The fire consumed a lot of oxygen, and a strong wind suddenly blew in the swamp. Fortunately, the wind was blowing to the outside, and fortunately the swamp was large enough, otherwise Yin Feng and others would have been completely suffocated by the fire.
Since Yin Feng had cleared all the combustibles in the swamp in advance, only the heat wave of the fire could threaten the people in the middle of the swamp, but the surrounding natives were unlucky. The potential that people can unleash in critical moments is amazing.
Most of the indigenous people have experienced forest fires. When they saw the fire, they ran back as fast as they could. Unfortunately, when they attacked the swamp, the crowd was too crowded and the fire started too suddenly. A large number of indigenous people collided with each other and fell.
, before they could get up, the fire had already caught up with them, and the flames immediately engulfed the crowd. There were the crackling sounds of burning mountain fires, the whistling of wind helping the fire, and the constant screams of dying indigenous people, accompanied by
The rumble of several old trees falling in the flames made people feel like they were in hell.
The Spaniards entered this hell completely voluntarily. When several battered and battered soldiers appeared in front of Captain Galina, the Spaniards had already seen the fire and smoke rising in front. Then appeared the panicked and battered natives.
People, they rushed straight towards Lieutenant Gallinado's troops regardless.
"Everyone turn around and run!"
There was no need for Lieutenant Galina to issue orders. The surrounding indigenous auxiliary soldiers had already fled in all directions. The Spanish soldiers also wanted to escape immediately, and no one wanted to compete with the power of nature. Unfortunately, their formation was too close just now, and now they have to turn around.
But it was difficult. Lieutenant Gallinado desperately pushed down his soldiers, even stepped on the fallen soldiers, and tried to escape backwards. All the Spaniards were panicked, desperately running for their lives, and at the same time throwing away everything they had on them that might be ignited by the fire.
Things: match rope, gunpowder, musket.
However, the things thrown away by the Spanish soldiers became accelerants, and the fire had slowed down a lot. Suddenly, the gunpowder exploded, causing a huge fire. What's more terrible is that the wind direction at this time happened to be blowing in the direction of the fire.
On the Spanish side! The marine climate characteristics of Luzon Island determine that there is more wind blowing from the direction of the ocean, so huge flames suddenly rose dozens of meters high among the trees, and the flames licked the trees of the tropical broad-leaved forest.
They ignited huge fireballs from the treetops on the ground and rushed towards the fleeing Spaniards and indigenous people, attacking them from above and below.
The fleeing Spanish soldiers and indigenous auxiliaries were surrounded by fire again and again. They rushed out of the sea of fire again and again, and were engulfed by the flames. The fire was overwhelming and drowned everything. By the time they rushed out of the sea of fire again, their number had been reduced.
A lot.
The poor Spanish forward troops, together with a total of 250 indigenous auxiliary troops, were swallowed up by the fire within a minute. Only a dozen people could escape from the flames again. Except for Lieutenant Galina, who stepped on his own soldiers and escaped,
Brother Flores, who had narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Chinese several times, actually escaped again. The executioner of the massacre of Chinese people in Maquina Manor was so battered that his black robe had been burned and thrown away. The monk jumped in almost naked.
He fell into a small pond and was blessed by God to escape the disaster.
This fire suddenly caused a wildfire within dozens of miles, and also cleared the way forward for the Chinese fleeing team. When Yin Feng and others set out on the road on the still-hot black scorched earth, there was no path ahead.
With the thatch that can hide the enemy, everyone's field of vision is much wider, and the indigenous people who follow them everywhere have also disappeared completely. In the distance in front, back, left, and right of them, black smoke is rising everywhere, and unburned firewood is everywhere.
The trees continued to burst into flames.
Everyone looked at Yin Feng with a sense of awe. Everything about the fire attack plan was planned and supervised by Yin Feng. This was entirely due to the forest fire incident he had interviewed the year after he graduated.
