Governor Coquilla would never have dreamed that the seemingly loyal Japanese Catholic samurai under him were actually guys who were in Xiying and had their hearts set on Japan.
They believe in Catholicism, but they prefer fiefs! In fact, there are those who believe deeply, those who believe superficially, and those who pretend to believe... Zheng Zhilong also believed in Catholicism, and his Christian name was Nicholas Gasbard. Later, he did not have many wives and concubines.
In particular, the "Yamada Party" who came from Siam has actually maintained close contact with the Tokugawa shogunate - Yamada Nagamasa himself was a Mikawa samurai and a retainer of Honda Masanobu, an important minister of the Tokugawa family. How far could his relationship with the Tokugawa shogunate go? Moreover, the exchanges between Japan and Siam were not interrupted until the death of Yamada Nagamasa and the expulsion of the Yamada Party. That was in 1630 AD.
The Yamada Party, which was exiled to Luzon and used by Spanish colonists who were in urgent need of mercenaries, still maintained secret contact with the Tokugawa Shogunate. Yamada Nagayasu and several leaders of the Yamada Party even made suggestions to Tokugawa Iemitsu, willing to work as internal agents to help Japan capture Luzon Island - in the original history, Tokugawa Iemitsu had planned to capture Luzon, but Because Japan has been closed to the country for too long, its navigation capabilities have deteriorated too much, and there are not enough ships to transport the army to Luzon Island, so it had to give up...
However, the current Yamada Party members did not know that Tokugawa Iemitsu would be unable to invade Luzon because he did not have a ship. Their proposal to the Tokugawa family to seize Luzon was only sent out last year, and the time is about the same now.
Therefore, Yamada Nagayasu saw the sampans floating over from the sea with "Japanese soldiers" sitting on them, and they were carrying Tokugawa's clover, so he took it for granted that the Tokugawa's army to conquer Luzon Island had arrived. .
Now that the Tokugawa family's army is here, what are the Yamada Party members waiting for? Hurry to welcome the king, and then kill all the Spaniards on Luzon Island together so that you can become the lord of the vassal - this Luzon Island looks quite big, how can you have "a million stones"? Being a millionaire in Luzon is better than being a dog with the Spaniards, right?
The cheers of the Yamada Party members were soon heard by the two Japanese Japs, Tagawaemon and Zagapu, who were rowing hard on the sea.
The two of them were not riding on a sampan - this was so that when one of them drowned, the other could take command. If both died, Zheng Zhihu also arranged for the third, fourth and fifth alternates. .
However, both of them are very lucky, and the journey from Shanghai has been smooth sailing. Until now, when I boarded the sampan to go to the beach, I didn't seem to have encountered any danger, and there seemed to be people in the coconut grove on the edge of the beach. Calling "Da Nippon Onboard" or something like that... What's going on?
"Dainippon Onboard" should be shouted by our side, and people on the shore should shout "Japanese Onboard"!
"Hey, can any of you hear clearly what the enemies on the shore are shouting?" Tagawaemon suspected that there was something wrong with his ears, so he asked his colleagues on the sampan.
"Admiral, the people on the shore seem to be shouting something like 'Da Nippon Onboard'. They seem to be Japanese too!"
"Are they Japanese mercenaries on Luzon Island?" Tagawaemon also knows that there is a group of Japanese mercenaries on Luzon Island - Japanese mercenaries are all over Southeast Asia these days. If you point to a place casually and say there are Japanese mercenaries, it will basically not happen. Wrong.
"That should be the case," someone immediately asked, "General, what should we do?"
"Then let's make a plan..." Tagawaemon said, "When you get close to the beach, shout with me: The Tokugawa family's army has arrived, and they want to live in Xiyi and regain Luzon! "
"Hai!"
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"The Tokugawa family's army has arrived and wants to live in Xiyi and regain Luzon!"
"Great Japanese onboard! Tokugawa onboard..."
The shouts in Japanese became louder and louder, and they reached the ears of the old man Afaros who was arranging for the Spanish in Cavite to go to the castle and at the same time expelling the Chinese there to the Eighth Company District.
