"Bang!" The gun went off. Liu Kangsheng was the first to jump up from the grass and roared: "Rush with me!" With a revolver in his left hand and a heavy machete in his right hand, he took the lead and rushed forward. The warriors behind him stood up or knelt half-kneeling, and hundreds of rifles sprayed bullets in unison.

The team led by Liu Aqi was almost emptied in an instant. The perimeter of the combined Dutch army and the Sarawak convoy was immediately punched a small gap. Hundreds of soldiers rushed forward with shouts, and for a time the shouts of killing shook the sky. More than 1,000 people in the entire camp were frightened by the 'big changeling' that appeared in front of them.

Yang Hongbo also immediately raised his hand and shot the sky, "Up, up!" Give it all to me—" Hundreds of slave cannon fodder howled and gushed out behind him. Who are their enemies, O poor people? How many people don't know. Yang Hongbo didn't reveal a trace of information to them, and he really used them as cannon fodder.

Robben was asleep in a neat marching tent. Bursts of gunfire and deafening cries of killing came from outside, as if they were ringing right next to their ears. He immediately woke up, put on a coat of clothing, took his pistol and rushed outside.

"Colonel. It's the rebels! In the tent on the side, a big fat man over forty years old came out, but this person was Charles's cousin, Yoni, who controlled the escort team, and this time he was the representative of the escort team.

A layer of greasy sweat was already floating on his forehead, and the fat man looked at Robben expectantly.

Robben didn't look at the fat man, he was looking at the situation on the battlefield, and the nervous expression dissipated little by little as he could see. "Don't worry, our fighters coped great. You see, that bonfire, that bonfire, and that bonfire......" Robben pointed out three locations for Yoni in a row, and the coalition soldiers at the three campfires were resisting, and their resistance provided a longer reaction time for the troops at the rear of the three campfires. "Our army has established a preliminary line of defense, which the enemy cannot cross. But ......, Yoni, you really need to carefully adjust the yellow and fur monkeys in your hands. These pig-like fools are running away and running away......"

"Huh? Foreigners react fast enough. The onslaught of cannon fodder was suppressed. "I don't know when, the troops led by Liu Kangsheng have completely withdrawn from the battlefield, and the men and horses led by Yang Hongbo, who are pressing the formation behind, have converged. Yang Hongbo pointed to the person in front of him and said, "You, bring your people, come forward and throw a few grenades at me." Let the cannon fodder rush over—"

Since he had already planned to put all the cannon fodder on board, Yang Hongbo was unwilling to let them play such a small role and be finished. If you have to go one step further, it will be worth it for all the cannon fodder to die.

The battle came suddenly, but it ended long. The night gave the backward slave cannon fodder the best cover, relying on the cover and opening of the way by Yang Liu's elite behind him, more than 500 cannon fodder 'drowned' hundreds of white soldiers. There were no less than 200 Chinese and Malay soldiers who were 'affected'. Their deaths are well worth it.

Yang Hongbo and Liu Kangsheng gave the first blow to this unit that came to trouble them at the first time.

The streamlined and cumbersome 'remnants of the rebels' have regained their mobility, which is not at all something that the embarrassed Robben and Uni can chase. The security situation in Sarawak as a whole is rapidly and rapidly moving towards bad turmoil at a speed that can be seen by the naked eye.

British Legation in Beijing.

Wittoma looked distressed at his deputy, Counsellor of the Legation, Frey. "What to do? Can I use this absurd reason to go to the Prime Minister's Yamen? Does Mr. Clark feel that West Borneo is not messy enough? Want to pull the Chinese into it completely? "Sarawak has been attacked, and Clark has reason to be angry, is he the governor of the Straits Settlements? But now, without any evidence, he deducted the charge on the head of Marquis Liu, and went to the prime minister's yamen himself, which could only completely plunge the persecuted Qing government into this matter. Then the Qing government is afraid that they will have to talk to the Dutch.

"Sir, I think this matter should be privately agreed with Marquis Liu. When the Chinese launched an attack on Sarawak, it was clear that Marquis Liu was dissatisfied with the convenience of the Brooke family to the Dutch. Charles. Brooke provided a large amount of military supplies to the Dutch and Indian troops, which would make Marquis Liu worry about the inclination of the Brooke family......"

"We have no desire for land in Borneo. The center of gravity of the empire is in Africa, in China itself, and perhaps in the future, Japan. We will not intervene in the war in West Borneo, and I will speak to Governor Clark about this, and I am sure that a written statement will be made soon. So Freys, you go and send a telegram to Consul Sean in Fuzhou, asking him to meet with Marquis Liu once, and be sure to clear up this misunderstanding! "Wei Tuma didn't feel that he was making concessions to the inferior races, and Liu Xian had a lot of weight in his mind. Yes, it carries a lot of weight. The blood of the Russians and the French, and the fate of the Japanese, made Liu Xian weigh heavily in the minds of all European and American ministers in China. This is the deterrent power of a famous general!

Wittoma was choosing between making trouble with Liu Xian, making the war situation in West Borneo more troublesome, making Nanyang more lively, and sacrificing a little of the interests of the Brooke family, and he chose the latter solution. Anyway, Sarawak, a land that is not valued by the British, will it still be listed on the table of the Straits Settlements of the British Empire?

