When his guards heard this, they immediately stepped forward, grabbed Filote left and right, and pushed him to his knees.

Philott was shocked and hurriedly struggled, but Lu Xiangsheng's personal guards, who were they, still grabbed him one by two, and he couldn't move at all.

With no choice but to protest loudly with anxiety, Phirot said, "Your Excellency the Earl, why are you arresting me? I am the messenger. Are you not a nation of ceremonies? Don't you have a saying, even if the two countries are at war, then they will not be killed! ”

Obviously, he really had an understanding of Da Ming's questioning. In an emergency, he shouted this voice.

But as he spoke, the sweat on his forehead dripped vigorously, and the ground in front of him soon became wet.

Lu Xiangsheng strode to the main seat, did not sit down, looked down at this Xiyi, sneered and shouted: "Hehe, where did you have the courage to slaughter my Ming people?" At this time, you know to find an excuse to be afraid? ”

When Filot heard this, he knew that the attitude of the earl of the Ming Kingdom had suddenly changed like this, and it was probably related to the will of the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom just now.

For them, the colonists who came from thousands of miles to the Far East, they were not afraid of death. Otherwise, I wouldn't have had the courage to drift on the sea for so long, and I would still go to a strange foreign land.

However, this kind of fear of death is only their desire for money. As far as Philot is concerned, he is doing well on his side of Luzon now, and if he dies here like this, he is absolutely unwilling. If given the choice, he can pay any price to beg for his dog's life to live.

Therefore, after feeling the crisis, Philot immediately cried and pleaded with Lu Xiangsheng: "Your Excellency, I have an eighty-year-old mother and a young child waiting to be fed, and the family is all raised by the villain. Besides, the villain is also acting on orders, and he is forced to do ......"

Seeing the legendary routine of begging for mercy, as if the Earl of the Ming Kingdom was not moved, he immediately quickly changed his words: "The villain was sent to Luzon for a few years, and if His Excellency the Governor wanted to kill the people of the Ming Dynasty, the villain had dissuaded him, but the villain was a soft-spoken person and did not help the people of the Ming Dynasty. However, the villain could only do his best to help some Ming people escape into the mountains and forests. I beg the honorable Earl to be kind to the villain, and please be merciful to his subordinates and let the villain go! ”

Nonsense comes as soon as he opens his mouth, just so that he can live!

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he was a little surprised, and immediately asked: "You say, there are still Ming people who fled into the mountains and forests and were not killed?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" When Philot heard this, his heart was immediately happy, and he replied repeatedly, "They heard the wind and fled into the mountains and forests, and they couldn't chase them, so they could only let those Luzon natives go into the mountains and forests to chase and kill ......."

When he said this, he suddenly came back to his senses, as if he was in a hurry to explain, and he had said something wrong.

So, he couldn't go on, and could only hope that this Earl of Ming didn't understand.

However, what kind of person is Lu Xiangsheng?

If the college entrance examination in later generations is a single-plank bridge crossed by thousands of troops, Lu Xiangsheng's Jinshi background is definitely the same level. How could a person who came out like this, and he was still in his forties, with so much experience, not to hear it!

After seeing Lu Xiangsheng listen, he sneered: "You wait for Xiyi, your mouth is full of lies, the preface does not match the afterword, and you still want to coax the official to say that he is friendly to Daming?" Those who can be sent must be the henchmen of your leader, and you must have a share of the slaughter of my Ming people. ”

Hearing him say so sure, Philot's face turned pale and he opened his mouth to speak, but for a moment he couldn't think of an excuse to keep himself alive, so he was stupid.

Lu Xiangsheng's face showed a trace of disdain, and then shouted angrily: "Come on, cut off his ears and collect some interest first." ”

"Yes!" When his guards heard this, they immediately agreed, and dragged Filot away.

However, Lu Xiangsheng didn't finish his words at this time, so he only heard him command: "I want him to explain all the things about the massacre of my Luzon Ming people this time." Also, Luzon's troops, how many Xiyi and how many natives there are, must also be clearly explained. If you don't say it, or if you are found to be lying and deceived by the officials, you will cut him with a thousand knives and bring him back by his entourage! ”

"Yes!" His guards listened and replied loudly again.

"I said, I said......" Of course, Filote knew what the punishment was, and he was so frightened that he almost peed his pants, and hurriedly shouted.

Lu Xiangsheng ignored him, and turned his head to explain to the other guards: "The Xiyi who came with him this time are like this, and then confess to them!" ”

This is what it means, that is, like Philott, he first cut off his ears as interest, and then asked for a confession, if there is no truth, or if he does not say it, it is a punishment of a thousand cuts.

