Chapter 58: Fight, Firebird

The village composed of thatched huts, with thick ancient trees, various vines and leaves crawling on the ground, climbing up from the roots along the huge trunk, weaving dense green curtains above the head, and the entire village seemed to be submerged in this greenness.

This is the Tara Parish in the central part of Luzon. After passing this hill, the plains flowing through the Tara River are also the most important rice-producing area on Luzon.

When Luzons everywhere put down their weapons and sent representatives to contact and negotiate with the Chinese, only Sergeant Ramadrid's armed forces occupied Tara City, claiming to establish the Philippine Republic and no longer accept the rule of any other country.

The task of banning the illegal armed forces in Dala City was handed over to the Second Company of the Third Battalion of the Second Infantry Regiment of the Royal Marine Column of the Imperial Royal Marine Column. In fact, to "help" the Spaniards to restore order in the Philippines, the Imperial Navy only used an infantry regiment of the Marine Corps, the Second Infantry Regiment.

The 2nd Company of the Third Battalion is one of the ten elite whistles among the navy infantry. The sentry officer Deng Shichang is just 22 years old this year. He graduated from the Guangzhou Martial Arts Hall and has excellent grades. He has just entered the Marine Column for a year and has become the chief officer of the elite whistle. This is rare for the Emperor's Team, where veterans are everywhere.

Moreover, he was highly valued by his superiors and was recommended as a student of the next Ship Management Officer Academy. The list of recommended items and materials have been sent, and he has only waited for the final approval.

This may be his last mission as a Marine.

The Navy Infantry Company he commanded was an elite company set up by light machine guns to the squad. It has 165 personnel, consisting of 4 infantry platoons and 1 light machine gun fire platoon.

Unlike the Imperial Army, the naval infantry pays more attention to light weapons configuration and assault capabilities. The bulky bead guns and mortars will not become the installation of the naval infantry for the time being.

Standing on the high ground at the entrance of the village, Deng Shichang raised a thousand-mile mirror to observe the terrain of the river and farmland ahead. Beside him, there were translators and villagers chatting, and inquire about the situation of Dala City dozens of miles away.

The person who was communicating with the translation was the village chief of the village, a dark and short middle-aged man with a look of fear on his face, begging the translation to give up his life to spare the lives of the entire village.

Looking at the faces and eyes of these little black people, Deng Shichang didn't like Luzon people from the bottom of his heart. His face was too cunning and his eyes were too flashing. The appearance of snakes and rats at both ends was really hard to make people feel good.

Although I knew to tolerate the differences between ethnic groups in various regions and regions when studying in military academy, but my appearance is not caused by my heart? No matter how I look at it, I don’t think that the Luzons are friends and allies worthy of help. However, some Tu tribes on Luzon Island are more simple and more popular.

After a while, Tong Yi and the village chief sneered, they came to Deng Shichang with a flattering smile and said, "Sir, I have asked clearly that there are more than a thousand soldiers loyal to La Madrid, who are besieging Louisita Manor. The Spanish soldiers in Dala City are all hiding in the manor."

Deng Shichang nodded, raised the thousand-mile mirror, and looked ahead again.

...

The Louisetta Manor is a huge sugar cane farm run by Spanish businessman Morales, which has thousands of Filipino workers. The main building of the manor is a stone castle. It is this castle that has become a shelter for the Spanish. However, the current situation is really bad for the Spanish.

The glass on the second floor of the castle's window was broken, and Spanish soldiers in brown and red uniforms were banging out of the window from time to time.

Mr. Morales looked out from the window with a grim expression. Behind the wooden houses, trees and other bunkers in the manor courtyard, there were indigenous people rumbling everywhere. From time to time, white fog rose with the gunshots of the natives. In the distant sugarcane forest, there were no one knowing how many people were crowded with black people.

Mr. Morales returned to the living room in a heavy mood. On the sofa, Mrs. Morales made a cross in her chest uneasy and murmured in her mouth. His little daughter hid in the sofa with horror on her face, holding the bear doll with force, as if only the bear doll could give her courage.

Morales sighed. He now deeply regretted why he brought his family to the East to settle down. The natives who besieged the manor, with their violence, even his youngest daughter would be brutally killed after breaking the castle. It is even more unimaginable what kind of nightmare his wife would face.

"Mr. Morales..." The officer who called him gently beside him was Tares, leading 50 Spanish soldiers and 150 mercenaries to guard the city of Tara.

"Mr. Morales, we don't have much ammunition." Tares said with a frustration. If the ammunition is sufficient, he still has confidence to hold on, but after several days of fierce fighting, the soldiers' ammunition gradually dried up.

Morales' heart immediately sank to the bottom. There is no doubt that even if he surrendered, they would all be killed by Filipino thugs.

"Will the reinforcements come?" Morales asked with a faint hope.

