Chapter 930 Waiting for the Rabbit

The sea breeze was gentle.

The golden sunlight spread on the blue sea, as if it was sprinkled with a layer of gold powder.

After leaving Bambu, the fleet arrived in Manila, the capital of Luzon, in one day.

"I don't know if Miao An and Niu Qiang can do the job, so don't cause trouble." On the flagship deck, Song Xiang and Zhou Yi stood side by side, holding telescopes and observing the port of Manila.

Song Xiang couldn't help asking at this time.

If Manila is surrounded but not attacked, Bambu, the supply point, is still very important.

Zhou Yi smiled, knowing that the generals must be puzzled by his handing Bambu to Miao An and Niu Qiang.

So he explained, "They are doing things under the eyes of the Marine Corps. If there is any problem, the Marine Corps generals will save it in time."

After a pause, he continued, "The most important problem is that according to your Highness's intention, we need to train some young and motivated overseas Song people, which will be of great benefit to Da Song's control of the entire southern region in the future."

Song Xiang nodded when he heard it.

He was a pure naval commander, responsible only for fighting.

But their General Zhou Yi and King Yan considered more problems.

After the two finished talking, they looked at Manila again.

Unlike the defenseless Bambu, the Portuguese defenders in Manila were obviously warned.

The merchant ships and warships at the dock disappeared, but the artillery on the dock was flashing.

"It seems that the Portuguese soldiers who escaped from Bambu brought the news of Bambu's capture here." Zhou Yi raised the corner of his mouth, "Hehe, let them spend the next few days in fear."

Then, he ordered the warships to surround the entire Manila port and wait for changes on the sea.

At the same time.

In a turret in the Manila port, there was also a pair of eyes staring at the Dasong fleet.

These eyes belonged to the Portuguese Governor Ferrero.

At this moment, he was wearing a military uniform, a sailing cap, and fine beads of sweat on his forehead.

"Damn it, is Maful, this bastard, an idiot? Why did he let the Dasong fleet appear here?" Ferrero cursed constantly.

Since the King of Yan of Dasong captured Yizhou, he felt for the first time that the position of the Portuguese governor in Luzon was so difficult.

When the news of the fall of Yizhou came, he immediately built fortifications in Manila and immediately sent warships to send the news back to Portugal.

At the same time, he actively contacted the Sterdam people, the British and the Franks, hoping to get support.

Fortunately, the British Governor Bolt chose to support him.

The four countries formed a small joint fleet in the southern region of Dongtu to patrol the sea and protect their colonies.

In this quasi-war state, they actively prepared for war and spent ten months.

Finally, the joint fleet arrived.

The Portuguese sent 18 sailing warships and 10,000 soldiers.

They also provided Manila with a large number of muskets and artillery to arm their native troops in Luzon.

They originally had 20,000 soldiers in Luzon.

This brought the total number of Portuguese troops in the East to 30,000.

The number of warships also expanded from eight to twenty-six.

However, the supporting forces had to obey the command of the coalition forces at the moment.

But even so, he was relieved.

The coalition promised to protect the interests of Western countries in the East, naturally including those of the Portuguese.

With the strong coalition as a backing, they could finally sleep well at night.

However, he never expected that just when the coalition navy was about to deceive the Dasong fleet to go to Moro Island.

The Dasong fleet appeared here.

The day before yesterday, it even captured the small town of Bambu at the northernmost tip of Luzon.

"I hope the bastards of the coalition navy can come quickly." Ferrero cursed again.

He did not foolishly leave the eight sailing warships stationed in Manila.

Instead, he asked them to cross the central Luzon full of islands and go to Moro from there to find the coalition navy.

"God bless them not to attack immediately." Ferrero muttered again when he saw that the Dasong Navy was only besieging the port and did not take immediate action.

He thought that the Dasong fleet must be waiting for more soldiers to arrive.

After all, according to his observation, Dasong's troop transport ships did not seem to be able to carry many soldiers.

After calming down for a while, he inspected the trenches dug along the Manila Port.

In addition to the vigilant Portuguese soldiers in the trenches, there were also Luzon native troops wearing gray uniforms.

Like Sterdam, Britain, and Frank.

After conquering the countries in the East and South, they all made the same decision.

That is to form an indigenous army based on the king's army to maintain their colonial rule over the countries in the South.

This is because the South is just one of their colonies and can only maintain a small number of troops.

But to rule such a large country, it is obvious that these troops are far from enough.

As a result, all colonies, including the East and South, have a small number of Western troops leading a large number of indigenous troops.

In the past, he never paid attention to these indigenous troops.

But now, he was very glad that Luzon still had an 80,000-man native army.

In order to get these native troops to follow them to resist King Yan.

During this period, he not only improved the treatment of native soldiers, but also promised many benefits to native officials and generals.

Even the King of Luzon, Batugu, who was sidelined by them, he agreed.

As long as he could use the king's influence to encourage the people of Luzon to work together with the Portuguese to resist Dasong, he would give the royal family more preferential treatment.

After inspecting the Portuguese soldiers and native soldiers, Ferrero felt more at ease.

He ordered his colonel to keep an eye on the Dasong fleet and returned to the Governor's Office.

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At this moment, in the eastern waters of Luzon, eight Portuguese warships were heading towards Moro Island.

To their northeast, a steamship was also heading to Moro Island at the highest speed.

This steamship was the one that encountered the Dasong warships in the southern waters of Iju.

After three days of sailing, the steamship arrived at the port of Moro Island.

The news was delivered to Maful, who was waiting for news on Moro Island.

"The Dasong fleet is heading to Luzon?" Maful's face changed when he received the news, and he immediately spread out a scribbled sea chart to mark the location of the Dasong fleet.

"During this period, we have released enough traces to show that we are in the east, which is really strange." Sam Admiral Powell was very puzzled.

"There are two possibilities. Their naval commanders are too stupid, or they are deliberately disrupting our steps and forcing us to fight them." Maful thought for a while and said slowly.

"Based on the performance of the Dasong Navy, their commanders do not seem to be stupid, so there is only the second possibility." Frank Admiral Quevedo said, "This is really a vicious trick. If we ignore them, they will take the opportunity to take over Luzon and even other southern countries."