It is a normal night. Look up. It's the night sky where the stars twinkle. Look down. Chu Yiliu's farts were heavy on the earth, and the sound of insects was mixed with the suppressed breathing of people.

Zhou Haishan raised his head and looked at the sky, but the top of his head was full of dense leaves, and he couldn't even see the moonlight, so he lowered his head again, raised his right hand, grabbed his face, and then quickly put it back at his feet, and continued to press on the bolt of the Grag Jorgensen rifle lying flat on the ground, and subconsciously rubbed his index finger back and forth on the handle of the gun with a strong metal texture, although he desperately suppressed the heavy breathing. But what he heard in his ears was the gasp of "snort", and the heart in his chest was also beating hard, which made Zhou Haishan look like a wheezer

Licking his somewhat dry lips with his tongue, Zhou Haishan took out the wall watch and shone it with the flashlight covered with red cloth, it was already eleven and a half o'clock in the night, but there was still no movement in the barracks, as if there was no one in the barracks at all.

But Zhou Haishan knew that the barracks was not empty, there were people in the barracks, and there were wandering sentinels outside the walls of the barracks.

Although the army battalion of the Dutch colonial army, which had been stationed in the barracks, had all been withdrawn to the beach by half past nine, there were indeed other people in the barracks, because the barracks was not only for Dutch soldiers in the first place.

The barracks, near a high ground five kilometers north of the giant suburbs, originally housed not only a battalion of Dutch infantry, but also about 500 colonial policemen, who were said to be policemen. In fact, it is a paramilitary force, whose members are basically natives from the island of Java, and although the equipment is not as good as the regular Dutch army, it is at least equipped with hundreds of rifles, and even machine guns, in peacetime. The main function of this colonial police force is to maintain local law and order, assist the Dutch colonial army in monitoring the activities of the Sumatra Chinese self-government, and intervene in the mediation of conflicts when necessary.

Towards dark in the afternoon, the Governor of the Dutch East Indies Colony gave an order, under the pretext of the unstable situation in Borneo, to order the Dutch Army infantry battalion stationed there to withdraw to the sea and prepare to board the ship for Borneo. Almost immediately, the organization of the withdrawal of troops began. And by half past nine all the Dutch soldiers were withdrawn from the barracks, but when they retreated. The Dutch colonial army did not carry heavy equipment, but only rifles and backpacks, in other words, now, in this barracks, which no longer has Dutch soldiers, cannons and shells, as well as all machine guns and ammunition.

Considering that the colonial police force did not evacuate the barracks with the Dutch colonial army, then those cannons and machine guns should be in their hands now, and it is precisely for this reason that Zhou Haishan came to the barracks, and with him rushed to ambush about 2,000 people, the regiment is all Chinese and overseas Chinese, most of whom are from Guangdong and Fujian.

Zhou Haishan was ordered to rush to the vicinity of the barracks to lay an ambush, and the person who gave the order was Gong Chuntai, and now, Gong Chuntai is lurking in another forest less than a kilometer away from the barracks, and he can lead the reserve team into battle at any time to attack the barracks.

The mission of the militia was very clear, that is, to attack the barracks, capture or destroy the cannon and shells, and avoid falling into the hands of the natives.

The task was given very suddenly, actually. It was not until the Dutch army began to withdraw from the barracks one after another. After some heated debate, the majority of the members of the self-government unanimously agreed that it was necessary to preemptively eliminate the colonial police force, which was composed of natives, in order to prevent the other side from plotting against it.

There have been similar situations before, often as soon as the Dutch troops withdrew, the local natives began to carry out large-scale attacks on the Chinese, it is difficult to say whether the withdrawal of the Dutch garrison this time is a hidden conspiracy, so, instead of waiting passively, it is better to take the initiative, anyway, there is an ocean-going fleet of the Chinese Navy in the port to support the Chinese.

Although the decision of the preemptive leader of the Chinese self-government organs seems somewhat hasty, as far as the militia is concerned, once it takes action, it does not feel at all in a hurry, and the reason is very simple, because the militia has drawn up a plan long ago, and in fact, when the plan was first formulated, the main imaginary enemy of the militia was the infantry battalion of the Dutch army, and the troops mobilized were also based on the original battle plan.

However, Zhou Haishan was still a little nervous, after all, the other party had machine guns and cannons, although under the conditions of night combat and close combat, the cannons were basically useless, but after all, there were more than 500 armed natives in the barracks, even if they no longer had fighting spirit, the foreign guns in their hands were not vegetarian.

In contrast, the militia was mainly armed with old-style rifles, and the front-line assault units were not equipped with artillery, only a few grenades and homemade earthen bombs. There are only two machine guns, so once the attack begins, the militia must rush into the barracks as soon as possible to fight for hand-to-hand combat. When fighting in the dark of night in hand-to-hand combat, it's easy to fight one-two opponents.

Frontal assault is the next strategy, the best offensive strategy is to outwit, for this purpose, the militia also has arrangements, the so-called "under the heavy reward must be traitors" The natives are also people, as long as they are people, they have weaknesses. The biggest point is greed, and the moon is small with many weaknesses. The militia only bought a few "traitors" and used the "traitors" to outwit the barracks.

