The Tang army marched all the way south, with almost no resistance. The reason why the Tang Army www.biquge.info so smoothly was that by now, the financial situation of the Spanish Empire, which was declining, had deteriorated day by day, and it had reached the point where it could not make ends meet, and it was simply unable to support the expenses of the Far Eastern Fleet.

Therefore, Manila Governor López ordered that the remaining 50 ships of the Spanish Far East Fleet should be concentrated in Manila Bay to deal with small-scale pirate harassment and attacks.

Thirteen days later, in the early morning, the Tang army reached Burgos, at the northern tip of the Philippine island of Luzon, where the gentle sea slope was conducive to landing, and it was also quite close to the southern city of Laoag, so it could be said that this was the best landing place for the Tang army.

At this time, the coast of Burgos is shrouded in a misty mist, and the dense coconut groves on the shore can be faintly seen, and further inside, except for the blue-black Cordillera Mountains that look like a backdrop, there is a thick green that can hardly be dissolved, and it is difficult to tell what it is.

Li Xiao gave an order, and the Tang army began to land.

As the boats approached the coast of Burgos, the gangways were lowered, and the soldiers of the Don Army, like a raging tide, descended from the boats to the shore.

The troops who landed this time, including all the soldiers of the A Battalion of Pingnan Town of the Tang Army, 1,000 flying harrier cavalry, 1,000 auxiliaries, and 20 heavy dragon bombardment guns, led by the main general Li Dingguo and the deputy general Zu Kuan, landed in a mighty manner.

"Ning Yu, you have memorized the precautions for this landing operation."

Before Li Dingguo went ashore, Li Xiao gave another admonition.

"Don't worry, Master Li, the last general has written it down."

Li Dingguo said loudly: "When our army goes, we will definitely follow the policy set by Lord Li, use both grace and power, and let those indigenous tribes obediently obey." ”

Then, a trace of hideousness flashed on Li Dingguo's face, and he said in a deep voice: "If anyone dares to resist, kill him." Its tribes or cities all slaughter men and keep women, in order to show the power of our army's royal road. ”

"Very good, Ning Yu here, be careful. Also, Zu Kuan is unruly, you have to restrain him a lot, and don't let him wander. ”

Li Xiao had a smile on his face, and deliberately admonished again.

"Master Li, don't worry, I will definitely pay attention. In addition, there are also the Department of Supervision and Security and the Department of Security, both of which are restraining him, and Liang Zukuan does not dare to make too many moves. ”

"Okay, that Gong wishes you success and victory!"

"Well, then the general also wishes Lord Li a smooth capture of Manila City, and I will leave!"

Subsequently, Li Dingguo and Li Xiao said goodbye and strode off the boat.

After Li Dingguo's troops and horses, as well as the relevant ordnance baggage, were all ashore, the entire fleet of sailors, with the rest of the troops and horses, bypassed Cape Burgos, continued south, and sailed straight to Manila Bay outside Manila.

After coming ashore, Li Dingguo immediately ordered that because the troops were working hard from afar, the whole army would be at the coast, bury pots and cook, and prepare to rest and eat before continuing to attack the interior.

On this foggy morning, the Tang army on the seashore was in a lot of noise, and after a while, smoke rose everywhere, and the rich aroma of food wafted up.

"It's time to eat! It's time to eat! ”

With the shouting of the gang leader, there was a burst of cheers among the soldiers of the Tang Army, and everyone was holding lunch boxes and spoons, and they were happily queuing up to eat.

Holding a wrought iron lunch box in one hand and a wrought iron spoon in the other, the Tang Army's Pingnan Town A Battalion C General A Sentry Seventh Team Leader Gou Dazhuang, although his eyes have been looking at the food distribution at the far end of the team, but his heart is full of emotion.

Gou Dazhuang, a native of Jinzhou, Liaodong, was a Ming army in Dongjiang Town at the earliest, and became a small soldier of Shang Kexi's general Xu Erxian.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Gou Dazhuang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with Shang Kexi, and then became a member of the Han army.

In the end, Xu Erxian was arranged by the Qing court to be stationed in Jinzhou, and Gou Dazhuang and others were stationed here.

Unexpectedly, just a few months ago, the Tang army crossed the sea and attacked, completely flattening the two states of Jinfu and sweeping them to the ground.

Fortunately, his own governor Xu Er showed his knowledge of current affairs, opened the west gate of Jinzhou in time, and let the Tang army enter the city.

Subsequently, Xu Erxian's troops, including Gou Dazhuang, were escorted back to Dengzhou, where they first laid off a group of old and weak, issued severance money, and settled down in Shandong.

