Chapter 2016
Chapter 2016
Chapter 2016
Using military means to occupy an area that was originally under the rule of another country is something that Haihan is familiar with. Over the years, foreign territorial expansion has mostly been carried out in this way, and the effect is very significant.Compared with other ruled areas captured by Haihan overseas by force, the process of Manila being included in the territory of Haihan is not special. After finding sufficient reasons for the use of force, they assembled heavy troops to attack the local area and drove away the original ruler. Then a new governing body subordinate to Haihan was established locally.
Of course, it was difficult for the defeated to accept such an ending. After all, it took the Spaniards more than half a century to build this city in Manila Bay, and regarded it as the empire's bridgehead and trade center in the far east, but such an important The area was taken away by force by the rising star of the South China Sea. Naturally, the Spaniards were unwilling to fail, and kept trying to regain the possibility of Manila City from Haihan after the war.
However, the offensive and defensive battle around the city of Manila at the beginning of the year seriously injured the Spanish authorities and lost more than half of their armed forces. They also realized that if they continued to fight the Haihan Army on the frontal battlefield, they would only suffer losses. On the one hand, sending a fleet to attack Manila Bay is considered unrealistic. After all, in the history of naval battles between the two sides, Spain has almost never taken advantage of it. That's all.
Therefore, the Spanish authorities improved their strategy, no longer tried to solve the problem directly by force, and started to think of other ideas.The enemy of the enemy is a friend, and establishing relationships with other anti-Haihan forces has also become one of the means of counterattack by the Spanish authorities at this stage.
But this is easy to say, but not easy to implement.After losing the bridgehead of Manila, the Spanish authorities had no choice but to move their government to the south. At the beginning, it was in the Batangas area at the southern tip of Luzon Island, but this place was too close to Manila Bay. It is extremely unsafe to be able to raid this place and place the government here, so they can only continue to move south.
The number of Spanish colonies established in the East Indies at this time is actually quite a few, but there are only a handful of places that can reach the scale of operation in Manila. After all, Spain has operated in this area for more than half a century, and the main resources are all Distributed in Manila.But this practice of putting all eggs in one basket has now tasted bitter fruit. Once they encounter a strong enemy like Haihan, breaking Manila is tantamount to defeating Spain.
Not leaving much room for choice, the Spanish authorities quickly confirmed the move to Cebu in the Visayas Islands.In fact, Cebu has a longer history than Manila. Long before the Spaniards came here, the local area was already a very prosperous tribe. In April 1521, Spanish navigator Ferdinand Magellan arrived in Cebu. From 4 to 1565, Cebu was the capital of Spain in the East Indies.The Spaniards landed in Manila in 1571, half a century later than Magellan.
However, the seaport conditions in Cebu are not as good as Manila, which has a natural bay, so after the castle was built in Manila, the Spanish authorities quickly moved the government to Manila in the north.In fact, the shortest voyage between the two places is only more than 400 nautical miles, but Manila is closer to Daming, the trading partner that the Spaniards are thinking of.This is not only convenient for them to carry out cross-border trade, but also an important springboard for their development to the north.
In 1626, the Spaniards built two fortresses, Santo Domingo and San Salvador, in the northern part of Taiwan Island, trying to build a colony there.If this process was not interrupted by the Haihan people who fell from the sky, then at least in the next few years, they still hope to extend the trade route and control area further north.
Of course, after Haihan sent troops to seize the two ports of Danshui and Chicken Coop in 1633, the wishful thinking of the Spanish colonial authorities could no longer be pursued.They suddenly discovered that their main opponent in the east was not the Dutch, who were fighting fiercely all over the world, but a small country that had just been established a few years ago and had never been heard of before.
In the following few years of fighting with Hai Han, Spain can be said to have not taken advantage of it. On the contrary, it gave Hai Han an excuse to attack him.After losing Manila, the Spanish authorities finally realized the mistakes in decision-making in the past few years and began to adjust their response strategies.
The Haihan army used a joint force composed of Ming, Annan, Portugal and other countries in the battle against Manila. This also made the Spaniards begin to reflect on their own weakness in this area, except for the East Indies. In addition to the native soldiers, there is not even a single reinforcement from outside.Although the Governor of the Philippines, Aragones, doesn't understand what it means to "those who gain the Tao will help more", but he also knows that if he continues to fight against Haihan with his own strength, the effect will definitely not be ideal.
