The raging fire is constantly circling over the city of Manila, the advantage of the Spaniards is at sea, there are sea fortresses and undefeated fleets, since the establishment of the Manila colony for 70 years, no country's army can invade the capital of the Spanish Philippines, the Ming Empire is still the first to open the Spaniards' strong shells.

However, this is also the first time that Huang Degong has disobeyed orders on the battlefield, and the military order given to him by Mao Jue is just one word, kill! If Liu Liangzuo or Gao Jie came here, I am afraid that he would like to raise the butcher's knife, but as the only alternative in the three towns of Jiangbei, Huang Degong is not interested in this kind of slaughter of civilians, although his troops also rob the people, there is no way, who can let the military pay not be able to help? But his subordinates will not easily slaughter the city and destroy the village like the beast soldiers under the command of He Renlong Zuo Liangyu Gao Jie, everyone knows that under Huang Chuangzi, it is a capital crime!

The troops marched methodically towards the city along the wide road by the port, and only lit some isolated buildings for lighting along the way, and did not invade from house to house, of course, this has something to do with the resistance of the Spaniards, and the troops left in the Spanish Philippine capital are only four or five hundred, which is indeed enough to deal with the local natives, and the whole Ming army with loaded guns and cannons, which was hung up and hammered, the fortress was captured, and a group of battleships died, and there was not much left. The last remaining part of the city, and the only walled part of Manila, Fort St. George, is almost red-lit.

But just like the accident when seizing the sea fort, just as they were marching into the city, suddenly a dozen or so leading reconnaissance cavalry rushed over with the war horses that had been loaded and transported over with great difficulty, holding torches high and roaring at the Chinese army.

"Report, on the outskirts of Dongcheng, a large number of Western barbarians have been found ambushing!"

"Oh? There is such a thing!"

To tell the truth, this attack on Manila can be regarded as a military adventure for the Ming Dynasty, for the military intelligence here, only the Spanish prisoners captured from the pirate ship, how many garrisons Manila has, Huang Degong does not know, but what surprised him even more is that there are large troops who do not engage in urban street battles, and run to the shallows on the outskirts of the city to play with a spoon?

But if there is an enemy, you can't ignore it, just as Westerners don't understand the Chinese, Daming doesn't know the Spaniards either, and in Daming's rumors, these guys can still recruit dragons to fight! So after hesitating, Huang Degong raised his slap and stopped the fifth regiment, the seventh and eighth regiments of the marching regiment, and the infantry of the three regiments held flintlock pistols and pushed ten field guns, and followed the scout cavalry towards the southwest.

To tell the truth, even if it is the capital of the Spanish Philippines, Manila is just a small city, inhabited by various ethnic groups, with a population of about 50,000, the towns are distinct, the white people are aristocrats, living in Philip Castle and its nearby tall and luxurious European-style houses, below are the local indigenous tribes, and then southeast near the sea is the settlement of the Ming people.

This southwest direction is the Ming people's settlement area, the Ming maritime merchants to Manila to do business, are also here, although the status is the lowest, but the Ming people's diligence and hard work, so that the houses here are obviously more clean and tidy than the white people's Turen neighborhood, among which there are also tall and rich mansions, but in the dark night, the whole community is like a death prison, silent even the sound of insects, walking on the streets here, Dongjiang soldiers can only hear their own rapid footsteps and heartbeat.

The atmosphere was weird and suffocating!

Not only the soldiers, even Huang Degong, who had experienced a hundred battles and bathed in the blood of the dead, felt that his heart was hairy, and he had just reached the middle of the march, he hurriedly called the scout who led the team, and at the same time raised his big hand violently: "Stop the army!"

"General, you call me?"

Pulling the horse's head, the scout hurried back again, turned over and dismounted, and kowtowed on one knee and asked.

"Are you sure there are no ambushes in this town?"

"Lord Hui, there are indeed no ambushes! The lowly brothers have probed house by house!"

The scout army is the best treatment in the entire Northern Ming Army, and the highest chance of promotion, as a Hanhua wild Jurchen from Liaodong, it is impossible for this person to deceive himself, but looking at the neighborhood where there is not even a lamp, Huang Degong still drums in his heart, looks left and right, and asks in dismay.

"There are candles all over the city, why is it so quiet?"

"General, have you forgotten, why did we start this war?"

Full of disbelief, the voice of the Liaodong scout even carried a hint of excitement, and replied hurriedly.

"This is the residential area of our Ming people, and they slaughtered all the Ming people!"

If he was far away in Beijing, the Spaniards slaughtered more than 20,000 Ming people in Manila, it was just a string of numbers for Huang Degong, and even his thoughts were similar to those old pedants, thinking that these people were not honest to stay at home, and they deserved to be killed when they ran out, and complained that Mao Jue fought this useless war of hard work and wages.

But when he really stood on this uninhabited block, Huang Degong could experience the sadness, dead silence, resentment and unwillingness, and the sad indignation of the rabbit and the fox, listening to the scout's angry shouts, Huang Degong couldn't help but be silent.

But that's just the beginning, the real shock is yet to come! Confirming that there was no danger, Huang Degong ordered to continue the attack, and the infantry with flintlock muskets also walked forward with a heavy heart, which delayed for a while, and the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded in the extremely empty night sky.

was already nervous, the infantry in the front row was almost a reflex bow, with their guns and artillerymen also standing up the field guns, but in the nervous gaze, it was a few scouts of their own team who were monitoring the enemy troops who hurriedly returned, waving the green flag in their hands as they ran.

