"Why, how did it happen like this? How did the good Cavite become like this? What happened? Tagawa, did you do all this? Baga! Baga"

The person who jumped on his feet and cursed "Baga" was not a Japanese, but Anthony Van Diemen, the Governor of the United East India Company.

He never dreamed that an ordinary landing operation would turn into a massacre of the profits of the United East India Company!

When Anthony Van Diemen excitedly disembarked from his flagship Hector, he saw that the originally prosperous commercial port of Cavite had now been turned into a hell on earth.

Almost all the shops had been burned and probably had been robbed. There were corpses everywhere on the street, bloodstains everywhere, and fire everywhere.

What made Anthony Van Diemen even more unbearable was that Tagawaemon, who could speak Dutch, told him that there were more dead people outside the west gate of Chinatown, and there was an entire trench filled with dead people!

Even the west gate of Chinatown is almost blocked by dead people.

While he was talking, Anthony Van Diemen had already left the port area and was walking on the streets of Cavite. He saw the body of a man who looked like a Spanish businessman lying on the ground, and there was a headless female body beside him. Look.

The skin color should be that of an indigenous woman. Europeans doing business in Southeast Asia rarely bring families with them. They usually keep a few mistresses or buy several concubines in the local area.

"That's a businessman and his woman!" Anthony Van Diemen's eyes turned red. He stopped and said in an extremely angry tone, "You barbarians are so shameless. If you have any more

To be civilized, we should kidnap them, torture the woman, and force the businessman to pay a sufficient ransom!"

It's really civilized, not killing people indiscriminately, but kidnapping and extorting!

"Governor, my people are all civilized people who are not my people and are very familiar with the job of kidnapping!" Tagawaemon also felt helpless. The Yamada gang was so obsessed with killing people that there was nothing he could do!

If he can stop the Yamada gang, he will never let the Yamada gang kill people randomly. Although Chuan is also a Japs, he is really a civilized Japs. He rarely does kidnapping and extortion. He only refuses to pay protection money.

Only maritime merchants are likely to be kidnapped. If you pay the protection fee, you will not be kidnapped. Zheng Zhilong is honest!

If other forces kidnap the businessmen whom Zheng Zhilong protects, Zheng Zhilong will step in to smooth things over. If anyone refuses to give face, Zheng Zhilong will send troops to destroy them.

"Who is that?" Anthony Van Diemen asked.

"It's a member of the Yamada Party, Yamada Chotasu, the son of the Liukun King Yamada Nagamasa. He didn't know when he went into exile in Luzon and defected to the Spanish. But when we landed at noon today, Yamada Chotasu thought we were real

The Japanese troops of the Tokugawa Shogunate turned against us and defected to our side. The Spaniards sent Pampanga people to massacre the Japanese towns in Cavite. As a result, the Yamada Party went crazy and killed people. I couldn't stop it at all.

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"Damn it," Anthony Van Diemen gritted his teeth, "Why did you forget the Yamada Party? Where is Yamada Chotae? Where is he?"

Tagawa Ubei said: "He led people to attack the Pampanga village."

"What?" Anthony Van Diemen rolled his eyelids, "He is still going to massacre?"

Tagawa shrugged, speechless. Yamada Chotae and his Japanese were addicted to killing. After the Ming army completed the landing, they set out for the Pampanga settlement near Manila to continue the cause of murder and arson.

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"What about Commander-in-Chief Qin and Vice-General Zheng?" Anthony Van Diemen asked, "Are they not taking care of them either?"

Tagawa smiled bitterly; "Vice General Zheng wants to take care of it, but General Qin doesn't want to ask. He thinks it's better to let the Yamada Party kill him once, so as to establish his authority."

What? Establish prestige?

No ransom required?

"Boom boom boom"

Just when Anthony Van Diemen wanted Tagawa to take him to see Qin Yiming and Zheng Zhilong, the sound of artillery shelling suddenly came from the Santiago Fortress.

