While the Dutch fleet was receiving supplies, the Guam Squadron of the Chinese Company had been monitoring them. The cannons on the Aganasi Fortress had also been vigilantly targeting the Dutch.
Of course, the Dutch sailors and the new local rulers were still in harmony on the surface. The two parties did a lot of transactions at the Agana market. A large number of chickens, ducks and birds were processed by the Chinese and sold to the Dutch. The Netherlands The people used the gold, silver and jewels they obtained from plundering Spanish galleons from the Americas to trade large quantities of oranges and fruits from the local indigenous people; many Dutch people had already contracted scurvy due to the long voyage.
Major Zhang Hai and Second Lieutenant Luo Yi, a supervisory officer sent by the Military Supervision Department, hurriedly came to the Sea Spirit and found the captain Huang Xing.
The new military rank system has been implemented in the entire army. Zhang Hai is not used to wearing his major badge yet. He is still casually wearing a black soldier uniform as he did on Penghu Island earlier. However, the Japanese sword hanging on his waist revealed his identity. Identity. After Yin Feng raided the Satsuma Domain, he grabbed and seized nearly 10,000 Japanese swords of various kinds on the battlefield. There were also nearly a thousand of good quality. All of them were distributed to officers at all levels of the Chinese Army. In the Ming Dynasty, Japanese swords required hundreds of gold to be purchased. Even a small lieutenant in the Chinese Army could wear them. Since the Chinese Army was a firearms unit, front-line commanders rarely had the opportunity to go into battle to kill people. Therefore, Japanese swords became the standard of the Chinese Army. Command knife.
"Captain Huang, can the Sea Spirit leave for Luzon immediately?" Zhang Hai asked.
"Oh, Major Zhang. I have a direct written order from the commander-in-chief; I am waiting for the Spaniards to show up. Only when the Spaniards show up can I leave Guam."
Zhang Hai disturbed his head. He knew that Captain Huang was the nephew of the company's major shareholder and board member Huang Qiang. He was also a close confidant of Yin Feng. He traveled around the sea for Yin Feng all year round to perform various secret missions. Therefore, he was a little arrogant. .
Captain Huang calmed down and asked: "The Dutch fleet is going to Batavia. Is there any problem?"
Zhang Hai nodded: "Before I came to Guam, when our overseas colonial garrison officers were training at the military academy, Captain Yin said that he would take action in Nanyang this year. What I am worried about is that the Dutch will be detrimental to the company's Nanyang plan. ."
Captain Huang thought for a while and said: "Well, let's do this. Doesn't the Ministry of Military Intelligence issue carrier pigeons to every colonial garrison? You can use carrier pigeons to report messages."
Zhang Hai said in embarrassment: "But our carrier pigeons are also prepared for the Spaniards..."
After much thought, the two decided to fly two carrier pigeons from the Guam colony to Luzon to report the news.
The carrier pigeon needs to fly more than 5,000 miles from Guangzhou to Manila, Luzon, and takes eight to ten days; while the Sea Spirit takes more than 20 days at the fastest with a favorable wind.
The Chinese Army incorporated the carrier pigeons into the special Communications Department of the Ministry of Military Intelligence. These pigeons are the world's top carrier pigeons cultivated in the southern Netherlands (Belgium). The carrier pigeons, tumblers and Schmidts were transmitted from Yanbo pigeons to Persia. A superior breed developed by cross-breeding pigeons. It is the originator of later generations of racing pigeons. However, 5,000 miles is also an ultra-long-distance flight for homing pigeons. These two homing pigeons in Guam are the best pigeons cultivated by the Communications Department of the Ministry of Military Intelligence so far. .But this 5,000-mile journey is also an extreme challenge for this kind of homing pigeon.
Huang Xing commanded the Sea Spirit to set off westward overnight. He released the carrier pigeon five days later and then returned to Guam.
Three days later in the afternoon, the Dutch fleet set off from the Thieves Islands and headed for the Indonesian Islands south of the Philippines.
Admiral Joris Spielbergen's fleet joined Vice Admiral F. deWittert's fleet in Batavia a month later. DeWittert was from the other direction of the earth: Coming from the direction of Europe-Cape of Good Hope-Indian Ocean, they arrived in Batavia one month earlier than Spielbergen's fleet.
Now, including the original Batavia fleet, the Dutch have assembled in Asia the most powerful fleet since the establishment of the East India Company: five main battleships, all three-masted ships. Each ship is equipped with forty cannons. Above the gate, there are also eleven clippers, eight auxiliary ships, about 3,000 sailors and soldiers, and hundreds of local Javanese native auxiliaries.
At the same time, more than 40 ships of various types had gathered in Acapulco, the Pacific coast port of the Spanish colony of Mexico. All the troops that Hero, the Spanish "Vice King" in Mexico, could collect. They were preparing. Get on the ship and then spend four to six months crossing the Pacific to attack Luzon in the Philippine Islands.
Although Spain has temporarily ceased war with other powerful countries in Europe, the government's financial crisis caused by decades of war has made the Mexican "Vice King" try his best to only recruit 5,000 troops. Moreover, these 5,000 people include 3,000 local Spanish regular army soldiers. Various mercenaries recruited from Europe: 300 Swiss spearmen. 500 German mercenaries from the Holy Roman Empire; various European deserters including pirates and sailors of various nationalities recruited in Central America. The apprentices made up 500 miscellaneous sailors. The regular Spanish Imperial Navy personnel only had more than 700 people on three main battleships.
