Hikogoro drooped his head, his loose hair making him look unusually depressed.

Domingo did not doubt the combat prowess of these Chezhidan, and most of the time, when they faced the Chinese or the natives, it was no exaggeration to say that they could fight three at a time, thanks to their fighting spirit and armament. And his loyalty had been proven as early as when Hikogoro's father was inspired by the Lord at the Manila Cathedral, and he was the son of Takayama, and no guarantee was as effective as that status.

In the pursuit of the Chinese rebels, they fought their way into the forest, and finally successfully captured the bastards who led the way back to Manila, and tortured them on the banks of the Bashi River, just as the shogunate did half of the Japanese to the believers, and those cruel methods would have counted down even to the Spaniards themselves, and now the Japanese have brought back their companions, less than half the number they had gone, and many of those who were still able to move had terrible wounds on their bodies, like the mark of the devil. Many more were lying on stretchers and moaning, seemingly indistinguishable from a corpse except for making sounds.

After the first volley of the Mine rifle, although he was shocked by the power of the firearms in front of him, reason told him that the interval between the musket shots was the best opportunity to attack, and that the Kishitans still had an absolute advantage in numbers, and now Hikogoro only hated himself for being too sane.

"Are you sure the enemy is really Australian?" Captain Domingo asked with a solemn expression, he didn't care too much about Chechitan's life or death.

"I'm sure there are merchants who have seen those men in Palawan, and you should know that not long ago they took Princesa, and the Dutch and the British don't have such powerful firearms." Hikogoro said hatefully that the musket in Kirijitan's hand was as ridiculous as a burning stick compared to the enemy's weapon, and that nothing humiliated a samurai more than the weapon being ridiculed.

According to Hikogoro, the enemy's muskets launched a fierce attack from 300 feet away, and even the bamboo armor did not play the slightest protective role, although Domingo had heard some rumors about the power of the Australian firearms, but he was still shocked after personally confirming these terrible injuries.

However, with the arrival of the following army, the Spaniard, who had the advantage in numbers, had to decide to go ahead and take a look, after all, he had brought more than 3,000 men, and the rations he had brought with him did not allow him to hesitate too much, and the army had not yet received any supplies on the spot since he arrived here, so he should have quickened his speed alone.

However, in Domingo's opinion, this place was still an internal battle in Spanish territory, and in any case the advantage should be on his side, and when he thought about it, he had clearly put the defeat of Chechitan behind him, and speeding up the advance towards the fortress of Cavite was the first priority at the moment, whether it was to drive the enemy away or get supplies.

Therefore, after only a short stop, the army continued to move westward.

After the First World War, the first team quickly withdrew from the battlefield, and by the time the Spaniards approached the battlefield again, the village of Cavit was empty, and there was not even a single native, and after the first team was over, the villagers quickly made a choice, leaving behind all unnecessary things and fleeing from this place of right and wrong.

Not even a coconut could be found in the village after the Spanish occupation, only the cross made by Chinese craftsmen on the roof of the church that shook in the flames still showed the existence of the colonizers, and if the priest had not disappeared, perhaps he would have brought some supplies to the army, which Domingo had originally thought, but now he was in no mood to say, 'These blasphemers must pay'.

He looked at the bay in the distance suspiciously, and a trace of doubt rose in his heart, if his estimate was correct, the patrol ships at the mouth of the Bashi River should have entered this sea area at this time, but no matter how far he looked, except for a few indigenous fishing boats dotted on the sea level, there was never a more conspicuous target in his field of vision, could it be that the sea strike from Manila went directly to the Krabi fortress?

After a short rest, the Spanish army soon reached the southern tip of the Cavite Peninsula, less than a mile away from the Krabi fortress at the northern end of the peninsula, but a gray-blue line of defense was already in front of them, and the Spaniards stopped again in this place called Novelleta.

Three teams of more than 150 people, seemingly unusually thin, put on a comical formation in front of a trench that seemed to have been dug in a hurry, and the barbed wire fence laid between the trenches did not attract the attention of the other party at all. However, the Polaris flag and navy flag fluttering above the team made this battle line more solemn, and also made the enemy in front of him dare not act rashly.

"You were defeated by this group? They don't look like they know how to fight. Captain Domingo immediately stood on a nearby hillside, and his heart was a little puzzled, although he had never seen the formation in front of him, but even if he did not have enough horses in his hands, and the muddy muddy flats after the rain were not suitable for the charge of the heavy cavalry, he still felt that the other party was too big.

"There seem to be a lot of people." The muscles on Hikogoro's face twitched.

