While Zhang Zhijun was receiving guests in the city, the People's Army stationed at the farm began its first sortie since landing in Java.

It turned out that spies sent by the People's Army reported that they had been attacked by natives in a Chinese settlement called Dagon, about 20 kilometers from the farm. The People's Army learned from Zhu Shoushan that this place is not strictly speaking a Chinese residential area, but a small town, about 50 kilometers away from Batavia City, because Dagon is located on the main traffic road, so it has formed a small town with the distribution and circulation of goods as the main business, but it is mostly Chinese, mainly small and medium-sized businessmen, about 2,000 people, in addition to some European businessmen and local businessmen. Many of Batavia's goods were distributed here, making Dagon very prosperous, and the Zhang family also had two shops in Dagon.

However, although Dagon was mostly Chinese, it had never been looted in the previous anti-Chinese incidents, because after the "Red Creek Massacre", the colonial authorities also realized that the Chinese exclusion was a double-edged sword, on the one hand, it stirred up contradictions between the Chinese and the natives, which was conducive to the rule of the colonial authorities; on the other hand, the Chinese exclusion would also have a great impact on Java's economy, and after the "Red Creek Massacre", Java's economy plummeted, leading to the arrest and imprisonment of Johannes Saidens, the governor of the Dutch East India Company at the time. Therefore, although the colonial authorities still needed to exclude China in order to divert contradictions and maintain their rule, they also paid great attention to controlling proportions, so that they could not cause turmoil in important areas, which was one of the reasons why there was no large-scale massacre of Chinese after the "Hongxi Massacre".

Due to the geographical location and function of Dagon, it was important for the development of Batavia, so the colonial authorities stationed a company of troops in the town to guard it. And now that this town has also been plundered by the local natives, it seems that this time the anti-Chinese incident has begun to develop in the direction of getting out of control.

In fact, this is also one of the changes caused by the East China government's behavior of protecting overseas Chinese, after the original People's Army landed, it not only made the Batavia authorities feel shocked, but also had a great impact on the local aborigines, by the battle to save the farm, caused more than 700 casualties of the indigenous tribes, caused a lot of panic, because in the past, although the indigenous people were oppressed by the Dutch colonists, but in front of the Chinese can still be superior, but now there are people who stand out for the Chinese, and at once they have killed so many locals, and there are all kinds of rumors, some say that the Qing Dynasty will send a large army to bloody Java, and there are also said that the colonial authorities have been in much agreement with the Qing Dynasty, to investigate the responsibility of the indigenous anti-Chinese, so for a while people are also panicking.

Javanese like Shasonggu, who grew up in colonial education, wanted to join forces with the colonial authorities to suppress the Chinese, but some locals, who were indigenous tribes, chose to attack Chinese-populated areas in retaliation. In order to defend the city of Batavia, the colonial authorities drained Dagon's army, which caused Dagon's guards to be empty, and a small number of police could not stop it at all, and as a result, they were broken by the armies of the two tribal organizations.

Although Li Lixin was not clear about these internal information, he immediately decided to send an army to the rescue, because Dagon is not far from the farm, within the range of soldiers, and the residents of Dagon are mainly Chinese, of course, they cannot see death without help, and through the last battle, it was found that the fighting power of the natives was very weak, although there were many people, but they were not vulnerable at all.

This time, the rescue mission was still led by Qian Guoyu, and the first company was still in charge, and a platoon left on the farm by the third company was temporarily transferred to the command of the first company, plus the company's 60 mortar platoon and the machine gun company assigned to the company, so that the total strength was a total of 6 platoons, about 240 people. At the same time, the company was equipped with three infantry radio stations to facilitate the dispatch of the battlefield, and 16 donkey horses and six carts were mobilized from the farm.

After Qian Guoyu received the order, he immediately gathered his troops and set off, and under the guidance of his guide, he marched in the direction of Dagong. There was a road between the farm and Dagon, and although the road was of average quality and potholed and not very flat, it was relatively wide, so the march was also very fast, and it took only more than an hour to reach the vicinity of the Chinese settlement.

When they were still 4 or 5 kilometers away from Dagon, they found the Chinese who had escaped from Dagon, and Qian Guoyu briefly inquired about Dagon's situation, and instructed them to flee to the farm to hide, where they could be protected. The troops had moved forward another 1 or 2 kilometers, and the number of Chinese who had fled, and thick smoke could be seen billowing ahead.

At this time, the scouts who had already reconnoitred the situation in Dagong were waiting on the side of the road, and after meeting Qian Guoyu, they reported to him the details of Dagong's situation. The robbery of the Chinese settlement is the local natives, about 5 or 600, and it is obviously organized, and now it has basically controlled the Dagon settlement, and is looting property, but the aborigines are mainly looting, to the point that there is no massacre of the Chinese, and the weapons used by the aborigines are still mainly cold weapons, with only a small amount of firepower.

