Aquinado waited for more than a week before finally waiting for Taft, the official representative of the US government. During this period, the Philippine rebels who had been waiting outside Manila would have been unable to wait. If Aquinado had not tried his best to suppress it, I was afraid that those guys would have been unable to wait and cause some trouble. Speaking of which, Aquinado was really not easy, because in addition to Aquinado's direct lineage, there were also a large number of other tribes armed forces. When they came here, they heard Aquinado's about entering Manila. The benefits were great. In general, "What I want is what I like, whoever I am happy is whoever I am happy is."

But who knew that when he arrived outside Manila, the Spaniards were indeed defeated, but the Americans occupied Manila tightly and refused to let everyone in. It seemed that so many days had been there, and for so many days, the Americans were there, and I was afraid that there would be no more than two hairs left in Manila, so these guys were clamoring to rush into the city. Even not only the tribal armed forces, even Aquinado's own direct line, were also influenced by this idea and asked to enter the city many times. Aquinado spent a lot of effort to soothe these abnormal movements. If Taft came later for a while, he really didn't know what would happen and change.

When Aquinado learned that Taft was coming, he naturally hurried to find him to see what kind of answer he could give him.

"You said the Philippines was independent and established?" Taft seemed surprised after Aquinado explained his purpose.

"Yes, aren't you propaganda and oppose colonialism?"

"Of course this is true, but the conditions for your independence and establishment are not yet mature." Taft replied, "First of all, you should know that Spain sold the Philippines to the US government for 20 million yuan. If you want independence, the US government cannot afford the US government for you, right? Moreover, the humanitarian tragedy that happened before has proved that you Filipinos lack civilized qualities and have not yet established an independent country's qualifications. I think with the current quality level of Filipinos, they cannot exercise their power as masters of the country for the time being, so the United States needs to lead you to train and teach your qualities,

To enlighten the hearts of the people, so that you can become truly civilized people, and then you can talk about independence and building a country. In addition, since the war has ended, there is one thing that we must deal with immediately. Mr. Aquinado, in the war, we lend you some weapons, right? Since the war is over, these weapons should be returned to us. And judging from your performance some time ago, it is best not to play with such dangerous things as weapons. Just so happen that your army is near Manila. As long as you return the weapons to us, we will of course allow you to enter Manila..."

These words hit Aquinado's head like a big stick, almost obscuring him. He didn't even remember how he left the place where the American lived. It seemed that he had a quarrel with the American and was thrown out, and it seemed that he was timid and did not dare to say anything, and was sent out like this. But in any case, one thing is confirmed, that there was once a mountain of gold that seemed to be right in front of him. When he ran over, he found that the mountain of gold was robbed by another robber. Even if he didn't give him a gold coin, the robber actually had to confiscate their guns. Obviously, if he really returned the gun to those Americans, God knows what would happen. There was really no good thing in these white people!

...

The news brought back by Aquinado naturally caused an uproar in the Philippines' uprising. No one would have thought that after fighting for so long and sacrificing so many people, the end result was just a change of master. The Philippines is still white, and it is still a slave. Although most of the Filipinos have never learned English, they will not die with a full word of "not being free, but not being free", at this point, there is no reason to go back to be a slave honestly. So, not long after, the rebels formed a unified opinion, which is very simple, that is: fuck him!

Just as the Filipinos were discussing how to attack Manila, Taft and General MacArthur were also discussing how to eliminate the Filipinos.

"Our goal is to make the Filipinos rebel. After a long battle with the Spaniards, many of the Filipinos who have stronger abilities and more determined personalities have died. And those who have not died have already shown their prominence. These people have the ability and ambitions. As long as they still exist, the United States will not be able to rule the Philippines safely. Even if we reach a compromise with them now, it will only lay hidden dangers in the future. Therefore, taking this opportunity to eliminate them will be very beneficial to the United States' future domination in the Philippines. Because any nation, at least for a long time,

Inside, people like this are limited in number. Therefore, after destroying them, at least for a few generations, the Filipinos will not be able to rise up to resist our rule again. The Philippines is an archipelago with dense primitive jungles everywhere. This will make it very difficult for us to clear out the Filipinos. The Spanish are therefore unable to completely eliminate the resisters. Because once they are defeated, they will escape into the jungle, lick their wounds in it, and come out to make trouble again. So, General, do you have any ideas about this situation?” Governor Taft was saying this to General MacArthur.

