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Although the enemy is current, Zhu Jishi still plans to publicize his engagement to Luo Xiangmei (marrying a wife can't be so casual, so it's just an engagement first, and then a big wedding will be held at a later date). A banquet was set up in the Xindang Mansion again, and Zhu Jishi invited the officers of the three battalions under him to have a meal of haode, and gave each of the whole army a bounty. It's not that Zhu Jishi is stingy, but that Xindang's location is not good, far from the coastline, to the east of Dongfang Law. After the Liu family raised the banner of Fengqing and Ming, Zhu Jishi's logistics line was not very smooth, so he was a little nervous at hand, but fortunately, the reserve of gunpowder and ammunition was very large, and there were 2,000 ammonium grenades - this was a secret weapon, all of which were allocated to that battalion of foreign soldiers, and they were the main force in this battle!

In addition, the grain reserves in the Xindang Mansion are also enough, this was originally a mining area controlled by the Luo family, there are thousands of miners here all the year round, panning for gold, the Luo family has built a warehouse here to reserve grain, when the miners retreated, the grain in these warehouses was not transported, enough for more than 2,000 people under the command of Zhu Jishi to eat for more than a year.

Therefore, Zhu Jishi decided to put the battlefield in Xindang City, while stepping up the training of troops, while strengthening the city defense of Xindang Mansion, putting on a jiashi guarding the fortified city, preparing for a fierce battle.

At the same time, Zhu Jishi's three-battalion army also had a new name, and the previous "Lanfang Army" and "British Lanfang Infantry" signs were not hung up, but the signboard of "Jishi Army" was openly played, and Luo Xiangmei and Wang Yunjiao embroidered a military flag - the sun and the moon are the same as the Hui flag, that is, the sun and a new moon are placed together, the background color is red, and the sun and moon flag of the Heaven and Earth Society are not exactly the same, but the meaning of the sun and moon is still very clear.

With the appearance of the Sun and Moon Flag, Zhu Jishi publicly recognized his descendants of the Ming Dynasty. And Lan Fang, Liu Jiafeng's clear voice, of course, shouted even louder. The Governor of Bonham in Singapore was also baffled, thinking that the Qing Dynasty had really turned Lan Fang into a vassal, and sent a warship carrying representatives to Pontianak to "visit" to find out the truth. As a result, this move frightened the Liu family father and son enough, thinking that the British Empire was preparing to intervene with arms. So he immediately spread to all places, announcing that the imperial court soldiers were about to sweep Xindang, eradicate the anti-Ming and anti-thieves, and called on the people of the Qing Dynasty in West Borneo to actively join the army to protect the Qing Dynasty and destroy the anti-Ming! He wanted to drive Zhu Jishi out of West Borneo before the British intervened.

The Sultan of Brunei and the Sultan of Wanna also responded positively to the request of the "Great Qing" to unite with them to suppress the Ming Dynasty - the combined forces of the two Sultans set out early in December 1845 and marched towards Sindang.

And the Jishijun side is not without allies. On December 8, the Heshun Company, which was entrenched in Dagang, and Sixiutang, which owned Yamaguchiyang, simultaneously hoisted the sun, moon and Huihui flags and openly sided with Zhu Jishi, and on the same day, eight armed merchant ships of the Nanyang Company flying the British flag also sailed into the ports of Shankouyang and Dagang to assist in the defense of the two places.

At this time, both warring sides in West Borneo have made it clear that there is no room for relaxation. So on the one hand, Liu Qianxing sent Liu Aliang to command hundreds of families of the Liu family to block the road to the east of Shankouyang and Dagang, and on the other hand, he summoned the Chen family, the Jiang family, the Xie family, the Gu family, the Ye family and other wealthy families of the Lanfang Company in Dongfanglu, and formed a "Lanfang Regiment Training Yamen", as the general headquarters for the extermination of Zhu Jishi's "anti-thief", and at the same time organized the brave recruited by each family into "Lanfang Town", and appointed Liu Asheng as the general soldier of Lanfang Town, and according to the establishment of the green battalion of the Qing Dynasty, two associations and six battalions were set up under Lanfang Town. The total strength exceeded 6,000, or 10,000 to the outside world, and it was equipped with cold weapons such as smoothbore guns and spears and broadswords, as well as eight six-pounder guns dismantled from the Canton ship.

