When Lecombe led people to a goods yard where Tang people gathered, they saw more than ten Tang people standing in front of a house with horizontal knives and staring at him eagerly. He sent people to negotiate and tried to appease him.
, but the leader of the Tang Dynasty shook his head: "The lives of the Tang people are not something you natives can take away at will. Since you have killed our people, you will have to bear the Tang people's revenge. Unless you will
We will kill them all, otherwise there will be no compromise." Naturally, Lekum couldn't understand Chinese. He stared and waited for the people around him to translate. When he heard that the Tang people still refused to reconcile, he hurriedly said: "Tell them that the conditions are whatever they want.
Yes, as long as we don't kill all the Tagalogs, what will happen?
I can agree to any conditions!"
Dozens of warships lined the sea, bringing him unparalleled oppression.
However, the Tang people still refused.
They were guarding the house around which were the corpses of three Tang people killed by Lecombe a month ago. They allowed the corpses to stink and rot, but they refused to bury them in order to preserve the evidence.
Moreover, they did not negotiate terms. Even though Lekum put a dozen gold nuggets in front of them, the Tang people ignored it. The trouble was that a large-scale malaria outbreak happened to happen after the Tang people arrived at the Pasig River. The high priest said that this
It was the Tang people who brought the disaster. He believed it and killed several sick Tang people. As a result, today's
He didn't understand the situation. It was just a few merchants from the Tang Dynasty. How could dozens of warships sail across the ocean to Luzon to take revenge? Dozens of warships and thousands of soldiers would spend a lot of money and food in one operation.
More than hundreds of thousands?
Just for a few businessmen?
Just as he was wondering what to do, the eldest son whom he had left behind ran over quickly again. Before anyone arrived, he shouted from a distance: "Father, the Tang Dynasty has landed! The Tang Dynasty has landed!" Lekum's whole body was cold and his consciousness was cold.
Seeing that the situation was irreversible, he gritted his teeth, shook his heart, waved his hand, and said loudly: "Since the Tang people insist on killing my "Tagalog" blood heirs, naturally the brave "Tagalog" will not
sit back and wait
Kill! Gather the clan members and prepare to go to war with the Tang people. The omnipotent ‘Batala’ will protect us, and the invincible ‘Amanibur’ will also help us push the Tang people back to the sea!”
As they shouted, more and more natives rushed out from the surrounding houses. They held wooden sticks, stone axes, bows and arrows, and shouted "Aoao" and crowded around Lekum, with high morale.
As the chief of the "Tagalog people", Lekum's prestige cannot be underestimated, and his tribe is willing to follow him to fight against the enemy.
They have repelled the invasion of the Moruyu people time and time again, and suppressed the resistance of the Ilo and Bicol people time and time again. Under the leadership of "Batala" and the chief, they were invincible.
Although the knives of the Tang people were sharper and the armor was stronger, they were fearless. In fact, the arrival of the Tang people caused earth-shaking changes in the world of the "Tagalogs". The Tang people used large ships to transport luxury items such as silk, porcelain, and glass.
goods, in exchange for gold, rice and other materials, and everyone became rich.
Oil, this makes the "Tagalogs" who have inherited the custom of "lying flat" for thousands of years with their ancestral blood, envious and jealous. They need silk, porcelain, and glass from the Tang people, but do not want to pay for gold and rice. So they are hostile to the Tang people.
They once again clamored for the Tang people to lower the prices of silk, porcelain, and glass, hoping that they could buy these things with only a small amount of gold, but they were not willing to pay even a pound of rice.
Because the "Tagalogs" do not know how to grow rice, growing rice is the skill of the "Ilo people", and there is also a war between them and the "Ilo people"...
So Lekum raised his arms and called out, and the responders gathered. The tribesmen all hoped to kill all the Tang people and rob all their goods.
The Tang people surrounding the house looked solemn. Seeing that the situation was not good, they all retreated into the house, bowed their bows and unsheathed their swords, prepared for defense and prepared to fight.
Lekum waved his hand: "Ignore these Tang people, they are just turtles in a urn. Follow me to the port to kill the Tang troops!" Lekum didn't understand the art of war, but he understood the principle of "strengthening one blow and then losing strength three times." If
Now the group of Tang people attacking the house can be easily killed, but by then the clansmen have lost all their energy, and they can't fight against the people who landed in the house.
The Tang army may have low morale. It is better to go directly to the port when the morale is high, and take advantage of the Tang people's unsteady footing to repel them and drive them back to the sea. When the time comes, they can turn around and deal with this group of Tang merchants.
pinch.
"Ho ho ho ho!"
The tribesmen made piercing screams, wore linen clothes, and some even used leaves to cover their modesty, revealing their dark, thin and strong bodies, waving a variety of weapons, and rushed towards the port following Lekum.
The Tang merchants in the house were ready for a fight to the death. Although they were equipped with swords and armor, there were too many natives, and the human sea tactics could exhaust them to death. Once a battle started, they would definitely die.
The pride in their chests prevents them from abandoning their weapons and surrendering, not to mention that the corpses of their companions are still placed in the house. If they surrender at this time, how can they be worthy of these companions who died in a foreign country?
