Chapter 264 The Dutch are also ready to do it!

"What on earth is it? I hope the world will make it clear that my little nephew can make a plan." Hearing Luo Fangbo's solemn statement, Liang Pengfei also had to fight for twelve points.

"Let Uncle Jiang Wu tell you about these." Luo Fangbo turned his head and pointed to a tall, strong but shrewd middle-aged man standing behind him.

"The grass-civilian Jiang Wubo is the general soldier." Hearing Luo Fangbo's instructions and seeing Liang Pengfei, Jiang Wubo stepped out and saluted Liang Pengfei respectfully.

"Well, there's no need to be polite. Let's talk about what's going on with Lanfang Company in Borneo?" Liang Pengfei touched his chin and asked gently.

Jiang Wubo was very eloquent and quickly described the current crisis of the Lanfang Republic in Borneo. It turned out that the Lanfang Republic had been stared upon by those Western colonists before. However, the shrewd Luo Fangbo's sword took a side and sent an envoy back to China to meet the emperor and ask for the title of vassal, although Lian Qing The gate of the vassal court failed to enter, let alone see anything Qianlong.

However, Luo Fangbo exaggerated their visit to the South China Sea. Anyway, people are their own people. What they see and what they see, it is naturally bragging by themselves. But in this way, it is indeed for those Western colonists who are still afraid of the Qing Dynasty, a giant. Shi restrained their minions.

However, in the past year, those Western colonists have been ready to move again, and they are no longer blatant, either driving pirates and bandits, or simply disguised themselves as bandits and running to the territory of the Lanfang Republic to plunder. It made Lan Fangguo exhausted and lacked ordnance and ammunition. It was precisely because it was difficult to support that Luo Fangbo went to find Liang Pengfei at the beginning.

However, after consultation between the two sides, Liang Pengfei successively transferred only a thousand soldiers to the Lanfang Republic, and said that because the troops were too small, they only guarded the western part and port area of the capital Dongwanjin.

You should know that the Lanfang Republic can be said to be a whole country of soldiers. Although they are all militias, many of them have seen the combat effectiveness of the Qing army of the National Army. Therefore, they did not care much about the thousands of soldiers recruited by Liang Pengfei. At first, they even felt that Liang Pengfei was simply mixed with people to pay. The point is more appropriate.

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Luo Fangbo still had some resistance at the beginning, but if he didn't agree, he could not get a large amount of supplies and ordnance urgently needed by Lan Fangguo from Liang Pengfei, or in order to improve and strengthen the relationship with Liang Pengfei, he agreed.

But no one expected that just after these soldiers arrived in Lanfang, they did not insive the people and did not interfere with any of Lanfang's affairs. In addition to daily training, they only occasionally went to Dongwanjin, but the kind of forced buying and selling they expected never happened, which made Luo Fangbo and the senior management of Lanfang company against the Liang family. From the vigilance at the beginning to the gradual let go of vigilance, the army still did not pay too much attention to the thousands of people of Liang Jiajun.

But no one expected that at the beginning of this year, there was a crisis. A group of Western pirates disguised as merchant ships forced them along the Capuas River to the port of Kundian (East Wanjin), the capital of the Nalanfang Company, with the intention of attacking East Wanjin in one fell swoop.

The two thousand Lanfang company mercenaries guarding the port had to retreat to East Wanjin in less than two quarters of an hour, and the Liang family army, who were arranged in the camp between the port and the West City, did not flee to East Wanjin as expected by Lanfang Company.

After learning the news of the attack on the port, they set up a simple position on the road leading to Dongwanjin City in the shortest time. Relying on this simple position, a thousand people guarded for nearly half an hour, blocking the sea at the cost of injuring 257 people and killing 39 people. Steal the steps forward. More than 700 pirates' bodies fell in front of them and on the ground.

After the arrival of the main force of the Lanfang Republic, the Liang family still had the strength to counterattack with the large army and successfully captured two pirate ships. After this battle, Luo Fangbo and other high-level officials of the Lanfang Republic finally clearly realized how much the combat effectiveness of the thousand Liang family army transferred by Liang Pengfei was. Strong. Strong.

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, Luo Fangbo took the initiative to ask Liang Pengfei to increase the number of troops. Of course, the cost of mercenaries is calculated according to the remuneration of mercenaries. However, after Liang Pengfei only increased 2,000 troops, he declined on the grounds that all places needed soldiers to guard and it was difficult to increase troops. However, these 3,000 soldiers made Lanfang Company safe. I have a lot in mind. After all, these 3,000 soldiers have such a strong combat effectiveness, and when the next two thousand soldiers arrived, they also carried thirty infantry cannons, that is, six-pound cannons, and twenty strange cannons that have never been seen in the Lanfang Republic, which were called conscienceless cannons by the Liang army.

