Dragon Sea Empire

Captain Thomas, who was struggling in pain, was awakened by the sharp pain in his waist. Suddenly, a weather-beaten white face in his 40s appeared in front of him, and he looked at him expressionlessly under a turban.

Thomas asked painfully, "Where am I?"

"You're at the gates of hell," Colonel Cutray said coldly in Spanish.

Yin Feng's men have not stepped forward to charge. Their matchlock guns are the same as those of the Spaniards, which cannot be protected from rain.Therefore, until the last moment, when only a few Spanish officers were still fighting, Yin Feng's men rushed forward and snatched the half-dead Thomas back from the hands of other Chinese.The sailors told the surrounding Chinese: "Our captain has an enmity with this Ganla man, so we must kill him slowly."

Just now, there are still many Chinese people around who want to vent their anger on Thomas.

Yin Feng only had one question for the governor's nephew, and he asked in broken Spanish: "Li Dan, oh, where is Andrea Ditis now?"

Thomas' desire to survive was extremely inflated. He clutched his bleeding waist, spat out blood and said, "Help me, I am the nephew of Governor Aguna..."

"Answer the question! Answer truthfully..." Yin Feng became impatient.

"Andrea Ditis (Adri. Ditis), locked in the water prison in Fort San Diego...Help me, I can give you money..."

Yin Feng sneered and said, "Your money? Isn't it just taken from us Chinese?"

He stepped aside and said to Coutere, "Okay, I'm done asking my questions, this guy is yours to deal with."

Jacques van der Coutere nodded and approached Thomas: "Originally, I should have dueled with you. Now, it's not necessary, I don't need to duel with the dead. I told you my name: Jacques ?Van de Couterre. After the Battle of Alcantara 23 years ago, because we supported Antonio, the legal successor of the Portuguese king, the Aguna family from Spain seized all the property of the Couterre family and exiled half of us people. Now, you must pay the price!"

Captain Thomas's pale face became even paler, and he straightened up with difficulty: "So it's you... you're helping the biological man? Those musketeers..."

Cutray stood up and ignored him again.Yin Feng nodded to the Chinese insurgents around him: "Now, the governor's nephew will be handed over to you!"

The crowd who had waited impatiently burst into cheers, and someone shouted: "Don't ruin his little boy, but also give it to his uncle the governor!" Call.

(Note: In 1580, after the King of Portugal disappeared on his expedition to North Africa, his uncle, the illegitimate son of the brother of the former King Joao III, Antonio, the dean of the Cratu Monastery, had quite a few supporters. But King Philip of Spain was in Alcanta defeated his army at the Battle of La and became king of Portugal.)

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The 140-member Spanish colonial army entered the Tondo Swamp to suppress the biological rebels. They were all killed by the Chinese rebels within 5 minutes, and the entire army was wiped out. At the same time, 5 colonial militiamen were also killed.This includes more than a dozen Spanish military officers, Captain Thomas, the nephew of the Governor, Colonel Das Marinas, the former Governor and leader of the colonial self-defense militia, and other important figures; Famous aristocratic gentlemen like Des were also killed in the swamp.

Only the three colonist militiamen who had taken care of the wounded escaped in time, not even the wounded who fell into the bamboo-point formation.The poor wounded were quickly killed by the Chinese who came later.Their weapons fell into the hands of Yin Feng who arrived in time: two flintlock guns that were relatively rare in East Asia at that time.

Before the war, Yin Feng emphasized to Lu Shitou and other Chinese leaders that they should seize the enemy's weapons as much as possible; however, although he was well-known and showed his strength on the battlefield, the bosses didn't understand what he said. Basically, he was perfunctory in his suggestions; in actual combat, angry Chinese rebels often smashed the enemy together with their weapons; in fact, no Chinese would use an arquebus.

Yin Feng, who wanted to collect some Spanish weapons to supplement his musketeer equipment, was helpless in the face of dozens of dilapidated guns.The Spaniards kept a little gunpowder. At the end of the battle, Yin Feng led people to snatch a lot of corpses and collected some gunpowder and bullets; but the amount obtained was only enough for all 60 musketeers to fire three more volleys. .

