After hearing Liu Yu's brief description, Su Langqing immediately recalled a scene he had encountered while voyage with his father on the sea.

At that time, their team was about to enter the Port of Manila, and a fleet was also heading towards Manila not far away.

Su Langqing remembers it very clearly.

When the English fleet sailed into the Port of Manila, it was just as if they were facing their Spanish naval sailing ships.

The two giants met at sea level, which left a deep impression on Su Langqing.

"Based on the verbal description of the adults, I'm afraid these boatmen will find it difficult to build such ships."

Su Langqing, who had seen the Queen of the English, naturally knew that such ships were different from Spanish sailing boats. At this time, when he saw these boatmen over fifty years old, he couldn't help but frown.

The merchant ship built by the Vigan Shipyard is just a copy of the Spanish sailboat. The shipmen present are not as proficient in shipbuilding techniques as the local Spanish ship masters in Manila, let alone build new ships without any drawings and prototypes based on Liu Yu's oral description.

At this moment, the Ming army even had difficulty in protecting themselves, and it was difficult to recruit ship workers who could build large warships.

Thinking of this, Liu Yu was a little embarrassed.

Seeing Liu Yu's sad look, Su Langqing smiled.

"It's not possible to build a navy in one day. Instead of thinking about building a new warship, it's better to think about how to buy more artillery," Su Langqing reminded.

It is not impossible to use current merchant ships to build your own navy, but it is naturally not enough compared to the Spanish Navy.

Although the difference between merchant ships and warships began to appear in the 16th and 17th century, and the different divisions of labor led to the division of warships and merchant ships in two different routes, at least the difference is not very obvious until now.

At this moment, the Ming army wanted to form a navy, but there was actually no generation difference in ships. The real gap was artillery.

For example, the armed merchant ships owned by the Weigan Chamber of Commerce that Liu Yu had always dreamed of were only prepared on the ships of more than ten large and small artillery guns, and the reason was very simple.

Merchant ships transport cargo, and their hull and decks are used to stack goods. If there is no special artillery deck, there is no extra room for special artillery.

Although the Spanish Navy's warships were basically large sailing ships.

However, a large sailboat can often carry dozens of artillery pieces and a large number of infantry soldiers. Even the former Invincible Fleet also has large sailboats that prepare hundreds of artillery pieces.

The Ming army did not even have any extra artillery at this moment, so how could it be said that the artillery was prepared onto a merchant ship?

"Wuda, does Weigan really have no factory to produce artillery?" Liu Yu looked at Wuda unwillingly.

Uda shook her head.

"Sir, Vigan is just a harbor town. The Spaniards are just stationed here and have not built factories for producing artillery, but there are several workshops in the city that can produce gunpowder and iron smelting." Wuda replied in 1141.

"Yes," Liu Yu was not angry.

At this moment, the Ming army did not lack ships, all they lacked was artillery.

He actually had a craftsman who produced artillery in Mingcheng.

Liu Yu had already sent someone to invite them to Weigan.

Since Weigan has an iron smelting workshop and the artillery manufacturers brought to produce artillery, it should not be very difficult to produce some small and medium-sized artillery.

"That's it."

"I hope to speed up the construction of these ships," he ordered Uda.

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As early as 1574, the pirate Lin Feng led 62 warships and thousands of pirates to attack the Spanish colonists stationed in Manila.

However, the well-equipped Spaniards in front of them and the daunting sailboat, Lin Feng and his pirate forces were inevitably destroyed.

For hundreds of years, countless pirates have been rampant with the Luzon waters. Looking at Luzon's golden island, it is impossible to get involved.

The arrival of the Ming army allowed these pirates to see a glimmer of opportunity.

Because the battle of Mingcheng instantly broke Spain's defense in Luzon,

This made Luzon divided into two by the Ming court, and Manila and northern Luzon lost contact.

This caused many pirate forces such as the Black Flag Gang who were wandering outside Luzon to smell the smell of blood and rushed up for a moment.

The jealous pirates all wanted to pull off a piece of meat from the old Spanish empire at sunset.

Rawag City naturally became the target of this group of pirates.

The name of the city of Lavag comes from the Irogo language, meaning "light/brightness".

The birth of this ancient city starts with Magellan when he landed in the Philippines.

When Magellan discovered that the island had rich resources such as beeswax and gold, he planted the Spanish flag in this place and built a Spanish castle.

However, later, Juan de Salsedo, the grandson of the Spanish Governor to the Philippines, came to Luzon to gain the trust of the local leaders and became an alliance with him. Later, the northwest of Luzon was classified as his territory.

Following this was the hundreds of years of Spanish rule, which turned it into a Catholic holy city with the arrival of a group of Catholic monks.

The Spaniards, who knew that they could not resist the attacks of the Ming army and the pirates at the same time, withdrew directly from Vigan and concentrated all their troops on Lavague.

These brutal and greedy pirates caused greater damage to Luzon than the land ducks on the Ming army,

Therefore, Governor Juan ordered Rawag to deal with the threat from the sea and gave up Vigan.

The city of Lava, which was supplemented by the Spanish colonial army in Vigan, was already ready.

Hundreds of Spanish colonists guarded the city of Lavague,

Rawag is stronger than Qiweigan's defense.
Chapter completed!