[254] Bing refers to Manila 2

Song Youliang waved his hand and said with a smile: "Why do we need our Ming soldiers to die?" Zhou Guoqing, you immediately bring Lin Guofeng and a few other elders who are familiar with Luzon affairs, and at the same time bring a large group of people to search the surrounding Turen villages, detain their leaders, elders, and the like, and then let each village send strong men to attack the city for us. ”

At this time, Li Xin went to count the grain and grass materials, and Gu Junen, who was not around, said with a smile: "Grandpa, this trick is really wonderful, when the Mongols attacked the city, they also drove the people of the enemy country to take the lead in the front. Now in this Manila city, there must be a lot of natives who work for the red hair of the Buddha Franc, we attack the natives with the natives, which can not only reduce the casualties of our army, but also confuse the enemy's heart, clever plan! ”

Song Youliang took Gu Junen back and said, "Since it's a clever plan, why don't you help?" ”

"Order!"

Before Zhou Guoqing left, he brought a young man to see Song Youliang and said: "Grandpa, this is the clan brother of the last general Fujian, named Zhou Guobin, who has only served in the army recently. Because I have been in Fujian for a long time, I know a lot of Nanyang terroir, and I hope to stay by my grandfather's side and serve my grandfather. ”

"Zhou Guobin?" Song Youliang repeated his name, "But that Zhou Guobin from Tong'an Huzhou, Fujian? ”

Zhou Guobin saluted and said: "The young general is Zhou Guobin of Huzhou." Zhou Quanbin is a native of Fujian Tong'an Huzhou, both civil and military, when Zhou Guobin was in Guazhou in history, Zhou Quanbin bravely led his troops to float first, rushed straight to the enemy's formation, and was hit by five arrows, and the momentum was more prosperous, and the armies followed, so they captured Guazhou.

"Since you know the terroir of the South Seas, how much do you know about the red hairy people of the South Seas?" Song Youliang asked

Zhou Guobin replied: "First of all, the young general wants to say to his grandfather that these red-haired Yi people are not 'Yi' at all. 'Yi' is my Ming Dynasty's contempt for the barbarians who have not yet been enlightened. I am conceited that the Heavenly Empire is superior, and I regard other countries as barbarians who have not been enlightened, which is a big fallacy. For example, the red hair of Macao and the red hair of Luzon, many skills are far above our country, not to mention, the Franc machine gun, the red cannon and other sharp weapons are not all from the red hair people where to introduce my Ming Dynasty? ”

Song Youliang was stunned for a moment, he was deeply surprised by Zhou Guobin's words, he couldn't imagine that today's Daming has such a person who opens his eyes to see the world, so he appreciates Zhou Guobin more and more.

Zhou Guobin said: "I have always thought that the world is big, but between the borders of the Ming Dynasty, when Matteo Ricci presented the "Kunyu Wanguo Quantu", I knew that the world of the Ming Dynasty is only one percent of the real world. It's ridiculous that I have been a frog at the bottom of the well for so many years, and now I hear that my grandfather is studying in the West, and I deeply feel that the future of the Ming Dynasty will be all tied to my grandfather. So, I'm here to help. ”

"Well said!" Song Youliang praised: "It's rare to have a person like you who is far-sighted and open-minded, and there will be many places where you will be used in the future." You don't want to go to the front, stay with me and listen to it at any time. ”

Zhou Guobin bowed again: "Thank you grandpa for your promotion!" ”

Zhou Guoqing, as the commander of the first army, was equipped with a telescope, and at this time, the pier was still nearly two miles away from Manila, so he escaped from the telescope on his waist and put it in front of him to look in the direction of the castle. After watching it for a long time, Xiang Xiang smiled at the people around him: "This city built by the red-haired man is really strange." What did you do with such a high spire? "The city of Manila is now only a large castle built by the Spaniards, including the governor's mansion, chambers of commerce, churches and other Spanish-style buildings, outside the castle, there are local natives and Chinese residences, these houses are scattered on the north bank of the Bashi River, the castle is firmly encircled in the center. Because of the massacre more than 20 years ago, Manila could not find shoemakers, carpenters, barbers, and transit merchants for a while, and the Bashi River was full of the corpses of the Han people who had been killed. A large number of people who originally lived on the southern shore of the sea moved to the north shore, away from the center of the castle at that time. At this time, although more than 20 years have passed, many Han people have forgotten the tragedy of those years and have moved from the coast of China and the islands of the South Seas. At this time, a large number of Han people gathered in Manila City.

