November 26, 1917, AD 2758, Lampung Port, Sumatra Island.
Lampung Port, also known as "Banda Lampung" or "Tanjong Kalam", is located at the southern end of Sumatra Island, facing the Indian Ocean to the west, the Java Sea to the east, and facing Java Island across the Sunda Strait to the southeast.
On the afternoon of November 24, the military boots of the People's Liberation Army set foot on this city.
In this era, there was not much development here, the size of this port city was not large, the entire city had less than 3,000 people, and the Dutch only had one company of troops stationed here.
When the People's Liberation Army landed, the heavy cruiser Changbai only fired a few shots at the shore with its 210mm main gun, and the Dutch hung up the white flag and surrendered.
The original Lampung Port City Hall Building is now the headquarters of the 2nd Regiment of the 121st Division.
The original city hall has now been turned into a command center, which is filled with radio stations, telephones and various communication equipment, as well as high-end equipment such as military computers.
Various antennas have been set up in the yard and on the roof of the building.
At this time, it was a busy place.
The staff officers and communications sergeants of the regiment were processing the information gathered from all parties and responding in a timely manner.
"The 105mm grenade only has 5 base numbers, which is not enough at all.
At least 15 base numbers are needed.
Otherwise we will not be able to take the next step."
"Hurry up and unload the cargo at the port.
Yes, it's the 1006 fleet.
Hurry up.
You have to move quickly.
The 1102 fleet will arrive at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
Free up the dock as soon as possible.
I don't know if the port equipment is insufficient.
We will send a company to help. " "The engineering company is short of manpower.
Please recruit local citizens to assist.
Whether they are Chinese or Dutch, they were recruited first.
Now it is military control."
"I am the regiment headquarters.
Please make it clear to the third battalion that the road to the Lampung settlement has been cleared.
Congratulations, I will report to the chief immediately."
"When will the civil affairs officials of the new management committee come to our place?
They are very busy.
Tell them to hurry up."
"Armed police, what do we need armed police for?
We can't spare any armed police for the time being.
We only have hyenas and vultures.
Okay, so can hyenas and vultures.
Send them over quickly."
The entire hall was filled with the beeping of telegraphs, the chatter of radio and telephone calls, and the voices of arguments, making it as lively as a market.
In the middle of the city hall is a large-scale local sand table.
Several newly assigned young staff officers are busy around the sand table.
They compare the latest information in their hands and insert various signs on the sand table. and various small flags.
Colonel Hong Shilou, the regiment leader, was also standing next to the sand table.
While comparing the information in his hands, he patiently gave guidance to these rookies who had just finished their company work this year and were working at the regiment headquarters.
In fact, Colonel Hong Shilou is only 31 years old this year, not much older than these newcomers.
But his qualifications are very old, and he is quite famous in the army, especially the army.
Hong Shilou, named Dai Zhen, was a native of Yilong County, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, and was born into a tenant farmer family.
When I was young, I attended a private school owned by a local landlord, and also took part in the county and government examinations.
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However, when I was about to take the college examination, the Imperial Examination was canceled in the Qing Dynasty, so Hong became a Spartan.
Later, he studied in Nanchong County Higher Primary School and Shunqing Prefecture, now Nanchong City Middle School.
In October 1906, the Xingke Group recruited students from the whole society, so Hong was admitted to the Southwest Military University, the predecessor of the Xingke Security School.
He was considered to be the first batch of direct officers of the indigenous people of this time and space.
During his internship, he participated in many battles in Sichuan, Yunnan-Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi, etc., and performed extremely well.
And he performed an astonishing feat in the Guangdong-Guangxi campaign.
When all the official officers of the company were casualties and the company headquarters lost the ability to command, he stepped forward and led the remaining platoons of soldiers to seize three levels a day and eight at night.
Zhai, penetrated the Qing court's new army's defense line in one breath, and captured more than 800 outstanding figures of the new army.
Even Wen Desi exclaimed a miracle when he found out about it.
Because of his outstanding performance, he was directly awarded the rank of lieutenant upon graduation and directly served as acting company commander.
Within 4 months, he was promoted to captain and became the official company commander.
Then he participated in the Suwanlu Battle and made great contributions in the battle to capture Hanzhuang.
After the Beiyang government surrendered, it participated in the liberation of Northeast China.
It can be said that it fought throughout the war of liberation.
During the Sino-Japanese Guichou War, he participated in the battle to liberate Taiwan and made many military exploits.
After the Sino-Japanese War, he was selected to attend the National Defense University to study for intermediate officer courses.
