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Chapter 1665: Offering soil

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    The area of ??Borneo is seven times that of Luzon. It can easily accommodate even one million people, not to mention one hundred thousand indigenous people.

    The Spaniards have long been salivating over this piece of fat meat.  Even without the pressure of 100,000 natives, they would still find ways to eat Borneo as a substitute for Luzon.

    So Francis, the new Governor of the Philippines, after two years of preparation, formed a military force including 200 Spanish soldiers, 200 New Spanish soldiers, 1,500 indigenous soldiers, and 300 traitors recruited from Borneo.  An expeditionary force of 2,200 people.

    In addition, the reorganized Philippine fleet was also deployed to support the expeditionary force¡¯s landing operations.

    Before landing in Borneo, the Spanish first attacked the country of Sulu.  Because the Sulu Islands are located between Mindanao and Borneo.  If this obstacle is not cleared first, the expeditionary force's supply lines will be threatened.

    Sulu is an archipelago country, so it naturally relies on its navy to defend the country.  But how could their small Nanyang sailboats be the opponent of the Spanish navy?  The country was wiped out and the capital city and Le Island fell into the hands of the Spanish, becoming a springboard for the Spanish to attack Borneo.

    Before the fall of Hele Island, King Yazid of Sulu fled to Borneo under the protection of his loyal guards and defected to King Seif of Balni.

    Last April, the Spanish fleet arrived at the gates of Brunei, the capital of the Balni King, and issued an ultimatum to the Balni King.

    But Saif was unmoved and tore the Spanish letter into pieces.

    Saif¡¯s confidence comes from the fact that two generations of his father and son have carefully built the city of Brunei for decades!

    Since the red-haired ghosts ravaged Southeast Asia, his father and son have been very worried that one day their capital city will fall like Malacca.  So they spent all their money to transform Brunei City into a stone city wall that is rare among Southeast Asian countries.

    And over the years, they have been spending heavily to recruit cannon-casting craftsmen from Turkey, Egypt and India, casting hundreds of cannons of various sizes and deploying them on the city walls.

    This makes King Saif very confident that Brunei City is the most powerful military fortress in Southeast Asia and will never repeat the mistakes of Malacca.

    At the same time, the fleets of King Qin from various tribes in Borneo have also assembled towards Brunei. He firmly believes that he can repel the invaders!

    However, the imagination is beautiful, but the reality is very skinny

    First, nearly a hundred Boni warships were wiped out in Brunei Bay.

    Those Boni soldiers are not unheroic, but they don¡¯t even have artillery on their rowing warships. When they encounter the Spanish galleons, they just hit the rocks with pebbles.

    The large snake cannon on the Spanish ship can blow an indigenous ship to pieces with one shot.  As a result, they didn't even get a chance to get close enough to fight back, and the maritime power that used to help the Balni Kingdom dominate Borneo was reduced to nothing.

    Immediately afterwards, the same fate fell on the defenders of Brunei City.  The range of the artillery they asked *** to cast was too close.  There is no problem in dealing with the infantry attacking the city, but it is pure wishful thinking to challenge the long snake cannon on the large sailing ship.

    As a result, after a burst of bombardment, the Spaniards destroyed the artillery position that King Seif had high hopes for at a small cost.  The defenders at the top of the city were frightened by the huge losses and the terrifying shells, and abandoned their positions one after another.

    After demolishing a large section of the city wall on the sea side, the Spanish Expeditionary Force took advantage of the opportunity to land on the Calais battleship equipped with small artillery, and successfully occupied the city of Brunei.

    King Saif had no choice but to use the glorious tradition of the Southeast Asian indigenous people and lead the remaining troops and subjects to withdraw from Brunei City and hide in the nearby forest, preparing to fight out after the enemy troops had withdrawn.

    But this time they miscalculated.  Because the Spaniards captured Borneo to resettle the indigenous people

    They demolished the magnificent mosque and converted it into a Catholic church. After looting all the valuables in the city, they transported a large number of indigenous believers by fleet and placed them in and around Brunei City, the core area of ??the Balni Kingdom.

    The expeditionary force was not in a hurry to withdraw, so it used Brunei City as its base to launch a raid on North Borneo.  A large number of indigenous believers joined the army, and Bo spies from Borneo led the way. The Spaniards continued to carry out devastating attacks on tribes loyal to Saif.

    Although Saif led his royal guards and the local warriors who were unwilling to surrender to the invaders, they broke into pieces and harassed the Spanish army and the city of Brunei in turns. However, he still could not change the increasing number of pagans who came to settle.  Many situations.

    As a result, after most of the expeditionary force withdrew to Cebu, Saif and his men were still unable to regain Brunei

    With the passage of time, the authority of the Bo Ni State in Borneo was on the verge of collapse, and more and more vassal tribes, either forced by despotic power or induced by inducements, began to convert to Catholicism.

    ? ?p; Zhao Hao shook his head, but the smile on his face became much more sincere and said: "However, I can't specialize in such a big matter. I will submit it to the capital as quickly as possible and ask your Majesty to make a decision."

    "Ah" The two of them were panicked and couldn't help but look at Xu Zheng.  The Governor of Luzon can say that Mr. Zhao has the final say on matters in Nanyang.

    "Don't worry, you two!" Zhao Hao smiled and took their hands, squeezed them tightly and said: "No matter what the outcome is from the court, I will definitely send this soldier! Even if I am punished by the court, I will never  Let the people of the world be bullied by red-haired ghosts again!"

    "Thank you, sir."

    ¡°Young Master is such a great savior!¡± The two of them were naturally grateful.

    "You're welcome, it's because we're late." Zhao Hao waved his hand and said proudly: "But don't worry, if you come this time, you won't leave again!" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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