Dragon Sea Empire

Yin Feng was taken aback, and hurried to help him, but the other party couldn't live or die, and he had to kowtow three times before it was over.This group of people bowed and kowtowed at the mountain pass, blocking the entire road, and everyone was there to look around and ask.

"Brother, there's no need to be like this!" Yin Feng was a little anxious, he was already strong, but when he pulled hard, the middle-aged man stood still as if made of iron.Fortunately, he stood up first after kowtowing, and a large group of people from the Zhao family in Haicheng stood up. The middle-aged man in the lead called himself Zhao Mingcheng, waved everyone out of the way, and then cupped his hands to Yin Feng: "That's the one." The horse team related to the La people chased us from the city of Manila to this place. Our old father was trampled to death by their horses in Balian; The old and the young brothers tried their best to avenge my father, but they beat and killed many brothers from the same family."

A line of tears fell down Zhao Mingcheng's dark face, and he raised his hand to wipe it away: "At first, I thought that there would be no chance of revenge in this life, and I thought that my wealth and life would also be buried overseas. But I didn't expect Captain Yin to be able to kill all the cavalry. Extinct. Captain Yin, you have avenged this bloody feud for my Zhao family. I will remember this great kindness in my heart in this life. Captain Yin will be dispatched from now on. Our Zhao family's family will go up and down the mountain of swords and the sea of ​​fire. Absolutely no ambiguity!"

It turns out that these Zhao family men were originally descendants of military households from the Tongshan Guards in Zhenhai, Fujian Province. Nearly 200 years after the establishment of the guards in the early Ming Dynasty, they have integrated with the local people. live.Due to years of Japanese pirate rebellion, Yuegang 24 Pirate Rebellion (the general name for a series of pirates who were active in Yuegang during the Jiajing ban on the sea), the place was extremely dilapidated, and fishermen went out to sea to make a living.These Zhao family children are all brothers and nephews of the same family. They were originally fishermen, and sometimes they were temporarily recruited by officers and soldiers as sailors.After Yuegang opened to the sea, they were the first batch of coolies to "work" overseas. They usually worked as hard labor for the Spaniards as construction workers, or as apprentices in Chinese shops.

Whether at home or abroad, these overseas Chinese coolies at the bottom of the society have the most simple and sincere loyalty.After Zhao Mingcheng said these words, he bowed his hands and saluted, and led all brothers, nephews and nephews to leave.Yin Feng understood that what such a man said was reliable.

But in this way, the world will know who this young man is who is jumping up and down and urging everyone to leave.Except for the group of people organized by Yin Feng, most of the Chinese and overseas Chinese who came here came after hearing the rumors about Captain Yin from Quanzhou.

Yin Feng walked towards the parapet fortification on the hillside. Along the way, no matter whether he knew him or not, people kept bowing and saluting to him, and some even knelt down to him.He kept returning the salute, and then persuaded the other party to move forward quickly, and he was very busy.

"How many people can your boat carry?" Suddenly someone asked behind him.

He looked back, frowned and said, "Third brother, why haven't you gone up the mountain yet?"

Leaning on a crutch made of wooden sticks, Zeng Yue said with a worried face: "You only have two boats, and there are at most a thousand people on board. But right now, there are at least three or four thousand people who want to go over the mountains to the sea. "

Yin Feng had a faint smile on his face, and said helplessly: "Don't you just ignore these folks and elders? Third brother, in fact, everyone knows that not everyone has the opportunity to board the boat. I am helping these people now, just doing my best. According to the saying of Quanzhou people: Ducklings will float when they fall into the water - when things come to an end, there will always be a solution. Third brother, you should go first!"

Zeng Yue was bumpy for many days, and like Yin Feng, his face was dark and exhausted.He sighed: "Do you have to guard the mountain pass here?"

After Zeng Yue died, Zeng Jingshan was carried on a simple stretcher. He tried his best to stand up and said, "You have done enough for everyone. There is no need to take risks yourself. Is it necessary to stay and guard the mountain pass?"

Yin Feng was startled, and after a moment of hesitation, he raised his head, pointed to the crowds of refugees spreading out of the mountain pass, and said: "Look at these people, everyone is exhausted, once you are caught up by the Ganla people on the mountain road , the result can be imagined. I guard the mountain pass not only for them, but also for ourselves; once the enemy catches up, we will also suffer!"

In the historical Manila massacre, most of the Chinese who fled to the mountains were slaughtered by the natives and Spaniards under the condition of hunger and cold. The survivors had to flee to the beach of Batangas, looking at the boundless sea in despair was killed.

The long fleeing team spent most of the day at the North Pass of Dalun Mountain, and finally saw the tail of the team.It was already getting late, and before the last twilight on the horizon disappeared, the Spaniards drove the native infantry to launch a tentative attack.

On the bank of the wilderness river in front of the mountain pass, there are still a few scattered Chinese walking towards the mountain step by step. The 500 Pampanga indigenous infantry pressed forward from north to south in a sparse horizontal array.The Pampanga people were famous for their bravery and warlikeness before the Spanish colonization. After the Spaniards occupied Luzon Island, most of the Pampanga people became devout Catholics, making them the most loyal source of servants for the Spaniards. .

