Semarang was taken, and Surabaya was also in the hands of South China. In this era of urban competition, this basically means that Central Java and East Java already belong to the South China Army.

After Liu Yiming, who was far away in Surabaya, learned about this, he didn't even bother to set a trap for the two Dutch governors. He returned to the headquarters, waited for the battle report, and prepared to carry out the next phase of the plan.

It is a pity that Semarang is still clearing out the remaining enemies, and it will take time to compile the battle losses. It is impossible today.

One after another, Wang Yang summarized the details of the capture of Semarang and sent them to Surabaya. Liu Yiming smiled when he read the telegrams sent by Lu one after another.

Because they came directly from the training ground, Nanhua's main officials in Surabaya followed Liu Yiming to the headquarters. Liu Yiming handed the battle report to the people who had long been eager to see it.

"Based on the battle reports, the Dutch haven't noticed us yet, which is undoubtedly good news!" Liu Yiming said with a smile.

"Yes! If the Dutch are all like this, then our worries before were really unnecessary." Liu Wanhua also smiled.

"It would be great if it was so easy to defeat Batavia!" Chen Jiangtao felt magical after reading the battle report. He couldn't believe that he was defeated so easily in mid-air.

"It won't work after that. The distance is too far. We had the upper hand in attacking Semarang. Their governor came to Surabaya on the front foot. He never expected that there would be an army coming from the direction of Surabaya on the back foot." Liu Yiming said with a relaxed smile: "In addition, it is also the Netherlands.

People have been in peace for a long time, and the uprisings they encounter are either not large-scale, or even if there are many people, they are just a mob. When the guns and cannons are fired, the rebels immediately scatter in all directions. They don't expect that we also have weapons that can match or even surpass theirs."

"One, what should we do next? I read in the battle report that this was a raid. Semarang was cut off from external communications before the raid. Should we continue like this?" Chen Jiangtao asked.

"No, there is no point in continuing the fight. Such a raid to Semarang is already the limit." Liu Yiming took out the map.

"It's 260 kilometers from Surabaya to Semarang, and it's a straight line, and it's more than 100 kilometers from Tuban. Previously, the first detachment raided Semarang and marched 100 kilometers in two days. This was the limit." Liu Yiming took out the battle report again.

"When they arrived outside Semarang City, the first detachment was left behind by more than 200 people. Fifty-seven horses and 16 mules were lost in a desperate run. When the assault was launched, the first detachment only had one day's worth of dry food, and the soldiers only had one day's worth of dry food.

A basic amount of ammunition. All livestock were used to carry weapons and ammunition, and even military tents were placed in the cities captured midway. The soldiers' legs were running thin, and they had to repair themselves in Semarang for a period of time, and they could not continue the attack for the time being.

Yes." Liu Yiming explained to government officials.

"Then what should we do next?" Chen Jiangtao continued to ask.

"Shou, wait and see what happens, let the troops repair themselves." Liu Yiming did not reveal the follow-up plan.

"By the way, where are the second and third detachments? Shouldn't they attack Semarang together? Why is there no news?" Yang Wenwei asked after reading the battle report and not finding his nephew's name.

"The second and third detachments were attacking Yogyakarta. Before they set off from Tuban, we received news that the Yogyakarta defenders were changing their defenses, but the Yogyakarta natives revolted. The Dutch colonial army and the servant army were nearly two thousand strong.

Encircle and suppress the natives in the mountains." Liu Yiming said:

"I think this is an opportunity. There are not many Dutch troops in Java. We have captured more than 2,700 people and killed more than 800 people. The total number will be more than 3,500. Waiting for this time

After the assault is over, this amount will still increase! Based on the size of the cities, the two cities plus Semarang, it is conservatively estimated that the defenders should be around 1,100 people."

"In other words, we have eliminated more than 4,500 Dutch colonial troops. This does not include the number of militiamen. We still have tens of thousands of Dutch civilians in our hands, most of them young and middle-aged people."

"The Netherlands only has a total of more than 4 million people. If we can control 100,000 people, the Netherlands can only be controlled by us!"

After hearing Liu Yiming's analysis, the people present did not dare to believe it.

"There are more than four million people in the Netherlands, and a mere 100,000 people will indeed feel heartache, but it's not to the point where anyone can manipulate it, right?" Liu Wanhua said.

"The Netherlands is just a small country with its homeland far away in Europe. It is a small country with few people and losing 100,000 people is almost unacceptable to the Dutch." Liu Yiming explained.

