Chapter 65: The Expedition
In a short period of time, the Huaxia Army defeated Achai Tuo in World War I, subdued the Wanna Soil Gang in World War II, gathered more than 30,000 Chinese people, and opened up hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land, which is a very remarkable achievement in everyone's opinion.
Unlike everyone, Hu Zhen thought more about how the Huaxia Army would develop next.
Only 30,000 Chinese people were gathered, and the gap was too big for Hu Zhen's grand blueprint to reconstruct China, which could only be said to be a drop in the bucket, and the Huaxia army must attack in other directions in Borneo in order to gather more Chinese people, expand the Huaxia army, and lay a more solid foundation for the grand blueprint of new China.
In that direction?
At this time, Borneo, the coastal cities were in the hands of the colonial army of the Dutch colonial governor's palace, although there were not many troops stationed, but if there was a conflict with it, before Hu Zhen returned from the warships ordered in Europe, the Dutch Far East Fleet blocked the coast of Borneo, and it was difficult for the Chinese army to defeat the Dutch colonial army by relying on the army alone.
Therefore, Hu Zhen set the current development direction for the Huaxia Army to develop to the hinterland of Borneo.
According to the information collected by Su Wenzhen and Chen Zichao in Borneo, there are at least 200,000 Chinese people in the central part of Borneo who are engaged in mining and cultivating land.
In the depths of the hinterland of Borneo, the colonial rule of the Dutch is only a symbolic existence, and the vast hinterland of Borneo is mainly controlled by the major indigenous tribes.
The purpose of the Huaxia Army's northward march into the hinterland of Borneo was to gather the Chinese people, expand the Huaxia Army exponentially, increase the combat effectiveness of the Huaxia Army, control the hinterland of Borneo, and wait for the establishment of the Huaxia Army's naval fleet to defeat the Dutch colonial army navy and army in one fell swoop, and control the entire Dutch Borneo.
At this time, the number of the Huaxia army had grown to more than 7,000 people.
However, Qingyanzhai, a base near the mouth of the sea, must not be abandoned, Hu Zhen decided to leave a thousand people in Qingyanzhai, and it was newly organized into the fifth detachment, with Ouyang Yu as the commander of the detachment.
In order to solve the problem of insufficient garrison strength in Qingyan Village, it was decided to organize those young and middle-aged women, the elderly and children to participate in military training. During the period when the main force went north, once there was an emergency enemy situation, it cooperated with the fifth detachment, centered on Qingyan Village, defended and blocked the enemy with danger, and used the radio station to summon the main force of the Huaxia Army to return to help and destroy the enemy.
Due to the difficulty of making a living, Chinese women in Nanyang rarely had small feet under the Qing Empire, and women with natural big feet had enough physical strength to participate in military training. Moreover, in order to protect themselves and their families, Chinese women are highly motivated to participate in military training. Soon, it became common for middle-aged women in the Qingyan Village area to participate in military training and carry self-defense weapons to engage in productive labor, which was a great deterrent to the nearby natives.
When all preparations stopped, Hu Zhen led more than 6,000 Chinese troops to the north.
Borneo is a tropical jungle area, full of jungle vines, insects and snakes are rampant, and from time to time there are one or two extremely vicious indigenous or bandit armies, although the Chinese army is advanced in weapons and strong, but for the time being does not want to make too many enemies, generally detour to avoid conflicts, the winding road is not easy to walk, and most of the time, there is not even a trail in the jungle ahead.
The Huaxia army carried heavy weapons, equipment, and food on its back, and could only move forward forty or fifty kilometers on a fast day, and only twenty or thirty kilometers on a slow day.
In 14 days, the Huaxia Army traveled about 500 kilometers to the north.
On this day, conflicts with indigenous tribes inevitably occurred.
On the jungle road, everyone was sweating profusely, and Hu Zhen was also soaked.
Suddenly, a sharp soldier who was exploring the way in front of the team hurriedly ran up, saluted and reported to Hu Zhen: "Report to the commander-in-chief, I found a team of natives beating and escorting Chinese slave laborers in front!" ”
When everyone heard this, their eyes widened and they looked at Hu Zhen. According to Hu Zhen's order, during the northward march, do not clash with the natives unless absolutely necessary.
Hu Zhen stretched out his hand to wipe the beads of sweat on his face and asked, "How many people are there in this team?" What weapons are equipped? Have you found out what tribe it is? ”
"This group of natives is about 200 people, and more than 100 Huaxia people are escorted with ropes, and their weapons are not even single-shot rifles except for firearms, bows and arrows, and we don't know what tribe it is......"
Before Hu Zhen could speak, Liang Kunri, the commander of the second detachment next to him, shouted loudly: "Commander-in-chief, since you can't figure out what tribe it is now, I suggest that you don't waste time to investigate now, knock out this group of natives, and take a few captives over to ask, can you know?" ”
For this seemingly rude right-hand man, Hu Zhen didn't mean to blame, but nodded: "Okay, let the snipers go out, destroy this team of natives, and save more than a hundred Chinese people!" ”
"Snipers? It's ...... them again" Liang Kunri suddenly felt bored, he thought that he was the first to jump out and suggest a fight, and Hu Zhen would let him lead his troops to attack.
This group of natives was marching forward with more than 100 Chinese people on their toes, but suddenly the roar of death sounded in the jungle on the side of the road.
The sound of the sniper rifle firing sounded continuously, and the natives who didn't know what was going on were instantly hit by the bullets and dozens of people fell to the ground.
The natives who had not been shot looked blankly at the compatriots who had been beating the Huaxia people with them just now, either their heads bloomed or a blood flower appeared in their chests, and most of them didn't even have time to scream, so they fell to the ground.
Those Chinese people who were escorted were tied hand and foot by Wuhuada, and they were also stunned at this time, I don't know how many bullets flew from where, and many people were splashed with the blood of the indigenous people, but none of the Chinese people were hit by bullets.
Before the natives in a daze came to their senses, the bullets of the second round of precision strikes came whizzing again.
In less than half a minute after the battle began, more than 80 snipers killed and wounded more than 150 people, and only fifty or sixty natives with flexible brains shrewdly fell down with the dead, and only temporarily avoided the scythe of death to harvest life.
"There's no need for a third round of fire!" Hu Zhen, who personally commanded the combat operation, waved his hand and ordered the snipers to stop shooting, and then said to Liang Kunri beside him: "Don't you want to capture prisoners? Don't you command people to rush forward now? ”
"Haha......" got another battle, Liang Kunri laughed a few times, and when he turned around, his eyes immediately became fierce, and he yelled at his subordinates: "Rush up and beat his mother...... No, it's going to catch him for a dog day! ”
The remnants of dozens of natives had already been overcome by such a magical and precise blow, and when they saw that countless Chinese warriors with bright bayonets suddenly appeared in the jungle, where did they dare to resist a little, and they hurried to flee for their lives.