The fighting power of the Pampanga people is higher than that of the Tagalog people, and their attitude towards Chinese pagans is also more cruel.All the Chinese who were caught up by them were killed without mercy.There are still many Chinese left behind and alone outside the mountain pass. They either gathered their last energy and strength to rush to the mountain pass, or knelt down on the side of the road in despair, bowing their heads to fate and waiting to die.Many of the last few are Chinese women who are very rare to see in Luzon Island.

In the twilight, a pair of figures came crookedly to the mountain pass.Judging from their stature, they are two women, one big and one small. The older one is a Tagalog indigenous woman in her 20s. She has a typical Malay face and is considered an indigenous beauty—and she is pregnant. Female; the youngest one, about thirteen or fourteen years old, is a Chinese girl with dirt all over her face and a thin and thin body, but she is trying to support the aboriginal pregnant woman on one side, and walks towards the mountain pass step by step.

Yin Feng is now commanding a total of 130 Chinese soldiers guarding the mountain pass.His own 50 sailors scrambled to stay and fight with him; in addition, there were 80 Chinese men who voluntarily stayed to guard the mountain pass; shop clerk.The young Zhang Zhongji also insisted on staying.Their weapons included more than 80 muskets, dozens of swords, more than a dozen newly captured cavalry spears, and dozens of sharpened bamboo spears.Gunpowder is relatively sufficient, and the gunpowder left by the Spanish colonial militia guarding the mountain pass exceeds 300 pounds.Colonel Coutere selected 20 people who seemed to be smarter to train in the essentials of arquebus shooting.

The last part of the escaped Chinese is passing through the breastwork on the hillside.The dark shadow of the mountain has covered most of the valley mouth, but everyone has seen the last two women.

Magaro climbed down from the cliff and told Yin Feng: There are at most 100 steps in the mountain pass in the Spanish army.Mai Xiaoliu was standing on the cart—the cart loaded with gunpowder was pushed to the center of the parapet fortification and became the central part of the entire fortification, just blocking the specially reserved passage.Mai Xiaoliu stood on the cart with a matchlock gun and shouted towards the mountain pass, "Hey, come here quickly! The Ganguanla people are right behind you!"

Before he finished speaking, he saw Yin Feng's figure had climbed over the parapet of the mound and landed in the artificially dug pit in front of the parapet, which was as deep as half a person, and then climbed out of the pit with hands and feet and ran towards the mountain pass.Coutere immediately left the training site and rushed out of the fortification.

The Western European soldiers of this era still retain the chivalry of the Middle Ages, but Coutere's behavior at the moment is not due to the chivalry of saving women, but to keep his own pocketbook—the employer Yin Feng.He has been doing business with Yin Feng in the past few years, and he understands Yin Feng's overflowing sense of justice and his sometimes impulsive personality, so he immediately followed Yin Feng's actions when he saw him.At the same time, more than a dozen Zeng family members also rushed out.Before Zeng Yue left, he secretly told them: must protect Yin Feng well.Although Mai Xiaoliu and more than a dozen Danmin sailors did not receive the order, they rushed out spontaneously to protect their captain.

There are more than 200 steps from the hillside position to the mountain pass. When Yin Feng rushed to the mountain pass, several Pampanga indigenous soldiers had already rushed to the mountain pass. One of them raised his spear and stabbed the pregnant Tagalog woman: two All the women had fallen to the ground, powerless to escape.The young girl tried her best to block in front of the young woman, watched the pointed end of the spear stab herself, and closed her eyes in despair...

"Boom!", the girl felt someone jump at her feet, and the fishy liquid splashed on her face.She opened her eyes, but saw the No. 2 native soldier slashing at herself with a halberd, and then there was a loud "boom!", and the native soldier's halberd fell powerlessly to the ground, and his body slowly tilted.A tall figure rushed over quickly, standing between her and the native pursuers.

The man's back immediately gave her a sense of security and trust.Before the last ray of sunlight disappeared that day, Yin Feng shot and killed two native soldiers with his flintlock gun and revolver pistol. Wa Dao Ge blocked the spear of the No.3 Pampanga native soldier.

"Boom!" Kutley killed the native soldier with the matchlock gun in his hand behind Yin Feng, and then rushed to Yin Feng, shouting loudly: "Captain, step back!"

Yin Feng let out a long breath: he is not afraid of fighting people hand to hand, but he is not sure about fighting with cold weapons.

"Bang bang bang bang!" A series of matchlock guns fired, and the members of the sailor musketeers who had just arrived fired one after another, knocking down seven or eight of the Pampanga native soldiers who rushed to the front.

The Spanish officer in the formation of the native soldiers issued an order, and the brigade of Pampanga natives stopped and began to form; most of the native soldiers who rushed to the front and left the formation were overturned by the Chinese matchlock bullets, and the rest had to back into its own queue.

Yin Feng turned his head and saw a pair of big bright eyes staring at him closely in the darkness at the dawn of night.He knelt down and said, "How are you? Are you all right?"

The girl's face was so dirty that she couldn't tell what she looked like, and her clothes were bloated and tattered. It could be seen that she was a thin, stunted teenage girl.Yin Feng didn't wait for an answer, only heard the other party panting in the dark.He was about to stretch out his hand to pull someone back, when Kutley shouted from behind: "Bow and arrow!"

Yin Feng knelt on the ground without hesitation when he heard the words, took the girl into his arms, and shouted at the same time: "Everyone spread out!..."