When the Japanese who had narrowly escaped death ran towards the military camp, they met the artillery team led by Captain Biragon, as well as hundreds of Pampanga spearmen and 50 Spanish musketeers. They originally wanted to take the
When the Japanese and Chinese were fighting, they took the opportunity to enter the mountain pass to participate in the attack. First, artillery bombarded the hillside parapet fortifications indiscriminately, and then used musketeers to cover the attack of the indigenous spearmen.
However, the Japanese were defeated too quickly. The reinforcements were still halfway through, but they already saw the Japanese fleeing back in embarrassment. Captain Billagon was furious, and he grabbed a few lost ronin and asked them, which made him even more angry.
Rushing to the top, he drew his sword and stabbed a ronin to death, urging the troops to move forward faster. However, Captain Velasco persuaded him to stop the attack, because the Chinese would definitely have high morale after the victory, and it was still half a league from here to the mountain pass.
, the Chinese had time to retreat behind the fortifications and prepare to fight.
"We'd better wait for Major Azquita's troops to arrive. At that time, we can gather more than 1,000 indigenous soldiers to attack the mountain pass, and we can also divide our troops to surround the physiological musketeers through other paths." Captain Velasco was unwilling.
The pure Spanish troops he brought suffered losses, but it was impossible to organize the indigenous soldiers to attack in a short period of time: because the repeated offensive failures had demoralized the indigenous soldiers, most of the indigenous soldiers in the Spanish troops outside the mountain pass now
I am already intimidated by this mountain pass.
"Okay. All we have to do is wait for Major Azquita's large force to arrive." Captain Billagon sighed helplessly. He also noticed the low morale of the indigenous soldiers around him.
At this moment, there was a loud thunder in the sky. Neither of the two combatants noticed that the sky above their heads had been clouded just now. Suddenly, strong winds blew, thunder bursts, and heavy rain poured down in an instant.
Even if they wanted to fight now, they couldn't do it. The Spaniards withdrew their troops back to the camp angrily and got into the tent to hide from the rain. Yin Feng and others were in a panic. There was no place to hide from the rain in the valley. Fortunately, the battlefield
Colonel Coutre, an experienced and thoughtful old mercenary, had already dug a hollow in the lee of the cliff and stored the gunpowder there so that the gunpowder would not get damp. But people had no choice but to huddle together.
Together, they held up a wooden shield or breastplate on their heads, which they used as rain gear to block the rain.
The heavy rain was not enough at once, and it continued from noon to evening, causing a small flood in the valley. The flood rushed down from the hillside and destroyed the central part of the earthen parapet. The turbid flood also brought countless vehicles with it.
The corpses of the war dead were piled up near the mountain pass.
In the evening, the heavy rain stopped, and Yin Feng and others were already in the state of drowned rats. However, they could not warm themselves by the fire and rest. They had to rush to repair the parapet fortifications first.
The heavy rain also made it difficult for the Chinese fleeing team to move in the mountains. After Lin Xiao and Lu Shitou led people into the mountains, the entire team has been moving very slowly. Since last night, there have been more and more attacks by indigenous people, and the lone Chinese have been
It will disappear if you are not careful.
When it rained heavily, the mountain roads became muddy and slippery, and flash floods washed away some sections of the roads, making it impossible to travel in many places. The Chinese had to set up camps with wooden piles on a hillside in the Dalun Mountains. Hunger made many people
He lay on the ground and didn't want to move. Only a few people in Yin Feng's team were able to eat horse meat yesterday, but they had very little dry food left. Other refugees who had gathered scattered had almost no food. People were trapped in a kind of
In such a desperate situation, I no longer even complain. People often hang themselves quietly on the trees on the mountain roadside. Others passing by can only silently put down their fellow villagers and companions, dig holes and bury them on the spot. Some people don’t want to escape at all.
They just sat on the ground and waited for death. They seemed to have no feeling about death.
The scattered refugees sat on the ground around the temporary camp, enduring the baptism of heavy rain. The team that Yin Feng had worked so hard to integrate also tended to fall apart. In order to grab a piece of dry flat land, the pirate gang and the peaceful Chinese Christians fought.
There was a quarrel. At this time, a group of local aborigines suddenly appeared and rushed into the camp to chop and kill. This forced everyone to unite and fight fiercely with this group of aborigines. Finally, the aborigines were driven back to the mountains.
In the end, everyone was so tired that they no longer had the energy to fight among themselves.
Not long after Zeng Jingshan entered the mountain last night, he was separated from the Zeng family, and no one could be found. Zeng Yue, who had injured his leg and was weak from exhaustion, fell into despair again. He watched people burying the people who had just been killed.
After killing the deceased, he took out a piece of cloth and said to the young man: "Ah Xiang! Please help me, hang it on the tree. I can't walk anymore, and I can't fight anymore. I don't want to die in the dirt."
I don’t want to die at the hands of a relative, nor do I want to die at the hands of a relative.”
Axiang, a young clerk, was newly recruited by the Zeng family in Balian this year and was also from Quanzhou. He hugged Zeng Yue's hand and burst into tears: "Shopkeeper, don't say such depressing words. You treat me badly, and I can't do that."
Leave you alone. Young Master Jingshan is missing now. If I leave you again, Young Master Yin will not let me go. I heard that our people have arrived at the Batangas beach and are building ships. Young Master Yin is so capable, he must
If you can hold the mountain pass and defeat those related people, don't worry, I will definitely be able to carry you out of this mountain."
Zeng Yue sighed, tried to stand up and said, "Well, Master Yin is our savior. He has defeated the Qianlu people many times. They won't dare to chase after him for a while."
