After Hu Zhen crossed over to Europe, all the Chinese people he rescued persuaded everyone to cut off the hateful men's braids on the grounds that it was inconvenient to live in Europe with braids.

Although the rescued Huaxia people were afraid that they would not be able to return to the territory under the rule of the Qing Dynasty without braids, they cut off their braids because of the face of his life-saving benefactor.

After returning to Nanyang, there were Chinese people with braids everywhere, and Hu Zhen was not good at forcing to cut off the hateful braids, but in the Huaxia army, on the grounds that it was too troublesome to keep braids, he advocated cutting braids. Under the leadership of the military cadets studying in Germany, the soldiers of the Chinese Army, mainly young people, felt that it was inconvenient to keep braids during training and battles, so they all cut off their braids.

But in any case, many Chinese men who did not join the Chinese army still have a pigtail braid.

In fact, the reason why most Nanyang Chinese men have a pig's tail braid is that they are afraid that they will not be able to recognize their ancestors and return to their hometown in China.

Not keeping braids soon became a trend among Chinese men in Nanyang.

After Hu Zhen learned about this, he took the opportunity to build momentum and encouraged everyone not to keep pigtail braids through various methods, so that not keeping pigtail braids has become a fashion for Chinese men in Nanyang.

Dipole gave Hu Zhen a chance to cut off the braids of the Chinese men, but it also brought great trouble to the Chinese people in Borneo, although Hu Zhen had arranged for the Huaxia army to take action, but many Chinese people were unwilling to listen to the advice of the Huaxia army to temporarily leave the land they had opened up for many years, and were killed by the tribal forces.

In the hometown of the Republic of Lanfang in western Borneo, the Huaxia Army has already temporarily relocated all the Chinese people who can be relocated. There were also large-scale operations in the south, and under the cover of the Huaxia army, the Huaxia people concentrated in large numbers on the territory controlled by the Huaxia army. In the east, the Huaxia Army directly dispatched five detachments and an independent regiment to the east to sweep through the tribal forces, causing a huge momentum.

However, Lieutenant General Aksun of the Dutch army insisted that the actions of the Chinese army in eastern Borneo were just a bluff, and encouraged the governor of Dipole not to be moved, but sent people to send guns and ammunition to the tribal forces in eastern Borneo, asking the tribal forces to hunt the heads of the Chinese people, and to concentrate the tribal forces under the command of the white officers of the Dutch army to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese army.

On March 11, 1887, under the command of the Dutch officer, Major General Fidh Hindhin, the tribal forces gathered 80,000 men and poured into the Kanshan Valley, where the Chinese army was active, and the battle between the two sides was on the verge of breaking out.

In the face of the influx of tribal forces, Ouyang Yu's five detachments and He Pingxiong's 1st Independent Regiment established field positions in the Kanshan Valley.

At this moment, Ouyang Yu and his three regiment commanders held an emergency meeting with He Pingxiong, and after discussing for half an hour, they decided to use a telegram to report to the headquarters of the Huaxia Army, suggesting that a decisive battle should be launched in the Kanshan Valley to annihilate the main force of the tribal armed forces in eastern Borneo in a war, and lay a solid foundation for the Huaxia Army to control the entire eastern Borneo in the future.

The battalion-level units of the Huaxia Army are equipped with low-power radios, regimental-level units are equipped with medium-power radios, and detachments are equipped with high-power radios, which can communicate with the headquarters thousands or hundreds of kilometers away at any time.

After the telegram was sent, Ouyang Yu and several regiment commanders were uneasy.

Because Hu Zhen's initial strategic plan was that the Fifth Detachment and the First Independent Regiment were to show their form to the enemy, attract the main force of the Dutch army or a part of the Dutch army to advance eastward, drag the Dutch army down and drag it down, and create fighters for the main force of the Huaxia Army to annihilate the Dutch army. But now the main force of the Dutch army did not come, but a large number of tribal forces came, Ouyang Yu and several people suggested annihilating the tribal forces and completely pulling out the minions of the Dutch army in eastern Borneo, which was a suggestion that did not match Hu Zhen's original plan, and everyone was worried that it would affect Hu Zhen's overall plan to annihilate the main force of the Dutch army.

