25 The rain is about to come and the wind is full of the building 2
Lin Youde followed Xiang Qiyi. As soon as he entered the study, he saw two foreigners blowing their beards and staring at each other like cockfighting cocks.
"What's going on?" Lin Youde looked at Qi Yi.
Xiang Quyi silently raised his head and put on a bitter face: "Brother Duweilin, the commander of the Asian Fleet of the Yankees, you know him. This new ghost guy is a mercenary hired by Brother Situ. He is from a country called Brother Mo."
people."
"Mexico."
"Yes, it's Mexico. Mexico and the United States seem to have a feud. They fought a war, and Mexico lost. And the grandfather of this Mexican ghost was a veteran of that war, and his grandmother died under the fire of the Yankees.
.That’s it.”
Lin Youde also understood.
The two foreigners continued to confront each other, and Lin Youde asked Xiang Qiyi in a low voice: "Why do you need mercenaries?"
"This Mexican can help us train generals. Chinese Americans donated money to purchase a batch of retired generals from the Mexican army, and sent overseas Chinese to organize a general camp with 48 soldiers, guards and
There are 196 artificers, but they all lack training."
"Compared to Spain's General Camp in the Philippines, there is no advantage in numbers at all." Lin Youde frowned.
Xiang Qiyi didn't care, "It's okay, this Mo... Brother Mo? That's right, Mr. Carrot from Mexico is well-trained, I think there's no problem."
No problem, damn it. If this Feng Jia is to be trained on a real machine, it will be difficult to hide it from others. At best, we can give some explanations and let people sit down and walk the Feng Jia around the big house. However, Lin Youde did not intend to point it out, he could see it.
Now that Situ Meitang's Zhi Gong Tang has hired Jiang Fengying, they will have the capital to compete with Lin Youde who has the support of Shen Ji. Xiang Qi Yi's plan is to make a profit.
After all, Heshengtang has not made any decent contributions so far except for blood transfusions to Nanyang.
At this time, Dewey finally noticed that Lin Youde and the others had entered the door. The American came up with a smile on his face and opened his arms to give Lin Youde a hug.
"Oh, Lin, my friend."
It’s no accident that Dewey is so happy. In the history of the last time and space, this old guy has been unsuccessful after the Civil War. It was the Spanish-American War that made him famous and became the first special admiral of the U.S. Navy. In the last time,
Time and space, old Dewey was looking forward to fighting. After arriving at the Asia Fleet, he immediately started to prepare for the war, and even hired people to go to the Philippines to collect intelligence at his own expense. Therefore, when historians studied the Spanish-American War, there is a saying that the U.S. Navy
The order given to Dewey was only to conduct a probing attack in the Philippines and wait for the U.S. Army and the reinforced naval fleet to arrive before attacking. As a result, Dewey directly broke through the mine array at Sangre Cape, the gate of Manila Bay, and rushed into the anchorage of the Spanish fleet.
, wiped out all the Spaniards.
In this time and space, old man Dewey was still looking forward to the outbreak of war. Of course he was happy to see Lin Youde, because he did not know the original trajectory of history. He only thought that Lin Youde gave him a chance to show off his skills. When he embraced Lin Youde,
Dewey whispered in a low voice: "Lin, the secret order I received was to drive and contain the Spanish fleet, but I hired a group of Vietnamese to sail my coal ship. Unfortunately, the ship will be fired upon by the Spanish fleet."
Hit', several American sailors would be injured, and many Vietnamese sailors in the U.S. Navy would die. Do you understand what I mean?"
Of course Lin Youde understood that in the eyes of this Yankee, the Spanish fleet was a military medal, so there was no reason to let it go.
Poor Spaniards, and poor Vietnamese cannon fodder.
After Lin Youde signaled that he understood, Dewey chatted with him for a few more words and then left.
Lin Youde turned to the Mexican and asked in English: "Excuse me, what is your name?"
The Mexican snorted and turned his head: "I don't talk to American lackeys."
Lin Youde frowned slightly, and finally decided to ignore the Mexican. He walked straight to the Eight Immortals table in the middle of the study, pulled out a chair and sat down.
At this time, Xiang Qiyi spoke: "Mr. Luobo, we have something important to discuss. Can you please stay away for a while?"
Lin Youde almost didn't understand what Xiang Qiyi said in his broken Mandarin. But the Mexican understood it without any pressure, and after hearing it, he replied in the same broken Chinese: "Okay, Mr. Xiang
.”
After the Mexicans left, Xiang Qiyi smiled at Lin Youde.
"Come on, serve tea to Shopkeeper Lin."
Before and after the tea was served, the two of them exchanged a lot of useless words. When only Lin Youde and Xiang Qiyi were left in the entire study, the boss of Heshengtang finally got to the point: "Brother Lin, it's true that
You are an outstanding person, I heard about the Japanese incident before, brother, I thought that the Shenji camp was going to blow up, and I, the Chinese, had to use my own flesh and blood to win the victory. Who knew that Brother Lin could actually make the Shenji camp in Guangzhou turn against the enemy?"
Xiang Qiyi avoided talking about Lin Youde's newly bought house in Guangzhou and the maids who were stuffed into the house to pretend to be Japanese exiled goddesses. It seems that Lin Youde's little trick still failed to hide this old fox.
"Brother Xiang," Lin Youde responded to Xiang Qiyi's praise with a smile, "the Shenji camp in Guangzhou can only wait for the uprising in Manila before they can rebel and flee. Otherwise, it may be exposed in advance. I'm afraid our brothers in the Philippines will still have to fight with their own flesh and blood."
