Become the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Chongzhen!

Chapter 748 Trading
Zheng Chenggong also turned a blind eye to the existence of this team.

Mainly because during the previous battle against the Dutch in Taiwan, this group of black flag mercenaries were also hired by the Nanyang Company to assist in the siege and sweep of the Dutch fortresses and strongholds in northern Taiwan.

The record is quite good.

There is nothing Tatar-like about this group of people.

Naturally, those who work as mercenaries cannot wear black flag armor. Most of them wear cotton armor, chest plate armor, and a pot helmet, which are relatively cheap equipment in Liaodong.

The combat method of throwing heavy bows and large arrows in the battle formation is not suitable for mercenaries.

Some of them will have Viking braids, also known as black flag braids.

For the Spaniards in Santiago Castle, this braid seemed to awaken the fear buried deep in their genes. When the city wall collapsed, everyone in the city was shocked.

Of course, the naturalized natives in the city were even more afraid.

Zheng Chenggong was reluctant to use his Han soldiers to rush into the city to fight with the enemy, and the Spaniards were reluctant to leave their men.

Therefore, the first thing that faced the Ming Army's engineering team was a large group of naturalized indigenous soldiers dressed in red and white, wearing military uniforms and simple chest plate armor.

The Black Flag soldiers received high wages under the Nanyang Company, and also received military training during the slack season under the Zhenghei flag, so they naturally fought bravely.

As for the use of firearms, not to mention Black Flag, the Ming Army has been tempered with Black Flag, Shunjun, and the Western Army over the years, and it is also at the forefront of the world.

During street fighting, long and short fire cannons are first used to suppress the enemy, and then the assaulters throw thunderbolts nearby.

If the enemy is caught off guard and is injured or shocked, it is a good time to press forward and get close.

"boom!"

Amidst a series of explosions, the indigenous soldiers fled in panic, and a dozen unlucky ones screamed after being blown over.

"You're so generous, even the grenades were used."

"You can catch a slave and sell him for dozens of pieces! You fucking buckle! Die buckle!"

"Don't go up, don't go up! Let those natives go up! Let the Ming army go up!"

"Take the hook!"

The mercenary profession emerged in Liaodong, and the main reason was the ability to go out and sell slaves.

If you don't have the capital and ability to do big business, then you can get together and start a small business, and you can follow the trend of the slave trade.

Farms in Liaodong have already begun placing orders for pre-orders from slave traders.

Then of course order outsourcing is also available.

The noose with the iron hook was thrown over, hooked on the clothes and flesh of the wailing indigenous soldiers who fell to the ground, and then dragged over, dozens of taels of silver were put into the account.

Just like gold miners.

How capable you are of doing so many things.

However, the goal of the more than two hundred black flag soldiers was very simple. The master above wanted three hundred slaves, and the defenders in the castle, including women, children, old and young, totaled seven to eight thousand people.

And this siege battle is still going to be long.

The city wall is broken, but this castle is also a large castle with a history of nearly a hundred years. There must be many lines of defense in the city, and the buildings of the castle are very majestic and tall. According to the locals in Luzon, it was built by the Spanish for several years. It is made of eggs mixed with bricks and mud.

The Spanish are also an old colonial empire. Although the Invincible Fleet is gone, they are still somewhat ambitious and arrogant on land, otherwise they would not have been able to hold on for so long.

Fifteen hundred native soldiers and [-] Spanish soldiers fought with the Ming army for a whole day inside and outside the city wall on the seaside. Most of the native soldiers collapsed first, and [-] Spanish soldiers led the remaining native soldiers to resist continuously.

Finally, under the fire of many musketeers inside the castle, the siege team retreated and entrenched themselves under the walls of Santiago.

Looking at the casualties and captures from both sides, it turned out that the Ming army had suffered more losses.But it was the natives who died the most.

Neither the Spanish nor the Ming army showed any physical pain.

But the Spanish Governor in the Philippines could not sit still.

The moment the city wall was breached, his eyes darkened on the spot. He could only pray to God to at least let his soldiers withstand the first wave, so that he could later negotiate surrender terms with Akito on the opposite side.

I knew that the Ming Empire was threatening, but I didn't expect them to be so vicious.

As the Governor of the Philippines, Manrique had already made many compromises that he believed would soon be deemed treason by the king and hanged.

But Ming Dynasty did not accept it.

They didn't know how to adapt at all, and they insisted on eating the entire Philippines and making the Spanish Kingdom give up all its interests here.

is it possible?

The kingdom is weak. If a large colony like the Philippines is lost, not to mention that he, the governor, will be hanged, and no one with a slight official title in Manila will be able to escape!
In the current situation, the best outcome for him as a governor is to die in battle.

In this way, his family can still have good treatment in Spain.

But Manrique didn't want to die.

Zheng Chenggong wrote many letters to persuade him to surrender, but Manrique ignored them at first. As time went by, he would reply to the letters and even communicate in the letters.

The two of them argued over the letter.

Zheng Chenggong originally said that he would let them go if they surrendered voluntarily.

Now it has been negotiated that surrender will guarantee the property and real estate of some of the main powerful officials in the city, and they can continue to live in Manila.

"Guarantee the houses and property of all Spaniards in the city and grant them the right of residence. In addition, as a condition of dedicating the city, I need to become a citizen of the Ming Empire, not a citizen in Manila, but a citizen of Guangzhou Province."

"Row."

That night, after several exchanges of letters and negotiations, the gates of Santiago Castle were opened.

The first two thousand assault was naturally just an attempt.

After repelling 2000 people, there are still 20 outside the city.

Zheng Chenggong knew that if he continued to fight, the Spaniards would inevitably surrender unconditionally, but he no longer wanted to wait.

The two sides negotiated in an open space outside the city. Then the Spanish side surrendered their weapons and only allowed the Han soldiers under Zheng Chenggong to enter the city. At the same time, the city of Manila guarded by the castle also let go of its already broken defense line.

The Spaniards surrendered and allowed Han soldiers to garrison the castle to protect the Spaniards in the castle.

On the other side, Manila is home to naturalized Filipinos, Dutch or Portuguese merchants, and large tracts of houses, shops, factories, and the like.

Belongs to the troops fighting with the Ming army.

That day, 20 troops poured into the city and massacred and looted.

The Spanish city of Manila in the Philippines is the largest and most important colony of the Kingdom of Spain in the entire East Asia. It is also the largest commodity transit and production center on the maritime trade routes in East Asia.

Many local tribes entered the city and inflicted all the tortures they could think of on the naturalized natives who had followed the Spaniards in their domination.

The smoke in the city soon shot straight into the sky.

A large group of naturalized natives who were being hunted still hoped that their Spanish masters would protect them. They knelt down in front of the Ming army's defense line at Santiago Castle and cried and begged.

Behind them, a large group of natives beat and massacred them in front of the Ming army.

(End of this chapter)