After the open declaration of war between the Ocean Kingdom and the Spanish Kingdom, the war was in a one-sided situation. The stunning lineup of Ocean Kingdom special mixed fleet went north and was invincible without any obstacles.

On February 8, the Special Mix Fleet spent one hour and five minutes to resolve the enemy on Cebu Island. On February 9, the Special Mix Fleet arrived in the Bay of Manila, and took 1 hour and 25 minutes to resolve the remaining Spanish Navy fleet.

After this battle, take stock of it;

Seven cruisers (one hull cracked, five of them were 1,100 tons of old sailing warships) in the Royal Spanish Navy fleet stationed in Luzon sank six times and one injury, causing 1,762 naval officers and soldiers to be killed.

No one died and one person was injured. The instep of a sub-gunner was hit by a hot shell shell and immediately broke the bone.

This is the premiere of the new battleships of the Ocean Kingdom, the Red River Valley and the Brisbane. Unfortunately, the opponent is too weak. The entire fleet does not have the displacement of a battleship of the Red River Valley.

It is said to be war, but it is more like an easy live-fire exercise at sea.

When the Red River Valley battleship's huge 305mm naval gun was exerted, the Spanish cruiser Adrian, who was vowing to fight to the death, was blown into two pieces. You Ge's ships such as Britain, France, Germany, and the United States outside Manila were all silent.

Frugal, violent, crushing victory.

This is the word that comes to everyone's mind at this moment. They looked at the huge steel hull of the "Red River Valley" and the "Brisbane" and the cold and vitiligo-like luster in the sun, and the words "bullying" rose in the sky.

The displacement of a "Red River Valley" battleship reached 13,000 tons. The entire Spanish fleet had a total of seven cruisers and auxiliary ships, plus no more than 10,000 tons. It was really like an adult fighting a child, and it was not a fight!

In addition to these two giant ships, the task force also dispatched 11 cruisers and 13 destroyers, and lined up in a huge array of black and endless sight on the sea, whistling with a depressing breath.

When the tall steel triangular masts of the armored warships floated one by one on the Manila sea, the thick smoke emitted from the thick chimney blacked half of the sky, bringing people a trembling fear in their hearts, which was simply an irresistible powerful maritime power.

It conveys the will of His Majesty the King, and those who dare to violate the majesty of the king will die...

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Inside the commander tower of the American armored cruiser "Sidney" who was hovering outside Manila, Navy General George Dewey felt as if he was dead and silent for a long time.

He knows;

The Ocean Kingdom did not rank such a strong naval lineup to deal with the weak Royal Spanish Navy, but to show its muscles to the Far East Fleet of Citigroup. The meaning of it was self-evident;

Get away from me to prevent the old man from turning over and hurting you.

Like other countries, there are two Citi cruisers hovering off the coast of Manila. They all came to watch the naval battles in the sky, just like African vultures that could not go in the sky. What did they try to observe from the naval battles?

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 in East Asia, navies from all over the world set off a tide of equipped rapid-fire cannons, interwoven into a rain of steel bullets with more violent firepower, causing huge damage to enemy ships. This is the valuable experience drawn from the Sino-Japanese War of 1895.

However, this naval battle in Manila made everyone unable to learn anything.

The Citigroup Far East Fleet has only four cruisers of more than 3,000 tons in total, plus a few small auxiliary ships, which is enough to deal with the weak Royal Spanish Navy, but it is only a delivery of vegetables in front of the Ocean Navy's special mixed fleet, and there is no question of placing between teeth.

"Let's go back and we should go back to Hong Kong for a pleasant holiday, that's where we should stay."

Commodore George Dewey had no luck in his heart. He gave a calm command and sat in the command seat with a dark face.

"I understand, the warship returns."

The commander of the warship repeated the order, but did not dare to say much at the moment. He raised the return flag according to the procedures and led the troops to leave the sea area without saying a word and headed towards the northwest.

News of victory ahead came, and Australia was filled with a sea of ​​joy.

February 12, 1898 at the morning

The ready-made Royal Guards were equipped with three divisions and auxiliary troops, with a total of 27,700 people swore to the battle under the victory of Triumph Avenue, and then boarded the ship and headed towards the north.

The special mixed fleet consists of more than 100 ships of various types, including immigration ships that transport personnel, cargo ships that transport weapons, ammunition, food and supplies, oil tankers that transport oil, coal transport ships that transport coal, cruisers and destroyers responsible for escorting, and rushed towards the northern waters.

February 15, night

Havana, Cuba

The Citigroup II battleship "Maine" which was anchored here for a friendly visit suddenly exploded violently. The huge explosion could be clearly heard 40 kilometers away. The tragic bow of the "Maine" was immediately blown off. In just over 10 minutes, the entire ship sank, killing 266 sailors.

As soon as this happened, the whole world was in an uproar...

This... this is too fake. Citigroup is too shameless to launch a war in a hurry.

The Ocean Kingdom had just declared war on Spain. It was less than ten days before. Citiland came so suddenly, and the food was too ugly.

The upper class of Citigroup is actually very distressed. Time is so hasty, and it is too late to re-arrange it. Moreover, the friendly visit of the "Maine" has been parked at the port of Havana for 25 days, and it is impossible to say if you don't act.

After all, it is a friendly visit, so you can't stop there for a year.

