After aiming the Wangshan of the Divine Crossbow and the crosshairs in a line, and aiming at the chest of the indigenous general who was pointing on the high platform opposite, Tan Sangou, the crossbow corporal, showed a strange smile on the corner of his mouth.

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There was a soft sound of the crossbow machine, and three poisonous crossbow arrows shot out of the hole next to the stone.

A bolt slashed past the native general, blasting the head of one of the nearby natives who couldn't dodge.

A crossbow bolt struck a ring of animal bones on the native general's arm, and bounced off with a thud.

Another bolt was extremely accurate, striking the native general's chest, whizzing out of his chest and then bursting out of his back.

A large cloud of blood erupted from his chest, and the native general screamed and fell to the ground on his back, convulsing and dying.

Seeing that this indigenous general was sniped in front of him, the natives who fled into the village suddenly fell into chaos.

All the Tang troops, including Tan Sangou, didn't know that this indigenous general was actually the eldest son of King Kubutun V of Maguindanu and the first heir to the throne, Prince Palena.

The smile on Tan Sangou's face was almost as bright as the sun after the rain.

He turned around and gestured to the Tang army in the distance, telling them to take advantage of this moment to shoot the indigenous generals and immediately seize the opportunity to attack the village.

And Tang Jun, who was outside the village, saw Tan Sangou's gesture and heard the chaotic shouts in the village, and his morale was greatly boosted.

With a swipe on the ground, Li Haoran pulled out his sword and shouted: "Brothers, the enemy general is dead, his formation is in chaos, our army quickly attacked, and captured Ba Mao Village!" ”

All the Tang troops shouted in unison and rushed towards the village.

Seeing the natives scurrying around the village like headless flies, Tang Jun did not hesitate to immediately shoot crossbow arrows.

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One by one, the crossbow arrows shot away, and countless natives fell to the ground screaming, and then, the natives who had fallen into a state of collapse fled in all directions, while the Tang army pursued fiercely behind.

The Tang army ran and shot and chased for more than a mile, until all the natives had fled into the dense rainforest, and then retreated to Bamao Village.

At the end of the day, the entire village of Bamao was finally successfully captured.

In addition to the natives who had just been exterminated outside the village, the Tang army had wiped out more than 3,000 natives in and out of this Bamao village in total, and had completely won the battle.

By the way, Tan Sangou, who had made great contributions to the capture of Bamao Village by the Tang Army, was immediately promoted to the rank of commander and awarded the Order of the Tiger Roar.

With this Tiger Roar Medal, Tan Sangou will receive 50 gold dollars as a reward, and he will also be granted 20 acres of land, which he can choose whether it is Taiwan, Luzon, the Central Islands, and even Mindanao, which will be conquered.

Tan Sangou, who was originally just an ordinary soldier, was so excited that he burst into tears when he saw that he had been promoted so vigorously and was awarded the Tiger Roar Medal, which was not only a rare honor but also a great material gain.

My life goal has finally been achieved.

After the reward was completed, Li Haoran immediately arranged for all the aborigines and Tang soldiers who died in the battle to be cremated separately, so as to avoid the plague caused by the rapid decomposition of the corpses in this hot and humid environment.

The ashes of the indigenous people were swept into the rainforest on the spot, while the ashes of Tang Jun were put into the urns and labeled separately.

It is ready to be transported back to Zamboanga and then buried in a unified manner.

After arranging for the soldiers to be stationed in the key places in the village, these Tang troops who had fought hard all the way could finally sleep well.

It's just that they are all lying on their backs in armor, and their weapons are also placed beside them, so that they can be ready to deal with the attack of the natives at any time.

Rao is like this, these extremely tired Tang soldiers still sleep very sweetly, and the snoring sound comes and goes.

Of course, Li Haoran knew that now that the indigenous general had been killed by himself, and the indigenous people were already leaderless, so in a short period of time, it should be impossible to attack again.

It's just that Li Haoran, who is the general of the unified army, did not feel sleepy at all on this quiet night.

He was thinking about a lot of things.

That is, the enemy army is so fierce and tenacious, and it is not afraid of death, and it is by no means easy for the Tang army to completely conquer this barbaric and religious nation.

Relying on one's own total number of soldiers and horses is actually far from enough.

If we really want to completely eliminate this Maguindanu country and truly occupy the entire island of Mindanao, the Tang Army must invest more and larger troops.

Because, these indigenous people who are still in a primitive state, their so-called capital Sultan Kudara, may be nothing more than a larger stockade.

If these natives cannot be wiped out, even if they capture their capital, Sultan Kudara, it will be useless.

Only on the premise of sufficient military support, taking advantage of the advantages of the naval division, from different regions, to attack the capital of Maguindanu in a collective manner, can those rampant natives take care of one thing and the other, and finally wipe them out.

