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Chapter 366 Ilok People
The Ming army sent troops here, and the Dutch also sent troops.

Moreover, the Dutch had to send troops earlier, because the Dutch territory of Batavia was further away from Luzon.

The Dutch only had a thousand land troops in this expedition, but they brought thousands of indigenous troops from Borneo (Kalimantan Island, where the Republic of Lanfang is located) and other places.

Not to mention that there are blood orchids in Borneo. This is a fictional plant in the movie. There is no such medicinal material for immortality. I have been daydreaming too much.

The Balni Empire (Brunei, not as small as later generations) and the Sulu Sultanate were all invaded by European colonists, mainly Spanish.Therefore, he was quite happy to attack the Spaniards and drive them out of the Philippines.

The Dutch, with these indigenous coalition forces, arrived in the Philippines before the Ming army, and then began a frantic attack on merchant ships around Cebu Island.

Cebu is an island in the Central Visayas region and is Spain's second colony in the Philippines after Manila.

The current Governor-General of the Philippines is Toribio Jose Cosio and Campo, who arrived from Spain about four years ago. The former Catholic Governor-General died as early as the 60th year of Kangxi's reign.

"Your Majesty the Governor, the damn Dutch, with their Bruneians and Sulu people, are attacking our Spanish island of Cebu." The deputy came to report urgently.

Governor Cosio and Campo frowned and said: "These damn Dutch actually joined forces with the Chinese to send troops. They are betraying their beliefs."

The deputy quickly reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty the Governor, these Dutch people have betrayed the faith of the Holy See."

Cosio and Campo were silent for a moment and sighed: "Let the people of Cebu Island defend it. If you really can't defend it, just abandon the city!"

If this order is to go down, there is a high probability that it will be impossible to keep it.

But there is nothing we can do, Spain now has long lost its former glory.The civil war ended less than ten years ago, and the country was devastated and in ruins.

Even if there is a problem in the Far East colonies, it is unlikely that the mainland will provide support.

In fact, Manila had long received the news that the Chinese army was coming to attack Luzon, but at that time the news was only tipped off by Chinese merchants living in Luzon.

The Spanish governor didn't care. If there were pirates coming to attack Manila, he might still believe it.

After all, Lin Feng, the great pirate back then, had committed the crime, and was also tipped off by Han merchants living in Luzon.

Don't ask, the question is that war will affect the interests of businessmen.

There is no shortage of traitors at any time. Zhang Wenhuan, who previously led troops to fight against the Ming army, mentioned the word "traitor" several times in official documents when he was governor of Yunnan.

When they discovered that the Han merchants on Luzon Island began to flee in droves, Governor Cosio and Campo were shocked to realize that something was wrong.

Cosio and Campo hurriedly sent envoys to Nanjing to explain, and then summoned the Manila army and Pampanga natives to prepare for battle.

The territory of the Pampanga people is in the central plains of Luzon and has been completely tamed by the Spanish.

The Han people in Luzon were lucky enough to escape.

Cosio and Campo did not dare to massacre Han merchants at this time, and he had no excuse to confiscate the weapons of the Han people, or even to move their homes or raise taxes.

Because the traitor who leaked the information at the beginning said that the Luzon authorities wanted to carry out a massacre, so the Chinese court sent troops to attack.

If there was something wrong with him, wouldn't he be convinced on the spot?

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The vanguard army of the Ming Army took the lead in arriving in the northern part of Luzon Island.

This is the territory of the Ilok people, whose ancestors were Malay immigrants and did not submit to the violent rule of the Spanish.

As early as when the great pirate Lin Feng attacked the city of Manila, these Ilok people had helped him.Later, the Dutch attacked Manila and received help from it.

The advance troops of the Ming army arrived in the northern mountainous area, and soon a large number of Ilok people ran out of the village. "Kunlun slave?" The leading officer was named Wu Qi. He couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw those Ilok people.

Because among these indigenous people, there are actually people with black skin and short stature, who are particularly similar to the legendary Kunlun slaves.

This is a dwarf black man found only in the mountains of northern Luzon.

Looking around, you can see that there are even terraced fields and canals in many places, which is completely unlike the image of the alien people who drink blood from their hair.

Wu Qi exclaimed: "These savages can actually farm?"

After hearing this, Yan Yan, who served as a guide with the army, quickly explained: "The Spaniards do not grow food crops in Manila. The food in Manila basically depends on these Ilok people... It is the indigenous planting here. Every year, the Spaniards in Manila force The indigenous people here sell them rice, corn, sugar cane and other crops at low prices. If they don't sell, the Spanish will come with musketeers to suppress them, so these indigenous people particularly hate the Spaniards."

Of the three original envoys from the Holy See, except for Jiale who stayed in Nanjing, the remaining two, Duoluo and Yan Jue, came to serve as guides for the Luzon army.

Among them, Yan Yan was a fool before. How dumb could he be?

Doro just conveyed the papal order and negotiated with Kangxi, but the worst possible outcome was that they could not reach an agreement.This Yan Yan was on the good side. He could not reach an agreement, but he even unilaterally announced a ban. He even removed the sign Kangxi had set up and prohibited believers from kneeling down.

The Jesuits refused to listen no matter how much they tried to persuade him. This was why Kangxi was so angry.

"That's it." Wu Qi nodded.

At this time, an indigenous leader came forward, looked at Wu Qi's appearance, and then looked at Yan Yan beside him, his face full of vigilance.After a while, he said: "Where do you Tang people come from? What do you want to do when you come to us?"

Wu Qiyi was startled and said, "Can you speak Chinese?"

The indigenous leader said: "Sometimes some Tang people come to us to buy food, and the price they give is more than those red-haired devils. They also taught me the Tang people's language. There are many Tang people like you in the southern plains. . It’s just that those Tang people are all together with the red-haired devil, so they shouldn’t be good people.”

This is normal. Since we can sell grain to the Spaniards, we can naturally sell it to Chinese businessmen.And if you don’t understand the language, it’s still a waste.

Wu Qi nodded and said: "We are from the north, and we are not the same people as the red-haired ghosts in the south. And when we come this time, we are here to help you fight against the red-haired ghosts in the south. Let's kill those damn red-haired ghosts. Drive away all the ghosts so that we can do business together and no longer have to sell food to those red-haired ghosts."

After that, he seemed to remember something, and said to the back: "Come here, bring the things up."

The Ming soldiers behind him quickly brought up two boxes. After opening them, they contained cigars and silk.

Wu Qi said: "This is a gift from our Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to you."

Seeing the real benefits, the indigenous leader finally smiled and reached out to stroke the silk: "The great emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the gods will bless him."

Although he didn't understand what the emperor meant at all, he estimated that he was similar to the leader.

Wu Qi personally took out the cigar and lit it for the leader.

The leader puffed on his cigar, coughed first, and then became completely addicted.

Wu Qi then took the opportunity to say: "We are just the advance troops. More troops will come later, with more warships and artillery, but these are not enough. We still need your help."

The indigenous leader took a long drag on his cigar and then said: "The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is generous, but those red-haired devils are hateful. We will send warriors from the tribe to help the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty's army in the battle."

Become!

Wu Qi was indeed the advance force, specially bringing Yan Jue as a guide to connect with the northern natives in advance.

In this era, European colonists also recruited indigenous people when fighting wars, and Zhu Yijiong just followed suit.

Moreover, these northern Luzon natives were not convinced by the Spaniards, so they naturally used them wherever they could.

(End of this chapter)