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- Mr. Napley's words were obvious, that is to put Sun Tianwei, the head of the family, under house arrest. Now several tribesmen who are very close to Sun Tianniu have surrounded him, and Sun Tianming continues to incite the crowd: "Forget our bloodline, we will expose The historical chapter that has been opened, whether it is the Spanish, the Rainbow Army or the Chinese, will be a passing cloud on this land. Only weonly we will rule this land."
This is his declaration, a sincere statement deep in his heart. He does not support the army that is about to enter Manila because of his blood. Like Mr. Napley, he always only values ??interests.
Mr. Napley was very happy to announce: "Mr. Sun Tianniu said it very well. We will gain hundreds and thousands of times of benefits, and are expected to rule this wealthy land"
Lin Mengchu was completely ignorant of this small incident. He was commanding his landing force to attack Manila with thunderous force.
Even after countless exercises on the map and many actual combat exercises, there were still some troubles in this march. For example, the artillery was always out of touch with the infantry, and to open the fortress of Manila, there must be enough artillery shells. ¡ª¡ªIn fact, these fortresses built in the 16th century could not only be conquered with enough cannonballs.
The resistance encountered along the way was negligible. Whether it was a post with a few indigenous soldiers led by a Spanish sergeant, a few policemen, or a few National Guardsmen, they simply could not withstand a single blow from this powerful army. You must know that this Most of the officers in this combat unit have more than two years of actual combat experience, and most of the soldiers have more than one year of military service. Even those with less than one year of military service have participated in at least multiple actual combat experiences.
The only strong resistance came from a few Spanish officers who found that there was no hope of retreating to Manila intact. They organized some less than 200 Spanish and indigenous soldiers from several nearby posts to launch a suicide attack. In just one and a half hours, this time The battle came to an end. Thirteen corpses and more than 20 seriously injured people were left on the battlefield, and 76 indigenous soldiers were captured. And they quickly incorporated these indigenous soldiers into the training team as chess players.
But Lin Mengchu still had no idea how many enemies there were in Manila when it came to conquering Manila, based on his experience. In big cities like Fuzhou and Hangzhou, the number of enemy troops in the city will not be too small, and there will be full battalions, so fighting will take some effort.
He frowned and prepared to wait for the battle report from the Pioneer Company. At this time, the Pioneer Company brought Mr. Napley and a representative of the Sun family: "This is the British businessman Mr. Napley, Sun Tianshan. He is also a famous businessman in Manila. , they welcome our arrival on behalf of the citizens of Manila!¡±
"Welcome!" Although he did not conquer Manila, Lin Mengchu has already made a promise: "For the friends who cooperate with us, we will repay them hundreds and thousands of times. Do you need us to do anything?"
"Thank you, just do it like Ningbo!" Napley immediately replied: "For your army's actions in Ningbo and Fujian, we European businessmen would like to express our 120,000 welcome!"
Although the Philippines is a country rich in natural resources, the Spaniards often did not think of how to develop this land. Instead, they simply carried out the galleons trade until the 1780s, when the Governor-General of the Philippines changed his previous policy. Since the beginning of the Philippine colony, great progress has been made in tobacco cultivation, handicrafts, commerce, foreign trade and other aspects. However, until now, the Spaniards still want to monopolize all colonial interests. Since 1857, they have expelled all foreign countries. From this, merchants can know how closed this colony is - even more closed than the insular Manchu Qing Dynasty.
But Lin Mengchu obviously had the wrong idea: "You mean Ningbo? Such an example is not easy to handle. It can even be said to be rare. You should know how difficult it is to hand over such a city to foreigners to manage it."
Na Puli and Sun Tianshan looked at each other. They both felt as if they had been hit by a pie falling from the sky. This was so unexpected!
They just wanted to find a special status to replace the Spaniards, but they did not expect that the Hong Army was willing to hand over the city. Like Ningbo, it is managed by an Englishman - you must know that the legend of Consul Fulmar is a legend in the One Thousand and One Nights throughout the Far East, but what an honor it would be to be the protagonist of such a legend. .
