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Chapter 197 Batavia (5)

Four natives, holding three children hostages, walked hundreds of meters away, and were about to walk out of the town. When they looked back, they still couldn't see the People's Army chasing them. Even Qian Guoyu and others stood still, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. It seemed that they could escape a life.

Qian Guoyu glanced at the young girl and saw that she had been looking at the natives, covering her mouth with one hand and clenching her fists with the other hand. The blue veins on the back of her hand were protruding, looking very nervous.

Qian Guoyu felt a little ungrateful and said, "Let's start."

He heard a "boom boom boom boom" explosion sound from outside the town. The natives who had almost walked to the entrance of the town heard it and subconsciously stopped. At this moment, gunfire suddenly rang out, and the four natives were shot and fell to the ground almost at the same time, but the kidnapped children started crying. At the corner of the entrance of the town, several soldiers rushed out and rushed forward to pull out the kidnapped children.

It turned out that after Qian Guoyu left the church, he ordered the soldiers to ambush the entrance of the town to prepare to block the natives. He prepared 10 soldiers with good shooting skills. Each toast was arranged to be responsible for killing, and the last two soldiers were responsible for re-shots after sniping. When the natives walked to the entrance of the town, their spirits were often relaxed and their vigilance would be greatly reduced. At the same time, people were arranged to create explosions to distract the natives' attention so that the sniper could succeed in one strike. Although this was a bit risky and it was easy to accidentally hurt the kidnapped child, Qian Guoyu believed that he was quite sure, because Qian Guoyu paid attention to the kidnapped child in the church. The kidnapped child was short, so as long as he aimed at the upper half of the indigenous person, the chance of accidentally being injured was not high.

Just after the gunshot, the young girl screamed and hurriedly ran towards the entrance of the town. Qian Guoyu also smiled bitterly and followed her. As a result, after running more than 100 meters, the young girl suddenly tripped under her feet and fell to the ground. Qian Guoyu hurried forward, helped her up from the ground, and said, "Don't fall."

The young girl pushed Qian Guoyu away, ran to the three children, separated the soldiers, and hugged them up and down to check. In fact, the three children were not injured, but were frightened, so she couldn't cry. The young girl was a little relieved and patiently comforted them.

At this time, Qian Guoyu also came to the scene and saw that three of the natives were killed by headshots, and one of them was shot in the chest. Although they had not died yet, their eyes were empty and obviously no longer saved. Then he walked to the children and said, "The children are not injured, aren't they?"

A warrior next to him said, "Deputy Battalion Commander, we have seen it just now, and the child is not injured."

The young girl stood up and shouted at Qian Guoyu: "You have clearly promised to let them go, why do you do this? Why do you have to kill them? What if you hurt the children?" Her Chinese was not very standard, and in desperation, she brought out a few English words.

Qian Guoyu said: "Be calm, because they are not ordinary people, and have killed a lot of people in the town. I can't guarantee that they will not hurt these children after leaving the town and cannot take this risk. Also, your approach to helping them hide is quite dangerous. If we didn't find out, they might even kill you all when we leave here."

After listening to Qian Guoyu's words, the young girl was silent for a while, turned around and pulled the three children, and said, "Let's go." As she said that, she ignored Qian Guoyu and took the three children toward the direction of the church.

A warrior said angrily: "What's this attitude? We saved them just now."

Another soldier smiled and said, "What do you know? Our deputy battalion commander is deliberately giving in to her? Don't you understand this!"

Qian Guoyu glared and said, "If you don't speak, you won't think you are dumb, you're all okay, right? Move all these corpses away."

Several soldiers stuck out their tongues and smiled and went to carry the corpse.

The time was not long, and the troops responsible for blocking the indigenous people also came back one after another. The result of the counting was that this battle killed a total of 271 indigenous people and captured 103 people. However, none of the People's Army was killed, with only more than 10 soldiers injured. However, a total of 117 residents in Dagon Town died in this robbery, of which 94 were Chinese, 17 Europeans and 6 Javanese, and more than 300 injured people. Some women were abused, but this number cannot be counted. In addition, 173 shops were looted, 247 families were robbed, and many of the looted and robbed shops and robbed shops were also Europeans or Javanese industries. There were countless robbed property.