The town of Dagon is arranged according to the layout pattern of a European-style town, the whole town is roughly a rectangle, in an east-west direction, there is a main street across the town, and there is a large square in the center of the town.

So Qian Guoyu immediately ordered a company to be divided into platoons, from the west side of the town, into Dagon town in three ways, and converged on the main street, and the battle was mainly to expel the native army from the town, and did not seek to kill or take prisoners, and ambushed another battle platoon, machine gun platoon, and mortar platoon on the road where the indigenous army retreated, and intercepted them after the army withdrew from Dagon. And all units used infantry radio to communicate.

After the combat mission was assigned, the various units immediately split up, and Qian Guoyu personally led a platoon as one of the routes, and when he broke through the outer blocks of Dagon, he could see corpses, bloodstains, scattered cloth, utensils, and the sound of people shouting and crying on the streets.

Qian Guoyu ordered the team to disperse, and marched from three different adjacent streets, holding a pair of Type 96 pistols, and walking a short distance with a group of soldiers, only to see several natives coming out of the room not far ahead, one by one, carrying parcels of different sizes, and some talked and laughed, but they spoke in the local dialect, and they couldn't understand what was said.

When the natives walked out of the house, they were stunned when they saw the KPA from the street, because they had never seen the KPA dressed before. Qian Guoyu immediately raised his gun to shoot, and a native fell to the ground, in fact, now Qian Guoyu is already a battalion-level officer, although he should command the battle on the front line, but he does not have to go into battle in person, but Qian Guoyu was just an ordinary soldier before he crossed, and he was promoted to battalion commander in less than three years in this era, even if it was during the war years, he was promoted rapidly, so some habits have not been changed.

At this time, several other natives reacted, but the other KPA soldiers raised their guns and shot at each other, and they all killed these soldiers in an instant.

However, the gunfire also alarmed the other natives, who came out of the rooms and alleys, and the soldiers of the People's Army shot continuously, causing the natives to fall to the ground one after another, and in a short time, more than 10 natives were killed, and the other natives were immediately frightened to find a place to hide, and some fled to the other side of the street.

But the KPA soldiers immediately rushed forward and either shot or stabbed with bayonets to kill the natives who were hiding, so in the blink of an eye, the KPA killed 6 or 7 more natives, killing all the natives in the vicinity.

At this time, some bold Chinese had already stretched out their heads from the room to visit, Qian Guoyu looked left and right, and said loudly: "Folks, everyone listens, we are the army from China, we are all Chinese, come to Java to protect Chinese, please everyone hide at home, don't come out, and wait until we drive these thugs away." ”

After finishing speaking, Qian Guoyu waved his pistol and said, "Keep going." ”

So a group of troops continued to advance, and continuously killed the natives encountered on the road, so the speed of the advance was slow, but it was steady and steady, very effective, more than 10 minutes later, this road troops advanced more than 200 meters of distance, killed more than 30 natives, and the other two roads of the People's Army is also steadily advancing. The natives also clearly felt the pressure, and they all hurried out of the looted room and gathered in the square in the center of the town.

After 20 minutes, the three KPA forces had reached the main street of the town, and by this time the indigenous army had already gathered there, so the KPA soldiers immediately sought shelter in buildings and opened fire on the natives. Most of the indigenous troops are using cold weapons, they can't resist at all, they are beaten to the ground, and there are countless casualties, although there are also a small number of indigenous people equipped with muskets, and the People's Army to shoot, but their muskets are too backward, whether it is the rate of fire or the range, are far less than the 01 rifles equipped by the People's Army, as a result, one by one by the intensive firepower of the People's Army, in a short time, most of them have been killed and wounded.

At this time, the natives also knew that they were not opponents, so they fled one after another, fleeing along the main street to the outside of the town, and the people's army did not stop them, because there was an army outside the town that was specifically responsible for blocking, so Qian Guoyu also notified all the troops to force the indigenous army out of the town, and clear the remnants of the town, and notified the blocking troops outside the town that the enemy had fled from the town.

The positions of the interdiction units were located about 3 kilometers from the town, and the combat platoon was responsible for the frontal interdiction, with the six machine guns of the machine gun platoon distributed on both sides of the interception position to form crossfire, and the mortar platoon at the rear of the position. Since the indigenous people are basically still an army in the era of cold weapons, they have no long-range attack capability at all, so there is no strike level of firepower, and all strike fire targets are concentrated within 200-300 meters in front of the position. Efforts were made to inflict a heavy blow on the indigenous armies in the shortest possible time. Then the battle platoon attacked and completely routed the indigenous army.

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Note: The Dutch East India Company was formally dissolved in 1800, and the Dutch government took over all its property and powers, and appointed a governor directly to the Java region, so that before 1800, the Dutch supreme ruler in Java was actually an employee of the Dutch East India Company, and after 1800, it was the Dutch government official.