Feeling strange for a moment, Nacolino hurriedly asked, "Your Excellency the Governor, what do you mean by the precious gift?" ”

Governor Sanders smiled mysteriously and said, "Go and call Governor Barak, Cotabato." ”

Barak is the governor of Cotabato, after Lin Fei captured Cotabato, he fled back to Manila in a hurry, he wanted to return to Madrid, the capital of Spain, but Governor Sanders never let him, because Governor Sanders wanted to question Governor Barak in accordance with Spanish law, so he put Governor Barak under house arrest in the governor's palace.

Governor Barak soon approached Governor Sanders, who said in a deep voice, "Governor Barak, you didn't keep Cotabatar, do you know how guilty it is?" ”

Governor Barak is a guy who bullies the soft and is afraid of the hard, and he bullies the Chinese very well in Cotabato, but in the face of his boss, he is as soft as dough, and the Governor of Barak heard Governor Sanders' words, nodded silently, and Governor Sanders said loudly: "Now I want to give you a chance to atone for your sins, whether you can seize the opportunity or not depends on you." ”

Governor Barak's eyes lit up at once, and he said, "I am willing to atone for my sins, please give me this opportunity." ”

Governor Sanders smiled with satisfaction and said, "Very good, this opportunity is to stay in the Governor's Mansion as my envoy and negotiate with the Huaxia Empire." ”

Governor Barak hurriedly asked, "What about you, Your Excellency the Governor?" ”

Governor Sanders said: "I will temporarily withdraw from Manila and take refuge in the mountains north of Manila for a while. ”

Governor Barak panicked all of a sudden, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Excellency the Governor, the people of the Huaxia Empire will kill me." ”

Governor Sanders laughed loudly: "Don't worry, they will never dare to hurt you, because the British Empire has intervened, they want to mediate for both of us, you are our Spanish negotiator, how could Lin Fei kill you?" ”

When Governor Barak heard the words "British Empire", his heart was relieved, and at this moment, the captain of the guard hurriedly ran in and said to Governor Sanders: "Lord Governor, let's hurry up and retreat, the Chinese Empire is about to enter." ”

Governor Sanders reached out and patted Governor Barak on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "It's up to you, I'll retreat first." Governor Sanders led his subordinates to withdraw, and within ten minutes of Governor Sanders' departure, a group of soldiers rushed into the Governor's Palace, and an interpreter of Governor Barak's subordinates said loudly to the soldiers of Lin Fei's troops: "Don't kill us, we are the negotiating envoys of the Spanish Empire..."

When the soldiers heard that they were negotiating envoys, they didn't shoot, took them out of Manila, handed them over to the officers, reported them layer by layer, and finally met Lin Fei.

At this time, Lin Fei had already guessed that the Spaniards had retreated, because his troops had not encountered the slightest resistance when attacking No. 2 and No. 1 Avenues, and just when he was secretly happy, the staff officer came to report to him: "There is a Spaniard, claiming to be the negotiating envoy of the Spanish Empire, who wants to meet you. ”

Lin Fei had no accident, let people bring him in, the time was not big, Lin Fei's subordinate soldiers brought Governor Barak to Lin Fei, Governor Barak had the support of the British Empire, and spoke much harder, and said directly to Lin Fei: "I am the envoy of the Spanish Empire, I need to see the British envoy immediately, and the three of us will discuss the armistice together." ”

Lin Fei sneered and said, "Your Manila has been beaten down by me, how can you have any bargaining chips?" ”

Governor Barak said coldly: "Although Manila has fallen, the rest of Luzon is still under the control of our Spanish Empire, our Governor Sanders has not been captured by you, and we still have hundreds of thousands of troops on our homeland, aren't these all our bargaining chips?" ”

Lin Fei smiled disdainfully, and said to his subordinates, "Take him to see Claros." ”

Staff officer He Kaisheng whispered: "Your Majesty, do you really want Governor Barak and Claros to meet?" Wouldn't it be nice to have the British and Spaniards unite against us? ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "Even if we don't let Governor Barak and Claros meet now, there will be other Spaniards and Britons who will meet and come to us, and if we don't let Governor Barak and Claros meet, it will not only be useless, but it will show that the Chinese Empire is not generous enough, so that our future actions will be very passive." ”

He Kaisheng then understood, agreed to come down, and took Governor Barak to see Claros, Claros was also in the barracks at this time, Lin Fei arranged a few tents for them to live in, and sent a few soldiers to stay with them, clearly for protection, secretly for surveillance, Claros had no objection to this, he also knew that there was a war going on in the city, and it was not safe to stay in the city.

During the period when He Kaisheng took Governor Barak to meet Clarross, Lin Fei continued to command the expansion of troops throughout Manila, and at 5 p.m. on July 9, Lin Fei's troops occupied all of Manila, and since then, the Battle of Manila has ended.

