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"Exactly." Liang Yao replied with his hands behind his back.

"Your army is the most powerful opponent I have ever encountered in the East Indies. I am convinced that I can be defeated by the American army led by you." Anderson said.

Although Andersen had not taken Liang Yao seriously before, at the moment of failed surrender, Andersen chose to admit the enemy's strength.

If the enemy is weak and you lose to a weak enemy, doesn't that mean you are even more incompetent?

Only when they were defeated by a powerful enemy, Andersen, and the Dutch and Indian troops under his command would not appear so miserable.

Liang Yao is the general of the United States, and his army is the army of the United States.

Anderson constantly inculcated this view into him. This was his last comfort and excuse, which could also be said to be a fig leaf.

Previously, Andersen was more willing to compare Liang Yao to the officers and generals of the Qing Dynasty, and more agreed that Liang Yao's army was an army composed of yellow people.

Even Liang Yao's army was actually composed of a majority of Chinese and whites of various ethnic groups.

When he lost Pontianak and fled to Kenda Wangan in a hurry, Andersen did not think that the Dutch and Indian army had been defeated by Liang Yao's army.

It was because of the shameless sneak attack carried out by the other side that the Dutch and Indian troops lost Pontianak without defense.

Until Andersen witnessed with his own eyes the failure of the Dutch-Indian army to attack Pontianak, and after paying huge casualties, they still failed to achieve any results.

Only with hindsight did Andersen realize that the Dutch Indian Army was really no match for Liang Yao's elite division. Liang Yao's army was fundamentally different from the Chinese resistance company's armed forces in West Borneo and the Qing army.

But by the time Andersen understood this, it was already too late.

His army was caught in a dilemma outside Pontianak City until it completely failed and lost the ability to challenge Liang Yao's Western Brigade.

Liang Yao knew that Andersen was trying to give himself and the Dutch Indian Army some credit, but as long as the Dutch Indian Army was willing to surrender, Liang Yao didn't bother to argue with Andersen about these trivial matters.

Since Andersen is a person who wants face, then he should give him some face and let him surrender gracefully.

"General Andersen is also one of the few powerful enemies Liang has encountered in his military career."

As soon as he said this sentence, Liang Yao felt unbearable. He turned away and laughed softly. After he was able to effectively manage his facial expressions, Liang Yao turned his head and spoke to An An very seriously. Tesheng said.

"As long as your army lays down its arms and surrenders, I will ensure the personal safety of the European officers and soldiers in your army."

The East Indies Fleet of the Dutch and Indian authorities can be regarded as a strong enemy. After all, Liang Yao achieved his strategic goal only after paying a huge price in the Java Sea Battle.

The Royal Dutch East India Army was nothing more than scraps, but not a serious enemy.

Since landing on land, Liang Yao's Western Brigade has been operating smoothly.

The casualties caused to him by the Dutch-Indian Army, the Lanfang Army, and the local Sudanese chiefdom were far less severe than the attrition caused by tropical diseases to the Western Brigade.

"We still have many Javanese people in our army," Anderson emphasized.

Liang Yao laughed up to the sky after hearing this, and then sent a soul torture to Antersen: "Is Batavia willing to pay a ransom for the Javanese soldiers?"

The reason why Liang Yao treated European prisoners of war differently from indigenous prisoners of war was because the Dutch and Indian authorities would pay ransoms for European prisoners of war.

He would be able to get the food and shelter of these prisoners of war back at the negotiation table with interest in the future.

As for the indigenous soldiers, who were mainly Javanese, the Dutch and Indian authorities did not care about the life or death of these soldiers.

There is no shortage of people in Sumatra and Java, and it is much more cost-effective to recruit soldiers again than to spend money to ransom these soldiers prisoners of war.

Of course, another deeper reason why Liang Yao treated European prisoners of war differently from indigenous prisoners of war was that he needed a large amount of cheap labor to open up rubber plantations on a large scale after the war.

These strong Javanese soldiers are undoubtedly an excellent source of cheap labor and can contribute to the future banana plantation business in Borneo.

For some well-known reasons, Liang Yao had no good impression of the natives of the East Indies, but rather disliked them.

Anderson was speechless, unable to refute Liang Yao's rhetorical question.

If the number of prisoners captured by the soldiers was not large, the Dutch and Indian authorities might be willing to show off and spend some Dutch guilders to redeem these prisoners of war to win people's hearts.

But the problem is that Liang Yao has at least 3,000 native prisoners of war, mainly Javanese, in his hands. Since the establishment of the Royal Dutch East India Army, this is the first time that such a large number of Dutch and Indian soldiers have been captured.

Even if Liang Yao was kind-hearted and only offered a ransom of 100 guilders to each indigenous prisoner of war, that was still a huge sum of 300,000 guilders.

To recruit a strong Javanese soldier on Java Island, the Dutch and Indian authorities only had to pay 20 Dutch guilders, or even less than 20 Dutch guilders.

Choosing between native soldiers and soldiers of European descent was not a difficult multiple-choice question for Andersen.

As for conscience?

If Andersen was a man of conscience he would not have chosen to leave the Netherlands and serve in the East Indies.

"As long as you provide treatment for the wounded European soldiers and officers of the Dutch Indian Army, and provide us with enough food to satisfy our hunger, I have no objection to how you deal with these soldiers."

After a moment of silence, Anderson said slowly.

Liang Yao nodded and agreed to Andersen's request, which was not too much. After the surrender of Andersen, the new force of the Dutch and Indian authorities on Borneo Island, he no longer had any worries on land and freed up his troops to occupy Dutch Indians. The regime's last colonial stronghold in West Borneo: Kendawangan.

After signing the instrument of surrender, Andersen's Dutch and Indian troops formally surrendered.

Anderson also cooperated very well with Liang Yao's work and ordered his officers to bring European soldiers to surrender in an organized manner to Liang Yao's Western Brigade.

Thanks to Anderson's cooperation, the entire surrender process went very smoothly.

The Dutch and Indian troops handed over their weapons, and after completing the registration, they obediently went to the prisoner of war camp that had been prepared for them.

After the Dutch Indian Army of European origin left as prisoners of war, only the short, thin and dark Javanese soldiers remained in the Dutch Indian Army's barracks.

These Javanese soldiers are cleaning up the corpses in the military camp.

In the future, this place will also be the residence of these Javanese soldiers prisoners of war.

Liang Yao walked into the Dutch Indian Army's barracks. The Javanese soldiers looked at Liang Yao and the guards around Liang Yao in fear, feeling anxious.

During the four-year-long Dutch-Chinese War, the Chinese blood debt on the hands of these Javanese soldiers was no less than that of the Dutch.

Sometimes the slaves who pretended to be powerful were even more evil than their Dutch masters.

"A black slave in the southern slave states can be sold for a good price of more than two thousand dollars. What do you think the price of one of these Javanese soldiers can be sold for?"

Liang Yao pointed at these trembling Javanese soldiers and asked the people on the left and right.

"You want to sell them as slaves to slave states?" Fremont frowned and reminded Liang Yao at the same time.

"No matter how you say it now, you are a prominent figure in the military and political circles. You are openly selling slaves. It has a bad influence on you and California."

Although Fremont was not an ardent abolitionist, he was opposed to the trafficking of these Javanese natives to the United States.

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