. After a night of fierce fighting, Manila finally returned to peace. It was a heavy rain in the morning that caused all the actions of both sides to stop. At this time, the Philippines is a tropical region. It is rainy. Almost every day, there is rain.
Heavy rain will not stop for several days
However, Song Xiechang was standing on the watchtower of the mall in the rain. It was clear that dozens of places in the Balian area on the north bank of the Bashi River were burned. Although the fire was almost extinguished by heavy rain, it was still full of thick black smoke.
The streets were also full of Chinese corpses. The gates of Manila City were closed tightly, but a group of natives came out to clean up the corpses on the street in the rain.
There were about 2,000 Chinese who died after a turmoil last night. There were about 7,000 Chinese who escaped the Bashi River. There were only 1,000 Chinese who still stayed in Balian District but all lived in relatively remote places.
Therefore, yesterday's massacre has not yet affected them
But not all the Chinese who fled to the north bank of the Bashi River lived in Nanjing shopping malls. Some Chinese still lack confidence in the strength of the Chinese army, so they all went to other friends in Nongduo District to hide or escape further.
There are also a very small number of people who even went to the church in Binongduo District to rescue and protect less than 5,000 Chinese who hid in the church.
Of course, these Chinese are not all pure Chinese. Many of them are born after the combination of Chinese and local indigenous people. Even the third generation is also part of the Chinese who married local indigenous women. The Chinese who settled in Manila have their own Chinese.
In the past century, because women account for a very small proportion of Chinese people, most Chinese in Manila marry local indigenous women and give birth to descendants. Of course, there is also a Chinese who come to Manila to do business and become a family here.
Several indigenous women were used as outdoor rooms and their relatives were also helping in the shops
Of course, in the eyes of Spanish colonists, these people are regarded as Chinese. Many of them died in the first two Chinese massacres of Chinese in Manila.
Despite this, among the 5,000 Chinese who fled into the mall, women still accounted for only 1,500 and 600 less educated people. In addition, nearly 1,000 elderly people and young men accounted for more than half. However, in the mall,
The original plan and the number of soldiers from the 15th Battalion of the Chinese Army exceeded 6,000. This is basically the limit that the store can accommodate, and it also crowded the store.
Of course, the number of people is second and more important. The grain is still the second and more important. Although the guy in the store bought a batch of grain yesterday, the store now has only more than 800 stones of grain, but more than 6,000 people are only enough to supply it for about fifteen days.
Moreover, if the 23rd Battalion arrives, the food problem will probably be even more tense, so we need to try our best to raise some more food.
Fortunately, the heavy rain slowed down the Spanish massacre, which gave the store time to prepare for preparation. Song Xiechang, Fang Zhen, Zhang Gengqiu, Zhao Ming, Zhao Xin and others immediately had some discussions.
After yesterday's fierce battle, the Chinese army was killed forty-three people and injured twenty-one was reduced to seventy-four people. The number of people is not strong. We can stay in the mall, but considering that there will definitely be a large number of Chinese people who will be accommodated only by the mall.
Obviously, it is not enough. All the areas around the mall must be included in the placement of the Chinese who continue to hide. In this way, the 23rd Battalion must also arrive at the mall as soon as possible to ensure that the areas around the mall can be controlled, but the heavy rain will be along.
The Spanish slowed down their actions and also added many difficulties to the arrival of the 23rd Battalion. Therefore, everyone decided to immediately send someone to search for the whereabouts of another battalion in the direction of Daimao Port. They asked them to overcome all difficulties and rushed to the mall area as soon as possible.
At the same time, Zhang Gengqiu, Zhang Lei, Zhang Tao and others also tried their best to find ways to raise more grain. If they really couldn't buy it, they would rob them. There should be a lot of grain in the manor farms that were not as good as Spanish or indigenous nobles in the area.
Taking advantage of the rain, the Spanish army in Manila cannot be dispatched and can grab several manors.
In addition, Chinese people entering the shopping mall protection area should also carry out unified management. First of all, the money and valuables carried by everyone can be kept by themselves, but the food and livestock must be handed over to the shopping mall for unified management and distribution of everyone's daily rations; women and
The elderly are responsible for cooking, boiling water, washing clothes, and treating wounded people. The middle-aged man will be responsible for building fortifications, digging trenches and building temporary residences and other heavy physical work. He also forms a Chinese militia armed force to maintain the shopping mall protection area.
If necessary, the Ye'an order must also be put into the battlefield to help the Chinese army fight, but other tasks except for the militia that are voluntarily owned by each person must be completed and no choice is allowed.