After graduation in June 1914, he was awarded the rank of major and was subsequently sent to the European battlefield as a military observer.
He stayed in Germany for more than half a year and stayed in France for more than half a year.
After fully understanding the military situation in Europe, he returned to China as a battalion commander in April last year.
At the beginning of this year, under the special cultivation of Wen Desi and the strong recommendation of his old superior Cai E, he was given the temporary epaulets of colonel with the official rank of lieutenant colonel, and served as the deputy commander of the 2nd Regiment of the 121 Division and the acting commander.
Such a painful official title setting is obviously to promote him.
It is estimated that after this war, the two "agent" and "temporary" can be erased.
At this time, a communications sergeant came over and reported: "Regiment Commander, report from the Third Battalion.
They have opened up the Lampung settlement and successfully joined forces with the armed self-police team in the settlement.
At present, the passage between the port and the settlement has been cleared.
"There are no gangsters within five kilometers around.
They have set up warning areas and early warning points on both sides of the road.
The armed self-police team in the settlement has drawn up two main battalions to cooperate with our army and is currently on the way."
"Okay, the third battalion did a great job."
Hong Shilou said happily: "With the help of the local Chinese, it will be much easier for us.
When they arrive, let them take over the security and part of the city defense, so that we can free up our hands.
Plan for the next step” At this time, a staff officer ran in from outside the door and reported to him: "Report to the commander of the regiment, Li Zongren, commander of the 11th company, reported that they received a request for help from a Dutchman.
The Dutchman asked us to rescue one of their men outside the city. manor" "Why is the Dutch asking us for help?"
Hong Shilou was stunned for a moment, then rolled his eyes and said, "Okay, bring that Dutchman over and let's ask about the situation."
After a while, the staff officer came back with Li Zongren, the commander of the 11th company, and a young Dutch boy.
The original mayor's office has now naturally become the head of Hongshilou's office.
Hong Shilou now asked an interpreter to receive the Dutch boy, so he pulled Li Zongren over and asked: "De Lin, please tell me what's going on first."
"Hey, Captain, when we were on duty at the city gate just now, this man rushed over from outside the city.
He refused to listen to orders to stop.
He was almost killed by one of my men."
Li Zongren began to speak: "After we subdued him, this guy actually begged us to save his mother and sister with snot and tears."
"According to him, they are now trapped in the Gotabumi Manor in the north.
There are still more than 400 people.
The indigenous bandits have been beaten several times but they have not been able to capture them, but they are now almost out of ammunition and food.
There are also Many adult men were injured in very critical condition."
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Hong Shilou said with some curiosity: "Oh, so they are trapped, why would he come to us for help?
Aren't they awesome?"
After years of persistent image management, the People's Liberation Army has now become a true image of a soldier in the minds of the Chinese people.
If it were in China today, it would definitely be correct to "go to the People's Liberation Army when you have difficulties", but that is only in China.
Although Commander Hong is deeply proud of the image of his army, he is not arrogant enough to think that people all over the world trust the People's Liberation Army as much as the Chinese people.
What's more, those Dutch people who usually think they are cool and noble.
"I heard he said there were too many gangsters and the Dutch army couldn't control them at all.
They asked Lampung Port for help many times, but the mayor here said they couldn't spare anyone and asked them to continue."
Li Zongren curled his lips with a look of disdain.
He said: "I guess I can't hold on any longer now, so I can only count on us."
"Haha, it seems that he was ill and sought medical treatment."
Hong Shilou smiled and shouted to the translator: "Xiao Wang, let that kid come over and I'll ask him."
The translator named Xiao Wang was not from the army.
He was a special agent officer temporarily recruited from the Shanghai International Studies University.
He was assigned the rank of temporary second lieutenant and was sent to the regiment as a translator.
There is no way.
Not many people in the army understand a small language like Dutch, so they can only be recruited temporarily from the civilian population.
He brought the Dutch boy over and introduced him in Dutch: "This is our regiment leader, Colonel Hong."
The Dutch boy was about fifteen or sixteen years old, almost an expired young lady.
He looked pretty good, but he looked very embarrassed.
There was dirt and mud everywhere on his face and clothes.
There was a bruise on his leg.
One of his shoes was missing.
There were a few tears in his clothes, probably from branches.
Scratched by rocks and the like.
But he shouted in Mandarin Chinese: "Mr.
Colonel, my name is Edwin, are you the Master Wang mentioned on the radio?
The Nanyang Voice Radio said you are the righteous Master Wang, is that true?"
