Far away in Berlin, the Reich's top brass believed that military operations would not be too difficult, and in fact it was, and in the mid-19th century the Spanish Navy managed to rebuild a fleet of excellent fast three-masted cruisers to return its navy to the fifth place in the world, and also won conflicts with Chile, Argentina, and Morocco, thus maintaining its reputation as a naval power.

Now, however, the name was nothing more than a crumbling shell, with only a lone second-class ironclad of the Pelayo, five armored cruisers, and eight old cruisers to support the façade of the entire Imperial Navy, and most of these ships were too old to maintain each other.

Although there are some officers with decent ability, the training process of sailors is quite worrying, and many gunners only have the opportunity to fire once a year.

At this time, the Spanish Far East Fleet was nothing more than a paper tiger, although the commander of the fleet, Rear Admiral Patricio Montejo, was a good commander, and he also had 5 cruisers and 3 gunboats at his disposal, but the quality was simply miserable.

The flagship of the fleet, the Reyna Christina, is a 3090-ton unprotected cruiser, and that's right, she is not even a protective cruiser! The largest tonnage of the Castilla was a wooden cruiser, and the small cruisers Auroa, Austria and Velasco were no more than a thousand tons, and in addition to their speed, they were not as good as the thousand-ton gunboats Cuba, Luzon and Douro with a layer of light armor protection.

In the face of such an opponent, Tirpitz, as the commander of the Far East Fleet, can come to see that Ernai has sold his head. As for the Spanish colonial army, it was even less in the eyes of the Germans. So if a military operation is carried out, then the Philippines is completely in the bag.

However, the first step of the German plan of action was to avoid a head-on clash with the Spaniards.

Since it's not positive, then things are much more troublesome.

In Manila City in the Philippines in October, although the rain washed away the filth, the smell of blood and gunpowder still seemed to waft in the gloomy and damp air.

The city of Manila is the seat of the Spanish Philippine Governor's Palace, so it has a considerable number of garrisons, so although the area where the riots began, Bahraintawak, is near Manila, and although the city outside Manila has completely lost control, the city is still firmly in the hands of the Spanish Governor's Palace.

It's just that such control is accompanied by blood and gunsmoke.

There is no single figure in sight on the once prosperous streets, and the vendors that used to be ubiquitous seem to have all vanished. Except for the occasional passing by patrolling Spanish troops, the entire city fell silent.

The Spanish patrols were each facing the enemy, scanning every house in the street nervously, as if someone inside was ready to rush out and attack them.

The houses were all hung with Spanish flags or white cloths at the doors, and the inhabitants had to take a stand against the blades of the Spanish army, lest the vicious army storm their houses and shoot at their own families.

Manila was the first to be hit after the uprising in Catipunan, the center of Spanish rule that became the city that Catipunan wanted to capture.

Not only was it attacked outside the city, but even inside the city was unsafe, and a large number of Katipnan's followers toured the city. Well, some of them even stormed the Governor's Palace with weapons in hand.

And this qiē was brutally suppressed by the Spanish defenders in the city, and it was naturally not the democratic pepper water that greeted these Filipinos, but the 1887mm rifle cartridges fired by Mauser M7 rifles.

Spain has always been a user of German Mauser rifles, from purchasing Mauser M1893 and Mauser M1895 to generating their own Kar.98k, the Spaniards' infantry weapons have always been German.

Now the German Army's newest version of the Gew.86 naturally became the choice of the Spanish Army, and the Mauser M7, a version of the Mauser M1887 that fired 7×57 rifle cartridges, came into being.

The continuous firing capability brought by the 10-round magazine gave the Spanish colonial army a more efficient means of "maintaining social stability and unity".

Thousands of people were killed, but this was not the end, Governor Raymond Blanco ordered martial law throughout the city, and went on a hunt for those who resisted, no evidence was needed, no judicial process was required, as long as you were suspected, death was your final outcome. In this case, tens of thousands of people were executed, and the entire city of Manila was put in danger.

Under this bloody and violent terror, Manila has stabilized, but the situation has worsened for the entire Philippines.

The repression by the Spanish colonial forces brought more Philippines to join the ranks of Katipunan, and Bulacan, Pampanga, Nova Ecija, Neihu, Cavite, and even Medan and Visayas in the south began to respond.

