Dragon Sea Empire

Originally, the Chinese in Luzon were mostly low-level ordinary people with low education level, and the brothers of the Pirate Gang were also people who did not have many traditional Confucian cultural concepts.The mainstream culture of the ruling class in the Ming Dynasty is of course Confucianism, but the people at the bottom follow more simple and easy Jianghu concepts such as "loyalty", "faithfulness" and "righteousness".In particular, those Chinese who dared to go to sea did not have a natural resistance to foreign cultures like the scholar-bureaucrats, but dared to learn and use them.Therefore, these Chinese fighters who have only been in contact with the spear phalanx tactics for a day, in Kutre's opinion, have a strong ability to accept, and when performing various tactical actions, they are already quite good for inexperienced people.

Kutley did not blame these Chinese fighters for the lack of discipline in the spear formation, attacking without orders, and confusion during the pursuit.

His grievances were mainly vented to Yin Feng.

"Captain Yin, I think your grasp of the overall strategy is really excellent, but in the specific combat process, I think it is foolish to highlight individual heroes."

When everyone was clearing up the battlefield, Kutley found Yin Feng and said to him with a straight face: "You are indeed a brave warrior, but you are also the commander of these warriors. Without your overall coordination, they will surely Fail, and no one can get on the boat and go home. The Portuguese have a saying: To be brave is to be stupid!"

Yin Feng was a little embarrassed: "Colonel, I don't mean to be in the limelight..." He thought to himself: Fortunately, we are talking in Portuguese, otherwise the brothers around me will hear it, and it will damage my image!

"No, that's not what I meant, captain, I meant that you should watch out for your own safety. You shouldn't put yourself in unnecessary danger!"

Facing the tough and rigid old mercenaries, Yin Feng smiled helplessly, nodded and said: "I understand what you mean. In fact, you also know that we are not an army yet. I have to do some things myself before I can rest assured." .” He raised his hand to stop Colonel Coutere who was trying to speak: “I understand your kindness. I promise, in the next battle, I will never take any more risks!”

Yin Feng quickly changed the subject: "Mr. Colonel, what do you think the Spaniards will do next? Will the regular army go to battle in person?"

"Unless it is absolutely necessary, the Spaniards will not send their regular army into the battlefield. There are less than a thousand Spanish colonists on the entire Luzon Island. Excluding the elderly, women and children, there should not be more than 700 Spaniards who can actually go to the battlefield. And Now that we have gone through several months of war, I am afraid that the number of Spanish regular troops that can appear opposite us is very limited, and I estimate that it will not exceed 300 at most. After all, the colonial provinces must have enough garrison troops to prevent accidents.”

Coutere was working as a mercenary in Manila a few years ago, so of course he knows the strength of the Spaniards very well.He bowed his head and thought for a while: "Back then, I trained the Pampanga Auxiliary Army. These native soldiers are not easy to deal with. The reason why we can defeat them here is because of our weapon advantage and terrain advantage."

Yin Feng nodded: "Yes, fortunately, the Spaniards have not dared to equip the native soldiers with matchlock guns. As far as I know, there are still many rebellious tribes in the northern mountainous areas, which is why the Spaniards dare not send all their troops here. Reason."

Magaro scrambled down from the cliff.He has been serving as a guard and has not participated in combat.He ran up to Yin Feng and said, "Captain, the Spanish troops are coming again."

"It's coming so fast!" Yin Feng and Kuteri were shocked at the same time, and Yin Feng hurriedly asked: "Can you tell what kind of army it is? The native soldiers or the regular army?"

Magaro showed a pair of big white teeth on his swarthy face. He chuckled and said, "What I saw was a group of Japanese, hehe, a group of useless guys."

The Japanese of this era are well-known except for pirates and Japanese pirates, who are also Japanese slaves.Magaro followed Yin Feng for the past two years and dealt with Japanese pirates a lot, and he won every battle. Of course, there is a reason to say that they are "useless".

Many members of the Pirate Brothers had dealt with the Japanese pirates at sea, or joined forces to do business, or fought with each other for business, and neither had a good impression of the Japanese, nor did they have any bad feelings.In the era of the rise of the so-called "Japanese pirates" during the Jiajing period, most of the pirate groups along the coast of China were actually mainly Chinese, and the pirates were often cannon fodder hired by Chinese pirates.They are often hired by Chinese pirates to charge forward and enjoy the latter --- Chinese pirates who are familiar with local conditions often snatch the best property first, leaving only a few rags for the so-called "true Japanese".

"Why are these dwarfs here? We have formed a relationship between the Japanese slaves and us in Xunnei. Captain Yin, we have to give them a hard time! Earlier in Luzon, we Tang people suppressed these Japanese slaves everywhere. Now they have something to do with the backing of the Labai devils, and they even chased them here!"

The person who said this was the leader of the pirate gang, Lu Shitou's sworn brother Wang Yun, a veteran pirate who was originally from Chaozhou. He is already in his 30s.When setting off from Balian a few days ago, he was the guy who asked Yin Feng to take his wife from the Tagalu clan with him, and he was also the one who charged out with a spear just now.

As a time traveler, Yin Feng had a stronger dislike for the Japanese than anyone else present, and of course he agreed with Wang Yun's words.However, the Spaniards even dispatched the Japanese. It is worth considering what this means means.

