On the 16th day of the first lunar month, Su Buheng, who returned to Shandong, set sail again. The power of the First Fleet had begun to be integrated by the end of the year. The First Fleet had a total of 38 warships and 56 frigates.

The offshore fleet was divided into three groups: the North Sea Fleet, the South Sea Fleet and the Pacific Fleet, and the Yangtze River Navy was also established.

In fact, the North Sea Fleet is responsible for maritime patrol and escort missions from the north to the Bering Strait and the south to the outer sea of ​​Zhejiang.

The South China Sea Fleet is responsible for patrol and escort missions outside Fujian and south to Australia.

The Pacific Fleet is responsible for the Pacific Ocean east of Japan, and its main task is to escort.

The mission of the Yangtze River Navy is to maintain the safety of the Yangtze River waterway and clear out the bandits in the Yangtze River waterway. The Yangtze River Basin is currently the most frequent commercial traffic. Shandong's goods can be transported to various provinces in the basin through the Yangtze River, and at the same time transporting raw materials from each province back to Shandong.

The Yangtze River Basin is the most densely populated area in the Ming Dynasty. The market here is very huge and is also a channel for commercial grain transportation. The grain transportation in various provinces in the Yangtze River Basin basically relies on the Yangtze River waterway, and the safety of the Yangtze River waterway does not need to be guaranteed.

Most of the ships used by these fleets were selected from the Fujian Navy's warships, and there were also fast-equipped frigates.

After nearly half of the warships and frigates of the First Fleet returned to Shandong to integrate, they sailed again under the command of Su Buheng at the beginning of the year and headed straight to the South China Sea.

The mission of the First Fleet this year is heavy, but it is easy to say.

Their mission is to completely drive the Europeans out of East Asia. This task is not easy. In addition to Macau and Luzon, Spain and Portuguese have many strongholds on the Indochina Peninsula and the islands of the South China Sea. These strongholds need to be pulled out one by one, which will take some time.

If possible, it would be even more difficult to drive Europeans out of Asia and let the Ming Dynasty monopolize trade with India.

But if you want to say it is easy, this task is pretty sure, it's just a little troublesome.

After more than half a month of sailing, the First Fleet arrived in Macau.

The Portuguese traded with the Ming Dynasty in Macau, but the administrative power of Macau was still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and the Portuguese lived in the inner city of Macau.

As long as the Portuguese moves, Macau officials will seal the gates of the inner city, leaving the Portuguese with nowhere to escape.

The First Fleet arrived in Macau and immediately expelled the Portuguese in Macau.

Under the pressure of the First Fleet, the Portuguese cleaned up their things within three days, and then ran away in a boat.

The Portuguese expelled Macau made the maritime merchants very depressed. The buyers were driven away, and there was no way for maritime trade.

The Portuguese were a force that purchased a large number of goods in the Ming Dynasty. The Dutch had long been expelled by the Shandong Navy, and now only the Portuguese and the Spanish remained in Asia.

Now the Portuguese have also been driven away, and only one Spaniard is left.

But shortly after the Portuguese were driven away, Shandong Zhengfu promulgated a new "Regulations on the Administration of Marine Trade", which stipulates that the trade area of ​​Ming merchant ships shall not exceed the boundaries set in the regulations and shall not engage in private trade with Europeans. At the same time, European merchant ships shall not enter Asia.

The promulgation of this management regulations was made by Zhao Yan to monopolize international trade.

Europeans could not buy goods in the Ming Dynasty, so the goods from the Ming Dynasty naturally rose in Europe, and the goods transported to the Americas were valuable.

The trade between Europe and Asia is very profitable. Why do Europeans make money? In a few years, there will be more merchant ships, so they will transport the goods directly to Europe, so that European ocean-going merchant ships will be laid off.

The Spaniards in Macau were expelled, and the First Fleet joined the Nanyang Infantry Brigade and headed towards Luzon.

Manila, the administrative center of the Spanish Filipino province, where the Spanish built an unbreakable defense.

The First Fleet did not go hard to rush, but docked at a natural port 80 miles away in Manila, sending the Nanyang Infantry Brigade to land.

After seeing the First Fleet, the Spanish Navy found that the First Fleet had 10 warships and 20 frigates, so scared that they hid in the port and dared not come out.

The First Fleet gained the right to control the sea, which means it obtained the right to land.

After landing, the Nanyang Infantry Brigade repaired for two days, and then marched towards Manila.

