"What is going on, I still hope that Uncle Shi will make it clear, and the little nephew will be able to make plans." Hearing Luo Fangbo's solemn statement, Liang Pengfei also had to cheer up his spirit.

"Let Jiang Wubo tell you this." Luo Fangbo turned his head and pointed to a middle-aged man standing behind him who was quite tall and athletic, but also had a shrewd taste.

"Caomin Jiang Wubo, see the chief soldier." Listening to Luo Fangbo's orders, and seeing that Liang Pengfei didn't say anything, Jiang Wubo stepped out and saluted Liang Pengfei respectfully.

"Okay, don't be polite, tell me what's going on with the Lanfang Company in Borneo?" Liang Pengfei touched his chin and asked gently.

Jiang Wubo is very eloquent, and quickly told the current crisis encountered by the Lanfang Republic on Borneo, it turned out that before, the Lanfang Republic had encountered those Western colonizers, but the shrewd Luo Fangbo sword went off the rails, sent an envoy back to China, met the emperor, and asked to be called a vassal, although even the gate of the Qing Dynasty's Domain Court could not enter, let alone see any Qianlong.

However, Luo Fangbo wantonly exaggerated their visit trip in Nanyang, anyway, people are their own people, what they see, what people they see, naturally they themselves can blow vigorously, but in this way, it is indeed that those Western colonists who are still wary of the behemoth of the Qing Kingdom have temporarily restrained their minions.

However, in the past year, those Western colonists have been ready to act again, and they are no longer blatant, either driving pirates and bandits, or simply disguised themselves as bandits and running to the territory of the Lanfang Republic to plunder. Lan Fangguo was tired of coping with it, and there was a lack of armaments and ammunition, and it was precisely because it was a little difficult to support that Luo Fangbo would find Liang Pengfei at the beginning.

However, after the two sides negotiated, Liang Pengfei successively requisitioned only 1,000 soldiers to the Lanfang Republic, and stated that because the troops were too small, they only guarded the western part of the capital East Wanjin and the port area.

You must know that the Republic of Lanfang can be said to be a soldier in the whole country, although it is all militia, but many of them have seen the combat effectiveness of the Qing army of the national team, so they didn't care too much about the thousand soldiers recruited by Liang Pengfei, and even felt that Liang Pengfei was simply using people to mix up some remuneration and take advantage of it.

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Luo Fangbo was still a little resistant at first, but if he didn't agree, he would not have been able to obtain a large amount of materials and ordnance urgently needed by Lan Fangguo from Liang Pengfei's hands, or in other words, he agreed to do a good job and strengthen the relationship with Liang Pengfei.

But no one thought that after these soldiers arrived in Lanfang, they did not indestruct the people, and did not interfere with any affairs of Lanfang, except for daily training, they only occasionally went to Dongwanjin to shop, but there was never the kind of forced buying and selling that they expected, which made Luo Fangbo and the senior management of Lanfang Company gradually let down their guard against Liang Jiajun from the beginning, but they still did not take Liang Jiajun's thousand people too seriously.

But no one expected that at the beginning of this year, there was a crisis, and a group of Western pirates disguised as merchant ships forced along the Capuas River to the port of Pontianak (East Wanjin), the capital of Nalan Fang Company, intending to attack East Wanjin and plunder it in one fell swoop.

The two thousand mercenaries of the Lanfang Company guarding the port only resisted for less than two quarters of an hour before they had to retreat to East Wanjin, and the group of Liang family troops who were camped between the port and Xicheng did not flee to East Wanjin as soon as the Lanfang Company and the whole of the company expected.

After learning of the attack on the port, they set up a simple position on the road leading to the city of East Wanjin in the shortest possible time, and relying on this simple position, a thousand men defended it for nearly half an hour, and stopped the pirates' advance at the cost of wounding 257 men and killing 39 men. In front of them and on their positions, the corpses of more than 700 pirates fell.

After the arrival of the main force of the Lanfang Republic, the Liang family still had the strength to counterattack with the large army, and successfully captured two pirate ships.

After that, Luo Fangbo took the initiative to ask Liang Pengfei to send additional troops, of course, the cost of hiring soldiers is calculated according to the remuneration of mercenaries, however, after Liang Pengfei only increased his troops by 2,000, he politely refused on the grounds that all places needed soldiers to guard and it was difficult to increase troops, but these 3,000 soldiers made Lanfang Company feel a lot more at ease, after all, these 3,000 soldiers had such strong combat effectiveness, and when the two thousand soldiers arrived, they also brought 30 infantry guns, that is, six-pounder guns, There are also twenty strange cannons that have never been seen in the Lanfang Republic, which are called strange things by those Liang Jiajun cannons without conscience.

