"Rush, rush into the house!" Major Santos shouted loudly behind several soldiers. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Spanish soldiers were much better trained than the natives, and although they suffered considerable losses after being attacked, they reacted quickly and organized resistance, some of the soldiers fired at the windows to suppress the fire of the townspeople, while others rushed towards the houses where the fire was fired.

Aragorn followed Romero into a house where they had all seen at least three men firing at them from different windows. However, when they stormed the house, they did not encounter the stubborn resistance or trembling enemies they had imagined. The room was empty, there was no one, and if it weren't for the broken windows and bullet marks on the walls, Aragorn would have wondered if he had gone to the wrong place.

"Look carefully, you must find those cowards!" Second Lieutenant Romero shouted.

Several soldiers searched the whole thing in detail, but found nothing.

"Hell yes! Where have all these Chinese gone? Did they all fly into the sky? Romero roared.

The same thing happened in other houses, even if the window of this house was still spitting bullets out a second ago, but by the time the Spaniards rushed into the room, there was no one in the room. However, as the Spaniards moved on, new fires were constantly rising in the other rooms.

The Spaniards were not very numerous, and in their opinion, it was only necessary to control a town, and it was not necessary to have many troops. However, things turned out more than they expected. Almost every step they took was met with resistance, and those that had already been "occupied" confirmed that there were no more Chinese houses inside, and as soon as the Spaniards withdrew on the front foot, someone suddenly appeared on the back foot and fired bullets at the Spaniards.

"Damn, what's going on?" Major Santos yelled.

"Major! Major! We found out again! Check it out! In one of the houses that had just been "captured", a soldier suddenly stuck his head out of the window and shouted.

Major Santos immediately entered the house with several soldiers.

"Major, come with me, you see, we found an entrance to the tunnel here." The soldier led Major Santos to a large bed. The bedding on the bed had been thrown to the floor, and the bed board had been lifted up, revealing a hole. Looking down from the entrance of the cave, you can see a staircase leading down into the darkness.

"The Chinese bandits in this house were wounded and bled a lot, and we followed the bloodstains to find the hole." The soldier said.

"Well done, Corporal Sancho." "Now we know where these rats have gone—which of you dare to go down and get them out?" ”

Soldiers, you look at me, I look at you, but they are silent. Obviously, it is quite dangerous to get into a tunnel in an unknown situation, especially if the opponent has a gun.

"Corporal Sancho, you have always been the bravest of warriors, and now I order you to bring your men in and catch all those rats." Santos simply nodded.

"Yes, Major!" Sancho replied reluctantly, "But I need someone who can speak Chinese." ”

The Spaniards really have such people. In their team was a Chinese man named Gonzalez Wu, who was a Chinese, but an honest Christian, a good man to trust. When the Chinese were plotting to rebel, he stood firmly on the side of God and justice, and made great contributions to crushing the Chinese conspiracy. Now......

"Very well, Gonzalez, you go down with them." Santos Road.

"Sir......" Gonzalez Wu's voice trembled a little.

"You don't have to worry, our warriors will protect you. God will protect you. Why, you don't have faith in us? Major Santos said kindly to Gonzalez Wu.

"Sir, I am willing to serve Spain and God." Gonzalez Wu replied firmly.

"Very well, may God be with you!" Santos Road.

Several soldiers quickly got ready, and they made several torches out of table legs and sheets in the room. Sancho first asked Gonzalez Wu to shout in Chinese into the tunnel: "Listen to the people inside, you have been discovered, surrender immediately, and you can get leniency from the great Kingdom of Spain......"

There was no sound in the tunnels.

Sancho lit a torch and threw it down. The torches lit up the tunnel a little, and you could faintly see that the tunnel in front of it seemed to have turned a corner.

"Hell, this tunnel is really deep." Sancho scolded. He thought it was just a cellar that could hide a few people, but he didn't expect it to be so deep inside.

"Let's go down." Sancho said, "Wu, you go ahead. ”

A few people entered the tunnel, and the tunnel in front of them was quite easy to walk, and they could walk by bending over. After walking for about six or seven meters, the tunnel turned a corner, and then the front suddenly narrowed, and only people could crawl through.

