The negotiations with the wine merchants of Osawa County were quite smooth.

The wine is a good wine, and the exit price is by no means higher than other wines, and the two sides naturally hit it off. The only disagreement lies in the model of the agent. This wine merchant from Osawa County has a lot of appetite, and he wants to contract all the remaining external sales of Hanjingfang liquor after satisfying the local market.

Put it in the real world before Chen Wu crossed, it was the exclusive agent in the country.

Such a good thing, Chen Wu naturally would not agree. Even if the other party expressed his willingness to make great efforts to help publicize it, and even appropriately raise some offers, Chen Wu did not let go. The reason is very simple, although the current output of Hanjingfang wine is not enough, and there is not much that can be sold to other places after meeting the local market, but with the further abundance of grain and the continuous expansion of production capacity, the foreign market will only get bigger and bigger.

In response to the greedy wine merchant's approach, Chen Wu proposed a system of state and county-level agents.

In each county, Hanjingfang Liquor only gives one agency right. If there are multiple forces competing, then Hanjingfang Liquor will be authorized to give the highest bid. Of course, considering that only one wine merchant in front of him took the initiative to come to the door at this stage, Hanjingfang Liquor will not be restricted for the time being. It wasn't until the shipping channels were basically covered with the empire that the restrictions were gradually tightened.

In this regard, the visitors of Osawa County are inevitably a little disappointed, but the famous wine of Songjiang County is now in a state of strange goods, and there is no worry about selling at all, which is destined to take the initiative out of his hands.

Only agree!

………

The news that Miss Lin Jiasan had entered the customs and would soon visit was only half a day later than the departure of the wine merchant in Daze County.

Chen Wu, who was having dinner, had just eaten a piece of chopsticks and rice with the smooth and delicious braised pork, and he received the news from the attendants below, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

"Lin Yunshuang is coming to Dengzhou?"

He looked at the humble piece of information suspiciously, and finally decided to summon the messenger himself. A quarter of an hour later, Chen Wu knew all the news he wanted.

Is it as the message said, really come to visit Lin Xing and Lin Yue, or is it to talk about some secret cooperation? Or is it both?

Those elders of the Lin family were really willing to let this young lady out!

After thinking about it for a few seconds, he gave up considering Lin Yunshuang's true intentions. Anyway, before the opening of the HSBC corridor, Taiping County and Songjiang County had almost no direct contact. No matter what the young lady of the Lin family wants to do, it will not have any impact on the current Songjiang and him.

The only thing I can do is to receive good students.

However, Lin Xing and Lin Yue sisters, they would be very happy to hear this news, right?

Thinking of the two of them, the corners of Chen Wu's mouth had a little more gentle smile, and he immediately ordered someone to send the news back to the back garden of the Thai Palace.

………

When the Lin Xing Lin Yue sisters, who came to Songjiang County far away from their hometown, were overjoyed to be reunited with the former eldest lady, a new war was ready to start on North Luzon.

After Shun Lì recovered the Ifugao gold mine and intervened in the Medan region, the whole of Northern Luzon was divided into east and west by the forces of the Songjiang people. After a short rest, He Shixiang sent troops to the west under the sixfold request of Lou Liuzhong, who was eager to control the entire Northern Luzon Dominion.

The Laoag area, where there was not much resistance, almost surrendered.

With the exception of a few hardliners whose interests were violated, the Matsue Army faced little organized resistance. At the cost of only a few dozen people, he took half of the Ravag by Shunlì. Compared with the casualties in the battle, the hot and humid climate of Northern Luzon, mosquito dysentery, poisonous miasma swamps and other natural forces posed a greater threat to the Songjiang army, even with the help of locals.

Under such circumstances, the westward march of the Songjiang Army encountered the strongest and only remaining formed corps in the entire western part of Luzon.

Cebu Legion!

When the Songjiang Army stormed Manila before, this legion did not rush to support in order to preserve its strength. Instead, he stayed in the border area between the two regions, trying to wait and see what the Matsue Army was doing, and then attack when both sides were defeated. However, the gunpowder tunnel bombing tactics used by the Songjiang army broke through Manila in a short time, and the idea of the Cebu army was completely defeated.

This time, seeing the westward advance of the Matsue Army, the commander of the Cebu Legion finally made up his mind.