The other soldiers and horses of the Han army of Xu Erxian were transferred to Taiwan by ships of the naval division for rectification.

Here, Xu Erxian's soldiers and horses were scattered separately and inserted into the soldiers and horses of various departments in Pingnan Town, like Xu Erxian himself, he also became a deputy commander under Battalion B of Pingnan Town.

He was arranged to stay in Taiwan and did not participate in this attack on Luzon.

The original Han army commander Gou Dazhuang, since he was selected as a spearman in Pingnan Town's A Battalion C General A Sentinel, because of his physical strength, hard training, and combat experience, and his performance in the political assessment of the Supervision and Restoration Department is also good, so he was promoted from a spearman to the commander of the seventh team of three first-class soldiers, and was in charge of a total of 19 troops, including the deputy commander Fan Chang'an.

Seeing that the Tang Army was like this, he first became a Ming army, then rebelled against the Ming and became a Qing army, and finally became a soldier of the Tang Army anyway, and he did not remember his past suspicions and reused it, Gou Dazhuang was very grateful in his heart, and he trained more diligently.

What makes Gou Dazhuang sigh is that the composition of the Tang Army basically comes from all over the world, and the composition of the soldiers is even more varied.

For example, in his armor spearmen, in addition to the children of Taiwanese immigrants who had just been recruited recently, there were also the original Ming soldiers, the Liukou soldiers anyway, and the Han soldiers who surrendered, in addition, there was a Taiwanese indigenous soldier and a surrendered Manchurian soldier.

These soldiers from all over the world with different political backgrounds are now in the same state.

That is, all the Tang army, everyone is dressed in Han clothes, has Han hair, speaks Chinese, and uses the etiquette and etiquette of the Han people, and under the strong brainwashing and education of the Supervision Department every day, everyone firmly regards themselves as a member of the Han nation and a member of the Tang army, and vows to serve the Tang Guogong Li, and dedicate everything to the future to drive the Tartars and eliminate the Liukou.

After all, it is really an extremely honorable thing to be able to serve this Tang army, which has won many battles and has won many victories, and in the army, everyone has a generous salary, good welfare, and a large amount of pension in the future, whether it is killed in battle, injured or even retired.

It can be said that everyone, as long as they become a member of the Tang Army, they basically only need to work for the army with confidence, and they don't have to worry about the rest of the matters.

And if you can make meritorious contributions in the army, you will be rewarded a lot in the future, and you will be envied and respected by the world.

Therefore, every soldier of the Tang Army almost held his breath in his heart, that is, when he went to the battlefield in the future, he must fight bravely to kill the enemy, make meritorious contributions to the country, and fight for a better future for himself.

Gou Dazhuang thought all the way, and before he knew it, he came to the front of the cooking team.

He showed his armor length waist card to the cook, and the cook immediately gave him a sumptuous meal for a captain-level officer.

In this captain-level officer's meal, there are roast chicken, sea fish, and salted meat, which is much better than the corporal food at the bottom.

In the Tang Army, unless the war is urgent, the treatment of individual meals according to rank will be strictly observed.

Therefore, every Tang soldier who eats, stimulated by such a different treatment that can be seen with his own eyes, can work harder to show himself on the battlefield and training ground, so that he can get ahead with his own efforts.

Soon, after the meal was over, Gou Dazhuang and his subordinate soldiers, who were washing the dishes, suddenly saw the big tent of the Chinese army, and the noise was loud.

It turned out that while they were eating, there were already flying harrier sentry riders, following the path into the interior, and went to the sentry to investigate the local situation.

Who knows, they were sentry all the way, but they were ambushed by the local natives with poisoned arrows, and five sentry riders, one dead and one wounded, fled back in embarrassment.

As soon as the Tang army came ashore, they encountered such an ambush incident, Li Dingguo was quite annoyed, and the deputy general Zu Kuan was even more angry, and he asked Li Dingguo for an order to take the team to destroy this hateful native who dared to be the enemy of the Tang army.

Li Dingguo hesitated slightly, and immediately agreed to Zu Kuan's request.

As Zu Kuan selected soldiers and horses, he took the Sentry Horses of Battalion A and General A of Battalion C, including Gou Dazhuang's troops, 100 flying harriers, as well as 3 heavy dragon bombardments, and 3 statistical and civil officials of the Supervision and Restoration Division, to attack these natives who did not know whether they were alive or dead.

Seeing that the order was given, the soldiers who had received the order immediately began to urgently put on their armor and go out to fight.

Gou Dazhuang, as the first captain, is the fastest dressing speed among the whole armor personnel.

