"It's a native." Shan Liantian looked over and saw the black heads emerging from the grass not far away. He also saw the Ming soldiers driving the natives on his side back to the chariot formation.

"Sir, go back to the car array first." Shan Liantian said.

Yin Rusong had experienced several native attacks and returned to the car formation when he came calmly.

The chariot formation was still the formation invented by Qi Jiguang during the training of military troops in Jizhou. However, the Qi family's chariot formation was not only a defensive formation arranged by the chariots, but also cannons and muskets, which could continuously attack fire day and night, leaving the Mongolian cavalry helpless.

The current chariot array basically retains its defensive effect, but apart from a hundred fire guns, there are only five or six tiger squat cannons.

Considering the combat effectiveness of the natives on the other side, there were dozens of black men who could throw spears on the Ming army.

"The report puts the total number of enemies at around fifty." The Tamer quickly sent back the news.

Who could have imagined that in such a big place in Australia, there were not even horses, cattle, or sheep. Now the limited pack horses in the army were all distributed to detectives as mounts. Every time they saw them running, Dan Liantian felt a little convulsed under his crotch.

"Our army lined up outside the chariot array and platooned them." Shan Liantian thought for a while and said, "If prisoners can be caught, they can be caught, but if they can't be caught, they won't be caught."

The messenger quickly passed the major's order to the flag team, and the Ming army quickly arranged the combat formation.

The natives made a "hoho" sound, like hunting a huge beast, stepping on the rhythm of dancing, holding wooden spears and approaching Danliantabu.

Before they could reach the distance of their flying spears, the Ming army's muskets had already sounded.

A cloud of smoke rose on the battlefield, and the original line arrays of the natives were stagnant first, and then shaking.

The second row of muskets rang out immediately.

The natives who intended to hunt quickly collapsed, left their companions beside them and turned around and ran away.

"Ho ho ho!" The natives on the Ming army shouted for victory, waved their wooden spears and sticks, and took advantage of the opportunity to chase them out.

The work of pursuing natives was never something the Ming army needed to do.

Shan Liantian sniffed the smell of gunpowder in the air, pressed his sword and spat at the side: "Is this also called fighting?"

This is probably an attack on outsiders by a closed tribe who did not know the reputation of the Ming army, but he did not expect that the outsiders would far exceed their war mentality. There are many such encounters and wars, and each encounter is exposed. After the Ming army found out the location and population of these tribes, the army would come to surround them and conduct screening and trial.

Kill the chiefs, old men, wizards and other ruling classes in the tribe, raise young children alone, and try to teach them Chinese. Become a new generation of good natives who are loyal to the Ming Dynasty and contribute to the Ming Dynasty. As for adult men and women, they are rushed to the mines and undertake heavy physical labor. They are not even qualified to participate in the construction of the Nanzhan Prefecture City Wall, which is a job for friendly tribes.

Xiao Tugen used this method to occupy the farming areas in eastern and southeastern Australia, ensuring that there were no hostile tribes active here. At the same time, the control area was expanded to the animal husbandry area, waiting for breeding animals to be transported from the Ming Dynasty.

What he needs most now is horses, both war horses and pack horses, and they are urgently needed. However, horses are very weak in adaptability, and it is not realistic to transport horses on a large scale until faster and closer routes are discovered.

And there is also a Spanish entrenched on Luzon.

The Spanish and the Ming Dynasty formed a blood feud during the Wanli era.

To summarize this history, the local Chinese businessmen told the court that there was a gold mine in Luzon, and Emperor Wanli, who was eager to fill the three major military expenses, naturally sent a mining prison. The Spanish thought this was the Ming Dynasty's involvement in Luzon, so they instigated local natives to massacre Chinese businessmen.

Some strategies were also used in the process to deceive the trust of Chinese merchants and confiscate the weapons of Chinese merchants, which eventually led to the slaughter of 40,000 unarmed Chinese merchants.

In terms of strength comparison, it would not be more difficult for the Ming Dynasty to conquer Luzon and completely expel the Spaniards than to recover Taiwan. Because even after the Wanli Massacre, there are still about 70,000 Chinese businessmen on Luzon Island today.

These Chinese businessmen control the economic lifeline of Luzon. They not only helped the Spaniards buy raw silk, but more importantly, they control the supply of daily commodities. As Mo Ya, the governor of Manila during the Wanli period, sighed after Tu Hua: Even boots can't be bought.

If we want to compare combat power, then in the third year of Longqing, Lin Feng captured Daimao Port (now Bang Ashinan) and forced the Spanish to pay tribute, it is enough to prove that the weakness of this Spanish colonial army can be bullied.

As a pirate merchant, Lin Feng had less than 70 warships at that time, and his troops were only 5,000. Daimao Port was only 400 miles away from Manila, the Spanish ruling center.

If pirates can do something, how could the Ming Dynasty not do? Why should Spain stay between the Ming Dynasty and Australia, increasing risks?

Because attacking Spain now is definitely not a good idea.

Zhu Cilang has a bad world history, and I don’t know how much power Spain has at this time.

