The battle between the two factions, who had been hostile to each other for decades, was not as passionate as expected, and they even went to war cautiously.

Before the start of the war, it was necessary to make full combat preparations and combat mobilization, and the coalition army placed the main force inside the city of Manila, leaving two troops outside the city to plan for the defense of the city, intending to fight a defensive counterattack.

When the Allied forces saw this posture, considering their own lack of engineering ability, they did not dare to approach rashly, and wanted to lure the enemy into battle, and then fight to the death in the field, giving full play to their numerical superiority in order to win quickly.

Both sides are testing each other, no one wants to be the first to play cards, the hatred between the two sides is too deep, so that this matter is coming, but calm each other, not in a hurry to fight, but carefully observe each other, trying to get the other party to kill each other with one blow.

Juan looked out over the city of Manila under heavy protection, and the old man of the tribe overlooked the entire Confederate army from the top of the city.

According to his experience, the Allied army was very tightly arranged, and the number of people in his hands was also higher, if the reinforcements arrived now, the number would be about the same, and he would have the confidence to go out of the city and fight in the field.

Now that the enemy was clearly outnumbered by him, he didn't think he could win in such a situation.

The more nervous it was to decide the fate, the more calm the old man of the tribe became, he had waited for decades, and he didn't care about this time, if he couldn't seize the opportunity to kill them in one fell swoop, he would be a problem here.

At this moment, one of the cronies next to the old man pointed to a position in front of him on the left.

"Great chief, look, over there, those iron barrels, are they the artillery often used by the Spaniards?"

"Artillery?"

The old man of the tribe was taken aback, and hurriedly looked over, although he was old, his eyes did not have much degradation, what he could see when he was young, he can still see it now.

He had never seen artillery, as early as the first battle, the roaring fire-breathing iron bucket brought him painful memories, countless comrades around him died at the hands of artillery, and his closest comrades-in-arms were blown into several pieces by artillery, and they couldn't even be buried.

Once this thing roars, although it can't deal with the city wall, it is still a little useful against people, and more importantly, the sound is very loud, very scary, it can deter the enemy and boost their morale, there are no firearms on their side, no firearms at all, but Juan has firearms there, and it is still artillery.

Now things are a little bit bad.

"They actually have artillery? Those abominable traitors! ”

A cronie cursed viciously at the betrayers.

The old man of the tribe was sober and stopped the swearing of his cronies.

"It's useless to scold them now, they have artillery, it's hard to say whether there are muskets or not, firearms are very powerful, the sound is very loud, if they are hit, the lethality is also very great, the only thing that can stop firearms is rain, but now the weather is very clear, I don't expect it to rain in a short time, the situation is very unfavorable for us."

The words of the old man of the tribe made the cronies around him fall into difficult thinking, and everyone's faces were ugly.

It is rare to occupy the advantage of the city, but the other party has firearms, which is really disadvantageous.

"I don't know how many firearms they have, but if they do, we have to guard against them, but I don't think the Spaniards will fully trust them, and even if they give them firearms, they won't give them much, and I think as long as we find a way to destroy the firearms that we can see, they may not have more firearms!"

A tribal leader spoke suddenly.

Another tribal leader retorted, "That's true, but who is going to destroy them?" And how can we destroy them? We don't have a weapon with a longer range than a bow and arrow, and a bow and arrow can't destroy artillery, it's iron! ”

Everyone's faces have deteriorated again.

At this time, the old man of the tribe spoke.

"It is not necessary to destroy firearms, firearms need to be filled with gunpowder to exert their power, gunpowder is most afraid of water, as long as we can make gunpowder wet, firearms naturally have no way to use, now it is not raining in the sky, it is only up to people, we need the most heroic soldiers to undertake this task."

Everyone looked at each other, keenly aware of the difficulty of this task and the high probability of sacrifice, and flinched a little.

The old man of the tribe was not surprised by everyone's behavior, he was waiting for someone to take the initiative to ask for help.

"I'll go! I'll do it! I lead my people to destroy the gunpowder and render their firearms unusable! Big Boss! Please let me go! I'm confident enough to destroy them! ”

An imperceptible glint flashed in the tribal elder's eyes, and then changed to a worried face.

"Ano, you must know that firearms are very dangerous, and they will definitely be under their heavy protection, when the war starts, we can only do our best to send you to them, and then, you need to make your own efforts to attack their firearms positions with all your might, break through the protection and destroy the gunpowder, it will be very dangerous, can you do it?"

Ano nodded very firmly.

"As long as you can send someone to escort us to them, I'll lead people to attack with all my might! Even if you pay with this life, you have to destroy those gunpowder and create conditions for the attack of the army! The only thing I hope is that if I am alive after our victory, I hope you can hand Juan over to me and let me kill him with my own hands! ”

The old man of the tribe nodded in satisfaction.

"Good! I promise you! Ano, you are a warrior! You are a true warrior! ”

The old man patted Ano on the shoulder, and then began to develop tactics.

There are a lot of dense jungles outside Manila, these jungles are undeveloped, very lush, although both sides choose to line up in the open, but the open is surrounded by dense forests, to be precise, this is not a good terrain for war, but the location of Manila is very important, and the two sides have to fight here.

The old man meant to send someone to find a small road, so that Ano's troops could take the path and attack Juan's army directly, attacking from their flank, and taking them by surprise.

Then it was up to Arno to see if his impact was strong enough to break through the defenses and rush to the position of the firearms unit in the center to destroy the gunpowder.

They will send an elite group of men and horses to hide the elite soldiers of Ano tribe in it, and this elite army will escort the elite soldiers of Ano all the way to the location of Juan's firearms unit, so that Arno has enough buffer period.

But it's hard to say how long the elite troops can support, and if the escorted army is all killed, it will only be up to Ano himself.