Chapter 654: Scarlet Manila

That night, the Chinese representatives dispersed with excitement and told the Chinese in their respective districts of the shocking news, and suddenly the Chinese districts boiled over and enthusiastically joined the army, with nearly 48,000 Chinese in Manila, and nearly 20,000 troops were recruited overnight.

Boss Chen is asking for men under the age of forty, but why is the proportion still so high? On the one hand, some bigfoot girls insist on joining the army, and on the other hand, the living environment of the Filipino Chinese is harsh, the mortality rate is extremely high, and few people can live to be over fifty or sixty years old.

The Democratic Alliance originally prepared 5,000 mini guns for the Chinese in Manila, but when they saw this posture, it was obviously not enough, so they fired the Spanish guns that were about to be thrown into the sea, although the Spaniards used flintlock pistols and smoothbore guns, but compared to the Filipino natives who used spears and bows, they were already very advanced weapons.

From the next day, while closely guarding the Spanish prisoners, the NLD army blocked the main road in and out of Manila, strictly forbidding the entry and exit of the natives, and at the same time gave 20,000 Chinese troops short military training.

From the early morning of December 22, the Chinese army, shouting the slogan of avenging the 70,000 ancestors who were slaughtered three hundred years ago, began to attack the indigenous settlements and Catholic churches in Manila with the cooperation and organization of the Democratic Alliance army.

The process of the collapse of Yugoslavia has strongly proved that it is difficult for different ethnic groups to coexist peacefully, especially those with different cultures and beliefs, and the Chinese and Filipino natives are very different in all aspects, including their living habits.

Originally, under the high-pressure rule of the Spaniards, the Chinese, as a minority, could only be people with their tails between their legs in a low voice, but after the Spanish army in Manila was completely annihilated and the Democratic Alliance army intervened strongly. The Filipino Chinese have a backbone to rely on and a backbone, and everything has changed.

The Chinese and the Filipino natives have been in constant friction, and the Spaniards are partial to the natives, so they have long held back their grievances, let alone as people. No matter which race or how cowardly the nature is, there is a predatory beast nature and unearned inertia in the bones, but it is usually bound by morality and law and does not attack, and at this time, in the case of absolute superiority, and with the connivance of the Democratic Alliance, this beast nature and inertia, coupled with the hatred accumulated over hundreds of years, can no longer be uncontrolled!

"Oh my God. The Spaniards are gone and the Chinese are coming, the Spaniards want money and don't want to die, the Chinese want money and life, more ferocious than the Spaniards! ”

"Please, spare me, I am willing to give all my property, I am willing to be a Chinese!"

"Stop, this is the church. I am the Archbishop of the Diocese of Manila, without my permission. You don't have the right to enter the church, oh! Damn infidels, God will punish you! ”

The opportunity for revenge is in front of you, the opportunity to make a fortune is also in front of you, and the Chinese are all red-eyed!

If it weren't for the restraint of the Democratic Alliance, I'm afraid that rape ~~ lewd women would be able to do it. In the military regulations of the Democratic Alliance, rape ~~ adulterous women is the first major crime, and whoever commits it will definitely die, that is, the woman you snatch can be given to you. But you can't touch it until it's given to you!

But even so, Manila has become a living hell, with parapets being blown to pieces by artillery, corpses left in courtyards, Catholic churches set on fire, young and beautiful women escorted out, and truckloads of wealth, documents, and cultural relics transported into the NLD military camp.

The NLD participated in the massacre of the Manila natives with part of its forces, and the other part of its forces acted as a superintendent, using naval guns and Chinese forces to massacre 14,000 Spanish prisoners.

The sound of gunfire, screams, begs for mercy, and cursing filled the sky, and the whole carnage lasted for three days, and the city was filled with black smoke, and the thick smell of blood spread to every corner of the city, and even the Bashi River, which runs through Manila, was dyed red.

By the evening of December 25, the Spanish and indigenous men in Manila had been slaughtered, nearly 10 Catholic churches had been destroyed, and the priests had been torn to pieces by the angry Chinese.

After a continuous count, a total of 3,300 Spanish women under the age of 30 were obtained, all of which belonged to the NLD according to the agreement, and 5,000 of the most beautiful women were selected from the more than 40,000 indigenous women, and these more than 8,000 women were to be transported back to China with the 1,000 Malay women who had been robbed from Singapore and rewarded to meritorious soldiers.

In addition, according to the agreement of half of the family, the NLD army converted all the materials and grain obtained into gold and rubber at market value, and if the gold was not enough, they used rubber to offset it, and obtained a total of 180 tons of gold and 5,200 tons of rubber.

By December 28, the Chinese in Manila elected an interim government for a five-year term, and his main task was to maintain national stability, occupy the entire island of Luzon, and prepare for general elections in five years.

The Provisional Government officially named the country the Democratic Republic of Luzon, and changed Manila to the city of Minggang, why did it choose this name? It means brightness, tomorrow and the future, and it means a bright future for Luzon, and then it commemorates the 70,000 Chinese who were massacred by the Spaniards 300 years ago, and will build a Spanish Holocaust memorial in the downtown square.

