As soon as the Spanish minister left on the front foot, Mashal followed on the back foot, and he had to report to Prime Minister Caprivi on the outcome of this meeting, and it was up to the Spaniards to decide what the Germans would do next. After hearing Machar's report, Caprivi immediately met with Frederick III.

"Leo, although we have discussed before that Spain's refusal is unlikely, but if the Spaniards really refuse, then we will have to take countermeasures." Frederick III asked.

"Your Majesty, I think the Spaniards will say yes because they don't have a choice. Cuba is obviously more important than the Philippines in the Far East, and we only want an island and a leased port, and the Spaniards will weigh the pros and cons against losing the whole of the Philippines. Caprivi is confident about that.

"So what's the reaction from the British?" Frederick III asked.

"Not yet, the British are probably still waiting for the Spaniards' reaction, and they will not rush to meddle when the situation is not clear. But if the Spaniards come to an agreement with us, I guess the British will make a move. But don't worry, as long as we support the British operation at Drandwash, the British will not interfere too much with us. ”

In fact, Germany has no need to worry about the attitude of the British, because soon all of Europe will have to worry about another thing, who has to worry about a small broken island in the Far East.

Listening to Caprivi's answer, Frederick III thought for a moment, and then said: "Then if the Spaniards agree to our request, we will proceed with the next step." Although we had to send troops to help the Spaniards suppress the riots, I didn't want us to expend too much strength in it, because even if the problem was solved, the Philippines would still be the Philippines of the Spaniards, not ours. ”

This was also planned by the Germans from the very beginning. Sitting on the hill and watching the Spaniards and Filipinos wear each other down was a good option for Germany, which now had insufficient land forces in the region.

"Actually, I think that even if we don't intervene, the Spaniards can basically control the situation, so we have to make some big moves, but we don't have enough troops. It doesn't really make much sense to go to war head-on.

So we can make some strategically important moves behind the back of the Filipinos, so that even if the Spaniards win, we can say that we are credited. Jochen spoke up.

"Oh? Why did His Highness make such a judgment? "Kaprivic arrived.

"Because the governor of Polawechia now has nearly 40,000 troops at his disposal, and the Filipinos are far weaker than the Spaniards, no matter how poor the Spaniards are in combat, they will not lose completely. Then the two sides should enter a stalemate with the Spaniards gaining the upper hand a little.

But there is an element of instability within the Filipinos, and that is the contradiction between Ponifaxiu, the founder of Katipunam, and Aguinaldo, the de facto controller of Cavite.

Today, Katipunam is the backbone of the Philippine riots, but the biggest force of this force is the peasants. Then the landlords and bourgeoisie in the Philippines will inevitably be wary of such forces, and the contradictions between Aguinaldo and Bonifaxiu, who are the representative figures, will be inevitable.

In the case of a waning riot. Bonifarxiu needed the response of Aguinado's forces, and Aguinaldo needed to use the banner of Catipnan. Or maybe the two forces could still cooperate under the external threat of the Spaniards' attack.

But when the Spaniards' offensive slowed down, contradictions naturally surfaced. Then when the conflict between the two escalates, whether there will be a fierce conflict between the two sides, it will break the original cooperative relationship.

Then the resistance of the Filipinos will naturally weaken. So we can do something about it. Jochen played the role of a prophet and singled out the internal problems of the Philippines that had been hidden beneath the surface.

Historically, on May 10, 1897, Aguinaldo killed Bonifarxiu. The leadership was taken and the Katipnan was removed. This act caused the Philippine uprising camp to be harmed by Yan zhòng. So the Spaniards, who had been weak and weak, occupied the whole of Krabi after 8 days.

However, the Filipinos did not surrender, and Aguinaldo retreated to the broken rock cave in Braca and continued to lead the resistance until he accepted the persuasion of the Spanish government to surrender, demanded 800,000 pesos, and went into exile in Hong Kong.

Jochen's plan was to kill Aguinaldo and leave the rest to the Spaniards to do the annoying garbage cleaning. Even if it was only a small-scale military operation, the Spaniards could never deny that the Germans could not do anything.

Of course, the premise of this qiē was that the Spaniards "invited" the German army to "help" suppress the Filipinos.

And the Spaniards did not let the Germans wait too long. On March 28, after a full week of discussions, the Spanish government humiliated the Germans' terms, and the two sides signed the "Desi Palawan Transfer Agreement", transferring the ownership of Palawan to Germany. and leased the port of Subic for a period of 99 years.

Three days later, the German army set foot on the island of Luzon.

In fact, Jochen would have liked to have killed both of them when Bonifa and Aguinaldo ran together in the election for the revolutionary government of Tehros, but the March 22 election was too late.