Tagawa Youbei turned around and looked, "It's the Spaniards who are bombarding the Eighth Company Chinatown with cannons."

Anthony Van Diemen stopped talking nonsense with Tagawa and hurriedly walked towards the Eighth Company Chinatown. Before he reached the Ming Army's Chinese Army Camp, which was setting up defenses to the west of the Eighth Company Chinatown, the Eighth Company Chinatown was already there.

A fire started.

"Damn Spaniards!" Anthony Van Diemen's expression changed again, "They are a bunch of destructive maniacs who are firing arson bombs!"

Tagawa Youbei quickly followed and said to Anthony Van Diemen: "Most of the people in Chinatown have withdrawn. Today they also participated in blocking the Spanish in Cavite and the Pampanga people's withdrawal into Fort Santiago.

Fight and kill many Spaniards and Pampangas!"

"Why stop them? Wouldn't it be better to let more people into the city?" Anthony Van Diemen muttered in a low voice.

If more people enter the city, they will have more meat tickets when they surrender in the future! You can let that crazy Spain redeem it with American silver!

On the way to Luzon, he had already planned to extort a ransom of at least 20 million silver pesos this time!

It's great now, all the meat tickets are almost gone, where can I get ransom?

"Lu Peter, please go into the city and tell Governor Coquilla that this time the Ming Dynasty, Japan, and the Netherlands are joining forces to attack him. He cannot defend the Santiago Bastion, and our soldiers from the Ming Dynasty are the best at attacking it.

We can take down his fortress in 15 days. So don’t let him take any chances. He should leave the city and surrender as soon as possible. Don’t let the explosive bombs blow him up!”

When Anthony Van Diemen and Tagawa Youbei arrived at the central camp of the Ming army, the commander-in-chief Qin Yiming took his staff to survey the terrain and prepared to find a place to dig an approach trench. The deputy general Zheng Zhihu and Lu Peter, who had known each other for a long time, were there.

Speaking of things, Zheng Zhilong also hung out with the Spaniards in his early years and came to Manila. Later, he felt that it was too dangerous, so he took people away. However, he had been doing smuggling business in Manila, so he maintained a relatively good relationship with Lu Peter.

And now, Zheng Zhihu wants an opportunity for his old friend to make a great contribution to persuade the Spaniards in Fort Santiago to surrender.

"Governor Diemen is here, let me introduce him to you." Zheng Zhihu saw Anthony Van Diemen entering the tent and quickly introduced him to both parties.

"This is Mr. Dimen, the Governor of Batavia of the United East India Company. This is Mr. Peter Lu, the richest man in Manila."

Hearing what Zheng Zhihu said about the richest man, Peter Lu almost burst into tears! After all this trouble, bankruptcy is not far away, so why return the richest man? And now he has to be forced into the Santiago Fortress to persuade him to surrender. It is very likely that he will never return!

Dimen greeted Lu Peter and said to him: "Mr. Lu, please tell Governor Coquilla that our East India Company can guarantee that all Spaniards who lay down their arms can be redeemed at a reasonable price.

So their lives are guaranteed."

Peter Lu was still crying, no matter how he looked at this matter, he was in doubt!

"Go ahead and give it a try," Zheng Zhihu said with a smile. "If it works, your family will still be the richest man in Manila! If it doesn't work, the Spaniards won't do anything to you, because in 15 days at most, we will be able to bombard you with explosive bombs."

It’s in Manila.”

15 days at most. Lu Peter was a little doubtful. This is a bastion! What should we use to bombard it?

However, he didn't dare to disobey Zheng Zhihu's orders, and he would still point to the Zheng family for protection in the future!

It’s true these days, nothing is reliable, not even the Spaniards, and they actually surrounded Manila

"What? 15 days? How is that possible?"

Governor Coquilla is still very confident in the strength of the Santiago Fortress, "Let alone 15 days, even if it takes 150 days, the fortress I hold on to will not be broken by the barbarians from the east. This is impossible! And once it happens,
Chapter completed!