Volume 1 Tigers in Southeast Asia Chapter 31 Assimilation of the Enemy
It turned out that the explosions were caused by the explosive packs fired by Lin Fei's barrel cannon. At this time, the Filipinos had already walked into Lin Fei's encirclement. The reason why Lin Fei just wanted to fight the Filipinos alone was to lure the Filipinos into the encirclement he set up.
The patriarch shouted, “What’s going on?”
A Filipino shouted, "No, it's bad, they have an ambush!" Before the Filipino finished his words, he heard continuous gunshots coming from all around. One Filipino after another was hit by bullets and died on the spot.
The chief turned around and saw a group of people shooting at his people with rifles at the edge of the woods more than 50 meters away. The chief waved his hand and shouted, "Charge, kill them!"
Relying on their large numbers, the Filipinos tried to block the bullets with their bodies, and finally rushed to Lin Fei's men for hand-to-hand combat. However, they did not expect that Lin Fei still had a barrel cannon to use. One after another, nitroglycerin explosive packs were thrown out and exploded in the dense crowd. Each explosion could knock down a large number of Filipinos.
The shock wave directly shattered people's internal organs, and the lethal fragments shot directly into people's bodies. The bodies of the Filipinos fell to the ground, some vomiting blood, and some in pieces. The death was extremely horrible. The courage of the Filipinos was finally exhausted, and the people at the back began to secretly turn around and run back.
Lin Fei saw the change in the morale of the Filipinos at a glance, and thought to himself, I'll catch the leader first! Thinking of this, Lin Fei raised a rifle and aimed it at the patriarch. The patriarch had no experience in modern warfare, and stood straight in place, completely unaware of hiding. Lin Fei took advantage of this opportunity to put the patriarch's head into the crosshairs, and then pulled the trigger.
Bullets whizzed out, and the chieftain's head was shattered like a watermelon smashed by a sledgehammer. The dead body fell to the ground with a "thump". The Filipinos nearby shouted in despair: "The chieftain is dead!"
This news spread among the Filipinos like a plague, and soon the Filipinos began to retreat. Lin Fei waved his hand and said, " Everyone save your bullets and don't shoot yet." Everyone put down their guns. At this time, the Filipinos had retreated more than 100 meters and stood there stupidly. Lin Fei waved his hand and said to everyone, "Brothers, follow me."
After Lin Fei finished speaking, he walked out of the ambush circle and headed towards the Filipinos. When the Filipinos saw the crowd coming, they were so scared that they dropped their machetes and sticks and fled to the town desperately. Lin Fei laughed loudly and said, "These Filipinos are really cowardly. They ran away so quickly. Let's go and take over that town."
Lin Fei led everyone to the town. On the way, Liu Daming said to Lin Fei, "Old Lin, how are we going to deal with those Filipinos after we enter the town?"
Lin Fei smiled and asked, "How do you plan to deal with them?"
Liu Daming smiled nonchalantly and said, "Isn't the method simple? Cut the grass at its roots, kill them all one by one, so that they won't cause us trouble in the future!"
Liu Daming's words drew praise from the crowd. Ling Xue and the craftsmen also said, "That's right, the Filipinos are too bad, they all deserve to be killed!"
At this time, Li Mingbai saw that Lin Fei had not spoken, so he said to everyone: "Everyone, don't rush to speak. I see that Captain Lin has not said a word. He must have some different ideas. Let's listen to him."
Everyone looked at Lin Fei, and then Lin Fei said: "I would like to ask everyone to think about a question, how can we completely eliminate the enemy?"
Liu Daming laughed and said, "If we pull them over and chop off their heads one by one, wouldn't that completely eliminate them?"
Lin Fei smiled lightly and said, "Kill them all? Can you kill them all?"
Liu Daming said disdainfully: "Why can't we kill them all? There are only a few thousand Filipinos in this town. If we are quick and nimble, we can kill them all in one morning."
Lin Fei laughed and said, "Even if you can kill all the people in this town, what about the people in other places on the island? What about the entire Philippines? There are millions of people. Can you kill them all?"
Liu Daming reluctantly said, "We should be able to kill them all. As long as we know the number of people, we can kill them all."
Lin Fei laughed and said, "But will they let you kill them obediently? Won't they resist?"
Liu Daming laughed and said, "We are not afraid if they resist, we have guns!"
Lin Fei said: "We have guns, but they won't stand there and let you shoot them. They will run away, resist, and retaliate. If we put all our energy into fighting them, do we still want to build? Do we still want to conquer our world?"
Liu Daming was speechless. After a long while, he said, "Lao Lin, there's no need to beat around the bush. Just tell me directly, what is the best way to eliminate the enemy?"
Lin Fei said word by word: "The best way to eliminate the enemy is to turn the enemy into our own people."
Liu Daming shook his head repeatedly and said, "It doesn't make sense. How can the enemy become one of ours?"