After the guards went out to carry out his military orders, Lu Xiangsheng turned his head to look at Anders who was smiling on the side, and said solemnly: "The emperor's will has arrived, and this official will lead the troops of Annan and Fujian and Taiwan, and attack Luzon and Xiyi, and not let anyone get rid of them." If you escape, you will be caught even if you chase it to the ends of the earth! You Francophone people also participated in this expedition, two days, do not slack off, otherwise military law will be engaged! ”

Hearing this, Anders hurriedly smiled and replied with the same seriousness: "Okay, no problem!" ”

He knew that such an answer would make this Ming country's feudal official happy. If the joy in his heart continues to be revealed, it may cause Lu Xiangsheng to be unhappy, after all, this matter involves the slaughter of the people of the Ming Kingdom, and this matter can only be hated by the same enemy, not smiling.

How could Lu Xiangsheng not know how happy these Francophone people would be when they hit Xiyi on Luzon. However, he did not care, but immediately issued an order, convened a military council, and began to deploy the conquest of Luzon.

There is one point, for him, there is nothing that can be done. It is the troops on the Taiwan side of Fujian, which are far away and have no means of communication, so they can only be under his command after they all arrive at Luzon Island. For now, he can only command the army on Annam's side.

As for Annam, after all, it has just been pacified, and it is necessary to garrison troops to maintain the governance of the magistrates, and all the troops cannot be withdrawn. He estimated that in addition to the 300 warships of various colors and almost 10,000 troops of the Fujian Naval Division under Zheng Chenggong's command, he could only send another 10,000 troops.

However, Lu Xiangsheng didn't think there was anything, what Xiyi could rely on was just a clipper cannon.

And now on the side of the Fujian Naval Division, there are more than a dozen warships imitating Xiyi, plus the assistance of the battleships of the Franc man, his side will not be worse than Luzon Xiyi.

As for artillery, the gap between the two sides is almost the same. Even on the muskets, on the side of the Ming army, all of them are flintlock muskets, and they will definitely not be inferior to Luzon Xiyi.

These advantages, after Luzon Xiyi is gone, how can it fight a decisive battle with the Ming army!

In fact, too, the generation gap between weapons in this era is really not that big. If you are familiar with firearms, you can still win a hot-weapon army if you have a commander who can fight well and command an elite cold-weapon army.

There is a good example, that is, Liaodong Jianyu, after suffering a loss in the face of firearms, came up with a way to deal with firearms. For example, the sudden impact of the cavalry, the cover of the chariot and so on. Even if the firearms of the Ming army were very bad, it was undeniable that the method of building captives in Liaodong had a certain effect. In this era, the most important thing is to look at people, not weapons.

As for those natives of Luzon, it's not that Lu Xiangsheng looks down on them, but he really doesn't care about them. In the past, only the pirates who fled to the South Seas in the Ming Dynasty could be the king and hegemon on their side! Not to mention, now he is still in command of the imperial army!

Before evening, the guards presented eleven pairs of ears and eleven confessions to Lu Xiangsheng. Moreover, there are guards who have already checked their confessions, and there are not many discrepancies.

"Hehe, my lord, these Luzon Xiyi are very afraid of death!" Lu Xiangsheng's personal guards came to such a conclusion and said with ridicule.

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he also sneered in his heart, but he didn't speak, just looked down at the process of the Luzon massacre of the Ming people, as well as the Luzon Xiyi and the natives who aided the abuse.

What kind of Ming people colluded with pirates to rebel, it's all fucking bullshit! Lu Xiangsheng was extremely angry, even if he was a Confucian disciple, he couldn't help but curse in his heart.

is still the emperor wise, these Xiyi are used to killing, and they feel that there will be no problem, so they treat the people of the Ming Dynasty unscrupulously. Now this time, it is indeed time to take the Xiyi in Luzon and those natives who helped the abuses as an example, kill one by one, and let all the Xiyi know that if they dare to do something to the people of the Ming Dynasty, they will have to pay an unbearable price!

Thinking like this, Lu Xiangsheng's murderous aura was a lot heavier. So much so that sometimes, the way he looked at Anders made Anders a little hairy.

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Luzon Manila, the Spanish Governor's Palace, Governor Diego looked at a row of people, all with their heads wrapped, and couldn't help but ask Filot, who was the leader, in surprise: "What's wrong with you, the affairs of the Ming Kingdom, but it's done?" ”

When Filote heard this, he immediately pointed to his head and said with a sad face: "Your Excellency the Governor, the Ming people cut off our ears and declared war on us!" ”

"What?" When Diego heard this, he was immediately shocked, stood up in fright, stared at Filote and said, "Didn't you say that this matter is easy to solve?" What's going on, how did it come to be like this? ”

The total number of Spaniards in Luzon was only about 2,000. With this amount of troops, how can you fight a huge empire? If it is an empire of those low-level civilizations, such as the one in the Americas before, there is nothing to be afraid of. However, the civilization of this Ming Empire is far from being comparable to those countries, and it can even be said that it is a civilization that they themselves admire very much!

With such a huge empire, so many people, and still so close, how can you fight?

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