The port of Manila was full of ships with rectangular red flags, including Manila's castles and fortresses, now belonging to the Ming army. What's most special is that all the sails of warships were painted with a huge devil's avatar, with hundreds of ships without exception. After the naval battle, Deng Ming found that the devil's avatar was extremely useful, which was better than he imagined to use a searchlight to shine on the human eye, so during the rest, Deng Ming grimaced more sails.

In the subsequent battle, Deng Ming carried out continuous night attacks, and the effect was very good each time. The escaped Spanish had spread the story of the Ming army's alliance with the devil. Whenever the defenders of the fortress saw the devil suddenly appear from the dark night, they would throw away their armor and flee in panic. A few brave Spanish soldiers also experimented with many new weapons under the command of the priest, such as holy water shells and cross formations, but none of them had any effect.

With the successive victory of the Ming army, Deng Ming finally developed to grimace the sails of each ship. Although the Ming army continued to attack at night, it no longer sneaked to the enemy fortress to land, but instead turned on the lights and shone the grimaces on hundreds of ships to attack head-on.

After the Ming army landed near Manila, a large number of Spanish soldiers passed away. The Governor of Manila first prayed for three days and three nights, then scattered thousands of urgently created crosses in the Port of Manila, and painted holy images on a conspicuous high ground. The Governor's residence was also occupied by various psychics and divine enlighteners for a while. In the past, most of these people would be regarded as wizards and witches were burned to death, but the Governor and officers who were eager to seek medical treatment seriously discussed the plan of exorcism with them. Even the priests who were always incompatible with these wizards gave up their prejudices and did not express their objections.

The Ming army launched an attack last night. The Ming army's fleet fired a searchlight to cover the infantry's attack. When it was discovered that the huge magic circle still could not stop the devil from approaching the port of Manila, the governor used his last killer move and ordered a choir of 500 boys and girls to sing chants loudly to the Ming army's fleet. When this hand failed, the devil's ship did not sink to the bottom of the sea or was expelled. The morale of the Spanish defenders completely collapsed and gave up the outer fortress and fled back to the city. Then, the governor surrendered to Deng Ming on the condition of ensuring their soul freedom and handed over the Manila fortress.

"Please look at the Governor, this is our luminous equipment. The working principle is..." After occupying Manila City, Deng Ming immediately invited senior Spanish officials and generals to visit the searchlights of the Ming army, and asked them to operate it in person to try it out. As for the hideous devils on the sails, Deng Ming also asked the prisoners to watch these lifeless portraits up close. Then Deng Ming ordered the troops to help every curious Spanish prisoner visit these equipment. The Ming army should help them understand what electricity is like without reservation.

"Why did the Prime Minister tell them?" Feng Xifan was very surprised and didn't understand why Deng Ming revealed the secret to the Spanish.

"Because after the war is over, we will still have to do business with the Spanish." Deng Ming smiled and said, "If the Spanish really think that we are allied with the devil, it will affect our trade. Since we have taken Manila, our war with the Spanish will be over."

"But are there still Dutch people?" Feng Xifan remembered Deng Ming's statement that this time the Ming army's purpose was Batavia, not simply to Manila.

"Yes, so we will release the Spanish prisoners a little later. Even if this move doesn't work, we already have a fleet that is not inferior to Batavia." Deng Ming planned to recruit some instructors and sailors from the Spanish to help the Ming army improve the level of naval battle as soon as possible. With the help of these Spanish people, coupled with the Ming army's searchlights and new shells, Batavia is not out of reach.

Feng Xifan thought about it and said to Deng Ming: "I will not follow the Prime Minister to Batavia. I plan to return to Taiwan to report my life."

"Oh, so fast?" Deng Ming was a little surprised, because the battle with the Spanish was never the main function of firearms, and basically made a clearing of the way with grimace. This may not have much effect on Feng Xifan's plan to reform the military system; but even if he fights with the Dutch in the future, Deng Ming would probably continue to use this trick. Spanish mercenaries, new-style shells were the last resort, and he would use these unless the Dutch was not fooled at all. Deng Ming speculated that Feng Xifan might not have collected too much experience in firearm warfare if he continued to follow, so he planned to go home.

"Yes, following the Prime Minister to go out to sea will benefit Huzhi a lot." Feng Xifan said with a serious look: "Huzhi finally understands that Huzhi has completely entered the evil path before."

"What evil path?" Deng Ming was a little confused when he heard it.

"Didn't Bei Zhi tell the Prime Minister that he planned to build a firearmed army and persuade King Yanping to buy the Taixi warship?"

"Is this a evil way?" Deng Ming was shocked. When Feng Xifan talked about his reform ideal, Deng Ming could see that the other party's eyes were full of confidence and longing, and Deng Ming was also very impressed by Feng Xifan's vision, so he planned to help him - now the Taiwan army is a friendly army and will also be part of the Chinese army in the future.

"The last general decided to go back to study military tactics, and military tactics are the right way." Feng Xifan said seriously, his face full of determination, as if he was even more determined to reform now than he had been determined to reform.

"Military Art?" Deng Ming had a vague premonition - it might be that he had destroyed Feng Xifan's original ambition with his own hands.

"Yes, the old king could defeat the big ships and muskets of the Red Armor and conquer their fortresses with a blessed ship; the prime minister could defeat the big ships of the Red Armor and conquer their fortresses with a grimace. The old king and the prime minister rely on weapons to win, but military tactics! The king and General Liu and others said it well. Beishi was indeed short of military affairs. Because of his lack of experience, he was fantastic and thought that weapons were the most important. This time he followed the prime minister to fight, Beishi finally understood that weapons were not the most important, but the people who used weapons. Therefore, Beishi would no longer be ambitious when he returned this time and suggested that the king would do any reforms, but should study the military tactics down-to-earth."

