Balanga is just a coastal fishing town. Because it is so close to Manila Bay, this is a typical siphon effect in economics.
No commercial ships would choose to berth here. It only takes dozens of minutes to enter Manila Bay, so commercial trade cannot develop at all.
If the economy is underdeveloped, the population will not be large. If the population is small, it will not have any important strategic significance. In General Enmu's defense strategy, Balangya is a useless place abandoned in the north.
All his troops were concentrated on Sanlishi Mountain behind Balanga. About 3,000 defenders controlled four important passes, protecting the security of the western part of Manila Bay.
General Enmu never imagined that the enemy would attack from this place. He had always firmly believed that the Chinese would gather in the Brunei region, and after first surrendering Sulu, the army would then attack Luzon Island.
Errors in strategic judgment are fatal. On the first day of the new year in 1871, just after nine o'clock in the morning, the Chinese fleet suddenly pressed over from the northern waters. The mighty fleet blocked the sky and headed towards 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 message, the covering warships rushed up and bombarded them into debris 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 coming! Run! The Chinese army is coming!"
Balangya is an undefended town at all. The total number of policemen does not exceed 20. The foreign troops and residents have long since fled without a trace. The Chinese resident here also took advantage of the chaos and fled to the north.
With no one to direct these natives, these tropical monkeys could only jump up and down the mountain and scream, causing the city to be smashed, looted and burned.
"Run! The Chinese will massacre the city..." With a bang, the door panel of the grain store was smashed, and a group of monkeys rushed in, carrying bags of grain, and fled out of the city.
The gangsters were also excited. They had long known which family in the city was wealthy and whose daughter-in-law was beautiful. Taking advantage of the current chaos, they carried out evil operations towards their intended target.
The thugs rushed into the houses and stole all valuable things. They killed the male owners with their parang knives and then collectively insulted the women. The girls' screams could be heard across two streets.
After the violence, the house had to be set on fire in order to destroy the evidence, and soon the two streets had turned into a sea of flames!
The person commanding this naval operation was Navy Captain Sun Chujian, who had not gone to Europe because of recuperation. He has become the commander-in-chief of this naval battle.
Putting down his spectacles, he said coldly, "It is impossible for uncivilized peoples to assume the future of Asia. The only way to deal with these semi-barbarians is to use violence to make them submit and integrate!"
"Animals that have not even been trained to show basic humanity are not worthy of this rich land!"
"European powers only know how to plunder and not build. They have not even established an education system during their three hundred years of rule. Such rulers can only be thrown into the garbage heap!"
"Order the Ba Dao team to land as the vanguard and immediately bring order to the town. If there is resistance... shoot to death without mercy!"
In the eyes of these officers and soldiers of the old Chinese ethnic group, foreign officers, mainly Fusang warriors, are the best candidates to carry out massacres. Real Chinese soldiers with pure blood dare to fight hard and can fight fiercely, and they will not hesitate to encounter any enemy. He flinched, but these people were taught by the head of state to be a little too arrogant.
Deep down, the Chinese have considered themselves to be the noblest nation in Asia, and they have continued to do such despicable things as massacres of cities.
Sun Chujian knew all too well the temperament and temperament of these people, so the credit for this first battle should be given to the murderous Fuso Ba Dao team members.
"Maeda Yujiro... Date Shiraku... Uesugi Nobu... led the troops to the beach and quickly put down the riot! Anyone who dares to resist will be killed without mercy!"
Yujiro Maeda, Shiro Date, Nobu Uesugi...these were all Fuso daimyo warriors who supported the Chinese in the Far East War. After the war, they finally got their wish and were incorporated into the Chinese Foreign Legion.
At this moment, each person led a company, and the vanguard of three hundred people began to take small boats and rush towards the town.
Each of the 300 Bato team members had white strips of cloth tied on their foreheads. This thing became popular in Japan during the Warring States Period, and its scientific name is Bomo!
Tying the bo scroll means working hard, and if the bo scroll is stained with blood, it means that you will not stop fighting!
The soldiers loaded their bayonets, the officers drew their swords, and more than a dozen small boats rushed forward quickly towards the beach.
General Cai Mao, the observer of this war and the deputy speaker of the Chinese Parliament, walked to Sun Chujian worriedly, "There are a little less people. Is more than 300 people enough?"
Colonel Suzuki Tai, who was watching the battle on the command ship, put down his telescope and said respectfully, "That's enough! These unorganized savages are not as effective as Fuso's peasant soldiers... and they are all real samurai!"
"Your Excellency, Speaker, please watch the battle with peace of mind. This will be a one-sided massacre!"
What he said is absolutely correct. After the boat rushed to the beach, Maeda Yujiro jumped into the waist-deep water, raised his sword in his hand and said, "Give me the duck! Those who surrender will not be killed!"
The three hundred pioneers screamed and stepped ashore through the sea water. These murderous gods hadn't made any noises as soon as they entered the town. They wanted to kill one round first!
"Surrender and avoid death! Kill... Surrender and avoid death!"
Although several officers are shouting to surrender and avoid death, you are speaking in Spanish or Chinese. Who can understand Japanese?
Those violent thugs were cut into pieces as soon as they met!
The long street was filled with the pungent smell of blood. Bayonets penetrated the bodies of the natives, and the corpses kept twitching on the ground. The officers' swords cut the enemy's throats, and the thugs kneeling on the ground had their heads cut off with a backhand knife.
The thousands of years of Bushido education in Japan are really not in vain. They love killing, especially cutting off human heads. Since ancient times, cutting off heads has been used as a mark of merit in wars.
Moreover, a samurai’s wife also had an important task in her daily life, which was to put makeup on her husband’s severed head!
When a husband wins a battle, his wife and daughter will be careful to clear and clean the severed head, then apply light makeup on it, and finally put it in a cage and send it to the daimyo to receive credit.
Many samurai watched scenes like this fight when they were young, so these people had no fear of killing at all. Instead, they became more and more addicted to killing.
Three hundred warriors formed three sharp formations and rampaged through the streets of the town. In less than twenty minutes, they killed every one in three blocks.
At this time, the follow-up troops also landed, and the Chinese officer shouted loudly, "Just kill almost all of them! These monkeys were so frightened that they didn't dare to resist, and they all fled into the woods..."
"Accept prisoners from now on!"
General Cai Hao shook his head and said with a smile, "It's so boring. There was no resistance at all from beginning to end. This battle is really boring!"
"Let's take action! March to Sanlishi Mountain immediately!"
