The head of state said that all European powers are paper tigers. This may be a bit of a boast, but when it comes to Spain, it is really not a boast, but a fact.
Xiao Letian likes to pinch soft persimmons. Soft persimmons are so delicious!
Spain is a typical country that played a good hand but ended up playing shit!
It was obviously a pioneer country in the Age of Discovery, and it was the first country to save enough funds to start the Industrial Revolution, but it failed to get on the bus at the most critical moment.
The country is arrogant and lustful, and then desperately supports the Catholic Church in order to spread the gospel of God to the whole world, no matter how much money is spent.
As a result, the country's productivity has been unable to increase, and its empty money cannot be converted into its own national strength. It is like a puffy patient who drinks honey water every day, but his muscles and bones have not developed at all.
A large number of goods have to be purchased from industrial countries such as Britain and France, because their goods are cheap and of good quality. These cheap industrial products have directly impacted the traditional handicraft industry in Spain.
The wealth that Spain snatched from all over the world was transferred to Britain and France, and their national power declined little by little.
Until Britain defeated the invincible Armada, Napoleon directly destroyed Spain. The navy and army were all destroyed, and the national spirit and military soul had been cut off to the roots.
After that, Spain went into decline. Nationalist uprisings broke out in the colonies in South America, and each country became independent. Spain had no choice but to accept its fate.
After the Spanish-American War, the newly rising United States was beaten violently, and the Philippines and Cuba were taken away by the United States!
After the Spanish-American War, Spain's national power was not even as strong as Japan at that time!
Immediately after World War I and World War II, Spain was completely absent, and after World War I, a protracted civil war broke out in Spain!
Who would he bully if he were not bullied by such a paper tiger and soft persimmon? Xiao Letian is not a man of faith, and he will definitely take action when the conditions are ripe.
The landing at Subic Bay proved the head of state's judgment that the Spanish were really paper tigers, and the cowardly and incompetent high-level commanders did not even dare to formulate an offensive strategy.
Subic Bay is such an important strategic location, but there is not a single soldier to defend it, and the limited troops are concentrated on Sanlishi Mountain.
In the eyes of these timid Spanish colonists, it was enough to hold Manila, the largest economic and political center in the Philippines, and then wait for changes to defeat the Chinese.
Cowards are not worthy of participating in the game of great power competition. After capturing the port, the Chinese army quickly disembarked. Before all the troops landed, four regiments of troops were lightly armed and went straight to the largest pass on Sanlishi Mountain.
Facts have proved that the relationship between the natives and these Spaniards is not that good. The frightened natives who were killed did not even report to the garrison. When the Chinese special operations team touched the checkpoint from the rainforest, more than 500 Spanish soldiers were enjoying themselves I'm making lunch.
General Enmu did not expect that the enemy would come from this direction, and these old soldiers who were dawdling even more did not expect that when the special forces wearing camouflage uniforms saw the military camp, they actually found that the gate of the camp was open, and the artillery and gun jackets were Not opened.
There was smoke from the cooking pots, and Spanish soldiers were queuing up to get meat porridge to drink!
When the grenades hit the camp like hail, these lazy soldiers were all dumbfounded. Many of them were stunned for four or five seconds before they screamed. Only one tenth of the soldiers understood that they were attacked by the enemy and looked for weapons.
Dozens of snipers are hidden in the canopy around the camp, observing the movements of the entire camp. The most threatening targets are always eliminated at the first fixed point.
The key to the arsenal in the barracks has been transferred to the fourth person, but anyone who dares to grab the key will be shot in the head by a sniper's bullet.
The crazy officer ordered the soldiers to prepare artillery counterattacks, but dozens of soldiers were swept to the ground by bullets before they could get close to the rain cloth on the artillery.
The entire military camp was in chaos. The big pot of meat porridge was knocked over. The broth was poured on the burning firewood and smoke billowed out. The injured soldiers were crawling on the ground miserably and shouting, but no one came to save them. .
"Snipers continue to cause casualties. Don't kill them, but maim them!"
"Keep the shooting discipline in mind and create more disabilities, because disabled enemies must be rescued, and that will be a drag on them!"
"Dead bodies will not slow down the enemy! Keep firing!"
The sniper's scope caught the enemy's limbs, and the bullets shattered the soldiers' joints. The soldiers lying in the camp rolling and screaming made other people's faces turn pale with fear.
As the chaos continued, the Chinese troops began to rush upward. Heavy machine guns were already set up on the slope outside the main entrance of the military camp. When the dense rain of bullets began to spray the military camp, the morale of the Spaniards completely collapsed.
The surprise battle only lasted forty minutes. The largest pass at Mount Sanriz was broken through by the Chinese troops. Further east was the great plain where Manila could be seen at a glance. After advancing another thirty kilometers, the Chinese reinforcements arrived. You can join forces with the Luzon Uprising Army.
The battle was so smooth that it was unbelievable. When the vanguard of the army broke through the mountains and officially entered the plains, Manila Bay was extremely wide to the south, and there were endless plains to the east and north with rivers crisscrossing them. Many major rivers were already controlled by the rebels. inside.
The leading cavalry quickly approached, while many local indigenous people looked stupidly at the Chinese cavalry passing by on the village road, with confusion on their demented faces.
"Who are they? Where are they? Who am I? Where am I?"
"The Chinese army is coming!" After a brief period of confusion, the indigenous people screamed and ran away. This terrifying news spread like the wind in the Manila Bay area.
At nine o'clock in the night on January 1, 1871, the sound of horse hooves sounded in the suburbs of San Fernando. In the dark night, a bright red firework was set off every fifteen minutes in the city to orient the Chinese vanguard.
The rebel army selected the guides who were most familiar with the terrain, and under the protection of the toughest soldiers, they cast a net to the west to meet the reinforcements from the north.
The entire city has become a city that never sleeps. The city is now filled with Chinese people who have retreated from the south. The old people are sitting on the street waiting late at night without sleeping.
"Really here? Really? No one lied to me? Are there really reinforcements from the mother country?"
"We have been bullied for three hundred years, and we haven't seen a single soldier from the north come to save us. Is there really one today? Don't lie to me!"
The old man sat on the street and stared at the west like a hawk. No matter how much the young people around him tried to persuade him to go back and rest, these tearful people just refused to listen.
How much they longed for the army of their motherland to rescue them, but three hundred years of disappointment made them give up their illusions. Even if everyone told him that this was not a dream, he could not believe it.
"I will never believe it until I see the dragon flag of my motherland!"
Whoosh...pop...
Another bright red firework shot from the city into the sky, and the city of San Fernando once again marked the direction of the mother country's army marching late at night.
Just as the people in the city were waiting for hope, suddenly a red dot appeared in the western sky, rising higher and faster, and finally exploded into a red firework in the sky.
The whole city was immediately in shock!
"The Führer's troops responded! They saw our targeted fireworks! They are responding to us!"
"Here they come, the reinforcements that have been waiting for three hundred years are here!"
At that moment, all the people howled and cried!
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