When Denison came to the deck, he found that a large group of people were gathered around the dinghy, and the sailors on board also knew that the transport ship was sinking, so they went to scramble for the boat, but there were many people and few boats, and everyone was in chaos on the deck.

Denison hurriedly shouted: "Don't mess around, everyone listen to my ......"

But at this time, no one listened to Denison's words, and everyone had only one thought...... Quickly escaped, at this moment, someone loosened the tether of the dinghy, the dinghy fell into the water with a "bang", everyone jumped off the boat, swam to the dinghy, and a few people fought on the boat.

The strongest sailors took over the boat and rowed off into the distance, by which time more than half of the transports were already submerged, and those who had not grabbed the dinghy had to barely float on the surface with a lifebuoy, and Denison was one of them.

Just as Denison was fluttering in the water, he suddenly saw two dinghys coming in the direction of the warship, one chasing the fleeing dinghy and the other heading towards the people in the water.

Denison's heart moved, secretly thinking that the people of the Chinese Empire had come to capture the prisoners, I and Lin Fei, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, were mortal enemies, and we must not fall into their hands, it was impossible to escape, so we could only prevent them from recognizing them, Denison thought of this, and hurriedly took off the officer uniform on his body and threw it in the water.

The small boat of Lin Fei's troops approached everyone, and the people in the water raised their hands one after another, surrendering to the fighters of Lin Fei's troops, and Denison was among them.

The boat escorted the prisoners of war back to the Nuwa ship, and Denison mixed in the crowd with his head down, praying in his heart that I would not be recognized by Lin Fei's people.

The people on the Nuwa ship checked the prisoners of war one by one, and at this time Denison saw a familiar face at a glance, that was Yu Xier, when Lin Fei outwitted Ibayat Island, Yu Xier had drunk with him at the same table, and Denison hurriedly lowered his head to avoid Yu Xier's eyes.

Yu Xier saw Denison outside the crowd, felt that he was familiar, pointed at Denison with his hand, and said to the sailors next to him: "Bring that person to me." ”

The sailors went over and pulled Denison out, Denison was so nervous that his heart was pounding, Yu Xierzai looked at Denison carefully for a while, and asked in Spanish, "You are Denison, right?" The captain of the guard on the island of Ibayat? ”

Denison shook his head and didn't speak, Yu Xier thought for a while and said, "I won't admit my mistake." It just so happened that Liu Daming came over at this time, and Yu Xier stopped Liu Daming and said, "Old Liu, come and see who this person is?" ”

Liu Daming walked up to Denison and looked at him carefully for a while, but he didn't remember who it was, so he asked, "Who is he?" ”

Denison saw that Liu Daming didn't recognize him, and secretly rejoiced, Yu Xier hurriedly said: "He is Denison, Ibayat Island, captain of the guard, do you remember?" ”

Liu Daming said with a smile: "I just saw him a few times from afar, I can't remember it, you don't need to look for me to identify him, just find a prisoner of war for interrogation, and his identity will be completely clear." ”

Yu Xier suddenly realized, let people find a prisoner of war, the prisoner of war did not dare to hide Yu Xier's identity, and honestly confessed, Yu Xier and Liu Daming were all surprised.

Liu Daming laughed loudly and said, "It's really unexpected, we actually caught Denison, let's send him to Lao Lin." ”

Yu Xier nodded yes, and the two sent a small boat to send Denison to the Pangu ship that was operating together, and asked Bi Fang, the captain of the Pangu ship, to send Denison to Lin Fei.

The Pangu ship sent Denison ashore, and a soldier took Denison to find Lin Fei, and it didn't take long for Denison to see Lin Fei, Denison looked at Lin Fei with puzzled eyes, and asked, "Did you notify your subordinates to arrest me?" ”

Lin Fei shook his head and smiled: "I was on land when you left, and my warship was at sea, how could I inform them?" ”

Denison was even more puzzled and asked, "Then why was your warship able to intercept my ship?" ”

Lin Fei laughed for a while and said, "Haven't you ever thought about why I would let you go so lightly?" ”

Denison asked tentatively, "Don't you want a rubber processing plant?" Isn't that enough of a reason for you to let me go? ”

Lin Fei sighed lightly and said, "I didn't expect you to think of me as so incompetent... Let me tell you the truth of the matter, I have already made arrangements in advance, so that my warships will be guarded in the open sea on the north pier, and as long as any ship wants to leave, it will be sunk regardless of whether it is indiscriminate... I heard from your men that you were going to escape from the northern docks, and I knew that you would run into my warship, so I didn't say anything and promised to let you go. ”

Denison frowned and asked, "Why did you make such an arrangement?" ”

Lin Fei smiled: "How could I leave those precious transport ships to you? If you can take it away, you will take it away, and if you can't take it away, of course you will sink it..."

