Chapter 119: Chaos
Brent never dreamed that his colleague, who had been fighting side by side with him for a month and a half, would abandon him at the last moment.
He watched in despair at the burning streets outside the mansion, the light of the fire illuminating the sky.
Not far away, the heart-rending howls of the Spanish soldiers made him uncomfortable.
He really wanted to grab General Terry by the neck and ask what would be good for the Spanish Navy to abandon Lasag.
He ran away without saying a word, leaving behind the city of Laoag and thousands of Spanish troops and civilians.
"Put!" There was a roar, and the sound of guns resounded through the streets.
Spanish musketeers are putting up desperate resistance around the Lasag's residence.
The Ming army broke through the city walls, and the defenders on the walls chose to break through and join the Spanish troops at the residence.
Now the city of Laoag is in chaos, mercenaries and pirates are looting and setting fires, and the Spanish army is caught off guard and can only organize resistance in a few areas such as official residences, shipyards, and Spanish residential neighborhoods.
Of course, it wasn't because the Spaniards were not strong.
It was because of the sudden attack of the mercenaries, coupled with the Ming army's bombardment of the city walls, that thousands of pirates poured into the city.
Thousands of pirate mercenaries were scattered around the city to loot and set fires, and the Spanish defenders, who were obviously outnumbered, were unable to quell the rebellion.
The most important thing is that the Spanish fleet led by Terry actually fled.
All of a sudden, Lasag's Spanish army was left in a state of isolation.
The Spanish army, which had long been unable to control the situation, withdrew towards a number of important areas under the leadership of their respective lieutenants and non-commissioned officers.
For example, the official residence of Laoag, the shipyard and the streets where the Spaniards lived.
The most prosperous commercial streets and the neighborhood mansions where wealthy businessmen live were completely abandoned by the Spaniards.
There is nothing to be done, after all, these locations are the focus of the mercenaries.
The mercenaries are not stupid, they are not much less familiar with Lawag than the Spaniards.
It is also clear what the purpose of this rebellion is.
There were only a few places they attacked.
One is the dock and the city wall, after all, only by controlling the dock can they control the ships, so that they can easily escape, whether the rebellion fails or succeeds, as long as they control the dock, they can escape from Laoag by boat.
The main purpose of attacking the city wall was to let in the new force of the Ming army.
It is clear that with the escape of Terry's fleet and the withdrawal of the Spanish army from the ramparts, the mercenaries have achieved both of their goals.
At this time, the mercenaries were relieved and boldly began to loot the mansions and manors of the wealthy merchants of Laoag.
The Spaniards also knew the purpose of these mercenaries, and they were very amuseful to abandon the group of wealthy Laoag merchants.
After all, in this troubled world, rich businessmen are pigs and sheep to be slaughtered.
It doesn't matter if it's a Spaniard or a mercenary wielding a knife.
However, pirates are different.
They don't know what the Rawag layout looks like?
Perhaps some of the pirates like Li Tianyou are familiar with the street layout of Laoag City, and may also have obtained the street map of Laoag City from some forces.
However, it is obvious that there will definitely be no such group of small and medium-sized pirates captured by the Ming army.
When the Ming army blasted open the city walls and let them into the city of Laoag.
They actually got lost.
That's right, lost.
Laoag was a port city, the largest trading city in northern Luzon, where wealthy merchants lived, and as such had well-developed architectural facilities.
Commercial areas, living areas, and major streets are intertwined.
These pirates were originally attached to the Black Flag Gang and other great pirate forces.
Usually, it is just to shout and cheer for a big force like the Black Flag Gang, and wait until it reaches Laoag City to get a piece of the pie.
As a result, there has been no elaborate deployment, let alone a map of the city of Laoag.
After all, this is not something that a small force like them can consider.
Therefore, when they actually killed the city of Laoag, they were surprised to find that they didn't know where to go.
They wanted to plunder the rich merchants, but they found that the city of Laoag was so big that they didn't even know where the street in front of them led.
