Luzon was a small country in ancient times, and during the Song Dynasty, Chinese merchant ships often came here to trade.

Later, because of the war, a large number of Song Dynasty people were exiled to this overseas island country, and the Song Dynasty people living abroad called it Luzon Island in order to commemorate that they were descendants of China.

(My own understanding, there is no historical data to support it)

Located in the northern part of the Philippine archipelago, Luzon is the largest, most populous and most economically developed island in the Philippines.

The island is rich in gold, silver and copper, and the products are very rich.

The island is the largest producer of rice, corn, coconut, sugar cane, mango, banana and other crops in the country, and is the main grain producing region of the Philippines.

In ancient times, when gold, silver, and copper were used as currencies, it is no exaggeration to say that the occupation of Luzon could at least arm an army of millions again, and the production of gold, silver, and copper here was enough to maintain an army of millions for hundreds of years.

The island's rice, which crops three times a year, can provide enough food for tens of millions of people.

Luzon is a veritable treasure island, and if Luzon is occupied, the entire Philippines will not be far from being destroyed.

The occupation of Luzon by the Condor Army can not only obtain a logistics supply base with abundant resources, but also use it as a springboard to attack countries in South and Southeast Asia, and Luzon can completely play the role of a strategic springboard.

As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing the other side can not be defeated.

Although Ning Yuan thought that the Filipino players were vulnerable, in order to avoid capsizing in the gutter, he still sent a caravan to Luzon Island in the name of business.

After buying a large amount of natural rubber, the caravan also successfully found some information about Luzon.

There are now three major powers on Luzon, namely the Confederate Army of the Philippines that occupies Manila and the area south of it, the Kingdom of Northern Luzon that occupies the northern part of Luzon, and the Kingdom of Central Luzon, which occupies the central region of Luzon.

The Confederate Luzon Army was a predominantly Filipino regime with a strong sea force and a relatively weak land force.

The Kingdom of Central Luzon was a regime formed by a number of Filipino player lords and indigenous peoples, and there were often small local wars between them and the other two powers.

The Kingdom of Northern Luzon is a relatively pure aboriginal force, although there are some players in the kingdom, but the main power is concentrated in the hands of the big nobles in the country.

Of the three regimes, only the Confederate Luzon had a strong navy, while the other two regimes were fully committed to developing their military power on land.

Trapped by the weakness of the army, the Luzon Confederate army could only send a navy to attack the coastline of the Central Luzon Kingdom from time to time while holding Manila City, so as to relieve the pressure on Manila City.

Although the Kingdom of Central Luzon was the most powerful, they did not dare to concentrate their strength on attacking one of the enemies because of the enemy on their backs.

The three forces are now counterbalanced by each other, and neither has the strength to annex the other.

After understanding the power structure on Luzon Island, Ning Yuan, Bing Qilin and the others formulated a two-way flowering attack plan.

The naval fleet of the Fire and Ice Legion will sail directly into Manila Bay from the South China Sea and take the initiative to find the naval fleet of the Luzon Confederate forces for a decisive battle.

After defeating the enemy's naval fleet, they will quickly cut off the entire Philippine archipelago, cut off the islands, and wait until the main army occupies Luzon and annex the other islands.

The Ground Legion of the Fire and Ice Legion will attack the Kingdom of Northern Luzon directly.

They will start from the island of Taiwan, land in the northern plains, and then all the way south, one group will advance under the city of Manila.

Considering that the Ice and Fire Legion was strong in melee combat, and the long-range attack ability was a little less interesting, Ning Yuan specially transferred five fully formed Elven Ranger Legions from the Condor Empire to help them.

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On this day, the wind was mild, and the patrol fleet of the Luzon Confederates was patrolling their territorial waters along the coastline, when suddenly a large fleet appeared in front of them.

The Filipino player on the patrol ship suddenly changed his face after seeing the ice and fire flags hanging high on the mast of the opposing warship.

"Quick, return at full speed, notify the rear, the Fire and Ice Pirates are coming."

Ever since the Fire and Ice Pirates defeated the Condor Empire's East Sea Fleet in the East China Sea, their fame has spread throughout Southeast Asia.

While people are gloating, they are praying that they will not be the next target of these murderous pirates.

When the Fire and Ice Pirates captured the Chinese islands of Taiwan and Hainan, people thought that this powerful pirate was specifically against the Chinese players.

Filipino players never imagined that they would be their next target.

Upon learning of the invasion of the Fire and Ice Pirates' fleet, the Luzon Confederate naval fleet immediately began to assemble in Manila Bay.

