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Luzon Island was a small country in ancient times. During the Song Dynasty, Chinese merchant ships often came here for trade.

Later, because of the war, a large number of Song Dynasty people were exiled to this overseas island country. The Song Dynasty people living abroad called it Luzon Island to commemorate that they were descendants of China.

(My own understanding, without any historical support)

Located in the northern part of the Philippine archipelago, Luzon is the largest, most populous and most economically developed island in the Philippines.

The island is rich in gold, silver and copper, and the products are very rich.

The output of rice, corn, coconut, sugar cane, mango, banana and other crops on the island ranks first in the country. It is the main grain production area in the Philippines. In addition, the island also produces high-quality hardwoods, and Luzon cigars are especially famous all over the world.

In ancient times when gold, silver, and copper were used as currency, it is no exaggeration to say that the occupation of Luzon Island can at least arm an army of millions. The output of gold, silver, and copper here is enough to maintain a hundred An army of tens of thousands of scales has existed for hundreds of years.

The rice that is grown three times a year on the island can provide enough food for tens of millions of people.

Luzon Island is a veritable treasure island. After occupying Luzon Island, the entire Philippines is not far from the destruction of the country.

The Condor Army's occupation of Luzon Island can not only obtain a rich logistics supply base, but also use it as a springboard to attack South and Southeast Asian countries. Luzon Island can completely serve as a strategic springboard.

As the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you can win a hundred battles.

Although Ning Yuan believed that Filipino players were vulnerable, in order to avoid capsizing in the gutter, he still sent a caravan to land on Luzon Island in the name of doing business.

After the caravan purchased a large amount of natural rubber, they also successfully obtained some information about Luzon Island.

There are now three major forces on Luzon Island, namely the Philippine Luzon Allied Forces occupying Manila and the area south of it, the Northern Luzon Kingdom occupying the northern part of Luzon Island, and the Central Luzon Kingdom occupying the central area of ​​Luzon Island.

The Luzon Allied Forces is a regime dominated by Filipino players. They have strong sea power and relatively weak land forces.

The Kingdom of Central Luzon is a regime jointly established by some Filipino player lords and aborigines. Small-scale local wars often break out between them and the other two forces.

The Northern Luzon Kingdom is a relatively pure aboriginal force. Although there are some players in the kingdom, the main power is concentrated in the hands of the great nobles in the country.

Among the three regimes, only the Luzon Allied Army has a powerful navy, while the other two regimes are fully developing their military power on land.

Constrained by the weak strength of the army, the Luzon Allied Forces can only dispatch the navy to attack the coastline of the Kingdom of Central Luzon from time to time while defending the city of Manila, so as to reduce the pressure on the city of Manila.

Although the Central Luzon Kingdom is the most powerful, they did not dare to concentrate on attacking one of the enemies because of the enemy.

The three forces are now checking and balancing each other, and no one has the strength to annex the other.

After understanding the power structure on Luzon Island, Ning Yuan, Bing Qilin and others formulated a two-pronged attack plan.

The naval fleet of the Ice and Fire Legion will sail directly into Manila Bay from the South China Sea, and take the initiative to find the maritime fleet of the Luzon Allied Forces for a decisive battle.

After defeating the enemy's sea fleet,

They will quickly separate the entire Philippine archipelago, cut off the connection between the islands, and wait until the main army occupies Luzon Island, and then annex other islands.

The ground army of the Ice and Fire Legion will directly attack the Northern Luzon Kingdom.

They will start from Taiwan Island, land from the northern plains, and then go all the way south, advancing to the city of Manila.

Considering that the Ice and Fire Legion is strong in melee combat, and its long-range attack ability is a little bit less interesting, Ning Yuan specially dispatched five full-staffed elf ranger legions from the mainland of the Condor Empire to help them.

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On this day, the weather was sunny, and the patrol fleet of the Luzon Allied Army was patrolling its own territorial waters along the coastline, when suddenly a large fleet appeared in front of them.

When the Philippine player on the patrol ship saw the ice and fire flag hanging high on the mast of the opponent's battleship, his expression changed drastically.

"Quick, return to the voyage at full speed, and notify the rear that the ice and fire pirates are coming."

Since the Ice Fire Pirates defeated the Eastern Sea Fleet of the Condor Empire in the East China Sea, their reputation spread throughout the Southeast Asian waters.

While people are gloating, they are also praying that they will not become the next target of these vicious pirates.

When the Ice Fire Pirates captured China's Taiwan Island and Hainan Island, people thought that this powerful pirate was specifically against Chinese players.

Filipino players never expected that they would be their next target.

