Chapter 144: The Death of Lan Fangguo
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Dong Wanlu, originally just a small town, flourished because of the gold mines, and after the establishment of Lanfang Kingdom and the use of this place as the capital, Dong Wanlu developed rapidly. Now Dongwanlu is already a city with more than 100,000 people. In Borneo, it is definitely the largest city in the world, not even the capital of the Sultanate of Brunei.
The main population of Lanfang is Chinese, and these Chinese are basically Chinese in the coastal areas of China, and because they can't get by, they come to Nanyang to seek a living. and the descendants of these Chinese who have multiplied for hundreds of years. A total of hundreds of thousands of people. In addition to the Chinese, there are also some local indigenous people. In the process of living with the Chinese, I learned the knowledge and production methods of the Chinese, and gradually became enlightened. But more natives continue to live a life of drinking blood, and these natives, known as Shengfan, are one of the main enemies of Lanfang Kingdom.
At this moment, Dong Wanlu has entered a strict guard, and you can see Lan Fangguo soldiers patrolling with weapons everywhere. The 20,000 Dutch troops Chen soldiers on the border caused great pressure on Lan Fangguo! The current commander of Lan Fangguo, also known as the chief Gu Liubo, was helpless in the face of the Dutch army. Within Lan Fangguo, there was also a great disagreement about this. Some people advocated fighting with the Dutch, but the group led by Xie Guifang advocated negotiating with the Dutch Indonesian authorities in exchange for the withdrawal of the Dutch at the expense of part of the interests of Lanfang. Gu Liubo couldn't make up his mind. After all, all these years of fighting against the Dutch. Lan Fangguo has always been at a disadvantage!
"Chief, we'll fight with those foreign devils! Isn't that 20,000 Dutch? We now have more than 40,000 brothers, enough to defeat them! A tall and strong man shouted at the top of his voice.
"Fight? What to fight? Let those unarmed brothers go to die? We're up against. But 20,000 well-trained Dutch regulars! Can more than 40,000 brothers who have no training and lack weapons be able to beat them? Xie Guifang reprimanded with a dark face. He is a high-level person second only to the chief Gu Liubo in Lan Fangguo, has great prestige, and is the confidant of the former chief Liu Taier. Even after Liu Taier's death, he has always stubbornly adhered to Liu Taier's policy and advocated good relations with the Dutch. In order for the Chinese to survive in Borneo.
Chief Gu Liubo's face was also a little gloomy, among the more than a dozen high-level leaders of the Lanfang Kingdom, he advocated fighting. There are only a few people. Everyone else has already been co-opted by Xie Guifang. Even if he had the heart to fight the Dutch-Indonesian colonial authorities, he would be greatly constrained. After all, his position as the chief is still elected by everyone. There is no absolute supreme power!
"Uncle Gui Fang. Can Xinhua defeat those foreign devils again and again? What can't we do? Perhaps, we fought with those Dutch, and there was still a chance of life! Gu Yun, who was sitting in the corner of the room, said. With his qualifications, he was not qualified to attend this meeting. It's just that he is the son of Gu Liubo, and as long as he doesn't make big mistakes in the future, he can at least become one of the high-level leaders of Lan Fangguo. It's time to experience such an occasion now, and you can count it as accumulating experience. Others won't say much either!
"Gu Yun! Can we compare with Xinhuaguo? Those guys in Xinhua Kingdom only relied on the advantage of weapons to defeat foreign devils! If it weren't for those advanced weapons. They're not much different from us! What's even more infuriating is that they have advanced weapons, but they don't care about their compatriots at all and refuse to sell those weapons to us. Xie Guifang scolded. Among the high-level leaders of Lan Fangguo, many people are very angry at Xinhuaguo's refusal to sell new weapons, thinking that Xinhuaguo is dying in his opinion!
After being reprimanded by Xie Guifang, Gu Yun had no choice but to stop talking.
At this time, an official from Lan Fangguo ran in with a panicked face and reported to everyone: "Chief, my lords! Big things are wrong! Pontianak is lost! Most of the 5,000 brothers who guarded there died in battle! Only a handful of them escaped! ”
"What? How is this possible? Gu Liubo stood up suddenly, his face a little pale. He had no idea that Pontianak would fall so soon. You must know that it was the regular army of Lan Fangguo who guarded Pontianak, with more than 5,000 people. But it was only a long time before it was captured by the Dutch. Gu Liubo only felt that the sky was spinning for a while, and then the whole person fell to the ground.
The rest of the people in the hall were also in a mess. At first, they were stunned by the news of the fall of Pontianak. And Gu Liubo suddenly fainted, which made everyone feel as if they had lost their backbone.
"Someone, call the doctor!" Gu Yun rushed to Gu Liubo's side for the first time, and Gu Liubo, who was unconscious, made him very worried.
