Zheng Guanghua is the platoon leader of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Company and 1st Platoon of the Special Detachment. At first, he was excited for a long time when he found out that he was selected into the Special Detachment and the mission of the Special Detachment.

Zheng Guanghua is a second-generation immigrant. His father is a doctor. Thirty years ago, he was transported to Singapore by a piggy boat. He took the opportunity to poison and kill the guards. More than 500 people on the boat ran to Sumatra and were captured by the natives.

The pirates, after being plundered and attacked many times by the Dutch, moved to Surabaya to make their home.

Zheng Guanghua had a huge hatred for the Dutch and natives. When dealing with the hidden danger of attacking the tiger's mouth, he was decisive in killing and was selected this time for a tentative attack.

"We are the vanguard of the entire army this time. It can be said that this is the first official mission of our detachment. We should all cheer up, strive for a good start, and pay attention to tactical movements. We have trained for so long, there is no reason to be worse than the main force!" Zhan

Before the war, Zheng Guanghua conducted pre-war mobilization for the entire platoon.

Zheng Guanghua directed the troops to advance, approaching the position three hundred meters without any disturbance. On the low city wall of Pamanukan, a hundred or so natives fired sparsely at the South China Army.

A row of soldiers looked for cover at a distance of 300 meters. Soldiers with better shooting skills fired from time to time, but unfortunately there were not many results. Black powder guns could theoretically shoot farther, but the muzzle velocity was low and the wind was strong.

The rice bullets were a little loose.

Zheng Guanghua waited for a while, and when he heard the sound of tom tom, he knew that the mortar was fired.

"Charge!" Zheng Guanghua shouted, and then blew the whistle.

The sharp sound spread far enough to ensure that all soldiers could hear it, and the soldiers began to hunch forward.

Boom boom boom!

Until the explosion was heard and the soldiers began to run with all their strength, they only had a few dozen seconds which was the safest time to attack.

The distance of 200 meters was gone, and the distance to the city wall was less than 100 meters. The soldiers who were charging fiercely stopped, took a breath, and observed the enemy's situation.

Zheng Guanghua found a bunker, which was a fallen tree. He lay down behind the tree stump and stuck his head out to observe the city wall.

"What's going on? Is there no one there?" There weren't many people in sight, but from the sound of sporadic gunfire, there shouldn't be many people. Zheng Guanghua felt a little uneasy.

"The city wall is very low, we can get closer!" Zheng Guanghua judged in his heart.

"Du~du~" two short whistles sounded. The soldiers began a tactical assault.

Moving left and right, and at the cost of one death and two injuries, a platoon attacked to a position only fifty meters away from the city gate. This position could not be moved forward, and there was not enough cover further forward.

"Something's wrong..." Wang Xu said after seeing the scene through the telescope.

"Indeed, this is a tentative attack. We have almost conquered the city wall. Do you want to follow up?" Zheng Lei said.

"I mean this is too easy. Forget it, I will follow up with the order." Wang Xu said.

Soon, two more platoons entered the battle, and the defenders on the city wall hurriedly fired at the reinforcements behind them. Zheng Guanghua's pressure was even less.

"Du, du, dudu~" A short whistle sounded from Zheng Guanghua's whistle, and a row of soldiers launched a general attack.

Without much obstruction, a row of soldiers rushed under the city wall inexplicably. More than twenty soldiers aimed their guns at their heads. A few soldiers ran to the city gate. Because they did not bring explosive bags, they connected more than a dozen grenades.

Hang it on the city gate, unplug the safety, and leave quickly.

Boom!

The power of the grenade explosion blew a big hole in the city gate and broke the wood closing the door. Zheng Guanghua rushed in with his men.

Bang! Raise your hand, kill a native soldier, quickly establish a position, spread to both sides of the city walls, and shoot at the defenders on the walls.

The soldiers at the rear rushed forward without their lives. Most of the firepower on the city wall was attracted by Zheng Guanghua and the others. Within a minute, the heavily armed follow-up soldiers followed Zheng Guanghua's footsteps and consolidated the city gate position.

"Follow all three battalions!" Wang Xu ordered from behind.

When all three battalions entered the gate, the battle ended quickly, but Wang Xu's face didn't look good.

"It's such a big city, but it doesn't even have artillery?" Wang Xu said.

This was really wrong to blame Jonny. There were cannons, but the artillerymen were taken away, and no one in the whole city knew how to fire a cannon.

"Come into the city!" Zheng Lei advised.

The special detachment soon entered the city.

"Report, the Dutch have escaped! Just left the city!" The third battalion commander led Zheng Guanghua to Wang Xu, who had just entered the city.

"Ran?"

"I didn't see any white people. I asked a few natives and they all said that the Dutch just ran away! Before running away, I went to the telegraph office to send a telegram," Zheng Guanghua said.

"Has the telegraph office been damaged?" Wang Xu asked.

"No, it should be that we didn't have time, but the arsenal was opened, and the Dutch distributed weapons to the natives. Most of the people on the city wall were natives who came here temporarily, and there were only a few servants!" Zheng Guanghua said.

"I don't know what is good or bad!" Wang Xu said after hearing this.

