However, when reinforcements from Manila arrived, Lieutenant Rose's police team had been completely wiped out. During their retreat, they encountered an inhumane siege by the monkeys. Under Bonifashow's personal leadership, more than a thousand armed soldiers arrived.
The toothless Filipino revolutionaries used their Mauser Commission rifles, Bofors automatic pistols, wooden-handled steel ball grenades, and even 82mm mortars to launch a powerful attack on dozens of Spanish military police who only had rifles and revolvers.
In this offensive, which they later called the Great Victory of Balintawak, the Philippine Revolutionary Army wiped out forty-five Spanish soldiers at the cost of two hundred casualties. Even the commander, Lieutenant Rosse, was stabbed with a bayonet.
die.
Then before the enemy reinforcements arrived, the rebels calmly withdrew from the battlefield and retreated to the Balara Swamp area. As for the rest of the story, Filipinos generally would not mention it again. The Spanish commander who rushed to Balintawak looked at
Seeing dozens of corpses of compatriots who had obviously been mutilated and humiliated, he did not hesitate to order a bloodbath of the revolutionary army's hiding place, 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 Balintawak made Philippine Governor Blanco immediately realize the seriousness of the situation. Judging from the traces left at the scene, the rebels' equipment was actually better than their own army, especially the discovery of mortar positions.
Let him see the shadow behind the rebels. A telegram was immediately sent back to Madrid. 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.
, his mother, Queen Mother Maria Cristina, served as regent. The prime minister was Canovas, a Bismarck-like figure in Spain in the 19th century. Although his achievements cannot be compared with Bismarck, their status in their own countries is almost the same, because
This is his sixth term as prime minister.
For almost a hundred years, this former colonial empire, the executioner who destroyed the indigenous civilizations of South America, has been struggling in the quagmire of coups, rebellions, uprisings and revolutions. In short, it has been bleeding itself all the time. After almost a month
After centuries of hard work, a huge empire was finally turned into a small European bastard. Only then did Alfonso XII and Canovas finally begin to lick their wounds. Unfortunately, the Incas probably carried tens of millions of dollars on their backs.
The burden of injustice is too heavy, and even God no longer bless this country. Alfonso XII died of illness at a young age, leaving behind a posthumous son. On the eve of the Spanish-American War, Canovas was also assassinated, and then the country continued to slide into the quagmire.
It was not until the Spanish Civil War on the eve of World War II that Franco ended it all.
"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, you say that China is supporting the rebels in the Philippines? We are not speaking in a private capacity now. You are speaking as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Spain, and I am China's Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, or to put it simply, China's diplomacy.
If you speak as a minister, you must be responsible for your words." Yang Feng said to Canovas with a solemn face.
The emergence of mortars must be related to China. In Asia, only China has the ability to produce this kind of weapons. Hanyang Arsenal, Jinling Arsenal, Taiwan Arsenal, and Guangzhou Machinery Bureau have also begun trial production. If the Filipinos did not come from Europe
If they want to buy, then they can only buy from China.
"Your Highness, I have no intention of blaming your country. I just think that some weapons may have been smuggled from China into the Philippines. After all, the two sides are only separated by a sea of less than a thousand kilometers, and Chinese expats are in the Philippines.
The quantity is also large, so it is not impossible for some criminals to buy weapons to the rebels through loopholes in coastal supervision," Canovas said with a busy smile.
He didn't want to offend Yang Feng. The king had just returned from recovery at the Young Medical Center in London a few days ago, and the Spanish Navy also ordered six high-speed destroyers and two four-thousand-ton armored cruisers from this guy's shipyard in Sweden.
A batch is about to be delivered, and if he gets angry, he will get stuck in after-sales service, which will cause trouble.
"It is possible. I will send a telegram to the country for investigation. If it is true, I will definitely give your country an explanation." Yang Feng nodded and said, since this matter is involved, he would not do anything.
After leaving Spain like this, I stayed in the palace as a guest and waited for the results of the domestic investigation.
Looking at his performance, Canovas breathed a sigh of relief. What he feared most was that Yang Feng's claws would extend to the Philippines. If this colony was tasteless in the past and it was a pity to abandon it, with the development of the automobile industry, there
The rubber produced by the Spanish government has become a huge source of income for the Spanish government, but the problem is that they are really unable to protect this colony. More than 200,000 troops are trapped in the quagmire of Cuba. Although the Philippines has increased its troops, it only has less than one
There are 15,000 garrison troops, and there are also 6,000 Filipino soldiers. With this strength, it is almost possible to suppress the rebellion, but if external forces intervene, there will be no hope.