It was only on December 12 that this improvised "Great Qing Heavenly Soldiers" could barely restrain themselves into a team, starting from Dongfanglu, advancing eastward along the Kun River, and approaching Xindang -- it was not that the Liu family was in a hurry to send troops, but the news from Singapore was very bad. Governor Bonham had already sent someone to Hong Kong to report to the British minister in China that the Qing Dynasty had "appeased" Lan Fang, and if the British checked with the Manchus and found that there was no such thing, they might have directly sent troops to intervene.

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On December 15, the news that the "Qing Heavenly Soldiers" and the Sudanese native soldiers were divided into two ways and rushed to Xindang from the east and west reached Zhu Jishi's headquarters, and the atmosphere was suddenly tense to the point of suffocation. Including Zhu Jishi, Robert. Churchill, Will. Heming, including Heming, has a feeling of breathlessness. Of course, there are also more certain ones, that is, the five old French officers sent by Napoleon III to Zhu Jishi.

"Sir, don't keep walking around the map, so you look panicked, not like a commander who is about to win a battle."

"What? Worried that you won't be able to beat it? Sir, how could you have such a ridiculous idea? It's so imaginative, probably only a scientist would have such a fanciful idea......"

"How can you not win? We were far superior to our opponents in combat and defended with strong fortifications...... Seriously, that's too conservative! ”

"I really can't imagine that Liu Qianxing would actually take the initiative to attack, how could there be such a stupid person on Shijie? If I were him, he would definitely stick to Dongfanglu, Pontianak, and Xingang, blockade Shankouyang and Dagang, cut off our logistics, and force us to attack, so that we might die a slower death. ”

"If this person surnamed Liu is not stupid, how can he accept the official position of the Qing Dynasty emperor and become our enemy? It was thousands of miles away from the Qing Dynasty itself, so what help could that emperor give him? ”

A few Frenchmen are full of confidence when you say a word and I say a word, and I don't know if Napoleon's generals were so confident before the Battle of Waterloo? Anyway, Zhu Jishi was still very nervous, this was the first time in his life that he went to the battlefield.

"Master, your robe is ready, do you want to try it?"

At this time, Wang Yunjiao suddenly pushed the door into the command headquarters, still holding a gray tweed army coat in her hand, this dress was painted by Mrs. Duran, and was sent to the new army, originally wanted Zhu Jishi to see if it was agreeable, and then it was made by Mrs. Duran herself. As a result, the road to the port was blocked, so Zhu Jishi asked Wang Yunjiao, who was serving him with the army, to do the same.

"Okay, give it a try." Zhu Jishi took the military coat and put it on, it still fits well, I don't know who handed over a triangular hat again, and Zhu Jishi pressed it on his head.

"Hmm, I'm a little taller, or I really look a bit like Emperor Bixia!" Jérôme. Peel glanced at it and commented, "It seems that Madame Duran designed your military uniform after the emperor's dress on the battlefield, and you are probably the emperor Bixia in his mind." ”

The emperor Bixia in his mouth is certainly not Daoguang, but Napoleon. Bonaparte, the French emperor, often wore a gray coat and a three-cornered hat on the battlefield.

"I wish I could be as great a soldier as Napoleon!" Zhu Jishi straightened his army coat and thought to himself.

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"I hope that this battle can break the thief and lay the foundation of my Liu family's century-old foundation."

At the same time, Liu Axing, the commander of the 6,000 Qing Heavenly Soldiers, was also secretly praying to Xiangshang Cang, and the Liu family could only win and not lose in this battle. Not to mention how big the sin of recruiting soldiers is, it is the recruitment of these 6,000 troops and the cost of equipping them, which has almost emptied the Liu family's family foundation!

Although the Chinese people in Lanfang are all interested in the Qing Dynasty, it does not mean that they are willing to work for the Qing Dynasty, and the settlement fee for 6,000 people here alone is 150,000 yuan! In addition, the 3,000 smoothbore guns, 10,000 catties of black powder, 100,000 lead bullets, and the costs of making military uniforms and camp tents for 6,000 people, preparing grain and grass, buying horses and vehicles, etc., have just been purchased from the Dutch, and more than 300,000 yuan have been spent, of which 200,000 yuan is paid by the Liu family out of their own pockets.

If this battle is lost, the family business of the Lanfang Liu family will also be ruined.

"But this time, with the union of Wanna and the Sultan of Brunei, the combined army of the three families exceeded 16,000, which is equivalent to eight times the rebel army, so it should be able to win, right?" Liu Asheng chatted about the sedan curtain, looking at the vast army under his command, and his heart suddenly felt a lot more relieved.