Chapter 350 The Fifteen Sweeps of the Southern Expedition and the Northern War (2)
Belitung Island, along with Bangka Island to the west, is another time and space, the main tin mineral area in Southeast Asia during the Dutch colonial period. A large number of Chinese "piglets" were either cheated or bought or snatched from the coast of China by the Dutch. Tin mines died in a large number of times in harsh working environments. In tin mines in concentration camps, the lives of Chinese people in the Belitung tin mine are less valuable than the ore waste they dug out.
Today, the Chinese have become the undisputed masters of Belitung Island. The infantry, professional artillery regiments, foreign mercenary regiments, and a large number of auxiliary soldiers composed of prisoners of war in the Ming Dynasty - a total of 2 More than 8,000 people, plus the main ships of the two major fleets of Taiwan also gathered at Tanjung Bandan Port on Belitung Island.
This port can only be regarded as a small fishing port, and it cannot accommodate the main force of the two fleets of the China Company. Moreover, within these days, nearly a thousand transport ships have arrived one after another, including not only the Chinese military's baggage transportation The ships, as well as merchant ships from major merchants in the Ming Dynasty, and the merchant ships from China's extremely alliance merchants, carried nearly 30,000 immigrants from Beijing, Qu, North China, Shandong, Fujian, and Guangdong.
Therefore, all the bays that can be moored and sheltered from the Gaspar Strait between Bangka Island and Belitung Island were filled with Chinese ships for a while. Foreign mercenary corps belonging to the Chinese army landed on Bangka Island. The poor Portuguese, a battalion of the Portuguese and Burmese Messodes, a mixed-race man from Portuguese and Burmese, drove the Malays near the landing site out of their homes on the day of landing.
The reason why Yin Feng has been postponing the war in the South China Sea was to wait for these merchant fleets to arrive with immigrant fleets: he planned that once the Chinese army quickly swept across the Southeast Asian region, those merchants who followed the Chinese army would immediately accept the Dutch and British people, The Javanese business and land, and a large number of immigrants immediately went ashore to build immigration sites, which completely consolidated the achievements of the Chinese army in Southeast Asia in politics, economy and culture in a short period of time.
Belitung Island now has a population of only 10,000, most of them are Chinese. There is a Chinese company that mines tin mines, called Shunxing Company, which was run by a group of Hakkas in Meizhou. They also signed a Datong Alliance with the Chinese company. The agreement can operate independently economically and pay taxes to the Chinese company in exchange for the protection of the Chinese army's force.
In name, Bangka and Belitung Island are under the jurisdiction of Palembang Sudan on Sumatra. However, Palembang is now basically controlled by the Chinese. The Sudan completely ignores the unprecedented Chinese expeditionary army in front of him and hides in it. I pretended to know nothing in my palace.
More than 200 warships, infantry and naval forces, totaling more than 45,000 people, and nearly 10,000 ships, auxiliary fleets, auxiliary troops, merchants, and immigrants. This fleet with unprecedented scale has already been It surpassed Zheng He's fleet of voyages to the West, and it is probably the most powerful Chinese army in this sea area since the Yuan Dynasty's Kublai Khan's army went to Java.
After the entire army was assembled, they would divide troops on Belitung Island, with the main force of the Nanyang Fleet and the First Division of the two regiments, and headed westward to the Strait of Malacca, and would be in the UK and the Netherlands, which were fighting with the Portuguese, France and the Aceh people all swept away; on the other side, the Taiwan fleet's Yuanzi battleship was the main force to cover the infantry to go south to Java. The infantry was the main force of the Fifth Division, a regiment of the First Division, the main force of the Third Division plus the artillery regiment , 25,000 foreign mercenaries and other troops landed in Java, and the troops of the joint Nanyang Brigade swept across the island with the force of Mount Tai.
Yin Feng sighed at the blue sky and blue sea on the beautiful shore of Belitung Island.
This guy is the first time he goes to Java. He has no money in his previous life and has no chance to travel to Bali. He plans to go there in this life.
However, in the coconut forest behind him, Li Lihua, wearing a Spanish ladies' skirt, could see that Yin Feng, who was walking by the beach, seemed to be worried about something, and often looked at the south in a daze.
