However, when reinforcements from Manila arrived, Lieutenant Rossi's police team was completely wiped out, and in the process of retreating, they were besieged by the monkeys, and under the personal leadership of Bonifaxiu, more than a thousand Filipino revolutionaries armed to the teeth launched a powerful offensive against dozens of Spanish military police with only rifles and revolvers in their hands, such as Mauser commission rifles, Bofors automatic pistols, wooden-handled steel ball grenades, and even eighty-two mm mortars. In what they later called the Great Victory in Tawak, Bahrain, the Philippine Revolutionary Army annihilated 45 Spanish soldiers at the cost of 200 casualties, including the commander, Lieutenant Rossi, who was stabbed to death with a bayonet.

Then before the arrival of enemy reinforcements, the rebels calmly withdrew from the battlefield and retreated to the Balala marsh area, as for the rest of the story, the Filipinos generally do not mention it again, and the Spanish commander who rushed to Tawak, Balin, looked at the dozens of corpses of his compatriots who were obviously humiliated by the destruction in front of him, and did not hesitate to order a bloody wash of the revolutionary army's hideout, shot hundreds of monkey civilians on charges of harboring rebels, and captured the landlord who entertained them, an eighty-four-year-old nun, and then exiled her to Guam.

The battle in Tawak, Bahrain, made the Philippine Governor Blanco immediately realize the severity of the form, and from the traces left at the scene, the rebels were actually better equipped than his own army, especially the discovery of mortar positions, which made him see the shadow behind the rebels. A telegram was immediately sent back to Madrid, and Prince Yang, who had just left Rome, immediately received an invitation from the Spanish royal family. The king at this time was Alfonso XIII, who had just turned ten, and his mother Maria. Queen Christina was regent, and the prime minister was Canovas, a Spanish 19th-century Bismarck-like figure, although his achievements could not be compared to Bismarck's, but the status of the two in his own country was not much different, because this was his sixth term as prime minister.

For almost a hundred years, this once great colonial empire. The executioners who destroyed the indigenous civilizations of South America have always struggled in the quagmire of coups, rebellions, uprisings, revolutions, in short, they have been bleeding themselves all the time, and after almost a century of hard work, they have finally turned a huge empire into a small deflated part of Europe, and finally in the hands of Alfonso XII and Canovas, they began to lick their wounds. It's a pity that the tens of millions of Inca souls on his body are too heavy. Even Heaven no longer blessed the country, Alfonso XII left a widow dead at a young age, Canovas was assassinated on the eve of the Spanish-American War, and the country continued to plunge into the quagmire without turning back, until the Spanish Civil War on the eve of World War II ended by Franco.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, you say that we in China are supporting the Philippine rebels? We are not speaking in my private capacity, you are speaking in my capacity as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Spain, and I am speaking in my capacity as Prime Minister of China, Minister of State Affairs, or more simply, Minister of Foreign Affairs of China. You are responsible for your words. Yang Feng said to Canovas with a solemn face.

The appearance of mortars must have something to do with China, and in Asia, only China, Hanyang Arsenal, has the ability to produce such weapons. The Jinling Arsenal, the Taiwan Arsenal, and the Guangzhou Machinery Bureau also began trial production if the Filipinos were not buying from Europe. Then they can only buy from China.

"Your Royal Highness, the contemptible people don't mean to accuse your country, I just think. It is possible that some weapons have been smuggled into the Philippines from China, after all, the two sides are only separated by less than 1,000 kilometers of sea, and the number of Chinese expatriates in the Philippines is also very large. Canovas said with a busy smile.

He didn't want to offend Yang Feng, the king had just returned from recovering from the Young's Medical Center in London a few days ago, and the Spanish Navy had also ordered six high-speed destroyers and two 4,000-ton armored cruisers at this guy's shipyard in Sweden.

"There is such a possibility, I will send a telegram to the country to investigate, if it is true, I will definitely give an explanation to your country." Yang Feng nodded and said, since this matter is involved, it is not good for him to leave Spain like this, so he will stay in the palace as a guest, and then wait for the results of the domestic investigation.

Looking at his watch, Canovas breathed a sigh of relief, what he was most afraid of was that Yang Feng's claws stretched out to the Philippines, if it was said that this colony was tasteless in the past, it was a pity to abandon it, with the development of the automobile industry, rubber there has become a great source of income for the Spanish government, but the problem is that they really can't protect this colony. More than 200,000 troops are trapped in the quagmire of Cuba, and although the Philippines has been reinforced, there are less than 15,000 garrisons, and there are 6,000 Filipino soldiers.