Of course, after discussion by all parties, the massacre of the Spaniards will be beautified as the Spaniards would rather die than give in, and the whole army will be annihilated under the battle, which is the same as Kangxi's praise of the anti-Qing righteous soldiers, I will kill you and say that you died well and died worthwhile, so as to reduce the pressure of public opinion.

The massacre of the Manila natives will be used as an excuse for accidental injuries in street battles, which is a common trick in the United States in modern society, as for the outside world to believe it or not, at least Luzon, Lanfang and the Chinese side believe it.

Early the next morning, the NLD left 500 men to help train the troops, and two oceanographic survey ships to survey the water conditions in Manila Bay, while the rest of the men left the port of Manila with 8,300 female prisoners and booty, and sailed out of Manila in nearly 200 large and small boats.

On January 3, 1860, when passing through Palawan, the fleet sent a company of troops down to establish a post to assert sovereignty over Palawan, and the purpose of this force was not to rush to slaughter the natives of the island, but to gradually find out the distribution habits and topography of the natives, and to temporarily rely on the purchase of supplies from Lanfang or Luzon.

Among the islands of Southeast Asia, Wang Feng wants to occupy the first thing in Singapore, the strategic position of Singapore is self-evident, and the second is Palawan, only with Palawan in hand, the South China Sea can truly become China's inland sea.

After putting the people down, the fleet did not return directly to Lanfang, but sailed through the Sulu Sea to Mindanao, where it would help the Chinese stationed on the island to establish the Democratic Republic of Mindan.

In Wang Feng's vision, one island and one country in Southeast Asia is not allowed to appear as a super-large island country like modern Indonesia, after all, small countries are easy to control, and there are many countries, close together, it is inevitable that there will be disputes and contradictions, at this time, the Chinese government, as the big brother, naturally has the obligation to mediate.

During this time, Lin Fengxiang cooperated with the 48th Mountain Division of the Miao people, sent troops from the three directions of Jiaozhi, Guangxi and Hunan, and in just a few months, he had captured the entire territory of Yunnan and Guizhou, killing Hengchun, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and Shu Xing'a, the governor of Yunnan, and more than 4,000 bannermen, and the governor of Guizhou, Jiang Feiyuan, led his green battalion to surrender, and then Lin Fengxiang left Tan Shaoguang and the 48th Division to garrison Kunming, on the one hand, to appease the surrounding ethnic minorities, on the other hand, to start building the Sino-Burmese highway, and he himself returned to Zhongping with the remaining troops and the Qing army.

After Wang Feng, who was sitting in Nanyang, handed Lin Fengxiang's letter to Su Sanniang, he asked, "How is the situation in Zuo Zongtang?" ”

Zuo Zongtang's Hunan army, although Wang Feng did not change his clothes, but gave him 10,000 mini guns, 20,000 spare barrels, 1 million mini bullets, 100 sets of mini bullet casting molds, 30 small mountain guns, 100 mortars, each with 10 ammunition bases, 1 million cans, 100 tons of rice noodles, and 2 million taels of silver.

A member of the special combat team replied: "Back to the commander-in-chief, Lord Zuo has been heading west to Hanzhong since a month ago, and there is still no news from him, but according to the letter just received, the combined European fleet, led by the British battleship Gladun and the cruiser Terrible, and the Dutch battleship Netherlands and the cruiser Hahn, is leading more than 60 ships of the Anglo-Dutch mixed fleet up the Yangtze River.

The battleship Gradun has a displacement of 4,990 tons, the main gun is two 304 mm rear-loading rifled guns, and all the turrets above the waterline are equipped with 30 cm armor, the firepower and protection are extremely powerful, and the twin-propeller engine is used.

The cruiser HMS Terrible had a displacement of 1876 tons and was armed with twenty-one 203-mm breech-loading rifled guns.

The battleship USS Netherlands had a displacement of 4013 tons, the main guns were two 152-mm and six 119-mm rear-loading rifled guns with twin propellers, triple expansion engines.

The cruiser Hahn was the smallest, with a displacement of only 1580 tons, and its main guns were two 228-mm breech-loading rifled guns in one class and one in the tail, three propellers, and expansion engines.

In addition to these four capital ships, plus twenty frigates, the strength of this fleet is not insignificant.

Su Sanniang muttered: "Wang Feng, the British warship must go back to Wuhan and cut off our connection with Huxiang, it is better to take out the torpedo and use it, the Yangtze River waterway is narrow, and Bao Jiao will not be able to come and go." ”

"Good!" Wang Feng nodded and said, "Immediately send an order to Jiujiang to block the allied fleet at Shizhongshan Fort!" ”

"Yes!" The special operator hurried away.

Yang Shuijiao thought for a while, and also said: "During this period of time, from northern Jiangsu to southern Lunan, the Qing army's offensive has been much more fierce than before, but it has never been able to break through our position, and now even the coalition fleet has ventured into the narrow waterway in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, I estimate that they should have a logistical problem, so they will seek a decisive battle regardless of casualties."

At this time, the Qing army must have thought that we would continue to defend to the death, after all, the risk of defense is less than that of the active attack, so we might as well attack Xinyang by surprise, once captured, the Qing army will completely collapse in the Huaibei battlefield. (To be continued......)