Lin Yue, the captain of the guard and military police, suddenly appeared and whispered to Li Lihua: "Madam, those people have arrived,"
Li Lihua nodded: "Let them come here, I'll meet them here,"
A group of Jews in European style dresses bowed respectfully in front of Li Lihua, calling Li Lihua in Spanish: "Dear General's Lady..."
Li Lihua is fully responsible for the matters regarding the new Christians on the Iberian Peninsula and the Jewish merchant groups in Europe and America. Although Yin Feng has some understanding of the history of the Jews, he has long been in the Spanish-style cultural environment when dealing with these people. The big Li Lihua seemed even more at ease.
"Perez Rabi, are all the capable children you mentioned here? Your people are the best friends of our Chinese company. It doesn't take long. At most, half a year later, this vast Nanyang place will be Being completely open to you descendants of Israel, what kind of reward will you give to General Yin Feng?”
Part of the financial industry in Malacca is operated by Jews, while in the international port city of Banten, Malays and Jining (Indians east of Cape Comorin) operate the financial industry and usury industry, and they lend money. And the ship management industry, and many of the ships in Banten Port were Ethiopian seamen. Jews had not been able to enter the Nanyang market for hundreds of years during the development of trade in Southeast Asia.
The leader of this group of Jewish businessmen is Perez Cadras, the chairman of the Jewish Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan. The Jews are called the shopkeeper Cadras in Chinese and are a relative of Bernardo. He understands Li Lihua's status in the Chinese company very well. , bowed again very respectfully, "My people are the people of you and General Yin. We have discussed the military expenditure of this expedition. Our Jewish Chamber of Commerce will contribute 1.5 million Taranto to the contribution of the military expenditure of this expedition. , equivalent to more than 1.5 million taels of silver. In the future, when China Bank officially promotes the currency of the bank dollar, we Asian Jews will use it first around the world. We heard that the General will transfer the trade transfer center in East Asia to Bada. Via, Banten and Malacca, our Jewish Chamber of Commerce hopes that by then, Banten and Batavia's financial industry will be run by us,"
"For this, on behalf of General Yin, I would like to thank you and your compatriots. I think General will be willing to talk to you about this matter. I will take you to see General."
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On this day, the Sea Soul encountered the patrolling Third Fleet (Nanyang Fleet) express ship on the Java Sea twenty miles south of Belitung. At this time, the Sea Soul carried the support troops away from the South Cliff of West Borneo. It has been almost a month since the state port.
That night, Yin Feng learned about the latest situation in Java. The little excitement brought by the Jewish expedition sponsoring the expedition was immediately washed away by the news about Java.
Colonel Kutrei, Zhao Tie, Li Xing, Luo Quanxiu and Xu Hongji, Mai Xiaoliu and An Xiaosi from the intelligence department gathered overnight to study the situation.
At present, the army has not yet been assembled, and one-third of the infantry troops are on the slower bus, which is far away in the South China Sea. It will take about three days to reach Belitung Island, and the materials are The supply, ammunition distribution, and subsequent ammunition and supplies transport fleets have not arrived yet. In fact, the speed of the troops' assembly has been several days later than the planned schedule. Yin Feng's general staff has been established several times. It's been years, but I still lack experience. Especially when planning and guiding such an expedition that spans thousands of miles of sea and dispatches more than a thousand ships, the General Staff's plan will never keep up with the actual changes.
The most important thing is to temporarily attack Java in advance, the original plan of division of troops must be changed, and the artillery equipment has not been transported to Belitung. If the light troops attack Java, it will not be able to overwhelm the Madaran army in one fell swoop in strategy and tactics. Effect... Yin Feng listened to everyone's whine all night, and finally decided to make a decisive decision: three days later, the infantry and artillery soldiers arrived, and the southern army attacking Java would go first, and wait for the ammunition, supplies and equipment to set off before setting off.
After making the decision, Yin Feng looked at the blue sea at dawn and murmured to himself: "Yan Siqi, don't let my expectations down. Keep it. There are only ten days left. You must guard the fortress."
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The Haihun name was the day when Yin Feng and the Fifth Division left the port on the day they set off from Nanyazhou.
Time went forward to the moment when the Haihun Signed in Jingliwen. It was almost a month since Yan Siqi landed in Jingliwen.
After quelling the rebellion of Prime Minister Jingliwen, Yan Siqi used the speed and agility of the Sea Urchin to land on the coast north of the Chinese Merchant Hall at night, crossed the Madaran blockade and entered the Chinese Merchant Hall, and used hundreds of Thunderbolt rockets and More than a thousand kilograms of gunpowder were brought into the mall. More importantly, the refugees trapped in the mall brought hope, which also boosted Wu Hao's morale.
