Fire!

The crimson flames lit up half of the sky, and in the flames, the laughter of the native soldiers echoed like a carnival, and they slaughtered the villages they inhabited at will.

The bamboo buildings were lit by torches thrown by the indigenous soldiers, and for a while thick smoke billowed out.

Tens of thousands of ghostly indigenous soldiers burst out of the rainforest and appeared on the edge of the villages outside the city of Nanhengzhou, attacking the settlements one by one.

The colonization of the military and civilians of Gui as a colonizer was militarized. After arriving in Nanhengzhou, the king of Gui allocated the surrounding land to his officials and generals and more than 12,000 guards as a reward. However, because of the insufficient amount of cultivated land, the first batch could only be allocated to officials and generals, and in order to allocate land to soldiers, they could only expand outward, during which they were bound to conflict with the natives, and the newly recaptured land was located on the outer edge of Nanheng Prefecture, all of which were far away from the towns.

However, fortunately, most of them remained vigilant, and when the Mataran soldiers came out of the rainforest, the soldiers and civilians of those settlements fled in the direction of Nanhengzhou without any resistance at all.

If you are attacked by the natives, you must first flee for your life!

For the soldiers and civilians in the settlement, they knew very well why they should flee for their lives, because a settlement often has only a few families, a few men, and a few firearms, and it is obviously impossible to be the opponent of the natives in a horde.

Escape.

After fleeing to the city, make plans.

Compared with the bamboo buildings built by Maozhu, for feudal countries like Gui, the lives of the Han people are important. While the people in the center of the target were fleeing for their lives, the news of the arrival of the natives also came, and the sirens sounded in all directions.

South-east-west, except for the north of the sea, bell towers rang in all areas, and the bells echoed in the sky. Thousands of people abandoned their possessions in the hurried bell and desperately retreated towards Nanhengzhou.

The arrival of tens of thousands of refugees made the officials in the city even more busy, and when these refugees entered the city, most of them had nothing to lose, and in order to save their lives, they only brought firecrackers and swords, and they did not even have time to bring rations urgently.

18,000 refugees!

In just one day, 18,000 refugees poured into the city from all directions, the vast majority of whom had no place to live, and had to resort to the homes, monasteries and churches of the city's people.

Taixue has also become a place to settle refugees, and before today, Xu Fuyuan did not know that in his lifetime, he faced such a tragic situation again, many refugees came in with injuries, although the wounds were simply bandaged, but the blood stains on the clothes were still clearly visible. Many people looked sad, and their eyes were full of sadness.

"What's going on?"

Xu Fuyuan grabbed a boy and asked.

The twelve-year-old boy had a fire hammer in his hand, a short knife pinned to his waist, and he still had blood on his body, and he seemed to be resolute, but his expression looked a little dazed, and he was frightened.

"It's the Ma Da Lan people, they suddenly killed them, there are thousands of people, my father, my father is dead, my mother, my mother is also dead......"

When the boy's words fell, he suddenly burst into tears. The firearm in his hand also fell to the ground, and he just sat on the ground and hugged his head and cried.

"Dafu, take your firecracker!"

At that moment, another teenager picked up a fire bolt from the ground and stuffed it into the boy's arms, then took him by the shoulders and said.

"They're coming, they're coming, you're going to kill them and avenge your father, you know? Don't cry like a! ”

The boy's roar calmed the boy, and though he was still sad, he picked up the firearm again.

It's all kids!

Looking at those teenagers who pretended to be strong, Xu Yuanfu noticed that they were all children, and those who survived were all children, nothing more than older children and younger children. At most, a few women were involved.

"How can they all be children, they, their families?"

"It's a batalan."

Li Jiyu explained to Xu Fuyuan.

"They suddenly came over, different from the past invasion of the natives, this time it was Ma Dalan Su Dan who led the troops to fight, southeast and northwest, except for the north side of the sea, there were no them, there were tens of thousands of people everywhere, there was never such a thing, in the past, at most, some natives attacked one or two villages, I have never seen such an embattled, I heard, there are people everywhere ......"

Looking at the boys who were yelled at by the older children to pick up the firearms again, Li Jiyu's eyes were hot.

"How many of them escaped alive, the situation in other places is even worse than this, the farthest place from Xinhengzhou, I heard that only half of the people survived, I don't know how many, even before sleeping, died under the knife of the Ma Da Lan people, those people for the Han people, never leave prisoners, even if the Ma Da Lan people plunder slaves, but only the soil slaves in the Han family, as for the Han people...... That can only be used for knife practice. ”

Looking at the teenagers holding firearms that did not match their height, Li Jiyu continued to explain.

"Whatever happens to us Han people, we try our best to keep our children, their fathers and mothers...... Estimated ......"

After a long sigh, Li Jiyu said again.

"Maybe, maybe there are still people who survive, they, they should have gathered on the way, they should be fending off the Matalan."