The three survivors quickly spread the news across the north bank of the Bashi River. The Spaniards in the Tondo Colonial Area immediately ran away, and the Del Monta Monastery was immediately abandoned.That night, the Chinese occupied the area around the monastery.The next day, the entire Tondo Colony was occupied by Chinese.

When the news came, the people in Manila were panicked and filled with gloom.Rumors also said that the Physiological Man had a musketeer team of hundreds of people and was about to attack the capital of Manila.

All the colonial areas outside the capital of Manila were abandoned, and all the Spaniards shrank into the city, anxiously waiting for the siege of the Chinese.The cannons of the Fort San Michelle and the Fort San Diego in Manila's Intramuros are loaded with ammunition and ready to fire at any time.The outposts of the Spanish colonial army around Balian were also withdrawn, and all Spanish troops were put into preparations for the defense of the city.Messengers were urgently sent to Cebu, Pampanga and other places to urge the Spanish army there and the newly formed indigenous infantry to quickly rescue Manila.

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On the night of the Battle of the Monastery, Yin Feng found Zeng Yue in the Tongduo camp at the intersection of several rivers.The whole camp was in a rage that night, with the leaders of the families and districts quarreling over the failure of the day at the monastery.At the same time, a large number of wounded were sent to the camp, but except for a monk who knew a little about medical treatment in the whole camp, there was no medical treatment at all.The howls of the wounded and the cries of loved ones echoed throughout the camp.

The Tondo camp was originally a flat land slightly higher than the water surface in the depths of the swamp, and it was basically submerged by the river when the tide was high.The Chinese dug ditches to drain the ground and built many simple stilt houses.However, most of the insurgents could only live in simple temporary shacks, and some even had to sleep in the grass.Located in a low-lying water network area, the number of mosquitoes is unimaginable.Yin Feng and the sailors, led by Chen Zhongji, a young man from Haicheng, walked into the Tongduo camp with one foot tall and one foot shallow. Every step took a lot of effort. When everyone pulled their feet out of the mud, There is always a pungent stench.

Seeing the mud everywhere and countless mosquitoes, Lin Xiao couldn't help sighing: "My God, how can people live in such a place?"

The young Chen Zhongji turned his head and said with a smile: "What does it matter, no matter how bad the place is, we Tang people can develop it into good land."

His uncle Chen Hai leaned on crutches and continued: "Back then, Jiannei-Bali'an was also a swamp and a pond? We Tang people still built it into a big market."

Yin Feng nodded: Without the efforts of the Chinese, many places in Southeast Asia may never be developed.The Spaniards came to the Philippines and commanded the Chinese and the natives to build fortresses, city walls, barracks, churches, monasteries, city halls, and dwellings on the swamp forest; Build a grand Balian market... Without the Chinese, the Spaniards may still guard the small town of Manila behind the wooden fence.

Zeng Yue was lying in a shabby hut in a residential area of ​​Quanzhou, his left leg was tied with a plank and he couldn't move, but when he saw Yin Feng suddenly appeared, he still struggled to stand up.He didn't say anything else, but kept blaming Yin Feng for not coming: "What are you doing here at this time? Oh my god! Don't you see that there are dead people everywhere here? Are you going to make my sister a widow?"

Yin Feng's eyes turned red, and he stepped forward and hugged him: "Fourth brother, I don't want my sister-in-law to be a widow either!"

Zeng Yue also sighed and wiped away his tears, held Yin Feng tightly, looked him up and down, shook his head and said, "You, you, I really can't do anything about you. God arranged that you came to this world to save my life." Come here! How many times have you saved me?"

Yin Feng smiled: "What nonsense, my brother! Didn't you just break your leg? Aren't you living well?"

"Is there any way for you to escape from here? A few days ago, someone built a raft and went down the river, trying to go back to the country, but they were all killed by the natives, and the raft was also burned."

Yin Feng asked Lin Xiao to arrange for the sailors to sleep around, and helped Zeng Yue into the straw shed to lie down.

"I brought the boat."

"Xinxing number?"

Yin Feng said: "There is another boat. It's just that the Spaniards sealed off the port, and besides, there are wars all over the place. We can only go south and go to sea from the Badalan." Yin Feng took out the Zhang Wei, a Chinese merchant in Tortoiseshell Harbor He drew the map and pointed it out to Zeng Yue: "Look, I'm going to send people to scout the road right away. If the path in Dalun Mountain is still clear, we'll leave tomorrow."

