If the Governor is willing to send troops, that would be the best thing to do. ”

At present, Wang Xinyu's own shipyard is not able to repair Western-style soft sailing boats, so he can only repair his own boats in Manila. Some of the ships were somewhat damaged in the last Battle of the Pearl River and needed to be repaired.

"We can repair your ships and provide supplies for you at a good price. But we were short of troops, so we could only defend ourselves, and we could not send troops against the Dutch. Manrik refused to send troops, believing that Wang Xinyu would definitely lose the battle with the Dutch at sea. Why should he send the Spanish fleet to his death? But he also hoped that Wang Xinyu's battle would weaken the strength of the Dutch, and that the Spanish fleet would have a chance to open a route from Manila to Japan and Korea in the future.

After the agreement was signed with Manrik, Mr. Wang's fleet docked at the docks of the Manila shipyard, where Spanish ship repairers were busy painting several ships with peeling paint. There are also workers according to the instructions of the captain. After repairing the ship's boards that had been damaged in battle, workers applied tung oil to the repaired area for corrosion. In some cases, cracks appeared in the masts, and repairmen nailed them, and in some cases, they reinforced them with wood.

"Here, this sail is broken, fix it." One of the captains said to the repairman.

The repairman removed the broken sail and replaced it with a brand new white sail.

In addition to repairing ships, the Spaniards also supplied the fleet of the Nanyang Company: Manila sent more than 20,000 kilograms of flour and more than 10,000 kilograms of gunpowder to the fleet. More than two thousand shells.

Of course, whether it is repairing ships or replenishing supplies, they have to spend money to buy, but Manrik gives a preferential price.

On 23 June, the flotilla, which had been anchored in Manila for a week, again pulled anchor and set sail for Borneo. Borneo was the last stop for the fleet, and the island of Borneo was very close to the island of Java, and the speed of sailing ships in those days only took more than 30 hours to arrive, and it was possible to reach it in a day and a night.

Dongfan Island. After more than a month of intense construction, Zheng Jiajun repaired the fort in Dayuan Town and built two moon-shaped castles. Heavy artillery was mounted and aimed at the castle of Uletcht.

The town of Dayuan dug trenches and laid out fortifications, and the Dutch launched three counter-offensives and declared them unsuccessful. The forts in the city of Reshalan launched a fierce artillery bombardment on Dayuan Town, but because Zheng Chenggong made full preparations, a large number of sandbags were piled up in Dayuan Town. Sea sand was used to build slopes to counteract the power of Dutch artillery shells. The defensive measures of the Zheng Jiajun made the shelling of Dayuan Town in the city of Reshalan a useless waste of shells and gunpowder.

The cannons in the city of Reshalan bombarded condescendingly, and the cannonballs whistled and landed in the town of Dayuan, but the cannonballs were blocked by the soft sea sand. The kinetic energy was swallowed by the sand, and when the cannonball fell on the sand, it sank into the sand and no longer bounced, which also mitigated the damage to the fortifications behind the artificial dunes.

Zheng Jiajun built artificial sand dunes and piled sandbags behind them, and the damage to Zheng's army from the Dutch shelling was minimized. Protected by man-made sand dunes and sandbags, thousands of people built forts and forts.

Finding that the shelling had hardly done much damage to the Zheng Jiajun in Dayuan Town, Yu Yi had to give an order to stop the shelling of Dayuan Town so as not to waste precious gunpowder and shells.

On 26 June, Zheng Jiajun set up a total of 32 24-pounder red-coated cannons in two directions south of Dayuan Town and Uletcht Castle, and began to launch a fierce artillery bombardment of Ulertch Castle.

The cannon roared on the Zheng Jiajun position, and firelight erupted from the fortress, and white smoke rose up. The cannonballs rained down on the castle of Ulletcht, shattering the castle's stones, sending bricks flying and the ground swept up with gusts of sand and rocks. The cannonballs hit the castle, which was originally not as strong as the castle of Reshaland, but was bombarded by solid shells, and the castle was smashed and scarred, with several holes.

More than seven hours later, the roof of the bullet-ridden Ulletcht Castle collapsed, crushing several Dutch soldiers.

Captain de Boer, a Dutch officer stationed at the castle in Uletcht, knew that the castle could no longer be held, so he led the men to evacuate the castle at 5 p.m.

"Put a powder keg in the cellar with an arquebus that can burn for two hours, and we will evacuate!" De Boer gave the order.

Dutch soldiers lit the arquebus in the cellar before evacuating the castle.

Zheng Jiajun attacked the castle, two and a half hours later, only an earth-shattering explosion was heard, and the castle of Ulertchi was reduced to a ruin in the smoke of gunpowder, and more than 50 Ming soldiers who attacked the castle first were also buried under the rubble.

Although the Dutch blew up the castle, Zheng Jiajun had already controlled the high ground, so they could set up mortars here and launch an attack on the city of Reshalan from a high position.

Zheng Chenggong stood on the high ground, he was glad that he didn't enter the castle so early, otherwise he might have been buried under the castle by the big explosion just now. Now that the high ground has been captured, what Zheng Jiajun has to do is to build fortifications as soon as possible, so as to prevent the Dutch from counterattacking and recapturing the high ground.

The people rushed to repair the fortifications overnight, dug trenches, built earthen cities with sand, piled up sandbags, and erected wooden fences. At dawn the next day, a simple fortification appeared on the high ground south of the city of Reshaland.

The artillery at the head of the city of Reshalan bombarded the high ground occupied by the Zheng army, and the shells smashed on the improvised fortifications, sandbags flew sideways, earth was splashed, and wooden fences were shattered. He then sent a death squad consisting of 200 Dutch soldiers, 200 slaves and 200 sailors to attack the high ground occupied by Zheng's army.

The Zheng army was condescending and repelled the Dutch attack with cannons, bows and arrows, bird guns and flintlock muskets.

On the high ground, the people braved the artillery fire from the city of Reshalan, sweating like rain, and worked intensively to build fortifications and repair the collapsed Ultecht Castle. As soon as the castle was completed and the position was stabilized, Zheng Chenggong would give the order to carry the mortar on the ship up the hill, set up the mortar, and use high-powered flowering cannonballs to bombard the Reshalan Castle. At this time, Zheng Chenggong had a total of twenty high-power flowering shells in his hand, enough for the Dutch to drink a pot.

Zheng Chenggong was violently attacking the Dutch entrenched on Dongfan Island, hundreds of miles away from the palace of Yanping County on Xiamen Island.

"Little prince, no!" Chen, the nurse of Zheng Chenggong's fifth son, struggled to push Zheng Jing away.

Zheng Jing looked around, saw that there was no one, and said in a low voice: "Mrs. Chen, the one in this Xiao Wang's family was forced to me by my father!" I don't like her at all! To be honest, Ben Xiaowang was disgusted when he saw her! And we are in love, as long as you agree, this little king is willing to give you anything. ”

Under Zheng Jing's fierce attack, Chen finally relented and let Zheng Jing hold her in his arms.

Although Chen is married, he is very beautiful, and his figure is far from being comparable to Zheng Jing's wife, Tang. The Tang family is young, and in Zheng Jing's eyes, the place that should be big is too small, where can it be compared to the Chen family. At this time, in Zheng Jing's eyes, the mature woman in front of her is simply the most beautiful woman in the world.

Just after a violent storm, the two leaned against the big bed.

Chen asked worriedly: "Little prince, if our affairs are known by the prince, what should we do?" The prince will definitely not let us go. ”

"Don't worry, my father is far away on Dongfan Island, where can he manage here!" Zheng Jing replied disappreciatively. (To be continued......)