Chapter 351: Southern Expedition and Northern War Sixteen Sweeps (3)
Sultan Agong's Wong Guards have become supervising teams these days. Countless deserters were killed behind the battlefield, forcing these Javanese people to attack the fortress of the Chinese company. This practice of using the subordinate feudal lords as cannon fodder at any cost immediately caused the Su.
The resistance of the princes and prefects of the southern part of Lumayi, such as the southern part of the country, Nanwang, Patti, Tamme, etc., was full of chaos in the Madaran army camp for several days after that, and many feudal lords of small states led their private soldiers.
He evacuated the battlefield without authorization, and some refused Sultan Agong's attack order, closed the camp and opened up to confront the Madaran Guards.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yan Siqi and others took a breath and obtained some ammunition and food assistance from the King of Jingliwen from the coastline. They also transferred some wounded and women and children in the mall to the King of Jingliwen.
However, the powerful lord of Java, Sultan Agong, quickly suppressed the internal rebellion with powerful means, and sent several of his own brothers to chase and kill the feudal lords who had evacuated the battlefield without authorization, promising to share the small country with them as private territory.
More than twenty days later, the turmoil within the Madaran army was put down, and Sultan Agong also recruited more troops from his own territory directly under the Wang family, and forced his brothers - several new Tumen in East Java.
The commander sent troops to Jinglibune.
The number of Madaran army increased instead of decreasing. The joint camp cost dozens of miles, and the overwhelming crowd surrounded the only six Chinese strongholds around Jingliwen. The organizational structure of the Madaran army and the combat command were completely based on the ownership of the feudal lords.
Arranged, the whole camp was in chaos all day long, women and children in the military camp, merchants, craftsmen, beggars, slaves, shadow puppetry troupes, traditional Bedaya dance artists, etc., all kinds of people, the Sultan Guards have good discipline
There are many, and some local military camps do not look like troops at all, but more like a group of migrating nomadic tribes.
Sultan Agon also recruited artillery from the Dutch in Batavia. The Dutch were also fighting hard in Batavia. They fought in a stalemate with Zhao Xuanming's Nanyang Brigade across the Chilion River. In view of the alliance, the Dutch
He lent two bronze 36-pound long cannons to Sultan Agong. The Javanese bought cannons from the Dutch when they fought a civil war with each other, but they could not learn how to use cannons and could not make gunpowders themselves.
So this time, the Dutch East India Company also drew more than a dozen Dutch gunners from the Batavian battlefield to help the Madarans fight.
The Madaran army, which made a comeback, did not first attack the largest Chinese stronghold, the Chinese Shopping Center, but instead sent troops directly under the Sultan Wang family to divide the troops out, threatening a large number of private soldiers from feudal nobles to attack several other fortresses defended by the Chinese.
Two commercial station warehouses that were divided and surrounded for months, a company-owned planting manor, and a Chinese immigrant village were successively destroyed. The internal situations of these places are similar to those of Chinese commercial halls: a large number of refugees, food, water, and ammunition are gathered.
There are fewer people in danger, and the more troublesome thing is that they lack the backbone, and there is no backbone figure in the Chinese company like Yan Siqi and Wu Hao.
Sun Yazhe, the shopkeeper of the Jingliwen Store of China Company, has been operating the Sun Family Manor in high valleys and deep lane for many years. In addition, the Sun Family has many people and is in line with each other. It has withstood the attack of the Madaran army, including standing tall.
At the Chinese Business Hall by the sea, there are only two Chinese strongholds in Jinglibune.
Seeing that the situation was wrong, Prince Pananbahan Latu of Jingliwen did not care that the Chinese had helped him save the throne. He ordered the four gates to be closed and no longer allowed the Chinese in the city to leave the city to help the Chinese shopping malls. At the same time, groups of natives It began to gather outside the Chinatown of Jingliwen again...
Yan Siqi had no rest for more than ten days, and was so busy that he hit the back of his head. He first poured oil and fired the bodies piled up outside the city, and then sent thousands of women, children, and children to Jingliwen City at night. ,For a few days, the Madarans, who were busy fighting in the infighting, withdrew the people on the blockade between the King of Jingliwen and the mall. Yan Siqi took the opportunity to return to the King of Wangcheng, dispatched some time, and transported a batch of ammunition back. The Chinese Commercial Hall has been working to repair the city walls of the mall, and stones collected were piled up on the city walls: Helplessly, the ammunition consumption was too high in those three days...
After the Madaran army returned, not only was the city of Jingliwen again blocked, but also a large group of Madaran troops arrived on the coastline north of the Chinese Merchant House, driving a large number of indigenous people to dig trenches and tree fences on the coastline. , A fleet of sampans sent by the Prince of Sulumayi (Saishui) and the prefect of Beijialangan Prefecture appeared, and in conjunction with a small Dutch armed merchant ship, densely blocking the coastline of Jinglibune.
Yan Siqi, Wu Hao and Luo Aquan took three shifts every day and night to serve on the fortress. Several third fleet's observation sailors also took turns to look at the flagpole at the highest point of the fortress, observing the Java Sea in the north every day.
