The army of the Principality of Luzon was mobilized at a much slower pace and with greater efficiency than the Matsue Army had anticipated. But the speed at which they collapsed and were wiped out was inversely proportional to the former.

The Left Battalion of the Northern Legion, which had crossed the sea, apparently did not carry any decent siege weapons - which were not used in the civil war of the Duchy of Luzon. After spending half a day on the completion of the initial assembly, facing this small city that had quietly erected at some point, the 5,000 native soldiers of the left battalion were obviously a little dumbfounded.

Seeing this scene, He Shixiang couldn't help but feel a little annoyed. Knowing this, he should have been more active and aggressive before, and directly took advantage of their landing to complete the active attack.

It's a pity that he was frightened by their 60,000 people, and he formulated a defensive strategy from the beginning!

While he was secretly reviewing, the native soldiers split into two parts and acted separately. Some of them used the tools carried with the ship to prepare a batch of ladders. Another part of the native soldiers took wooden shields covered with bison skins and protected hundreds of archers to approach the city, preparing to shoot and suppress the Songjiang army in the city first.

Obviously, the commander who commanded the left battalion did not take to heart the statement that Arroyo reported that the enemy was well-trained, but regarded the Songjiang army as a level of rebellious manors and slaves in the principality. Perhaps, with a few more rounds of arrows from their own archers, the defenders of this small city will collapse in terror?

With a shout, no less than 300 arrows were fired at the top of the city one after another, nailed to the wood, and made a sound like raindrops hitting the wooden shed.

It sounds incessant, but it seems a bit of a deterrent. But in the eyes of the knowledgeable soldiers of the Songjiang Army, this round of arrow rain was too chaotic, and the strength of the arrows was also weak and insufficient. In the Songjiang Army, the archer requirement of the main battle unit is a stone bow, and the archer standard of the local guard unit is an eight-bucket bow. And these arrows used by the archers of the Duchy of Luzon. It's definitely not up to the level of eight buckets - or even if there were, the archers didn't get their bows full, at most they were half-opened!

With such a rain of arrows. Wanting to pose a threat to the Songjiang soldiers who were waiting for them was undoubtedly a fantasy.

Opposite. The threat and lethality posed to them by the Matsue archers was too great.

Not only is the scale of the infantry archers far superior to the opponent, but even the power and accuracy of the bow and arrow are far superior to the opponent, not to mention that the Songjiang army also has a condescending advantage. After a rain of arrows fell, the soldiers of the Duchy of Luzon fell in an instant, and more than a dozen of them were wounded—if it weren't for the good effect of the wooden shields covered with bison skins, I am afraid that the killing effect of this round of salvo would have been at least several times greater.

Rao was so, and the sudden fall of arrows and the successive screams also frightened the native soldiers of the Duchy of Luzon.

Although these soldiers of the Left Battalion of the Northern Army who did not admit defeat quickly launched a counterattack, several rounds of counterfire came down reads(); Spoil the poisonous woman. The Songjiang Army had an absolute advantage. Seeing that at least dozens of brothers had fallen, and many of the people who raised their shields to protect them were also injured, the morale of these Turkish foot archers was greatly reduced, and after a few curses, the wolf bèi withdrew.

Winning the first battle is just to give these natives a dismount, and the real one is still to come.

The night of the day!

Since there was not much time left, after the ladder was ready, the Luzon soldiers of the left battalion did not continue the attack, but chose to set up camp and wait for tomorrow to attack. The humble camp. There is also the combat power of the Luzon people in the daytime, which gave He Shixiang a lot of confidence.

He decided to launch a night raid!

The western part of Yanjian Island is so big, and the soldiers of the Songjiang Army have also thoroughly explored the terrain around it these days. There is basically no need to worry about getting lost. As for whether these Luzon people will set up an ambush, even if they can think of this, they must have enough strength to eat the Songjiang army. You must know that among the 5,000 Songjiang Army on the island, in addition to He Shixiang's elite brigade, there is also a wing of the Third Heavy Infantry Division.

That's a thousand heavy infantry!

The reason why He Shixiang dared to hold on to Yanji'an Island before was largely due to this thousand heavy infantry. Because before leaving, he had already heard Chen Wu say that although the Principality of Luzon was rich in minerals, there were even two gold mines. However, iron-smelting technology is not well developed. Except for a small number of heavy infantry in the royal capital of Manila, almost all of the 60,000 troops were light infantry.

Unguarded situations. The soldiers of the Northern Legion sent to the door are not at all the opponents of their own trump cards!

In such self-confidence, the soldiers of the Songjiang Army rested in the first half of the night. And assembled around two o'clock in the morning. With the help of the moonlight and starlight, he slowly approached the camp of the Principality of Luzon, which was not too guarded.

For the principality of this island, there are no external troubles, and internal troubles are limited to a few local leaders who are in rebellion, or the slaves on the manor are oppressive and rebellious. The intensity of the battle, to be honest, is not much higher than that of the daimyo on Cook Island. In addition to being larger, it may be far inferior to the tragic Cheng dù, and has hardly experienced such a thing as a night attack.