The Spanish regular army in Manila, which had 4,000 men, lost six or seven hundred men in the naval battle, and another 500 men were distributed on the docks. Now the defenders of Manila are about 2,900 men. It's just that there are more than 4,000 natives in the city, and these natives can't help much in the artillery battle, but they are useful for sending death or repairing the city walls, which makes the Spaniards defending the city very easy

Just when the Spaniards had arranged all the muskets and cannons and were ready to give the Ming army a head-on attack, the Spanish soldiers suddenly found that many local natives had appeared outside Manila, numbering no less than 10,000 people. There were many women, old and young, mixed with many women, their skin was dark, not like Han Chinese, and most of them were dressed in coarse linen clothes, which were clearly the clothes of the natives of Luzon

"Isn't this a local student, what are the Chinese going to do?" Grady, the Spanish archbishop of Manila, asked in surprise

A Spanish soldier said with a look of horror: "My lord, I have heard that the Tatars used to drive the enemy civilians as the vanguard to attack the city. Could it be that these natives of the East also followed the Tatar example and drove these natives to death? ”

"Tatars? My God! Grady drew a cross on his chest, "Shameless, obscene, executioners, these natives are civilians, God will not allow such a cruel thing to happen!" Grady waved his arms excitedly, forgetting that more than 4,000 natives were helping the Spaniards defend the city of Manila as cannon fodder.

"Lord Bishop, wait a minute, these Oriental natives will drive these tens of thousands of natives to attack, if the natives of the city are unwilling to help, we can't stop it with our own 2,000 soldiers!" Spanish infantry captain Rodrigo was in a hurry

It was only then that the Spanish governor Blange suddenly realized why the Ming army did not attack the city directly, it was not because the Ming army was afraid of the Spanish artillery, it turned out that the Ming army had gone out to collect the natives on the island. Although the Spaniards began to clear the wilderness after discovering that the Ming were going to attack Manila City, the population that Manila City could accommodate was limited after all, and most of the natives only cleared out of the city a little. They saw that the Ming army had not taken action against the Spaniards on the island for a long time, and many natives hid in the forest for several days and then ran home, and the Ming army still had cavalry in the army, as long as they were dispatched quickly, the natives who returned home could not run even if they wanted to

The second day is still sunny skies, the weather in Luzon is also very strange, June to November is the rainy season, heavy rain all day long, and this is the dry season, the whole island is the whole month and there are no drops of rain. Therefore, Lin Guofeng suggested that Manila should be conquered before the rainy season arrives in June, otherwise it will be difficult for firearms to be used once the rainy season arrives.

So after waiting for the sun to rise in the east, Zhou Guoqing immediately ordered the gunners to aim and shoot, and bombed the city of Manila, the houses and buildings could not stop collapsing, and the already weak sense of resistance in the city became more and more depressed. The artillery of all the Ming infantry moved to the forward position, and more than 200 large and small artillery pieces bombarded the city together. The Spaniards also fought back, but the Ming artillery had the advantage in range, so the casualties were minimal. The Spaniards, on the other hand, suffered heavy casualties, especially the natives, who were equally fearful in the face of the heavy artillery of the Ming army.

The natives cowered, causing cracks in several destroyed walls of Manila to grow bigger and bigger, and at this time, the Ming army began to drive the nearly 10,000 natives they had collected and began to approach the city of Manila.

"Let's go! Hurry up~" The Ming soldiers drove them forward like ducks behind the natives, the natives were no less afraid of the Spanish artillery in the front battlefield than the Ming army behind them, although the Ming soldiers punched and kicked, and even smashed with the butt of their guns, but there were very few people who were really willing to advance, a ten-person team of Ming soldiers had to deal with more than 200 natives who were in custody, in the face of the non-cooperation of most of the people, the difficulties can be imagined, Zhou Guoqing issued the order to move forward for ten minutes, the distance of the natives was less than 100 meters, and they were reluctant to go further

"Shoot me, two shots on the ground first!" Secretary Zhou ordered

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The Ming army fired at the feet of the natives, and the splashes of earth and the loud noise frightened the natives. The sound of gunfire played a great role in the speed of the natives, more and more natives entered the range of the artillery of Manila City, and the artillery at the head of the city wanted to shoot at the artillery of the Ming army to suppress their destruction of the city wall

The Spanish colonized the Philippines for decades, so Catholicism has a strong foundation among the Filipino natives. Most of the natives gathered in Manila at this moment were Catholics who had been tricked into coming to the aid of the war. So Grady stood in front of the church and said in a cuckoo's bloody tone: "Look outside the city, children of God, there may be your relatives among those people, or your neighbors, but at this moment, they are all thrown into the arms of the devil, and only blood can wash away their sins. You must save them, and when they die, they will return to the arms of God. God is loving, and everyone who dies can be forgiven by God if they sincerely repent, and those poor people outside the city need your help. ”

Grady went on to say sensationally: "Children, the devil is roaring outside the city, and once they enter Mani, God's people will be killed and churches will be destroyed. You have no place to worship, your life is under the threat of the devil at any time, your wives and daughters have to contribute for the devil to vent, and the lowly and greedy Chinese will climb on your head and take everything from you, can you allow it? ”

Under Grady's instigation, the blood of the natives boiled and shouted loudly: "No~~No~~~~"

"Go to battle, children, guard Manila, guard God, guard your wives and daughters, God is with you, Amen!" Grady ended his speech by making a cross on his chest, then waved his hand and pointed in the direction of the city walls

"God is with us!" Countless natives were rushing in the direction of Grady's finger, this was originally a war between the Ming and the Spaniards, but it was two groups of local natives who were the first to engage in short-handed combat