Beginning on the evening of December 8, 1635 AD, strong Chinese men in the Eighth Company Chinese District outside Manila also broke out. The revolted Chinese, under the banner of "revenge", rushed out from the west gate of the Eighth Company Chinese District near Cavite with their heads tied in red and carrying poles and farm tools.
The Spaniards and Pampanga people who were driven out of the Eighth Company Chinese Quarter by the Japanese with muskets and spears originally thought of passing through the Eighth Company Chinese Quarter to the San Diego Fortress, and by the way, they would introduce the red-eyed Japanese to the Chinese. District, let them kill the Chinese there!
But I didn't expect that the Chinese workers and businessmen in the Eighth Company Chinese District who only knew how to make money peacefully and had no interest in murder and arson would actually take advantage of the Japanese going crazy and want to attack the noble Spaniards and Bongos. The Pangya people took action!
However, the Chinese in Luzon are used to being bullied by the Spaniards, Japanese, and Pampanga people, and they don’t have any good guys capable of murder and arson. The Spaniards strictly prohibit the Chinese who settled in Luzon from holding weapons, and they are targeting the Chinese in the Eighth Company. District controls are more stringent. Therefore, the Chinese who are now on the rise don't have much good stuff in their hands. They only have agricultural tools such as poles, wooden sticks, hoes, and dung forks. Fighting against Westerners armed with muskets and Pampanga people armed with sharp knives is almost to death.
So when they first faced the large group of fleeing Spaniards and Pampanga people, these Chinese who were seeking revenge were a little timid and did not dare to charge forward. When the Spaniards and Pampanga people across from them saw the strong Chinese men rushing out of the Eighth Company Chinese District like a tide, they also knew that the people who came were evil - what they had done in the past thirty years, they still felt in their hearts No idea?
But they were also cornered and couldn't go around because a group of crazy Japanese devils were slashing behind their butts!
This is really miserable. There are interceptions in front and pursuers behind... If we don't fight hard, we will die!
I don’t know who shouted in the desperate situation: "God bless us! God bless Spain... Go ahead!"
This roar immediately inspired some Spaniards and Pampanga people who were stunned by the sudden rebellion of the Japanese.
This is the time when God favors Spain!
It was the end of the Spanish nation's glorious era, and it was also their craziest time. The knowledgeable people in Spain have already felt the decline of the empire, but none of them are willing to accept that the world empire created by the two great Catholic kings will decline in their generation. However, Spain, with a population of more than five million, could not support such a huge empire, so it had no choice but to follow the path of religious fanaticism.
However, the courage of a few Spanish businessmen who had been brainwashed by God's favor in Spain at the critical moment still caused chaos among the strong Chinese men in the Eighth Company District. Not only could they not take advantage of their numerical advantage, but they were also forced by their opponents to retreat to the west gate of the Eighth Company Chinese District.
However, the Spanish and Pampanga people were unable to rush further into the Eighth Company area because they themselves were already in chaos. The Spaniards were just civilians, not organized businessmen, and many of them brought their families with them. Although most of the Pampanga people were mercenaries, they had been stunned by the Japanese and completely lost their organization. They just blindly followed the Spaniards and tried to break into the gate of the Eighth Company Chinese District!
Lu Peter and several other Chinese business leaders inside the gate were also anxious when they saw this scene. Of course they knew what it meant to let the Spaniards and Pampanga people outside rush in?
And they have no way to let people close the door...because there are no heavy doors in the Chinese District of Eighth Lian, only thin wooden doors, which can only be used to prevent thieves.
The anxious Chinese business leaders had no other choice but to move out boxes of Spanish silver coins from their homes!
Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man!
The strong men in the Eighth Company District were quickly organized and flocked to the west gate in a steady stream. The Spanish and Pampanga people were forced back some.
At this moment, a creepy and neat, slow and long shout suddenly came from behind the Spaniards and Pampanga people: "Hey Yi - Hey Yi - Hey Yi..."
Some Spaniards and Bangbonyi people hurriedly looked back and found that behind them, the Japanese who had been murderous and slashing people had reorganized themselves. A dense line of thousands of people was formed, five columns of spearmen, the tips of their spears shone coldly under the setting sun, and they were raised like a forest. At the back of the queue, there were another two to three hundred musketeers, and the matches had already been lit. These Japanese mercenaries were all red-eyed, and there were red and black blood stains on their armor and armor. I don’t know how many people have been killed!
And behind these Japanese flags, there is a flag of "Commander of the Three Armies". This is not the flag of the Japanese samurai family, but the flag of the Ming army generals when they go into battle! Dance in Chinese
The spears advanced like a forest, and soon pierced the bodies of the Spaniards and Pampanga people, making horrifying sounds of "Puff, Puff, Puff", miserable screams, voices begging for mercy, and dying screams. The pleading voices of God and the Virgin continued one after another.
But no matter how they scream, no matter how they plead, they will not make those murderous Japanese devils relent... Now is the time to kill people in the city!
The Japanese behind them were not soft-hearted, and the Spaniards and Pampanga people were forced to have no choice but to rush through the gate of the Eighth Company Chinese District. Both sides were fighting and killing indiscriminately. Outside the gate, there were dense layers of human bodies fighting desperately, and the sounds of dying screams could not be heard.
The Spanish and Pampanga people who were forced to have no choice but to rush into the ditch - this ditch was originally used to trap the Chinese to prevent them from escaping when the Spaniards decided to massacre, but now it became the Spaniards themselves. The burial place... The trench was wide and deep, with water in it. It was easy to jump in, but difficult to climb out! Because the Chinese men who poured out from the west gate of the Eighth Company District or simply climbed over the wall were already spread out inside the ditch. Everyone was holding poles and wooden sticks and patting down the heads of each one who wanted to come out of the ditch.
The Japanese soldiers quickly arrived at the edge of the ditch, using their long spears to stab them. Some musketeers also came up, aiming their matchlock guns at the living people in the ditch, and shot them one by one!
There were fewer and fewer living people in the trench, more and more corpses, and the blood dyed all the water in the trench red!
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"General, Governor... they killed all our people!"
"It's really, really cruel!"
"These damn barbarians should all go to hell... The Chinese and the Japanese should all die! All of them should die!"
On the walls of Santiago Castle, Governor Coquilla, General Prosecutor Caballero, Bishop Gonzalez and others witnessed the battles that took place in the commercial port of Cavite and outside the Eighth Company Chinese Quarter. Oh, maybe it was called It's more appropriate to call it massacre!
In addition to witnessing the massacre, they also saw enemies on small sampans disembarking from thirty or forty Galen boats on the sea in waves, rushing onto the beach, and then detouring back behind the Cavite fort, effortlessly Occupy it.
We also saw the pier of Cavite Port, which was immediately occupied by the attacking enemy.
Due to the sudden rebellion of the Japanese and the heavy losses suffered by the Spanish and Pampanga people outside the Santiago Fort, the Spanish defenders on Luzon Island had lost the ability to go out of the city to counterattack and could only defend the strong Santiago Fort.
"How many more of us are there in total?" Governor Coquilla asked.
"There are ... more than 10,000 people, including women, children and elderly people," said Bishop González, the bishop responsible for hosting the refugees.
This number includes the defenders, their mistresses (mainly indigenous), illegitimate children and a small number of European female dependents.
"Where's the food?" Coquilla asked again.
"Enough to last for three years!" Caballero, the general prosecutor in charge of distributing supplies during the siege, replied, "Because fewer people took refuge in the city than planned, we have enough food!"
Coquilla breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay... we have a bastion! We have God! If we stick to it, victory will definitely belong to us!"