I am afraid that there are thousands of them, but when they enter the city of Laoag, they are like a grain of sand thrown into the desert and disappear in the blink of an eye.
So the lost pirates decided to follow the fleeing Spaniards.
After all, the destination of these Spaniards must be the most important place in Lasag, and there will definitely be treasure.
Of course, if the current Sir Brent knew what the pirate leader thought, he would definitely hang the generals guarding the walls and fight them.
Because now there are thousands of pirates outside Brent's official residence in Laoag.
The two hundred Spanish defenders who had retreated from the walls joined the Spanish troops guarding the mansion to hold back the onrushing pirates.
However, the expulsion of the Spaniards again and again made the pirates even more excited.
The Spaniards' desperate resistance, as well as the towering walls, and the brightly lit manors within the walls.
Convince pirates that there is an unimaginable treasure hidden here.
Whether or not the blind cat touched the dead mouse, at least the pirates did guess correctly.
As early as the day when the pirates besieged Laoag, the Spanish defenders in the city secretly used the official residence to transport treasure.
The wealth of a large number of wealthy Spanish merchants, as well as the chamber of commerce controlled by the Spaniards, the wealth accumulated over hundreds of years in the shopping street were gathered in the cellars of the official residence of Lasag in a little more than a month.
This is arguably the largest vault in Lasag.
Because the Spaniards were very secretive, and because the transportation was in the middle of the night, and the people hired were all Spaniards, most of the people were unaware of it, except for a few merchants.
At least the mercenaries who had been staying at the port to help defend them didn't know it, and the merchant giants who knew about it had fallen under their swords.
However, the mercenaries didn't care, because they slaughtered the rich merchants of the merchant district and plundered the prosperous mansions, allowing these mercenaries to plunder an astonishing fortune.
Boxes of large Spanish silver dollars, exquisite porcelain, gold and satin, and antique calligraphy and paintings have all become the property of the mercenaries at this moment.
As for their original owners, they have long since fallen in a pool of blood.
The wealth of the city of Laoag is too staggering to be matched by a small city of Vigan.
Perhaps even more astonishing than her wealth is Manila.
This also prevented the mercenaries and pirates from fighting on a large scale that night.
The pirates attacked the Laoag mansion and the mercenaries raided the shopping streets and the mansions of wealthy merchants, doing the same thing in different areas without interfering with each other.
The Ming army outside the city has been standing still.
They watched in silence as they looted and slaughtered the city.
It can be said that no matter what the situation in the city turns out to be, they will be the winners in the end.
At this time, Liu Yu, who was roasting on a hill outside the city, naturally did not know that Terry had already led the fleet to escape.
He was a little dissatisfied, because there was not enough trouble in the city.
Of course, he didn't want the entire city of Laoag to be reduced to ashes and dust.
He just hoped that the pirate mercenaries and the Spaniards would fight for Laoag and Fortune until the last moment.
It doesn't matter who wins.
However, it is obvious that the scene that Liu Yu was looking forward to did not appear, or it was not comprehensive.
The pirates did not fight the mercenaries, and the two sides tacitly plundered in what they thought were rich and prosperous, and the Spaniards sat back and watched the mercenaries loot the mansions of the rich merchants.
This made Liu Yu very unhappy, because he knew that it was still the Spaniards who had the advantage.
Because the arsenals, official residences, and military forts in the city were in the hands of the Spaniards, they were unable to quell the rebellion only because there were not enough people.
When the Spaniards come back to their senses, they will inevitably fight back, and then thousands of chaotic and unorganized pirates and mercenaries will be wiped out.
Liu Yu obviously underestimated the heritage of Laoag City and the forbearance of the Spaniards, and even overestimated the IQ of the pirate mercenaries.
Just as he ordered the soldiers of Huben to enter the city early, making the situation in the city more chaotic, the scouts of Marinetown came with the news that the Spanish fleet had escaped.