"Java is very important to the Dutch, especially important. It is its most important colony and an important source of finance. But without Java, they still have Borneo, Sulawesi, and Kalimantan, but the Dutch

It takes time to grow. If you lose Java, you will have to scratch the ground in other places. It will take at least eighteen years to train a person to be useful."

"The Netherlands has more than one enemy. To be precise, our biggest threat to the Dutch is financial, but its other enemies will kill it. Which is more important, the Dutch understand!" Liu Yiming is very happy now.

, with this analysis, the advantage lies with me.

The people present were hesitant, not quite understanding but not quite convinced. Indeed, the Chinese people have a high sense of worry in their bones, but when it comes to the choice between life and land, the weight of life is far less than that of land.

But the Western world is different. The West is a more cruel zero-sum game, so they know better about interest exchange and trade-offs, and see their core interests very clearly. There will definitely be wars, but the scale will not be large. Because the Netherlands did not do it

Be well prepared and do not get the attitude of neighboring countries such as Britain, France, and Germany, who dare not expand their armies at will.

This determined that the Dutch military response would be very slow and the Dutch on Java would be lost, which was an unacceptable loss for the Netherlands.

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Yogyakarta, northern part of Simarat District.

On the afternoon of October 28, the South China Army arrived at an indigenous town in the north of West Manle County and stopped for repairs.

"This broken road is too difficult to walk on!" Xie Hui walked into the temporary headquarters with his arms bare, and wiped the sweat on his head with an unknown object that could barely be seen as a shirt.

"That's good. Are the troops stationed?" Yang Tao also took off his military uniform and looked around for his towel.

"They are all settled, but there are not enough tents, so I vacated some of the houses in the town." Xie Hui said nonchalantly.

"Where's the tent? Didn't we bring enough when we left?" Yang Tao asked.

"I have brought enough. This road is too difficult. Several mules have died, and some horses can no longer run. We have to leave horses for those suffering from heatstroke and those who cannot walk. Parts of the tent are missing.

As for the wounded and sick part, before we got here, I stored some of it at supply points along the way for the soldiers who returned later to bring them over." Xie Hui said.

"Okay, why is this weather so hot?" Yang Tao knew that he couldn't be blamed. No one could have imagined that it would rain on the way, and then it would be sultry and difficult to walk. There were also many soldiers suffering from heatstroke.

"What about you? Have you heard the news?" Xie Hui asked as he picked up the water glass and took a big sip.

"The locals said that the Dutch and his servants were in the northwest of Simangle County to encircle and suppress the rebellious natives." Yang Tao took out a piece of paper and drew on it, there is no way, there is no map of Yogyakarta in Surabaya.

.

"It's about ten kilometers away from us, but it's all mountainous and difficult to walk," Yang Tao said.

"This is West Manle County. This is us. The Dutch and the rebels are probably at this location." Yang Tao wrote on the paper and marked some data.

"It is said that there are thousands of rebels, but these people are more likely to be mobs. This area was under the jurisdiction of an emirate more than ten years ago. They are all Green believers, and their methods are extremely brutal. The uprising did not attack the Dutch. In the west,

Manle grabbed one and was beaten away."

"What should we do now? Do we watch the Dutch and the natives biting dogs?" Xie Hui sat paralyzed and said:

"It's a ten-kilometer mountain road with complex terrain. We may not be able to encircle and annihilate them if we run over. It will be even more troublesome when the time comes. We can't fight a war of attrition when we come here!"

"Of course not. The terrain is unfamiliar. There will definitely be a lot of casualties if we go in hastily. We only have so little capital, but we can't spend it here." Yang Tao also replied: "My idea is to attract them out."

"Attract it?" Xie Hui's voice was a little confused.

"Although our mission is to annihilate this part of the enemy, it does not prevent us from occupying Yogyakarta. These people are going to suppress bandits. We directly occupy Simangle County, pretend to attack Yogyakarta, spread the news, and

Lure them here, then surround and annihilate them!" Yang Tao revealed his plan.

"Spread it out?" Xie Hui suddenly sat up: "Don't think about something you can't eat. We're not at the stage where we can spread the news out right now!"

I hesitate to say that the most convenient way to transmit news now is wired telegraph. The cities the second and third detachments passed through do not have telegraph lines yet, so they have not been able to report the battle situation to Surabaya, and there is no way to know the intelligence after departure.

For example, the South China Navy destroyed a Dutch squadron of ten warships. (The South China Coast Defense Force now only belongs to the navy.) It captured two Dutch governors of East India. For example, Semarang has been captured, and most importantly,

After the war situation changed and the fishing plan moved to the next stage, Liu Yiming will not continue to block the news.

