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  Chapter 503 500 [surrounded until death]

   "What? The Chinese have already attacked the city!" Peter couldn't believe it.

   "Yes, they have entered the city."

  Peter rode to the Datong army camp and found that it was empty, only a few logistics personnel were left guarding the supplies.

  Even the indigenous warriors brought by the Datong Army had entered the city. Fortunately, there are these indigenous allies, otherwise it would be difficult to quickly occupy such a huge city, after all, they would have to divide their troops to fight.

  As for the discipline of the native soldiers, it can only be said that they should be restrained as much as possible.

  Anyway, the city is full of executioners who slaughtered Chinese, and villains who have long exploited and oppressed Chinese and indigenous people. The indigenous warriors are willing to fight with them. One is that the Chinese army gives gifts, the other is that the Chinese army provides food, and the third is that these aboriginals want to take revenge.

   Blindly suppressing is not the answer, the native soldiers must be vented, burning, killing and looting is a normal behavior.

  Peter was like a dream. He huddled in the barracks to avoid the typhoon, and then the city of Manila was captured by friendly forces.

  What the hell?

   "Follow me into town!"

  Peter took the Dutch army and native soldiers and ran towards the city frantically. They were also going to plunder the city. If they didn't run faster, the property of the Spaniards in the city would be robbed by the natives brought by the Datong army.

  The city has fallen into complete chaos, and the streets that have not yet retreated are flooded, and corpses can be seen everywhere.

  Wang Hui only assigns tasks to the indigenous warriors, ordering which ones to occupy which area, regardless of what they do after they occupy it. There are even headhunters who cut off the heads of Spaniards as trophies. It is estimated that they will take them back to make decorations, or as dowries to marry their favorite women.

  Peter waded through the stagnant water to search everywhere, and found that all parts of the city were occupied, and he couldn't find a place to rob.

  So, the native soldiers brought by China and the native soldiers brought by the Netherlands fought over the goods. A large-scale fighting broke out between the two sides, involving more and more native soldiers, and eventually caused more than 2,000 casualties—this is the biggest loss for the Chinese and Dutch armies since the war began!

   But it doesn't matter, the dead are all native soldiers, and they will settle the dispute by themselves.

   "Boom!"

  The weather was only sunny for half a day and midnight, and at some point in the evening, it suddenly started to rain again.

  It continued to fall until noon the next day, when the rain finally eased, and then came the venomous sun, which could make people in the house flustered.

   "How many people are left without getting sick?" Wang Hui asked.

  The military medical officer replied: "More than 1,600 people."

  A total of 3,500 expeditionary troops, only more than 1,600 people are not sick. Moreover, the symptoms of the disease are varied, and many people's diseases cannot be diagnosed, and the military doctors can only judge them as "acclimatized."

  Wang Hui called the herald: "Let the native soldiers collect the corpses in the city, dig holes and bury them all, so as not to cause a plague."

  I couldn’t even burn it, because I couldn’t find so much dry firewood, and the dry firewood piled up in the house was severely damp.

   I found it troublesome to start a fire. Those Dutch soldiers all drank raw water directly.

  Only the Datong Army has strict military discipline, no matter how difficult it is to start a fire, they must drink boiled water—the two days of the typhoon, the Datong Army that invaded the city could only drink raw water on the spot, and as a result, a lot of sick people came out after the war.

  The fleets of China, the Netherlands, Brunei, and Sulu are all hiding in ports in Manila Bay.

  After the typhoon passed, they only dared to patrol the offshore area, for fear of encountering another storm after going out to sea. The Spanish fleet also did not dare to come over, and both sides waited for a while before engaging in naval battles.

  Besides, each of them is busy repairing the ship, so it is inevitable that they will be damaged while hiding in the port.

   For the next half month, no one moved.

  Inside the castle, there were a few Spanish officials and about 280 Spanish soldiers. There are also hundreds of Japanese mercenaries, as well as the remaining Pampanga native soldiers.

  Spanish Governor Coquera personally inspects every day.

  The more it rained, the more frightened he was. He was afraid that the Chinese army would attack the castle in the rain, and the rain would make the army more vigilant.

   "No more fights?" Tie Hong asked.

"No more fighting," Wang Hui said, shaking his head. "Anyway, the city has been occupied, and there is only one castle left. There is no need to increase casualties. After a while, bring the soldiers' families and make their homes in this city. Move some more Farmers, cultivate around the city. Before that, we built fortifications around the castle, surrounded the castle, and beat anyone who dared to come out. Starve these red-haired ghosts to death! He has a year's food, so we will surround it for a year !"

  There are also sunny days in the rainy season.

   Once the weather is sunny, the Datong Army will command the native soldiers to push the dirt into the city with a cart. Around the castle, outside the moat, built fortifications against artillery fire.

  In addition, all bridge passages on the moat were blocked by native soldiers.

   If the Spanish defenders want to fight out, they have to row across the river, and remove the obstacles before walking from the bridge.

  Fort Santiago is extremely strong, with walls as thick as ten meters.

  Wang Hui didn't even bother to use artillery to attack the city, because the castle fortress was condescending and protected by stone walls, so it had an artillery advantage in defense.

  Governor Coquella stood on the castle turret, looking around at the enemy fortifications that were taking shape day by day, and he had absolutely nothing to do about it. Fort Santiago in Manila, called the "Holy Land of Freedom" by the colonists, is now a prison that restricts his freedom.