Although the Duchy of Luzon is decaying, it is not an uncivilized state of ignorance after all. Being able to command 15,000 people naturally has some weight. The moment they received the news, they knew that the next target after the Songjiang army took Laoag was themselves, and the Cebu army had no room to retreat.

In this case, instead of being passively defensive, it is better to take the initiative!

Of course, if they could, no one would want to be so aggressive in the face of a strong enemy in the face of the Cebuano Legion. But the details of Manila's breach have already spread over time. Although the news was blocked from below so as not to cause panic, the middle and high-ranking officers of the Cebu Legion still knew that the people of Songjiang had some kind of ghostly power, which could shake the earth and blow down the city walls!

Since they can't defend, they who refuse to surrender obediently can only take the initiative to attack.

After all, they are fighting on their own territory, and the soldiers of the Cebu Legion still have a certain advantage in intelligence. The timing they chose was quite good, just when the Songjiang army advanced more than three hundred miles westward, and the sharp spirit at the beginning was slightly gone. In addition, even the tactics are similar.

Through the Guò detour, they advanced from the south to the northeast, in an attempt to suddenly appear on the retreat of the Songjiang army and "block" the 10,000 soldiers of the Songjiang army advancing west in the Laoag area. After a long time, the morale of the Songjiang people was naturally turbulent. Moreover, once the problem of insufficient food appeared, the Songjiang army could only solve it by plundering places. But doing so will inevitably enmity with the local civilians and native manor owners of Laoag, and then invite them to fight back everywhere!

If the situation really develops to that point, the Cebu Legion may really have a chance to defeat the Songjiang people.

But the premise is that they must be able to block the offensive of the Songjiang army after turning around. What's more, the people of the Cebu Army underestimated the importance of intelligence and underestimated the vigilance of the Songjiang Army.

Long before the troops marched westward, many soldiers of the North Luzon Garrison Division were secretly sent to Davao Province in the east and Cebu in the west to monitor the movements of forces on the eastern and western islands. After the Cebu Legion sent troops, the troops they thought were hidden were soon discovered by local spies, and Xingyue galloped to send the news to the Songjiang Army.

Because of this, when the Cebu Army tried to cut off the rear route of the Songjiang Army, it encountered a strong army that had been prepared for a long time, rather than the panicked and angry army they expected.

The commander of the Cebu Legion, Sukaier, suddenly had a retreat in his heart when he saw that the shape seemed to be different from what he expected. After all, after the Songjiang Army landed in Luzon, all the big and small battles were devastating victories, which can be described as prestigious. Fighting against such a large army, the soldiers of the Cebu Legion were under great pressure before they started fighting.

However, it is easy to come, but it is not so simple to leave.

The marching speed of the Matsue Army was not at all comparable to that of the Cebu Army. They only wanted to retreat after contact, but they were only pursued by the Songjiang army all the way, and finally fell into a complete collapse. There were two paths in front of Sukair: one was to abandon some of the soldiers and let them stay behind the palace for others to retreat; The other is the all-army showdown!

In the end, Sukael chose the latter.

Although no matter how you look at it, you don't have much chance of winning, but at least in terms of numbers, the Cebu Legion seems to have more soldiers than the other side.

It's also the only place where Sukael can console himself.

After half a day of confrontation, the two sides unanimously chose to arrange their troops on the second day. The battle took place in an open and sparse woodland nearby.

"Defeat these imperials, money, fields, manors, slaves, I will satisfy what you want!"

Sukael himself wore a slightly fancy but considered majestic armor, and used not very clever words to stir up the morale of his soldiers. However, it can be seen that these shoddy incitements have a good effect. For his 15,000 subordinates, slogans such as loyalty, honor, and defending the country are not as real as these material rewards.

As long as you fight bravely, you can get money and land, and even become a manor owner, which is almost the most coveted by the lower ranks of the Cebu Legion.

In contrast, the movements on the side of the Songjiang Army were much simpler.

The Cebu Legion regarded them as great enemies, and the Songjiang people, who had seen a lot of storms, did not take these Turkish soldiers seriously. It's not that it's careless or despising the enemy, but compared to the Omani army, the army of the Principality of Luzon is indeed more than a notch behind.

In their eyes, a mere 15,000 enemies may not even be worth a brigade of the Omani Waranga Division!

He Shixiang, who led the army westward, mobilized equally simply before the war, with only one short sentence: "Defeat them!" ”

Four words are enough to say He Shixiang's expectations.

