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    In the Manila City Hall, Li Haitao and Wu Haibin were anxiously waiting for orders from the country.  Now, it is nightfall, and the whole of Manila is plunged into darkness.  There is no power plant in Manila, and lighting at night relies entirely on candles and oil lamps.  And the poorer Filipino natives go to bed as soon as it gets dark.  Therefore, this makes the number of indigenous people in the Philippines increase year by year.

    "Old Wu, are the defenses of Manila City ready?" Li Haitao asked.

    "Chief of Staff, arrangements have been made. Two battalions are in the military stronghold outside the city, and three battalions and the troops directly under the brigade are in the city. I have already issued an order. I will raise the alert tonight. If there is any abnormal movement, we will promptly  To suppress it!" Wu Haibin replied.

    "That's good! If those stupid Filipino natives dare to launch a riot, let them all die!" Li Haitao said coldly.  Originally, he easily defeated the Spaniards, and he thought that this operation would go very smoothly.  But I didn't expect that the Spaniards were just a small problem, and the more serious problem was these Filipino natives.

    "Report!" Suddenly, the staff officer's voice came from outside the office.

    "Come in!" Li Haitao was refreshed. He knew that the country must have issued corresponding orders.

    ¡°Report to the Chief of Staff, this is the latest order issued by the General Staff Headquarters!¡± The staff officer handed the telegram in his hand to Li Haitao.

    Li Haitao took it and read it carefully under the light of the candle.  After reading it, he breathed a sigh of relief.

    "Chief of Staff, what did the General Staff order?" Wu Haibin asked anxiously.

    "The General Staff ordered us to use the most severe means to deal with these Filipino resistance elements. Once those who participate in the violence will be executed! Moreover, we would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go! In addition, His Majesty has ordered the deployment of two troops from the South China Military Region.  Troops from three divisions to reinforce Manila will arrive in half a month. The appointment of the Governor of the Philippines has been made, and the deputy commander of the South China Military Region, Major General Zhou Shu, will serve. After Major General Zhou Shu takes office, the Marine Corps must fully cooperate with him.  Take action!" Li Haitao said.

    "Yes, Chief of Staff. But why not let you be the governor of the Philippines? This is the governor of our first colony!" Wu Haibin said with some complaint.

    "This is His Majesty's order, how can I allow you to discuss it? Besides, does a colonial governor have a bright future with a fleet chief of staff? We are now facing the hostility of several powerful countries, and it won't be long before the navy will have a big war.  "Li Haitao said.  Although the time for the war has not yet been determined, Li Haitao knows that the navy will be the most important combat force. As the chief of staff of the local fleet, as long as the imperial navy can defeat the enemy, he will naturally be able to get a better promotion by then.

    The south of Manila is the slum area of ??Manila, where more than 100,000 Filipinos live.  And they are all people whose lives are extremely difficult, and the security conditions here are also very poor.  When the Spaniards took control of Manila, they only set up isolation lines around the perimeter to prevent these Filipinos from launching riots.  There is no care at all about the life and death of these Filipinos.

    In a corner house, a dim yellow oil lamp emits light as big as a soybean, giving this small room a glimmer of light.  I went to the city hall to meet Li Haitao's special envoy of the First Republic of the Philippines, Mario, and Kanu, a leader of the Katipunan. The two were sitting at a low table with gloomy faces. In the room, there were ten other people.  Several other Filipinos.

    "The Chinese are so abominable. They have been calling themselves the Celestial Kingdom for hundreds of years in vain. I didn't expect that they are the same thing as those abominable Spanish colonists. They drove away the Spaniards, but they still want to colonize  Philippines. We can't wait any longer. We can only rise up and resist and drive away these Chinese people. Only in this way can our nation win liberation and the Philippines can truly be independent!" said one of the leaders of the Katipunan.  Kanu, said loudly.

    ¡°Kill all these Chinese and drive them away!¡± Other Filipinos also echoed.

    ¡°Kill all those Chinese and snatch away all their wealth. All their wealth was plundered from us Filipinos!¡± someone else said.  Although there are only a few hundred thousand Chinese in the Philippines, they control most of the wealth in the Philippines, which naturally makes these Filipinos very jealous.  However, they never thought that the reason why the Chinese were able to control so much wealth was entirely due to the hard work of the Chinese.  But these Filipinos are lazy in food and work, so naturally they are extremely poor.

