Chapter XVII. Placement

A rebuke instantly resounded throughout the camp.

The generals present were about to be angry, and they looked out of the tent one by one, but they were silent.

I saw a young man with extraordinary strength outside the camp looking at everyone present with an angry face.

"Lord Wang,"

"King Lu." The people in the tent saluted.

As the only prince of the Ming dynasty who went south to Luzon, Zhu Honghuan was looking at the generals in front of him with an angry face at this time.

King Lu's words just now shocked the looks of the Ming generals present,

They didn't expect that Zhu Honghuan, who had been silent, would suddenly break out at this moment,

The generals looked at each other and said no more.

"The people outside the city are all my Ming people, how can Xiao Wang ignore them." Zhu Honghuan's tone gradually slowed down, and he said calmly.

"Lord Wang Rende," Huang Liangji stood up and saluted.

"Please think twice, if thousands of people are moved into the city, not to mention whether the city can be resettled, the food consumption alone is amazing, and what if it is mixed in."

Xiao Wu naturally knew that Huang Liangji would say this, so he said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, why did we go south to Luzon, isn't it just to give the Luzon Ming people a way to live, and use Luzon as the foundation to restore our Ming dynasty."

"If we can even abandon the overseas people of the Ming Dynasty, who is willing to fight for the restoration of our Ming Dynasty," Xiao Wu paused and said,

"The Buddha Lang machine man is ferocious, and he is more like a livestock, when Emperor Shenzong, when the country was surnamed Ye, the Luzon Ming people were slaughtered four times, and now because of my Ming, the Luzon Ming people were slaughtered again." Xu Bin looked around and saw Xiao Wu nodding, he continued:

"If we abandon the people outside the city, lose the hearts of the people, and lose the population, then it is better to lower the Manchu Tartars as soon as possible."

In fact, this is an unsolvable game,

From a military point of view, only by abandoning the burdens of the people can there be hope for defending the city, and what the defenders of the siege are most afraid of is that there are a large number of people stranded in the city to consume little food, and the generals present are also thinking about this.

But if the people were abandoned, the thousands of Han Chinese who were stranded outside the city would inevitably be slaughtered by the Spaniards and the local natives of Luzon, which had happened more than once in history.

There are not many Han people in Luzon, if the Spaniards are allowed to launch the fifth massacre, the dream of trying to make a comeback by aggregating the population will inevitably be shattered, and Liu Yu will also become a sinner through the ages, after all, there was no fifth massacre in Luzon in history, it was he who changed all this.

Let the people into the city or drive them out,

Choosing one of the two, Liu Yu must only choose the first one.

Seeing Xiao Wu and King Lu so insisting, Huang Liangji couldn't help but sigh after thinking about it.

"Then according to the king's opinion, the last general will obey the order."

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When countless people who fled north in fear fled to Mingcheng, Lin Xu and Uncle Li also came to the foot of Mingcheng early.

Looking at this giant city, Lin Xu was stunned,

Children who have lived in villages since childhood, crawling in the rainforest, have never seen such a building, and they are not stunned in place.

"Xu'er, the front is our Ming territory, and Shengfan can't hurt us." Beside him, a thin black man patted Lin Xu's shoulder and smiled.

Hundreds of people flocked to the city, and in the fear of the Buddha machine and the people, they desperately ran in the direction of Mingcheng.

This time they finally don't have to hide in the rainforest,

No more shivering in the rainforest, in the caves, waiting for the slaughter.

Finally someone will shelter them.

A large number of civilians lined up to be examined by the soldiers defending the city, waiting to enter the city in a state of panic and a glimmer of hope.

Because Liu Yu didn't believe much in the discipline of the soldiers guarding the city gate.

After all, it is undoubtedly the most profitable to enter the city with such a population of several thousand people.

In order to prevent those veteran soldiers from taking this opportunity to make a lot of money, Liu Yu deliberately replaced the soldiers guarding the city gate with the personal soldiers of the Shenji Association.

This caused the soldiers who were originally defending the city to complain, and they blew their beards one by one and stared.

