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Chapter 327 Plan
The place where Shao Tingda was stationed was called Manghu Mountain. The name was chosen by Mang Chong himself, because this place has no name at all, it is just an unnamed mountain top, and the nearest place that can be called a 'mountain' is separated by a dense jungle that is seven miles away.

The only special place is that on both sides of the wet dirt road that can only accommodate two horses, there is a pile of stones about one foot high. Shao Tingda said that these two piles of stones are Manghuya, and it is boring to be stationed. He also specially set up a stone pile. The wooden sign, with three big characters written on it, was named by people entering the roadside.

He also said that if he fought and won the battle, he would find someone to carve a stone tablet to record his achievements.

As a result, not to mention the wooden signboard was blasted into wood dregs, even the two stone pestles he named were smashed to pieces.

"But don't mention it, the Luzon people were driven up by the Xiyi, and the Xiyi fired cannons behind them. Just now, his mother repelled the birds and monkeys on the left, and the one on the right came up again." Qu, "It seems that they fired a few cannons, but it didn't work. There are too many people."

Shi Qi was very surprised, and said: "How many of your subordinates died, is it so tragic?"

Shi Qi was still far away from Manghu Mountain, when he met Shao Tingda sent a scout on horseback, saying that he was going to retreat.With this horse, Shao Tingda turned around and repeated Chen Mu's order to Shi Qi, and Shao Tingda took advantage of the situation and retreated with a look of displeasure.

"It's not that a few people died. Seeing that we had a lot of guns and guns, Xiyi didn't come up at all. They didn't do anything except hide behind and fire the cannons. They couldn't hit them accurately, so they pointed at the Japanese and the Luzon people and rushed up. The place is narrow and they can't spread out, and they will become chaotic when they are beaten, and they will retreat when they are chaotic, and if they retreat and go up, they can kill two to three hundred people."

Shao Tingda didn't want to say more. He hurriedly retreated because the bird gun and lead pellets were almost gone, and it was impossible for him to destroy so many enemy troops. He could fight back again and again but the results were not great. He couldn't even run away with the shells.

We can only transport the artillery away first, and then retreat, using the fortifications in front of the trench to slow down the enemy's pursuit, and then join Shiqi after retreating.

"Either they come here without artillery, or they can't catch up with artillery, and the trench artillery can't move forward, so they have to fill in the way." Even after retreating, Shao Tingda still had lingering fears, and said: "Damn it, I really didn't expect to survive. "

The enemy's vulnerability was beyond Shao Tingda's imagination.

The two banner troops met on the way to retreat. Shi Qi didn't talk to Shao Tingda much, and waved his banner troops to give up the passage. After Shao Tingda's troops passed through, he immediately set up cover and retreated.

Shi Qi carried many firearms.

The first is to plant stepping hair and trip wire mines on the way to retreat.These two new items also have a little relationship with Chen Mu. They were made by Qi Jiguang in Ji Town, and were brought back to Nanyangwei by Chen Mu to manufacture them. The number of equipment in the expeditionary army was not much.

This is not new. Landmines also appeared in Europe in the [-]th century, and they were mostly used for fortress defense. They have not yet been developed and used in field battles on a large scale.

In this era of slow news dissemination and closed flow of people, it takes a long time for any technology to develop from birth to development, especially when some things die before they have time to develop.

In addition to the landmines, a small flag army with wooden boxes of small flag arrows was left behind every one or two miles to covertly block them. This thing is a nightmare for the enemy who charges on a large scale in a narrow strip. Only two boxes of small flag arrows are needed. It can scare hundreds of thousands of people from moving forward, and the occasional landmines can scare the chasing troops into fright.

The captain who served as the commander of this Spanish team was almost pissed off.

After finally moving the artillery out of the trenches dug by the Ming army, the pursuit could not reach a few hundred meters. The sudden bang scared people enough, so they quickly sent people to investigate the situation, and a hole was blown in the ground. No more, and the two soldiers who were injured by the gravel fell to the side of the road and howled.

After chasing for a few hundred meters, there were only a few people in the woods, followed by the strange sound of chirping and screaming, a rocket with a stick rushed over, exploded in the crowd with a bang, and injured more than a dozen people .

But the weird weapons of the Chinese are not always so accurate. The Spanish captain saw more than one time with his own eyes. The rocket was either nailed to the tree and exploded by the forest, or it was deflected by a tree branch and jumped into the sky. Not as scary as it looks.

But these two things really dealt a big blow to the morale of the army. Even if the total number of soldiers who died on them was less than fifty, no one dared to continue to pursue them.

The fierce Japanese are better, as long as rewards and punishments are offered, they are happy to pursue them; but the Malays are different from the Sulu people, they don't care about money at all, and many people even don't think gold and silver are useful things at all.

The pursuit was forced to be postponed, the Japanese in front were ordered to investigate cautiously, and the large army followed slowly. The Spanish captain sent someone back to Manila to report that they had encountered a "physiological person" blocking them on the road, and the surprise attack was delayed.

Suleiman of Panshilan City returned with this "physiological human" army and would definitely know their attacking trends. He wanted to prepare to forcibly attack the city, and asked the Manila commander to send a fleet to attack Panshilan City by sea at the same time.

Ming people are called physiological people by the Spaniards in Luzon. It is also said that the grandson of the Philippine governor who recruited Li Dan as his assistant, the Spanish navy captain Juan Salcedo, first contacted the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty.

They attacked the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty and won. During the interrogation, he asked what the Ming people did, and the Fujian people said they were businessmen.Because of the pronunciation, Salcedo invented a Roman pinyin, Sangleys, to call Ming Dynasty people by physiological people.

Because there are too many Ming people in Luzon, the term "physiological man" was later spread with Spain's attack on Luzon.

"There were not many casualties, and the combat power was low. We ambushed them in an open place in a narrow dense forest."

Chen Mu possessed far more information than the Spaniards. When he joined Shao Tingda's troops, he was very satisfied with the results of the battle, and said, "Retreat four li further, and when we come over, there will be an open field. If the timing is right, we can encircle and annihilate them." .”

"Shi Qi, don't retreat. The people who brought you are divided into two groups, scattered to the left and right of the forest, the deeper you go, the better, and cover your whereabouts. When Xiyi passes here, don't come out. When we start fighting in the north, you go from behind. Plant some landmines on the ground, make a big noise in the woods, and smash them."

Chen Mu didn't want to let these people go back to Manila. Even though the news of the Ming army's landing on the island had been known to the Manila garrison for such a long time, he still wanted to directly capture or even annihilate this army, making a good start for the next seizure of Manila.

Shi Qi’s troops dispersed into the forest after being ordered by Chen Mujun to hide his whereabouts, and also retreated. The same thing was to prevent the Spaniards from searching the left and right dense forests, leaving a few small flags to lie in ambush along the way with the monkeys. .

After being beaten, they only pay attention to the front, not the left and right.

"This thing will never fucking work!"

Chen Mu looked at the sunset but was unable to light a beacon to Deng Zilong's troops in the sea, and made another plan angrily, "A hundred households of engineers and soldiers are going to set up defense lines, let's send them home first!"

(End of this chapter)