Chapter 348 The Southern Expedition and the Northern War 13 Java No. 6
Yan Siqi climbed to the city and saw in shock that within dozens of miles outside the city, the black crowd was full of armed people. In the south, countless elephants were dragging something. The dust filled the sun; in the east. The Chinese shopping mall fortress, which is a square mile, is located among countless crowds of people, like an isolated island in the sea. From time to time, gunfire sounds come.
The fortress was originally surrounded by plantations and manor fields. Now, a crop was not visible. They were all trampled into mud by the barefoot of the Madarans.
In the distance, the ants-like crowds came and went, transporting various supplies and mobilizing troops. The reflections of swords and guns are vaguely distinguishable. The Madaran army is known as one hundred thousand. In Central Java, East Java also has it. The private army that had recruited countless civilians and besieged the feudal lords of Semarang were also transferred to Jinglibu. The crowds gathered in this area were boundless and seemed to be extremely powerful.
"The Madarans are building villages again. They want to completely surround our Chinese shopping malls." Zu Guangxian, the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the Nanyang Brigade, said gasping: "When the war started, the Madarans still used it. The elephants came to attack the city. Later, the elephants were scared by our cannons. They turned around and ran wildly. Instead, they stepped on many Madarans to death. Now, they dared not rush forward. They seemed to plan to surround for a long time. The mall was trapped in the mall. Li and our Jingliwen City have enough food, grass and ammunition. But to the east, to the south, there are also plantations, immigrant villages, and commercial stations in the west. Some of Jingliwen Tuwang's tyranny in the south The place has now been occupied by them. More than 10,000 of our Tang people’s fellow villagers have rushed out.” Zu Guangxian punched the city wall with anger.
"Mom. These places are all good fertile land. But they are all cultivated by us Tang people. I spent so much effort and made it with my brothers and my brothers. Now they are all ruined by their monkeys "Yan Siqi was also very annoyed, but he was powerless. There were too many enemies. He only brought a few hundred people... The situation here was worse than he thought.
Yan Siqi looked back and saw Luo Aquan, Zheng Quanyong and others coming. He nodded and said, "Uncle Luo, Captain Zheng. There are too many enemies in front of him. It is difficult for us to rush over. How can we contact the brothers in the store? This is a troublesome thing.”
The few people present were leaning against the walls, everyone was injured, and they were all exhausted. The guards and special forces members of the Fifth Division headquarters never stopped busy at sea. As soon as they arrived in Jingliwen, they got ashore. Before they could catch their breath, they entered the fight against the rebellion. The fierce battle was fierce for a day and a night. They almost never stopped. They were really overdrawing their strength to the limit. They wanted to let them go out of the city to break through the encirclement of tens of thousands of Madaran army. I'm afraid they wouldn't Realistic.
Finally, we arrived in time to pacify the coup in Jingliwen. Otherwise, the lives of thousands of Chinese in Jingliwen might have been ruined.
Yan Siqi had to comfort himself like this. At this moment, his whole body was so sore and soft. His hands, who raised the telescope, were shaking constantly. He looked towards the mall. The tall castle wall was floating on the South China Sea. The red flag of the brigade, the Chinese-lined flag of the blue-bottomed Chinese-lined flag of the Sailor Marine Corps, and the flag of the 30th Post of the Nanyang Corps.
Yan Siqi's mind turned and his mind flashed. He turned to ask Zu Guangxian: "Lieutenant Zu. There are brothers from the Sailor and Marine Corps in the store."
"It should be the brother of the Third Squadron of the Nanyang Fleet. The Third Squadron went to Timor and helped the Florians fight with the Red-haired Devils. Only two express ships were left in Jinglibu. As a result, they were Madarans The raid with Hongmaoyi...these in the mall were probably the navy brothers who fled ashore in time."
Yan Siqi nodded and turned to Zheng Quanyong and said, "Captain Zheng. Use your signal rocket to cast here. Tell the brothers in the store: reinforcements have arrived. The brothers on the opposite side will definitely see it."
Everyone's eyes lit up. Luo Aquan patted the wall and smiled, "Yes. Even if we can't go over and help them, we can cheer them up here and encourage them."
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Wu Hao, who protected Li Lihua to escape in Java and went through many difficulties and dangers. In the end, he did not leave Java and return to Taiwan with Li Lihua. Instead, he served as the head of the Security Department of the Chinese Business Center in Batavia. He is an overseas Chinese and Lu Song. The offspring of the Tagalog people with a mixed race, with a tall man not found in the Tagalog people. With the hair of the Malays, the year of the Manila Massacre, he was twelve years old. Both his parents were in the Barian Market District Death in the fire. Yin Feng rescued him with someone. He was also one of the so-called "orphans of ship owners" raised by Yin Feng. He went to school in the nanny church hosted by Li Lihua. Then he entered Yin Feng's The personal guards do things.
