open sea

Chapter 331 The Scarlet Scarf
No one is sitting still.

Since receiving the news of the setback of the sea fleet, Spain stationed in Manila is indeed as sleepy and sleepy as Chen Mu imagined, especially when the routs who fled back on land brought back three thousand troops who were defeated on the way to Panshilan City. information.

"It's more than a defeat! 3000 people ran back to less than [-], and I can't even tell what my foster father's soldiers are like."

Li Dan raised his hand to knead the dough, but what should have been a very relaxed and happy event made him sad. Looking around at his men who were busy moving weapons and wood, digging trenches and building wooden signs, he took a sip of wine in a restless mood, gritted his teeth and said to himself Be ruthless.

Seeing that the leader was bored, several of Li Dan's confidants scattered around to supervise people digging ditches.

After a while, Zhuang Gong walked quickly with a Japanese sword in his waist.

Mr. Zhuang is shorter than other people. When he walks, he has big sleeves and folds his arms. His right hand always holds the handle of a knife. When he walks, he always keeps his left side close to the fence, wooden posts and walls. .

This kind of body shape and movement is unique and easily recognizable even in Manila, where there are mixed races.

Looking at it from a distance, it is bald and tiger-backed, with bow-legged and bow-legged.

Zhuang Gong was serious, holding his sword and sitting not far from Li Dan. Li Dan seemed to have expected him to come, and asked, "Kill him?"

"Ah."

Hearing the reply, Li Dan finally relaxed his brows a little, and Duke Zhuang went to kill some of the leaders he had recruited.

It is not difficult to recruit soldiers in Manila. The Ming people here are all in groups, especially those who can use weapons. There are dozens or dozens of people who are grouped according to their neighbors and blood ties, but they are not as uniform as in other countries. It's a gang.

Even if they are Ming people, there are not a few people who hate each other. Therefore, after Li Dan sent out the recruitment message, he easily recruited hundreds of people, but not every small group was willing to help him fight against Xiyi.

Quite a few of the Ming people stranded in Manila were unwilling to join Xiyi. This is not wrong, because they were guards on merchant ships or even merchants in distress in the early years. Even if they were far away from the country, most of them just wanted to make money and did not want to lose their lives.

But Li Dan can't, they don't want to work hard, they are killing Li Dan, so he still prefers the Japanese outside the region.

He pushed the jug towards Duke Zhuang, and said: "The headman is dead, and he is a mess, so he can only listen to me. But now, it is inevitable to meet the foster father...Can you take the city gate?"

This is the source of Li Dan's worries. The Spaniards ordered him to set up a camp outside the city, and let them and more than 1000 Luzon soldiers ambush the biological people who came to attack outside the city. In Li Dan's view, this is the same as pushing him to death no difference.

No one knew better than Li Dan who the attackers were. It wasn't the Ming merchants who supported Suleiman in Salcedo's imagination, but the army of Chen Mu and Nanyang Wei.

There was only one choice left for Li Dan, and he had to draw his sword and slash at the Luzon people as soon as they met on the battlefield, even if it was too late.

He had been in the Nanyang Defense Weapons Bureau. God knows how many artillery pieces his godfather's army would bring. He didn't want to be crushed to death by shells from the Ming army.

But if you defect on the battlefield, there is also a high chance that you will die.

Because Zhuang Gong looked westward, in the southwest of their position is Manila of the Luzon people, which now belongs to the outer city, and to the west is the castle newly built by the Spanish. Only three sections of the zigzag city wall have been repaired. They are all wooden frames and soil barriers, and the artillery on the repaired city wall is pointing in their direction.

One of the three sections of the city wall faces them, one section faces Manila Bay, and the other section faces Old Manila.

There is a big river between the city wall and them. If you want to take the city, you can only pass the wide stone bridge on the river.No matter how wide the bridge deck is, it is just a bridge, not to mention muskets, if the artillery hits the bridge, bounces and runs over it, seizing the city is a thorny and bloody road.

He knew that Chen Mu's guns killed people like this.

Zhuang Gong lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head and said, "En."

"No, I didn't let you take the city with a knife, that's a dead end."

Li Dan has a headache when he sees Mr. Zhuang. This Japanese is really stupid, just because Lin Feng told him to listen to him. Now he will do whatever he is asked to do. Don't worry about whether things can be done or not. Don't worry about whether you lose or not. Life.

Based on what he knew about Duke Zhuang, what he was thinking about just now was definitely not how to capture the city or what strategy to use, but he was thinking about whether he was brave enough and whether he was afraid of dying.

I asked and got an answer, so I was not afraid, so I nodded and said yes.

I didn't even think about whether the city could be captured.

"When there is a war, you take your cronies and Baishi's men back, don't fight with the Luzon people, they will be defeated at the first touch of a war, you follow and retreat across the bridge, Xiyi probably won't bombard you with artillery, at most, they will use guns to urge you to go into battle, Can kill less people."

Sitting cross-legged on the tree stump, Li Dan raised his finger and said, "Cross the bridge as soon as possible. When you pass, I will take people to block the bridge for a while to prevent Luzon people from passing, but I can't help you. As long as Xiyi fires, I will immediately lead people to evacuate into the field, and I will rely on you later."

"Faricat is from Xiyi. He is in the city. It is agreed that he will turn against him and open the city gate, but I can't trust him." Li Dan looked at the city wall with some worry, and said, "If the city gate is not opened, the iron gate will be opened." It’s hard to explode with gunpowder, so just wait for a while at the bottom of the city away from the city gate, and the foster father’s artillery will hit the city gate, but whether it hits the city gate or not is another matter.”

"If it doesn't work, you can only rush to the gap. If you rush to the gap, you will suffer heavy casualties, so you can save your life."

In Zhuang Gong's view, Li Dan's guts were pitifully small, and his three words were to reduce death and save lives, but he still knew what was good and bad, and nodded expressionlessly: "Well, the southern barbarians can't be trusted."

Li Dan was amused by these words. He couldn't believe that Farikat was not because of his nationality, but because of his identity. After all, he was a pirate.He also can't trust Lin Afeng, but it's just that no one can bring Lin Feng greater benefits than Chen Mu, so they are in the same boat.

Could it be that after a while Lin Feng and Chen Mu would not share the spoils equally, and they would stand on opposite sides?These things are impossible to say.

But Farikat can be sure that it is a real scumbag. If the Ming army has an advantage, he can let him fight the Spaniards;

Li Dan's positioning of himself is very precise. He is not a regular army. Except for his cronies, all his subordinates are just for survival, and he does not intend to help his foster father do anything big.As long as he can strengthen the momentum of the Ming army in Manila, he will not be in vain.

He smiled and invited the scout duty in front of Salcedo, and sent his cronies wearing red scarves to go north with the sketch map of Manila deployment.

In the middle of the night, Manila Bay was illuminated by the fire of naval guns, followed by the sound of military music from the land in the north, which woke up Li Dan.

"Why does the foster father attack at night, where can you see whether his head is red or not!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)