The crime of losing Manila will definitely be held accountable by the royal family, but Aragones does not know when the domestic sanctions will arrive in the Philippines. Since he has not resigned now, he also wants to try his best to do more things when the time comes Timely counterattack Manila, let the Haihan people understand that the Kingdom of Spain is not a soft persimmon.
In fact, in the past two or three years, it is not that no one has approached and wanted to join forces with the Spaniard, but Aragones has not let go of his agreement due to various considerations.But now the Spaniards don't have the capital to pick and choose. If they want to curb Haihan's development momentum in East Asia and the South China Sea, it is impossible not to recruit more forces.So the proud Governor of the Philippines finally bowed his head and began to contact some people he didn't approve of before, and followed the other party's suggestion to seek like-minded allies on a larger scale.
The process of cooperation was not as smooth as Aragones expected. Due to the large geographical scope and the long time required for information transmission, Aragones had to choose to compromise to a certain extent and reach a rough agreement. After the cooperation intention is reached, resources will be unilaterally invested in accordance with the requirements of the other party and handed over to the other party for implementation.
There is no other reason. The potential partners are all in the coastal areas of the mainland in the north, and if the Spaniards show up in the local area, it will be too ostentatious, and it will easily attract unnecessary attention, and even more serious fire.They can only send a small number of people to sneak into these areas with the help of their partners to participate in and supervise the implementation of the plan.In this way, Spain will not be able to lead the direction of the action, and the investment in the early stage will easily end in nothing.
Of course, this is not all bad for Spain. In addition to reducing the risk of being exposed for those involved in the operation, it will also save a lot in terms of personnel expenses.This method does not require Spain to send a large number of personnel overseas, but only needs to provide military assistance, and this is not a free investment, and the partner will also give corresponding economic rewards, but because the destination is far away, the payment period It might just be longer.If the operation goes well, the Spaniards can even make a lot of money from the arms trade brought about by this partnership.
But for these overseas cooperation objects and related plans, in fact, not many people in the Spanish authorities know the inside story. Only a few direct participants and senior officials who are sent overseas have the key information. Therefore, Aragon In fact, Si didn't think too much about the issue of secrecy, and he didn't think that Haihan would be aware of his ongoing plan in a short time.
However, the world is unpredictable. Who would have thought that the Spanish partner did not intend to keep a low profile. When he learned that the son of the Joseon Dynasty was sent to Haihan and might study in Haihan for a long time, he immediately made an assassination plan, trying to use this To affect the diplomatic relations between North Korea and Haehan.
But in fact, Cebu did not get notified by the partners in time, and the few Luzon people who were sent to participate in the operation were only personnel sent by the Spanish authorities to the partners in the early stage to act as mobile forces.Afterwards, a series of weapon-related incidents were exposed in various places, and Haihan finally turned his attention back to the South China Sea, focusing on the Spaniards.However, at this time Aragones still hadn't been informed of what was going on outside, and he didn't expect that Haihan was using various means to track down the source and whereabouts of these weapons, as well as the third-party forces that provided channels for the Spaniards.
After receiving the telegram instruction from Sanya, the leaders of the local Security Department and the Military Intelligence Bureau in Manila immediately met to discuss the matter.The fact that the heads of these two organizations can sit together for a meeting is a unique scene that can only appear in Manila, because Ran Tianlu and Fang Peng had used the identity of the boss of Chaosheng Commercial Store and the head of the guards as a cover before that. Partner, and experienced the most dangerous moments together during the Manila battle, it can be regarded as a life-saving friendship.Therefore, between the two of them, the competitive relationship between the Ministry of Security and the Military Intelligence Bureau is not as obvious as elsewhere, and many security and intelligence matters are discussed together.
And in the order sent from Sanya this time, the executive committee also clearly requested the two departments to work together to ensure that the relevant investigation can go smoothly. up.
Inquiring about the situation in the Spanish-controlled area, in fact, whether it was before or after the Battle of Manila, this work has never stopped.However, considering security issues, neither department has taken the liberty to send people into the enemy-controlled area to inquire about intelligence. As for the establishment of an intelligence network in the enemy-controlled area, it has always remained a paper plan and has not begun to be implemented.
It's not that they don't seek to make progress and are perfunctory in their work, but that it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice.After the war, the combined personnel of these two intelligence agencies stationed in Manila was less than 50, and half of them were civilian personnel responsible for intelligence collection, statistics, and analysis. There are no more than ten people with experience in lurking espionage, plus themselves.And these people are almost all Han Chinese. If you want to go to Cebu Port under the Spanish rule, it will really be a very eye-catching existence.
