Chapter Thirty-Eight: Juan's Helplessness
After the battle of Mingcheng, although the Ming army had certain losses.
But the overall structure is quite complete.
The most important thing is that after the battle of Ming Chengcheng, the Ming regime gradually stabilized.
After expelling the local Tagalog and other hostile people, Ming actually had his own territory.
This gives Ming a source of tax revenue and manpower.
In addition to the execution of Han Zhixing, the hundreds of rebel soldiers belonging to different towns who had fled to Luzon were vigorously integrated, plus the recruitment of local young and middle-aged Han men in Luzon.
Ming constantly strengthened his military power.
The town of Weiwu and the newly formed town of Huben formed the main core of the Ming army.
In particular, Huben Town, which has popularized firearms in an all-round way, has just been established not long ago, but both the equipment and the quality of soldiers far surpass that of Weiwu Town.
Out of concern for the combat effectiveness of the new army and distrust of Liu Yu's uncle.
This new town army was not important.
Due to the crushing defeat of the Spanish army.
The Spaniards who managed to escape back to the Manila authorities were only about 100 people.
Manila was extremely panicked, and like Ming, there were not many Spaniards on Luzon itself, and the defeat in this battle caused the Manila authorities to suffer huge losses.
The Manila authorities had to rely on the Tagalog and Bangbanga tribes on Luzon Island.
In this way, when Li Daoan led 500 Ming soldiers to the central plain of central Luzon.
The Manila authorities sent more than 2,000 Bangya people and Tagalu tribes to block the Ming army in Bangguicheng.
As for the Spaniards, they had long been hiding in the city of Manila and did not dare to fight again.
There were only sporadic Spanish chiefs in the vast indigenous army who were delivering information.
The commander of this coalition army is still Bolu, and the battle of Mingcheng was bombarded by the red-clothed cannons, but Bolu was not killed, and was put on horseback by his own soldiers and ran for hundreds of miles.
It was not until the plains that these soldiers sent them to the local Tagalog walled city.
It's also a great disaster for him not to die.
Under his leadership, the thousands of people from different tribes and nationalities who fled from the defeat of Cong Mingcheng were reorganized.
After the First World War, plus the number of soldiers who died, died of illness, were captured and disappeared reached more than 800.
These are the most elite troops of the major tribes.
At the dispatch of the Manila authorities, under the command of Bolu, he went to Mingcheng to encircle and suppress the Han Chinese armed forces.
No one expected this war to be like this.
For a time, not to mention Manila, even the various tribes near Manila were in a panic.
This Han army carried the slogan of protecting the Han people and expelling the Tatars.
God knows if they will kill their own walled city and slaughter it.
After all, more than 20 years have passed since the last Chinese massacre.
Most of the tribal youths who participated in the massacre back then are middle and high-level members of the major Shengfan tribes at this moment.
The Shengfan tribes, in retaliation for the possible massacre of the local natives of Luzon by the Han Chinese, mobilized to protect themselves.
Before the Manila authorities could come up with a reason, the tribal chiefs remobilized the multi-tribal forces of more than 1,000 people.
It was still under the command of General Bree.
As for putting the army back under the command of the defeated Bolo, the generals of the major tribes were dissatisfied, but there was nothing they could do.
After all, among the major tribal alliances, only Bolu's personal soldiers were the most fierce, and they were the first to climb the wall of the Ming army and fight with the Ming army.
It is estimated that it is difficult to say who will win and who will lose in the defense of Ximen City.
The most important thing is that Borou has a certain friendship with the Manila authorities.
It is also one of the few people who can have a good relationship with the Spaniards in Manila.
Although the Governor Gil, who fled back to Manila, shifted the responsibility for the defeat to the Shengfan soldiers and Borou who participated in the war, Governor Juan did not pursue the case, but continued to appoint Borou as the commander of the Shengfan coalition army.
Mo way,
Governor Juan also wanted to cry without tears.
I thought it was a simple law and order war, who would have wanted to take the lives of hundreds of Spanish soldiers.
You must know that the Spaniards in Manila who can go up with guns are only 1,000 people, and they lost hundreds of people in one go, and they also took up an artillery unit.
And, more importantly, the Spanish army was not a rabble under Boloux.
The 300-strong Spanish field force was arguably the most powerful of the Manila authorities.
Most of the soldiers were not sailors or gangsters, but regular soldiers and some mercenaries from within Spain.
Most of them fought in European land warfare and were armed with the most advanced flintlock smoothbore guns and nine-pounder cannons.
Both Gil'an and the middle and lower lieutenants have extremely rich combat experience, and such a force, plus the two thousand tribal tribesmen led by Bolu, was taken down by the Ming army in one day.
Looking at Gil'an, who complained on the side and blamed the defeat on Boro,
Governor Juan really wanted to put his arm around Gil'an's neck and ask,
What the are you going to do.
The elite Spanish field army was defeated, and Juan couldn't force the colonial army that drank and gambled in Manila every day to fight.
It's okay for these guys to keep the city in their hands.
It would be unrealistic to really let them go to the battlefield and fight to the death with the Ming army.
After all, a group of big men are not good at staying in Spain, what are they doing in Luzon, isn't it just that they can't survive in the country and come to Luzon to ask for a way to live.
It's good now, but the free days of Manila are just running to the central plain of Luzon where birds don't and the Ming army are dead,
It is estimated that they have not yet left the city, and these ruffians are estimated to be able to hang Governor Juan to death.
The navy was very much in favor of sending these colonial troops who were eating and waiting for death all day long to send to the front line to fight the Ming army to the death.
After all, if the Ming army wants to rush across the plains and fight to Manila, the navy must also play.
Rather than this, it is better to let a ruffian like the army go to the Central Plains to fight happily, and he can still live happily.
However, if the thugs of the colonies did make trouble, the only thing the navy could do was to give Governor Juan a boat and let him go back to Spain and report to the king in advance.
After thinking about it, Governor Juan still felt that it was more realistic to let the native Shengfan tribes of Luzon guard the Central Plains.
In the spirit of the dead friends do not die in the spirit of the poor way.
Juan scolded Gil'an very much in front of Shengfan.
And let Bolu continue to serve as the commander of the Shengfan coalition army.
The meaning is also very clear.
Defeat is Gil'an's responsibility, not your Bree's fault.
You continue to give me as your commander to fight the Han army.
Anyway, it's also the land of you Luzon, and you don't fight whoever you fight.
Look at the instructions conveyed by the Spanish mayor on his behalf.
Bruux, who was still lying in bed recuperating from his wounds, was so overjoyed that he almost jumped up from the head of the bed.
He didn't care how many times he died, after all, they were all from the major local tribes.
Can pit one is one,
As long as the Manila authorities recognize themselves, they still recognize themselves as the commanders of the Shengfan tribal alliance.
Then Boloe is also willing to help the Spaniards who are cowering in Manila to be a watchdog.