Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 725
On the day when the main force of the Ming army arrived, they did not immediately launch an attack on Manila King City. Five thousand Ming troops set up camp on the east, west, and south sides of the city. Only the north side had no Ming troops.

While the baggage camp was setting up camps everywhere, groups of Ming soldiers, led by Lin Canrong and others who were familiar with the terrain, began to clear Manila and the villages within the range of gifts around Bali'an in order to obtain more free labor.

The reason why Zhao Wu proposed to use the local aborigines as labor was mainly because he heard too many stories from the Fujian people who volunteered to lead the way with the boat, so he deliberately proposed the plan to arrest the aborigines.

Through the descriptions of those Fujian survivors, Zhao Wu knew how bloody and cruel the massacre against the Ming immigrants was a few months ago.

In this massacre, although the nominal murderers were the Spanish garrison, it was not these soldiers who actually caused the most serious casualties to the Ming immigrants, but the local aborigines and a small number of Japanese ronin and samurai who were helping the tiger.

Although Zhao Wu is also a traditional Ming person, and like most other Ming people in his heart, he does not like these Ming immigrants who have abandoned the place where their ancestors lived for generations and drifted to Luzon for profit, but the other party is after all Just like myself, people of the same kind who speak Daming dialect, read Daming characters, and wear Daming clothes, must be very uncomfortable being tortured and killed by those monkey-like savages who drink blood and drink blood like this.

Especially hearing the tragic scene of many women and children dying on the spot, Zhao Wu, who has been married in Chongzhen for 13 years, is even more upset.

As a soldier, he doesn't mind killing people. He has been used to seeing mountains of corpses and seas of blood in the army for many years, but because he has been working under Lu Xiangsheng, under the influence of the coach, Zhao Wu, who was born in the Tianxiong Army, also extremely hates unarmed civilians. Pain the killer's evil deeds.

Under the continuous brainwashing narration of Fujian people, Zhao Wu's heart is full of hatred for the natives of Luzon Island, who want to kill and then quickly. There are not a few Ming generals who have the same thoughts as him, because they are also followed. The Fujian people who came here were brainwashed.

The Ming army had a skilled supply battalion accompanying the team, and there was no need to use others to transport the cannon, but Zhao Wu persuaded Zhang Wenyao on the grounds that the cannon was heavy and difficult to unload, and a little carelessness would cause casualties in the supply battalion. Agreed to his suggestion.

In fact, his reasons are very good.

In the process of loading and unloading such a huge object, it is very common to be injured by bruises. Now that there is free labor to use it, Zhang Wenyao will certainly not object.

It doesn't matter how many monkeys are killed or injured, they are not human anyway.

Fujian people lead the way, and heavily armed Ming soldiers arrest people. During this period, panic and resistance will inevitably be caused. In order to protect their own safety, the Ming army will use force to eliminate the rebels as a last resort.

The Fujian people who led the way were also allotted with weapons.

They had also resisted in that massacre, so they were no strangers to the use of weapons.

Just as the Ming army was making preparations for the battle in an orderly manner, people in the capital city of Manila were already in panic. Everyone seemed to be pressed down by a huge rock, and the atmosphere in the capital city was extremely suppressed.

"Major, Colonel Thiago has unfortunately died, and all of our Spanish garrison will be handed over to you to command!

If you have any demands, you can put them in person now. As the supreme officer of Luzon Island, I will of course fully support your reasonable demands and arrangements until the end of this war of resistance against aggression!
May God bless us! "

In the meeting room of the Governor's Mansion, Governor Perez is listening to the report of the garrison major Rodriguez Silva. When he learned that the Ming army far outnumbered the Spanish garrison, Perez expressed his attitude seriously.

The news of the death of Colonel Thiago has been spread throughout the entire royal city by the Spanish soldiers who fled back. This bad news shocked everyone immediately.

Thiago has been in the army for many years and has participated in many foreign military operations of the Spanish army. He still has a high prestige in the army. It is for this reason that he was sent by the Spanish government to station in distant Southeast Asia in order to better maintain the city of Manila. The security of a land capable of bringing great wealth to Spain.

But it was such a well-known figure who was killed by the legendary Ming army, which made the remaining more than 1000 Spanish soldiers feel at a loss.

A team of nearly 400 people only returned about 200 people, and the attrition rate was astonishingly over 30.00%, and according to the defeated soldiers, all this happened in a short period of less than 10 minutes. Could it be that the Ming Empire army still Are the rumors of the use of broadswords and spears a lie?
"Your Excellency, the current situation is very critical. The army of the Ming Empire far exceeds our defense force, and their muskets are farther and more powerful than ours!
To be honest, under such a situation, I have no confidence in whether I can hold the city of Manila!
The number of our army is too small, and the combat effectiveness and military capacity of the Ming Empire army proves that this is a well-trained elite armed forces!

Now we only hope that the Ming army is inexperienced in how to attack cities, and the commander is blindly confident after successive victories, trying to use the superiority in numbers to storm Manila. In that case, we still have hope of victory.

And if the commander of the Ming army sees the current situation clearly and adopts the method of besieging the city to besiege us, the result will be very bad!

Your Excellency the Governor, you should know that in addition to our more than 1000 soldiers in Manila, there are an equal number of other personnel, and our food supplies cannot guarantee our long-term persistence! "

After Thiago's death, Rodriguez Silva became the highest-ranking officer in the Spanish garrison, so he took on the important task of commanding the defense of the entire Manila city.

This major in his thirties has also participated in several foreign wars, and he is very rich in combat experience. However, after observing the lineup of the Ming army, Rodriguez Silva is not sure about the final result of this war. Not optimistic, so after hearing Perez's statement, he immediately expressed his views frankly.

"Major, your advice reminds me!

How about this!
I will immediately send someone to count the amount of food and medicine stored in the city. From now on, all food will be managed and distributed by the Governor's Mansion!
All adult men in the city must take up arms and mount the city wall to participate in this great self-defense war!

Food will be given priority to the soldiers, then women and children!

I believe that we will win this war!

Major, go and carry out your mission!

Let us brave and fearless Spanish soldiers use guns to teach those Ming people a lesson! "

(End of this chapter)