Chen Mu, who was far away in the Nanyang Sea, did not know that his brother-in-law was hanging out with wild dogs in Xinming Chengri, and the Spanish he had been waiting for came.

In the eastern waters of Luzon, the voyage around the island was regarded as an ordinary left-behind battalion. Half a month ago, he submitted a report on the discovery of the enemy through a telescope and a seaside tower to Manila. At the sea far away, a small boat with the Habsburg flag was swaying.

On Chen Lai Island in Northern Luzon, Lin Dayuan was the first to be a small squadron officer of the Chaozhou Prefecture Militia. In Jiajing, he was promoted to the position of the local thief Liang Ning. He caught up with Chen Mu's move to reorganize the local troops in Guangdong, and joined Chen Lin's subordinates. After fighting for several years, he fought the pirates and guarded Chen Lai.

The work of guarding Chenlai Island was easy and there were no external enemies or worries. At its busiest time, it was just Luzon general Hu Liangpeng who ordered the army to train. Now the police were sent along the coast, which scared the bunch of raw melon seeds. He hurriedly arranged a defense line and sent someone to report to Hu Liangpeng first, and then Hu Liangpeng told Chen Lin.

Logically speaking, Lin Dayuan informed Hu Liangpeng, Hu Liangpeng informed Chen Lin, Chen Lin informed Chen Mu. When Chen Mu received the news, the Western barbarians launched a large-scale attack, which had long burned the war to the northern land of Luzon to fight.

However, the Nanyang Yamen was fully organized. Except for Hai Rui and others who were doing good deeds, everything in Luzon was prepared for war, so when the war came, everything was in order.

After Chen Lin sent someone to inform Chen Mu's military situation, he went to Chenlai Island to take charge. Bai Yuanjie went to Guangdong to allocate grain ships to escort the military. The island's military affairs were temporarily handed over to the Luzon General Hu Liangpeng to allocate the two guards and horses. On one side, they gathered north and on the other side, they stationed in defense along the coast.

Of course, being orderly is the appearance, and everyone is panicked, and Chen Mu is also panicked, how should he fight this battle?

It was not until this moment that he finally figured out which sea route the Spaniards took from America. Chen Mu only had the route of transporting treasure ships eastward to the Americas, but he knew nothing about the paths coming to Manila. Until now, he finally found some clues - New Spain, Hawaii, Guam, Manila.

In this era, whoever wants to scratch his head is the reason why Luzon has enough time to gather troops.

"This also means that the enemy is coming in a lot. If there are ordinary large ships and more than a thousand soldiers, you just need to kill them directly." When Chen Mu arrived at Chen Lai Island, he explained his and Xu Wei's speculation to Chen Lin, saying: "Only if there are many military ships, they need to rest in Guam, and they may even be transporting arms like us now."

His men sailed far away to Guam, but they only recorded their locations and did not land on the island, because they were too far away from Luzon, and they could not defend once the enemy attacked and defended, and it was impossible to send the army to such a distant place.

Four or five thousand miles, just four months to travel. Yang Zhaolong can replenish supplies everywhere. Every time he sails for only a thousand miles, he travels for a month and a half, not to mention Guam, where there is nowhere to dock.

Moreover, it is meaningless to send a fleet to the past before.

"This is defense, please look at it."

Chen Lin brought a printed map of Luzon. After conquering various parts of Luzon, Chen Mu sent people to do this. The names of mountains, rivers and tribes in the coastal areas were woodcut and hundreds of copies were printed, and there were personnel from various generals and schoolmen. Especially generals like Chen Lin often prepared more than a dozen copies, which depended on when they came in handy.

At this time, the layout drawings are drawn on the defense map, mainly guarding against three rings in the northeast of Luzon, which are 200 miles, 500 miles and 800 miles. The four military ports within 200 miles are defense areas, and three permanent garrisons are guarded by mixed artillery fleets of large and small shark ships, and rotated in two days; the patrol area between 200 and 500 miles, which is also patrol area with three fleets rotated in five days.

The last five hundred to eight hundred miles were the scout area, and there were only a few ships sent out, with only two fleets. Each ship went out five hundred miles and then scattered. Not only were there big and small shark boats, but also Dafu, who accompanied the team as grain ships, changed every half a month.

Chen Mu looked at the defense map and asked thoughtfully, "Qianli?"

This is obviously Chen Lin's defensive intention, waiting for labor within a thousand miles of the Luzon coast.

"It's almost time to storm, if it's not for the strong wind..." Chen Lin nodded, his hands tied with steel arms lightly beat the table, and suddenly asked Chen Mu: "Do you think our fleet can attack five thousand miles away?"

Chen Mu laughed when he heard this. He was very sure. Chen Lin said that what he originally wanted to say was, "If it weren't for the strong wind, I really wanted to attack him." But he felt that it was unreliable when he spoke, so he changed it to asking him.

"It's hard to send more than 7,800 people to touch the ships, and our people have been there, it's just a long time to prepare enough grain ships." Chen Mu chuckled, then looked at Chen Lin, and said, "Send a fleet, even if there is no strong wind, it's too risky."

The past alone is not a problem. One thousand soldiers have enough grain ship for one month. There are two main problems. It is too easy to have accidents when sailing far seas. Once the troops are sent too much, they cannot afford to lose. Another is that it is easy to get in the past, but even if you prepare enough grain ships, they can only get in and cannot come back.

"Want to get over?"

Chen Lin looked at Chen Mu, asking nonsense. Since Qi Jiguang guarded the southeast, the idea of ​​naval battle in Fujian and Guang has changed from land to land defense pirates to defeating the enemy at sea, which is to fight against Japanese pirates.

Later, when Chen Mu returned from the northern border, he turned to the navy in the South China Sea and undoubtedly implemented this view. Now that Luzon is in his hands, the southernmost end of the land actually controlled by the Ming Dynasty is the Luzon Islands, so this is the land, and they still have to defeat the enemy at sea.

"Then you have to take the risk and send the fleet five thousand miles away, two small fleets, before the storm comes."

Chen Mu was very interested in Chen Lin's boldness. He raised his hand and said, "If we want to launch a large-scale eastern expedition, we have to do one thing to explore how many people the enemy will come, and guess how much food and grass they will transport in Guam."

"There is no need to mobilize troops. There are only two thousand people, twenty warships of all sizes and sizes, and fifteen Dafu grain ships. Chen can fight in the east."

Chen Mu looked at Chen Lin with a smile. Since they rushed to attack Zeng Yiben, Brother Chen has changed from the most determined jumping fire attacker to the only firepower theory, and has become more and more determined as the number of gunboats under his command increases.

He said lightly: "I guess, the Western Yi sent 20,000."

"Twenty thousand?" Chen Lin waved his hand and said, "No, why are there so many people from the Western Barbarians? Don't you still say that they are fighting with people in the west?"

"There are not so many Western barbarians, but according to their wars, they are good at driving local natives to drive them. If there are two thousand Western barbarians in Guam, they will definitely be accompanied by ten times of servants!"

"It doesn't matter how many people are. It depends on ships and cannons on the sea, not people." Chen Lin waved his hand, but saw Chen Mu wide-eyed and laughing, "This is what I should say! As for the Western Barbarians, they will definitely send big ships and ships, with many crews looking for a jump gang to fight. Our big ships are all prepared for them."

The two looked at each other and laughed and hit it off, which determined the direction of the Ming Dynasty's Battle.
Chapter completed!