open sea

Chapter 400
Lin Manjue on Guam is miserable.

After fighting a few good battles, he became more and more adept at attacking the Spanish search team in different ways. He even figured out the three roads going south on Guam, and later simply ambushed on the only way.

Although Xiyi found that several search teams were missing, and even fled back alive to report the news, they sent more and more troops, but they didn't know that Lin Manjue's headquarters was just east of their port, and they kept sending troops south to search. I can't find anything.

Once the search team exceeds [-], Lin Manjue will hide to pack quail, and if there are fewer people, he will send someone to follow and mark. He likes to watch others set up a pot and light a fire, and he can eat a warm bowl before leaving.

As a result, the play was off. During the ninth ambush of the enemy search party, it rained.

The typhoon did not affect this, but it will be the rainy season when Lin Manjue lands on the island. The rain in Guam is not like the border of the three provinces where Lin Manjue was born and raised. The rain here has no warning.

Wow - let's go, eh - say stop, stop.

Just for a while, just for the moment when he was about to start.

All the blunderbusses were taken out, but it rained, and the matchlock was all wet, so the blunderbuss could not be used anymore, and they were discovered by the enemy.

The result was obvious. More than 200 people were chased by a hundred or so American soldiers with cold weapons. The worst thing was that they didn't dare to run to the shipwreck camp, so they had to flee all the way south.

There was no battle at all, and when he saw that the guns could not blind his subordinates, not all the guns were soaked, and some released a gun while the match was still on, but after hitting it, they could only follow and flee.

It wasn't until Lin Manjue led his troops back three miles to the south that he realized something was wrong.

"The rain is so fucking evil. Why are we running? We have armor and knives. Why are we afraid of them? Walk around and fight back."

Now that Lin Manjue said to fight back, his morale suddenly went up. For no other reason, the rain stopped and the guns could be used again.

Each battalion put on a new matchlock from the carrying bag, took out the fire equipment, the scythe and flint, the spark tinder, and the tinder ignited coals, spent a long time lighting the fire, each inserted a new match, and dried the wrapping cloth The barrel of the gun was replaced with new medicine, and it passed the forest aisle with arrogance and arrogance, and went back to the way of escape.

In the days that followed, Lin Manjue continued to use guerrilla tactics to deal with the Xiyi in the jungle. It was so mysterious that people couldn't figure out how many people he had. We can only guess that his force was less than a thousand, but no one knew where he was. Can't tell.

The successive attacks made the American soldiers on the island panic. Their words and beliefs made them unable to communicate their worries well to the Spanish officers who led them. This panic spread in the army until it swept the entire army.

The Spanish upper-level military officers were angry. The attack in the southern part of the island also terrified their soldiers. The bodies of the members of the search team who were dispatched were found a few days after they were dispatched. After killing, the projectile that killed them is also taken by the enemy.

In the documents delivered to Major Mendoza of New Spain, the clean and tidy methods of this elusive enemy after the battle are clearly stated.

A spear in the heart, a dagger in the neck, and a missing ear.

In most battles, there are no survivors. Even if someone escapes by chance, he does not see the appearance of the enemy army, let alone the deployment of the enemy's troops. He only knows that the muskets are fired one after another. When the enemy army comes out of the forest, there will be no survivors on the battlefield. .

The dense musketry caused the Spanish officers to misjudge the strength of the Ming army landing on the island. In the Spanish army formation, there were [-] to [-] soldiers with three musketeers, especially for this multi-directional, short-term rapid battle. Mendoza And his chief priest even thinks that the enemy may be between one thousand and three thousand.

The biggest possibility is an entire legion.

In the front-line fortress under construction in the west of Guam, the Spanish military officer corps perfectly imagined the strategy and progress of the Ming army's attack on the island.

At the beginning, they landed on the island with only one boat and more than 100 people. They quickly established a front-line outpost, and at the same time sent a fleet to cover the infantry landing on the island to fight with their patrol fleet in the southwest of the port and win.

Immediately afterwards, a large infantry force of more than a thousand people landed in the south of the island, and marched to the north successively. On the way, they fought with the search team and divided Guam into two.

The intensive raid allowed Lin Manjue to take advantage, and the consequences were naturally very serious.

"Three guys! Yesterday, yesterday, the enemy army increased its troops to the port, and the scouts couldn't get there. The nearest enemy army is four miles to the west—"

Lin Manjue's life was not too difficult during this period. He had food, drink, meat and wine. Except for the taste of big bats at the beginning, he had been eating the enemy's military rations, although it was much more difficult than when he was stationed in Chenlai Island. However, it did not exceed their estimate of the difficulty of staying on the island.

The subordinate scouts protruded out of the forest in a panic, reporting halfway with their voices suppressed, but Lin Manjue covered his mouth and nose with his mouth, dragged him aside and said in a low voice: "Don't shout, talk about it, what's going on?"

At this time, Lin Manjue poured out the pipe and stomped it out, suppressed his voice with a fierce look on his face, and said to Lin Xiao beside him: "Call the fish raft hunting team back!"

"In the past two days, the port has increased by three or four thousand troops. Today, two armies were dispatched successively. Many of them wore breastplates and carried spears and guns. They went south. The scouts did not dare to go too close. I don't know how many of them there are. "

"Thousands." Lin Manjue's face was cloudy, "Both thousands?"

The scout couldn't tell exactly about the enemy's strength, but he said to Lin Manjue with certainty, "However, I saw with my own eyes four large ships and a few small boats heading south from the bay."

Lin Manjue let out a sigh of relief, waved his hand feebly, and said, "Let's count the food, how much water and food are left, and we can't attack again in the future."

He found a cleaner stone to lean on, took out a little bit of tobacco from his pocket, and slowly refilled it into the pipe. He finally figured out that the pipe should be eaten by lighting it, but it was meaningless at the moment.

In Pingyuan County, he fought more than 20 battles in the past few years, winning and losing each other.

But it has never been like after landing on the island, how to fight and how to win, it seems that he has really grown from an old soldier to an unrivaled army god, it has never happened.

Sometimes he also knows that the victory is due to the advantage of military weapons, but this sense of accomplishment still makes him excited and uneasy. He must bring these youngsters home, but he also knows that sooner or later, Xiyi will launch a large army to conquer them. It was the moment when he was beaten back to his original shape.

This great pressure tormented him.

He prayed to the wood carving, praying that the imperial army would arrive earlier than the Spanish army, but now it seems that Dragon and Tiger True Monarch does not always succeed.

Especially when he heard the exclamation of his subordinates, and raised his binoculars to look at the sea to the east, he saw three big ships flying red cross flags and launching small boats one after another. The small boats were full of birds wearing breastplates and feather helmets holding long swords. The enemy of the blunderbuss attacked him under the vigorous strokes of the shirtless oarsman.

The obsidian pipe fell to the ground, and its owner held the blunderbuss tightly and shouted loudly: "Defend the enemy, defend the enemy!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)