According to the description of the Portuguese and the Jesuit priests, Spain has become a declining second-rate country in Europe. It is not even true unification, but is similar to the "common dominance" of the Chinese Shang and Zhou dynasties. Even the Spanish kings and queens would not use any of their titles before their signatures. They are often just a sentence: "I, that is, the king (YoElRey)" or "I, that is, the queen (YoLaReina)".

However, even if Spain really fell into such a land, Zhu Cilang did not have the urge to take revenge immediately. The great powers launched wars not for a moment, nor could they not ignore the current and future interests.

If the development of Australia is based on three hundred years, it is allowed to pay a certain price. However, it is not yet time to occupy Manila.

The army swept across the Mongolian and Tartars in the south of the desert, and the soldiers gradually headed towards the north of the desert. When the desert advanced westward, the navy naturally had a gaze. Although the navy's loyalty has been criticized, the sense of honor has also taken root in their hearts and is still eager to be recognized and praised by the world. The only way for soldiers to show their own sense of existence is war - or rescue and disaster relief. There has been no major disaster in the Ming Dynasty recently.

"Those bastards are clamoring to beat Japan and Luzon all day long, and it is becoming more and more difficult to suppress." Zheng Zhilong complained to Shen Tingyang, who occasionally "visited" the school.

As the nominal head of the Huangming Navy and the actual controller of the Zhejiang Navy, Shen Tingyang certainly understood what Zheng Zhilong meant. There has been such a thing in the navy for a long time. It was the Zhejiang Navy who wanted to conquer the Japanese, while those who hoped to conquer Luzon were mainly Fujian and Guangdong officers and soldiers.

"The transformation plan of the four major fleets was stranded, and everywhere they fought, they were all wedding dresses for the army." Chen Tingyang was very familiar with Japan. He knew that it was a country with a thousand years of grammar, and it was definitely not a place where Pingdao or Australia could demonstrate sovereignty by throwing a stone tablet.

"If we use our navy's strength, it will be fine to defeat Manila." Zheng Zhilong tentatively said: "Nanyang Company also needs a more advanced headquarters."

Now Nanyang Company’s headquarters is in Tainan. If it moves to Manila, it will be closer to the China-Europe Trading Center area.

"The overall situation." Chen Tingyang sighed and said, "Brother Feihuang. Is there any benefit to defeating Manila?"

——The advantage is that Nanyang Company can further expand and become more popular.

Zheng Zhilong knew that this benefit was not enough to launch a local war and remained silent.

"Brother Feihuang has also read the information from the Military Intelligence Department." Chen Tingyang said leisurely: "Now the lower-level businesses in Luzon have been controlled by Chinese merchants. Even if we occupy Luzon, it will only increase the tax source of tens of thousands of people. Not to mention that the emperor will not agree, even the State Taxation Administration may not be interested."

When it comes to Luzon, the first reaction of later generations is often rubber, fruit, sugar cane, abaca and coconut.

Unfortunately, in today's world, there are more than two hundred years before the first rubber tree is rooted in Southeast Asia. As a perishable agricultural product, fruits cannot be transported from Luzon to the Ming Dynasty. What disappoints many later generations even more is that sugarcane, as a cash crop, was not promoted and planted by the Spanish.

In all Spanish-controlled plantations, food crops are mainly cultivated for the needs of local garrisons.

Then what did the Spanish do in Luzon?

They purchased the Ming Dynasty's raw silk, satin, porcelain, iron and handicraft from Luzon. They then put them on a large sailboat and transported them to the American colonies. The Ming Dynasty obtained silver, gold, and a small amount of spices from this trade.

If the Spaniards were driven out of Luzon, this declining empire would withdraw from the Indian Ocean at one time. This is great good news for the Netherlands, Portugal, and even Britain and France. They will divide the Spanish raw silk market and replace it to obtain 100% profit or even higher.

For the Ming Dynasty, it lost a trade channel and a direct transportation line with the silver entrance. Given the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands, it is likely to add more costs to world trade.

Although it looks beautiful to defeat Luzon, the only benefit of abaca used to make hemp ropes is the loss of a silver import channel and commodity sales channel.

How could Zhu Ciyang do such a thing?

Even if we have to fight, we have to wait until the import of silver shrinks further, and the war will not begin until Spain has no use value anymore.

And at that time, it would not be a war with Spain. It would inevitably lead the Netherlands and expel them from the east of the Strait of Malacca.

The Ming Dynasty will face the Indian Ocean and formulate a new Asian order.

Only in this way can the trade interests of the Ming Dynasty be guaranteed the greatest protection and not allow other countries to pick peaches.

"The most urgent task now is to promote the formation of the four major fleets." Chen Tingyang gently stroked his beard, "And we should have a Navy Governor's Office. The current Governor's Office is still adhering to the idea of ​​fighting for the supremacy of the continent three hundred years ago."

Zheng Zhilong nodded repeatedly and said yes, but he was thinking about the chips in his hand.

PS: There are too many things to do during the National Day, and it’s really more tiring than usual. I’m going out early this morning and I’m going to write at 5 o’clock. I hope everyone forgives me. There are indeed problems with the latest updates. I have been updated every day in the previous few days, so I’ll be able to maintain it for two days on weekends. It’s considered to be a filling of the previous gap until it’s finished.
Chapter completed!