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As soon as Deng Shichang said this, Huang Xiaojie, the chief of staff on the side, said: "General Deng should not be careless. According to the report from our radar room, there are eight warships in the Spanish fleet, which is a large number. They cheated when they surrendered, and we were bound to suffer heavy losses."

Deng Shichang thought for a while and said: "This is reasonable! In this way, let's not get close to them, let them anchor in the No. 6 sea area, and let their fleet commander come to us."

Huang Xiaojie then went to convey the order, Grappardos repeatedly agreed, and soon arrived on 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 report the news broadcast throughout the Philippines.

Governor Sandras panicked when he heard the news, and his voice lost the confidence to collapse the roof. 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? Didn't they just come with two destroyers? Why did your Spanish fleet 'revolt in the field'?"

Sandras smiled wryly: "It must be Commander-in-Chief Grappados who was worried about dying in battle, so he surrendered."

Charlton said with a smile: "Now Lin Yuan has only sent two destroyers. I don't think they will send a large force. Don't worry, Governor."

Sandras said: "This anti-Chinese action is the idea of ​​you British people. You British people have made a mess. You can clean it up yourself."

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

Sandras sighed and said: "I'm tired, let's talk about this first today." Charlton left and went out, and Sandras said to Cruz: "Oh, I didn't expect Lin Yuan to be so powerful. If I knew this, I shouldn't have accepted Charlton's bribes and asked him to engage in anti-Chinese actions."

Cruz laughed and said, "My lord, the British are using Spain as cannon fodder. I've seen it for a long time."

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

Cruz laughed and said, "Who asked the British to give so much money? From you, the governor, to the officials at all levels below, which one has not received any benefits? If I said those benefits, wouldn't they be gone?"

Sandras also laughed and said, "Didn't the British send you any money? See what you said, as if you didn't get any money from the British."

Cruz laughed and said, "It's useless for our Spanish Empire to guard these colonies. Sooner or later, Lin Yuan will take them away. I have read the September [-] speech ten times, and all the colonies in the world will be taken away by Lin Yuan. , the Philippines is the same, we might as well get some more money now."

Sandras nodded again and again, and said, "Your words really speak to my heart. By the way, have all our money in the Manila bank been transferred out?"

Cruz nodded with a smile, and said, "I found the president personally, and he transferred it himself, together with his own money. Only then did I know that the president made the most money!"

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

Cruz smiled and said: "The president can just open an account and transfer hundreds of thousands of pounds and dollars away. Isn't that the most money?"

Sandras laughed loudly and said, "If you go on vacation in the Alps in the future, you must let him pay for it." Sandras changed the subject here and said, "I think Lin Yuan's troops will come sooner or later. We definitely have to surrender, but we have to work hard to save face and leave the impression of 'we resisted bravely, although defeat is glorious', so hurry up and make some tough statements."

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

Lin Yuan didn't know these things about the upper echelons of Spain. He really thought that Spain would resist with all his might, so he ordered the establishment of the "Commander of the Expeditionary Force for the Liberation of the Philippines". Commander of Operations, mobilize the 26th Division, the 27th Division to attack Manila Bay on the west side of Manila, and the amphibious combat force to attack Ramon Bay on the east side of Manila. During the Second World War in the Lin Yuan era, when the Japanese army attacked the Philippines, they also planned to land from Ramon Bay and Manila Bay and attack Manila.

When Lin Yuan's order was conveyed to each unit, Deng Shichang was dissatisfied, because Lin Yuan let him take charge of sea operations, but the Spanish fleet had already surrendered, and there were no more sea operations. In fact, this arrangement also had Lin Yuan's unique consideration: Deng Shichang as The old ministers of the Qing court more or less had a mentality of contempt for foreign countries.

Although Deng Shichang often said, "Treat the barbarians well to show the benevolence of our heavenly kingdom", but there are conditions: those so-called "barbarians" can only be treated kindly if they submit. , to show the power of our heavenly kingdom.” In the history of China, the feudal dynasties often did massacres of “barbarians”, so Lin Yuan was very afraid that he would gather foreign prisoners of war and carry out a collective massacre.

After Zhang Chuang received Lin Yuan's order, he began to study the offensive strategy. The first was the Manila Bay battlefield on the western front. If the [-]th and [-]th Divisions wanted to directly attack Manila, they had to enter Manila Bay from the South China Sea. A bottle with a small mouth and a big belly, the entrance to the bay is very narrow, and the entrance to the bay is very wide. The narrowest place is on Corregidor Island. The width of the strait here is only ten kilometers. Any large-caliber artillery can cover the entire estuary.

Zhang Chuang asked about the situation of Corregidor Island at the Manila Station of the General Intelligence Bureau, and got accurate information: Corregidor Island did have artillery fortifications of the Spanish garrison, and these artillery fortifications were built to defend against the British. In [-], the "Seven Years' War" broke out between Britain and France. In this war, Spain supported France, and Britain officially declared war on Spain. 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. In one day, more than 6000 overseas Chinese were killed.The British troops occupying Manila finally withdrew, and the Spaniards built artillery fortifications on Corregidor Island, the throat of Manila Bay.