Seizing ports from land was a common method used by the First Fleet. For Western colonists, they did not have many troops, and the focus of defense was on ports.

On land defense, they only built castles, but this was the case for the Marines with powerful artillery.

The Nanyang Infantry Brigade arrived outside Manila two days later. Facing the sudden approaching Ming army, the Spaniards panicked and quickly sent envoys.

The messenger came to the port by boat, and at this time the port of Manila had been blocked by the First Fleet.

The messenger came to the flagship of the First Fleet. After seeing Su Buheng, he pretended to behave and gritted his bullet and loudly blamed Su Buheng for why he suddenly attacked his allies.

Su Buheng revealed the alliance signed by both sides, pointed to one of them and said, "You did not abide by the alliance."

The Spanish took it and saw that Su Buheng was referring to the condition of "allowing the Ming Dynasty to garrison in Luzon" in the covenant. The Philippine Governor refused this condition at once.

Shandong did not react afterwards. The Philippine Governor was complacent about this, but now the envoy almost choked to death when he saw it.

"And you have killed more than 20,000 of our compatriots, and you must pay the price for this. If you do not surrender within the third day, you will wait to endure torture after breaking the city!" Su Buheng said in a cold tone. The Spanish messenger heard this and sweated heavily. Seeing that there was no room for negotiation, he hurried back to report to the Philippines Governor.

I heard that the Philippine Governor was so scared that he peed his pants directly that day. Soon the Philippine Governor sent an envoy to negotiate terms with the First Fleet.

"Surrender is acceptable, but you must let us go." The Spanish envoy said to Su Buheng.

"Yes." Su Buheng agreed very readily, and even agreed without hesitation. The Spanish messenger returned happily.

After hearing this, the Spanish Governor finally breathed a sigh of relief and immediately discussed the details of the surrender with the Nanyang Infantry Brigade under the city.

What surprised the Spaniards was that the Nanyang Infantry Brigade allowed them to retain their weapons in addition to asking them to leave their belongings.

The Spaniards in Manila City dared to say anything. At this time, the army was approaching, just like milling an egg with a millstone. It would be great to save the life of the surname.

So the Spaniards left their belongings and walked out of Manila with weapons. Their families were also out of the city. As a result, they were greeted by volleyball!

The Nanyang Infantry Brigade suddenly shot at the Spaniards, and the Spaniards were on the ground in large numbers.

When the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, there was no standing Spanish on the ground. Those Spanish were either shot and fell to the ground or lying on the ground to avoid bullets.

The Nanyang Infantry Brigade quickly surrounded the Spaniards. Seeing that the situation was hopeless, the Spaniards threw down their weapons and surrendered.

Afterwards, the number of Spaniards shot to death reached more than 1,300, and the number of Spanish captured reached more than 4,000.

A second lieutenant of the First Fleet wrote in his diary: "What surprised me was that when negotiating with the Spaniards, the commander readily agreed to the Spaniards' terms. But what surprised me even more was that when the Spaniards walked out of Manila, the commander ordered the Marines to shoot the Spaniards.

This is against credit. When we are confused, the commander said to us: We do not trust the evil enemies. They slaughter our fellow citizens and will never be able to get our credit. But we must try our best to make the evil enemies believe that we are trustworthy.

This sentence once again gave me direction, but I also realized from this sentence that these Spaniards will never get the opportunity to reveal the truth, and we have never lost our trust in the diplomacy between countries..."

The First Fleet seized ten warships in the Port of Manila, and more than 30 merchant ships parked in the port.

The capture of Manila does not mean that the war in Luzon is over. The Spanish also have many strongholds on the Luzon Islands, and these strongholds have to be removed one by one.

The First Fleet began to disperse and cooperated with the Nanyang Infantry Brigade to remove the Spanish strongholds on the Luzon Islands. According to the Java model, the garrison left in Manila controlled the Luzon King, and at the same time contacted the Luzon Chinese to form the Luzon Chinese armed forces. Su Buheng once again played the role of a local governor.

At the same time, Wen Bangliang brought twenty warships, twenty frigates and two thousand soldiers from the Nanyang Infantry Brigade to the Strait of Malacca.

The city of Malacca was once a very prosperous place. In the early Ming Dynasty, hundreds of merchant ships came to Malacca every year. The Chinese, Arabs, and Europeans filled the ports of Malacca.

Malacca was dominated by the Ming Dynasty in the early Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty later imposed a maritime ban, severely cracking down on businessmen doing business overseas, resulting in Malacca gradually leaving the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning of the 16th century, the once-prosperous Strait of Malacca quickly attracted the covetousness of emerging Western maritime power countries. Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and Britain came to Malacca one after another.