This made Liu Yu's face sink.

The Ming army, which fled south to Luzon, was itself made up of rebel soldiers, and it was impossible to expect them to be honest in their duties.

However, Liu Yu was not polite to these veteran oilers, and found his uncle,

Liu Quan glared angrily, and these bearded and glaring veterans were all impotent, and they no longer made a sound.

When Lin Xu and his party came to the city, it was already sunset.

Fortunately, the soldiers defending the city maintained order, and there was no disturbance in the long procession.

Lin Xu looked at the soldiers in front of him curiously,

The shining armor and the sophisticated fire gun all attracted Lin Xu's attention.

"Is this a soldier of the Ming Army?"

The Ming officers and soldiers in front of him and the soldiers he had an impression of were simply one heaven and one place.

Suddenly, a cold gaze swept over,

Lin Xu trembled with fright,

It was a soldier, with an eerie scar from his cheek to his chin, and a pair of blood-red eyes scanning the people who passed by.

"Hell," he subconsciously hid behind Uncle Lin.

"It's okay, it's okay." Uncle Lin patted Lin Xu on the back, he was also a little worried,

The officers and soldiers in front of them were lifeless, scanning every Han person who entered the city like a Rakshasa sculpture.

The people who entered the city did not dare to come out, and passed by these soldiers with their heads bowed one by one.

Because the Ming City itself is only a coastal defense city to resist the invasion of pirates, covering a relatively small area, although it has been repeatedly expanded by the Ming army, it has not achieved much results for a month.

The influx of 3,000 Hanmin also made the already small Ming City crowded.

"This street is where you live." Looking at the simple sheds built on both sides of the street, Lin Xu didn't care, after all, he was used to living in thatched houses.

At this moment, he actually wanted to climb the city wall to see the Ming soldiers guarding the city.

"King Ming Rende, give you a place to stay, don't be killed by those people, you and other Han people must remember the kindness of King Ming." An official addressed the Han people present.

"Yes, yes, overseas pariahs like me, but King Ming still remembers it in his heart, King Ming is benevolent." Many people knelt down and kowtowed.

When the soldier heard this, he smiled and said: "King Ming is benevolent, and he also ordered a charity of porridge and rice, remember that each person has two bowls of porridge and rice every day." ”

At this moment, the people on the street were moved to tears, and many old people wept silently.

"King Ming Rende, God bless me Hanmin!"

"Yes, yes, I'm mighty,"

"King Ming Rende, Chitose Chitose Chitose."

The Han people present were basically Han people who had fled from the coast of the mainland to escape the disasters in recent years, and there were not many Chinese businessmen who had actually lived in Luzon for generations.

Therefore, these Han people who have experienced the Southern Ming regime have a sense of intimacy with the so-called Ming.

"Big brother, I am also Han, and I will also defend the city for the Ming Dynasty." Lin Xu suddenly rushed forward, pulling the armor of a soldier.

"Hey, this big brother, this kid was scared." Uncle Lin hurriedly pulled Lin Xu back.

"I'm sorry, I'm messing you up," holding Lin Xu, the man hurriedly made amends.

"It's fine." The soldier didn't care,

"When the city is attacked, it will naturally be useful to you." The soldier pouted and said.

"Ahh

Uncle Lin trembled with fright,

"I can't do it, I can't make it ......"

"Big brother, we're just pariahs,"

Uncle Lin and the others hurriedly knelt on the ground and hurriedly begged for mercy.

"What's the?"

The soldier kicked Uncle Lin and said angrily: "It was Lao Tzu who went to the city to kill the enemy, and asked you to help defend the city."

"It's just for you to move the rolling wood and burn some gold juice,"

"Oh, oh," the people present breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that they didn't have to go up the wall.

Just a little help, I didn't ask myself to go up and die,

In any case, the strength to sell is still required, after all, the Ming army is not only to defend the city, but also to protect everyone's lives.

Looking at the cowering appearance of a group of civilians, several soldiers sneered,

"It's not a Tartar, just a few students will scare you like this, tsk......"