Soon, the drums of war were beating. The Matsue army's formation slowly unfolded, stepping on the drum to close the distance with the Luzonians. The silent and heavy momentum, as well as the formation that could still maintain a regular formation even when moving, put more and more pressure on the officers and men of the Cebu Legion.

It's just that, under the supervision of Sukair's personal guards, no one dares to retreat!

As the distance between the two armies gradually narrowed from 1,000 steps to 300 paces, both sides began to increase their speed in unison. When it was further approaching 100 paces, the drum beat stopped briefly, and the Songjiang army quickly stopped and quickly readjusted the formation. At the same time, a large number of archers came forward, lined up with arrows and began to fire a volley.

The sound of swishing was incessant, and the ears of the soldiers in the front row of the Cebu Legion were undoubtedly the ridicule of death.

A standard one-stone bow, with sharpened arrowheads, was enough to pose a deadly threat to these relatively poorly armored soldiers at a distance of eighty paces. When the dense rain of arrows fell in the sky, the soldiers of the Cebu Legion began to fall in large numbers, and they were killed by arrows!

The sudden stop, change of formation, and dispatch of salvo fire by the Matsue army were extremely efficient, and the speed exceeded the imagination of the Cebu soldiers.

In contrast, although they also had archers to counterattack, they could not form a scale at all in a hurry, and they were completely inferior in the face of the neat and uniform rain of arrows of the Songjiang army. After just three rounds of arrow rain, the soldiers of the Cebu Legion were killed and wounded by at least hundreds of people, and they fell into chaos for a while.

Seeing this, the archers calmly retreated to the rear of the formation, and the Songjiang army, which was in front of the Cebu soldiers, was once again transformed into a steel wall that was difficult to overcome!

"Attack! Those who retreat are killed! ”

Under the loud bombardment of the officers, the soldiers of the Cebu Legion finally suppressed their fear, and fought with the battle formation of the Songjiang Army with panic and anxiety. From the air, it looks like two waves that stretch for a mile or two suddenly collide together. Almost immediately, soldiers fell one after another.

It's just that the loss rate of the soldiers of the Songjiang Army is far lower than that of the Cebu soldiers!

This kind of large-scale frontal collision in the field is the best way to test the true strength of both sides. In terms of training, armament, and morale, the Songjiang army was only higher than that of the Cebuanos. In contrast, the Duchy of Luzon does not know how many years it has not been a large-scale war. Yan zhòng, who lacked war experience and baptism, soon showed discomfort in front of the defense line of the Songjiang army.

No matter how they attacked, the soldiers of the Matsue Army could hold it off steadily, and they would hardly take a step back. On the contrary, any negligence in their attack could be caught and exploited by Matsue soldiers. As long as the reaction is a little slow, the weak point that is not protected by the armor will be stabbed, and you will either die or be injured!

The Songjiang soldiers who killed them were like an emotionless war machine, calmly kicking away the opponent's corpse, finding the next target, and didn't even bother to wipe the blood splashed on their bodies and faces. And many Cebuano soldiers who have never experienced a big war, in the face of the constant death, the disgusting blood, and the most real cruelty of war, the strength of the already not very strong is often greatly reduced, and even sixty or seventy percent may not be able to give full play.

If the Cebuanos could barely maintain an attack with the Songjiang Army in the initial battle, then as the sun rose and the two sides continued to consume, the officers and men of the Cebu Army showed obvious weakness.

Sukaire, who was watching the game, was anxious.

Although he had long known that the Matsue Army was powerful, and he was faintly uneasy when he had fought before, he never expected the Matsue Army to be so powerful anyway. The words reported by his subordinates before now not only do not seem to have the slightest exaggeration, but are even far from enough!

These brave and good soldiers under his command were forced to retreat not long after the war began.

Although after the rotation of the troops in the back, he regained his position, but at this rate, Su Kaier was very suspicious that his 15,000 people would collapse before noon, and this was still counting the hundreds of guards around him who served as the overseers and the last reserve.

Damn, how did an island country like the Principality of Luzon provoke such a strong enemy!

At this moment, Sukael somewhat understood the feelings of Suleiman V, who had been beaten and abandoned the royal capital and wolf bèi to hunt east to Davao for refuge. If the city wall is useless, he himself is Suleiman, but I am afraid that the time to hold on may not be as long as the other party