Chapter 135: Soldiers Dispatch to Manila

Yu Xiaotian even before the enthronement of the emperor, the establishment of the Great Middle Dynasty before the Chongzhen years, has begun to migrate to Australia, the use of recruitment, even coercive means, has been to the Australian side of the East Australia City and West Australia City, thousands of people have been transported, and even transported two army soldiers and naval soldiers with about 500 people each, stationed in the two places, and stationed officials, began to explore and manage the local area.

The navy in the city of East Australia and the city of West Australia, have sent five or six permanent gunboats, as the local maritime armed forces, after the establishment of the Great Middle Korea, Yu Xiaotian is to increase the immigration activities to Australia, through the means of coercive means, after the first year of Chengtian to Australia immigrated more than 10,000 people, and established a fixed regular route, every year there are more than a dozen to dozens of large sea ships, between the two places of the Great Middle Korea and Australia, a steady stream of new immigrants - to Australia, and improve local governance and infrastructure.

As for the Americas, the naval expedition fleet of the Great China and North Korea has landed in Mexico and Chile, and has encountered the ships of the Spaniards there, and the two sides have clashed, and the Spanish claim that the land there is their Spanish territory, and the naval expedition ships of the Great China and North Korea are not allowed to land on the shore, let alone the naval explorers of the Great China and the North Korea.

The two sides have had a head-on conflict at sea, and there have been several small-scale naval battles, but now relatively speaking, the large Chinese and North Korean expedition fleets do not have an advantage, after all, they are latecomers, and they do not have enough strength here, although the expedition fleet has the power to protect itself, but it is not enough to rely on their ability to expel those Spaniards and seize their castles, so they have suffered some losses in several battles, and even have been shipwrecked and killed.

When Chengtian was in the third year, Yu Xiaotian learned of these situations from the mouth of the captain who returned from the expedition to the Americas, and immediately became furious, summoned the cabinet, and lost his temper.

The cabinet ministers were a little puzzled at first by Xiaotian's sudden anger, but Yu Xiaotian then began to tell them about Luzon, the relationship between Luzon and the former Chinese dynasties, and how the Spaniards later controlled Luzon and established the city of Manila.

Yu Xiaotian focused on telling the cabinet ministers that during the Wanli period of the previous dynasty, probably the 31st or 32nd year of Wanli, the Spaniards launched a terrible massacre of local Chinese businessmen in Manila, and the number of victims was as high as 30,000 to 50,000, just because they found that the local Chinese were too industrious and capable, and there were too many of them, and they were worried that the local Chinese would replace their rule in Luzon, so they raised their butcher's knives against the local Chinese businessmen for no reason.

At that time, during the Wanli period, after the news of this incident reached the Wanli court of the Ming Dynasty, the Wanli Emperor at that time actually thought that these Chinese were abandoned by the Ming Dynasty, which was not enough to be pitied, so he didn't care about what happened to them, and the result greatly contributed to the arrogance of the Spaniards.

Later, the Spaniards also tried to seize the island of Taiwan, but they were planted in the hands of the sea wolf fleet led by Yu Xiaotian at that time, preventing their invasion of the island of Taiwan, and later the sea wolf became stronger and stronger, and clearly told the Spaniards that they must treat the local Chinese well, otherwise Yu Xiaotian vowed to wage war against them and retaliate against them.

The Spaniards relented a little and no longer dared to kill the local Chinese merchants unscrupulously, but they still adopted quite strict control over the local Chinese, and secretly often encouraged the local black-skinned monkeys to invade the Chinese.

Now that the Great Chinese Dynasty has been established, Yu Xiaotian has long called out, but all Chinese who are overseas are also the people of the Great Middle Kingdom, and they have the right to obtain the protection of the Great Middle Kingdom, and they will never allow any country to wantonly and indiscriminately kill Chinese people all over the world, otherwise it will be an infringement on the Great China and the Middle Kingdom.

In addition, according to sources, the Spaniards in Luzon once again intensified the persecution of local Chinese and Chinese businessmen, for fear that these Chinese businessmen would be instructed by the Great China and North Korea to challenge their right to rule.

Therefore, this time he must not continue to tolerate it, and ordered the cabinet to immediately come up with a charter to settle the matter, and the first step was to expel the Spaniards from Asia, to expel Luzon, to restore the jurisdiction of Dazhong over Luzon, and to put Luzon back under the territory of Dazhong.

After listening to Yu Xiaotian's preaching, the cabinet ministers immediately understood why Yu Xiaotian suddenly became so angry, it turned out that the Spaniards had infringed on the interests of their Great China and North Korea, and actually dared to sink their expedition ships and kill their explorers.

Over the years, Yu Xiaotian led the Yu family army under his command, which is now the Dazhong official army, after a hundred battles, almost invincible, which also developed a kind of arrogance in the hearts of the officials of the Great Middle Dynasty.

Whoever dares to provoke the people of the Great Middle and North Korea, that is, it is disrespectful to their Great and Middle Korea, and they must be punished, and they must be cleaned up, and now the Spaniards have hit the muzzle of the gun, of course, they cannot be spared, so after the cabinet deliberated for a while, and finally came up with a charter, that is, to formally break off diplomatic relations with the Spaniards, declare a state of war hostility with the Spaniards, launch a punitive war against the Spaniards, take down Luzon first, and expel the Spaniards from Luzon.

