Dominate the Country

"Pah--" The chubby Hamenggu Buwono II slapped a slender servant to the ground, and the water cup hit the ground with a crisp cracking sound. Hamenggu Buwono II did not look at the panicked maid, but vented his anger. He overturned the dining table in front of him with force, and then picked up the chair behind him and smashed it hard on the table with four legs upside down.

"Damn Chinese, damn Dutch, these hateful Kaffirs, they should all go to hell!"

The Chinese did not retreat at all. Their envoys insisted that Hamenggu Buwono II teach them to behead all those who participated in the action, and Hamenggu Buwono II himself had to pay huge compensation to the victims, and send envoys to sincerely and publicly apologize in front of the spirits of the Chinese who died. This was to put his dignity in a mud pit.

How could Hamenggu Buwono II tolerate it? He could not accept such a condition that would make the whole of Yogyakarta lose face.

He was willing to pay twice as much compensation.

But the Chinese envoys would rather reduce the compensation and insist on asking Hamengku Buwono II to hand over people and make a public apology.

Although the Dutch secretly agreed to stand on the side of Hamengku Buwono II, whenever the Chinese envoys were tough, the Dutch were unwilling to step forward at all. This made Hamengku Buwono II curse the Dutch again and again.

The Chinese warships are now staying in Pacitan, and it takes less than a day to sail to Yogyakarta. This has brought great pressure to Yogyakarta.

And the Sultanate of Solo, as Hamengku Buwono II imagined, did not say a word, and did not support Yogyakarta with a single soldier.

Hamengku Buwono II is under great pressure now.

He seems to really have to face a choice, whether to maintain his dignity and let the kingdom enter the war; or endure this humiliation and agree to the Chinese conditions?

Hamengku Buwono II was unable to make a decision for a while.

Although he did not say it explicitly, Hamengku Buwono II was really a little afraid of the Chinese army. The blood of two or three thousand natives in Surabaya Port had not dried up yet. The Chinese did not use any time at all, and even the Chinese in Surabaya Port had organized two thousand armed forces. The Dutch there were all idiots, absolutely big idiots. Under their noses, the Chinese in Surabaya actually created such a powerful force? How many more Dutch military and police in Surabaya are there than a thousand people?

There are less than 40,000 Chinese in Surabaya. Two thousand people are already most of the young and strong people of the right age!

Fortunately, Yogyakarta has a rainforest environment different from Surabaya. Although China's armed forces are very powerful, Yogyakarta has its own complex geographical terrain. This is a tropical rainforest area. Even in the dry season two months later, there are often heavy rains and lush trees, which can provide a good hiding place for the Yogyakarta army.

Although Yogyakarta is close to the coast, the Sultanate Palace of Yogyakarta is located inland.

In the eyes of Hamengku Buwono II, Yogyakarta is not an easy bone to chew when the real fight breaks out.

But he also admitted that Yogyakarta is no match for the Chinese. After a war, Yogyakarta will definitely suffer heavy losses regardless of the final outcome. It is inevitable that the Solo Sultanate will come from behind.

Is this price a bit high?

Just when Hamengku Buwono II was hesitant, Prince Mankunlegalan, who was responsible for negotiating with the Chinese, suddenly rushed into the palace.

"Your Majesty, the Chinese asked us to return the blasphemer in prison immediately."

After so many days of bilateral negotiations, the Chinese seemed to have finally remembered something and added such a condition in the negotiations with the Yogyakarta people. This incident also shows what the Chinese really think about this matter. They don't care about the blasphemer at all. It's just an excuse for them to make use of the topic.

Before, they only mentioned Li Kun's safety once, and then sent someone to visit Li Kun once, and the whole time was less than ten minutes.

"This is impossible!" Hamenggu Buwono II flatly refused.

If the two sides go to war, he will use that damn Kafir as a target to consolidate more people's hearts and minds.

Although Li Kun's presence was weak before, he himself was the cornerstone of this negotiation. Without him, the Chinese army would attack first and then negotiate.

However, Hamenggu Buwono II and Prince Mankunlegalan did not realize anything from the sudden change of the Chinese side. The two locals were too insensitive to things, and the Dutch who were present were blinded by their own "self-righteousness".

They were like the Lin family before, and they didn't care about the victimized Chinese businessmen. Now seeing that the Chinese suddenly asked for that Chinese businessman, they thought that the Chinese had exhausted their patience and wanted to use hard power to force it.

In a beautiful house in Bantul, Luo Fangbai, who served as a special envoy, wanted to slap his face with his hands. What a good opportunity, but he didn't grasp it, and he might even make enemies with the queen's mother's family. He is really a big fool.

Why didn't he mention Li Kun more in the previous negotiations with the Yogyakarta people? In addition, he only sent people to visit them once, and he should have gone more times.

What a good opportunity, he wasted it in vain.