Judging from Yang Feng's appearance, this guy who stirs up trouble in Asia really doesn't seem to be behind the scenes, but if it is too early to assert that he is innocent.

Just when he was waiting for the results of Yang Feng's investigation, Bonifaxiu officially issued a statement of uprising, and then led the rebel army to attack San Juan on the outskirts of Manila, but unfortunately this time he suffered a crushing defeat, and the shortcomings of his lack of understanding of military command were fully exposed in the historical record, of course, even if he understood military command, it was impossible to win, and the hastily cobbled together of more than a thousand rabble, wanting to attack the Manila fortress operated by the Spaniards for hundreds of years, even if it was only on the periphery, it was a pure joke, Not even a single heavy artillery didn't give him a fart.

Although he had to retreat after killing and wounding hundreds of people, his brave act really ignited the raging fire of Philippine independence, and large-scale riots broke out in Visayas, Mindanao, Jolo and other places, and even a battalion of Filipino soldiers stationed in Victoria Fort Mindanao mutinied, killed all the Spanish officers and fled from the fort, and the same happened on Jolo Island, but it was discovered in advance.

At this time, the governor of Blanco was really frightened, in fact the garrison of Manila had only one brigade, because his enemies were not only these rebels, but also the Muslim Moros in Mindanao and Jolo, who had been rebelling against the Catholic rule for many years, and the main Spanish forces, including some warships, were there. While declaring a state of war in the provinces of Luzon, he brought these troops back to quell the rebellion, asked for domestic support, and issued a targeted amnesty decree to avoid the past for the rebels who surrendered to the authorities within 48 hours.

Of course, because of the contradictions between the Filipinos themselves, this point was also taken advantage of by him, a large number of tribes loyal to Spain accepted the appointment of the governor, and the Migu tribe even formed a loyal volunteer battalion to participate in the war against the rebel army dominated by the Tagalog, of course, it is inevitable that there will be a vendetta between the tribes, in short, the entire Philippine islands, including Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, and Jolo Island, were all involved in the war.

In addition, Blanco also hunted down and killed those rebel sympathizers who were involved in Katipunan in various places, countless Filipinos were imprisoned and tortured to death, and more than 4,000 people were imprisoned in the dungeons of the castle of Santiago in Manila alone, and the dead bodies were transported out of the castle in trucks every day, and there was a terrifying atmosphere everywhere.

After the failure of Bonifaxio's attack on San Juan, the rebel army led by Aguinaldo quickly occupied almost the entire province of Cavite, establishing a strong foothold in Binakayan and Novelleta. Although Li Hongzhang only gave him 10,000 rifles in the first batch, he also gave him a batch of five- and seven-millimeter mountain guns that he had eliminated, as well as a large number of mortars, all of which were directly transported to the coast at night by Yang Feng's landing ship. Coupled with the support of overseas Chinese led by Liu Hengzhen, it can be said that the development of Cavite is in full swing, and after the battle of San Juan, Bonifaxiu, who was almost killed by the pursuing Spanish army, is not at all in the same realm.

Prince Yang was so pleased with the complete erosion of the situation in the Philippines that after a period of discussion with the Queen Mother in the royal palace in Madrid about the art of art, he finally told Sù Canovas that the results of his investigation had come out.

"It's a sad tragedy that some of the mortars of the Filipino rebels were smuggled from China, not from me, of course, but from Li Hongzhang, the governor of Liangguang, and one of his officials in charge of military production accepted bribes from Filipino businessmen and sold them a batch of mortars, as well as a few decommissioned Grusen mountain guns.

Governor Lee has punished him severely, and I hope I will convey his apologies to your government, but it is true that the guns did not come from China, and you know that the Mauser Commission rifles were not the equipment of our southern armies, and we all had Bofors rifles, including those produced by the major arsenals. Prince Yang said with a sad face.

This point was specially instructed by Li Hongzhang before leaving, this old guy originally wanted to sell his imitation Bofors rifles, but in order to muddy the waters, he hurriedly transported 10,000 refurbished and detailed committee rifles from Yang Feng and sold them to Aguinaldo, although the Spaniards should be able to know that Yang Feng captured a lot of these things from the Qing army, but the more chaotic this kind of thing is, the more unclear it is. (To be continued......)