For Zhang Xianzhong was able to win over Shi Lang and get the Spaniards a lot of money. Well, the Spaniards may not be settled entirely by money, and maybe the Spaniards themselves want to sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight. However, in the eyes of the two time travelers, Zhang Xianzhong's performance is indeed not a false reputation.

As Chongzhen and Wang Chengen chatted, they assumed how great luck Zhang Xianzhong would have would have been to travel to future generations.

Regarding this assumption, Wang Chengen concluded that Zhang Xianzhong could become an outstanding red-top businessman. With such a big hand and awesome subordinates, he would definitely be on the Forbes rankings.

Chongzhen believed that Zhang Xianzhong was actually very promising in the officialdom. Think about it, who can compare with him if he wanted to run for an official position! It is a matter of being willing to spend money, and a second matter of being thick-skinned. He has great courage, strong execution, and good leadership, and can be a strong team, brag, and can be suppressed. Being a provincial leader is probably not a problem. However, this guy often does some unreliable things and is the best in the world. I guess it is a bit difficult to become a member of the Standing Committee.

This is a completely nonsensical assumption, but the subsequent deductions made people feel relieved. The two laughed. Since Zhang Xianzhong was only able to be a local leader, he was still worthy of being the King of Luzon.

Of course, Zhang Xianzhong still has a long way to go if he wants to be the real King of Luzon. First of all, in Manila, the elite team brought by Zhang Dingguo was destroyed. The team of 15,000 people was only more than 4,000 left, and he had retreated to the second line of defense to defend his life, and he was about to be unable to hold on. Yang Heng's men also lost 2,000, and only 4,000 left. The front line was in full swing. Fortunately, some of the eight thousand people who were not accommodating Lin Jiayan recovered, and he pieced together two thousand soldiers to reinforce Zhang Dingguo, so that the situation was stabilized.

Yuichi Nakamura was also very big. Manila had less than 6,000 teams, and it was really hard to eat the bandits like Zhang Xianzhong and others. Yuichi Nakamura had to call Hashimoto Taichiro to continue to increase his troops to Luzon while intensifying his work as the Spaniards, and even extended an olive branch to protect Santiago Castle.

Barvette really doesn't know what to do about the current situation. It is very tempting to enter Manila, but the Japanese and Zhang Xianzhong are fighting to the death. Spain can't throw the only 3,000 people into the meat grinder of Manila. Besides, if the Japanese are playing tricks behind the scenes, they must be a little careful. Although there are many concerns, Barvette is still quite clear about the overall situation. In the current Luzon battle, the Japanese and Spanish are basically fighting hard to distinguish. Although the Japanese are not as powerful as Zhang Xianzhong, the Japanese army's combat power is there, so the Japanese army is still slightly suppressing Zhang Xianzhong. If they continue to fight with such a momentum, Spain's plan to reap the benefits of the fisherman will not fail.

Therefore, for Balvit, he looked at the current battle between the Japanese and Zhang Xianzhong from the perspective of a referee. Of course, the only result that the referee was willing to see was that both sides would be tied: 0:0, 2:2, 3:3--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

It is tolerant, but it is unbearable! Balvit immediately stated that the Spaniards would not tolerate anyone's invasion of Luzon. If the bandits of the Ming Empire attempted to smuggle, the Spaniards would firmly intercept them. On this point, Yuichi Nakamura and Balvit immediately reached an agreement, that is, the Japanese fleet and the Spanish fleet joined forces to carry out anti-smuggling strikes on the Ming bandits who dared to smuggle, in order to eliminate all smugglingers who dared to smuggle.

The Spaniards immediately sent eight ships, loaded with artillery provided by the Japanese army, and headed to the Babuyan Strait with twenty-eight Japanese warships, preparing to give the smuggler a thunder strike.

When Shi Lang learned that even the Spanish fleet and the Japanese were working together to block the crossing of the sea, the battle situation on Luzon could no longer be delayed.