Now if he sends people to visit and asks the people of Yogyakarta to ensure the safety of his uncle, it can only be an afterthought, and it may even arouse the people of Yogyakarta to be strange and vigilant. You can't buy favors at all!

"Uncle Guo must be rescued before this news reaches the people of Yogyakarta. Send a message to the navy of Bajidan and let them take action."

Luo Fangbai was never a person who lamented about himself. When Guangdong was restored, Luo Fangbai, who "worked hard by his tongue and made a living by inkstone," seized the opportunity to lead the Luo family to develop rapidly. In addition to finding an official and a half in the prefect's Yamen, Luo Fangbai Outside of work, one of the two younger brothers, Luo Kuibai and Luo Taibai, set up an oil-pressing workshop in his hometown. Jiaying's oil tea is very famous; the other started a restaurant business in the city that made money faster. In just two months, family life has been turned upside down.

Luo Fangbai is a very enterprising person!

Later, Luo Fangbai, who had more ambitious ambitions, signed up to join the army going south, and completed a major transformation from a middle- and lower-class civil servant to a seventh-rank official in West Borneo. Now he is already a fifth-rank official. Although the official titles used in West Borneo are not serious official titles, everyone knows that they are just a fig leaf!

West Borneo belongs to the Chinese, and the entire Borneo will belong to the Chinese. It’s just a matter of length of time. That piece of land is already in China's possession, and they are fully connected with the mainland system. Today, the fifth rank in Borneo will be the fifth rank magistrate somewhere on the mainland tomorrow.

"Isn't this a bit risky?"

The faces of the attendants changed one after another.

The transformation of "Li Kun turned out to be Li Kun" made them stunned and regretful. But Luo Fangbai now actually asked for Ba Zhidan's navy to take action, which put his life in danger. What if they are killed by the natives here? Of course Yogyakarta's army is no match for a large group of Chinese soldiers, but it is easy to capture a small mission; what if the uncle of the country is grilled by the natives here? , none of them here can atone for their sins even if they die.

Luo Fangbai is crazy!

The first reaction of many people was that the special envoy's head was so stimulated that he went crazy.

If they want to open fire, they have to wait until Uncle Guo's safety is guaranteed and they withdraw from Bantur before they can open fire. What does that count now?

Luo Fangbai's eyes swept across the faces of the people, "The negotiations have not broken down now?" Why did they withdraw from Bantur?

"This is just fighting to promote marriage."

Of course Luo Fangbai knew what the attachés were thinking, but how could there be such a good thing in the world? If they withdrew from Bantul, and then the naval fleet attacked Yogyakarta again, the country's uncle might be grilled by Hamenggu Buwono II in the blink of an eye.

The news that "Li Kun is Li Kun, and Li Kun is the uncle of the country" was sent by Bazhidan's navy to tell Luo Fangbai. After Luo Fangbai summoned the man to tell him his decision, the man came with two eyes. Staring wide open, he looked at Luo Fangbai who looked calm in shock.

"Desperado, this guy really dares to risk his life."

"Sir...no, is it wrong? This is too dangerous."

Once the war breaks out, who can guarantee that Hamenggu Buwono II will not be carried away by anger. Maybe not only the uncle of the country will become a barbecue, but Luo Fangbai and the others will also become a barbecue.

"Go and report quickly and tell Ye Tong. Master Ye will make his own decision at that time." This matter is not something Luo Fangbai can do all by himself. It depends on whether Ye Tingyang, who leads the navy, agrees with this. plan.

Luo Fangbai, whose mind has completely calmed down, does not think that his method is seeking death, but that he is risking his life to survive!

He no longer lamented that he had missed an opportunity, because the Military Intelligence Bureau would take more "jujube pills" this time. Luo Fangbai would be filled with regret when he heard the news, and the Marquis of Changsha would probably cry to death in his latrine when he heard the news.

Without comparison, there would be no harm, and with someone more unlucky than himself, Luo Fangbai's heart felt at ease.

One day later, Bazhidan boarded the flagship of the Chinese Navy - Marlin No. 12.

A military meeting is underway in which all officers above the school level are required to attend the meeting.

As soon as Ye Tingyang mentioned Luo Fangbai's 'request', the entire military conference room was in an uproar. Luo Fangbai's courage is incredible!

But after the initial commotion passed, the faces of each officer showed contemplation.

Half an hour later, a group of people walked out of the military meeting room with calm expressions. Soon, one warship after another pulled up its anchor, and a large number of marines boarded the ship, and then the sails were hoisted.

Six clipper bow sailing ships escorted ten armed merchant ships filled with marines and military supplies towards Yogyakarta.

The waves hit the fleet, turning up waves one after another. The waves pushed forward and backward to form big waves. The moment each big wave jumped to its highest height, a cluster of white snow opened in the air. of waves.

