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Driven by steam engines and propellers, the ironclad warship quickly reached fourteen knots regardless of the direction of the wind.
But the sail warship is now sailing against the wind, and its speed cannot be compared with that of the Daming iron-clad warship.
In fact, even if they sailed with the wind, they were still not as fast as the armored warships, and the Ming warships quickly caught up with the unknown warships.
The captain of the Wendi immediately issued an order:
"Come here, send a signal to the battleships in front and tell them to stop immediately, or you will bear the consequences."
"Yes"
The signalmen of the battleship Wendi immediately raised the signal flag to stop the battleship ahead.
But people ignored it at all, and continued to sail forward, and the speed increased again.
You can clearly see huge waves rolling up on both sides of the battleship, leaving a huge waterline in front of the Ming battleship.
The signalmen on the Wendi immediately reported to the captain:
"General, they don't pay any attention to us."
To be honest, don't look at Zhang Huangyan just now allowing the Wendi to fire and sink the opponent.
But the captain still wanted to confirm, he immediately asked Zhang Huangyan for instructions:
"Captain, the other party has no intention of stopping..."
Before the captain of the Wendi could finish speaking, Zhang Huangyan stared:
"Is what I said just now not clear enough? The bow artillery fires a warning to the battleship ahead, and all soldiers are ready to fight."
"Yes"
Seeing how vigorous Zhang Huangyan was, Li Dingguo couldn't help laughing and said:
"Haha, the Ming navy is too powerful. This is the high seas. Isn't the governor afraid of causing unnecessary wars?"
Zhang Huangyan smiled slightly:
"In order to take down Malacca, the governor did not hesitate to accidentally damage a warship of unknown nationality. Life and death are indifferent. If you don't accept it, you will do it. What are you afraid of?"
Li Dingguo was almost burst into laughter by Zhang Huangyan's words:
"I'll go, you are awesome, this is the good general of the Holy Majesty today, I was just joking."
Although Li Dingguo said so, in fact, he wanted to see how the unknown warship was sunk by the Ming warship.
"fire"
"Boom"
The bow artillery of Wendi and Zhengde fired almost at the same time.
One cannonball hit the sky, and another shell bombarded the side of the battleship in front, and the battleship of unknown nationality was blasted out of two holes.
"Run, don't stop the boat, or you will be sunk!"
The battleship was shaken by the artillery bombardment, and a hole was blasted on the side of the ship. Salvador hurriedly ordered the battleship to sail quickly.
Coincidentally, it is more than 30 nautical miles away from Malacca.
The Ming Fleet unexpectedly encountered the outgoing Spanish Governor Salvador at sea.
That's right, this sailing warship is exactly the one that sent El Salvador back to Spain.
Returning home with a huge amount of gold and silver, El Salvador was in a good mood today, but found that he had encountered the Ming Fleet.
When Salvador saw the Ming warship, he was almost scared to pee, how dare he stop the ship.
This guy also slaughtered Chinese in Luzon, and he felt guilty after seeing the Ming warship.
In 1639, he forced 6000 Chinese to reclaim wasteland in Calamba, Laguna.
At that time, it was still a swamp area where water conservancy was not repaired and miasma was prevalent.
The Chinese are forced to be enslaved here, the climate is not acclimatized, and the colonial government exploits everywhere, so there is no life left.
After four years, the death toll has reached more than 300 people. Facing the tyranny of Spanish officials, the desperate Chinese finally rose up.
They killed the rebel army of officials and priests and resettled their families in the mountains. Then the rebel team of about 3000 people went north and marched towards Manila.
The Chinese encountered 30 Spanish cavalry on the way. Although they eliminated 27 cavalry, they paid the price of more than 200 casualties.
It can be seen that there is a huge gap in equipment training.
Even so, the Chinese, who had been exploited by the colonial government all the year round, grew stronger along the way.
Along the way to the north, the Spanish settlements and churches along the way were burned down, and they took advantage of the victory to advance northward.
Finally encountered a massive Spanish army of 800 at San Pedro in Makati.
After a brief exchange of muskets and sticks, the two sides negotiated a ceasefire.Update the fastest.tv./ m.tv./
However, during the negotiations, the Spanish colonial army suddenly attacked from the side.
More than 300 Chinese rebels were killed and more than [-] were captured.
The rest retreated in two ways.The South Road retreated and built a fort to defend it, but was finally broken and killed by the colonial government.
The North Road made a round with the Eighth Company Chinese uprising team and moved to the southeast corner of Neihu Lake.
Although the Spanish colonists extinguished the Chinese uprising, his tyranny ignited the resistance of the Chinese everywhere, and uprisings continued everywhere.
The colonial government worried that the Chinese in Manila would collude with the insurgents outside the city and ordered the massacre of the Chinese.
The Spaniards searched the house from house to house and killed any Chinese they saw.
Chapter 534 Windfall
According to historical records, this massacre against the people of Ming Dynasty caused more than 4000 deaths.
But this is just one of the incidents where the Spanish colonists massacred my Chinese people in Luzon.
In 1603, more than [-] Ming people in Luzon were massacred, and only [-] Chinese merchants were spared.
It turned out that the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the Spanish colonial government was relatively harmonious because they jointly encircled and suppressed Lin Feng, Lin Daogan and other pirates.
Later, 250 Chinese were forced by Spain to invade Molucca, a Ming Dynasty vassal state in the Spice Islands.