Chapter 99: An Army of 110,000
After returning to Qingyan Village, Hu Zhen saw the letters written to him by two beauties, Han Yuqing and Zhong Ling.
Both beauties greeted Hu Zhen for the New Year in the letter and reminded Hu Zhen to take care, but the content of the next letter has its own merits.
Han Yuqing continued to say that he used the teaching methods proposed by Hu Zhen in Chinese schools to teach very well, and it can be promoted in all Chinese schools, which can benefit more Chinese children, and also asked Hu Zhen for more and more updated education methods and programs.
Zhong Ling introduced the production situation of Antai company, saying that Antai company has registered pneumatic tire patents in all European countries and North America, and has now found more than a dozen merchants as agents to sell pneumatic rubber tires.
Hu Zhen immediately picked up a pen and paper and replied to the two beauties respectively.
Hu Zhen took out the nuclear submarine communicator, opened the interface of the educational materials of the supercomputer system, copied dozens of pages and tens of thousands of words of the educational tools of later generations, as well as specific operation methods, and asked Han Yuqing to conduct experiments in the Huaxia School in Singapore first, hoping that these methodological tools and theories can be popularized in the entire field of education in China in the future, and a large number of high-quality talents will be quickly cultivated to serve China's construction into a superpower in the world.
After copying tens of thousands of words, Hu Zhen's hands hurt, and he shook his hands a few times, determined to let the nuclear submarine get a printer, and don't write anything in the future, just dictate it and let the supercomputer system print it.
But ideas are ideas, and a reply to another beauty, Zhong Ling, still has to be written.
Hu Zhen greatly praised the Zhong family father and daughter in his reply, asking them to pay attention to cultivating the domestic market in China in addition to developing the European and American markets.
In the letter, Hu Zhen also asked the Zhong family father and daughter to send people to Hainan Island in China and Xishuangbanna in Yunnan Province to plant rubber, and to set up rubber factories in the interior of China to produce rubber products in the future.
In the end, Hu Zhen asked Antai Rubber Factory to secretly produce a batch of inflatable rubber boats according to his requirements, and handed them over to Fan Qianhai to be used by the Borneo Huaxia Army.
After writing two reply letters, it was already dawn again.
"Writing an all-night letter to a beautiful woman to welcome the Spring Festival is really a unique style!"
Hearing the sound of firecrackers outside to welcome the New Year, Hu Zhen stood up and stretched his waist, and decided to go out to eat something, no matter what, to stick to the joy of the first Spring Festival in the Chinese crowd, so that the door could be opened in the New Year and the entire Borneo Island was in his hands.
During the Chinese New Year celebrations, Diboer, the governor of the Dutch East Indies colony, was no different from the past, and he was still bored in the Governor's Palace day after day.
But that evening, Dipole received the news that he could not contact Major General Whitekin's 8,000 men.
Having learned the lesson that the Vian Infantry Regiment had been missing for more than twenty days before it was discovered, Dipro dictated that the defenders of East Manlu and Major General Whitekin must send a messenger every other day, and if there was no messenger contact for two consecutive days, they must report to him immediately.
On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the Chinese calendar, Whitekin had not sent a messenger to contact the defenders of East Wanlu for two consecutive days, and because the communication of Borneo Island was very backward and there was no cable telegraph and contact with the outside world, the defenders of East Wanlu immediately sent people to the port outside Pontianak to take a fast boat to Batavia to report.
By the time the ship arrived in Batavia, it was the first day of the Chinese New Year, and it was late at night on January 24, 1887.
"I haven't been in touch for two days, maybe it's because the wild land of Borneo is inaccessible and the information is not well communicated!"
In his mind, the army of more than 8,000 colonies, all of which used weapons produced in Europe, was equal to the combat power of the indigenous tribes armed with only bows, arrows, spears, broadswords, and a small number of muskets. Major General Biehler with the playboy Vian who intends to return to Europe after the gilding of meritorious service. Lieutenant Colonel Trey is completely different, he has a thirty-seven years of military career, and he has a lot of combat experience, even if he is surrounded by 100,000 tribal forces, he may not be able to retain Major General Whitekin's 8,000 men.
However, Governor Dipole waited for ten days in a row, but there was no information from Major General Whitekin, as if Major General Whitekin and more than 8,000 horses had been eaten by monsters in the vast jungle of Borneo, and there were no bones left.
On the orders of Governor Dibor, the defenders of East Manlu and Pontianak sent search teams along the route of Whitekin's troops, but all the search teams were either not heard from or found nothing.
While ordering the start of the build-up of troops, Dipole ordered all the garrisons in Borneo to search for traces of the tens of thousands of troops of the two armies of Vian and Whitekin.
By the twentieth day, there had been no news of Whitekin, and Dipole had confirmed that Whitekin and more than 8,000 horses were indeed missing.
It took another ten days for the spies and search teams sent by the Dutch Colonial Governor's Office to pour into Borneo Island from all directions, and finally obtained some astonishing information from the scattered people of some fleeing indigenous tribes in eastern Borneo: There is an army of Chinese people in central Borneo who have swept away the Achaito bandit army, Wanna Princely State, Yak Princely State, and Daya Tribal Federation, and has controlled nearly one-third of Borneo's more than 700,000 square kilometers of land!
"Huaxia? After the fall of the Lanfang Republic, how could the Huaxia people have such a strong force? ”
Dipole was very puzzled by this, for hundreds of years, the Chinese people living in the Dutch East Indies colony have always been submissive, most of them only care about burying their heads in making money, and after making enough money, they will slaughter the Dutch colonial army and natives like wool and rob all the money, and there is not much resistance, even in the Lanfang Republic, only a small number of people strongly resisted when the Dutch army was stationed.
How can today's Chinese people become so tough?
Dipro ordered that a joint meeting of civil officials and army generals of the Dutch East Indies colonies be convened immediately.
All the colony's high-ranking officials and military colonels and above all came, and when Dipole declared the security of the Order. Trey, Whitekin. The disappearance of the two armies of Bil in central Borneo caused a buzz among the dignitaries in the conference hall.
"Immediately increase the troops of Borneo and sweep all the natives of Borneo!" Some of the young Zhuang officers jumped up and shouted.
Someone asked, "How many troops do we have to send enough?" ”
"At least 30,000 horses!"
"No, no, more than 10,000 troops of Lieutenant Colonel Wei'an and Whitekin are missing, those natives will eat people, and sending another 30,000 horses is not enough!"
"Then send 50,000 horses to the battle!"
"No, no, 50,000 is still not enough, right?"
"How many people do you need?"
"Seventy thousand? Maybe 100,000 is enough, right? ”
Suddenly, a guard officer hurried into the conference hall with a piece of paper and walked in front of Dipole.
Dipole picked up the paper and glanced at it hurriedly, his hand holding the paper trembled slightly, and he raised his head and said to the dignitaries who filled the hall: "The defenders of Borneo have reported urgently, Pontianak, Dong Wanlu and all the towns of the former Lan Phong Republic are under siege by an army calling itself the Huaxia Army!" ”
"Your Excellency the Governor, send troops immediately!"
"Your Excellency the Governor, please send all the troops of the East Indies Colonies to Borneo!"
Dipole raised his hands and shouted like a madman: "Send troops, send troops immediately, and send all 110,000 troops of our East Indies Colonies to conquer the Chinese people in Borneo!" ”