Because the source of troops was too complicated, many had to come from Europe to Mexico to join the queue. Therefore, the integration of the troops was too troublesome. Therefore, the Spanish Empire's "Asia Expeditionary Fleet", which was originally scheduled to set out in early June, had to postpone its departure date again and again.
The port of Acapulco is the main port for Spain's "galleon trade" across the Pacific. Therefore, the indispensable kind of people here are merchants, especially Jews and "New Christians".
Before Yin Feng counterattacked Luzon, the wealthy Jewish businessman who helped the Chinese army agents, Francisco Díaz de Montoya of Manila, is now the vice president of the Manila Chamber of Commerce and serves as the Luzon branch of the Chinese Company. His younger brother, Duarte de Montoya, was in the port of Acapulco, Mexico. During the five years when the galleon trade was interrupted, he used smuggling trade to avoid the Spanish imperial government's control of the Pacific. Control of shipping routes. Duarte de Montoya also has business dealings with the Bernardo Caderas family in Macau. At this moment, he is in the port of Acapulco, observing the chaos of the Spanish Empire’s Asian Expeditionary Force. ground training.
A moment later, he appeared under the southern promontory of Acapulco Port, where smuggling ships gathered. He spent a large sum of money to hire a two-masted Dutch pirate ship, one month before the departure of the Spanish army. We sailed to the Pacific Ocean south of the equator. We traveled day and night to Manila to report the news.
While the Jewish global network was functioning, a piece of information about the Dutch was delivered via carrier pigeon relay in just half a month. It finally arrived at Yin Feng in Manila, Luzon Island.
Yin Feng was worrying about the preparations for war in Luzon Island. But after reading this information, he thought of the secret message Zhang Hai asked the carrier pigeon to send, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
After a while, he summoned all the middle and senior officers of the First Brigade. Zeng Jingshan, the director of the Luzon garrison, and others also came. Everyone gathered in the lobby of Yin Feng's residence; the mansion of the former Spanish Governor of the Philippines. Yan Siqi was also summoned Come. He walked into the lobby doubtfully and found that everyone was looking at him: except for Zeng Jingshan and other civil affairs directors, he was the youngest and only captain present.
Not long after Yan Siqi's fifth regiment was established, it was split into colonial garrisons and assigned to Guam, Leyte, gold mining areas in West Borneo such as Pontinak and Sambas, and Aceh in Sumatra. As well as Sucatana, Makassar, Jayakirta and other places in southern Kalimantan.
Yan Siqi became the polished commander, doing nothing all day long.
This is actually his own trouble: Yan Siqi's team has been involved in many wars in Taiwan, Southeast Asia and other places since its establishment several years ago. Every time, there was always a conflict with the local administrative or military director. At the end of last year, Yan Siqi went on an unscrupulous fight with the indigenous people in Guam. There was a conflict between the Chamorro people. They plundered the indigenous villages in northern Agana and killed many indigenous people. It almost caused the Chamorro people on the entire island to rebel. Then he was transferred back to Taiwan. At the beginning of the year, he served as a supporter of Ryukyu. Yan Siqi's troops went north to Ryukyu. As a result, when they captured Jeju Island in North Korea, Yan Siqi's troops killed most of the North Korean officials and exiles. Fortunately, Chen Zhongji covered him up and claimed that it was his own idea...
Yan Siqi took the lead. His fifth regiment was the most undisciplined unit in the Chinese army and the most murderous. It gathered a large number of pirates who had been recruited. Evil stars generally caused bloodshed everywhere: for any unruly natives, Yan Siqi One word: "Kill."
Yin Feng had to disperse Yan Siqi's troops and divide them into colonial garrison troops with hundreds of people in each sentry. Yan Siqi became more and more impulsive and easy to kill. Yin Feng had a headache. He wanted to train generals in his own army too much. Now he couldn't help but feel depressed. He said to Li Lihua: "I must have encouraged the situation. Yan Siqi has become like this now. I should be blamed."
Before coming to Luzon, Yan Siqi was in a frozen state. His establishment was transferred to the Personal Guard Division under the Ministry of Military Supervision. In fact, it was Yin Feng's personal guard. As the supervisor of the personal guard, he was quite competent. After arriving in Manila. Yan Siqi was dismissed from his post again because he beat a French businessman for no reason while performing a security mission.
Now, in this important military meeting, the appearance of Yan Siqi, a young captain, is indeed very dazzling.
Yan Siqi blushed slightly. Without saying a word, he found a seat behind the crowd and sat down.
Yin Feng stood in front of his desk, flipping through several documents on the desk.
"Everyone, please pay attention. The Tianzi No. 1 spy code-named Uncle has sent a report: The Dutch have made some moves. The problem now is that the Spaniards may already be in the Pacific Ocean. And the Ming Dynasty is enforcing some kind of sea ban. What should we do now? manage."
As soon as Yin Feng spoke, everyone fell silent. The "Uncle" of "Tianzi No. 1" was the latent spy who sent out the message that "Yin Feng is in danger in Hangzhou." This person's true identity is almost unknown except for Yin Feng. People know.
"Now, our Dutch friends plan to watch the fight on Table Mountain. When we get into a stalemate with the Spaniards, they will attack us from behind and take advantage of the situation."