The Tang army went south all the way and encountered almost no obstacles.

The reason why the Tang army was so smooth is that by now, the Spanish Empire, whose financial situation is deteriorating, has become increasingly deteriorating, and has reached a point where it is ineffective and has no ability to support the cost of the Far East Fleet's navigation.

Therefore, Manila Governor Lopez had no choice but to order that the current Spanish Far East Fleet, the remaining more than 50 ships, were all concentrated in the Bay of Manila to protect the city of Manila and deal with small-scale pirate harassment and attacks.

Thirteen days later, the Tang army reached Burgos, the northern end of Luzon Island, Philippines. The sea slope here was gentle, which was conducive to landing and was quite close to the city of Lavag in the south. Therefore, this place was the best landing place for the Tang army.

At this time, the Burgos coast was covered by a layer of hazy mist, and the dense coconut forest on the shore could be vaguely seen. Looking inside, except for the blue-black Cordillera Mountains that looked like a background plate, there was a thick green that was almost insoluble, but it was hard to tell what it was.

With Li Xiao's order, the Tang army began to land.

The ships approached the Burgos coast, and the platoons were placed down one by one. The Tang soldiers, like surging tides, descended from the ship to the coast.

The troops landed this time, including all the soldiers of the A camp of Pingnan Town, Tang Army, 1,000 Feiyazi cavalry, 1,000 auxiliary soldiers, and 20 heavy dragon beating cannons, led by the main general Li Dingguo and deputy general Zu Kuan, landed in a mighty manner.

"Ning Yu, remember all the precautions for this landing operation." Before Li Dingguo got ashore, Li Xiao reminded him again.

"Don't worry, Lord Li, I'll write it down." Li Dingguo said loudly: "Our army will follow the strategies set by Lord Li, and use both kindness and power to let those indigenous tribes obediently."

Then, a trace of ferociousness flashed across Li Dingguo's face and said in a deep voice: "If anyone dares to resist, kill him or her. His tribe or city all slaughter men and keep women to demonstrate the power of our army's kingly path."

"Very good, Ning Yu must be more careful when he goes here. Also, Zu Kuan is unruly, you must restrain him more and not let him be unrestrained." Li Xiao smiled on his face and deliberately reminded him.

"Mr. Li, don't worry, I will definitely pay attention. In addition, there are also the Supervisory and Security Department who are restraining him. I don't dare to do too much."

"Okay, that man wishes you success and victory!"

"Well, I wish Lord Li a successful conquering Manila City, so I will say goodbye!"

Afterwards, Li Dingguo and Li Xiao bid farewell and strode off the boat.

After Li Dingguo's troops and related military supplies all came ashore, the entire naval fleet, led the rest of the troops, bypassed Cape Burgos, continued southward, and headed straight for Manila Bay outside Manila City.

After getting ashore, Li Dingguo immediately ordered that because the troops came from afar, the entire army was on the coast, burying pots and cooking, preparing to rest and eat, and then continue to attack the inland after they were full.

On this foggy morning, the Tang army on the beach was noisy. Soon, smoke rose everywhere and the rich aroma of food rose.

"It's time to eat! It's time to eat!"

With the shouts of the heads, a burst of cheers from the Tang soldiers immediately came out, and each of them held lunch boxes and spoons and lined up to get food.

The third-Armed Armor Chief of the Seventh Team of the Abbot of the Abbot of the Abbot of the Pingnan Town, Tang Jun, holding a cooked iron lunch box in one hand and a cooked iron spoon in the other. Although his eyes kept staring at the distance of the team, he felt full of emotion.

Gou Dazhuang was from Jinzhou, Liaodong. At the earliest, he was a Ming army in Dongjiang Town and became a soldier of Xu Erxian, a general under Shang Kexi.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Gou Dazhuang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with Shang Kexi, and then became a member of the Han army. He also followed Xu Erxian into the pass to fight. Because of his bravery and hard work, he was promoted to the commander of the sergeant.

Finally, Xu Erxian's troops were arranged by the Qing court to station in Jinzhou, and Gou Dazhuang and others were all stationed here.

However, unexpectedly, just a few months ago, the Tang army crossed the sea and attacked, completely flattening the two states of Jin and Fu, and sweeping them into flat ground.

Fortunately, his superior Xu Er knew the current affairs and opened the west gate of Jinzhou in time, let the Tang army enter the city, and made great contributions anyway. Because of this, their soldiers and horses were spared from the fate of being taken to Tielong City to mine labor reform like those of the Manzhou soldiers who were forced to surrender later.

