After listening to the translation of the black and thin guide, Rong Weishan's eyes showed a fierce light, and his chest was full of anger, this Bullock, and that Mu Niang company, are really too brutal, and they must avenge those Hakka compatriots who died!

He immediately asked the guide to tell the outpost named Rahman: "In that case, surrender to us." Say where Bullock and the others are, and take us to the soldiers of the Bullock dynasty. ”

Rahman told Rong Weishan: "The other day, James? When Bullock heard that there were still more than 100 Chinese miners' families hiding in Maoshan, he led 300 soldiers to search and hunt down the Chinese again. Bullock and Lu Bi, the manager of Mu Niang's company, led 400 people to stay in the palace and Kuching town. ”

Rong Weishan, who found out clearly, hurriedly reported the news to Commander You Romantic. You Romance immediately ordered that the "Nanyang No. 3", "Nanyang No. 6" and frigates should be left to block the mouth of the Sarawak River, and by the way, guard the troop carriers, and wait for the officers and men of the 6th Infantry Regiment and the Special Forces Battalion to surround the palace palace and Kuching City, and the two gunboats will directly aim at the palace building on the river and there will be a fierce bombardment.

The so-called royal palace is actually just a small western-style building, although it is still two or three miles away from the middle of the river, but the Krupp cannons on the two gunboats are so powerful, the first round of eight shells down, four of which are special incendiary bombs filled with gasoline, and suddenly this so-called Bullock palace is on fire.

The crowd in the palace was chaotic, scattering and crying, and there was chaos. But then came the second round of shells, only one minute apart, this time directly six solid shells and two special incendiary bombs, a corner of the small western-style building collapsed with a bang, the fallen wooden beam was ignited, increasing the fire, and then, there were three rounds of shelling like a meteorite down, the small western-style building came out with a ghost crying wolf-like cry for mercy, more than 100 people rushed down from the western-style building, and ran to the courtyard.

You Rongrong ordered to stop the artillery bombardment, because at this moment, a white cloth belt had been raised in the center of a window on the third floor of the small western-style building, and the enemy wanted to surrender.

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By this time the sun had come out, and it was already bright.

The so-called royal palace is not large, with a one-man high wall enclosing a courtyard, and the four corners are equipped with small gun towers and shooting holes, which is barely a small fortress, but the main building in the center that can be seen from the outside is a bare western-style building.

The 400 special sergeants of the special battalion and the 500 officers of the 6th Infantry Regiment had already besieged the palace compound, but did not take the initiative to attack.

You Rongrong and the commander in charge of the siege of the palace, the deputy commander of the special battalion, Rong Weishan, and the deputy commander of the 6th Infantry Regiment both explained that they should not rush to attack, just use the long-range gunboat bombardment, drive it out of the palace, and wait for the enemy to escape or break through the siege. Because the so-called royal palace is not big, and there is no need to worry about how long the enemy can hide in it and confront each other, there are two gunboats equipped with Krupp rifled cannons, and it is a big deal to lose more shells, according to You Romantic's calculations, about fifteen rounds of shelling should be able to collapse the entire western-style building, and more than forty percent of the people hiding in the courtyard of the entire palace are killed or wounded.

Sure enough, as soon as five rounds of artillery were fired, the other side couldn't hold it and surrendered—or to save some shells, as one shot would cost several saints.

You Romance thought so, and was just about to let the guide and the detective called Rahman shout, and let the enemy soldiers in the courtyard drop their weapons and come out with their heads in their hands, and accept the prisoners—since they surrendered, they must have the consciousness of surrender.

The two of them approached and hid in a large boulder, shouted several times in the local indigenous language, and finally responded that they were given an hour to prepare.

What else do you need to prepare for surrender? You Romance couldn't figure it out, so he directly asked the guide to warn him, and asked the people hiding in the palace to come out immediately to accept the captives.

But the other side still refused, You Romance felt that they were delaying time, so he directly asked the guide to shout ten times, and if he didn't come out, he would shoot directly. Now the people in the palace were helpless, and when the guide counted to seven, finally someone raised his hand and walked out of the palace with a strip of white cloth on his head.

But the people who came out were all miscellaneous servants, and then hired Malay soldiers, etc., at this time, You Romantic was more sure that the people in the palace were deliberately delaying time, and immediately prepared to fire again, at this time, a whistle sounded in the distance, and some soldiers had already found with binoculars that at the corner of a mountain bay ravine about three or four miles away, two steam-armed merchant ships went down the river and drove towards the mouth of the river.

You Romance suddenly understood: it turned out that the enemy troops in the palace knew that the two steam armed merchant ships were almost at the mouth of the river, so they desperately delayed time, and it turned out that they wanted to wait for the two armed merchant ships to come to their rescue.

However, they must be delusional. On the wide sea, the two steam-armed merchant ships could evade the fire of their two gunboats by virtue of their maneuverability, but this was a small river channel, with shoals on both sides, and the two ships approached one after the other, and with the range and accuracy of their old-fashioned smoothbore guns, it was a dream to threaten them.

You Rong Rong once said that the Krupp rifled guns produced by the empire today are several years ahead of the cannons of foreigners, and they are much stronger than smoothbore guns in terms of range, accuracy and rate of fire.

You Romance laughed contemptuously and ordered the two gunboats to aim at one of the steamships at the front.

The distance is only three or four miles away, You Romantic feels a little regretful, the maximum firing range of the Krupp two front-loading rifled guns on these two gunboats reaches 14 miles, and the effective firing range is also four or five miles, although speaking of which, because it is installed on the gunboat, the warship is shaking on the water surface, and the shooting accuracy will be much worse, so it is best to use it within three miles to achieve the best effect, but at this moment, isn't it exactly this distance?

Eight shells landed on the top of the first steamer, and with a few screams and loud applause, the paddle wheel on the left side of the steamship at the front had just turned around the bay and rushed to the front, and it lost power, and not only that, the cabin was smashed in several holes, and the heavy solid pig iron bullets smashed the side planks, although it did not sink into the water at once, but it was also terrifying. A steamship that has lost its paddle wheel is a live target.

The second steamship was stunned. It may be that I saw the two gunboats on the opposite side of the river and felt a chill in my heart, but these were shooting moving ships on the river, and they began to fire shells three or four miles away, and there were 8 rounds at once, and all 7 of them were hit! It's not a matter of luck, it's that the other party can really shoot himself.

Therefore, the second steamer in the back hurriedly slowed down and wanted to turn the bow, probably thinking that the gunboat on the opposite side had a relatively large tonnage, unlike a steamship of small tonnage like theirs, which could go deep into the upper reaches of the inland river. But when it rushed over, it was smooth water, but now I want to turn around, but it is against the water, and when I am frightened, how can it be so fast as usual?

I heard another round of cannons, and the second steamer also snorted a few times and was shot. Although only four shells were hit, and two more landed on the first steamship immediately in front of it, it was enough to bear it, and although the paddle wheel was not broken, the cabin was smashed, and many people died, and the flesh and blood made the rest of the ship chill.

The unfortunate first steamship was even more dilapidated, all of them began to enter the water, dozens of people on board cried for help, and some people began to jump into the water to escape. At this time, someone found a yellowed cloth out of nowhere, and unfolded it as a white cloth and pulled it up, shouting for mercy and surrender. When the second steamship saw it, it knew that it was too late to turn the bow of the ship, so it had to do the same, and when it could not find the white cloth for a while, it took off a few pieces of clothing and pulled them out, spread them out in all sorts of ways, and desperately cried out in various dialects, and surrendered.