With Li Ming's order, the troops began to set off, killing the whole island of Luzon with murderous vigour. {Faced with the Far Eastern Army, armed to the teeth, the local natives did not even have the courage to resist.}

Some time ago, the news that tens of thousands of natives around Manila had been slaughtered had spread all over the island, making the natives on the island very frightened, for fear of angering these evil gods.

The few indigenous villages that resisted were immediately wiped out, and those fierce Ming army ruffians, Japanese samurai, pirates and European mercenaries were all murderous and unblinking, even if there was no resistance to the natives, they would kill a few if they didn't like it.

The few natives who fled to the nearby mountains were also burned by the incendiary bombs dropped by two delta-wing aircraft, and the flocks were driven down the mountain by the Far Eastern Army that was chasing behind.

The Combined Far East Fleet also set sail and cooperated with various units of the army to sweep the coast of Luzon. They also transported troops to land operations throughout Luzon.

For more than a month, Luzon was filled with bloodshed, countless indigenous villages were burned to the ground, and a large number of indigenous leaders were killed. The indigenous people, on the other hand, were reorganized and resettled in various places. The natives were driven up the hill to cut down trees and rebuild new villages.

In the future, the natives on the island will implement a strict household registration system, and it will also be a joint sitting system, and if one person makes a mistake, the whole village will suffer.

The process is cold and bloody, and the slightest disobedience will kill someone. In the face of these fierce gods, the natives were as obedient as sheep, and were driven by the Far Eastern Army.

At this time, a large number of dog-legged and leading parties also emerged among the indigenous people in due course. They were used by the Far Eastern Army to manage the natives in peacetime.

The Far Eastern Army was dispatched in its entirety, and the defense of Manila was placed in the hands of the officers and men of the Admiralty. Li Ming also selected 1,200 Chinese young men from among the Chinese who were relatively good in the defense of the royal city and began several months of intensive training.

The intensity of the training was the same as that of the Vladivostok training team, and Li Ming deliberately removed a group of veterans from the training team to train these Chinese recruits in Manila. In the future, these Chinese recruits will also be the seeds sown by the Far Eastern Army in Southeast Asia.

They all experienced the defense of the royal city of Manila, and a group of political cadres of the Military Commission also went deep into the recruits to carry out in-depth political and ideological education among the recruits. Explain in detail the brutality of the Western colonizers. And why the local natives are always hostile to the Chinese in Manila.

Many of these recruits were Chinese children who had been rooted in Manila for generations, and their relatives had been slaughtered by the Spaniards. Through the ideological education carried out by the Central Military Commission, they also deeply know that these Chinese children who have left their homeland and come to Nanyang to make a living. Only under the leadership of the Far Eastern Company. to be the real master here.

Li Ming was also at this time. He had special talks with some cadres and fighters of the unit. The first to meet with He Wu, this time in the defense of the royal city, He Wu's cousin Xiàn won everyone's respect. Li Ming also had the idea of focusing on cultivating him.

Seeing Li Ming again, He Wu subconsciously wanted to kneel down again. But Li Ming grabbed him and said with a smile: "Don't kneel in the future, you are also a soldier now, and a soldier must have the blood of a soldier, even if he dies, he must die standing up." ”

Listening to Li Ming's words, He Wu suddenly felt a rush of blood rushing to the top of his head, and he said loudly: "General, He Wu will remember your words for the rest of his life, even if a soldier dies, he must die by standing." ”

Li Ming laughed and said, "Okay, I didn't mistake you, you're a good man." Not being afraid of death is just a basic requirement for a soldier, and you can't be considered a qualified soldier yet. Well, I'll give you two options, and you'll think for yourself.

If you still want to be like this, lead a group of sons and daughters to dominate the world. Then you can continue to do your old job, we will support you behind you, you can rest assured that you can recruit troops and horses boldly, you don't have to worry about silver, ships, ammunition and supplies, you just need to take your men with you.

If you have a deeper thought, you will come with me when I leave Manila. But I said first, when you leave Manila, not only will you have to give up your current qiē, but you will have to start from scratch when you come to us. It's a hard process, even hard, and you have to be mentally prepared. ”

He Wu didn't even think about it, so he said loudly: "I think about it, I'll go with the general." ”

Li Ming didn't expect He Wu to agree so happily, he suddenly felt that He Wu was not simple, and he might have had a clear idea in his heart, he was very pleased, such a talent is worth cultivating.

From the moment He Wu decided to defend the city, he had already thought about it, and he would be desperate to mix with the Far Eastern Company in his life. He knows too well the strength of the Far East, guarding his own mess and looking at the scenery, he is not stupid, he knows that only by joining the real core forces of the Far East can he make a difference in the future.

"Since you have made your own decision, then during this time you have to integrate the Luzon guerrilla fleet, break up the fleet as much as possible, and form the Nanyang guerrilla fleet, and the newly formed Nanyang guerrilla fleet will be divided into four independent guerrilla fleets. During this time, you will be in charge of this work, and you will strive to form a combat strength of the Nanyang guerrilla fleet after you leave.

Also, this time you are also in the Luzon guerrilla fleet, looking for some good seedlings. Remember, don't just look for your cronies, it's a test for you, and you have to do it yourself. ”

After Li Mingyan finished saying to He Wu, He Wu roughly understood the meaning of Li Ming's words in his heart, and he hurriedly said loudly: "General, please rest assured, this matter will be handed over to my Lao He, and it will definitely not be bad." ”

In addition to He Wu, Li Ming also separately met with some representatives of the ruffians recommended by the platoon commanders of overseas brigades and companies, and Zhang Tiezhu and Wang Bo, who captured Enrique, the commander of the Spanish Expeditionary Force, were also summoned by Li Ming respectively.

