In the end, the Spanish army surrendered to the 5th Brigade of the Tang Army, which had already arrived, without resistance. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoWhite flags were hoisted in the city of Manila, and the Tang Army took over the city. This made You Yuanjiang, the commander of the Fifth Brigade, very unhappy, but said that in the Tang Army, the 123rd Brigade was considered to be the strongest combat force in the Tang Army because it was built early and tested in actual combat, and the 5th Brigade and the 6th Brigade were formerly known as Hu Fakui's Borneo Garrison, which were all temporarily organized by the children of Hakka immigrants in Guangdong, and their combat effectiveness cannot be said to be none, but it is definitely not strong. After the establishment of the United China Special Economic Zone in the Tang Dynasty, the Fifth Brigade and the Sixth Brigade have been stationed in Guangdong and Guangxi, and then the Ministry of National Defense adjusted the Fifth Brigade and the Sixth Brigade, and after the first batch of Hakka children retired, they began to recruit soldiers from domestic immigrants and fill in the Fifth Brigade and the Sixth Brigade, but these two brigades are still mostly children of Hakka immigrants, and many of the officers are officers who grew up with Borneo immigrants. The two brigades have been trained hard over the years and have grown rapidly, but in the impression of ordinary people, the fifth and sixth brigades still belong to the second tier of the Datang battle sequence.

You Yuanjiang had the intention of proving the Fifth Brigade's ability to fight well through a battle, just like the Seventh Brigade had done in Mexico before, but it backfired, and the Spaniards chose to surrender without a fight.

Logically, it is not difficult for You Yuanjiang to understand that even if their Tang Army, in the absence of effective counterbalances, was bombarded by the main force of the Navy's Western Pacific Fleet for a while, it would be nothing to do. The gap between the two sides in terms of military capabilities is too great. On the other hand, if the military gap between China and the United States after the 21st century is twenty or thirty years, then the gap between Spain and the Tang Dynasty in this era is more than a century.

In terms of size, quality, equipment, and almost everything, the Spaniards did not have an advantage, so it did not seem to make much sense to continue to resist.

Also a little lost are Liao Yuhai and others from the Third Brigade of the Wuyi Army. By the time they arrived in Manila, the Spaniards had already surrendered, and the rest was all about putting the finishing touches on the less technically difficult part, scaring the local monkeys and natives.

The Don army accepted the surrender of ten thousand Spanish soldiers in Manila, and the governor Marquina was imprisoned, according to the Don. The lives of the hundreds of Chinese killed and injured in the Manila incident will be the responsibility of Marquina, who will be sent to the military court of the Tang Dynasty after the war to be punished. He is also treated with the same treatment as Captain Lopez, who has been escorted to Los Angeles at the moment. In the eyes of the Tang people, prisoners of war and war criminals are two completely different concepts, prisoners of war are people who have fought for their country and unfortunately failed, and they deserve respect at least in terms of personality, while war criminals are people who have committed war crimes and cannot be easily forgiven.

Of course, this kind of trial does not rise to the level of the Tokyo trial after World War II. And the meaning is actually more that Datang wants to confirm a better and more foothold for the righteousness and rationality of waging war for itself.

The entire Philippine archipelago, including Luzon and Visayas, and various Spanish-administered towns, later surrendered to the Tang people under the handwriting of Marquina. Although it was not that they did not refuse to surrender and insisted on stubborn resistance, but under the blows of the Tang Army and Wu Yijun, they just didn't fight.

At this point, Datang completely controlled all the Southeast Asian islands except for East Timor. Even. Chu Bai, the Tang ambassador plenipotentiary for European affairs, is already in full consultation with Portugal. Negotiate with Portugal to follow the example of the Netherlands, with the Tang Dynasty gaining sovereignty over Macau and East Timor, allowing Portugal to retain its economic interests and trade with other Tang territories in the region. The negotiation is not easy, but Datang has a trump card in his hand, while Portugal has almost no cards, so in the end, Timor-Leste and Macau will also be included in Datang's bag.

On the third day of Marquina's surrender to the Don Army. The National Council of the People's Republic of China eagerly announced the establishment of a new territory, announcing the merger of the Philippine Islands into the Philippine Province under the jurisdiction of the Sunda Overseas Territory, and the position of the Sunda Overseas Territory as the largest overseas territory in the Tang Dynasty was further consolidated. In addition to the Philippine Province, Sunda has other provinces of Borneo, Sumatra (including Bangka Belitung Island), Java (Lesser Sunda Islands), and Sulawesi (including Maluku Islands).

However, despite being the largest, the development prospects of the Sunda Overseas Territories are not particularly promising among the overseas territories. Goodway Overseas Consulate, which has rapidly entered industrialization. There is already the appearance of a small modern society; Siam's large overseas territory, which has completed the unification, has a relatively large population and abundant products, and experts expect a small upsurge in development within ten years. The problem of the Sunda Overseas Territory is mainly that it is large in size and complex in composition, and the Tang people have been trying to suppress the local Green Cult forces, and for a period of time, the main significance of the existence of the Sunda Overseas Territory is to serve as a source of raw materials for the Tang Dynasty and a relatively small market that is not very important.

Of course, compared with the development speed of the Tang Dynasty itself, which was almost barren overnight, the development of Sunda's overseas territories was still faster than that of many European colonies, after all, there were cities such as Pontianak, Batavia, and Manila that had been developed for many years, and the Tang people could complete the road that European colonists took a hundred years to complete in ten years.

The occupation of the Philippines is not the end, but the beginning. For the Tang people, there are many more things at hand. In order to avoid complicating matters because of his benevolence and magnanimity, he left anything to do in the future to govern the Philippines, and the top level of Datang insisted that all Philippine colonists, whether missionaries, businessmen, or ordinary citizens, must leave the Philippines and return to Europe within the time limit. In Manila alone, there are hundreds of thousands of Spaniards, many of whom have been breeding here for three generations, and even intermarried with local natives or Chinese, forcing them to leave the Philippines, which is unacceptable to them. This will inevitably lead to a protest later, but the Tang army has mobilized a large number of troops in the area, and even intends to incite some natives to take revenge on the Spaniards who have bullied them for nearly 200 years. Spanish residents have to go if they don't go.

Although the struggle of hundreds of thousands of Spanish immigrants and the chaos in the country, coupled with the need to send these Spaniards back to Europe, it was a terrible trouble, but these hundreds of thousands, together with the Spaniards who fled from the Americas, were enough to cause Spain a serious social problem and further lead the already decaying country into the abyss.

For Datang, playing a bad game against a European country is a victory. (To be continued.) )