With the order of Xiao Wu, the Duke of Qin,

The soldiers of all the towns of Mingcheng began to act,

Uncle Liu Yu's nephew immediately led more than 500 people from Huben Town to set off for Weigan City, which was more than 100 miles away.

And Xiao Wu led the water division of the town, the water division and the Black Flag Gang and other large and small pirates to kill Rawa City together.

early morning

With the sound of drums,

The generals of the Ming army, who were drunk last night, and many pirate leaders were all awakened, and everyone was naturally scolding and being helped up by their own soldiers.

Looking at the messy Ming City and a group of rabble, Liu Yu couldn't help but shake his head.

With these people, they may be able to occupy the city of Rawa and Vigan, and they may be able to occupy the northern part of Luzon.

It can even go south to threaten the city of Manila, where the Franc is stationed.

But if you want to rely on these pirates, the stray soldiers want to go north to recapture Taiwan, and then attack the Qing court.

At this time, the Ming court was like a tiger skin, attracting countless rogue soldiers, and pirates worked for it.

It's okay to fight a tailwind battle, but if you suffer a crushing defeat,

It's thankful to be able to pat your ass and walk away.

Whether it is the rebels who fled Luzon from Taiwan or the pirates recruited by Xiao Wu, they are essentially plundering.

If they have a common goal and are beneficial to them, they will naturally stand on the side of the Ming Court and serve the Ming Court.

But if you eat a defeat or a temptation, you will see a devil if you don't rebel.

Even if it does not rebel, how can it succeed if it is full of plunder.

But at this moment, Liu Yu only has the strength of the town of Huben in his hands, but there are only more than 500 people, which cannot affect the overall situation at all.

I had to go with the flow and watch as I went.

Compared with the friendly army on the side, the soldiers of Huben Town are relatively self-disciplined, which is also related to Liu Quan's uncle and nephew's strict management of the army.

In just a quarter of an hour, more than 500 soldiers were ready to go.

Seeing that the forces of the five associations in Huben Town had been assembled, Liu Quan nodded

After bidding farewell to Xiao Wu and King Ming, he hurriedly waved his troops to the north.

Mingcheng is more than 100 miles away from Vigan City.

The distance of more than 100 miles is not long or short.

For the Ming army, which had just landed on Luzon,

The Frangi people stationed in Vigan City are undoubtedly the existence of everyone who has trouble sleeping.

It was also under the threat of the Spaniards in Vigan that the Ming army was able to forget to sleep and eat and build the Ming City at all costs.

This is what makes the famous city cannon and the city solid.

It is also because of this that the Ming army was able to rely on Mingcheng to repel the combined forces of Shengfan and Franc Jiren.

But when the Ming army defeated the three hundred Spanish field army led by Gil'an.

Vigan, the closest to Ming City, naturally became a nightmare for the Spaniards.

Fearing that the Ming army would attack Vigan next, the Spanish colonial troops stationed in Vigan fled in panic and fled further north to the city of Rawa.

However, what the Spaniards in Luzon did not expect was either.

The Ming court did not choose to attack Vigan, on the contrary, they chose to march south to Manila.

This makes Wigan an isolated city.

The local Iroques took advantage of the situation and took the city of Vigan.

And at the cost of proclaiming himself a vassal to the Ming court and paying taxes, the Ming court acquiesced to this result.

However, this time the Ming army chose to go back on its word.

Prepare to capture the important seaport town of Vigan.

Since the town of Huben is a fully firearms force.

It's barely a light infantry.

Therefore, the speed of the rapid march was not slow.

As for the artillery units, they were not slow under the towing of artillery trucks.

Simple animal power, towed by a four-wheeled gun cart, led a nine-pound Saiko cannon through the rugged roads of Luzon.

This shocked Liu Yu.

For China in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, artillery towing was undoubtedly a big problem.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty at the time of the battle with the Qing army.

