The sky is getting brighter, and a large number of Chinese have crossed the Pasig River to Binondo, and then continue to go north, trudging across the river towards Tondo. There were hundreds of Chinese in Binondo who did not participate in the riots the day before, and they were all hiding at this time.
In my own home, I secretly watched from the cracks in the door and windows as thousands of Chinese people continued to walk northward.
Some Chinese shouted loudly at the door of the Binondo Chinese Christian house they knew well: "Brothers, come with us! The Latins will not let you go! You are Christians, but you are all Tang people. They have never
I don’t trust you!”
Some Chinese Christians opened the door and followed their own people with their belongings. Many Tagalog wives did not want their biological husbands to join the rebellion, and they cried and dragged their men away from home. Some of them were not allowed to go out.
The courage that I had just mustered up as a Christian was dissipated in the tears of my wife and children, so I could only lean at the door and watch the large group of Chinese walking through the streets of the small town, heading north.
Since the Spanish army on the south bank of Binondo was almost completely wiped out, this area was no longer blocked. Thousands of Chinese from Balian had passed through here early in the morning and continued to walk north. The Spanish troops in other areas along the river seemed to have
disappeared, and the Pampanga indigenous servant soldiers also retreated.
Early this morning, no Spaniards even came to intercept or harass the Chinese fugitives on this road. The Chinese fugitives were moving smoothly towards Tondo. Along both sides of the road, there were many corpses, all of which were fugitive Chinese who had been killed in the past few days.
There were many corpses hanging on the branches, but they were overseas Chinese businessmen and hawkers who were chased by the Spanish and had no way out, so they hanged themselves in order to keep their bodies intact. Most of these corpses had been stripped of their clothes. This is what the local indigenous people did.
The result of searching for treasures on Chinese corpses.
Yin Feng and the others did not find Li Dan. The old servant of the Li family who stayed behind said: On the day when the black slave woman in Manila became hysterical, Captain Thomas led the army to raid Li Dan's home in the name of supporting the rebels in Tondo.
, snatched back the gold and silver delivered the day before, and imprisoned Li Dan in the dungeon of Fort Santiago. Li Lihua was about to take her family to Manila to rescue people, but Yin Feng finally stopped her from surrendering.
behavior; finally, Yin Feng assured her that he had Portuguese friends at the Manila port. After finding his family, he would definitely ask the Portuguese to help her find out about Li Dan's whereabouts. After such a delay, Yin Feng and others were ready to go on their way.
When we went to Tondo to look for Zeng Yue, the Spaniards began to appear on the road ahead again.
In the Governor's Palace in Manila, Governor Don Pedro de Aguna looked at the several people in front of him distressedly at his desk. These people were all soldiers. Among them was the middle-aged officer sitting on the chair covered with bandages.
Captain Gaspar, the commander of the Spanish army on the south bank of Binondo, escaped to Manila alone. Standing on one side were Captain Thomas, the nephew of the governor, and the older officer Major Asquita.
He is the urban defense commander of Manila; another middle-aged officer with aristocratic air is Colonel Luis Perez Dasmarinas.
Colonel Dasmarinas was another culprit in the massacre at Binondo Manor, and his hatred for the biological man could be described as a combination of family hatred and national hatred.
Colonel Dasmarinas was the provisional governor of the Philippines from 1593 to 1596. His father was Governor Dasmarinas who was beheaded by the Chinese during the Panhewu riots. (This matter was mentioned in Chapter 24)
When the colonel was the acting governor, the Balian market area was set on fire by him. Moreover, while in his position as governor, the colonel tried his best to advocate the invasion of China and wrote to the King of Spain to organize an army expedition to China. (The Spanish plan to conquer Ming Dynasty China was circulated on the Internet.
The colonel is one of the advocates)
Therefore, the colonel was the Spanish soldier who was the most active in demanding ruthless suppression of Chinese resistance. Not only did he personally massacre more than 300 Chinese at Maquina Manor, he also led his own guards to intercept Chinese on the north bank of the Pasig River many times.
All attention was now focused on Captain Gaspar's feeble account: "...the situation was like this, my troops lost about 30 to 40 men in two volleys, and they had officers
The command should have been issued in Chinese; but the interval between the two volleys from the other side was only half a minute, and even...my soldiers didn't even have time to load their ammunition, and they fired again."
Governor Don Pedro rubbed his temples vigorously, looked at him distressedly, and then asked Major Asquita: "You are an old soldier, what do you think?"
The veteran officer Major Asquita did not answer immediately. He first asked Captain Gaspar on the chair: "Are you sure the other party only has 50 people?"
"From my experience, judging from the firepower of the opponent's shooting, they only have about 60 people at most." Captain Gaspar replied very definitely.
Major Asquita turned to Governor Don Pedro and said: "From this we can be sure that the physiological side of the rebellion has a musketeer team, numbering about 60 people, and they are well-trained; they can load and shoot so quickly at night
, only soldiers who have undergone long-term training can do it."
As Don Pedro de Aguna, who just took over as Governor General of the Philippines at the end of last year, has reason to be distressed; his predecessor left a mess for him. Too many physiological people is the biggest problem. Don Pedro
Luo did not want that as soon as he took over as governor, rebellions would begin in the colonies, especially the rebellion of the physiological men: they were the driving force and source of the prosperity of Manila City, and also the financial source of long-term peace and stability in the Philippines under the rule of the governor. The governor was not Archbishop Benavi.
As long as they can bring him wealth and political prestige, he can tolerate the existence of religious fanatics and pagans like Dess. But there are too many of them, and their numbers are so large that they even threaten the security of the Spaniards. And religion
People in the field, especially Archbishop Benavidez, desperately encouraged hostility against physiological people, causing the conflict between the two sides to escalate day by day.