So, Li Haoran got up from the floor and immediately wrote his thoughts into a letter, preparing to be brought back to Cao Bianjiao by the guards tomorrow.

In the early morning of the next day, after the Tang army finished breakfast, Li Hao immediately ordered a force composed of 1,000 crossbowmen and 500 shield soldiers to bring the urns of all the Tang soldiers who had died in battle, urgently withdraw to Zamboanga, and then report the situation here to Cao Bianjiao.

The retreating soldiers returned to Zamboanga very smoothly, and after returning the urn of the fallen Tang army to Cao Bianjiao, they handed him the letter from Li Haoran.

After reading Li Haoran's letter, Cao Bianjiao unconsciously fell into deep thought.

He must admit that Li Haoran has a lot of point.

If this Maguindanu country does not destroy their living forces, then no matter how many villages and towns are captured, even if they capture their capital, it will be useless.

And to completely exterminate this barbarian nation with a total population of as many as 1560,000, it can only allow more Tang troops to come to Mindanao to participate in the extermination, otherwise, it will not be enough to rely on the strength of their own battalion B alone.

Cao Bianjiao agreed with Li Haoran's opinion, and after letting the retreating soldiers rest for a day, he asked them to return to Bamao Village with more baggage, as well as some flying harrier cavalry and spearmen.

Cao Bianjiao asked Li Haoran to stop the offensive for the time being, stick to the same place, and wait for more reinforcements to arrive, and then arrange the battle in a unified manner.

Subsequently, Cao Bianjiao wrote a letter to Li Yu, hoping that he could send more teams over as soon as possible, so that the battle in Mindanao could go on faster and smoother.

After Li Xiao received Cao Bianjiao's letter, he also deeply agreed with Li Haoran's proposal.

In this war of annihilation, under the premise that the barbarian soldiers are so brave and so desperate for death, there are not enough troops to come to the villages to exterminate them, and it is absolutely impossible to destroy this Maguindanu country.

It is in itself an unrealistic fantasy to deal with such a nation and to try to win a victory by opportunistic means under such harsh geographical conditions.

Li Xiao remembered many time-traveling novels in his previous life, and many time-travelers could easily wipe out this Maguindanu country when attacking it, as if they were playing a completely asymmetrical game.

It's just whimsical.

They didn't even consider how these Maguindanu natives, who were not afraid of death, were all soldiers, and had the right time, place, and people could occupy all three of them, be so easily captured and obediently obey on this damp and rainy island of Mindanao, where the roads are difficult to navigate, and where the muskets and artillery are almost useless.

If they were really so easy to exterminate, then why was the Maguindanu state able to resist Spain for centuries until the end of the nineteenth century, when it was reluctantly conquered by the modern American army, conditional on a high degree of autonomy?

It can be seen that judging from the strength of this nation, they can be said to be one of the most difficult nations to conquer in the entire Southeast Asian region.

It is simply impossible for those who travel through fiction to destroy them so easily with muskets and artillery.

So, Li Xiao immediately ordered that in the next two months, he would make every effort to build enough divine crossbows, equip all the crossbowmen of the three battalions of A, B and C in Pingnan Town, and then send all the crossbowmen of the two battalions of A and B to Zamboanga for unified command by Cao Bianjiao.

At the same time, the Tang Army's naval division also temporarily obeyed Cao Bianjiao's arrangement, and in accordance with his orders, these soldiers and horses were sent to various landing sites.

In late July of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the two battalions A and B of Pingnan Town, as well as the three battalions of the C battalion, a total of five crossbowmen, were all trained, and after bringing a large number of baggage, they were immediately transported to Zamboanga by the Tang Army's naval division.

More than ten days later, seeing the rolling soldiers transported down from the fleet, Cao Bianjiao was so happy that it was difficult to describe in words.

After all the soldiers rested in Zamboanga for three days, Cao Bianjiao immediately ordered the Tang Army's naval division to operate the Tang Army's general troops and horses to each landing point to attack.

Among them, the two general soldiers and horses of the A Battalion of Pingnan Town, led by Zu Kuan, deputy commander of the A Battalion, went to Cotabato Town in southern Mindanao to land, and from the south to the north, they attacked Sultan Kudara, the capital of Maguindanu.

The two general soldiers and horses of the second battalion of Pingnan Town, led by the deputy commander of the second battalion, went to Wutuan in northern Mindanao, and attacked the capital of Maguindanu from north to south.

Cao Bianjiao himself, on the other hand, personally led the two general soldiers and horses of the C battalion, General B and General C, starting from Bamao Village and attacking Sultan Kudara from west to east.

From then on, the Tang army targeted the capital city of Sultan Kudara and attacked from three directions.

On the island of Medan, the Tang army was completely transformed into a mad and cruel beast in these remote and wild lands, with devastating blows on Maguindanu villages and towns everywhere and all villages and villages being slaughtered.

