Chapter 791: Fight to the Death
Of course, fighting is killing people, and the hunting team has been attritional, but no one cares. [Full text reading]
Although they were not included in the regular establishment, and there was no bereavement pension for the dead, the employers promised that they would be responsible for the funeral of the war dead, and send their ashes back to their respective hometowns, and erect a monument to tell future generations that they had reformed before their deaths and sacrificed their lives for the overseas development of the Ming Dynasty.
has expectations for the future, coupled with no worries, so there are these mountain and forest hunting teams that surprise Liu Laoxiang and make the natives frightened. The natives of Bayun State felt that there were enemies all around, and everywhere was dangerous, and they were still in a panic when they retreated in a defensive circle, but the eyes of the colonists were not simply focused here.
With the arrival of the hot summer, the main force of the Governor's Palace has replaced the hunting party and came to Bayunbang, and the main force of the hunting team, as early as the siege of Bayunbang, has already begun to completely wipe out Little Luzon.
"Your Excellency the Governor, the colony has expanded to Naya, and further south, there is the Sulu country in the southern archipelago, whether to fight a war first, or ......"
"Don't worry, let them retreat, the natives of Bayun State should be out of supply, and the moment of the final decisive battle is just around the corner." There was a flat valley between the mountains, and a river meandered through it, and Wang Hai still had a sand table in front of him, but the simulated place had changed, and the level of refinement was much higher.
"The Chengguan Brigade divided into two roads to defend the north and south ends of the valley...... According to the movement of the natives, it is decided to stop, if the enemy breaks through with all his strength, the other part will attack behind it, if it breaks through on both sides, they will meet the enemy separately, if they disperse and flee in all directions, the hunting party in the mountains and forests will come in handy. ”
The sand table is newly made, and after landing in Luzon, the members of the geography group have not been idle, and Bayunbang, as an important battlefield by default, will naturally not be let go. There are continuous mountains on the east and west sides, and the Pulo Mountains in the east are particularly steep, only where the Magat River flows, the terrain is relatively flat enough to accommodate a large group of people and horses.
Yang Min's tactics are decent, but he has made good use of all the existing resources, and he is also full of confidence in the final battle that has been prepared for months.
...... "You can't break out of the siege, you have to go together, those ghost-like hunters are waiting in the forest!" In the past few months, eight out of ten teams of people who have gone out have not returned, and they are all folded in the hands of those people, how can they disperse and break through at this time? Let's go together, we have a lot of people, and we can fight to create a road. ”
"Yes, if you don't completely hurt the Ming army, you will have to be caught up and surrounded by them in the end, everyone, think about it carefully, won't it be the same as now? In my opinion, their main force is not a regular army, and their combat power is far inferior to those hunting teams, otherwise those who attack will not always be hunting teams, and they must not be deceived. ”
As the saying goes: adversity makes people grow, but that refers to the situation that can be successfully passed, and at the moment of facing the predicament, the person who is immersed in the situation is facing all kinds of torture. The torment comes from fear, and it also comes from the panic that comes with it.
Compared with the smooth sailing of the Ming army, the military discussion of the natives fell into endless quarrels from the very beginning. The mainstream opinion is to go their own way, and the trouble of the tribal system lies in this, the tribes rarely interacted with each other in the past, and there was a lack of trust between them.
Of course, there are also many people of insight among the natives, such as Nuo Nuo and Liu Laoxiang, who, together with Binet, who admires Liu Laoxiang a lot, constitute the backbone of the opposition.
They have a reason for what they say, during the nearly three months of the siege, supplies became increasingly scarce, and the natives were not a well-organized whole, and there were not a few who secretly ran away.
Some of them entered the mountains and forests and never came out, and have not been heard from since; Some hit the nail halfway, and the lost soldiers retreated; However, there are also a few who have gone crazy and have attacked the Ming army brigade.
The hunting team has few people, but it is elusive, so the psychological pressure on the natives is greater, and there are many people in the chengguan brigade, but they have never made a move. The thinking mode of the natives is relatively simple, and they feel that these people who have not made a move may be as benevolent or weak as the Ming army in the past, so some people choose this direction.
However, their efforts were in vain, because they had no chance to rush in front of the target, as soon as they moved, they were already targeted by the hunting team in ambush in all directions, and they had been captured and killed halfway, and the true combat strength of the main force of the Ming army was always a mystery.
Liu Laoxiang has a deeper understanding of the Ming Dynasty and thinks a lot, and he soon has some ideas: The Ming court didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong, so he co-opted a large number of thieves and exiled them to Luzon, and using these cannon fodder to occupy Luzon can be regarded as a good deal for the white wolf with empty gloves.
Regardless of how the Ming court changed his surname, but the things in the bones of those officials will not change, but they refuse to believe people, so the court also sent tens of thousands of regular troops over as a monitoring and supervision.