After saying that, Feng Xifan bowed deeply to Deng Ming regardless of the armor, straightened his back and bent down deeply. This is the third thing: "The Prime Minister's words and deeds are so grateful for his humble duties."

Deng Ming looked at Feng Xifan silently and confirmed that the other party had just abandoned the "weapons only theory". Since then, Taiwan has lost one military reformist faction and one more military master.

Not thinking about how to bring Feng Xifan back to the old road, Deng Ming changed the subject and took the officers to inspect the warehouse in Manila first.

The gold stored in the Manila Fortress naturally became the spoils of the Ming army. Deng Ming walked into the warehouse of the Manila Governor's Manila's Governor's Manila's Governor's Manila, and the warehouse was filled with pockets of gold coins. Deng Ming asked the soldiers to drag a bag out of it, opened it and fell to the ground. The golden ocean of golden light piled up a hill on the ground, reflecting the faces of the people surrounding them into golden color.

Although the people who followed Deng Ming to inspect were all those who had seen the world, seeing so many gold coins rolling around on the ground and a whole room of gold, many people's breathing became heavy.

"This must be hundreds of thousands or millions of taels of gold, right?" Zhou Kaihuang said with an excited look on his face.

Deng Ming nodded slightly. Both the Spanish and the Portuguese had obtained huge wealth from South America. Portugal only received more than 300 tons of gold, and Spain's income can be described as countless. What was placed in front of Deng Ming was just a few dozen tons of reserves from the Governor's Office of Manila.

A handful of gold coins were grabbed from the ground, and Deng Ming stared at them seriously for a while. Manila stored Spain's savings for many years, and the Philippines itself was the world's top gold and copper mines. After controlling Manila, China would no longer worry about gold, silver, and copper metals in the future. Not to mention that after taking Batavia, the spices, porcelain and silk needed by Europe would need to be exchanged with precious metals, or to provide rubber, saltpeter and other goods needed by China.

By relying solely on the seizure from the Manila Governor's Office, Deng Ming could still get at least 500,000 taels of gold except for the dividends and bonuses of the Allied Army. Deng Ming tilted his palm slightly, letting the gold coins he grabbed in his hand fall from his fingers and fall back to the gold mountain on the ground. He asked Zhou Kaihuang behind him without looking back: "Do you know what these golds mean?"

"It means that when the Prime Minister returns to the capital, he can spread gold coins." Zhou Kaihuang said with a smile.

"With this money, even if those girls in Hubei were born in poor families, they could live to adulthood; it means that the people there would no longer have to sign a contract for sale and would never be sold casually." With this money, Deng Ming could redeem land and population from more Kuidong generals, end the tenancy relationship on these territories, and pay the poor to support their daughters.

After throwing the last gold coin in his hand back, Deng Ming turned around and walked out of the warehouse.

Local overseas Chinese representatives have been found by the Ming army. In addition to the overseas Chinese in Manila, there are also representatives of overseas Chinese from other ports and cities. After they were found by the reclamation group, Deng Ming invited them to Manila together. Most of these overseas Chinese were from Fujian or Guangdong, and a small number came from Zhejiang, most of which were Ningbo.

In the past, the war was still in progress, and Deng Ming knew that most of the overseas Chinese were still in doubt. He didn't know if the Ming army would leave after a short stay and let the land fall into the hands of the Westerners again. Therefore, Deng Ming did not talk about post-war construction too early at that time. Now that the Spanish Governor had surrendered to the Ming army, it was obvious that the Ming army won the final victory. Deng Ming felt it was time to explain to these Chinese representatives how he planned to rule the land.

Author's note: I saw many readers questioning whether the technology in this book can be implemented in our real world. Today, another reader asked... Well, the author admits that he has never considered this issue.

The author feels that the sailing electromagnetic gun warship is an interesting setting, which will bring many interesting phenomena to the war in the novel world. Some technologies appear early in the book may bring many interesting changes. As for how these technologies are implemented, does it take time to consider? No one will travel to a parallel world, but they will be misled in the technical details of the author's book, right? Just like the tactics of searchlights and devil avatars, the author focuses on the fun of the battle process and the results, so he arranged these equipment to appear. Some people will not really think that the author will use to conquer Manila in the 17th century after serious research, no one thinks that?

All technologies and equipment may appear under the laws of physics in the real world, but I have not thought about these. The ideas, actions, and language of the characters in the book are the same, and what the plot needs to look like, and what it is like. Originally, I also conceived some plots such as cold weapon battle scenes that communicate with walkie-talkies, and also plots such as using a camera to secretly take pictures of the other party's secret weapon design drawings - electroplated helmets. In fact, I think these bags are quite interesting. As for the process of technology implementation, it is better to imagine that the physical laws of the parallel universe are different. As for how different it can be achieved, I don't know. However, since many readers can't accept it, let's leave these plots to the next book.

As for the private relationship issues mentioned by netizens with "Bloody", I have never read the book you mentioned. If you have different opinions, I am very happy, which means that my work has attracted attention; but I firmly believe that this is not the case, because all the novel worlds are fictional, and the technology tree also serves the plot. Whether it is easy or difficult, whether it is the same or different from our world, it is all to promote the plot of the novel. Will there be any novel authors who don’t understand this truth?
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