As a result, hundreds of thousands of natives ignored them and turned around to snipe the main force of the navy at the port...
"Are these natives fools?"
"Don't we always call them monkeys? They are no smarter than monkeys."
"Going to snipe the Tang navy with sticks and rocks?"
"Our policy is to try not to massacre the natives, so they don't know how powerful the navy is."
"Yeah, but I guess I'll find out soon."
…
In fact, Lekum knew faster, more directly, and more profoundly than those Tang merchants imagined. When he led his people to the port, the Tang military ship had just docked. Although the rain had stopped, the wind had not stopped.
Although the sea was still turbid and turbulent, the Tang army was not afraid of the danger of running aground. They moved the ships as close to the shore as possible, and then one ship
Another small sampan descended from the big ship into the sea, and then the soldiers jumped from the side of the ship to the sampan. Some held up their shields, some gathered their swords, and some took out their oars and rowed quickly to the shore.
Many sampans were disembarked from each large ship, and countless sampans were gathered together in one place, and densely packed waves rushed towards the shore.
Lecombe only felt his scalp numb. He did not know the art of war but was rich in combat experience. He knew that he could not allow the Tang army to land smoothly, so he immediately ordered everyone to rush to the shore to form an array. He would attack the Tang army head-on as soon as they arrived at the shore. Wait until the fastest.
The sampan was more than ten feet away from the shore. Lekum led his men to prepare for battle. He saw arrows rising from the sampans that were closer, flying across the void in an instant, and falling diagonally above his head.
down
.
Puff puff!
The sharp arrow clusters easily penetrated the "Tagalog's" simple clothes and penetrated into the body. Beast-like wails came one after another, and the tight array began to loosen.
Lekum's eyes were splitting, and he shouted repeatedly: "Steady! Steady! They charge in a boat and can't bring many arrows with them!"
The unparalleled prestige took effect. The tribesmen, with pale lips and frightened faces, stabilized the array, allowing the arrows to fall diagonally from above their heads. They did not know which unlucky guy's body they penetrated, causing howls of pain. "The Tagalogs
"The reason why they have been able to dominate Luzon Island for hundreds of thousands of years is precisely because they are more brave and adept at fighting and more disciplined than other people such as the "Ilo people", "Bikol people" and "Moluo Yu people".
arrow
The arrows keep falling to harvest lives, but still hold firm at critical moments.
But this doesn't change the outcome.
The sampan has not yet arrived at the shore. The gun jackets have been removed from the warships in the sea, and the ferocious barrels of the cannons are exposed. The soldiers put in the propellant, stuffed the projectiles, ignited, and fired... Boom!
Then without looking at the impact point of the cannonball, a long brush was inserted into the barrel to clean out the gunpowder residue, and then the gunpowder residue was filled again, loaded, and ignited. The waves on the sea were rough and the warship was shaking, making it impossible to aim accurately. Despite this, the cannonball was fired
One shot landed on the coast, with a roar and fire shooting into the sky. It frightened the indigenous troops into panic, and their faces turned earth-colored. Occasionally, they suddenly
Fa fell into the crowd, his limbs flew everywhere, and he fell down.
How could the indigenous people who were still in the slash-and-burn cultivation stage have seen such powerful weapons? The array had begun to panic and was on the verge of collapse.
Unfortunately, the huge waves rolled up and down, making it impossible to control the impact point of the artillery shells. Several rounds even landed near the charging sampans. In order to avoid accidental damage to our own side, we had to stop the shelling.
Lecombe breathed a long sigh of relief, but before he could gather his composure, the sampan had already rushed to the shore and ran aground. Countless Tang soldiers held up their shields and waved their swords, quickly gathered into one-on-one formations, and began to charge on the beach.
Lecombe raised a spear in his hand, veins popped out, and he shouted hoarsely: "Fight! Fight!"
At the end of the queue, his wife Anneton, wearing a piece of animal skin around her waist and with her upper body exposed, was waving her drumsticks and beating the war drum vigorously. The dull sound of the drum could be heard far away on the beach, which had a soul-stirring power of its own.
. The natives took advantage of the Tang army's unsteady footing to launch a charge. The Tang army quickly gathered into more than ten arrays, with twenty or thirty people in each array, with sword and shield hands in front and spearmen in the back. They coordinated with each other and looked after each other.
A quick knife with handle
The shield resisted the enemy's crude weapons, the horizontal sword killed the enemy in front, and the spear thrust out from the gap in the shield... The Tang army, which was well-equipped and cooperated with each other tacitly, was like a dozen steel knives, quickly attacking the enemy array.
cut into one piece
One piece and strangled separately.
Although the natives of Luzon are brave and good at fighting, have they ever encountered an enemy with such rigorous tactics and exquisite coordination?
The rout happened in an instant. Countless natives shouted, threw away the wooden sticks, stone axes, bows and arrows in their hands, turned around and fled into the distance. No matter how Lekum shouted and cursed, no matter how the chief's wife showed off her beautiful body and beat the war drum, her head was still spinning.
No
The army collapsed. Lecombe originally thought that by gathering the whole clan, he could fight, and as long as the war was stalemate, he could negotiate. But unexpectedly, facing a charge by the Tang army, the entire army collapsed, leaving him without the ability to fight back.