The Taga Alliance, the Ilu Alliance, and the Dwarf Black Alliance, which are the only three remaining tribal alliances on Luzon Island, and the four former Lome Alliances and Zisha Alliances were all wiped out by these three alliances. However, now the strength of these three alliances is also greatly damaged, and the three tribes are wary of each other, for fear that the other two tribes will unite to destroy themselves, so no one dares to take the lead, which makes there is a very strange calm between the three alliances.

Originally, behind these three major alliances, there were one or several slave capture teams to provide them with weapons and supplies, and they needed to exchange prisoners of war or the island's property, but when the seven major tribal alliances were fighting some time ago, they suddenly realized that because of the perennial war, a large number of middle-aged men in their alliance were either killed or captured, which made the population within the alliance have been greatly reduced, and even some tribes cannot even guarantee their basic life.

In response to this situation, the three tribal alliances had to suspend the prisoner trade with the slave catchers and instead convert these prisoners of war into tribal labor to make up for the lack of labor in the alliance. But in this way, they offended the slave catcher team behind them, after all, the slave catcher team was originally here for slaves, and now that the slaves are all left behind by these tribes, then they can naturally only drink the northwest wind.

It is precisely because of this that all the merchants involved in the slave hunting are very supportive of this war, after all, they all eat this food, and now the natives of Luzon have cut off their financial routes, so they naturally have to bear their wrath. In addition, Li Su needs the land of Luzon again, so it is natural to send troops to Luzon.

However, when Zhou Long and Hu Li learned about the three major tribal alliances from Yanbei and others, they found an unexpected joy. That is, the Dwarf Black Alliance among the three major alliances has a huge contradiction with the other two alliances. Moreover, the Dwarf Black Alliance has not severed the slave trade with the slave catchers, and now the slaves shipped out of Manila are provided by the Dwarf Black Tribe.

The reason why this is the case. This is mainly due to the irreconcilable contradictions between the three major tribal alliances, the dwarf black alliance and the other two tribal alliances, the natives of the Taga Alliance and the Ilu Alliance are actually not natives of Luzon, but migrated from the Malay Peninsula, which can be called Malays, while the dwarf black alliance is mainly dwarf blacks, you can know by listening to the name, these dwarf blacks are short and dark, they are the real natives of Luzon.

Since the Malays moved to Luzon hundreds of years ago. There are constant conflicts with the local dwarf blacks, and although the dwarf blacks are fierce, they are short and are born with a loss in terms of physical strength, plus the Malays have a higher level of civilization than them, and they can make sharp weapons, so the dwarf blacks have been pressed and beaten by the Malays, and now they can only retreat to the tropical jungle on the island.

Although the dwarf blacks were inferior to the Malays in physical strength, they were natural jungle warriors. Therefore, with the advantage of the tropical jungle, they can also hold their own territory, and although the Malay population is quite large, the territory they occupied before is not small. It's been enough for them to develop for hundreds of years, so the attacks on dwarf blacks are slowly relaxing.

If there were no accidents, the Malays would have slowly taken over the dwarf black living space after a few hundred years. And by that time, dwarf blacks will also become a minority on Luzon. But when the slave catchers came to Manila. The various slave catchers began to stir up contradictions between tribes, and the Malays were not monolithic within themselves. There were many conflicts between the tribes, and wars often broke out, and the selection of slave catchers added fuel to the fire, leading to the war on Luzon.

In this case, the dwarf black people are naturally not immune, fortunately they have the Malays as a strong enemy, plus they are in a weak position, so they are relatively united internally, so they formed a dwarf black tribal alliance, plus they have an advantage in the tropical jungle, so they are stronger than other tribal alliances, but because of different races, the dwarf black alliance is often attacked by other alliances, which makes them have to fight back, and finally became one of the only three remaining tribal alliances.

The dwarf blacks are different from the Malays, they are enemies of life and death with each other, and the prisoners of war captured in the war cannot stay in the tribe at all, otherwise it will only increase the unrest within the tribe, so the slave trade between them and the slave catchers has not been interrupted, and these dwarf blacks are very friendly to the slave catchers, and have always maintained a very close relationship with Manila City.

