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Chapter 423: The Frustration of Maguindanu

The main forces of the Sulu army were all destroyed, and the Tang army quickly entered the city and firmly occupied the entire Hele City.

When Cao Bianjiao saw the king Unulula, who was carrying out from the dormitory of the palace, was immediately understood what happened in Hele City.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the Sulu royal family had to fight in such an endless internal struggle when the country was destroyed, which was really a pity.

What's even more lamentable is that when the Tang army had already had an absolute advantage, and when the Tang army promised to save the lives of the royal family and retain the royal property, these rulers of Sulu Kingdom could not see the situation clearly and dreamed of resisting and struggling. In the end, they were completely finished and all were ruined, which was speechless.

Soon, the statistical report of the Supervisory and Supervision Department came out.

According to the inventory, there are more than 10,000 taels of gold, 180,000 taels of silver, more than 800,000 shi of grain, and a large number of various types of storage goods in Hele City.

The residents in the city are more than 20,000 natives, more than 1,000 Chinese, and nearly 1,000 other Southeast Asian countries.

Cao Bianjiao was very happy to see the seizure so rich, but before ordering to be loaded onto the ship, he gave a cruel order.

"The barbarians do not obey the king's order, betray the Celestial Empire, and resist the heavenly soldiers. The real crime is unforgivable. I passed this general order, except for the Chinese, all the native men in the city will be massacred without leaving any one."

"Get orders."

Amid the screams of sobs, more than 10,000 native men were dragged out of the crowd by the Tang army, and all of them were beheaded in the streets, killing people. The entire street near the center of Hele City was piled with corpses piled up like mountains and blood was everywhere.

The steel knife flew, the head fell to the ground, and the continuous sound of cutting off the neck bones made people feel sour and palpitations.

Due to continuous chopping and killing, hundreds of steel knives in the hands of the Tang army executioners were cut into pieces.

At this point, the entire Hele City became a terrible Avici Hell. The streets in the middle of the city were already flowing into a river, winding around, making a terrible whirring sound until they disappeared into the drain of the street.

After killing the male in the city, Cao Bianjiao ordered the Chinese in the city to help clean up the corpses and bury them quickly to prevent the corpses from rotting and smelling, causing plague.

Next, the Tang army divided into several groups and attacked several remaining towns on the island.

These cities, with increasingly simple garrisons and even fewer defenders, were defeated by the Tang army in one go.

The various Tang army troops quickly implemented Cao Bianjiao's order in these cities, and all towns slaughtered men and women, killing people.

After destroying the Sulu Kingdom and conquering the entire Nantagalu Island, the Tang army general Cao Bianjiao still felt unsatisfied.

After loading all the wounded soldiers and the goods seized from Sulu State back to Manila, Cao Bianjiao kept all the main force in the conquest of Sulu State.

At the same time, he asked the returning fleet to bring back a letter to Li Xiao.

In the letter, Cao Bianjiao told Li Xiao that the Sulu Kingdom had been completely captured by himself, and the Tang army suffered a very minor loss. In such a favorable situation, he planned to lead the Tang army to continue attacking south and destroy the Majingdanu Kingdom on Mindanao.

Because South Tagalu Island is very close to Mindanao, you can drive directly from the port outside Helecheng to Zamboangao, the landing port of Mindanao, so he decided to keep all the main forces of the Tang army's expedition in Helecheng for the next time in order to attack Mindanao directly, thereby reducing the physical loss of the Tang army on the journey.

Five days later, the returned fleet returned to Manila. After transporting back a large number of seized treasures, they reported to Li Xiao that the Sulu Kingdom had fallen and that all the men were killed.

Li Xiao was very moved when he heard this news.

Only when the Sulu royal family is completely extinct when it is stopped and the Sulu royal family is so completely extinct.

However, Li Xiao was still very happy after hearing that Cao Bianjiao had finished all the dirty work such as killing men.

There is an indescribable reason why he acted so ruthlessly against Sulu.

Unlike Luzon and the islands in central Philippines, those residents who believe in primitive religions or Catholicism, the entire Sulu country believes in a certain religion, and this sect is bloody, violent, insufficiency, and basically has no possibility of education. On the contrary, this religion is not only unable to be educated, but also very likely to win over and assimilate other people who do not believe in this religion, which is something Li Xiao would never accept.

