"End the fight with honor! That's surrender to the Chinese, right? I am a Spanish lieutenant general, I am the most trusted and excellent general of Her Majesty, how can I betray the country like that bastard of the priest! ”

"Never surrender! Never! Lieutenant General Luis roared, and his voice could be heard all over the beach: "For God, for Spain, for the Queen!" ”

The envoy was prepared for Lieutenant General Louis's stubbornness, and he said patiently: "I understand your feelings, but you must think about these Spanish boys, their parents, their wives are still waiting for them to come home, General, your most important responsibility now is to take them home, they are Spanish children, and they should not be buried on distant beaches!" ”

Hearing this, many young soldiers wept quietly, patriotism could not change the reality of the collapse of the entire Spanish colonial empire, and after 1823, the whole of Latin America declared its independence and no longer belonged to Spain.

After Mexico's independence, the entire Philippines was only a subsidiary territory of Mexico, not the mainland but Mexico managed this Far Eastern colony, so the Spanish officers and soldiers had a very clear understanding of the reality, and the empire on which the sun never set was getting farther and farther away.

Some of the soldiers even sang softly songs about missing the girl and their mother, and the battle for the entire landing ground came to a halt at this moment, and everyone stopped fighting, because there was something more important than the battle waiting for them - to return home alive.

The evening breeze blew across the beach, Lieutenant General Louis paced emotionally, and the military envoy knew that Lieutenant General Louis had wavered, and he said loudly: "The battle you should continue is already meaningless, in addition to the four infantry battalions that participated in the battle today, two more infantry battalions of the Chinese will come tomorrow to reinforce them, and six artillery batteries will also arrive, you can't let the soldiers on the landing ground withdraw!" ”

Not only could the soldiers on the landing ground not be evacuated, but many small boats did not land all day. Now in the moonlight, they rowed hard to get close to the Spanish boat, but many of the dinghys had been swept away by the waves. The Spanish ships were unable to contain the dinghy in the darkness of the night, and more often there were violent collisions in the dark.

It was a great tragedy, and Lieutenant General Luis felt that it was the saddest moment of his life, and he exclaimed: "For the sake of the Queen, for God's sake, for Spain's sake, I can't do this!" ”

"But you're saving the lives of countless young people!" The envoy said excitedly: "You can't watch them die. As soon as dawn comes, the battle is over! ”

"Yes! As soon as dawn came, Spanish rule in the Philippines ended! Lieutenant General Louis exclaimed: "For the sake of Spain, for the sake of God, for the sake of the Empress, I must do this!" ”

"You made a wise choice!" The envoy complimented: "History will prove you right!" ”

With these words, many officers and soldiers lying on the sand stood up and celebrated this wise decision with applause. But Lieutenant General Louis told the envoy that he did not intend to surrender at all: "You are mistaken, I do not plan to surrender to the Chinese!" ”

"Are you not sparing the lives of these soldiers?"

"What I want to do is. End the battle with honor, we cannot surrender to the Chinese! ”

Ending the battle with honors and surrendering are actually the same thing, but Lieutenant General Louis made these completely different things, but the military envoy knew that his duty was to communicate with Lieutenant General Louis and listen to all his opinions: "What do you mean, Your Excellency, Lieutenant General?" ”…,

"The Spanish landing force under my command suffered a sudden attack by superior enemy forces under extremely unfavorable circumstances, which caused the landing to be frustrated, but the valiant officers and soldiers ignored Father Jean's betrayal and fought to the death against the enemy, and finally delayed the battle until after nightfall. The Chinese admired the bravery and courage of the Spanish officers and soldiers and decided to end the battle with honor. ”

The officers and soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, and the envoy didn't know what Lieutenant General Louis was thinking, just nodded repeatedly, but Lieutenant General Louis suddenly changed the subject, and he said loudly: "The only way to end the battle with honor." It is this Spanish army that accepts the employment of the Chinese in a structured manner, retains the original military flag, uniforms, accessories, officers, structure and all honors, and serves the Chinese and the infidels in the battle, and we will never fire a single bullet at the Christians and our Spanish comrades, never! ”

He roared again, and the military envoy realized that Lieutenant General Louis's so-called surrender, or ending the battle with honor, was just that, in fact, it was still surrender, but it just had a nice name: "I will relay all my opinions to Governor Lin Mengchu, and I believe that he also hopes to end this battle with honor." ”

The Spaniards were very kind to such excuses, and the officers and men were full of satisfaction with the lieutenant general Louis who brought them ashore, and there had always been a tradition of mercenaries in Spain, and it was a perfect form to settle the battle with honor due to the situation, so they all had stars in their eyes.