He quickly put on a thin cotton armor with an inner pad, then put on iron-clad combat boots, put on a steel six-braid tasseled helmet, and fastened the two-piece stainless steel cuirass one by one, and the whole set of armor was fully worn.

His soldiers were all wearing wrought iron helmets and leather boots, and each of them wore a steel cuirass, and after taking the 4-meter spear, they were all ready.

The armor of these soldiers in Pingnan Town is much weaker than that of the Tang Army in the interior such as Xingzhong Town, but this is also a choice that has no choice.

After all, fighting in a tropical region like the Philippines with four hot seasons, the physical strength and endurance of the soldiers will be extremely depleted, and if each soldier has to dress as heavily as the soldiers in the mainland, the soldiers' physical strength will quickly fail, which will greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of the troops.

In addition, due to the high temperature and humidity in the Philippines for many years, if the soldiers had been wearing the tightly covered armor, it would have been the same as the Spanish soldiers who invaded Central America, and the diseases such as heat stroke, eczema, and rotten crotch would have been constantly attacking, resulting in a large area of non-combat attrition.

Of course, this kind of thing is not what Li Xiao is willing to see, so the soldiers of Pingnan Town finally dressed like this, in a sense, it can be regarded as a helpless move.

Therefore, in the case of a large reduction in the degree of armor of combat troops, such as auxiliaries, artillerymen, musketeers, etc., who do not participate in the battle, or fight from a distance, everyone does not wear armor, so as to better save physical strength and maintain the speed of marching.

With the order of Zu Kuan, who was riding a tall horse, the whole army set out on the road, passing through the dense coconut groves, and along the path that burrowed into the endless dark green, all the way away.

Although Zu Kuan has a rough temperament and a savage temper, he still does not dare to be careless in the case of suffering a loss, he ordered the whole army to walk along the gentle terrain as much as possible, and hundreds of steps ahead, keep letting the Flying Harrier cavalry open the way to sentry, and after confirming the safety, let the follow-up troops follow all the way.

The army marching in a column, at the front is more than ten cavalry flying harriers to open the way to scout, followed by the spearmen and shield soldiers of the first battalion and the general armor sentry, behind are dozens of people 3 heavy dragon guns, and finally dozens of flying harriers, guarding the main general Zu Kuan, in the back of the formation forward.

In the boundless green sea, this Tang army of nearly 1,500 people was like a thick gray snake, scurrying forward, heading towards the indigenous stockades.

Gou Dazhuang and the others were worried all the way that there might be more natives to ambush, but they didn't expect that from the coast to the blurred shadow of those natives in front of them, there were no natives to harass them along the way.

It seems that it was those natives who saw that the Tang army had so many soldiers and horses, and the troops were so majestic, that they no longer dared to have the heart of ambush, but only dared to retreat in their own stockade and hold on to the village.

Not long after, the Tang army came to the front of the village and opened an arrow, Zu Kuan shouted an order, and the whole army set up a position, but the three heavy dragon guns were slowly pushed to about a thousand meters away from the wall.

At this time, a smug sneer swelled up on Zu Kuan's face.

He shouted: "Brothers, these natives, killing our army's sentinel cavalry are really killing themselves. Now, the officer wants to take their ugly heads to avenge the tragic death of our brothers! ”

The Tang army shouted in unison, and every soldier, including Gou Dazhuang, had a look full of anticipation on their faces.

The opportunity to win awards for meritorious service is just around the corner.

If you don't grasp such an opportunity well, it will be regretted for a lifetime!

Zu Kuan thought that, as before, he encouraged the soldiers to allow them to invade outside the stockade and plunder and slaughter at will, but when he saw the cold eyes of the civil servants of the Supervision Division, he swallowed such arrogant words alive yesterday.

He knew that Li Xiao, the Duke of Tang Kingdom, hoped that his subordinates would be brave and good at fighting without fear of sacrifice, but he didn't want them to end up becoming a group of bloodthirsty, cruel and irrational beasts.

In the end, Zu Kuan's words became: "Brothers, after attacking the city, kill all the men in the village, cut off their heads as urinals, and take away all the woman's property, and give yourself a reward for your fame!" ”

In the Tang army's formation, there were continuous deafening cheers.

At this time, the gunners had finished adjusting the artillery, and they asked Zu Kuan for instructions on whether they wanted to open fire.

Zu Kuan sneered and immediately ordered an attack loudly.

"Bang bang bang!"

Three explosions that shattered the eardrums, and three 32-pound jet-black cannonballs roared towards the wall made of bamboo and wood on the opposite side, smashing hard.