"Hongyi is here!"

"Hongyi is here!"

As a group of gunboats from the Black Crow in the distance approached, the air in the Lanchu Gold Mine, which had only been calm for two days, suddenly became tense. The timid people were busy cleaning up the little things in their homes and preparing to flee for their lives. Some young men with strong blood sharpened their knives and vowed to fight the Hongyi ghosts.

"Daochang Chen, things have come to this point, what should we do, and ask Daochang to dial a little bit to get rid of the old decay." The old patriarch of Lujia Village pulled Chen Guanyu with a worried brow, and he had to give everyone an idea. Patriarch Lu was fooled by Chen Guanyu's spell at first, and he also supported the miners to make trouble with the Spaniards, but after calming down in the past two days, he faintly felt that something was wrong, and he might have been used by these guys from Daming.

The so-called ghost and god theory was originally a matter of believing and not believing, but the revenge of the Spaniards was real, and the miners killed so many Spaniards.

Chen Guanyu said that the demon of the gold mine, Patriarch Lu did not see it. But because of Chen Guanyu's arrival, he caused such a big disaster to the village, but Patriarch Lu saw it with his own eyes. At this moment, he almost regretted breaking his intestines, if he hadn't been confused for a moment and listened to Chen Guanyu's nonsense, how could he have made the village face such a dangerous situation?

Although he thought so in his heart, Patriarch Lu didn't dare to say it directly. Things have already happened, and it's useless to say anything now, in case the clansmen know that they have fallen into someone else's trap, he, the patriarch, will be the end. What he can do now is to hold on to Chen Guanyu, and whoever provokes it will be responsible for settling it.

"Patriarch Lu, don't be afraid, it's just a few red yi, in the eyes of my old Taoist, it's just a chicken and a dog's ear!" Chen Guan Yuniu boasted dryly.

"Hongyi's gunboat has already sailed over, what should we do next?" Patriarch Lu asked.

"Can't we beat them?" Chen Guanyu asked rhetorically.

Patriarch Lu smiled bitterly: "Our Luzon king and his soldiers have never fought Hongyi, let alone us people. Hongyi had a musket in his hand, and a cannon. Their cannon was amazing, they could throw such a large ball of stone two miles away, and they could knock it down even if it hit the house. ”

Chen Guanyu said: "What you said is also true, since we can't beat it, let's avoid its edge and retreat to the mountain first." ”

"What if we retreat to the mountains? Hongyi don't come here for a few days and leave, they will stay here, can we stay in the mountains for a few days? Patriarch Lu said.

Chen Guanyu said: "Take advantage of this time, we can find someone to help fight Hongyi." Just because the King of Luzon can't beat Hongyi doesn't mean that others can't beat Hongyi, you can ask someone more powerful than Hongyi to deal with Hongyi. ”

Patriarch Lu was surprised: "Daoist Chen, who do you say is more powerful than Hongyi?" ”

Chen Guanyu smiled and pointed in the direction of the north and said, "Of course we are enlightened." Patriarch Lu, do you think Da Ming can't deal with Hongyi? ”

"But...... Daming and Luzon are separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, and they are not the same country as us, how can they send troops to save us? "Patriarch Lu still hasn't figured it out.

Chen Guanyu said: "If you want to talk about the distance, Hongyi is a hundred times farther away from Luzon than Daming, don't people come?" As for saying that the Ming Dynasty and Luzon are not the same country, what does it matter, Luzon was also a vassal to the Ming Dynasty in the past, and it was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. The vassal country is in trouble, how can I, Daming, sit idly by? ”

Patriarch Lu's eyes lit up: "Daochang Chen, you said that we asked Da Ming for help, and Da Ming will really come to help us?" ”

"It's true!" Chen Guanyu replied.

"I see." Patriarch Lu nodded meaningfully.

Patriarch Lu is not a fool, he is also an old fox who has been trained for thousands of years. Listening to Chen Guanyu say this, and then linking it to the various performances of Chen Guanyu and others before, he immediately understood the cause and effect of this incident. What kind of demons, what kind of help, to put it bluntly, it is estimated that Da Ming took a fancy to this place in Luzon and wanted to find a reason to intervene in it, and he became cannon fodder for others in a daze.

Nowadays, it is impossible to make peace with the Spaniards, and asking for help from Daming is the only way. Chen Guanyu is right, with the strength of the Ming Dynasty, it should not be a problem to deal with a few Hongyi. After Daming defeats Hongyi, I'm afraid that this land will be surnamed Zhu, right?

Thinking of this, Patriarch Lu smiled mysteriously in his heart, but he pretended to be timid on his face, and said to Chen Guanyu: "Daoist Chen, you are very right. However, if you want to ask Daming for help, with my small patriarch, I am afraid that some people will speak lightly and not respect the Ming Emperor enough, right? ”

Chen Guanyu laughed and said, "Patriarch Lu, why are you confused. You are here in Luzon, and the king of Luzon has also run away, who knows who is in what position? You just say that you are the political envoy of the king of Luzon, and no one will embarrass you, right? ”

"I see, thank you for your advice." Patriarch Lu understood and happily prepared to go.

Kevin, the commander of the Spanish fleet, followed Bentula's instructions and led the entire fleet of 8 warships and nearly 1,000 army soldiers to kill Lanchu with great momentum. Without any resistance, the fleet successfully landed on the shore, and the heavily armed soldiers, led by the army commander Mario, abandoned the boat and landed, quickly occupying the beachhead.

