Chapter 803: Capture and Pursuit

Rahman was called out by Rahman, forcing the enemy on the two steamships to stand on the deck with their hands raised, laying sampans to the shore, and sending an infantry battalion to receive the prisoners.

The people in the palace here saw that the two steamships were easily defeated, and they immediately despaired, and dozens of people climbed over the wall like crazy and tried to rush out and escape, but the four hundred special battalions and the five hundred infantry who had been prepared for a long time had already raised their muskets and waited more than three miles away from the palace. At this time, no one dared to escape, and more than 200 people in the palace came out obediently and surrendered.

Several foreigners also walked over, led by a young white man in his twenties, who claimed to be Charles Prince, the crown prince of the Bullock dynasty? Bullock, with blonde hair and blue eyes, a white face and no beard, is actually a more gentle among Westerners, but in You Romantic's eyes, he is still no different from a beast.

When the excited Charis? When Bullock walked towards You Romantic, You Romance even took two steps back, he always felt that this foreigner's face was pale, and he slaughtered so many Chinese compatriots, no different from that beast, and even wondered if the foreigner in front of him had red blood in his body.

Charris? Bullock saw You Romance retreating, his expression was even more excited, he seemed to be more confident, and he said a lot of things fiercely, but You Romance didn't understand at all, waved his hand impatiently to interrupt him, turned his head to Rahman beside him and asked him to translate, and then he understood what the white man in front of him meant.

"My lord, I am Charles Prince, the Crown Prince of the Bullock dynasty? Bullock, my uncle is King Bullock, and the Vice-Consul of Labuan and Borneo appointed by the Queen of the British Empire. ”

"You tell this Westerner, what kind of bullshit Bullock dynasty he is, killing the people of my Chinese Empire, we are his people, revenge is coming! From today on, the Brock Dynasty he said no longer exists, and from then on, this land will be the territory of my Chinese Empire, and he is also my especially romantic prisoner! And his uncle will also be captured by us, and they will be escorted to Shilongmen, the place where my Chinese compatriots suffered, to be tried and accept the verdict of our Chinese Empire! "You romantically looked at that Charis in disgust? Bullock, covering his nose, said loudly, in his opinion, the black and thin Malay native Rahman was also much more pleasing to the eye than the pale foreigner.

Charris? After listening to Rahman's translation, Bullock became anxious, twisted his body desperately, and shouted as hard as he could: "You can't do this, our Bullock Dynasty is a territory under the British Empire, and you are violating the British Empire in this way, which is tantamount to declaring war on the British Empire!" ”

After listening to Rahman's translation, You Romantic directly and coldly ordered his subordinates: "Knock his two thumbs, and if you bark again, knock your index finger again." ”

So, amid screams and begs for mercy, there was silence.

Then, a bearded foreigner who claimed to be an advisor to the Bullock palace surrendered through Rahman, knowing that the underground vaults in the palace contained the wealth and taxes collected by the Bullock dynasty from the territory in the past two years, as well as the gold miners who had been looted from the Shilongmen mines a while ago, and he was willing to lead the generals in the east to find that wealth in exchange for not depriving him of his life. He said that he was a naturalist and explorer who had just discovered a great theory that he could not die yet.

You are very happy and praise this name Alfred? Russell? Wallace's guy, the name is too long, and he doesn't understand what naturalists he is talking about, but he knows that His Majesty the Emperor likes Western philologists, and this guy should be that kind of person, send him to Shengjing, presumably the emperor will like it.

When Rong Weishan led his soldiers to move the wealth from the Brock Palace and carry it to the deck of the gunboat, You Romance liked the guy named Wallace even more. He even felt that there were still good people in the West, no wonder His Majesty did not reject them.

More than 100 boxes of opium, 64 boxes of silver, 14 boxes of yellow gold, and some things that I don't know what iron is not iron gold and gold are not gold, it seems that they are also valuable.

You Romance and Rong Weishan are both smiling, they don't know anything else, just the opium, those silver have more than 60,000 taels, at least worth 90,000 saint yuan, which is not a small amount of wealth. The key is the 14 boxes of gold, which are more than 20,000 taels, and according to the 15:1 exchange ratio of gold and silver, they are at least worth more than 40 or even 500,000 holy dollars.

The cost of this expedition has basically been paid off.

You Romance and Rong Weishan were not satisfied, so the two simply dug into the ground and searched the Bullock Palace carefully, but they found nothing.

Two steamers were pulled to the edge of the estuary, and the prisoners were taken into custody while the broken planks were repaired.

On the other side, Kuching City was also captured by the infantry regiments of the captive army. It is said that it is an attack, but in fact it is inappropriate. Kuching City is not even a city, just a loose town of about two or three hundred households, and the center of the town is the government institutions of the Bullock dynasty such as the town hall and the courthouse, as well as a church and a small church school.