Although the soldiers of the Zuo battalion did leave people on duty at night, their vigilance was inevitably too bad, and it was not until the Songjiang army that attacked at night that they were within thirty paces that someone faintly discovered that something was wrong.

"Who is it?"

In the dim light of the torches, some Tu people shouted stupidly.

Exposed!

The first reaction of the Songjiang soldiers was to speed up and rush in. Faster than them was a short round of arrows. The Turkish soldier who first noticed the problem only had time to scream and then fell to his back.

"Kill!"

By this time, the Songjiang army had nothing to worry about, smashed open the rudimentary camp gate, solved several groups of soldiers of the Duchy of Luzon who had arrived in a hurry, and rushed into the camp of the Luzon people.

In this attack on the camp, the Songjiang Army used three wings of light infantry, plus 500 heavy infantry.

It's not that He Shixiang is cautious, but it doesn't take much strength to attack the camp at night. If too many forces are hastily invested, the deployment and exertion of troops may be limited by chaos. Three thousand five hundred men at once was enough to gain the absolute upper hand in the event that the Luzon people were caught off guard.

For a while, shouts of killing rang out!

The soldiers of the Songjiang Army who attacked the camp did not have any scruples at all, killed people when they saw them, and set fires everywhere reads(); I have a special skill. The firelight not only illuminated the darkness and allowed the Songjiang army to grasp the situation more accurately, but also brought greater panic to the Luzon people. For a while, they couldn't figure out how many enemies were killed, they only felt that the camp was full of enemies, and they were defeated by the raiding Songjiang army.

It was not without brave soldiers of the Duchy of Luzon who tried to spontaneously assemble to confront the Songjiang army. However, the tactical level of the decaying Duchy of Luzon was already very low, and it was not possible to hold two large-scale drills a year. The soldiers of the Principality of Luzon had no courage, and the combat effectiveness of the squad was really average. The soldiers of the Songjiang Army often rushed them back together before they could assemble on a large scale.

On the other hand, the corruption and greed for life and fear of death among the officers also made the soldiers of the Zuo battalion lack the backbone and were destined to be scattered.

Just over an hour later, there was a massive rout of the Luzon soldiers in the camp.

Thankfully, the Luzon camp is not far from the sea. Seeing the light of fire and the shouts of killing, the Luzon fleet, which knew that something was wrong, docked one after another and took some of the soldiers who had fled back to the ship. However, with the rapid penetration of the soldiers of the Songjiang Army, the Luzon retreat was blocked, and only a few hundred managed to escape back to sea.

The vast majority of the Luzon soldiers in the Left Battalion were trapped in their humble camps. Some died in the attack of the Matsue army, some scurried like headless flies, and many were killed or injured by chaos, flames, and trampling. When the sky was shining, the entire left battalion of the Northern Army that had landed was completely annihilated.

In addition to the few hundred who escaped back to sea, more than 1,500 were killed and wounded, more than 2,500 were taken prisoner, and a small number fled to the island in a panic!

From beginning to end, the casualties of the Songjiang Army were only two or three hundred, which can be called a brilliant result!

The frightened fleet of the Duchy of Luzon, which had been killed, had long since lost the momentum of the hundreds of ships it had come, and seeing that the defeat was assured, they turned around and fled back to Northern Luzon - they did not even leave a few ships to meet the possible remnants of the rout on the island.

"The troops of the Principality of Luzon are vulnerable! If 60,000 people are at that level......"

After experiencing last night's battle, He Shixiang and several henchmen became emboldened. While ordering people to clean up the battlefield, treat the wounded soldiers, and search for the defeated soldiers all over the island, he ordered people to interrogate the officers at all levels among the prisoners. Arroyo's entourage knew only a limited amount of information after all, and it was only before he went to the island. He Shixiang They are eager to know the changes in the Duchy of Luzon in the past month or so!

In particular, what did the top brass of the Principality of Luzon think about the use of troops on Yanjian Island.

If it could, of course, the Songjiang army would like to be able to leave the commander of the battalion, but unfortunately, the other party happened to be the fastest to slip away. After preliminary identification and identification, the highest-ranking officers arrested by the Songjiang Army were several school officers. After cross-interrogation verified the contents, He Shixiang got what he wanted.

What made him smile bitterly was that his side acted cautiously and attempted to launch a war of aggression against the Principality of Luzon, but after the signs and intentions leaked out, it was the three words "watch and do" of the political officials of the Principality of Luzon!

"It really doesn't make sense for such a principality if it doesn't perish."

He Shixiang couldn't help but sigh like this.

If it weren't for the thousands of nautical miles of ocean, and Luzon Island was placed on the edge of the mainland, I am afraid that I would have been wiped out by a pack of hungry wolves many times.

However, having such an enemy is actually a blessing for the Matsue army!

If he still had a little doubt about Chen Wu's cross-sea expedition to Luzon before the fight, then he has no idea at all now. As long as the second batch of troops of the Ninghai Fleet arrives, an attack on the main island of Northern Luzon will be launched immediately! (To be continued.) )