However, some unexpected things are that after the news of recruiting militias was announced, the competition among Chinese people who signed up for the competition was very surging, including many elderly and teenagers, who also required to sign up for the army. Most of the Chinese who settled in Manila have some adventurous spirit, the second and third generation of Chinese.
The courage is much greater than that of ordinary people in Middle-earth. At the same time, the Chinese in Manila are too oppressed by the Spanish. Almost everyone is filled with anger. However, the organization that was unable to reach the level before and had no unified system had to endure it. Now there is China in my heart.
The military leader here also felt confident, so they wanted to kill a few Spaniards or local natives with their own hands.
As a result, more than 1,500 people signed up at once, so Song Xiechang also conducted some tests and selected more than 600 people to form the civilian army. The brothers of Zhao Ming and Zhao Xin were led by the militia. However, after the militia was formed, there was another problem, which was the lack of sufficient
The weapons arrived with the ship and transported some weapons, plus the weapons stored in the store, were about 180 swords, more than 200 spears, so there were still more than 200 people without weapons, so they had to get a wooden stick to deal with them first.
Use
Zhang Gengqiu is temporarily responsible for the order of Chinese people in the store, Zhang Lei and Zhang Tao, assisted Zhang Gengqiu, who was originally quite prestigious among Chinese people, and this time he brought the Chinese army to the past few days, he has done a lot of things to save the Chinese people.
Therefore, the Chinese are very respectful to him. The four missionaries who came with the Chinese army also helped to calm people's hearts. Most of the Chinese living in Manila also believe in Catholicism, so their impression of missionaries is not bad, let alone this.
Missionaries who came with the Chinese army
Of course, some people asked foreign monks why the Catholic Spanish attacked the Chinese who also believed in Catholicism, and the foreign monks in Manila also encouraged the Spanish to kill Chinese, but the few foreign monks had already agreed and agreed because of them
Not a true believer of the Lord and also gave an example. There are good and bad parts within each religion. There are not a few scum among monks and Taoists. Therefore, we cannot give up our belief in the Lord just because there are a few bad people in Catholicism. This is not China.
Isn’t Jun here to rescue the Chinese in Manila? This shows that the Lord has not abandoned his believers
Although the Catholic Church has no national borders, the missionaries have nationality. The four foreign monks who came this time were all Portuguese Portugal was annexed by Spain for more than 40 years until 1642. Therefore, they were in Spain and Portugal.
There is a deep hatred between the countries. Of course, foreign monks cannot hold grudges, but they have no good feelings for the Spanish. At the same time, they and the missionaries in Manila do not belong to the same missionary. Therefore, they accused them of having no scruples. Such a saying could make them even more difficult.
The Chinese believers also thought that these missionaries were good people, so with the joint efforts of several aspects, the order in the store quickly stabilized.
Although the rain was smaller the next day than yesterday, it was still going down. The Spanish army in Manila still had no movement. However, Zhang Gengqiu, Zhang Lei, Zhang Tao and others ran for a day yesterday and didn't collect much food because they passed.
After the massacre in Balian District, the entire Binongduo District was also very nervous. Almost all shops were closed. Only three shops originally intended to move to Nanjing shopping malls brought some of the food and then put them in the hands of other Chinese people.
The scattered food collected was only more than one thousand stones, which was only enough to support it for about one month. This was not the case with the increase in personnel.
At this time, Zhang Gengqiu provided Song Xiechang with a message. There was a farm less than five miles since the mall. There was a farm with more than a dozen kanti and dozens of indigenous people. From a scale, this farm is in Manila.
It should be one of the best food, and it should be a lot of food stored. It's also a related manor who is a Wheatman. It's nothing if you rob it.
After learning about it, Song Xiechang immediately decided to rob the farm, so he recruited battalion commander Fang Zhen and four company commanders to arrange tasks. This operation will dispatch two companies and two hundred militias. Zhang Lei led the way to run towards the manor.
Although there were dozens of guards in the manor, they could not withstand the attack of the Chinese army. Soon after, they were attacked by the Chinese army. The twelve Spanish living in the manor surrendered this time. The harvest was also very rich. A total of nearly five kinds of food were grabbed.
Five horses, including two barrels of wine and a large amount of Spanish silver coins.
However, just as the Chinese army counted the victory, the surrendered Spaniards were all killed by the angry militia, and four of them were also attacked by several militia. If they were in China, the Chinese army would definitely stop them, but here
Turn a blind eye
But when the rain stopped when the evacuation, several militia set fire to light the manor, but Fang Zhen scolded such a good house. Why did you burn it? After you ran away, you did the Tila people.