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Chapter 657 Far East Expeditionary Force (4)

Phillips and Boschamps are both senior military officers in their country. Although they are quite disgusted with politicians, they do not understand politics. They also know that the government is indeed under great pressure now. Moreover, the government has agreed to modify the combat plan. In return, the Expeditionary Force also needs to meet the government's requirements. Of course, in the view of the two, it is not difficult for the Expeditionary Force to win a battle after the Expeditionary Force arrives in the Far East. After all, the advantage of the Expeditionary Force is there. The only thing that is worried is that the People's Army's fleet avoids war and does not confront the Expeditionary Force head-on, but uses raid tactics.

Of course, the expeditionary force can also be carried out according to the modified combat plan. The French, Russian and Dutch fleets and landing troops entered Kaohsiung Port, Taiwan, and the British fleet first arrived in Japan to help Japan defeat the invading People's Army, which would be considered a victory.

However, both governments demanded that the expeditionary forces arrive in the Far East as soon as possible to participate in the war, which made the two commanders a little embarrassed, because the renovation in Singapore is a very important step before the war. If the personnel and ships cannot be fully repaired, it will have a great impact on future battles, but the domestic attitude must not be ignored, otherwise it will also have a great impact on the two people's future careers.

But now the Expeditionary Force is overseas after all, so after the two negotiated, they came up with a solution to the pond. The original plan was to repair the Expeditionary Force in Singapore for one month, but on the 20th day, the French fleet, the British battleship first team and a part of other warships left Singapore first and headed north toward the Far East waters; while the British battleship second team and the remaining warships remained in Singapore. The famous talks were waiting for the Russian and Dutch fleets to come to Jianghe from Java, and then chased the first fleet that left. This is normal in the navy, but there is a lot of room for operation, and it is no problem to drag for another 5 or 6 days; the fleet that left early entered the Jinlan Bay in Jiaozhi, and in the country, it was claimed that it would be almost done when waiting for the fleet behind and drag for another 5 or 6 days.

In this way, there are also explanations in China, because a group of fleets have indeed left in advance, which shows that the Expeditionary Force has indeed responded to domestic requirements, but it is sailing at sea. There are too many uncertainties and no one can do anything about it. If the domestic investigation is to be investigated, the responsibility can be put on Russia and the Netherlands. The Expeditionary Force can get about 10 days of rest in Cam Ran Bay.

After the Dutch and Russian fleet entered Java, there was work immediately. At the invitation of Java's Governor Rosbru, the Dutch and Russian fleet formed a Marine Corps of more than 1,200 people to assist the Javanese colonial government in conquering local indigenous tribes.

It turned out that on the third day after the evacuation fleet left Java, the foreigners in Java finally couldn't hold back and attacked the overseas Chinese who remained in Java. In fact, as soon as the evacuation fleet left, some people wanted to do it, but at that time, the evacuation fleet had not yet gone far and might return. Foreign Qian Guoyu's warning to Rosblu also had a considerable effect.

Before the evacuation fleet set off, Rosblu summoned the big merchants in Java to negotiate and told them Qian Guoyu's warnings. He also advised everyone not to do too much this time and to try to cause less bloodshed. What if the East China government makes a comeback? It also proposed that the Javanese colonial government first arrest the overseas Chinese for the crime, and then entrust the merchants to occupy the overseas Chinese's property, so that there is no need to cause bloodshed. Moreover, if the East China government comes back, there is still room for easing. Moreover, these captured overseas Chinese can be used as hostages and bargain with the East China government.

Although some people did not agree with the warnings of the East China government and believed that Roseblu's concerns were too redundant, most businessmen still agreed with Roseblu's suggestions and believed that it would be better to be safer now.

So as soon as the evacuation fleet left, Rosblu immediately mobilized the army and announced the abolition of the Overseas Chinese Trade Union, abolished the treaty in Java negotiations, and removed the overseas Chinese who worked in the colonial government at one time, and arrested a large number of overseas Chinese who remained in Java. He first sent troops to surround the Zhang family and arrested all the Zhang family members who remained in Java and imprisoned them.

The overseas Chinese who stayed in Java also regretted it. If they had known this, they would have gone with the evacuated fleet. But it would have been too late to regret it now. Under the threat of the colonial army, the overseas Chinese did not dare to resist and could only surrender.

However, there are about 100,000 overseas Chinese in Java, and about 60,000 people were taken away by the evacuation fleet, and about 40,000 people remained in Java. In addition to some merchants, there are also a large number of civilians who form villages or live on the periphery of the city. The number of troops in the colonies is limited, so it is impossible to arrest all 40,000 overseas Chinese at once. The first batch of arrests were mainly overseas Chinese living in cities. First, they were arrested in segments, and second, these overseas Chinese were mostly merchants and had a lot of property. Only by grasping them could they plunder the property of overseas Chinese.

