Chapter 103: The Suffering of the Chinese in Nanyang
The Malays began to line up, but Ye Kai walked to the back, and now it was decided that the Ye family would be ordered to read one, and even Ye Fulai, a fat man who was panting when he walked, also stood in the queue with his chest and belly, he wisely gave Ye Kai the command of the army, and the war was not a joke.
Ye Kai's gaze swept over the faces of all the Ye family members, and they all looked at Ye Kai with a little excitement.
It is these people who have worked hard to come from the mainland thousands of miles to open up, and the hardships they have endured and the sins they have suffered over the years are unimaginable to ordinary people.
They were not accepted by the Qing government, and were called the Bad People, which means bad, stupid, and bad, and they were also hostile to the local natives, and were treated as fat pigs and leeks by the white colonists.
But it is these people who have been humiliated, in the national revolution more than 100 years later, they are the group that supports the revolutionaries the most, and there are 278 Chinese among the 72 martyrs of Huanghuagang, most of whom are Malaysian Chinese like the Ye family!
Sun Guo's father once said that overseas Chinese are the mother of the revolution, which is definitely not a compliment, but a fact, and so on to the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, overseas Chinese have donated money, and even directly returned to China to resist Japan, among which there are many rich second generations with noble net worth.
Thinking of this, Ye Kai's eyes moistened, he stuck the big knife in his hand into the ground, and solemnly bowed to these people.
"Dear clansmen, fellow comrades, we are thousands of miles away, far away from our ancestors who came to this wild land, in order to mix up food, how many hardships we have gone through, only we people know!
Looking north of the homeland, the Qing court regarded us as a bad people and persecuted us, and in this Malay land, these black monkeys bullied us in every way, today, is the opportunity for our Ye family to take revenge!
Hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land by the Tani River, countless treasures in the Sultan's palace, as long as these Malays on the opposite side are defeated, these will be our Ye family!
King Siam I has decided to make the patriarch of the Ye family the position of vice governor of Pattani, and today I assure you that whoever has the greatest merit will have a share of the official positions below the vice governor! ”
A wave of grief and indignation floated among the Ye family, to be honest, there are few good people in the Ye family standing in front of Ye Kai now!
It is not after 1840 that there are not so many poor piglets who have been sold to Nanyang, and most of those who go to Nanyang at this time are those who can't stay in their hometowns, can't stand poverty, or simply commit crimes.
Among them, there are pirates who have gone ashore, bandits who wash their hands, profiteers, hooligans, cultists, party members, and even more who have been abducted and deceived, but now, they all have only one name, that is, Nanyang Chinese, Nanyang Chinese who have been excluded by all sides.
"Fourth uncle! Aren't you going to be a prefectural magistrate? Today, as long as everyone in the six rooms dares to fight, Ling Yin of Yelan County will be yours! Ye Kai smiled and said to the six rooms and four uncles who were some official fans.
"Is there really a county order? Shu Wu, don't laugh with the fourth uncle, I'm ready to risk my life to do it today! The fourth uncle shook the waist knife in his hand and shouted loudly.
"Fourth uncle, not only is there a county order, but there is also fertile land by the Tani River to divide, and there are tens of thousands of Malay slaves for you to choose!"
The Thais are now practicing slavery, and Ye Kai and Wiche Phraya have already discussed that all Malays in Pattani, except for a small number of Queen Quinnon, will become slaves.
Historically, the Thais did not make the Malays here slaves, because at that time, the Pattani Ye family was in civil strife and there was no one to cooperate, which led to the Thais to adopt a policy of appeasement towards the Malays of Pattani.
At the same time, the historical Thais did not control all of Pattani so quickly, and the Malays surrendered and rebelled, until 1832, after four Pattani Wars, and then signed an agreement with the British to divide Pattani, Thailand got two-thirds of the territory of Pattani, and at this time they really fully controlled here.
But in this time and space, Ye Kai did not die, but also became a traverser, and the Ye family did not have civil strife because Ye Fulai had no successor, so the Thais would advance fifty years in advance and get a completed Pattani, but this Pata year needs to be shared with the Ye family and all Chinese.
"Good! I can't imagine that my Ye Laosi can still be a master, and there are servants to serve this, Shu Wu, don't worry, the fourth uncle will take the lead with the six rooms, unless the masters of the six rooms are all dead, otherwise they will definitely follow you to defeat the Malays! ”
"That's good! Ladies and gentlemen, everyone will follow me and lay down a piece of the country for the Ye family, if you die in battle today, your wife, children and parents will be supported by the clan, if you don't die, in the future, this wealth, with me Ye Shuwu, you will have a share! It is time to take revenge and get rich! Ye Kai raised the big knife in his hand and shouted.
"Take revenge and get rich! Take revenge and get rich! The morale has been completely boosted, and the people of the Chaye family also shouted loudly, and they all regarded this battle as fighting for themselves.
Compared with the Ye family who raised their arms and shouted, the Malays seemed to be much more silent, they had been away from their families for almost a month, and they fled several times in embarrassment, and the mental pressure was very great!
Ibrahim asked the imams in the army to take the lead in chanting the Blue Sutra in an attempt to boost morale, but it turned out to be a bit pathetic.
"Forward!" Ye Kai brandished a big knife and commanded the Ye family's team to start pressing forward, the front was all flintlock pistols, originally Ye Kai only had more than a hundred, but Ye Fulai collected hundreds for him from everywhere, and captured hundreds from the Bugis, and now there are almost eight hundred.
The soldiers of the Ye family were lined up in four rows, each row had about three or four hundred people, the first row was the selected dead soldiers, each of them took a large reward, which was selected by each house and each family, and they held thick door panels or other things, acting as a human version of the shield car.
The second and third rows are all firecrackers with firecrackers in their hands, and the fourth row are the sword and shield players of Huashantang and some clansmen of the Ye family who dare to fight.
The last ones were huddled together, Ye Kai didn't expect them to exert much combat effectiveness, he only hoped that after the front row broke through or defeated the Malays, they could expand the results.
The reason why it was arranged like this was because Ye Kai was still ready to use his old tactics to shoot two rounds of salvos, and then go over to cut his mother!
As for the dead soldiers in the first row, they were tailor-made for the Malays, and the tactics of Malay Rao were actually similar to those of the Ye family, and they were basically the same as Bugis Rao, which was to put the gun first and draw the knife directly.
But Ye Kai estimated that these Malays on the opposite side would not dare to go twenty or thirty meters to shoot, and they would definitely not be able to control the shooting at fifty or sixty meters or even farther away.
In this way, the dead soldiers of the Ye family wearing thick clothes, wearing simple iron armor and carrying a large shield on the door in the front row can greatly reduce the damage of the Malay muskets.
After all, a smoothbore gun that is fifty or sixty meters away or even more and cannot fire a salvo is not very powerful.
With dead soldiers, the damage suffered by the second and third platoons of musketeers can be greatly reduced, these are veterans with sufficient combat experience, and it is a pity to lose them in the hands of the Malays!
According to Ye Kai's estimate, relying on the cover of the dead soldiers, when the firecrackers walked more than 20 meters, they could directly fire two volleys, at least three or four hundred Malays who were also in a dense formation.
In this way, they can beat the most courageous elites in their front row to the brink of collapse, and then it will be simple, Ye Kai does not believe that the Malays can withstand the fire gunners and Huashantang sword and shield soldiers who have practiced modern bayonet techniques!