At this time, the number of Yin Feng's troops heading towards Badanyan had reached 2,000.
When Yin Feng's large group left Balian in confusion, they basically broke out of Balian's wooden wall under the constant fire of the cannons of the Santiago Battery. Along the way, sand and rocks flew everywhere, walls collapsed and houses collapsed, and the fugitives were surrounded by roars.
There were shells and shrill screams. Several unlucky escapees were directly hit by shells when they climbed over the wooden fence wall and were beaten to pieces; a pirate gang brother was stabbed to death by a flying bamboo stick on the roadside.
Yin Feng looked angrily at the Spanish fort in the distance, and could vaguely see the figures of soldiers running on the fort. The Spanish cannons fired recklessly, because they knew that the Chinese insurgents could not fight back.
On the first day after setting off from Balian, Yin Feng's team broke through a checkpoint set up by the indigenous soldiers. There were only more than 50 indigenous soldiers guarding the checkpoint. After seeing the large troops of Yin Feng and others from a distance, they started to
He shot a few arrows to show that he had fulfilled his duty, and then immediately ran away. The next day, a large group of people passed by a colonist's manor. Several shots were fired in the manor without knowing the current situation, and he was killed by a musket bullet.
Got a brother from a pirate gang.
This angered everyone. Lu Shitou and his brothers took down the manor with just one charge. The white masters, black slaves, and indigenous servants inside were all killed, and then the manor was burned to the ground.
Bai Di. On this day, two Spanish colonial manors were destroyed, and a Tagalog village that shot arrows at the Chinese team was burned. Yin Feng tried his best to prevent the pirate brothers from killing people wantonly, but the pirates were red-eyed.
As soon as he walked away, he continued to kill, and his persuasion had little effect. Yin Feng was not overly sympathetic, but was afraid of delaying his escape.
From that day on, fleeing Chinese continued to catch up from the direction of Balian, asking to join Yin Feng's team. News of the Chinese's disastrous defeat under Manila also spread throughout Luzon Island.
Blacksmith Li Dayu, the leader of the craftsmen's guild, died in the battle under the city of Manila. His apprentices and assistants protected his son Li Yue and escaped from Balian and caught up with Yin Feng and others. Behind them were nearly 8,000 people.
The fleeing crowds of overseas Chinese were scattered over dozens of square kilometers, fleeing in disorder toward Dalun Mountain and Badanyan.
In the direction of Manila, a combined force of more than 1,500 Spanish and indigenous soldiers, led by Captain Biragon and Brother Flores, was following and pursuing them step by step.
Yin Feng asked all the newcomers to go to the middle of the team. At this time, the movement of the large team stopped.
Yin Feng walked quickly to the front of the team and saw the pirate brothers sorting some loot. The whole team stopped because of this. Yin Feng was really furious and rushed forward to snatch the European silver from a pirate.
He asked the candlestick and kicked the guy down; he cursed loudly. He had never cursed like this since he returned to the Ming Dynasty.
While scolding, he knocked down these guys who wanted money rather than their lives one by one with judo skills - he was already tall and tall, but now he was holding a Japanese sword in one hand and his wide eyes calmed everyone; of course, these
The guys from the pirate gang didn't react for a moment, and more than a dozen sailors behind Yin Feng were staring at them with matchlock guns pointed at them. Suddenly, more than a dozen people were put to the ground, and everyone was stunned by Yin Feng's sudden outburst.
The action calmed him down.
In fact, these "former" pirates are all old men, and they cannot be commanded by loyalty and warmth alone. Yin Feng has just figured out this link. To deal with these men who have fought hard in the sea of knives, mountains and fires, it is best to use kindness and power at the same time.
The only way.
Yin Feng angrily stood on a flatbed truck: "...If you want to make money, then stay and wait for the relevant people to help you make money! I, Yin Feng, the captain of the Xinxing, hereby declare: I am willing to follow you
Those who go to Badanyan must obey my orders! Otherwise, please stay and help us resist the army of the Rats. Right behind us, there are more than 2,000 enemies chasing us, but you are still wasting time here.
! Now you make your own choice: if you follow me, you can get on the ship and go to sea and return to your hometown alive; if you stay, you will wait for the army that is concerned with the Latin people to come! Everyone who follows us is from Tang Dynasty, not Quanzhou, Zhangzhou
There is no difference between Chaozhou people and Chaozhou people, and there is no difference between those who believe in foreign religions and those who do not believe in religions. We are all Tang people!
He finished speaking in one breath and looked around seriously: "What do you think?"
Lin Xiao, Mai Xiaoliu and others stood behind Yin Feng very consciously, held up their matchlock guns, and stared coldly at the pirate gang brothers.
"I listen to you, Brother Yin!" Lu Shitou was the first to stand up and express his position.
The leader of the Christians, An Heping, also stood up and said: "Captain Yin, we Christians obey your orders!"
The brothers of the pirate gang actually belonged to more than a dozen pirate gangs, and it was not a strict organization. Now, everyone has to rely on Yin Feng's boat to escape from Luzon Island. The situation is stronger than others, no matter how unruly they are.
Pirates also have to bow to the situation, and Yin Feng is indeed a trustworthy leader. Therefore, the pirates have stated that they will obey Yin Feng's command in all actions.