With a lot of artillery and these three thousand soldiers, Luo Fangbo completely entrusted the task of guarding the port to the 3,000 Liang army. What made them regret was that the 3,000 Liang army was too rigid and abided by Liang Pengfei's orders. Even if it was military training, they would never leave the 20-mile radius of the port.

Several times, other areas of the Lanfang Republic were insurreated by local indigenous people, or banditry, but the army was not moved.

But now, a big thing has happened. Some time ago, a Dutch naval lieutenant landed in Sugatana, a warship moored in the southern port city of the Republic of Lanfang. No one expected that this goods would lure a Chinese woman into the war in the name of buying the goods to be sold by a woman. The ship annihiated it, and the woman's fierce resistance and strife angered the angry lieutenant of the Dutch navy and shot the Chinese woman.

And took advantage of the twilight to tie his body to a ballast stone and quietly sink into the sea, but no one expected that someone happened to see this scene. Therefore, except for a missionary who failed to return to the ship in time because he went to the church in the city of Sukadan, there were 15 Dutchmen and 37 servants on the ship together with The Dutch naval lieutenant was torn to pieces by angry people, and the Dutch warship was burned to ashes.

"Gronin, the governor of the Dutch East India Company, asked our Lanfang Republic to hand over all the murderers who killed Dutch naval soldiers and burned Dutch warships. In addition, he asked our Lanfang Republic to compensate them two million taels of silver, and the Kunjiang River in the middle of our Lanfang Republic. As a boundary, cede all the territories south of the Kunjiang River..."

"I said, these Dutch turtle sons are so vicious." Liang Pengfei couldn't help taking a breath and scolded a Sichuan dialect. Such a little person died, and he was also a loser. He actually took a bite back, and his appetite was so big that the degree of greed was really brazen that it was not enough to describe it.

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Hearing Liang Pengfei's emotion, Jiang Wubo and Luo Fangbo just looked bitterly and sad. Luo Fangbo motioned to let Jiang Wubo sit aside, and then said to Liang Pengfei, "Now we have found that the Dutch East India Company has gathered about 2,000 people in the port of Batakan in southern Borneo under their control. , and they can gather at least twice the strength of mercenaries in southern Borneo at any time, as well as more than 30,000 indigenous troops. In addition, a Dutch East India Company fleet with two battleships as the main force has assembled in Jakarta. Now, the deadline given to us by the East India Company is two months, within two months. If we can't meet their demands, they will use force.

Liang Pengfei couldn't help frowning and pacing indoors. You know, the Dutch are one of the earliest colonists, and they have been operating in the Java area of Nanyang for nearly two hundred years. It can be said that the Java area is one of the most important nests of Dutch colonists in Asia.

Originally, they were suppressed by the British and could only survive in this area, but it can't be denied that after all, it is an old colonial country, and the broken ship still has three-pound nails. Just looking at their action this time, the posture really seems to swallow the Lanfang Republic.

As for why they are looking for the rebellion of the Lanfang Republic, it is very simple. The Dutch have a grudge against the Chinese, and they have a deep blood feud. More than 50 years ago, in order to resist the cruel oppression of the Chinese by the Dutch, the Chinese revolted in Jakarta and other places. Because of the uprising was not secret and betrayed by traitors, the blood of tens of thousands of overseas Chinese killed the river in Jakarta. The stream was stained with blood red, and tens of thousands of overseas Chinese died tragically. The blood dyed the river red, which is known as the Battle of Red Creek.

Almost all Westerners have a sense of fear and hatred for the Chinese in the Southern Ocean. It is for this reason that massacres against the Chinese are one after another among the Western colonies in the Southern Ocean. Nowadays, the existence of the Lanfang Republic, a country established by the Chinese, is like a sharp sword. He stabbed the Dutchman fiercely, and his trembling sword body seemed to make bloody cuts on the Dutchman's body at any time.

You know, there are nearly 100,000 Chinese in Lanfang Republic, and nearly one million Borneos attached to them. This power must not be underestimated.

This naturally makes it more difficult for the Dutch to sleep and eat. Therefore, since the founding of the Lanfang Republic, the Dutch do not know how many plots have been involved in the plot against the Lanfang Republic.

Moreover, the rich gold mines in the area occupied by the Lanfang Republic now bear a large amount of debt, and the Dutch East India Company, which is close to the edge of bankruptcy, is extremely jealous.

Now, there is finally a clear opportunity. It should be said that with a compelling reason in front of them, they will naturally not let go of such an opportunity easily, and they will never give up.

As time went by little by, Luo Fangbo and Jiang Wubo looked at Liang Pengfei nervously, for fear that a desperate word would pop out of his mouth.

It seems that nearly a quarter of an hour later, Liang Pengfei stopped at the door of the hall, looked at the flowers blooming outside the hall, and sighed as if talking to himself: "Why do we always repeat these sufferings?"

(to be continued)