Among the "orphan owners" who are more than 300, Wu Hao and the current military academy student, Wang Shuowang, are among the few dozen Chinese indigenous mixed-race children. The only two people who have not become Catholics. Because. They see When a Spanish priest killed his parents with his own hands.
He regarded Yin Feng and Li Lihua as reborn parents. He felt guilty for not protecting Li Lihua well. Although no one blamed him, he still withdrew from the personal guard and stayed in Java.
The second Java melee broke out. He rushed to Jinglibu at the beginning to take charge of the overall situation. However, many new immigrants in recent years have just opened up land and obtained harvests. Therefore, they are unwilling to abandon their homes and retreat.
The Madaran army came too fast. Soon all contact with Jingliwen was cut off in the southern Weilu area. The three companies directly affiliated with plantations and affiliated sugar pressing factories there. Five immigrant villages were successively captured by the Madaran army. The Chinese who did not have time to evacuate were seriously injured. Only more than a thousand Chinese escaped through the forest path through the forest path to Sunjia Manor, China Business Hall and other places in the north. Immediately, the Chinese Business Hall and the surrounding Chinese residential sites were all the Madarans. Surrounded.
Since then, the battle to guard the store has been fighting for two months.
Now guarding the mall are more than 500 soldiers from the Nanyang Brigade and more than 100 sailors and marines. There are more than 4,000 Chinese compatriots who take refuge in the mall. There are also some Jingleben and Balinese people. Among them, there are some of them. The hundreds of Chinese who had just escaped from the death of Semarang were basically covered in scars and nothing left. Some businessmen have lost their money and many families have died. Wu Hao looked at this scene and often recalled the scene of the Manila Massacre. He organized a self-defense force among the refugees to assist in the war and used the ammunition and guns that Yan Siqi had hoarded back then to severely damage the offensive of the Madaran army. However, there were too many Madaran people. The Chinese's wealth was too tempting. From Madaran, New troops and horses are constantly being transferred in various places in the dynasty ruling areas. Although the Chinese have advanced weapons and strong firepower, they cannot break the siege and can only be trapped. The surrounding Chinese strongholds are constantly being captured, and Chinese refugees are constantly fleeing. Entering the China Merchants Hall, all the flat grounds in the merchant hall are already filled with refugees, and there is no enough food or ammunition.
These days, there has been a lot of commotion in the King of Jingliwen City. Yesterday, guns and cannons were fired. Wu Hao and Sun Yazhe, the shopkeeper of Jingliwen Store of China Company, ran to the west gate of the fortress of the mall. He held up the telescope and looked for a long time. .They still have no idea. The Madarans will not directly attack Jingliwen City. However, they also know a little about the unstable situation within Jingliwen. However, they can't do anything under the siege of thousands of troops.
This morning, the hereditary territory of Sultan Agung of Madarland (located in Majilen, western Gedu Prefecture), Matalan, Pazhang and Gedu and other Sultan direct guards arrived at the battlefield. They immediately launched The attack. The arrival of this group of troops shows that Madaran Sultan Agong may have personally committed suicide to the city of Jingliwen.
The equipment of the Sultan Guard is much better than that of other troops. The front-line infantry has armor. The elephant soldiers also put small Folang machine cannons on the back of the elephant. The Sultan also has a firearm unit of more than 100 people. It has a messile gun and A bronze field gun provided by the Dutch. However, this group of Javanese natives were very unfamiliar with the use of firearms. They started to set firearms randomly from afar, which was almost no threat to the defenders on the fortress.
Seeing that the Madarans had not learned the lessons of the past, Wu Hao dared to drive the elephant to the front line. He sneered: "Article is ready. Put the elephant soldiers within 100 steps before firing."
Two 48 kilogram bronze city guard cannons at the fortress city head, weighing about 1,000 kilograms and having a caliber of 25 times. It has not been fired for a month: one is to save ammunition, and the other is that the Madalan army suffered a crushing defeat in the early attack. In the case of this, it has not launched a large-scale offensive for a month.