Indeed, just as Li Jiyu said, after the attack of the Mataran people, except for the immigrants who were slashed and killed in their sleep, most of them were retreating with their wives and children after receiving the news, and at the same time assembled, and quickly focused on a team of as few as a thousand people at several small strongholds leading to the city. But just as they were holding the firearms and preparing to fight back, the sirens from all directions stunned everyone.

This was not an isolated attack, but a full-scale offensive.

The sudden attack not only surprised ordinary people very much, but even Zhu Cixuan himself was speechless for a long time.

"What's going on? You told Gu that the army gathered by the Madalan Kingdom was because of the conflict with Aceh, why did it suddenly appear with us now! ”

The reason why Zhu Cixuan was angry was because a month ago, he had been alerted that the Mataran Kingdom had gathered an army of 150,000. But Pan Renyuan told him that there was no need to worry.

"Minister, minister...... Ten thousand deaths! ”

After a long time again, Pan Renyuan, who promised to be shrewd, didn't know how to explain it for a while. Or rather, unexplainable.

For a long time, in Pan Renyuan's view, Ma Dalan would never dare to invade the Kingdom of Gui, under the protection of the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, there is that land king who will act boldly and recklessly, aren't they afraid of the wrath of the Ming Dynasty and destroy his country?

Obviously, with the protection of the Ming Dynasty, there is no need to worry about Ma Dalan at all, compared to this country of "100,000 armor", what really worries people is the resistance of the natives when they are encroaching on the outside world, they are not willing to be plundered by the land, so they will attack from time to time.

And the resistance encountered since the establishment of the country also proves Pan Renyuan's "speculation", in fact, this does not want to be speculation, after all, when he was exiled to the Northeast, he also encountered similar things, those native chieftains are often afraid of the thunderous wrath of the Ming Dynasty, but ordinary natives will act impulsively and recklessly.

Therefore, Pan Renyuan formulated the strategy of "external encroachment and step-by-step expansion", the core of the strategy is to maintain the relationship with Ma Dalan, use the prestige of the Ming Dynasty to suppress Ma Dalan, and gradually encroach, as for the local rebellion, you can take the opportunity to plunder it as slaves, and further encroach. In terms of defense, a market was also set up every few miles as a small stronghold to prevent the natives from rebelling.

At least since the inauguration of the country, with these few tricks, especially the strategy of withdrawing into the stronghold in times of chaos and immediately suppressing after assembling, the territory of Gui has expanded sixfold in just two years.

But it is precisely because of this that Pan Renyuan's carelessness will be caused - he doesn't believe that the Ma Da Lan will take the risk of hitting him. Even if he was alerted, it did not arouse his vigilance.

"King, now, it's not the time to ask for guilt, since Ma Dalan can attack our country with more than 100,000 horses, then Ma Dalan Sudan is bound to want to destroy my Gui country, in the opinion of the minister, now on the one hand, in addition to sending all the troops of the country, we must also send a fast boat, report to Nantianmen, and ask the mother country to send rescue troops, otherwise, with more than 10,000 people and horses in our country, we will definitely be defeated by more than 100,000 enemies."

Ryazan, who ranked in the court as an uncle, was not incompetent, and he was able to serve as the president of the Beiyang Chamber of Commerce for many years, which can be seen in general, unlike Zhu Cixuan's panic and Pan Renyuan's chagrin, he gave a solution to the problem at the first time.

As soon as he reminded him, Zhu Cixuan, who was originally panicked, immediately nodded and said.

"What Nan Anjun said is extremely true."

Because the Liang family married their daughter to him, but they lost the relationship with the Beiyang Chamber of Commerce, in order to appease the Liang family, when Ryazan led the Liang family to vote, he immediately canonized Ryazan as the king of Nan'an, and even fiefdom 100 li, 10,000 households, of course, this is all verbal, if you want to get these fiefs, he only has two choices, either to wait for the Gui army to come down, or to lead the troops to fight.

While expressing his approval, Zhu Cixuan turned his head to look at Zhang Fengyang, the general of Guiguo, and asked anxiously,

"General Zhang, this, can we stop Ma Yi?"

More than 100,000 horses, this, this is also too scary. How many people are there in the entire Gui country? Men, women, children, women and children are only in their early 40,000s! It's almost four or five to one, how can Zhu Cixuan not be afraid.

"Block, it will definitely be able to stop them, when Matalan 160,000 troops besieged Bacheng, the Dutch only had more than 1,000 people, and they could not be attacked for a long time. Just ......"

Frowning slightly, Zhang Fengyang looked at the lord of the country and said.

"The problem now is that there is no food in the country, and it must not be able to hold on to the city for a long time, like the Dutch. Therefore, it is necessary to ask for help from the South Heavenly Gate, and it is necessary to immediately notify the outlying strongholds to withdraw to the main city as much as possible. ”