The city of Manila has been conquered, and then the Tang army began a battle to completely eliminate the Spanish forces on Luzon Island, like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

In northern Luzon, towns such as Linjayan, Dagupan, and Shigegalao were led by Li Dingguo to attack the cities one by one by one by Li Dingguo.

When attacking these towns, Spanish musketeers like Fernandez fought in the front line, thus greatly reducing the casualties of the Tang army.

In southern Luzon, the Duke of Tang Li Xiao personally led other troops from this expedition to attack towns such as Quezon, Lucena, and Bangya.

Compared with the hard bridge and hard horse, Li Dingguo's troops who could only fight against the enemy's troops, Li Xiao's troops attacked the remaining Spanish towns, which was more effective and disciplined.

The reason is that Li Xiao has a special weapon to seize the city.

Former Spanish Governor Lopez.

Lopez, who was packed in a large wooden cage, had his mouth tightly stuffed with a piece of broken burlap, and was in a very miserable situation.

Lopez had thought of many suicide methods, but none of them succeeded. Even if he wanted to take a hunger strike, Tang Jun had a way to deal with him.

That is, every time it is time for dinner, the military soldiers will take out the rag from his mouth, use a thick cow plug to feed the sick cow, insert the cow plug into his throat, and forcefully pour rice porridge into it, so that the Spanish governor can survive.

Of course, the Tang army only cares about feeding and pulling, so the Governor Lopez pulls his feces and urine directly on his body every day, making himself extremely smelly. Every soldier passing by him frowned and covered his nose.

He only loved the Spanish governor very much for the large group of flies. They buzzed around him like a gray-black cloud that could not even be driven away.

In this way, the former Spanish governor, Lopez, who had extremely disgusting living conditions, was transported by the Tang army like a dead pig to outside the cities to attack, in order to lure the Spaniards to surrender.

For example, Batangas City in southeastern Manila is a typical example of the Tang army using Lopez to force the enemy defending the city to surrender.

Batangas City is located at the eastern end of Manila, bordering the Sibuyan Sea. It is a city that is close to the mountains and seas and has a circumference of nearly four miles.

More than 300 Spanish soldiers in this city couldn't help but take a breath when they saw the Tang army rolling in iron.

As the Tang army advanced rapidly, the Spanish general Francisco, who was standing on the top of the city, was horrified to see that at the front of the Tang army, there was a large four-wheeled carriage pulled by a pair of horses. On the carriage was a large wooden cage, and the person in the cage was as messy as a savage, but was wearing a dirty and gorgeous governor's costume and a ball of torn linen in his mouth. If it weren't the Spanish governor Lopez, who else could it be!

Francesco opened his mouth wide in horror, and the Spanish defenders beside him also had extremely terrifying expressions on their faces.

This, how is this possible?!

If the Spanish Governor Lopez had been captured alive by the Tang army, then the city of Manila, the heart of Spain in the Philippines, had fallen into the hands of the Tang army?!

Soon, someone from the Tang army rode over and shouted loudly to the city outside the land of an arrow.

The words are that the Tang army has now defeated Manila City and destroyed all the defenders in the city. If you want to survive, you need to surrender as soon as possible before you can survive. If you do not follow, you must kill all the whole city, without leaving any chickens and dogs.

Of course, compared to the material and financial gains, Gou Dazhuang, who was originally a surrendered Han army, had gone from unfamiliar with yearning and expectation for the honor and military achievements of the Tang army.

However, now that my left calf is so festered that I can only leave the army for one day.

Thinking of successfully marrying the Guangdong girl whom I have long admired after I went back, Gou Dazhuang's originally quite lonely mood improved a lot.

He had already thought that if he asked someone to say that the matchmaker was successful, he would return to Luzon with the girl after his injury was healed.

Because, according to Li Xiao's new regulations, if the Tang army soldiers who made military achievements in the Battle of Luzon were willing to start a family and establish a career in Luzon and live here, then in addition to being granted 10 acres of land by households like immigrants, they could also grant land of land of different sizes according to their military merits.

Moreover, in order to comfort the meritorious soldiers, the land they gave were all the most fertile places in the area.

Gou Dazhuang thoughtfully and calculated that if he made his military achievements, he could get at least 20 acres of land in Luzon after getting married, and at least 80 stones of rice can be produced in a year. In addition, the output of dozens of stones of potato planting at the end of the year can be considered to be at least a medium-sized family in Luzon.

As the ship headed north, Gou Dazhuang fell asleep on the side of the ship, but an inexplicable smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

After sending the wounded soldiers and Spanish women and children back to Taiwan, Li Xiao, who stayed in Luzon, immediately began to plan various matters developed by Luzon.

First, Li Xiao appointed Wu Liang, the former chief manager of Jeju Island, and asked him to serve as the leader of the Luzon Island Breeding Group, and Hua Yuncheng, the former lord of the Iron City City, to serve as the deputy head of the Luzon Island Breeding Group. The two of them formed various government agencies on Luzon Island.

