Become a feudal king from today - #918 - Chapter 930: Sit back and wait.

The sea breeze is gentle.

The golden sunshine spreads on the blue sea, as if sprinkled with a layer of gold powder.

After leaving Bambu, the fleet arrived in Manila, the capital of Luzon, in one day.

“Miao An and Niu Qiang don’t know if they are qualified, but please don’t cause trouble.” On the flagship deck, Song Xiang and Zhou Yi stood side by side, holding binoculars in their hands to observe the Manila port.

Song Xiang couldn’t help but ask at this time.

If Manila is not attacked, the supply point of Bambu is still very important.

Zhou Yi smiled, knowing that the generals must be confused about him handing Banbu to Miao An and Niu Qiang.

So, he explained, “They are doing things under the nose of the Marine Corps. If there is nothing wrong, the Marine Corps will understand and recover in time.”

After a pause, he continued, “The main problem is that according to His Highness’s wishes, we need to train some young and motivated overseas Song people, which will be of great benefit to Da Song’s control of the entire Southern Region in the future.”

Song Xiang nodded upon hearing this.

He is a pure naval admiral, only responsible for fighting wars.

But their General Zhou Yi and King Yan considered more issues.

After the two said this, they looked towards Manila again.

Unlike Bambu, who was unprepared, the Franco defenders in Manila were clearly forewarned.

The merchant ships and warships at the dock disappeared, but the forts on the dock flickered with figures.

“It seems that the Franco soldiers who escaped from Bambu brought the news of Bambu’s capture here.” Zhou Yi raised the corner of his mouth, “Hey, let them spend the next days in fear.”

Immediately, he ordered warships to surround the entire Manila port and wait for changes on the sea.

at the same time.

In a fort in Manila Port, there is also a pair of eyes staring at the Dasong Fleet.

These eyes belonged to Ferrero, the Governor of France.

At this moment, he was wearing a military uniform and a sailing cap, with beads of sweat appearing on his forehead.

“Damn it, is this bastard Mafuor an idiot? Why did he let the Great Song Fleet appear here?” Ferrero kept cursing in his mouth.

For the first time since King Dasong Yan captured Yizhou, he felt that the position of Governor of Fo Langji in Luzon was so embarrassing.

When news of the fall of Yizhou came, he immediately built fortifications in Manila and immediately sent warships to send the news back to Folangji.

At the same time, he actively contacted the Sterdamians, Britons and Franks in the hope of receiving support.

Fortunately, British Governor Bolt chose to support him.

The four countries formed a small joint fleet in the eastern and southern regions to patrol the waters and protect their colonies.

In this quasi-war state, they actively prepared for war and spent ten months.

Finally the combined fleet arrived.

Fo Langji dispatched 18 sailing warships and 10,000 soldiers.

Manila was also provided with a large number of muskets and artillery to arm their indigenous army in Luzon.

They originally had 20,000 soldiers in Luzon.

This brought the total strength of Fo Langji in the east to 30,000.

The number of warships has also expanded from eight to twenty-six.

However, the supporting troops must obey the command of the coalition forces at the moment.

But even so, he felt relieved.

The coalition promised to protect the interests of the Western Territory countries in the Eastern Territory, which naturally included Fo Langji’s.

With the powerful coalition forces as their backing, they could finally sleep peacefully at night.

However, he never expected that just when the coalition navy was preparing to deceive the Dasong fleet to go to Moro Island.

The Great Song Fleet appeared here.

The day before yesterday, they even captured the small town of Bambu in the northernmost part of Luzon.

“I hope these bastards from the coalition navy can come soon.” Ferrero cursed again.

He did not foolishly leave behind the eight sailing ships garrisoned at Manila.

Instead, let them pass through central Luzon, which is full of islands, and from there go to the direction of Moro to look for the coalition navy.

“God forbid they won’t launch an attack immediately.” Ferrero muttered again when he saw that the Dasong Navy only besieged the port and did not take immediate action.

He believed that the Grand Song fleet must be waiting for the arrival of more soldiers.

After all, according to his observation, Da Song’s troop carrier seemed to be unable to carry many soldiers.

After calming down for a while, he inspected the trench fortifications dug along the Manila Port.

In addition to the vigilant Franco soldiers in the trench, there were also Luzon indigenous troops wearing gray military uniforms.

Same as Sterdam, Britain, Frank.

After conquering the countries in the Eastern and Southern Regions, they all made the same decision.

It is to form an indigenous army based on the king’s army to maintain their colonial rule over the southern countries.

This is because the Southern Territory is only one of their colonies and can only maintain a small number of troops.

But to rule such a large country, these troops are obviously not enough.

As a result, all colonies, including the Eastern and Southern Territories, had a small number of Western Turkish troops commanding a large number of indigenous troops.

He had never paid much attention to these indigenous troops before.

But now, he is fortunate that Luzon still has an indigenous army of 80,000 people.

In order to let these indigenous troops follow them to resist King Yan.

During this period, he not only improved the treatment of indigenous soldiers, but also promised many benefits to indigenous officials and generals.

Even King Badugu of Luzon, who was ignored by them, agreed.

As long as he can use the king’s influence to encourage the people of Luzon and Franji to work together to resist Dasong, he will give the royal family more preferential treatment.

After reviewing the Franco soldiers and indigenous soldiers, Ferrero felt a little more at ease.

Instructing his colonel to keep an eye on the Great Song Fleet, he returned to the Governor’s Mansion.

…

At this moment, in the waters east of Luzon, eight French warships were heading towards Moro Island.

To the northeast of them, a steamship was also rushing to Morro Island at maximum speed.

This steamship was the one that encountered the battleship Dasong in the southern waters of Yizhou.

After three days of sailing, the steamship arrived at the port of Morro Island.

The news was sent to Mafuor, who was waiting for the news on Morro Island.

“The Dasong Fleet is rushing to Luzon?” Mafuor’s expression changed after receiving the news, and he immediately spread out a scrawled chart to mark the position of the Dasong Fleet.

“During this period, we have released enough traces to show that we are in the east. This is really strange.” Sam State Admiral Powell was very puzzled.

“There are two possibilities. Their naval general is too stupid, or they are deliberately disrupting our steps and forcing us to fight them.” Mafuor pondered for a while and said slowly.

“Based on the performance of the Dasong Navy, their generals don’t seem stupid, so there is only the second possibility left.” Frank Admiral Quevedo said, “This is really a vicious strategy. If you ignore them, they will We will take the opportunity to capture Luzon and even other southern countries.”