The battle, which began on June 13 and ended on July 9, lasted 27 days, and was the longest-lasting, most combative, and most diverse of weapons in the entire Philippine War.

This battle is mainly divided into three stages, the first stage, Lin Fei used cloud burst bombs to attack the first fortress of the Spanish defenders, and sent infantry to attack the first line of defense, as a result, the cloud burst bombs showed their might, the fortress carefully prepared by the Spaniards was breached, and Lin Fei's troops occupied the first line of defense.

In the second stage, Lin Fei used the tactics of attacking the heart to rebel against the Chinese soldiers in the third line of defense, causing a large number of Chinese soldiers to defect on the battlefield, and these soldiers then became Lin Fei's "fifth column".

In the third stage, Lin Fei used artillery to blow up the walls of Manila, sent infantry troops into the city to carry out street battles, and at the same time of street fighting, he also sent sniper teams and "fifth columns" to harass the rear of the enemy.

In these three phases of the campaign, Lin Fei's troops destroyed more than 12,000 enemies, captured more than 3,000 enemies, captured a large number of guns and bullets, captured four mountain guns, and several shells. Lin Fei's troops lost more than 3,000 killed and more than 1,000 were wounded, and the reason why the number of dead outnumbered the injured was entirely due to the lack of advanced medicine and battlefield first aid methods in the Chinese Empire.

The victory in the Battle of Manila marked the transformation of the Chinese Empire from a small regional country to a regional power, and paved the way for the Chinese Empire to become a world power.

From a military point of view, the biggest highlight of the Battle of Manila is the use of cloudburst bombs, which are the first time that cloudburst bombs have appeared on the stage of human warfare, but Lin Fei listed cloudburst bombs as the top secret weapons of the Chinese Empire, so all countries in the world do not know that the Chinese Empire has cloudburst bombs.

The first step was to recall the members of the 1st Independent Regiment, re-issue them with guns, and let them form a city guard to serve as the garrison of Manila, while Lin Fei's main field troops, except for the 1st Brigade and the 1st Regiment that stayed in the city, all the rest withdrew from Manila.

Lin Fei's purpose in doing this was twofold, one was to gather the troops outside the city, so that he could unify his command, after all, Governor Sanders was still on the run with some of his subordinates, and the other was to reduce the possibility of friction with the locals.

At 6 p.m. on July 9, He Kaisheng reported to Lin Fei: "Your Majesty, Governor Barak and Claros have met and have been talking secretly for a long time. ”

Lin Fei smiled and asked, "Why didn't Governor Barak and Claros come to see me?" ”

He Kaisheng replied: "That Claros said that he will not see you again until the warships of the British Empire arrive. After He Kaisheng finished speaking, his face was worried, and he asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, if the warships of the British Empire really come, how can we deal with it?" ”

Lin Fei smiled mysteriously and said, "Don't worry, I naturally have a way." ”

He Kaisheng didn't ask much, he went to busy his work, and Lin Fei continued to arrange follow-up affairs, he sent Li Mingming, the chief of the general staff, to represent himself in the Manila Governor's Palace, and then announced the ...... The Chinese Empire officially replaced the Spanish Empire as the ruler of Manila.

Under the instructions of Lin Fei, Li Ming issued an announcement at 9 p.m. on July 9 that the Provisional City Government of Manila Special City of the Chinese Empire was officially established, with Li Ming serving as the mayor of the Special City, banning a Spanish government agency, and maintaining stability in the city, the original Spanish law remained unchanged.

As soon as the special city government was established, Lin Fei, Li Mingming and others were very nervous, because they were worried that the Spaniards in the city would rise up to resist, just like Wuduan City at the beginning, and the population of Manila was about 600,000, of which the Chinese population was only 200,000, and once the Spaniards broke out in riots, the trouble would be much greater than that of Wuduan City.

So Lin Fei ordered all the troops to be on full alert, but there was no major disturbance among the residents of the city, which made Lin Fei very happy, and after a calm night, at 7 a.m. on July 10, the work of the special city and city government was carried out one after another, the main work was to stabilize the dìng market and receive the property of the Spaniards.

The reception work also went very smoothly, the Spanish banks, factories, ammunition depots, etc. all entered Lin Fei's bag, and there was no large-scale riot in the receiving process, only a small number of Spaniards resisted, but Lin Fei held the military power in his hands, and those Spaniards who dared to resist were wiped out by Lin Fei.

Lin Fei's act of receiving the property caused great dissatisfaction among Claros, and he met with Lin Fei many times, and each time he roared angrily: "You are now robbing Spain's property is a provocation to the British Empire, and the British Empire will not spare you." Lin Fei faced Claros's roar, but he didn't care.

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