Although this Chinese is not proficient, it is strange The accent was weird, but at least it was easy for the Chinese people present to understand.
Damn it, they actually gave us a top hat first.
Nanyang Voice is a radio station whose main audience is Chinese in Southeast Asia.
Of course, from a Chinese perspective, it is not wrong to say that the People's Liberation Army is the "King of Justice."
However, a Dutchman said this, which still made Hong Shilou embarrassed.
Then he asked solemnly in as kind a tone as possible: "Well, that's right, our Chinese People's Liberation Army is indeed the King of Justice."
Edwin quickly stepped forward and said excitedly: "Mr.
Colonel, please send someone to help us.
The indigenous thugs have surrounded us for more than two weeks."
Hong Shilou thought for a while and asked a series of questions: "Well, tell me about the situation over there.
How many gangsters are there and what weapons do you have?
How many of you are there?
What's the situation now?
How did you escape?
of" Edwin immediately began to speak in Mandarin stumblingly.
If something was unclear in Chinese, he would express it in Dutch, while Translator Wang was translating.
About half an hour later, Hong Shilou finally had a general understanding of the situation there.
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Then, he begged with tears in his eyes: "Mr.
Lieutenant Colonel, please help us.
Many people have died, and many others are injured.
There is no medicine, and they are dying.
Wow, oh, oh, you are the righteous king." ah" "Uh, okay, we will organize a rescue as soon as possible."
Hong Shilou looked down and said seriously: "Mr.
Edwin, we already know your request.
Now please go and take a rest.
We will also Xiao Wang needs to be reported to his superiors.
You should take him down to rest and freshen up, and then ask the food team to get him some food. " "Edwin, you must be hungry, please come with me," Xiao Wang said with a smile.
"Oh!"
Edwin originally wanted to say a few more words, but his stomach growled unsatisfactorily.
Only then did he remember that he had lost food while hiding from the mob and had not eaten for more than a day.
I didn't feel it because I was nervous just now, but now that someone mentioned it, I suddenly felt hungry and thirsty, so I followed Xiao Wang obediently.
Hong Shilou immediately ordered the communications team to report the situation to the division headquarters, and then said to a staff officer next to him: "Lieutenant Li from the naval liaison team is here quickly."
After a while, Lieutenant Li came over.
He gave a military salute to Hong Shilou: "Comrade Colonel, are you looking for me?"
"Yes, Comrade Lieutenant.
I need your navy's help with something, please come here."
Hong Shilou walked to the sand table, pointed to a location to the north of Lampung Port and said, "Here, there is a place called Gotabumi Manor.
We just received a request for help from the Dutch settlement here.
It is said that this place is besieged by indigenous thugs and the situation is very critical.
I now need the navy to send a reconnaissance plane to conduct on-the-spot reconnaissance here to find out the situation."
Lieutenant Li looked at the sand table carefully, then took out a booklet and flipped through it: "Gotabumi Manor is about 50 kilometers northwest of Lampung Port.
It has a permanent population of about 300 people and its main industry is rubber and pepper cultivation."
Then he said: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I will contact my superiors immediately and ask them to send reconnaissance aircraft.
However, the data and projects required by the Army are somewhat different from those of our Navy.
Our pilots are not very familiar with the Army's reconnaissance projects, so you need to send a reconnaissance aircraft." scout" "No problem."
Hong Shilou immediately found an intelligence staff officer from the hall: "Okay, it's you, Staff Officer Wang.
You go to the Navy immediately and follow the Navy reconnaissance plane to investigate the local situation."
Although the Army also has Army Aviation, it has not yet been deployed to the regimental level.
Besides, the planes and pilots of the Army Airlines are still wandering at sea.
Even if the superiors release the planes to their group, it will be a few days later.
The Army currently does not have reconnaissance aircraft, but the Navy does.
A living person can choke to death with urine.
The relationship between China's Army and Navy is relatively good.
Japan's weird Army-Navy relationship cannot be found anywhere else in the world. .
After a while, Lieutenant Li from the naval liaison team came over again: "Comrade Colonel, our light cruiser Yalu River is preparing a water reconnaissance aircraft and can take off in ten minutes."
The ships that cooperated with the 2nd Regiment of the 121st Division for long-term operations this time were the heavy cruiser Changbai, the light cruiser Yalujiang and two Zhuhai-class destroyers.
They were originally prepared to provide shore bombardment support, but the Dutch army here did not give them this opportunity.
Now the officers and soldiers of these ships are busy with their work
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