"Mr. Governor, these people are now concentrated near Manila. But to be honest, I have the power to defeat them, but lack the power to annihilate them. As you said, they will easily escape into the jungle. My soldiers at any time have been one for ten, but our number is too small to stop them from escaping. So, Mr. Governor, I have such an idea. The Filipinos are not very clear about our combat effectiveness. Although they were friendly forces with us some time ago, there was very little cooperation between us. Because the gap between us is too big and we cannot cooperate at all. Ignorance can bring fearlessness, especially when there is an attractive target like Manila in front of us. So, I plan to do this..."

...

The tension between the US team and the Philippine rebels was finally ignited by a small spark. On April 17, 1898, a team of Filipino soldiers wearing old-fashioned Spanish uniforms appeared in front of a barracks of the Philippine rebels, claiming that they were ordered to confiscate the weapons lent to the Philippine rebels.

The soldiers of the rebel army recognized the Filipinos in Spanish uniforms. They were all the so-called "security forces" that the Spaniards had pulled up when they were still ruling the Philippines. What they got was more clear is the Philippine Imperial Army. When they followed the Spaniards, they looked at the Spaniards as if they were about to win (before the United States joined the war, the Spaniards had suppressed most of the Philippine rebels), so they became unscrupulous and had no bottom line for doing bad things than the Spaniards. (Since

Since ancient times, things like traitors have been worse than Japanese, which is a common tradition throughout the world.) Therefore, when the United States joined the war, the situation reversed, the gangsters were immediately stunned. They also knew that if the uprisingers were really allowed to take power, they would all die without a burial place. Fortunately, God blessed, the Americans did not allow the Philippines to be independent, nor even dissolved them, but continued to maintain their establishment, and even replaced them with some weapons to continue to be responsible for maintaining public order.

On this day, Garcia, the little leader of the Manila Security Army, received an order from the Americans, who ordered them to pick up their weapons and go outside the city to confiscate the weapons of the rebellious Filipinos. Garcia knew that this was definitely a task of dying, and maybe the Americans just hoped... but he also understood that if he disobeyed, he would only die faster. So he had to take people to do the task of dying.

Sure enough, after expressing his purpose and asking the Philippine rebels to hand over their weapons, the battle broke out. Garcia, who was prepared and had been hiding behind, immediately ran away. The rebels chased after him and came towards Manila.

The US military responsible for defending Manila fired war on the Filipinos, but this did not stop the Filipinos and continued to move towards the downtown area of ​​Manila. The Americans' blockade was not determined and powerful. As a result, the Philippine uprising army rushed into the downtown area easily. It was only when they were about to reach the core area that they gradually felt some resistance. The Americans seemed to have gradually reacted at this time, using machine guns, direct aiming artillery, mortars and directional lightnings formed a line of defense that actually didn't seem to be very strong. The Filipinos even felt that as long as they worked a little harder, they might be able to directly capture Manila City.

Originally, these Filipinos were a little scared of the US military, but now it seems that the US military is just that. In addition, the battle before was already hot, to put it into the American sentence, "The strong wind blowing from the north has clearly brought the clanging sound of weapons. Our compatriots are already on the battlefield. Do we still need to watch?" And more importantly, the battle ahead seems to be very smooth. Perhaps as long as we work harder, the dream of independent and national development can be realized. So the Philippine leaders, including Aquinado, made the decision to continue to increase their troops and strengthen their attacks.
Chapter completed!