Forty-eight years of Qianlong

In early June 1793, Nanyang, south of Bacheng.

"Boom! Boom!."

"Da da da, da da da"

With two quick shots of ten 75mm guns and hundreds of bullets bursting from the North Navy's position, thousands of Banten Sultanate troops advancing with thick wooden shields dropped 200 After seeing the bodies of many people, he turned around and ran, and soon disappeared into the woods at the end of the plantation.

This kind of attack has been going on for seven or eight days. Whether it is the mercenaries from Württemberg or the tens of thousands of soldiers from the Banten Sultanate, facing the iron-walled defense line of the North Navy, they have been smashed several times.

After learning that the Dutch were going to attack Bacheng, the military control committee immediately issued a mobilization order for the whole city. Relying on the prestige established in the treatment of malaria patients regardless of cost for more than two years, tens of thousands of Chinese, young and old, both inside and outside Bacheng went to battle together. With the assistance of several excavators, it took only half a month to build a defense system consisting of two trenches and sandbag walls in the south of Bacheng.

This line of defense is 13.22 kilometers long. From northwest to northeast, it roughly forms a pocket shape that opens to the north. In fact, it is divided into many sections. Basically, the entire layout refers to the defense system of the "Battle of Usolie".The length of each trench or sandbag wall is roughly 700 meters to 800 meters, and they are connected by traffic trenches.There is also a barbed wire fence with high and low piles 50 meters in front of the first line of trenches.

The Dutch and the native soldiers of the Javanese sultanates had never seen this before. They suffered a big loss on the first day of the war.Afterwards, the governor of the Dutch East India Company, Overstratten, ordered to search for weak points in the defense line of Beihai Town. After searching for several days, all of them failed.

At this time, on the North Navy's position, the servants who had just arrived in Bacheng and rushed into the battle a few days ago burst into cheers again.At this time, I saw an officer wearing a dark blue military uniform climbed up the trench, pulled out a fan from his clothes as if by magic, opened it, waved it and shouted, and the soldiers in the trenches wearing the same color uniform immediately responded, and so on. three times.

"えいえい~~"

"O!"

"えいえい~~"

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Well, those who often played the glorious game in another time and space must be familiar with this set.Strictly speaking, this is a set of samurai rituals that have been handed down since the end of the Heian period, and first appeared in "The Story of the Heike".By the time of the Warring States period, there were actually many schools.

For example, if you shout before a battle, it is called "咚の声"; if you shout after victory, it is called "帝ち吹".In "Crow and Heron Battle Story", there are strict requirements on how to shout, the voice should be louder at the beginning, and then gradually become smaller.

However, if it was just a slogan, it would be fine, but a group of servants from Sendai farmers sang folk songs excitedly. It was really unbearable to hear the voice like stepping on the neck of a chicken.

No, not far away, on the defense line of the Hui'an camp composed of Chinese from the Mingxiang Society of Hui'an, a company commander in charge wiped the oil and sweat from his head, and said disdainfully: "The Japanese soldiers who lost your mother are special What a mourning!"

He immediately jumped out of the trench and yelled at the more than 100 soldiers under him: "Everyone sing with me! The warrior of the Three Kingdoms is brave~~ one, two, three, four!"

"Warrior of the Three Kingdoms is brave, Zhao Zilong is the first to be a hero in front of Changbanpo! There is also Zhang Yide, waiting in front of Dangyang Bridge, thunderbolts are heard, two or three holes in the bridge collapsed, scaring off millions of soldiers, and the five tiger generals show their prestige One, two, three, four! Yun Chang excels in martial arts, warms wine and kills Hua Xiong, shows his prestige among millions of troops, kills six generals in five passes, single-handedly travels thousands of miles, beats drums and three-way rings repeatedly"

This song was taught by the officers of the special warfare battalion, and the people in the special warfare battalion learned it from Wang Yuanfang. As for Wang Yuanfang, it goes without saying.Although there are many military songs in the Beihai Navy, such as "Manjianghong", "Three Disciplinary Songs" and so on, there are more than a dozen songs in total, but the guys in the special warfare battalion with their nostrils in the sky love this one. Therefore, as an apprentice, Hoi An soldiers must sing for everyone.

The people who would set up the camp sang happily, and their voices were high-spirited, and soon attracted several positions to sing along, and finally even the soldiers from Xiantai howled together.

You must know that the singing is about the Three Kingdoms, which is the most admired by islanders.Since "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was translated into the Japanese version of "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms" at the end of the seventeenth century, it quickly became popular among the middle and lower classes.