"What do you mean? Are you in favor of China and the West co-administering Manila?" Napley said in a different way, and he made his tone as gentle as possible: "Like when our country of England conquered Manila in 1762?"
Lin Mengchu also knew that he seemed to have made undue promises, but as long as he won Manila. Everything was easy to handle. He didn't know what the management system was like when the British conquered Manila in 1762, but he said without thinking: "WeWe can cite the precedent of Ningbo, but what should we do if we want to capture Manila? "
¡°Of course he knew that these two gentlemen came to him, and they naturally wanted to act as internal agents. According to his feeling, as long as he grasped the hearts and minds of the people in Luzon, he could definitely take Manila.
"You should first find a Catholic priest!" After thinking for a while, Mr. Napley came up with his answer: "A reputable priest."
Priest? A Catholic priest?
As a mid-level commander of the Hong Army, Lin Mengchu is Chinese in the traditional sense and has a natural rejection of foreign religions such as Christianity, let alone rigid sects such as Catholicism.
You must know that one of the causes of the just-ended Sino-French War was that the French spread their patronage rights and attempted to forcibly expand Catholicism throughout China. The Hong Army immediately expelled the French missionaries from the country, and in some places there were even Lesson Plans.
Therefore, Lin Mengchu had to be wary of Napley's suggestion: "You mean, if we want to defeat the Spanish, we must first find a Catholic priest, but in this land, there are only Spanish priests? Or do you mean that we must go back to Fujian?" Go find a Catholic missionary.¡±
"I think you misunderstood!" Napley clarified: "I am not a Catholic, I am an Anglican!"
He explained the specific reasons very well. What is completely different from mainland China is that Spain has not only conquered the land of the Philippines for three hundred years, but when they conquered the Philippines, the natives of the Philippines did not have as complete ancestral beliefs as those in mainland China. Unlike traditional religion, there is only very simple primitive religion.
Catholicism swept across the Philippines with rapid momentum and suppressed Islam from the north back to the south within three hundred years. The Philippines has become a thoroughly Catholic country like Spain. Except for the Moros in the south, the indigenous Filipinos are 100% Catholic. Even many Chinese believe in Catholicism, which has supreme authority in this land.
But after three hundred years, the Catholic Church, which had been constantly pioneering and enterprising, has also seen serious internal shadows. It is the Spanish missionaries who work less and make more money in the Catholic Church, while the hard work is left to the Filipino missionaries. scholar.
??For now. There are about 500 Spanish missionaries in the Philippines. They have monopolized all the high-level clerical positions in the Catholic Church. Their lives are corrupt and the pain is painful every day. Although Filipino priests have been completely suppressed, their number has grown to 2,000. There are four times as many as Spanish missionaries.
Although they had an advantage in numbers, their ability to spread the gospel was not much inferior to that of Spanish missionaries. But they could only serve as assistants to foreign missionaries, and only a small number of them could take charge of some remote parishes under the Spanish's own rule. During this period, there were a total of 700 dioceses in the Philippines, of which as many as 600 were in the hands of Spanish missionaries. Only 100 dioceses belonged to secular priests, and these 100 dioceses were all remote and poor dioceses.
Therefore, the Filipino clergy were extremely dissatisfied with this. A group of local religious fanatics who were not recognized within the church more than ten years ago, under the dual pressure of the government and the church, simply launched a civil uprising and killed the provincial governor. , captured three provinces, and later had to mobilize an elite force of hundreds of people from Manila to suppress these people.
But although the civil commotion was resolved, the aftermath was lingering. The decades-long "Filipinoization Movement of Parishes" has formed, and now Napli explains the implications: "You should find a reputable Filipino priest and ask him to come forward to appease people's hearts!"
"It's convenient for you!" Lin Mengchu said immediately: "I wonder what your opinions are on the Anglican Church?"
