Chapter 206: The Rules of War (1)

After confirming that Lin Dihan was killed, Li Lixin did not kill the two women, but immediately ordered a retreat, led the troops to withdraw from Lin Dihan's mansion, and ordered several other people's armies to withdraw from Lin Dihan's mansion.

After Li Lixin led the troops to retreat to the street, the sky had already brightened, and Li Lixin looked left and right, only to see that the street was full of corpses of villagers, and at this time, the village was full of fires, and some houses were even completely burned.

After the other troops were withdrawn from Lin Dihan's mansion, they simply met with each other, and it turned out that several other troops also had their own gains, killing Lin Dihan's two sons, Li Lixin was also very satisfied with this result, the strategic goal of this sortie had been achieved, and it would be useless to kill and wound more, so Li Lixin also decided to withdraw from Utina Village. Therefore, Li Lixin pulled out his flare gun and fired three yellow flares into the air in succession, signaling the retreat of the entire village.

So the troops broke away from the battle, withdrew from the village of Utina, and gathered in the woods of the overnight hosts, and after the counting, a total of 1 KPA soldier and 3 farm guards were killed in the battle, but the bodies were brought out, which was also the first soldier to be killed by the army, and there were 5 farm guards missing, and no one knew where they went. After all, the training time of farm guards is still short, so it is inevitable that they will not be able to keep up with the KPA in the operation. More than 20 others were injured.

However, such casualties are already minimal, and the results of the battle can no longer be counted, but the killing of Lin Dihan's father and son is already the biggest result. Therefore, Li Lixin was also very satisfied with the result, and waited for another half an hour until two missing farm guards came to him, and according to them, they saw the other two missing farm guards killed by the villagers, and one person did not know his whereabouts.

Li Lixin also decided not to wait any longer, so he ordered the whole army to retreat and return to the farm with the remains of the dead soldiers.

The whole battle took about one and a half hours, and the other four villages of the Sukka tribe did not move at all. In fact, the other four villages are not far from Utina Village, the farthest is only 4 or 5 kilometers, and the closest is only more than 2 kilometers, so it is impossible not to know what happened in Utina Village, but in the first few battles, most of the soldiers recruited from Suka Village came from the other 4 villages, and each village lost a lot of labor, and the people who fled back vigorously preached the horror of the People's Army, and as a result, these four villages had a lot of fear of the People's Army.

In addition, within the tribe, it is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and there are also contradictions, the tribal elite represented by Lin Dihan basically lives in Utina Village, while the other four villages are tribal civilians, and the two sides are naturally opposites, but they can still be consistent in terms of external aspects. However, in the recent three consecutive sorties, not only did they not gain anything at all, but they suffered heavy losses, and it is impossible to say that the villagers of the four villages have no grievances. Therefore, although they knew that the village of Utina had been attacked, the villagers of the four villages did not want to come to the rescue at all, and although there were people in two villages who also came forward to organize, few people responded, so they had to give up.

Later, after the investigation, a total of more than 500 people died in the village of Utina, and the three of the chief Lindihan and his son all died, which not only greatly damaged the vitality of the Suka tribe, but also left a situation where there was no successor, and as a result, in less than two years, the Suka tribe was divided by several surrounding tribes.

After returning to the farm, the People's Army was warmly welcomed by the Chinese on the farm, because this was a rare and major revenge attack on the indigenous people by the Javanese Chinese, so most of the Chinese felt that they were breathing a sigh of relief for themselves, and the People's Army with a strength of more than 200 people actually picked a tribe, which also made the Javanese Chinese more confident in the People's Army. And to the fallen KPA soldiers,

However, the two commanders, Li Lixin and Qian Guoyu, were not easy, because of the new problem that arose in this battle, that is, how to find a convincing reason for themselves to convince the soldiers of the civilians of hostile countries or forces, but this problem was not something that this People's Army unit could solve, so Li Lixin also reported the situation to the Qingdao side and asked the Qingdao side to find a way to solve it.

The next day, Li Lixin found a captain from among the captives of the Dutch Navy and asked him to bring him a letter to Governor Rosburu, confirming to him that the KPA was responsible for the attack on the Suka tribe, intending to report the persecution of the Javanese Chinese by the Fuka tribe, and warning the indigenous tribes of Java to immediately stop the persecution of the Javanese Chinese, otherwise the KPA would retaliate, as the Sukka tribe was an example.

After receiving the letter from the KPA, the Dutch colonial government could not help but be greatly shocked, the KPA's methods were severe, and the actions were indeed far beyond the expectations of the colonial government, and the entire colonial government could not help but be worried and hurried, who knew what more drastic actions the KPA would take in the next step. However, after consultation, the colonial government decided to tell the British about the incident.

