Pontianak on December 20, 1895 undoubtedly became the center of a storm, and everything changed as the shots rang out. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 After the gunfire disappeared, first on the flagpole of the immigration hall at the dock, the Dutch tricolor flag that had been hoisted before disappeared, and was replaced by a "sun and moon flag".

Soon, the Dutch tricolor of the entire city was gone, and the Dutch, who had once been high, all closed their doors and watched the changes in the city with a look of trepidation.

Riot?

No!

It's an uprising!

Any Dutch, Westerner in Pontianak is acutely aware of one thing - they are going through a revolution.

For Prince, who was in his forties, he came to Pontianak as an Englishman to swim against the tide and study the local flora and fauna, but he did not expect that he would experience an uprising here.

On the streets, you can see Chinese expatriates with loaded guns, and their weapons can be described as strange, ranging from front-loading flintlock pistols to firing pistols, as well as rear-loading guns, and even the latest magazine-style rifles, and of course, many more are wearing Chinese-style broadswords at their waists.

"Oh my God, maybe it's going to be a wonderful experience!"

In the face of the uprising, Prince was extremely excited, and he even carried the bulky camera and took pictures on the streets, but fortunately, those Chinese were not as conservative as their compatriots at home, thinking that the camera could suck their souls and let them take pictures.

Even Prince, a photographer, didn't realize what he was doing – he was documenting the uprising on film and was the only photographer.

While Prince was taking pictures. He saw a carriage escorted by several overseas Chinese with short guns at their waists. Head in the direction of City Hall. Apparently the man in the carriage was a big man, so he ordered his servants to go with him to the town hall, which was now also the headquarters of the insurgents.

The city hall in the center of Pontianak city is a Western-style building, and just two days ago, the Dutch tricolor flag was hoisted here, but at this time, a somewhat rough "sun and moon flag" was fluttering here. Outside the gates of the town hall, more than a dozen insurgents dressed in horse coats and armed with foreign guns could be seen, almost every one of them with a smile on their faces. The smile was heartfelt, and it seemed like everyone was celebrating, celebrating the city back under their control.

But not everyone has a smile on their face, at least for Ye Xiangyun, who just came to Pontianak, his face will be full of melancholy.

"How can this be, how can this be ......"

As the son-in-law of Liu Asheng, the last commander of Lanfang Company, Ye Xiangyun, looking at the sun and moon flag raised in the city hall, his mood became even heavier. Everyone in Pontianak knows that eleven years ago. When the company broke up and the Dutch took over the company, it was he who stepped in to stop the uprising.

In the eyes of the Dutch, he was a great contributor to avoiding further bloodshed. It is precisely because of this that he and his son became "Kapitan" and even obtained the right to reclaim large tracts of land. Of course, this kind of rich return is not something that every overseas Chinese can have. However, this does not prevent him from enjoying great prestige in the local area, which is why he can lead people through the process.

Just when Ye Xiangyun was looking at the Sun Moon Banner and muttering with a pale face, he saw Xu Liang coming out of the city hall, so he asked urgently.

"Lin Chuan, what about Mayor Linde?"

The Linde he refers to is not Chinese, but Dutch, the mayor appointed by the Dutch governor, and the highest-ranking Dutch governor in the region.

"Yes, I'm in jail!"

Xu Liang's face was bitter, and at the same time he whispered in Dutch.

"Ye, Mr. Ye, I am cooperating with these mobs now, and I have no choice but to do it, this Mayor of Linde they are locked up, someone has to take care of it, and when the army sent by the Governor arrives, when the time comes, you will have to make the decision for me!"

Although he knew that those people didn't know Dutch, Xu Liang still looked around nervously, for fear that others would hear his thoughts of "his heart is in Cao Ying, and he is in Han".

"Lin Chuan, others don't know you, I still don't know, what about the others? Did they really kill the Dutch police? ”

After getting an affirmative answer, Ye Xiangyun's face suddenly changed suddenly, and the expression of his wrinkled face was constantly changing, and now he even regretted that this pool of muddy water was flowing, but as "Jiabidan", he couldn't help but go out, after all, no matter what, these people were also his fellow villagers.

