In a remote indigenous Galu village on Samar Island, one of the 11 largest islands in the Philippines, Aguinaldo, leader of the Philippine Liberation Organization (CPO), and more than a dozen key leaders of the Catipunan organization, escaped the 15th Division of the Dingbei Army's purge of Katipunan personnel and their indigenous armies across the Philippines.

Aguinaldo, a diminutive man in his early 40s, was munching on a stick of roasted corn in a bamboo house.

At this time, Liga, the leader of a Katipunan organization, hurriedly walked into the bamboo house, saw his leader Aguinaldo and said: "Chief, I have received news that the Chinese fleet has defeated the combined fleet of the United States and Italy, and the fleets of the two countries have been wiped out, the United States and Italy have already admitted defeat and will no longer meddle in the affairs of the Philippines, and our foreign aid is gone." ”

When Aquinaldo heard this, he immediately angrily threw the half-eaten roasted corn in his hand on the ground, "Those Americans and Italians are all waste, and even Chinese people like pigs and dogs can't beat them." ”

Aquinaldo didn't seem to realize that he had been driven to this remote Galu village by the Chinese.

Liga asked, "Chief, our organizations and armies all over the Philippines have been beaten to pieces by the Chinese, what will we do in the future?" ”

Aguinaldo's eyes were fierce, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Without the help of those foreigners, we will have to rely on ourselves in the future!" It is not so easy for the Chinese to occupy the Philippines where our ancestors lived, and we Katipnan want to avenge the Filipinos who died tragically at the hands of the Chinese. I want to make the Chinese pay for their blood debts! ”

Liga shuddered at the grim words of his leader.

On June 5, inside the northernmost city of Lasag, Luzon. As the supreme commander of the Dingbei Army garrison in Laoag City, Yang Dawa, the company commander of the 15th Division of the Dingbei Army, kept jumping on her right eyelid this morning.

Yang Dawa said to herself: "Fortune in the left eye and disaster in the right eye, grandma, I don't know if something is going to happen?" ”

Yang Dawa's company was originally the advance company of the whole regiment, in the operation of the 15th Division of the Dingbei Army to sweep the entire Philippines. After taking the northernmost port of Apari on Luzon alone, leaving only an infantry squad to guard the port, Yang Dawa led the whole company to attack the northernmost city of Laoag. In one fell swoop, he defeated the indigenous army of several hundred people in the city of Laoag and occupied the small city of Laoag, which had a population of less than 10,000.

After that, the main force of the regiment to which Yang Dawa belonged, after coming to Laoag City, left Laoag City and assembled in the Manila area according to the order of the division headquarters. At that time, Lin Daxin knew that the combined fleet of the United States and Italy was going to attack the Philippines. It is also not known whether the United States and Italy sent their land forces to force a landing and seize Manila. So the 15th Division mobilized most of its main forces to defend the Manila area.

And Yang Dawa's company was left behind to guard the city of Laoag. And the nearest garrison of the Dingbei Army to the city of Laoag is in the port of Apari. There was also a company of the Dingbei Army guarding this important civilian port in northern Luzon.

At least half of the nearly 10,000 people in the city of Laoag are Chinese, and the other nearly 5,000 indigenous people are mostly Malays and Galogs.

Today, in a stone house facing the city, Liga, the leader of the Katipnan organization, said to the six or seven diminutive natives inside the stone house: "The leader has secretly gathered more than 15,000 warriors outside the city of Laoag, as well as our people in the city. In cooperation with the capture of the city of Laoag, the leader promised to let us do whatever we wanted with the 5,000 Chinese in the city. Think of the smooth skin of those Chinese women. Warriors, aren't you tempted? ”

These people are also the backbone members of Katipnanm, and one of them said excitedly: "Leader Liga, we have prepared 600 warriors of all ethnic groups in Laoag City, and the Chinese army is only more than 100 people in Laoag City, we must cooperate with the army outside the city of Aguinaldo to take Laoag, slaughter the Chinese in Laoag, and avenge the hundreds of thousands of Filipino tribes who were slaughtered by the Chinese army!" ”

Liga nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Okay! At 10 o'clock in the morning, you gathered 300 men to the city gate, attacked the Chinese army at the city gate, and the army outside the city, and took the city gate. Another 300 men launched an attack on the garrison of the Chinese army in the city at the same time, containing the support of the Chinese army to the city gate, and finally waiting for the army outside the city to enter the city, and then annihilating the Chinese army in the city in one fell swoop. ”

There is only one gate in the small city of Laoag, and the city wall is only a stone wall more than 2 meters high built to prevent pirates, which is still because Laoag is close to the sea, and pirates often come ashore to rob them.

