Both the Japanese and Zhang Xianzhong and Balvit have no confidence.

Although Zhang Xianzhong's self-recommendation about being a mercenary, Balvit was very moved, but he was not so naive that he was bewitched by Zhang Xianzhong's words. Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates had tens of thousands of people. If they hired these people, it would be fine if they could command them. If they could not do it well, it would be bad.

However, in comparison, after the Japanese occupied Manila, they robbed the Spanish's wealth, and at least more than four million taels of silver fell into the hands of the Japanese, and the Japanese did not mention it at all. Compared with the Japanese, Zhang Xianzhong still had some advantages, and he first presented a gift of 1 million taels of silver. These days, there have been too many things that are not worthy of words but not worth it. It is so exaggerated that there is no real money or silver.

Balvet himself was not sure of his own and wanted to accept the gifts. He was worried that he would be fooled by Zhang Xianzhong, so he had to ask others for their opinions:

"Look, the Japanese said they wanted to withdraw their troops and hand over Manila to us. Zhang Xianzhong is coming to show his kindness again. Let me tell you what to do about it?"

Katos despised gangsters like Zhang Xianzhong, and the first one was to yell:

"Zhang's bandits are extremely vicious and must not let them stay in Luzon. The only correct way we can deal with these bandits is to start a war against them until these damn bandits are driven out of the sea to feed the fish."

"Dear Catos, please be careful to maintain the image of a gentleman!" Lanska said with teasing: "Mythmally, we should have started a war against Zhang's bandits. Yes, this is a just action. Zhang's bandits invaded Luzon and should let these damn bandits go. I would like to ask a question for my dear gentlemen. After we defeated Zhang Xianzhong with the Japanese, Zhang's bandits were driven into the sea and fed fish. What if the Japanese stayed in Manila and didn't leave? I would like to remind the gentlemen here that they were here to pay attention.

The Japanese occupied our Manila, robbed our countless property, killed our governor, and insulted our ladies. I think no one here can deny that the Japanese are our number one enemy. Now, we do not start a war against the Japanese, but help the Japanese to defeat his enemies. After helping the Japanese defeat his enemies, we have to face the devils of the Japanese alone. Do we still think that the suffering the Japanese have brought to us is not enough! I am not willing to do such a stupid thing."

Catos shouted:

"I dare say that Zhang's bandits are more cruel than the Japanese. If they are allowed to gain a foothold, I dare say that they will steal us all. These bandits are even better than the Japanese. If Zhang's bandits are not eliminated now, I'm afraid that the entire Luzon Island will be the world of these bandits in the future! I think you will suffer the consequences at that time."

Lansca argued:

"But they are the bandits you mentioned, at least they know etiquette. Look, they offer to spend money to buy Luzon land or rent land. And the Japanese will only rob, rob our castles, and rob our money."

Seeing these two people having their own opinions, Balvit shook his head. Hunter finally couldn't help it and said:

"Since neither the Japanese nor Zhang's bandits are good things, I think there is no need for us to help either of them. Both sides will be able to fight and get rid of both sides. It is best if they fight hard and we can drive them all into the sea."

Of course, Hunter's idea was to take shortcuts. Since both sides showed goodwill to him, it would be better to sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight, which seemed much better than rashly intervening in the battle between the two sides.

Balvet finally heard what he was willing to hear. It was not easy to ask Balvet to refuse the property given by Zhang Xianzhong, which was more than one million taels of silver. Hunter's statement was quite consistent with Balvet's wishes. In this case, he didn't want to help for the time being, and they could fight as much as they like! So the property sent by Zhang Xianzhong can be accepted. As for the consequences of accepting the property, Balvet even thought, or in the future, he would draw a barren mountain and wilderness for Zhang Xianzhong's remnants to be reclaimed.

Since ancient times, wealth has been touching and no one in the world can do anything. When Zhang Xianzhong was in the Ming Dynasty, he did surrender and recruitment, but he did not bribe the generals of the Ming Dynasty. With Zhang Xianzhong's experience, the more money he spent, the more reliable things he did. For this international bribery, Zhang Xianzhong naturally had to offer money he could take, so the capital he had to pay was large. Although the property Zhang Xianzhong snatched in the Ming Dynasty was filled with twelve ships, it was only more than 20 million taels of silver. It was spent one-twentieth of this time, but Zhang Xianzhong didn't even blink.

