readx(); The wars waged by the Tang people in Borneo were different from many colonial wars in history, because the population of Borneo itself was very limited, and the development level of the local people was very low, and Bai Nan transferred an army regiment and a German brigade with great fanfare, which was actually enough for many European powers to fight a high-intensity colonial war. In fact, based on the theory of unifying Borneo alone, Bai Nan believed that sending a regiment of troops would be enough to destroy his own enemies.

The main reason for sending such a large number of troops was that Bai Nan pursued not just a simple military victory, but a complete control of Borneo. After the 10,000 Borneo garrison was reorganized into the regular army of the Tang Dynasty and went to Guangdong, the Chinese strength of Borneo was relatively weakened, and the Chinese population in West Borneo was about 100,000, in addition to 30,000 or 40,000 local aborigines who were vassals of the Chinese, and about 20,000 refugees from Vietnam, of which 80% were women, and the vast majority of them had married local Chinese. Hakka immigrants from Guangdong, mostly single young men, have taken root in Borneo after marrying Vietnamese women who were brought to Borneo.

West Borneo is even worse developed than Hawaii, with tropical plantations for rice, rubber and other spice crops, and smaller metal deposits, where gold is mined by both the public and private sectors, and small iron ore mines, small coal mines, and small bauxite mines, which mainly provide raw materials for the country.

Borneo is the third largest island in the world, with a large area, but there are not many mineral deposits and resources that are actually valuable for development. This also makes Borneo unlikely to be a major exporter of the Tang Dynasty. Of course, this did not stop the Tang people's enthusiasm for the land.

Soon after the capture of Brunei, a small number of Cantonese immigrants arrived, just over 300 people. And the first thing these immigrants did after coming to Brunei was to clean up the bloodied city.

Brunei was the second largest city in Borneo at this time after Pontianak, with a population of tens of thousands, mainly Muslim Malays, but also some local indigenous people who were green. Facts have proved that even after more than half a year of training in the Tang military system, the Germans are still Germans of this era, and they have no sympathy for the "inferior nation". In addition, Li Daizong deliberately indulged and hinted at cleaning up the local Green Cult forces, so that the German soldiers wantonly plundered in Brunei, and killed a lot of locals.

According to later statistics, at least 10,000 people died in Brunei, and this statistic will never be included in any documents, not even confidential documents. Even Bai Nan, who is far away in Shanghai, shy away from this number. It's not a glorious thing after all. More Malays were controlled, their personal freedom was relatively restricted, and they were still allowed to live in their own houses, but all of them were subordinate to the production communes, and began to carry out all kinds of production work under the command of the Chinese. Restless people were all purged and the Commune encouraged mutual reporting, and even rewarded whistleblowers.

The 1st German Brigade then continued eastward, taking control of the area around Sabah, which was nominally part of the Kingdom of Sulu, and the local Green Cult forces were also dealt a heavy blow. After that, a large number of Malays relocated and left Borneo, and within a decade the population of the Green Malay population in Borneo shrank by more than 70%. Many fled to places like Morolan in the Philippine archipelago, or Mindanao, and some to the Malay Peninsula and even further afield to the Indian subcontinent.

At the same time, the Jianwei Regiment, which was formed by the children of the former Borneo immigrants, also marched from the sea and conquered Machen Sammarinda and other places in South Borneo. Although the Tang people had almost no dealings with these sultanates before this, and they had no grievances, the Tang army still took the initiative to eliminate them.

The entire Borneo War lasted about two years and eight months, from the second half of 1780 to the beginning of 1783, the Tang people used the power of mercenaries, local militia and even the allied natives to gradually eliminate all the Malay green religion forces in Borneo, and after the last sultanate was eliminated, the overseas territory of Borneo in the Tang Republic became the only regime existing in Borneo.

Not only that, but even soon after, in pursuit of the Malay forces, the German Legion invaded the southern part of the Philippine archipelago, the region of Morolan. The islands of Luzon and the Visayas in the northern part of the Philippines were controlled by the Spaniards until the Spanish-American War, when Spain lost the Philippines to the Americans, and the southern Mororans were not completely controlled. The Moros inhabited by Morolan were Muslims, unlike the Tagalogs and Visayans, who had converted to Catholicism under Spanish influence in the north. Later generations of Abu Zayev were the rebel forces of the Moro people.

The Tang German Corps followed the island of Basilan in the Sulu Islands to Mindanao, destroying countless Green Religious settlements, and from this point of view, the Volkswagen was more like a jihadist crusade. The frenzied killing of the German Corps once caused Bai Nan to worry, but it has been proved that the German Corps, with its own national characteristics and Tang training, is becoming an extremely effective tool for war and killing. When they were released to kill, they would kill the entire area to blood, and when the order from their superiors arrived to order them to assemble, they would even give up their excess loot and other actions and immediately assemble and unite, which shocked many Datang officers.

Another Nazi feature with a mustache appeared in the German Corps of the Tang Dynasty more than a hundred years in advance. As a principal officer of the German Corps, Li Daizong wrote an internal report, in which he believed that the soldiers of the German Corps attached importance to discipline and honor, and fought with perseverance and bravery, but their general level of education was relatively low, they had a strong sense of racial superiority, their sense of right and wrong was relatively weak, and many of them were even morally corrupt. Such a corps is an extremely sharp double-edged sword, and if not used properly, it may injure itself.

This also made the Tang military firm in its idea to avoid letting this corps enter the territory of the Tang Dynasty and even the Qing Dynasty, and let them become the vanguard of their own expansion of colonies, or perform in the European battlefields that the Tang Dynasty may participate in in the future.

The Borneo Wars eventually allowed the Tang to gain control of all of Borneo, as well as the Sulu archipelago, Basilan and Mindanao, which worried the Dutch and strengthened their control over Java and other colonies. The Spaniards also made representations to Datang, and even the two sides formed a confrontation in the Philippines for a time, but it was useless. On the contrary, Datang's hot hand for the Green Religion also made the Dutch and Spaniards a good learning template, and at the same time, they also purged the colonies under their control, and for a time the Green Religion forces in Southeast Asia regressed.