Tares said bitterly: "I don't know..." Half a month ago, he lost contact with Manila.

Morales stopped talking, walked to the sofa silently, hugged his wife, picked up his daughter, and listened to her daughter to ask in a low voice: "Dad, are we saved?" Morales grabbed her head in pain, not knowing what to say to comfort her daughter.

Outside, there were dense gunshots faintly. Morales kissed his daughter's forehead and said, "My dear Maria, I will not let you suffer." Tears emerged in his eyes.

Hearing Morales' words, Mrs. Morales raised her head suddenly and said, "No, you cannot, you cannot do this! O Lord Almighty, forgive his crazy sin."

Suddenly, cheers rang out outside, and a soldier knocked open the door. The soldier shouted loudly: "Our reinforcements have arrived, we are saved! God..." Before he finished speaking, he slammed on the floor, and blood was soaked on his back. Obviously, he rushed to report the news in ecstasy, forgetting to dodge stray bullets when passing through the corridor.

Maria screamed in a scream, and Mrs. Morales hurriedly blinded her daughter's eyes.

Morales couldn't wait, "I'll go out and have a look." Mrs. Morales said, "I'll go too."

Morales hesitated for a moment, hugged his daughter, walked out of the living room, bent over and ran through the short corridor, and entered the music room where the soldiers fought. There was already cheering in the room, and two soldiers even hugged and danced happily.

Lieutenant Tares was standing at the window, holding a telescope and looking into the distance.

Morales saw the window, but saw the natives in the manor courtyard running out in a mess. In the distance, gunfire sounds were extremely fierce. In the southeast, they were baptized by bullets and pieces of sugarcane fell.

Morales took the telescope from a soldier and looked into the sugarcane forest. As the gunshot sounded closer and closer, the sugarcane forest was shaking, as it seemed that it was possible to imagine that the indigenous people were running around in a scattered position in the southeast.

A few minutes later, several soldiers in double-breasted snow-white and bright green military uniforms appeared on the edge of the sugarcane forest. They acted agilely and gestured to each other. Soon, a rifle with a tripod was set up behind a tree. Then, there were bangs of gunfire sounds, and screams immediately sounded next to the brick walls and wooden houses of the manor hundreds of steps away.

Second Lieutenant Tares suddenly said in surprise: "It's the Chinese, the Chinese naval infantry!"

He naturally knew the uniforms of the Chinese Navy infantry in the South China Sea all year round. In fact, among the world's powerful countries, the Chinese Navy team was the only armed forces that abandoned colorful and gorgeous military uniforms. Of course, there were exceptions. For example, the imperial guards of the Chinese Emperor were famous for their "Red Blood Sea", while the Chinese Navy infantry Regiment had beautiful, bright and dazzling white and green military uniforms.

What Lieutenant Tares didn't know was that the Chinese Navy Infantry Regiment also had dark green combat uniforms, but according to the dress code, they fought in areas with dangerous levels and combat intensity below Level C. The members of the Navy Marine Column were all wearing white and green military uniforms. The reason was nothing more than deterrence. After the indigenous people were taught a lesson, all the hostile elements were invincible when they saw the Chinese people from afar and were afraid and trembling from their bones.

"Chinese?" Morales was a little surprised, but also breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what, this most powerful country in the East is a member of the civilized world.

Mrs. Morales held her daughter, kissed her cheek, and said, "Dear, don't be afraid, we are saved, it is the Chinese who saved us."

Maria secretly poked her little head out from behind the bear doll. At the window, she could already see a handsome and handsome row of Chinese soldiers approaching. Someone even shouted with a loudspeaker, which was in Spanish: "We are the Chinese Navy who came to rescue. Please allow us to enter your castle."

Morales felt even more relieved. He still abides by the law and rules when he rescued during the war. Such high-quality soldiers are rare even in Europe.

When Lieutenant Tares saw Morales nodding, he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to put down their weapons, stretched out the banner of peace and swayed, and shouted: "Welcome, my friends!"

Deng Shichang entered the castle accompanied by the general interpreter and several soldiers. A blond girl ran towards him and said loudly, "I like Chinese." He even ran closer to kiss Deng Shichang's hand, and was then hugged by a European woman and said sorry. It can be seen that there was still a hint of fear in the eyes of the European woman.

After listening to the translation of the translation, Deng Shichang smiled and said to the girl: "Welcome to be a friend of the Chinese."

The fierce battle outside the manor just now seemed to be destroyed. In less than an hour, the Philippine armed forces, who were designated as "rebels" and "thugs" because they refused to contact the Chinese, were beaten to pieces and fled to the West in chaos.

Deng Shichang and Lieutenant Tares saluted and shook hands to greet each other. Deng Shichang said: "As your country requests, our army will restore order on Luzon Island. During this period, please ask Lieutenant Tares to provide necessary help."