The indigenous backbone who spoke just now nodded and said, "There are still two hours until 10 o'clock, so we will immediately go back and prepare and gather the warriors of all tribes." ”

Guarding the gate of Laoag was a squad of 10 soldiers of the Dingbei Army, plus 4 soldiers from the gun squad in the platoon, 1 Type 96 light machine gun and 1 grenade launcher, and the city gate only opened a gap of about 5 meters in the stone wall and installed 2 wooden gates.

The soldiers of the Dingbei Army built a simple fortification more than half a person high with sacks filled with soil on both sides of the city gate, and the light machine gun of the gun squad was erected on the sack fortification on the right, with 1 machine gunner and 1 deputy, plus 5 people from the squad guarding the city gate on the right. On the other side were 1 shooter with a grenade and his deputy, plus 5 other people in the squad.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the squad leader suddenly noticed that many natives with weapons suddenly appeared in the distance outside the city, and there were suddenly more people near the street at the gate of the city.

"Not good! Get ready for battle! The squad leader shouted with a changed face.

"Kill! Kill the Chinese! With the earth-shattering shout, the natives outside and inside the city began to attack the city gates at the same time.

The squad leader shouted: "Deputy squad leader, you bring someone to resist the natives outside the city for me!" Da Li, Da Liu, Beard, and Little Fat, follow me to deal with the natives in the city! Brothers. Be sure to hold out until the company commander's reinforcements come and hold the city gates! ”

The city of Laoag is not big, as long as gunshots are heard at the city gates. Yang Dawa, the company commander of the Dingbei Army stationed in the city, will definitely hear the gunshots and come to support.

Immediately, the squad leader rushed to the city gate with four soldiers of the Dingbei Army, and looked at the hundreds of natives who rushed over, most of whom were armed with cold weapons and only a few gunpowder guns, and shouted: "Fight! Hit hard! Da Li, your marksmanship is accurate, you can take care of the natives with guns first! ”

Then the Type 96 submachine gun in the squad leader's hand began to fire at the natives who rushed over, and the four soldiers of the Dingbei Army also began to shoot with Type 96 rifles. Hundreds of natives were already less than 30 meters away from the city gate, and five soldiers of the Dingbei Army fired bullets. Almost no bullets were missed, and blood holes were punched in the bodies of the charging natives, instantly causing a large number of natives in the city to fall.

On the sack position outside the city gate. The deputy squad leader saw the natives rushing towards the city gate in a dense manner, clenched the Type 96 submachine gun in his hand and shouted: "Fight!" Then the submachine gun in his hand began to fire.

Light machine guns and rifles from the positions on both sides of the gate also opened fire, and with a "boom", the grenade launchers on the positions also began to fire grenades at the charging crowd of natives. A grenade went down. At least 10 indigenous people in the dense indigenous population fell.

There are only a few of the hundreds of natives in the city gate who are armed with gunpowder guns, and the soldiers called Da Li are killed with accurate marksmanship, and the natives in the city can hardly threaten the five Dingbei Army soldiers inside the city gate, but the natives are still screaming and rushing towards the five Dingbei Army soldiers inside the city gate.

After the squad leader led 4 soldiers of the Dingbei Army to throw 2 rounds of grenades, the natives who stormed the city gate finally couldn't bear the heavy casualties, and the remaining natives began to turn around and flee.

The squad leader left 2 soldiers behind to prevent the natives in the city from rushing back again. He led the other 2 soldiers to turn around and run to the fortifications outside the city to strengthen the defense outside the city.

Yang Dawa, who was stationed in the Dingbei Army in the city, heard the gunfire in the direction of the city gate for the first time. Immediately, he heard gunshots in the direction of the entrance and exit of his station. Yang Dawa secretly said in her heart, grandma's, I said why do my eyelids always jump, and sure enough, something happened.

The squad leader of the guard squad rushed into the company headquarters and shouted: "Company commander, there are hundreds of natives attacking our station!" ”

Yang Dawa took out the Type 96 pistol in her crotch and shouted: "Order the whole company to attack!" Defeat the natives outside the station! ”

Yang Dawa heard the gunshots coming from the direction of the city gate, and knew that it must have been attacked by the natives there, and she must hurry up to repel the natives outside the station and support the direction of the city gate.

