On the fifteenth day after Duerjia was escorted back, a public trial was held as scheduled on the city's campus. Many residents from Qiqihar City came, crowding the originally open campus.
They didn't do it for anything else, mainly because Duerjia was a member of the clan! The direct descendant of Aixinjueluo, from the first-rank general guarding Heilongjiang to the fourth-rank hereditary general Fengen. As for the deaths and injuries of the young men and women of various families on the battlefield in the past few days, they did not dare to complain to Duerjia. Isn't this how wars have been going on since ancient times!
The public trial platform was set up just the day before and was surrounded by red flags. A huge white banner was hung on the stage, "Qiqihar Military Control Commission Public Trial of Duerjia's Crime." In addition, the fences and walls around the campus are covered with slogans of various sizes, such as "Warmly celebrate the liberation of Qiqihar by the Northern Navy", "Resolutely destroy the evil enemy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty!", "Confiscate the land of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Give it back to the people!" and so on. This made the literate family members of the Han Army Banner and the exiles look at each other in shock, and they did not even dare to breathe.
At ten o'clock in the morning, Li Rui, the current director of the Military Control Commission, Yang Zhongming, commander of the 19th regiment, Wang Ding'an, commander of the 21st regiment, deputy commander, missionary committee member and others all came to the rostrum and sat down. The meeting was presided over by Yang Zhongming. As soon as he came up, he announced that Du Erjia and several captured co-leaders, the naval battalion commander, the firearms officer, the criminal chief of the general Yamen, the bank chief, as well as several fourth-rank officers and sixth-rank officers All the officials were escorted to the stage.
A sign was hung on Duerjia's chest, which read "Full of Evil". She stood at the front, while the others stood behind him. At this time, the people closest to the public trial platform couldn't help but exclaimed when they saw that it was really "the general". For a while, the crowd was crowded, shoulder to shoulder, and rushed forward.
The soldiers of the Northern Navy standing in front of the stage held hands and formed a human wall. In addition, Yang Zhongming and another platoon leader who could speak Manchu shouted a few words from an electric horn, and everyone in the audience became quiet. After Yang Zhongming said a few words, the platoon leader translated in Manchu.
"Fellow folks! Please be patient. Today we are here to publicly interrogate Du Erjia and others, just to make you truly the masters of your own country in the future! Don't worry, everyone, the oppressive systems of the Manchu era will be gone forever. , what the North Navy brings is a brand-new government, a government that serves all poor people wholeheartedly, and a government that makes you the masters of your own country!"
Ouch~~~! The people in the audience were immediately confused and did not react for a long time. But then, Yang Zhongming's words caused an uproar.
"There will no longer be military service that lasts until old age! To those who are willing to farm and herd, we will give out seeds and tools! From now on, all tribute servants will be gone! You can use the fish you have worked so hard to collect. Ginseng and mink skins are sold in the market! We will also open schools and set up medical clinics so that all children can come and study for free!"
Well, if the previous words made the people of Qiqihar City confused and unclear, the following practical measures are the most attractive.
In fact, from the first day when the Northern Navy entered the city to search for Qing troops and officials, the common people who originally thought they would be looted, not only found a place to hide their valuables and food, but also smeared their daughters' faces. There was a layer of ash on the bottom of the pot, and it turned into an ugly appearance that was neither human nor ghost.
However, after they spent a day in fear, Beihai Navy's method immediately made many people feel at ease. Li Rui had people hang up recording loudspeakers at various intersections in residential areas in the city, and repeatedly played the Beihai Navy's "Code for Entering the City" written in Manchu quotations.
You must know that Manchu is the universal language for all people living in Qiqihar these days, no matter what ethnic group they are. This is determined by the actual situation. Although the early Han people would open schools and teach here, they were only limited to families with good family conditions, and most of the other people were illiterate.
After "Code of Entering the City" was played continuously for a day, several Shanxi shops in the city tried to open their doors for business. At noon, logistics procurement personnel from the North Navy came to the door. After nervously handing over the goods, the shopkeeper, who was about to cut off the meat, discovered that Beihai Navy actually gave him money, and it was from Zuwen Zumo.
On the morning of the third day, another message was added to the loudspeaker - opening the warehouse to release grain. All residents can go to the official warehouse on the west side of the inner city to receive five measures of food. After hesitating all morning, some families who had no food to eat finally couldn't hold back and went out with their bags. As a result, they came back happily carrying the food.
In this way, things changed every day. After seven or eight days, all the shops in Qiqihar City were open for business, and there was a flow of people on the streets. Afterwards, many girls washed the pot ash off their faces.