: There was a fire in the forest around a reservoir, and only the people on the island in the center of the reservoir were able to escape. So he chose this swamp that was large enough and played a game of burning red cliffs. If the water area is not large enough, if the edge of the swamp is not
The low thatch was easily burned up by the fire immediately, and this kind of game could kill Yin Feng himself: he would either suffocate due to lack of oxygen in the fire, or be scalded to death in the water that was turned into boiling water by the fire.
The brothers in the pirate gang, as well as the refugees who fled with them, privately compared Yin Feng's feat of burning the indigenous people with Zhuge Liang's burning of the vine-armed soldiers. Now, everyone does not know that this fire also almost destroyed an entire Spanish army.
All destroyed.
However, the fire also affected other fleeing Chinese refugees. Many scattered refugees died in the wildfire near the place where the Spaniards were buried. Other Chinese saw the spread of the wildfire from a distance and changed their escape route, heading further south.
Detour to San Pablo. As a result, groups of Chinese happened to encounter Captain Velasco's troops.
Captain Velasco also set a fire and burned thousands of overseas Chinese to death. Now, Yin Feng unintentionally returned the favor.
The Spanish army in the direction of San Pablo was making reinforcements in the direction of Dalun Mountain and Badanyan. As a result, they encountered several Chinese teams head-on in the afternoon of that day, among dense forests and grass, between villages and roads, rivers and swamps.
They constantly fought with the Chinese who were desperately moving forward. The musket shooting was completely unable to stop the Chinese who suddenly broke out from the dense forest and grass at close range. The battles were usually small-scale fierce hand-to-hand combat, because things were unexpected, Velasco
The captain had no time to command the troops to spread out and fire with volleys of guns. Even so, due to the gap in weapons and equipment, the Chinese insurgents could only disrupt the march of the Spanish troops. They were not fully armed and well-organized in hand-to-hand combat.
The opponents of the Spanish soldiers. However, the desperate efforts of the Chinese still threw the Spanish army into chaos.
Captain Velasco was very puzzled, why were these Chinese so desperate to hit the sword of his troops? When he saw the thick smoke and flames rising higher and higher in front of him, he suddenly understood everything and turned around
The Arabian horse he was riding on loudly ordered the troops to turn around and retreat.
Then a strange phenomenon appeared. The pursuer and the pursued ran side by side, both running as fast as they could. The Spanish soldiers, because they were fully armed and wearing armor, gradually fell behind the overseas Chinese they were chasing. The laggards
They were surrounded and devoured by the rapidly spreading wildfires. The more clever Spanish soldiers abandoned all their equipment, ran quickly with their physical strength, and began to overtake the Chinese again.
The weird race stopped only after crossing a swamp; the power of the fire was blocked by the water flow, but Captain Velasco found that his troops were completely scattered and would be unable to gather them for a while; and those Chinese
They have already fled southward over the mountains and plains.
Yin Feng had no idea that his own fire had caused the largest fire in history in the entire southwest of Luzon. It was helpless. Dozens of fires were lit at the same time in an area of 1 square kilometer, and the spread was not large.
That's a rare thing.
When Captain Velasco was busy gathering troops, he unexpectedly encountered Captain Gallinado and Brother Flores, who had escaped from death. From their mouths, he learned about the cause of the wildfire that spread over dozens of square kilometers.
: Unless man-made, it is impossible for a fire to spread so fast.
A heavy rain came unexpectedly in the afternoon, finally curbing the fire's unbridled spread.
In the evening, the two Spanish pursuit forces: Velasco's San Pablo detachment and Captain Biragon's main army, finally met on a charred land that was still smoking. As the forward troops
Suffering heavy losses, the officers discussed and decided to camp where they were and sent messengers to the city of Manila for help.
At the same time, before dark, the escape team of Yin Feng and others also approached the north pass of Dalun Mountain. This pass is now controlled by the Spanish. The last time Coutre scouted the retreat route, the furthest point was the swamp.
So I don't know the terrain here either.
The guide who led the way was a pirate gang brother who used to do hawker business in this area. By asking the guide, Yin Feng found out that the East Pass was only separated by a mountain from the mountain path that Yin Feng used to cross to Manila. As long as they broke through this pass, everyone would be able to
You can go over mountains and ridges to reach Badanyan Beach.
