Li Tianqian agreed, said goodbye, and came back after a while and said: "Report to Your Majesty, no one in the village has entered the city to see those artillery, they said that there was no artillery in the city a while ago, that is, the artillery was only pushed up in the last few days." ”

Lin Fei nodded and said, "Since we can't find anyone to ask for the details of the artillery, then we don't need to ask, anyway, we have to lure the enemy out and fight again." ”

Li Tianqian asked, "Your Majesty, how can we lure the Spaniards out?" ”

Lin Fei said, "The people from the church we caught today weren't killed, right?" ”

Li Tianqian shook his head and said, "We planned to send them to the farm to work as coolies, so we didn't kill them, and we haven't sent them away now." ”

Lin Fei said: "Okay, pick one of them out of them, let him go back to deliver the letter, and let the Spaniards pay the ransom." ”

Li Tianqian hesitated for a moment and asked, "Your Majesty, if this trick is still used, can the Spaniards be fooled?" ”

Lin Fei thought for a while and said, "It's hard to say, let's try it first, if it doesn't work, let's use another method." ”

Li Tianqian immediately found a thin and withered man from the captives of the Spanish Church, and asked him to return to Cotabatar, find the Linghu general Servette, and tell him to pay a ransom to the Chinese Empire, otherwise all the people of the church will be killed.

The man agreed, and crawled back to Cotabatar, at this time Servet had already known the news that the Chinese Imperial army had occupied Parang, and when he heard that the man had returned, he hurriedly asked his men to bring him to meet him.

When the man saw Servete and told him about the ransom, Servette frowned and asked, "How many of them are there?" ”

The man said, "I think there are at least 2,000 people!" ”

Servette said: "I also know this, what weapons do they have?" ”

The man said, "There are guns." ”

Servette hurriedly asked, "What about the other than the guns?" What other weapons have you seen? I heard that they have a kind of 'sitting cannon', have you ever seen it? ”

The man shook his head, and Servette was a little disappointed when he heard that the man knew almost nothing, and asked, "What else do you know?" I told me all the details, including what time this unit went out for training, what time it ate, how many doctors there were in the army, and how many migrant workers there were in the transport team. ”

The man shook his head timidly, saying that he didn't know, and Servet was a little unconvinced, and asked, "Are you caught by them and don't know anything?" ”

The man said helplessly: "General, you can't blame me, they arrested me and imprisoned me, I can't see anything." ”

Servette sighed, waved his hand and said to the man: "Forget it, you go and rest, don't talk about this matter to others again." ”

The man didn't dare to ask more, and walked away obediently, Servete was pacing back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, when a tall and thin old man walked in and said to Servetu: "I heard that the army of the Chinese Empire is in Palang Village, I don't know if it's true?" ”

Servette looked up and said, "It's true, General Racheno." ”

It turned out that the old man who came in was Brigadier General Racheno, who had been defeated by Lin Fei on Ibayat Island, and he came to Cotabato as a special envoy of the Philippine Governor Sanders, and Racello said: "General Servette, then what are you waiting for?" Why don't you hurry up and send troops to attack the army of the Chinese Empire? ”

Servette hesitated for a moment and said, "General Racheno, I don't think it's a good idea to attack rashly. ”

Racheno's face showed dissatisfaction, and he said: "General Servetus, you are cowardly, and in the country, this kind of behavior will be court-martialed." ”

"Don't you feel like something is wrong?" ”

Raceno was stunned for a moment and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Servette said: "Where did this Chinese empire come from? Where is their capital? What is the population? What about the level of industry? We don't know these things, isn't it strange that such a country can wipe out the garrison of our Wuduan City at once and occupy Wuduan City? ”

Racheno said disdainfully: "What do you want to do so much? I think they are just a group of robbers composed of Chinese pigs, and the loss of Wuduan City is entirely due to the lack of vigilance of our garrison, and now that we are fully prepared, they will definitely not be able to take advantage, so we should attack as much as possible. ”

Servette shook his head and said: "The army of the Huaxia Empire is by no means as simple as a group of bandits, the army I recently sent out met them in the small town of Magtuga, and the result was completely annihilated, that army was fully prepared, but it was still wiped out by the army of the Huaxia Empire, do you say they can be robbers?" ”

Raceno was speechless, and it took a long time before he said: "I heard that our missionaries were captured by the troops of the Huaxia Empire, and the man who came today is one of them, won't we rescue them?" ”

Servette sighed and said, "The Huaxia Empire is doing this to lure our troops out, and if we really go out, we will fall for their tricks." ”

Racheno said coldly: "Then what do you think we should do?" ”

