In the end, the Spanish army, without resistance, ?a? ?n?en????．?? A white flag was hoisted in the city of Manila, and the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty took over the city. This made You Yuanjiang, the commander of the Fifth Brigade, very unhappy, but said that among the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty, 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 Kui's Borneo Garrison, which were 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 Datang 6th Army, in the absence of effective means of checks and balances, 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 disappointed are Liao Yuhai and others from the 3rd Brigade of the Wuyi Army, when they arrived in Manila, the Spaniards had already surrendered, and then they were all finishing touches that did not have too much technical difficulty, by the way, to scare and scare the local monkeys and natives.

The Tang army accepted the surrender of 10,000 Spanish soldiers in Manila, and the governor Marquina was imprisoned, according to the Tang people, the lives of hundreds of Chinese killed and injured in the Manila incident were all responsible for Marquina, and he would be sent to the Tang Dynasty military court for punishment after the war. 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 significance is actually more that Datang wants to confirm a better and more foothold for the righteousness and rationality of its own war.

The entire Philippine archipelago, including the Spanish towns of Luzon and Visayas, 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 plenipotentiary of Datang for European affairs, has been conducting comprehensive consultations with Portugal, and has negotiated with Portugal to follow the example of the Netherlands, so that Datang can obtain sovereignty over Macao and Timor-Leste, and allow Portugal to retain its economic interests and trade with other Datang overseas 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 after Marquina surrendered to the Tang Army, the State Council could not wait to announce the establishment of a new territory, announcing the annexation 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 in area, the exhibition prospects of the Sunda Overseas Consulate are not particularly promising among the overseas consulates. Goodway's overseas territory, which has entered industrialization soon, already has the appearance of a small modern society; The large Siam Overseas Territory, which has completed the unification, has a relatively large population and abundant products, and experts expect that it will usher in a small exhibition 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 exhibition degree of the Tang Dynasty itself, which was almost barren overnight, the exhibition led by Sunda overseas is still faster than that of many European colonies, after all, there are cities such as Pontianak, Batavia, and Manila that have been open for many years, and the Tang people can 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 a tail for the future governance of the Philippines, and the top level of Datang insisted that all Filipino 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 struggle 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 local chaos, coupled with the need to send these Spaniards back to Europe, are simply troublesome, these hundreds of thousands, together with the Spaniards who have fled back from the Americas, are enough to put a serious social problem on Spain, and thus further lead the already decaying country into the abyss.

For Datang, playing a bad game against a European country is a victory.