Second Lieutenant Tares smiled and said, "It must be." He ignored whether the Chinese would take over Luzon. If the Chinese take over Luzon defense, he and his brothers could return to China. That would be a big wish, let alone that the Chinese saved the lives of him and his soldiers just now.

After a few greetings with Lieutenant Tares, Deng Shichang turned around and asked someone to come with a military map to prepare to attack Lacheng. This kind of small town is actually the same as the towns in the Central Plains, and there is no strong city wall protection, which can be said to be within reach.

This is true. When the *** team appeared a few miles away from Tara City, Tara City had already become a mess. After a fierce dispute, the rebel leader Ramadrid sent someone to send a letter of surrender and announced his surrender.

...

While the Chinese and Spaniards began to negotiate on the status of the Dominant Dominion of Luzon, Ye Zhao led the negotiations between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Dutch, allowing the Chinese to obtain the right to exploit oil on Sumatra and Java. According to the agreement, the Imperial Chinese Oil Company is the only country with the right to exploit oil in Sumatra and Java, and even the Dutch merchants have no right to exploit oil.

The real oil industry has emerged more than 20 years ago, but it has developed the most rapidly in China, which has the most advanced chemical technology. Although Poland opened its first modern oil mine twenty years ago, there is no doubt that China is the world's largest oil user country, with the most refineries and controls the most oil fields in the world.

China Petroleum mining, the Empire encourages overseas exploration and approval of domestic oil fields is extremely strict. Imperial Petroleum Corporation, its main oil producing areas are in the Nanyang, the oil fields of Kalimantan and the oil fields of Selang Island.

Needless to say, Kalimantan Island is an imperial colony, in addition to the surrounding areas of Brunei, Kalimantan Island also has extremely rich oil resources. Seylan Island is located on the easternmost side of the East Indies. From the perspective of navigation and trade, it has no commercial value. Therefore, it soon fell into the hands of the Chinese and oil fields were discovered from the coast of its islands.

Ye Zhao naturally would not let go of the oil fields of Sumatra and Java. After signing an agreement with the Dutch, all oil fields representing Indonesia were included in the empire. In fact, China's current oil demand can be solved by only one oil field on Sumatra. However, Ye Zhao was excited when he mentioned oil and wanted to enclose all the oil production areas within his sphere of influence.

Today, in Western countries, the fastest oil industry is the United States. The United Kingdom, which was annexed by Standard Oil Company six years ago, appointed Rockefeller as CEO, and began a great journey of merger of American oil companies.

Of course, no one knows that the wealthy British tycoon Wells, his victory and bank will have half the shares of the Chinese emperor.

As for the Netherlands, like many European countries, they were far from recognizing the importance of oil. After the Chinese promised to protect their commercial interests and promised that if a third country invaded the Dutch's trade interests in the Southeast Asian countries, the Dutch quickly signed the latest friendship treaty.

Obviously, the Dutch have heard of the secret agreement between China and Britain. After the British were very thundering and raining, they were unwilling to break up with the Chinese, and more or less implemented appeasement policies in the East, China undoubtedly became an international police in the South Ocean waters. Easing relations with China and obtaining the Chinese security commitment became extremely important in the South Ocean. Therefore, after signing the latest friendly trade treaty with the Chinese, cheers broke out in the Netherlands.

Ye Zhao began to consider the plan to extend the Western Regions Railway again, but finally put aside this idea. It was too advanced, right? It was a bit of a cart before the horse. Instead, he could maintain friendly relations with the Ottoman Empire and wait and see. Most Western Asian countries were independent after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. No one knew what the future would be like because of his intervention. Just take one step and look at it.

At the same time, Ye Zhao was preparing to promote negotiations with the Americans to prohibit whaling in specific waters in the Pacific Ocean. In fact, with the current whaling processing technology, with the rise of the oil industry, the whaling industry will inevitably decline, because whaling is nothing more than lighting agents and lubricants markets. These two markets are gradually being replaced by cheap petroleum products. The decline of the whaling industry is inevitable. When technology develops to a certain extent, humans discover new uses of whaling products, and whaling populations will face greater risk of extinction.

Although Ye Zhaoling's Ministry of Foreign Affairs negotiated with the Americans more to declare his dominance in the Pacific, he couldn't help but discover that without realizing it, the power in his hands could gradually affect all aspects of the world, including the rise and fall of deep-sea species. This wonderful feeling may only be felt by those who have experienced the cultural influence of the 21st century.

On the second day after China and the Netherlands signed the treaty, Ye Zhao boarded the train to Tianhu City.

Those who walked with Ye Zhao were two lecturers in the Department of Earth Sciences of the Jingxia University. They were both wearing glasses and were gentle. One of them was a schoolboy sent by Ye Zhao back then. His surname was Zhang and his name was Zhang Jinchang. Zhang Jinchang himself, and he didn't know that Mr. Wen, a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry sitting opposite him, was his great benefactor back then.