Filipino players prayed that the other party was just passing by, while preparing for battle.

When the Fleet of Fire and Ice sailed straight towards Manila Bay, the Filipino players' luck was immediately shattered, and they were forced to choose to face it.

Soon, two huge naval fleets staged a fierce naval battle in the waters off Manila Bay.

In order to get a head start, Filipino players have sent all the merfolk warriors, hoping to defeat the pirate fleet in one fell swoop with their powerful merfolk army.

However, the Fire and Ice Fleet did not send a merfolk army to fight against it, and they just ran straight into the Philippine player's ship.

The merfolk warriors who entered the sea pounded desperately on the bottom of the ships of the Ice and Fire fleet, and then they failed to achieve anything other than shaking their arms a little numb.

When the Filipino players on the battleship learned that the merfolk warriors could not scuttle the enemy's battleship, they were immediately shocked into a cold sweat.

Looking at the pirate warships that were rushing at high speed, their hearts were filled with despair.

Now they finally know how the Condor Navy was defeated by these pirates, but unfortunately it was too late, because they couldn't dodge.

In order to give full play to the characteristics of cold ironwood, the new type of magic energy warships of the Condor Navy have deliberately strengthened the collision ability of the ramming angle during production.

The Ice and Fire Fleet is equipped with new magical warships made of cold ironwood, and they are now engaged in the enemy, and they don't need to send out mermaid legions at all, nor do they need to use long-range weapons such as trebuchets, they just simply and rudely collide directly.

As the ships of the Fire and Ice fleet collided from all directions, the fleet of the Luzon Confederate army was immediately surrounded by the enemy.

When some of the outer warships were sunk by enemy ships, they ignored the mermaid fighters in Shanghai and retreated directly to the interior of Manila Bay.

When the Fire and Ice Fleet blocked the entrances and exits of Manila Bay, they suddenly became turtles in an urn.

After the Haizhou Bay incident, the Condor Navy is now very sensitive to these bays, so they left some warships at the entrance to defend themselves from being counter-encircled by the enemy in the bay.

After solving the worries, the main force of the Ice and Fire Fleet immediately sailed into Manila Bay and exterminated the fleeing Philippine fleet.

After knowing the power of the pirates' warships, Filipino players did not dare to let the enemy ships approach easily.

They played a game of chase with enemy ships in the bay, hoping to use the long-range weapons on the ships to slowly grind the enemy ship's sailors to death.

However, when they saw the mermaid fighters on the enemy ships entering the sea, their faces suddenly turned gray.

Now that their merfolk legion is still outside the bay, they can only watch as the enemy merfolk warriors scuttle their own warships one by one.

Filipino players did not expect that the ships of the Ice and Fire Fleet were not afraid of mermaid warriors, so they made a serious tactical mistake from the start.

When they abandoned the merfolk army still in the sea and fled into Manila Bay, the naval battle turned into a one-sided slaughter.

As the battleships were scuttled by the enemy's mermaid warriors, all the Filipino players on the battleship were like ashes, and at the end of the battle, they directly gave up the struggle and let the battleship be scuttled and smashed.

As the last Philippine warship slowly sank into the sea, the naval battle ended in a complete victory for the Fire and Ice fleet.

After this fiasco, Filipino players not only lost one of their most powerful fleets, but also lost control of the seas, and from then on, the fleet of ice and fire was able to cruise the Philippine waters at will.

After defeating the Philippine fleet, the Fire and Ice Fleet managed to defeat the merfolk army that had lost its support.

Soon after, they captured a number of islands off the coast of the Philippines, and then used those islands as a base to begin to officially take over the entire Philippine seas.

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At the time of the naval fleet's victory, the Army Corps of the Fire and Ice Legion had officially landed in the Passallen area of Luzon.

The northern part of Luzon has always been a relatively safe rear for the Kingdom of Northern Luzon, and they don't even see a pirate in normal times, so they don't have much garrison there.

The sudden landing of the Ice and Fire Legion directly caught them by surprise, so soon half of Northern Luzon fell directly.

By the time the Kingdom of Northern Luzon had brought back the large army on the front, the vanguard of the Fire and Ice Legion had already reached the Izig region.

In order to regain the lost territory, the king of Northern Luzon gave up defending the city, and he personally led an army of 500,000 to pounce on the army of ice and fire.

Facing the Northern Luzon Army, which was in full swing, the Ice Qilin chose to show weakness to the enemy.

He pretended to be invincible and kept the army retreating, discarding a lot of baggage along the way.

