3088 Luzon Rebels
Time is tight and the task is heavy! The Zamboanga plan has already set the speed and decided quickly since its formulation. What kind of verbal battle is there with Spain? The head of state started to quarrel, and Xiao Hexin has already started to set up martial arts.
According to the Spaniards, this unexpected conflict will take three or four months later even if a war breaks out.
The two sides first protested, and then negotiated and defended. You talked about your reason, and I talked about my reasons. Manila is also aggrieved enough. After all, the weapons and ammunition smuggled in Luzon are not false.
You Chinese smuggle ammunition and infiltrate armed personnel... Don't say that those are gangs. If the gang can kill a tribe in the rain forest for seven days, why do you still need a regular army?
These Chinese gangs must be supported by Chinese forces behind them. God knows how many spies you have trained?
The entire Philippine Chinese businessmen are hooking up with you, Xiao Letian. They don’t pay taxes to my Spanish uncle, but secretly gather a lot of money to engage in illegal armed forces. Do you think we don’t know?
We misunderstood the Dragon Fish, but this is because there is information showing that there are smuggled guns on the ship, so we stopped it?
If you have no worries in your heart, why do you get stuck? What do you want to do secretly? Don’t you force us to fire?
The Spanish also feel wronged, and there are so many grievances!
The two sides were verbal battles, European and Asian telegrams were exchanged, and other countries conducted diplomatic mediation. Even if the mediation failed in the end, they still had to go to war. It would take two months.
Wars are not something that can be fought just by fighting. You have to prepare materials and ammunition, and you have to assemble troops, right? Even if the Chinese have a advantage in territory, it will take more than a month.
So in the judgment of the Spaniards, it is impossible to fight in three months, and there is still plenty of time!
Governor Peltila's defense letter was finally transmitted to Madeira with the inefficient telegram system. Seeing the Governor's detailed report, General Juan Prim finally found a life-saving straw. He quickly made public the Governor's defense letter and took out the Chinese's actions in the Philippines to refute.
In General Prim's heart, I have evidence. You Chinese will not be so arrogant, right? After all, this world is dominated by Europeans. What are you?
But the Spanish underestimated the determination of the Chinese. Just when they wanted to win a game on the battlefield of public opinion, there were already wars everywhere in the Philippines.
The Longyu incident broke out, and the entire Chinese were angry. How could the Chinese in the Philippines show weakness? These Chinese descendants who have the most experience in oppression seized the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and finally launched an uprising.
"...The Westerners are cruel and regard me, Chinese as fish. Three hundred years of blood feud must be revenge! The emperor is above, the thick soil is below, the dragon lice association, Wuyi Nanquan Hall, the Minjiang Pai Gang... Here we swear to break the door, revolt together, and form the Luzon First Rebel Army!"
"Done this bowl of blood wine! The First Army was established!"
The three largest Chinese gangs in the Philippines and Dagupan jointly revolted, gathering 2,500 gangs and launching a fierce attack on the local garrison.
"... Chinese brothers and sisters of San Juan! Dagupan's brothers have revolted. They formed the First Rebel Army of Luzon. How can we fall behind!"
"...Fuzhou Lion Dance Hall, Sandao Club, Honghua Nantang... Drink this bowl of blood wine together, and the Second Rebel Army of Luzon has become an army!"
In the important town of San Juan in northern Luzon, more than 2,000 local Chinese gangs formed the Second Rebel Army of Luzon. On the same day, the army raided the General Office of the San Juan Police, killing 120 Spanish police officers and more than 380 indigenous police officers.
For a moment, Luzon Island was full of beacons, Dagupan, San Juan, Iragan, Santa Ana... The four northernmost cities in the Philippines formed four teams overnight, claiming that the rebels launched a military struggle with the slogan of liberation of Luzon.
Spain's three hundred years of rule in the Philippines encountered a real threat this time. In the past, the riots were all small-scale, but this time they faced a real revolution with an organized, planned, foreign aid and faith!
With heavy rainstorms, Dagupan's Spanish military camp was shrouded in the atmosphere of fear. In their eyes, this beautiful port city full of tropical style has become hell at this moment.
The Spanish battalion commander stood in the rain and looked at the city that had been completely crazy. His hands were trembling. The busy streets, which were full of life in the past, have now become a hell of killing.
The bars, Western restaurants, the casinos and brothels that soldiers love to visit are now in ruins!
The Chinese uprising was too sudden and bloody and violent. As soon as the two sides exchanged fire, these Spanish colonists knew that something was wrong.
Due to the continued turmoil in Spain and the Queen's corruption and incompetence triggered a glorious revolution, Spain's national strength has basically not developed much over the past decade.
During the Pratt-Austrian War, the rear-mounted needle-punch rifles have begun to become popular. During the Franco-Prussian War, the Krupp steel cannons show their power. In this era of technological explosion, the Spaniards became museum displays.
Even the local army has not completed the dressing change, and they still rely on the army of these colonial areas?
Dagupan had only one thousand regular Spanish troops and two thousand trained indigenous soldiers guarding them, and what they had to face was the 2,500 Chinese uprising army armed to the teeth.
Spencer, who was removed from the Chinese team, became the most popular weapon in this Luzon battle. The shortcomings of low accuracy and short range are not important. What are important are the rate of fire and rear-mounting.
Such a baby was overwhelming as soon as he came on the field. The regular soldiers holding front-mounted Minnie guns were immediately encountered one-sided massacre.
On the spacious street, both sides shot at each other without saying a word. Spencer's powerful firepower instantly defeated the thin formation of the Spanish army. The screaming soldiers on the ground quickly collapsed their morale. Often, after a meeting, they were defeated soldiers all over the street.
The mayor of Spain was helpless. On the city government building, he saw the scene of the sky and the earth breaking, with hundreds of Chinese troops following thousands of Chinese holding cold weapons.
These Chinese, who were as gentle as Mianyang, have now become tigers, men, women, young and old, and under the organization of many people in black, they hold balancing knives, iron rakes, spears... and even the bamboo baskets behind many children are filled with stones to provide ammunition to the people around them.
They had already killed madly. More than 2,000 rebels led more than 30,000 Chinese people to riot all over the city. When they saw the lonely foreign soldiers and natives, they went up to siege.
All the foreigners and indigenous shops were smashed and searched one by one!
"Damn it, I won't stay here to die. Drive the boat right away, I'll go to Manila!"
Chapter completed!