Dragon Sea Empire

Del Monta Monastery is a monastery of the Catholic Augustinian Order. This stone Gothic-style building was built by Chinese builders.On the entire island of Luzon, the best construction workers are Chinese, the best craftsmen are Chinese, the best businessmen are Chinese, and the best farmers are also Chinese.The farm owned by the church near the Tondo Church was cultivated by Chinese farmers recruited by the Augustinian order.Of course, at this time, those Chinese farmers had already fled to the Tondo swamp.

However, the rulers of Luzon are Spaniards, they can squeeze and massacre Chinese at will; the key point is that they have troops and missionaries.Now, like the Spanish soldiers, the monks of the Del Monta Monastery shot at the swarming Chinese insurgents with weapons.The proficiency of many monks in handling weapons is not much worse than that of Spanish soldiers.This proves that in addition to cultivating truth, they are probably also diligent in martial arts.

The monastery is located on a gentle slope in the northern part of the Tondo colonial area, backed by large swamps and continuous tropical forests.This monastery has the food that the Chinese people urgently need, and this monastery is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and can also be used as a fortress.It's a pity that the Chinese rushed here from the swamp camp early in the morning, but after all, they were a group of untrained civilians. The team dragged their feet until almost noon before arriving at the scheduled attack location.At this time, Captain Thomas' company had already entered the monastery, and violently bombarded the scattered Chinese team with two cannons.

The Spanish army lined up at the gate of the monastery, occupying a favorable position.This forced the Chinese rebels to attack the monastery head-on.It is not impossible to detour the flanks or the rear, but the terrain conditions make it impossible to deploy a lot of troops on both sides of the monastery; it is more difficult to detour to the rear, you need to cross the swamp dense forest, and then attack the tall stone wall of the monastery in the swamp, which also has The problem of not being able to deploy a lot of troops.The most critical problem is that the Chinese have no weapons that can compete with the Spanish muskets.In fact, the Chinese were basically unarmed.

Groups of Chinese were holding sticks or stones, and some of their weapons were nothing more than tree poles with branches removed and bamboo poles with sharpened ends.The best weapons are things like kitchen knives, pocket knives and daggers held by several leaders.Long-range weapons are completely absent.Tens of thousands of Chinese rebels rushed to the monastery in such a swarm, regardless of waves or echelons, they were completely mobs.

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After a volley, the 100 Spanish soldiers in the front row adopted the retreat-loading tactic, reloading quickly while retreating behind the soldiers in the back row.The second row is regular army soldiers, and the third row is colonial militiamen. Under the command of the officers of each row, they fire their muskets one by one, and then retreat to reload.According to the reloading speed of the matchlock guns at that time, and the training level and tactical quality of the soldiers, at least there must be an array of 6 to 10 rows in order to form uninterrupted shooting.

However, none of the Chinese who attacked the monastery had witnessed the Spanish fighting, and they did not know the power of modern firearms at all.The Chinese who rushed to the front were knocked down in pieces, like a sickle harvesting wheat.The insurgents behind were shocked by the loud noise and lethality. Some stood still and looked at their brothers who were killed in surprise, and some continued to charge forward.In this way, the charging team was sparsely pulled up, and basically no one could rush to within 50 steps in front of the Spanish army.

After three rounds of shooting, the Spanish army array had retreated to the gate of the monastery.

The ground between 50 and 100 steps away from them was already full of dead or dying Chinese insurgents.The morale of the Chinese was severely hit, and they retreated beyond the range of their muskets.

Colonel Das Marinas shouted the command, and the second lieutenant officers of each platoon commanded their platoons to start re-forming.The titular commander, Captain Thomas, was helpless at the Colonel's presumptuous behavior.

At this time, there were Augustinian monks shooting warning shots with muskets on the windows and walls of the monastery, cooperating with the Spanish army.Colonel Das Marinas was worried that the Pampanga auxiliary soldiers would not arrive in time, so he ordered his entourage to say: "Carlos, you go back immediately and bring the Pampanga auxiliary troops here, and tell Major Don Luis to take them to the road to the west. Go copy the path of these biological people."