Lin Xiao suddenly appeared next to Zeng Yue and shouted in a fuss: "Third Young Master, are you okay? Hey, um, um..."
Seeing the embarrassment on his face, Zeng Yue couldn't help but curiously asked: "What's going on? What's wrong with Brother Lin?"
Lin Xiao said dejectedly: "Uncle Li Dan's sister is missing. She can't be found anywhere, and she is not among the people beaten to death by the natives. If she has something good, Captain Yin will not let me go.
And I can’t help Uncle Li Dan!”
Zeng Yue thought for a while and suddenly smiled lightly: "It should be fine. I guess she went back to find Yin Feng."
Lin Xiao patted his head: "Oh my god, this aunt could have done this!" He quickly went to inquire about it, and sure enough, he found that the servants of the Li family were also missing. He was half relieved,
But now the indigenous people may attack the Chinese anytime and anywhere. Just in case, he organized more than ten strong men to go back with weapons after the rain stopped to find Li Lihua.
The heavy rain did not stop until the evening, and Li Lihua and more than a dozen servants walked back a short distance, so they had to find a forest in a mountain col and spend the night first.
That night, it was difficult for both Yin Feng and others at the mountain pass, as well as the large number of refugees in the mountains, to survive the night. In the second half of the night, heavy rain poured down again, causing many mountain roads to be washed away by floods. Li Lihua and others
When we walked out of the col early the next morning, the mountain road in front of us had changed beyond recognition. Although the sun quickly dried the wet ground, the terrain had changed because the surface vegetation had been washed away, and Li Lihua and others got lost.
The situation of Yin Feng and others was also very bad. The parapet that had just been piled up was once again washed away by the flood in the middle of the night. This time the flood also rushed to the cave where the gunpowder was stored. The remaining barrel and a half of gunpowder were scrapped due to flooding.
bucket.
This was a huge blow to Yin Feng's mountain guarding team. The musketeers could no longer shoot down the valley unscrupulously. This was the second day of guarding the mountain. The original plan was for everyone to persist until the evening before retreating into the mountain. However, this morning,
, a large force composed of Spanish, Japanese, and a large number of Pampanga spearmen led by Major Azquita, as well as indigenous coolies transporting artillery, food and equipment, rushed to the mountain pass.
The Chinese soldiers at the mountain pass faced the most severe test. Starting from noon, the Spanish army began to attack in turns. A large number of indigenous soldiers took the lead, ignoring the bows and arrows on the cliff above their heads, and the continuous fire from the musketeers, and continued to attack the parapet defense line. By
The musketeer reserve team composed of the Tseng family members and Chinese Christians also had to go into battle. Chen Zhongji led them to block the enemy on the hillside on the right. Because the hillside on the right was relatively gentle, many indigenous soldiers attacked the Chinese positions from that direction. At this time,
, the fifty-step open space behind the wooden fence has long been covered with corpses. Most of the corpses piled up at the mountain pass were cleared away by Japanese and indigenous coolies who braved arrow attacks. In the process, the Japanese and indigenous people also
More than ten corpses were added to the corpse pile.
The battle was unprecedentedly fierce. In the front, the indigenous soldiers repeatedly attacked the breastworks, climbed up through the water-filled pits, and then were knocked down by musket bullets, spears, bamboo spears, swords, etc. The morale of many indigenous soldiers collapsed, and they turned around and ran away.
As a result, they were shot dead by Spanish musketeers who had just entered the mountain pass. The Spaniards finally went into battle. They deployed a small group of Spaniards in the direction of the mountain pass, using heavy matchlocks-Moustaq guns, to shoot at them outside the range of the Chinese muskets, suppressing them.
At the same time, a group of Spanish musketeers dealt with the Chinese archers on the cliff, and then the Spanish pushed the cannon into the mountain pass.
Yin Feng saw the Spanish cannon and knew something was wrong. At this time, he just discovered that in the musket reserve team, a Zeng family boy showed his talent as a sharpshooter and fired 6 shots in a row with his flintlock rifle.
The bullets did not miss. And this guy from the Tseng family was actually shooting for the second time.
"Your name is Luo Aquan, right? Have you seen the cannon over there? Can it hit the people over there?"
"That has to be two hundred steps away. Can our gun shoot that far?"
"Let's try it!" Now this is all I can do.
However, the round lead bullets of muskets during this period were far inferior to the rifled bullets of later generations. The ballistics of metal fixed bullets were stable and fast. It was really hard to use them as a sniper rifle. Several bullets fired by Luo Aquan were flying in the valley.
Not a single shot touched the Spanish cannon or its gunner.
When the roar of cannons resounded throughout the valley, Yin Feng knew: they wouldn't be able to hold on until night.
The Chinese spearmen had a tacit understanding of the formation battle that had just begun. Regardless of the fatigue of not being able to sleep all night, they fought continuously for two hours from noon, firmly holding the parapet fortifications, and countless Pampanga indigenous soldiers died in front of them.
Under the assassination, the musketeers resisted the enemy's flying arrows and persisted in shooting the enemy in strict formation, driving back the Spanish army time and time again.
"Boom! Boom!"
The shotguns knocked down large swaths of people in front and behind the fortifications without distinguishing friend or foe.
"Boom!"
Two spherical metal cannonballs hit two lanes of blood and flesh in the array of Chinese spears.
Yin Feng's sailor musketeers suffered the largest casualties since landing, with 5 people killed on the spot and 8 injured. He himself was also injured by shotgun bullets on his shoulder and left palm, but he knew very well that at this time, he must
Withstand the attack, otherwise few of the Chinese fighting here will be able to leave alive. Only by repelling the Spanish attack can I and these brothers safely evacuate and enter the mountains.