"What? The Chinese have already stormed the city! Peter couldn't believe it.

"Yes, they're already in town."

Peter rode to the Datong camp and found it empty, with only a few logisticians guarding supplies.

Even the indigenous warriors brought by the Datong army have already entered the city. Fortunately, there are these indigenous friendly forces, otherwise it would be really difficult to occupy the huge city quickly, after all, it would be difficult to divide troops to fight.

As for the discipline of the indigenous soldiers, it can only be said that it is as restrained as possible.

Anyway, the city is full of chopsticks who slaughter the Chinese, and they are also the villains who have been exploiting and oppressing the Chinese and the indigenous people for a long time. The indigenous warriors were willing to fight with them, first, the Chinese army gave gifts, second, the Chinese army provided food, and third, these natives wanted to take revenge.

Blindly pressing is not the way, the indigenous soldiers must be allowed to vent, and it is normal to burn, kill and loot.

As if in a dream, Peter retreated to the barracks to escape the typhoon, and then the city of Manila was captured by friendly forces.

What the heck?

"Come with me into town!"

Peter led the Dutch army and the native soldiers and ran wildly towards the city. They are also going to plunder the city, if they don't run faster, the goods of the Spaniards in the city will be robbed by the natives brought by the Datong army.

The city has been completely plunged into chaos, and corpses can be seen everywhere in the stagnant water in the streets that have not yet receded.

Wang Hui only assigned tasks to the indigenous warriors, ordering which areas to occupy, regardless of what they did after they took them. There are even headhunters who cut off the heads of Spaniards as war trophies, and it is estimated that they will take them back to make ornaments, or as a dowry to marry the woman they like.

Peter waded through the stagnant water and found that all parts of the city were occupied, and he could not find a place to rob.

As a result, the indigenous soldiers brought by China and the indigenous soldiers brought by the Netherlands fought because of the competition for goods. A large-scale armed battle broke out between the two sides, involving more and more indigenous soldiers, and finally caused more than 2,000 casualties - this is the largest loss of the Chinese and Dutch armies since the start of the war!

But it doesn't matter, the dead are all indigenous soldiers, and they will settle the dispute themselves.

"Boom!"

The weather was only sunny for half a day and midnight, and at some point in the evening, it suddenly started to rain again.

It continued to rain until noon the next day, when the rain finally became lighter, and then the scorching sun could make the people in the house panic.

"How many are left that aren't sick?" Wang Hui asked.

The military medical officer replied: "More than 1,600 people." ”

Of the 3,500-strong expeditionary force, only more than 1,600 remained unsick. Moreover, the symptoms of the disease are varied, and many people's diseases cannot be diagnosed, and the military doctor can only judge that they are "not adapted to the water and soil".

Wang Hui called the herald: "Let the indigenous soldiers collect the corpses in the city, dig all the pits and bury them, and don't cause a plague." ”

I couldn't burn it, because I couldn't find so much dry firewood, and the dry firewood piled up in the house was badly damp.

Feeling that it was troublesome to make a fire, those Dutch soldiers all drank raw water directly.

Only the military discipline of the Datong army is strict, and no matter how difficult it is to make a fire, you must drink boiled water - two days after the typhoon, the Datong army that invaded the city could only drink raw water on the spot, and as a result, a lot of sick people were caused after the war.

The fleets of China, the Netherlands, Brunei, and Sulu are all hiding in ports in Manila Bay.

When the typhoon passed, they only dared to patrol the coastal waters, for fear of encountering storms again after going out to sea. The Spanish fleet, too, did not dare to come, and both sides waited for some time before a naval battle.

Moreover, they are busy repairing their ships, so it is inevitable that they will be damaged even if they hide in the harbor.

For the next half month, no one moved.

Inside the castle, there were a handful of Spanish officials and about 280 Spanish soldiers. There were also hundreds of Japanese mercenaries, as well as the remnants of the Bangbangya native soldiers.

The Viceroy of Spain, Coqueira, personally patrolled every day.

The more it rained, the more frightened he became, for fear that the Chinese army would attack the castle in the rain, and the rainy day would make the army doubly vigilant.

"Won't fight?" Tiehong asked.

"Don't fight," Wang Hui shook his head and said, "Anyway, the city has been occupied, and there is only one castle left, so there is no need to increase casualties." After a while, he brought the family of the soldier and made his home in this city. Then some peasants were relocated and cultivated around the city. Before that, we built fortifications around the castle, surrounded the castle, and beat whoever dared to come out. Starve these red-haired ghosts! He has a year's worth of food, so let's surround it for a year! ”

There are also sunny days during the rainy season.

As soon as it was sunny, the Datong army commanded the indigenous soldiers to push the dirt into the city in small carts. Around the castle, outside the moat, fortifications were built against artillery fire.

In addition, all the bridges and passages on the moat were blocked by the indigenous soldiers.

If the Spanish defenders wanted to fight out, they had to row across the river and walk off the bridge to remove the obstacles.

Fort Santiago is exceptionally strong, with walls up to ten meters thick.

Wang Hui didn't bother to attack the city with artillery, because the castle fort was condescending, and there was a stone wall to protect it, so it had an artillery advantage when defending.

Standing on the turret of the castle, Governor Coquilla looked around at the growing enemy fortifications, and he had nothing to do about it. Fort San Diego in Manila, which the colonists called the "Holy Land of Freedom," is now known as a prison cell that restricts his freedom.