Ye Zhao is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and has little contact with professors and lecturers in the Department of Earth Science. In the past two years, Ye Zhao has visited privately and no longer put on makeup. Perhaps because of a change in his mentality, he will find out if he is discovered. How can he be covered with a beard?

Therefore, although photography technology has developed very rapidly in the past two years and Ye Zhao has been in newspapers several times, he has become more calm when he goes on tour and is not as hiding as before.

Of course, if it weren't for Ye Zhao's side, I'm afraid no one would have confused the emperor who was very strict but slightly stiff in the photo because of technical problems.

Two scholars, Zhang Jinchang and Wang Zizhong, are discussing the debate between catastrophe theory and homogeneous change theory. In terms of the macro theory of geology today, there are two types of catastrophe theory and homogeneous change theory. The catastrophe theory believes that many catastrophes have occurred in the history of the earth, and the homogeneous change theory believes that natural laws are always consistent.

The departments of geology in various universities in the Empire mainly study and study mineral mining and refining technology, and even teach lecturers. In fact, they are also teaching their lessons, and they are also learning and improving themselves. After all, from the whole world, this is an emerging discipline and there is far from a truly systematic theory to guide.

The two lecturers Zhang and Wang went to Tianhu City mainly to explore the mineral deposits around Tianhu City, but the two of them became nerdy and discussed astronomy and geography in the end.

Ye Zhao didn't interrupt, just leaned on the seat and closed his eyes to rest. After several years, he went to the Western Regions again, but there was a train. Three or five days were in a flash, so why didn't it make people sigh? I remembered the Spanish Civil War and I don't know where the support for Isabel was not enough. We always have to help her successfully restore the throne.

Ye Zhao only brought one "servant" with him, Deputy General Manager Zheng Aqiao, and his guns and martial arts were all top-notch masters.

However, the dozens of passengers in this carriage were all dressed by the big guards, and they were all majestic young men, only Zhang and Wang could not tell.

Sitting next to Ye Zhao was Mr. Han Yihai from the university’s logistics department. He was a very steady middle-aged man. He was the leader of this trip. He was responsible for taking care of the lives of the three scholars, coming out to contact the local government, etc. Scholars all have a strange temper and are not good at dealing with others, so they naturally have to arrange a "team leader".

Han Yihai was really nervous at this moment. He had already secretly told Ye Zhao not to mess with the young men in the carriage. They looked like they were from a group of people and were not good at it.

Han Yihai regretted even more why he didn't insist on bringing the guards. Before traveling, he suggested to the school that he would select two guards from the guard department to protect the safety of the three masters. However, after considering it, the school declined his suggestion, believing that the train was passing through without any obstacles. When he arrived in Tianhu City, he contacted the local official office and would make proper arrangements without using the school's guards.

However, looking at these people, Han Yihai also knew that even with the guards, it would be useless. Except for the four of them, they were all young men of unknown origin. They were really cunning. I wonder what the origin of these young people are. Could it be the Axe Gang in the Tianjin Concession?

But it is not like that. Moreover, the Axe Gang was declared an illegal organization by the Empire not long ago and was banned. After negotiations a few years ago, the Empire obtained the security and tax rights of the British and French Concessions. Now the Concessions are real concessions. Foreigners rented to live and run companies. They are completely under the jurisdiction of the imperial local government and are no different from the Chinatown of San Francisco. Moreover, more and more foreigners have applied to join Chinese nationality in the past two years, because even from a purely commercial perspective, becoming Chinese citizens and investing within the Southeast National Group will have more privileges and conveniences, not to mention how safe the safety of Chinese citizens is in the Pan-Sea area.

But these people are not members of the gang, so who are they?

Along the way, Han Yihai was guessing the origin of these people, but he never knew the key points and could only recite Amitabha in his heart, hoping that nothing would happen.

As night gradually fell, Han Yihai took out the cake and coffee and carefully called the waiter to deliver hot water, for fear of attracting the attention of the young men.

Ye Zhao waved his hand and said, "I can't eat anymore, I'll go to the restaurant to have a meal."

I had the cake last night. I ate the cake this morning, but it was still the cake at noon. How could Ye Zhao bear it? If Han Yihai hadn't been pleading repeatedly, he would have gone to the restaurant long ago.

Seeing Ye Zhao's expression was firm, Han Yihai knew that he couldn't stop him, so he had to smile bitterly and said, "Okay, let's go together and act together, it's safer." Looking back, he saw two nerds discussing and picking up the cake to eat. Han Yihai smiled bitterly and said, "Professor Zhang, Professor Wang, let's go to the restaurant to have a meal."
To be continued...