Indeed, if these Australians possess powerful and long-range firearms, as he claims, then it is barely plausible to put them in such a formation, but is there really a musket with such a long range in the world? And with the power of the firearm that Hikogoro said, it is obvious that this gun has not fully exerted the advantage of shooting distance, can it be farther away? Domingo wanted to get closer to see the details of the Australians, but was stopped by Hikogoro. "Watch out for the captains, their firearms can attack from a long distance, it's safer here."

Domingo looked at his men in surprise as frightened, then at the enemy who was at least a mile away, and turned his head to the side, "Avalos, let your boys teach these bastards a lesson." ”

Half an hour later, six hundred warriors of the Tagagar and Mandaru warriors began to advance against the Australian line.

…………

"You all have to keep an eye on me, you can say it, don't let the second team and the third team steal our limelight, as long as you overpower them today, go back to Brunei and invite the whole team to eat fruit shaved ice." A soldier of the Fubo Army quipped behind the trench that the soldiers around him were surprised to hear this, and that the fruit shaved ice in Sili Harbour is now a rarity in Borneo, and that the cheapest original flavor can be sold at least 60 wen bills, which is more expensive than barbecue, and has to be served in limited quantities.

But someone immediately objected, "I said Xiong San, you can't open your eyes and look at it again?" That's not what the captain told me. ”

"What did the captain say?" Another fighter inquired.

"He said that if you can leave half of the people on the other side, the people of the first capital will help us wash all the clothes for a month, don't forget that our opponent is the Beiwei army, even if you go ashore and fight in your own nest, it is not a skill."

"Do panties count?" Someone immediately got to the point.

"Don't count ......" This person doesn't know whether to go back to the front or back.

"What is the Bearer Army?"

"It's the name that used to be the Japanese army, and the name just changed above."

"Oh, that's a name change...... It's ugly. ”

"That's changed by the chief, that is, the Yue Jiajun in the book, you know a fart."

"Uh......"

Behind the trenches there was a lot of gossip.

Zhang Fan explained to the soldiers around him, but the gun brush in his hand did not stop twitching back and forth, and he was doing routine maintenance as usual before firing, and there was no tension at all.

In contrast, there is more concern about the burning of the rifling of the musket when firing due to too much lard in the barrel for maintenance, after all, although the damaged barrel can be replaced quickly, the wear and tear caused by improper maintenance may also incur some punishments.

The three teams of the Second Capital have always had a strong sense of competition, and in his words, this stems from 'tradition', and although the pirate-born clansmen have long been scattered and resettled by the chiefs, and many have even been sent to factories and farms outside Borneo, this does not prevent the soldiers from being in teams from quickly connecting with each other.

This may be the comradeship that the chief said, he thought, he once followed the clansmen to live a difficult life at sea, although there is a sheltered harbor in Zhangjiagang, but even as a man in the clan, life is far from stable.

In the past, outside of the trade season, men like him who were not good at fighting had to stay in the harbor to help the shipwrights of the clan to eat and drink, and still have to cut back on food and clothing to deal with all kinds of accidents that might arise. Although it is difficult for people to starve to death in the warm southern country, it is not possible to live a life of wine and meat at any time, even Zhang Chai Lao and his son can't do so. Compared with his hometown in Fujian, the only advantage is that there is less exploitation and control by the government, but the so-called freedom is actually just another way of saying that he is left to fend for himself, and floating in the sea is not the life he actively chooses.

But since the arrival of the chief, that has changed – for the better.

Zhang Fan never dreamed that the Zhang family, who were captives, would have the opportunity to enter the Fubo Army and serve in the Senate.

The various treatments of the army are simply too good to smack, in addition to the monthly fixed salary, what housing allowance, marriage and childbirth allowance, cultural and educational allowance, almost all the piles in life have corresponding names, and the corresponding names are often a variety of intimate life foils, the family buys a house and the military is given a 20% discount, and the marriage and childbirth have ten ceremonies, and the children are not only free of charge but also given to the food, and he later gradually learned that the chiefs called this treatment welfare.

He still remembers that in the first training class of the recruits, each of the squads with the best military posture was given an egg to eat, because of that special opportunity, soon all the soldiers of a team obediently learned to stand on the stake. There was no beating and scolding, no supervising the army, but the instructor's method was obviously more effective.

Aside from deliberately keeping some distance from his people, he didn't need any drill camps in the first team. When his nephew Zhang Zhao came out of the labor reform, he even entered the Fubo Army for the first time, and was even assigned to the same team as him, and now he is the captain of the first team - or is called the captain by his subordinates, which is a cut higher than his position as an elder. From captives to officers, what the chief said was true, regardless of his origin.

