Listening to the words of the Tuwang of Banshilan, Wang Yu laughed: "You Banshilan people have already declared their submission to our Ming Dynasty, and your people are the people of my Daming, how can you let your people go to death in vain?" Yes, we need cannon fodder to attack the Spaniards' castle, and your task is to help us catch some cannon fodder. ”

The king of Banshilan immediately understood, and was overjoyed: "Please rest assured, the little king will definitely arrest all those barbarians who do not obey the king!" You are not familiar with the forest terrain, but we are familiar with it, and we will lead the way. ”

"Well, with you leading the way, we can rest assured." Wang Yu laughed.

The natives around Manila, who had colluded with the Spaniards, saw that the situation was not good, and they abandoned their local businesses and took refuge in the lush primeval forest. The Ming army was unfamiliar with the terrain in the jungle, but the natives were good at setting traps in the forest, and if the marines rashly chased them into the depths of the jungle, they would inevitably suffer a big loss. Therefore, Wang Yu sent people to inform the king of Banshilan, and asked the king to bring his native soldiers to deal with the local natives.

Liu Qi and Emperor Hu De, with three hundred escorts of the Nanyang Company and five hundred marines, followed behind the native soldiers of Banshilan and burrowed into the lush primeval forest.

There were more than 10,000 native soldiers who assisted the Ming army, and they were not only responsible for leading the way for the Ming army, but also cooperating in battle, guarding the prisoners, and escorting them back to Manila.

"There's a trap ahead!" The native soldier who was at the front stopped walking.

Several native soldiers stopped, and some picked up their spears, swiped a few times in the grass, and brushed away the dead branches and leaves, only to see that the hole covered with branches was exposed below, which was a trap, which was full of bamboo knives, and if one accidentally fell, the whole body would be pierced into a hornet's nest.

The native soldier filled the trap and continued to walk deeper into the jungle. After walking for some distance, the experienced soldier at the front stopped again, picked up a large stone from the ground, and threw it into the grass in front of him. Only the sound of bending bamboo was heard, and dozens of bamboo spears flew out of the bamboo forest, nailed to the ground in unison. If a person had just walked over from above, I was afraid that he would have been pierced into a hedgehog by a bamboo spear.

Led by the group of Banshilan Tuwang, the Nanyang Company Escort and the Ming Marines found an indigenous village deep in the primeval forest.

Hu Dedi personally took three marines to reconnoiter the vicinity of the village, and he found that there were about 3,000 natives in the village, including about 700 young men.

"Prepare to attack, kill as little as possible, let the people of the earth king rush in, and drink to make them surrender without killing. Our people are outside, and if they dare to resist, shoot and kill. "After Emperor Hu Dedi returned, he arranged a battle plan.

Liu Qi nodded, the more than 300 surviving guards of his Nanyang Company were replenished with bullets, although the paper cartridge case rear-loading rifle was not as good as the Marine Corps' metal cartridge rifle, but the power was not bad. With three hundred convoys and five hundred marines, it was a breeze to take the village.

"Surrender or kill!" The Banshiran soldiers shouted and rushed into the village.

The natives of the village were unprepared, and when they heard the shouts, they came out of the huts where they lived, only to see hordes of native soldiers in armor, armed with machetes, spears and muskets pouring into the village.

The Nanyang Company Escort and the Daming Marines, who were responsible for the fire cover on the periphery, did not fire a single shot, and the village, which had more than 3,000 people, had already surrendered. With the exception of eleven who resisted and six who were seriously wounded, the rest of the natives were taken prisoner. The natives stabbed the badly wounded natives with spears and kept the rest of the natives in check. After about an hour, the captives were bundled up and escorted by 500 native soldiers to Manila.

Within half a month, the king of Banshilan worked very hard to help the Nanyang Company and the Ming Marines to arrest people, and within half a month, the king of the land led the Ming army to capture more than 50,000 natives before and after.

The captured natives were men and women, old and young.

"Let these captives go and make sandbags, and when it is time to attack the city, the shield cart will be pushed up, and the natives will carry the sandbags to pile up the fish beams." Wang Yu gave the order.

Whether it is men, women or children, they are all cannon fodder in Wang Yu's eyes. These natives helped the Dutch to attack the Han Chinese settlements, and they should pay the price for their actions. According to Wang Yu and Wang Yuyou's siege method, the first thing is to dig a trench and get close to the foot of the castle, and then bombard the castle with artillery to suppress the fire of the Spaniards. After that, the aborigines were asked to push shield carts and pile sandbags to build the Fish Beam Road. Naturally, under the guns of the defenders, the natives pushing the shield carts to build the Yuliang Road will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and the corpses and sandbags of those natives will be piled up all the way to the head of the city.

Although they are cannon fodder, it takes a lot of effort to catch these cannon fodder, and it also costs a lot of silver, not to mention that they have to be used for cannon fodder, if the cannon fodder can survive after the end of the war, they are very good slaves, so Wang Yu is not willing to let the cannon fodder make senseless sacrifices.

The captives were sent to Manila one after another, and the Ming army immediately organized these captives to cut wood in the mountains and forests to build a large number of shield carts and ladders. To build the Fish Beam Road to attack the Manila Castle, it would require at least 2,000 shield wagons, which was not a small project, and required more than ten days of preparation.

"Prepare, wait until it gets dark, and have people dig the trench as close as possible." Wang Yu gave the order.

"Well arranged!" The Tu King of Banshiran gave a thumbs up in admiration, "Build siege weapons during the day, dig trenches at night, and squeeze every minute of these captives." ”

The sky gradually darkened, and when it was completely dark, a group of cannon fodder escorted by auxiliaries and native soldiers walked out of the Ming army camp and entered the outer trench. Under the supervision of sword-wielding auxiliaries and native soldiers, the indigenous cannon fodder dug through the dirt and dug a trench leading to the castle.

Although it was night, there was a half-moon in the sky, which did not affect the civil engineering work of the indigenous cannon fodder in the slightest.

The Ming army has surrounded the Manila Castle for more than a month, although the Ming army has not launched an attack, nor has it opened artillery bombardment of the Manila Castle, but this is what the Spaniards in the city are most afraid of, they can see the Ming army outside the city every day in the city, busy and intensively preparing.

"Damn the Ming people, they're ready to use the natives as cannon fodder!" The Governor of Manila sensed that something was wrong.