The manager of Mu Niang's company, named Lu Bi, was also captured. It is a pity that this British-funded Mu Niang company has just been established for less than a year, mainly to mine gold ore, but it has just begun to put into production, and as soon as there is gold output, it will be transported to Xingjiapo, and there is no seizure, however, according to his confession, Mu Niang company also opened several coal mines and antimony mines. He also allowed several river bays around Kuching to grow sago and buy Eucommia gum for sale to Xingjiapo, which was very profitable, but it was all in Xingjiapo. This made You Romantic, who was full of expectations, very unhappy, and directly tied up Lu Bi, the manager of Mu Niang's company, for the reason of helping the Bullock Dynasty kill his Chinese compatriots, and whipped him, and asked him to make up 50,000 taels of silver as a ransom for his sins, and then accept the trial.

It was the commander of the infantry regiment who was brought to capture Kuching City, he was an old brother from Guangxi, but he did not have the slightest pity for the jade, and directly asked his soldiers to take care of all the households in the entire Kuching town, in addition to the seized wealth worth more than 100,000 saint dollars were all seized and confiscated, hundreds of thousands of catties of grain in the town gave the captive army a huge surprise. Originally, the Nanyang Fleet and the 38th Infantry Division were in a hurry, but they only mobilized some food from Qiongzhou Prefecture and Saigon in Ninan Province, and the limited space of the troop carrier did not bring much food.

In order to prevent an enemy attack from the sea, You Rong and the commander of the infantry regiment led the third fleet and 700 infantry to guard the mouth of the river, while Rong Weishan and the deputy commander of the infantry regiment led 400 soldiers of the special battalion and 600 infantry, and explored the road with the barely repaired armed steamship as the precursor.

Five days later, Rong Weishan led 400 soldiers of the special battalion to a village called Maoshan in the central area of the Shilongmen mining area, led by a guide.

"My lord, Maoshan here is the headquarters of the 12th Chinese miners, there were more than 3,000 Chinese miners, plus more than 2,000 family members, all living here, and their Liu Shanbang died in that hill more than two months ago." A guide leads the special battalion to a village that has been destroyed by the war.

Rong Weishan opened his eyes and looked at it, it was a mess, he could imagine the tragedy when this village was slaughtered. Everywhere there were broken earthen walls and burned roofs, broken ceramic water tanks, and filled wells, Rong Weishan walked into the ruins of the ruined walls, even though nearly a hundred days had passed, he could still smell a strong and choking stench of blood, and swarms of flies flying around.

Rong Weishan's eyes were red, and he stared at the guides viciously, if it weren't for the other party repeatedly saying that they were not involved, he would have killed them here on the spot.

"My lord, Nabulk heard that there were more than 100 escaped Chinese families near Maoshan before he was led by Nablok for ten days, and he was afraid that these Chinese families would escape and disclose to the outside world that he led the troops to massacre, so he personally led 300 people to this Maoshan, presumably to find those escaped Chinese families nearby, and to exterminate them. As long as you look around, you should be able to find out. ”

Rong Weishan hurriedly let the special battalion open in all directions, with Maoshan as the center, and searched for the whereabouts of the Bullocka gang and the miners' families in a radius of twenty or thirty miles.

Two days later, just when Rong Weishan thought that he had found nothing, a special forces team of twenty people captured two Malays who had been bitten by snakes and were hiding in caves, and it was none other than Brock's men.

After a round of beatings and the guide's translation, Rong Weishan learned that after the family members of the more than 100 Chinese miners were killed by more than 30 old and weak, the remaining 80 people knew that Bullock was going to be wiped out, so they crossed the mountains, left Sarah and crossed the border, and fled to the Lanfang sphere of influence in the west of Borneo, preparing to take refuge in Sanfa and even Montoradu, where the Chinese gathered.

However, Bullock had already led his men to chase after them, and because the two of them had been bitten by snakes, Bullock left them in the mountains to fend for themselves, and now they had eaten the rest of their dry food and could not hunt.

Rong Weishan hated them for aiding and abetting them, seeing that they had snake wounds and swollen feet, he didn't kill them, but directly asked them to tie them to the tree with bark and wait to feed the beasts at night.

Rong Weishan sent a team to deliver a message, informing the 600 infantry and You Romance of the estuary of the situation, and then led the special battalion to continue to chase and search, and after a day of searching, he finally found the traces of a large group of people walking, and followed the trail all the way.

Although the special forces led by Rong Weishan are not as powerful as the special forces of later generations, they are also trained by the strategy formulated by Feng Yunshan, and they are all born in poor crops, and the characteristics of being able to endure hardships and be good at insisting on their duties and obedience are vividly exerted in them, therefore, under the cruel training that they are not very professional but expensive in persistence, their basic skills such as physical strength are still far better than ordinary people, especially when marching to the mountains, but unfortunately those guides are not good at their feet.

But in the primitive tropical jungle of Borneo, there is no road at all, and it is precisely because of this that Rong Weishan and others can follow the mountain road and find that those miners' families and Bullocka's gang are all along a mountain road to a place called Dagang Company in Monttradu, which is in the middle and upper reaches of the Sanfa River, where more than 2,000 Chinese miners also gathered, and it is a large Chinese gathering place in Borneo except for the Lanfang Republic and Shilongmen.

Rong Weishan determined the direction and hurriedly led people to follow along the mountain road.

.... PS: I recommend a new history book of an old friend, "The Protégé of the Great Song Dynasty".