Now Wang Xinyu is in a dilemma: if the sailors who come ashore are allowed to support the boats on the river, then who will protect these people? But if the sailor is not allowed to support the boat, he is afraid that Wu Haodong will not be able to support it. His own sailor battalion is not afraid, 300 elites of 80 people, and it is not a problem at all to repel more than 10,000 natives, but it is a burden to bring the people strong. However, those natives also knew that persimmons were soft to pick, so they avoided the attacks of their ironclad soldiers and specifically charged at Minzhuang's side.

In fact, Wang Xinyu didn't know that the Banshiran tribe was a large tribal alliance, and this Banshiran chieftain was respected as the king by the local tribal chieftains, and was actually the king of Banshilan. Although the native kings of the indigenous people of Sulu primitive society on Luzon Island seem to be far from comparable to the Sulu sultan kings who have entered a slave society in Indonesia, since he can be called king, he still has a certain amount of wisdom.

The king of Banshilan knew very well that if he fought hard, his warriors would shed blood, and he would not be able to drive these Ming people away. So he and his tribal chiefs formulated a set of tactics: use the cover of the primeval forest to quietly approach those people who are not protected by iron armor, launch a surprise attack, and cause losses to the people as much as possible. At the same time, taking advantage of the fierce battle on the land on the river and at the mouth of the sea, they also launched a sneak attack at the same time, trying to destroy the Ming naval division in one fell swoop.

Wang Xinyu underestimated the enemy too much, underestimating the wisdom of the king of Banshilan, and as a result, he had to face the dilemma of whether to protect the people or protect the boat.

Fortunately, the large ships of the Ming army at the mouth of the sea were too strong, so that the besieging Sulu canoes suffered heavy losses, otherwise the losses would have been even greater.

It is precisely because of the wisdom of the native kings of these primitive tribes on Luzon that they were not trafficked like the black Africans, and exposed all the gold mines to the Westerners like the Indians. It's not that the Spaniards didn't know that there were gold mines on Luzon, but that they simply couldn't access the primeval forests to mine them. These local natives fought in the jungle, and they were their world. Spaniards who dared to go deep into the primeval forest were killed by hidden arrows from nowhere, stoned from trees, or trapped in traps and punctured into a hornet's nest. Moreover, the Spaniards did not have enough manpower to cut down the primeval forest, so they had to retreat to Manila and hold on to the fortress.

Of course, the Spaniards still have a very good way, on the one hand, they obtained gold and copper from the indigenous people of Sulu through trade, and on the other hand, they used the Chinese who went to the South Seas to pan for gold, let the Chinese go into the depths of the primeval forest to pan for gold, fight with the natives, and then obtain gold from the Chinese themselves. Later, the Chinese and the Spaniards had conflicts, and as a result, in 1592, 1603 and 1639, the Spaniards massacred the Chinese three times.

Most of the Chinese on Luzon Island are gathered near Manila. Later, Zheng Chenggong also knew about the massacre, so he had already planned to drive out the Spaniards on Luzon and include Luzon in the territory of the Ming Dynasty. So Wang Xinyu wants to go to Luzon to develop, and Zheng Chenggong is very supportive. He also hoped that Wang Xinyu could first lay a bridgehead on Luzon Island, and after recovering Taiwan, he would rush to declare war on the Spaniards.

In real history, because of Zheng Chenggong's death, the things that could have been "Zheng Chenggong recovering Luzon" came to naught.

Now, it is precisely because Wang Xinyu underestimated the IQ of the indigenous soil king that he suffered a small loss.

From time to time, arrows drilled into the crowd of people, and from time to time someone was hit by an arrow and fell to the ground with a scream.

Eight people have been shot in the vital position and died in pain, and more than 30 others have been injured. Of the sailors responsible for protecting Minzhuang, two were also killed and more than a dozen were wounded.

Wang Xinyu led 380 officers and soldiers of the Marine Battalion of the Sailor Division, like iron cans, to rush back and forth in the crowd of Sulu native soldiers, like a sharp steel knife, plowing out bloody paths. However, these Sulu people rushed up in batches as if they were not dying, avoiding the fire of the Marine Battalion as much as possible, and attacking the people who were surrounded by the sailors. Although only one officer and soldier of the Marine Battalion were seriously wounded and four were slightly wounded, and no one was killed, the number was too small to spread out, and it was difficult to protect every citizen.