This conjecture was definitely not something that Liu Laoxiang came up with, he had secretly observed the Ming army's brigade. Although the queue of those soldiers and the armor on their bodies are quite neat, how do you look at them, how do you feel that they have a ruffian aura on them, and they can't even restrain military discipline.
And the combat power of the local army, which no one has ever expected, like the natives, fight a good battle, bully and bully the good people, that is their forte, they really have to fight a tough battle with outnumbered enemies, not to mention that they will be defeated at the touch of a button, and don't think about what kind of tenacity they have.
The reason why the hunting team stayed in front of the brigade was probably the reason why the Ming generals had scruples, he was bluffing, fearing that after the battle, the natives would find out that the main force of the army was strong and strong. In such a situation, the natives will still collapse into the mountains and forests on their own, and will not they send away the fruits of victory before their eyes?
Scattering into the mountains and forests is just sending sheep into the mouth of the tiger, and it will only be annihilated by people piecemeal, and breaking through with all your strength is the right way. Liu Laoxiang had to admit that Nuo Nuo, the old man, was indeed a knowledgeable and capable person, because at this point, they coincided again.
"The Ming army on the front is only more than 20,000, and it is divided into two parts, the north and the south, those hunting teams lurking in the mountains and forests, the number is not large, only in the mountains and forests, they can exert their maximum combat power. And we, who now have 50,000 warriors who can afford to hold weapons, how can we lose? ”
Not to be outdone, Binet shouted, he used pure numbers to compare, and the persuasiveness was even higher than the two in front of him, no way, who made the thinking circuit of the natives so simple?
"Moreover, if you disperse and break through, who will charge in front and who will break in behind?" Nono then asked a more pointed question, although he was not young, but his eyes were not cloudy, and he was stared at by his eyes, and the tribal leaders couldn't help but bow their heads.
"If we break through together, the two thousand warriors of our department are willing to rush to the front." After subduing the leaders, Nuno did not hesitate, and immediately threw out another proposal, which aroused everyone's heart.
"I also have more than a thousand warriors in Binabe, and I don't want to fall behind!" Binet stood up and said while the iron was hot.
"I, Liu Laoxiang, am willing to break off the queen for the leaders, and before the two leaders achieve results, I will not let the Ming army attack the rear of everyone." Liu Laoxiang put down the last weight on the scale, and the leaders immediately turned their minds, the most difficult and dangerous errands have been shouldered, and the number of people on his side is not fake, right? Relatively speaking, the scattered breakthrough is weak.
"Just the ...... of the three leaders"
"Willing to obey the command of the three leaders."
The leaders of the natives shouted in a mess, and the military discussion ended successfully. None of them noticed that whether it was Liu Laoxiang or the two leaders, when they were carrying the others, there was a smug smile on their lips.
In this battle, the most dangerous thing is not the front, nor the back, but the side, those hunting teams in the mountains and forests must be killed to rescue, and the flanks attacked by them are the most dangerous places, but they are the main force of the Ming army, or it will be quite easy to fight.
Determined to fight to the death, the natives lost their previous scruples, and they took out the only remaining grain and distributed it. Since the siege, even the chiefs of the various tribes have tightened their belts, which is really an unprecedented torture for the natives in the tropics, and they are determined to fight to the death, which is not unrelated.
After eating and drinking, the natives began to prepare for the decisive battle that was about to begin. Of course, the local people's belongings are relatively few, and the so-called pre-war preparations can only be to sharpen their weapons and nourish their strength.
I don't know who got up, and suddenly there was a burst of singing in the valley, which was very infectious, and as soon as it sounded, it caused the natives to make peace one after another, and it didn't take long for it to resound. The loud singing voice pierced through the valley, and even the Ming army tent outside the valley could be heard clearly.
"They finally can't help but do it......" Wang Hai couldn't understand the lyrics, but he could feel the murderous spirit and determination contained in it, and he sighed when he walked out of the military tent.
"What's in that song?" He didn't care, but Yang Min was curious.
"The weather was very fine, there were ships coming from the sea, and the kind people brought good treasures from the Central Plains...... Well, that's pretty much what it means. ”
After listening to it for a while, the interpreter explained: "This is still handed down from the pre-Song Dynasty, but in recent years, this song has changed its taste, because the local people's enthusiasm for fair trade is getting lower and lower, and they prefer to grab it directly." The maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty either swallowed their anger or moved to the East China Sea, and some of them formed a group, and the natives always bullied the soft and feared the hard. ”
This interpreter is not a pirate, but a merchant living in the local area, in a foreign land, without the support of the Ming Dynasty, the suffering and hardship can be imagined, and when he speaks, he is also full of emotion.
"That's called shamelessness, isn't it?" Yang Min snorted coldly and said murderously: "No wonder Hou Ye was furious and angry when he mentioned Luzon, and he personally set this slaughter policy, hum, he did his own thing, he couldn't live, tomorrow is the death date of these monkeys." ”
(To be continued)