Manila, Luzon Garrison Command.

Ye Changsheng is organizing troops to build shore fortifications, and hundreds of enemy ships will arrive in Manila port in a few hours. Although the Manila shore artillery is very powerful, the opponent is after all hundreds of warships the size of sailboats, which can land at will in the vast bay of Manila.

"Commander, two of the company's planes have flown over Manila and are requesting to land."

As soon as Ye Changsheng heard this, he immediately went to the airport at the military port base with a group of people from the headquarters to greet the arrival of Li Ming and his entourage.

The two caravan planes landed one after another, and Li Ming stepped down from the plane. Ye Changsheng, Fang Lianshu and others saluted him one after another, Li Ming replied with a stern face, and then said in a deep voice: "Thank you for your hard work, let's go back to the headquarters first, Lao Ye, let's talk as we walk." ”

The group came to the headquarters of the Luzon garrison area, and Li Ming's face was already very gloomy at this time, and on the way, Ye Changsheng gave him a detailed introduction to the situation in Manila.

Li Ming stood in the war room of the headquarters, looking at the huge map of Manila on the wall.

He turned to the people in the room and said, "The company has entered a state of war, and I will be the commander-in-chief of the Luzon Theater of Operations, responsible for managing all military and political work in Luzon and other areas. For the Luzon campaign, with the current strength of the garrison, it is absolutely no problem to hold Manila. But the main fleet of the company's Admiralty may not arrive in Manila until a few days later. We don't have the power at sea, and if they know they can't take Manila and retreat, we can only sigh.

Are we just watching them come and go when they want? So my plan is to drag these white skins to the death, drag them until the arrival of the main fleet, and eliminate the main force of the Eight-Nation Alliance in Manila Bay. It's not easy to hold them back, and there's only one way to do that, and that's to make them feel like there's still a chance to take Manila......"

He walked a few steps to the side of the map. He punched the location of Manila on the map, and then shouted, "We're going to make Manila Bay their grave!" Let those white skins in the West understand a truth, East Asia is the East Asia of our Far East, and the South Seas are also the South Seas of our Far East. ”

Ye Changsheng and Fang Lianshu glanced at each other, their previous plan. They also defended Manila, but their ultimate goal was to strike hard at the enemy's landing force and use ferocious firepower to make the enemy retreat.

But Li Ming's plan was unexpected, if they did this, this battle would be difficult to fight. It will take five or six days for the main force to reach Manila Bay at the earliest. If you want to hold back the enemy, you must not expose all the firepower of the Far East, and you must not allow the enemy to storm the city of Manila. How to fight this battle?

Ye Changsheng thought for a moment and said: "Commander-in-chief, our Far East's firepower configuration, even if we want to stop it, we can't stop it." ”

Li Ming listened to his words, sneered and said, "Then put away all the advanced weapons, even if you pay a big price, you will drag them under the city of Manila." It would be hundreds of ships, tens of thousands of horses, if it were a combined fleet of Dutch, British, and Portuguese. In Manila Bay the whole army was annihilated, and they will lose the entire East with heavy losses. In the future, the coast of India, the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Aden, and the east coast of Africa will all be within the range of the Far East naval guns. ”

Fujian coast, Kinmen Liaoluo Bay.

Xiamen guerrilla Zheng Zhilong is leading his pirates, together with the main force of the Ming Fujian Naval Division, quietly come here. Try to eliminate the main force of pirates anchored here, which is the ship of more than a hundred British Royal Pirates and Barbary Pirates. This is already the main force of Western pirates on the coast of Fujian.

In the past few days, I have come to Fujian, Guangdong and other places. Constantly under the infestation of the British Royal Pirates. In particular, the Barbary pirates, made up of Turkic and Moorish peoples, were once a nightmare for the Catholic nations of Western Europe.

However, with the opening of new shipping routes and the gradual weakening of the Ottoman Empire, the Barbary pirates, who had dominated the Mediterranean, also declined. Except for the group of pirates who are backed by powerful forces, the rest of the pirates do not have a good life. So when they were seduced by the British, they readily agreed, and followed the English pirates to the East in Arab schooners.

This time, the Western colonizers fully learned the lessons of the previous battles between the Netherlands and Portugal and other countries with the Ming sailors and pirates, and the pirates who participated in the war took the galleons of the royal pirates as the main force, supplemented by the Arab galleons of the Barbary pirates scattered as a countermeasure, relying on the advantages of small tonnage and flexible maneuvering of the Arab schooners, which effectively intercepted the fireship attacks of the Ming pirates.

During this time, Western pirates were in the coastal area of Daming, and they really saw the prosperity and wealth of Daming, ransacked many coastal towns, and plundered a large number of Daming merchant ships. The Ming Dynasty was full of smoke along the coast, and even the Ming court was alarmed.

The Ming Dynasty is now in the northwest of the Shaanxi uprising, has made Chongzhen anxious, and now the southeast coast has been attacked by Western pirates one after another, he issued several holy decrees to reprimand officials in the southeast coast, ordering them to solve the coastal bandits within a time limit.

Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang used the Jianghu Order.

They used their private coffers to their subordinates: two taels of silver for each of the combatants, and an additional five taels if the fighting was prolonged. There were 16 men for each fireship, and if a Dutch ship was burned, two hundred taels of silver (16 cents) were to be given, and fifty taels of silver were given for the head of a pirate. The high reward and the anger aroused by the righteousness of the rivers and lakes made the morale of Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang's subordinates and the pirates along the coast high.

The maritime merchant groups along the coast of the Ming Dynasty also issued various rewards to encourage their subordinates to participate in this huge naval battle.

The pirates on the southeast coast have already killed the red eye, although the main force is returning from the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it will still take a few days to rush back, but they still rely on the advantage of being familiar with the local environment to fight to the death with these white-skinned pirates.

A few days ago, Zheng Zhilong received reliable information that dozens of pirate ships were moored at the mouth of Liaoluo Bay in the southern part of Kinmen Island. He hurriedly reported to Zou Weilian, the governor of Fujian, who arrived in Zhangzhou from the provincial capital, transferred the generals, and gathered the boat division.

With Zheng Zhilong as the vanguard, Gao Yingyue as the left wing, Zhang Yongchan as the right wing, Wang Shangzhong as the guerrilla, Wu Zhenyuan and Chen Mengzhu as the meritorious service, and personally crossed the sea and swore to supervise the battle. And with the "vow to fight to the death", the generals were inspired to kill the enemy bravely.

For a time, thousands of sails gathered along the coast of Fujian, and a war was about to break out.

This time, the Daming Navy Division and the Zheng pirates gathered almost all the main forces, nearly 1,000 ships of all kinds, and they wanted to complete their efforts in one battle and completely annihilate the main force of Western pirates along the coast of Fujian. (To be continued......) R1292