But after such a stir, the news spread immediately. It was not only the colonial government that was preparing to attack the overseas Chinese, but also the local indigenous people. Their resentment towards the overseas Chinese was even greater than that of the colonial government, because in Java, the colonists were first-class people and the indigenous people were second-class people, and overseas Chinese could only be considered third-class people. However, after the East China government protected overseas Chinese, the status of overseas Chinese was greatly improved and they all occupied a place in the colonial government. Moreover, with the support of the East China government, overseas Chinese no longer accepted the mercy of the indigenous people, but instead fought back hard. Even if the matter was a big deal, the colonial government did not dare to favor the indigenous people, but instead suppressed the indigenous people. Such changes certainly made the indigenous people unacceptable, and therefore all kinds of imbalanced mentality of envy, jealousy and hatred breed in the hearts of the indigenous people.

Now that we have finally waited for the opportunity to retaliate against the overseas Chinese, the indigenous people will certainly not miss it. All indigenous tribes have also been rubbing their hands and ready to exhale a sigh of anger. Although the colonial government has warned the indigenous tribes, few tribes have taken this warning seriously.

Rosblu also knew what these indigenous people were. They were lazy, casual, foolish, bullying the weak and fearing the strong, and they had no foresight. Their warnings might not be of much use. Therefore, while capturing the overseas Chinese in the city, they also sent troops to the larger overseas Chinese villages to prevent the indigenous people from attacking the overseas Chinese villages. Although there were not many troops, each village had only 2 or 30 people, after all, it was the army of the colonial government, and the indigenous people would also be worried about it.

Sure enough, this arrangement did have a considerable effect. Some indigenous tribes did not dare to act rashly when they saw that the overseas Chinese villages were stationed by the colonial government, but the indigenous people had no great knowledge, and there were inevitably a few who were not very clear-headed. One of the tribe leaders was simple-minded, full of jealousy towards overseas Chinese, and had no good feelings for the colonists. They wanted to rob several overseas Chinese villages and exert their anger, but when they encountered the arrest of the colonial government army, they were furious. However, they saw that the colonial government army did not have many troops, only 2 or 30 people, which was much less than the people they brought. So they were so excited that they ordered their own tribal army to advance.

The colonial government army did not expect that this tribe would actually attack itself and was beaten by the indigenous people at once. 3,400 people came to this tribe, 4,50 original earth guns, and 7,80 crossbows. Seeing that the situation was not good, the colonial government army hurriedly fled and threw the village to the indigenous people.

The indigenous people then launched an attack on the village. Although the villagers tried their best to resist, they still could not defeat the indigenous people. In fact, the number of villagers was no less than that of the indigenous people, but they had no choice but to have many weapons. Most people could only use hoes, sickles, shovels and other farm tools, so they were naturally not the opponents of the indigenous people. As a result, the indigenous people broke through the village and robbed them.

A native tribe started, and immediately followed up several tribes, looting several overseas Chinese villages in succession. More than a thousand overseas Chinese were killed, and more than 30 colonial government soldiers died in the conflict. Moreover, tribes continued to join in, and all chaos began to form.

After Rosblu learned about it, he was shocked. He did not expect that he would have a loophole here because he was very cautious and cautious. Thousands of overseas Chinese died. Unless the East China government was defeated by the Expeditionary Force, how could he explain to the East China government when the East China government returned to Java? These damn indigenous people were really not successful and had enough trouble. Moreover, the colonial government had sent troops to guard the overseas Chinese villages to prevent the indigenous people from causing trouble. Then he knew that the indigenous people were too brave and dared to attack the colonial government's army. This did not take the colonial government into consideration at all. But the problem is that there are not many direct troops of the colonial government now, with less than 2,500 people, and 2,000 of them were recruited from the indigenous people. It is not easy to control the situation in Java.

Seeing that the situation in Java was about to get out of control, at this time, the Netherlands and the Russian fleet arrived in Java, Rosbru hurriedly asked for help from his own country's fleet. Naturally, the Dutch fleet would not ignore it. Moreover, the soldiers on the ship had been drifting at sea for more than 4 months. They were not tired simply because they were feeling overwhelmed. They just took this opportunity to vent their vent. The Russian fleet was the same. So the fleets of the two countries jointly organized a land army to help the Java colonial government and attack the indigenous people.

Although the coalition was composed of naval soldiers, they were all formal soldiers, well-trained and well-armed. The natives were naturally not opponents, so they were beaten to pieces by the coalition. Rosblu also used the coalition forces to finally stabilize the situation in Java. The entire turmoil was not long, with only 7 or 8 days in total, but more than 1,500 overseas Chinese died, and more than 3,000 were injured, more than 500 houses were destroyed, and countless property and materials were stolen.
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