Chapter 828 825 [One person captures hundreds of prisoners]
Chapter 828 825 [One person captured hundreds]
"Woooooo~~~~"
Kanjiro, or Lao Shilin, slowly returned following the sound of the military bugle.
The soldiers who played the trumpets had sore cheeks. Several trumpeters stood in different places and blew the trumpets, fearing that the soldiers would be too far away to hear them.
While walking, Lin Laoshi suddenly heard footsteps. He turned around and saw hundreds of enemies approaching. He was so frightened that he quickly threw away his head, picked up his spear and hid behind a big tree.
"Go faster!"
But someone was yelling in Chinese, and their accent was very familiar, with a distinct flavor of southern Fujian dialect, which is the mainstream language in Luzon.
Lin Laoshi jumped out quickly and shouted: "But the military master of the Datong Army?"
"That's right. I have captured a few prisoners. Brother, come quickly and help escort them!" the other party replied.
Lin Laoshi ran over to check and was dumbfounded.
A total of two to three hundred prisoners, with an average of four or five people each, were skewered with a long spear. Of course, they were not skewered like kebabs, but tied to the spears with belts. It is estimated that there were not enough long spears, so some prisoners directly used their belts to fight each other.
The hands are tied and tied into a tight knot that cannot be undone.
However, the only person escorting these prisoners was a Datong Army soldier.
One person escorted two to three hundred people, and he was beaten and urged along the way. Any prisoner who walked slowly would be given a stick.
Lin Laoshi's Chinese proficiency was still at the stage of daily communication. He couldn't find any words to express his mood, so he was stunned for a while and praised: "Master Jun is really... brave!"
But the soldier shouted: "Don't be stunned, come and help quickly, I am so scared that I don't even dare to stop to pee."
Lin Laoshi ran over quickly, and the soldier immediately untied his belt and poured water into the trees.
The prisoner in front of him was also very obedient. He automatically stopped and waited, with a flattering smile on his face.
Lin Laoshi asked: "What do you call the military master?"
The soldier trembled and said, "Wan Jun, just call me Wan Laosan. What about you? Your accent doesn't sound like Han Chinese."
Lin Laoshi nodded and bowed and said: "The villain's Chinese name is Lin Laoshi, and his former name was Kanjiro. How did the military master capture two or three hundred people by himself?"
Wan Jun smiled and said: "Damn it, last night I was running in the woods in the dark. I almost fainted when I bumped into a tree. I didn't know which direction I was going. I walked out of the woods in a daze and ran to the beach. I
I was thinking about how to go back and walked on the beach for a while. When it got light, I suddenly saw people lying on the beach."
"Just... just caught him?" Lin Laoshi couldn't figure it out.
"I'm not stupid, how can one person catch hundreds of them?" Wan Jun recalled the scene at that time, grinning from ear to ear, "I rushed in the direction of the forest for a while, leaned against the forest and shouted: 'Come and kill the enemy.
!' In fact, these prisoners didn't understand them at all, and it was in vain for me to shout. I have gained experience, and as soon as I shouted, I scared two to three hundred people to the point where they knelt down and begged for mercy. I pretended that there were soldiers in the forest, and let them
They took off their belts and tied themselves up. These people didn't understand, so I had to teach them how to tie them. Fortunately, they were very honest and tied themselves up obediently, and they could go wherever they were told."
Lin Laoshi was silent for a moment. How could he still fight like this?
All I can say is that the Indian soldiers are so awesome!
According to data, only 16% of the Dutch East India Company's army was Dutch, while 75% were German poor. Most of them were tramps, beggars, drunkards, paupers, and criminals.
When you join the army, you are issued with a matchlock gun, a saber, and a helmet. You have no armor at all. If you want to wear leather armor, you can pick it off on the battlefield.
The daily meal is gruel. If you want to eat extra, you can buy it with your own money.
They couldn't even fight in formation, and even Zheng Chenggong's troops couldn't beat them when faced with hard steel.
The commander at the time was called Ba Guizai (Captain Thomas Peddle). He rose from a soldier to the highest military position in Taiwan, and represented the military as a member of the Senior Council. This guy led 500 Dutch troops, and Zheng Chenggong's 500 musketeers
After a long exchange of fire, no damage was done to each other. Then, Zheng Chenggong sent 500 rattan players to attack the rear in a roundabout way. The Dutch soldiers collapsed and Captain Ba Guizai was killed on the spot.
European soldiers were treated like gruel, so what else could the servant soldiers eat?
When the Netherlands recruited servants in India, they could not even recruit a few Sudras. In desperation, they had no choice but to recruit untouchables into the army temporarily and hurriedly transported them to Java for rescue.
These untouchables have been at sea for more than a month and marched dozens of miles on land. They didn't have a good night's sleep last night. They were tired and sleepy, and they were also extremely hungry. The Dutch didn't give them enough to eat.
Ah. At dawn, they fled to the beach. Seeing that they had escaped the pursuit, the two or three hundred Indian soldiers lay down directly and had a good sleep first.
Wan Jun was shouting nonsense all by himself, which the Indian soldiers could not understand at all, but it did not prevent them from surrendering neatly.
Even if you surrender, if you are unfamiliar with the place, you can at least have a living in the prisoner camp.
Seeing that Wan Jun wanted to tie them up, the Indian soldiers were extremely happy. It was good to tie them up. If they were tied up, it would prove that they would not kill prisoners. Finally, they would have food for today.
Therefore, the scene at that time was very joyful.
Wan Jun stood by himself, nervous and his heart was beating wildly. Two to three hundred Indian prisoners were in high spirits, helping each other tie the ropes, and were all eager to go to the prisoner camp for meals.
