A large number of Chinese people brought their families to join Yin Feng's team. His team has increased from more than 800 people at the beginning to more than 2,000 people, and now it has increased to more than 3,000 people. He has no time to rectify the team at all, except for the leader
The pirate gang, the sailor musketeers, the craftsmen who rushed to the rear, and the Chinese Christians, and the rest of the refugee crowd gathered in the middle of the group in a chaotic mess, with people falling behind and joining.
For three days in a row, the fleeing Chinese ignored the constant shots and arrows in the surrounding woods, manors, and villages, and persisted in moving towards the Dalun Mountain. If there were obstacles blocked by indigenous soldiers in front, the Sailor Musketeers would stand up and conduct a unified attack.
Shoot, and then the brothers from the pirate gang charge forward to open the passage.
Many people died in the sneak attack by the indigenous soldiers, or fell on the road due to being too tired. After the bodies were hastily buried by their companions, the large group of people continued on the road. Various property and soft items were also lost along the way, and indigenous people from all over the place swarmed in.
They went out, participated in robberies, and often clashed with the Spanish troops chasing behind them, which actually made the Spanish pursuit much slower.
However, Yin Feng still kept urging the team to speed up. Under his urging, the refugee team only rested at midnight every day and continued on the road early in the morning, covering at least 40 miles in a day. Several of them were already elderly.
The wealthy businessman Gao couldn't walk anymore, so he left the funeral arrangements to his relatives and friends, and then hanged himself in the forest at nightfall.
By the fourth day, we were approaching the mountainous area. There were almost no major roads anymore. Only the paths taken by the local indigenous people meandered between the tropical jungle and grass. The indigenous people also made more and more sneak attacks. Even in broad daylight, they dared to drive within a few dozen paces.
They fired arrows at the Chinese team. As soon as Lu Shitou and others pursued them, they all hid in the woods and disappeared without a trace, making the Chinese furious but had nowhere to vent.
Since the musketeers had very little ammunition left, Yin Feng had not allowed the musketeers to pursue the natives since two days ago.
However, the indigenous people became more and more unscrupulous. Some people openly broke into the Chinese team and robbed their property, causing waves of riots. The entire team moved slower and slower. A few bold indigenous people brandished primitive bone spears and attacked.
When he reached the end of the team, Yin Feng shot one to death with a revolver pistol, and then scared the rest away.
Captain Galinado was a subordinate of Captain Biragon, and he was the officer of the vanguard force during this pursuit. These days, he led 50 Spanish regular troops and 200 Pampanga indigenous infantry at the forefront of the large army, and many
There were countless small-scale battles between the Chinese and indigenous people. These trivial and cumbersome battles can wear down people's patience the most.
It stands to reason that the local natives should be the auxiliary servants of the Spanish, but in front of the gold and silver property that can be picked up everywhere, the natives did not give the Spanish any face. They were familiar with the road terrain, and their hands and feet were much faster than the Spanish troops, which led to Gary's death.
Lieutenant Nado's men were very dissatisfied. This often happened: Even though it was the dry season in the Philippine Islands, the Spaniards still worked hard to catch up to the ground, sweating like rain, but all they saw were naked corpses all over the ground, as well as discarded corpses.
Worthless junk on the side.
It is said that the fleeing physiological rebels possessed a large amount of treasures and property, which was the biggest motivation for the Spanish army's frontline troops to pursue them desperately. However, from Balian to here, except for a few Chinese refugees, they were overtaken and killed and their property was robbed.
Once empty, their economic income was pitifully low, and dissatisfaction permeated the entire team.
On this morning, Lieutenant Galina ordered the troops to get up an hour earlier than usual, and sent 10 indigenous soldiers and guides 100 meters away to serve as vanguards. The troops also accelerated their pace. This was already the edge of the forest, between trees and grass.
There is only one small road in between, which is the road that Yin Feng and his party have been harassed by the natives.
All the weeds on the road were flattened, and the surrounding area was full of traces of the march of large groups of people. The second lieutenant was worried: Many of the people living in this area are uncivilized natives. They are savages who want to rob even the Spanish, let alone the Chinese.
You're welcome, but don't let them steal everything!
