"My lord, the casualty count is out." In a daze, Esteban walked over.

"How many died?" Franco didn't look back and asked softly.

"Nearly three hundred and eighty-two of our soldiers were killed and more than two hundred wounded. Those natives died seventy or eighty. ”

"What? How did those natives die so little? ”

"Most of our people were killed by the other side when they charged in formation, and these natives were responsible for controlling the artillery and pursuing, but the casualties were not large, and when the other party broke through, they killed seventy or eighty, and there were not many wounded, only thirty or forty."

"!"

Franco gritted his teeth and cursed. Oraza still remembers his words, and it doesn't matter how many indigenous people die. But now the situation is just the opposite, the indigenous soldiers die less, and the regular army dies more. If Oraza knew about this, he wouldn't kick himself to death?

"My lord, what shall we do next?"

"I don't know." Franco shook his head in confusion. He really couldn't figure out why the battle was the way it was. "I didn't expect these rebels to be ruthless and unrighteous, and they could even ruthlessly abandon their own family scrolls! Hey? Home rolls? Where did you settle their home rolls? ”

"In a village on the road."

While pursuing the rebels, Franco thought they were in the way, so he asked Esteban to find a place to take them into custody first.

"! Since they don't care, cut down all their families! ”

"Kill them all?"

Hearing that Franco was going to take his anger out on the rebels, Esteban was surprised.

"That's right! Kill them all! ”

"So where are we going now?"

"Go back! The rebels are cunning and possess many strange things, and we simply cannot afford to keep them. Go back and report the matter to the Governor, and ask him to decide. ”

"Yes!"

The order not to continue the pursuit made the soldiers rejoice.

Nobody likes to fight, especially this kind of war where they are led by the nose. The officers, in particular, couldn't stop smiling on their faces. It's a shame to fight with these lowly yellow-skinned monkeys.

The large army packed up their things and walked back, and as they walked, Franco suddenly found that he had gone back faster than when he came.

Damn it! A bunch of guys who are greedy for life and afraid of death! Bah! Spain has you guys and it's going to be done sooner or later!

Franco couldn't complain, and when he got back to the starting point, it looked like nothing had happened. Franco did not hesitate, and immediately ordered all the rebels to be pulled out, and ordered the indigenous soldiers to dig a large pit and drive them all in. Then let the Spanish soldiers armed with arquebuses surround the city and start shooting at the rebels in the pit.

The people in the pit had already understood the fate they were going to face, and the cries were loud, but everyone was tied with their hands, and it was extremely difficult to climb up, and even if someone was lucky enough to climb up, they were generally kicked down by the soldiers standing at the edge of the pit.

The crying and screaming inside the pit and the laughter at the edge of the pit formed an extremely strong contrast, and some of the indigenous soldiers on the sidelines were already silently clenching their fists.

They are traitors, but that doesn't mean they have completely lost their conscience.

Franco stood by and watched with a blank face as his soldiers slaughtered the unarmed natives.

The massacre continued for nearly an hour, and when no one was standing in the pit, he ordered the natives to fill it in. As for the living mouth in the pit, since the musket can't be killed, let's change the way of death.

Franco returned to Baranga with his troops.

Oraza, who learned the news, naturally went out of the city to greet him as soon as possible.

"How?" Oraza looked at the troops behind him with an inquiry, and then at Franco, who was not very good-looking. He wanted to hear a piece of good news from Franco, but Franco disappointed him.

"Your Excellency the Governor, they ran away." Franco fell to one knee with a low voice.

"Ran away?"

"The subordinates are incompetent."

"Incompetent?" Oraza's tone was soft. "And what are you doing here?"

"I..."

"What are you!?" Olaza burst into a loud cry and kicked Franco. "What did you say before you left? I believe you again and again, and you will be done with a word of incompetence? Yes? ”

Franco was kicked to the ground, got up again, and continued to kneel on the ground.

Oraza still wanted to do it, but after thinking about it, he held back.

"Go back to Manila. In the future, you will not be in charge of all the affairs of Luzon. ”

"Yes!"

Franco nodded again. He knew that Oraza was already extremely dissatisfied with himself, and this was to deprive him of all his rights. He was a little disappointed, and he didn't think that there was a problem with his ability, but failure is failure, and he can't quibble.

He did not enter the city, but bypassed Baranga and boarded a small boat back to Manila with two retinues.

After Franco left, Oraza called Esteban and asked him about what had happened in the past two days.

"Lord Franco ordered us to march without stopping, even at night, just to catch up with the rebels. But then the ambush of the other side was discovered, and the lord ordered the enemy to be drawn out by firing from all directions with artillery, so he asked the soldiers to line up in a phalanx and press towards the rebel position, although the other side had the kind of artillery that could be thrown high, but our soldiers were fully armed, brave and fearless, and still able to maintain the formation at the same time, slowly attacked the other side.

But at the critical moment, the other party didn't know what to use, but it was able to shoot out a white light, illuminating the battlefield like daylight, and many of our soldiers couldn't adapt to the sudden light and fell into a short period of blindness. Then their pillars of light flickered rapidly, blocking the advance of our soldiers, and then taking the opportunity to break through. ”

Esteban briefly recounted what had happened, but embellished the behavior of his own soldiers.

"Can it glow white? Illuminate the entire battlefield as if it were daylight? ”

"Yes, sir."

"Is that amazing?"

"Yes, sir!"

"It's your mother! What the hell are you doing in the lake!? How could there be such a thing!? You think it's the sun!? It also lights up the battlefield in an instant! Is there such a candle? Oraza slapped Esteban in the face and knocked him out.

Why don't you believe me? I, Esthervan, am an honest man and never dare to lie.

"My lord, it's true! All the soldiers have seen it with their own eyes, and if you don't believe it, ask the others. ”

"Really?" Oraza looked at Esteban who patted his chest and asked suspiciously.

"Really."

Oraza immediately called several other officers and asked about the situation, which was roughly the same as what Esteban had said.

In order to prevent them from colluding to deceive himself, he immediately called several soldiers, who were similar to what he said.

Oraza was silent.

What is this? How can there be such a thing that can emit an intense white light?

And it can be controlled by people, it can't be a god descending to earth, right?

"Even so, why don't you chase it?"

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