Chapter 357: Southern Expedition and Northern War Twenty-two Sweeping (9)
The Chinese compatriots worshiped and cried in front of Yin Feng's horse, and kept kowtowing.
Yin Feng quickly got off the horse and helped everyone, showing the humility and kindness that a compatriot in the motherland should have. He helped the local Chinese Kapitan. An old man in his seventies announced loudly: "I am before the Sanbaogong Temple."
It was announced that Semarang will be the territory of our Chinese company from now on. The local government will have county officials to manage it. This city will always become the city of my Tang people."
He turned around and walked towards the Sanbaogong Temple. In front of the temple, the prefect of the Madarans and several Javanese nobles were tied. He looked at these people in disgust and ordered loudly: "Execute them on the spot. Those who persecuted my Tang compatriots will all be
That's the end."
After a gunshot, several corpses were hung on the flagpole. Yin Feng led the commander of the Third Division, Li Xing, deputy commander of the Fifth Division, Luo Quanxiao, the supervisor Luo Yi, Ye Ying from the sailors and marines, and Wang Shuowang from the student camp.
Mai Xiaoliu, Xu Hongji and others worshiped the Sanbaogong Temple and ordered the entire army to set off and go straight to the capital of Madalan.
In addition to the water fleet, there are also a thousand sailors and marines left behind. Semarang will be the general logistics base of the Chinese army in Java.
The total number is around 25,000. The Chinese army, which has the most advanced weapons and the most rigorous training in Asia, began to march towards the central area of Java Island in a mighty manner. In addition to the main force heading south, the Chinese army sent two battalions of the Nanyang Brigade and the fifth one.
The two battalions of the division searched and advanced along the coastline in the east and west directions. They cooperated with the fleet on the sea to sweep the northern coastal areas of Java Island.
Madaram is the main rice producing area in Java. Chapara and other places live in hundreds of ships to various areas outside Java, such as Malacca, Anfoun, Banda and other places. It mainly relies on rice for Mataram.
The Madalan Treasury also taxed rice. The Chinese Army and Yin Feng himself believed that fighting in Java was not necessary to not disturb the people like fighting in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty. We could not collect grain on the spot. Therefore, most of the people who were carried with us were
Ammunition. The cavalry sentry of the First Regiment of the First Division of the vanguard unit not only reconnaissance, but also the task of collecting grain on the spot.
The first town you must pass from the coastal plain of Semarang is Uganlang. The local feudal lords and the prefect of Semarang. They take their own private soldiers far away in Jinglibu. The cavalry of the Chinese army vans with the vanguard.
The guards rushed into the empty town and entered the mansion of Lord Uganlang without bloodshed. They found more than 100,000 kilograms of rice stored here.
The army was marching overnight. The guide of the Palabanian Brahmin Kingdom was surprised to find that the Chinese were marching tirelessly. A group of young and overly sentencing soldiers (mostly military students) were clamoring torches at intersections.
.Announced the latest military order conveyed by Yin Feng; and there were also several Southern Opera troupes brought from Quanzhou. Under a circle of torches, they sang the tune of "Su Qin Ji" in the southern accent to encourage the soldiers. Although the Chinese army
Nowadays, many northerners have joined. However, this southern opera is very loud and powerful, and it can still refresh the soldiers - this is of course Yin Feng's idea.
What surprised these guides the most was that the Supreme Commander of the Chinese Army also marched with the soldiers.
Yin Feng gave up his power to travel on a white horse and took the initiative to trek and march on the mountain road with the soldiers.
"Brothers, the weather on Java is too hot. We can only march in the evening and in the morning. Everyone insist on it. Going south, it is the place known as the Java Garden. There are fertile fields and villages everywhere. There are countless spoils waiting for us.
Many of our Tang Dynasty compatriots were there to be slaves to those natives."
Yin Feng said while walking. He also took a flintlock musket from the guards and carried it on his shoulders for a while.
Although he experienced harsh military training during the founding of the Chinese Army, he lacked exercise in recent years. He was no longer as physically energetic as a young man. He finally couldn't stand it until the second half of the night.
Yin Feng stood on a hillside tilted south with breath. Lin Yue, the captain of the guard and military police, hurried over to support him. Yin Feng shook him away and cursed with a smile: "It's so troublesome. I'm not as young as 70 years old. "He turned his head and shouted to the soldiers around him, "Persevere. Brothers. You can rest in half an hour. We must bring his hometown before the King of Tubang wakes up. Lose."
The soldiers passed by him on torches. Everyone's eyes revealed sincere admiration and respect; in the army of this era, there were very few supreme commanders who would march with their guns with their soldiers. There were non-commissioned officers and officers passed by Yin, who was standing. In front of the peak, people saluted him one after another. Someone shouted: "Sir, please don't worry. We will definitely take down the palace of King Tubang for you as a residence."
"Ship owner, look at it. Those monkeys have killed so many of us Tangren's fellow townsmen. We will definitely pay back the debt."
The troops of the Third Division came over. Li Xing led the team in the front row. Seeing Yin Feng, he just saluted and did not stop: "President, please rest. The capital of the Tubang King. We are the first The third division got the bag.”