After Yang Zhongming accused Duerjia and others of a bunch of crimes in Bulla Bulla, the people below finally woke up and realized that it was the superior General who asked us to die in order to cover his escape!
From this, everyone thought of the graves outside the city and the funeral scenes of half of the families in the city a few days ago. The curses and crying became louder and louder, and some even shouted "Kill him!"
"Beat him to death! If it weren't for him, my son wouldn't have died!"
"Give me back my man!"
"How will we, orphans and widowed mothers, live in the future?"
At this moment, the guilty officials on the stage were so frightened that they were sweating profusely and collapsed to the ground. Especially Duerjia, he knew that he would not escape death. Although he tried his best to show his toughness and show the noble and inviolable majesty of the Aisin Gioro clan, the soldiers from the Northern Navy on both sides held his arm joints tightly, which made him unable to do so. Unable to stand up. So this guy raised his head unwillingly and stared at the nearest person in the audience.
"Everyone, please be quiet. I would like to ask Director Li of our Military Control Commission to announce the results of Duerjia and others!"
Hearing Yang Zhongming's shouting, the campus quickly became quiet, and everyone waited for the result.
Li Rui stood up at this time and bowed deeply to everyone in the audience. This shocked everyone again, as if they saw the sun rising from the west.
When did Mr. Guan bow to me? Many people immediately knelt down and even kowtowed in return. At this time, at the edge of the main campus, several old men wearing old cotton robes who looked like scholars had expressions of surprise and disdain on their faces, saying that in order to win over the people, Beihai Town actually even I don’t even have any sense of propriety anymore, I really don’t know what to say.
At this time, Li Rui's voice came from far away from the public hearing platform, and every word could be heard very clearly.
"Aixinjueluo Duerjia, a member of the Manchu clan, was once captured by our Northern Navy. However, this person did not want to repent and committed an unforgivable crime against the soldiers and civilians of Qiqihar City! For his own selfishness, in order to escape Our dragnet, he asked the people of Hecheng to cover him and bury him with him! His hands were stained with blood, he was an out-and-out executioner! According to the decision of the Military Control Commission, Duerjia was hanged! The remaining ten One person, they are also Durga’s accomplices, these people will be sent to Yaksa for ten years of hard labor!”
Boom~~Thousands of people in the audience immediately burst into laughter. The families of other captured officials couldn't help but cover their mouths and cry bitterly.
Fortunately, I finally escaped death.
When Durga was carried to the gallows built on the west side of the public trial platform, her face was ashen and her whole body was like mud. During the days of being imprisoned, he repeatedly told the officer who interrogated him that he was very rich and could he use gold to redeem his life like before, even if it meant going to Bitter Leaf Island to work as a coolie.
After being stood on a wooden bench, Duerjia thought he would still have a bowl of wine to drink on the road. Unexpectedly, the execution soldier behind him tightened the noose around his head, and then kicked the wooden bench under his feet with a fierce blow. flipped!
A few months later, as the news of Duerjia's death spread back to the customs, everyone in the Qing court was shocked, and the clan members cursed Zhao Xin and Bei Haijun in the most vicious words to cover up their inner weakness. They finally realized that their so-called noble bloodline was nothing in front of others.
In early May 1793, when the "Spring Offensive" in Beihai Town was in full swing, Gu Lihuan, who served as Kapitan in Penang Island, suddenly sent a confidant to Bacheng by boat. He was not here to find He Xiwen, but to find He Xiwen. It was to inform the Bacheng Military Control Commission of an important piece of news: the Dutch are preparing to take back Bacheng by force!
According to this person, after the Spring Festival, more than 20 Dutch warships arrived at the "George Tunnel" in Penang Island to enter the port for supplies. Each ship carried at least 200 to 300 red and black soldiers. According to him, from According to the news heard by the British, these soldiers were all heading to the Banten Sultanate.
After February 2, Gu Lihuan learned from several Chinese businessmen who had returned from Banten Port that the Dutch troops disembarked and went directly to Langas Betong, more than 70 miles south of Banten Port, and they heard that Troops from the Banten Sultanate were also mobilized there.
After Gu Lihuan inquired and learned that there was no unrest within the Banten Sultanate, with his political sense honed over many years of dealing with the British and various sultanates, his first reaction was that the Dutch were heading for Bacheng.
Last year, under Zhao Xin's instruction, Gu Lihuan obtained the exclusive agency rights for cooling oil and essential oil in Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula from the Bacheng Military Control Commission, and became a first-level general agent. Now anyone in India who wants to buy cooling oil has to go to him. Just fine. Gu Lihuan knew that if something happened to Bacheng, his lucrative general agent business would be ruined, so he hurriedly wrote a letter and asked his confidants to take it to Bacheng.