Although I know that the two sides broke up unhappily at the last meeting, now the colonial government still needs to rely on Britain after all, and there is still a glimmer of hope for Britain, after all, Java is really in chaos, and it is not a good thing for Britain. Therefore, the colonial government hoped that the British fleet would come forward to suppress the overseas Chinese and make their behavior a little more restrained.

After receiving the report from the colonial government, Hamilton, the commander of the British fleet, was silent for a long time and did not speak, because on the second day after the British fleet arrived in Java, there was an incident in which the overseas Chinese took the initiative to attack the Suka tribe, which was clearly a slap in the face of the British, and also told the British that the overseas Chinese did not take the arrival of the British fleet seriously at all, and they would shoot when they should shoot, and they would hit whoever they wanted. This also means that the situation in Java is indeed in danger of getting out of control, after all, if overseas Chinese attack the indigenous tribes of Java at will, it will inevitably plunge Java into chaos, which is not good for the British.

It's just that Hamilton doesn't have any good solution now, and it is impossible to ask the colonial government to stop the anti-Chinese action, which is not because the colonial government is unwilling, in fact, the colonial government also wants to stop immediately, but once the anti-Chinese action starts, it is difficult to stop it, because the main force of the anti-Chinese is the local indigenous people, and the colonial government's ability to control the local area is very limited, and the colonial government cannot force the indigenous tribes to stop the anti-Chinese behavior, which will inevitably offend the local forces in Java.

It is even more impossible to ask overseas Chinese to refrain from their actions, unless Britain directly intervenes and goes to war with the People's Army, but this is the most unfavorable situation for Britain.

In this case, Hamilton can only wait and see what happens, patiently waiting for the situation to change, but there is one bottom line that cannot be broken, that is, overseas Chinese must not attack Batavia.

For the next three days, the two sides were at peace, and the colonial government did its best to gather troops from all over the country to prepare for the battle with the People's Army, and the troops from all over the country reached Batavia one after another, gathering a total of more than 3,500 soldiers. The colonial government's entire regular army in Java is only more than 6,000 people, of course, the vast majority of them are Javanese, but after all, they are regular soldiers, have received formal military training, and their weapons and equipment are also the mainstream weapons in the world, so their combat effectiveness is far stronger than that of the indigenous tribes.

The colonial government was also very satisfied with this kind of force, believing that the strength had almost accumulated and could launch an attack on the farm, and the only problem that needed to be solved was to prevent the KPA Navy from attacking Batavia from the sea while attacking the farm, although the British warships were stationed in the port of Batavia, and they had already stated that they would not allow overseas Chinese to attack from the sea, but it was also necessary to communicate with the British again to determine the bottom line of the British fleet.

So the colonial government sent an intention to the British fleet to negotiate, but the British fleet replied to the colonial government, the original British fleet of the follow-up fleet will arrive in Batavia tomorrow, this fleet consists of a total of 14 warships, including 9 warships, 5 transport ships, and the core of the fleet is two old man class battleships, the Glory, Albion, two centurion-class battleships, the Centurion, the Balre. With the arrival of these 4 battleships, together with the existing Old Man Star and the Ocean, the British fleet concentrated 6 battleships, and the strength exceeded that of the German Far East Fleet two years earlier. Therefore, Hamilton suggested that the colonial government wait until the British fleet had arrived before negotiating.

Although the British fleet will not take the initiative to help the colonial government fight, if its strength increases, it can not only suppress the navy of the People's Army, but also form a huge deterrent force for the People's Army.

Early the next morning, Hamilton led five British warships out of port to meet the British follow-up fleet, and the colonial government, in order to show its welcome to the British fleet, also sent the Amsterdam to leave the port with the British fleet, but kept a certain distance from the British fleet.

After leaving the port, after sailing northwest for a distance of more than ten kilometers, you can see the image of a warship in the distance, and gradually closer, you can see the British rice flag and the British Royal Navy flag fluttering on the mast. Hamilton's fleet also rushed to join the other side and formed a large fleet.

Herwig couldn't help but feel a lot of feelings in his heart, with the strength of the British fleet, it was completely easy to defeat the People's Army fleet, if the Netherlands also had such a fleet, how good it would be, but unfortunately the glorious era of the "sea coachman" was gone, and he could only beg for the protection of the British fleet, thinking of this, Herwig couldn't help but sigh, and ordered the Amsterdam to greet the other party's flagship, and soon received a reply from the other party. Helwig ordered the warships to turn around and lead the way for the British fleet.

But just then, a warning came from the lookout that an unknown fleet had been spotted in the north. Hervig hurriedly looked north, and sure enough, at the junction of the sea and the sky, the masts of more than a dozen warships appeared.