The first wave of landing troops was completely wiped out, but Cao Xiong did nothing and ordered the Sulu soldiers to continue landing. This time, six warships turned their hulls sideways, preparing to provide artillery fire when the landing troops were attacked.

Cover. As for whether the landing personnel would be injured during the cover, Cao Xiong did not mention it, nor did the captains of the other Hanzhou and Holland ships ask.

The landing operations were carried out three times. After seeing that the opposing warships completely covered the anti-landing battlefield regardless of the casualties of the landing personnel, the Spanish quickly retreated, leaving more than 20 corpses behind.

There were more than 300 Sulu native soldiers who saw the landing, and they had basically established a firm foothold. Then, the Hanzhou Marine Corps began to land on the beach opened by the Sulu native soldiers.

When Niuhu stepped onto the shore, he inadvertently turned his head and looked at the Sulu soldiers. Before they even attacked the enemy's city, they had already suffered more than 70 casualties. He didn't know if it would be enough to consume the coalition forces later.

Niuhu led 500 marines and more than 600 Sulu soldiers and rushed towards the dock fort. When they arrived at the fort, they did not encounter any counterattack. The Spaniards in Holy Name Jesus City were obviously better than those in Zamboanga

The Spanish in the castle were much wiser. They knew that they could not resist the numerous landing troops, so they had destroyed the fort's artillery in advance and all retreated into the city.

Niuhu sent a messenger to take a small boat to inform the coalition fleet that the coastal defense forts had been disarmed and could dock and land. Then, he commanded the troops to attack the Holy Name of Jesus City.

Captain Makuka Hernandez looked at the more than a thousand troops outside the city. He was surprised and felt heavy pressure. To his surprise, the troops under the city were obviously not the European mercenaries of the Dutch. Most of them were

The natives, and a small half of them were dressed in black military uniforms and had Ming Dynasty faces. Perhaps the Dutch hired many oriental soldiers.

The heavy pressure came from the large number of opponents, which was almost four times the size of the Spanish defending army.

However, as the military commander of Holy Name Jesus City, Captain Makuka Hernandez tried his best to show a calm expression. At the same time, he was also relatively confident in the defense of the city. In addition to the original layout of the city head

Twelve artillery pieces, as well as several 4-fort and 8-pounder artillery pieces removed from the coastal defense batteries.

The city walls of Holy Name of Jesus City are tall and thick, and are defended by more than 200 soldiers and hundreds of conscripted citizens. Presumably, they should be able to withstand the enemy's attack.

Niuhu was also carefully observing the city in front of him at this time. The height of the city wall was no less than that of Jianye City, and there were many artillery placed at the top of the city. The defending soldiers seemed very organized, with various weapons such as muskets and spears.

Set up and stand ready.

If we want to attack the city, I am afraid that more than a thousand people in our hands will have to be filled in. As such, we may not be able to attack it. It seems that we will definitely not be able to attack by force.

On the second day, more than 700 men from the Dutch Army landed from the pier and came to the city.

"Niu, how do you think we should attack this city?" Major Frost Fritz, the commander of the Dutch Army, looked at Niu Hu expectantly. They gave him a very big boost in the two joint military operations with Hanzhou.

Surprises and surprises. He hoped that the Hanzhou Marines would bring him more surprises in front of this most important Spanish colonial city.

"I haven't thought of a good way to attack this city for the time being." Niuhu shook his head and said, "Do you have any ideas?"

Major Frost Fritz shook his head with some disappointment. For the Western colonists, any strong fortress was a nightmare for the army. In addition to artillery bombardment tactics, the only stupid method was a comprehensive siege.

Since there is no way to capture the city quickly, the only choice is to besiege it. Anyway, the original plan of the coalition fleet was to attract the arrival of the Spanish fleet here and engage in a decisive battle with it.

The Han Chinese Marine Corps and the Sulu Territorial Army were stationed in the southeast corner outside the Holy Name of Jesus City and built a temporary camp; the Dutch Army was stationed in the northeast corner outside the city, with its back against the dock and a nearby warehouse as a camp.

The Spaniards established a strict colonial system on the island with the City of Holy Name of Jesus as the core. The area near the City of Holy Name of Jesus fell under the jurisdiction of the municipality and was directly governed by the colonial agency. The indigenous tribes slightly farther away from the town

, entrusted management was implemented. After the tribal leader swore allegiance to the Spanish colonial agency, he was granted the authority to manage all tribal affairs in the area and accepted the indirect control of the colonial agency's political, military, economic and other affairs.

