Chapter 264 The Dutch are also ready to take action!

"What is it? I hope the uncle can tell you that my nephew will make plans." After hearing Luo Fangbo's solemn statement, Liang Pengfei had to cheer up.

"Let Jiang Wubo tell you about these." Luo Fangbo turned his head and pointed to a middle-aged man who was quite tall, strong, but also had a shrewd taste standing behind him.

"Caughter Jiang Wubo, please see the general." Hearing Luo Fangbo's orders, seeing Liang Pengfei without saying anything, Jiang Wubo stepped forward and saluted Liang Pengfei respectfully.

"Okay, there is no need to be too polite. Let's talk about what happened to Lanfang Company in Borneo." Liang Pengfei asked quietly, touching his chin.

Jiang Wubo was quite eloquent and soon told the current danger that the Lanfang Republic in Borneo was facing. It turned out that the Lanfang Republic had been eyeing the Western colonists before. However, the smart Luo Fangbo took a detour and sent an envoy back to his country to meet the emperor and requested to be a vassal. Although he could not even step in the gate of the Qing Dynasty's vassal courtyard, let alone meet Qianlong.

However, Luo Fangbo exaggerated their visit in Southeast Asia. Anyway, people were their own people. They naturally let them brag about what they saw and who they saw. But in this way, it was indeed the Western colonists who were still cautious about the huge Qing Dynasty, which temporarily restrained their minions.

However, in the past year, the Western colonists have been ready to move again, and they are no longer blatant, either driving pirates or bandits, or simply disguising themselves as bandits to run to the territory of the Lanfang Republic to rob. This has made Lanfang country tired of dealing with it and lacks weapons and ammunition. It is precisely because it is difficult to support that Luo Fangbo went to find Liang Pengfei.

However, after the negotiations between the two sides, Liang Pengfei successively recruited only one thousand soldiers to the Lanfang Republic, and stated that because of the small number of troops, they only guarded the western part of the capital East Wanjin and the port area.

You should know that the Lanfang Republic can be said to be full of soldiers. Although they are all militias, many of them have seen the combat effectiveness of the Qing army of the national team. Therefore, they did not care much about the thousand soldiers recruited by Liang Pengfei. At first, they even thought that Liang Pengfei was just taking some people to pay for some money.

Luo Fangbo was a little resistant at the beginning, but if he did not agree, he would not be able to obtain the large amount of supplies and weapons that Lan Fangguo urgently needed from Liang Pengfei, or in other words, he agreed to it in order to improve and strengthen the relationship with Liang Pengfei.

But no one expected that after these soldiers arrived in Lan Fang, they were indomitable and did not interfere with any of Lan Fang's affairs. Apart from daily training, they only occasionally went to East Wanjin for a walk, but they never had the kind of forced buying and selling they expected. This made Luo Fangbo and the senior executives of Lan Fang's company be wary of the Liang family army from the beginning to gradually letting go of their guards. However, they still did not take the Liang family army's thousand people too seriously.

But no one expected that at the beginning of this year, there was a crisis. A group of Western pirates disguised as merchant ships forced the port of Pontianak (East Wanjin), the capital of Nalanfang Company, along the Capus River, with the intention of attacking East Wanjin and robbing.

The two thousand Lanfang Company mercenaries guarding the port only resisted for less than two quarters of an hour and had to retreat to East Wanjin. The camp was arranged between the port and the west city. The Liang family army, which was not as expected by Lanfang Company, fled to East Wanjin as the defeated soldiers were about to flee to East Wanjin.

After learning that the port was attacked, they set up a simple position on the avenue leading to East Wanjin City in the shortest time. Relying on this simple position, a thousand people guarded for nearly half an hour, and at the cost of injuring 257 people and 39 people in battle, they stopped the pirates' advance. In front of them and on the positions, the corpses of more than 700 pirates fell.

After the main force of the Lanfang Republic arrived, the Liang family still had the strength to counterattack with the large army and successfully captured two pirate ships. After this battle, Luo Fangbo and other senior officials of the Lanfang Republic finally clearly realized how powerful the combat effectiveness of the thousand Liang family troops recruited by Liang Pengfei was.

Afterwards, Luo Fangbo took the initiative to ask Liang Pengfei to add troops to his troops. Of course, the cost of hiring soldiers was calculated based on the mercenaries' remuneration. However, after Liang Pengfei only added 2,000 troops, he declined on the grounds that soldiers were needed in various places and it was difficult to increase troops. However, these 3,000 soldiers made Lanfang's company feel much more at ease. After all, these 3,000 soldiers had such strong combat power. Moreover, when the two thousand soldiers arrived, they also brought thirty infantry cannons, namely six-pound cannons, and twenty strange cannons that had never been seen in the Lanfang Republic. They were called strange things by the Liang family army as conscientious cannons.

