3105 Rout to Manila
Before the war, morale collapses first! This is the current situation of the Spanish. The Chinese continue to increase their troops in the north, while the governor and general of Manila are quarreling over responsibility.
"It is your mistake in judgment that causes such consequences. You have to bear all the responsibility. I will send a telegram to the country to impeach you!" Governor Bai Tira roared angrily.
"Shut up! You impeach me? You are bribing and corruption in the colony. The troops have not increased their weapons and equipment for many years? We now don't even have a unit equipped with guns after fully equipped! This is your responsibility..." General Enmu roared.
The two had been arguing for more than three hours, and the entire Governor's Mansion was silent. Everyone did not even dare to breathe, but there was a commotion in Manila City.
The news of the arrival of the Chinese reinforcements flew across the city like wings. All the Europeans were frightened, especially these Spanish, who were all in panic all day long.
Although they are arrogant on weekdays, they are very clear about the virtues of the army, what the weapons and equipment of Europe, Britain, France and the general public have evolved, and what their troops are like. They can still tell them.
The port was suddenly filled with people trying to escape. Spanish merchants who owned the ship began to board the ship with their families and prepare to leave Manila. The extra spaces on the ship were also sold at high prices.
In order to escape from this city, many boat tickets have been priced more than four or five times the price in the past!
Tickets for ocean-going merchant ships are the most popular. In half a day, all the large merchant ships in the port of Manila were full, and European merchant ships began to flee the city threatened by the war.
Large ships have no place, and small merchant ships have become popular. Although these small ships cannot cross the ocean to take them back to Europe, they can at least be transferred to Malaysia, Singapore and other regions. Then find an opportunity to escape.
After all, those who can afford boat tickets are the surplus class among foreigners. Most Europeans come to Asia for adventure and to break into the wharf. Many foreigners are actually poor in their own country and leave their hometowns.
They had no way to leave here, so they could only find a way to move from land to the southern part of the Philippines and find a way to stay away from the war.
In this wave of escape from the whole city, the people of countries with friendly relations with the Chinese are obviously more calm. The United States, Britain, Fuso, and a small number of Prussians hung their own national flags in front of their doors, and then stocked up a lot of food to wait with peace of mind.
However, you still have 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 Manila, Manila in front of him had long since disappeared from its former prosperity and turned into a city that was about to collapse.
"What are the police doing? Why don't you come to maintain order!"
"General! General is in trouble. The six forts guarding Manila Bay on Mount Sanlishi were attacked by Chinese troops. They are now in fierce battle!"
"Damn it! Send reinforcements now!"
The formation of Manila Bay was mainly protected by the peninsula of the northern Bataan Province. The Sanlishi Mountains directly penetrated into the sea to form a huge peninsula, blocking the storm and blocking the enemy's attack.
The southernmost end of the peninsula is a mountain with an altitude of more than 1,400 meters, Mount Mariveres!
At the foot of the mountain, the Spaniards built a series of coastal defense batteries, among which the six turrets that control the entrance of the bay at the southernmost end of the peninsula are the strongest.
When the Sanlishi Mountain Pass was captured, the Chinese special forces began to penetrate the south. The most important task of these special forces members with rich jungle combat was not to conquer the fort, but to create a terrifying atmosphere for Manila City through continuous harassment.
General Enmu understood the importance of the lifeline on the sea. When the fort was attacked, he immediately ordered the remaining naval gunboats to send 4,000 reinforcements to the peninsula.
The troops that had already been clumsy and saw the elbow were not enough at this moment. As soon as the general's adjutant raised a question, the stubborn General Enmu rejected it.
"Our defense line is indestructible! I brought out all 400 artillery pieces in Manila. We built a long defensive position, trenches, spike fences, bunkers..."
"Our gunboats also provide fire support at the sea!"
"No matter how many Chinese people there are, they will die in vain! We cannot fail!"
"And I have the last killer move..." Enm gritted his teeth and said, "Tomorrow morning, I will send 6,000 Chinese prisoners from Manila to the front line!"
"If the Chinese dare to attack, they will kill all these prisoners!"
"Yes!" The adjutant took the order and turned his head and left.
Historically, the Spanish colonial government in the Philippines massacre of Chinese people has become a habit. In their eyes, the Chinese are the backbone of wealth creation, and of course they cannot kill them all.
However, because the Chinese are too civilized, it is difficult to be assimilated and enslaved, and it is even more difficult to preach! Catholicism requires everyone to believe in God, but these Chinese people must sacrifice their ancestors if they live or die!
This backward nation of primitive worship is synonymous with barbarians in the eyes of Spanish colonists, and is not even as good as those of indigenous barbarians.
At least it is easier for natives to assimilate!
It is difficult to make money, and it is also difficult to enslave it. In addition, there is a powerful mother country in the north, which makes these Spanish colonists very troubled.
After thinking about it, we still have to rely on killing to control the population. When the Chinese wealth has reached a certain amount, we have to massacre and harvest wealth.
But the massacre cannot be killed. Just kill tens of thousands of people to give the Chinese a better memory, and then let them continue to create wealth again!
After three hundred years, this cycle of massacre has become an instinctive choice of the colonial government. In their eyes, the Chinese are not humans at all, they are just a group of hardworking ants and bees.
Now that the war has broken out, the Chinese are still fighting, how could they regard their enemies as humans?
Manila and other cities took the lead in anti-China. They massacred, detained, robbed... and raped and plundered all kinds of evil, with the purpose of revenge on the uprising of the Chinese.
Among them, General Enmu did the most ruthlessly. He even wanted to use the lives of the Chinese as a flesh shield to block the Chinese army!
Fortunately, the Chinese people made preparations in advance. Before the uprising, the CIA sent many spies to organize countless Chinese gangs in the Philippines.
They infiltrated every Chinese gathering 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 Spanish colonists, gangsters must be a group of people who forget their righteousness when they see profits, and the more bad guys there are in the Chinese, the better the fun they will be.
These people wish that the Chinese would become more and more chaotic!
It was under this disguise that the power of the CIA finally penetrated into the area where all Chinese people gathered, which laid the groundwork for the subsequent uprising.
Chapter completed!