Since Wang Yuanfang and Deng Fei have not returned yet, the temporary head of the Bacheng Military Control Commission is Elu, the commander of the special operations battalion. After reading the letter, he immediately sent a telegram to the Northern Naval Staff. As a result, as soon as the telegram was sent out in the evening, I received a reply during the night. In the name of the Northern Naval Staff, Zhao Xin ordered him to immediately find Chinese people familiar with the situation in Langas Betong in Ba Cheng as guides and go there for reconnaissance.
Langas Betong is only more than 150 miles away from Batavia. When Batavia was occupied by the Dutch, trade links between the two places were very frequent, and many Chinese businessmen went there. After the Northern Navy occupied Bacheng, the Dutch did not block the flow of people except adding checkpoints at border intersections.
However, when the scouts followed the guide and entered the Tangerang area fifty miles west of Bacheng, they were stopped by soldiers from the Banten Sultanate and were not allowed to go further west. After that, the guide took them along several small roads and found checkpoints set up by the soldiers, so the two had no choice but to return to Bacheng.
By this time, Zhao Xin and the others who had received the telegram had already concluded that Gu Lihuan's information was likely to be true, so Zhao Xin immediately ordered the 5,000 servants who were doing tropical adaptability training at the Cam Ranh Bay base to board Zheng Yi's plane in batches. The fleet heads to Bacheng.
Among the five leaders of the Northern Navy, Liu Sheng and Fan Tong are in Khalkha, Wu Siyu is in Heilongjiang City commanding the "Spring Offensive", Deng Fei's wife has just given birth to a child, and Wang Yuanfang's wife's due date is approaching.
As for the future Governor of Borneo, He Xiwen, Zhao Xin was not at ease; after all, this man had not yet returned to Beihai Town to receive real officer education, and he was still an old-style "pirate" general at heart.
So Zhao Xin decided to go to Bacheng personally and take command, intending to completely eliminate the VOC forces in West Java through this battle. In addition, according to historical estimates from another time and space, the British in the South Asian subcontinent will soon take action on local governance, so they need to make some preparations in advance.
On May 3, after Zhao Xin held a meeting with Deng Fei, Wang Yuanfang, Chen Qingsong, and Yu Deli, everyone agreed to his plan and arrangements.
This time, Zhao Xin no longer played the "Great Movement", but took some personnel of the staff, the Marine Corps Battalion and some of the special operations battalion personnel who had returned from vacation to take the Thunder to Bacheng. After he leaves, Deng Fei will go to Ningguta to command the battle against Jilin Wula, while Wang Yuanfang will stay in Beihai Town to look after his family.
On May 6, after waving goodbye to everyone who came to see her off, the Thunderbolt left Whale Harbor and set off for Java, thousands of miles away. Along the way, telegrams from Bacheng came from time to time, and there were new situations every day.
According to the information received from the Chinese and British merchants who came to Pakistan to trade, the Dutch East India Company spent nearly two years preparing and gathered Banten, Cirebon, Solo, and Japan through coercion and inducement. Part of the army of the five vassal sultanates of Jalan and Manggunikalan, plus the mercenaries recruited by the Dutch themselves from Europe, Africa and India, totaling more than 20,000 people, under the new governor Peter Gerardus von Under the leadership of Overstraten, it is planned to launch an attack on Bacheng from three directions: west, south and east after the rainy season (from October to May of the following year).
The Bacheng Military Control Commission heard about Overstraten's situation last year. It is said that this man succeeded William Arnold Alting as Governor of the Dutch East Indies in early 1792. Although he is only 38 years old this year, he was appointed as a special member of the Batavia Judicial Committee at the age of 25 and was promoted to a full member at the age of 26. He is very shrewd and capable. After staying in Bacheng for 2 years, he was transferred to India and served as the second secretary and first secretary there.
When Beihai Town attacked Bacheng, Overstraten was holding a post in the southeastern region of Java Island, so the defeat of Bacheng had nothing to do with him. In addition, because this person successfully helped the Sultanate of Yogyakarta become independent from the Sultanate of Mataram during his tenure, VOC decided that he would take over the post of governor of Altin.
Zhao Xinding ordered Erlu to hand over the task of defending Bacheng to He Xiwen, who had returned from Borneo, and asked Hui to set up camp to assist. At the same time, Erlu was asked to lead the men of the special operations battalion to the Langas Betong area to wait for an opportunity. The Dutch and indigenous forces carried out raids.
"Since you don't give up, then let's do it hard!"
Zhao Xin looked at the map for a long time and couldn't help but mutter to himself. His appearance made A Miao, who was pouring water behind him, confused. On the bed in the cabin next door, a big orange cat yawned casually and narrowed his eyes.
