Chapter 632: Manila Massacre (3)
"Boom boom boom boom..."
Just as the rebels were retreating to the Todotong Swamp, the artillery on top of Manila City also began to bombard the Han residential areas in the stream.
After the bombardment, more than 500 Japanese warriors rushed into the stream, burned, killed and looted. Suddenly, the entire stream was ablaze, and the sound of howling and screaming could not be heard.
Those wealthy households who were unwilling to risk taking part in the uprising because they were reluctant to part with their wealth only regretted it at this time, but what's the use of regretting it at this time?
Unarmed, they all fell to the Spanish artillery bombardment and the swords of the Japanese, and the red blood soaked the land run by their ancestors!
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"Colonel, the terrain in the swamps is complicated, so leave the task of searching for the physiological man to those Pampanga soldiers!"
On the third day of the twelfth lunar month, at the north gate of Manila, when he saw Dasmarinas who was about to lead people to search and suppress the Han rebels in Tondo, Governor de Villa quickly dissuaded him.
"Sir Governor, I want to kill these damn biological men with my own hands to avenge my father!"
Facing De Vera's well-intentioned dissuasion, Dasmarinas refused with red eyes and a sinister expression on his face.
"Colonel, count me among them. Those evil and dirty heretics should be caught and burned at the stake!"
Just when Dasmarinas insisted on entering the Tondo Swamp in person, Pedro, the nephew of Archbishop Benavidez of Manila, also stood up with a sinister smile on his face and actively asked to enter the Tondo Swamp with him.
"Yes, those evil and dirty yellow-skinned monkeys should be burned at the stake, hahahaha!"
Then, leading more than 200 Spanish soldiers, Dasmarinas and Pedro quickly rushed out of Manila and rushed toward the Tondo Swamp.
However, since Tongduo Swamp can be chosen by the Han people in Luzon as the base camp, it naturally shows that its terrain is dangerous, and how can it be so easy to enter?
"Save me, please, save me quickly, uh... Gu Gu Gu Gu Gu..."
No, because they were unfamiliar with the terrain, not long after they rushed in, many Spanish sergeants fell into the deep mire. Unable to rescue them, many of them only had time to leave a string of bubbles and then disappeared.
This world has resulted in their sinful life.
"kill!"
Just as these Spanish soldiers were cautiously advancing because of the swamp, a cry of killing rang out, and Han Chinese covered in mud rushed out of the dense water plants. Before these people had time to react,
At that time, he fought hand-to-hand with them.
As a result, the Spaniards' musketry advantage suddenly disappeared. In front of the Han people fighting for survival, these Spaniards were constantly killed among the weeds.
Among them, Pedro, who clamored to capture the Han people and burn them at the stake, was grabbed by the hands and feet by several angry Han people, and was directly thrust upside down into the mud. He was choked to death by the mud.
As for one of the chief culprits who planned the massacre, Manila Field Commander Dasmarinas, his death was not as simple as Pedro's.
The rebels who were extremely angry with him, after taking away his weapons, chose the most primitive way to relieve their anger, attacking him with fists, feet, and teeth until they beat him until he kept vomiting blood, like a large maggot.
They usually squirm on the muddy ground.
"Boom!"
Just when Dasmarinas finally wriggled his way through the crowd on the muddy ground and appeared in front of another group of angry Han people, a Han Christian with short hair waved the wooden stick in his hand without saying a word.
He hesitated and hit him on the back of the head, interrupting his extremely hypocritical prayer!
At this point, like his father who tried his best to advocate the invasion of the Ming Dynasty, Dasmarinas has become a dead soul among the Han people!
Subsequently, Dasmarinas' head was quickly cut off and held high on a Spanish spear to display to the humiliated Han rebels around him.
At this point, more than 200 Spanish soldiers led by Dasmarinas and Pedro were all killed. This was the first victory for the Luzon Han people since they were forced to revolt!
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"Fathers, fellow citizens, and brothers, now that we have lost our relationship with our relatives, if we really want to stop being bullied by our relatives, we have to capture Manila and kill all these people. Otherwise, if we wait,
When their reinforcements from the outer islands arrive, we will die without a place to die!"
The day after the rebel army annihilated Dasmarinas and a Spanish team of more than 200 people in Tondo, Huang Da, who also led another rebel team to retreat here, proposed to take the initiative to attack Manila.
suggestion.
"Capture Manila and kill all the relevant people! Capture Manila and kill all the relevant people!!"
As the saying goes, a snake cannot fly without a head, and a bird cannot fly without wings! With the leader, these Luzon Han people, who had been oppressed for a long time, immediately had a clear direction of attack. Then, under the leadership of Huang Da and others,
They attacked the city of Manila overnight.
But, as I said before, how can an ordinary person in a rage beat a heavyweight professional boxer in the boxing ring?
Braving the fierce artillery fire and dense muskets and bow and arrow fire from the city of Manila, a group of Han rebels carried a makeshift ladder and relied on sticks and more than a hundred captured muskets. Even if they attacked in turns all day and night, they could not
Still, it did not cause any harm to the city of Manila.
There is no way, when this city was originally built, the city of Manila was built too tall and strong by the Han craftsmen. No matter how brave they were, they were still made of flesh and blood.
Therefore, under the enemy's absolutely superior firepower and favorable geographical conditions, more than 20,000 Han rebels attacked all night long for two days, but finally had to evacuate and retreated to the outskirts of Manila!
"Pass this governor's order to launch a full-scale counterattack and go out of the city to pursue us!"
Seeing that the rebels could not capture the city and had to retreat, after handing over the task of defending the city to the Spanish colonial militia, Governor de Vera personally led all the regular troops, more than 2,000 Spanish sergeants and more than 4,000 Spanish soldiers.
The tooth soldiers came out in pursuit.
It stands to reason that at this time, as long as the rebels are as united as before, the Spanish army without a fortified city to rely on, even if the firepower is fierce, as long as they adopt reasonable tactics, even if they cannot defeat these colonists, they can at least escape intact, right?
However, as the saying goes, when the house leaks, it rains continuously, and when the boat breaks down, it encounters a storm! At this critical moment, the Han rebels, who were originally a ragtag group, began to commit disunity and internal fighting again.
Within the entire rebel army, there were not only internal conflicts between Christians and non-Christians, but also internal strife between Han Chinese from different regions, such as those from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, because of their different origins. Amid the internal strife, Huang Da, the rebel they had previously elected,
The leader was also killed.
As a result, even if the siege failed, the rebels who still had the strength to fight the Spanish who came out of the city were really scattered like birds and beasts. In the end, they were divided into several groups according to different beliefs and regions and fled.
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