"Stop firing, stop firing, I'm General Lin Mengchu's military envoy, I'm back with the conditions of the Spaniards!"

In the middle of the night, the envoy returned to the battle line of the Rainbow Army again, and he brought the conditions offered by Lieutenant General Louis, as well as a sentence specially relayed to Lin Mengchu: "If you mercifully agree to the above conditions, from tomorrow when the sun rises, the Philippines will return to peace again." ”

Lin Mengchu smiled: "It's an interesting person, he is right, I agreed!" ”

The Spaniards still have a large army throughout the Philippine Islands, with a total strength of about 40,000 soldiers, including 20,000 Spanish soldiers, and the Spanish soldiers who have landed today are at least 2,000.

But the Sino-Spanish war is over, and the next time is to fight for more interests at the negotiating table, and after this defeat, the Spaniards have lost their best mobile troops, their best officers, their best soldiers, and a staggering amount of supplies and coal.

But the Chinese have no interest in continuing to fight in the Philippines, after all, the strength of the Spaniards is not enough to defend and more than enough to attack, especially their total number of troops exceeds the garrison troops stationed in the Philippines, and they also occupy the advantage on the sea, if it drags on, something may happen, and more importantly, the current strategic focus is to strive for the decisiveness outside the customs, and the Philippines cannot get too many resources from the country.

"I agree with Vice Admiral Louis that there is no need for the two great powers, China and Spain, to fight meaninglessly all the time, and I am willing to hire his Spanish troops at a reasonable price, and if we can hire the Spanish navy better, we can fight together against the infidels in the south."

This is just an excuse, in the history of the southern islands of the Philippines Islam has always been a super big trouble in the eyes of the Spaniards, but since the appearance of steam warships in the Philippines in 1848, the whole war situation has turned to a full-scale offensive, although the war against the southern Moros continued in 15 years, but during the American rule, the last resistance of the southern Moros was quickly completely quelled, and the whole southern Philippines was indeed converted. …,

Now Lin Mengchu's eyes are red on the batch of steam warships in the hands of the Spaniards, this batch of steam warships can be said to be the equipment ordered by the Spaniards in Europe at great expense, which is more advanced than any steaming warship in the hands of the Hong Army, if such a steam warship appears on the coast of the Far East, it may play a role in turning the tide of the war.

The envoy once again ventured through the battle line and handed Lin Mengchu's reply to Lieutenant General Louis: "Your Excellency Lin Mengchu has agreed to all your conditions, and he agrees to hire you and all Spanish officers and soldiers, including the indigenous Filipinos, to keep the original treatment unchanged, and pay military salaries, uniforms and other items on a monthly basis, which can be in the Chinese or Spanish style, and as for His Excellency Lieutenant General Louis, you can keep your self-defense weapons and all your personal belongings, and you can have an independent villa ......"

The envoy listed in detail the specific treatment of Lieutenant General Louis, and Lieutenant General Louis nodded again and again: "Very good, very good, this is a distinguished Chinese general, I think of Saladin ...... during the crusading expedition"

From then on, the two commanders of the battle began to boast of each other, with Lieutenant General Louis calling Lin Mengchu "the most outstanding of the senior Chinese commanders", while Lin Mengchu called Lieutenant General Luis "the greatest Spanish general since Pizarro, but with a perfect personality that Pizarro did not have." ”

And after daybreak, the Spanish officers and soldiers who were still able to stand up stood up, and they marched out of the beach in a group, supporting their wounded comrades, and shouting at the opposite squadron: "We need doctors!" ”

"Breakfast, breakfast, I've been hungry all day!"

"Also, I need a new military uniform, Chinese-style is fine!"

They have no qualms about speaking their terms, as if they were not the losers of this battle, but a group of winners.

In fact, it was a complete defeat, according to the Spanish statistics, a total of 1,842 soldiers were lost, who were either killed, blown away by the waves, or captured, and the remaining officers and soldiers were exhausted and demoralized, and had to rest for a month or two to restore their original morale.

Lin Mengchu, on the other hand, claimed to have found a total of 647 Spanish corpses on the battlefield, captured 942 enemy soldiers, more than half of whom were wounded, and a large number of enemy soldiers drowned.

After the end of this battle, it marked the end of the Sino-Spanish war, and the next question was the Russians! ）