Judging from Yang Feng's performance, this guy who is causing trouble in Asia does not seem to be the mastermind behind the scenes. However, it is probably too early to conclude that he is innocent.
While 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 launch an attack on San Juan on the outskirts of Manila. Unfortunately, this time he suffered a disastrous defeat. According to historical records,
His statement fully exposed his shortcomings of not understanding military command. Of course, even if he understood military command, he would not be able to win. Thousands of people were hastily put together to attack the Manila Fortress that the Spaniards had run for hundreds of years. Even if it was only on the periphery,
It's just a joke, he doesn't even have a heavy cannon to beat him.
Although he had to retreat after hundreds of casualties, his brave behavior really ignited the raging fire of Philippine independence. Large-scale riots occurred in Visayas, Mindanao, Jolo and other places one after another, and even the soldiers stationed at the Victoria Fortress in Mindanao Island
A battalion of Filipino soldiers staged a mutiny, killed all the Spanish officers and escaped from the fortress. The same thing happened on Jolo Island, but they were discovered in advance.
At this time, Governor Blanco was really scared. In fact, there was only one brigade in Manila's garrison, because his enemies were not only these rebels, but also the Muslim Moros in Mindanao and Jolo Island, who resisted
The Catholics have been under the rule for many years, and the main Spanish force, including some warships, are there. While declaring the provinces of Luzon to be in a state of war, he mobilized these troops to come back to suppress the rebellion, requested domestic support, and also targeted the country.
An amnesty order was issued, and the rebels who surrendered to the authorities within forty-eight hours were not punished. This also gained a few losers.
Of course, because the Filipinos themselves are full of conflicts among various ethnic groups, he also took advantage of this. A large number of tribes loyal to Spain accepted the governor's appointment. The Migu tribe even formed a loyal volunteer battalion to participate in the war against the rebel army, which was dominated by the Tagalog tribe.
Of course, fighting between tribes is bound to involve vendettas. In short, the entire Philippine islands, including Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, and Jolo, are all involved in the flames of war.
In addition, Blanco also carried out mass killings of rebel sympathizers who were involved with the Katipunan in various places. Countless Filipinos were imprisoned and tortured to death. In the dungeons of Santiago Castle in Manila alone,
More than 4,000 people were imprisoned, and corpses were transported out of the castle in trucks every day. There was an atmosphere of terror everywhere.
Just after Bonifashow failed to attack San Juan, the rebel army led by Aguinaldo occupied almost the entire Cavite Province at an extremely fast speed, and established strongholds in Binacayan and Novileta.
He established a solid stronghold. This guy's strength is completely different from that of Boni Faxiu. Although Li Hongzhang only gave him 10,000 rifles in the first batch, he also gave him a batch of eliminated ones.
57mm mountain guns, as well as a large number of mortars, were all transported directly to the coast at night by Yang Feng's landing ship. Coupled with the support of overseas Chinese led by Liu Hengzhu, it can be said that Cavite is developing
It was in full swing, and it was completely different from Bonifashow, who was almost killed by the pursuing Spanish army after the Battle of San Juan.
The complete corruption of the situation in the Philippines made Prince Yang very satisfied. After discussing art with the Queen Mother for a period of time in the palace in Madrid, he finally told Canovas that the results of his investigation were out.
"This is a regrettable tragedy. Some of the mortars of the Philippine rebels were indeed smuggled from China. Of course, not from me, but from Li Hongzhang, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, who was in charge of military production under him.
officials, accepted bribes from Filipino businessmen, and then sold them a batch of mortars, as well as several decommissioned Gruson mountain guns.
Governor Li has severely punished him, and hopes that I can convey his apology to your government. However, the guns do not flow out of China. You also know that the Mauser Commission rifles are not the equipment of our southern armies. We all have them in our hands.
It's a Bofors rifle, including the rifles produced by major arsenals." Prince Yang said with a sad face.
This was what he specifically told Li Hongzhang before leaving. The old guy originally wanted to sell his imitation Bofors rifles, but in order to muddy the waters with a partnership, he quickly shipped 10,000 refurbished and detailed rifles from Yang Feng.
The Commission rifles were sold to Aguinaldo. Although the Spaniards should have known that Yang Feng had captured many of these items from the Qing army, the more confusing this matter became, the less clear it became.