"I can't watch you die!"

In the city hall, Ye Xiangyun, who was on crutches, loudly questioned Zhang Qianwei, Shi Er and others in front of him, in his opinion, people here not only want to die by themselves, but also want to bring everyone to a dead end.

"It doesn't matter if you want to die, but don't forget, there are still tens of thousands of people, and if you continue to do this, you want the Dutch to drag them all out and behead them!"

Ye Xiangyun said as he struck the ground with his cane hard, his face was full of pain, perhaps, he cooperated with the Dutch, but, in his opinion, his cooperation was to protect everyone and prevent everyone from being killed by the Dutch.

"Beheaded?"

Zhang Qianwei, the Hakka man who originally responded to Shi Er's breath by the river, laughed and said,

"Boss Ye laughed, those Dutch people they dare!"

"That's it, if they give them a few more dares, they won't dare, our warships of the Great Qing Kingdom are in Singapore!"

"But no, Second Brother Shi said, the fleet will come over soon, and when the time comes, I don't know who will cut off whose head!"

"Warship? Hmph......"

First with a sneer, Ye Xiangyun sneered again.

"Or the warships of the Great Qing Kingdom?"

As he spoke, he sneered and looked at the men in this hall, looking at their looks of thinking that they had found a backer, but there was a pain in his heart.

"What do you think you are? After so many years, when did the Great Qing Kingdom treat us as extraordinary? Don't forget the time when it was more than 100 years ago. The Dutch killed tens of thousands of us. But what did the emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom say? Say that we are outcasts of the Celestial Empire. Say that the Dutch killed well, can such a court be able to point to it? ”

At that time, why Ye Xiangyun tried his best to persuade everyone not to revolt was because the Qing Dynasty could not reach out, and because the imperial court and those who were officials were unreliable.

"Back then, we couldn't knock on the doors of the adults in the capital with silver, and you thought that with a telegram, the Manchu Dog Emperor would send their warships?"

As a son of Hongmen, Ye Xiangyun naturally did not have a good impression of the Manchu Emperor, and he had no respect at all when he mentioned it.

"Yes. But Second Brother Shi said that there must be a warship to help us! ”

Yu Jingbian stubbornly insisted on the side, and at the same time kept looking at Shi Er, as if he wanted to get an affirmative answer from him.

"Shi Er, who is Shi Er?"

"Me!"

Shi Er, who took a step forward, looked at Ye Xiangyun and replied loudly.

"You said that the imperial court would send warships, do you know that your nonsense like this will kill people! Do you want to kill the big guy? ”

"I'm not talking nonsense!"

Shi Er shook his head vigorously, first looked around at everyone, and then met Ye Xiangyun's eyes, and said loudly.

"I never said that the imperial court would send warships!"

Don't wait for Shi Er to finish speaking. With a "boom", the hall suddenly became unkempt. Everyone's faces changed, and more people's faces turned even pale.

"Second Brother Shi, no, there is no warship, you, you ......"

The sudden change in the limelight did not make Ye Xiangyun feel the slightest joy, what he felt was only extra pain, and more worry about the fate of these people.

"How can there be no warships?"

Before Shi Er could finish speaking, his words were disrupted by the sounds around him.

"There's a warship, then, maybe it's a Dutch ghost warship!"

Not really, in case the Dutch sent their warships...... Isn't it a dead end for everyone at that time?

Just when everyone was talking and the hall became unkempt, Shi Er said loudly.

"Listen to me, I didn't say that the imperial court would send warships, and I also know that the Manchu court will not be able to do it, but the country will definitely send warships, but it is not the imperial court!"

"It's not from the imperial court, or is it who's?"

"That's it, isn't that Singapore's warship, too, also entered the imperial court?"

"That's a warship from the Northeast!"