With many artillery and these three thousand powerful soldiers, Luo Fangbo completely entrusts the task of guarding the port to these three thousand Liang family troops. What makes them regret is that these three thousand Liang family troops are too rigid and abide by Liang Pengfei's orders. Even if they are military training, they will never leave the radius of twenty miles of the port.

Several times, other parts of the Lanfang Republic were subjected to rebellion or banditry by local indigenous peoples, but they could not instruct the army.

But now, a major event happened. Some time ago, a Dutch navy lieutenant went ashore to play when the warship was mooring in Sukhatan, the southern port city of Lanfang Republic. No one expected that this man lured a Chinese woman onto the warship to defile it in the name of purchasing the goods that a woman wanted to sell. The woman's fierce resistance and slaughter angered the angry Dutch navy lieutenant and shot the Chinese woman.

He took advantage of the dusk to tie his body to a ballast and sank quietly into the sea. But no one expected that someone would see this scene. So, except for a missionary who failed to return to the ship in time because he went to the church in Sukhatan, the fifteen Dutchmen, thirty-seven servants and the Dutch Navy lieutenant were all torn apart by angry people, and the Dutch warship was also burned to ashes.

"Gronin, the Governor of the East India Company of the Netherlands, demanded that our Republic of Lanfang hand over all the murderers who killed Dutch naval soldiers and burned Dutch warships, and also demanded that our Republic of Lanfang compensate them two million taels of silver, and ceded all the territory south of the Republic of Lanfang as the boundary..."

"My sun, these Dutch turtle sons are so vicious." Liang Pengfei couldn't help but take a breath and cursed a Sichuan dialect. He died so much and was still the one who was in the wrong, but he actually bit him back. Moreover, his appetite was so big and his greed were really shameless.

Hearing Liang Pengfei's feelings, Jiang Wubo and Luo Fangbo both smiled bitterly and looked sad. Luo Fangbo signaled that Jiang Wubo would sit aside, and then said to Liang Pengfei: "Now we have discovered that the Dutch East India Company has assembled a unit of about 2,000 people in the port of Batakan, which they controlled. And they can assemble mercenaries with at least twice the force in southern Borneo, as well as indigenous troops with a total of more than 30,000 indigenous troops. In addition, a Dutch East India Company fleet with two battleships as the main force has been assembled in Jakarta. Now, the deadline given by the East India Company is two months. Within two months, if we cannot meet their request, they will use force."

Liang Pengfei couldn't help but frown and paced indoors. You know, the Dutch were one of the earliest colonists, and their business in the Java area in Southeast Asia has been nearly two hundred years. It can be said that the Java area is one of the most important nests of Dutch colonists in Asia.

Originally, they were suppressed by Britain and could only hide in this area and survive, but it cannot be denied that they were old colonial countries, and there were still three pounds of nails in broken ships. Just looking at their attack this time, the situation seemed to be like swallowing the Lanfang Republic in one bite.

As for why we have to find fault with the Lanfang Republic, it is very simple. The Dutch have a grudge against the Chinese, and it is a deep feud. More than 50 years ago, in order to resist the Dutch's cruel oppression of the Chinese, the Chinese revolted in Jakarta and other places. Because the uprising was not secretly secretly, the blood of the overseas Chinese in the places where the deaths were tragic, dyed the rivers in Jakarta into blood red. Tens of thousands of overseas Chinese died tragically, and the blood shed dyed the rivers red. It is known in history as the Battle of Red Creek.

Almost all Westerners have a sense of fear and hatred towards the Chinese in Southeast Asia. It is precisely for this reason that massacres targeting the Chinese have come one after another between the various Western colonies in Southeast Asia. Now, the existence of the Lanfang Republic, a country established by the Chinese, is like a sharp sword, piercing hard beside the Dutch. The trembling sword body seems to make bloody holes on the Dutch at any time.

You should know that there are nearly 100,000 Chinese in the Lanfang Republic, and nearly one million Borneo natives who have surrendered to them. This force must not be ignored.

This naturally made the Dutch unable to sleep or eat. Therefore, since the founding of the Republic of Lanfang, the Dutch have participated in the planning of many conspiracies against the Republic of Lanfang.

Moreover, the rich gold mines occupied by the Lanfang Republic have made the Dutch East India Company, which is close to the brink of bankruptcy, jealous.

Now, there is finally an opportunity to be justified. It should be said that with a reason for making a decision in front of them, they naturally will not miss such an opportunity easily, and they will never give up.

Time passed by bit by bit, Luo Fangbo and Jiang Wubo looked at Liang Pengfei nervously, for fear that a desperate word would pop out of his mouth.
Chapter completed!