Chapter 989 Enemies meet on a narrow road(2/2)
Upon hearing this, Gan Hui immediately raised his telescope.
It was found that the unknown warship did not fly the national flag, and it was impossible to determine which country the warship belonged to.
In order to prevent Malacca from getting the news, Gan Hui immediately sent an order:
"Chongzhen and Renzong, follow the order and quickly outflank it. Be sure to leave that warship behind. If you don't cooperate, we will sink it directly!"
"yes"
The Chongzhen and Renzong took orders and immediately rushed towards the unknown warship.
Driven by steam engines and propellers, the warship was not affected by the wind direction and quickly approached the unknown warship.
The sail battleship was sailing against the wind at this time, and its speed could not be compared with the Ming steam battleship.
Even if they sailed with the wind, they were still not as fast as the steam battleships. The Ming steam battleships quickly caught up with the unknown battleships.
The captain of the Wendi sent an order:
"Come here, send a signal to the battleships ahead and tell them to stop immediately, or you will bear the consequences."
"Here!"
The signal soldier of the battleship Wendi immediately raised the signal flag to stop the battleship in front.
But the other party ignored it at all and continued to sail forward, speeding up again.
Huge waves rolled up on both sides of the battleship, leaving a huge waterline in front of the Ming warship.
The signal soldier on the Wendi hurriedly reported to the captain:
"General, the other party is ignoring us."
"Nima, the bow cannon, fire warning shots at the battleships ahead, get ready for battle."
"Here!"
"fire……"
"Rumble..."
The bow guns of Chongzhen and Zhengde opened fire almost simultaneously.
A cannon shot into the sky, and a shell hit the side of the warship ahead. A hole was blown out of the side of the warship of unknown nationality...
"Run quickly, don't stop the boat, or it will be sunk!"
The warship was shaken by the artillery bombardment, and the holes in the ship's side began to fill with water. Salvador was shocked and hurriedly ordered the warship to sail quickly.
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Yes, this sailing warship is the same warship that escorted El Salvador back to Spain.
Returning home with a huge amount of gold and silver, Salvador was in a good mood today. He didn't expect that he would encounter the Ming Dynasty fleet...
When Salvador saw the Ming Dynasty warship, he was so frightened that he dared to stop the ship.
This guy once massacred the Ming people in Luzon. He felt guilty after seeing the Ming warships...
In the twelfth year of Chongzhen's reign, he forcibly gathered 6,000 Ming people to cultivate wasteland in Calamba, Neihu Province.
At that time, it was still a swampy area where miasma was prevalent.
The people of the Ming Dynasty were forcibly enslaved here. They were not accustomed to the local environment and were exploited by the colonial government. They basically could not survive.
After four years, the death toll has reached more than 300 people. Faced with the excessive taxation by Spanish officials, the desperate Akito finally rose up.
They killed officials and priests, the rebels resettled their families in the mountains and forests, and then the rebel team of about 3,000 people headed north to Manila.
The Ming people encountered Spanish cavalry on the way. Although they killed 27 cavalry, they paid the price of more than 200 casualties.
Despite this, the Ming people who had been exploited by the colonial government for many years grew stronger along the way.
Go all the way north, burning Spanish settlements and churches along the way, and take advantage of the victory to continue heading north.
In San Pedro, Makati, they encountered a large Spanish army, about 800 strong.
After a brief exchange of muskets and clubs, the two sides ceased fire and began negotiations.
However, while the negotiations were ongoing, the Spanish colonial army suddenly launched an attack from the side.
More than 1,000 people of the Ming rebels were killed and more than 300 people were captured.
The rest retreated in two groups, and the southern group retreated to build a fort for defense. In the end, they were also attacked by the colonists and were brutally killed.
The North Road merged with the Eighth Company Ming uprising team and moved to the southeast corner of Neihu.
Although the Spanish colonists suppressed the Ming uprising, their tyranny ignited the resistance of Ming people everywhere, and uprisings continued in various places.
The colonists were worried that the Ming people in Manila would collude with the rebels outside the city, so they ordered the massacre of the Ming people in Manila.
The Spaniards searched houses from house to house and immediately killed Ming people when they saw them.
According to historical records, this massacre against the people of the Ming Dynasty resulted in the deaths of more than 24,000 people.
But this was just one of the incidents in which Spanish colonists massacred Ming people in Luzon.
In the thirty-first year of Wanli, more than 23,000 Ming people were massacred, and only more than 300 people were spared.
It turns out that the Ming Dynasty and the Spanish colonists jointly suppressed pirates such as Lin Feng and Lin Daoqian, and the relationship was relatively harmonious.
Later, Spain forced 250 Chinese to invade the Molucca, a Ming Dynasty vassal of the Spice Islands. As a result, he was sluggish in the boat and was often whipped to death. Pan and Wu and others resisted and killed Dasma, the Spanish governor of Luzon.
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Later, Spain expelled all the merchants of the Ming Dynasty. In order to make money, the Ming Dynasty still slowly gathered outside the city.
At that time, a large amount of silver entered the Ming Dynasty from Luzon and Japan, causing a currency depreciation crisis in the late Ming Dynasty.
Emperor Wanli, who had gone through three major expeditions, listened to the words of Yan Yinglong and Zhang Ni, the envoys of the mining tax, and sent Zhang Ni, the Prime Minister of Haicheng County, Shihe, and 100 households to explore for minerals in Jiyi Mountain in Luzon.
Luzon was originally a tributary state of the Ming Dynasty, but the court didn't understand it at all and used a cowhide to enclose the land to deceive the Luzon natives.
The Spanish colonists believed that the Ming people in Luzon might be internal agents, and that the Ming Dynasty might invade their country and murder them secretly.
The following year, Spain deceived the Ming people into attacking neighboring countries and purchased iron weapons at high prices. The Ming people were greedy for profit, and their families were left defenseless.
The Spanish governor ordered that the names of the people be recorded, and they were divided into three hundred people into one courtyard. They were massacred immediately upon entering. The Ming people had no soldiers to resist, and countless people died. They rushed to Dalun Mountain.
Chapter completed!