With the friendly sponsorship of Chen Jiangkui, former pirate colleague, Shi Lang finally collected 32 more small boats. Of course, these boats are not free. For Shi Lang, it is already a thankful thing to be able to rent extra boats.

At the same time, during the five days of preparation, according to Shi Lang's suggestion, Chen Jiangkui made a camouflage ship for the two submarines. The camouflage ship was empty in the middle and covered on the protruding platform of the submarine. The protruding platform of the submarine extended out of the water, opened the ventilation port to ventilate, and ensured that the air in the submarine was abundant. As for the submarine, it was submerged under the water and covered by the camouflage ship, which avoided the exposure of the submarine. Because the compressed air stored in the submarine was limited, it was necessary to float out of the water to ventilate every once in a while, and it was impossible to reach the battlefield by completely submerged, and the surface would be exposed. Of course, the surface navigation mode could not be adopted, so it could only be exposed faster.

Shi Lang's plan was like this, avoiding the shortest path landing ground occupied by the Japanese army on Luzon, and choosing to land twenty kilometers west, where Yang Heng had occupied the position and opened up a new landing ground to welcome the troops crossing the sea.

The first step was to move from Nanyu Township Island to Fujia Island, and the island-by-island relay was adopted, and some naval warships under Shi Lang and Chen Jiangkui's naval warships were escorted. Nearly 500 ships transported Zhang Kewang's 30,000 troops to Fujia Island, and the journey was safe.

There is no doubt that the key crossing of the sea is the strait from Fuga Island to Luzon Island. How to break through the blockade of the Japanese and Spanish combined fleets is a major test for Shi Lang. Chen Jiangkui's navy was impossible for Chen Jiangkui's navy to participate in the war. Shi Lang could only rely on his own 106 ships and 232 ships he rented to cross the sea.

To this end, Shi Lang gathered fifty blessed ships and twenty small boats to transport soldiers across the sea, which could transport 12,000 people in one trip. Before transporting troops across the sea, a safe escort passage must be set up. The specific arrangement is that two hundred escort ships lined up on both sides of the troop transport channel, with a 50-kilometer voyage. There are rocket launchers on the island of Fuga as support firepower, while there are rocket launchers under Weiden on the main island of Luzon. The firepower on the shore of Fuga and Luzon is different.

It can mostly control the five-kilometer area near the island, mainly the forty-kilometer area in the middle. Within the two-kilometer area, there are five boats on the left and five boats on the right. The two ships are about two kilometers apart. The troop transport ships are sailing in this safe channel. Regardless of the sound of gunfire on both sides, the troop transport ships are responsible for transporting troops forward and blocking the attack of enemy ships is completely a matter of escorting the ships. In addition, Shi Lang also arranged 68 ships as maneuvers, so that they can be assisted at any time.

Logically, 268 ships deal with 36 ships of the Japan-Swiss United Company and seven ships deal with one enemy ship, should be able to deal with it.

But of course things won't be that simple!

In the early morning, the sun had not yet risen and the sea and sky were still gray, ten eagle ships sailed toward the other side first. Driven by the mixed sails and manpower, they rushed to a long distance in a blink of an eye.

Shi Lang watched the ten pioneer ships go away with a telescope on the mountain, thinking to himself that the sea crossing attack had finally begun.

However, not long after, a rumbling explosion sounded from the sea. In the telescope, two eagle ships were sunk and the other three eagle ships were overturned.

Shi Lang was unable to determine what kind of attack the vanguard ship was under. Only when the eagle ship received his reward did he realize that there were mines on the sea.

The Japanese are so vicious! Of course, this is also a method of naval battle by the Japanese, and Shi Lang was prepared for it. Shi Lang immediately sent a serial boat to clear mines first, and sent thirty serial boats in one go, accompanied by fishing nets and bamboo poles, and went to clear mines.