Looking at the pots and pans along the road that had been discarded by the enemy, the king of Northern Luzon thought that the enemy's position was in disarray, so he immediately decided to take advantage of the victory and pursue it.

Although he couldn't catch up with the enemy after chasing him for several days, he could still see some clues by the number of stoves left on the ground by the enemy.

In the places where the enemy had camped, the further north he went, the fewer the stoves, and he deduced that the enemy must have been demoralized, and that the soldiers had fled, and he immediately quickened his pursuit.

If there were any Huaxia players who were proficient in the Art of War at this time, they would definitely tell the king of Northern Luzon not to continue the pursuit, otherwise the whole army would be destroyed.

Because this is the application of the principles of fiction and reality in actual combat, such as "what can be shown and what cannot be shown, and what can be shown and not used" as stated in the "Beginning of the Art of War" and "Move it with advantage and treat it with pawn" as stated in the "Military Situation".

The most famous example in history is the Battle of Maling during the Warring States period of China.

In the Battle of Maling, Sun Bin successfully lured the Wei army led by Pang Juan into the encirclement by using the tactics of reducing the focus to lure the enemy, and finally annihilated them all.

Although Sun Tzu's Art of War emphasizes the false and the real, the true and the false, just looking at the discarded pots and pans on the ground and the fewer and fewer stoves, they have 99 percent certainty that this is definitely a strategy to reduce the number of stoves and lure the enemy.

But it's a pity that not everyone in China is familiar with Sun Tzu's Art of War, let alone these indigenous people of the Philippines.

When the king of Northern Luzon led a large army to pursue to the bottom of a hillside, with the sound of gongs and drums, countless soldiers of the Ice and Fire Legion suddenly rushed out from all directions.

They quickly surrounded the Northern Luzon Army, and then arrows rained down.

Although the king of Northern Luzon had an elite swordsman under his command, this swordsman army was quickly wiped out under the attack of the Ice and Fire Legion armed with superb weapons.

By the time the king of Northern Luzon found out that the situation was not good and fled with his army, an army of elven rangers had already circled their rear.

Under the volley of the elven rangers, the king of Northern Luzon was shot dead on the spot.

Although this battle was to lure the enemy into depth, in fact, the real strength of the Ice and Fire Legion was above the Northern Luzon Legion, so after being ambushed, the Northern Luzon Legion was not an opponent at all.

At the end of the battle, the 500,000 Northern Luzon Army, except for more than 100,000 killed, all the others surrendered.

After the loss of the king and the main army, the Kingdom of Northern Luzon immediately became an undefended open field, and all the cities of the Ice and Fire Legion fell to the wind.

In this way, the entire Northern Luzon region, except for the border city of Bayunbang, all other areas fell into the hands of the Ice and Fire Legion.

Located at the junction of North Luzon and Central Luzon, the city of Bayun Bang is a necessary route from Central Luzon to North Luzon, and it is the gateway of North Luzon on the southern front and is of great strategic importance.

After learning that Northern Luzon had been invaded by the Fire and Ice Pirates, the Kingdom of Central Luzon immediately gathered a large army and came to the city of Bayunbang.

However, before they could capture Bayun Bang City, the forward army of the Ice and Fire Legion also rushed over, sandwiching Bayun Bang City between the two armies.

After learning of the arrival of the Fire and Ice Pirates, the army of Central Luzon immediately stopped the siege of the city, and then they and the Fire and Ice Legion sent messengers to persuade the defenders of the city to surrender to their own side.

Central Luzon offered very favorable conditions to the defenders in the city, and they kept adding chips to the top, but they were never able to convince each other.

After weighing the pros and cons, the defenders in the city finally chose to surrender to the Ice and Fire Legion, because he did not dare to refuse the Ice Qilin.

The Ice Qilin didn't offer any favorable conditions to the guards in the city, he just asked the envoy to tell the other party.

If the other side dares to surrender to Central Luzon, then on the day the city is broken, everyone in the city will die, and the families of the soldiers in the city will also be buried with them.

The families of many of the defenders in the city are in the rear, and now they have fallen into the hands of the Ice and Fire Legion, even the guards' own families, so even if the conditions given by the Central Luzon side are favorable, he does not dare to surrender to the other party.

Because as soon as he announced his surrender to Central Luzon, I am afraid that the soldiers who miss his home will kill him immediately.

So he had no choice but to surrender to the Legion of Ice and Fire, because the other party was a murderous pirate who could do anything.

When the northern gate of Bayunbang was slowly opened, with the entry of the Ice and Fire Legion, the entire Northern Luzon fell into the hands of the Condor Empire.