Chapter 372: A New Marine Corps

"The Spaniards ran away!" One of the native soldiers stumbled into the tent of the Earth King, "Damn the Spaniards, all run back to the castle and leave us here!" ”

"Damn it!" The Earth King exclaimed, "The army of the Ming Kingdom is coming, and they actually left us and ran away!" ”

Although the Nanyang Company did not kill these indigenous people who believed in Christianity, this era was no longer an era of closed news, merchant ships came and went on the sea, and the indigenous people on Luzon Island heard that the indigenous people in Borneo, Golden State and Java were massacred by the Ming State and its vassal countries, just because those indigenous people believed in Tianfang Religion and did not want to believe in Buddhism.

This shows that the Ming people are not good men and women, aren't they just those indigenous people on Java Island who believe in the Heavenly Religion and were actually subjected to a genocidal massacre by the Ming people. Although these natives on Luzon Island do not believe in the Heavenly Religion, they listened to the instigation of the Spaniards and attacked the Han people's residential areas.

"It's over, it's over, as soon as the Ming fleet comes, it scares the Spaniards away!" A soil king sighed.

Another soil king cried with a sad face: "Let's run away quickly, hide in the deep mountains and old forests, it is impossible for the Ming people to cut down the forest for a while, right?" ”

"Go back to the mountains and forests? But what about our plantations on the plains, our gold and copper mines outside the forests? And our house, what about our family business? "One of the earth kings almost burst into tears.

From thrift to luxury, from luxury to frugality, these familiar with the Han and Westerners and other civilized societies have been in contact with hundreds of years, they have also entered the slave society, no matter how to say that they have broken away from the barbaric primitive society, and have begun to live the life of civilized people, especially those earth kings, all have valuable industries. But if they want to give up all this accumulated over the past few hundred years, and go back to the deep mountains and old forests to live a primitive life again, how can they be willing?

"But if you don't go back, you can't do it!" The first Tuwang said, "The people of the Ming Kingdom are too fierce! ”

All the earth kings sighed and sighed like mourning, they recalled what their ancestors had told them about the past, in the Song Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, how polite the Han people were, they pursued the idea of subduing people with virtue and educating barbarian scholars, even if the natives pit them, they would not be angry. But since the establishment of the Nanyang Company, all this has changed, and the Han people, who were originally soft-hearted, have suddenly become extremely vicious and murderous than Westerners.

"It's really not good, then surrender, there is still a way to survive if you surrender." A soil king who is really reluctant to give up his family business said.

"Surrender?" The other earth king shook his head, "You don't know how ferocious those Ming people are!" If we surrender, we can have a way to live, but if we surrender, we will all be captured by them and put into the dark mines as slaves, and work below for the rest of our lives until we die of exhaustion in the mines! Otherwise, they will be sent to the plantation, brave the scorching sun to work, and finally die of sunburn! Living like that is worse than death! ”

"What are you still doing? The Ming people have landed! Why don't we run and die here? One of the earth kings suddenly shouted.

At this time, the marines of the Nanyang Fleet had landed, and small boats full of marines came ashore, and heavily armed marines disembarked from the ships. These marines belonging to the Qiongzhou Army are well-armed, and they have all been replaced with metal cartridge casings single-shot rear-loading rifles, although they are original single-shot rifles, but the loading speed of metal cartridge casings is faster than that of paper cartridge casings.

The Marine Corps that rushed to Manila had a total of one division, and the Qiongzhou Army's Marine Division was still in accordance with the Ming Dynasty, but the Marines had already changed to a Western-style establishment and adopted the establishment of divisions, regiments, battalions, companies, and platoons. A Marine Corps division has three infantry regiments and one artillery battalion, each infantry regiment has three infantry battalions and one artillery company, and each infantry battalion has three infantry companies and one machine gun company.

A machine gun company is actually a mixed machine gun and artillery company, with one machine gun company having two hand-cranked, 11-barrel machine guns, two three-pounder light cannons, and four eight-pounder mortars.

an artillery battery directly under an infantry regiment, armed with two twelve-pounder mortars, two six-pounder howitzers and two six-pounder cannons; The artillery battalion under the 1st Marine Division is equipped with four 64-pounder siege mortars, two twelve-pounder howitzers, two twelve-pounder field guns, and four three-pounder breech-loading rifled guns. Due to the immaturity of the technology of flowering shells fired by rear-loading rifled guns, the Marine Corps still uses top-of-the-line smoothbore guns.

The 1st Marine Division, of more than 9,000 men, landed all of them by dark time. The Ming army landed smoothly and was not intercepted by either the Spanish nor the natives.

"You're finally here!" Liu Qi took the remaining more than 200 escorts and more than 1,000 young men to the beach to greet the landing marines, "We have run out of ammunition and food, if you come one day late, I am afraid that our Han area will fall into the hands of the natives!" ”

After all the marines went ashore, Wang Yu also went ashore.

"Dashuai!" Liu Qi walked up and saluted, "The Spaniards are angry because of the treaty you gave him, although they didn't dare to send troops to attack us themselves, they instigated the natives to attack us!" And they saw that the natives could not be attacked for a long time, and they also sent artillery to help the natives. Seeing the arrival of the marshal's fleet, the Spaniards fled back to the castle. ”

"What about the natives? Did they all retreat? Wang Yu asked.

Liu Qi replied: "Seeing our people landing, even the Spaniards were scared away, where did those natives dare to be here?" They all ran away, leaving only a single corpse in the city. ”

Wang Yu nodded and said, "They ran away, let's ignore them for the time being, and take the Spaniard's castle first." As long as we take the castle of the Spaniards, we will go back and slowly clean up these natives. ”

Zhang Yukun asked: "Dashuai, after all, the natives here are not those Heavenly Sect disciples who have been brainwashed and extremely vicious, and there is no need to kill excessively, right?" ”

"This kind of proportionality still exists in the domain, as long as they surrender, you can spare them a way to live. But the necessary punishment is still needed, and those earth kings who participated in the siege of us cannot be spared, and they must all be killed! Other indigenous people, as long as they submit to our Ming Dynasty and receive a Chinese education, we can accept it. They haven't been brainwashed by the Heavenly Sect, and they can be sinicized. It's just that some people have to go down to the mines and be slaves for the rest of their lives. Wang Yu nodded.