Armed with advanced firearms, the Ming army was often unable to withstand the cavalry offensive.

Largely because the artillery that the Ming army had was too heavy.

The war horses were insufficient and could not be towed at all, so the Ming army had to put artillery on the top of the city to bombard the Eight Banners Army.

The artillery that the Ming army could tow during the field battle with the Qing army was small-caliber artillery, which did not have much lethality at all, and the damage was negligible for the Eight Banners who were wearing chain mail to charge at high speed.

After the Qing army entered the customs, they faced the sworn resistance of the Han forces such as Jiangnan.

The Qing army was often able to give full play to the unique advantages of fishing and hunting peoples.

Compared with the Ming army, the war horses and other animal husbandry are seriously insufficient.

The Qing army, which has the world in the north, lacks animal husbandry.

Those heavy artillery pieces that could not be dragged because the artillery itself was too heavy could only be used as a garrison cannon in the hands of the Ming army.

In the hands of the Qing army, it became a heavy weapon for attacking fortifications.

For example, a 2,000-pound red-coated cannon should be a twelve-pound cannon by Western standards.

The Ming army in Jiangnan could only be used to defend the city, but the Qing army used a lot of animal husbandry to drag it to the city.

Although the time required to tow such a heavy artillery as the Cardinal Cannon using animal husbandry could take up to a month or two.

But as long as you drag it under the city wall, it only takes a few breaths to collapse the city.

Therefore, when the Qing army went south to fight, whether it was attacking Jiangnan, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places, whenever it encountered resistance, it generally referred to sending the green battalion soldiers who had just surrendered to attack on a large scale, so as to consume the morale and manpower of the Ming army defending the city.

Wait for the heavy artillery to be towed, and wait for the siege artillery such as the redcoat cannon to be dragged to the front line.

The Eight Banners will attack.

The Qing army went south to fight, and although the results were great, the loss of the Eight Banners was not much.

At this time, the Ming army had also copied the four-wheeled artillery carriage of the Franc machine.

With these heavy artillery trucks imitating and Franco, the Ming army could quickly drag all kinds of medium and heavy artillery to the front line.

This is very powerful for the hilly Jiangnan area.

It is also one of the important achievements of the Ming army in Luzon in the south.

Other lightly armed soldiers were different.

Liu Yu and Liu Quan, as well as several co-presidents, traveled on horseback.

All the horses were the ones that were snatched from Shengban.

These Southeast Asian horses were far less tall than the horses of the northern nomads.

In terms of endurance, it is not as good as the Mongolian horse and other horse breeds in the north.

This made Liu Yu's idea of forming a cavalry come to naught.

In fact, in the Luzon army, the role of horses was limited to transporting baggage and as a means of transportation for generals.

During the Battle of Mingcheng, Liu Yu did not see Shengfan use horses for cavalry combat.

"It seems that in the future, when going north to face the Eight Banners Cavalry, we can only rely on firearms." Riding a thin horse, Liu Yu thought.

"Yu'er, what do you think of yesterday's reward." Liu Quan rode up to him,

"It's just a joke, and it's like child's play," Liu Yu shook his head.

The pirate leaders who had been crowned with bobs scoffed at them.

"Huh." Liu Quan smiled.

"King Keming also gave you the title of Loyal and Brave Marquis, an official commander." Liu Quandao.

"What's the use, among the generals present, there are many marquis, and there are no less than ten commanders." Liu Yu pursed his lips and said disapprerovingly.

Liu Quan didn't say anything more, but pointed his horsewhip directly at the soldiers who passed by.

Liu Yu was shocked,

He seemed to remember something,

For many generals of the Ming army, the commander is nothing, but for Liu Yu, it is different.

He and his uncle formed the town of Huben.

King Ming granted Liu Yu the title of commander, so Liu Yu could justifiably lead Huben Town.

"It seems that King Ming still wants us to compete with Xiao Wu." Liu Yu sighed.