As soon as Deng Shichang's words came out, Huang Xiaojie, the chief of staff on the side, said: "General Deng should not be careless, according to the report of our radar room: The Spanish fleet has a total of eight warships attacking this time, which is a large number, and we will inevitably take care of one when we surrender, and if they cheat when surrendering, we will inevitably suffer heavy losses." ”

Deng Shichang thought for a while and said: "This is reasonable! In this way, let's not get close to them yet, let them anchor in the 6th sea, and let their fleet commander come to us. ”

Huang Xiaojie then went to convey the order, Grapados agreed again and again, and soon came to the Zhiyuan ship in a small boat, and the Spanish fleet surrendered, Deng Shichang immediately told Lin Yuan the news, and Lin Yuan immediately ordered his subordinates to broadcast the news to the whole Philippines.

When Governor Sandras heard the news, he felt a panic, and his voice did not have the confidence to collapse the roof, and he called Charlton again and said, "Lin Yuan's troops are here, what should we do now?" ”

Charlton said helplessly: "Where did Lin Yuan's troops come from?" Aren't there just two destroyers? How did your Spanish fleet get a 'war uprising'? ”

Sanderas smiled bitterly: "It must be that the commander-in-chief, Grapados, was worried about dying in battle, so he surrendered." ”

Charlton smiled: "Now Lin Yuan has only sent two destroyers, I don't think they will send a large force here, don't worry, Lord Governor." ”

Sandras said: "This anti-Chinese action is the idea of you British, and you British have made a mess, you can clean up your own." ”

Charlton still smiled and said, "Mr. Governor, please rest assured, our British Empire will not sit idly by." ”

Sandras let out a long sigh and said, "I'm tired, let's talk about it today." Charlton then took his leave, and Sandras said to Cruz: "Alas, I didn't expect Lin Yuan to be so powerful, and I shouldn't have accepted Charlton's bribe and asked him to engage in any anti-Chinese action." ”

Crutz smiled on the side: "Your Excellency, the British are using us Spain as cannon fodder, I have long seen it. ”

Sandras frowned and said, "Then why didn't you say it earlier?" It's too late to say anything! ”

Krutz laughed and said, "Who let the British give so much money?" From the Governor-General to the officials at all levels, who has not received any benefits, and if I say that those benefits will not be there? ”

Sandras also laughed and said, "Didn't the British send you money?" Look at what you say, as if you didn't get a penny from the British. ”

Crutz laughed and said: "It's useless for our Spanish Empire to guard these colonies, sooner or later they will be taken away by Lin Yuan, I have read the 918 speech ten times, all the colonies in the world will be taken away by Lin Yuan, and the same is true for the Philippines, we might as well get more money now." ”

Sandras nodded again and again, and said, "Your words really speak to my heart, by the way, have we transferred all the money in the Manila Bank?" ”

Crutz nodded with a smile and said: "The president I personally looked for, he personally transferred it, and he transferred it with his own money, and I realized that the president made the most money!" ”

Sandras frowned and said, "He made more money than mine?" ”

Krutz smiled and said, "Governor, he can transfer hundreds of thousands of pounds and dollars by opening an account at will, and he can make the most money?" ”

Sandras laughed and said, "If you go on vacation to the Alps in the future, you must let him pay for it." Sanderas changed his words when he said this, and said: "I think Lin Yuan's troops will come sooner or later, and we will definitely have to surrender, but we must work our face, and leave an impression to outsiders that 'we resist bravely, although we are defeated, we are still glorious', and you quickly issue some tough statements." ”

Crutz then went to issue the "Governor's Palace Declaration", which called on all Spaniards in the Philippines to defend the glory of the Spanish Empire, and called on Filipinos to take up arms and drive out the evil Chinese together with the Spaniards.

Lin Yuan didn't know these things in the upper echelons of Spain, he really thought that Spain would resist with all his might, so he ordered the establishment of the "Liberation of the Philippine Expeditionary Force Command", himself as the commander-in-chief, Zhang Chuang as the commander of land operations, Deng Shichang as the commander of maritime operations, mobilized the 26th Division, the 27th Division to attack Manila Bay on the west side of Manila, and the Amphibious Combat Army to attack Ramon Bay on the east side of ManilaWhen attacking the Philippines, the Japanese also planned to land from Ramon Bay and Manila Bay to attack Manila.

Lin Yuan's order was conveyed to various troops, and Deng Shichang was dissatisfied, because Lin Yuan let him take charge of the sea battle, but the Spanish fleet had surrendered, and there was no longer a sea battle, in fact, this arrangement also had Lin Yuan's unique considerations: Deng Shichang, as an old minister of the Qing court, more or less had some contempt for foreign countries.

Although Deng Shichang often said "be kind to the barbarians, in order to show the benevolence of my heavenly kingdom", but that is conditional: those so-called "barbarians" can only be treated well if they surrender, if the "barbarians" do not surrender, then they must "do everything to show the prestige of the heavenly kingdom", in Chinese history, the feudal dynasty has not done much to slaughter the "barbarians", so Lin Yuan was very afraid that he would gather foreign prisoners of war and engage in a collective massacre.

After receiving Lin Yuan's order, Zhang Chuang began to study the offensive strategy, first of all, the Manila Bay battlefield on the Western Front, if the 26th and 27th Divisions want to directly attack Manila, they must enter Manila Bay from the South China Sea, Manila Bay is like a bottle with a small mouth and a big belly, the entrance to the bay is very narrow, and it is very wide after entering the bay, the narrowest place is on Corregido Island, where the width of the strait is only ten kilometers, and any large-caliber artillery can cover the entire estuary.

Zhang Chuang asked the Manila Station of the General Intelligence Bureau about the situation on Corregido Island, and got accurate information: there were indeed artillery fortifications of the Spanish garrison on Corregido Island, and these artillery fortifications were built to protect against the British, and in 1756, Britain and France broke out in the "Seven Years' War", in this war, Spain supported France, Britain officially declared war on Spain, and some British officers in India attacked Manila, Philippines, and once captured Manila.

During this war, the Spanish authorities feared that the overseas Chinese and the British army would cooperate with each other and launched a bloody massacre of the overseas Chinese in Manila, and more than 6,000 overseas Chinese were killed in one day. When the British forces occupying Manila finally withdrew, the Spaniards built artillery fortifications on Corregido Island, the choke point into Manila Bay.