After a while, I heard one after another. After the Ming Navy cleared mines that day, he summarized the lessons. Now, two long bamboo poles stretched out from the chain boat. One end of the fishing net was tied to the bamboo pole, and the other end was tied to the bamboo pole extended by another chain boat. The fishing net touched the mine and could detonate the mine. Even if the landmines were caught with the fishing net, it would play a role in clearing the mines. After the fishing net and bamboo pole were blown away, another set of fishing nets and bamboo poles were replaced. In this way, the chain boats were cleared and pushed along the way. Except for two chain boats, they were pushed along the way, and the mines were swept to half the distance. Except for the two chain boats that were sunk and the seven chain boats were blown away, the other chain boats were not seriously injured.

After receiving the good news of the successful mine clearance, Shi Lang immediately ordered the escort fleet to set off. So, the fleets on both sides of the left and right were sailing out in an orderly manner, one after another, slowly, and then the two fleets on the left and right extended on the sea surface. As the ships continued to sail forward one by one, the two fleets on the left and right were extending further and further away.

Just when Shi Lang felt that everything was going in an orderly manner as planned, a three-masted gunship on the left suddenly encountered an explosion. The violent explosion directly overturned the huge three-masted gunship. Then, the three-masted gunship sank, leaving only broken wooden boards and a corpse on the sea. People on the front and back witnessed the explosion and sinking of the three-masted gunship, and did not know what happened. In the end, it could only be attributed to the fact that the mines were not discharged.

In Shi Lang's eyes, it is inevitable that this crossing battle will cost. Of course, it is obviously a bit unknown to lose a three-masted gunship just after opening. This mine may just be a fish that escapes the net, but its power is too great.

But after a while, a large lucky ship in the escort fleet on the right also encountered the same situation. With an explosion, the large lucky ship was also sunk.

"Anchor Thunder, damn it!"

Shi Lang finally received training after the Taiwan Strait naval battle and knew a little about anchor thunder. Chongzhen briefly introduced anchor thunder. This anchor thunder is naturally specially designed to deal with large ships with draft depths. The mines are placed at a fixed depth by laying anchors. For small boats, they naturally do not set off mines, but large ships with draft depths do not have such good luck. It is only because the mine clearance chain ships used to clear mines have shallow drafts, so it is difficult to sweep anchor thunders laid in deeper water. Even if they occasionally sweep off the anchor thunder, they just mistakenly use this anchor thunder as an ordinary floating lightning.

Faced with anchor thunder, Shi Lang had no choice but to order the big ship to retreat and the small ship to continue moving forward, and on the other hand, he had to use a large fishing net for deep mine clearance.

However, the anchor mines laid by the Japanese army were all loaded mines, and the second round of mine sweeping was heavy. 13 eagle ships and 9 serial ships were affected by the huge explosion of anchor mines, and were overturned and sunk, and some ships were even blown to pieces.

When Shi Lang saw that before he started fighting with the Japanese-Spanish Combined Fleet, more than 400 people died, and two large ships and nearly thirty small ships were sunk.

The mine-sweeping struggle was almost two hours. At this time, the sun was already rising high, and the sun shone on the sea surface, flashing a golden light. Under Shi Lang's command, the two escort fleets faced each other far away, and two defense lines were set up in the Babuyan Strait. The middle channel seemed calm under the escort of the two defense lines. So far, as long as the defense lines on both sides could withstand the attack of the Japanese-Swiss Combined Fleet, they could ensure a successful crossing of the sea.

With Shi Lang's order, the troops transport ships began to set off, one after another, crossing the strait.

At this time, a rumbling roar suddenly came from the sky. The Japanese iron bird moved out. The iron bird hovered at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, and the rocket launcher could not be reached at all. The iron bird threw bombs in the air with leisurely helps. Of course, at such a high altitude, the bombs were thrown without any accuracy. Except for an unlucky boat that was overturned by the bombs dropped by the iron bird, the other bombs were thrown into the water without exception, and only a wave was blown up.

But next, besides continuing to throw bombs, what was dropped from the iron bird were strange things, a small umbrella-like thing hanging on the same thing as a wooden box, floating onto the sea, falling into the sea without explosion.

The people on the boat did not doubt that he was there, but they continued to drive the boat with the bomb dropping of the iron bird. No one bird, the iron bird that could not be bombed.
Chapter completed!