More than 200 Spanish armed personnel quickly formed two small square formations of 6X16. The two square formations were arranged in a figure of eight at the gate of the monastery, facing the left and right sides of the monastery respectively.

After a rest, the Chinese rebels, led by several of their leaders, split into two groups and attacked the Spaniards again from the left and right directions.

They shouted loudly, waved all kinds of "weapons", and rushed up to the Spanish muskets again.However, the swamps and woods on both sides of the monastery forced them to gather near the central gate. The closer they got to the monastery, the more crowded the crowd was. From time to time, some people fell into the swamp, screaming and crying.

"Sure enough, it is divided into two assaults! Let them enter 50 steps before shooting!" Colonel Das Marinas was very proud of his successful battlefield prediction.He shouted orders, completely ignoring the real commander, Captain Thomas.

"Boom!" The two copper cannons fired first, and the cannons were filled with shotgun shells.Numerous pieces of lead and iron sprayed out of the muzzle, sweeping down a large number of charging Chinese with a clatter.

The Chinese insurgents kept trying to get close to the Spanish army, hoping to rush into the formation and kill them.However, as soon as they reached the position where they could throw stones and bamboo javelins, the Spaniards started shooting. The continuous shooting formed an invisible wall, and the Chinese insurgents who were forced to huddle due to the site suffered heavy casualties.They shouted and threw stones and sharpened bamboo poles at the Spaniards, some of which just fell on the land in front of the Spaniards. Even if they could hit the enemy's body, they could not hurt the regular Spanish soldiers in armor at all. .

"Boom!" The two small cannons fired again, and the shotgun knocked down a large number of Chinese rebels again.In this attack, the Chinese were still unable to get close to the Spaniards. Instead, they caused greater casualties and left more corpses under the salvo of Spanish artillery and matchlock guns.

This is no longer a battle, but a unilateral massacre of the Chinese by the Spaniards.So far, there have been no casualties on the Spanish side.As a result, the rebels had to retreat out of the range of their firearms again, and gathered in a few sparse groups, cursing and shouting at the Spaniards from a distance.Several Chinese leaders—including Huang Kang’s son Huang Da—discussed with each other and organized several groups of people to lay grass and wooden pontoon bridges on the streams and swamps on the left and right sides of the monastery, planning to detour to the back of the monastery and try to surround the Spaniards.Obviously, the huge casualties have not yet dampened the morale of the Chinese.They had already been forced to death, and today's battle was a desperate blow for the Chinese people of Tongduo to survive.

Yin Feng's energy and blood surged while watching on the hills, and his heart was surging.For the first time, I saw a large-scale ancient war scene involving tens of thousands of people. It was far more bloody and intense than the battles with pirates and Japanese pirates he presided over.This made him almost rush up with the slogan "Come on", but he calmed down and carefully observed the situation on the battlefield.He shook his head, and said to Major Kutley: "They can't attack, the weapons are too poor, and the terrain is very unfavorable!"

"We can't attack." Coutere pointed to the eager sailors behind and said: "The Spaniards have at least 30 heavy matchlock guns, which have a longer range than our guns, and they also have two copper cannons."

Lin Xiao said: "Then we don't help, but watch our fellow villagers die? I don't care, captain, there are many fellow villagers from Quanzhou! Maybe the third young master of the Zeng family is among them!"

Yin Feng smiled wryly, stood up and pointed at the tens of thousands of people gathered in front of him: "If Third Brother Zeng is among these people, how do you think we should find him?"

Lin Xiao scratched his scalp and sat down dejectedly.

Yin Feng called several servants of Zeng's family and took some sailors with him, planning to go down to meet the leader of the Chinese rebels.In any case, although he felt very uncomfortable, he knew that with the power at hand, he could only save his own family, but he did not have the power to save the fate of tens of thousands of Chinese.