After learning that the ice and fire pirates' fleet had invaded massively, the naval fleet of the Luzon Allied Forces immediately began to assemble in Manila Bay.

The Filipino players prepared to fight while praying that the other side was just passing by.

When the ice and fire fleet headed straight for Manila Bay, the luck of the Filipino players was immediately shattered, and they were forced to choose to fight.

Soon, two huge naval fleets staged a tragic naval battle in the waters outside Manila Bay.

In order to gain the upper hand, the Filipino players sent all the mermaid fighters, hoping to defeat this pirate fleet with a powerful mermaid army.

However, the Ice and Fire Fleet did not send the mermaid army to fight against it, they just rammed directly towards the Filipino player's warship.

The mermaid warriors who entered the sea beat desperately on the bottom of the Ice Fire Fleet, and then they failed to achieve any results except that their arms were a little numb.

When the Filipino players on the battleship learned that the mermaid warriors were unable to scuttle the enemy's battleship, they were shocked into a cold sweat.

Looking at the pirate warships rushing towards them at high speed, their hearts were filled with despair.

Now they finally knew how the Condor Navy was defeated by these pirates, but it was too late because they could no longer escape.

In order to give full play to the characteristics of the cold iron wood, the Condor Navy's new mana battleships have specially strengthened the impact capability of the ram during production.

The Ice and Fire Fleet is equipped with a new type of mana warship made of cold iron wood. They do not need to send out mermaid legions or use long-range weapons such as trebuchets to fight the enemy now. They just hit them directly.

As the warships of the Ice and Fire Fleet rammed from all directions, the fleet of the Luzon Allied Forces immediately fell into the siege of the enemy.

When some outer battleships were hit and sunk by enemy ships, they ignored the mermaid fighters in Shanghai and retreated directly to the interior of Manila Bay.

When the Ice and Fire Fleet blocked the entrance and exit of Manila Bay, they immediately became shackles.

After experiencing the Haizhou Bay incident, the Condor Navy is now very sensitive to these bays, so they left some warships at the entrance for defense to prevent being surrounded by the enemy inside the bay.

After solving the worries for the future, the main force of the Ice and Fire Fleet sailed into Manila Bay immediately, and wiped out the fleeing Philippine fleet.

After knowing how powerful the pirate warships are, the Filipino players dare not let the enemy ships approach easily.

They played a chasing game with the enemy ships in the bay. They hoped to use the long-range weapons on the battleships to slowly grind to death the naval soldiers on the enemy ships.

However, when they saw the mermaid soldiers on the enemy ship entering the sea continuously, their faces turned ashen.

Now their mermaid army is still outside the bay, they can only watch helplessly as the enemy mermaid fighters scuttle their warships one by one.

The Filipino players did not expect that the warships of the Ice and Fire Fleet were not afraid of mermaid fighters, so they made serious tactical mistakes from the very beginning.

When they abandoned the mermaid army still in the sea and fled into Manila Bay, the naval battle turned into a one-sided massacre.

As the battleships were scuttled by the enemy mermaid warriors, all the Filipino players on the battleships were ashamed. At the end of the battle, they gave up struggling and allowed the battleships to be scuttled and smashed to pieces.

As the last Philippine battleship slowly sank into the sea, the naval battle ended with a complete victory for the Ice and Fire Fleet.

After this fiasco, the Filipino players not only lost their most powerful fleet, but also lost control of the ocean. Since then, the Ice and Fire Fleet can freely cruise in the Philippine waters.

After defeating the Philippine Fleet, the Ice Fire Fleet successfully recruited and surrendered the lost mermaid army.

Immediately afterwards, they captured some islands off the coast of the Philippines, and then used those islands as a base to officially take over the entire Philippine waters.

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When the naval fleet achieved great victory, the Army Corps of the Ice and Fire Legion also officially landed in the Pasalen area of ​​Luzon Island.

The northern area of ​​Luzon Island has always been a relatively safe rear area for the Kingdom of Northern Luzon. Usually, even a pirate is not seen, so they do not have many troops stationed there.

The sudden landing of the Ice and Fire Legion caught them by surprise, and soon half of Northern Luzon fell directly.

By the time the Kingdom of Northern Luzon brought back the front-line army, the vanguard of the Ice and Fire Legion had already reached the Yijige area.

In order to regain the lost ground, the king of Northern Luzon gave up defending the city, and he personally led an army of 500,000 to rush towards the ice and fire army.

Facing the Northern Luzon Army, which was in full swing, Bing Qilin chose to show his weakness.

He pretended to be invincible and made the army retreat continuously, discarding a lot of supplies along the way.