After a month of military operations, the situation not only did not improve, but became more and more erosive, and Governor Blanco had to be cheeky to turn to Spain for help.

At this time, although Spain was no longer an old imperialist power, the Philippines was the only Asian colony that it maintained in the Far East and saved its face. But God bless Spain, and by this time another Spanish colony had become a mess.

The Cuban War of Independence, which began in February 1895, had already involved considerable forces in Spain, and by January 22, 1896, the Cuban rebels had advanced 2,360 kilometers in 27 battles with only 4,000 men after three months of fighting.

As a result, Spain had no spare forces to control the Philippines at this time, and even if they were to assemble troops and send them to the Far East until the beginning of 1897, the Germans had quite a lot to do in this intervening period, and waited for the best engine meeting.

"Oh God, those Berlin guys almost killed me just by talking about it. I'm fucking gun-pointed again today, and it's the 5th time this week! A tall white man complained with some annoyance.

"It's only 5 times, and the average is less than once a day." And the other, slightly emaciated white man teased with a hint of schadenfreude.

"The problem is that I've only been out three times this Monday! And today that Filipino monkey actually put his index finger on the trigger! What if the fuck goes off! ”

"Okay, don't complain, I'm going to give these things out and it's not necessarily much safer than you, what about the things?"

"Here, don't lose it, I got it at the risk of eating guns."

"That's not something you have to worry about, that's basically enough, you should go out as little as possible during this time. I'll go to you next time if I need to. ”

"If that's the case, that's great, God knows if any Filipino monkey who can't tell the difference between a German and a Spanish will just slaughter me."

The conversation takes place in the southern port city of Cavite, in the southern port of Luzon, where a tall white man named Mitchell Lübeck is a journalist for a German newspaper in the Philippines. And the other guy, Mitchell only knows that he is his own upline, but he doesn't know his identity.

Soon after the uprising of the Bonifa show, Emilio Aguinaldo, a representative of the Filipino landlords and bourgeois conservatives, revolted in Krabi, which immediately fell under the control of Katipnan.

In November, after the Filipinos defeated the Spanish colonial forces under the command of Governor Blanco at Noveletta and Binacayan, almost the entire island of Luzon fell under the control of Catipunan, completely encircling Manila.

However, Aguinaldo, as a representative of the bourgeoisie, was still allowed to enter and exit the port of Cavite, which he controlled. It also served as an outlet for German intelligence to send information to the outside world.

Mitchell, on the other hand, was given the opportunity to operate in the Katip-Nam region in the name of reporting to the world about the Filipino people's struggle for independence and freedom as a journalist in the German Empire.

Of course, the photographs he took and the press releases he wrote were handed over to the so-called government agencies set up by the insurgents, but some of the photographs that they could not see were quietly leaked out of Krabi and sent back to Germany.

At this time, the liquidation of the Spaniards in the Philippines had reached its climax, and no Spaniards would be spared in the areas controlled by the rebels. In retaliation, the Spanish army would slaughter the Filipinos in any place they captured, and the bloody slaughter between the two sides escalated.

Of course, how the Spaniards retaliated was not Germany's concern, and how the Filipino monkeys slaughtered the whites was what they wanted to see. And the Filipinos, who were very cooperative, let the Germans see what they wanted to see.

The photographs are full of all kinds of miserable Spaniards, with severed heads stuck in spears, disembowelmented corpses with intestines running down the ground, long blood stains left on the ground by bodies dragged alive on the ground, and naked bodies. The naked body covered in bruises, and the mess of the female corpse underneath all tell people what a terrible incident is happening on Philippine soil.

And this qiē became the best excuse for the Germans to start their own actions.

"It's great, with these pictures, it's solid that the Filipino monkeys are slaughtering white people, and our citizens are being 'killed' in this humanitarian disaster. Then we will be able to go out under the pretext of protecting overseas Chinese and humanitarian aid. Caprivi in Berlin said excitedly when he saw the photos sent back.

"Let our newspapers start reporting with all their might, so that the whole of Germany knows about this qiē. We want justice for our citizens. Frederick III ordered: "Also, pay attention to the reaction of the British, although their attention is now on Africa, but I do not want the English to oppose it when our operation is over." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." RS