Chapter 110: Unexpected Conflict (1)

"What do we do now? The Beiyang Fleet has already aimed its guns at our cities. And our army is indifferent ?? The Dutch governor in the governor's palace roared.

"They are evacuating the overseas Chinese in accordance with international law, and we have no right to stop it." A Dutchman on the side said, holding on to his glasses.

"International law is nothing more than a fig leaf for powerful countries." The Dutch governor gave the man a displeased look.

"We have no choice, the opponent's battleships are 6-inch, 8-inch, or even 12-inch guns, and we only have 75MM camp guns on our side." The commander of the garrison said helplessly.

"Then we watched the chickens that laid golden eggs for the Netherlands being snatched away by the Qing Kingdom?" The Dutch governor's voice suddenly raised a few degrees. It was meant to be sheared, but who knew that the sheep would be rescued? Now not only is the wool not sheared, but even the sheep are gone!! However, if the Governor knew what was going to happen, he would think that the "loss of sheep" was just a trivial matter!!

A small port in Batavia from which hordes of Chinese are being evacuated. The Chinese were in the family unit, and under the leadership of the patriarch, they boarded the steamer that had been waiting for a long time according to their own number. And in the distance, more Chinese are still gathering here. The Chinese were followed by the local natives, who were greedy and did not know how to work and saw the Chinese migration as an opportunity to make a fortune, at first they only picked up some items left by the Chinese, and then when they saw that no one was restrained, they became more and more emboldened. He even began to rob some Chinese shops that had not migrated and Chinese who were on their way to retreat.

"What to do? Commander Zhang? A battalion leader said as he looked at the smoke in the distance and the screams that came from time to time.

"Let's go, let's see." Zhang Wenxuan didn't say a word, and ran to the accident site with half of the battalion. IN ORDER TO PREVENT ANY ACCIDENTS WHEN HE DIVIDED HIS TROOPS AND LEFT, HE ALSO ORDERED THE REMAINING SOLDIERS TO PLACE 4 5-BARRELED HABEGKAITH 37MM RAPID-FIRE GUNS, 2 MAXINE MACHINE GUNS, AND 2 75MM SAMPAN GUNS MOUNTED ON ARMY GUN MOUNTS AT THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS OR IN THE OPEN FIELD. And at important street intersections, improvised barriers and bunkers were arranged. Subsequently, Zhang Wenxuan took 150 Sheng soldiers to the accident site.

"These lunatics." When Zhang Wenxuan turned an intersection, he saw a group of local natives lighting a carriage abandoned by the Chinese and throwing something into the fire from time to time. While some people on the periphery scrambled for the items and belongings scattered on the ground. From time to time, a miserable scream came from the crowd.

"God, they're throwing people into the fire. This group of devils. A foreigner named Stephen shouted.

"What are you waiting for? Brothers, fight. Zhang Wenxuan shouted, then picked up a flare gun and fired a red flare. A red fireball rose into the sky!!

"Lord Admiral, there is a situation." A lookout standing on a mast shouted.

"Lord Zhang is in trouble, order the fleet to leave the port and sail to the place of the incident." Ding Ruchang ordered.

"A note to the Dutch authorities saying that the Dutch government must take full responsibility for this unfriendly act!!" Lang Weili said a word, and then turned around and followed Ding Ruchang back to the period. Subsequently, the battleship prepared to light a fire and set sail.

"I'm afraid I don't have enough time." Xu Jie said worriedly, if the battleship using the old boiler wants to sail, I am afraid that it will not work at all without a few hours. If you wait for the main force of the Beiyang Fleet to pass, I am afraid that the daylily will be cold. Moreover, it is really unreasonable to directly use large-caliber naval guns to suppress the rioters.

"Brother Jishi, what are you waiting for?" Deng Shichang looked at Xu Jie, who stayed where he was and did not get on the boat, and said anxiously.

"It's too late, if you wait for the battleship to drive over, I'm afraid that Lord Zhang and the Chinese have already been killed. Moreover, large-caliber naval guns cannot be used in residential areas, and how many people will die if this cannon goes down. Xu Jie said with a pale face. …,

"What then?" Deng Shichang is also anxious, saving people is like fighting a fire, if you can't rush over, it's all over.

"Requisition !!" Looking at the civilian ships in the port, Xu Jie squeezed out a few words from between his teeth. Then immediately ran towards the Dingyuan. As he ran, he said, "Lord Deng, quickly unload the rapid-fire guns on the battleship, and according to the army gun mount." Fast!! ”

A few minutes later, Xu Jie came to the command room of the Dingyuan ship and put forward his opinions to Liu Buyun, Ding Ruchang and others, who were directing the battleship to anchor and make a fire. "It's definitely too late to wait for the warships to pass now, so it's better for us to directly requisition some Chinese ships on the spot and transport the marines and weapons directly under Beiyang over, so that it will be faster. At the same time, let Cheng Guanband command the remaining troop carriers for reinforcements. If the Dutch military intervenes, the main battleships of the Beiyang will be put into the battlefield again, otherwise, it will be very unfavorable in public opinion to bombard residential areas with 210 guns or even 12-inch guns. ”

"Then let's do it." Ding Ruchang looked at the crowd and had no objections, so he ordered.