After Hu Zhen received the telegram, he asked Chief of Staff Su Wenzhen: "How many people and horses are there in the tribal forces concentrated in the Kanshan Valley?" ”

"According to the information reported by the five detachments to the headquarters, as of today, under the command of the Dutch officer, Major General Fidhin, there are more than 80,000 tribal forces concentrated in the Kanshan Valley! Just now, we organized more than a dozen staff officers to carry out firepower allocation calculations, and if the firepower of our army's five detachments and independent regiments is held to meet the battle, they can completely withstand the enemy's attack, and the use of powerful firepower can consume at least 20,000 or 30,000 tribal weapons! However, it is unknown whether these tribes will do their best to attack each other, and in this case, this plan of total annihilation may fail. ”

After seeing Ouyang Yu and the others' suggestion message, Hu Zhen's mind had changed, and the palms of his hands pressed heavily on the table, and said: "What I want now is to annihilate these more than 80,000 tribal forces to the greatest extent and lay the foundation for our army to completely control the eastern part of Borneo!" ”

"This is very difficult, although our firepower is far beyond the enemy's firepower, but our men in the Kanshan Valley are only 8,000 people, only one-tenth of the total number of tribal forces, it is no problem to repel the attack of the tribal forces, and it is no problem to consume the enemy's strength of 10,000 or 20,000 people, but if there is a complete annihilation of the enemy, it is difficult to achieve! Now we will transfer other detachments to the past, it will take at least several days to arrive, and it will be too late! ”

Su Wenzhi shook his head as he spoke, these tribal forces did not have a unified command at all, as long as they lost the battle, they would each go into the jungle and escape, if the number of the five detachments and the first independent regiment was twice as large, maybe there was still a certainty to annihilate sixty percent of their troops, but now this strength makes the possibility infinitely low.

But Hu Zhen said: "Leave this problem to Ouyang Yu and them to solve, they are on the scene, and they know the situation better, otherwise why would they make this suggestion?" ”

The telegram sent by headquarters to the front was only fourteen words: "Complete elimination of the tribal forces in eastern Borneo." ”

"Sir has agreed to revise our battle plan!"

With telegram communication, the communication thousands of miles away was very fast, Ouyang Yu took the telegram and raised it in front of several regiment commanders, his tone was slightly excited, but he immediately asked everyone another question: "We want to eliminate the tribal forces to the maximum extent and lay the foundation for our complete control of eastern Borneo, but our troops are not enough?" What to do? ”

He Pingxiong stood up and said: "Our troops are not enough, but we mobilized nearly 70,000 Chinese people in eastern Borneo a few days ago to withdraw to the area under our control, this is a very large force, if there are thousands of young people in the middle who are willing to come out to help, then our grasp of destroying the enemy will be greatly increased!" ”

Ouyang Yu praised He Pingxiong: "Yes, Commander He's a very good idea, if these Chinese young people are willing to come out to fight together, although they do not have the same strict training as the Chinese army soldiers have strong combat effectiveness, but they have lived in the harsh environment of Borneo for a long time, and their combat effectiveness will never be lower than those tribal forces, as long as we send experienced officers to command them, it will definitely play a very big role in annihilating the 80,000 tribal forces in Borneo!" ”

"Without further ado, I suggest that someone be sent to mobilize those young Chinese people immediately!"

Ouyang Yu was very happy: "Okay, Captain He, you have lived in Borneo for a long time and are very familiar with this, so you will take the First Independent Regiment to do this matter!" No, the strength of the 1st Independent Regiment is not enough, I will strengthen you with two more battalions, and in addition, I will transfer all the lieutenant officers in the various departments to command the mobilized lean manpower. You're going to have to mobilize five or six thousand recruits in one day! ”

"Yes, I'll do it now!"

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