Therefore, in order to monitor Spanish-controlled areas more covertly, the two intelligence agencies successively recruited a group of young Hispanic and Luzon natives after the war.Although these people can't say that they have any loyalty to Haihan, for them, working for Haihan's intelligence agency can not only get better development opportunities and more generous remuneration, but also get the very sought-after Haihan nationality , it is difficult to find a better way out than this in Manila.
However, due to cultural differences, the training required to train these young people of foreign races into intelligence officers who can perform tasks independently is not as simple as that of Han employees.Although the process of collecting and distributing information can be completed in the language they master, and professionals will be responsible for translating and sorting out the information later, but because these newcomers do not understand Chinese at all, a lot of time has been spent in the training process, and The training effect is also far from the ideal level.
In terms of the assessment standards of these two intelligence agencies for newcomers, no newcomers have yet reached the passing line.A more sensible approach is to let the newcomers continue to lurk in the local area as civilians, and practice basic espionage skills while receiving professional training. After a year or two, they have almost learned the skills they need to learn, and then send them to the Spanish-controlled area in the south lurking.
However, the order from Fort Victory advanced this time point by at least one year. The request above was for them to send a group of foreign intelligence personnel to the surrounding areas of Cebu as soon as possible to investigate who the Spaniards were exporting through. It would be the best to find out what forces are in this system.
"It's really difficult!" Ran Tianlu shook his head with a wry smile and said, "As for the newcomers we have on hand, if they are sent to Cebu, their identities will be exposed soon, and if they are turned into double agents by then, then we will be in trouble." But it's big!"
Fang Peng said solemnly: "But this is the order of the executive committee, you and I are not allowed to argue, no matter how difficult it is, we can only follow it. For the current plan, we only have to think about how to arrange it to minimize the risk. As for the executive committee I am afraid that it will not be so easy to find out the truth about the request for investigation, unless there is a way to get in touch with high-ranking Spanish officials. But these new recruits we recruited before are all of civilian origin, even if they go to the local area, it is difficult to find out. It is very difficult to have channels to reach high officials and dignitaries."
After discussing with each other, they both felt that the move would be very difficult. The most difficult thing was that there was no suitable person under their command to carry out the task. Even if they were able to formulate an action plan, these people under their command might not be able to complete it.
(End of this chapter)
Using military means to occupy an area that was originally under the rule of another country is something that Haihan is familiar with. Over the years, foreign territorial expansion has mostly been carried out in this way, and the effect is very significant.Compared with other ruled areas captured by Haihan overseas by force, the process of Manila being included in the territory of Haihan is not special. After finding sufficient reasons for the use of force, they assembled heavy troops to attack the local area and drove away the original ruler. Then a new governing body subordinate to Haihan was established locally.
Of course, it was difficult for the defeated to accept such an ending. After all, it took the Spaniards more than half a century to build this city in Manila Bay, and regarded it as the empire's bridgehead and trade center in the far east, but such an important The area was taken away by force by the rising star of the South China Sea. Naturally, the Spaniards were unwilling to fail, and kept trying to regain the possibility of Manila City from Haihan after the war.
However, the offensive and defensive battle around the city of Manila at the beginning of the year seriously injured the Spanish authorities and lost more than half of their armed forces. They also realized that if they continued to fight the Haihan Army on the frontal battlefield, they would only suffer losses. On the one hand, sending a fleet to attack Manila Bay is considered unrealistic. After all, in the history of naval battles between the two sides, Spain has almost never taken advantage of it. That's all.
Therefore, the Spanish authorities improved their strategy, no longer tried to solve the problem directly by force, and started to think of other ideas.The enemy of the enemy is a friend, and establishing relationships with other anti-Haihan forces has also become one of the means of counterattack by the Spanish authorities at this stage.
But this is easy to say, but not easy to implement.After losing the bridgehead of Manila, the Spanish authorities had no choice but to move their government to the south. At the beginning, it was in the Batangas area at the southern tip of Luzon Island, but this place was too close to Manila Bay. It is extremely unsafe to be able to raid this place and place the government here, so they can only continue to move south.
The number of Spanish colonies established in the East Indies at this time is actually quite a few, but there are only a handful of places that can reach the scale of operation in Manila. After all, Spain has operated in this area for more than half a century, and the main resources are all Distributed in Manila.But this practice of putting all eggs in one basket has now tasted bitter fruit. Once they encounter a strong enemy like Haihan, breaking Manila is tantamount to defeating Spain.
