Speed is of the Essence
Chapter 45:Speed is of the Essence
The sky gradually brightened, and the sound of the night's gunshots subsided.
For the living, this night cannot sleep at night.
At dawn, a large number of Chinese were allowed to walk out of the street, and outside Chinatown, a corpse that fell on the street, men and women, and these bodies, and holding all kinds of knives, seemed to be killed last night when they resisted.
But this scene, let all the Chinese very doubtful, these dead in the streets of the Dutch East Indians, men, women and children have, if some Dutch East Indians are indeed very crazy, will take up arms to resist, but to say that all Dutch East Indians are resisting, it is completely impossible.
Most of the Dutch East Indians, in fact, very timid, perennial colonial career, so that they have become accustomed to being ruled, resistance is only a small number of people, not as much as they see in front of the eyes, the streets are full of corpses.
But no one said anything, and seeing the knives in the hands of these Dutch East Indians would be enough.
Not far down the street, it seemed a little chaotic, and the audacious Chinese walked out of Chinatown and toward the front.
Near the port were a group of ragged Dutch East Indian youths cleaning the streets and putting their bodies in cattle carts.
It can be seen that many Chinese people who have come here have found that these Dutch East Indians who are cleaning the streets are young laborers in the surrounding villages.
On both sides of the street stood a heavily armed soldier, who could not see the face clearly in the heavy camouflage, but the tall and upright body was extremely oppressive to the thin Dutch East Indians.
What happened in Jakarta?
This strange army, whose is it?
With curiosity, many Chinese crossed the street bodies and came to the port, and at this moment the port has been completely blocked, outside the port, several huge warships, moored outside the port, and the trembling mug is always aimed at Jakarta.
No one had ever seen a flag, flying on the mast of the warship, in the middle of the blue-and-white tones on the flag, and a real dragon leaping out of the water was domineering.
Before this, such a flag had never been seen, and this was not the navy of any country, because there was no flag at all, only the flag of the dragon showed its identity.
For every Chinese at this moment, the flag in front of them has only a strong sense of intimacy, as if he was born as a child and a family.
And many Chinese also found that the soldiers on both sides of the street, on their armbands, there is also a dragon flag logo, but different from the blue and white tone on the warship, the flag on the armband of these soldiers is red and green, it seems to be a jungle, and it seems to be a sea of blood, on it is a faucet that seems to fly out.
In the port, a group of soldiers escorted several people into Jakarta, these curious Chinese, looked at Li Daolin with surprise.
Walking in the middle of Li Daolin, let all the Chinese in surprise, but also let them completely rest assured.
Nearby, Li Daolin nodded and greeted all his compatriots and asked them all to follow back to Chinatown.
Soon the Chinese in Chinatown gathered again, watching Li Daolin walk into the Lijiatang under the escort of a group of soldiers, and the patriarchs of the families also entered the Li's temple under the escort of a group of soldiers.
"Have you heard?"The army outside is all Chinese, and they are here to avenge us.”
"Well, I have just heard the little children of the Lee family say that this army is coming to drive out the Dutch."
“I have heard that Mr. Fan, who had come to Chinatown a while ago, was the leader of this army.”
"It's really human to look, and Mr. Fan looks only about twenty, and there are strong cannons, and so many subordinates."
“Look at their equipment, they have iron helmets on their heads, and they have all kinds of things that they don’t understand, and they feel so tall, they look more powerful than the Dutch soldiers.”
“Those Dutch soldiers will bully the civilians, you look at these soldiers, they are not like mountains, and one by one, the weapon is powerful, obviously after all, it is no wonder that the Dutch will lose so quickly.”
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In Chinatown, a group of Chinese people talked about together, what news, flying in the ears of the people, ten minutes ago, the Chinese people are still not clear, as if they already know the bottom.
The message is Li Yishan deliberately let people pass out, in the case of everyone's curiosity, this kind of message transmission speed is the fastest, and it is the easiest for all compatriots to accept.
At the same time, in Li's temple, the main characters gathered again.
Fan Yize was sitting in the main position, glanced at the patriarch who was present, and said, "I believe that Mr. Li has already introduced my situation to you."
The people present heard the words, and all nodded their heads cautiously.
They are not outside Chinese, and they know more about what this young man means.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Chinese, but it also makes them more cautious, aspiring not in the old age, not to mention the face of a person who is about to open up a dynasty, who dares to look at Fan Yize with youth.
And before that they were mere merchants, an hour before, they did not dare to have the idea of the present, if not this young man had shown enough strength, they simply did not have the courage to stand in this place.
“The situation in Jakarta has stabilized, and last night my First Division, in cooperation with the navy, succeeded in capturing Jakarta and taking control of all Dutch colonial institutions in Jakarta, and all Dutch East Indians who resisted armed were also suppressed. For this reason Jakarta has now settled down, and all the situation in Jakarta is currently blocked, and the Dutch in the rest of the Dutch East India do not know the situation here.”
Speaking of which, Fan Yizeton continued: “Now that my soldiers are ready outside Jakarta, I need people who are familiar with the roads and terrain, leading my troops and quickly capturing all the Dutch strongholds on the island of Java.”
Fan Yize's voice just fell, the heads of the patriarchs of the various clans turned their ears, and soon someone said: "Mr. Fan wait, we immediately arrange people who are familiar with the situation."
"Then it is not too late to act."He stood up and said.
The patriarchs who wanted to be close to Fan Yize could only stop, nodded their heads and hurried out to arrange.
Soon, the patriarchs brought dozens of Chinese who were familiar with the situation in various regions, and the fiercely popular Fan Yize immediately asked the soldiers to escort these people to the temporary station outside Jakarta.
In addition to the 1st Division, there are three infantry divisions of the armed forces, waiting for these guides outside Jakarta.
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