On the surface of the river, the blood had already stained a large area of the river, but the canoes of the Sulu native soldiers rushed down the water in batches, and when they were about to rush to the front of the Ming army's boats, only a row of cannons was heard, and the canoes were reduced to pieces of wood.

But there were too many canoes of the natives, and some Sulu soldiers had approached the Ming boats.

A stone axe thrown by the natives flew in a whirlwind, but was blocked by a sailor with a shield, and the stone axe fell into the water, making a splash.

But more and more stone axes flew like rain, and the sailors of the Ming army were hit and fell into the river screaming.

"Kill!" Wu Haodong roared, picked up a log, and slammed it hard, and a canoe that was about to be attached was overturned, and the Sulu people who were throwing stone axes on it fell into the river like dumplings.

"Boom" a tiger squat cannon spewed fire, and a canoe in front of it was suddenly filled with scarlet blood mist, and all the Sulu soldiers on board fell into the river. However, another canoe approached, and more than a dozen stone axes flew over, and the gunner, who was cleaning the chamber, was hit in the shoulder and body, and the wooden armor on his body could not resist the stone axe he was holding, and the gunner screamed and fell into the cabin.

At this moment, the officers and men of the naval division on the shore turned their guns and fired a volley of bullets into the river with bird guns, causing the Sulu soldiers on the canoes to fall into the water.

The tiger squat cannon and the small cannon of the Franc machine on the shore also turned the muzzle of the cannon and fired the shotgun desperately, causing blood to splash on the surface of the river, and the shotgun fell on the water, and the scarlet river water seemed to be boiling, turning up small water columns.

However, the sailors and soldiers aimed their firepower at the river, and the firepower to protect the people was weak.

After all, Wang Xinyu's Marine Battalion could only protect a piece of land thirty meters wide and twenty meters thick, and even if the cavalry was added to kill them, it was impossible to completely block the natives who were not dying. Moreover, the horsepower of the cavalry will be tired, and after a few charges, it will be necessary to rest for a while. After all, Wang Xinyu is on an expedition across the sea, and it is impossible to have the luxury of one person and two horses, and the war horse that is rushing to kill is tired and needs to breathe.

The soldiers jumped off their horses, let the horses snort beside them, took their bows and arrows from their backs, and continued to shoot deadly feathered arrows at the Sulus.

Lin Furong saw with his own eyes that a Sulu soldier was beaten into a hornet's nest by the flintlock pistol of the Marine Battalion, and there were several feathered arrows hanging on his body, but he still threw a spear at himself.

The people screamed and dodged, and the spears were stuck in the grass by the river, and the shafts of the spears were still shaking.

"Kill! Let's kill it! So that the brothers of the water master can deal with the life in the river with peace of mind! Lin Furong yelled.

Encouraged by Lin Furong, the people took up arms one after another. Some people who were not wearing armor also put on paper armor, picked up axes, spears, wooden sticks and short knives from the ground, followed Lin Furong, and rushed towards the Sulu soldiers who screamed and pounced.

"Kill!" Lin Furong slashed over a Sulu soldier with an axe.

A few arrows came and stuck to the paper armor, but the arrows made of animal bones could not penetrate the paper armor, and Lin Furong had several arrows hanging on his body, still rushing to kill in the enemy group.

The men rushed towards the enemy group, which greatly reduced the pressure on the officers and men of the naval division on the shore, and they could concentrate on dealing with the Sulu people in the river.

"Kill!" Wang Xinyu drew his saber and pointed at the crowd of Sulu native soldiers.

The soldiers put their bows and arrows on their backs, jumped on their rested horses, and fought at the enemy group with their sabers in their hands.

Eighty horsemen rushed out, and wherever the horses went, blood was splashed, and the Sulu soldiers who had their heads cut off and their arms cut off fell screaming.

The long and short knife formations penetrated back and forth through the Sulu crowd like razors shaving off their hair, and pieces of Sulu native soldiers fell under their swords.

The Sulu soldiers, who had already suffered heavy casualties and were charging with all their courage, finally broke down and turned around and fled.

"Musketeers, turn around and head for the river!" Gong Xiaoda yelled.

A hundred flintlock musketeers turned around and reached the bank of the river in a neat formation, each aiming their guns at the canoes on the river.

