3102 Capture of Balanga
Balangya is just a coastal fishing town. Since it is too close to Manila Bay, this is a typical siphon effect in economics.
All merchant ships will not choose to park here, and they can enter Manila Bay within a few dozen minutes of bends, so commercial trade cannot develop at all.
The economy is underdeveloped, and the population is not large, so there is no important strategic significance. In General Enmu's defensive strategy this time, Balangya is a useless place abandoned in the north.
His troops were all concentrated on Mount Sanlishi behind Balangya. About three thousand defenders controlled four important passes and protected the western security of Manila Bay.
General Enmu never expected that the enemy would attack from this place. He always firmly believed that the Chinese would gather in the Brunei region, first surrender Sulu, and then attack Luzon Island.
Strategic judgment errors are fatal. On the first day of the New Year in 1871, just around nine o'clock in the morning, the Chinese fleet suddenly came from the northern waters, and the vast fleet covered the sky and rushed straight to Subic Bay.
Along the way, only three small Spanish gunboats discovered the movements of the Chinese army, but before they could escape to deliver the letter, the covered warship rushed up and the cannons were blown into the remnants of floating on the sea.
When the main fleet rushed to the coast of Balangya, all the natives in the town went crazy!
"The Chinese are here! Run! The Chinese army is here!"
Balangya is simply an unguarded town. The number of police officers together does not exceed twenty. The foreign army and residents have long since escaped, and the Chinese who are permanently stationed here also fled to the north while the chaos has taken advantage of the chaos.
No one commanded these indigenous people. These tropical monkeys could only jump down the mountain and scream, and they immediately started to smash, loot and burn in the city.
"Run! The Chinese will massacre the city..." With a bang, the door panel of the grain shop was smashed, and a group of monkeys rushed in and carried the grain bags and fled out of the city.
The rogues and gangsters were also excited. They had long known who was rich in the city and whose daughter-in-law and daughter were beautiful. Taking advantage of the chaos now, they attacked the predetermined goal.
The thugs rushed into the houses and snatched away all valuable things. Their Balan knife killed the male owner, and then collectively insulted the female family. The screams of the girls spread across two streets.
After the violence, the house had to set a fire in order to destroy the evidence, and soon the two streets had turned into a sea of fire!
The naval operation was directed by the naval colonel Sun Chujian, who had not gone to Europe due to his injuries. He had become the commander-in-chief of this naval battle.
Putting down his glasses, he said coldly, "Uncivilized nations cannot bear the future of Asia. For these semi-barbarians, they can only use violent means to make them surrender and integrate!"
"Beasts that have not even been trained in basic human nature are not worthy of owning this rich land!"
"The European powers only know how to plunder but not how to build. After three hundred years of rule, they have not even established an education system. Such rulers can only be thrown into the garbage dump!"
"Order the sword-drawing team to land as the vanguard and immediately calm down the order of the town. If there is any resistance... kill it without any revenge!"
In the eyes of these old Chinese officers and soldiers, foreign officers, mainly Fusang samurai, are the best candidates for massacres. Chinese soldiers with truly pure blood dare to fight tough battles and can fight tough battles. They will not retreat when encountering any enemy, but these people are a bit arrogant to educate the head of state.
In the bones, the Chinese people have already determined that they are the noblest nation in Asia, and they have been doing despicable things like massacre of cities.
Sun Chujian knew the temperament of these people very well, so the credit for this first battle should be given to those bloodthirsty Fuso sword-drawing team members.
"Maeda Yujiro... Ida Shiroe... Uesugi Nobu... Lead the troops of the headquarters to quickly quell the riots! Those who dare to resist will be killed without mercy!"
Yujiro Maeda, Shirata, Shinobu Uesugi... These are the Fuso Daimyo samurai who supported the Chinese people in the Far East War. After the war, they finally got their wish and were merged into the organization of the Chinese foreign legion.
At this moment, each of them led a company, and the vanguard of 300 people began to take a boat to grab the beach towards the town.
The three hundred sword-drawing team members had white cloth strips tied to their foreheads. This thing became popular since the Warring States Period in Japan and was scientifically called Bojuan!
Tie the roll on the bowl means working hard. If the roll on the bowl means blood, it means never ending!
The soldier installed a bayonet, the officer pulled out a tooth knife, and more than a dozen small boats rushed forward to the beach.
The observer of this war, General Cai Mao, deputy speaker of the Chinese Parliament, walked to Sun Chu with concern, "There are fewer people, is more than 300 people enough?"
Colonel Suzuki, who was watching the battle on the command ship, put down his telescope and said respectfully, "Enough! These unorganized savages are not as good as those of the peasant soldiers in Fuso... and they are all real samurai!"
"Please watch the battle with peace of mind, this will be a one-sided massacre!"
It was right at all. When the boat rushed to the beach, Yujiro Maeda jumped into the waist-deep sea water, and raised the sword in his hand, "Give it to the duck! The surrenderers are not killed!"
The three hundred vanguards screamed and stepped on the sea water and went to the shore. As soon as these killers entered the town, they had not yet shouted. Let's kill them first!
"Surrender for death! Kill...Surrender for death!"
Although several officials shouted to surrender and avoid death, you can speak in Spanish or Chinese. Who can understand Japanese?
Those violent thugs were cut off in one encounter!
The long street was filled with pungent smell of blood. The bayonets stabbed through the indigenous bodies, and the bodies kept twitching on the ground. The officer's tooth knife cut off the enemy's throat. The thug kneeling on the ground was cut off with his backhand.
Japan's thousand-year-old Bushido education is not in vain. They love killing, especially cutting people's heads. Since ancient times, they have earned merits by cutting their heads in wars.
Moreover, the warrior's wife has another important task in her daily life, which is to help her husband put on makeup with her head cut back!
When a husband wins a battle, the cut head will make the wife and daughter carefully clear and clean, then put on light makeup, and finally put it in a cage and send it to Daming for credit.
Many warriors watched such scenes fighting when they were young, so these people were not afraid of killing at all, but instead became more and more satisfied with killing.
Three hundred samurai formed three front arrow formations and rushed around the streets of the town. In less than twenty minutes, they killed three blocks in three blocks.
At this time, the follow-up troops also landed, and the Chinese officer shouted loudly, "Just kill it almost! I didn't see that these monkeys were so scared that they dared not resist, and they all fled to the woods..."
"Receive prisoners from now on!"
General Cai Mao shook his head and smiled and said, "It's so boring. He didn't resist at all from beginning to end. This battle is really boring!"
Chapter completed!