In July 1511, the Portuguese began to attack Malacca City. In August, the Sultan of Malacca saw the situation far away and sadly left the rich Malacca City. Sultanma led the remnants to retreat to Pago to engage in the campaign to restore the country. His descendants were partial to Johor, established the Johor Kingdom, and continued the kingdom of Malacca.

The Portuguese Albukirk, who was commanding the attack, issued an order to loot. The looting continued for a whole day, with tens of thousands of treasures, almost two-thirds of the wealth of the Malacca Kingdom. The Portuguese who captured Malacca and massacred the city as usual.

On February 8, the First Fleet and the Strait of Malacca had a naval battle with the Portuguese Navy. Two Portuguese warships were sunk by the First Fleet, three warships were captured by the First Fleet, and the First Fleet gained the control of the sea.

Then Wen Bangliang launched an attack on the Malacca River. Whether the bridge on the Malacca River can be captured is the key. The Portuguese arranged heavy troops there to defend. The warships and frigates of the First Fleet began to bombard the defenders on the shore. The range of their artillery completely suppressed the Portuguese, even if the Portuguese occupied the commanding heights.

Soon the defenders of the bridge in Hanoi, Malacca were beaten to a halt. Last year, Su Buheng had already grasped the tide time of the Malacca River. At 4 pm, the first fleet rushed into the Malacca River.

With strong firepower support, the Nanyang Infantry Brigade successfully captured the commanding heights on both sides of the bridge.

On February 9, Wen Bangliang ordered the artillery to be moved to the commanding heights on both sides of the bridge.

On February 11, after two days of arrangement, the thirty multiple cannons carried by the Nanyang Infantry Brigade were moved to the commanding heights, and more than seventy howitzers were arranged in the surrounding lowlands.

On February 12, the gunners raised hot air balloons and began to bombard the city of Malacca built on the mountainside.

Huge shells hit the city of Malacca one after another. The Portuguese were beaten to cry and cry, and they had never seen such a fierce artillery.

The shelling of Malacca City was first carried out more than ten volleys, all of which were large in the city, rather than the walls. They stopped when the barrel was too hot. Most of the howitzers did not fire after the volley, and some of them fired at Malacca City one after another after the barrel cooled down. The cannons continued to shoot at Malacca City.

The city walls of Malacca were very fragile under the blow of shotguns. After only half a day of shelling, a huge gap appeared.

Under the guidance of hot air balloons, those howitzers fired volleys in Malacca City one after another, and each volley was bound to be overwhelming.

The continuous shooting of howitzers only put pressure on the Spaniards, while the volleys caused casualties for the Portuguese.

As long as there are more people in the city who walk out of the bunker to protect, the howitzers will fire volleys. Sometimes, in order to pursue killing, people in the city will jump outside the bunker for a while, and then fire volleys when there are too many people.

Under such a powerful offensive, the nerves of the Portuguese in Malacca City were extremely tense, and the only belief that supported them was their navy.

Malacca City is located between East Asia and West Asia. The Portuguese have many strongholds in East Asia and West Asia, and there are 35 warships in the entire Asia.

Sure enough, after ten days of persistence, the Portuguese navy in West Asia rushed to rescue, and the speed was extremely fast.

There were twenty Portuguese warships coming to rescue. After the Portuguese Navy met the First Fleet, the Malacca navy broke out.

The first fleet completely gained the upper hand in the naval battle, with twenty warships resisting the Portuguese warships and directly separating and surrounding the Portuguese warships with twenty frigates.

The naval battle lasted for half an hour. During the melee, twenty Portuguese warships were all sunk. But in fact, the two sides fought for less than fifteen minutes.

The Portuguese warship was shot in close combat and was sunk on the spot by the powerful shells and extremely high firing rate of the first fleet, and was beaten to death under the condition of a siege.

But after the Portuguese naval warship was collectively sunk, a white flag was raised on the top of the city of Malacca.

Portuguese colonists surrendered unconditionally!

From this day on, the Strait of Malacca was controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and the key path that strangled the throat of the Ming Dynasty was finally retracted.

Previously, the First Fleet had controlled six maritime channels entering East Asia. At this time, mastering the Strait of Malacca is equivalent to completely locking the passage into East Asia.

Almost the entire Pacific Ocean has become Zhao Yan's back garden.
To be continued...