Therefore, in the autumn of the third year of Chengtian, when the wind direction and climate at sea stabilized and changed to a favorable wind direction for navigation, a fleet composed of dozens of large gunboats and large troop carriers, with a holy decree of Yu Xiaotian, lit the horn of the expedition in Weitou Bay.

The sails were quickly raised by the sailors, and the iron anchors were slowly pulled out of the water at the sound of the horn of the piercing, and the long dragon fast boat, under the vigorous rowing of a large number of capable sailors, dragged the warship, began to slowly sail away from the anchorage, and sent it out of the harbor.

The one-eyed dragon with an eye patch, wearing a neat and straight new Dazhong Admiral uniform, with a golden ribbon on his shoulder, stood proudly on the stern of a large three-masted modified Galen ship with a displacement of about 1,500 tons, glanced at the battleships gathered around the flagship he sat on the sea, and then waved his hand to the front very forcefully, and shouted: "Order, sail to the southeast, and form in a standard ferry formation, Full speed ahead ......"

Dozens of warships fired three salutes at the same time, and a series of cannons rang out on the sea, and at the same time, the gun salute was also fired at the fort in the harbor, bidding farewell to these brothers on the expedition, and wishing them success in their victory.

This time, the Dazhong Navy has transferred the main warships and large troop carriers with the best conditions among the two fleets of the East China Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet, including 22 1,000-ton gunboats, 12 800-ton gunboats, and 10 500-ton gunboats, as well as 20 large 2,000-ton troop carriers, two special livestock transport ships, and six large supply ships.

The navy dispatched a total of more than 20,000 troops, and another 6,000 elite troops from Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi, including 5,000 infantry, 500 artillery, and 500 cavalry, and the two armies dispatched a total of about 30,000 troops, which can be said to be the largest fleet since the Ming Dynasty.

Although this fleet is not as large in terms of quantity as when Zheng He went to the West, but in terms of quality, it can completely destroy Zheng He's fleet at that time, and its personnel and strength are far more than Zheng He's fleet.

Yu Xiaotian was also really angry this time, and made up his mind to let the Spaniards know the result of his thunderous anger, since they regarded the Americas as their forbidden territory, then starting from Asia, this can only be the world of his Great Middle Dynasty, and no one can offend him Great Middle Kingdom, even those Chinese immigrants who are living abroad.

This fleet was handed over to the one-eyed dragon who is now the East China Sea Fleet, and although this guy cannot be said to be brave and resourceful, he is quite resolute, good at fighting tough battles, daring to take risks, and has a fierce temper, which is suitable for Liwei.

So the one-eyed dragon was ordered to set out on an expedition and sailed to Manila with the first expeditionary fleet of Dazhong.

The Spaniards in Manila had already detected in advance that China and North Korea were about to use troops against them and launch an "invasion" against them, which was not surprising to them.

In the past two years, with the establishment of the Viceroyalty of the Republic of China, the navy of the Navy, the DPRK has often appeared in the vicinity of Manila and conducted reconnaissance in the vicinity of Manila, and the expedition fleet of the Colony of the Empire of the United States appeared on the coast of the Americas, especially on the coast of the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico), as well as in the coastal areas of Santiago and other places under the Viceroy of Peru, trying to land there and occupy the land, for which the Spanish colonial governor sent a fleet to clash with them head-on.

It can be expected that Yu Xiaotian, the current emperor of the Dazhong Dynasty, who has never suffered a loss, will definitely not give up after knowing this matter, and as Manila, which is at the door of the Dazhong Dynasty, he will definitely be retaliated against by him.

Therefore, since it was unavoidable, the governor of Manila has been nervous for the past two years, doing his best to strengthen the construction of Manila's defense facilities and recruiting local black-skinned monkeys to form new companies, and constantly asking the king of Spain for help, asking the Spanish dynasty Manila to send more warships to strengthen the strength of the sea here.

In addition, he also tried his best to cast a large number of cannons and build arquebuses in the local area to arm the local defenders and build forts to strengthen the defense capabilities.

In order to prevent the local Chinese from becoming accomplices of the navy in the future, the local Spanish colonists began to do it against the local Chinese again, this time they did not dare to carry out massacres, but they instigated the local indigenous black-skinned monkeys to stir up trouble and persecute the Chinese.

The Spanish colonists, on the other hand, sat on their heads and completely ignored the Chinese who were killed, and captured a large number of Chinese, and put them into labor camps to work as coolies to purge the local disobedient Chinese.

With the declaration of war with the Spaniards, the Chinese and Korean countries were completely banned from sailing to Manila, which also cut off the way for Manila to make a fortune, and the Spanish colonists in Manila fell into panic.

Many local Spanish merchants began to evacuate Manila in advance to avoid the impending war, but as the governor of the colony, they definitely couldn't run, and they had to hold on.

The Governor of the Philippines believes that if they hold on, they should still be able to hold Manila with their current defense capability here, so in the past year, he can basically say that he has tried his best to strengthen the defense force in the Manila area.