Now the available troops stationed in the Monastery of Del×Monta are: Spanish soldiers are 571 and 278 soldiers and 183 indigenous soldiers. Only the state-owned indigenous soldiers who arrived to assist in the war were left.
The total of 427 people is only 1,400. Compared with the city of Manila, more than half of the troops have been lost. In addition, there are about 300 soldiers injured and lying in the monastery for treatment.
In a short period of time, this group of people still can't count on it
Therefore, in a large office, Governor Chacon and Archbishop Francesco sat opposite each other and both frowned and looked a little rough and worried.
On the same day, although the Chinese army did not attack Del×Monta Monta, it successively attacked a church and two farms in Binondo area, killing many indigenous believers and serf workers on the farm and burning the church.
Although it was not burned, all the property and supplies inside were looted. Escaped from the church. Several missionaries also fled to the monastery and cried to the archbishop about the brutal acts of pagans attacking the cathedral.
This time, the Archbishop did not shout the slogan of defending the Lord's glory to kill all the pagans, and the Governor did not accuse the Archbishop of not understanding military commands blindly. Because the situation has developed to this point, both of them knew that one was stronger than Lin Feng back then.
The enemy has appeared before him, the Philippines colony faced the most serious crisis in history. The two of them also let go of the contradictions and prejudices of the past. They began to sit down and discuss seriously how to face the current crisis.
The two first reached a consensus. The current top priority is to try to win as many reinforcements as possible to compete with the physiognomy, so that they can finally fight against the physiognomy to defend the safety of the Philippines.
There are two sources of reinforcements: Spain's own troops; the other is the local natives of Spain.
There are still more than 500 soldiers in Spain in the Philippines and more than 300 soldiers are waiting to be enrolled, but they are all scattered on other islands. It takes quite a while to gather together, and it only takes eight hundred of them to gather all of these soldiers.
Many people are not enough to compete with the Chinese army. In other places in Asia, there is no Spanish power. The nearest Spanish colony is still considered to be Mexico on the other side of the Pacific. It takes two or three months only one way distance, but it is not possible to hydrolyze it.
Therefore, it is still possible to rely on local natives
Before going to war, Chakong issued orders to the three tribes of Tagalog, Ilogo, and Bangban. However, because Chakong was eager to avenge his lover, the soldiers of the three tribes arrived, they rushed to send troops first.
Julien is the closest to Manila before sending troops. Now, the soldiers of the other two clans should have arrived.
However, Tagalog and Ilogo tribes are different from those in the country and Spain and do not form a unified tribe but are scattered into many small tribes. Therefore, it is hard to say how many soldiers each tribe can send. In addition, the relationship between these two tribes and Spain is also
It's not very good because the Spanish colonists fully support the National Spanish, so they cannot rely on too much high expectations for these two tribes, and the focus is on National Spanish.
So Chacon and Froncisco called Arnold III to return to the tribe immediately and recruit some soldiers to come to the Archbishop, of course, he fooled the chief of the Lord's gospel, and the mission of the believers and other words to encourage Aruo.
The Lord gave Annihilation of the Pagans was the divine responsibility of the Lord. This was to move it with emotion, and the Governor told Annook III that Manila was occupied by physiological men. The Spanish could not go back to Spain and go to Spain.
I am afraid that people will be exterminated by a physiological person, so I cannot be reserved now and I will do my best to defeat the physiological person. This is why I understand it.
Poor Arnold III is just an indigenous chief on a small island. I have seen such a scene and was immediately confused. It seems that the entire national tribe has just arrived in the face of the barbaric attacks of physiological people.
At the most dangerous moment, I am the Lord designated to save the tribe and save the tribe and save the leader of the Tianhui. Therefore, I also took on this important task on the spot.
Of course, checking Kong is more pragmatic than the Archbishop and knows that it is not enough to just fool things, but also to have some substantial things. Therefore, he promised Arnold that he would give Arnold Arnold III a hundred muskets for each of his calls.
It's a good idea to lure it into Manila. There are still hundreds of old-fashioned mesh guns that were just eliminated two years ago to use to call the native silly boys. Of course, it's better.
As a result, under the influence of the three aspects of emotion, reason and profit, Arnold III immediately returned to the tribe to recruit troops.