"Safety! The crisis is over!"

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No wonder the forward scouts regarded this place as an ambush for the Spaniards, and in the dark night a torch lit up the area, and Huang Degong saw what was going on, and in an instant, his anger erupted like a volcano.

Leaning against the edge of the city is a mass grave, lined with I don't know how many T-shaped wooden pillars with crooked heads, each wooden pillar hangs a dozen ropes, each of which hangs from the neck of a person, I don't know how long they have been hanged, these corpses are dry like bacon, with the sea breeze, countless corpses jingle and shake, like wind chimes.

These are not only Ming people, but most of them are old people, women and children, you can imagine what a tragic massacre was held by the Spaniards here after the bloody suppression of the Ming people in Manila by force!

And this is not the first massacre! Around the fifteenth year of Wanli, the Wanli Emperor sent people to Nanyang to buy Sumu, so that the Spaniards thought that the Ming Dynasty was going south to attack, so they slaughtered the Ming people in the territory and killed more than 20,000 people.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, dissatisfied with the expropriation and tyranny of the Spaniards, the Ming people in Manila rioted, and were once again bloodily suppressed by the Spaniards, this time they were not killed, more than 10,000 Ming people were pardoned, but they were beaten into pariahs, and they had to pay a large amount of poll tax every year.

The rise of the East India Company in which the Ming Dynasty took a stake, a large number of Ming boats and fish poured into Manila to trade, bringing the Spaniards a golden time, but also made them feel threatened and afraid, and picked a reason to slander the Ming people of Manila and the East India Company Ming people colluded, premeditated rebellion, the third time, the Spaniards carried out another massacre, and this time it was completely exterminated, even those who were beaten as untouchables, have converted to Christianity Ming people did not let go, with the first two experiences, the Spanish colonists in Manila believed, Da Ming will definitely be frightened.

Unfortunately, this time, they were wrong! Justice may be late, but it is never absent!

Instead of rushing to the crown in anger, nor roaring loudly like Xiang Yu, Huang Degong only ordered to collect the corpses of the hanged old and weak women and children, but left one regiment to deal with the aftermath, and the remaining two regiments were hurriedly taken back to Manila Town.

In the luxurious Spanish manor, the fear of breaking the city in the night was over, and when it was almost dawn, the descendants of the Spanish conquistadors couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and they even conspired with each other in tandem in the church, how to drive out the Ming people who invaded the city, but at this time, the judgment came, the Ming soldiers with flintlock pistols suddenly kicked open the gate of the manor, and the soldiers who entered the chrysalis in these angry roars of these white people who thought they were noble, and begged for mercy without mercy to arrest everyone, It just so happens that these guys are still engaged in the slave trade, and there is no shortage of handcuffs and leg irons and other torture tools.

At this time, the last unfallen place in Manila was also surrounded by the Ming army, after seeing the atrocities of these Western barbarians in the Ming settlement, none of the Ming soldiers were angry, in the array, a tube of flintlock pistols pointed murderously at the wall of Fort San Philip, dozens of field guns were also aiming, under the aim of so many large killing weapons, the remaining more than 200 Manila defenders on the head of the city trembled, and the governor of Manila, Darazan, was even more anxious like ants on a hot pot, Pacing back and forth in his office with his hands behind his back, he kept complaining loudly at a few colonial councilors with white wigs on their heads, wearing the kind of Spanish aristocratic medal-full t-shirts and suspenders.

"At the beginning, Ben Du said, don't mess with those wise people! Don't mess with the madmen! Well, now they're knocking on the door! ”

"Your Excellency the Governor, now is not the time to share responsibilities, keeping the King's sacred East Indies is the point!"

"Father felt that the Christians on the island should be stirred up to wage holy war against these Ming pagans!"

I don't know how devout I believed, but I still have full faith, and the Archbishop of Manila, Ondolma, shouted loudly without care.

"With the protection of the Lord, even the natives can be ten with one, those Ming people come from afar, they must not be able to parry, and when our fleet comes back, it will be when they perish!"

"This time, not only to defeat the invading Ming people, Lord Governor, but also to carry out the plan that was implemented a few years ago, organize a crusade, fight all the way to Beijing, and completely conquer the Ming Dynasty, a pagan country that does not believe in gods!"

Listening to the roar of the cardinal, it was as if they were not surrounded by the Ming army layer by layer, but they had surrounded the Ming army layer by layer, fortunately, before Darazan was brainwashed by this religious madman, outside the fortress, a large number of cries and shouts suddenly interrupted the room, a group of gentlemen crooked, full of fear, led the high-ranking officials of the Spanish East Indies out of the fortress office in a hurry, looked down, and five huge Western gallows suddenly appeared in the pair of mung bean-sized pupils under the white wig of the fat governor.

More than a dozen Manila Spaniards were pushed to the gallows by the Ming army amid the screams of exhaustion, and then the executioner pulled the wrench violently, and the pedals under their feet fell with a bang, and the men and women of the Spanish conquistadors who had once been high above suddenly fluttered violently like fish caught in water.

Finally, Mao Jue's military order was completely executed, and he sat at a round table on the edge of the gallows......

At five o'clock in the morning, I followed my mother to Tong Erbao, and came back at nine o'clock in the evening, tired of fart......

(End of chapter)