No one will sit and wait for death.

Since receiving the news that the sea fleet was frustrated, Spain stationed in Manila is indeed as uneasy as Chen Mu imagined, especially the news that the defeated soldiers who fled back on land had brought back three thousand troops to the road to Banshilan City.

"It's not just about defeat! Three thousand people ran back less than two hundred, and I couldn't even tell what the adopted father's army was like."

Li Dan raised his hand to knead the dough. The things that should have been very relaxed and happy made him worry. He looked at his subordinates who were busy moving weapons and transporting wood and digging trenches to set up wooden signs. He ate wine in annoyance and gritted his teeth and became nervous.

Seeing that the leader was bored, several Li Dan confidants scattered to supervise the people to dig a ditch.

After a while, Duke Zhuang, who had a Japanese sword inserted into his waist, walked quickly.

Mr. Zhuang is shorter than others. When walking, he holds his arms with his big sleeves, and always holds the hilt of his right hand. When walking, he always puts his left body close to the walls of wooden pillars and other places. He walks very big and his legs are long and wide.

Such body movements are unique and easy to identify even in Manila, which is mixed with various races.

From a distance, I saw bald and tiger's back, bear waist, neck-and-neck legs.

Duke Zhuang was serious and sat not far away from Li Dan with his sword in his arms. Li Dan seemed to have expected him to come over and asked, "Kill?"

"Um."

Hearing the reply, Li Dan's brows finally relaxed a little, and Duke Zhuang went to kill a few of the leaders he recruited.

It is not difficult to recruit soldiers in Manila. The Ming people here are all gangs, especially those who can use weapons. There are dozens or dozens of people holding each other according to their neighbors and blood ties, but they are not all gangs like other countries.

Even though they are all Ming people, there are quite a few people who hate each other. Therefore, after Li Dan sent out the news of recruiting troops, he easily recruited hundreds of people, but not every small group is willing to help him fight against the Western barbarians.

A considerable number of Ming people stranded in Manila were unwilling to go to the Western barbarians. This is not a mistake, because they were all escorts on merchant ships in their early years and even became difficult merchants. Even if they were far away from their territory, most of them just wanted to make money but didn't want to lose their lives.

But Li Dan is not good. They don’t want to fight to the death, just because they are killing Li Dan. So in comparison, he still prefers Japanese outside the territory.

He pushed the wine pot towards Duke Zhuang and said, "The leader is dead, and he is a piece of loose sand, so he can only listen to me. But now, it is inevitable to see a war with his adoptive father... Can you seize the city gate?"

This is the source of Li Dan's worries. The Spaniards ordered him to set up camps outside the city and let them and more than a thousand Luzon soldiers ambush the physiognomy outside the city. In Li Dan's opinion, this was no different from pushing him to die.

No one knew better than Li Dan who was attacking. It was not the Ming merchants who supported Suleiman as Salcedo imagined, but the army of Chen Mu and the Nanyang Guard.

There is only one choice to give Li Dan. When they meet on the battlefield, they have to draw their swords and slash at the Luzons, not even a moment later.

He had entered the Nanyang Guard Weapon Bureau. God knew how many artillery his godfather's army would carry. He didn't want to be killed by shells from the Ming army.

But turning against the battlefield also has a high chance of dying.

Because Duke Zhuang looked west, in the southwest of their position, Manila, the Luzonians, now belongs to the outer city, and to the west is the newly built castle of the Spanish. The winding wall has only three sections of it, and the large area in the middle is covered with wooden frames and earthen tiles. On the built wall, a cannon is heading towards them.

Three sections of the city walls are facing them, one section towards Manila Bay, and the other section towards Manila Old Town.

The city walls and them were separated by a big river. If you wanted to capture the city, you could only pass through the wide stone bridge on the river. No matter how wide the bridge deck was, it was just a bridge. Not to mention muskets, just the cannons hit the bridge and bounced over it, and the capture of the city was a thorny road.

He knew that Chen Mu's cannon was like this.

Duke Zhuang lowered his head and thought for a while, looked up and said, "Yes."

"No, I didn't let you take the city with a knife, that's a dead end."

Li Dan felt a headache when he saw Duke Zhuang like this. This Japanese man was really too stupid. It was because Lin Feng asked him to listen to him. Now he would do whatever he asked him to do. Don’t worry about whether he could lose his life or not.

Based on his understanding of Duke Zhuang, he was thinking about it just now, not how to seize the city or use any strategy. He was considering whether he was brave enough and whether he was afraid of death.

After asking, I got an answer, and was not afraid, so I nodded and said yes.

I didn't even think about whether the city could be taken down.

"As soon as the war comes, you will take your confidants and hundreds of subordinates back. Don't fight with the Luzons. They will be defeated when they fight. You will follow them and cross the bridge. The Western barbarians will not use cannons to bomb you. At most, they can urge you to fight. They will die less."

Li Dan sat cross-legged on the tree stump, raised his hand and pointed: "Cross the bridge as soon as possible. When you come over, I will take people to block the bridge for a while and prevent the Luzons from coming, but I can't help. As long as the Western barbarians fire their artillery, I will take people to the wilderness immediately, and I will rely on you behind you."

"Faricart is a Westerner. He was in the city and agreed that he would turn against the city gate, but I can't trust him." Li Dan looked at the city wall with some concern and said, "If the city gate is not opened, the iron gate will be difficult to explode with gunpowder. Just wait a moment below the city below. The adoptive father's artillery will hit the city gate, but it will be different if it is not possible to hit."

"If it really doesn't work, you can only break through the gap. If you break through the gap, you will suffer serious casualties and save your life."

In Zhuang Duke's opinion, Li Dan was pitifully timid, and he said three words and died, and wanted to save his life, but he knew the mercy and nodded expressionlessly and said, "Well, the Southern Barbarians are not trustworthy."

This made Li Dan laugh. He couldn't believe in Faricart because of his nationality, but because of his identity. He was a pirate after all. He couldn't believe in Lin Afeng, but now no one can bring Lin Feng more benefits than Chen Mu, so they were on the same boat.

Maybe Lin Feng and Chen Mu will be unevenly divided into the stolen goods after some time, so they will stand opposite each other? These things are indefinite.

But Faricard can be said to be accurate, that is a real fence-bearer. If the Ming army can have an advantage, he can fight against the Spaniards. If the Spaniards have an advantage, Faricard will probably be a loyal minister.

Li Dan had a very accurate positioning of himself. He was not a regular army. Except for his close friends, he was not just going to do anything big for his adoptive father. As long as he could strengthen the Ming army's momentum in Manila, he would not come in vain.

He smiled and invited the scouts in front of Salcedo, and sent his confidants wearing red forehead scarves to walk north with Manila's armor sketches.

Late at night, Manila Bay was illuminated by the fire of the cannons. Following the sound of military music from the north, Li Dan woke up, and suddenly shocked Li Dan, who was dizzy and ran away, panicking as he walked.

"Why did the adoptive father attack at night? How could he see his head red?

Good morning!
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