Yin Feng smiled and returned a military salute. Looking at the long torch light extending south, he couldn't help but breathe a long breath.
Yin Feng, who showed his domineering spirit, was really tired. He sat down on this hillside, leaned on the horse's back and rested. He fell asleep after a while.
In the morning, Yin Feng was awakened by a dull explosion in the south. He opened his eyes and found that the members of the personal guards were surrounded by them.
"What's going on."
"In the second half of the night, the vanguard cavalry encountered a group of local soldiers. The number of people was large. The first regiment of the First Division went up and started fighting in the morning. Now it has almost fought." Lin Yue replied.
At this time, passing by Yin Feng was the artillery regiment team. Li Kuiqi summoned several elephants to drag a few heavy artillery pieces to the city.
Yin Feng jumped up and jumped onto a white horse. In a blink of an eye, he was slightly stimulated by the scene in front of him. It turned out that in the south of this hillside, there was a large open plain, densely covered with rice fields and tropical jungles. The village There are dense stars. Now, this area is filled with smoke, thick smoke is everywhere. Countless villages are shrouded in flames and thick smoke.
"This is a battle to destroy the country." Yin Feng sighed slightly. Then, he put away his sympathy for the natives and ordered: "Order the front team not to get entangled with the enemy. Pass quickly and are unwilling to surrender. All villages and towns are solved by the artillery of the follow-up troops. Pay attention to concentrating all cavalry units in the front and expanding the alert scope."
Now is the era of the great sailing. The law of the jungle is prevalent. I represent China. The weak nation can only get beaten in this era. If we don’t come to grab it, Western powers will also come to grab it... Yin Feng sneered. He turned his previous life into a slap. The little bit of extravagant sense of justice brought by it is shaken away.
"Sentiva troops. Let the various indigenous battalions separate to the two wings of the main column. Search and advance."
In order to guide the South Ocean, Yin Feng specially transferred several Taiwan indigenous camps, Hainan indigenous camps, and Luzon indigenous camps to the South Road Army as his own direct troops. These troops who are good at tropical mountain warfare can just search for the two wings of the main marching column. .Stop the possible guerrilla harassment wars that the Javanese may launch.
On the road from Semarang to Kerta, the foreign mercenary army marched on the gentle slopes on the east side of the main force. Originally, the training level and physical fitness of these Westerners and Eurasian mixed-race children were not as good as the regular Chinese army. But this time Yin Feng promised to give them a lot of rewards. As a result, the mercenaries were very energetic and insisted on marching overnight. They ran with the 1st Division of the Pioneer Forces.
In the direction of foreign mercenaries, the fireworks that were raised were denser and the scope of damage was wider. Chinese soldiers came from Luzon and the propaganda section of the Military Supervision Department kept conveying them that the natives in Java killed their compatriots. News. Yin Feng used the propaganda technique that was super-era to try. The result was that the Chinese soldiers regarded all Javanese enemies. Any village that had resisted before will eventually be razed to the ground by the Chinese soldiers.
All the local officials and feudal lords of Madaran in this area have already taken their troops to Jingliwen. Without the command of the lord, the people of Madaran were like a mess. There was no decent resistance at all. But the Chinese army is still the same. The road was ruthlessly scattered with fire and bullets. Wherever the gangs passed, they left behind a deserted area of dozens of miles wide and dense smoke and corpses. All Javanese were destroyed by the sudden outbreak of the Chinese. The tendency was frightened and rushed in front of the Chinese army like a tide.
On this day, the Chinese army brigade traveled through the valley plains east of the Pengning Swamp. Behind them was a severely damaged area with a length of dozens of miles. A large number of spoils, rice and grass were transported northward to the Semarang Logistics Base. The escorts were transported to the north. Of course, they were Chinese soldiers. The ones who served as coolies were a large number of Javanese people captured along the way. They started with Bawen on the northeast coast of the swamp. The foreign mercenary regiment and a regiment of the Fifth Division formed a detachment together. They divided the troops westward and passed through the Central Java volcano. The area is directly facing Yogyakarta, an important city in Central Java.
In front, this area covered with fireworks and death is still extending south. The Madaran defenders along the way are empty. The resistance contract encountered by the Chinese army is equal to nothing. Sultan Agong had no expectation that the Chinese would attack him directly The capital.
On the fourth day of starting from the Semarang coastline, the Chinese army vanguard crossed the Gedan shore and the Saladiga area. It officially entered the Central Java Plain. The smoke-filled Melapi Volcano is on the front right. It is no longer south. It is dangerous to guard, and the endless and densely populated Madaran Dynasty is in the heart of the central hinterland.
From here, march south for another 60 or 70 miles. It is Kerta. Go to the right and you can go straight to Yogyakarta. You can reach the Gardu Plain, known as the Java Garden. A temple built with orchid-gray porous volcanic rocks. Borobudur stood on the top of the mountain there and marched to the left. It could capture Thorough, an important town in Java, and was also an important town of the Madaram dynasty.
The central area of the entire Madaran Dynasty, including most of the directly under the Sultan territory, was completely exposed to the Chinese army like a beauty stripped naked.