Murky streams, the sweltering heat of the rainforest, and long green leaves with sharp edges that can cut through the skin suddenly appear in front of you.

The leaves rattled, the thick vines were split with waist knives, and from the bushes, a few swarthy natives popped out, and then, a soldier in a green uniform came out, one, two, three ......, hundreds of hundreds of soldiers came out of the bushes one after another, many of the soldiers had scars on their faces, all thanks to this rainforest.

There was even a giant shrimp that lived in the trees, a meter long, and suddenly appeared with a big claw, and when they first saw this scene, they really shocked these soldiers.

A middle-aged officer wearing rubber shoes walked out of the woods, he made a gesture, and soon the soldiers dispersed, he was Zhang Shusheng, the pipe leader of the fourth battalion of the infantry regiment of the Pingyuan Water Division.

In Vietnam, in the Dinghai Hall of the North-South War, and in Yueben, the Fourth Battalion of the Infantry Regiment of the Navy Division made great achievements and was awarded the honor of "Prince Heshuoqian's Guard Battalion".

After the Dutch broke the indigenous Muslim country of Suqadana Kingdom, they built a city in the river basin near Pontianak with a natural harbor near Pontianak, garrisoning more than 200 people to deter the Chinese companies and exterminate the Dagang Company, the city once increased to more than 1,000 people.

The task of the 4th Battalion of the Naval Division Infantry Regiment was to uproot this stronghold, which was quite close to Pontianak, and at the same time, to cheer up the Chinese companies.

Following Zhang Shusheng was the armed chief of several companies such as Lan Fang, among which the armed leader of Lan Fang Company was called Zhao Annian, who was a burly and stout man.

The indigenous Borneo civilization has developed almost without the influence Chinese of the Chinese, from brick and tile technology, mining technology, and the manufacture of metal utensils to buffalo farming, rubber tree planting, rubber harvesting, and pepper improvement.

The indigenous people of Borneo like Chinese porcelain, and even some indigenous tribes have developed to the extent of worship, such as the Dusheng people of North Borneo, there is a special holy bottle festival, every holy bottle festival, that is, a celebration, all the fallen population to participate in the sacrifice of the god of the holy bottle, to get rid of the ominous.

Therefore, the indigenous people of Borneo have always been extremely friendly to the Chinese, but in recent years, in order to curb the influence of the Chinese, the Dutch have adopted a policy of sowing discord, which has caused some indigenous tribes to gradually distance themselves from the Chinese, and even become hostile to the Chinese.

The natives in the Pontianak area were obviously still accustomed to working for the Chinese, and several swarthy natives ran over and pointed to the front and said something.

Zhao Annian, the armed leader of Lanfang Company, said to Zhang Shusheng: "My lord, you have crossed the river in front and you have arrived." Then he said, "My lord, I brought snake venom powder and told Ama to disguise himself as a slave and go into the well water?" "Amma is one of the natives who opened the way.

Zhang Shusheng said: "That's not necessary. ”

Picking up the clairvoyant mirror and looking at the faint outline of the town in front of him, Zhang Shusheng's face was extremely cold, the first time he fought with foreign devils in a foreign land, this battle can only be won and not defeated!

The wooden and brick-and-brick towns built by the Dutch, perhaps never expected to be attacked on a large scale, are sparsely distributed with various wooden houses, only enclosed by wooden fences, mainly used to prevent wild beasts, the natives in the town are naturally laborers, sowing farmland in the southeast by the river, and at the same time replenishing supplies for the Dutch merchant ships and warships cruising here, in the final analysis, this small settlement is just used to deter Chinese companies and a small supply of the fleet, The Dutch didn't really see it as an armed stronghold, much less a city.

In Borneo, a musket team composed of dozens of red-haired ghosts can often conquer an indigenous tribe, just like the British team working for the Sultan of Brunei, but they are also just a few dozen people, or even just homeless and scoundrels on the streets of England, without any formal military training, but they helped the Sultan of Brunei put down the indigenous rebellion in the country.

And in this Dutchman's town of Sanwan, there are hundreds of well-trained red-haired soldiers stationed, how can the Chinese companies not be afraid of it?

The Dutch commander of Sanwan Town, Pertras, is in his thirties and has been in the South Seas for more than ten years.

Early in the morning, he came out of the low wooden hut as usual, stepping on the mud peculiar to the tropics, the muddy feeling that made the bones seem to be crawled by ants, and it was strangely uncomfortable. At this time, he couldn't help but miss the sea breeze in the north of his hometown, the sharp cold, a hundred times more comfortable than the current wet and stuffy heat.

"Smack!" Under a strangely shaped tropical tree beside him, a tall Dutch officer was whipping a few natives with a leather whip, presumably lazy again.

The natives' almost naked bodies were covered with blood-red lash marks, and the mud covered their bodies as they wailed and rolled.

