The chaos that lasted all night finally rescued the seven thousand prisoners. Since the Spaniards had no time to mobilize the main force from beginning to end, a group of old, weak, women, children and gang spies found the opportunity.
After daybreak, when these post-war survivors saw the continuous slaughter of their compatriots from the north, the seven thousand captives howled and cried. They were glad that they finally survived.
This is simply a miracle. These seven thousand prisoners of war were desperate from the moment they entered the prisoner of war camp, because they knew the faces of these colonists all too well. Countless Chinese had died under their butcher knives in the past three hundred years.
No matter how the Chinese officers comforted them, these women and children just kept crying. The Chinese young men from Ryukyu, Jiangnan, and the north were held back by their compatriots from foreign lands.
Just behind the prisoner of war camp, people shoveled away layers of floating soil. The scene below shocked all the officers and soldiers!
"What a shame! Mass graves!" the soldiers from the north exclaimed.
That's right, there are corpses all under the shallow layer of floating soil, countless layers!
Ryoma Sakamoto, General Cai Mao and other senior officers also received the news. They knew that the matter was serious and did not dare to neglect and rushed to the scene.
At this time, seven huge bone burial grounds have been excavated one after another, and they are all full of corpses as far as the eye can see!
The top ones are corpses that have not yet rotted. These are all Chinese who were killed in this war. Many girls were naked and even the corpses were in pieces.
All valuable things from the victims had been plundered, even the gold teeth in their mouths were gone!
The Chinese survivors kneeling around the mass graves were looking for familiar faces in the mountains of corpses, and their desperate cries were earth-shaking!
"What a fool! Massacre the city! Kill all the foreign devils, kill all the natives! Massacre the city..." The officers and soldiers at the scene suddenly went crazy, and then the battlefield was filled with the roar of massacre.
Sakamoto Ryoma was trembling all over, twisting the beads in his hands to suppress the anger in his heart. He looked carefully at everything in front of him, and suddenly discovered that these mass graves were not formed now. There were dense white bones under the fresh corpses on top!
"How many years have these mass graves been there?" he asked sharply.
The Chinese old man cried, "I have known that this place is a mass grave since I can remember. I heard my grandfather say that in the past, whenever there was a riot to massacre Chinese people in Manila, the dead bodies would be buried in this area!"
"There are too many mass graves like this!"
The crowd was excited, and the sound of screams could be heard in the distance. It was the frantic soldiers who had begun to take action. The shouts of revenge and massacre began to spread throughout the city.
"Stop it! Stop massacring the city!" Cai Mao and Sakamoto Ryoma shouted at the same time.
"General! Why?" People asked reluctantly!
"Because they are beasts, we are not beasts!" Cai Hao shouted loudly, "We will kill anyone who resists without mercy, but as long as they surrender, we must stop the slaughter!"
"This city is not only filled with Spaniards, but also foreigners from other countries. They are all watching. They are seeing how the Chinese are expanding!"
"They will even think about whether the Chinese will one day fall on their heads!"
"We can't give the foreign devils any excuse! Give a strict order to stop the massacre of the city! Who dares to question the Chinese military order!"
The military orders were like a mountain, and the people on the scene were so suppressed that they dared not breathe. Soon the heralds rode horses all over the city and issued the strictest ban on slaughter!
Ryoma Sakamoto said with a gloomy face, "Immediately summon officials from various countries stationed in Manila. This is the administrative center of the Philippines, and there are offices in various countries!"
"Now the evidence must be firmly in our hands! The head of state needs these ammunition in Europe!"
"Don't think that fighting at the negotiation table or on the diplomatic field is simple! The cruelty there is even more grim!"
"We must let the world know what Spain has done in the past three hundred years, and we must let the world know what kind of nation we are!"
"This is an era of rising nationalism! As long as we have ironclad evidence, as long as we can prove to the world, we, the Luzon Chinese, will never accept Spanish rule!"
"Then all Chinese people in Luzon have the right to become independent! Everyone must remember that this is allowed under international law! There is precedent for this in history!"
"Amitabha! Good! Good!"
"Don't forget how those countries in South America became independent! We must not mess up the overall situation now. Let the world recognize the fact that the Luzon Chinese are independent. This is the most important task!"
"I know you have hatred in your hearts, and I know you want to vent it...but all actions must be under the command of the head of state!"
"If you don't believe me, don't you still believe in the head of state? When have you ever suffered a loss when you follow the head of state to conquer the world!"
"Put away your petty thoughts and immediately invite diplomats, reporters, big businessmen, and scholars from other countries... We want a chain of evidence!"
Sakamoto Ryoma thought more carefully. He knew that he had to explain the truth clearly today, otherwise these evil officers and soldiers would have many ways to kill people secretly.
They didn't massacre on the surface, but that didn't mean they wouldn't massacre secretly. If they just caused some trouble and said that the Spanish prisoners were going to rebel, these people would dare to use heavy machine guns to attack them.
Those Spanish civilians were not much better. If they randomly found a few tainted witnesses and said that a Spanish businessman had killed Chinese people, they would dare to ransack their homes and wipe out their families!
If you want to suppress this volcano, you still need to be sensible. All officers and soldiers must know why!
Luzon's ultimate strategy is to establish an independent country and then merge into the Chinese Federation. This is the ultimate goal of the war. No one can destroy this grand strategy!
Finally suppressing the situation, Sakamoto Ryoma whispered to Cai Hao before leaving, "Hurry up and send a telegram to Europe and tell Xiao Letian everything that happened here!"
"We have reached the end of what we can do. In the end, we still have to see if Xiao Letian can solve the problem of the British!"
"As long as the British recognize the founding of Luzon, it doesn't matter to the Spaniards! Come on, come on..."
Telegraph lines in Manila were repaired for twelve hours. Before midnight that night, the latest battle report on the battle in Manila finally took wings and flew to the world.
Fly north to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Ryukyu, and Beijing, and fly east to the United States and Iquique in South America via the Pacific submarine cable.
Fly west to every large city in Southeast Asia, and go straight from the Lion City to India, the Middle East, the Suez Canal and then into the Mediterranean.
At 12:30 in the morning, Ryukyu Naha was completely silent. The sudden sound of galloping horse hooves woke up countless sleeping citizens. Then, the Ryukyu War Temple suddenly burst into flames and the bells and drums rang!
The whole city woke up from its sleep, everyone opened the windows and looked outside, and then a tsunami-like sound swept from the distance.
"Manila is restored! The Chinese are victorious!"
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