Volume 1 Tigers in Southeast Asia Chapter 83: Besieging the Point and Attacking the Reinforcements
Lin Fei asked: "Mr. Gao, can you tell me how many of these guns the Spanish have?"
Gao Manlu shook his head and said, "I don't know about that either. They launched four that day. As for whether there are any in other places or how many there are, I don't know."
Lin Fei nodded and said, "I understand about the gun. Is there anything else? I want to know everything about the Spanish troops in the city."
Gao Manlu pondered for a while, then said: "I remember that the garrison commander in the city is named Jackson. He is a cruel and arrogant guy. The Chinese in the city secretly call him 'Mad Dog Jackson'. You should be careful of him too."
Lin Fei agreed with a smile. Gao Manlu asked everyone to help him think about the Spanish troops in the city. After everyone talked for a while, Lin Fei felt that he could not get anything out of him, so he called Zhang Chuang and said to him, "Take these compatriots back to our base and tell the soldiers there that no one is allowed to drink unboiled water. All water, whether for washing clothes or cooking, must be boiled for five minutes before use. Remember?"
Zhang Chuang saw that Lin Fei was speaking very seriously and nodded repeatedly. Lin Fei asked Zhang Chuang to repeat his words again. Then he let Zhang Chuang take everyone back and he took Xu Wenwu to Wuduan City.
Lin Fei walked very slowly, carefully looking at the terrain outside Butuan City, thinking about how to use his troops. Half an hour later, a road appeared in front of him. At the end of the road was a city without city walls. At the intersection about two kilometers away from the city, there was a sentry post with the Spanish flag flying on it.
Lin Fei slowed down again, looking at the Butuan City in front of him, thinking, how should we fight this battle? Although this city has no walls, it is not small in size and has many buildings. If we attack the city directly, we will inevitably engage in street fighting with the Spaniards. We are few in number and unfamiliar with the terrain. Street fighting is not what we are good at. I should find a way to lure the Spaniards out of the city for a field battle. How can I lure them out for a field battle?
These Spaniards are not those Filipino tribes. When we were fighting against the chief of Karacatu, we lured them out by issuing a declaration of war. The Filipinos do not understand tactics, but the Spaniards are different. If we issue a declaration of war again, they will definitely not come to the battlefield to fight us honestly. They will definitely adopt tactics such as roundabout encirclement, which would be bad .
Lin Yuan was racking his brains for a way to lure the Spaniards out, and gradually approached the checkpoint at the intersection. There were a dozen Spanish policemen inside the checkpoint, who immediately came out when they saw Lin Fei coming. Lin Fei suddenly thought, why not surround the point and attack the reinforcements?
"Surround a point and attack its reinforcements" is a classic tactic. The army that Lin Fei belongs to has used this tactic to eliminate countless enemies. In today's situation, the police at the checkpoint are the "point" and the Spanish troops in Butuan City are the "reinforcements"!
At this time, the Spanish police had already started to walk towards Lin Fei. Xu Wenwu said in panic: "Your Majesty, what should we do now? There are so many of them."
Lin Fei had already made up his mind to surround the enemy and attack their reinforcements, so he smiled and said, "Let's go back first and deal with them later."
Lin Fei rode back to the military camp with Xu Wenwu, leaving the soldiers of the third battalion to guard the tents, and he led the first and second battalions to the outside of Butuan City.
Lin Fei first had the first and second battalions hide in the woods beside the road, then he selected five men skilled in horse riding from the sniper team, gathered them together, and ordered: "Everyone hide your guns and don't show them."
Zhang Chuang asked: "Captain, why do we have to hide our guns?"
Lin Fei smiled and said, "This is called the art of war. We are capable but pretend to be incapable, so that they will think we are weak and let down their guard against us."
Several people hid their guns, each holding a sharp knife, and led by Lin Fei, they rode their horses to the police checkpoint at the intersection. Ten minutes later, they arrived in front of the checkpoint. There were ten policemen in the checkpoint, who were teasing a young Chinese woman. They insisted that the young woman had stolen gold hidden on her body and wanted to strip the woman naked for inspection. The young woman's husband was kneeling on the side and begging.
The sound of horse hooves came closer and closer. The Spanish police at the checkpoint were stunned by the sight of six people riding fast horses. It took them a long time to react. They ran out of the checkpoint, moved the roadblock to the middle of the road, blew their whistles, waved their batons, and shouted to Lin Fei and the others, "Stop, stop quickly!"
Lin Fei reined in his horse, and everyone else also stopped their horses, but they did not dismount. Instead, they sat on their horses and looked at the policemen proudly. The Chinese couple took this opportunity to run away.
When the police chief saw that Lin Fei and his men were still sitting on their horses with no intention of getting off to salute, he could not help but get angry. He walked in front of Lin Fei's horse, pointed the stick in his hand at Lin Fei, and said in a cold voice: "You Chinese pig, get off quickly, or I..."
