Chapter 204: The Battle of Manila Bay I
It turned out that the young man's name was Liu Hengzhen (there is indeed this person in history, he was the founding general of the Chinese people in Philipang, and he also married the cousin of the first president Aguinaldo), he was a blacksmith, when the Chinese people were plundered by the Spanish army, with his own real skills, he fought his way out of the siege and came to Pontianak, on behalf of the millions of Chinese people with Chinese blood in Luzon to ask for help from the Chinese Guild.
When Liu Hengzhen finished crying about the suffering of the Chinese people in Luzon, Hu Zhen raised his voice and asked: "What do you think of this?" ”
Li Haoran, who often communicated with Hu Zhen, of course knew what Hu Zhen was thinking, and was the first to stand up and say loudly: "For the sake of the millions of Chinese in Luzon, we must immediately send troops to Luzon, drive out the Spaniards, and put Luzon in the hands of the Huaxia Guild!" ”
"Immediately send troops to Luzon to rescue the Chinese people!"
"We must defeat the Spaniards and take control of Luzon!"
The elders of the Huaxia Guild also ignored their old age and decrepitude, and one shouted more energetically than the other.
"Dr. Ke, do you agree with the Huaxia Guild to take all the territory of the Luzon Islands?" Hu Zhen once again set his sights on Krissa, who was in another time and space the famous non-Penang father Jose. Rizal.
On this plane, Jose. Rizal used his Huaxia surname, Ke Richa, to stand in the meeting hall of the Huaxia Guild as the elder of the Huaxia Guild, and said impassionedly to Hu Zhen, the chief of the Huaxia Guild: "Chief Hu, after taking the Luzon Islands, of course, it must be in the hands of the Huaxia Guild, so as to protect the people there from the brutal European colonial rule!" ”
"Good!" Hu Zhen slapped his palm on the table, stood up majestically, glanced at the audience, and saw that everyone's eyes were full of expectation, and he pointed his hand in the direction of Luzon: "The sea and land army of the Huaxia Army will immediately set off towards Luzon!" ”
The hall of the Huaxia Guild immediately resounded with thunderous cheers and applause.
When the decision to send troops to the Luzon Islands was decided in the hall of the Huaxia Guild, the British Consul General in Pontianak, Brandel, approached Niu Quyun again and proposed to meet Hu Zhen, the chief of the Huaxia Guild, and submitted a diplomatic note in person.
For the English, Hu Zhen still has to buy a little account now, he doesn't want to be in a time when his strength is not enough to challenge the major powers in the whole of Europe. Falling out with the English.
"Dear Mr. Brandell, what are you looking for from me?"
"Dear Chief Hu, I heard that the Huaxia Guild is going to send troops to the Luzon Islands, is there such a thing?"
"Mr. Brandell. That's because the Spaniards can't protect the millions of Chinese in Luzon, and we must send troops to protect our flesh and blood compatriots! ”
"Chief Hu, on behalf of the British Empire, I submit a diplomatic note in order to ensure a normal world order. Please Huaxia Guild better not send troops to the Luzon Islands! ”
"Dear Mr. Brandall, the Spaniards are no longer able to protect the millions of Chinese people in Luzon, and our sending troops to Luzon is a move to protect the world order."
Hu Zhen was full of anger, but it was not good to attack in this kind of diplomatic situation, so he just said with an expressionless face, and asked the people around him to take out a bunch of bloody letters for help sent by the Chinese people from Luzon and put them on the table: "Mr. Brandell, there is no way for us to use this method of fighting each other to solve the problem!" ”
Brandell knew, even with the strength of the British Empire in the Far East. It was no longer possible to stop the Huaxia Guild's troops, so I had to pray in my heart: I'm afraid that the reinforced fleet of the British Empire has not yet left the English Channel, and the Singapore fleet is not enough to stop the fleet of the Huaxia Guild, I hope that the damn Spaniards can withstand the attack of the Huaxia people, and wait until the English fleet arrives in the Far East to scare the Huaxia people from taking Luzon!
Ever since Dagaan appeared in Luzon to stir up trouble, the entire Luzon Islands has been plunged into a bloody storm.
More than 500,000 rebelled against Spanish colonial rule, and the Spanish governor Willer had an army of 250,000 and mobilized 300,000 local people as "loyal volunteers".
More than a million people on both sides are engaged in a life-and-death battle on the 300,000 square kilometers of island territory in the Luzon Islands.
The equipment of the Spanish army is not the most advanced among European armies, let alone the Chinese army. But compared to the rebel natives in Luzon, they were too far ahead, and they had an overwhelming absolute advantage in the war, besides. These rebellious natives had no formal military training, and most of them didn't even know how to use firearms.
In fact, the Luzon revolt natives were no match for the Spanish army at all.
In less than 20 days, the main force of the Luzon uprising was suppressed, and the Spanish army slaughtered 500,000 rebels as if they were chopping melons and vegetables.
Willier, the governor of Luzon, was a very decisive and resolute man.
He knew that the Huaxia Army had long coveted the Luzon Islands. Even if there is no excuse, he will definitely find an excuse to attack the Luzon Islands, and the natives of Luzon must be completely suppressed as soon as possible, so he categorically ordered: all the natives of Luzon who resist will be slaughtered; All the natives of Luzon who tried to resist were also exterminated.
Velelle's order was very problematic, and his implementation of the rank and file was even more problematic.
In a short period of 20 days, the Spanish army massacred 6,700,000 young and middle-aged natives in the Luzon Islands, and together with the casualties of those who were recruited as "loyal volunteers" in Spain, the loss of young and middle-aged people in Luzon exceeded 1.3 million.
This is a tropical region, a large number of people died, there were not enough young and middle-aged laborers to bury the corpses, the corpses decomposed, and the flies and germs were scattered in the air, which soon led to the plague rampant among the people, and those who followed the rules of the natives also died in large numbers because of the large-scale outbreak of the plague, and the most people who died were those young men and women who were more active and had enough strength to travel far away.
In just two or three months, Luzon lost more than 2.7 million young and middle-aged people.
The loss of 2.7 million young adults in a place with just over 9 million people does not mean the loss of almost more than a third of the population, which makes the entire Luzon Islands lose almost all of its vitality in twenty years, and it is no longer capable of launching any large-scale operation to become a place to be slaughtered.
The most tragic thing that Spain should not have done was that in the large-scale massacre of the Luzon natives, many Chinese people were injured and provoked the growing and powerful force of the Chinese Guild.
Under the command of Hu Zhen, the Huaxia Army dispatched all the naval warships to cover hundreds of steam engine steamers loaded with the Huaxia Army and pounced on Manila Bay on Luzon Island.
An unprecedented battle in Manila Bay in the South China Sea is about to break out! (To be continued.) )