Pertrey frowned slightly, these black monkeys are really lazy, if one day put away the whip and sticks, they will not be able to work well.

Potres made his way to the edge of the town, where a scout was looking out into the rainforest with a clairvoyant on a lookout made from an ancient tree.

After the news of the outbreak of conflict with the Chinese, Pertrey ordered his soldiers to strengthen their vigilance, although he did not think that the Chinese who had not yet established themselves would come to attack Sanwan, which was guarded by hundreds of elite Kingdom soldiers, but the defeat in the naval battle shocked him and made him realize that the Chinese were prepared and fearlessly challenged the authority of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The Chinese have extremely skilled ironclad ships, and this new discovery is even more shocking, but Petrey does not think that the Chinese can finally win this war, and the defeat in the naval battle is due to carelessness, after seeing through the Chinese's hole cards, the kingdom's battle-hardened navy and infantry will definitely grind the Chinese into powder without mercy.

Just as Potrey was thinking about it, on the lookout, the scout suddenly pulled the rope under the brass alarm bell with force, "dang dang dang", the bell echoed, this alarm method born before the Middle Ages, but it was convenient and efficient in this tropical rainforest.

"Adults, Chinese infantry, Chinese infantry!" The Dutch soldier on the lookout exclaimed in amazement, raising his rifle to aim.

Soon, rows of Dutch soldiers lined up behind the wooden fence, lined up with guns and ammunition, and appeared extremely well trained.

In the shallow creek winding jungle, the shadow of the Chinese slowly appeared, and the teams quickly dispersed, using trees and stone mounds as shelter, and approached the wooden fence little by little.

Battles broke out in an instant.

Not knowing which side fired first, the Chinese infantry and the Dutch army immediately began to pour their ammunition into each other's positions.

And Potrey soon discovered that the Chinese's firepower was unusually fierce, hundreds of paces away, but its bullets could easily tear through the thick planks of the wooden fence and shoot at the bodies of the soldiers under him, and the cooperation of several of its squads covered each other's advance, and the cleverness of fire suppression was simply incredible.

Potrey gave the order loudly, in fact, without his shouting, these Dutch veterans quickly found a way to deal with the Chinese infiltration tactics, and the criss-crossing fire defense line was quickly constructed.

The battle was extremely fierce, almost in less than an hour, the Dutch had lost more than half of their troops, and although there were corpses of Chinese soldiers at almost every step close to the wooden fence, the Dutch finally could not withstand the fierce fire of the Chinese, and retreated into the town, scattered in the houses to resist stubbornly.

Even more sad was to find that the casualties paid by the Chinese were far less than their own, and when they occupied the wooden fence, the casualties paid were almost insignificant.

And the soldiers of the kingdom, who fight against the natives all year round, easily win victory after victory, and in a comfortable environment, their combat effectiveness cannot be improved at all.

It's just that when did the army of the Chinese become hungry wolves with teeth and claws?

Zhao Annian and the other armed leaders of the Chinese company were dumbfounded, although the Chinese infantry team was superior in numbers, it was unbelievable that it was so clean and beautiful to defeat the defense line of the red-haired ghost.

The Fourth Battalion was one of the first units to be reequipped in Guangzhou, and today Zhang Shusheng gave an order that all officers and men should not think about bullets and just hit hard.

Although the Pingyuan Army had fought with the more powerful British and French a few years ago, it was a local battle, and it adopted the tactics of a sea of people, and the casualty ratio between the soldiers and the Anglo-French alliance was almost more than ten to one, which can be described as extremely tragic, but despite this, it finally failed to attack the city of Guangzhou, and it has to be said that in fact, in the Sino-British and French war, the Chinese were not the victorious side.

And now, the Pingyuan Army, which has been tempered in blood and fire for many years, has finally fought against the red-haired ghost again, Zhang Shusheng hopes that this first battle will be a hearty victory, and truly break the myth of the invincibility of the Taixi countries.

This is also the reason why he made the soldiers shoot to their heart's content, you must know that the speed of fire made in Guangzhou is fast, the bullet is fast, the same problem is that the consumption is extremely fast, if the soldiers are left alone, then in a fierce battle, the soldiers who hold the Guangzhou made in Guangzhou consume several times the original silver money, war, there is no doubt that with the development of firearms technology, the cost of a war will become more and more huge.

Of course, these cannot be considered on the battlefield, and how to defeat the enemy's combat forces to the greatest extent at the lowest cost is a problem that commanders should consider.

Zhang Shusheng hopes that his soldiers will save bullets mainly because of supplies, Guangzhou is thousands of miles away, although the vast sea, the supply line is difficult to be found and cut off by the Dutch, especially the supply ships are steam ships that are difficult for Dutch warships to catch up, but everything must be considered in the worst direction, bullets, naturally can still be saved.

(To be continued)