8-73 Badawi

War is still coming, this is a strange war, since ancient times, the purpose of war is nothing more than to expand the territory and plunder wealth, but this war is indeed for the freedom of irrelevant people, as soon as I think of this, the Badawi authorities feel wronged, who are we provoking whom? The slave trade from Africa has been going on for hundreds of years and no one has jumped out to talk about it, so how can it suddenly become illegal? The Song and Daming brigades were also a little more lenient, but they couldn't find a way to protest, because the other party was playing the banner of China Merchants, which did not represent the Song and Ming courts, and to put it bluntly, it was a war between two large economic entities.

The battle started outside the port of Badawi, which is located in the southernmost tip of Sumatra Island, across the sea from the island of Java, which is the most prosperous place in the Kingdom of Java and the largest base of the Dutch East India Company in the Far East.

In the early morning of this day, when the sentry on the lighthouse of Badawi Harbor opened his hazy sleepy eyes, he suddenly saw columns of smoke appearing in the place where the sea and the sky were connected, and then countless silhouettes of warships appeared between the sea and the sky, he was stunned by this spectacular scene, and even forgot to sound the alarm.

The screeching sound of the bell woke up the sleeping citizens of Badawi and the East India Company mercenaries, who had been sleepless for a long time, and they hurriedly took up their weapons and climbed onto the castle to prepare for battle, and the warships in the harbor also lit fire and anchored to prepare to meet the enemy. The Dutch governor in Badawi led a group of staff to climb to the castle and look at the sea, looking at the black and oppressive warships, everyone's faces were heavy, and they were speechless for a long time, since the other party insisted on fighting, let them see the courage of the Dutch, and the fearless East India Company soldiers would fight until the last moment for dignity.

But the other side also plundered the power of the East India Company to resist, at the head of the fleet were the steam gunboats, the long-range steel cannons were still several miles away from the harbor to start threatening, the scorching iron balls smashed into the castle and the ships in the harbor with a roar, there were hundreds of shells in each round, the strong castle was beaten to stone chips, there were too many ships in the harbor to move, so they could only stay in place and be beaten, and after a while, more than a dozen ships were sunk, and there was no weapon in the castle to fight back.

The allied artillery bombardment lasted for a quarter of an hour and then stopped, probably for fear of breaking Badawi and not being able to clean up, the gunboats continued to approach, the black hole pointed at the castle, a group of sailboats sailed out from behind, the ships were full of infantry, the harbor was already full of smoke, the Dutch sailors did not dare to stay on the pier and wait to wait for the opponent's boarding, but the coalition sailboats were not in a hurry to land, first used guns and rockets to cover the shore and shoot a shot, scattering the sailors, and then calmly went ashore.

The Dutch's will to fight was far inferior to that of other European powers, and when they saw the black hole aiming at the castle, the crossbowmen in the fort did not dare to cast steam repeaters, for fear that they would attract the enemy's shells as soon as they opened fire, and the mercenaries behind the barricades trembled with their swords, because they had just learned the power of the opponent's firearms, and such a thick sheet metal cuirass could not block the shooting of the firearms.

The Governor urgently consulted with the main officials of the company, and after ten minutes of discussion, he unanimously made a decision, for the safety of the lives and property of the expatriates, agreed to all the demands of the coalition forces, punished the local natives who massacred the Chinese workers, released the black slaves, extradited the Ming fugitives Cheng Liangjue Chen Ziang, and apologized for compensation. However, the other side was asked to immediately repair and strike the battle.

The coalition forces immediately accepted the surrender of the other side, but the troops that had already gone ashore had no reason to withdraw, and the fleet that had been dispatched was even more unlikely to return home immediately.

As the coalition forces continued to ascend, they sent messengers to present the latest terms of the armistice: the Dutch East India Company had to compensate China Merchants for the cost of the war, compensate the Chinese laborers and slaves for all moral and economic losses, arrest the war criminals, surrender their arms, and make Badawi an undefended city.

The conditions are very excessive, although it has not yet mentioned how much military expenses need to be compensated, but the company officials know that even if they sell all the property of the Dutch, they may not be able to afford it, but now they are not qualified to bargain, the infantry of the coalition army has already boarded 6, and there are enough 5,000 troops to march into Badawi, while the company's white mercenaries are only 2,000 people, of which 800 are deployed on the island of Java, and there is no chance of winning 6 battles.

Badawi fell, there was no mortal resistance at all, they chose to surrender in front of the powerful eastern enemy, and the coalition army did not embarrass them too much, but only gathered the white soldiers in the castle and imprisoned them, and the ordinary white citizens did not take coercive measures, and the indigenous people in Badawi City naturally wanted to go to the streets to rob when they saw the chaos because of their natural inferiority, and as a result, they were cut down by the African Legion who took over the security of the streets of Badawi, and the black uncle who was tall and muscular dealt with the skinny and obscene indigenous monkeys, The outcome of the battle is naturally clear at a glance.