"First row, put!"

A neat row of gunfire, and all the Sulu soldiers on a canoe were wiped out.

"Second row, put!"

Another soldier in a canoe fell on the side of the boat or fell into the river.

The musketeers opened fire one after another, and the platoon of gunners who had completed the fire retreated to the back, and another row of gunners who had already reloaded, and fired into the river continuously, and the gunfire did not stop for a moment.

First with the support of the sailors on the shore, and then with the support of the musket team of the sailor battalion, Wu Haodong and their morale were greatly boosted, and the natives on the canoes fell into the water one after another.

There were also small boats that rushed out and crashed into the canoes, knocking over the canoes full of natives.

The sailors and soldiers on the ship used spears and harpoons to aim at the Sulu soldiers floating and sinking on the river, and pierced them one by one, sending them to the bottom of the river.

The collapse on land triggered the collapse of the Sulu "sailors" in the river, and seeing that their brave charge could only be a senseless death, those Sulu natives rowing canoes turned their bows and fled upstream as fast as possible.

At this time, the king of Banshilan, who was hiding in the jungle, saw that more than 20,000 Banshilan soldiers on land and water failed to capture the Ming army of less than 1,000 people, but instead lost 4,000 or 5,000 people, so he had to order the troops to be withdrawn in pain.

"Woo" The Sulu natives in the forest blew the sound of a conch representing the retreat.

The Sulu soldiers on the meadow heard the sound and turned their heads into the dense primeval forest.

"Kill them all!" Wu Pig's Egg roared and rushed into the woods with his soldiers.

Seeing that his soldiers were about to chase into the primeval forest, Wang Xinyu shouted anxiously: "Let them come back!" ”

"No!" Li Rui hugged his fists on the horse and immediately rode his horse to the drummer.

He was following the Sulu soldiers behind him, and when he was about to rush into the forest, he suddenly heard the drums stop, and the sound of Mingjin came to his ears, so he had to order the withdrawal of his troops.

"My lord, why don't you let us hunt them down?" Wu Zhudan and Lin Rui were very puzzled. They believe that the enemy has been defeated, and as long as they follow behind to cover up the killing, the opponent who has lost his morale will inevitably not even dare to turn back, and will be slashed and killed from behind one by one, and finally the whole army will be annihilated.

Wang Xinyu pointed to the dense primeval forest and said: "This place is completely different from us in China!" Once these raw flowers enter the primeval forest, they are like fish in water! Even the Spaniards entered the forest for their share of slaughter! Who knows what traps these creatures have in the forest? That's what they're best at! ”

When the king of Banshiran gathered up the defeated troops, he counted the number of men and found that in the land battle alone, they had left behind more than 3,000 men. Although some people are not dead and are lying by the river with injuries, those people who fall into the hands of the Ming people are also certain to die. The casualties of his own "sailor" have not yet been counted, and it is estimated that it will not be small. The combined losses on land and water should have exceeded 5,000 men, which was too much for the tribal chiefs under them to bear.

"What should we do now, King?" A tribal chief asked.

The chief of the Rauni tribe also came up and asked: "Great King, our Rauni tribe has suffered the greatest loss!" More than 700 men died! Is that all? ”

"Do you still want to fight?" The chief of the Agro tribe roared, "I don't approve of a war with them in the first place! Now we have lost so much that we can't beat them! If we continue to fight, the men of our tribe will die! ”

"That's it!" The Manawag chieftain also said, "If we continue to fight, our men will die, and the Minlila tribe, who have always been hostile to us, as well as the Kagarin, will take the opportunity to destroy us!" We can't fight these Ming people anymore! ”

Although there were many men under the Tu King of Banshilan, more than 100,000 people, there were only more than 20,000 young men who could fight, and a quarter of them were lost in this instant! Such a loss is a great disaster for Ban Shilan! If another 5,000 people are lost, the other earth kings around who are eyeing Banshilan will come and eat them immediately!

King Banshilan thought for a moment, and suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "Harassment! We rely on the forest, hide in the forest, and shoot those who want to cut down trees with arrows! Those Ming people don't have iron sheets on them! As long as we continue to harass, they will not succeed! They don't dare to chase into the forest either, we have traps inside! As long as they dare to come in, let them pay the price of blood! ”