Boss Wei looked carefully at the Malays and their villages opposite, and shook his head.
Following Zhennan Bo's order, Boss Wei entered the rainforest to hunt down the fleeing Spanish soldiers. In the woods, Boss Wei found the footprints of five Spanish white men and followed the footprints to find the Malay fishing village by the river.
This is a very primitive village. The Malay indigenous people live in thatched houses. Although it is a fishing village, the tools placed between the houses are harpoons, and there are no fishing nets.
In the opinion of Mr. Wei, these Malays were almost like savages. On Luzon Island in the seventeenth century, which was later to be the main island of the Philippines, the level of civilization was still very low and could not be compared with the Ming Dynasty.
However, these Malays with a low level of civilization are equally ferocious. In the conflict between the Han people and the white colonists, the Malay natives in Southeast Asia did not hesitate to side with the white colonists. Although the Han people who came to Luzon brought
It has advanced technologies such as farming, fishing, and textiles, but the Malays regard the Han people as intruders.
In almost every massacre against the Han people, Nanyang natives can be seen.
The white colonists were not bad to the Malays either. The main income of the white people in Manila came from the Chinese, including the raw silk trade and taxes collected from the Chinese in and around Manila. As for the indigenous Malays who were still in a state of ignorance, the white people wanted to exploit them.
There was nothing to exploit, so the whites did not tax the Malays and only occasionally used silver coins to trade food with the Malays.
The indigenous people on the Nanyang Islands were technologically backward and sparsely populated. Chinese people continued to immigrate here throughout the seventeenth century. The Malays felt threatened by the Chinese and were actually allies of the white people. At the last moment, the Spaniards in the Royal City of Manila ran out of the city desperately.
, trying to escape and hide in a Malay village.
In front of Mr. Wei, the Malays from the small fishing village held up the machetes they got from the white people and stared at the Ming people who were armed with live ammunition.
"Hand over the Spaniards! You will escape death!"
One of Wei Laoda's squad leaders shouted loudly to the Malays, but the Malays didn't know whether they didn't understand or were contemptuous of the Chinese, and were completely unmoved.
A Chinese shipbuilder next to Mr. Wei cried bitterly and shouted: "General! My daughter and son-in-law were killed by these Malays! My daughter...my daughter died miserably that night..."
The Chinese are the backbone of Manila. In order to maintain the normal operation of Manila, the Spanish left some Chinese craftsmen in key departments alive. This middle-aged shipbuilder was one of them.
At this time, he looked at the Malays in the small fishing village as if he were looking at the enemy. He said that his daughter died miserably, but he was unwilling to go into details, which made Boss Wei furious.
Apparently, the shipwright's woman had been humiliated by the Malays before her death.
According to Zhennanbo's order, any natives who dare to harbor the Spaniards will be killed without mercy.
"shot!"
"Pah, pah, pah, pah"
The rifle in the hand of the rifleman spurted out flames and fired bullets at the Malays who did not know the height of the sky. The Malays holding the scimitars suddenly spattered with blood, like a row of mahjong that had been pushed down, plop, plop.
Fall to the ground.
The Malays did not expect that the Chinese rifles were so powerful. In their eyes, the Chinese guns were comparable to the Spanish matchlock guns...
No wonder the Chinese could defeat the Spaniards.
They panicked, turned around and fled into the rainforest.
At the same time, five Spanish soldiers rushed out of the thatched hut.
The Spaniards knew that they would be caught and killed if they continued to hide in the thatched hut, so they had to escape while the Ming riflemen were reloading. It took thirty seconds to reload the matchlock gun, which was enough time for them to escape deep into the rain forest.
But they still don't understand the rate of fire of a breech-loading rifle.
As officers, Boss Wei and the four squad leaders under his command were all equipped with breech-loading rifles. When they saw five Spaniards running out, the five of them loaded paper shell bullets into the bolts of the breech-loading rifles as quickly as possible.
"From left to right, aim in your own order!"
Five gunshots rang out, and five Spanish soldiers were shot in the back at the same time, screaming and falling on the edge of the rain forest.
Boss Wei exhaled from his nostrils.
During this battle in Manila, Boss Wei was still a little unhappy. The Spanish army in Manila only had 5,000 men, but they killed more than 20,000 Chinese in the Eighth Company. Even if they killed all the Spanish men in Manila, they would still suffer a loss.
I am from Minghan.
No matter how you calculate it, the Spaniards still owe me the Han people 20,000 blood debts.
Boss Wei led the squad leaders into the hut where the Spaniards were hiding to check if there were any white people inside.
However, as soon as he entered the thatched house, Mr. Wei saw a white woman with a jewelry necklace around her neck huddled in the corner of the house.
The woman's face was full of panic, and she was holding a dagger in her hand. She pointed the dagger at Mr. Wei and kept shrinking towards the corner.
The four squad leaders looked up and down at the Spanish woman. One of them walked up, easily snatched the dagger from the woman's hand, and pushed the Spanish woman to the ground.
The woman on the ground yelled loudly in Spanish.
Boss Wei was too lazy to talk to this woman, but the paddler next to him seemed to be attracted to this Spanish woman. He swallowed his saliva and said: "General, this Spanish woman said she is the daughter of the Governor of Manila, let us let her go! She said Spain
People will pay him!"
Boss Wei looked at the oars and said: "Sooner or later, the Spanish money will belong to us, so we don't care about the reward. According to Zhen Nanbo, all the Spanish women were slaves. But these white men
They have rough flesh, long hair and a strong body odor. Generally no one buys them, and the price is very cheap. Thirty taels a piece."
Boss Wei spoke to the oar, but found that the oar was looking straight at the white woman on the ground.
Mr. Wei laughed and said, "Master Yuan, you have lost your daughter in middle age and have no children. Should you buy one as your concubine?"
When he heard that Boss Wei was interested in selling the woman to him, Oar's eyes lit up, he turned around and nodded vigorously.
Mr. Wei laughed and said: "Master Yuan, let me remind you that our Tianjin system is now discriminating against white people. If you have offspring with this white woman, your offspring may be discriminated against by pure-blooded Han people. We
None of these decent people will marry non-Han women as wives and concubines... Speaking of which, only those of you who have been with Spain can accept such female slaves..."
The oar said excitedly: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter...General, are you serious about selling this woman to me for thirty taels?"
Boss Wei looked at the jewelry around the woman's neck and said, "The jewelry will be confiscated, and this woman will be handed over to the slave market sooner or later. As long as Master Yuan and I go to the munitions office to go through some handover procedures, there will be no problem.
"
The oar quickly replied: "Okay, I have bought this woman. When I get back to the city, I will give the money to the general!"
"It's not for me, it's for the Military Supplies Department." Boss Wei waved his hand and said, "Help Master Yuan tie this woman's hands and escort her back to the city."
The oar said happily: "No need to bother generals, I'll do it, I'll do it!"
He went up and tied the white woman's hands, and happily spoke Spanish to her.
The woman glanced at the middle-aged oar in horror, and then at the Han officers behind the oar, and tears fell down at once.
Seeing the woman's humiliated look, Mr. Wei laughed, clapped his hands and walked out of the hut.
"Go into the mountains and continue to hunt down the Spanish soldiers!"
