? Chacon, Francisco, Arnold III and others ran faster, quickly retreated to the monastery of Del Monta, and immediately commanded the other soldiers who rushed into the abbey to set up defense lines.
In the battle to attack the mall, the most losses in the country, the indigenous soldiers in Spain, almost half, followed by the indigenous soldiers directly belonging to the Spanish army, with nearly 300 casualties, while the casualties of Spanish soldiers were not large. Twenty or thirty people, and when they retreated, the Spanish soldiers retreated the fastest, and they almost retreated into the monastery. Moreover, the Spanish soldiers received strict training, although they were retreating, It was not messed up. After retreating into the monastery, he immediately occupied the monastery's walls, buildings, sculptures and other cover objects, preparing to block the Chinese army's attack.
Although the casualties of the indigenous soldiers in the Banban area were very serious, Arnold III had always been ignorant and did not let his own guards go to battle. Therefore, the two hundred guards did not suffer any losses and retreated relatively quickly. Although they all use old-fashioned mesh guns, they can also come in handy in guarding the monastery, and Chakon also arranged these 200 indigenous soldiers to guard them elsewhere.
Before Chakong could all set up the defense of the monastery, the Chinese army pursued the defeated indigenous troops and rushed to the front of the monastery.
Lieutenant Perez, who was commanding the guards on the courtyard wall, shouted: "Governor, what should I do now? If this continues, they will also bring the physiological army into the monastery."
Chakong looked at it and there were still three or four hundred indigenous soldiers outside the monastery, which filled the door of the monastery. The Chinese soldiers kept biting the tail of the defeated indigenous troops, causing the troops from both sides to mix. Together, there is no distinction between them. Therefore, we also know that if the defeated indigenous troops were allowed to withdraw into the monastery like this, the Chinese army would probably be brought in, so we immediately ordered: "Close the door immediately."
The Spanish soldiers beside him had actually been waiting for the order at this moment, so they immediately took action and began to close the gate of the monastery.
At this time, Arnold III said: "Governor, you can't close the door yet. We still have many soldiers outside!"
Cha Kongdao: "Your Excellency Chief, you must understand that if the gate is not closed now, the physiological army will take advantage of the situation, and then this monastery will probably be difficult to defend."
Arnold III was still a little unwilling to accept it, because most of the people outside the monastery were soldiers of the Panpanese tribes, so he argued: "Governor, they are all faithful believers of the Lord, and you can bear it if you are unable to do so. Watching them being turned away and being massacred by pagans?”
At this time, Francisco also came over and said, "Your Excellency, what the Governor said is right. This is a Catholic monastery. The Lord's temple is never allowed to be contaminated by pagans, so no matter how many people are sacrificed, You must also keep the monastery. If they are all faithful believers of the Lord, then you should be very happy to sacrifice yourself to protect the Lord's temple. Although their nobility is dead, their souls will be able to ascend to heaven, in the Lord Under the glory of the brilliance, we will gain eternal life.”
After the Archbishop said this, Arnold III had no words at all, so he had to endure it. At this moment, he suddenly heard two "boom" sounds, and two grenades were thrown into the monastery and exploded. The bomb was killed and injured. More than ten people.
It turned out that at this time, the indigenous soldiers outside the monastery saw that the gate of the monastery was closed. Many people rushed to the gate. While pushing hard, they slapped the gate of the monastery desperately, shouting loudly in the indigenous language, asking the Spanish army for
Open the door and let them in. Some people turned to the direction of the courtyard wall, wanting to climb up the courtyard wall and enter the monastery. The Chinese soldiers had already killed behind the indigenous soldiers and were striving to open a bloody road and occupy the city
Door.
Because the Chinese army and indigenous soldiers were mixed together at this time, it was difficult to distinguish, so the Spanish army did not dare to shoot. However, the Chinese army soldiers were watching the cold shooting at the Spanish army on the wall or throwing grenades.
It has been very critical.
The grenade thrown in scared the Archbishop and Arnold III. It turned out that he thought it would be safe to hide in the monastery. Unexpectedly, the Chinese army was really going to invade, so the Archbishop said tremblingly: "Governor General, now
What to do? The physiological person is about to attack." Arnold III was even more scared and his face was pale and his lips were trembling.
Cha Kong was also very surprised, but he was a soldier after all, so he was not scared to the point of being at a loss. He immediately shouted at the wall of the courtyard: "Shoot, shoot, what are you waiting for? Shoot immediately!"
After receiving the order from the governor, the Spanish soldiers immediately reacted and immediately raised their guns to shoot at the crowd outside the courtyard wall. Regardless of whether it was the Chinese soldiers or the natives, they were attacking whoever they were.