Among the trees on the roadside, corpses of Chinese people who had committed suicide began to appear one after another, hanging on the trees. They were all exhausted and left alone, or they were poor people who could not catch up with the group. They did not want to die in the hands of the enemy, so they adopted
In traditional Chinese culture, the method of death can preserve one's self-respect, in order to leave a whole body.
However, these corpses have been looted, and even their clothes have not been spared, let alone anything valuable left.
Captain Galinado yelled: "Demons of the devil, damn savages!"
He drew out his command sword and loudly ordered the sergeants: "Damn it, hurry up and speed up the team! If you can't catch up with the physiological man, I will let you all paddle on the battleship!"
Suddenly, a figure of a black-robed priest came from the front and shouted breathlessly: "Mr. Second Lieutenant, wait a moment!"
It turned out to be Flores, a spiritual and martial arts missionary who volunteered to join the vanguard. He had just followed the vanguard to conduct forward reconnaissance.
In the Spanish colonies, the Catholic religious power represented by missionaries was very powerful. The missionaries and churches that penetrated into rural areas of the Philippines actually assumed the responsibility of the grassroots political power of the colonial government. Lower-level officers like Captain Gallinado,
When facing the missionaries, he had to restrain his anger and impatience: "Dear Brother Flores, what happened?"
"Mr. Second Lieutenant, there are indigenous people moving ahead."
"On the way we came here, there were indigenous activities everywhere. Is there anything strange about it?"
Brother Flores stretched out his hand and placed a few lead pellets in front of Captain Gallinado: "I found these musket bullets, indicating that someone used muskets here. From here on, there are no Spanish manors.
Only at the checkpoint at the foot of Dalun Mountain did our colonial militia use matchlocks. The indigenous people do not have such weapons. Therefore, it must have been the physiological man who used the matchlocks during the battle with the indigenous people!"
Lieutenant Galina's face suddenly became ugly. He looked at the projectiles carefully. After a long time, Shen Xi said: "What do you mean, are there members of the mysterious musketeers among the rebels we are chasing?"
"There is no other explanation."
Yin Feng's Marine Musketeers have always been a mystery in the hearts of the Spanish; during this so-called physiological rebellion, except for Colonel Dasmarinas who underestimated the enemy and was annihilated in the Tondo Swamp, in all other battles, the Spanish
Everyone can defeat the Chinese relatively easily. Only this mysterious musketeer team suddenly appeared from time to time, catching the Spanish army by surprise; on the south bank of Binondo, Captain Gaspar's 50 soldiers were almost completely destroyed; Tondo
On the edge of the swamp, this musketry team defeated the indigenous auxiliary troops; they raided the Japanese on the Pasig River before the siege of Manila, but there was no organized Chinese musketeer team during the key siege.
In fact, almost no Spanish soldier or indigenous soldier can tell clearly how many people there are in this team of musketeers and what its organizational structure is.
Captain Galinado thought for a while, and immediately called the messenger to report the information to Captain Billagon's main force, which was a day's journey away. Then, he gathered all the troops and arranged the 50 Spanish soldiers in a tight line.
Five columns were placed in the middle of the entire team, with native auxiliaries distributed around them; all the Spanish soldiers' muskets were lit with matches and loaded with ammunition to prepare for firing at any time. Then, the troops moved forward cautiously, and the vanguard sent two groups of people, the furthest
It was placed 200 meters in front of the team.
Along the way, more and more situations showed that the physiological man's brigade was not far ahead. Lieutenant Gallinado became excited and became more careful, asking the soldiers to move closer to each other. Everyone was carefully observing the dense forest around them.
The turmoil in the world.
It was already noon, and the sunshine in the dry season still made the dense forest and grass steam steaming. The Spanish army walked carefully through the grass. Suddenly, there was a vague and noisy voice in front of them.
Captain Galinado waved his hand, and the Spanish army stopped immediately, and the indigenous soldiers also stopped. Brother Flores ran out of the queue very actively and said, "I will go ahead to conduct a reconnaissance." He took a few indigenous soldiers with him.
The soldier slipped into the grass in front of him. Captain Gallinado shook his head, and he really didn't understand that the missionary was so enthusiastic about the career of an ordinary soldier.
Not long after, Brother Flores ran back quickly with several indigenous soldiers.