On a machine gun position more than 30 meters to the north of the Sendai Fan officer who is like a jumping god, two North Navy soldiers are reloading the newly emptied magazines in their spare time.The machine gunner put his eyes on the telescopic sight and observed the situation in the distance.It seems that what happened around them has nothing to do with them, but what they are muttering reveals their gossip mentality.

"I said, these two gangs are fighting again. What do you think they're up to?"

"Who knows, every time I finish playing, I feel like I'm going crazy!"

"It's the same with the Sendai soldiers. The position they set up looks like Daji. They don't look like they're fighting."

"Hey, don't look at these guys who are not tall, they are like starving ghosts reincarnated when it's time to eat."

"No! I saw a guy two days ago, and he ate ten bowls of brown rice in one meal. It was scary to watch."

The machine gunner who had been paying attention to the battlefield ahead suddenly turned his head and interjected: "Yu Deshui, our eldest brother doesn't laugh at my second brother. When he first arrived in Beihai Town, he killed six big steamed buns in one meal? If it wasn't for the nurse to let him You keep walking to digest food, you boy is afraid that you will die of hunger."

Several soldiers from the Marine Battalion from Henan couldn't help but laugh when they heard this.The machine gunner said again: "Do you think they eat too much now? Do you know what they did before they became soldiers?"

"What?"

"Repair the railway!" The machine gunner turned his head, put his eyes on the scope, and said in his mouth, "The Japanese soldiers never had a full meal before they came to Beihai Town."

"Hey, they are all poor people."

Yu Deshui decided to end this topic, lest the fellow machine gunner who was a few years older than him tell more embarrassing things about him.He took out the towel tucked around his waist to wipe off his sweat, and complained, "It's only April, and the weather can kill you with heat! Brother Ermao, we just hold our positions and don't attack. When will we be so stupid?" ?”

The machine gunner said: "What are you worrying about, and don't look at who is in charge of this battle. Just watch, maybe there will be big moves in a few days."

At this moment, on a star-shaped fortress that was once called "Fort Noordwijk" by the Dutch on the south side of Bacheng, Zhao Xin put down the binoculars in his hand and glanced at the map handed over by the staff officer.In an open space not far from the fort, there are twenty 75mm guns.Obviously, the artillery positions of the Northern Navy are located here, and the castle is the frontline headquarters.

In 1657, the Dutch East India Company built "Fort Noordwijk" to stop the frequent theft of cattle outside the city. Before the "Red Creek Massacre", the Chinese rioted and rebelled. Because the castle was isolated outside the city, the Dutch burned it down.A year later, the Dutch restored the castle, but the defenders thereafter were only responsible for the operation of the locks of the Gillion Canal.When Wang Yuanfang attacked Bacheng, because there were only seven soldiers here, he ignored it.

"Is there any news from Wen Dai's team?"

He Xiwen on the side first replied "No", then thought for a while and said, "Do you want to send another team?"

Zhao Xin shook his head and said, "No, I was too anxious. It's more than 300 miles from here to Wandong. It's not so fast."

The "Wandong" he mentioned is Bandung in another time and space.The reason why Zhao Xin didn't send troops to attack westward at Langas Betong was because he was waiting for information from Wandong.According to the news sent by Gu Lihuan three days ago, the previous governor of the VOC, William Arnold Altin, took a boat with [-] mercenaries to the Yogyakarta Sultanate in the south of West Java Island a month ago.

Both his staff and Zhao Xin speculated from this that Altin would probably lead the troops of the Yogyakarta and Solo Sultanates to attack from Wandong, because this way the marching distance was the shortest and more likely to surprise.

In 1741, Mataran Sultan "Pakubwana II" sent troops to assist the Chinese laborers who were fighting VOC and besieged Semarang together. However, facing the powerful force of VOC, they finally failed.Since then, the strength of the Kingdom of Mataland has been further weakened, and then it gave up a large area of ​​​​the Wandong area and became a territory directly under the VOC; Mataland itself was split into the Sultanate of Yogyakarta and the Sultanate of Solo by the Dutch. country.

Early yesterday morning, Zhao Xin sent out a platoon of the Special Operations Battalion. They will follow the road built by the Dutch to reconnaissance in the direction of Wandong.You must know that the Java Island in the [-]th century was full of rainforests, and most of the area was simply covered by the sun. It was difficult for the drones of the North Navy to detect the whereabouts of the enemy. The reconnaissance team could only go deep into the rainforest under the leadership of the guide. , so as to understand the specific situation of the enemy.

Again, Bacheng had insufficient troops in the past, so it never launched an attack on Wandong in the southeast. As a result, it gave the Dutch time to linger and gathered a large group of vassal states.

