Volume 1 Tigers in Southeast Asia Chapter 94: Hanging the Bishop
The Spaniards on Mindanao had no radio or newspapers. Although Butuan City had undergone tremendous changes, the village of Dawasi knew nothing about it. So when Bishop Dado heard Lin Fei's words, he did not believe them at all. He shook his head in disdain and said, "Can you destroy the army of Butuan City? Stop talking nonsense!"
Lin Fei waved his hand and called the old farmer Zhang Wu over, and said to Bishop Dado: "Do you know him?"
Bishop Dado knew the old farmer Zhang Wu, and he said to him in surprise, "Aren't you Zhang Wu? Why are you with these people?"
With Lin Fei's help and support, the old farmer Zhang Wu straightened his back and spoke with confidence. He said loudly: "Bishop Dado, let me tell you, Butuan City is now the world of the Chinese. No one dares to bully the Chinese anymore. Whoever dares to bully the Chinese emperor will be killed!"
Bishop Dado was furious when he saw Zhang Wu, who was always more docile than a sheep, speaking so harshly. He pointed at Zhang Wu and cursed, "Well, you dare to talk to me like this, aren't you afraid that I will hang your whole family to death?"
Seeing that Bishop Dado dared to threaten the Chinese under his gun, Lin Fei sneered, took out his gun and pointed it at his head, and said, "Do you want to taste its power?"
Bishop Dado thought that he had to fight for his life at this moment, otherwise he would be doomed. He still had more than a hundred people, so he should be able to escape.
Bishop Dado let out a strange cry when he thought of this, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Go, kill the Guanghua pig!"
Bishop Dado still had some desperate criminals under his command, and the leading sturdy man was one of them. When they heard this, they ignored the fact that Lin Fei's men had guns and rushed towards them with machetes brandished.
Lin Fei waved his hand and said casually: "Kill them."
Lin Fei had thought of this situation before surrounding the Spaniards. He had ordered his subordinates to execute all the followers and capture Bishop Dado alive. So Lin Fei's subordinates aimed at Bishop Dado's subordinates and shot. More than a dozen Spaniards fell down in the blink of an eye, and the other Spaniards screamed and ran back.
Bishop Dado ran away when the desperadoes rushed forward. In order to avoid accidental injuries, Lin Fei's subordinates surrounded them in a semi-moon shape, so there was no one behind him. Bishop Dado ran to the back where there was no one, but after he took a few steps, he saw a group of people with guns rushing out in front of him and blocking his way.
Bishop Dado wanted to turn around and run away, but the men with guns in front of him rushed up, knocked him to the ground, and dragged him to Lin Fei like a dead dog. Dozens of other Spaniards were shot, and more than twenty of them knelt down and surrendered.
Bishop Dado knelt in front of Lin Fei, begging for mercy. The old farmer Zhang Wu pointed at his nose and cursed: "Aren't you always so majestic when you bully the Chinese? Why are you kneeling now?"
The old farmer Zhang Wu recalled the past when he was bullied by Bishop Dado. He could no longer control his anger and picked up a stick from the ground and started to hit Bishop Dado. Lin Fei pulled him back and said with a smile, "Old man, wait a minute."
Old farmer Zhang Wu looked at Lin Fei and asked, "Are you going to spare him?"
Lin Fei laughed and said, "It would be so boring to kill him like this."
The old farmer Zhang Wu asked, "How do you want to kill him?"
Lin Fei smiled leisurely and said, "Of course I will give him a taste of his own medicine."
The old farmer Zhang Wu didn't understand, so Lin Fei asked, "Old man, is there any way for the village to gather everyone together?"
Zhang Wu, an old farmer, said: "Someone has to beat drums and gongs and go from street to street to notify everyone so that they can gather together."
Lin Fei asked: "Who is this person?"
Old farmer Zhang Wu pointed to the group of captured Spaniards and said, "It's that tall, thin guy. He's the one who always walks around the streets and gathers everyone."
Lin Fei smiled and said, "Then go over there and ask him to gather all the people in the village to the entrance of the village."
Old farmer Zhang Wu nodded in agreement, walked up to the Spaniard and told him Lin Fei's order. How could the Spaniard dare not disobey? Under the guard of Lin Fei's subordinates, he went back to get the gong and went from street to street to notify everyone. Soon, all the people in the village, young and old, gathered at the village entrance.
The villagers who arrived at the entrance of the village were all shocked, because they saw that Bishop Dado, who was usually so arrogant, was kneeling on the ground dejectedly with a rag stuffed in his mouth. His men were also kneeling on the side. Behind Bishop Dado stood a group of Chinese with guns.
Lin Fei said loudly: "I have a message for everyone. You have now officially left the Spanish Empire and become citizens of the Huaxia Empire. I am the emperor of the Huaxia Empire. From now on, I will protect all Chinese people. Whoever dares to bully the Chinese will die!"
Everyone was skeptical and talking about it. Lin Fei continued, "In order to make everyone believe it, I will kill this evil Bishop Dado right now. Does n't he like to hang people? I will hang him today!"