Not leaving much room for choice, the Spanish authorities quickly confirmed the move to Cebu in the Visayas Islands.In fact, Cebu has a longer history than Manila. Long before the Spaniards came here, the local area was already a very prosperous tribe. In April 1521, Spanish navigator Ferdinand Magellan arrived in Cebu. From 4 to 1565, Cebu was the capital of Spain in the East Indies.The Spaniards landed in Manila in 1571, half a century later than Magellan.
However, the seaport conditions in Cebu are not as good as Manila, which has a natural bay, so after the castle was built in Manila, the Spanish authorities quickly moved the government to Manila in the north.In fact, the shortest voyage between the two places is only more than 400 nautical miles, but Manila is closer to Daming, the trading partner that the Spaniards are thinking of.This is not only convenient for them to carry out cross-border trade, but also an important springboard for their development to the north.
In 1626, the Spaniards built two fortresses, Santo Domingo and San Salvador, in the northern part of Taiwan Island, trying to build a colony there.If this process was not interrupted by the Haihan people who fell from the sky, then at least in the next few years, they still hope to extend the trade route and control area further north.
Of course, after Haihan sent troops to seize the two ports of Danshui and Chicken Coop in 1633, the wishful thinking of the Spanish colonial authorities could no longer be pursued.They suddenly discovered that their main opponent in the east was not the Dutch, who were fighting fiercely all over the world, but a small country that had just been established a few years ago and had never been heard of before.
In the following few years of fighting with Hai Han, Spain can be said to have not taken advantage of it. On the contrary, it gave Hai Han an excuse to attack him.After losing Manila, the Spanish authorities finally realized the mistakes in decision-making in the past few years and began to adjust their response strategies.
The Haihan army used a joint force composed of Ming, Annan, Portugal and other countries in the battle against Manila. This also made the Spaniards begin to reflect on their own weakness in this area, except for the East Indies. In addition to the native soldiers, there is not even a single reinforcement from outside.Although the Governor of the Philippines, Aragones, doesn't understand what it means to "those who gain the Tao will help more", but he also knows that if he continues to fight against Haihan with his own strength, the effect will definitely not be ideal.
The crime of losing Manila will definitely be held accountable by the royal family, but Aragones does not know when the domestic sanctions will arrive in the Philippines. Since he has not resigned now, he also wants to try his best to do more things when the time comes Timely counterattack Manila, let the Haihan people understand that the Kingdom of Spain is not a soft persimmon.
In fact, in the past two or three years, it is not that no one has approached and wanted to join forces with the Spaniard, but Aragones has not let go of his agreement due to various considerations.But now the Spaniards don't have the capital to pick and choose. If they want to curb Haihan's development momentum in East Asia and the South China Sea, it is impossible not to recruit more forces.So the proud Governor of the Philippines finally bowed his head and began to contact some people he didn't approve of before, and followed the other party's suggestion to seek like-minded allies on a larger scale.
The process of cooperation was not as smooth as Aragones expected. Due to the large geographical scope and the long time required for information transmission, Aragones had to choose to compromise to a certain extent and reach a rough agreement. After the cooperation intention is reached, resources will be unilaterally invested in accordance with the requirements of the other party and handed over to the other party for implementation.
There is no other reason. The potential partners are all in the coastal areas of the mainland in the north, and if the Spaniards show up in the local area, it will be too ostentatious, and it will easily attract unnecessary attention, and even more serious fire.They can only send a small number of people to sneak into these areas with the help of their partners to participate in and supervise the implementation of the plan.In this way, Spain will not be able to lead the direction of the action, and the investment in the early stage will easily end in nothing.
Of course, this is not all bad for Spain. In addition to reducing the risk of being exposed for those involved in the operation, it will also save a lot in terms of personnel expenses.This method does not require Spain to send a large number of personnel overseas, but only needs to provide military assistance, and this is not a free investment, and the partner will also give corresponding economic rewards, but because the destination is far away, the payment period It might just be longer.If the operation goes well, the Spaniards can even make a lot of money from the arms trade brought about by this partnership.
But for these overseas cooperation objects and related plans, in fact, not many people in the Spanish authorities know the inside story. Only a few direct participants and senior officials who are sent overseas have the key information. Therefore, Aragon In fact, Si didn't think too much about the issue of secrecy, and he didn't think that Haihan would be aware of his ongoing plan in a short time.
However, the world is unpredictable. Who would have thought that the Spanish partner did not intend to keep a low profile. When he learned that the son of the Joseon Dynasty was sent to Haihan and might study in Haihan for a long time, he immediately made an assassination plan, trying to use this To affect the diplomatic relations between North Korea and Haehan.
