The small boat with the white flag sailed alone towards several huge Datang ships in Manila Bay, and the Datang sailors who could see it immediately reported to the fleet commander Jiao Qiang, and then a ship-borne communication boat was put down, and several Datang marines quickly approached the sampan in a small boat with an outboard engine, and then controlled the Spaniards above. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This is also a standard procedure, the Tang Navy will never allow any enemy ships to approach its combat ships, who knows if the small ship will be full of explosives and other things, and what losses will be caused to the Tang warships. Therefore, even if they come to deliver the news, the Datang Navy will send their own communication boat over, and then bring the other party's people over, or directly ask what the other party means, and prevent them from getting on board. Note: There are still a lot of secrets on the Tang warship, maybe one of them inadvertently may be able to be mastered by others to have something useful.

After a while, several Marines returned, and then brought a letter of request from the Spaniards.

Jiao Qiang looked at the letter written in Chinese characters in his hand, at first he was a little crying and laughing, but when he saw the end, his face suddenly turned cold.

He said to the left and right: "Are the Spaniards crazy, our fleet has already blocked the door, they know that they will not be able to resist our attack, and they actually use such indiscriminate means to hold the lives of tens of thousands of Chinese in Manila hostage, forcing us to abandon the attack on Manila." ”

Liu Yiliang, a staff officer of the fleet, quickly swept the letter in Jiao Qiang's hand several times, and said: "These conditions are basically the conditions we gave the Dutch in exchange for the colony of the East Indies, and the Spaniards want to concoct it in the same way." It's just that I don't have the confidence, so I pulled out such a bargaining chip. ”

Jiao Qiang's face was like frost, "But they don't know, we Tang people have never suffered such losses, let alone been coerced." ”

Liu Yiliang asked: "Is the situation to be reported to the Theater General Headquarters?" ”

"Of course. But if you report it, it won't make any difference. We value the safety of every compatriot, but we will not be coerced by hostile forces in this way to abandon our goals. I dare say that if the Spaniards dared to move a Chinese finger, the military would definitely give the order. Not a single Spaniard in the entire Philippine Islands was left alive, and all of them were buried with our compatriots. Jiao Qiang said sonorously.

Liu Yiliang also understands that although the means may be more ruthless, but this is the courage cultivated since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the country of the Tang Dynasty has obvious military characteristics, a typical characteristic is uncompromising, not afraid of death, no matter how ruthless and unfortunate this is for some people, but the Tang people have their own mode of action and methods.

Of course, for many Tang people, the Chinese in Manila are compatriots. But after all, they are not Datang nationals, and they will be emotionally estranged, but there is no difference in the core, if they die, Datang will avenge them, and it will be ten times more recovered.

Jiao Qiang asked the Spaniards who sent the letter to bring the original words back to the Philippine Governor Marquina, kill one of my compatriots, and slaughter your entire island of white skins. Still, that's the case. Politics is also not correct in Datang society, because Datang prohibits racial discrimination. But Jiao Qiang's background and experience also doomed him to belong to the most nationalist group of people in China. In his opinion, only when our own country is strong and our own country is domineering can we avoid other countries from bullying our own country and people, and Datang will not repeat the mistakes of China, which was ravaged by the Japanese invaders. Jiao Qiang is obviously hostile to any foreigner or foreigner.

Of course, the Spaniards did not have much problem hearing such words. Racial discrimination was natural to them, and it existed within Europe, all Europeans discriminated against Jews, England against Scots, Germans against Poles, and so on. Now it is not surprising that the Tang people have discriminated against them Spaniards.

Marquina listened to the message he brought back, his face was not very good-looking, he thought about the toughness of the Tang people, but he didn't expect the other party to say such a ruthless word, but he still had to maintain his strategy, and distinguished with Father Valdés beside him: "This is a trick of the Tang people, pretending to be tough, in fact, they must report to the country for discussion, this is a big deal for them." ”

Father Valdés couldn't laugh, he already felt that Marquina's method was not very feasible, and he said: "However, I don't know how long it will take to report this news to the top of their country." ”

Marquina said: "The Tang people have the technology of transoceanic communication, it is estimated that it will be a day or two, and during this time, their ships and ground forces will inevitably throw a mouse and dare not attack us easily, which will also give us a period of more preparations." ”

Father Valdés was even more skeptical: "Will it? ”

Perhaps to explain, as soon as the words of the two fell, suddenly there were several loud noises on the sea, and firelight gushed out from the guns of the battleships of the Tang Navy, and then the shells flew in a whistling manner and landed on the land of Manila.

"...... this?" Marquina was speechless in horror, which was nothing he had imagined.

He thought that taking the lives of tens of thousands of Chinese hostage would at least make the Tang army jealous, but this completely ignited the anger of the nationalist admiral Jiao Qiang, who was a front-line fleet commander, knew very well what rights he was given, and at this time, he had the responsibility to report the situation, but he also had the right to decide.

So, he chose to bombard Manila to show Datang's determination.

Nine warships of the Tang Navy, with complete sea control and various types of medium and large-caliber naval guns, launched a large-scale artillery bombardment towards the city of Manila. This is also the largest artillery bombardment of land since the establishment of the Tang Navy, dozens of naval guns roared, expressing the hideous side of the Tang people to the Spanish city.

This was an artillery bombardment with a completely uncertain target, purely for the purpose of destruction and deterrence, and the guns of each battleship constantly adjusted the parameters of the attack, with the aim of bombarding the entire city of Manila like a plow. The high-intensity shelling lasted for nearly an hour, and the fleet fired more than 13,000 rounds of artillery shells of various calibers towards Manila, and even some shells even hit the Spanish barracks in the city, causing many casualties among Spanish soldiers.

In the evening, the Datang Navy stopped shelling. Although Jiao Qiang could cause great damage to Manila, the army had not yet kept up, so he could not strike at Manila immediately, which also made him a little worried about the situation of the Chinese in Manila. (To be continued.) )