After Shi Liyan gave the gift, he looked at Uncle Zeng, and both of them felt relaxed. It turned out that people were no different from others. Even if he had blue eyes and high noses, as long as he had enough treasures, the Spaniards would be conquered by the treasures when they saw them. Shi Liyan had a reason to be proud, but what Shi Liyan didn't know was that Balvette was even more proud of the treasures. It was really a fight between snipes and clams to make profits! The two families fought to the death and reaped profits by themselves. They collected so much money as soon as they opened, not to mention how beautiful it was!

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Although the Spaniards will not be involved in the war between the two sides for the time being, Zhang Xianzhong is still under great pressure.

Zhang Dingguo besieged Manila with 11,000 troops. Zeng Shu and Shi Liyan originally brought 5,000 troops to warn the Spaniards. Since the successful bribery, Zeng Shu led 2,000 troops to continue to warn the Spaniards. Another 3,000 people were transferred to Zhang Dingguo's command as Zhang Dingguo's reserve team. Zhang Dingguo's troops confronted the Japanese army in Santiago Castle, but did not attack, but just surrounded them. The Japanese army in the city neither counterattacked nor withdrawn. The two sides confronted each other.

Yang Heng led 6,000 soldiers and horses to defend the supply passage. Among these 6,000 soldiers, there were Yang Heng's Yingbasket and some Ming troops, which had 500 people together, and there were 1,000 Anti-Japanese Allied Forces and Horses, and the others were Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates. It was a bit thin to defend the supply passage of these 6,000 soldiers and horses. But there was no way, because the land was not suitable for the land, at least 8,000 soldiers could only rest in Lin Jiayan. Lin Jiayan was in the base area, and at least 5,000 soldiers had to guard it, but the troops were insufficient, so in the end, only three thousand strong soldiers were left, along with eight thousand sick guards.

Wei Deng led 4,000 troops to guard the crossing of the sea in the northern part of Luzon Island, preparing to meet the 30,000 troops in the crossing of the sea.

The first thing the Japanese attacked was Weiden's landing bridgehead.

The Japanese strategy was to cut off Zhang Xianzhong's subsequent reinforcements and the arms supply from the Ming Dynasty. If Zhang Xianzhong lost reinforcements, especially after lacking arms supply, he would have to sit and wait for death.

The four thousand soldiers transferred from the Japanese army from the land met with the one thousand soldiers withdrawn from Manila, and attacked Weiden's position from both sides of the east and west.

Wei Deng had only five hundred Ming troops under his command, and the other 1,000 Anti-Japanese United Army teams were finally equipped with Jiashen rifles and some Type 45 rifles, and their combat power was quite good. As for Zhang Xianzhong's 2,500 men, they still had cold weapons, but their men were equipped with two grenades.

The Japanese army had more than ten cannons on both sides of the east and west, and were bombarding Wei Deng's position. The powerful naval guns on the Japanese ships were also pouring artillery fire into the position. The Japanese artillery fire was too fierce. Then, the Japanese army quickly captured the first line of defense with its superior firepower and skillful tactics.

"This is not possible. The Japanese army adopted the tactics of frontal assault and two wings. Our army's firepower is too weak. Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates only have grenades and do not understand the combat tactics of hot weapons at all. They can only fight to the death. This kind of casualties is too great. It is not a solution to defend like this. Deputy Commander of the Guard, it's better to withdraw the troops." A company commander under Wei Deng persuaded.

Weiden sighed and said:

"It's easy to withdraw troops, but if you lose this landing ground, reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty have to find another landing ground. If you land at other places, the transport ships will have to travel at least 20 kilometers on the sea. At this moment, the reinforcements will probably be in danger of crossing the sea. We didn't expect that the Japanese army would actually increase their troops! And they were taking the approach of cutting off my retreat."

Originally, this was the best landing ground. Reinforcements sailed directly from the opposite island. They only needed to sail more than 20 kilometers on the sea. Rocket launchers on both sides could be equipped with rocket launchers to escort the troop transport ships. Rocket launchers on both sides could control at least ten kilometers of sea areas, and the distance required for naval escort was only more than ten kilometers. Shi Lang's navy could take the responsibility of escort. But if this landing ground was lost, it would be different. The difficulty of reinforcements crossing the sea has increased greatly, and it would even affect the supply of guns, cannons and ammunition. According to the plan, a considerable number of guns, cannons and ammunition crossed the sea with Zhang Kewang's men. Now, the situation is serious, and the Japanese are taking off firewood from the bottom of the pot.

In the end, even though he knew he could not defend himself, Wei Deng still chose to withdraw, and the unnecessary casualties were meaningless.
Chapter completed!