In mid-August, the first large Chinese-style temple in Manila, Tianfei Temple, broke ground and was located at the foot of the southwest coast of Manila.

The stonemason in Manila took the stone on the spot and carved the statue of the Concubine Tian, ​​which was four feet tall in the mouth of the Nanyang Grandmaster. According to the design drawing, the Concubine Tian, ​​with a kind face, and built sixteen cannon temples behind him according to the mountain. Because Chen Mu had not yet thought about how big the cannon was fired here, the reserved cannon position was very long.

The caliber of the shore cannon is generally larger than that of the ship cannon, but his ship cannon is now the largest artillery with the Ming Dynasty. The largest artillery cannon that can be made in South China Sea is only 24 kilograms. It is just long cannons, so it is not a loss to make shore cannons, but he hopes to be bigger.

The people on the island lived and worked in peace and contentment. With the Ming army recovered Luzon Island, Fujian and Guangxi merchants brought a large number of job opportunities. Under the instruction of Chen Mu, they opened a sulfur mine on the island, dug a nitro cave nitrosoil factory, and a large mine. The forest farms sprung up in Luzon like mushrooms after a rain, and Chenlai Islands emerged.

There are lower labor costs here. Under the requirements of the Nanyang Government Office, merchants hired a large number of local workers, rented land to plant, and opened factories to form a preliminary industrial division of labor.

Luzon provides raw materials and transports them back to Guangdong for production and processing. Some products are dumped everywhere, and some equipment that is not available or produced in China is sold back to Luzon. Through the sea, the two places are linked.

For a time, the best-selling products in Luzon were not silk and cotton, but unicycle carts, mine picks, and large saws.

Luzon is really a treasure land of Feng Shui. The mountains are tropics and the volcanic areas are yellow. And the wood that is inexhaustible, it can greatly enhance the potential of the Ming Dynasty war.

By the end of August, Lin Daoqian sent the war report back from Sanyu. His men had successfully landed on the island. The Western Bibles stationed on the island seemed to have no intention of fighting. Except for being blocked on the shore at the beginning of landing on the island, they were almost unresisted. The three islands that were of little significance in the eyes of the Western Bible changed hands completely.

However, during the resistance, Lin Daoqian once again mentioned the high combat power of the team composed of Western Yi. Even when facing pirates who were ten times more than him, they could still retreat in an orderly manner, relying on the cover of local natives to board the ship and retreat to Cebu Island.

Lin Daoqian speculated in the battle report, and he believed that the Spaniards were shrinking their troops.

The scouts who returned to Manila confirmed Lin Daoqian's speculation that these Luzons were trained under Hachiro for more than a month, and then went south to explore military affairs. Following the people who fled from Luzon after the war broke out, they went to the south of the archipelago. Then a few people crossed the defense line and brought back the news of Cebu Island.

They said that the number of Western barbarians on the island is increasing, and they only defend against a few island-based sites, leaving behind a large area of ​​unguarded coasts.

"Master, Cebu Island can only attack Dagang."

Just as Chen Mu was preparing to lead the fleet to attack Cebu Island where Regasby was defending the unguarded coast of Western barbarians, his aide Xu Wei and Pingtou came together. Xu Wei was ordered to translate letters from Western barbarians in previous wars. Because of the slow progress, he borrowed Pingtou from Chen Mu and completed the translation together.

However, even if the two worked together, the translation progress was still very slow, and the same word had no correct answer. Xu Wei's Spanish was not standard, and Pingtuo's Chinese was also problematic, let alone the large number of daily words and metaphors in the letters that Pingtuo could not read.

In this regard, naval war books are much easier than translation of daily letters.

"In the past, there was a Portuguese, a respected general, whose name was Magellan. You may not know his name, but he was the first person to sail around the world. Although he died halfway, his fleet completed the voyage." Pinto raised his finger and held his eyes on the bridge of his nose and said to Chen Mu: "Sadly, he was employed by the Spaniards, and he died on Cebu Island."

How could Chen Mu not know Magellan? But he really didn't know where Magellan died was so close to him. He asked: "What does his death on Cebu Island have to do with the need to attack Cebu Port?"

Cebu Island is not as crowded as Luzon, and its settlements are not as large as Luzon, but the port is more developed and huge than Manila Port, and its decades of accumulation are stronger than all the newly established appearances of Manila.

As such, Chen Mucai was even more reluctant to attack Cebu Port. Faced with a complete port shore defense, the bigger the ship, the faster it sank, and the small boat did not have enough firepower. Especially the shore defense gun positions designed by Westerners who play with geometry. Even if Chen Shuai has many ships and many soldiers, he hopes to sneak behind Regasby and kill him.

"For more than ten years, the letters have recorded that the Spanish fleet has repeatedly hit the reefs on the shore of Cebu Island. If Regasby did not set up defenses on the shore, then there must be a reef area, and the general's ship would encounter the same dilemma as the Spanish who first landed on the island."

"This news is very useful, Mr. Pinto."

Chen Muzhong focused his head, then stood up from the seat with some annoyance and looked at the bay through the windows of the castle.

It is hard to imagine that the most experienced attacking ports in the entire Luzon Island was actually him who only led his army to attack Manila!

Chen Lin has no such experience, nor does Deng Zilong have this experience.

Lin Feng had some experience in attacking ports and hamlets, but that was the port in Fujian, and the situation was very different from Cebu Island, let alone: ​​"The news brought back by the scouts, Regasby got a mercenary from India who was hired by Portugal, with 200 or 300 people, and now he has landed on Cebu Island."

"The enemy has reduced its strength. Although we defeated, defeated, and surrendered thousands of enemy troops, most of them were Luzon troops without guns and cannons. Now they will not fight us at sea. The Spaniards themselves have not damaged their vitality. In Cebu, we may have to face nearly a thousand Westerners after mercenaries, but we can't wait."

"Regasby will try every means to mobilize all the troops that can be mobilized to prevent our attack and delay the time until next year. If we wait until next year, the Spaniards will be replenished. At that time, we will face a whole Western army."

To be honest, Chen Mu didn't want to meet the established Spanish army too early, with a total of 3,000 troops. "Just before the New Year, I would take down Mindulo Island and Cebu Island, and drive the Spanish to Sulu Kingdom. When our large fleet arrives next year, the war will return to the sea."

This is actually Chen Mu thinks that he only has the advantage over the Spaniards. He knows his strength and potential, and knows how long it takes to become strength, but the Spaniards don't know.

"The order of Deng Zilong to lead five fleets of 2,000 flag troops to take down Minduluo Island, and ordered Lin Feng to continue to advance south, seize the entire territory of Luzon Island, and raid the islands south. Mr. Xu, after the Luzon households and civilians are organized, according to Dingkou, several commanders on the General Staff Island should be set up, and at least five or six commanders should be assigned?"
Chapter completed!