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Chapter 1216

"For the honor of the empire, strike!"

Tachibana Tadashige raised his samurai sword obliquely upwards, commanding the samurai troops to launch an attack on the Aceh native troops stationed near Medan!

As the governor of the Tachibana family after the Warring States period, he has now become the vanguard of the Kyushu Army's invasion of Sumatra.

Dozens of warriors in armor charged forward with spears and Japanese long knives, while there were warriors in the jungle on both wings holding muskets to form crossfire, suppressing the archers of Aceh!
The armor of the samurai may be useless in the face of the increasingly powerful muskets, and it also affects the speed of action, but in the face of the cold weapon troops in Aceh, the armor of the samurai has a strong defense.

"I have to say that these warriors who have experienced war are superior to the recruits recruited by our No.12 Corps in cold weapon combat and response to battle, especially the quality of the auxiliary soldiers recruited from Nanyang. If you consider the individual quality and cost , These mercenaries are the best candidates to work hard, while the local sources of soldiers in Nanyang are slightly inferior." Huang Degong used a telescope to observe the attack of the warrior mercenaries on the indigenous troops of Aceh.

In Huang Degong's opinion, the Dongying soldiers who were most influenced by the civilization of the Central Plains and experienced the baptism of war were much easier to use than the soldiers from the Nanyang Islands.

On the premise that the artillery has not been used, just the charge of spears under the cover of muskets caused the local troops of Aceh to be defeated in the encounter.

The defeated Aceh soldiers disappeared into the jungle, and Tadamo Tachibana stopped the samurai mercenaries who wanted to pursue.

Although these warriors easily defeated their enemies in close combat, they were unaware of the treacherous terrain that the jungle might present.

Hundreds of warriors swept the battlefield with swords, and the soldiers of Aceh had almost nothing of value on them.Mercenaries buried the bodies of Aceh soldiers and gathered them together again.

"These enemies are really demoralized. They have already fled before we have fought much."

"Compared to the battle we had in Osaka, this level is not much different from the warm-up."

The samurai felt relieved to have expelled the local troops of Aceh from Medan.

Compared with fighting with the Kyushu Army, they felt that it was too easy to deal with the natives of Aceh.

"Don't underestimate the enemy. This is just the native soldiers led by their local nobles. If it is their king teacher, he will appear and disappear in the jungle, and there will be tropical diseases and snake plague, which is quite a headache." Huang Degong reminded.

Medan is still a small mountain village in the lowlands, with only hundreds of villagers.

The local villagers panicked when they found a strange army appearing in their village.

The number of this army is dozens of times that of their village. Some of them are wearing dark gray military uniforms, and some are wearing armor.

Horses and mules dragged luggage, ammunition and other supplies, as well as field artillery they had never seen before.

The frame on which the artillery is placed has two ruts on the ground, and the artilleryman has to personally push the frame of the field artillery forward.Some auxiliary soldiers with sickles were going to clear the dirt road overgrown with thorns.

At this time, the civilization of Sumatra was still in a backward state and lacked good roads. It was undoubtedly a huge challenge to march on such dirt road conditions.

As Huang Degong said to Tachibana Zhongmao, the challenges they faced were not only the indigenous troops of Aceh, but also the elite kings and the harsh environment.

"Surround them all, and don't let anyone go!"

The samurai who served as the vanguard screamed one by one, and surrounded the villagers of Medan Village with samurai swords and Japanese long swords.

"Your Excellency, do you want to kill all the people in this village?" Tachibana Tadamo asked Huang Degong for instructions.

"Detain them all. We need a large amount of labor to burn the jungle here, open up farmland and plantations." Huang Degong is not a soft-hearted person. He fell to the No. .12 There are thousands of enemies under the iron hooves of the Corps.

But he didn't use the head to measure military merit, but what purpose he wanted to achieve.

One of his current missions is to build the city of Medan and open up plantations nearby, and the other is to go to the Pangkaran Susu area to search for oil, the future energy source.

"Imprison them all, confiscate all their irons including their kitchen knives, and prevent them from possessing weapons to resist us! No one is allowed to rob at will without permission, otherwise they will all be executed, and nothing will be heard." Tachibana Tadamo shouted.

The vicious warriors are undoubtedly the best candidates to carry out this order. They quickly searched the village for kitchen knives, sickles, hoes and other iron tools, and detained the villagers of Medan Village in a small area of ​​the village.

"The terrain in this area is flat. Although there are many jungles and bushes, if all the jungles are burned, it may be possible to open up good land. There is also a port, which can communicate with Malacca." Tachibana Tadamo saw the Medan area at a glance potential.

"With this piece of land lost, the queen of Aceh must lead the king's division from the royal city and go south along the coastline, thinking about driving us away from Medan. They adopted the model of recruiting farmers from the noble territories of various places to serve as combat soldiers. So it will take a while to form a large army to go south."

Huang Degong and several staff officers of the corps placed a brief topographic map of Sumatra on the ground, and stretched out their hands to make gestures on the topographic map.

"If it takes a lot of time for them to recruit soldiers, isn't the situation more beneficial to us? We can use this time to build a fortress here and find out the surrounding terrain. When their army arrives, we will definitely be able to beat them. Bleeding." Tadamo Tachibana also had the opportunity to discuss with their group.

But a staff officer shook his head and pointed to a village 120 miles northwest of Medan Village: "When the queen summons her army, we can't waste time in Medan, but will send a team to Pangkalan Susu to find Oil. And Pangkalan Susu is the place where the queen of Aceh must pass when she regains Medan. That is to say, the place where we encountered the king of Aceh was not in Medan, but in Pangkalan Susu.”

"Then we should immediately send a team to build a fortress in Pangkalan Susu on a troop carrier. While looking for oil, we should prepare to resist the army of the Queen of Aceh. It is best to completely defeat the Queen of Aceh and capture or behead her." When the time comes, there will be no leader in Aceh, and there will definitely be people who want to use our power to seize power, and then Aceh will be at our mercy." Huang Degong said.

When a ruthless person like Tachibana Tadamo heard Huang Degong's decision, he couldn't help but feel sorry for Aceh, an indigenous kingdom. The opponent's king had been beheaded by the No.12 Corps in the previous conflict, and now even the king's wife is not spared. .

(End of this chapter)