The wind blows from the South Sea

Chapter 127 Capture the new port

With his eyes wandering, Feng Guohui saw upwards the Indochina Peninsula. Now, with the Governor's Palace in Saigon as the core, France is constantly invading north and west through military power to expand the scope of its colonies.

The Kingdom of Laos, the Kingdom of Cambodia, and the Kingdom of Vietnam were all targeted for colonial destruction, and even the Kingdom of Siam was among them.

They were both robbers and old-fashioned colonists. The British could see through the Frenchman's little thoughts at a glance.

In order to add a protective layer to the eastern part of the British Indian subcontinent, the British launched two colonial wars of invasion of Burma, occupying and basically controlling northern Burma.

The entire Burma was the buffer zone set by the British for France to expand in the direction of Indochina and continue its westward invasion.

In the west of the Indian subcontinent, Britain completely occupied this mountainous country in West Asia through its second invasion of Afghanistan, completing the final map of the colony of the Indian subcontinent.

The occupation of Afghanistan was a strategic move to prevent Tsarist Russia from moving south.

The purpose was to erect an insurmountable mountain wall to restrict Tsarist Russia's power within Central Asia. It could neither reach the borders of the Indian subcontinent's colonies, nor could it hope to invade Tsarist Russia's power southward to the warm Indian Ocean ports.

Have to admit

Half a month later
1860/1/19

In accordance with the unified military order of the Nanyang Army Commander-in-Chief's Office
The Eastern Corps and the Western Corps adopted a step-by-step offensive strategy. The army attacked in several directions, destroying all villages and killing all the resisters.

The three main combat divisions of the Nanyang Army dispatched most of their troops. The Surabaya Division joined the Yanwang Division with a total of more than 6000 troops to form the Eastern Corps, which fought from east to west towards the Anzhu area.

The British's geostrategic vision is unique in the world today, far exceeding that of other great powers.

The captured young indigenous men were all thrown into hard labor camps and coal and iron mines, which greatly relieved the stretched labor force in the coal and iron mines and added abundant manpower.

At first sight
Countless corpses were lying on the vast fields on the edge of the city. More than 30 people from the Surabaya Division of the Nanyang Army, led by Feng Guohui himself, formed more than company-level suppression teams and surrounded the town of Xinbutou from all sides.

Feng Guohui withdrew his gaze thoughtfully. To the weak Nanyang Army, the British Empire was a huge and powerful existence that was difficult to reach and could only be viewed from a distance, not played with.

His eyes returned to Java Island again, and finally stopped near the Anju area in Central Java. This place is located between Yanwang City and Solo City controlled by the Nanyang Army. Traffic has been cut off due to the riots of the indigenous tribes.

Before facing the white Dutch colonial army, we can no longer leave such a big disaster in the rear.

As a result, Solo City became an isolated city in the hinterland of Central Java, and the defense situation was not optimistic.

Such an arrangement left no chance for the rioting indigenous tribes to escape.

Feng Guohui was dressed in military uniform and looked at the battlefield in front of him with a cold expression. The pungent smell of blood mixed with gunpowder smoke lingered over the city, and dense volleys of gunfire sounded one after another.

new port

The Semarang Division combined some mobile forces, and more than 3700 people in the entire army formed the Western Corps. After moving south to Solo City, we used Solo City as the base to advance and launched an encirclement and suppression attack from west to east.

These rioting indigenous tribes in the Anzhu area are the grindstone for the third expansion of the Nanyang Army, which is about to launch a comprehensive encirclement and suppression plan called "Operation Hurricane"...

The Nanyang Army, wearing khaki military uniforms, organized into companies of more than a hundred people, was conducting a four-way encirclement and suppression of Xinbu, killing the local indigenous tribes.

As the third expansion of the Nanyang Army is gradually completed, weapons are installed and put in place, and the divisions are also organized, it is time to show their fangs.

In addition to the sulfur mines, coal mines, more than 20 brickyards, and more than 40 coking coal kilns, the total number of indigenous hard labor prisoners thrown in reached more than 40,000, and it was overcrowded for a while.

This is an important market town more than 40 kilometers south of Anzhu. It is the core area of ​​more than a dozen surrounding indigenous tribes and has a population of more than 3 people.

You can see a large number of tribal warriors armed with broadswords and bamboo spears pouring out of the town, and then they fell to the ground like wheat after being fired by Nanyang Army soldiers.

The Landoshan Iron Mine alone has hired more than 12000 strong indigenous slave laborers.

Seeing no enemy, the indigenous tribe warriors fled back to the town one after another, and the soldiers immediately covered them up.

The soldiers of the Nanyang Army had already invaded the town, and more than a dozen plumes of thick black smoke were rising from the town.

This is the simplest and most effective way for soldiers to clear out enemies hiding in indigenous shacks and straw-roofed mud houses and set fire to force them out.

"Reporting to the commander-in-chief, the Yanwang Division has successfully captured the town of Mozokerto and is clearing out the remaining enemies. Please give instructions."

"The clearing will be carried out as planned, and the surrounding indigenous tribes will be thoroughly swept away. After completion, we will advance westward and report developments at any time."

"As you command, Commander."

The ordering officer raised his hand in a military salute, then hurriedly ran to the horse not far away, turned over and rode on it, and then rode away quickly with his whip raised.

Feng Guohui looked away indifferently. The "Hurricane Military Operation" he presided over was aimed at clearing out the population of dozens of indigenous tribes east of Solo City and turning it into a pure land where Chinese immigrants could live and work in peace and contentment.

