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Chapter 660 Uprising (fourth update)
The night was hazy, the moon was on the treetops, and the crow landed on a dead branch. The only light was the moonlight reflected in its pupils.

The city of Manila seemed as calm as ever, until monstrous flames blazed west of the city.

"The water is gone, the water is gone!" The night watchman who was on watch anxiously rang the gong and shouted everywhere.

The Spanish soldiers in the city were alarmed, and got up from the bed one by one in a panic, grabbed the soft hat next to the bed and covered their heads, ignoring the soft hat tilted to and fro, and walked out of the house with their matchlock guns.

When they saw the flames in the west of the city, they hurriedly fetched water to put out the fire.Especially in places like the Governor's Mansion, where there is an important garrison, a large group of soldiers is also assigned to fight the fire.

The sound of hurried footsteps came out from the Governor's Mansion and gradually faded away.

In the dark alleys of a mud house near the Governor's Mansion, pairs of bright eyes appeared.Their eyes are full of extremely complex emotions such as excitement, tension, fear, and longing, and they have various weapons in their hands, such as muskets, broadswords, and spears.

"Everyone, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that God has given us. Tonight we will drive away the hateful red-haired men, and we will no longer be oppressed by them! Kill!" The middle-aged businessman held a long knife in his hand and directed the rebels from the darkness. He rushed out of the streets and alleys and rushed towards the Governor's Mansion.

"Kill!" This rebel team of more than 100 people was responsible for attacking the governor's mansion, while other rebel teams were distributed nearby to stop the firefighting soldiers who were about to find that something was wrong and turned back.

The Governor’s Mansion is a mansion in name, but it’s actually a small fortress set up by the Spanish colonists in the city. It’s usually tightly guarded for fear of reprisals, but just now a group of Spanish soldiers came out of it. come over.

Boom!A group of rebels hit the gate of the Governor's Mansion with a thick wooden pillar.The heavy wooden door was hit, and the bolt creaked and snapped.

"Hurry up!" The middle-aged businessman urged nervously.As long as he breaks open the door of the Governor's Mansion and captures the colonial officers inside, he believes that the Spanish army in Manila will be defeated without a fight.

Karma wipe.There was another sound of a wooden peg breaking, and the wooden door of the Governor's Mansion broke down, and was slowly pushed open by the rebel soldiers!

Just like the plan, the governor's mansion was successfully breached!The middle-aged businessman is full of enthusiasm. He is about to complete the resistance of his ancestors against the red-haired man 30 years ago.

But when the wooden door of the governor's mansion was completely pushed open, the middle-aged businessman suddenly became ashamed and stood there in a daze.

Behind the wooden door of the Governor's Palace are the cold muzzles of two cannons. The Spanish gunner standing behind the cannons has already lit the fuse and covered his ears.

"Retreat!!!" The middle-aged businessman's scalp was numb. The opponent's formation obviously knew that they were coming to attack, and he had already prepared for it!
Boom, boom!The roar of the cannon sounded, and two solid bullets hit the rebel soldiers crowded at the door, and they were all bloody and bloody!The huge kinetic energy of the solid bullet passed through the body of the rebel soldier and hit the opposite stone wall!
The middle-aged businessman escaped unharmed because he dodged to the side in time, but the bloody scene caused by the cannon made the rebel soldiers who besieged the Governor's Palace feel a chill in their hearts.

"Treasurer Wang, why are they setting up cannons inside, and how do you want the brothers to rush in!" The rebel soldier who hid on the other side of the stone wall of the Governor's Mansion shouted at the middle-aged businessman.

"The devil knows that they will have such a method. We were negligent! But after firing a round of their artillery, it will take time to reload. Now is the time to rush in!" The middle-aged businessman Wang also shouted loudly.

"Come on, brothers, you are not afraid of death and I rushed in to deal with their artillerymen!"

Several rebel soldiers on the opposite side saw that if they could not successfully deal with the two cannons inside the Governor's Mansion, the rebels besieged outside the Governor's Mansion would not be able to attack anyway, so they volunteered to rush in.

Boom!Intensive gunshots rang out again inside the Governor's Mansion. A few rebel soldiers had just rushed in and retreated. Two people had already been killed by muskets, and the rest had gunshot wounds.

"Inside... there is a group of Musketeers inside, the defense is too tight, they seem to know that we are coming, we can't capture the Governor's Mansion!" The rebel soldier who returned with injuries said desperately.

"How could this be..." Shopkeeper Wang only felt a chill behind his back. The Governor's Mansion was suddenly attacked, and there was no reason to organize a counterattack so calmly.

"Wang... Shopkeeper Wang, the people we sent to set the fire were caught by the red hair, and the rebels who ambushed them were defeated by them. They are returning to the Governor's Mansion. We may be surrounded by them!" The soldiers of the rebel army ran back almost on hands and feet to report the dire situation on their side to the leader, shopkeeper Wang.

When shopkeeper Wang heard that the rebel army on the other side of the fire had failed, his heart sank again. He leaned against the stone wall reluctantly and looked at his brothers, and found that their eyes were waiting for his decision.At least get them out of here!Shopkeeper Wang thought to himself.

"Brothers, the red-haired people are not afraid in the face of danger. There must be something wrong with our plan tonight. But now is not the time to be afraid or depressed. We must save our capital in due course." Shopkeeper Wang swallowed the panic in his heart, and in the face of the people around him With support, I stood firm, "I know that there is a local indigenous tribe in the forest outside the east of the city, and I know their chief, we can go and ask for asylum from them. We are there...waiting for the Kyushu Army to rescue us."

Under the leadership of shopkeeper Wang, the failed rebel army could only break out of the siege to the east city where no heavy troops had yet assembled.

The colonists did not expect that the rebels would break out of the east city, and some rebels escaped in the dark due to negligence.

However, a considerable part of the rebel army was surrounded and wiped out.Some of them are equipped with Dreiser rifles smuggled by the Kyushu Army, but they have not been trained and can only shoot simply. In addition, most of them are not professional soldiers or mercenaries, and their psychological quality on the spot is very poor. , but was defeated by colonial soldiers using matchlock guns.

When the morning came, the rebels in Manila were basically suppressed, and the gates of the city were all controlled by the colonial army. The rebels and Chinese businessmen who remained in the city had nowhere to escape.

"Mr. Chen, you Chinese businessmen and aborigines gathered a crowd to rebel last night. We suspect that you are also an accomplice. Come with us." A group of colonial soldiers broke into the old businessman's house and escorted the elderly man away.

In addition to Mr. Chen, many Chinese businessmen and indigenous people were also arrested because of the soldiers last night. For a while, people in Manila were panicked.

(End of this chapter)