After a while, everyone sent Gu Liubo to rest, but in the hall, there was still a lot of noise, as if the sky was about to fall.
"That's it! Everyone is quiet! Let's see, what the hell is going on? Why did the heavily defended Pontianak fall so quickly? Xie Guifang asked. After Gu Liubo fell into a coma, among the high-ranking officials of Lan Fangguo in the hall, he had the highest position and the oldest seniority!
"Deputy Chief, it's like this! Yesterday morning, the Dutch launched a storm on Pontianak! A large number of Western warships appeared on the sea, and they bombarded Pontianak with heavy artillery fire, and the whole of Pontianak was reduced to ruins. The brothers guarding Pontianak suffered heavy casualties in the shelling. In the end, they were outnumbered and Pontianak was taken by them! The visitor replied.
"Nonsense! The navy of the Dutch has been wiped out by the Xinhua Kingdom, where did they get so many warships? Xie Guifang reprimanded.
"Deputy Commander, the warships that appeared on the sea were not Dutch, but Spaniards! In the afternoon, among the foreign devils who attacked Pontianak, there was also an army with the Spanish flag! The man explained.
"Shhh Everyone gasped. Originally, the Dutch gave them a lot of headaches, but now with the Spaniards, is there still a way for Lanfang to live? Even optimistic people know that this time Lan Fangguo is probably more than lucky.
"Spaniards? How could the Spaniards get in? What the hell is going on? Xie Guifang was also very depressed. Didn't those Spaniards come to trouble Xinhua? Why did he attack Lan Fangguo again in the blink of an eye. Lan Fangguo and the Spaniards have no enmity!
The Dutch, together with the Spaniards, captured Pontianak in just one day, which made the whole country of Lan Fang very nervous. Many people are already desperate, the Dutch alone have made Lan Fangguo unable to cope, and now with the addition of the Spaniards, they are even more unable to fight. For a time, the surrender faction led by Xie Guifang was greatly strengthened. Even after the chief Gu Liubo came to his senses, he couldn't suppress it.
Eventually, under the leadership of Xie Guifang, Lan Fangguo sent an envoy to the Dutch-Western coalition army, which was attacking East Wanlu, hoping to negotiate with the Dutch Indonesian colonial authorities in exchange for the enemy's retreat. It's just that this time they were completely wrong. In the face of Lan Fangguo's compromise, the Dutch-Indonesian colonial authorities wanted to agree. But this time the coalition was dominated by the Spaniards, not them! The Spaniards are preparing to use West Borneo as a battlefield to fight a decisive battle with Xinhua! These Chinese in Lan Fangguo are very likely to wear the same pants as Xinhua Guo. After all, Lan Fangguo, like Xinhuaguo, is dominated by Chinese.
Admiral Fernandus, the commander of the Spanish Expeditionary Force, rejected Lan Fangguo's request, claiming that unless Lan Fang surrendered to them unconditionally, they would kill all Lan Fangguo!
The request for negotiation was denied, which surprised Lan Fangguo's high-level officials, but it caused them to panic. Most of the current high-level leaders of Lan Fangguo are a group of people who grew up later, and they have relied on the shadow of their parents since they were young, living a life of fine clothes and fine food, and they do not have the pioneering and enterprising spirit of their parents. In addition, most of them have vested interests and do not want their own interests to be harmed. Therefore, after learning that war was inevitable, some people actually planned to flee Lan Fangguo and flee back to China to become a rich man. This directly led to the lack of fighting spirit of the Lan Fang Army in the face of the Jose coalition army.
In the first battle of Dongwanlu, 40,000 Lanfang troops and more than 30,000 Jose coalition troops fought a decisive battle! As a result, the Lan Fang army, which lacked firearms, was defeated, tens of thousands of people were killed, and the rest of the people were captured by the Jose coalition army except for some who fled. At the same time, the Jose coalition army also captured Dongwanlu, the capital of Lanfang Kingdom. Most of the top brass of Lan Fang were captured by the Jose coalition forces, and only a few escaped. Gu Liubo, the governor of Lanfang Kingdom, was killed in battle with the Jose coalition army, and his son Gu Yun, under the protection of some of his henchmen, fled to East Borneo and asked for help from Xinhua State.
After the Dutch-Western coalition captured Eastern Wanlu, the Dutch and Spaniards vented their anger on the Chinese in Lanfang as if to vent their anger against Xinhuaguo. They burned, killed and looted in Dongwanlu, doing all kinds of evil, and the whole city cried.
After committing evil, in order to cover up their crimes, the Dutch and Spaniards set fire to the East Manlot. Still, there were survivors who fled before they burned down the East Manlaw. In the end, the crimes of the Jose coalition army were known to Xinhuaguo, so that after the end of this war, all the captured Spaniards and Dutch were killed by Xinhuaguo to avenge these compatriots who died! (To be continued......)