It is said that after the Majapahit Kingdom, which ruled the entire Java Island for more than 200 years and respected Hinduism, died in 1527 (the sixth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty), the rule of the entire Java fell into a state of fragmentation and was ruled by a large group of sultans.Except for the Banten Sultanate in the west of Bacheng and the Cirebon Sultanate in the south, which lasted for 200 years, the other sultanates have been changing the banner of the city head for these years, and they have all become vassals of VOC.

Zhao Xin will go south in person this time to completely solve the problem of Java Island.Since the sultans in eastern Java have been sitting on their buttocks for a few days, he doesn't mind cleaning them up too.However, if Beihai Town wants to completely control Java Island and Kalimantan Island in the north, it will have to invest heavily in transportation and communication lines in the future.

After leaving the frontline headquarters, surrounded by several guards, Zhao Xin boarded a small patrol boat with a machine gun on the side of the ship.This time he came to Bacheng to reveal his identity. Although it boosted the morale of the soldiers on the front line and surprised the Chinese people in Bacheng, the risk factor also increased accordingly. Every time he traveled, he would bring at least seven or eight guards with live ammunition.

Because the logistics transport ships on the Jillion Canal shuttled back and forth between Bacheng and the front line, the patrol boat could not drive too fast, and it took more than half an hour to arrive near the military control committee building.Although the military control committee implemented security control in the city after the war started, and there were armed soldiers and police patrolling everywhere on the streets, the tension in the city was not serious.

Although the combat effectiveness of the 5000 troops transferred from the Cam Ranh Bay base is not as good as that of the Beihai Navy's own troops, it is also worth comparing with who?At least in the limited understanding of the people of Bacheng, the equipment and mental state of the servant army from head to toe far surpassed the Dutch army before.

In addition, the Military Control Commission hired a large number of Chinese to repair and dig trenches, make military supplies, transport supplies, pay wages and manage food. This kind of attitude that is not bad for money is unprecedented.Many Chinese in Bacheng even hoped that the battle would last for a year or so after getting the white silver coins from Beihai Town, so that everyone could earn more.

As soon as he returned to his office, the considerate A Miao brought over the brewed tea, the temperature was just right.Zhao Xin took a sip in comfort, picked up King Duofu, who had just occupied his seat, and stroked him a few times, and the satisfied guy immediately began to hum.

When King Duofu was "abducted" by Zhao Xin, he was about two or three years old. Now that nine years have passed, he is at least 11 years old, and he has entered an advanced age.However, because A Miao took good care of her, and the residents of Beihai Town doted on her, regardless of age or sex, so apart from the fact that her hair became a little thick and rough, everything else was fine.

"Give it to me. Duofu has been a little clingy to you recently."

"No, when will it stop sticking to people? Hey~~ Do you think my posture looks like the godfather?"

Ah Miao spat softly when she heard the words, and said with a smile: "You're not even [-] yet, you don't look old at all, why just follow that old foreigner?"

The beauty smiled, and the room was full of spring, Zhao Xin couldn't help being a little dazed.Seeing Zhao Xin's gaze, Ah Miao's expression instantly became a little shy, but she quickly raised her fair and thin oval face to look at Zhao Xin, with a layer of water vapor between her brows and eyes, with a hint of charm and There is an innocence.

"Not shy but coquettish, but standing upright and showing fat~~ The longer this little girl grows, the more she will bring disaster to the country and the people."

For so many years, although Zhao Wangye "doesn't change his mind", his attitude towards A Miao is different from other people; he has always spoiled this girl like guarding a treasure, like a child and a sister, and will not let her suffer Wronged.However, his attitude is very subtle in the eyes of many people around, so A Miao is seventeen this year, and no one dares to propose marriage.

Although Shen Xuan has also hinted at it in the past two years, Zhao Xin has never made a statement.In fact, he also understood what A Miao wanted, but he really couldn't talk about it.

King Duofu, who jumped on the table, narrowed his eyes, glanced at this one, then turned his head to look at that one, and said in his heart that they are really hypocritical human beings, they are so familiar, so why bother!
The two of them stared at each other with smiles on their brows.At this time, the sun was shining outside the window, and two swifts flew over from the window sill at some point, combing each other's feathers, whispering, and chirping lightly, and the atmosphere in the room began to become a little ambiguous.

"Amy."

"Ah."

"The weather is nice today."

"Ah."

"I have something to ask you."

"Ah."

As if anticipating what the other party was going to ask, the blush on A Miao's face became more intense, and even her slender neck was slightly blush.

"this."

Just when Zhao Xin was about to pluck up the courage to speak, there was an untimely knock on the door, and the words that this guy had been brewing for a long time were held back again.