As soon as they appeared on the edge of the battlefield, they were discovered by a group of people.Most of them were wounded, mostly in the arms or feet by shrapnel pellets, and were bandaging their wounds.Their partners found Yin Feng and the others, hurriedly picked up sticks and other weapons, and suddenly realized that the person who came was from Tang Dynasty, who was wearing a strange short shirt and had traditional hair style, not a Christian.They were relieved a little, but they still didn't dare to fully trust the comer, and they still didn't put down the weapons in their hands.

"Hey, those brothers, are they from Jiannei?" Someone asked, with a Chaozhou accent.

"We came from Quanzhou, and we came to Luzon specifically to find someone." At the signal of Yin Feng, a Zeng guy planned to answer in Hokkien with a Quanzhou accent, first to get closer to each other before talking.

"Fellow from Quanzhou,... what? Where did you say you came from? Quanzhou?" A slender middle-aged man was taken aback. He even forgot to cover the wound on his thigh, and stood up suddenly: "Did you come by boat? At this time?"

Yin Feng pulled the talkative Zeng's servant behind him, stepped forward and said, "My fellow, we came here on a boat from Macau Buddha Wolf Robot. Do you know Quanzhou Zeng's family good name firm?"

The middle-aged man sat down and asked a lively and capable young man with big eyes to bandage his wound, grinning in pain.He took a breath and said, "Let me tell you, why is there still a ship coming from Tangshan at this time? Hey, brother, you came at a bad time! I have heard of the good name, and it seems to be a new Quanzhou company this year. But I don’t know anyone from them, the Quanzhou Gang are fighting in the front, why don’t you go to the front and ask?”

He raised his head, looked at the people behind Yin Feng, and asked suspiciously: "Don't you know? Right now, the Ganla people are fighting with us!"

"I know, that's why we must come to Tondo, find the family and bring him back."

The middle-aged man stood up, pushed away the young man beside him, approached Yin Feng, and looked him up and down: "Aren't you crazy, knowing that there is a war and still coming here? Who are you with a good reputation?"

At this time, the surrounding Chinese insurgents had relaxed their vigilance, chatting with Yin Feng's subordinates in twos and threes, and soon discovered that most of them were not Hokkien, and became even more curious.

"Where are you from? Guangdong? We don't have any Cantonese here. Who are you looking for?"

"Our ship owner is looking for someone, his brother-in-law."

"Hey, why do you have the same bird gun as the Ganba people?"

"What, this is not a bird gun, but an arquebus."

"Vulcan gun?"

The Danmin sailors from Hainan hastened to hold their weapons tightly, not to let those envious insurgents touch them.

Yin Feng sighed, cupped his hands and said, "This is Yin Feng from Quanzhou, who came to look for his brother-in-law, the owner of the Zeng family. We have already been to Jiannei, and most of the people there have left. We found out that my brother-in-law came to Tongduo. That's why I found it here."

There was a burst of gunfire ahead, followed by a burst of noise, and a large group of Chinese rebels retreated with a clatter.The capable young man shouted: "Uncle, our people have been defeated again, and they have retreated, but they still can't get in!"

The middle-aged man looked at Yin Feng and nodded: "It's rare that there are men like you who value brotherhood in this world. I'm Chen Hai, from Haicheng, Zhangzhou..." He pointed to the capable young man: "This is my brother. My nephew, Zhong Ji, came here to study business with me, this is a good time, hey..."

Yin Feng's eyes lit up: Chen Zhongji, Zheng Zhilong's sworn brother, later a great merchant and pirate.Promising young man!However, his appearance on the Tonduo battlefield now is something that Yin Feng can't figure out: Chen Zhongji and others, like Li Dan, Zheng Zhilong and others, all became famous after doing business in Japan, but now they appear here.

Chen Hai went on to say: "Zhong Ji, take Brother Yin to the front to find the big bosses in Anhai, Quanzhou, and see if they know about the Zeng family."

Yin Feng thanked him with his hand, and led Lin Xiao and others to follow the future great merchant Chen Zhongji to the front, the bloody battlefield.