In order to destroy the local ruling order in Spain, the Chinese-Dutch coalition forces would send out several groups of armed soldiers every day to destroy all Spanish manors and farms near the town. The houses would be burned, and all cattle, horses and other livestock would be confiscated. At the same time, every day

Every Spanish civilian, regardless of age or sex, will be charged a head fee of fifty pesos. Those who cannot pay will be conscripted by the coalition soldiers to do hard labor in the military camps.

As for the process of expropriating Spanish property, the soldiers of the Chinese-Dutch Allied Forces would inevitably engage in some extreme behaviors, killing, looting, and even forcing women. Although the army chiefs verbally stopped and reprimanded these behaviors, in fact, they did not

, they will not punish the soldiers at all.

If the Han Chinese Marines and the Dutch Army were only committing small-scale acts of violence against Spanish civilians and vassal indigenous tribes, then the Sulu soldiers who followed the Han-Dutch Allied Forces carried out tragic killings.

massacre.

In retaliation for the Spaniards' massacre of the Sulu people, these Sulu soldiers killed all the Spanish farms and vassal indigenous tribes, regardless of age or sex, regardless of age or sex.

In just one week, the Sulu soldiers massacred more than two thousand Spanish civilians and vassal natives. If it were not for the strong intervention of the Chinese-Dutch coalition forces, they might have killed everyone on the island.

"These natives are so desperate!" Li Fade said to Niuhu, "They're so stupid that they won't even spare a newborn baby! If they are allowed to attack the city, there might be another one.

A massacre."

"Look at this, we won't be able to attack for a while." Niuhu looked up at the city. A group of Sulu soldiers, under the watchful eyes of the Spanish soldiers at the top of the city, were beheading some civilians and vassal natives who dared to resist.

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Five or six headless corpses were already lying under the city. Several Sulu soldiers grabbed their heads and laughed and cursed at the top of the city, trying to provoke the Spanish defenders to come out through constant provocations.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..." Several cannons rang out, and the angry Spaniards fired artillery at the top of the city. After a few projectiles fell to the ground, they bounced towards the Sulu soldiers.

A Sulu soldier who was unable to dodge was instantly grazed by a flying projectile, taking away an arm. He fell to the ground screaming in pain.

Several prisoners who were pinned to the ground and about to be beheaded took advantage of the chaos to break free from the restraints of the Sulu soldiers and ran towards the city gate.

How could the few Sulu soldiers behind them let them escape? They grabbed their daggers and chased them from behind.

"Do you think the Spaniards will open the city gate to welcome those prisoners into the city?" Niuhu stared at the direction of the city gate.

"Don't they dare?" Li Fade also looked over.

"..." Niuhu turned his head and glanced at Li Fade.

"Oh, I will gather the brothers and prepare to charge!" Li Fade understood, turned around and left.

"Bump! Bump! Bump!..." When several Sulu people were about to rush to the city gate, a row of guns was fired from the top of the city and they were shot dead at the bottom of the city.

The few Spanish civilians and vassal natives who ran to the city were crying for help, hoping that the city would open the door and let them in.

The Spanish commander, Captain Macuca Hernandez, had noticed that the troops in black military uniforms on the opposite side had begun to gather and were preparing to charge.

"Don't open the city gate!" Captain Makuka Hernandez ordered loudly.

"There are our compatriots among them!" shouted a Spanish officer.

Captain Macuka Hernandez gave the officer a cold look, "Do you want us to be like those corpses outside the city? Let those ignorant infidels rush in and behead us all?"

Many Spanish soldiers couldn't help but look at the corpses not far from the city, and shuddered. Damn the natives! Damn the infidels!

Li Fade waited for a while and saw that there was no intention of opening the city gate to take in the prisoners. He couldn't help but sigh in disappointment. Then, he signaled to the Sulu officer next to him and asked him to send people forward to kill those few who were under the city.

Spanish civilians and vassal natives cried out for help.

A dozen Sulu soldiers rushed out of the camp. They held wooden spears and dispersed to more than 40 meters below the city. They ran for a while to help, threw the wooden spears in their hands hard, and killed the crying prisoners.

They were crucified one by one under the city.

"Let's disperse." Li Fade ordered boringly: "The bastard Spaniards will never come out no matter what."

In addition to their daily routine of raiding the Spanish vassal natives nearby, the Chinese-Dutch allied forces could only boringly continue to carry out a long-term siege under the Holy Name of Jesus City.

"They won't stay long." Captain Makuka Hernandez looked at the two military camps outside the city. "After all, most of the food on the island is in the city. According to me, we will all be fine in the end.
Chapter completed!