Since it cannot be assimilated, it is better to eliminate them all as soon as possible instead of keeping these irregular bombs.

After all, while slaughtering these male indigenous people, their various religious temples were also washed away by the Tang army and destroyed into ruins.

Don’t push what you can do on your own hands to future generations. This is Li Xiao’s usual point of view.

Afterwards, Joseph, the leader of the navy, also handed over Cao Bianjiao's letter to Li Xiao.

Seeing this letter, Li Xiao fell into deep thought.

He knew that the purpose of Cao Bianjiao's writing this letter was definitely to make contributions with the minimum loss, and he could fully trust him.

But the Majingdannu country is the most wilder than ever. Its country is located on Mindanao, the southernmost island of the Philippines. This island is basically still in a wild state. The capital of the Majingdannu country, Sultan Kudara, is located in the center of Mindanao, and is surrounded by rainforests and valleys. No matter which direction the Tang army attacks, it is not easy.

According to historical records, before the Tang army was preparing to attack Majingdanu, the Dutch and the Spaniards also tentatively attacked the Majingdanu country. As a result, these Western invading troops equipped with muskets and cannons were led by King Majingdanu and Sultan Ampatun V, leading the whole country's troops to attack and harass the invaders in various valleys, causing heavy losses to the Dutch and the Spaniards, and eventually had to withdraw from the island in a mess.

Li Xiao naturally did not want his army to be subject to such fate as the Dutch or the Spanish.

So he wrote a letter to Cao Bianjiao, telling him that his request to lead his army to attack Majingdannu has been approved, but he must act carefully and never underestimate the enemy. He must focus on steadily advance and take steady steps to eventually conquer the royal city of Majingdannu.

Five days later, Li Xiao sent new officials, 30,000 people, and a large number of auxiliary troops to garrison the island of South Tagalu since then became an inherent territory of China based on the Chinese.

When he received Li Xiao's letter, he saw that Li Xiao had agreed to his own attack request, Cao Bianjiao was overjoyed. Without even looking at Li Xiao's letter, he immediately raised his troops, boarded the navy fleet, and rushed towards Sanbaoyan at the southwest end of Mindanao.

Three days later, the Tang Navy, who brought Cao Bianjiao's troops, successfully arrived in Sanbaoyan.

Cao Bianjiao originally thought that the Sanbaoyan might be a prosperous town. After arriving there, he realized that this place was just a very simple fishing village.

Since there were almost no Majingdanu soldiers stationed, and the residents of the village had already escaped completely. Cao Bian Jiao's troops captured this small fishing village without any effort and settled successfully in Mindanao.

Everything went well during the day, and before I knew it, night fell.

Since there was almost no defense in the land of Sanbaoyan, Cao Bianjiao, the general of the commander-in-chief, arranged more than ten posts to guard the distance.

It looks like everything is fine and everything is fine.

Late at night, a group of short-sized and black-faced people appeared in the coconut woods deep in the coast, and were covered with strange colors of paint.

These people are Makindanu's sneak attackers.

They knew that launching an attack when the Tang army was most in afflicted, was the most effective method of attack.

These Majingdanu sneak attackers, holding bows and arrows and darts, bent, and took advantage of the blurred moonlight under the fog of the sea, and tiptoed towards the Tang army's post.

"Swoosh swish swish..."

A dense and slight sound of bows and arrows, two Tang soldiers who were half-dogging on the guardhouse were accurately shot by these sneak attackers and fell silently from the guardhouse.

Since these bows and arrows were highly poisonous, in fact, as long as they shot the exposed parts of Tang Jun's body, the Tang Jun would undoubtedly die.

The sneak attackers immediately jumped forward and quickly stripped all the armor and clothes of the two Tang soldiers on their bodies, and then cut off their heads with one knife.

Soon, the second guardhouse was also captured by these sneak attackers, and two more Tang troops turned into headless corpses.

When these Majingdanu people attacked the third guardhouse, an accident finally happened to have occurred. After they shot one Tang army to death, another Tang army was shot off their helmet.

When he saw his dead companion twitching in front of him, he was so scared that his face was pale and immediately blew the conch horn loudly.

The shrill conch number rang for only a few seconds before it stopped abruptly.

This Tang army was also shot and killed by these sneak attackers.

