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Chapter 192 Landing in Java (4)

Zhu Shoushan said to Qian Guoyu: "Sir Qian, Guoping is still young and speaks a little inappropriately. Please take care of it more."

Qian Guoyu smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. In fact, what he said has some truth. Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia have been bullied for hundreds of years. No wonder he hates those natives in his heart."

After hearing this, Zhu Shoushan felt quite moved and said, "Sir Qian said it well. Don't look at the appearance of the master over the years, but in the dark star."

Qian Guoyu said: "Don't worry, the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia will not be bullied in the future. As long as we are here, the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia will not be bullied by others."

Although Zhu Shoushan felt that Qian Guoyu was speaking too loudly, they had just rescued the farm danger, which was something that had never been before, so they didn't say anything.

In the afternoon, Li Lixin led a company's army, medical team, together with Zhang Zhijun and Zhang Zizhang to the farm. Before they set off, the Qingzhou and Yizhou had returned to the wharf and put the captured prisoners on the wharf. Zhang Zhijun and Zhang Zizhang realized that overseas Chinese had fought a battle with the Dutch and sank six Dutch ships, and were also surprised and happy. Now, seeing that overseas Chinese defeated the indigenous army with only 200 troops, we have to admit that overseas Chinese really have a trick.

However, in this way, the Zhang family completely offended the Dutch and the local natives of Java. After all, even if they didn't know that overseas Chinese were attracted by Zhang Zhenxun, the Zhang family provided ports and farms for overseas Chinese. Even a fool could see that the Zhang family had a good relationship with overseas Chinese. Of course, the Dutch colonial authorities did not dare to take Zhang Zhenxun's life, because now Zhang Zhenxun is not an ordinary businessman, but the consul in Qingting to Singapore, a diplomatic official in a country. Although the Qing court had no influence in the international field, it was huge after all, and the Netherlands was not a strong country, so of course they did not dare to easily cause diplomatic trouble. But in the future, it would definitely be suppressed and occupied the Zhang family's industry in Nanyang.

But Zhang Zhijun also knew that this was not a fault for the overseas Chinese. Zhang Zhijun did not know how the battle at sea occurred, but the battle on the farm was indeed carried out by the natives. The overseas Chinese had to rescue the farm, so they naturally could not be lenient. Moreover, they came from China to protect overseas Chinese. This courage and mind was indeed very rare. They seemed to be responsible and more capable than the Qing court. Or they could rely on.

Everyone sat in the main hall in the castle of the farm and began to negotiate the next plan. Qian Guoyu first briefly introduced the battle to everyone. When he learned that there were a large number of wounded people in the farm, Li Lixin immediately ordered the accompanying medical staff to treat them. Zhu Shoushan also arranged several rooms for the medical staff as a temporary field hospital.

Afterwards, everyone continued to discuss, and Zhang Zhijun first said: "It is thanks to the People's Army that the farm can be preserved today. Otherwise, not only will the farm be unsecured, but the more than a thousand people in the farm may not be spared. I really want to thank the two commanders and the brothers of the People's Army."

Li Lixin said: "Mr. Zhang is too rewarding, these are all our business."

Zhang Zhijun said: "My father meant to use this farm as the People's Army's station on Java Island. Since the People's Army has arrived and has the grace of rescuing the farm, I want to hand over the farm all the farm to the People's Army for management. All the people in the farm must obey the orders of the People's Army, and all the materials in the farm will be arranged and used by the People's Army. If there is still something missing, just ask it to me. I will do my best to do my best to do it for the People's Army."

Li Lixin was stunned and said, "This is not great. We just borrow the farm for a while and just need a place to live. How can we take over the entire farm? The farm should just manage your farm."

Zhang Zhijun said: "There is no need to refuse, Chief Li. This time the People's Army is protecting overseas Chinese in Java. How can we just have a place to stay? Although this farm is not a good place, it is still spacious and suitable for the People's Army."

Zhu Shoushan also said: "Yes, the people on and offspring of our farm were rescued by the People's Army, and they are willing to respect the orders of the People's Army."

In fact, Li Lixin also hopes to fully control the farm, so it is easy to arrange and dispatch. However, the farm is the Zhang family's industry after all, and it is temporarily lent to the People's Army for use, so it is not easy to force it. Even though the other party took the initiative to propose it and his attitude was very sincere, he did not refuse.

Zhu Shoushan immediately gathered all the personnel in the farm and those who fled to the farm to take refuge, and announced that from this moment on, the farm will be taken over by the People's Army, and all personnel must obey the orders of the People's Army.