The 300 natives who attacked the Dingbei Army's garrison broke up in less than 5 minutes under the powerful firepower of the Dingbei Army.

Yang Dawa heard the gunfire in the direction of the city gate and the shouts of the natives to kill, and ordered urgently: "The 1st platoon and the 1st squad and the logistics squad will stay to guard the station, and the rest of the company will follow me to the direction of the city gate and set off!" ”

Nearly 100 soldiers of the Dingbei Army, under the leadership of Yang Dawa, rushed towards the city gate.

The 15,000 natives outside the city were the remnants of Catipunam's army on Luzon, and although their weapons were still outdated, they also had a large number of gunpowder guns and single-shot rifles, which also brought a lot of casualties to the Dingbei army guarding the city gate in a short time.

"Grenades!" The class leader yelled.

8 or 9 grenades were thrown at the indigenous people who rushed to the city gate, and the grenades blew up a piece of the indigenous people in front of them to the ground, only wounding the indigenous people who did not die, lying on the ground and making heart-rending screams.

Then another batch of 8 or 9 grenades was thrown at the natives, stopping the frenzied attacking natives, and the natives in front turned and fled behind.

At this time, the squad leader found that the deputy squad leader and 2 other soldiers of his squad were killed by the bullets of the natives, and the machine gunner of the light machine gun was also hit in the shoulder by the bullet, and now the light machine gun has been controlled by the deputy machine gun.

The squad leader gritted the root of his teeth, hiding the sadness of losing his comrades, and encouraged the remaining soldiers and said: "Brothers, hold on, the company commander's reinforcements will be coming soon!" ”

Aguinaldo, the leader of the Philippine Liberation Organization Catipunan behind the indigenous army outside the city, saw that the nearly 2,000 indigenous soldiers who were charging were repelled by less than 20 Chinese soldiers at the city gate, and immediately shouted angrily at several backbone leaders around him: "There are not many of them!" Only 2,000 people were dispatched, rush with me! Be sure to take the gates down! ”

Aguinaldo was not willing to let his dream of being a Philippine emperor be ruined by the Chinese army, but he also knew that in the face of the well-equipped Chinese army occupying the Philippines, he would not be able to defeat even if he organized hundreds of thousands of indigenous troops.

So Aguinaldo decided to take revenge, and the target of revenge was ordinary Filipino Chinese, he decided to gather the remaining members of the Catipunan organization, capture some small towns, and kill all the Chinese inside. In the end, Aguinaldo had his men communicate around Luzon and gathered 15,000 natives.

Aguinaldo saw that so many people had gathered, and immediately decided to capture a larger town, which would have a greater impact, and let the people of the Philippines know that the Catipunan organization still existed and was still fighting. Aguinaldo was screened and chose Lasag, who had a large number of Chinese but not many Chinese troops.

Under Aquinaldo's orders, the less than 2,000 native soldiers who had retreated, together with the 2,000 new native soldiers who had joined the attack, relaunched the attack in the direction of the city gates, led by several key leaders of the Katipnan group.

The squad leader guarding the city gate is secretly complaining in his heart, because their ammunition is running out, if the company commander Yang Dawa does not come again, the city gate will be lost, but fortunately, when the indigenous army charged again, Yang Dawa had rushed to the city gate with the main force of the company.

Yang Dawa looked at the natives rushing over all over the mountains outside the city, plus the natives who had not joined the charge in the distance, grandma's, these natives were at least more than 10,000 people, and immediately gasped, where did so many natives come from?

However, now is not the time to sigh, Yang Dawa immediately ordered the six 60mm mortars of the artillery platoon to set up positions inside the city gate, and began to fire at the indigenous people who were frantically rushing towards the city gate.

Two Type 96 heavy machine guns and four Type 96 light machine guns from the machine gun platoon were also mounted on the sack fortifications on both sides of the city gate, firing non-stop at the natives. The other 3 light machine guns of the 2 infantry platoons were also fortified and fired at the natives.

The sack fortifications on both sides were too short, and after setting up 10 light and heavy machine guns, there was no place for other soldiers of the Dingbei Army, but under the fire of these 10 light and heavy machine guns, coupled with the mortars behind the continuous firing shells into the indigenous population, the charge of nearly 4,000 people of the indigenous army was quickly repulsed, leaving only a few hundred corpses of indigenous soldiers outside the city. (To be continued......)