Everyone exclaimed in amazement, sighing, "Someone actually dared to kill Bishop Dado!"
Lin Fei waved his hand, and the two soldiers put the rope around Bishop Dado's neck. Lin Fei walked up to Bishop Dado, took out the rag from his mouth, and said with a smile: "Respected Bishop Dado, do you have anything else to say ?"
Bishop Dado burst out his courage when facing death, and said loudly: "Lin Fei, just wait, our empire will not let you Chinese pigs off easily, we will kill all the male Chinese pigs and sell the female Chinese pigs to brothels..."
Lin Fei sneered and made a pulling gesture to the soldiers who were pulling the rope. Several soldiers pulled the rope hard, and Bishop Dado was hung up alive. As soon as Bishop Dado's feet left the ground, he could no longer make any sound. His legs kicked wildly in the air, and he stopped struggling after a while.
The onlookers were stunned and exclaimed: "Oh my God, Bishop Dado was really killed!", "This Huaxia Empire is really powerful, and His Majesty the Emperor is even more powerful!", "With the Huaxia Empire, we Chinese are saved!"
Lin Fei listened to everyone's discussion, feeling happy. He waved his hand to quiet everyone down, then said, "Let's execute Bishop Dado's men!"
Everyone cheered. Lin Fei handed over the specific implementation matters to his subordinates and returned to Butuan City with the members of the sniper team. The land reform team began to carry out various reforms.
The first thing Lin Fei did when he returned to Butuan City was to collect intelligence about Cotabato. Butuan City and Cotabato had trade relations, so many Chinese businessmen had been to Cotabato. Lin Fei sent out a message to collect intelligence from all Chinese.
Many Chinese businessmen came to Lin Fei and told him about the situation in Cotabato. They all said that the number of Spanish troops stationed in Cotabato was about 4,000. Lin Fei felt that the troops were insufficient, so he recruited another regiment from the Chinese in Butuan City. Lin Fei did not dare to organize the new recruits into a separate unit, so he incorporated them into the original first regiment, expanding the original first regiment into two regiments. Niu Dalong and Niu Dahu were also promoted to regiment commanders.
Three days later, on January 19, Lin Fei was watching the training of the new soldiers on the playground when the staff officer He Kaisheng suddenly ran over and said, "Your Majesty, an old craftsman heard that you were collecting intelligence on Cotabato City and wants to meet you."
Many merchants could provide information. Lin Fei did not have time to receive them one by one, so he asked the General Staff to record the information these merchants said and read it when he was free. So Lin Fei was a little surprised to hear that an old craftsman wanted to see him in person, and said, "Can't we let the craftsman tell us his information?"
He Kaisheng shook his head and said, "No, the old craftsman insisted on seeing you, and said that his information was very important and he had to tell you in person."
Lin Fei was stunned, and after thinking for a while, he asked, "What kind of craftsman is he?"
He Kaisheng said: "He said he was a house builder and had built the city wall for Cotabato!"
Lin Fei's eyes lit up when he heard about the city wall. He had heard from Yuan Zhengxiong that the city wall of Cotabato was very strong and difficult to break from the outside, so he had always wanted detailed information about the city wall. However, the merchant's information did not include any information about the city wall of Cotabato. So Lin Fei said, "Hurry up and invite the craftsman to the reception room of the military camp. I want to meet him in person."
Lin Fei arrived at the reception room of the military camp, and soon the old craftsman came. This old craftsman was called Qin Xiren, with dark skin and calluses on his hands. It was obvious that he had been doing this job for decades.
He Kaisheng then introduced Lin Fei to the old craftsman. After hearing the introduction, the old craftsman knelt down without saying a word, kowtowed loudly, and said: "We Chinese have been bullied terribly. Your Majesty, you are really our savior."
Lin Fei reached out his hand to help the old craftsman up and said, "Sir, there is no need to do this. Why don't you write down the information? Why do you have to see me?"
The old craftsman apologized, "I have no other intentions. I just want to see our savior. I hope Your Majesty will not blame me."
Lin Fei smiled and said, "So that's how it is. It's okay. Let's talk about the wall of Cotabato. What do you want to tell me?"
Qin Xiren, an old craftsman, said: "It was about five years ago. At that time, I was still living in Cotabato. Later, the Spanish recruited craftsmen in the city to reinforce the city wall, so I went there. I thought there would be a lot of work to do, but I didn't do much work at all."
Lin Fei exclaimed in surprise and asked, "Not much work done? What does this mean?"
The old craftsman said, "After we got there, we found out that the Spanish had already hired someone. We were just helping them. They had a name, something like 'military engineers'. I heard that many of them came from Madrid."
Lin Fei was shocked, thinking that the designer of Cotabato City was actually a Spanish military engineer. It seemed that this Cotabato City was extraordinary.
At this time, the old craftsman continued, "These military engineers are very strange. They don't use whole big stones to build the city walls. Instead, they use bags of gray powder. When using that powder, you first add water and then stir it. After stirring, it can solidify into hard stones. I have been a craftsman all my life and have seen a lot of stones, but I have never seen any stone harder than that solidified stone!"