When the Sultan Guard rushed into the range of 100 steps from the fortress, two heavy artillery fired. Two external four medium-sized artillery fired. They were all shot. The iron sand balls of hundreds of kilograms were dozens of feet in a radius. The range was flying, knocking over the Madaran soldiers into pieces, and immediately screamed. Several elephants were hit by shotguns and ran away with pain. They threw the elephant slave to the ground, like a huge Like a bulldozer, he stepped out a bloody path among the crowd of Madaran's army.
"volley."
Wu Hao took the lead in firing. Hundreds of flintlock firings began to shoot. Two "Thunderbolt" mortar cannons also shot hundreds of kilograms of explosive packs into the crowd. Huge black smoke rose up. A large number of Madalan soldiers were scattered. Falling down. In just one round of offensives, the Madalan army left more than 600 corpses outside the China Merchants Hall and retreated in a panic.
Wu Hao was still commanding the artillery to open fire at the retreating Madarans. The sailor, the marine whistleman who was guarding the West Gate, rolled and crawled over. Wu Hao didn't wait for him to speak. He grabbed him and said, "Do you still have gunpowder here? .We don’t have many more here. Give us a little more evenly...
The sailor and marine whistle captain was out of breath. He returned for a long time and said in surprise: "Signal Rocket.Signal Rocket...the King of Irene."
Wu Hao opened his mouth in surprise: "What? Is it a red emergency signal? Something happened in Jingliwen City."
"No...it's the contact signal of the water fleet. It's green."
Wu Hao let out a long sigh: "Take me to see."
In the Chinese shopping malls, refugees are lying or sitting, old, young, women and children, and injuries are everywhere. Nearly five thousand people are squeezed into the narrow shopping malls. No matter where they are, anyone may step on them at any time when they walk. Living person.
Many people are already desperate. They have no hope of escaping. Those Chinese soldiers who have fought hard for several months have long lost their military discipline. They are wearing ragged clothes and are still injured. The smoke of gunpowder blackened his face. With strict military discipline and a sense of responsibility towards refugees, he has been gritting his teeth and persevering.
Today, good news finally came: the Chinese military reinforcements have arrived in Jingliwen.
Yan Siqi's advance team arrived in Jingliwen at a very time. He happened to meet the rebellion of Prime Minister Jingliwen; at the same time, Madaran Sultan Agong also arrived in Jingliwen on this day. After receiving the news of reinforcements, the defenders of the Chinese Commercial Hall were All the refugees mustered up the courage and repelled three attacks from the Madaran Sultan Guards within one day.
After a day of rest, Yan Siqi, Luo Aquan and others used the Hailong to contact the Chinese Business Hall from the sea. At the same time, dozens of children were taken to the relatively safe city of Jingliwen.
Madaran Sultan Agong and his generals, the prefect did not know that the Chinese army was about to arrive. He summoned all the generals and princes to meet overnight and vowed to avenge the guards soldiers who died in battle during the day.
Madaran's current Sultan Agong seems to be rebuilding the history of the Maruobache Kingdom that once unified Java. He has now basically unified East Java and Central Java. Now, his goal is the entire Java Island. The biggest enemy is The Chinese who occupied a large area of land in Semarang and Jingleben, as well as the Dutch who occupied Batavia, remained independent. Prince Pananbahan Latu of Jingleben had long established a relationship with the Madaran Dynasty. Alliance. The Madaran army sent troops to Jinglibu this time. Although it had the slogan of expelling pagans, it was actually aimed at the wealth accumulated by the Chinese over the years.
The Madaran country is actually a typical feudal state. There is no stable centralization. The core part of its country is the hereditary territory of Sultan, Krapayak (located in Majilen, western Gedu Prefecture), Matalan, Pazhang and Ge The palace was built in Bashar al-God. These parts of the land were directly ruled by His Majesty Sultan himself. The core part of this core are the conquered countries. : Burbaya (Malifen), Berida, Sulumayi, Proboringo, Besuki and the often independent Balanbangan. As well as Madura, Sulumayi's southern raban, Nanwang, Patti, Tamme, the part of Beigalangan (Pamalang), Wanyoumas (Seralon includes Pasir in Bryan Prefecture), etc.
In short, the Madaran Dynasty was led by 25 semi-autonomous princes. Only when they had to do so, they obeyed the command of the Madaran rulers. It was a loose and unstable feudal country. The prefects of each state and the princes of each territory. We often try to obtain complete independence. The Balanbangan, located in a corner, often maintains independence. Because they implement the lordship system and fief system, there is also the so-called Patti system (that is, the prefect is the chief executive of the local government. The provincial system of the royal family and the nobles compete for and divide their territory and constantly fight each other. The territories based on rural communes are often intertwined, resulting in unclear realms. Increasing conflicts and turmoil.