The Chinese Army's fleet has not appeared.
The situation inside the fortress has deteriorated to an extreme extent and has been captured in all the strongholds. The men, women, young and old in the village of Jingliwen South were massacred by the Madaran people; in the other three places, people broke out, and thousands of them broke through. Some overseas Chinese hid in the Sun Family Manor, some fled to the King of Jingliwen City, and nearly 1,500 people fled into the Chinese mall at night.
The mall was once again crowded, and there were crowds of people wherever they could stand. After everyone got down the fortress wall, there was almost no room for turning around. All the warehouses in the mall were lying all over, except for the ammunition warehouse. People; once it rains, two people can be squeezed into a temporary shack built with rags and rotten wood under the corners of the city wall.
Six or seven thousand refugees were all in a small place around this small area, with a stinky smell filled with the air. The only source of water - a well in the yard of the mall was also polluted. Patients with high fever had appeared in the mall. Yan Siqi I guess if this continues, there will be a plague in the mall within a month.
Yan Siqi was worried that the 5th Division's troops had not appeared for a long time. He believed that Yin Feng had taken over the command, which means that the Nanyang strategy plan had already begun in advance.
Now, if the Chinese army does not come to Java, it will be a large army of thousands of troops, rather than the small-scale battle originally planned by the Fifth Division, and is just to rescue the Chinese from Jinglibu and Batavia. First of all, logistics work, ship formation, combat planning and other tasks are indispensable. Moreover, the speed of various types of ships in the fleet is different, so the entire fleet's advancement speed cannot be fast... In this way, the Chinese Army Group Yan Siqi had no idea when he would arrive in Java.
On that night, a group of Shandong immigrants who came to Nanyang two years ago started to clamor and surrounded Wu Hao at the west gate of the mall.
"We don't want to die in this terrible place that is so hot, let's go,"
"What a bullshit China Company? You don't mean that you can share the land after working for five years. Now our land is there, and we are going back to Tangshan."
"The owner of the ship Yin lied to someone and tricked me into Java, so that we could work for nothing. We didn't want to die, so we let us go out, we found a boat to go out and went home by ourselves."
"When will the ship owner army come? Give me a sure letter. I can't look at the sea all day long. I have a wife and children at home."
"Mr. Wu, will the ship owner come to save us? Don't lie to us poor people,..."
Yan Siqi was busy laying out fortifications at the city during the day. She worked all day long. She was about to have a good rest, but was disturbed by the increasing noise. She couldn't help but rush to her forehead in anger, grabbed a flintlock pistol and stood in the corner of the gatehouse. He stood up and walked towards Ximen, who was making noise with a gloomy face.
On the Ximen Fort, Luo Aquan stopped Yan Siqi and pointed to the door: Thousands of people were dressed in rags, surrounded by the Jingliwen security supervisor Wu Hao, who was covered in blood. Wu Hao looked lonely with a thin figure, and there were only a few around him. The escorts of the mall who escaped from Semarang were trying hard to block the crowd.
"What's going on,"
Luo Aquan replied coldly: "These people just escaped from the sugar-pressing plantation in Henan. They said that the Madaran people promised them that as long as we, the Tang people, hand over their property and land, they can leave Java all over," he said.
Yan Siqi immediately "pah," said a sputum: "Barring, these land and property are all earned by us Tangren himself, why give it to them? Oh, spies, did any spies sneak in?"
Yan Siqi and Luo Aquan looked at each other. Luo Aquan was a taciturn activist. He immediately took off his five-foot-long heavy musket from behind, put it on the battlement, aimed at the crowd under the city wall, Yan Siqi nodded: "I'll go down to help, Uncle Luo, and you'll do it when you see it,"
"Heroes of the Chinese company, you want to fight the natives to death, don't get us in,"
"Let's go, we come to Java naked and walk naked,"
"No, everything we have earned from our hard work. Why do we have to give up for nothing?" Some businessmen opposed the words of these immigrants, stood up and shouted: "In the past few months, there has been no Chinese company. Protect us, we have long become ghosts in the wild. You are almost starving to death in China. Isn’t the company helping you find a way out?”
"What kind of way to live? We will stay here again, either starve to death or be killed by foreigners outside."
"Boy without eggs, do you think you will let you go when you go out now?"
Wu Hao raised his hands and shouted loudly: "Friends, fellow villagers, listen to me! The ship owner's army will arrive in the next few days, and he will definitely come... "
"Mr. Wu, we have been hiding here for several months. When will the owner's ship come?"
Yan Siqi rushed into the crowd, whispering loudly, "The owner of the ship will definitely come, I came on order,"
The crowd below was in a commotion, and Yan Siqi was somewhat famous among the local Chinese. Everyone knew that he was once powerful when he was on Java Island.
A voice suddenly rang in the crowd: "General Yan, the natives outside are probably here for your head. A few years ago, you killed a lot of them,"
Yan Siqi sneered when she heard this, turned to look at the place where she spoke, but because it was at night, the torch was dim and powerless, and it was impossible to see who was sowing the disagreement.