At the moment, Yin Feng asked 100 pirate brothers and his sailor musketeers to clear the way. The other pirate brothers and craftsmen were on guard in the middle of the team to protect the old, weak, women and children. The more than 100 Chinese Christians were relatively organized, so Yin Feng left them behind
At the end of the team, he, Lin Xiao and several other sailors also stayed there, and were escorted back together with the Christian leader An Heping.
He walked through the long queue, and people in the queue kept saying hello to him:
"Captain Yin, is it because the Rats haven't caught up with you yet?"
"Don't worry, Dong Han's house is still far away." Yin Feng replied with a nod and a smile.
"Master Feng, why aren't you leaving yet?" This was the boy from the Zeng family asking.
"We're leaving soon. Keep an eye on the Third Young Master and the others. Oh, are they asleep?"
"Yin Feng!"
Yin Feng couldn't help but stop. Nowadays, there are very few people in Luzon who call him by his first name like this.
Only one person could call her like that, and Miss Li Lihua came to Yin Feng like a gust of wind.
"Those Christians said, my house was burned down?"
Yin Feng sighed: "Yes, I heard that the house of Huang Kang, the general manager, was also burned down, and the whole family died."
"What about my eldest brother? What will happen to my eldest brother?" Li Lihua's beautiful face was full of concern.
"He will be fine, don't worry." According to the original history, Li Dan would stay in a Spanish prison for a few years, and then become a hard labor prisoner working as an oar in the bottom of a battleship. Yin Feng comforted him, and then
He resolutely refused Miss Li's request to follow him and got out of trouble.
The team was on the road again, and the speed was finally much faster than the previous few days. When encountering Spanish colonists sneak attack on the roadside, the large team ignored them and only sent a few people to pretend to charge, while most people moved quickly along the road.
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Around the time when the black slave women in Manila staged a live drama of possession by gods, leading to an all-out war between the Spaniards and the Chinese, Quanzhou was hit by a typhoon that had never been seen in a century. Heavy rains and hurricanes continued for several days, the sea water suddenly rose, and flash floods broke out.
The moored ships in Hong Kong and Macao were almost completely destroyed. In Quanzhou Prefecture alone, more than 10,000 people drowned, residential buildings were destroyed, and countless animals and animals were left floating.
Within a few days, the back garden of the Zeng family's mansion was almost flooded, and the Yin Feng's house next to the back garden also suffered from water.
After the water receded, Zeng Jing and her servants worked hard for several days to clean up the yard, but all the flowers and plants she planted were destroyed. My concubine Mai Wan'er also worked hard with the maids, her eyes red and silent all day long.
Huh. She has to cry for a long time before falling asleep every night.
Of course, Zeng Jing would not be like this and would never show her deepest thoughts in front of others.
Before Yin Feng left, he handed her a piece of paper. On it was a sketch drawn by Yin Feng with homemade charcoal: a portrait of Zeng Jing. On the side was written in crooked calligraphy: "Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog." These are the words.
At night, Zeng Jing had to look at this portrait every day. At that time, Chinese people did not know about sketching, and this portrait was probably the first charcoal sketch in China. Zeng Jing’s first feeling when he looked at the painting was,
I just want to rush out impulsively, go to sea with Yin Feng, or go anywhere.
The incident soon came to October, and the Zeng family business was preparing for the trade in the coming year. However, there were more and more unfavorable rumors about Luzon. Finally one day, Xiamen fishermen rescued several people in distress at sea.
After questioning, they found out that they were small traders who had escaped from Luzon. When they landed, the situation on Luzon Island immediately spread throughout the coastal areas of Fujian, especially Zhangzhou and Quanzhou: Overwintering in Luzon
Most of the Chinese come from these two areas.
"Is it because the Rats are attacking us Tang people?"
"Is there a war?"
"We Tang people have numerous casualties?"
Those who heard the news first resolutely expressed disbelief, and then they all rushed forward to desperately inquire about their family members. Unfortunately, these overseas Chinese from Luzon escaped from Tondo Camp on homemade rafts after a full-scale war.
When they escaped, the Chinese had just suffered a disastrous defeat in the Battle of Del Monte Monastery. They could not provide any recent news, because they lay on the raft and drifted on the sea for nearly 20 days, and finally the raft
They fell apart, and only 3 of the original 20 people remained.
In the inner hall of the Zeng family, the news was like a lightning strike, almost knocking out everyone in the Zeng family. Amid the cries, Zeng Jing returned to his home in a trance, his palms numb and his heart uncomfortable, and he sat down
In front of the dressing table, the first thing that caught my eye was the charcoal sketch left by Yin Feng.
Her heart was cut with a knife, but she couldn't cry; deep in her heart, she had integrated the fantasy of her ideal husband with the image of Yin Feng, but the harsh reality seemed to break this illusion again; the ideal husband
Life may be over before it even begins.
These days, the temples in Quanzhou and Zhangzhou are surprisingly prosperous, and they are full of old, young, women and children coming to pray for the safety of their relatives far away.
The news also reached Li Dan's family, and Li Huayu and Xu Xinsu immediately decided to go to sea to save their elder brother Li Dan no matter what.
Thousands of miles away in Luzon, Yin Feng had no time to feel his wife's longing. He found that he could no longer control the size of his escape team.