This melee was longer than Ning Zeyuan expected to end, and the price paid by the joint fleet was much greater than he expected, which made Ning Zeyuan very dissatisfied. In such a battle comparable to the siege, the final casualty rate reached almost one to one. After Fan Xin led the warships into the battle group of the joint fleet to launch a gang fight, the melee level and combat will of the soldiers of Manila's island countries were completely exposed. This result made Ning Zeyuan have to consider how to carry out the battle against the Tiger Dynasty in the future.

According to the overall arrangement of the court, in Manila, there will be more than just fighting at sea, but there will be a fierce land offensive and defensive battle. There will be steam artillery warships of the Ming Dynasty on the sea, so they will naturally be rampant. However, on land, they can only rely on local Manila soldiers and naval marines. If they fail on land and fail, they will have an extremely huge impact on the entire battle.

Fighting skills can be intensively trained, but how should the fighting will be enhanced? This problem gave Ning Zeyuan a headache. These people were not from the Ming Dynasty, so naturally they could not apply the Ming army's method of inspiring soldiers. It seems that after the battle, we must discuss with Chen Ci and others how to solve this problem.

Who should we fight for? Why? This has always been a big question. If the soldiers in Manila have high fighting spirit, they need to solve this problem. Ning Zeyuan couldn't help but remember the war with Pattaya. At that time, the combat effectiveness shown by Pattaya soldiers was still remarkable.

The Taiping sounded the whistle of preparation for battle, which also woke Ning Zeyuan up from his thoughts. Looking at Changxing Island, which was standing on the sea not far away, Ning Zeyuan raised the telescope in his hand. All the facilities on the island passed by Ning Zeyuan one by one. Seeing the strong city walls, the lined catapults, strong crossbows, and the soldiers who were fully armed and guarded, Ning Zeyuan couldn't help but shake his head.

"General Fan, Changxing Island is about to have a charcoal of creatures. If you order them to surrender now, you will pull them back from the gate of hell. These people will be loyal to you. Are you just watching them die?" Ning Zeyuan asked when he turned around and looked at Fan Xin, who was bandaged like a mummy beside him.

"There is no surrendered army in Daqi." Fan Xin replied coldly.

"But I seem to remember your emperor saying you are traitors!" Ning Zeyuan laughed loudly, "Qi State has issued us a formal letter of nationality for this matter, and I also ask us to help wipe out you. Looking back, I am going to send you to Qi State to receive a large bounty!"

Fan Xin snorted, too lazy to answer.

Ning Zeyuan suddenly closed his laughter, "Since General Fan refused to give these people a way out, I would be polite. I sent an order to open fire freely. Raise Changxing Island to the ground for me. Help General Fan up and let him see what Changxing Island will look like!"

Fan Xin finally saw the power of the huge main gun on the head of the Taiping ship at close range. With such a huge ship, the entire ship still sat back slightly when the cannon was ejected. Then in his eyes, he saw only a huge ball of fireballs passing through the sky and landing on Changxing Island.

Accompanied by the fire and smoke, the soldiers garrisoned on the island ran in panic. A fortress was hit and collapsed. All the soldiers inside were buried. Many Qi soldiers around rushed out of their hiding place and ran to the collapsed place. They desperately moved the stones to rescue their buried companions below.

But this was destined to be futile. The heads of the Ming army's steam artillery warships led by the Taiping opened fire one by one. Wherever there were many people, the target of bombing was the appearance of these soldiers just provided more specific targets for the Ming army on the sea.

The main gun on the Taiping was slow and slow. A shell was fired in half a stick of incense. Compared with the firepower of other warships, the main gun on the head of his ship was obviously much more powerful.

After seeing the close combat level of Manila soldiers and the stubborn spirit of Qi people, Ning Zeyuan decided to spend more shells and blow up the enemy on the island first.

The shelling lasted for a whole afternoon, but Changxing Island, which was bombed so violently, had already been beyond recognition. The ground buildings that the Qi army had built for more than half a year were basically gone. It was not until this time that Ning Zeyuan ordered landing and fighting.

Dozens of landing ships were loaded with soldiers to row towards Changxing Island. It was not until this time that there were finally signs of a counterattack on Changxing Island. More than a dozen stone bombs rose from the island and rushed towards these warships that were about to land.

The landing warships were scattered like frightened birds, scattered away from these stone bombs falling from the sky. Compared to their combat level, the skills of these island-born soldiers in controlling such small boats were remarkable. The huge water column soared into the sky, but the small warships boarded the ship continued to move forward safely and rushed to the beach.