    "Yes, that's how it should be. Put thoseAll the Chinese men were killed and all the women were left behind.  Those Chinese women are all extremely beautiful.  "Someone else suggested. Compared with those dark-skinned women in the Philippines, the Chinese are naturally much more beautiful. This also makes the Chinese often suffer when these Filipinos launch riots, and not only their property is robbed by these thugs  Even their lives would have to be lost. The Chinese women's experience was even more miserable. They were often raped, raped in turns, and then killed again. It can be said that every time these Filipino natives launched a riot, it was the Chinese  Unlucky times.

    ¡°The Philippines belongs to us Filipinos. As long as we can drive away these Chinese, everything will belong to us!¡± Kanu also laughed.  As one of the leaders of the Katipunan, he has gained a lot of benefits from previous violence.  Many Chinese were killed by him, and countless Chinese women were raped by him.  Now, the snow-white bodies of those Chinese women had appeared in his mind, which made him very excited.

    "Calm down! These Chinese are not that easy to deal with. They defeated the United States last year and forced the Spanish to surrender today. Their warships parked at the dock are bigger than Shandu. If we act rashly,  You will definitely get a crazy attack from them!" Mario reminded.  Compared to the Katipunan, an extreme organization, he is undoubtedly much more sensible.  This is why they separated from the Katipunan organization and established the First Republic of the Philippines.  It's just that they had to cooperate with the Katipunan for the common interests of resisting Spanish colonial rule.

    "Mario, you coward, forget it if you don't want to go. So what if those Chinese are powerful? They only have a few thousand people, we have tens of thousands. There are hundreds of thousands of people in other parts of Manila.  We can defeat them easily!" Kanu said disdainfully.

    "Yes! We will definitely be able to defeat these Chinese!" Other Filipinos who wanted to rob Chinese wealth and insult Chinese women had been carried away, and they also agreed.

    "Since everyone agrees, then go back immediately to gather people and take action in an hour!" Kanu said.

    "Yes!" the Filipino natives shouted, and immediately filed out, preparing to gather people to launch a riot.

    "Kanu, you are asking our compatriots to die!" Mario looked at Kanu angrily.

    "We are fighting for the freedom and independence of the Philippines, you coward, you are not worthy of being a Filipino!" Kanu said to Mario disdainfully, and then left the house.

    At ten o¡¯clock in the evening, Manila was plunged into darkness.  Fortunately, there is a bright white moon hanging in the sky. Under the bright moonlight, although it is not very bright, it is not so bright that you can't see your fingers.

    In the slums in the south of the city, Filipino natives walked out of their houses one by one, holding simple weapons in their hands.  Most of them are hatchets, hoes, etc.  Only those members of the Katipunan had a few muskets.  These people all gathered together and, led by members of the Katipunan, rushed towards the central city of Manila.  Their faces were beaming with joy, as if they were attending a grand event.  In their view, those weak Chinese and those beautiful Chinese women are about to become their trophies.

    At the intersection of the slums leading to the central city, there is a barricade composed of barbed wire and sandbags.  There are such barricades on more than a dozen roads leading from the slums to the central city.  This was built by the Spaniards specifically to protect against the Filipino natives.  Now, the soldiers of the 5th Brigade of the Chinese Marine Corps have taken over the defense of these barricades from the Spanish.  This time, one of the three battalions in the city was specially deployed in these areas to guard against the Filipino natives in the slums.  The other two battalions and the troops directly under the brigade are located elsewhere in the city.  After all, of the two to three hundred thousand native Filipinos in Manila, only about half live in the slums south of the city.  There are many people scattered in other places in Manila and they also need defense.

    "Cheer up, everyone. The brigade commander ordered us to be more alert tonight. These Filipino natives will definitely be restless. If they dare to make any changes, they will be suppressed immediately!" 3rd Company, 4th Battalion, 5th Brigade, Chinese Marine Corps  Peng Yong, the platoon leader of the 3rd platoon, ordered.  They were ordered to garrison this barricade, called Reichert Street.  This is the main passage from the slums in the south of the city to the central city.  Therefore, one of their platoons was specifically responsible.  The street entrance, which is more than 40 meters wide, has been completely blocked by a barbed wire fence. Behind the barbed wire fence is a defensive position made of sandbags.  All the light and heavy weapons of the 3rd platoon, including a Type 91 heavy machine gun, a 60 mm caliber mortar, and three Type 96 light machine guns, have been set up. As long as the Filipino natives dare to come, they will be killed.His head was bruised and bloody.

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