At the same time, the Sheng army led by Zhang Wenxuan was fending off the mob from all sides while covering the retreat of the remaining Chinese to the port. It is said that the weapons and ammunition brought by the 150 people were enough to ensure that they were thorough, but in order to rescue the trapped Chinese more, Zhang Wenxuan was forced to disperse his manpower, and he took more than 30 people to break off one of the Chinese teams.

The high rate of fire of the 1889 rifle brought the performance of the gun to the extreme in the face of these natives who only knew how to rush up without any literacy, more than 30 people were divided into arrays, and continued to block each other's wave of impact, more than ten rifles would be 7.92MM bullets like a rain of bandits with bareng knives and **. Accompanied by the hang-up of several rifles in the first group. The second group quickly filled the vacancy. Continuous suppression.

"Lord Zhang, our bullets are depleting too fast. The brothers came out with less than 15 magazines. A small leader said as he pressed a magazine on.

"Get closer, throw a grenade." With Zhang Wenxuan's order, the Qing army that was shooting began to retreat, and the natives on the opposite side were stunned at first, and then rushed up with a burst of screams. They were greeted by several defensive grenades. In the vicinity of the explosion site, shrapnel and flames flew. More than a dozen mobs rushed to the front were blown to pieces.

"This thing really works." A soldier pulled out a grenade and said with a smile, and just as he opened the safety and was about to drop the bomb, a bullet directly pierced the opponent's left chest. A stream of blood rushed out and spurted into the face of one of the soldiers behind him.

"First aid." A small leader and a brother immediately dragged the wounded soldier aside to disinfect and bandage.

"It should be Mauser rifles, this group of natives actually has Mauser rifles provided by the Dutch!!" Stephen exclaimed. "It's a crime!! It was the Dutch who instructed the mob to massacre the Chinese. Stephen pulled Zhang Wenxuan with anger on his face and said.

"Leave it alone, let's get back from what they're talking about." Zhang Wenxuan pushed Stephen aside and instructed his men to continue the fight. However, as more and more Mauser rifles issued by the Dutch entered the battle, under the attack of the natives, who had an absolute advantage in the number and number of guns, Zhang Wenxuan's soldiers began to gradually become unable to resist, and could only stand behind a hastily set up barricade and wait for reinforcements.

Looking at the stray bullets flying over their heads from time to time, and the thugs getting closer and closer, the remaining rifle fire was no longer effective in organizing the opponent to approach, and the junior officers armed with the 1889 combat pistols put down their rifles, added 20 long magazines to the pistols, and attached the case to the handle. While the other part of the soldiers opened the safety of the grenade and prepared to drop the bomb.

Finally, the thugs rushed to a distance of less than 50 meters, and the enemy in front of them made these thugs who had already killed red-eyed even more crazy, and some even directly threw away the rifles in their hands, drew their balemon knives and rushed forward howling. Just when they rushed to the front, seeing that a charge could cross the cover and cut off the opponent's head with the long knife in their hands, a group of gunners with strange pistols in their hands quickly got up and put the pistols in their hands strangely flat, accompanied by the continuous flames from the muzzle, and the flying eggshells, one bullet after another bullet was cut through the armor and shot at the other party's body in the whistling sound, a native looked down in disbelief at the big hole in his chest, and then fell on his back, he felt the passage of life, All kinds of childhood memories suddenly floated through my mind like a movie. And then, there's nothing to be done. …,

In the face of the first batch of thugs who were put down, the people who followed were also quite frightened, they really couldn't understand what could be on the ground to shoot such a dense number of bullets in such a short time. But it was this brief moment of stunned that they wasted the last chance to escape. After the dense rain of bullets, a wave of dense grenades followed, cheap cast-iron fragments flew in all directions in the crowd, and some of the grenades that exploded in the air rained a rain of death within a diameter of about 10 meters below, whether standing or lying down individually, could not avoid the aerial explosion grenades, and all the natives were not spared less than 40 meters away from the bunker. After a violent explosion, only the dead and the dying remained. The whole street was like hell, with bright red blood, minced meat, and various human organs, all over the ground, and such a bloody scene not only shocked the group of thugs who were screaming just now, but also some of the Beiyang officers and soldiers who participated in the exhibition for the first time couldn't help but lean on the side and vomit wildly. And Zhang Wenxuan and several other officers scolded and said that after these recruits rushed to the bunker, they knew that this battle would continue!!

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