The soldiers jumped off the boat and began to advance. In front of them was a low chest wall. Behind the chest wall, a general of Qi army stared at the rushing enemy fiercely and roared: "Shoot!"

The crossbow machine began to scream, and countless crossbow arrows rushed out like locusts, shooting at the rushing landing soldiers, sweeping each other rows on the beach, and the rest of them turned around and fled backwards. At the same time as the crossbow machine sounded, the sound of the thunderbolt cannons began to sound, but the target of their attack was the landing warships parked on the shallows. The crowded landing warships did not have much room to move at this time. Under the attack of the dense thunderbolt cannons, they were immediately shot, either the cannon was beating or simply beaten into two sections.

"Strike!" The general of the Qi army held a big sword and jumped out of the invisible place. Behind him, countless Qi soldiers gritted their teeth. They were beaten for a long time and did not fight back. At this time, they had the opportunity to vent their anger in their hearts.

The first landing battle ended in failure. Only half of the thousands of soldiers who attacked escaped, and the rest were all lying on the beach. Seeing this scene, Fan Xin laughed proudly, but Ning Zeyuan just glanced at him and said coldly: "Is this the level? Then you can watch it carefully and see if you can still laugh?"

A moment later, the second wave of landing war began again. It seemed exactly the same as before, but this time, the landing warships were all equipped with a powerful crossbow. This was a weapon uniformly distributed by the Ming army to the Manila warships. On the crossbow arrows that were fired were all equipped with an explosive pack. When fired, it was ignited. Whether the crossbow arrows hit or not was irrelevant. As long as it was probably near the target they wanted to shoot, killing was mainly based on the explosive packs carried on the crossbow arrows.

When the warships were moored on the beach again, the soldiers were preparing to land, and the Qi army was preparing to row a gourd to give the opponent a fatal blow, all the crossbows on the warships began to shoot towards the opposite side at the same time.

The loud explosion turned the front of the fire into a collection of smoke and fire, screaming endlessly, broken arms and limbs flying all over the sky, and amid the shouts, Manila soldiers rushed to the beach and rushed forward. Behind them, the warships were still firing crossbow arrows, starting to extend the landing point of the shooting further forward.

In the face of huge weapon generation gap, even if the weak side can achieve temporary local victory, it still cannot change the overall failure situation.

The fortress, considered to be indestructible, was easily blown up. No matter how exquisite the ambush design was, it was gone without any bombardment. The tunnels were directly blown down by Manilian soldiers with gunpowder. The Qi soldiers inside were buried inside. Compared with the battle on the sea, the battle on Changxing Island lasted only an hour and was completely occupied by the Manilian soldiers. More than 3,000 Marine soldiers stationed on the island died on the spot, and the rest were all captured by the Manilian soldiers.

More than 4,000 prisoners of war were stuffed into the five captured Qi warships. Ning Zeyuan narrowed his eyes and looked at the five warships. Beside him was Fan Xin, the chief general of the Qi army, who was held by several guards.

"General Fan, at this time, I think we can have a good talk."

"There is nothing to talk about." Fan Xin looked bleak, but he was still very tough in despair.

Ning Zeyuan smiled and said, "Of course there is a lot to talk about, such as where Ning Zefeng ran to? For example, you should have a second hiding place. Others don't know about these, but I believe you must know."

"Of course I know, but do you think I will tell you?" Fan Xin laughed and said, "Ning Zeyuan, kill me quickly and don't waste your quarrels on me."

"You are a tough guy, and I'm really not ready to waste your quarrels to surrender you." Ning Zeyuan laughed: "But I have a lot of chips in my hand now, right? Have you seen those five warships? Each ship has about nine hundred to one thousand of your former subordinates, Fan Xin, as you said, I don't want to waste time. From now on, I ask once, if you don't respond to me, then a ship will be sunk. Of course, the people on the ship will also fall into the sea to feed the fish."

Fan Xin's face changed drastically. He looked at Ning Zeyuan and shouted: "Aren't you wise men not killing prisoners?"

Ning Zeyuan laughed loudly: "Look, look, those who are preparing to bomb the ship are not the Ming army, they are the Manila coalition forces. Fan Xin, can you tell me where Ning Zefeng went?"

Fan Xin's face was exposed and his eyes were bloodshot. If it weren't for the fact that a few soldiers had firmly held him, he would have rushed up and bit the smiling man in front of him to death.

"This is the first time. It's a pity that you didn't respond to me." Ning Zeyuan made a gesture. In the distance, a prisoner of warship launched a loud explosion, slowly sinking into the sea as fireworks permeated.

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