   This castle was surrounded more than once.

  Basically, after three to five months of delay, the enemy troops will automatically withdraw. Because neither the natives of Luzon nor the Sulu Sultanate could support the food supply for the army to besiege the city for half a year.

  And after Manila City is repaired, the enemy can't even attack Manila City, let alone enter the city to surround the castle.

   But this time it's troublesome.

  China is not a native of Luzon, nor is it a small Sulu country. Food distribution is no problem at all, and the defenders in the castle can be surrounded to starve to death!

   "I just said not to massacre Tang people!"

Governor Saunders was roaring and complaining again: "Killing those Tang people, what can we get besides looting property? The barber is gone, the shoemaker is gone, and the **** is not taken away. It's all right now. , The emperor of China sent troops, they surrounded the castle and did not leave, can our food last for half a year?"

   "Of course, there is grain in the cellar, and there is also grain in the warehouse," Coquella turned around and asked, "Don't tell me you didn't get a share of the goods looted by the slaughter of the Tang people? Not only did you share, but it was a lot."

   Sanders asked: "So how do you say you should deal with the dilemma?"

   Coquila was silent.

  It is impossible to send reinforcements in Spain, and it is impossible to send reinforcements in the Americas.

  The Thirty Years War has not yet ended. In Europe, Spain is fighting with the Netherlands, France and other alliances at the same time. It is also very weak in the Americas. A big defeat last year caused the trade of galleons to be cut off for a short time. It is the ultimate to be able to restore the Pacific waterway.

   Not only that, Spain has operated the southern Philippine archipelago for decades. Although they have built a large number of cities, ports, forts and beacon towers along the coast, their power can only be maintained in the coastal area.

  In the southern archipelago of the Philippines, there are a large number of indigenous people who believe in religion, and their spiritual leader is Sulu Sultan.

  Don't look at the nobles of the Sulu Kingdom lying flat, but these religious bottom-level indigenous people are revolting year after year. It was precisely because of the resistance of the natives that the strength of Spain was diluted, and only 300 Spanish soldiers were stationed in Manila.

   What Corquila was more worried about was the Japanese mercenaries in the castle!

   These Japanese ronin will be besieged for another month, will they rebel and surrender?

  …

  The mountains northeast of Manila.

  The Han refugees who fled into the mountains, there are only more than 2,200 people left at this time. Those who have survived hunger, war, illness and the rainy season have basically adapted to the environment.

  In the past six months, they destroyed three Spanish plantations and defeated the natives of Pampanga Mountain once. Moreover, they formed a temporary combat alliance with a friendly Pampanga indigenous tribe.

  Pampanga people are not all Spanish lackeys. The further they go into the mountains, the less they will obey Spanish rule.

  One day, the rain stopped.

  Pangbangya aborigines came to the Han Chinese settlement, talking about something.

   Immediately, a refugee who was a businessman shouted excitedly: "Your Majesty has sent troops, and they have already attacked Manila and are surrounding the red-haired ghost's castle!"

  As soon as this remark was made, there was silence everywhere, and everyone couldn't believe it.

   Wan Zhaoan bowed to the north: "His Majesty the Emperor of Datong, long live long live long live!"

  The other refugees reacted, and they all knelt down, weeping and crying: "Long live your majesty, long live your majesty!"

   Shouting and kneeling for a long time, Lin Lang suddenly said: "Let's go out of the mountain and go to Manila to find His Majesty's army."

   "Why don't we go after the rainy season?" the scholar Lei Lisheng said.

   "How can we wait? It's not easy in this forest, how many people have died of illness!" Chen Yigui immediately objected.

  Lei Lisheng said: "Listen to Marshal Wan."

Wan Zhao'an thought for a long time: "Manila's castle is not easy to attack, and we can't help if we go there. The miasma in this mountain forest is very bad, and it's not a place to stay for a long time. It's better to attack the manor of the red-haired ghost. You can get food, I can find a good place to live. Manila is surrounded by the Datong army, no matter how we attack the manor, there will be no army of red-haired ghosts to rescue."

"right!"

  Lin Lang gritted his teeth and said: "Our property has been robbed, and we will be poor when we go back to Manila. Why don't we go to the red-haired ghost's manor, and we will rob his mother back as much as we have lost!"

  Wan Zhaoan smiled and said to everyone: "Those who are willing to stay and become landlords, after we break through the red-haired ghost's farm, we will allocate land to cultivate ourselves. Those are cultivated land, and the crops will definitely have a good harvest."

  Chen Yigui smiled and said, "It's not just a good harvest. If rice is grown, it can be grown three times a year."

Wan Zhaoan clapped his hands and said, "Then we specialize in the red-haired ghost's manor, and the land that we land will be distributed uniformly. In order to prevent people from favoritism, we will divide the land by lot every time. The more land we occupy, the more we will share." When the time comes, take it to the Datong Army to settle down and report, from now on we will all be big landlords!"

   "Okay, be a landlord in Luzon!"

   "I still have to learn from the red-haired ghosts and catch some barbarians to be tenants."

   "That's not a tenant, that's a serf."

   "It doesn't matter whether he is a tenant or a serf, anyway, the native barbarians have to help farm the land, otherwise there is too much land, where can we grow it?"

   "Send troops, send troops!"

  (end of this chapter)