But seriously, Ta Kung Pao's special issues are flying all over the sky, how can the Qing government really not know about West Borneo? It's just a trigger but not a trigger. Although it was the first time that the bigwigs of Beijing City 99 knew that there was still a territory where the Chinese were the masters of the country in the distant Nanyang, the Manchurian and Mongolian banner bigwigs of 99 only had suspicion and vigilance about this, but did not have half a joy.

The Manchu 'nations' were not concerned about China's national fortunes, but about the ruling power of their clan and the glory of the bannermen.

"Fu Chuan, is the news confirmed? What happened in West Borneo, is it really a ghost made by Liu Yuandu? ”

In the small flower hall of Prince Gong's mansion, Yi? His face was very strict, and he sat opposite Wen Xiang, and there was another hardcore treasure of Prince Gong on one side. At this time, he also stared at a pair of eyes, waiting for Wen Xiang's answer.

"It is almost certain that Liu Yuandu started the dispute. The people who started up in Lanfang's territory were all new breech guns produced by the Qin Army's Gunpowder Bureau. If he hadn't intervened, how could these weapons have been obtained by those people? Liu Kangsheng, who is now attacking the British territory of Sarawak, is also a plaque erected by Liu Yuandu. It should be giving the British a little color, so that the British can weigh the price of intervening in the Lanfang war. ”

Wen Xiang had a very complicated expression on his face as he spoke. How many lesson plans have occurred in the past 30 years since the Great Qing Dynasty was a crow? Every time a few foreigners were killed or wounded, those foreigner diplomats would be arrogant and wantonly clamoring for apologies and compensation, demanding that the Qing Dynasty belittle and punish the officials and execute the people.

But what about Liu Xian working in Sarawak now? Not only one or two hundred foreigners were killed, but the British and Dutch ministers did not scream even now! How is this why the Great Qing State is not as good as the governor of a small province under his rule?

"Lord Wang. Now Wittoma did not make a fuss, and the Dutch did not say a word. I thought, let's just pretend not to know and wait and see! Baojun felt that as long as the matter was pushed on Liu Xian at that time, this matter would not be troubled, or it would not threaten the interests of the central government. The British will not sail their warships to Wusongkou or Dagukou, but will only put them in Qinzhou Bay and the Taiwan Strait!

Baojun and Wenxiang are both first-class capable ministers, and their momentum and status in the officialdom are stronger than Li Hongzhang, who now holds real power. After all, Li Hongzhang belongs to the younger generation, and he has just entered Beiyang, and his foundation has not yet been deepened. Both of them had an understanding of the laws of diplomacy in the current world, and knew that the Manchus were now in a position to express their opinions on the affairs of West Borneo and express their attitude.

But more is better than less. That Lanfang territory, a hundred years ago, when Qianlong Ye, Luo Fangbo rushed to Beijing to arrive at the table, and wanted to be attached, and Qianlong Ye couldn't look down on that barren land. [At that time, there was Sulu, who could not withstand the pressure of Western colonial forces and wanted to annex China, but Qianlong also refused. What's the use? I also have to deal with the Dutch, the British, and I have a lot of pressure. Just turn a blind eye!

"Pei Xuan, Fu Chuan, let's talk by ourselves behind closed doors, and I'll say something dejected. Liu Yuandu's strength is not weak, his wings are full, and it is difficult to suppress it. If he really has the heart to expand overseas, go as he wishes, and it will be a blessing for me to be in the Qing Dynasty. ”

Bao Jun and Wen Xiang's faces suddenly became ugly. But the two looked at each other, but they both saw a touch of joy in each other's eyes.

No one is stupid. The change in Prince Gong's attitude towards Liu Xian was seen by the two irons in their eyes and in their hearts. I don't say it, but in fact, I don't think so.

In the eyes of the two, the leading generals who are not from a professional class, the princes of one side, are not Liu Xian. It's just that Liu Xian's strength is stronger. The reason why Prince Gong's attitude towards him has changed greatly is purely because he saw that Liu Xian was too capable of fighting, and his prestige and reputation after the war in Xinjiang were grand enough, and he was a bit of a hurry after Zeng Guofan pacified Tianjing. That's when I suddenly changed my attitude!

Now that Prince Gong is saying this again, he is actually not giving up his suspicion of Liu Xian, but this suspicion is even heavier and deeper. The meaning of these words is to push Liu Xian overseas, that is, to push Nanyang.

In the land of Nanyang, there were many Han people living in the Ming Dynasty in the past, and there are even more people now. In the eyes of the Qing Dynasty, they were by no means their own people, but a group of potential rebels and thieves, real outcasts of the Celestial Empire! Don't say that the Dutch beat Lanfang, even if the Dutch slaughtered the Chinese in Lanfang, the Manchus would not really stretch out a finger to the Dutch. At most, it is a verbal concern, and more importantly, it is ignored.

If Liu Xian really went to Nanyang, Prince Gong seemed to have relieved a big crisis in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was a great thing. At the same time, there is also a layer of meaning - as long as Liu Xian develops south, he will not create more obstacles to this!

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