There is still one month left for the Chinese New Year. Yan Siqi thought that before the New Year, the Madaran army should be able to drive away from Jingliwen. In the original combat plan, the Fifth Division attacked the Nanyang battle alone, and set off in Yan Siqi's advance team. On the seventh day after, I went to sea and could reach Jinglibune within ten days.
However, he didn't know that Yin Feng rushed to Nanyazhou and completely overturned his original combat plan and expanded the Nanyang battle into a strategic offensive.
During the day he expected the landing of the Fifth Division, the Chinese army's massive fleet did not appear, only a slender and slender sea-soul crawler with black canvas appeared.
When the Sea Soul broke through a group of small Malay sailboats and sent 250 reinforcements to Jingliwen, the Chinese Merchant House was almost captured.
The three generations of kings of Madaran, including the current Sultan Agong, are all militant monarchs. They have been in constant wars for many years. Sultan Agong is on the battlefield from June to December every year, and they are about to be on the battlefield every year. Mobilizing 300,000 people to engage in war will result in an average loss of 20,000 or 30,000 troops per year. In the first half of the year, when there was no war, His Majesty Sultan Agong was busy raising the time to prepare for the second half of the year.
Last year, the Turkish Confederate coalition forces in East Java were defeated by the Madaran army, Basuluan was conquered, and Pazhang, who had betrayed again, was also captured. Most of the residents of this place were moved to Matalan and engaged in labor service for the construction of Xindu. Pazhang The capital was abandoned, Sultan Agong's prestige reached its peak at this moment, and his personal self-confidence was booming. After conquering Semarang, he personally led his troops to Jingliwen, but found that there were five or six Chinese bases in this area. Holding on.
He called the Guards to attack the Chinese shopping mall for the first time, but the elephant was frightened and ran wildly, trampling countless people all the way, causing heavy losses to the Guards. Sultan Agong was angry and turned the feudal lords of East Java that had just been conquered. All the private soldiers pressed over and used the tactics of the sea of people to attack the China Merchants Store.
Yan Siqi and Luo Aquan led their troops. As soon as they entered Jingliwen, they were busy suppressing the rebellion. They only rested for a day. After secretly crossing the blockade line and entering the Chinese Merchant Hall, they encountered the crazy attack of the Madaran army before they could take a breath.
Tens of thousands of Madalan soldiers under the cover of a small number of firearms, rushed to the Chinese mall without any brains. Life became worthless under the walls of the Chinese mall, and even ants were inferior to cannons, grenades, thunder rockets, muskets and bullets , powder keg, big knife, bayonet, stone, fists, and even teeth, the guardians of the Chinese mall must use all these weapons to defeat the Madaran attack, and the tall fortress walls are trapped in hand-to-hand combat again and again Every attack by the Madalan Army, desperate for casualties, had to rush through the Chinese Army's firepower net at a huge cost, until the ladder was erected to attack the city. The Chinese Army eventually had to fight hand-to-hand combat to defeat them.
The corpses are everywhere within a mile of the fortress, especially at the foot of the city wall. The bodies of the dead are piled up like mountains. In a few days, they are stacked up to two people, and the moat is full of scattered human limbs, which are truly blood flowing. In the river, the trench was soon filled with the remains of the corpses of the feudal lords of the local feudal kings. The blood overflowed into the surrounding rivers. The earth could no longer absorb so much blood, which made the Madaran soldiers attack with their feet on the blood.
This hellish tragic phenomenon and the rotten stench of the corpse eventually forced the Madarans to stop suicide siege after three days of storm.
Yan Siqi and others also lay exhausted on the fortress wall. Such a fight was rather a massacre. For Yan Siqi and even members of the special forces, such a war method that does not take the lives of soldiers seriously is really unacceptable. The Japanese samurai have a strong fighting spirit, but the Japanese in this era do not know the "Kamikaze Attack Team" and will not be so crazy that they regard human life as if they are so mad.
Nearly 6,000 people who took refuge in the Chinese mall, including men, women, young and old, mobilized nearly 500 people in three days, and countless injured people. Yan Siqi roughly estimated the bodies outside the mall fortress, and at least 6,000 were said to be. Many,