This is a wonderful person!
Both Napuli and Sun Tianshan felt this way. On the one hand, they sold Napuli a huge favor. No matter who the Filipino priest was who came forward later, he would have to accept Napuli's huge favor. Moreover, this officer of the Hong Army even knew how to use the Anglican Church to fight Catholicism in the Philippines.
This is wonderful The authority of Catholicism in this land even exceeds Lin Mengchu's imagination. After several Filipino priests who have been suppressed for a long time and cannot be promoted, but have a large number of believers because they are rooted in the grassroots, it turns out that it is possible. Thousands of indigenous people gathered outside Manila immediately dispersed.
They took a wait-and-see attitude, waiting for the two sides to decide the winner. The resistance in Manila was due to unexpected difficulties.
Although there are only 200 artillerymen from the 70th Regiment in the city, and the governor temporarily mobilized some Spaniards and Sifimistizo, the total number is only five or six hundred, but the Hong Army has internal support. The Spanish people rely on their strength??He was broken in without playing any role.
However, the Hong Army that succeeded in the surprise attack encountered many counterattacks from the Spanish in the city. They launched counterattacks again and again. Many artillerymen even gave up their artillery positions and picked up rifles to fight with the Hong Army. The final battle was with To solve the problem with bayonets, the Spaniards left hundreds of corpses on the battlefield.
The Hong Army suffered 23 casualties and 77 wounded. It was the battle with the highest casualties in the entire Luzon Campaign. However, it also captured the entire city of Manila and captured the governor, deputy governor, and Spanish archbishop alive.
These are three powerful people in the Philippines. The governor cannot take office, the deputy governor takes office, the deputy governor cannot take office, and the archbishop takes office as governor. In fact, for a long time, when the governor leaves office, the archbishop directly acts as the governor. It is just the military and There have always been disputes between the two factions of the priests. The soldiers were loyal to Madrid and the priests were loyal to Rome. Naturally, the soldiers did not want the position of governor to fall into the hands of the priests for a long time, so they added the position of deputy governor.
But now Lin Mengchu still can¡¯t believe this fact: ¡°Manila will be taken down now?¡±
No matter what, this can be considered a big city like a province, right? Spain has been operating for three hundred years, but an infantry battalion was taken down in one night with the help of internal forces?
He didn¡¯t know that Spain was good at spreading Catholicism in the Philippines, but it wasn¡¯t strong in martial arts. Otherwise, it wouldn¡¯t have been a powerful European country that could only look at the coast of China for three hundred years.
During these three hundred years, they did not even pacify the Moros who believed in Islam in the southern islands. Even in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the southern Sudanese fleet sailed north in large numbers and captured a large number of people from the north. Catholic believers were sold as slaves. This was the case until 1848, when the Spanish purchased steamships from Europe, achieved complete victory at speed, and launched the conquest of the southern Moros. However, in the end, Spain ruled the Philippines for three years. For one hundred and thirty years, the Spaniards were never able to achieve a complete victory over the Moros, and only gained nominal suzerainty. Even during the Philippine Revolution in 1866, most of the troops were in the south to suppress the Moros.
From this point of view, Spain¡¯s martial arts in the Philippines is not as good as that of the Qing Dynasty, which at any rate completely suppressed the Hui tribe.
However, Lin Mengchu did not dare to be careless. After taking Manila, he only controlled Luzon Island. However, the Philippines has thousands of islands, and there are even several independent sultanate kingdoms in the south. In a sense, the Hong Army is now Even Luzon is not under full control. There are hundreds of soldiers of the Seventy Regiment scattered throughout Luzon Island. There is also a Spanish navy in Cavite, not far from Manila.
And he only has 2,000 soldiers on hand. To control such a huge island country, he is indeed a little overwhelmed and has no choice but to look forward to further support from Fujian and the navy.
While he was thinking about it, an officer ran in quickly: "We have made a big discovery in the Governor's Mansion!" rs
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