"Woooooo~~~~"
The bugles were still sounding in the distance. Wan Jun and Lin Laoshi, escorting two to three hundred prisoners, gradually moved closer to the large army.
The nearest troops, led by Sun Kewang, had gathered more than 400 people.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"
"Hush!"
The sentry squatting on the tree was blowing the copper whistle crazily. Sun Kewang heard the news and shouted: "Arrange yourself in formation to defend against the enemy!"
After blowing and blowing, the sound of the copper whistle stopped, and the sentry smiled and came over to report: "It's not the enemy, it's the prisoners who have been brought back."
Sun Kewang stepped forward to check the situation and suddenly became silent.
A careful count showed that there were 286 prisoners in this group. They were obedient when being escorted on the road, and became even more obedient when they saw the large army. They all knelt down very consciously, with a flattering smile on their face, and their eyes wandered around looking for food.
Until the afternoon, all the ministries gathered outside the woods.
"General, there are still more than ten people who haven't come back. They may have chased too far and got lost," the military judge reported.
Yu Zhan said: "Leave thirty men and continue to blow the trumpets farther west. Be sure to bring all the brothers back. The rest of the soldiers, follow me back to Batavia for dinner!"
Attacking the woods at night, two Datong soldiers, three ronin were killed, and more than 20 people were injured. The five dead were all shot to death by Dutch soldiers indiscriminately shooting, and most of the injured were caused by chasing and falling in the dark.
To.
In total, more than 500 enemy troops were killed, 65 Dutch soldiers were captured, and 923 Indian soldiers were captured.
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Batavia.
The two sides relied on castles and cities to confront each other. They no longer fired cannons or guns. The fighting seemed to have completely stopped.
Deputy envoy Sun Jie found Liu Hanyi privately: "Ambassador, it's time to persuade him to surrender. Just take Batavia, but you can't wipe out all the enemy forces in the castle. Otherwise, you and I will not be safe!"
"Why?" Liu Hanyi didn't want to understand.
Sun Jie explained: "The Dutch troops in India sent so many to rescue them, but they have probably been annihilated by Zhang Xianzhong's troops. If they kill all the Dutch elites in the castle, how can the Dutch gain a foothold in India? Especially the Dutch.
Fleet, let alone beat them too hard. Many goods from the southern provinces have to go to sea and be sold to Europe by the Dutch. If the Netherlands cannot stand firmly in India, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong maritime merchants will have to worry, and the officials there will also
It’s urgent. It’s not just the merchants who have lost their lives, but also many people who work to support their families.”
Liu Hanyi shook his head and said: "Without the Dutch, there are still the British, French and Portuguese."
"The merchant ships of Britain, France and Portugal combined are not as numerous as those of the Netherlands," Sun Jie said. "The Dutch must fight, but they cannot fight too hard. They need to be weakened bit by bit and devoured bit by bit.
We must leave enough time for merchants from various countries to build more ships to buy goods. If we use too much force, a large number of domestic goods will be unsalable! By then, the local officials in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong will collectively impeach us for engaging in border provocations.
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Liu Hanyi thought over and over and nodded: "What you said makes sense. I haven't thought about this matter yet. Send someone to persuade them to surrender. As long as the Dutch surrender, I will promise not to kill them and send a ship to transport them away."
"I'll go and persuade him to surrender." Sun Jie volunteered.
Governor Rainiers was inspecting the fort when he suddenly received news that the Chinese had sent a negotiator.
He came to the fort and looked outside. There were only four Chinese negotiators.
Sun Jie stood in front, with the translator beside him and two soldiers behind him.
Rainiers picked up the telescope and observed, and suddenly felt desperate. The two Chinese soldiers were holding heads in their hands, one head from the Batavia Army Commander, and one head from the reinforcement commander.
There will be no more reinforcements, just a lonely castle.
The bamboo basket was hung down, and Sun Jie was hung up on the city wall.
Rainiers angrily shouted: "Why do you want to tear up the armistice treaty between the two countries?"
Sun Jie smiled and said: "It attacked China's vassal country without authorization. In the face of the negotiations from the Chinese envoy, the Netherlands showed no sign of withdrawing from Nambawa. It was you who tore up the treaty. China did not make any mistakes in sending troops."
Rainiers said: "Since it is because of Nambawa, we agree to hand it back and ask the Chinese troops to withdraw immediately."
Faced with such an unreasonable guy, Sun Jie suppressed his anger and said calmly: "If you don't want to negotiate, I can leave immediately and leave everything to the soldiers."
Rainiers was at a loss for words, and then he said with a stern face: "Well, I'll see what else you want to talk about!"
Sun Jie showed a disdainful smile: "I am not negotiating with you, but with the Batavia Council. Call all the members, or representatives of the members, together and talk slowly."
Rainiers said: "I am the governor and I have full authority to negotiate."
"No, you can't," Sun Jie got back into the basket, asked the Dutch soldiers to put him outside the city, and said to Rainiers, "Whenever you are willing to let the parliament negotiate, just fire three cannons at the sea.
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The Governor's negotiations must be very tough, and the members of the House of Representatives present in groups must make crazy compromises and concessions.
Because this is an "alliance under the city", the congressmen cherish their lives. The biggest blame lies with the governor. The congressmen just want to leave this miserable place, otherwise they will starve to death without any ammunition or food.
In the Naval Governor's Mansion, there were senior staff of the Dutch East India Company who had taken refuge.
Before Sun Jie left Beijing, he specifically went to the Navy Governor's Mansion to ask for advice on how to negotiate with the Dutch!