Ye Tingyang stood at the bow of the ship, listening to the sound of the sea.

The sea is never a calm pond, nor is it a river with tinkling water. The sea is the sea, with a beating pulse and endless blood.

In recent years, the country has invested huge amounts of money in the navy year after year, but except for the battle in Kagoshima, Japan, the navy has simply been useless.

Although the navy was used in many wars, the latter played more of a transportation role, and it was the Marine Corps that fought the battle.

Now this battle has a little meaning.

Although except for the first battle, the Marine Corps still had to rely on the Marines to attack, Ye Tingyang was already very satisfied.

The Chinese navy’s attack point was the mouth of the Progo River, a large river that runs through Yogyakarta.

When the Chinese navy warships sailed to the mouth of the Progo River, it was noon, it had just rained, and the sun was shining.

“Boom boom boom…”

The artillery fort built by the Yogyakarta natives at the mouth of the Progo River fired a warning shot.

As the successor of the Mataram Sultanate, the natives who have been communicating with the Dutch for one or two hundred years are two completely different concepts from the Dayaks in central Borneo.

Although both are natives, they do not have the ability to fight with hot weapons, and the main form of force is cold weapons. But one of them is a savage and the other is a cooked one.

The Yogyakarta people are like many Indians on the North American continent. They know the power of guns and cannons, and they are eager to get guns and cannons. But they are unable to manufacture them themselves, let alone store and manufacture gunpowder bullets for a long time.

Even the cannons in the fortress built by the Yogyakarta people at the mouth of the Progo River were supported by the Dutch in recent years to win over Yogyakarta, as well as the ammunition inside.

The six Chinese warships ignored the warnings from the artillery and continued to rush towards the river mouth.

The battle was completely launched.

A strange scream came from far away, followed by a column of water rising a hundred meters away from the left side of the Marlin No. 12.

Ye Tingyang did not even go into the cabin, but stood straight at the bow.

Marlin No. 12 continued to approach the artillery.

"Boom..."

The bow trembled slightly, but it was Marlin No. 12 that ran towards the artillery while zigzagging.

The level of this shot was not better than the shells fired by the Yogyakarta natives of the artillery. The small black dot quickly passed the top of the artillery and disappeared behind the artillery.

The gunner on the medium-sized clipper warship Marlin No. 12 said that this was not our normal level.

Although the biggest bug of the clipper warship is the fire dragon bomb, their gunners have also practiced it very seriously.

After the reloading was completed, the iron bullets and propellants were loaded, and the gunner shouted: "Fire!"

"Boom...!"

The ship hull weighing thousands of tons trembled again! The entire gun deck was shrouded in billowing smoke, and iron bullets flew straight into the distance with the sound of wind!

At this moment, on the other five clipper warships, white smoke continued to rise, and dozens of shells fell one after another around the fort at the mouth of the Progo River.

"Boom! Boom!"

The thunder-like continuous sound on the sea surface, Ye Tingyang could not imagine how terrified the Japanese people were at the fort at this moment.

After these cannons fell into their hands, except for a few shots when they were learning to fire, no sound was heard for more than a year.

The messy shells kept falling on or around the fort. The masonry and earth structure fort built by the Japanese people themselves trembled under the bombardment, and almost every shell that fell nearby made the people on and off the fort tremble with fear!

The natives gritted their teeth, their faces tensed, and they kept chanting in their hearts: "God bless us! God bless us. Don't get hit, don't get hit...!"

But when the rockets also entered the attack range, the end of the Yogyakarta people came.

A man dressed as an officer was shouting to boost morale, and suddenly the whole fort trembled violently, and the sound of collapse came into the ears. A medium-sized rocket hit it just right, and it exploded, shaking the earth.

The rockets used to bomb the fort are different from the rockets used to bomb people. The former does not require too many hot shrapnel. Stones are not human flesh and blood. Shrapnel can harvest lives like cutting tofu. Moreover, the fortifications that rockets used to deal with were sealed or semi-sealed, unlike Yogyakarta, which is purely open-air. But it is impossible to produce a specific type of rocket for this purpose.

So the rockets here are still mainly explosive, and the iron sand fragments have become gunpowder. A medium-sized rocket exploded, just as loud as a heavy rocket.

A large ball of intense fire rose from the bottom of the turret at the mouth of the Progo River, and the mixed rubble was lifted up more than ten meters high. It was unknown how much range was affected. Corpses were blown up on the spot, and broken limbs were scattered everywhere.

The entire turret was like a piece of tofu that had been hit by a stick, and a hideous-looking wound was bubbling with smoke!

Then, the turret at the mouth of the Progo River was hit by rockets one after another. The weak open-air defense was completely unable to resist. The defenders of the entire turret quickly collapsed, and the gunners of the ten gun positions were either killed or fled...

"Marines landing!"