Just as the Black Lizard was grieving over the huge casualties of the tribal warriors, the gate of the bastion suddenly opened.
The Liberation Army in the camp and the defenders of the upstream bastion fought out from the bastion, took the initiative to attack them, and faced them.
When the black lizard saw this scene, his eyes widened and he shouted loudly.
"Brothers, follow me and kill!"
"Kill all these cowards who only know how to hide in the city wall and fire guns, and avenge our fallen warriors!"
"..."
The black masses of natives were like a tide, killing the Liberation Army in front of them.
Zhu Hongyu did not panic at all and ordered a response.
"Musketeers prepare to fire in three rows!"
"The melee soldiers are ready to fight, and the thunder is ready!"
"..."
The Liberation Army quickly organized their formation, and then fired three rounds of volleys, and then nothing happened.
In order to boost morale and show off his bravery, Black Lizard led the team to the front. After three rounds of firing, he was beaten to a pulp by lead bullets.
When the natives of the Giant Tree Tribe saw that their leader had been beaten to death, they collapsed instantly!
When the other tribes saw that the Giant Wood Tribe was running away, they followed suit.
The remaining two hundred Spaniards were willing to fight, but they could not restrain the natives.
After they exchanged two rounds of volley fire with the Liberation Army, they were also defeated by the bayonet charge of the Liberation Army.
A neat bayonet charge broke the formation, and the sword and shield soldiers followed suit, piercing deeply and cutting the battlefield, dividing and surrounding the Spaniards' originally neat formation, and then quickly eliminated them.
This time, because the Spanish were defeated relatively quickly, the Liberation Army was not able to wipe out all 200 Spanish musketeers. Sixty or seventy of them successfully escaped into the mountains and forests.
Thirty or forty people knelt down and surrendered and became prisoners!
The Liberation Army did not pursue!
Instead, they quickly turned around, gathered their forces, and headed towards the bastion in the lower reaches of the river valley.
…
The Liberation Army won two battles neatly, and the crocodile tribe fighting on the sidelines quickly received the news.
Sanchez looked overjoyed when he heard this.
Ordered his tribe to attack.
"Warriors, attack, help our allies, and kill all the Spaniards!"
Sanchez gave an order, and his son, the first heir of the tribe, personally led the team to kill them.
The skinny natives scattered instantly. They shuttled flexibly through the mountains and forests, and there was almost no terrain that could restrict their movements.
On flat ground, the Liberation Army could easily defeat several times or even ten times the number of natives, but if the battlefield was placed in the mountains and forests, the result would be uncertain.
That’s why Zhu Hongyu had to form an alliance with the Igorots!
…
Zhu Hongyu didn't know what the Igorots were doing, and it was naturally impossible for Colonel Robin to know either.
But he received news of defeats coming one after another from the middle and upstream directions of the valley.
Because of the mountainous terrain, it is definitely impossible to mobilize a large number of troops for reinforcements, but there is still no problem in spreading the news.
Almost immediately after the two battles were concluded, Colonel Robin broke the news.
A large number of Spaniards were killed, and the natives were defeated and fled into the mountains and forests.
He was full of confidence and believed that the encirclement trapping the Liberation Army would be easily broken.
This battle is lost!
Undoubtedly a fiasco!
Even leaving aside the losses of the natives, the Spanish casualties in several battles were beyond what the Governor's Palace could bear.
Robin knew that he was finished, and the Governor would never let him, a defeated general, go.
In desperation, Robin chose to order a retreat.
He wants to preserve the Spanish troops in Manila as much as possible!
He couldn't throw the more than 300 people in his hands into the mountains.
Just when everyone was in danger, Robin's order to withdraw the troops was given.
The military order made the army even more confused and panicked. Almost all the natives in the army dispersed in a rush.
Instead of fleeing along the river, the natives chose to scatter into the mountains and forests, directly abandoning the Spaniards.
But the natives could cross the mountains and escape the battlefield directly from the mountains and forests, which the Spaniards could not do.
If they want to escape, they can only follow the river!
Not only because of logistical supply issues, but more importantly because of environmental issues.
The indigenous people can adapt to the environment in the mountains and forests and survive in the mountains and forests, but the Spaniards cannot.
In order to speed up the evacuation and avoid being wiped out by the Liberation Army, Colonel Robin ordered to abandon all artillery, gunpowder, and shells and evacuate lightly.
"Hurry up!"
"Move quickly and don't carry too many things."
"You can't take the artillery with you. Pile the gunpowder, cannonballs and artillery together and light them all to blow them up."
"What we can't take away, we can't leave to those damn rebels!"
Colonel Robin quickly gave orders.
With a loud bang, the stacked gunpowder cannons were ignited, and huge flames shot into the sky.
The gun barrels were instantly deformed by the terrifying impact of the gunpowder explosion, and the two long-barreled artillery barrels were directly deformed and twisted.
The designation can no longer be used!
Even those light cannons with short barrels were sent into the sky by the impact, and then fell heavily to the ground, and the cannon bodies were directly deformed.
When the Liberation Army reunited with the troops in the downstream bastion and fought their way out of the bastion, what they saw was a scene like this.
Amidst the flames, the Spaniards blew up their cannon.
After exploding the artillery, the Spaniards began to run down the river in a chaotic manner.
After seeing the Liberation Army charging out of the bastion, the Spanish, who were already panic-stricken, collapsed instantly.
Colonel Robin was unable to organize a rout, so he could only be coerced and fled with the rout.
Zhu Hongyu looked very ugly. The Spaniards actually blew up the cannon.
The Liberation Army is now very short of artillery, especially large-caliber artillery with long barrels.
Zhu Hongyu originally thought that he could capture something in this battle, but he didn't expect that the Spanish blew up the artillery.
In anger, he ordered the Liberation Army to pursue him.
"kill!"
"Give me a hard time and kill me. Damn it, a bunch of idiots dare to blow up my artillery!"
That's right, in Zhu Hongyu's eyes, it was his artillery that the Spaniards blew up.
The Spaniards were running in front, and the Liberation Army quickly pursued them.
The distance between the two sides is constantly being widened!
Because the Spaniards were running for their lives, they didn't care what their formation was, they just ran as fast as they could.
However, the Liberation Army cannot do this. Even when pursuing, they must maintain the most basic formation.
Zhu Hongyu was accustomed to using the old Yin Coin strategy of luring the enemy deep and then ambushing them.
He was afraid that the Spaniards would do this to him, so he was very cautious even when chasing.
The Liberation Army also maintained a basic array when pursuing, ensuring that even if they were suddenly attacked, they could quickly launch a counterattack.
Therefore, the Liberation Army watched helplessly as the Spaniards fled quickly!
Robin was hugged by the defeated troops. As they moved away from the battlefield and became farther and farther away from the pursuing Liberation Army, the expression on his face gradually relaxed.
Just at this moment, the mountains and forests on both sides of the river suddenly shook and collapsed!
This is the sound of a bowstring exploding!
Arrows made of iron arrows were shot out from the mountains and forests, hitting the fleeing Spaniards.
Puff! Puff! Puff!
This is the sound of an arrow piercing the flesh and entering the human body.
The Spaniards were stunned by the sudden surprise attack. Before they could make any response, short, strong, and shirtless natives rushed out of the forest.
They held dog-leg knives and painted colorful pictures on their faces. They howled and rushed towards the Spaniards.