Shen Ji against Spain. Of course, I, Lin, will also send my confidant Shen Ji to assist in the battle, and I will never think of retaining my strength."
But Xiang Qiyi said something that surprised Lin Youde: "Brother Lin, you don't have to worry about this."
As he spoke, Xiang Qiyi stood up, pulled out a scroll from the bookshelf, took it to the Eight Immortals table in front of Lin Youde and spread it out.
"A few days ago, wasn't the most powerful goddess in Japan poisoned to death? It is said that she didn't even take a breath and died so silently. Inspired by this, I came up with an excellent strategy. Lin
Brother, look, this is the San Cardoso Monastery built by the Spaniards in Manila. It is the residence of the Spanish Sisters. All the Spanish convents in the Philippines are stationed here, and Shengdo Manila branch and I are just away from here.
Seven hundred meters from the monastery."
At this point, Xiang Qiyi stopped talking and asked Lin Youde in a mysterious and lowered voice:
"Brother Lin, did you know that a ghost named Nobel made a powerful explosive a few years ago?"
Lin Youde nodded. The normal development of science and technology in this world is slightly different from that in the previous time and space. It is not surprising that Nobel developed his most powerful explosive later than in the previous time and space. As for Xiang Qiyi suddenly asking this question
Lin Youde vaguely guessed the reason, so he could not hide his surprise.
Xiang Qiyi was very satisfied with Lin Youde's performance. He put his hands behind his back and walked around Lin Youde's back. He continued proudly: "I bought ten tons of this explosive and dug a tunnel from my semicolon."
, all buried under the Spanish monastery, and with a bang, all the Spanish goddesses will be wiped out! We will not waste a single soldier for this."
Lin Youde had to update his evaluation of Xiang Qiyi again. Buying so much explosives and digging such a tunnel could not be completed in such a short time since the Japanese incident. This old fox must have been secretly preparing for this.
Heshengtang's right to speak in the future Nanyang Chinese power structure is guaranteed.
"Are these explosives arranged properly? Didn't the Spaniards notice?"
"Of course, none of the Spaniards have the ability to conduct reconnaissance, and their governor-general is focused on the independence movement of the indigenous Filipinos. Although the independence army in Cavite was unable to launch an offensive at the beginning of this year, the Spaniards did not
We must find a way to break through the independent army's position. How can the Spaniards care about our actions now?"
The Philippine independence movement is huge. The Spaniards are now in decline and have lost all their colonies. Their nuns were severely damaged in the Latin American War of Independence half a century ago and have not recovered yet. Because of this, the Spaniards are extremely afraid of the Philippines.
As they continued to lose Shenji, they refused the military's request to send Shenji to fight on the grounds that the independent army did not have Shenji. As a result, the Spanish army was beaten to pieces by the independent army led by Boni Show, and several attacks failed.
Approaching Cavite, the seat of the independent government.
Later, the independent army received support from the three nuns from the indigenous chiefs of Sulu and Mindanao. The Spanish army commander immediately asked the nuns to attack, but was rejected again - the enemy was afraid of losing the nuns when they had no nuns.
The enemy has a goddess and you still expect them to fight?
Based on similar considerations, the Independence Army only regarded its only three goddesses as morale boosters and never sent them to the battlefield. As a result, the Independence War evolved into a tug-of-war with conventional force.
The difference is that because the United States turned to support the Chinese, it reduced its assistance to the Philippine Independence Army. This made the fighting situation of the Independence Army much more severe than in the previous time and space. Faced with the severe form of war, Katy, the political party leading the independence movement,
Poonan had no time to engage in internal fighting. As a result, the leader of the independent army, Boni Xiu, was not executed in the internal fighting, but continued to lead the independent army in an arduous struggle.
Spain, on the other hand, is already waiting for victory in the war.
Unfortunately, someone is going to stab them in the back.
"Even if the news doesn't leak out now," Lin Youde said without doubt, "but in the future the Spaniards may receive news from those ghost guys who sell you explosives. After all, they are also buying arms everywhere now."
"Yes, we have many long nights and many dreams." After saying this, Xiang Qiyi didn't look worried at all, "Just because of the many long nights and many dreams, I think we should launch an uprising as soon as possible. It just so happened that almost all the Spanish troops in Manila were committed to the uprising launched in December last year.
During the attack on Cavite, there were less than 4,000 defenders in the city, all of them old, weak, sick and disabled. I think now is the best time for an uprising."
"Um……"
Seeing that Lin Youde was still hesitating, Xiang Qiyi continued: "As long as you agree, brother Lin, then we have two votes and the matter is settled. As soon as Jiang Fengying arrives in the Philippines, we will start an uprising."
"But the weapons and equipment are not fully in place yet..."
"Don't worry about this. In order to maintain supplies for the front line, the arsenals in Manila City are full, just waiting for us to pick them up."
Lin Youde thought about it for a while and felt that there was nothing wrong with taking action early. Anyway, Lin Youde's power was mainly in Langabo, separated from the main force of more than 30,000 Spanish colonial troops by the huge Manila Bay, surrounded by only sporadic Philippine uprising armed forces and a small number of
It was not his turn to fight a tough battle against the Spanish colonial troops who were confronting these armed forces.
"Okay, then it's settled. I agree to hold an uprising before March when Jiang Feng camp arrives in Manila."