Before the police chief could finish his words, he saw a flash of cold light in the hand of Lin Fei on horseback. He lowered his head to look at the baton in his hand and saw only a short piece left. He raised his head to look at Lin Fei again and saw that he was holding a shiny knife in his hand. The police chief then realized that Lin Fei had just swung the knife and cut off the baton in his hand.
The police chief felt greatly humiliated, pointing at Lin Fei and shouting, "Damn you Hua Zhu, it would have been fine if you didn't get off your horse, but you actually dared to cut off my baton, don't you want to die? Brothers, arrest all these people!"
Those Spanish policemen still thought of themselves as the masters that no one dared to mess with. They came close to Lin Fei and others and tried to tear them off their horses. Lin Fei shouted loudly: "Brothers, do it!"
Everyone pulled out their machetes and hacked left and right, knocking down four policemen. The remaining policemen screamed and ran behind the leader. The leader was stunned. After a long while, he pointed at Lin Fei and said in a trembling voice: "You...you...who are you? How dare you kill the police of our Spanish Empire!"
Lin Fei sneered at the police chief and said, "If you don't want to die, follow us!"
The police chief asked, "Where are you taking us?"
Lin Fei laughed loudly and said, "You will know when you get there."
The police chief broke out in a cold sweat, glanced in the direction of Butuan City, suddenly turned around and ran towards Butuan City. Other policemen followed behind him. Lin Fei sneered in his heart, can a person's two legs run faster than a horse?
Lin Fei raised the Saladin Blade in his hand and shouted loudly: "Brothers, capture them alive, don't let any of them escape!"
Zhang Chuang and five others shouted in unison, rushed out on horseback, rushed to the police, swung the machetes in their hands, and knocked the policemen to the ground with the backs of the machetes. The policemen lay on the ground, groaning and screaming in pain, and they no longer had the courage to stand up.
Lin Fei shouted loudly: "Everyone stand up and stand in a row!"
The policemen stood in a row obediently. Lin Fei pointed his knife into the distance and shouted, "Run over there. Whoever runs last will be chopped to death!"
The policemen had no choice but to endure the pain in their backs and ran in the direction Lin Fei pointed. After running for nearly half an hour, Lin Fei finally asked them to stop. The Spanish policemen were so tired that their mouths were crooked and their eyes were squinting. They foamed at the mouth and fell to the ground. Some of them even vomited violently.
Lin Fei got off his horse and walked up to the policemen. He kicked each of them and yelled, "Get up and kneel down!"
The policemen all got up and knelt on the ground. Lin Fei walked up to the smallest one and said with a smile, "You run very fast."
The thin policeman smiled apologetically when he heard Lin Fei's praise. Lin Fei pointed in the direction of Butuan City and said, "Is there a Jackson in the city?"
The thin policeman nodded, and Lin Fei said, "Okay, go back and tell him that I have kidnapped you policemen. Ask him to pay me the ransom immediately. Five hundred thousand pesos per person, a total of three million pesos. Send the money here to me. I will give him two hours. If I don't see the money in two hours, none of these people will survive!"
The thin policeman agreed repeatedly, and Lin Fei kicked him on the butt again and said, "Get out of here!"
The thin policeman stumbled towards Butuan City, while Lin Fei asked people to invite Gao Manlu and others, and asked these policemen to kneel down and kowtow to them to vent the anger of the Chinese who were pierced with wire.
The skinny policeman hurried back to Butuan City and told his boss about what happened. The boss did not dare to neglect him and hurriedly took the skinny policeman to find Jackson.
Jackson was furious after listening to the thin policeman's account of what had happened, because no Chinese had ever dared to offend the Spaniards, and now some Chinese dared to kidnap a policeman and demand a huge ransom of three million pesos!
Jackson suppressed his anger and asked, "Who kidnapped you?"
The thin policeman shook his head and said, "I don't know. They didn't reveal their identities."
Jackson then asked, "Do they have guns?"
The thin policeman shook his head again and said, "They only have knives."
Jackson sneered and said, "I thought they were someone else, but it turns out they are just a bunch of robbers. Since they don't have guns, they are easy to deal with."
After Jackson finished speaking, he picked up the phone and said, "Captain Spencer, come to my place immediately."
Soon, a burly Spanish officer in a neatly dressed uniform walked into the room. Jackson pointed at the skinny policeman casually and said, "Today a group of Chinese bandits have kidnapped a policeman. Take a company of people with you to deal with them."
Captain Spencer looked at the policeman, laughed disdainfully, and said, "Aren't you policemen always very impressive when dealing with Chinese pigs? How come you were kidnapped by Chinese pigs today? Lead the way, I will rescue you."
The thin policeman chuckled twice and said nothing more. He took Captain Spencer and a company of 150 Spanish soldiers to where the police were being held.