Right now, the core figures of this small army are all around: Colonel Kutley, Magaro, Mai Xiaoliu, Wang Yun, Chen Zhongji and others are all looking at Yin Feng.He thought about it and said: "It seems that the Ganguanla people are still unwilling to let their own people die. I think there are two possibilities: First, the Ganguanla people want to use up the native soldiers and Japanese to consume our ammunition, and then send regular whites The troops came up and beat us in one fell swoop. Two, they wanted to hold us back from leaving here to join the main force."

Mai Xiaoliu rushed to say: "Boss owner, we should hold them back? Why did the Ganla people hold us back and not let us go?"

"What if they have another way to go to the Badalan? Even, they can outflank us through other paths." Yin Feng said lightly, but the faces of the others changed drastically upon hearing this.Kutley said: "I'm not familiar with the terrain in this area. Could it be that there are many roads that can cross this mountain?"

Wang Yun shook his head: "It is reasonable to say that there is more than one road that can go through the mountains to the sea. I went to the indigenous villages by the sea to do business. However, only this mountain road is suitable for the Ganla army to pass. The other small roads can only be walked by local natives. There is no way for the armed Ganla people to pass..." Suddenly he thought of something, stood up abruptly, and stammered, "Captain Yin, are you talking about..."

Yin Feng nodded and smiled faintly: "That's right, Brother Wang, you've already thought about it. It's those native people." It's not that Yin Feng had a foresight, it's just that in the original history, the Chinese who hid in Dalun Mountain were constantly being bullied. Exhausted by the attack of the natives, the Spanish army approached and had to flee the mountains, where they were massacred on the beach of Badangan.According to Yin Feng's prior arrangements, after his integration, the Pirate Gang and Anping's Chinese Christians all have certain weapons, and there are also 10 members of the Sailor Musketeers as vanguards. Sporadic indigenous sneak attacks may cause a little trouble and loss , but without the Spaniards chasing after them, most of these Chinese survivors in Luzon should be able to reach the Badangan Sea.

Yin Feng stood up, looked towards the entrance of the valley, and said with a sneer: "Anyway, let's teach these Japanese people a lesson first! Then, let's think about other things. No matter what the Guanla people think, we can't For them to pass through this mountain pass smoothly, it will take about two days for the villagers who have already entered the mountain to reach the beach of Badangan, and we have to stay here for at least two days.”

He looked at the people around him and said loudly: "Brothers, get ready guys, those Dongyang dwarf melons are coming!"

Everyone burst into laughter, and each entered the position to prepare.After a day and a half of running-in, at least everyone has a tacit understanding in terms of queuing up.While loading his flintlock with ammunition, Yin Feng checked everyone's preparations for combat.Since a batch of bows and arrows, shields, and breastplates were seized again (the Spaniards only wear the simplest breastplates for the indigenous infantry on the front line), most of the Chinese soldiers guarding the mountain pass can already be equipped with shields, armor, etc. .At the same time, ten pirate gang brothers who can shoot arrows and five craftsmen formed a 5-member bow and arrow team, which was arranged by Kutley alone on the left cliff.Only the cliff on the left side of this valley can be climbed up from the valley entrance, and the cliff on the right side has to detour for dozens of miles to go up the mountain road, so the archery team can only be arranged on the left side, which is also the place where Magaro looks out and investigates.

The archers can shoot the whole valley from a condescending position there, why not let the musketeers also go up the cliff?Chen Zhongji asked this question curiously, Yin Feng smiled, and handed Chen Zhongji his loaded flintlock gun, asking him to put the whole gun upright with the muzzle down, and then shake it twice.Chen Zhongji shook a few times in doubt, and the loaded lead bullet suddenly fell out of the muzzle of the gun, spilling a lot of gunpowder along with it.The boy was stunned for a moment: "Ah! This bullet..."

Yin Feng took the gun and patted Chen Zhongji on the shoulder: "This is the shortcoming of the front-loading musket. It will happen if you accidentally shoot downwards. Our Ming general Qi Jiguang once thought of a way to load the ammunition Then put a ball of paper into the muzzle to block the muzzle so that the bullets will not roll out. But this makes the action of loading ammunition more complicated, so it is useless.”

Chen Zhongji didn't understand much, and looked at Yin Feng suspiciously.Yin Feng smiled: "Protect yourself, go back to Tangshan, I will teach you this knowledge!"

The young Chen Zhongji's eyes lit up and he nodded repeatedly.Yin Feng was thinking: Zheng Zhilong's sworn brother Chen Zhongji is now his follower, and Zheng himself is probably still a little urchin, throwing stones and beating people everywhere for fun, right? Li Kuiqi, Yang Liu, Yang Qi and others in "Eighteen Zhi" are still little famous people, right?Xu Xinsu, who was supposed to succeed Li Dan, has appeared and became Li Dan's subordinate according to the original historical trajectory, so Yan Siqi should have developed his career in Japan.

These figures who dominated the entire East Asian coastal area before the Ming Dynasty were the talents Yin Feng urgently needed in his career.While Yin Feng was searching for a list of historical celebrities in his mind, Magaro blew a conch horn on the cliff on the left: this indicated that the enemy was approaching the mountain pass.

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