The turbid stream water and the tropical rainforest are extremely hot. Various long green leaves with sharp edges that can cut through the skin will suddenly appear in front of you, which is unpredictable.

The leaves were clattering, and the thick vines were split with a knife. Several dark natives popped out of the bushes. Then, another soldier in a green uniform, one, two, three... Hundreds of hundreds of soldiers walked out of the bushes in turn. Many soldiers had scars on their faces, all thanks to this rainforest.

Even, there was a giant shrimp living on a tree, one meter long, suddenly waving its big claws. When I saw this scene, I really shocked these soldiers.

A middle-aged officer wearing rubber shoes walked out of the woods. He made a gesture and soon the soldiers scattered. He was Zhang Shusheng, the manager of the Fourth Battalion of the Pingyuan Naval Infantry Regiment.

In Vietnam, in the Dinghai Hall in the battle between the north and the south, in the ***, the Fourth Battalion of the Navy Infantry Regiment was awarded the honor of "Prince Heshuogan Guards". Zhang Shusheng also cherished this honor very much and fought with the Dutch. He volunteered to take on the mission of a surprise attack on Sanwan City.

Sanwan City is the name of the Chinese. This town is an armed stronghold of the Dutch on the west bank of Borneo. After the Dutch conquered the Kingdom of Sukadana in the indigenous Muslim country, they built a city in an inland river basin with a natural port near Pontianak. More than 200 soldiers were stationed to deter Chinese companies and wiped out the Dagang Company, the city once increased its troops to more than 1,000.

The mission of the Fourth Battalion of the Navy Infantry Regiment was to pull out this stronghold that was quite close to Pontianak, and at the same time, it also encouraged the Chinese companies.

Following Zhang Shusheng were the armed chiefs of several companies including Lan Fang. Among them, the armed leader of Lan Fang's company was called Zhao Annian, who was a burly and stout man.

Several natives and guides who were holding their waist knife to overcome obstacles would speak simple Hakka dialect. For Borneo natives, the Chinese mean a lot to them. From brick and tile technology, mining technology, the manufacturing of metal utensils to buffalo plowing, rubber tree planting, rubber mining and improved pepper, etc., the development of Borneo indigenous civilization is almost inseparable from the influence of the Chinese.

Indigenous people in Borneo like Chinese porcelain, and some indigenous tribes even developed to the level of worship. For example, the Du Sheng people in Northern Borneo have a special Holy Bottle Festival. Every Holy Bottle Festival, a celebration will be held. All the people who fell to worship the god of the Holy Bottle to eliminate ominousness.

Therefore, the indigenous people in Borneo have always been extremely friendly to the Chinese. However, in recent years, in order to curb the influence of the Chinese, the Dutch have adopted policies to provoke differentiation, which has gradually alienated some indigenous tribes from the Chinese and even begun to be hostile to the Chinese.

The natives in Pontianak were obviously used to working for the Chinese. Several dark natives ran over and pointed ahead and said something.

Zhao Annian, the armed leader of Lanfang Company, said to Zhang Shusheng: "Sir, you'll be here after crossing the river." He also said: "Sir, I brought snake venom powder and asked Ama to pretend to be a slave and sneak in and go down the well water?" Ama is one of the natives who opened the way.

Zhang Shusheng said: "No need."

Picking up the thousand-mile mirror and looking at the vague outline of the town ahead, Zhang Shusheng's face turned extremely cold. For the first time, he fought with foreign devils on a foreign land. This battle can only be won but not defeated!

The Dutch towns with wooden planks and bricks built by the Dutch may never have thought they would be attacked on a large scale. They were sparsely distributed with various wooden houses, but were circled with wooden fences, mainly used to prevent wild animals. The natives in the town were naturally laborers, sowing farmlands near the river in the southeast, and also supplementing supplies for Dutch merchant ships and warships that had been parading here. After all, this small settlement was just used to deter Chinese companies and fleets to supply a small amount of supplies. The Dutch did not really regard it as an armed stronghold, nor did they really build a city.

Despite this, the existence of these live-fire red-haired ghosts still made Chinese companies such as Lan Fang feel tremendous pressure. In Borneo, a musket team composed of dozens of red-haired ghosts can often conquer an indigenous tribe, just like a British team serving the Sultan of Brunei. They are just a few dozen people, and they are even homeless and rogues on the streets of Britain. They have not received any formal military training, but have helped the Sultan of Brunei to quell the indigenous rebellion in China.

But in this Dutch-style Sanwan Town, there are hundreds of well-trained red-haired soldiers stationed. How can the Chinese companies not be afraid of it?

The Dutch commander of Sanwan Town, Pertra, was in his thirties and had been in Nanyang for more than ten years. He was an absolute veteran.

Early in the morning, he walked out of the low wooden house as usual, stepping on the unique mud of tropical regions. The wet and muddy feeling made his bones feel as if they were crawled by ants, making him feel uncomfortable. Every time he could not help but miss the sea breeze in his hometown, the sharp cold, which was a hundred times more comfortable than the wet, stuffy and stuffy now.

