After chatting for a while, Li Fushou's eyes suddenly became solemn, and he saw a messenger galloping at a gallop, turning over and dismounting outside the reservoir area, and handing an urgent letter to the guards who were on guard.

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This kind of urgent correspondence for direct delivery is very important, especially since it is now wrestling with the Dutch, and urgent military information from the front must be delivered directly at all times, even when the night is resting.

A few minutes later

Fan Zhongzhai, the head of the secretariat, walked over quickly with the letter in his hand and presented it with respectful hands.

Li Fushou took it and looked at it, it turned out to be a strong protest note from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and he couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

On April 1st, the capital of Borneo was occupied, and today is April 27th, and the note from the Kingdom of the Netherlands is long overdue.

Well, given the telegraphic exchange between the Governor's Office of the Dutch East Indies and the Prime Minister's Office of the Kingdom, coupled with the long distance from Batavia to the Red River Valley, a slower reaction would have been acceptable.

Such a formal diplomatic note should be presented in person, not by telegram, so the Dutch delegates, upon arrival in the Red River Valley, presented it in person to the Mayor, Xin Changjun, who forwarded it to His Excellency the Earl of Queensland.

Li Fushou opened it and looked at it, and the content inside was not bad as expected;

It is nothing more than that Borneo has always been the sacrosanct territory of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, and it is inexplicably astonishing that you have brazenly used force to occupy it, and you must withdraw unconditionally and compensate for the losses as soon as possible, so as to eliminate the bad international influence, otherwise you will be held responsible for a series of serious political consequences.

It's all a cliché, if the mouth cannon is useful, what do you want the navy's cannon for?

This kind of diplomatic rhetoric does not need to be dealt with, naturally Xin Changjun has to deal with the Dutch representative, anyway, he is just looking for a reason!

Industrious and brave Chinese have lived and multiplied in Borneo since ancient times.

As soon as he thought of Lan Fangguo, Li Fushou was a little angry, what kind of thing is Liu Asheng, the ruler of the Southern National University?

The mediocre people mislead the country and the people.

Because he was afraid of offending the Dutch, he categorically rejected the olive branch extended by the Red River Valley, saying that we are not the same people as you, and the existence of anti-Dutch forces and behaviors is not allowed on the territory of Lanfang Country, and it is impossible to support the Red River Valley against the Dutch colonists, let alone participate.

A group of stupid guys, don't they know that the Dutch have been eyeing Lan Fangguo all the time, and they will want to get it quickly?

What is the current situation in the Kingdom of Aceh?

The war of aggression waged by the Dutch colonists has been going on for 10 years, and this is the clearest example of the future of Lan Fangguo, and there can be no exceptions.

Once you free up your hands, Lan Fangguo is in danger!

The brave resistance of the Kingdom of Aceh has won 12 years for the Lanfang Kingdom, and if such a long time is fully reorganized, trained soldiers, and prepared for war, the Dutch will not be able to please them.

But in fact, Lan Fang Guo has done nothing, and the Lan Fang leadership has completely become a puppet of the Dutch, and the Dutch even asked the Lan Fang Republic to provide them with guns, ammunition and food to help suppress other Chinese uprisings.

It's really a lot of, and I can't say enough......

If history had not changed, the Dutch had settled the Kingdom of Aceh and had a break of less than a year before moving north in 1884 to invade the territory of Lanfang and completely destroy the Chinese republic.

It was April 27, 1882, and there was not much time left before the complete destruction of Lan Fangguo.

Last year, when Tian Shan, the special representative sent by Li Fushou, and his entourage to meet Liu Asheng, the general ruler of Lanfangyuan, pointed out to his face that this major crisis facing Lanfangguo must be united by all descendants of Chinese descent to resist the aggressive Dutch colonialists.

Judging from the current situation, Lan Fangguo was indifferent at all.

This is a country that has become a decaying country, although it bears the resounding name of republican democracy, it has in essence been reduced to a rotten feudal lordship.

In the past 30 years, the people who have served as the commander of the Lanfang Kingdom are all members of the Liu clan, and the Liu family has firmly held the high position of the Lanfang State and has become the inheritance of the family.

These decades

The Dutch colonists made frequent moves against Lan Fangguo, and during the second reign of Liu Tai, they were lured to Batavia to accept the appointment of "Kapitan", which was undoubtedly a great insult to the head of a sovereign state.

In doing so, the Dutch actually used Liu Taier as their puppet, and then interfered in the internal affairs of the Republic of Lanfang, and demanded that the Republic of Lanfang cede the land west of the Bass River to the office of the East India Company.

The Republic of Lanfang was repeatedly defeated in battles with the indigenous Nawan tribes, and the Dutch rebelled against different ethnic groups in the Republic, with many internal contradictions, regression in economic development, serious reduction in food production, and forced to accept the alliance under the city, which led to the serious shrinkage of the area of the Republic of Lanfang, which was successfully eroded by the Dutch colonists.