When he learned that he was going to attack the barracks, Gong Chuntai immediately tried to get in touch with the traitors in the barracks, and promised a heavy reward, asking them to plan the offensive action, although it could not completely guarantee the loyalty of those traitors, but as long as there was one, the traitors acted according to the plan, then the militia group could quickly attack the barracks.

Now, what Zhou Haishan is waiting for is the action of those traitors, but now it is almost twelve o'clock, but there is still no action of the traitors, Zhou Haishan is a little anxious in his heart.

"These natives, what they say doesn't count, they only take money and don't do anything, and when they attack the barracks, they will kill them to the ground!"

Zhou Haishan pondered viciously in his heart. When the six gods were gone, someone patted him on the shoulder.

"Commander, look! There was a fire in the barracks. Is it Ran Ying who acted? ”

The one who spoke was a group member sitting next to Zhou Haishan. It was also him who patted Zhou Haishan on the shoulder.

Zhou Haishan looked out of the woods, and sure enough, the fire in the darkness was getting more and more dazzling, and the barracks was indeed on fire.

This was not only a code of action for the agreed action, but also a response action of the traitors, and the purpose of the arson was to distract the patrol sentries near the barracks and cover the militia from rushing under the barracks walls.

"Rush! Rush! ”

Zhou Haishan saw the native soldiers patrolling outside the wall hurriedly rushing to the gate of the barracks, so he hurriedly issued an attack order, and the regiments lurking in the woods quickly rushed out of the woods, rushed to the barracks wall, and immediately put the dozens of wooden ladders on the wall, covering the broadsword team to climb over the tall wall first. Then he broke into the barracks with a rope.

At this time, the barracks were full of the shouts of the natives, and there was a lot of commotion, which effectively covered the charge of the militia.

Zhou Haishan did not lead his subordinates to rush into the barracks. He just rode on the wall with a rifle, monitoring the movements around the barracks, and at the same time observing the movements of the natives in the barracks with the help of the firelight in the barracks.

Soon, more than 100 swordsmen of the broadsword team climbed over the wall, quickly touched the entrance of the barracks in the shadow of the barracks row after row, and then rushed into the barracks without hesitation, and then, the barracks sounded the screams of people.

"Smack! Syllable! ”

Soon after, gunshots rang out. It was no longer necessary to find out who fired the gun first, and now that the sneak attack had turned into a strong attack, the scuffle had begun.

"Smack! Syllable! Zhou Haishan and the regimental soldiers riding on the wall opened fire with their rifles to cover the actions of the broadsword team. And continue to cover those regiments who climbed into the barracks by means of wooden ladders, at the same time. The militia units attacking from the front also began to act, and the sound of machine guns sounded near the main entrance of the barracks, completely blocking the exit of the barracks.

Some of the swordmen of the broadsword team quickly ended their fight in the barracks and walked out of the barracks with bloody broadswords, after which the regimental men with oil drums rushed up, poured gasoline on the inside and outside of the barracks, and then lit the fire to enhance the horror of the scene and guide the gunners in firing

Sign.

In the face of the armed raid of the Chinese People's League, all the native soldiers in the barracks panicked, some were blocked in the barracks and died under the big knife, and some fled naked through the window, but often they were knocked over by bullets after taking a few steps, and as for the native soldiers who were ready to put out the fire, they rushed to the gate of the barracks after hearing the gunshots. But they didn't show up until they ran to the barracks gate. The main entrance was blocked by machine-gun fire. Unable to get out at all, they had to turn around and run wildly to the barracks where there was no fire, trying to find a way out in the rain of bullets, and some of the native soldiers ran back to the barracks, but they were immediately bombed into the sky along with the barracks.

Zhou Haishan and his subordinates would not watch those natives flee, they used their rifles in their hands to vent those new and old hatreds, and the deadly rain of bullets whistled through the air in the darkness and firelight, and the shrill howl was enough to make most of the natives who were busy fleeing for their lives nervous

Break.

Finally, the first native soldier appeared in the barracks, kneeling on the ground and raising his hands in the air. More native soldiers followed, and knelt down. Hands raised, begging for mercy from the attackers, but not many of the attackers were willing to accept their surrender, and the whistling bullets and brandished broadswords were in response.

The battle was completely over in less than half an hour, the barracks were captured by the militias, the more than 500 colonial police troops stationed in the barracks were almost completely wiped out, and even Nei Ying was killed and wounded in the melee, it was a skirmish, but there was no doubt that it was also a very tragic battle

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After taking away the weapons and ammunition that could be moved, Zhou Haishan led it, and the barracks of the Dutch colonial army were completely burned. The blazing flames lit up the night sky, accompanied by violent explosions of ammunition, and even five kilometers away in the city of Palembang, you could see the skyrocketing fire from the barracks.

"At this moment, the rebellion has actually begun."

In the early hours of the next morning, after learning of the fighting in the Dutch barracks, a British journalist traveling in the city of Palembang wrote this scene in his diary.

In the eyes of the British and Dutch, this was an armed rebellion of the Chinese, but for the Chinese in the Nanyang area, it was a great national uprising, which was called the "Palembang Uprising" because it broke out on the outskirts of Palembang