Shi Er shouted loudly,

"The warships in the Northeast are not the warships of the imperial court, whether the imperial court cares about us or not, I don't know, but I know, Tang Dashuai in the Northeast cares about us, don't you see? Tang Dashuai has been talking with the Dutch for more than a year in order to set up a consulate here, and even sent a fleet here this time, it was also to show the color of the Dutch, everyone doesn't believe me, you have to believe Tang Dashuai! ”

Shi Er's words, so that the original unkempt people are all stunned, in Pontianak has always been circulating the news of the establishment of a consulate, naturally there is always a lot of hearing about that Tang Dashuai, this will hear Shi Er say this, they still don't believe it, after all, the so-called Tang Dashuai, is too far away from them, even the Northeast, where the Northeast is, they don't know, as Cantonese people, they only know that there is a Li Da Li Shuai in Guangzhou, as for the Tang Dashuai in the Northeast, how can he care about them Cantonese people?

"Shi, Second Brother Shi, you said, Master Tang Shuai, he will really send a warship!"

It doesn't mean that Jingbian finished speaking, and a person suddenly broke in outside, and the person shouted in a panic.

"Come, come the warship, come the warship......"

"Toot ......"

The 2,300-ton "Nanpu" training ship is a cutting-edge training ship that was commissioned before last year, and unlike most of the warships of the Northeast Navy, which are renovated from old merchant ships, it is not only a newly built training ship, but more importantly, it is also powered by an extremely cutting-edge "steam turbine." Compared with the three-expansion steam engine, its greatest advantage is that it can continue to sail at maximum speed, and this is precisely the advantage of the steam turbine.

It is precisely this advantage that allows the "Nampo" training ship to always maintain a speed of 16 to 18 knots, ahead of the main force of the fleet, and arrive at Pontianak first.

For Ding Yunjie, the captain of the "Nanpu" training ship and a first-year student of the island's naval academy, he knew very well that he was going to race against the Dutch for time, and no matter who arrived at Pontianak first, the situation would develop in the direction that would be favorable to him, and it could even be said that success or failure would be a matter of success. It was for this reason that the fleet commander ordered them to sail at full speed to their destination in order to reach Pontianak before the Dutch.

"Everyone, pay attention, as soon as you arrive at the port, except for the necessary personnel, everyone else will immediately go ashore to carry out the task of protecting overseas Chinese!"

This is the second time that the fleet has carried out such a mission, the last time it was in Shaviyi, and this time it was different from the last time when they were well prepared, this time although they had an absolute superiority in strength, but their strength was limited to the sea, and on land they had only one company, even with armed sailors, no more than three hundred.

However, the Dutch had a Dutch-Indian army of tens of thousands in the whole of East India, and although their strength in Borneo was limited, who knows what the future would be?

"Sir, what is our mission?"

In the cabin, the soldiers of the Marine Corps looked at the company commander and asked.

"Protect overseas Chinese!"

Looking at the soldiers, Zhao Lide deliberately emphasized again.

"Whatever it takes!"

At all costs, this is their task, although they know that the disparity in strength is huge, but Zhao Lide still has a smile on his face, as a marine, he is very clear about his mission/

"Don't think that our task is simply to hand over weapons to the expatriate, you must remember that we are soldiers, they are our compatriots, our duty is to protect them, and if any aggressor wants to harm them, we must stand in front of them and protect them! Brother, tell me, what is the Marine Corps? ”

"Marines, go on forever!"

When a deafening roar rang out in the cabin, a sailor with a rifle ran in.

"Company Commander Zhao, the captain asked me to inform you, everyone get ready to land!"

"Brothers, I won't talk nonsense, remember our oath, don't let the people poke their backbones! Keep the honor of the military! ”

After the last admonition, Zhao Lide casually put the rifle on his shoulder, and then strode out of the cabin, at this time the entire "Nanpu" training ship seemed to be very lively, those sailors in training were all carrying rifles, carrying armed belts around their waists, all of them looked nervous or excited, when everyone walked out of the cabin, on the gun emplacement on the side of the gun, the gunners were also nervously staring at the river bank, staring at the jungle on the bank, as if they wanted to see through the jungle and see the city, they were afraid that they would be late, if they were lateMaybe......

"Hope ......"

Just as Ding Yunjie was chattering, suddenly, through the rainforest, he saw that there seemed to be a small blue flag fluttering at the top of the canopy, he hurriedly picked up the binoculars, and instantly a smile appeared on his face, and he shouted excitedly.

"Tell the brethren that we are not late!" (To be continued.) )