Having accepted the appointment of the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, the Kapitan, the Liu clan had become de facto puppets of the Dutch, who had held the supreme power of Lan Fang for generations, wantonly excluded dissidents, and helped the Dutch to brutally suppress the Chinese rebels, and the democratic form of government in the republic had completely degenerated to an incorrigible level.

In the second half of the 19th century, the Dutch used various means to urge the head of the Liu family to sign various land cession contracts with him, giving up the land except for the capital Dongwanlu, and only a small piece of the de facto territory of Lanfang was left.

Unexpectedly, the local Peranakans put up stubborn resistance to the Dutch colonial authorities, making it impossible for the Dutch to completely rule the Lanfang region for more than 20 years.

Looking at this small Nanyang country that was established less than 100 years ago, it has completely abandoned Lan Fangbo's original ideal of democratic co-governance, and has been reduced to a gladiatorial arena for power and profit of the big feudal family.

It only takes a gust of wind to blow and collapse.

Sitting on the returning carriage, watching the beautiful scenery outside the window continue to retreat, Li Fushou retracted his complicated thoughts and sighed lightly;

A person's strength is limited, the strength of the Red River Valley is also limited, and he is also in serious internal and external troubles, so he can only take care of this piece in his bowl first, and then he can't help Lan Fangguo for the time being.

The fighting in the Moresby area is at a stalemate, and it is impossible to win or lose for the time being.

The attack of the landing force of the Royal Netherlands Army was fierce and powerful, bringing great casualties to the defending troops, with more than 3,000 casualties, the three regiments had already replenished several rounds of troops, several militia regiments were also disabled, and the combat effectiveness declined rapidly.

On 1 April, the landing of the fleet at the port of Samarinda, Borneo, interrupted the continuous flow of troops and weapons to the front line, and the Royal Dutch Army had to halt its offensive after paying a heavy price of more than 2,600 casualties.

The Royal Dutch Privilege convoy led by the Seven Provinces returned to the port of Surabaya, the closest important port on the island of Java to the port of Samarinda, the capital of Borneo, and the two sides were in a faint standoff.

The 3rd Regiment seized the rare opportunity to replenish its troops and mobilize a large number of militia forces to build forts in preparation for more difficult battles.

For the 3rd Regiment to have been forced to Liangshan, they must not lose the favorable terrain of Toudaoliang, because after crossing the village of Toudaoliang, there is a large plain terrain, and there is no suitable position to block the enemy until Port Moresby.

However, given that the current new immigrants are all farmers who have not long put down their hoes, the training time is very short, and the combat effectiveness is worrying, it is difficult to stop the old colonial army like wolves and tigers.

It has been more than two months of hard fighting

The Third Regiment, a new unit that has only been established for four months, has only 1,600 people, and after several rounds of blood changes in the brutal battle, it finally withstood the severe test of blood and fire, and independently supported the battle situation under death and great pressure, and performed extremely brilliantly.

You must know that the troops they are fighting against are the Dutch Royal Drenthe Musket Battalion, the Royal Upper Ethel Volunteer Battalion, the Royal Utrecht Grenadier Battalion, the Royal Amsterdam Dragoon Battalion and other old well-known units and fierce mercenaries, and the combat effectiveness is extraordinarily strong, even in the face of German and French elite troops.

After withstanding the fierce offensive of the Dutch in the first month, the white colonial army in Aceh that was subsequently replenished was obviously inferior, and its combat effectiveness was not the same.

However, the garrison in the Moresby area also paid a heavy price, the three regiments were disabled, the backbone militia team was disabled, and the four militia regiments newly formed by Wu Xuewen, the governor of Shangri-La, were also filled, which was able to stop the offensive of the Dutch.

Had it not been for the decisive occupation of the port of Samarinda, the capital of Borneo, and the forced return of the Royal Dutch Fleet to defend the island of Java, which is a fundamental interest, it remains to be seen who will be killed.

The battle situation of the ocean battle was confusing, which made Li Fushou worried.

Sources from Europe show;

The sister ship "Ichstein", which was renovated in a German shipyard, has been out to sea for several days and is about to lead a small ironclad team south to the East Indies to reinforce the Royal Task Force of the East Indies.

This small flotilla is led by the 2,650-ton steamer Helstein and accompanied by two 1,470-ton light cruisers, the Fury and the Courage, together with the existing forces of the Royal Netherlands Navy's task force, which will put more pressure on the combined fleet in the port of Samarinda, and the future is worrying.

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On paper, its strength is already stronger than that of the Combined Fleet of Queensland, especially the ironclad fleet headed by the "Seven Provinces" and the "Iostein", which poses a great threat to the Combined Fleet.

After all, everyone is crispy, and the so-called light armor of the Seagull II frigate cannot withstand the bombardment of 239-mm heavy artillery.

Now it is necessary to decide whether to break through each one or to preserve the strength in order to delay the change.