Of course, such a good thing may not be there again in the future, I heard that in the recruitment of new soldiers, all those who have committed crimes have no chance to enter the Fubo Army, and the chief said that it is an enlistment review, who makes the current Great Song Dynasty official army in the hearts of the naturalized people is already bullish.

Because the army is in charge of food and housing, the monthly silver can basically fall into their own pockets, although this income is equivalent to less than the big workers in the past shipwrights every day, but the big workers can not have work every day, in the off-season of trade, shipbuilding orders are not much, not to mention that the military salary of the Fubo army has never been in arrears, just the drought and flood to ensure the harvest has compared many jobs. Moreover, the shipbuilding business is not doing well now, and the shipyards of the Senate are encroaching on the surrounding workshops, and the competitiveness of mirage merchant ships is significantly stronger in terms of price and quality.

Zhang Fan has saved more than 50 yuan in the past two years, all of which have been deposited in the bank of Sili Harbor, and when he returns from this mission, he can buy a two-bedroom brick house with running water in Hong Kong with a 'mortgage', and then he can ask someone to go back to his hometown in Fujian to talk about a family affair for himself.

Looking forward to a better life in the future, there is more hatred for the enemy in front of him, if it is placed in the past, there is not enough benefit, even if the clan goes out to raid together, there will not be much interest in the group of natives in front of him, after all, the wild wave war, not to mention the risk, and the other party obviously does not have much oil and water. But now, Brunei's propaganda keeps up with current events, and the soldiers are being indoctrinated by the patriarchs about what the Western thieves did in Luzon every day, and the "heinous crime" has long been the most unified view of the soldiers about the colonizers.

As for those Japanese thieves, they are no longer in his eyes, and the rest is only the western thieves themselves, and it seems that the number is not very large, although the chief has emphasized that although there are not many western thieves, they are all elite, but if they are only limited in strength than those group of Japanese robbers, it is not a matter of concern.

The junction between the peninsula and the mainland was unusually narrow, and although the indigenous soldiers had learned the lessons of Chezhitan and spread out their formations, they could not encircle the second capital from the side, so they could only approach cautiously step by step.

Zhang Zhao slowly pulled the command knife out of its sheath, looked back at the chief standing under the military flag, and waited for the order in his mood.

100 meters, 90 meters, 80 meters......

"Don't worry, boys, let's get closer and hit ......"

Zhang Zhao quickly understood the chief's intentions, only in this way could more enemies stay on the battlefield instead of turning and fleeing, and it seemed that the chief did not want to leave more results for his companions.

The distance was about to close to the range of the bow and arrow, and the warriors of the tribe felt a wave of ecstasy in their hearts, 'But that's it. Hu Yan thought so, those group of Chezhi Dan were indeed all gutless rats, and the firearms of the Australians were exaggerated.

He drew the bow as best he could, the arrow pointing high into the sky in front of him, and with the help of nature, the feathered arrow could pierce the opponent's body into a hedgehog after throwing an elegant arc, as if the aliens were not wearing armor.

The warrior who had walked further ahead had already run, and he saw the sturdy backs of the warriors of the Mandaru Warriors.

And then there'...... There was a roar between heaven and earth.

But in a moment, Hu Yan's mind froze, and he was surprised to see the warrior in front of him as if he had hit an invisible wall, and his body flew upside down after a pause, and after another breath, he felt something hit him heavily in the chest, and the strength of his body instantly dissipated, if Captain Domingo could get closer, he should be able to see the moment when the native warrior was 'blown back' like a rag.

But now, he didn't seem to have to get too close, and within five breaths, six hundred men collapsed in two volleys.

Alvalos couldn't believe his eyes, the rout he hadn't even handed over before he had even handed it over was the only thing he had ever seen in his life, it was a wonderful feeling.

But the god of war didn't seem willing to stop there, and just as everyone was thinking about what to do next, Torribio was the first to exclaim.

"Oh my God! What is that? ”

He pointed to a strange big ship that seemed to have suddenly appeared in the bay on one side, two obviously strangely shaped large ships had already crossed the hull in less than half a league, and before he could say the next word, a dazzling red light suddenly flashed on the hull, and a few thunderclaps were heard in the distance, and then there was a strange whistling sound, and a moment later the red lotus bloomed on the north side of the hillside.

Those cannons can hit so far!

Before he had time to sigh, Domingo was so frightened that he was now frightened, and when he was dragged to the hillside with the chaotic crowd, he gave the order with palpitations, "Retreat!" Back to Manila! ”

Under the banner of Polaris, Wang Wenshan was holding a telescope to observe the battle situation, but he was quite impatient at this time, "Damn, whether these people will fire guns or not, it's really not the right time to pick them." ”

But after scolding, he relaxed again, "Forget it, let's be a cheap army." ”

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