Regarding the explosion, the British Times reported sarcastically that it seemed that the two rebellious sons of the British Empire coincided this time and jointly targeted the Spaniards. The anger of the Ocean Kingdom is understandable, but the performance of Citiland was poor. The Citiland cowboy who rushed to the banquet didn't even want the last fig leaf.

French Le Saint-Germain reported;

The explosion of the Maine battleship anchored in the port of Havana, Cuba, reflects the regional ambitions of Citigroup and can be regarded as another futile effort.

They have always claimed that North and South America is Citi's international sphere of influence, similar to Donjikod's dream, and for world powers such as Britain and France, they are just a dream.

In fact, who cares?

February 24, 1898

After a long voyage, the huge ships from Australia finally arrived at Mindanao in the Philippine Islands. The 2nd Division of the Royal Guards successfully landed here, divided into several groups, conquered various towns at the speed of field hiking training. There was no resistance along the way, and the order was decided.

February 27

The ship arrived at Cebu Island, and a unit of enhanced operational force landed on the island and successfully occupied the area.

February 29 at 3:00 pm

The mixed ships arrived outside Manila and then landed in the port of Manila. During the march, they suffered small-scale armed resistance. After rapid extermination, they mastered the city of Manila at midnight.

The only thing that was not occupied was the Santiago Castle where Spanish immigrants gathered. The seven gates of the castle were closed, and more than 2,000 armed soldiers all went to the city to defend, and also mobilized unknown Spanish armed militias.

The 1st Division, 3rd Division and affiliated forces of the Royal Imperial Guards of the Ocean Kingdom that occupied Manila were not in a hurry to attack the city. Instead, in the following days, they quickly established a strict military control system through dispatch, strengthened the defensive vigilance of key areas, and completely controlled the city.

In the original history

The Citigroup Navy annihilated the Spanish fleet in the Bay of Manila, and Spain completely failed. The local Philippine rebel leader Aquinado was very happy because he had secretly contacted Citigroup as early as 1897, and Citigroup promised to support Philippine independence.

At this time, the Philippine rebels sincerely felt that Citi was here to help them independence. But they did not know that the colonists' invasion was the same in nature. Spain was cruel, and Citi was even more cruel than Spain.

While Spain was in a desperate situation, Citi and the Spanish conducted diplomatic negotiations through Belgium, and the content of the negotiations was:

Forced by the situation, the Citi army and the Spanish army pretended to fight a war, and then the Spanish army surrendered, and the Philippines land was given to the Citi.

So after a few symbolic shots, the Spanish army surrendered.

Citi and Spain officially signed the "Paris Treaty", and Spain sold the entire Philippines to Citi for 20 million US dollars.

The Citi Kingdom occupied the land of the Luzon Islands and became a new colonist. It turned to carry out cruel and bloody suppression of the Philippine indigenous rebels. The methods were extremely cruel, and the severe ones destroyed villages and towns.

The Philippine rebels who felt deeply deceitful were angry and deeply felt that they had been betrayed and used. They convened the Maloros Conference, drafted their own constitution, and declared independence.

On January 1, 1899, the Constitution of the Philippine Republic was officially promulgated and implemented in the interim capital Malolos. On January 5, President Aquinado issued the Aquinado Declaration:

If Citigroup had to implement imperialist rule in the Philippines, the Philippine people had no choice but to fight with oppressors and invaders until the last breath of their lives in order to defend the Philippines' national independence.

I believe that people in the world who have conscience and sense of justice will understand the right and wrong...

This three and a half years war ended with the victory of Citigroup.

During this war, the Citigroup army sent a total of 126,000 people, of which 4,374 were killed, and a total of US$1 billion in military spending.

In the Philippines, the official data is that more than 20,000 soldiers were killed and 250,000 civilians died.

However, from a set of data, it can be seen that the number of civilian deaths is not only this. Before the war broke out, the population data counted in Spain was 9 million.

After the war, Citigroup's population data was 7.63 million, a gap of 1.37 million.

Even if the natural population growth is not counted, a full seventh of the population has disappeared...

The trajectory of history has been rolling forward, but there has not been much change.

This time, the Philippine rebel leader Aquinado contacted the Kingdom of the Ocean, and he also received the same promise.

As a result, during the secret negotiations between the Kingdom of Ocean and Spain held in Lisbon, the two sides reached an agreement and formally signed the Treaty of Lisbon.

Under the strong oppression of the sudden attack by the Americans, the front door was greeted by tigers and the back door was wolves. This time, the Spanish Kingdom happily gave up the Philippine Islands at the cost of asking for 3 million golden oceans to end the war between the two countries as soon as possible and to deal with the Central American crisis with all their might.

This money is worth about 1.5 million pounds, which is much cheaper than the 4 million pounds (20 million US dollars) that Americans once paid in history. Li Fushou got a big advantage.

This is because the situation faced by the Spanish Kingdom is even worse this time. The two powerful countries have shown sharp fangs to the Spanish Kingdom in less than 10 days. If they are timid, they will be really scared, so it is reasonable.

Li Fushou really thanked Citigroup, a pig teammate. This move really scared the Spanish royal family and saved him a huge sum of money to build two 16,000-ton iron armored battleships.

That thing...thank you!
Chapter completed!