Before fighting, morale will collapse! Such was the situation with the Spanish, the Chinese continued to build up their forces in the north, and the governors and generals in Manila bickered over responsibility. Top novels are updated the fastest
"It was your error in judgment that caused such consequences. You must bear full responsibility. I will send a telegram to the country to impeach you now!" Governor Botila roared angrily.
"Shut up! Are you impeaching me? You have extorted money and committed corruption in the colonies. How many years have the troops not increased their weapons and equipment? We don't even have a fully equipped army with breech-loading guns! This is your responsibility..." Well General Mu roared.
The two had been arguing for more than three hours. The entire Governor's Palace was silent, and no one dared to breathe, while the city of Manila was in commotion.
The news of the arrival of Chinese reinforcements flew throughout the city as if it had wings. All Europeans were frightened, especially the Spaniards, who were all in panic all day long.
Although they are usually arrogant, they themselves know the virtue of the army very well. They can still tell how the weapons and equipment of the three European countries of Britain, France and Prussia have evolved, and what their own troops are like.
The port was suddenly crowded with people trying to flee. Spanish merchants who owned ships began to board the ship with their families and prepare to leave Manila. The extra vacancies on the ship were also sold at high prices for tickets.
In order to escape this city, many ferry tickets have been sold to more than four or five times the previous price!
Tickets for ocean-going merchant ships were the most sought-after. Within half a day, all large merchant ships in Manila port were full, and European merchant ships began to flee the city threatened by war.
There is no room for large ships, and small merchant ships have become hot commodities. Although these small ships cannot take them back to Europe across the ocean, they can at least be transferred to Malaysia, Singapore and other regions, and then they can find opportunities to escape.
After all, those who can afford ferry tickets are the wealthy class of foreigners, and most Europeans come to Asia for adventure and to break into the docks. In fact, many foreigners left their homes because they were too poor to survive in their own countries.
They had no way to leave here, so they could only find a way to move overland as far south as possible in the Philippines, and find a way to stay away from the war.
Amid this wave of people fleeing the city, people from countries with friendly relations with the Chinese were obviously more calm. The United States, Britain, Fuso, and a small number of Prussians all hung their country's flags in front of their houses, and then hoarded a large amount of Food is waiting for peace of mind.
However, you still need to have some weapons in your hands, but these weapons are not to guard against the Chinese but to guard against possible thugs.
When the furious General Enmu left the Governor's Palace, the Manila in front of him had long lost its former prosperity and turned into a city about to collapse.
"What are the police doing? Why don't they come to maintain order!"
"General! The general is in serious trouble. The six forts guarding Manila Bay on Mount Sanriz were attacked by Chinese troops, and a fierce battle is currently underway!"
"Damn it! Send reinforcements immediately!"
The formation of Manila Bay mainly relies on the protection of the peninsula in Bataan Province in the north. The Sanlies Mountains directly penetrate into the sea to form a huge peninsula, blocking storms and blocking enemy attacks.
The southernmost tip of the peninsula is a mountain with an altitude of more than 1,400 meters, Mount Mariveles!
At the foot of the mountain and along the coastline, the Spanish built a series of coastal defense forts. Among them, the six forts at the southernmost end of the peninsula that control the mouth of the bay are the strongest.
After the Sanriz Mountain Pass was captured, the Chinese special operations forces began to penetrate to the south. The most important task of these special operations members who were experienced in jungle warfare was not to conquer the forts, but to harass the city of Manila through continuous harassment. Create an atmosphere of terror.
General Enmu understood the importance of the sea lifeline very well. After the fort was attacked, he immediately ordered the remaining gunboats of the Navy to send 4,000 reinforcements to the peninsula.
The already thin troops were even more insufficient at this moment. As soon as the general's adjutant raised a question, the headstrong General Enmu vetoed it.
"Our defense line is impenetrable! I brought out all the more than 400 artillery pieces in Manila. We built long defensive positions, trenches, spiked fences, bunkers..."
"There are also our gunboats on the sea for fire support!"
"No matter how many Chinese people there are, they will die in vain! We cannot fail!"
"And I still have the last trump card..." Enmu gritted his teeth and said, "Tomorrow morning, we will send six thousand Chinese prisoners in Manila to the front line!"
"If the Chinese dare to attack, kill all these prisoners!"
"Yes!" The adjutant took the order and turned away.
Historically, the Spanish colonial government in the Philippines had made it a habit to massacre Chinese. In their eyes, the Chinese were the backbone of wealth creation, and of course they could not kill them all.
However, because the Chinese themselves are too civilized, it is difficult to be assimilated and enslaved, and it is even more difficult to proselytize! Catholicism requires everyone to believe in God, but these Chinese must sacrifice their ancestors life and death!
This backward nation with primitive worship was synonymous with barbarians in the eyes of Spanish colonists, and was even inferior to those indigenous barbarians.
At least the natives are easier to assimilate!
It was profitable and difficult to enslave. In addition, there was a powerful mother country in the north, which gave these Spanish colonists a headache.
After much deliberation, we still have to rely on killing to control the population. When the Chinese have created a certain amount of wealth, they will have to massacre to harvest the wealth.
But the massacre cannot be enough to kill them all. Just kill tens of thousands of people to make the Chinese remember a little longer, and then let them start over again and continue to create wealth!
Three hundred years later, this cycle of massacre has become an instinctive choice of the colonial government. In their eyes, the Chinese are not human beings at all, they are just a group of hard-working ants and bees.
Now that the war has broken out, it is the Chinese who come to fight. How can they regard the enemy's compatriots as human beings!
Manila and other cities took the lead in anti-Chinese. They massacred, detained, and robbed...they committed rape, robbery, and all kinds of evil. Their purpose was to retaliate for the Chinese uprising.
Among them, General Enmu did the most cruel thing. He even wanted to use the lives of Chinese people as human shields to stop the Chinese army!
Fortunately, the Chinese had prepared in advance. Before the uprising, the CIA sent many spies to organize countless Chinese gangs in the Philippines.
They penetrated into every Chinese area in the Philippines in the form of gangs, and it was the appearance of this criminal organization that confused the Spaniards.
In the eyes of the Spanish colonists, gangsters must be a group of people who are unjust and unjust, and the more bad guys there are among the Chinese, the easier it is for them to watch.
These people wish that the Chinese people would become more and more chaotic!
It was under this disguise that the CIA's forces finally penetrated into all areas where Chinese people gathered, laying the groundwork for the subsequent uprising.
Before the uprising, Chinese people secretly moved to the north, and these local gangs began to train Chinese militias to prepare for the uprising.