These ruffians are a group of outstanding people who have performed well in previous battles, and they will be promoted to platoon commanders of the Overseas Corps, and they will be the grassroots backbone of the Far Eastern Overseas Corps in the future.

In this Luzon sweep, the foreign mercenaries were good, and these mercenaries from Switzerland and Germany were different from the ruffians, Japanese samurai, and pirates, and they had all seen big scenes. In Europe, they had seen the most advanced armies of the era. He also participated in several major wars in Europe.

Li Ming is also quite conflicted about how to deal with these mercenaries, after all, it is a pity to let these battle-hardened soldiers go into the mine to dig for a lifetime, but they are not at ease when they are used. After all, it's a bunch of white skins, and who knows when it will turn back.

Everyone also has different opinions about these white-skinned mercenaries, and they don't use them anyway. Li Ming had no choice but to ask the staff officers of the headquarters to find information about mercenaries in this era on the computer. After the information was found, everyone really understood the information about the Swiss and German mercenaries in this era.

There were more wars in the 16th and 17th centuries than at any other time in European history, and there were almost constant wars between Spain and France in the 16th century. And in the 17th century. The Ottoman Empire, the Austrian Habsburg Empire, and Sweden were at war for an average of two out of every three years. Spain was at war for three out of four years, and Poland and Russia were at war for four out of five years.

Infantry urgently recruited in wartime was sometimes forcibly conscripted into the army, and was not willing to fight at all. They often express their dissatisfaction by "desertion" or "mutiny". Therefore, mercenaries have become the first choice of monarchs of various countries.

Military contractors from Switzerland and South Germany are the backbone of this. Their team is well-trained. It can be opened at any time. In 1648, at the end of the Thirty Years' War, the Swedish army of 60,000 men stationed in Germany. Only 18,000 people are Swedes.

After discussing with everyone, Li Ming decided to give it a try and temporarily disperse these mercenaries into various detachments as spearmen of the troops. After more than a month of fighting, the information fed back by the various detachments of Tongguò felt that this group of Swiss and German mercenaries was really worth hiring.

The vast majority of these mercenaries who survived the Battle of Manila are veterans, and the salary of mercenaries, veterans are twice as much as new recruits, and these veterans have crawled out of the pile of dead people and have rich battlefield experience, which is the most valuable thing about these mercenaries.

They were different from the Ming ruffians and Japanese samurai, they had seen more things. Moreover, these veterans are very proficient in both cold weapons and firearms, which are summed up in battles again and again at the cost of life and blood.

These mercenaries from Switzerland and Germany are all forced to work hard for food, they don't earn much in Europe, and they are only paid when they fight, and they are usually unemployed. This is also the reason why Li Ming decided to hire them.

After research, Li Ming and everyone decided to form a Foreign Legion, and the Swiss and German mercenaries were organized into eight infantry companies according to the establishment in Europe. Each company consisted of 300 men, and the main armament of the troops was spears, and the backbone of the team consisted of 200 spearmen, as well as 50 arquebusiers and 50 halberdiers or two-handed swordsmen.

When Li Ming proposed to hire these mercenaries for a long time, these mercenaries were very excited. They thought that if they fell into the hands of the Far Eastern Company, even if they were not killed, they would do a lifetime of hard work, and they never expected to be hired.

These mercenaries who came to Manila with the Spanish Expeditionary Force were all people with no family burdens, so they didn't care about working for people there, and most of them had the idea of trying their luck in the legendary East.

Moreover, they have been employed by the Far East Company for a short period of more than a month, and they have also witnessed the strength of the Far East Company.

The first was the firepower, which they had seen in Manila, the most powerful firepower they had ever seen in their lives, not one of them. The second is combat effectiveness, not to mention the "dwarf humanoid beasts" of the Death Army. The combat effectiveness of the other combat units is also very strong, definitely on a par with the most powerful armies in Europe, but the fierce Cheng Dù is even better.

What they envy the most is the logistics support of the Far Eastern Company. The daily meals made these foreign mercenaries feel heaven, and their favorite thing was canned meat, which almost made them eat all their tongues together. But they found that the soldiers of the Far Eastern Company did not seem to be interested in canned food.

In fact, the canned food they ate was the canned whale meat produced by the canning factory of the Far Eastern Company, and it was the most hated food for the cadres and fighters of the Far Eastern Company. Canned whale meat in Vladivostok, Jeju Island and other places has become a disaster, and a large number of giant whales hunted by the company's whaling ships will be dried into jerky, and since the canning factory was put into operation, canned whale meat has been made.

It is these canned whales, in the eyes of foreign mercenaries, that are simply a delicacy that only nobles can enjoy. But in the Far Eastern Army, it was used as field food for the soldiers.

On behalf of the company, Li Ming signed a five-year long-term employment contract with them, and then changed their clothes. Ripping off all the tattered equipment from their bodies, they were driven into the purification zone, where they were shaved naked.

The mercenaries hadn't bathed in years, and by the time they had finished, the purification area was almost contaminated with the surging black water.

They were given clean underwear, a full set of Spanish armor, a new Spanish pike, an arquebus, a delicate military water bottle and satchel, and a new backpack for the march. Their favorite is the long leather boots, which are not only comfortable but also beautiful, and look very imposing to walk. (To be continued......)

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