Denison sighed and shook his head helplessly, thinking that Lin Fei is really too powerful, I am not an opponent at all.

Lin Fei turned his head and called a staff officer and said, "Go and find Chen Xicai and those Chinese slaves, I will avenge them." ”

The staff officer was just about to leave, Denison suddenly raised his head and said "Wait" in stiff Chinese, Lin Fei was taken aback and said, "You can actually speak Chinese?" ”

Denison switched to Spanish: "I'll only say a few simple words, I just heard you say the word 'revenge', are you trying to kill me?" ”

Lin Fei sneered and said, "Not bad... You have harmed so many of our compatriots, I can't help but kill you..."

Denison hurriedly said, "Please don't kill me......"

Lin Fei said disdainfully: "Don't kill you? Why don't I kill you? ”

"I'm willing to trade intelligence for my life," Denison said. ”

Lin Fei was stunned for a moment and asked, "What information?" ”

Denison said: "Intelligence about the defenders of Manila. ”

Lin Fei's heart moved suddenly, he looked at Denison and said, "Let's tell me what information you can provide first, right?" I'm going to see if this information is enough to buy your life. ”

Denison took a deep breath, calmed down from the panic just now, and said, "The defenders of Manila have expanded their forces, improved their tactics, strengthened their fortifications, and purchased new equipment, are these things enough to change my life?" ”

These things are what Lin Fei wants to know in his dreams, his eyes lit up all of a sudden, and he smiled: "Enough, of course enough, I promise you, as long as you tell me all these things, I won't kill you." ”

Denison let out a sigh of relief and said, "You are the emperor of the Huaxia Empire, I believe in you, then I will start talking." ”

Lin Fei pointed to the chair in front of him with his hand and said, "Sit down and talk slowly, Staff Officer Li, pour a glass of water for Colonel Denison, and then write down his words." ”

Li Tianqian poured a glass of water for Denison and put it in front of him, and then Denison said: "I'll first talk about expanding the troops." ”

Lin Fei nodded, looked at Denison intently, and Denison said: "Manila originally had 7,000 defenders, and after the Chinese Empire conquered Mindanao, Governor Sanders expanded his strength to 15,000. ”

Lin Fei frowned and said, "The number of troops has more than doubled?" Where did he get so many people? ”

"The first is to recruit Spaniards in the Philippines with high salaries, and people like me who have served in the army are called back, and the second is to encourage Filipinos to join the army, especially the Mistizo, most of whom are well-educated, and the Suzhì is relatively high, and there are only more than 2,000 Spaniards recruited, while Mistizo has more than 6,000," Denison said. ”

"Mistizo" is the mixed descendant of Chinese and Filipinos, Lin Fei was stunned for a moment and asked: "Mistizo also has Chinese blood, how can he help the Spaniards fight the Chinese?" ”

Denison said: "This is due to our propaganda, in our propaganda, the Chinese Empire is completely composed of Chinese bandits, you kill, rob, rape...... Anyway, these are the words, you can definitely imagine, so I won't say it. ”

Lin Fei said "um" and said, "Okay, I understand, after talking about people, let's talk about weapons." ”

Denison said: "The improvement in weapons is mainly in artillery, Manila originally had fifteen mountain guns and eight field guns, and later we heard from the defeated soldiers on Mount Santai that your artillery is very powerful, so Governor Sanders spent a lot of money to buy fifteen mountain guns and twenty-two field guns from the British, making up a force with sixty guns." ”

Sixty guns are already quite powerful firepower in this era, Lin Fei asked, "Do you know the performance parameters of these artillery?" ”

Denison said: "I only know that these guns are breech-loading guns made in the UK, the caliber of the mountain gun is 75 mm, and the caliber of the field gun is larger, about 85 mm or more, and the guns produced by the British are measured in inches, which cannot be accurately converted to millimeters." ”

Lin Fei's heart moved, and he secretly thought that the firepower of the Spaniards was not weak, and I should also get some new artillery, although the Vulcan plan was to develop naval guns, but the application of technical achievements to the army was also completely feasible.

Lin Fei was thinking about it, when Denison continued: "Mountain artillery is relatively light, and it can be transported by mules and horses after dismantling, but field artillery is not good, each cannon has to be dragged by almost three or four horses, if the ground is muddy, cattle must be added, as for how far the artillery can hit, and how powerful the cannonball is, I don't know." ”

Lin Fei let out a "hmm" and said, "It's useless to have artillery, but there are also people who operate artillery, do you have such talents?" ”

"We paid for mercenaries from France, and these mercenaries were good artillerymen, and they operated the new artillery," Denison said. ”

Lin Fei was stunned for a moment and said, "French mercenaries? Is it that French mercenary legion? Aren't they in France? How did you get so far away? ”

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