"It's the local Tagalog natives who are fighting with the Physiological Man! The Physiological Man seems to have retreated to a swamp." Brother Flores said excitedly: "We can press the entire army and wait for the indigenous people and the Physiological Man
When everyone is exhausted, let's make a surprise attack..."
Captain Galinado thought so too. He immediately ordered all the soldiers to advance quickly and prepare for all battles; a large amount of gold and silver treasures were right in front of them! The morale of the entire Spanish army was high, and they were sweating profusely while maintaining a tight formation as they advanced.
At the edge of the swamp about 2 miles away, Yin Feng held a torch and stood on a mound looking around. There were about 2,800 Chinese refugees still alive, and they had all gathered in this swamp.
At that time, there were many uncultivated natural wetlands in the central, southwest, and southeast of Luzon Island. Yin Feng learned about the existence of this swamp from the pirate guide who led the way, and took everyone there the night before.
here.
Pursued by low-level natives along the way, Yin Feng had to organize a musketry team to ambush at the edge of the swamp, and ambushed the natives who were swarming behind. Two matchlock volleys and a charge from the pirate gang almost killed them.
Nearly 100 natives pursued them. This battle prevented the natives from launching an attack for a whole night, but Yin Feng's musketeers only had ammunition left for two more volleys. Moreover, a few projectiles were fired by Florey
Brother Si found out and exposed the whereabouts of the Musketeers.
After entering the swamp, Yin Feng directed everyone to endure the torment of moisture and mosquito bites, and spent a night cutting off all the thatch in the swamp and piling it around the swamp. Then, Yin Feng asked everyone to put all the grass that could be collected into the swamp.
He took out all the things to ignite the fire: fire sickle, flint, tung oil, and cloth. In order to ensure the fire ignition effect, Yin Feng reluctantly sprinkled gunpowder on some thatch.
This morning, because they were ambushed yesterday and suffered heavy losses, the local natives gathered warriors from several nearby tribes and villages to seek revenge on the Chinese. As soon as they arrived at the edge of the swamp, the vanguard fell into Yin Feng
Many people were nailed to death by the wooden sticks and bamboo sticks at the bottom of pits dug by people. The natives were very angry. This method of catching wild beasts was their patent. How could the Chinese use it on them?
As a result, the angry natives forgot to take cover and rushed over in a swarm. The Chinese were already prepared. Dozens of pirate gang brothers lined up to guard the only two entrances to the swamp with bamboo guns prepared at night. The first
The brothers in the platoon all wore Spanish plate helmets captured in Tondo. They were not afraid of the inferior bows and arrows of the indigenous people. They were able to kill the indigenous soldiers who rushed over one by one in the rain of indigenous arrows. These indigenous people did not realize that they
A thick layer of thatch was artificially spread under the feet.
Seeing the indigenous people appearing around the edge of the swamp, with more and more people gathering, Yin Feng raised the torch and shouted: "Set fire!" and threw the torch into the haystack in front of him.
Lin Xiao immediately fired Yin Feng's revolver into the air, "Bang!"
Immediately, the people who were ambushing around the swamp took action after hearing the news and lit the thatch piles everywhere. After the fire started, with the help of gunpowder and tung oil, the fire immediately burned along the pre-paved fire path to the grass on the shore.
Middle. The pirate gang brothers who blocked the enemy at the entrance of the swamp passage also retreated one after another, and lit the haystack in front of them. The haystack at the entrance of the passage wasted a lot of Yin Feng's gunpowder. It burned extremely fast, and quickly burned the haystack in front of him.
The two indigenous warriors in front of them burned into flames.
In just a moment, flames several feet high sprang up around the swamp, and the heat wave was cleared. The Chinese people in the middle of the swamp could also feel the blazing power of the fire. Zhang Zhongji, Colonel Coutre, Black Magaro, etc.
People gathered around the flatbed truck that Zeng Yue and others were riding on. They were already in the middle of the swamp, but their faces could still feel the heat of the fire. Li Lihua stared blankly at the fire, and the firelight turned her face red: "
Oh, God!"
Li Lihua kept crossing herself on her chest. Both Cutre and Magaro kept crossing themselves and praying. Most of the Christians in the escape team were doing the same. But Lu Shitou kept mumbling to himself: "Damn it."
You bastard, so cruel! So cruel!"
Everyone was looking at the fire around them in panic and praying to various gods.