The next day was the day of the Battle of the Tondo Swamp. The Chinese won a big victory and wiped out the Spanish colonial army.

In the afternoon of the same day, the sailors and Colonel Cutley sent by Yin Feng to explore the way came back.The situation was very bad. When Yin Feng entered Balian, he detoured from the east of Manila. At that time, the Spaniards and Chinese had not yet fully engaged in war. Except for the area around Balian, there were no conflicts, so the journey was smooth.Today, wherever there are Chinese on Luzon Island, there are wars and swords everywhere.That mountain path has been completely blocked by the Pampanga indigenous army, and there are still a large number of indigenous troops mobilized from the mountain, numbering in the thousands.The road from the east of Manila to the Talun Mountains is not safe. The Tagalog natives were originally friendly to the Chinese, but now they are also involved in the atrocities against the Chinese under the compulsion of the Spaniards.Coutere and the others made this round trip, only relying on Coutere's disguise as a Spanish officer to pass countless checkpoints.

With Yin Feng's 60 musketeers, it is impossible to break out of the encirclement and climb up to Dalun Mountain, and then to Badalan.

Zeng Yue was a little flustered, while Lin Xiao and the others looked at Yin Feng in disbelief.No one wants to die on Luzon Island. Although the Chinese wiped out a Spanish army, Yin Feng knew the outcome: the Chinese could not win the whole war.Yin Feng, a little butterfly of history, has not yet been strong enough to change the course of history.

Just now, the Chinese leaders were arguing about going to attack Manila.They gathered in a small Western-style building in the church manor, and each of them was arguing red-faced.A large number of Chinese rebels gathered around in a chaotic manner, as if they were in a market.

Without siege weapons and equipment, without the cover of long-range weapons, it is impossible for the Chinese to capture Manila.The Christian leader Huang Da opposed the attack on Manila, and the rest of the leaders, except the pirate gang Lu Shitou, were inclined to attack.Some people publicly accused Huang Da of opposing the siege of the city because he still had a passion for the Ganla people.

"You've already shaved your hair. Those black-robed monks are your godfathers, aren't they? If you don't burn down churches, you won't be willing to kill them, right?" He Ping, the leader of Zhangzhou overseas Chinese, said coldly.At noon, when the Chinese occupied the Tondo colonial area, Huang Da’s Chinese Christians prevented other Chinese from setting fire to the church. For this reason, they clashed with He Ping’s men, and both men were injured.

Huang Da stood up suddenly, glared at He Ping, and said word by word: "We Christians have already killed more than 100 people in the past two days! My father is now in the prison of the Ganla people..."

"Shut up! We're going to form a rope now, and what's the use of talking nonsense when we're in unison?" Lu Shitou yelled and stood up, pulling the two of them to stop a conflict.

A bystander with a Quanzhou accent said: "I said that Zhangzhou people are too greedy. Most of the food in Tongduo belongs to them. This is unfair!"

He Ping, the leader of the overseas Chinese in Zhangzhou, was furious. He turned around and shouted to the crowd: "Which guy is farting? Here we have the most people in Zhangzhou, why don't we distribute more food?"

Someone pointed at Lu Shitou again: "Brother Lu, don't your people have too much gold and silver?"

Lu Shitou sat on the stool with Da Ma Jindao, and said with a sneer: "Our brothers are always charging ahead, are you not convinced? You should take the lead and rush into the city of Manila, where there is a lot of gold and silver!"

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Yin Feng shook his head while watching.In fact, the Chinese insurgents did not have a real leader, and there was no unified combat command organization.If Huang Kang, the director of Balian, was willing to become the coach, everyone might still listen to his command; but now, the leaders of overseas Chinese in various regions, leaders of all walks of life, pirate gangs, and Chinese Christians refuse to give in to each other, and no one obeys the other. Became a veritable rabble.

In the end, most people decided to attack Manila, and Huang Da was helpless.Yin Feng caught Lu Shitou downstairs: "Brother Lu, how confident do you think we are in attacking Manila?"

Lu Shitou raised his big hand, smiled, and raised a finger: "At most [-]% sure."