The whole battle to capture Badawi ended in less than half a day, which made Liu Ziguang, who was sitting on the Black Swan and watching the battle, a little disappointed, the white people knew each other too well, he was embarrassed to engage in any more genocide, just knock on a bamboo pole, these Dutch people came all the way from Europe, and it was not easy.

The Dutch governor took the municipal councillors to the coalition command ship to discuss the reparations, but Liu Ziguang and Zhao Wen did not participate, because the other party's specifications were too low, and negotiating with them would inevitably lose their identity, so it would be good to leave such trivial matters to the people below.

Cheng Liangjue, the former governor of Shanghai, who has been hiding in Badawi, and Chen Ziang, the secretary of Shanghai Bo Si, have been escorted to the warship of the Ming army, which is the first gesture of goodwill made by the Badawi authorities, in fact, these two fugitives were arrested by the Dutch as early as ten days ago, and they are ready to be used as bargaining chips at any time, Cheng Liangjue's property of several million taels of silver and the house and the deed of the house and heaven and earth purchased in Badawi were sent at the same time, and the governor also personally picked up the quill and wrote a letter of apology. The company authorities did not check the identity of Cheng Chen and the fugitives for their negligence and apologized, things were done very beautifully, Liu Ziguang was also very satisfied, thinking that the governor was very on the road, so he did not delay any longer, and rushed to Xinbianjing with Zhao Wen anchor, because the end of the year is approaching, and the Zen throne ceremony will be held.

The surrender of the Dutch East India Company did not represent the surrender of the local royal family in Java, because the coalition army had said that they would severely punish these local nobles who slaughtered Chinese workers, so they gathered thousands of indigenous armed forces and were ready to move near Badawi, and the indigenous royal family felt that the Han people were more terrible than the white people, because the white people were only for money, and they would not live in Java after all, and take root here. But the Han people are different, they are not like the white people who only entrench around Badawi, as long as they are allowed in, they will gradually erode the interests of the natives, and eventually turn this place into their homeland for generations.

The military commander of the expedition to Badawi is Lord Anthony, his official identity is the general of the Red Shirt Regiment, the Beijing master lectures on martial arts, and now there is another identity of the chief treasurer of the China Merchants Bureau Java, China Merchants Bureau, like the East India Company, is also an entity of civil, military and economic integration, but at the beginning of its establishment, the strength is still very weak, so it must rely on the national strength of the Song and Ming dynasties. Anthony, the big treasurer, is only temporary, and after straightening out the affairs of Java, there will be another high level, and the position of the big treasurer will be filled by people who are familiar with shipping and the economy.

Sumatra and Java belong to the same country called Java, this country is a bit similar to the Spring and Autumn Period of China, is composed of countless small princely states, everyone respects a Javanese emperor as the main, but the feudal structure is very loose, the productivity is also very backward, from the slave society to the feudal society has not been many years, the indigenous people are ignorant, barbaric, cruel, rat-eyed, usually flying and domineering, once defeated like a dog slave and kneeling, the Dutch are aware of the characteristics of the indigenous people to establish a base in Badawi, They usually give a sweet date in the face, coax the indigenous royal family to serve them willingly, sell land and sovereignty cheaply, and help the Dutch slaughter the Han Chinese.

Anthony didn't have the heart to subdue these natives, he didn't even carry out a symbolic persuasion, he sent a brigade of 6 armies to clear the natives, a 6 battle was launched near Badawi, the aboriginal army and the coalition army confronted, at a glance, the height of the aboriginal army rarely exceeded one meter six, and the thin arms and legs looked like an army of monkeys, but their cold eyes and sharp blades in their hands showed that these monkeys were not ordinary monkeys, but savage Sumatran bloodthirsty monkeys.

The coalition army only sent 300 gunners, fifty copper cannons pulled by carriages, in front of the formation, the natives bullied each other with few people, wow wow strange screams rushed up, but were hit by the fierce shotgun, black arms and black legs flew all over the sky, they quickly contracted, retreated into the jungle, this is also the tactics set by the indigenous military, the jungle is full of traps, they are good at climbing trees, hidden, as long as they enter the forest is the world of the natives.

However, instead of chasing them into the jungle as they had expected, the coalition forces raised their guns and fired incendiary bombs that had already been prepared, and hundreds of shells wrapped in grease and sulfur fell into the jungle, causing a raging fire, and the natives were burned to the ground crying wolf, running all over the ground, touching the organs and causing countless casualties, and the survivors fled back to their hometowns, only to find their lair washed in blood. The executioners who had killed all their loved ones were waiting for them with blood-dripping knives.

These people are the local Chinese who have been slaughtered by the natives.