"Captain Kevin, we have taken the commanding heights near the beachhead and have found no trace of the Luzonists." Mario reports to Kevin, who lands later.

"Mr. Ventura, what about the Luzonians you are talking about?" Kevin called Bentura over and asked him.

"They were all villagers from a nearby village, and I think they should have fled," Ventula said. ”

"Are they armed?" Kevin asked.

"They ......," said Bentura, who was about to say that the other side was not armed, suddenly remembered the explosion that had occurred outside the Spanish soldiers' barracks. The magnitude of the explosion was something Pentula had never seen before. He didn't believe in what kind of spell it was, and in his experience he believed that it must be a new type of gunpowder, far more powerful than the gunpowder used by the Spaniards themselves.

"How?" Kevin saw Bentura's hesitation and asked.

"Nothing." Ventula quickly shook his head and said, "I'm just remembering if they used some kind of weapon, I have the impression that they just used some common tools, maybe some cold weapons, but, Captain Kevin, you know, we didn't directly participate in the battle, so I don't know the specific situation." ”

Bentura concealed the explosives they were using in order not to discourage Kevin. He hopes that Kevin will go and touch the Chinese, and if Kevin wins, he can recover the gold mine for him and avenge him; If Kevin fails, then someone will bear the blame for the loss of the gold mines, after all, even the regular Spanish army cannot recover the gold mines, let alone their unarmed overseers?

Kevin didn't expect that Pentula would have so much calculation, and with his experience fighting with the natives of Luzon, he felt that Asians were not good at using firearms, but only had some cold weapons. He had never dealt with the Ming army, and naturally he did not know that the scale of firearms in the Ming army even exceeded that of the Europeans, and it was the strongest firearms team in the world at that time.

"Some cold weapons are not to be feared." Kevin said, he turned to Mario and ordered, "Mr. Mario, now I command you, lead your warriors, to teach the Luzon people in the surrounding villages a lesson. Mr. Benzura will be your guide. ”

"This ......" Ventula felt his legs and stomach weaken a little, but such a thing could only be done by the few of them who had escaped, and it was impossible to push it on to others.

Mario left 300 soldiers to guard the beachhead, and he personally led the remaining 600 men, under the guidance of Bentula and others, to the neighboring villages.

The villagers had already taken refuge in the mountains with their belongings and food long before the Spaniards landed, leaving only an empty village. The Spanish soldiers cautiously entered the village, and found that there were no living creatures in the village, and there was not a grain of grain left.

"Ran away?" It seems that the Chinese do not have the strength to confront them, and they may flee back to China after making trouble. As for those Luzons, the most likely is that they hid in the mountains and forests, which are dense and impermeable, and infested with poisonous insects, which is really not a place where the Spaniards can go in and out.

"Set fire to this village!" Ventula ordered the soldiers.

"Burn it!" Mario nodded, he couldn't catch the Luzon people and burned their village, so he could vent his anger.

The Spanish soldiers were no strangers to arson, and in previous campaigns they had done the same with the villages they occupied, because only violence could make the enemy feel frightened and lose the courage to resist.

Village after village was engulfed in flames, and the villagers who had taken refuge in the mountains watched their homes turn into flames from afar, feeling distressed and angry, followed by worries about their future lives. Hiding in the mountains and forests was only a stopgap measure, although they brought all the food with them, and they would not go hungry for a month or two, but what would they do after that? If the Spaniards stayed, they would not be able to get out of the mountain, and after a long time, they would be trapped alive in the mountain.

"Don't be afraid, the ancients had a saying, called No Ji Tailai. The Red Devil has burned down your house, which is a sin, and it will be punished by heaven. Rest assured, our rescuers will come soon, and we will help you build bigger and more beautiful houses when the time comes. Chen Guanyu is still pouring chicken soup for the soul to everyone.

"These Hongyi are really hateful." Lu Aniu and a group of other young men shouted loudly, "If it weren't for the muskets in their hands, we would have fought with them!" ”

"You can't fight like this." Chen Guanyu hurriedly stopped them, "There are many Hongyi ghosts, and there are firearms, you will be killed if you can't get close." Young people, if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, don't be impatient, don't be impatient. ”

"We just can't swallow that." Lu Aniu said indignantly.

Liao Yiming stepped forward, gently tugged at the corner of Lu Aniu's clothes, pulled him and a few other young people aside, and asked, "Everyone, do you really want to find Hongyi to vent your anger?" ”

"Yes, Brother Liao, do you have a way?" Lu Aniu asked Liao Yiming, they have been very familiar with each other these days, and they have begun to call each other brothers.

Liao Yiming smiled slightly and said, "I do have an idea, but there are some risks, I don't know if you have the guts." ”

Lu Aniu patted his chest and said, "Brother Liao, you go and ask if I, Lu Aniu, am a man." These Hongyi have burned down our village, and even if we fight for our lives, we will fight with them. ”

"Yes, we all have the guts!" Several young people shouted in unison.

The Spanish colonization of Luzon had long angered these young people. Previously, they had no organization and no opportunity, so they had to endure in silence. Now that Liao Yiming and these soldiers from Daming are their backbones, they all have the courage to do something to come out.

Liao Yiming said: "Okay, since you all have such courage, then there is one thing that can be done now, don't make a noise, listen to me in detail." (To be continued.) )