This large-scale military operation will increase the land and mountains under his name by nearly 3 square kilometers. The hinterland of Java Island, which is more than kilometers from Yanwang City to Solo City, will be wiped out, and there will be no future troubles. .

Except for the indigenous warriors who were killed, all the other indigenous men would enter the hard labor camp.

In addition to mines and coal kilns, the hard labor camps are also responsible for building thousands of kilometers of roads in Central Java, erecting hundreds of bridges, reclaiming barren mountains and wastelands, and planting land in the form of collective farms.

Before the new Chinese immigrants arrived, such a large area of ​​land could not be left uncultivated.

Young indigenous women of childbearing age will be given priority as wives and concubines for army soldiers, and the excess will be sold in the market. Anyway, there are many Chinese male immigrants pouring into the Surabaya area. Even if you have no money, you can bring back an Aboriginal woman on credit.

Aboriginal women can help reclaim wasteland, feed livestock, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and poultry, fetch water for cooking, and warm beds at night.

Every male Chinese immigrant who enters the Surabaya area will soon start a family under such preferential conditions, reclaim wasteland and have children.

Therefore, although there are only more than 20 Chinese in the Surabaya area, their family population has reached nearly 50.

Many Chinese immigrants with slightly better conditions have more than one woman in their family.

When Feng Guohui inspected Tieshan Town, the most common thing he saw were women with big bellies. The same was true in Surabaya City and Yanwang City.

From now on for a long time to come, the population under the Nanyang Army will enter a period of explosive growth, which makes midwives extremely popular.

Entering the new year

The number of new Chinese immigrants from all over the mainland and Southeast Asia is gradually increasing. According to statistics from major cities such as Semarang and Surabaya, the number of new immigrants every month has exceeded 7,000.

The suppressive war to suppress the indigenous population in Central Java resulted in a large number of indigenous casualties and left dozens or hundreds of villages and towns inaccessible.

But the large influx of Chinese immigrants will soon fill this manpower gap.

Feng Guohui believes that the temporary labor pain is completely acceptable.

After half a day

Feng Guohui's wartime headquarters entered the city and settled in an indigenous noble manor with a strong Borobudur style.

Along the way, I saw soldiers with sharp spears, driving forward large groups of captured indigenous men and women. They roughly separated the men and women in the city square to form teams with different destinations.

All kinds of cries and shouts were mixed together, and occasionally clear gunshots and screams were heard. Some indigenous men and women who did not want to separate were stabbed to death on the spot.

Feng Guohui turned away with a cold expression, and the other mid-level and senior officers were basically unmoved.

The army itself is a violent organization. Don't expect the army to treat the indigenous tribesmen gently. That is simply impossible.

Having experienced the unprecedentedly cruel Taiping War, all these things are just childish in front of me.

Since the launch of Operation Hurricane, the Nanyang Army, which experienced one-sided bloody battles, has grown rapidly and is increasingly moving closer to the regular army with strict discipline and high combat effectiveness.

Regardless of combat or clearing operations, the efficiency has increased significantly.

This is exactly what Feng Guohui wanted to see. He hoped to temper the army through war to meet more severe challenges. This goal was achieved.

In the manor of the indigenous nobles
There were more than 170 indigenous men tied up, some old and some young, but most of them were gorgeously dressed. They were obviously the core figures of the aboriginal rebellion, such as nobles or chiefs.

From the officer's report, Feng Guohui knew that these were the leaders of the indigenous tribes around the new port, or the traditional indigenous princes and nobles. They were all people of great status.

Feng Guohui waved his hand nonchalantly and ordered, "Take them out and deal with them. Remember to avoid some other indigenous prisoners. So as not to cause unnecessary commotion and cause additional trouble."

"As you command, Commander."

The officers under his command understood the order and left. They had dealt with similar things many times and were quite familiar with the process.

The soldiers pushed and shoved these indigenous nobles and chiefs out and to remote areas in the countryside, where they were all killed with bayonets.

After solving them, pile them together and set them on fire, and the future troubles will be completely eliminated.

These indigenous noble leaders were personally dealt with by the Nanyang Army, while the corpses scattered around the city were collected by the indigenous prisoners, piled with wood, and burned collectively.

to evening
Dozens of raging fires were burning around the city, lighting up almost half of the sky. The strong smell of burnt barbecue was in the air, making people feel very uncomfortable.

The tired soldiers sat on the street, turning a blind eye to the large blood stains around them. They drank soup from the iron lunch boxes provided by the army and ate the big cakes in their hands with relish.

early war
The situation where you can't eat and keep vomiting after killing someone is almost invisible.

As time passed, the soldiers became numb.

This is a distinctive feature of a strong fighting force. They can sit on a battlefield littered with corpses and eat without affecting their appetite at all.

After experiencing a tough battle in the new port city, which was almost a one-sided massacre, it was difficult for the indigenous swords and bamboo spears to pose a threat to the Nanyang Army soldiers.

The few casualties were negligible, and most of them were caused by sneak attacks while clearing towns. During the frontal field battle, Nanyang officers and soldiers suffered almost no casualties.

After a day or two of rest, the army will divide its forces into several groups to conduct a dragnet sweep of the surrounding indigenous villages and towns, completely wiping out the indigenous population in the area.

This kind of repetitive combat mission is familiar to everyone from company officers to grassroots soldiers.

Killing, clearing, killing again, clearing again, and so on...

(End of this chapter)