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Chapter 675 Burning the Village (Third Change)

When Acuña led the colonial soldiers into the indigenous tribe, the village was empty, and Acuña was so angry that he couldn't find anyone to vent his anger on.The corpses of the previous colonial soldiers hanging at the entrance of the village were probably humiliated by the natives.

The colonial soldiers broke open the wooden door with their gun butts, entered inside, and found that except for some wooden tables that could not be taken away, all the clothes, food, and livestock had been taken away, leaving only empty thatched huts.

"It seems that they were prepared for a long time, knowing that they were not our opponents, and fled ahead of time, without leaving us any food." Castle came over with a hoe, which he could already find in the village. The best thing, and it is very likely that the natives forgot to take it away.

"If I catch them next time, I will take them all to Caishikou in Manila and behead them."

Acuña looked at the empty village, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, so he ordered: "Set the village here on fire."

Castle's color changed slightly: "No, this place is located in the mountains and forests. If you set fire to it rashly, it will cause a mountain fire, and you may not know where it will go."

"If I don't set fire to this place, I can't vent my anger. It must be razed to the ground." Acuña still insisted on setting fire to the village. "Dig a trench around the village to prevent the fire from spreading, and then set fire to it." gone."

"Yes, Lord Governor." Castle thought for a while, and after confirming that Acuña's attack would definitely not bring trouble to the colony, he led his men to set fire to the village.

The thatched hut was on fire, and soon black smoke billowed up from the valley, so that black smoke could be seen in a radius of ten miles.

On a hill, the shopkeeper Wang who hid in the jungle looked at the black smoke hovering over the valley for a long time, and said to an indigenous leader in a hemp skirt with tattoos on his face: "Great leader, Thank you for protecting us and sacrificing your homeland for it."

"You Chinese businessmen in Manila gave us generous and selfless help when our tribe was in the most difficult time a few years ago. They are friends sent to us by the gods. We will always remember your friendship." The indigenous leader said, with the tattoos on his face. Change as he speaks.

"Please rest assured that although your thatched huts were burned down by the devil, once we take control of Manila, our Huaxia merchants will repay you and hire good craftsmen to build houses for your tribe. You are ready." Shopkeeper Wang said gratefully.

"Thatched huts are easy to build, but if possible, please give us more tea and high-quality ironware." The native leader said.

"These are trivial things." Shopkeeper Wang said.

A rebel soldier who wandered into the jungle beside shopkeeper Wang said: "Treasurer Wang, in the jungle just now, if we didn't lack ammunition and couldn't use the rifles of the Kyushu Army to support us, their casualties would be so few. Our bows and arrows can't kill us." They killed and wounded about 30 of them, and did not cause serious damage to them."

"Now I am a little regretful that I started too early and underestimated the fighting power of the red-haired people. They once captured Manila with more than a thousand people and collapsed the kingdom that originally occupied Manila. How could they be so easy to deal with. This time they brought More than 300 people came, more than us, and it is normal for us to be unable to defeat them. If only we had enough ammunition in our hands, we would definitely be able to consume them to death in the jungle." The leading treasurer Wang Faintly becoming the leader of the remnant rebel army, he couldn't help but express his regret.

This happened twice, once in the city of Manila because of the betrayal of the traitors, the Spanish colonial army was on guard, and this time it lacked enough ammunition, wasting a great advantage in terrain.

"Some of our brothers are not used to the water and soil deep in the jungle. Several of them have recently suffered from miasma. I'm afraid..." In addition to the pursuit of the colonial soldiers, these remaining rebels also encountered malaria, a common difficulty in the rainforest.

"Find a way to get in touch with our companions in Manila. We must obtain enough supplies to continue dealing with them." Shopkeeper Wang said. Avoid them in the jungle."

"But shopkeeper Wang, the news has not passed, and their authorities will definitely arrest and arrest us in the city. If you enter the city, you may be caught by them. With their resentment towards you, you will definitely not be able to get anything good .” Some rebel members said worriedly.

"It's all because of me that the brothers went into exile in the jungle. I must let as many people as possible go back alive, even if it means sacrificing myself." Shopkeeper Wang said.

Acuña, who went into the jungle to carry out the siege, lost a lot of troops, but still couldn't find the last batch of remaining rebels led by the shopkeeper Wang, so he could only return to Manila depressed.

But what they didn't expect was that the treasurer Wang, the leader of the rebel army they had been trying to arrest, followed them far behind and sneaked into the city of Manila.

The mansion of Manila businessman Mr. Chen is in the southeast corner of Manila city. Since Mr. Chen was released during the Manila uprising, Mr. Chen has stayed behind closed doors and stopped doing business.Not only Mr. Chen, but also the younger generation of the Chen family in Manila stayed behind closed doors, temporarily giving up the family business.

Chen Lao's decision made many Chinese businessmen in Manila follow suit. As a result, Manila, which lost the Chinese businessmen, was paralyzed for a while!Without Chinese merchants, and the Kyushu Army tightened the trade blockade against Manila, no Chinese goods flowed into Manila.The income of Spanish merchants in Manila mainly relies on two channels. One is to buy Chinese tea, porcelain, and silk, and transport them back to Europe for resale. The other is to plunder spices, sugar and other economic crops and furs from the Spice Islands and transport them back to Europe. .Without the supply of goods from China, it is equivalent to the Kyushu Army imposing economic sanctions on them, which plunged the unprepared Spanish Governor's Palace into an economic winter.

"I want to meet Mr. Chen." The treasurer Wang who sneaked into the city of Manila did not seek to see Mr. Chen through the main entrance of Chen's house, but sneaked around through the back door of Chen's house. Otherwise, the soldiers from the Governor's Mansion might come and arrest him.

"Who are you, why do you sneak in through the back door?" asked the nurse at the back door.

"Go and tell Mr. Chen that the descendant surnamed Wang has encountered some troubles and wants him to help." Shopkeeper Wang took off his straw hat, feeling a little embarrassed. He didn't listen to Mr. Chen's advice at the beginning, which led to the failure of the rebel army. .

(End of this chapter)