"Be patient, it's not the South China Army that captured West Manle, it's the rebel army!" Yang Tao said.

"You mean, let us play the role of the native rebels?" Xie Hui reacted immediately.

"The answer is correct, but not completely correct!" Yang Tao took the gesture.

"Playing the role of the native rebels will not make the Dutch particularly anxious, as can be seen from the thousands of people who were expelled from the mountains and plains. If we play the role of the native rebels, at most we can attract some Dutch people to come back, but we will not achieve our goal."

Yang Tao sat on the chair and stopped talking when he said this.

"Tell me, you stopped talking even half the time. How can you be like this?" Xie Hui scratched his head and scratched his head anxiously.

"I'm thirsty, my throat hurts, and I don't want to talk. If I can drink some tea, it should be a lot better." Yang Tao said slowly.

"Okay, okay, okay, I'll pour it for you. I'll pour you tea, okay?" Xie Hui picked up Yang Tao's kettle and poured a pot of cold tea into it.

"Oh, I am still comfortable in Surabaya. At least I am drinking authentic tea, not this tea foam." Yang Tao took a sip of tea and said.

"That's enough for you, ah! Say it quickly!" Xie Hui collapsed a little, grabbing Yang Tao's kettle and saying.

"Okay, okay, let go, let go, I said, I said!"

"It was difficult for the native rebels to bring back all the Dutch, but when the Chinese rebelled and had some muskets, things were different!" Yang Tao said.

"Chinese uprising! Will it irritate the Dutch too much? What if it affects the war situation..." Xie Hui hesitated after hearing this.

"It's okay. It won't affect the war situation. Let's grab some natives and send some soldiers. We will make it look like it's huge but the combat effectiveness is not good. We're building two smoothbore cannons and firing two cannons at Yogyakarta's city wall. It won't be too much.

"It alarmed the Dutch." Yang Tao said, "Besides, according to the plan, the attack on Semarang will only last two days. Even if the information is spread, it will not be a big problem."

"Okay! It's done. Where did the smoothbore cannons come from? We only brought two 37 cannons. When we take them out, they look different," Xie Hui said.

"Xi Man Le Yes!" Yang Tao replied.

"Okay, let's do it!"

After repairing all night, on the morning of October 29th, a squadron of the South China Army, carrying more than a thousand indigenous people of all sizes in the town, rushed into Simanle.

The natives were undisciplined and could not be controlled after entering the city. The ambitions of the ambitious people in the city were also aroused by the chaotic "rebel army", and Simanle became chaotic.

According to the plan, the South China Army did not stop the chaos and used a small team to contain a platoon of Dutch colonial troops in the city. The remaining troops took advantage of the chaos and looted the tax bureau and warehouses. They waited until the city was full of smoke before gathering troops and driving the Dutch troops away.

When I got out, I wanted them to report the news.

On the 29th, Ximanle has been in chaos. The natives who were originally brought here have really turned into a mob. They are burning, killing and looting everywhere. The most disgusting thing is that the natives are murdering their own people without even saying they will take care of them.

Fellowship and the ugliest scene of human nature unfolded in Simale.

At night, the main force of the first and second detachments entered the city.

"Do you want to stop them?" Xie Hui looked at the fire in the city and listened to the screams in the city, and asked Yang Tao next to him.

"Why do you care about them? How many Chinese are there in Simanle? There are not many in the whole Yogyakarta! Don't talk about this, how is the harvest?" Yang Tao asked.

"It's okay. The tax bureau has received more than two thousand pounds. The goods stored in the warehouse should be worth five thousand pounds. The gold and silver products and cash collected from wealthy households in the city are worth more than one hundred thousand pounds. A large amount of materials have not yet been collected.

Statistics!" Xie Hui said.

"You know that's not what I'm talking about. Don't be officious." Although Yang Tao was shocked that such a small and dilapidated county was so wealthy, he was not led astray.

"Hey, you have today too! There are a lot of guns and ammunition. It should be used as a logistics base. There are 200 rifles of various types, including 100 Beaumont m1887/1888 rifles and 100 rifles of unknown model. Beaumont m1887/

In 1888, there were 300,000 rounds of rifle bullets and 100,000 rounds of rifle bullets." Xie Tao said: "In addition, we collected three six-pound cannons and one 12-pound field cannon from the arsenal and the city wall. I don't want those three-pound cannons.

Throw it in the warehouse."
Chapter completed!