Subsequently, Xu Erxian's troops, including Gou Dazhuang, were taken back to Dengzhou. In Dengzhou, they first eliminated a group of old and weak people, distributed severance money, and settled in Shandong.

The other Han troops of Xu Erxian were transferred to Taiwan by naval ships for rectification.

Here, Xu Erxian's troops were dispersed and inserted into the troops of Pingnan Town.

Xiang Xu Erxian himself became a deputy chief under the B camp of Pingnan Town. He was arranged to stay in Taiwan and did not participate in the battle against Luzon.

The former Han army commander Gou Dazhuang, since he was selected as a pike soldier at the Bing General Armies of the Aiba, Pingnan Town, because he was strong, trained hard, and had combat experience, and had good results in the political assessment of the Supervisory and Supervision Department. Therefore, he was directly promoted from a pike soldier to the third Armies of the seventh team, and in charge of the 19th troops, including the deputy commander Fan Chang'an.

Seeing that the Tang army was first to be the Ming army, then rebelled against the Ming army, and finally became the Tang army, and did not hold past grudges and valued them, Gou Dazhuang was very grateful and trained more hard and thoughtfully.

What made Gou Dazhuang even more moved was that the Tang army's military composition basically came from all over the world, and the military composition was even more diverse. Among the armored spearmen under him, in addition to the children of Taiwanese immigrants who had just recruited recently, there were the original Ming army soldiers, including the bandits and surrendered Han army soldiers. In addition, there were also a Taiwanese native soldier and a surrendered Manchu army soldier.

These military soldiers from all over the world, from different political backgrounds, are in the same state now.

That is, everyone in the Tang army wore Han clothes, kept Han hair, spoke Chinese language, and used the etiquette of the Han people. Moreover, under the strong brainwashing education of the Supervisory Office every day, everyone firmly regarded themselves as a member of the Han nation and a member of the Tang army, and vowed to serve Lord Li, Duke of Tang, and contribute everything to the future driving the Tartars and eliminating bandits.

After all, it is an extremely glorious thing to be able to serve this Tang army that has won many famous battles.

In the army, everyone has generous treatment and good benefits. In the future, whether they are killed in battle, injured or even retired, they will receive a large amount of pension.

It can be said that as long as everyone becomes a member of the Tang army, they basically just need to serve the army with confidence, and they don’t have to worry about other matters.

If you can achieve military achievements in the army, you will be rewarded more in the future and will be envied and respected by the world.

Therefore, almost every Tang army soldier held his breath in his heart, that is, if he goes to the battlefield in the future, he must fight bravely to fight for the enemy, make contributions to the country, and also gain a better future for himself.

Gou Dazhuang imagined all the way, and before he knew it, he came to the front of the food-making team.

He showed his long-armored waist sign to the chef who was making the meal, and the chef immediately gave him a sumptuous long-armored officer meal.

The A-level officer's meal includes roast chicken, sea fish, and bacon. It is much better than the lowest-level corporal meal.

In the Tang army, unless the war is urgent, individual dining treatments implemented at levels will be strictly followed.

Therefore, every Tang soldier who was eating, under the stimulation of such different treatments that could be seen with his own eyes, can work harder to show himself on the battlefield and training ground, so that he can stand out with his own efforts.

Soon, after the meal, Gou Dazhuang and his subordinates who were washing tableware suddenly saw the central army's tent, and there was a loud noise.

It turned out that while they were having a meal, there were already flying kite whistle riders who followed the paths in the mainland and went to investigate the local situation.

Who knew that they were surveillance all the way, but were ambushed by local natives with poison arrows. Five surveillance cavalry, one dead and one injured, fled back in a panic.

As soon as the Tang army came ashore, they encountered such an ambush. Li Dingguo was naturally very annoyed, and deputy general Zu Kuan was even more angry. He asked Li Dingguo for orders to lead his team to eliminate the hateful natives who dared to be enemies with the Tang army.

Li Dingguo hesitated for a moment and immediately agreed to Zu Kuan's request.

Then Zu Kuan selected soldiers and horses, including Gou Dazhuang's troops, including the Armored Armor sentry horses of the Armored Camp, 100 flying kites, 3 heavy dragon guns, and 3 statistics and civil servants from the Supervisory and Supervision Department, and went to attack these ignorant native villages.

