Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 426 Destroying the Aboriginals
At this time, the country of Java was also known as the Majapahit Dynasty. For the convenience of reading, it is directly referred to as the country of Java. The country of Java was originally considered to be a large country in Southeast Asia that occupied the entire territory from the East Indies to Bali.

But later, with the arrival of the red horse ghost, that is, after the Dutch colonial forces entered the east of the Indian Ocean.

Sumatra and most of the west of Java Island have been occupied by Dutch colonists, and even the important town of Java, Jayagarda, has also fallen into the hands of the red ghosts, and the red ghosts established the Dutch East India Company here .

At this time, Surabaye was still under the control of the Java State, and it was also the current capital of the Java State.

At this time, Mu Shuo Village, which the Ming army had arrived at, was still far away from Surabaya.

The closest Java town to Mushuo Village is Cirebon, which is the first gateway to Surabaya, the capital of Java.

The area from Mushuo Village to Cirebon is full of tall tropical jungles. For the era of lack of antibiotics, the miasma here is the deadliest weapon in the jungle.

It is precisely because of this that the Western colonists, the Red Fan ghosts, did not expand to Cirebon, and only the local indigenous army can enter this dead zone.

The [-] native Javanese army gathered in an attempt to annihilate the first brigade of the South China Sea Fleet was defeated by the fourth army and immediately retreated into this jungle. Can take advantage like a fish in water and counterattack the enemy.

However, it was not too difficult for the Fourth Army of the Ming Imperial Guard at this time.

Because from the beginning, most of the backbone of the Fourth Army of the Imperial Guard were recruited from tropical or subtropical regions such as Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi, and were accustomed to living in the jungle since childhood.

Therefore, for this kind of steamer-like jungle world, most officers and soldiers can still adapt.

What's more, the Fourth Army has been preparing for future jungle operations from the very beginning, so it has conducted jungle training in Yunnan for half a year before that.

Lu Xiangyu did not divide his troops to occupy most of the territory of Java at the fastest speed by attacking from multiple routes, but directly led the entire Fourth Army into Cirebon, and tried his best to break through all the strongholds on the road to Surabaya. In order to achieve the goal of destroying the enemy's vital forces to the greatest extent in the shortest possible time, and occupy Surabaya, the capital of Java, first, so that it loses its center.

Of course, the coastal strongholds still have to be occupied by the navy. The task of the South China Sea Fleet is to block the coastline, and to guard against the red ghosts in the west and the Fulang robots in Luzon in the northeast, so as to prevent them from getting involved and interfering in the conflict between Ming and Java. military war between.

Now it is the rainy season, and there is plenty of rainfall on Java Island. The soldiers of the Fourth Army who marched in the jungle did not wear dry clothes for a day. They even took off their military shoes and replaced them with pre-prepared straw sandals. It is more convenient than army shoes to walk in the thick forest, and at least it will not cause blisters in the shoes to swell the feet.

The most important thing to beware of in the dense forest is the guerrilla warfare of these Javanese indigenous troops. They will suddenly appear like ghosts, and shoot poisonous arrows or darts at you, making you hard to defend, or directly Set a trap.

The fourth army's response is to form various teams of Yunnan-Guizhou officers and soldiers who are good at exploring traps to explore the way ahead, and at the same time use binoculars to conduct surveys. Once they find the figure of the indigenous army, they will shoot first, and immediately when they encounter traps. Make a good sign.

Even Lu Xiangyu, the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Army, specially issued an order that if the investigation encountered a large number of indigenous troops, they would come back and report immediately, and there was no need to eliminate them. On the contrary, the Ming army would bypass them and try to reach the well as quickly as possible. Wencheng.

There are many soldiers born in the Yunguichuan area of ​​the Fourth Army. Although most of them are thin and short, they have strong talents in scouting. Most of them are as sharp as apes in the mountains. muskets (pistol archetype), giving them an advantage over native armies in the jungle.

Therefore, the Fourth Army was able to pass through the jungle in just four or five days and reached the city of Cirebon at the cost of no more than a dozen casualties.

Except for two of the dozen or so people who were accidentally attacked by the natives, the other eight were all sick due to miasma.

However, even so, when the Fourth Army arrived under the city of Cirebon, it still surprised the Javanese defenders in Cirebon. They did not expect the speed of the Ming army to be so fast.

Therefore, these defenders were caught off guard. After a round of shelling, the city walls of Cirebon collapsed directly, and the Fourth Army easily occupied the first gate known as Surabaya.

The news that Cirebon fell within just ten days made the King of Java very astonished and very angry. For the safety of the capital Surabaya, he had to order the indigenous army to seize back to Cirebon immediately.

This fell right into the arms of Lu Xiangyu, the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Army. After learning that a large number of indigenous troops gathered in front of Cirebon, Lu Xiangyu did not immediately retreat from Cirebon and continue marching towards Surabaya. Three days in Cirebon.

In these three days, Lu Xiangyu will use firearms to kill these indigenous troops.

However, in fact, less than a day after the fierce battle, the gathered indigenous army did not take the initiative to attack Cirebon, but retreated to Pumigado in disregard of the king's order.

The king of Java was also very helpless. He had to continue to urge his army to defend the second point east of Cirebon, which is the second point guarding the country Surabaya.

However, at this time, the Fourth Army was not in a hurry to attack Pumijiado. Lu Xiangyu was carrying out Zhu Youxiao's will, that is, to wipe out the natives of this place without occupying a prosperous place in Java. A quarter will do.

Lu Xiangyu is doing this now. This method is very cruel, but it is also a punishment for these criminals who once massacred the Han people.

According to Lu Xiangyu's plan, just one day of massacre would leave less than a quarter of the remaining indigenous people in Cirebon, but in fact, blood flowed into rivers within a day.

These formerly arrogant natives never imagined that there would be a day when they would be killed so cruelly.

Although the soldiers of the Fourth Army are good at fighting in the jungle, most of them are not wild enough. Now that they are forced to train most of the natives to kill, it can also add some bloodiness to the soldiers of the Fourth Army.

News of the massacre of most of the natives of Cirebon also reached Pumijaya.

In this way, the defenders of Pumijiaya had to defend the city with all their strength, but even if they defended the city with all their strength, it was nothing in front of the Fourth Army of the Imperial Guard.

When attacking Pumijiaya, the Fourth Army of the Praetorian Guards directly surrounded Pumijiaya, and did not adopt the method of encircling three parts and one missing at the root. What they wanted was that these natives could fight to the end.

But what Lu Xiangyu didn't expect was that as soon as the artillery fired the first base shell, a white flag was hung in the city.

(End of this chapter)