"Dear Mr. Mario, do you know how many troops the Ming army is planning to dispatch this time? What about their weapons, equipment and combat effectiveness?"

Looking at Mario and others in front of him, De Vera could not hide the panic on his face no matter how hard he tried to stay calm.

On the 22nd of the winter lunar month in the twenty-fifth year of Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, with Mario and a group of Spaniards traveling day and night, it took only six days for the Spanish colonists who occupied Luzon to get the information that the Ming army was about to send troops to Southeast Asia.

information.

"Reporting to the Governor, as far as we can see, the Ming army has at least more than 10,000 people, all equipped with flintlock muskets. I heard that their emperor personally trained the guards, called the Yulin Guards.

Their queen’s biological brother led..."

"In addition, they have about a hundred warships. The largest warship is about the same as our second-level warships. However, the number is much more than ours, about thirty. In addition, the rest are about the same as ours.

A warship similar to a third-tier battleship..."

Ignoring Governor de Vera's unconcealed panic, Mario and others talked about the strength of the Ming army they had seen.

"Damn it, ten thousand musketeers, more than a hundred battleships, my God, how are we going to fight?"

After Mario and others finished explaining what they had learned about the situation of the Ming army, De Vera couldn't help but hold her head in despair and exclaimed.

There is no way, the total Spanish local troops in Luzon at this time is only more than 2,000 people. Even adding those Japanese mercenaries and local Pampanga soldiers whose loyalty is unknown, the total strength is only six

Thousands of people are dead.

In addition, although the largest battleship of the Ming army only wants to be regarded as their second-level battleship, the problem is that their first-level and second-level battleships in Luzon add up to only eleven. No matter how ferocious the lion is, so what

Can you beat the wolves?

"Damn Martindra, damn Rekel, if you hadn't been devaluing the strength of the Ming Dynasty in order to defraud His Majesty of money, how could I have encountered such a crisis..."

After exclaiming in despair, Vidra began to complain about his previous governors.

It turned out that among the governors of Luzon before him, Recker was the first to propose the idea that only sixty Spanish soldiers could conquer the Ming Dynasty based on the incident where the Japanese pirates used dozens of people from Zhejiang to kill the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

plan.

It's just that the bragging may have gone too far, but the King of Spain didn't believe it at all, so he let it go.

Then, it was Videla's former predecessor, Martin Dela, who joined forces with the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers to exterminate the pirate Lin Feng in the second year of Wanli. After carefully observing the combat capabilities of the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, he came to the conclusion that the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers were not good enough.

fighting and not good at using weapons.

Therefore, based on this conclusion, based on the calculation of the combat effectiveness of two hundred people to conquer a city of thirty thousand people, he formulated a 'feasible' plan to conquer the Ming Dynasty with six thousand people.

However, due to disagreements among Spanish high-level officials, this plan was ultimately shelved.

However, precisely because of these two stranded plans, it gave everyone in Spain the illusion that the Ming Dynasty was vulnerable.

Therefore, in the sixteenth year of Wanli, the Spanish high-level officials finally unified their opinions and formulated a plan to conquer Spain by sending 15,000 troops, and then recruiting 5,000 troops each from Luzon and Japan, for a total of 25,000 troops.

Detailed plan of Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that just when they were about to implement this plan, they started fighting with the British next door.

As a result, the Armada was almost completely wiped out, and when it could not even protect itself, the plan to conquer the Ming Dynasty was naturally shelved again.

However, although the plan to conquer the Ming Dynasty was shelved, because of the 'weakness' of the Ming Dynasty, Spain naturally would not invest too much power in Luzon, so de Vera naturally complained about these predecessors.

"Mr. Governor, what should we do now? Do we really have to evacuate here as ordered by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty?"

Seeing the desperate look on De Vera's face, the businessman Mario waited for when he came back to report the news looked unwilling.

You know, if Luzon, the closest transit point to the Ming Dynasty, was eliminated, the cost of trafficking goods from the Ming Dynasty back to Europe for sale would increase a lot.

"Evacuate? No, no, no, it is impossible for us to evacuate Luzon. Luzon cannot be lost from me!"

Hearing the unwilling inquiries from Mario and others, De Vera shook her head without thinking.

"By the way, you just said that the Ming Emperor ordered all Europeans to evacuate the Far East, right?"

After answering the questions about Mario and the others, De Vera's eyes suddenly lit up and he raised his head to confirm with several people.

"My Lord Governor, this is indeed the case according to the will of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Not only us Spain, Portugal and the Dutch who just settled here are also among those expelled..."

Upon hearing De Vera's inquiry, Mario and others seemed to have guessed his thoughts, and then carefully stated the decree announced by Wang Bing.

"The enemy of our enemy is our friend. Since the Ming Kingdom wants to expel us all, why don't we form a three-nation coalition to resist the Ming Kingdom's aggression and defend our territory..."

After receiving confirmation from Mario and others, De Vera immediately changed his previous dejection and despair and became confident again.

"The Governor is right, the enemy of our enemy is our friend. If they don't want to withdraw from the Far East, they must unite this time. And there are two months, which is enough for us to form a coalition army!"

After hearing the idea that De Vera came up with, Mario and other businessmen immediately felt relieved just like De Vera.

But what they didn't know was that Wang Bing couldn't ask for this from the Three Kingdoms Alliance!

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"Sir Governor, in addition to uniting the Portuguese and Dutch, we must also take other precautions!"

After Mario and other merchants left, Dasmarinas, the Manila field commander, reminded De Vera with a sinister expression.

"Oh? Dear Colonel Dasmarinas, I have ordered other places to give up temporarily and reduce all troops to Manila. What kind of precautions are you talking about?"

Seeing the solemn look on Dasmarinas' face, De Vera couldn't help but become a little confused.

"Physiological Man! Mr. Governor, those physiological men are all from the Ming Dynasty. If when we fight with the Ming Army, they sneak attack from behind and cooperate with the Ming Army inside and outside, then we will be attacked from both sides.

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