Looking at the pots and pans discarded by the enemy along the road, the king of Northern Luzon thought that the enemy's position had been messed up, so he immediately decided to pursue the victory.

Although he couldn't catch up with the enemy after chasing for several days, he still saw some clues from the number of stoves left by the enemy on the ground.

In the places where the enemy had camped, the further north they went, the fewer stoves there were. From this, he deduced that the enemy's fighting spirit must be weak, and the soldiers had all fled, so he immediately accelerated the speed of pursuit.

If there were Huaxia players who were proficient in Sun Tzu's Art of War here at this time, they would definitely tell the king of Northern Luzon not to continue chasing them, otherwise the entire army would be wiped out.

Because this is the actual principle of Sun Tzu's Art of War: "Show what you can't do, use it to show that you can't use it" and "Move it with advantage, treat it with pawns" as mentioned in the "Art of War" The use in actual combat.

The most famous example in history is the Battle of Maling in the Warring States Period of China.

In the Battle of Maling, Sun Bin successfully lured the Wei army led by Pang Juan into the encirclement by using the tactic of reducing stoves to lure the enemy, and finally annihilated them all.

Although Sun Tzu's Art of War pays attention to fiction and reality, true and false, but just looking at the discarded pots and pans and fewer and fewer stoves on the ground, they are 99% sure that this is absolutely true. It is a strategy to reduce foes and lure the enemy.

But it's a pity that not everyone in China is familiar with Sun Tzu's Art of War, let alone the aborigines in the Philippines.

When the King of Northern Luzon led an army to chase down a hillside, with the sound of gongs and drums, countless soldiers of the Ice and Fire Legion suddenly rushed out from all directions.

They quickly surrounded the Northern Luzon Army, and then arrows rained down.

Although the King of Northern Luzon had an elite group of swordsmen, under the attack of the Ice and Fire Legion with stunning weapons, this group of swordsmen was quickly wiped out.

When the king of Northern Luzon realized that the situation was not good and led his army to flee, an army of elf rangers had already circled to their rear.

Under the volley of the elf ranger, the King of Northern Luzon was shot dead on the spot.

Although this battle was to lure the enemy to go deep, in fact, the real strength of the Ice and Fire Legion was higher than that of the Northern Luzon Legion, so after being ambushed, the Northern Luzon Legion was not an opponent at all.

At the end of the battle, the 500,000 Northern Luzon Army Corps surrendered except for hundreds of thousands of people who died in battle.

After losing the king and the main army, the Kingdom of Northern Luzon immediately became an undefended open land. Wherever the Ice and Fire Legion went, all the cities were surrendered.

In this way, the entire Northern Luzon area, except for the border city of Bayunbang, all other areas fell into the hands of the Ice and Fire Legion.

Bayunbang City is located at the junction of North Luzon and Central Luzon. It is the only way to go from Central Luzon to North Luzon. It is the gateway of North Luzon to the southern front line and has important strategic significance.

After learning that Northern Luzon was invaded by ice and fire pirates, the Kingdom of Central Luzon immediately assembled a large army and came to the city of Bayunbang.

But before they captured Bayunbang City, the forward army of the Ice and Fire Legion also rushed over, sandwiching Bayunbang City between the two armies.

After learning that the Ice and Fire Pirates had arrived, the Central Luzon army immediately stopped attacking the city, and then they and the Ice and Fire Legion sent envoys one after another to persuade the defenders in the city to surrender to their own Kaesong.

Central Luzon offered very generous conditions to the defenders in the city. They kept adding chips, but they still couldn't convince each other.

After weighing the pros and cons, the guard in the city finally chose to surrender to the Ice and Fire Legion, because he dared not refuse the Bing Qilin.

Bing Qilin didn't offer any generous conditions to the guards in the city, he just asked the messenger to tell him.

If the other party dares to surrender to Central Luzon, everyone in the city will die on the day the city is broken, and the families of the soldiers in the city will also be buried with them.

Many family members of the guards in the city are in the rear, and now they have fallen into the hands of the Ice and Fire Legion, even the guards' own family members, so no matter how generous the conditions offered by Zhongluzon, he dare not ask The opponent surrendered.

Because once he announces his surrender to Central Luzon, I am afraid that the soldiers who miss his family will kill him immediately.

So he had no choice but to surrender to the Ice and Fire Legion, because the other party was a ferocious pirate who could do anything.

When the northern city gate of Bayunbang was slowly opened, with the entry of the Ice and Fire Legion, the entire Northern Luzon fell into the hands of the Condor Empire.