1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 202 Attack on Luzon: Siege ([-])

"Huzi, the casualties in this battle are a bit heavy!" Cao Xiong looked at Niuhu and shook his head.

In this battle, a total of 28 soldiers of the Hanzhou Marine Corps were killed and 56 were injured, [-] Spanish soldiers were killed or injured, [-] Luzon native servants, and more than [-] colonial military and political officials and soldiers in the city were captured.

"At that time, I just wanted to take advantage of Spain's lack of preparation and take down this fort early." Niu Hu also said seriously: "A dozen brothers died this time, and I am sorry for them."

"Huzi, I don't blame you for being reckless." Cao Xiong patted Niu Hu on the shoulder, "We don't have many people in Hanzhou, and these soldiers are even more precious. I just feel sorry for them. In a few days, they died for our Hanzhou. Alas, some of them married wives and gave birth to children."

"When I attack the Spanish castle next time, I will think more about them." Niu Hu, like those marine soldiers, has also married a wife and had children in the past two years, and the guilt in his heart is even deeper.

"Huzi, don't think too much. I'm just sighing." Cao Xiong smiled, "In the future, if there are these tough battles, the soldiers of the Sulu Kingdom can rush to the front. They have a deep hatred with the Westerners! "

"I wrote it down." Niu Hu felt a little regretful at once, didn't he bring more than 700 cannon fodder, and forgot about them.

"Lieutenant Colonel Bacona, after interrogation, it has been confirmed that the Spaniards have indeed shrunk all their forces to Manila." said Major Frost Fritz, commander of the Dutch Army.

"How many Spanish soldiers and warships are gathered in Manila?" asked Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces.

"According to the Spanish captives, they may have gathered about [-] Musketeers and thousands of native servants in Manila. Moreover, Manila also planned to force the civilians in Manila to join the army. If we target Manila If we launch an attack on the area and its surrounding areas, we may face [-] to [-] enemy siege."

"The enemy's warships are all assembled in the port of Manila. There are five large warships and nearly twenty other small and medium-sized ships. Moreover, they can rely on numerous coastal defense batteries to resist our attack. Therefore, I don't think we can take the initiative to go Attack Manila."

Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona was somewhat disgusted by Major Frost Fritz's cowardly remarks.Especially when attacking the Jishuiwan port in the Kingdom of Aceh in July last year, when encountering a small setback, they gave up lightly.If Cao Li of Hanzhou hadn't advocated the attack, the Dutch would almost have returned without success.

"Cao, do you think we should attack Manila?" Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona expected Cao Xiong to have new constructive suggestions again.

"I think what Major Fritz said is correct. We shouldn't attack the enemy's solid defenses and heavily guarded places." Cao Xiong said seriously.Just kidding, if you fight Zamboanga Castle, which is defended by a hundred and 80 people, more than 20 people will be killed or injured in Hanzhou.If this is to attack Manila, which is defended by thousands of people, it must fill in all the people!

Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona actually wants to try to fight Manila. If he captures this core Spanish colonial stronghold in the Philippines, it can basically be declared that the Dutch have expelled Spain from the Far East.

But now, not only the Netherlands' own army commander does not agree to directly attack Manila, but even the partner Hanzhou does not agree.

Then, only according to the original plan, attack Spain's most important stronghold on the central island of the Philippines, the Holy City of Jesus (now Cebu City, Philippines), in order to draw Spanish reinforcements from Manila.

Two days later, the Chinese and Dutch coalition forces raided all the materials in Zamboanga City, destroyed the castle, and then set fire to it, completely destroying the most advanced Spanish stronghold in the southern Philippines.

A warship was sent to send all the Spanish prisoners and captured materials to Hele Island, and the remaining ships sailed northeast to the city of Jesus, the saint.

"Have you written down the geography and route of this journey?" Cao Xiong asked.

"Back to the commander-in-chief, I have basically recorded it according to the rough map given by the commander-in-chief. However, some terrains can only be roughly marked because there is no on-site inspection." Cao Yuanming said respectfully.

Cao Yuanming was one of the many lonely teenagers Cao Xiong brought back when he first came to Daming. In order to repay his kindness, most of them changed their surnames to Cao or Qi.This attack on Luzon, in order to better understand the geographical conditions of Borneo and the Luzon Islands, as well as the appropriate route, Qi Tian sent eight teenagers who were proficient in map drawing to Cao Xiong, and followed the Dutch fleet all the way, drawing and making supplementary revisions The slightly crude map of Hanzhou.

"It's okay, we can't say it in the future, we have to come here often to compete with Luzon's Spain, and we can gradually improve it." Cao Xiong nodded and said: "According to the ambition of your chief executive, this island in South China Sea, he wants to receive me in the future. In the future, you must follow him well, make contributions, and build our Hanzhou into a powerful kingdom. Don’t be like us now, who have to follow the Dutch and be insignificant pawns!”

"Commander, don't worry. We will definitely learn our skills and work hard to develop our Hanzhou. In the future, we must let the Westerners follow us and let them be a pawn in the charge!" Cao Yuanming said excitedly.