However, in the March 22 Revolutionary Government election, Aquinado was elected president, and Bonifaxiu announced that he would not recognize the election, claiming that Catipunam was the only legitimate government. This made the contradiction between the two officially put on the surface.

Not only did it confirm Jochen's "speculation", but it also allowed the action to target only one person, and Yochen again "speculated" that Aguinaldo, who had the support of the landlords and the bourgeoisie, was likely to be the final victor.

Bonifaxiu and Aguinaldo then engaged in a number of armed clashes, in which Bonifaxiu was wounded and captured, and on April 28, Bonifaxiu was charged with treason by a military tribunal, and the execution was scheduled for May 10.

Then the situation took a turn for the worse, and on May 18, as in history, the Spanish army occupied all of Cavite, and Aguinaldo, with his cronies, withdrew from Cavite under the protection of more than 100 men, preparing to go to Bracant Province to continue leading the war.

But unlike in history, the Germans had locked on him, followed by a small tail behind the ranks he transferred.

At 2 a.m. on May 20, Aguinardo's party set up camp in a rainforest on the border with Bulacan province. It was raining lightly, thick clouds obscured the moonlight, and darkness fell in the camp where even a campfire could not be lit.

The sound of rain on the leaves and the endless darkness make the rainforest look terrifying, but in this dark rainforest, the Grim Reaper is slowly approaching the Filipino camp.

The fall of Krabi made all the Filipinos very painful and sad, and the Filipinos standing guard gathered together in twos and threes, hiding under the big trees to avoid the rain, and everyone had no desire to talk, except for the occasional movement of the patrols passing by, all of them were quiet and terrible.

A sentry who wanted to relieve himself slowly walked to a tree, and just as he was about to unbutton his pants, he heard the sound of a branch breaking not far away. He picked up his rifle and cautiously walked towards the place where the sound came from, it was too dark around him, and he bent down slightly and slowly moved forward.

Suddenly, a black shadow burst out from under a big tree in front of him, and then a huge force came from the gun in his hand, and before he could exclaim, he felt a pain in his throat, and then he lost consciousness, and he didn't understand what was going on until he died.

The KSK soldier crouching behind the tree leaned out from behind the tree the moment he approached, and his left hand forcefully pushed up the rifle in the opponent's hand, and then the dagger held in his right hand was sent into the opponent's throat unhindered.

Then, he retracted behind the tree and pulled his right hand hard at the right rear of his body, and the body of the Philippine sentry was pulled behind the tree along with the retracted KSK soldiers. Then the blade inserted into the throat turned, and then slashed horizontally, and the sharp blade of the dagger completely cut through the opponent's throat to ensure that the opponent was completely dead.

This was done like a flint, and then, the rainforest returned to its original state, as if nothing had happened.

After smearing the dagger twice on the opponent's body and inserting it back into the scabbard, the KSK soldier left his cover and slowly moved forward, and a dozen figures appeared in the darkness behind him, and then continued to approach silently.

The companion wouldn't come for a long time to go to the bathroom, so the two Filipinos started to walk towards here, asking questions as they went.

The spearhead raised his right hand into a fist, and the whole team immediately crouched down, and then the spearhead made a right outflanking gesture with his right hand, and everyone immediately hid in the dense bushes.

The two Filipinos searched forward one after the other, one left and one right, and the guy in the left rear was suddenly dragged in by a large hand reaching out from the bush covering his mouth, and then a dagger stabbed between the second and third ribs on his left side, and the heart was pierced, killing him with a single sword.

He was frightened by the sound of being dragged into the bushes, and the guy in front of him on the right immediately turned back, but he couldn't find his companion in his field of vision, just when he was panicking, a big hand dragged his chin, and his rifle was also pressed by others, just about to struggle, the hand holding his chin was raised, only to hear a soft click, and it was dark in front of him. The soldier behind him gently placed the corpse on the ground with the severed cervical vertebrae and became limp.

At this very moment, in other directions of the camp, something similar was happening, quiet, fast, deadly.

After clearing the outskirts of sentries and patrols, the Germans infiltrated the camp, where the Filipinos were covered in their sleep and their throats were cut.

This camp of 100 people was quietly slaughtered by a platoon of KSK, and the corpses were swallowed up by this rainforest. Aguinaldo, the first president of the Republic of the Philippines, did not even die a bang.

Three days later, the body bag containing Aguinaldo's body was placed in front of Rivera, the new governor of Spain, and Catipunan was destroyed. Although the Filipinos continued the war after that, no one could carry the banner of Katipunan anymore. (To be continued......)