After Zhu Hongyu recovered, Zhou Tianxu left the Liberation Army camp again the next day, went into the mountains to the Crocodile Tribe, and negotiated an alliance with Sanchez.
"Covenant of Friendship and Mutual Assistance between China and Iran"
First: This treaty is concluded on the basis of friendship, mutual assistance, and voluntary signing.
Second: This treaty will take effect immediately and will be reviewed every three years to amend the relevant unreasonable treaties or decide whether to renew it.
"..."
Then there are the specific terms of the covenant.
Including marriage, sending overseas students, trade preferential treatment and other aspects.
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In the camp of the Liberation Army, Zhu Hongyu, under the condemnation in his heart, found Li Lingxiu and confessed about the marriage and apologized to her.
"Lingxiu, the marriage is inevitable!"
"Without the help of the Igorots, even if we could win this battle, we would not be able to annihilate the main Spanish force."
"The Liberation Army will not be able to break out of the mountains and develop and grow!"
"But I swear, my real wife will only be you, and Sanchez's daughter will only be a concubine!"
However, what surprised Zhu Hongyu was that Li Lingxiu didn't care about it.
"Brother Hongyu, I just want to stay by your side and take care of you. I don't dare to ask for status."
"I don't care who you marry or how many you marry. I don't need a status, as long as I stay with you!"
Li Lingxiu grew up in this era, and she has long been accustomed to the three wives and four concubines of men in this era.
Zhu Hongyu felt a little uneasy about his conscience because of his scum, but she didn't take it seriously and thought it was normal.
It was Zhu Hongyu who came to explain to her deliberately, which made her feel as sweet as honey despite being surprised.
Brother Hongyu still cares about himself, otherwise why would he deliberately explain to himself!
Zhu Hongyu held Li Lingxiu in his arms, using his arms hard as if he wanted to rub the beauty in his arms into his body.
He opened his mouth and promised.
"When I finish this work, I will marry you!"
As he said this, he wanted to taste the rouge on Li Lingxiu's mouth, but was pushed away by Li Lingxiu with a blushing face.
"Brother Hongyu, don't be like this. We haven't gotten married yet. It's already very rude to hug each other. We can't be more rude!"
The corner of Zhu Hongyu's mouth twitched. Girls in this era are good at everything, but they are too conservative.
Even though he and Li Lingxiu were childhood sweethearts who grew up together, the most intimate thing they had ever done was just holding each other together that time, nothing more.
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Two days later, in the morning, it was just getting dark.
The sun had just raised its head slightly, and the Liberation Army began to prepare food and prepare for an active attack.
The soldiers were devouring food and building up their strength for fighting. Zhu Hongyu called a meeting of the generals of the Liberation Army to discuss strategies.
Zhu Hongyu held the pancake in one hand, chewed and swallowed it in big mouthfuls, and held the baton in the other hand, gesticulating on the sand table.
"That's how things are settled for now!"
"The battle plan has been finalized. We will first attack the enemies on the side of the river valley. After defeating the enemies, we will immediately move to attack the enemies upstream."
"When two of the three sides of the siege are defeated by our Liberation Army, Spain will no longer dare to stay downstream."
"And if they bring artillery, they won't be able to retreat!"
"When the Spaniards abandon their artillery and withdraw, their threat to our army will be minimized. Our army will quickly seize their artillery positions, and then cooperate with the Igorots of the Crocodile Tribe to keep all the Spaniards in the mountains.
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"Brothers, this battle is related to the life and death of our Liberation Army. We must win!"
Everyone agreed in unison.
"promise!"
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It was sunny on October 15, 1660, the 14th year of the Ming Dynasty Yongli calendar!
During several attacks by the Spanish, the Liberation Army, which had always relied on passive defense by fortifications, took the initiative.
Except for the garrisons in the upstream and downstream bastions, all the elite troops of the Liberation Army came out.
At early nine o'clock in the morning of October 15th, the Liberation Army came out of the camp and advanced in formation towards the more than 2,000 Spanish people who had been placed on the side of the river valley.
The Liberation Army was arrayed in order, with musketeers wearing breastplates and holding muskets, and sword and shield soldiers holding shields, ready to fight.
Two quarters of an hour later, the two sides joined forces.
As the distance between the two sides got closer, the Liberation Army tightened their grip on the muskets in their hands.
The Spanish response was as expected. The Spanish musketeers quickly organized their formation and held the line from behind.
The natives were driven forward, screaming and rushing towards the formation of the Liberation Army!
The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and the soldiers of the Liberation Army in the front row could already see the ferocious and twisted faces of the natives opposite.
The junior officers kept estimating the distance between the two sides!
"The enemy is approaching 200 steps, the musketeers are ready with their guns raised!"
"The enemy is one hundred and fifty steps away!"
"The enemy is nearly a hundred steps away!"
"The enemy is seventy steps away, everyone is there, three rows of fire, fire!"
"..."
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
In just an instant, more than a hundred guns opened fire at the same time.
The sound of musket shooting resounded throughout the valley, gunpowder smoke spurted out from the barrel along with the firelight, and lead bullets formed a dense barrage.
In an instant, a large piece of the natives on the opposite side fell down!
However, before they could take a breath, the second row's volley started.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
After the neat rows of gunshots, the battlefield was filled with gunpowder smoke and the miserable howls of the natives.
"Third row volley, let go!"
Bang bang! Bang bang bang!
After the Liberation Army fired three rows of rounds, the first row that was finished first was still loading and preparing for the second round, and the natives collapsed.
Throw away your weapon and run away!
The neat rows of guns of the Liberation Army reminded them of the painful memories of being unable to advance under the fortress of the Liberation Army and being slaughtered wantonly like pigs, dogs and beasts.
At the moment when the memory appears, the emotion that comes up is not hatred, but fear from the heart!
Everyone’s calves are shaking!
I don’t know who started it first. I threw away the weapon in my hand, turned around and ran away.
Others followed suit, and in an instant, nearly two thousand natives collapsed.
"kill!"
"kill!"
"kill!"
"..."
Amidst loud shouts of killing, the musket array of the Liberation Army moved forward.
The two hundred Spanish musketeers did not expect that the natives would collapse so quickly. In panic, they hurriedly organized resistance.
The two sides exchanged musketry for three rounds at a distance of sixty or seventy meters, each suffering casualties.
However, the Liberation Army had breastplate defense and had much fewer casualties than the Spaniards.
The Spanish struggled to hold on, and although they suffered heavy losses, they did not collapse.
However, in the neat bayonet charge of the Liberation Army, the two hundred Spanish musketeers were completely defeated and almost wiped out.
Only a few twenty or thirty people became prisoners!
After winning this battlefield, except for the wounded who were sent back to the camp for treatment, the others went directly to the bastion in the upper reaches of the valley without repair.
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At this time, the Spaniards in the upper and lower reaches of the valley received news that the army in the middle part of the valley was attacked.
However, due to the obstruction of mountains and forests, reinforcements could not get through at all for a while.
In order to relieve the pressure of more than 2,000 people in the middle of the valley, they could only attack two bastions separately.
The Black Lizard led the Igorots and charged several times, but amidst the bursts of gunfire, they were all repulsed, leaving corpses all over the ground.
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