But in fact, Cebu did not get notified by the partners in time, and the few Luzon people who were sent to participate in the operation were only personnel sent by the Spanish authorities to the partners in the early stage to act as mobile forces.Afterwards, a series of weapon-related incidents were exposed in various places, and Haihan finally turned his attention back to the South China Sea, focusing on the Spaniards.However, at this time Aragones still hadn't been informed of what was going on outside, and he didn't expect that Haihan was using various means to track down the source and whereabouts of these weapons, as well as the third-party forces that provided channels for the Spaniards.
After receiving the telegram instruction from Sanya, the leaders of the local Security Department and the Military Intelligence Bureau in Manila immediately met to discuss the matter.The fact that the heads of these two organizations can sit together for a meeting is a unique scene that can only appear in Manila, because Ran Tianlu and Fang Peng had used the identity of the boss of Chaosheng Commercial Store and the head of the guards as a cover before that. Partner, and experienced the most dangerous moments together during the Manila battle, it can be regarded as a life-saving friendship.Therefore, between the two of them, the competitive relationship between the Ministry of Security and the Military Intelligence Bureau is not as obvious as elsewhere, and many security and intelligence matters are discussed together.
And in the order sent from Sanya this time, the executive committee also clearly requested the two departments to work together to ensure that the relevant investigation can go smoothly. up.
Inquiring about the situation in the Spanish-controlled area, in fact, whether it was before or after the Battle of Manila, this work has never stopped.However, considering security issues, neither department has taken the liberty to send people into the enemy-controlled area to inquire about intelligence. As for the establishment of an intelligence network in the enemy-controlled area, it has always remained a paper plan and has not begun to be implemented.
It's not that they don't seek to make progress and are perfunctory in their work, but that it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice.After the war, the combined personnel of these two intelligence agencies stationed in Manila was less than 50, and half of them were civilian personnel responsible for intelligence collection, statistics, and analysis. There are no more than ten people with experience in lurking espionage, plus themselves.And these people are almost all Han Chinese. If you want to go to Cebu Port under the Spanish rule, it will really be a very eye-catching existence.
Therefore, in order to monitor Spanish-controlled areas more covertly, the two intelligence agencies successively recruited a group of young Hispanic and Luzon natives after the war.Although these people can't say that they have any loyalty to Haihan, for them, working for Haihan's intelligence agency can not only get better development opportunities and more generous remuneration, but also get the very sought-after Haihan nationality , it is difficult to find a better way out than this in Manila.
However, due to cultural differences, the training required to train these young people of foreign races into intelligence officers who can perform tasks independently is not as simple as that of Han employees.Although the process of collecting and distributing information can be completed in the language they master, and professionals will be responsible for translating and sorting out the information later, but because these newcomers do not understand Chinese at all, a lot of time has been spent in the training process, and The training effect is also far from the ideal level.
In terms of the assessment standards of these two intelligence agencies for newcomers, no newcomers have yet reached the passing line.A more sensible approach is to let the newcomers continue to lurk in the local area as civilians, and practice basic espionage skills while receiving professional training. After a year or two, they have almost learned the skills they need to learn, and then send them to the Spanish-controlled area in the south lurking.
However, the order from Fort Victory advanced this time point by at least one year. The request above was for them to send a group of foreign intelligence personnel to the surrounding areas of Cebu as soon as possible to investigate who the Spaniards were exporting through. It would be the best to find out what forces are in this system.
"It's really difficult!" Ran Tianlu shook his head with a wry smile and said, "As for the newcomers we have on hand, if they are sent to Cebu, their identities will be exposed soon, and if they are turned into double agents by then, then we will be in trouble." But it's big!"
Fang Peng said solemnly: "But this is the order of the executive committee, you and I are not allowed to argue, no matter how difficult it is, we can only follow it. For the current plan, we only have to think about how to arrange it to minimize the risk. As for the executive committee I am afraid that it will not be so easy to find out the truth about the request for investigation, unless there is a way to get in touch with high-ranking Spanish officials. But these new recruits we recruited before are all of civilian origin, even if they go to the local area, it is difficult to find out. It is very difficult to have channels to reach high officials and dignitaries."
After discussing with each other, they both felt that the move would be very difficult. The most difficult thing was that there was no suitable person under their command to carry out the task. Even if they were able to formulate an action plan, these people under their command might not be able to complete it.
(End of this chapter)