Then Li Lixin also began to arrange the farm's defense. The farm area is very large, with more than 3,000 acres, which is about the size of 300 football fields. The inner city only accounts for more than 100 acres. In front of the inner city, there is an open square of about 200 acres. The ground has been hardened. It turned out to be used as a place to roughly process after planting plants and harvesting. Several large warehouses and livestock sheds were built. The battle just now was mainly concentrated in this square area.

The rest are all planting areas, roads and canals. However, in the planting areas, there are about 10 small houses and small open spaces next to the road. This is set up to facilitate the management of plants nearby. More than 3,000 acres are a very wide area. On the outside of the farm, a wooden wall was built, about 1.5 meters high, and a 3-4-meter diversion canal was dug. One was to divert water into the farm to irrigate, and the other was to prevent wild animals. Java in this era was not fully developed, and medium and large beasts appeared from time to time. Of course, when the indigenous army attacked the farm, some wooden walls were destroyed, but most of them were still good and had certain defense capabilities.

However, the inner city is well built, all with brick structures, with a wall of about 3 meters high and 1.5 meters wide, and can be used as a defensive worker. There are also many houses in the city. Now the People's Army is completely sufficient, but the continued troops will not be enough when they arrive later. In addition, other refugees who will continue to be accommodated, so new residences are needed.

So Li Lixin made arrangements to clean up some rooms in the inner city as a command center, temporary hospital, warehouse and imprisonment room, and sealed the windows of the imprisonment room and strengthened the gate. The prisoners were numbered and managed, because the People's Army would not raise prisoners in vain and they all had to work. The rest of the people living in the inner city remained still, and only the regiment agencies of the People's Army entered the inner city, and the rest were newly built residences outside the city.

The residence area outside the city is located in the square in front of the inner city, divided into two parts, one for soldiers to live in, and the other for possible refugees to be added in the future. The People's Army will carry some tents with you, and the Zhang family has also prepared a large number of tents, which is enough at present. In addition, it can be built with some simple rooms. In fact, Java is located in the tropical area and has high temperatures all year round, so it doesn't matter if you sleep in the open air. However, there are many mosquitoes on the farm. If you sleep in the open air, you will suffer from biting, so you must also have a house.

Overall, there are many plants in the farm, and most of them are tall plants, which can easily hide. However, the number of the People's Army is not large. There are two combat platoons left at the dock, one 60 mortar platoon and one machine gun platoon, and the control ability of the farm is limited. The defense can only be concentrated in the castle and surrounding areas, and only points can be set up for farm areas outside the inner city. It is just right that small houses in various places in the farm can be used as control points, and a small number of troops can be arranged to control an area.

The personnel of the farm, including those who fled to the farm, were organized into men, women, old and young. Of course, there were not many young and young people in the farm. Most of them were young and middle-aged men, so there was no shortage of labor. The elderly, women, and young children were responsible for cooking, boiling water, washing and other matters. The young and middle-aged men were organized and first restored the farm's guards to assist and supplement the People's Army. The escort team was expanded to 200 people and divided into 4 squadrons. Each squadron had another 4 squadrons. The gap was recruited among the existing farm personnel. The main task was to maintain the order of the farm and cooperate with the People's Army when necessary.

In the past, the original personnel of the escort team were scattered into various squads, mainly considering that they had certain combat experience, they tried to try to have the same level of fighting as they had to fight in groups, but after all, they had seen death, which was much stronger than ordinary people, so they could lead new people. The captain of the escort team was still Zhang Guoping, and the squadron leader, squadron leader, and others were also appointed by Zhang Guoping. However, the People's Army sent instructors to guide them in training, and after reaching a certain level of training, they would be given the Type 01 rifle used by the People's Army.

After Zhang Guoping accepted the appointment, he was also very happy because although the Dutch colonial authorities allowed the Zhang family to form a guard team, in order to limit the development of the guard team, the guard team was only allowed to be equipped with a single-shot rifle. The People's Army used continuous rifles, which could be equipped with 6 bullets at a time. This was also something that Zhang Guoping was not convinced, and it is naturally good to be able to use the same weapons as the People's Army now.

The rest of the young and middle-aged men on the farm were divided into 100 people, and were commanded by Zhu Shoushan. They were mainly responsible for building houses, wooden fences, logging wood, digging trenches and fortifications. In this way, everyone performed their own responsibilities, did their own way, did not interfere with each other, and had their own assignments.

When Zhang Zhijun, Zhang Zizhang and others met, they were quite satisfied. Although they gave the dominance of the farm to the People's Army, the People's Army obviously did not take the opportunity to exclude or undermine the Zhang family. Whether it was the guards or other personnel, they were still actually managed and commanded by the Zhang family. This not only reflected respect for the Zhang family, but also indicated that they had no ambitions for the Zhang family's industry.
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