With a lot of artillery and these 3,000 soldiers, Luo Fangbo completely entrusted the task of guarding the port to these 3,000 Liang family troops. What they regret is that these 3,000 Liang family troops are too rigid, and they abide by Liang Pengfei's orders, even if it is military training, they will never leave the radius of 20 miles from the port.

On several occasions, other parts of the Republic of Lanfang have been rebelled against by the local aborigines, or bandits, but they have not been able to control this army.

But now, a big event happened, some time ago, a Dutch naval lieutenant went ashore to play when the warship was anchored in the southern port city of Sukatana in the Republic of Lanfang, no one thought that this goods actually lured a Chinese woman onto a warship and annihilated her in the name of buying the goods that a woman wanted to sell, and the woman's fierce resistance and dispute angered the angry Dutch naval lieutenant and shot the Chinese woman.

And took advantage of the twilight to tie his body to a ballast stone, and quietly sank into the sea, but who did not expect that someone happened to see this scene, so except for one missionary who could not return to the ship in time because he went to the church in Sukatana, the fifteen Dutchmen, thirty-seven servants, and the Dutch lieutenant were all torn apart by the angry people, and the Dutch warship was also burned to ashes.

"Groening, the governor of the Dutch East India Company, demands that we, the Republic of Lanfang, hand over all the murderers who killed the Dutch naval soldiers and burned the Dutch warships, and in addition, demand that the Republic of Lanfang compensate them with two million taels of silver, and that all the territories south of the Kun River be ceded by the Kun River in the central part of our Republic of Lanfang......"

"I said, these Dutch turtle sons are so vicious." Liang Pengfei couldn't help but gasp and scolded out a Sichuan dialect. After so many people died, and it was the party who was at the loss, he actually took a bite back, and the appetite and greed were really shameless enough to describe.

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Hearing Liang Pengfei's emotion, Jiang Wubo and Luo Fangbo only had a wry smile and a sad face, Luo Fangbo motioned for Jiang Wubo to sit aside, and then said to Liang Pengfei astringently: "Now we have found out that the Dutch East India Company has assembled a force of about 2,000 men in Batakan, a port in the south of Borneo that they control, and they can assemble at least twice the number of mercenaries in southern Borneo at any time, as well as more than 30,000 indigenous troops. In addition, a fleet of the Dutch East India Company, with two battleships as the main force, has been assembled in Jakarta. Now, the East India Company gave us a deadline of two months, and within two months, if we could not meet their demands, they would use force. ”

Liang Pengfei couldn't help frowning and pacing in the room, you know, the Dutch can be regarded as one of the earliest colonists, and they have been operating in the South Sea Java area for nearly two hundred years, it can be said that the Java area is one of the most important nests of the Dutch colonists in Asia.

Originally, they were suppressed by the British, and they could only shrink into this area and survive, but it cannot be denied that after all, it is an old colonial country, and there are still three pounds of nails in the broken ship.

More than 50 years ago, in order to resist the cruel oppression of the Chinese by the Dutch, the Chinese revolted in Jakarta and other places, because the incident was not secret and traitors betrayed, the blood of tens of thousands of overseas Chinese dyed the rivers of Jakarta red, and tens of thousands of overseas Chinese died tragically, and the blood shed stained the river red, which is known as the Battle of Red Creek.

Almost all Westerners have a fear and hatred for the Chinese in Nanyang, and it is for this reason that massacres against the Chinese have occurred one after another among the various Western colonies in Nanyang, and now, the existence of the Lanfang Republic, a country established by the Chinese, is like a sharp sword, fiercely piercing the Dutch's side, and the trembling sword body seems to be cutting bloody cuts on the Dutch at any time.

You must know that there are nearly more than 100,000 Chinese in the Republic of Lanfang, and there are nearly one million Borneo natives who are attached to them, and this force must not be underestimated.

This naturally made it even more difficult for the Dutch to sleep, so since the establishment of the Lanfang Republic, the Dutch did not know how many conspiracies against the Lanfang Republic had been planned.

Moreover, the rich gold mines in the territory occupied by the Republic of Lanfang made the Dutch East India Company, which was now saddled with a large amount of debt, and was on the verge of bankruptcy.

And now, there is finally an opportunity to speak upright, it should be said that with a strong reason in front of them, they will naturally not let go of such an opportunity easily, and they will definitely not give up.

Time passed bit by bit, and Luo Fangbo and Jiang Wubo looked at Liang Pengfei nervously, for fear that a desperate word would pop out of his mouth.

It seemed that nearly a quarter of an hour had passed, Liang Pengfei stopped at the door of the hall, looked at the flowers blooming outside the door, and sighed as if talking to himself: "Why do we always have to repeat these sufferings?" ”

(To be continued)