After listening to the situation on Luzon Island, especially about the situation of the dwarf blacks, Zhou Long said very excitedly: "Yan Thorn History, those dwarf blacks are a good breakthrough, see if you can work hard to win over these dwarf blacks, and finally let them join our army, so that we can not only have one less strong enemy, but also get a lot of help!" ”

Yan Bei also smiled after hearing this: "The hero sees the same thing, Yan also thinks that those dwarf blacks can take advantage of it, so he has already sent someone to contact the other party, it is a coincidence, it is said that during this time, the other two Malay tribes are preparing to form an alliance, intending to deal with the dwarf blacks together, and the dwarf blacks also know the news, at this moment, the people we sent immediately became their lifesavers, and now we are talking to the dwarf blacks, it is estimated that it will not be long before we can reach an agreement with the dwarf blacks." ”

Hearing Yan Bei's words, Zhou Long and Hu Li looked at each other and smiled, they had an army of 100,000 in their hands, and now they had the dwarf black army, wouldn't it be easy to destroy the other two tribal alliances at that time? As for those dwarf blacks, if they can be appeased, they will be appeased, if the other party does not know the likeness, then don't blame them for crossing the river and demolishing the bridge!

The person sent by Yanbei to contact the dwarf black man came back soon, and he came back with him, as well as the patriarch of the dwarf black man and several elders, among which the patriarch's name was very awkward, transliterated as Shami, according to the introduction, he was only forty years old, but in Yanbei's opinion, this Shami patriarch must be at least sixty years old.

The short black is short, for example, the Shami patriarch is a head and a half shorter than Yanbei, and the other elders are even shorter than Shami, they all look like monkeys, and their weight is definitely not more than 100 catties.

The dwarf black people have always been bullied by the Malays, and now although they are the three major tribal alliances, they also clearly know that they are likely to become the next target of the other two major alliances, so the Shami patriarch attaches great importance to the olive branch sent by Yanbei, which can be seen from the fact that he personally came to the interview.

Even after a thousand years, the dwarf blacks are still in the primitive society period, and the current dwarf blacks are even less knowledgeable, Yanbei just made a little trick, and then promised the other party that after the war, they would set aside a piece of land for the dwarf blacks alone, so that they could live a stable life in Luzon, and they could also trade with the Han people, so as to exchange for a large amount of cloth, grain and iron tools.

These conditions were already very pleasing to the dwarf blacks, and coupled with the pressure from the Malays, they quickly reached an agreement with Yanbei to put the tribal alliance into the name of the Taiwanese government, and at the same time accepted the leadership of the Manila government and became a tribe under Li Su.

With the addition of the dwarf blacks, it will be easier for Zhou Long and Huli to train their troops. The dwarf blacks did not have a regular army, and they still practiced the system of all soldiers, even if it was a woman, they could go to the battlefield, but Zhou Long singled out the young and strong men among the dwarf blacks, and then formed a short black army, with only 15,000 people.

But don't underestimate this short black army of 15,000 people, they are born warriors in the jungle, plus Zhou Long trained with regular military training methods, and replaced their weapons with special steel knives that are convenient for jungle combat, and there are even 3,000 crossbowmen, each with a short crossbow, which is most suitable for ambushes.

In addition, with this dwarf black army, Zhou Long and they can finally pull the army into the tropical jungle for training, with these dwarf black men as guides, Zhou Long's 100,000 troops take turns to drive to the jungle for training, although many people are sick because they can't stand the heat, but after all, they are only a few, and the biggest killer dysentery has also been cured, so in the end, there are not many people who are killed or injured due to illness.

Zhou Long trained in Manila for five months with an army of nearly 120,000 men, and then in November, he finally began to attack the Targa Alliance and the Ilu Alliance. In the face of this powerful offensive, the Taga Alliance and the Ilu Alliance also joined forces, organizing all the young men and women, adding up to nearly 300,000 troops, which is already the total population of the two alliances that can take up arms, if they can be defeated, then there will be no suspense in the next battle of Luzon.

In the face of a threefold enemy, Zhou Long seemed very relaxed, because he knew that there were 300,000 people on the other side, but among these 300,000 people, there were men and women, and some people didn't even have weapons, and only relied on the simplest wooden sticks to fight, which was not any threat to his 120,000 army at all.

In December of the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, after dozens of skirmishes, in the confrontation, Zhou Long deliberately showed weakness, causing the other party to win several battles in a row, which made the Malays in the two alliances get carried away, thinking that the other party is nothing great at all.

And at this moment, Zhou Long deliberately revealed the whereabouts of the army to the other party, and as a result, the two major tribal alliances immediately gathered a large army and intercepted Zhou Long's army on the plain northwest of Manila, and the decisive battle was about to break out! However, this time, Zhou Long had already made preparations, and the firearms troops that had been hidden by him finally had a place to use! (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )