Chapter 103: Buying a Head

In any era, it is by no means a simple matter to mobilize a large army.

Not to mention that the army has to be driven from their respective stations to one place and concentrated, it is a very troublesome thing for the army to eat, drink, and Salar on the way in, and the logistics, ammunition, and food supply after the army is assembled is an astronomical demand every day.

Although the 110,000 troops of the Dutch East Indies Colony were all led by white officers from the Netherlands, their grassroots personnel were composed of a large number of people, including natives from the East Indies Colonies, blacks from Africa, and mercenaries from Europe.

It took a week from the order of Governor Dipole to the assembly of the 110,000-strong army in Batavia, and then another three days to complete the deployment and integration of the troops of the various systems.

Then it took another five days to wait for enough ships to be recruited.

It took half a month to complete the preparations for departure, but due to strong winds and waves, etc., another day was waited in vain, and on the seventeenth day, the 110,000-strong army of the Dutch East Indies Colonies set off for Borneo.

In the end, all 110,000 troops landed at the port of Pontianak in Borneo, which was already 20 days later.

At this time, Huaxia Jun waited until the daylilies were cold.

When the vanguard of the Dutch army appeared outside the port of Pontianak, the troops of the sixth detachment of the Huaxia Army had all retreated and disappeared without a trace, and before retreating, seven towns were captured one after another, and nearly 100,000 Huaxia people in Pontianak, Dongwanlu and other places were evacuated.

Hearing that it was the Chinese who had done it, some white officers ran to Dipole, who personally led the army, to ask for instructions: "Your Excellency, give the order to do something to these damned Chinese!" ”

"Huaxia?" Dipole personally commanded the army to come, and when he heard about the actions of these Huaxia, he originally planned to kill them, but at this moment he hesitated. During the hundreds of years of Dutch rule in Nanyang, they brought the local natives to slaughter the Chinese people many times, but the mysterious disappearance of Lieutenant Colonel Vian and Major General Whitekin made the Governor very worried, and he thought that if he ordered the killing of the Chinese, then the Chinese could also kill the captured Dutch.

After hesitating for a while, Dipole finally did not give the order to issue a massacre to the Chinese people who had not withdrawn from Pontianak and Dongwanlu, but only ordered to send troops to closely monitor their movements and prevent them from reporting to the Chinese army.

For the disappeared Huaxia army, the Dutch army sent a search team to search for it with the strength of the population, but as a result, not even a shadow of the Huaxia army could be found.

Dipole had no choice but to order a number of search teams to be sent to the heart of central Borneo to search for traces of the Chinese army.

When the Dutch search party made a big move to central Borneo, information came from Batavia that traces of the activities of the Chinese army had been found in southern Borneo.

This news was reported to Batavia by Ma Chen, who was stationed in southern Borneo, and the remaining personnel in Batavia sent this information to Governor Dipol through the Clipper Ship, which was just a headless and brainless news, and there was no knowledge of the number of Chinese troops in southern Borneo and what weapons they were.

"General Axon, what do you think about this?" DiBoer asked Lieutenant General Axson, the top military commander of the Dutch army in the East Indies colonies.

Lieutenant General Akson was a sixty-year-old veteran, he put on reading glasses and picked up a magnifying glass to look at the map carefully for a long time, and then said slowly: "Your Excellency, this may be a trick deliberately played by the cunning Chinese, there is a great possibility that their main force is in the middle of Borneo, but they want to put on a posture of operating in the south of Borneo to lure us to divert our attention, so that their main force can escape!" ”

Dipole was skeptical: "Why is that?"

"There are three reasons for this: first, the place where Lieutenant Colonel Vian and Major General Whitekin disappeared was in central Borneo, near Pontianak and East Manyu; Second, the Chinese were still besieging Pontianak and Dongwanlu a few days ago, and they had no ships or railways, so it was impossible for them to go thousands of miles away through the jungle path so quickly; Thirdly, Pontianak and Dongwanlu are the places with the largest number of Chinese people, and they only evacuated 100,000 people a few days ago, how could they not put the main force here? Lieutenant General Akson really had a set, and he immediately saw that it was a trick for the Chinese army to attack the west.

"So what do we do?" That's what Dipole really wants.

Lieutenant General Aksun looked old and dizzy, but he was very old, and after a little thought, he came up with a feasible plan: "I suggest that our main force continue to concentrate in the direction of Pontianak and East Wanlu, send more search teams to search, and once the main force of the Chinese is found, immediately send the main force to the central part of Borneo to surround those damn Chinese forces and completely destroy them." As for the south, you can hurry up and order Ma Chen's defenders by speedboat at sea, guard their own station, and ask the tribe forces that have been concentrated in the south of Borneo to encircle and suppress the Huaxia army! ”

Dipol immediately agreed: "Okay, just do what the lieutenant general wants to do, give the order!" “

Lieutenant General Axon's plan seemed almost impeccable, but he did not know what kind of opponent the Huaxia Army was, let alone what kind of resources and weapons the Huaxia Army had mastered, which dug the first big hole for the total annihilation of the Dutch army in the East Indies colonies.

However, when Dipole had just sent a clipper to deliver the order to the Machen garrison, he received an urgent message from the garrison in eastern Borneo that several places were under onslaught by the Chinese army.

This is far away, and the urgent report of the eastern garrison is not very clear, and Dipole is anxious: "What is the situation?" ”

This time, Akson said with certainty without even looking at the map: "This is still a small trick played by those cunning Chinese people in an attempt to distract our forces." I suggested that the local garrison hold its own defense area, and let the eastern tribes armed to destroy the Huaxia army that appeared, as long as the governor ordered that the pig's tail and braided heads of the Huaxia people should be purchased, and the Chinese women and children would be dealt with by the tribe itself. For the sake of money and women, I guarantee that the barbarian tribes who like to hunt for human heads will go and fight the Huaxia people! ”

Hunting human heads has always been a tradition of the primitive tribes of the South Seas.

The song stratagem of the generals of Axon is indeed a very vicious scheme!

"Spend money on pigtail braided heads? Haha, okay, that's a very good idea! Okay, General Akxon will ask you to draft the order, it doesn't matter if the price of buying a head can be two or three times more expensive than before! Dipole laughed when he heard this, he had already played this hand, which caused the unknown tribes in the Dutch East Indies colony to kill each other.

An order from the Governor's Office of the Dutch East Indies Colony to buy the heads of the Chinese at a high price was immediately sent to the tribes in all corners of Borneo by fast horse and boat.

For a time, the tribesmen of Borneo rose up one after another to hunt the Chinese people and make a lot of money by selling their heads in the Dutch Governor's Palace.

However, this produced a result that Hu Zhen did not even expect: the Chinese men who had not yet entered the territory of the Huaxia Army in Borneo cut off the braids on their heads, which did what Hu Zhen wanted to do but it was difficult to force the Chinese people to do - cut off the pig's tail braids on their heads.