Chapter 208 Concerns of the Spaniards

The news was quickly spread to Beijing in the form of an 800-mile emergency report. Xiao Tianjian and the cabinet ministers were all overjoyed to hear the news.

Although this battle is not a big battle compared with the Liaodong battle against Jiannu, and the scale of troops is not comparable, the significance of this battle is very important. This is the first time that the Royal Navy of the Dazhong Army has completed a cross-sea landing battle led by the navy, and it is dealing with the near-modernization of the West. The Lan army is also an inspection operation for Xiao Tianjian to take the lead in building a strong navy.

The navy has lived up to Xiao Tianjian's expectations. Whether it is a naval battle, a landing battle or even a tough battle, it has fought very well. In just one month, it took Taiwan Island and conquered the Dutch people's Relanzha City and Chijian City in Tainan. This battle was perfect, completely defeating the arrogance of the Dutch.

In addition, the operation of the Dazhong Army is different from that of the Ming Dynasty. When the Dazhong Army went to fight, the court did not appoint the bullshit supervisors to follow the army, but there were military commissioners. They would not interfere with the command of any commander, but they would be responsible for recording the combat process in detail. It is impossible for the general to exaggerate it. In the case of vocabulary skills, the whole battle process will be recorded by special personnel in each battle, and then submitted to the Ministry of War for the record with the battle report to prepare for the post-war review and review of the gains and losses of the battle.

In addition, after sorting out and analyzing these battle reports, they will also be sent to major martial arts halls for students and soldiers to learn and learn from the experience of war command. It is also the system implemented by Xiao Tianjian in the early stage, so that the large and medium-sized army can continuously obtain a large number of qualified junior and intermediate commanders for the future war. Strive to accumulate more practical experience, so that the Dazhong army can be invincible, and the war skills are becoming more and more proficient.

The most important thing is that through the training method of the military academy in the martial arts hall, it avoids the formation of the old-style army from generation to generation, control the military affairs, and avoids the formation of a generational warlord group by the Dazhong army.

Over the years, the children of many generals of the Dazhong army have gradually begun to become adults. The Dazhong Dynasty does not implement the hereditary system. If the children of these generals want to inherit the mantle of their parents, then the only way they can take is to enter the lecture hall for systematic learning, and then unify according to their achievements. Assignment will never allow them to serve in the army of their respective fathers. In this way, it is impossible to form a warlord group as in the past.

In this battle, there is another thing worth mentioning, that is, in the fleet, there is a captain named Zheng Sen!

Zheng Sen is also the famous Zheng Chenggong in the old time and space. After the surrender of the Zheng family group to the Great China and the DPRK, Zheng Sen did not follow Zheng Zhilong to work in the Haimao Group. However, in the second year after the surrender of the Zheng Group to the Dazhong Dynasty, Zheng Sen followed Qianyi's advice and joined the Royal Navy, and first entered Ningbo. The Royal Navy Lecture Hall studied for two years. After that, because of his excellent grades, he began to serve as a trainee captain on a patrol ship. Some time ago, he became the captain of a third-class warship and became a dazzling rookie in the Royal Navy.

In this battle, Zheng Sen also participated in the battle as the captain of a third-class warship. In the naval battle against the Dutch fleet, the battleship led by Zheng Sen was extremely brave, and under his leadership, the sailors operated the ship flexibly, the shelling was fierce and accurate, and timely blocked the escape route of the two Dutch warships. Although the warships were seriously damaged in the battle, they helped other warships eventually capture the two Dutch warships.

After the naval battle, Zheng Sen also led the sailors to quickly repair the warship and invested in the subsequent shelling of the Dutch battery on the other side. His ship was shot again in the artillery battle, and finally succeeded in destroying a Dutch turret and several heavy guns.

When his ship was seriously damaged, and Zheng Sen himself was slightly injured, he commanded the warship to rush to the beach and strand, keeping the warship from sinking. When attacking Relanzhe City, he led the whole sailors to unload the artillery on the ship, and joined the artillery array that shelled Relanzha City. This battle was very successful and was made by Liu Yan Ming specially nominated and asked the Ministry of War to award him a first-class naval battle medal.

In addition to Zheng Sen, a group of excellent naval commanders have emerged in this battle. Among them, it is necessary to mention that this person is Shi Lang. When Zheng Sen entered the Royal Navy, Shi Lang was suspected of betraying the Zheng family because his uncle defected to the Dazhong Dynasty at the earliest, so the Zheng Group surrendered to the Dazhong Dynasty. After that, Shi Fu thought that it was not easy for them to stay in the Haimao Group to work, so he took his family members to the naval system. Shi Lang, as his nephew, also joined the Royal Navy. After two years of training in the naval martial arts hall, he became the trainee captain of a warship.

In this battle, the captain of his warship was seriously injured in the naval battle. Shi Lang immediately took over the command of the captain and led all the sailors to continue the artillery battle with the Dutch warship. Finally, he successfully destroyed a Dutch warship and made great achievements.