At the same time, Chacon also ordered other Spanish troops in the Philippine Islands to rush to Luzon to meet, and Francisco also sent his missionaries to various tribes in Luzon to recruit soldiers to fight against the Chinese army.
Missionaries from churches in other regions also persuaded local natives to come to Luzon to assist in the war.
The plan has been made. Now we are waiting for reinforcements from all over the country to come in the monastery. At the same time, Chacon and Francesco are also telling us that during this period, the physiological person will not attack the monastery. At the same time, Chacon also ordered the order of Fort Santiago.
Send three Spanish warships into the Bashi River to block the Bashi River route so that the Chinese army cannot cross the Bashi River to attack Manila City. At the same time, it also attacks the mall from the water. It also hopes to restrain the physiological forces.
In the following days, the Chinese army did not come to attack the monastery, and the reinforcements from various tribes such as Tagalu and Ilogo finally arrived. Seeing the gradual increase in troops, Chacon and Francesco gradually calmed down.
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In fact, the Chinese army was indeed planning to attack Song Xiechang and Fang Zhen of Del×Monta Monastery. Wei ×× had also formulated a detailed offensive plan, but a series of things that happened later made the plan unable to be implemented and had to stop.
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First of all, three Spanish warships sailed into the Bashi River and launched an attack from the waterway to the mall. This move is indeed very powerful. Because the mall is located on the warships along the Bashi River, the artillery can be directly hit into the mall. Although these three
The warships are small and medium-sized ship-based artillery, with only twenty or thirty guns, but it is also a great danger to the mall. During the first attack of Spanish warships, they brought great personnel to the mall.
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The Chinese army was also forced to place all the twenty medium and light artillery brought by the Bashi River and Spanish warships to launch artillery counterattack. The artillery of both sides was small and medium, and the Chinese army was slightly better, but the Spanish warships were in number.
The top has the advantage, and the Spanish naval guns are hidden under the deck. If the ship's gangway is not penetrated, there will be no danger. The Chinese army's artillery is directly mounted on the shore without any obstruction, so the two sides bombard each other.
It is very unfavorable to the Chinese army. Although the side of one of the warships was penetrated, it was still a certain distance from the waterline, so it did not cause a fatal blow to the warships. On the contrary, the Spanish warships successively destroyed the six Chinese army's doors.
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Seeing that it was too bad for him to shoot like this, Song Xiechang ordered the use of thunder rockets to attack Spanish warships. This was indeed effective because in this era, the danger of burning weapons on sailboats is much greater than that of artillery. Although this time,
The Chinese army brought all shoulder-mounted thunderbolt rockets in each cylinder, but the Chinese army launched thirty thunderbolt rockets in one breath, and a total of 210 thunderbolt rockets were shot. The huge sails of the sailboat also became thunderbolt rockets.
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As a result, the sails of the three Spanish warships were all lit and burned. One of them was very fired and the sail rope was broken. As a result, the canvas burning with the fire fell on the deck of the ship and suddenly spread to the entire ship. The sailors on the ship were burning.
The soldiers could not save the fire at all, so they had to jump ship to escape. The remaining two warships did not dare to continue fighting. While slamming the flames on the ship, they evacuated the battlefield urgently.
Although the Spanish warship was repelled and sunk a warship, four or five large holes were smashed on the walls of the mall, and more than twenty windows were smashed by artillery shells. The number of casualties reached more than two hundred.
The loss of a man is not small, and this is not the loss of an army
Therefore, Song Xiechang hurriedly ordered the construction of temporary artillery in the Bashi River and arranged all the fourteen remaining artillery on the river bank to prevent the Spanish army from attacking from the water again, but the artillery was left on the river bank and then attacking the monastery.
There are no artillery available. Of course, only thunder rockets are not impossible to replace the function of artillery. However, the defense on the river bank is still a big problem. Even if the temporary artillery is built, it is not enough to rely on existing artillery alone.
The Pili Rockets, therefore, cannot be easily used to attack the monastery.
Song Xiechang also heard Fang Zhen talk about the fortifications of the monastery. If there is no cover of artillery and thunderbolt rockets, it will cost a great price to attack the monastery. In this way, whether to launch an attack on the monastery, Song Xiechang and Fang Zhen, Wei
×× couldn't help but hesitate and at least hesitate to make a more detailed and safe plan.