Seeing the order, all the soldiers who received the order immediately began to urgently wear armor and go out to fight.

As the armor-length, Gou Dazhuang is the fastest-dressed person among all armored personnel.

He quickly put on a thin cotton armor with an inner pad, then put on a package of iron battle boots, and put on a steel six-braided helmet. He buttoned and fixed the two pieces of steel breastplate neatly, and put all the armor on.

The soldiers under his command were all wearing familiar iron helmets and leather boots, and each of them was wearing a steel breastplate. After holding the 4-meter spear, they were all ready.

The armor level of these soldiers in Pingnan Town is much weaker than that of the mainland Tang army such as Xingzhong Town, but this is also an option that cannot be solved.

After all, in a tropical area like the Philippines, soldiers' physical strength and endurance will be consumed greatly. If each soldier still wears as thick as the mainland army, the soldiers' physical strength will soon be exhausted, which will greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of the troops.

In addition, due to the high temperature and humidity in the Philippines for many years, if the soldiers were wearing the tightly covered armor, it would definitely be the same as the Spanish soldiers who invaded Central and American states. The symptoms such as heatstroke, eczema, and crotch rot are constantly occurring, resulting in large-scale non-combat attrition.

Of course, this kind of thing was not something Li Xiao was willing to see, so in a sense, the military soldiers in Pingnan Town finally dressed like this, could be considered a helpless move.

Therefore, when the armor level of combat troops is greatly reduced, such as auxiliary soldiers, gunners, musketeers, etc., which do not participate in combat, or fight from a long distance, everyone does not wear armor, thereby better saving physical strength and maintaining marching speed.

With Zu Kuan riding a tall horse and saying the order, the whole army embarked on the road, passed through the dense coconut forest, and followed the path that penetrated into the endless dark green.

Although Zu Kuan was rough and savage, he still did not dare to be careless after suffering a loss. He ordered the entire army to try to walk along the smooth terrain, and hundreds of steps ahead to let the Feiyaki Cavalry open the road and provoke the road. After confirming safety, the follow-up troops would follow along.

The army was marching in a column, with more than ten cavalry cavalry driving on the road, followed by the gunmen and shield soldiers of the General Arm sentry of the A camp, behind them were dozens of heavy dragon guns, and finally dozens of flying knights, guarding the main general Zu Kuan and escorting the formation behind them.

In the endless green sea, this Tang army with nearly 1,500 people was like a thick gray snake, winding forward towards the indigenous villages.

Gou Dazhuang and others were worried along the way that there might be another native person to ambush, but unexpectedly, when they set out from the coast and finally appeared in front of them, no native person came to harass him along the way.

It seems that those natives still bully the weak and fear the strong. Seeing that the Tang army had so many soldiers and horses and so majestic, they no longer dared to ambush them, but they only dared to hide in their own villages and defend themselves with them.

Soon, the Tang army came to the village and shot an arrow. Zu Kuan called out the order and the whole army set up a formation. The three heavy dragon cannons were slowly pushed about a thousand meters away from the village wall.

At this time, a smug sneered on Zu Kuan's face.

He shouted: "Brothers, these hateful natives are seeking death to kill our sergeant cavalry! Now, I want to take their ugly heads to avenge our tragic death brothers!"

The Tang army shouted in unison, and every soldier, including Gou Dazhuang, had a look of expectation on his face.

The opportunity to make meritorious service is right in front of you!

If you don’t seize such an opportunity, it will be regretful for life!

Zu Kuan originally thought that, as before, he encouraged the soldiers and allowed them to attack the village and plunder and massacre at will. However, when he saw the cold eyes of the civil servant of the supervisor's supervisor, he swallowed such arrogant words yesterday.

He knew that the Duke of Tang Li Xiao hoped that his subordinates were brave and good at fighting and fearless sacrifice, but he did not hope that they would eventually become a group of bloodthirsty and cruel beasts that lost their minds.

Finally, Zu Kuan's words became: "Brothers, after attacking the city, they killed all the men in the village, cut off their heads as urinals, and took away all the women's property, and gave them a reward for their own fame and fortune!"

There were continuous and deafening cheers in the Tang army formation.

At this time, the gunners had finished debugging the artillery, and they asked Zu Kuan whether to fire the artillery.

Zu Kuan sneered and immediately ordered the attack loudly.

"Bang, bang, bang!"
Chapter completed!