This old man participated in the massacre of the Chinese twice, and also fought with various indigenous peoples on Luzon Island. He also fought with the indigenous people on Taiyuan Island (the Spaniards opened a colony in northern Taiwan). He can be regarded as a battle-hardened man. .
So as soon as he heard the cheers coming from the direction of the coconut grove in Cavite, he knew that Yamada Nagayasu's Japanese soldiers had won the battle.
How can you shout so happily if you lose the battle? Moreover, Afaros understands Chinese and knows what Japanese sounds like... The current cheers are obviously in Japanese!
This shows that Yamada's people have won the first battle!
If this is the case, then we must go to support and share some of the credit. The benefits cannot be given to little Japan.
Thinking of this, Afaros immediately asked one of his deputies to be responsible for evacuating the Cavite commercial port, and he led 1,500 Pampanga mercenaries to support the coconut grove.
Because he knew that the front was victorious, Afaros did not let his men form a strict formation. Many of the musketeers did not even light the match ropes, and a large group of people headed towards the coconut grove.
When he arrived at the south of the coconut grove, Afaros realized that something was wrong. The Yamada party members had already deployed the Spanish square formation south of the coconut grove, and among them, three to four hundred musketeers had already lit match ropes and set up Musket!
By this time, Afaros, who was very experienced in war, had already discovered that something was wrong - if you want to defend the beach, you should form a formation on the beach with your back to the woods. Where can you form a formation on the south side of the woods with your back to the woods?
However, Afaros still refused to give up and couldn't believe it. When he got angry, his mind became confused, and he actually wanted to question Shan Shan, why did he surrender? Why did you take refuge with the Chinese? What benefits did the Chinese give them, so they rebelled against God?
If you betray God, you will go to hell after death - God's hell is a channel of Satan, and you cannot get out of it by relying on a few Japanese monks to chant sutras.
"Yamada, what do you want to do?" Afaros asked loudly from forty or fifty steps away, "Have you surrendered to the Chinese? Are you really not afraid of going to hell?"
"Chinese? Hahaha..." Yamada Chotae laughed, "It doesn't hurt to tell you that the people coming now are not Chinese, but the army of the Japanese Tokugawa Shogunate, Luzon Island will soon be Japanese land! This It is also God’s will!”
Well, God has been lifted out!
Afaros gritted his teeth, "Pampanga people, phalanx formation! Musketeers, light the match..."
"Pa bang bang..."
Where would Yamada Chotasu wait for the enemy to light the match? He immediately ordered his Yamada Party to shoot.
A row of lead bullets swept over and immediately knocked down a large number of Pampanga natives and Western officers. Not even Afaros could dodge, he was hit by a lead bullet in his right knee and fell to the ground screaming. Fortunately, there were two Pampanga natives around who still had some conscience. Instead of just escaping for their own lives, they picked up the officer who fell on the ground and ran towards Cavite.
And once he, the commander, ran away, how could the Pampanga people below dare to fight?
These Filipino natives are firstly afraid of the Spaniards and secondly the Japanese. In other words, they bullied the unarmed Chinese... Now of course they collapsed at the first touch. They also let Yamada's Japanese soldiers chase and kill them for a while, and almost wiped out the entire army. After Yamada Chotae finished killing for a while, he gathered his troops and prepared to form an array with his back to the coconut grove. A Japanese infantryman who had followed Tagawa to land came up to invite him to see some feudal lord. Yamada didn't dare to neglect, so he quickly followed through the coconut grove, and then reached the beach, where several turtle dove guns were set up and pointed at him!
"What, what does this mean?" Yamada suddenly became anxious.
"Who are you?" Tagawaemon asked loudly, "Why are you working as a mercenary on Luzon Island? And why do you want to welcome my Imperial Master?"
What? Master of the Ming Dynasty?
How can it be? Yamada Chotae was stunned, wasn't it the Tokugawa family's army? How did you become a Ming army?
"Speak quickly!" Tagawaemon asked, "Are you unwilling to endure the oppression of the Spaniards, and that's why you abandoned the secrets and surrendered to the Ming soldiers to serve as the king's vanguard?"