However, his conch horn was enough to convey the message that an enemy was attacking, and the entire Tang army camp immediately became turbulent.

Dozens of Tang army flying cavalrymen rushed towards the place where the trumpet was blowing.

When the Majingdanu attackers heard the rumbling horse hooves from afar, everyone showed an expression of reluctance on their faces. They didn't know who they were, and whistled in a low voice. The group hurriedly retreated and disappeared into the coconut forest in the distance.

At this time, the Tang Army camp was already brightly lit.

When Cao Bianjiao saw four naked, blood-splattered corpses, as well as the two Tang Jun's corpses with arrows in their throats, and the poisoning caused their entire face to turn black, his face was instantly distorted by anger.

These hateful Majingdanu people actually dare to attack our army. I will definitely kill all of your ugly races!

Then Cao Bianjiao ordered the entire army to retreat to the navy near the seaside, and at the same time, they set up a large torch to illuminate the entire camp and the surrounding area, and sent more alert troops to prevent Majingdanu's troops from coming to attack again.

The Tang army finally waited for dawn in a panic atmosphere.

Fortunately, Majingdanu's army saw that the Tang army was well prepared, and did not dare to attack again, so the Tang army finally spent the night safely.

Cao Bianjiao quickly arranged breakfast for the entire army and then issued a combat order.

"Chen Yiti, the chief of the Armor General of the Armor of the Bing Camp, obeyed the order!"

I'm here!"

"I will ask you to lead all the troops of the Armies of the Armies of the Bing Camp, bringing 300 musketeers and 100 Feiyazi cavalry, go east and capture the village of Jamao, and use Bamao Village as an important stronghold for our army's next action."

"I'm following the order!"

Chen Yiti, the strong-bodied whistle leader, shouted to Cao Bianjiao, and immediately went down to mobilize his troops and prepared to attack Bamao Village, which was about twenty miles away.

In the eyes of all Tang soldiers, Chen Yiti's battle this time should be sure to win, and he will undoubtedly win.

In the Tang army, there were 5 shield soldiers and 10 gunmen, with a total force of 1,530, plus 300 musketeers, 100 flying kites, and nearly 2,000 soldiers. It is not too easy to go to capture a small village.

Chen Yiti quickly ordered the troops and then went forward with great enthusiasm.

After Chen Yiti led his troops eastward, the entire battle process was collected by the military supervisor and was recorded in detail in the post-war report.

January 10, 13th year of Chongzhen.

As a statistics civil servant of the Supervisory and Governor's Department, I was sent to attack the Bamao Village in Namajingdanu Country with Chen Ziti's troops.

Because the enemy harassed yesterday and shot and killed six of our army's soldiers, the entire army had not had a good rest. The soldiers sent to the expedition this time were also very tired, but despite this, the soldiers were still fighting spirit, singing military songs all the way and heading east.

The entire army was led by dozens of flying kites, and walked along a path that was almost indistinguishable, and walked seven or eight miles in the dense rain forest. There was no movement, as if all the Majingdanu people who attacked us yesterday disappeared.

However, when we passed by a pool, two soldiers had an accident. Two huge crocodiles that rushed out of the pool dragged two musketeers who were not at a loss to the pool and left.

They screamed, and were torn into pieces by crocodiles in the pool, and blood stained the entire pool red. Dozens of thick crocodiles made bloody waves in the pool water like meals. Almost instantly, they tore and swallowed the two musketeers.

Everyone wanted to avenge these two musketeers, but the chief general Chen Ziti considered that the capture of Bamao Village was even more important, so he ordered the entire army to avoid the pool and continue to rush forward.

The next trip was until the entrance of the Kabakala Valley, and our army was still smooth.

There were only two spearmen who accidentally stepped on the venomous snake lurking on the road and bit the ankle by the venomous snake. After the rescue failed, they twitched and died.

And when entering the Kabakala Valley, a sudden heavy rain suddenly started to fall.

The Kabakala Valley, which was originally weeds and was extremely difficult to walk on, suddenly became a swamp that could not be passed through at all.

And at this moment, we heard a continuous scream like a beast in the rain forest on both sides of the path. The screams appeared and disappeared from time to time in the rustling rain, which was shocking.

Then, from the depths of the rainforest on both sides, as if they were magical, many Majingdanu soldiers holding darts and spears emerged.
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