However, there is no way to do this, after all, for such a race of almost humanoid beasts, only more ferocious and ruthless than them is the only way to defeat them.

Rao is like this, and the battle of the Tang Army was not all smooth sailing.

Those natives, although they were repeatedly defeated, could always seize the opportunity to harass and attack the Tang army, causing a lot of casualties to the Tang army.

A month and a half later, after landing from Kotabatar, the Zukuanbu army, which was closest to Sultan Kudara, finally attacked the city of Sultan Kudara.

Zu Kuan saw that this Sultan Kudara City was only more than two miles, and the size was about the same as a thousand forts of the Ming army, but it only had a simple earthen wall, and even the moat was not dug.

Zu Kuan suddenly felt secretly happy in his heart, such a small city dares to be called the capital, which shows how backward this barbarian nation is.

Amazingly, the king of Sultan Kudara, Kubutun V, did not flee, but led the last elite army of more than 4,000 people to garrison the head of Sultan Kudara.

Kubutun V dressed up and stood at the head of the city, as if he were not fighting, but going to a feast.

Perhaps, he hoped that he would use his own way of being on the front line to boost the morale and fighting spirit of the defenders.

Seeing that the king of Maguindanu, Kubutun V, who was dressed in full costume and standing at the head of the city and singing, after a month and a half of brutal fighting, his body was emaciated, his whole body was dark, and there were many wounds on his body, Zu Kuan, the general of the commander of the first battalion, gritted his teeth fiercely, and a cruel hideous look flashed on his face.

"Sons, listen to Lao Tzu, all the crossbowmen approached to attack and shoot the defenders at the head of the city. The shield soldiers cut down trees and built siege engines. Mom, I don't believe it, I can't wipe out this barbarian king who entered the dog here! Zu Kuan ordered loudly with hatred. Order! Next, the Tang army of Zu Kuan's department began to divide into two divisions, the shield soldiers hurried to build equipment such as crash cars and siege ladders, and the crossbowmen surrounded the Sultan Kudara City, and kept shooting the indigenous soldiers stationed at the head of the city with their crossbows. Of course, when they were shooting, the indigenous guards at the head of the city also kept returning fire with bows and arrows, but the range of the indigenous bows and arrows was too short, and the damage to the Tang crossbowmen who were sixty paces away was very limited. In this way, Zu Kuanbu was outside the city of Sultan Kudara and was in a stalemate with the defenders for a week. In the course of a week, Zu Kuanbu's crossbowmen killed at least six or seven hundred Maguindanu soldiers stationed at the head of the city. Often, as soon as the natives showed their heads, several highly poisonous crossbow arrows whistled and exploded their accidentally exposed heads like watermelons. A week later, the siege equipment of Zu Kuanbu was built, and at this time, the Ebilun division of the second battalion of Pingnan Town, which was attacking from north to south, also reached the outside of Sultan Kudara. So, the two armies converged and immediately began to attack the city of Sultan Kudara. The two gates of the city of Sultan Kudara were violently smashed open by a huge and sturdy crashing car. On the simple city wall, there were newly made siege ladders set up, and the Tang army of the brigade was like ants on the edge of the stick, attacking the city head along the siege ladder. In just half an hour, the remaining defenders in the city, as well as the indigenous inhabitants in the city, were all killed by the Tang army. When the Tang army attacked the central palace, the imperial palace of the Maguindanu Kingdom suddenly caught fire. It turned out that seeing that the general trend had turned, King Kubutun V of Maguindannu, and his four wives, dressed in the best decorations and clothes, sang and danced in this palace, and burned themselves to death. Seeing that this palace was on fire, Zu Kuan regretted it and stomped his feet. Because he knows that there are many treasures hidden in this palace, and he is extremely rich, but now he has been burned down by a fire, how can it not be regretted. In the end, he quickly extinguished the fire, and finally only got more than 100 taels of gold and more than 10,000 taels of silver in the palace of the Sultan Kudara, and the rest of the treasures were destroyed, which made Zu Kuan sigh. And all the seizures in the entire capital city of Sultan Kudara added up, and there were only more than 200 taels of gold, more than 50,000 taels of silver, more than 100,000 stones of grain, and some silk and satin fabrics of very poor texture, which made Zu Kuan, who was eager to capture the royal capital and make a fortune, suddenly disappointed. Although the city of Sultan Kudara was captured, the Maguindanu people everywhere were still spontaneously resisting, and the Tang army finally wiped out all the Maguindanu after nearly two months of attacking, and the Maguindanu country was finally completely destroyed. Mindanao, which was full of blood and sweat, finally fell into the hands of the Tang army. At this point, the entire Philippine region fell into the hands of the Tang Army, and the Tang Army's southern expedition finally completed the most critical and difficult step. In this Philippine region, which fell into the hands of the Tang Army, a new era began.