"Bang!" Under a strange tropical tree next to it, a tall Dutch officer was whipping several indigenous people with a whip. He must have been lazy just now.

The natives left blood-red whipping marks on their almost naked bodies, and they were covered with mud and water as they rolled.

Pertra frowned slightly. These black monkeys were so lazy that they would not work hard if they put away their whip and stick one day.

Pertra arrived at the edge of the town, and on the lookout platform made of an ancient tree, there were scouts looking at the rainforest in the distance with a thousand-mile mirror.

After the news of a conflict with the Chinese came, Pertre ordered his soldiers to increase their vigilance. Although he did not think that the Chinese who had not yet gained a foothold would come to attack Sanwan, which was guarded by hundreds of elite kingdom soldiers, the failure of the naval battle shocked him and realized that the Chinese were prepared and were unafraid to challenge the authority of the Dutch Kingdom.

The Chinese have extremely excellent iron-clad ships, and this new discovery is even more shocking, but Pertra does not think that the Chinese will finally win the war. The defeat in the naval battle was due to carelessness. After seeing through the Chinese's trump card, the battle-hardened naval and infantry of the Kingdom will definitely crush the Chinese into powder without mercy.

Just as Pertra was thinking a lot, on the lookout, the scout suddenly pulled the rope under the copper alarm bell with force. "Dangdang" and the bell echoed. This alarm method, which was born before the Middle Ages, was convenient and efficient in this tropical rainforest.

"Sir, Chinese infantry, Chinese infantry!" The Dutch soldier on the observation deck exclaimed, and raised his rifle to aim.

Soon, rows of Dutch soldiers lined up behind the wooden fence, queuing guns and loading ammunition, and seemed extremely well-trained.

In the winding jungle of shallow streams, Chinese people slowly appeared. Teams of them quickly dispersed, using trees and stone hills as bunkers to approach the wooden fence bit by bit.

The battle broke out in an instant.

I don't know which side fired the first shot, but the Chinese infantry team and the Dutch Army immediately began to pour their ammunition into the opponent's positions.

Pertra soon discovered that the Chinese firepower was extraordinary and fierce. At a distance of hundreds of steps, their bullets could easily tear the thick wooden boards of the wooden fence into the bodies of the soldiers. Moreover, the cooperation of several teams to cover each other and advance, the clever firepower suppression was simply incredible.

Pertray gave the order loudly, but in fact he didn't need to yell, these Dutch veterans quickly found a way to deal with the Chinese infiltration tactics, and crisscrossing firepower lines were quickly built.

In an extremely fierce battle, in less than an hour, the Dutch had lost more than half of its personnel. Although there were corpses of Chinese soldiers almost every step close to the wooden fence, the Dutch finally could not resist the fierce firepower of the Chinese, retreated step by step, retreated into the town, and scattered among the houses to resist stubbornly.

Pertra was even more sad to find that the casualties paid by the Chinese were far less than their own. After they occupied the wooden fence, the casualties paid could almost be said to be insignificant.

The soldiers of the kingdom have been fighting against the natives all year round and have easily won victory after victory. In a comfortable environment, their combat effectiveness has not been improved at all.

However, when did the Chinese army become hungry wolf with claws?

The armed leaders of Chinese companies such as Zhao Annian were stunned. Although the number of Chinese infantry teams was superior, it was so clean and beautiful that they defeated the red-haired ghost's defense line so clean and beautifully. This was simply incredible.

Zhang Shusheng's face was as deep as water, obviously not very satisfied with today's battle. The Fourth Battalion was one of the first troops built in Guangzhou. Today, Zhang Shusheng even ordered that all officers and soldiers do not need to consider bullets and just attack hard.

Zhang Shusheng wanted to break the knot of some soldiers in the army's fear of the West. Although the Pingyuan Army fought with the more powerful British and French people a few years ago, it was a local war and adopted a human-sea tactic. The casualties ratio between various soldiers and the British and French coalition forces was almost more than 10 to 1, which was extremely tragic. Despite this, it finally failed to attack Guangzhou City. It has to be said that in fact, the Chinese were not the victorious side of the Sino-British and French battle.

Now, Pingyuan Army, who has been tempered in blood and fire for many years, has finally fought with the red-haired ghost again. Zhang Shusheng hopes that this first battle will be a refreshing victory, which will truly break the myth of the invincible countries of the Thais.

This is also the reason why he asked the soldiers to shoot with all their energy. You should know that Guangzhou's fast firing speed and bullets are also caused by the consumption of extremely fast. If the soldiers are left alone, in a fierce battle, the money spent by the soldiers built in Guangzhou every hour is several times that of the original. There is no doubt that with the development of firearm technology, the cost of a war will become increasingly huge.

Of course, these cannot be considered on the battlefield. How to defeat the enemy combat troops at the lowest cost is the issue that commanders should consider.

Zhang Shusheng hopes that his soldiers will save bullets mainly because of supply. Guangzhou is thousands of miles away. Although the vast sea is difficult to detect and cut off by the Dutch, especially the supply ships are steam ships that Dutch warships are difficult to catch up with. But everything must be considered in the worst direction. Naturally, bullets can still be saved.

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Chapter completed!