Lin Fei pointed to the town ahead and said, "Take the Filipinos as an example. If we tell them that they are Chinese like us, and let them believe that they are Chinese, do you think they will still be our enemies?"
Liu Daming said: "Of course they will no longer be our enemies! But how can you make them believe that they are Chinese?"
Lin Fei smiled leisurely and said, "That depends on my methods. It's quite complicated and can't be explained in a few words."
Liu Daming laughed dryly twice and asked no more questions. Lin Fei then led his men into the town.
Lin Fei killed all the family members of the original clan leader and occupied the clan leader's home, making it the base for himself and his subordinates. He renamed the town "Yanhuang City" and told the Filipinos that he had replaced the clan leader and become the ruler here. He would abolish all unequal laws against the Chinese. The Filipinos were frightened by Lin Fei and no one dared to resist.
Many Chinese people came to celebrate, and Lin Fei needed someone who was familiar with local affairs to assist him, so he asked someone to invite the old man who ran the tea stall over.
When the old man saw Lin Fei kill the arrogant clan leader, he was very impressed by Lin Fei and bowed to him. Lin Fei asked the old man to stand up and asked his name. The old man said, "My last name is Wang. Others call me the Tea King. I can't remember my original name."
Lin Fei nodded and said, "Old man, let me ask you, do the Filipinos here have written language?"
The old man said: "They do have writing, but most people don't understand it. Their language is called 'Tagalog', and it's quite difficult to write. Many of them use Chinese characters to remember things."
Lin Fei asked: "Is there a teacher in town?"
The Tea King laughed and said, "Teacher? What do we need that for? This is not the Qing Dynasty where you can become an official after studying well, so there are no teachers."
Lin Fei thought for a moment and asked, "Mr. Wang, if I ask you to teach, can you teach?"
The Tea King waved his hands and said, "No, no, I only studied in a private school for two years, and I can't write eight-part essays."
Lin Fei smiled helplessly and said, "I'm not asking you to teach those Qing Dynasty things, I'm asking you to teach those Filipinos."
The Tea King was stunned and asked, "What to teach them?"
Lin Fei smiled and said, "Teach them history and Chinese."
The Tea King smiled bitterly and said, "I can teach Chinese , but how can I teach history? The Filipinos here don't have any history."
Lin Fei smiled and said, "It's okay. I'll write the history book for you, and you can teach them after I finish it."
The Tea King nodded in agreement. Lin Fei asked the Tea King to go out first, and then asked his subordinates to find him paper and pen, and he simply wrote a brief history of the Philippines. In this brief history, Lin Fei said that the ancestors of the Philippines came from Yunnan, China, indicating that the Filipinos are a branch of the Chinese and that Filipino culture is a part of Chinese culture.
In this brief history, Lin Fei also emphasized the close cultural exchanges between the Philippines and China in history, proving that the Philippines is a part of China. The Filipinos on Samar Island were only slightly more civilized than the natives rescued by Lin Fei. They could not even recognize words, let alone understand their own history, so the history written by Lin Fei became the golden rule.
The reason why Lin Fei did this was entirely to assimilate the Filipinos on the island and use history and historical education to achieve political goals. This was a common tactic used by countries around the world in Lin Fei's time. Western anti-China forces often used different interpretations of history to achieve their goal of containing and attacking China. The most typical example is that the West repeatedly emphasized that certain areas of China where separatist forces were rampant were not "Chinese territory since ancient times." This made China an invader and provided a basis for splitting China.
As soon as Lin Fei finished writing the brief history, Liu Daming came to him and said with a smile: "Old Lin, you said that we would make a lot of weapons. Now that we have our own territory, shouldn't we make weapons? Tell me quickly, what should we make?"
Lin Fei smiled and said, "The first thing to build is the road!"
Liu Daming was stunned and said, "Lu? What kind of weapon is Lu?"
Lin Fei smiled and said, "'Road' is the path people walk on!"
Liu Daming frowned and said, "What's the use of the road? Can you use the road to kill people?"
Lin Fei smiled and said, "Building roads is to develop the transportation industry, and the transportation industry is the foundation of industry. Let me give you an example. To make a gun, the bolt needs steel, and the butt needs wood. The steel needs to be transported from the steel mill, and the wood needs to be transported from the lumber mill. Doesn't the transportation process require the use of roads?"
Liu Daming suddenly realized, and Lin Fei smiled and said, "Go and call Miss Ling Xue for me. I want to talk to her about something."
Liu Daming immediately became interested when he heard Ling Xue. He approached Lin Fei and said with a sly smile, "Old Lin, are you not good at that? That Japanese girl named Mika was made to cry by you, and this girl named Ling Xue slapped you. If you are not good at that, I can teach you a few tricks..."
Before Liu Daming could say anything more, Lin Fei had already pushed him out. Not long after, there was a knock on Lin Fei's door, and a clear and familiar voice rang out: "Captain Lin, I, Ling Xue, want to see you."