"There is no need to chase. You can't catch up. Clear the city and treat it like a battle. I don't want to see more casualties!" Wang Xu thought for a moment and said.

Zheng Guanghua went to deliver the order, and Zheng Lei said to Wang Xu.

"We have been fighting for so long, and the natives who have been fighting are still using such radical methods..."

"It's not serious. When I communicated with Xie Hui before, I learned that there are no natives in several counties. Only big cities, such as Surabaya and Semarang, are under control. Besides, as long as the natives with weapons are

, are all enemies!" Wang Xu said.

"I mean, do people think that we just like to pick on the weak..." Zheng Lei said weakly.

...Wang Xu was silent...

When the special detachment captured Pamanukan, Liu Yiming also returned to Surabaya. He was greeted by Surabaya's military, police, government officials, students, and industry representatives.

The news of the victory had already spread back first, Semarang held another grand bonfire party, and Surabaya had been waiting for Liu Yiming.

Bang! The sound of fireworks sounded.

Liu Yiming got out of the car in surprise, and Xu Hui walked up to him: "I didn't stop them. Surabaya has been too tense during this time and needs to relax!"

Liu Yiming nodded, walked to the temporary high platform, and accepted people's cheers...

Liu Yiming raised his hands, and the crowd gradually became quiet.

"We won!!" It was just four short words, Liu Yiming shouted with all his strength!

"Win!" everyone shouted, cheering for victory heartily.

"I'm going to arrange a few days off." Xu Hui said quietly to Liu Yiming.

"How about the production of military supplies?" Liu Yiming asked.

"Completely sufficient. More than 40,000 mortar shells have been produced, and another 10,000 are on their way to the front line. Rockets have been in mass production for a week. The current daily production capacity is 150, and 1,000 have been delivered.

Going to the front line, it’s just that the front line keeps advancing and the transportation capacity is insufficient." Xu Hui said.

"Then let's rest for two days." Liu Yiming thought about it and agreed.

"Governor Pinak relented," Xu Hui said.

Liu Yiming nodded and rejoined the cheering team...

On the evening of December 1st, Liu Yiming came to the Government Affairs Office, where Pinak had been waiting for him.

"Your Excellency, Governor, have you thought about it?" Liu Yiming pulled out his chair and sat down and said.

"I can issue a surrender order to Batavia, but I can't guarantee whether he will listen!" In just a short period of time, Pinak's mental state became very bad.

"But I have a request. If you don't agree to it, I won't issue the order even if I die!" Pinak said.

"What's the requirement?" Liu Yiming doesn't mind negotiating terms.

"Give all the Dutch you capture a normal diet and life, at least three loaves of bread, 500 grams of fish or meat, two hundred grams of vegetables, and other daily necessities every day, free of charge!" Pinak said viciously

He stared at Liu Yiming and said.

Liu Yiming touched his nose, thought for a while and said: "This is impossible, this is better than what my soldiers eat. I can consider providing three hundred grams of rice for free every day." Of course, it is brown rice.

Then there was a haggling operation, back and forth, and finally it was decided that Liu Yiming would provide the captive Dutch with 300 grams of rice, 50 grams of vegetables per day, affordable meat, and various daily necessities not exceeding five times the market price.

"You win! You robber!" Pinak gasped.

"Who isn't?" Liu Yiming felt very funny.

Pinak was choked up: "This is different, we have brought civilization to you!"

"We have our own civilization and we live a good life!" Liu Yiming also said angrily.

Pinak wanted to get angry, but he thought about the people living in concentrated areas in the Netherlands who ate 200 grams of potatoes every day, so he held back.

"Don't be angry. What I do to you is much gentler than what you do to the Chinese..." Liu Yiming said.

He also wanted to give an order to completely eliminate the Dutch, but doing so would be very detrimental to his plan. Liu Yiming needed to use the West, and it was not the time to break up with the West.

"Write a letter quickly, Governor Pinac, before I change my mind." Liu Yiming also said while holding back his anger.

Pinak quickly wrote the letter, stamped it with his stamp, and returned to the settlement. Liu Yiming sent someone to deliver the letter to the front line.

Another telegram was sent to invite Charles to come to Surabaya again. This time Liu Yiming said in the telegram that he hoped Charles would come as a British envoy.

After doing this, it was already late at night, and Liu Yiming wanted to go home and see how his little fiancée was doing.

Liu's house, the small courtyard where Zhang You lives.

"Look who's back!" Liu Yiming looked at Zhang You sitting in the yard and said funny.

Unexpectedly, Zhang You rushed up and hugged Liu Yiming directly, burying his head in Liu Yiming's arms and sobbing uncontrollably.

"Okay, okay, I'm back." Liu Yiming touched Zhang You's head and said.

This seventeen-year-old girl would only be at the age of college entrance examination in later generations, but now she has to bear a lot.

"Ahem!" Just as the two were brewing their feelings, a coughing sound came.

Zhang You jumped away like a frightened little rabbit, then glanced at Liu Wanhua, said hello, then slipped back into the yard and locked the door...

"Dad, you are really..." Liu Yiming needed to organize some words.

"You came just in time!" Finally it turned into a sigh.

"Elbow, come into the house with me." Liu Wanhua snorted and asked Liu Yiming to follow...
Chapter completed!