These two people, Wu Liang, have been following Li Xiao since Liaodong. For several years, they have been working for Li Xiao. They are experienced and loyal. Therefore, when Li Xiao wanted to find someone to be responsible for managing the newly occupied Luzon, the first thing he thought of was him.

Hua Yuncheng, the former deputy chief of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, has been a member of the Fangshi Department since joining Li Xiao, because of his diligence and caution in his work and hard work, he has managed the Iron Dragon City in an orderly manner, which made Li Xiao very satisfied. Therefore, he specially transferred Hua Yuncheng from Shandong to Luzon, allowing him to serve as the deputy commander of the Breeding Regiment and become Wu Liang's deputy.

From these candidates, it can also be seen that Li Xiao attaches great importance to Luzon, but he intends to fully develop it like Taiwan.

According to Li Xiao's estimate, more than 3 million immigrated to the Taiwan Island before it reached a slight saturation. This Luzon Island is nearly three times the area of ​​Taiwan. Although there are many inappropriate farming areas such as the Cordillera Mountains in the central location, at least like Taiwan, immigrating more than 3 million is absolutely no problem.

Now, Li Xiao plans to move all the more than one million immigrants stationed in Taiwan to Luzon Island, so that they can become the first Han immigrants to develop Luzon Island.

As for the future, when the Han immigrant population in Taiwan, Hokki, Kuye, Jeju and other places are almost saturated, it is best to send the people who have been continuously moving from the mainland to Luzon Island to live in peace from north to south.

In fact, according to Li Xiao's estimate, it is not a problem to settle five million Han immigrants in this Luzon land.

But because there are more land in the south, such as the central Philippines islands, Mindanao, and the island of New Guinea to the south, the Australian continent, etc., to develop brand new land, Li Xiao did not intend to develop Luzon to be as saturated as Taiwan.

On the premise that the immigration speed cannot keep up with its own development speed, it is very necessary to ensure that each newly developed land has a certain number of Han immigrants, making these immigrants the foundation for long-term stability in the local area.

As long as these hard-working Han immigrants can gain a foothold and reproduce in these distant and fertile foreign lands, Li Xiao can be sure that under the strong protection of the army, these newly occupied lands will surely become the inherent territory of the Chinese Han people forever, and will be passed down forever.

After the immigration arrived, Li Xiao planned to build roads throughout Luzon with Manila as the center, and use wide cement roads to connect the entire Luzon towns, making transportation more convenient and transporting troops faster.

As for Luzon's future planning, after careful consideration, Li Xiao prepared to make this Luzon land mainly develop agriculture and become a more important grain base than Taiwan. He believed that the military and civilians under Li Xiao would produce more food, so as to further expand Li Xiao's army in the future and provide richer food support.

In Li Xiao's plan, Luzon Island must first build a prosperous agricultural production base. Only after more immigrants and stable grain output will it consider redeveloping various mineral resources and carrying out related industrial projects.

As for the local natives in Luzon, Li Xiao planned to carry out the same Chinese education as the natives in Taiwan.

Because the natives of the Philippines were basically completely conquered by the Tang army, they were very afraid of the Tang army. Therefore, Li Xiao decided not to take gentle and gradual assimilation work like in Taiwan, but to force these people who did not even have words to accept the costumes, etiquette, hairstyles, and cultural concepts of the Han people, in order to quickly assimilate and transform them under the current conditions of the Tang army's deterrence.

In order to assimilate Luzon faster, Li Xiao ordered his Director of the Culture Department Liu Zongzhou to personally select a group of proud disciples to come to the land of Luzon to educate the people and indigenous people.

Li Xiao believed that only by completely sinicizing these indigenous peoples and making them part of the Han people can they finally be united in one heart and virtue with the Chinese Han people and have no other intentions, and this land of Luzon can truly be in peace and stability.

Ethnic division is the source of turmoil.

Li Xiao would never allow it. In modern society, various tragedies and separatist events caused by different ethnic groups and customs occur in his own time and space.

This is a long-term work that needs to be taken seriously and vigorously promoted from the source, and is even more important than the development of Luzon.

After Li Xiao arranged all the local work in Luzon, another week later, seeing that the land of Luzon was indeed stable and there was no more turmoil, he ordered the Tang army to be ordered to return to Taiwan to rest by the army of Jiaying, the mayor of Pingnan Town, Li Dingguo, and the mayor of Pingnan Town, to return to Taiwan to rest.

Li Xiao decided that after Li Ding's troops returned to Taiwan, he replaced the troops of the Bandit Bin in Pingnan Town to station in Taiwan. Luo Zheng, deputy mayor of Pingnan Town, led the troops of the Bin in Luzon and came to Luzon to join Cao Binjiao's troops, and then began the next attack plan to eliminate all fragmented islands in the central Philippines, and then eliminate the remnant Sulu Kingdom located on Nantagalu Island.

With the strong push of the ruler Li Xiao, the Tang army's conquests were one after another, and the pace of conquests never stopped.
Chapter completed!