"Food bucket...you are all a bunch of food buckets and waste!"

Field's angry roar came from the office.

Just an hour ago, two Ming warships rushed into the port without anyone else and launched a ten-minute shelling at the Spanish warships parked in the port without any defense.

Although in this shelling, the Ming warships were too small due to their tonnage and equipment, and because they chose the wrong target, the warships like targets miraculously did not even sink.

But the Spanish paid the price for this. Although Field's car, the "Saint Dharma" was not sunk, the superstructure was riddled with holes. It was obvious that there was no way to go out to sea to fight without any overhaul.

After this battle, the Spanish were completely lost. A few days ago, Castro promised in front of Yang Feng that if the Ming Dynasty dared to invade Cebu Island, the Ming people would pay the price.

But just a few days after the words were finished, the Ming people slapped them firmly. Just two light warships made Cebu Island go over, and even Field's car, "Saint Dharma", was riddled with holes. If several warships next to them had forced out the dock to drive away the two Ming warships, they would have been in danger of being sunk. At that time, Field would have to submit his resignation report to the country.

This happened, and although the Governor Field, the governor, could not escape, the commander of the fleet below also had an unshirkable responsibility.

After scolding, Field's voice suddenly became weaker: "Col. Murphy!"

"arrive!"

An officer in a blue and black uniform stood forward and responded loudly.

"What happened like this, as the commander of the fleet, do you have anything to say to me?"

Colonel Murphy lowered his head: "Report to the Governor, the main responsibility for such a thing is me. I am willing to take all the responsibility. Even if you dismiss me, I will not complain."

"Discharge?"

Looking at the colonel standing in front of him with a solemn expression, Field wanted to take out the gun in the drawer and shoot the guy to death.

It is simple to dismiss this bastard, but now the Ming people are about to be called over and dismiss him. Where can he find a suitable officer to replace him?

If it was in China, it would collapse. Field could find more than ten candidates to replace him without thinking, but now they are alone overseas and their staff are already tight, not to mention high-end professional talents like the fleet commander.

Thinking of this, Field looked at Castro beside him. Although his valued subordinate was quite capable, he was an army officer and was not good at commanding the fleet.

Taking a deep breath, Field said in a deep voice: "Murphy, now is not the time to hold the responsibility. The Ming people's fleet is about to come. I just want to ask you, are you confident of resisting the Ming people's fleet?"

"No!"

Murphy said it straightforwardly.

Before Field got angry, he said: "From this attack, the Ming people's warships were very fast and their firepower was not weak. If their gun caliber was not too small, the Holy Dharma might have been sunk by them. And according to the latest news we have obtained, there were more than 100 warships gathered in Lavag, both in tonnage and in number, above us. With our strength, it would be almost impossible to defeat them."

Since what Murphy said was indeed true, Field did not ship the goods, and he resisted his anger and said in a sarcastic tone: "Then according to what you said, can our fleet surrender?"

“It’s not.”

Murphy shook his head and said, "The victory or defeat of a battle cannot simply compare the number of warships and firepower of both sides. It also calculates the battle between the commanders of both sides, wisdom and luck in the battle. Although the Ming people's fleet is larger than ours in terms of quantity and tonnage, we can also use tactics to minimize the gap between the two sides."

"Oh...you keep talking." After hearing this, Field immediately became interested.

After receiving Field's encouragement, Colonel Murphy also became energetic and continued: "If the Ming people want to capture Cebu Island, they must use all their fleets to escort their army.

Due to the huge gap in military strength between the enemy and us, it would be extremely unwise to use our limited fleet to fight them. I think we should drive all the warships out of the port and wander outside like rangers.

Didn’t the Ming people want to capture Cebu Island? As the attacking party, they must use a large number of cargo ships to transport soldiers and supplies. In this way, they had to separate out most of the warships to escort the cargo ships.

What our fleet has to do is to hover on the waterways they travel like hungry wolves. Whenever they see their cargo ships or escort warships are insufficient, they will rush over and sink their cargo ships that transport supplies and soldiers.

In this way, as long as we can hold on for two months, the Ming people will turn from a hungry wolf into a sheep because they have no ammunition and lack food. With your wise command, they may be able to wipe out all the Ming army here, and even capture the marquis who are the Ming Kingdom.

At that time, maybe we can use this marquis to make more demands to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, such as gold, silver, treasures and even land. As long as we can achieve this goal, you will become the greatest governor of Spain!”

"hiss……"

Everyone was shocked by what Colonel Murphy said. He really dared to think about it. Now it is someone attacking us. How dare you think about capturing their commander and forcing their emperor to make concessions?

Field's reaction was the same as everyone else, but after being shocked, he couldn't help but think, feeling that Murphy's idea might not be impossible to realize. If the Ming army could be eliminated under the city of San Petro, then his governor would have really become the greatest governor in Spain's history.

Don’t blame Field for his brains, because the Spanish have this tradition of brains.

In another historical time and space, after the Spanish began to be in Zhucheng, Taiwan, the first Spanish governor to Taiwan and their king Philip III made a plan.

The plan was to send 200 warships and 23,000 Spanish soldiers to land in Fujian of the Ming Dynasty, occupy the Ming Dynasty in five to ten years, and turn the Ming Dynasty into a Spanish colony.

If such a plan is placed in the 21st century, it will undoubtedly make people laugh, but the Spaniards do think so, and they are prepared so much.

In the battle against the Dutch, the Spaniards lost a lot, maybe they really did it.
Chapter completed!