Everything was developing towards the state he least wanted to see. After being harassed and attacked by the Spaniards countless times, the physiological man finally rebelled. He did not admit that he had not stopped the Spanish's wanton behavior, but only blamed the physiological man for not reacting.
over.
Now, he had always wanted to regard Captain Gaspar's self-report as nonsense, but it seemed that other soldiers recognized the captain's statement.
Governor Don Pedro rubbed his eyes in distress: "Well, I hope someone can explain; how and when did physiological man have such a team of musketeers?"
Everyone looked at each other, speechless. None of them could answer his question.
The governor sighed, very disappointed with these soldiers.
"Gentlemen, I have sent people to notify the governors of all provinces in this colony and order them to deal with all the local physiological people on the spot, and not to let anyone go. We must restore order in this colony as soon as possible. Dasmarinas
Colonel, you are most familiar with the situation in this colony, how do you think the physiological rebellion should be quelled?"
"Attack and destroy them! Physiologists are just rabble!!" Colonel Dasmarinas walked up to the governor, foaming at the mouth, and the governor had to lean back in his chair. "The only way to deal with the rebels is to kill them without mercy! As for the
I don’t think what happened last night is enough to hinder our actions. There are only 50 of them! Even if physiological humans have the ability to obtain a certain number of muskets, they won’t be able to use them skillfully!”
"How do you explain the incident in Binondo last night?" Captain Gaspar was very dissatisfied with the colonel's statement and couldn't help asking a question.
"You were attacked from behind. This is not because our soldiers are incompetent, but because these physiological men are cunning and cruel! Just like the incident 10 years ago, these despicable physiological men only use sneak attacks!"
Colonel Dasmarinas once again brought up his family's old feud. The Governor rubbed his temples, sighed and ordered: "Okay, Colonel, you lead your colonists' self-defense forces to the direction of Tondo."
.Thomas, you command a company of soldiers, plus 100 native auxiliary troops to cooperate with the colonel's troops, to cut off the physiological people's road to Tondo."
He turned to the city defense commander Major Asquita and said: "Major, you organize the entire city's armed personnel to prepare to defend the city. We have to prepare for the worst."
The regular Spanish army was marching out of the city with military music playing. There were about 150 well-equipped soldiers. The governor's nephew, Captain Thomas, rode in front on a tall horse as the commander, looking straight ahead with a serious face and raising his head proudly.
Colonel Dasmarinas stood in the back with a face on his face and nodded frequently to the surrounding audience on his horse. The Spanish colonists who were watching applauded and cheered, and some screaming ladies threw flower branches on the heads of the soldiers.
The news that Captain Gaspar's troops were almost completely destroyed has been tightly sealed. All the Spanish troops around Manila have been concentrated in Manila. After these troops left, there were actually only more than 150 troops left in the city.
Spanish regular troops and several hundred Pampanga auxiliary troops.
North of Binondo, outside the estate of Colonel Dasmarinas, the Spanish troops and the self-defense militia of the local Spanish colonists merged. There were more than 200 people, plus 100 indigenous auxiliary troops. Captain Thomas thus had sufficient strength.
The colonial militias were mostly Spanish veterans who stayed in Luzon and had rich combat experience. They paid no attention to the physiological rebels and thought they could easily defeat them. Originally, their mission was just
The road to Tondo was blocked, but Captain Thomas and Colonel Dasmarinas were prepared to fight all the way to Tondo. As for what happened in Binondo last night, they blamed it entirely on Captain Gaspard's incompetence.
When the Spanish army was preparing to attack, Yin Feng and others were hiding in the woods near the colonel's manor, anxiously waiting for them to leave so that they could continue on their way.
However, it was not until the afternoon that the Spaniards began to prepare to leave; the indigenous auxiliary army pushed two artillery carts out of the manor, a large group of soldiers lined up at the gate of the manor, and the colonial militia also formed a team.
Yin Feng anxiously walked around in circles, going to the forest to look around every few minutes. Zeng Jingshan sighed and said: "You don't have to worry, there's no point in being anxious. If Brother Yue is still in Tongduo, he probably won't
There is something wrong; if it is really..., there is no point in rushing."
Yin Feng stopped and smiled bitterly: "The Qianla army in front of us is probably going to attack Tongduo. What I'm worried about is: our way out is blocked by the Qianla people."
He thought for a while and said to Major Coutre: "Major, you take 10 armed sailors and my family and companions to lurk here first, and then find a way to get back to the Xinxing ship at night."
Cutre nodded and said in Portuguese: "With these sailors here, it should be no problem to swim back to the port. So, how will the ship owner prepare to retreat to the port after finding the people? I think a large-scale battle will start immediately, maybe
This area will become a battlefield. According to my experience, the entire Philippines can still recruit 300 to 400 regular soldiers to Manila. If the Spaniards decide to form an indigenous infantry company, they can at least add about 2,000 more combatants."
He pointed in the direction of Balian and said: "According to my observation, the Chinese who participated in the rebellion basically have no weapons. According to your experience in organizing a sneak attack last night, they are all civilians and have never had combat experience.
There are absolutely no experienced officer organizers. In short, I am not optimistic about the cause for which your compatriots are fighting."
Yin Feng nodded: "You are very straightforward, but what you said is indeed the truth. That's why I am even more anxious. If the entire region falls into the flames of war, it will be difficult for us to protect ourselves. Therefore, you must send Miss Li
My brother and I brought them back to the Xinxing ship, and I took these armed sailors to Tondo. If there was an emergency, we would enter the mountainous area and take a detour to the Badanyan Seaside, where the Fuxing ship had been waiting for half a month."