The reason why these people can stand out in the navy is inseparable from their experience. These young generation were used to fighting at sea in their early years, and they have already accumulated considerable experience. After transferring to the Royal Navy, it is difficult to think of excellence, so in this naval battle to defeat Taiwan Island. They all have performed well.

Xiao Tianjian was very happy to learn about it. He personally commended these meritorious people in the name of the emperor, and specially ordered Zheng Sen and Shi Lang to go to Beijing to receive his personal award.

As for the more than 1,000 Dutch prisoners of war, Xiao Tianjian ordered them to be imprisoned in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, and the ruling Dutch authorities to pay 2 million Dutch guilders as war reparations before releasing these prisoners.

After learning the news that Dazhong and North Korea attacked Taiwan Island, the Dutch East India Company wanted to send troops to reinforce Taiwan, but they had limited warships. Although the Netherlands has quite a large number of warships, they did not have a large number of warships in Asia, and the Dutch also learned that the strength of the Greater China and North Korean Maritime Division is now not It's often awesome. Even if they send ships to reinforce, they may not be able to save the city of Relanzhe and Chiqian.

Just as they had organized a fleet in Batavia and wanted to set out to rescue Taiwan, they learned that the Great Central Dynasty had conquered the city of Jeland and Chilin, and annihilated all the Dutch defenders on the island, so they could only give up the rescue plan and send people to Guangzhou to negotiate with the Great China.

After some negotiations, the Dutch had to pay two million Dutch guilders as war reparations in accordance with the requirements of China and North Korea, and then took the more than 1,000 prisoners back to Batavia. So far, the Dutch forces along the coast of China were completely expelled by the Great China and North Korea, and the Great China and North Korea also completely controlled Japan's trade routes.

After Dazhong North Korea recovered Taiwan Island, the Spaniards also began to feel the threat of Dazhong North Korea to them.

The Spaniards have already occupied Luzon. Under their management, Manila has become the largest commercial port of the West in Asia. Spain's interests in Asia are fully supported by Manila.

Seven years after Tianyuan, various ships of the Chinese marine division and some unknown fishing boats began to appear frequently on the sea around Manila, and many unidentified Chinese also began to appear in the port of Manila.

Recently, even overseas Chinese businessmen living in Manila have also become much stiffer, no longer as obedient as before, and even began to have frequent violent conflicts with local indigenous monkeys.

The Spaniards are very afraid of the Chinese in the Philippines. They are afraid that too many Chinese will affect their colonization of the Philippines, so they often instigate the local Filipino monkeys and Chinese to pass, bully the Chinese, and even slaughter the Chinese in the open and secret.

In particular, the Spaniards knew very well what they did in the Philippines in their early years. During the reign of Wanli, in 1603, the emperor of Wanli heard a rumor that there were many gold mines in the Philippines, so he sent people to the Philippines to explore, which aroused the fear of the Spaniards.

Later, the Spaniards oppressed the local Chinese, which led to the Chinese uprising. Later, the Spaniards suppressed it strongly and finally turned into a massacre against the Chinese. Not only did the Spaniards participate in the massacre, but the local Filipino monkeys and even the Japanese also participated in it. In a few months, they massacred nearly three times. Thousands of Chinese.

Later, the Spaniards were very worried that it would attract the revenge of the Ming Dynasty, but they didn't think that after the Wanli Emperor heard about this, he did not respond at all. Instead, they thought that the Chinese who went abroad were all abandoned by the Ming Dynasty and didn't care about this matter at all.

So the Spaniards were relieved. In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, that is, in 1639, the Spaniards slaughtered the Chinese again in Manila. This time, countless Chinese were slaughtered by the Spaniards, and their property was also robbed by the Spaniards.

Originally, Zheng's group was very angry about this and wanted to intervene in this matter and retaliate against the Spaniards, but later, for various reasons, the Zheng's group could not launch an attack on Manila, and Chongzhen could not take care of such a thing at this time, so the Spaniards thought they could rest assured.

But what the Spaniards did not expect was that the Ming Dynasty collapsed and the rapid rise of a new China and North Korea in China. In the first two years, Xiao Tianjian did not have the strength to ask the Spaniards for an explanation, but now with the development of the Haimao Group and the rapid expansion of naval strength, the Greater China and North Korea finally has strength. I came to settle accounts with the Spaniard.

In the sixth year of Tianyuan, Xiao Tianjian ordered the Ministry of Ceremonies to send a note to the Spaniards, asking the Spaniards to explain to the two large-scale massacres of Chinese people, and asked the Spaniards to compensate the relatives of the victims. For this, the Spaniards were very worried, but they gritted their teeth and refused to admit their mistakes.

Now, when they saw the Dazhong North Korea brazenly expelled the Dutch from Taiwan Island, the Spaniards were even more afraid. Therefore, at the end of the seventh year of Tianyuan, the Spaniards began to send more troops to Manila and began to arm the local indigenous people to prepare for the possible Dazhong Dynasty to plea.

At the same time, Spain sent warships to expel large, medium and North Korean naval ships that appeared off the coast of the Philippines. At the end of the year, the two sides gradually began to have friction.

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