Chapter 90: Dutch Infantry Regiment
Wei An. Lieutenant Colonel Trey, who was the favored attendant of Dutch Governor Dipole of the East Indies Colony, was tall, personable, and a good ballroom dancer, and once charmed many noble ladies in the Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies, and his mistresses were Dutch, French, English, and African black-skinned, and the primitive tribes of the East Indies Colonies, and even he could not count the number of them.
For many years, thousands of favors in the Fengyue place have been in one, but it has made Wei'an. Lieutenant Colonel Trey felt fluttering, and felt that he could conquer the noblewomen in bed, and he could also conquer the savage and abominable primitives on the battlefield.
Although Borneo is a wild place and information transmission is slow, the Dutch East Indies Governor's Office still received some rumors, but I don't know the true face of the Chinese army's combat effectiveness.
Governor Diborr also thought that the Chinese army, like the previous Nanyang Chinese uprisings, as long as three or five thousand men and horses were dispatched, they could already look down on these Chinese with big pigtails.
Diboer's view is reasonable, you must know that in 1824, the Dutch East Indies Governor's Office only sent twelve Dutch soldiers, so that Liu Taier, the famous general of the Lanfang Republic of China, accepted the title of "The Dutch Emperor enshrined the Lanfang Company Jiada", and other leaders were awarded the title of Jiabidan, and the yellow rectangular flag used by Lanfang became the Dutch tricolor flag, and the Lanfang Republic gave all the poll tax and half of the tax power to the Dutch and Indian government, and the most hateful thing is that Since then, the Republic of Lanfang has not been able to accept the new Chinese people in the country, and since then it has become a source of water and has completely lost the vitality of development.
Although the Chinese people of the Republic of Lanfang later revolted and forced the Dutch to make some retreats, the Republic of Lanfang lost its autonomy and its demise decades later began on the day the twelve Dutch soldiers landed on the land of the Republic of Lanfang.
Governor Dipole intended to continue the story of 1824, and without finding out clearly, he sent his own close attendant, Vian. Lieutenant Colonel Trey led a reinforced regiment of troops to suppress it.
Over 38 years old, Vian. Trey, who is no longer a young and ignorant merry boy, now thinks in his heart that he will make a great contribution in the Far East and Pacific, climb to the position of general, make a handful of money, and then go back to the Netherlands to find a few more young and beautiful mistresses to enjoy the rest of his life.
In Wei An's mind, the Chinese are no different from the natives of the Dutch East Indies, as long as they show off the advanced weapons of Europe for a while, they will obey him and leave, and maybe even send a few beautiful women for him to enjoy.
But Vian. Trey didn't know that in Hu Zhen's mind, the current more than 30,000 Huaxia troops, even if the German 100,000 army, the king of land warfare in Europe, rushed over, they might not be afraid of them, the reason why they had to strictly train Liang Kunri, Cui Jinfeng and others not to be blind and arrogant was because he didn't want everyone to rely on advanced weapons and developed the habit of looking at everything, and he also had a more troublesome problem in his heart, that is, to wait for the navy of the Huaxia Army, without the navy, the strong combat power of the army would be exposed too early, which would lead to the naval blockade of the Dutch army.
At this moment, Liang Kunri and Cui Jinfeng, who were forced to stay in Lag Town to watch the excitement of others, were arguing over a math problem for elementary school students.
Liang Kunri calculated that in the case of the same strength, the firepower of the Chinese army's salvo was equal to seven times that of the Dutch colonial army, but Cui Jinfeng calculated that it was eight times, the two blew their beards and stared, quarreled for a long time, and almost fell out, and finally were bumped into by their subordinates.
In the eyes of the two of them, Hu Zhen mobilized three main detachments, more than 18,000 people, to deal with the Dutch colonial army, and the firepower exceeded that of the Dutch by nearly 20 times, which was really more than cautious.
They couldn't understand Hu Zhen's painstaking efforts.
Of course, Hu Zhen knew that in order to defeat the mere 2,600 Dutch colonial army, he could win the battle by sending the same number of troops.
But what Hu Zhen wanted was not only victory, but also total annihilation, complete annihilation, so that the two thousand six hundred white officers and indigenous soldiers would completely disappear into the vast jungle of Borneo without a sound.
After the Dutch East Indies Governor's Office found that the entire infantry regiment had disappeared, it would take at least a month or two to send people to investigate, and finally send a large army.
Now Hu Zhen has funds in his hands, but in order to build a strong industry, it takes time to train personnel and build a strong navy, and it is not like the army that can be refined into a strong force with a few advanced weapons and a few fierce battles, but it needs to be trained for a long time to cultivate enough systematic talents, and there is no navy personnel who have studied in Europe and South America for more than two years a year, and none of them can come back, and even if they do, they are just decorations with no combat effectiveness.
If the Huaxia army defeats the Dutch at this moment, takes away the entire Borneo, and even controls Java and Sumatra, but behind the Dutch there is a more powerful bunch of European white wolves, attracting their attention, and sending a few battleships at will is enough for the Huaxia army to deal with.
After thinking about it for a long time, Hu Zhen felt that he had to gain time and wait for the navy in China to make further strategic plans.
Wei An. Lieutenant Colonel Trey led his infantry regiment, unaware that Hu Zhen had prepared a sumptuous feast waiting for him, and landed on Pontianak with pride, and then slowly approached east through Dongwanlu.
Along the way, all the white Dutch officers marched with the mentality of coming to Borneo to make a fortune, and their eyes were fixed on the Chinese and indigenous villages.
Whenever you find a house with a slightly better appearance, you must order it to rush in and search it in the name of searching for bandits and robbers. Then a little real money was looted during the search and privately divided it among a group of white officers.
Such a march led to an extremely slow pace, marching less than thirty kilometers in a day. The journey of 500 kilometers took nearly twenty days, so much so that the governor of Batavia, Dibor, when he received the telegram by wire from Kuamaga, thought that his faithful attendant was really slow.
But Lieutenant Colonel Wei An had many reasons, he wrote a long letter and sent it back, in which he would scold the Chinese people of the Republic of Lanfang for being full of bad water, making the roads potholes, and hiding the natives along the way, so that his infantry regiment could not find the people, and the speed of transporting artillery and food was too slow; After a while, he scolded the bandits and robbers on the road too much, so that he had to go under his command to maintain law and order for a while......
Lieutenant Colonel Wei'an's grinding and prospering march made Hu Zhen, who had already arranged everything and waited, a little annoyed.
As soon as Lieutenant Colonel Wei'an's infantry regiment came out of Dongwanlu, the Huaxia Army knew about it, and more than 18,000 people from the three detachments immediately entered the predetermined standby area and waited.
However, wait, wait, wait, the soldiers of the Chinese army were eager to see through, but they didn't see the figure of the Dutch army.
The soldiers of the Huaxia Army were distraught, and Hu Zhen had no choice but to order all the personnel except the guards to rest in hiding on the spot to recuperate their strength and prepare for the battle with the Dutch army.