This time, Arnold III no longer pleaded for the natives outside the monastery, but said to some of the dazed native musketeers: "Did you hear the order of the Governor? Just shoot immediately, who will shoot, who will
Dare not to shoot, and after I go back, I will kill all his family. It turns out that the grenade that just threw into the monastery made Arnoki III completely realize that recently, it turns out that the monastery is not safe, so I have to save my life first, and then
Only by taking care of one's own subjects.
The Spanish soldiers and indigenous musketeers shot together. At this time, the shooting distance was too close, almost in front of him, so a large area fell down in the crowd. Although most of them were indigenous soldiers, there were also some.
The young soldier of the Chinese army was immediately replaced by various screams. As the Spanish army began to shoot, the force of pushing and blocking the door outside the monastery was also rapidly slowing down, and the two gates slowly merged.
, Finally, it closed with a "bang!"
The soldiers of the Chinese army did not expect that the Spanish army would shoot at their own people. Caught off guard, more than 20 soldiers were killed, and more than ten militiamen with red eyes were killed.
The situation was very chaotic. Although some Chinese soldiers approached the monastery's courtyard wall, they could not immediately launch an attack. Therefore, when the battalion commander Fang Zhen saw the situation, he immediately ordered the entire army to retreat and retreat beyond the range of the Spanish army.
Then he reorganized the formation and launched a shooting against the Spanish army in the monastery. The militia sailed in other directions of the monastery, looking for places to break through.
But this made the indigenous soldiers locked outside the monastery, sandwiched between the firepower of both sides, and countless casualties were immediately killed or injured, and the others had to scatter and escape. They ran away in a short while, of course, the Chinese army's
The soldiers also took the opportunity to scatter and captured dozens of soldiers.
After the battlefield was quiet, Fang Zhen then observed the terrain of the monastery. The geographical conditions of the monastery were similar to those of the shopping mall. They all took buildings as the core and had a courtyard wall, but the area of the monastery was larger than that of the shopping mall.
Some, and the courtyard wall is also higher, so it is also a good fortress.
In fact, when the Spanish built this monastery, they also considered military uses, but not to prevent China, but to prevent the Dutch who occupied Batavia, because Batavia is very close to the Philippines, and the Netherlands has always been
It is Spain's mortal enemy. In the 30 Years' War in Europe, Spain's main opponent was France first, followed by the Netherlands. Therefore, after the Netherlands occupied Batavia, the Spanish always believed that the Netherlands would enter the Philippines. At that time, Spain had already been
Manila City was built on Luzon Island, Santiago Fortress was built at the mouth of the Bashi River in Manila Bay, and on the south bank of the Bashi River, when building the Del×Monta Monta Monastery, the needs of the fortress were also considered in accordance with the needs of the fortress.
However, the number of Spanish troops is not large now, and before going to war, I never thought of retreating to the Monastery of Del×Monta, so I was not fully prepared. In addition, this monastery has been built for nearly 50 years, the Netherlands
The attack on the Philippines in the future also made the Spanish people much careless. Many of the fortifications and facilities built at the time were disrepaired and could no longer be used. Fang Zhen also estimated that with the current strength of the Chinese army, the monastery was captured.
It's totally OK.
However, when the 15th Battalion pursued the Spanish army this time, it did not carry long-range attack weapons such as artillery, thunder rockets, etc., so it is impossible to attack the monastery yet. Fang Zhen only drew a simple map of the monastery terrain and was about to go back and suggest to Song Xiechang
.
But at this moment, the militia returned, but the militia captain Zhao Ming and Zhao Xin brothers reported a bad news to Fang Zhen. It turned out that they had discovered the Monastery in the Monastery of Aydel×Monta when they were wandering around the monastery.
The murdered Chinese corpse and captured several indigenous believers who were digging pits. Through their interrogation, they learned the causes and consequences of what happened. Therefore, all the militia were indignant and asked the Chinese army to attack the monastery and kill them.
The Spanish only avenged the dead Chinese.
After listening to everyone's words, Fang Zhen was also very angry, but after all, he could still maintain his rationality and would suffer great losses without heavy weapons to attack the monastery. Therefore, he said: "Friends, I can understand everyone's mood.
But now we don’t have enough staff, so we go back to the mall first, tell Captain Song about this matter, and ask him to dispatch a large group of troops tomorrow and then attack this monastery."
After hearing this, everyone thought that what Fang Zhen said made sense, and everyone is very convinced by the Chinese army now, so they all followed Fang Zhen's arrangements.
At this moment, a militiaman said, "Battor Fang, I know there is a church nearby, less than five miles away from here. Why don't we go there and get a blow first?"
Another militia said, "Yes, I know that church, there are two manors next to it, both of which are farms of the titla people. Let's take them all together."