"Hahaha..." Cao Xiong laughed loudly, looking at the energetic young men in front of him, he felt unprecedentedly relieved.Knowledgeable, aggressive, and ambitious, they will definitely make a difference in the future.Wait for me to lay more foundations for these children, shelter them from wind and rain, and when they grow up, our Hanzhou will be able to soar into the sky.

Saint Jesus City, now Cebu City in the Philippines, was a prosperous village before the Spanish colonization. On April 1521, 4, Spaniard Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philippines after crossing the Pacific Ocean from South America and landed here for the first time.The chief of the local tribe Humabang, his wife and 7 indigenous people welcomed him. On April 800, 1521, they were baptized by the Spanish and became the first Filipino Christians. Magellan named the place San Miguel.However, on April 4, 14, Magellan was killed by chief Lapu Lapu on the neighboring island of Mactan.

On April 1565, 4, Miguel López Legazpi and the Augustinian missionary Andrés de Urdaneta landed in Cebu. On January 27, 1571, Legazpi changed the name of the place from San Miguel to the Holy City of Jesus.Thereafter, it was the capital of the newly established Spanish colony until the Spanish colonial army captured Manila.

Regarding the attack on the city of Holy Name Jesus, the Dutch plan is to look for an opportunity to occupy it if the Spanish defense is weak.But when there is strong resistance, they will be besieged and wait for the Spanish fleet to come to help.

Therefore, after the coalition fleet arrived at the outer port of the city of Holy Name Jesus, it only carried out a little probing, and immediately retreated to the open sea after being hit by a strong counterattack from the shore fire artillery.

After the Chinese and Dutch coalition fleet dispatched warships on both sides of the island where the city of Holy Name Jesus was located, they temporarily docked on the opposite Mactan Island for repairs. They ignored the fast sailing ships that escaped from the Spaniards and allowed them to warn and ask for help in Manila.

"Let's seal the port like this. What if the Spaniards don't come to rescue us?" Cao Xiong looked at Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona and said solemnly.

"Don't you, Hanzhou, want to land and attack this strong fortress?" Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona asked with a smile: "This stronghold is the earliest stronghold that the Spanish occupied in the Philippines. Almost 70 years!"

"I think, if you don't try to land, how do you know if you can take it down?" Cao Xiong thought that with more than 700 Sulu soldiers in his hand, maybe he can work hard. If they are shot down, wouldn't it enrich Hanzhou Treasury?

Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona shrugged, since the Hanzhou people want to try, let them have the opportunity to show their bravery.If the city is broken, the Dutch must share.

According to the agreement before the departure of the Han-Dutch coalition forces, this time Hanzhou will share [-]% of the seizures after attacking Luzon towns.Of course, this seizure only included the property of the Spanish treasury and colonial institutions.The coalition commanders will turn a blind eye to the looting and seizure of soldiers in private.Soldiers fight, go through life and death, isn't it just to make some war money.

Lieutenant Dakota Campbell stood on a high slope outside the city of Holy Name Jesus, holding up a binoculars, watching six warships in the distance more than 60 meters away from the shore, and many small boats were lowered.This is the enemy preparing to land and attack!

Ensign Dakota Campbell put down his binoculars and waved to the troops behind him.This is a mixed force of more than a hundred Spanish and natives. They were ordered to stop the enemy's forced landing, fight for the defense behind, and relieve some pressure.

There are only more than 50 Spanish Musketeers in the entire city of Holy Name Jesus, and more than 300 Luzon native servants.The Dutch came with more than a dozen warships, and they must have carried more than 800 landing troops.Therefore, the Spaniards were going to inflict a lot of damage on the enemy when they landed.

The first wave of coalition forces landed was the Sulu native soldiers. The Hanzhou Marine Corps equipped them with all the weapons seized from Zamboanga, which made the Sulu native soldiers seem to have improved their combat effectiveness by a large margin.

The boat stopped at a distance of more than 20 meters from the shore, and the Sulu native soldiers jumped out of the boat one after another, wading through knee-high sea water, and rushed towards the shore.

After more than 40 Sulu native soldiers set foot on the shore, they formed a loose army formation. On the outside were soldiers holding spears, and inside were seven or eight native soldiers holding matchlock guns.

Second Lieutenant Dakota Campbell waved his hand, and a team of more than 100 people slowly approached the Sulu native soldiers who had landed.

"Bump! Bump! Bump!..." Before reaching a distance of more than 60 meters, the panicked Sulu soldiers fired first, and only one Spaniard on the opposite side fell down.

"Bump! Bump! Bump!..." When they quickly approached more than 40 meters, the Spanish musketeers fired the first round of salvo.

Six or seven spearmen fell down in the front row of the Sulu native soldiers.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..." The Spaniard fired again with a second round of musket volleys.

This time, another five or six soldiers from the Sulu Kingdom fell down, among them were the soldiers with muskets in the middle of the team.

"Ah!" the Sulu soldiers shouted, waved their weapons, and rushed towards the Spanish army formation.

"Fucking hell, they were all wiped out!" Cao Xiong cursed bitterly. Thirty or so Sulu native soldiers only fought the Spaniards for less than two rounds, and all of them were killed on the shore.As for the Spanish casualties, they were probably only a few.

"Fire!" Cao Xiong ordered.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..." The six warships fired one after another, bombarding the retreating Spanish troops.

(End of this chapter)