In fact, although the Dutch colonial authorities have continuously provoked conflicts between Javanese natives and Chinese, the conflicts between Dutch colonists and Javanese natives have not been significantly improved. During the hundreds of years of Dutch colonization of Java, the indigenous resistance has never stopped. Although after the 19th century, Dutch colonists promoted Europeanization education in Java, only few natives who truly naturalized and recognized the colonists. Most Javanese people have no good feelings for the colonists. This time, the robbery of Dagon Town, and the red-eyed indigenous people, regardless of the Chinese or Europeans, still take photos and kill them. Therefore, the Europeans in Dagon Town were also affected. Not only were a large number of shops robbed, but some people also died in the looting.

At this time, Hong Hai, the head of the two shops in the Zhang family in Dagon, also brought some merchants from the town to express their gratitude to the People's Army, and also accused the crimes committed by the indigenous people. Many people burst into tears. Several European merchants also thanked the People's Army again and again. Some people hoped that the People's Army could be stationed in Dagon Town to protect Dagon Town.

Qian Guoyu also comforted these people with good words, but also made it clear that the People's Army could not be stationed in Dagong Town, but would return to the farm immediately. However, if residents are willing to go to the farm for temporary retreat, they can set out with the People's Army and ensure food, accommodation and safety on the farm. Of course, whether to go to the farm or not is voluntary, the People's Army does not force it.

After saying that, Qian Guoyu asked Hong Hai to notify the residents of the town of this intention, and agreed to set off, with about one and a half hours left to prepare for residents who were willing to go to the farm.

After Hong Hai went, Qian Guoyu ordered the captured indigenous people to move the dead indigenous people out of the town, wrap them in cloth, and then find a place to bury them. He also set up a wooden board to explain the place and number of people to wait for the indigenous tribe to come and get out for burial again.

At this moment, a priest accompanied two merchants to find Qian Guoyu, first expressed his gratitude to Qian Guoyu, and Qian Guoyu was also polite. Then the priest said: "Mr. Major, we have a group of people who want to go to Batavia, but we are worried that the road is unsafe. We hope that the superior can send some troops to protect them to Batavia, and they are willing to pay a fee."

Qian Guoyu shook his head and said, "Father, you have seen it too. Our number is not large, and we will have to protect the Chinese to the farm later. So we can't distribute personnel to protect others to go to Batavia. I'm very sorry."

A businessman hurriedly said, "We are willing to pay. How much do you want? Just offer a price, as long as we can deliver us to Batavia."

Qian Guoyu smiled and said, "This is not a question of how much money it costs, but we are really powerless now, so we can only be helpless."

Another businessman said: "So after you arrive at the farm, can you send us to Batavia?"

Qian Guoyu said: "We can indeed send people when we return to the farm, but this requires us to negotiate with the Batavian authorities. If we can negotiate well, of course we can send you to Batavia. But to be honest, we have not had a good relationship with the Batavian authorities now, and may even be hostile. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that we can negotiate with the Batavian authorities in a short period of time to come up with a result. I hope you can consider this carefully."

The two merchants were also disappointed when they heard this. At this time, the priest said, "Mr. Major, then do you only accept Chinese people, not people from other countries?"

Qian Guoyu said: "Of course not. This time, the anti-Chinese incident in Java was not only the Chinese, but also Europeans, and even some Javanese people. What happened in Dagon Town is a proof. Therefore, although we are here to protect the Chinese in Java, in the spirit of humanitarianism, whether they are Chinese or people from other countries, we will accept them. As long as they voluntarily, all treatment on the farm is the same as that of the Chinese. And after arriving at the farm, we can leave at any time. We will never stop it. Just once we voluntarily leave the protection of the farm, we will not be responsible for their safety."

The priest nodded and said, "Well, there are a group of people in the church who will go to the farm with you, that's all the children. This place is too dangerous and it will be safer on the farm. Mr. Zhang and I are old friends. Since he lends the farm to you, he must be trusting you. I believe in his vision, Miss Christine, the girl you dealt with just now. In fact, she is half a Chinese, because her mother is Chinese, and her Chinese name is Li Lihua."

Qian Guoyu said: "Is she a nun in the church?"

The priest shook his head and smiled, "No, no, she is not a member of the church, but her kindness and kindness are consistent with the church. Her father is a businessman, and she is now a compulsory teacher of our church. Her main job is to teach those children, who are orphans adopted by our church, and they need people like Miss Christine to care about them."

Qian Guoyu nodded and said, "Okay, if she and those children go to the farm, we will try our best to arrange their better life. But please prepare as soon as possible, because we are about to set off on time."
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