The entire Huaxia Guild and the Huaxia Army were sharpening their knives and pointing to the Spanish colonies in the Luzon Islands.

The neighboring Spanish colony of Luzon also seemed to feel it, and the Spanish governor in Luzon, Polawicia, was very nervous, and reported to Spain one after another, asking for reinforcements to be sent to strengthen the defenses.

At this time, Spain was no longer the empire on which the sun never set four hundred years ago, and it did not have the invincible armada that swept through the European powers back then.

After the death of King Alfonso XII in November 1885, the posthumous king Alfonso XIII was born a few months later, which led to the decline of the country's fortunes, and the Spanish royal family had to be regent, Alfonso XII's second wife, who was only 27 years old, Maria Cristina.

Queen Maria Christina has noble Habsburg blood, is the granddaughter of the famous military commander Archduke Karl, received a good education since childhood, her tall figure is beautiful, but the appearance is very serious and calm, giving people a cold and cool feeling, known as the abbot, in 1879 became the second wife of King Alfonso XII of Spain.

When Alfonso XII died in 1885, Maria Cristina was seven months pregnant and gave birth to the young King Alfonso XIII during her reign as regent. During the Regency. She granted amnesty to all kinds of prisoners, let conservatives and liberals take turns in power, and brought a certain degree of peace and stability to Spain, but the declining Spain is difficult to return, and it is no longer something that this cold beauty can remedy the decline.

After receiving an urgent report of the crisis in the Luzon Islands, she hurriedly consulted with the incumbent Prime Minister Praxades Mateo Sagasta, and immediately replaced the timid Luzon Governor Bolavesia with the powerful and fierce Valeriano. Army General Velaire was the Governor of Luzon.

This Valeriano. General Velier has spent most of his life in the Spanish colonies around the world and has extensive combat experience. Resolute and resolute, ruthless, never soft on the resistance of the colony, so he has always been known as the butcher of the colony.

When he came to Luzon from Spain to take office. With a corps of five thousand white officers, on seven steamers, he rushed from Spain to Luzon to take up his post.

In fact, as early as when the Chinese army began its campaign on Borneo Island, the Spanish colonial authorities gradually increased their troops in the Luzon Islands. At the beginning of 1887, the strength of the army was less than 30,000, but by the time Valeriano Velaire took office, the strength had increased to 250,000 after a vigorous expansion of the colonial army, replenishing the white cadre and recruiting local natives as soldiers.

After the two defeats of the Dutch fleet in the South Seas, Queen Maria Christina attached great importance to the navy, and she decisively made a decision and sent the Spanish battleship Pelayo and several cruisers to the Luzon Islands, which immediately doubled the number of warships of the old Luzon fleet.

After the Huaxia Army defeated the U.S. fleet in Hawaii and captured an U.S. battleship. Queen Christina was so shaken that she could not even eat milk in the court, and after consulting with the navy, she immediately sent another additional dispatch to the Luzon Islands under the command of Pascual. Severa. Toppet. The battleship Los V under Rear Admiral Severa and several armored cruisers to strengthen Luzon's naval defenses.

This made the Spanish navy in Luzon surpass the British Far East Fleet and become the most powerful European colonial fleet stationed in the Far East.

The new governor of Luzon, Valeriano. Admiral Velaire, having a strong enough force, appeared to be very confident, and as soon as he arrived in the Luzon Islands and settled down, he began to break out.

He used brutal repressive measures against the local rebellious population. The Luzon Islands was plunged into a bloody terror by gathering all those who had rebelled against the rebellion in the past, mercilessly suppressing and killing those who dared to resist again, and slaughtering entire villages and towns.

But. Where there is oppression, there is resistance.

Hu Zhen's Dagaan first raised the banner of resistance against Spanish rule in Mindanao, and commanded tens of thousands of tribal forces to launch a fierce attack on the Spanish garrison.

The tribal forces of Daga'an were apparently more ferocious and brutal than the Spanish colonial army, and as soon as they stormed the Spanish garrison, they killed all the Spanish and those who assisted them, and not a single white man, woman, or child.

The natives of Mindanao were already unbearable for the brutality of Spanish rule. Seeing that some people took the lead in resisting, they followed suit.

Dagaan's army snowballed in size, and in a short period of time it raised 50,000 or 60,000 horses, and burned the flames of war to Leyte, Negros and other places, killing and wounding thousands of Spaniards, and capturing hundreds of towns.

The situation in Mindanao became more and more serious, forcing the governor of Velaire to send 100,000 troops to Mindanao to encircle and suppress Dagaan's troops.

The Spanish army rushed to Mindanao, captured several natives of about two or three thousand, and surrounded the onslaught, but these natives became as slippery as loaches after losing some men and horses, and the remnants of the men immediately broke out of the encirclement and used the terrain of the tropical jungle to play a game of hide and seek with the Spaniards.

This made the Spaniards helpless, so they had to increase their troops to encircle and suppress, but in Palawan, Panai Island and other places, Dagaan's team appeared again, burning and looting the areas ruled by the Spaniards.

Velair was furious, but his anger could not burn the enemy, so he continued to increase his troops to pursue Dagaan's men and horses, and used cruel methods to massacre the natives who supported the Dagaan tribe.

For a time, the number of Spanish troops concentrated on Mindanao and several other islands where the rebellion occurred exceeded 200,000, and except for Manila, Cebu and other large cities, there was a situation of empty defense of colonial forces in other places.

This made some people in Luzon think that the opportunity had come and prepare to launch a riot that swept the island of Luzon, driving out the Spaniards and establishing Luzon as an independent state.

On this day, more than 100 people, including Andreas Bonifaxiu, Jacinto, and Emilio Aguinaldo, among the big leaders of the Catipunan organization (Supreme Society) and its underground journal Le Libre, were meeting in the caves of San Mateo to decide to revolt against Spanish rule.

From this day on, Luzon will be turned upside down. (To be continued.) )