Sancho tied a rope to Gonzalez Wu's waist and told him to climb over first.

Gonzalez Wu struggled for a long time, until Sancho pulled out his knife, and then he crawled forward with a sad face. Two Spanish soldiers bent over and watched from behind, one holding a torch and the other holding a loaded flintlock pistol pointed to the side.

After a while, there seemed to be a stir on Gonzalez Wu's side, and then a scream was heard.

"Quick, pull the rope!" Sancho Road. Several soldiers pulled the rope back, and soon Gonzalez Wu's body was pulled back, with a large wound in his chest, presumably caused by a spear or something. Obviously, there may be another layer of tunnels underneath this tunnel, which is so low and narrow that only one person can crawl forward, that someone can easily assassinate Gonzalez Wu with a spear from the opening reserved below.

"Corporal, what shall we do?" A soldier asked.

"Back on the ground, of course." Sancho said, "Do you want to climb into such a tunnel like this fool and have someone stab him to death with a spear?" ”

Several soldiers returned to the ground, and Sancho showed González Wu's body to Major Santos, and recounted the situation in the tunnels in detail, and then said:

"This section of the road, which can only be crawled by one person, should be their fortifications. We can't get there. I think the cellar where they are hiding must be right behind here. ”

Santos thought for a moment and said, "Corporal Sancho, go and find all the things in this house that can be burned, and then stuff them in, set them on fire, and then we will block the entrance to the tunnel." ”

Combustion requires a lot of oxygen and a lot of smoke. They quickly deplete the already small amount of oxygen in the tunnels, filling them with deadly toxic smoke. In Santos's opinion, this is the best way to deal with those stubborn ground rats.

However, Santos underestimated the tunnels here, which were not a fortified cellar, but a real network of tunnels, and all the houses in the town could be connected to each other. These tunnels even lead all the way out of town. These tunnels were inspired by a teaching film called Tunnel Wars many years later. In that teaching film, it tells about the tunnel warfare in the anti-Japanese base area in the later generations, where the tunnels designed by the dirt eight roads have the corresponding design for the enemy to drill holes, poison, set fire, and irrigate, and I don't care about Santos's gadgets at all.

Sancho had already lit the fire at this time, and then they covered the entrance of the tunnel, imagining that the Chinese inside were suffocating in fear in the flames and smoke, but they did not know that in the tunnel, at the end of the low corridor, a cover was also covered, and then the prepared wet earth was covered on the cover - neither the fire nor the smoke could go further.

After paying dozens of casualties, Santos's team barely made it to the center of the town, but none of them caught any Chinese, and nothing of value was found. Moreover, they are constantly being attacked from all sides.

"Set fire to the town! Let's withdraw! In the end, Santos gave such an order.

Flames soon burst into flames on several houses. The houses in the town are still traditional Chinese wooden houses, although the walls are made of thick green bricks, but the roofs are still wooden structures, and the roads in the town are not wide, and the distance between the houses is not large, so the flames can easily jump from one roof to another, and it will not be long before the whole town will be burning.

Santos' soldiers were setting fire when they suddenly heard a dense burst of gunfire outside. Listen to the sound, this shot is coming from the cannon.

"Damn, they attacked our artillery! Quick, let's go protect the artillery! Santos shouted.

Because he felt that there was no need for cannons in the town, when he entered the town, Santos left the cannons outside, and left more than 50 people to guard the two cannons, and later as the fighting in the town became more and more intense, he transferred more than 30 people from the outside to reinforce them, and now there are only about a dozen people guarding the cannons outside.

One of the town's tunnel exits is not far from the Spanish cannons. When the Spaniards began to set fire to the town, the displaced town militia attacked the dozen or so Spaniards guarding the artillery.

Santos and his army quickly retreated, but suddenly the sound of resisting gunfire rang out in the houses they had occupied. The Spanish soldiers were constantly knocked to the ground, and the warless Santos did not care to "occupy" the houses again, they blindly opened fire to suppress the fire of the townspeople, and quickly retreated, and after leaving behind more than a dozen corpses, Santos and his soldiers finally ran out of the town, and then they heard two violent explosions.