Chapter 1041: The Zheng Family in Luzon
Zheng Sen regrouped and entered the Manila Castle, as if in a dream.
At the previous moment, the large camp was broken by the Franco's army, and the 3,000 Chinese troops who were killed fled in embarrassment. At the next moment, Chen Yonghua led the fleet of divine soldiers to go ashore directly outside the Manila Castle, waiting for the defeated Francophone army.
More than 500 franc soldiers were shot in the first round, and when the rest fled in embarrassment, most of them were shot by Chen Hui with the army.
More than 2,000 Zheng troops rushed into the Manila castle after the Francophone rout, and the 200 Francophone defenders in the castle simply disarmed and surrendered.
There was no way to surrender, and most of the attacking army was killed by the Ming people, and only 200 people in the city were unable to defend the castle of Nuoda. The Ming army numbered as many as 20,000 or 30,000, and there were elite musketeers and hundreds of cannons on the sea.
The biggest difference between the Western army and the Eastern army is that they will voluntarily surrender when they know that they will be defeated, while it is rare for the Eastern army to fight to the death and not surrender. In God's eyes, life is precious and should not be left to die worthlessly.
After capturing the city of Manila and interrogating the surrendered Francophiles in the city, Zheng Sen learned that more than a dozen Francophiles had escaped from the city before the siege, saying that they had gone to mobilize the indigenous army of the Philippines.
"Lord Chief, please don't let go of these damn Luzon natives." Manila's local Ming immigration leader Lin Fangbo said to Zheng Sen.
Next, Lin Fangbo told Zheng Sen about the three massacres of the Ming people in Manila over the past few decades. In the thirty-first year of Wanli, 23,000 Ming people were slaughtered; In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, because of the protest against the heavy tax imposed by the Franc Machine, the Franc Machine raised the butcher's knife against the Ming people again, and more than 50,000 Chinese merchants were killed on Luzon Island......
"With the army on the island, it is impossible for the army on the island to kill so many of us. Every time, the Franco-Rang people are instigating the natives of Luzon, as well as the Japanese people, using the wealth that our Ming people have worked hard to accumulate as bait, and gathering more than 100,000 natives to raise butcher knives against our Ming people.
These Luzon monkeys are lazy and lazy on weekdays, but they are jealous of our Ming people's intelligence and ability.
Lord Commander, you must avenge your compatriots who have been killed in vain, and you must not be soft on these indigenous monkeys. Tens of thousands of Ming immigrants on Luzon Island are willing to donate food and help to the army, and I only hope that you can avenge our blood and revenge! Lin Fangbo said, tears streaming down his eyes.
"Why did you leave your homeland and come here, given that the Francos and the natives of Luzon had killed you several times?" Chen Yonghua, who was on the side, was filled with righteous indignation when he heard it, and he hated that iron could not become steel.
"Alas!" Lin Fangbo lowered his head in shame and didn't try to explain.
Zheng Sen explained: "Chen joins the army, you don't know, most of the people who go to Daguan Luzon are the people of our coastal provinces such as Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other coastal provinces in Fujian. Our seven mountains, two rivers and one field in Fujian, even those fields are extremely barren, and they are simply unable to support so many people. Therefore, for hundreds of years, countless Fujian people have left their homeland and gone overseas in order to make a living.
In Luzon, although enslaved by the Franco-man, there was a risk of being slaughtered and robbed. However, there is abundant rainfall, fertile land, and there is a great opportunity to do business with the Francois people, as long as you leave your hometown to work here for a few years, whether it is planting land or doing business, you can accumulate a few hundred taels of silver in a few years, and your life is far better than that of Daming. β
The Zheng family is a maritime family, Zheng Sen lived in the Wa Kingdom for several years when he was a child, and he knows the situation of these overseas Ming people best.
"Uncle Lin, don't worry, the debts owed by the Francois and the Luzon monkeys, we have to recover them one by one!" Zheng Sen said coldly, his tone contained a great murderous aura!
Zheng Sen immediately ordered the execution of all captured Franc soldiers and their bodies hanging on the head of Manila.
"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, the sins that the Franc machine people have done to our Ming people, we must let them repay them one by one today!" Zheng Sen said coldly.
"Pass the order, all the indigenous tribes of Luzon who participated in the massacre of the Ming people, and the tribal men will be killed!"
"General system is impossible!" Chen Yonghua hurriedly shouted, "As long as these tribes belong to us, there is no need to kill so many people." β
Chen Yonghua was born as a scholar and was deeply influenced by saints, and he couldn't bear to see such a thing happen.
"Needless to say, Chen joins the army, I have made up my mind!" Zheng Sen said angrily, "We have come to Luzon thousands of miles to occupy Luzon as ours, and with the development and growth of our power, sooner or later we will have to confront the local tribes in Luzon." Kill more people today, only by killing these monkeys can they know that our Ming people are not insulted, and they will be honest and obedient!
Only by killing more people can we occupy enough land to house the soldiers and civilians we brought, and only then can we have enough land to house more immigrants from the Ming Dynasty! β
Chen Yonghua sighed and said no more.
A few days later, Bishop Franco, Shalazar, gathered a dozen tribes, more than 50,000 native Luzon troops, and marched towards the city of Manila, hoping to defeat the Ming and retake Manila.
However, under the city of Manila, it was first heavily bombarded by hundreds of red-coated cannons of the Zheng army, and then fiercely attacked by 30,000 Zheng troops.
Under the attack of Zheng's army like a raging wind, the Luzon natives could not stabilize the front at all, and the killed Luohua Liushui was defeated and fled.
The Zheng army advanced by leaps and bounds, swept away more than a dozen indigenous tribes of Luzon in a row, uprooted more than 100 villages, killed tens of thousands of Luzon men, and occupied most of Luzon Island.
After the Spaniards lost Manila, there was only one territory left in the Luzon Islands, and there were more than 200 Spanish soldiers on the island, which was not a threat to Luzon at all.
Although the Spanish army on the island urgently sent a ship to Mexico in the New World to deliver the message, the tens of thousands of miles from Mexico to the Luzon Islands could only make a round trip once a year, and it would be at least a year before the Spanish rescue from Mexico came to the Luzon Islands.
The Spaniards, on the other hand, had far more interests in Mexico than Luzon, and faced competition from Portugal, the Netherlands, and even England in the New World.
All in all, after World War I, Zheng Sen successfully occupied Luzon Island, and in the following days, he used Luzon as his territory, actively attracting mainland immigrants to develop and colonize, and gradually encroaching on the territory of the indigenous Luzon people. Zheng Sen vigorously encouraged his subordinate men to take Luzon women as concubines, but strictly forbade Ming women to marry Luzon as wives.
At the same time, Zheng Sen also got in touch with his brother Tagawa Qizuo Guards in the Wa State to carry out trade between Luzon and the Wa State, and the power of the Zheng family in Luzon became more and more huge.
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