Servette said firmly: "Hold on!" The army of the Chinese Empire has more than 2,000 people, these people are consuming food every day, they also have to carry out all kinds of training, one person consumes at least one kilogram of grain a day, not counting vegetables and meat, they have more than 2,000 people, and they have to consume two thousand kilograms of grain a day! ”

"There must not be so much grain in the nearby villages, they have to transport the grain from the rear, and the people who transport the grain also need to eat, and you know what the transportation in Mindanao is like, there are not a few people who need to transport food, and there is not a small number of time, and there will be a lot of food consumed on the road! After a long time, this Chinese empire will definitely not be able to support it. ”

Raceno frowned and said: "It's a military taboo to not be able to hold out like this, the people who defend the city are like rabbits, and the people who attack the city are like eagles, how can rabbits fight eagles?" ”

Servette smiled: "Our city walls have been reinforced, and the latest British fifteen-pounder guns can't blow up, how can the people on the other side blow up?" Since they couldn't blow up the wall, they could only build ladders to climb the wall to attack, and we deployed cannons and Maxim heavy machine guns on the wall, and they dared to climb the wall to attack and destroy them all. ”

Seeing that Servette was resolute, Raceno snorted coldly and said lightly: "You are the commander of the garrison, and you will bear any consequences of this order." With that, he turned around and walked out.

Neither of them mentioned the matter of rescuing the missionary, so the matter was delayed, and two days passed, Lin Fei asked Li Tianqian: "Haven't the Spaniards sent someone to pay the ransom?" ”

Li Tianqian shook his head and said, "No! ”

Lin Fei called Zhang Chuang again and asked, "Are there any movements from the Spaniards these days?" ”

Zhang Chuang shook his head and said, "The Spaniards didn't move, they didn't mean to come out at all." ”

Lin Fei sighed softly and asked Zhang Chuang to continue scouting, and then Li Tianqian came over and said, "Your Majesty, isn't it the same thing that the Spaniards did this with Sima Yi's original retreat from Zhuge Liang?" ”

Li Tianqian quoted an allusion from the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, Sima Yi's troops were five zhang yuan, and they couldn't hold out, holding each other for more than 100 days, Zhuge Liang died of illness, and the Shu army was defeated and retreated, Lin Fei of course knew this allusion, he nodded, and said: "The Spaniards in the city must have known that we are coming, since they don't send troops to fight, they must want to drag us to death." ”

Li Tianqian's expression changed, and he said: "Your Majesty, the grain we have obtained from the land reform in various places these days can last for ten days, and after ten days, we will have to rely entirely on Chen Jingui's logistics department to transport the grain. ”

Of course, Lin Fei understood this truth, he pondered for a while, and said, "Do you have any way?" ”

Li Tianqian said: "Now there are three strategies in front of us, your majesty wants to listen to them one by one?" ”

Lin Fei nodded and said, "Let's say, what's the upper, middle and lower strategy?" ”

Li Tianqian said: "The best strategy is naturally to 'lead the enemy into battle', our army has a very strong field combat ability, and it is naturally not a problem to completely annihilate the opponent." ”

Lin Fei smiled bitterly: "This best strategy is useless, the commander on the opposite side is General Linghu, not a general, I'm afraid we won't be able to attract them." ”

Li Tianqian said: "The middle strategy is to 'retreat and build a city', build a new city between Wuduan City and Cotabatar, raise people to store food, and wait for the time to be ripe before attacking Cotabatar." ”

Lin Fei secretly thought that this was a solution, but he couldn't do it, according to Li Tianqian's idea, it would take a year to build a city, recruit people in the city, and hoard food, no matter how you say it! The Japanese have all set up a colonial government in Taiwan, and the 200 million taels of silver of the compatriots have also fallen into the pockets of the Japanese, how can this work!

Lin Fei didn't say anything about it, but asked, "What about the next step?" What is it? ”

Li Tianqian's expression darkened, and he said: "The next strategy is to 'attack the city with ants', build a ladder, and climb the wall." ”

Lin Fei laughed out loud and said, "Lao Li, Lao Li, aren't you nicknamed 'Li Thirty-Six'?" How can we come up with such a bad idea, if our more than 2,000 people climb the wall to attack the city, they will be defeated in a few days. ”

Li Tianqian didn't laugh, but said solemnly: "So I said that this is the next policy, and the next policy is a last resort." ”

Lin Fei smiled again, and Li Tianqian asked tentatively, "Your Majesty, are you laughing, do you already have a good way to break the enemy?" ”

Lin Fei smiled and said, "I don't dare to say a good way to break the enemy, at least I have thought of a way." ”

Li Tianqian asked, "What way?" ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "Lao Li, the three strategies you said don't seem to be comprehensive, and there is one less strategy." ”

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