On February 23, company commander Zhang Yu commanded his company to advance on Mindanao. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Mindanao is a large island south of Luzon Island, which was later part of the Philippine State and is the fourteenth largest island in the world. Unlike the weak indigenous people of northern Luzon, the inhabitants of Mindanao are Muslim. Compared to the indigenous people of Luzon, the inhabitants of Mindanao are more formidable.

In the original history, Spain colonized the Philippines for more than 200 years and never went south to conquer the Muslims in the south. After the United States defeated Spain and occupied the Philippines, the Americans gradually occupied the plains of Mindanao.

In the twenty-three years of Chongzhen, the productivity of these Muslims was still at a very low level.

In fact, the Muslims of Mindanao did not even form a state. On the island of Mindanao, which is more than 90,000 square kilometers away from a province of Zhejiang, Muslims are all entrenched in the form of tribes, and no single tribe has the influence to control the entire island.

There are more than 30 languages spoken throughout Mindanao, and even basic communication between tribes is not possible.

Since Li Zhi had conquered Luzon and the small islands around Luzon, it was natural for him to attack Mindanao in the south. Although the indigenous Muslims were more combative than the indigenous people of Luzon, since the American colonists, with a small population in the nineteenth century, were able to occupy the plains of Mindanao, Li Zhi was prepared to concoct it according to the law.

Li Zhi did not think that these Muslim natives could stop the Jinwang breech-loading rifle - Li Zhi's army was now equipped with more than 10,000 Jinwang-style breech-loading rifles. The 8,000 soldiers who invaded Mindanao all used this new weapon, and their firepower was amazing.

Zhang Yu looked at the surrounding coconut grove and felt that the vision was okay.

The islands of the Philippines are tropical and receive abundant rainfall. The island is full of coconut palms. The gaps between the trunks of these coconut trees are large enough to provide space for rifle fire. Zhang Yu estimated a little, and felt that the rifle could kill and injure the enemy sixty or seventy meters away in the gap between the coconut trees.

After walking two more miles, it was already ten miles away from the campsite, Zhang Yu heard footsteps in front of him, and waved his hand to stop the company.

Two scouts ran out of the coconut grove.

"Company commander, there seems to be a village ahead, it seems to be a hunting village."

Like the indigenous people of Luzon, the Muslims of Mindanao are still largely in the fishing and hunting phase. Even if there is an occasional village that knows how to plant, it is only slash-and-burn, scattering seeds in the scorched woods and waiting for the harvest.

Such productivity could not support a large population, and the population of the Philippine islands in this era was very sparse. Zhang Yu walked ten miles today, and only found this one village.

Zhang Yu thought for a moment and said, "Everyone load their bullets and prepare to enter the village to declare sovereignty. ”

Li Zhi was not prepared to carry out massacres against backward indigenous Filipinos, and his policy toward Mindanao was the same as that of Luzon: using immigrants to gradually turn the island into an economy dominated by Han Chinese farmers. The Han Chinese then took advantage of their numerical superiority and gradually assimilated the local natives with the caste system.

Han Chinese men wield thousands of years of productivity, and at the same time have privileges in the policy system, and there is no doubt that indigenous women will gradually marry Han Chinese men as wives and concubines. In this way, the blood of the Han people will gradually assimilate the local aborigines, replacing the local indigenous blood from the patrilineal line.

In the process, both indigenous men and women will get a much better life than they used to be. It's just that indigenous men will lose their right to marry because their economic strength is not as good as that of the Han Chinese, and they will gradually cut off their bloodline.

It is a peaceful alternative process, the most reasonable colonization, and Li Zhi hopes to minimize the bloodshed and sacrifice of this process.

However, the poultry is still sleepy, and it is impossible to be completely immortal in this colonization process.

Zhang Yuzheng led the company to the village, but saw the indigenous men in the village rushing towards the coconut grove.

Muslims of Malay descent wrapped their heads in sackcloth, dressed in tattered sackcloth, and holding scimitars in their hands, were about to come up and fight the Tiger Army.

It seems that there are hundreds of indigenous people.

Zhang Yu asked the scouts loudly, "Why did they rush up with knives?" ”

The scout looked ignorant and replied loudly: "I don't know, company commander, these backs can't be measured by common sense." ”

Zhang Yu frowned, and scolded coldly: "I don't know whether the natives are alive or dead!" ”

"Everyone is ready to fight!"

The soldiers raised their rifles and aimed them at the Muslim natives who were getting closer.

In fact, at a distance of sixty or seventy meters it is possible to shoot. But Zhang Yu squinted his eyes and did not give the order to shoot until the natives rushed to a distance of thirty meters.

"Fire!"

"Bang bang bang!"

A flash of fire flickered, and the muzzles of one hundred and twenty-six Zimon rifles spat sparks, firing bullets towards the Muslims of Mindanao. With such a close distance, the soldiers had an extremely high hit rate, and they immediately brought down all the sixty or seventy Muslims in the front row.

The screams of the Muslims who were shot but not killed made the otherwise quiet coconut grove look a little hideous in an instant.

Where have Muslims seen such fire? Half of them were killed at once, and all of them fell into great horror and were dumbfounded.

Frightened by the power of metal and gunpowder, the natives soon began to flee.

However, since Zhang Yu put them within thirty meters before shooting, he was not prepared to let them escape. The Muslims fled only twenty meters behind them, and the Tiger Ben GIs, who were using rear-loading guns, had reloaded their ammunition and started the second shot.

"Bang bang bang!"

This time, almost all of the natives who were still alive fell under the guns.

Only seven Malays escaped the bullets in the shelter of coconut tree trunks and fled into the distance.

Zhang Yu chased after the soldiers, and the soldiers rushed forward while loading the rifles, and ran more than 30 meters to complete the loading.

"Smack!"

"Smack!"

"Smack!"

A flurry of gunfire swept through, and the last seven natives fell under the guns, all killed.

Zhang Yu sneered, waved his hand and said, "Enter the village!" ”

After walking two miles ahead, Zhang Yu's company entered the indigenous village.

The dilapidated thatched huts in a circle are all indigenous village buildings. There is a small open space in the middle of the thatched house, and there is a two-story wooden house in the clearing, which seems to be the place where the aborigines usually study the scriptures and pray.

The adult men in the village had just been killed by Zhang Yu, and at this time, there were only frightened women and children in the huts.

Zhang Yu ignored the women and children, but walked into the wooden house and walked to the platform on the second floor to take a look.

From the platform, the nearby land is flat.

"There is a lot of rain here, and the coconut trees are cut down, and it will be our Han-Epitek rice fields in the future. This sunny island of Mindanao can accommodate four million Han Chinese farming, to say the least. ”

Zhang Yu's personal guard asked, "These natives all believe in Islam, what should I do?" ”

Zhang Yu smiled and said, "The prince has already taken a countermeasure. We help them build a Taoist temple and let them all worship our Sanqing. They were our tenant farmers who could eat big and not have to go hungry, and after five years, they forgot Islam. ”