This castle has been besieged more than once.

Basically, after three or five months, the enemy troops will automatically withdraw. Because neither the indigenous people of Luzon nor the Sultanate of Sulu could support the food supply of the army besieging the city for half a year.

Moreover, after the city of Manila was repaired, the enemy army could not even attack the city of Manila, let alone run into the city to surround the castle.

But this time it's troublesome.

China is not a native of Luzon, nor is it a small Sulu country, and grain transportation is not a problem at all, and the defenders in the castle can be surrounded until they starve to death!

"I'll just say don't slaughter the Tang people!"

Governor Sanders roared and complained, "What can we get by killing those Tang people except to rob the goods?" The shaver is gone, the shoemaker is gone, and the is gone. Well, now that the Chinese emperor sent an army, they surrounded the castle and did not leave, will our grain last for half a year? ”

"Of course, there is grain in the cellar and grain in the warehouse," Corquila asked, turning around, "Isn't it true that you don't get a share of the goods you have slaughtered from the Tang people?" Not only divided, but a lot. ”

Sanders asked, "So what do you say should be done about the dilemma?" ”

Coquela was silent.

It was impossible for Spain to send reinforcements from within the country, and it was impossible for the Americas to send reinforcements.

The Thirty Years' War was not over, and in Europe, Spain fought against the Dutch, French and other allies at the same time. It is also weak in the Americas, where last year's defeat led to a brief halt in the galleon trade, and the restoration of the Pacific shipping lanes was the ultimate in the event.

Moreover, the Spanish had been operating the southern Philippine archipelago for decades, and although they had built a large number of cities, ports, forts, and beacons along the coast, their power could only be maintained along the coast.

In the southern archipelago of the Philippines, there is a large number of indigenous people who follow the Green Religion, and their spiritual leader is the Sultan of Sulu.

Don't look at the nobles of Sulu lying flat, but these natives at the bottom of the Green Sect are revolting and rebelling year after year. It was precisely because of the indigenous resistance that the Spanish forces were diluted, so that Manila was garrisoned by only 300 Spanish soldiers.

Coqueira was more worried about the Japanese mercenaries in the castle!

These Japanese ronin, who are besieged for another month, will they rebel and surrender?

……

Mountains northwest of Manila.

There were only about 2,200 Han refugees who fled into the mountains. Those who have survived hunger, war, illness and the rainy season have basically adapted to the environment.

In the past six months, they destroyed three Spanish plantations and defeated the indigenous people of the Bang Banga Mountains once. Moreover, they temporarily formed a war alliance with a friendly indigenous tribe of Bangbangya.

Not all of them were Spanish lackeys, and the more they went into the mountains, the more they disobeyed Spanish rule.

One day, the rain stopped.

The indigenous people of Bangbangya came to the Han settlement and chattered about something.

Immediately, a refugee from a business name shouted excitedly: "Your Majesty has sent troops, they have already attacked Manila, and they are besieging the castle of the red-haired ghost!" ”

As soon as these words came out, there was silence all around, and everyone couldn't believe it.

Wan Zhaoan knelt down to the north: "Your Majesty the Emperor of Datong, long live, long live, long live!" ”

The other refugees reacted, and they all knelt down and cried out with tears: "Long live Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty!" ”

Shouting and kneeling for a long time, Lin Lang suddenly said: "Let's go out of the mountain and go to Manila to find His Majesty's army." ”

"Why don't you wait until the rainy season is over?" Xiucai Lei Lisheng said.

"What's the wait? It's not easy in this forest, how many people have died of illness! Chen Yigui immediately objected.

Lei Lisheng said: "Listen to Wan Dashuai. ”

Wan Zhaoan thought for a long time: "The castle in Manila is not easy to attack, and we can't help if we go." There is a great miasma in this mountain forest, and it is not a place to stay for a long time. It's better to attack the red-haired ghost's manor, not only to grab food, but also to find a good place to live. Manila is surrounded by the Datong army, and no matter how we attack the manor, there will be no army of red-haired ghosts to save us. ”

"Yes!"

Lin Lang gritted his teeth and said: "Our belongings have been robbed, and we are also poor ghosts when we return to Manila." It's better to go to the manor of the red-haired ghost, how much we have lost, we will rob his mother as much as we want! ”

Wan Zhaoan smiled and said to everyone: "If you are willing to stay with the local lord, when we break the Zhuangzi of the red-haired ghost, we will allocate land and reclaim it by ourselves." Those are ripe fields, and planting crops will definitely yield a good harvest. ”

Chen Yigui said with a smile: "Not only a good harvest, if you plant rice, you can harvest three times a year." ”

Wan Zhaoan clapped his hands and said, "Then let's fight the manor of the red-haired ghost, and distribute the land in a unified manner." In order to prevent favoritism, lots are divided every time. The more territory we occupy, the more we will share. When the time comes, take it to the Datong Army to settle down and report, and we will all be big landlords in the future! ”

"Okay, it's the lord of Luzon!"

"I have to learn from the red-haired ghost and catch some barbarians to be tenants."

"That's not a tenant, that's a serf."

"It doesn't matter if he is a tenant or a serf, anyway, the barbarian natives have to help cultivate the land, otherwise where can they plant if there is too much land?"

"Send troops, send troops!"