Several of the boldest pirate gang brothers and Lin Xiao secretly approached the mountain pass in the thatch. Although the Spaniards here saw the forest fire at noon, they did not know that it was a man-made fire, nor did they know that it was a man-made fire.
The friendly forces suffered heavy losses, and they did not expect the Chinese to arrive so soon. They lit torches everywhere in the camp and were having a dinner party on the game they had obtained from hunting in the mountains during the day. The scent of the game wafted to Lin Xiao's nose. Through observation
, Lin Xiao and others finally figured out the situation of the other party: there were more than 40 Spanish colonial militiamen guarding behind a wooden fence at the mountain pass, and there were also more than 100 Tagalog indigenous auxiliary soldiers.
After half a day of forced marching and several days of long journeys, after the threats from the pursuers behind and surrounding sneak attackers were temporarily eliminated, the fleeing people were all exhausted and fell down from all-round physical and mental fatigue. Lin
When Xiao and others returned, many people did not even eat solid food and had fallen asleep on the roadside.
Lin Xiao and others reported the reconnaissance results to Yin Feng. Yin Feng stood up and said to Colonel Kutre, Lu Shitou, An Heping and others: "Night attack! We capture the mountain pass before dawn, so that we can
We will arrive at Badyan Beach within a day. Everyone, you..."
Yin Feng found that all the leaders were looking at each other with confused expressions.
Lu Shitou couldn't help but yawned, and then pointed around: "Brother, everyone couldn't sleep all night last night, and today we fought for a long time and drove for a long time. Look at everyone, they are all exhausted.
Now, where else can we go for a night attack?"
Colonel Coutre said in blunt Chinese: "Sir, I understand your urgency, but in my opinion, these soldiers cannot fight without rest. After we came out of Balian, basically no one can Have a good sleep."
Yin Feng kicked the ground under his feet anxiously, lowered his head and said for a moment: "Everyone, don't forget that the Rats are chasing us. If we don't take advantage of the enemy's lax defense to seize the mountain pass tonight, there will definitely be a fierce battle tomorrow!" He said He raised his head and saw a pair of bloodshot eyes with sunken eye sockets on his dirt-covered face. In fact, he was more tired than anyone else these days. He was liaising with everyone, running back and forth in the team to maintain order, and personally arranging all the details of the fire attack. There are too many things to worry about. Yin Feng's ability to persevere is due to the good physical strength and endurance brought to him by four years of judo training in college before he time traveled.
Yin Feng looked at Lin Xiao and asked, "How are the brothers on Xinxinghao?"
Lin Xiao replied: "Our brother is okay. He hasn't slept well for several days and is a little exhausted. He just needs a good sleep."
Lu Shitou sighed: "Brother Yin, let everyone get some sleep. If you don't take a rest, everyone will collapse."
Yin Feng looked around. Under the dim moonlight, on the scorched land and on the wet river bank, there were refugees sleeping soundly everywhere; some were lying on the ground undressed, or sleeping cuddled up against each other. The people in the team Several flatbed trucks were also full of people. On the one occupied by the Zeng family, only Li Lihua's pretty and graceful figure was sitting beside the car, looking towards him. The rest of the people were asleep.
Yin Feng avoided Li Lihua's gaze, sighed, and said to everyone: "Forget it, let everyone get some sleep." He casually called Lin Xiao's cousin: "Brother Guangze, have you sent someone to guard the back? "
Lin Xiao was not a careful person, even though the Sailor Musketeers were under his command. He was a little dazed for a moment, but fortunately Coutre spoke: "Don't worry, captain, I have sent Mai Xiaoliu and others to guard the back."
Yin Feng shook his head: "Guangzhuang, go to the back and replace Xiaoliuzi and the others. Don't neglect to send a guard post next time."
He said to Lu Shitou and others: "Everyone should go to sleep. Before dawn tomorrow, we still have to make a sneak attack!"