Batavia, formerly known as Jakarta, is a port city with a long history. It took shape more than 600 years ago when it was named Sunda Garaba, which means coconut.
In 7522 AD, the first year of Jiajing, the Banten Kingdom conquered the land and re-expanded the port city, and renamed it Jakarta, meaning City of Victory.
However, the good times did not last long. With the arrival of the Dutch East Indo Company, Western colonists were welcomed here, and Jakarta was renamed Batavia.
It can be said that the prosperity of Batavia was indispensable with the help of the Chinese. The major expansion projects at that time, such as the construction of moats, city walls, and houses, were contracted and implemented by immigrants from the Ming Dynasty. Those who chose to go to sea because of the wars in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties Many people who fled came to settle here.
For example, in 7699 AD, overseas Chinese accounted for 40% of the population in Batavia, excluding those outside the city.
But it is regrettable that the history of overseas Chinese in Nanyang is a history of blood and tears.
Historically, in order to compete for the dominant position in Southeast Asian trade, the Spanish attacked overseas Chinese in the Philippines in 7603, resulting in the deaths of more than 24,000 people. After that, despite the great danger, many people still ventured to Southeast Asia, In 7639 AD, the Spanish forced overseas Chinese to pay high taxes, triggering an uprising. This second persecution once again caused more than 20,000 casualties.
Regardless of whether it was the Ming and Qing dynasties or the Tang and Song dynasties, the imperial courts of all dynasties paid little attention to overseas Chinese.
Because those who went to Nanyang were either merchants or refugees. One type was of low status, and the other was an abandoned citizen of the Celestial Empire. Naturally, they were not welcome.
When Emperor Shenzong Wanli of the Ming Dynasty learned of what was happening in the Philippines, he simply gave this order: "Luzon also issued strict instructions not to listen to the instigation of traitors and harm the business people."
Although it expressed a relatively harsh attitude, it was meaningless. After the three major conquests, the Ming Dynasty was unable to conquer, and it was impossible to launch a large-scale war at sea for this matter.
The attitude of local officials in the Ming Dynasty was more disdainful and explicit. Xu Xueju, the governor of Fujian, said: "We are fighting overseas again, and the culprit is unknown. Among the four Chinese people, merchants are the lowest, so how can we use untouchables to start a war? Instead of fighting, we will work hard..."
The officials of the Qing Dynasty were even more contemptuous, and their attitude was basically ridicule and disdain - the Celestial Dynasty abandoned its people, even abandoning the tombs of their ancestors, and went abroad to make profits, and the court ignored them; the Han people who went to sea, lived in other places for a long time, abandoned their status as kings, and were killed by them many times. People actually do their own evil.
However, here, later the Ming Dynasty restored the Xuanwei Division of the Old Port, thus frightening the Spanish and the Dutch for a long time, but this was only temporary.
After the Old Port Xuanwei Division fell again, the Dutch East Indus Company was surprised to find that the overseas Chinese within its sphere of influence were so wealthy. In addition, they were worried that these large numbers of guys might rebel and cause trouble, so the Dutch decided to shear sheep!
On the grounds of banning weapons, the authorities of the Dongyindu Company required the overseas Chinese in the city to hand over all weapons. At the same time, they ordered the army to search for overseas Chinese from house to house, and encouraged local people to participate in persecution and robbery.
After five and a half days of bloody persecution, tens of thousands of people were killed and only a few dozen people were able to escape. Because the killing was so "thorough" and Hou Ming was confronting it at the time, banning merchant ships from both sides, this incident did not spread for many years and was not known until modern times.
The tragedy of Batavia has always been a hatred in the hearts of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and it has been mentioned many times among the people for more than 30 years.
The Dutch themselves knew that this was a perfect excuse to declare war, so they paid a large amount of compensation in four installments and publicly apologized. However, this still could not suppress everyone's anger.
"It is strictly prohibited to leave and go out without authorization. If you are discovered, you will be doomed." Zhou Changfeng said with his hands on his hips.
On the outskirts of the northwest city, in the basement of an abandoned small processing factory, all twenty members were present. In addition, Shen Yu was accompanying them, as well as several agents from the Batavia station of the Intelligence Agency.
In order to avoid being noticed, they took a total of three flights. Two arrived in the early morning and afternoon yesterday, and the other arrived this evening.
The table was filled with all kinds of guns, as well as boxes of bullets, as well as many explosive blocks, fuses, and detonators. It was a dazzling array.
Seven Type 34 submachine guns and twenty-two Type 36 pistols. These Ming army standard weapons were brought in by breaking them down into parts. Other weapons were provided by the Intelligence Department site.
Winchester M7894 lever rifle, Winchester M7897 shotgun, Bergman MP18/28 submachine gun, Colt M7917 revolver, Browning M7911 pistol, the quantity is sufficient, but Zhou Changfeng is not familiar with it. Not very satisfied with this.
The lever rifle can be said to be the symbol of the cowboys in the American Westward Expansion. The M7894 lever rifle is an upgraded version of the famous M7873 lever rifle. The biggest improvement is that it fires smokeless powder ammunition to keep pace with the times.
Although this gun is not suitable for front-line infantry use, it is generally good. The unique internal tubular magazine can hold ten rounds of bullets. However, the problem is that the eight M7894s provided by the Intelligence Agency are all .32 caliber versions!
The caliber is 0.32 inches, the warhead weighs just over ten grams, and the kinetic energy of the muzzle is more than 900 joules. This power is enough for a hunting rifle, but it is too weak to be used as a rifle.
"Uh... isn't there something more powerful?" Zhou Changfeng looked at the agent from the Batavia site expectantly.
The latter was startled, "What do you mean, Commander Zhou? You don't like these guns?"
Shen Yu held the cigarette between her scissor hands and said with a smile: "He wants mortars and heavy machine guns, haha——"
The agent thought it was a joke, so he joked back: "We can't get those things, but they are in the enemy's military camp."
What he didn't expect was that Zhou Changfeng actually started to think about it.
Ha, it must be that long-range firepower delivery is safer and more secure. If we are not in a hurry, we should let the Navy's submarine secretly transport the mortars and heavy machine guns in.
He stared at the map and thought for a while, then pointed to the military camp marked with a big red circle and said, "Is there any information about this place? Is it tightly guarded?"
Brother, weren't you kidding just now? Are you really serious? ? ?
After being stunned for two seconds, the agent replied: "Of course there is. We had rough information before. Now that the situation about Chai Guoyi has come out recently, we have investigated it carefully again."
"Okay, then bring the information and tell me about it."
"Sir Zhou, do you really want this place? There are hundreds of soldiers and horses inside."
After saying that, the agent looked at Shen Yu, who was holding a cigarette in his mouth as if it was "none of my business."
He reluctantly took out a pile of stapled information from the bag next to him, then pointed at the map and said: "This is the location of the third battalion of the third regiment of the 1st Division of the Royal East Indu of the Netherlands. The full strength is about 700 people. But there is currently a shortage of more than 200 people, which means there are still 500 people."
Zhou Changfeng nodded and asked, "Are they foot infantry or motorized infantry units?"
"Motorized, along with four armored vehicles and two combat vehicles."
"What? Why does a motorized infantry battalion still have tanks?"
