1890 King of Southeast Asia

"How about this, Uncle Chen, you go back and bring all the heads of the families here, quietly, let everyone see our current strength, so that everyone can feel at ease."

In order to stabilize the Chinese and increase their confidence, Liu Yiming prepared a small military parade, or a display of strength. At present, it is still the patriarch system. As long as the heads of the families are not chaotic, the Chinese will not be chaotic.

"I'm ready. Tomorrow, let the heads of the families come together. I will let the troops do a confrontation exercise and pull it out for everyone to see. It will calm everyone's hearts and let everyone know that I can protect you."

"Okay, I'll go back and arrange it." Chen Jiangtao went back to prepare.

Liu Yiming also began to prepare. Now Liu Yiming has 60,000 original Martini Henry bullets, and they are all reloaded bullets for training. Tomorrow, there can be a firepower parade, using reloaded bullets.

In addition, there are artillery, and the shells are precious, so Liu Yiming is not going to fire more, but the explosion is enough to shock people, so he is going to let the Napoleon bronze cannon play more residual heat.

In addition, in order to shock people enough, Liu Yiming prepared to fire a few unscrupulous cannons. Liu Yiming improved the launch device, used wrought iron sheets as the barrel, lengthened it a little, thickened the gun body, and improved the shells. The attack distance was increased to 400 meters. It was not possible to attack farther. Cast iron shells had to be replaced to have sufficient strength.

Liu Yiming made a plan in a few seconds, and called Wang Yang, Xie Tao, and Jiang Ye to give them the schedule and let them prepare.

By the way, Wang Yang and Xie Tao were promoted and are now battalion commanders. Jiang Ye is the battalion commander of the artillery battalion. Now the artillery battalion has more than 600 people, while the three understaffed infantry battalions have only more than 300 people. The current battalions are generally large in number, and the establishment of the battalions will gradually decrease after the automatic firepower increases.

After doing this, Liu Yiming had time to think about the pirate siege. Liu Yiming felt that there was an opportunity here, an opportunity to solve the Dutch in Surabaya.

Liu Yiming began to think about the map.

On the other side, Henry was asking the political officer.

"Why give the artillery to those pirates? What if they fire at us? And why the northern artillery? The new artillery is in the north. Once they turn the guns around, we're done!"

"Don't get excited, Henry. Last year, all the artillery in the northern artillery was replaced with new artillery. It took our artillerymen more than a month to learn how to operate these artillery. Do you think those pirates who don't even know the letters know how to use them?"

"On the contrary, the southern artillery is full of old-fashioned large-caliber muzzle-loading cannons. Those pirates can operate these old-fashioned cannons. It's a threat if they get them!"

Henry calmed down after listening to the political officer.

Last year, the Dutch strengthened their coastal defenses. Perhaps they had a change of heart and sent a lot of new coastal defense guns to the colonies. Before that, the artillery in the colonies was basically muzzle-loading guns. The oldest can be traced back to 1840 and has been used for half a century.

After these guns were delivered to Batavia, Batavia delivered a batch to Surabaya, and then replaced those guns that were twenty years older than Henry.

Now the northern artillery has two 203mm coastal defense guns, six 150mm coastal defense guns, and six 120mm coastal defense guns, of which the 150 and 120 are imported British rapid-fire guns.

"Yes, those pirates may not even know how to fire." Henry chuckled.

On the other side, the pirates quickly began to gather after getting the exact news. Java Island is only a few hundred nautical miles away from Malacca. In addition, there are many islands here, and the Dutch don't care much, so it has become the base camp of many pirates.

By September 10, hundreds of ships of all sizes have gathered here, the big ones can weigh hundreds of tons, and the small ones are the size of fishing boats. There are more than 3,000 scattered pirates in total, and now the pirates are integrating.

The composition of Southeast Asian pirates is complex, with various natives, Chinese, Japanese, and even Europeans. Pirates like to eat, drink, gamble, and the camp also has some simple facilities. The entire pirate camp is abnormally prosperous, and everyone is waiting for the arrival of September 15.

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While Henry was training the militia, Liu Yiming was preparing for the next day's exercise. There were 20,000 reloaded bullets, and flintlock rifles were supplied with unlimited bullets. The shells were more stingy, and one cannon fired three rounds. The Napoleon cannon was unlimited.

In addition, Liu Wanhua gave him a surprise. A cave was found in the Liu family plantation, and a saltpeter mine was found. Now Xu Hui is working on equipment and preparing to mass-produce gunpowder and explosives. Three acids and two alkalis have been ignited, and logistics can guarantee the production of explosive packs.

The next day, early in the morning, Chen Jiangtao brought the heads of each household to the camp. Liu Yiming thought that if he drove a sheep, he would also release a group of sheep, so he took the production base and the second and third generations of each household together. In the end, there were hundreds of spectators.

Because the explosive packs made too much noise, Liu Yiming took the group to the old place of the Hassan tribe.

This place is far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, with a beautiful environment and little wind, which has little effect on the accuracy of the explosive packs. This time Liu Yiming is going to throw three explosive packs, but one of them is a 20-kilogram explosive pack.

The strong vitality of the rainforest is perfectly reflected here. It used to be a human settlement, but now it is a low forest.

"Let's start!" Liu Yiming stood in front of everyone.

The first to start was the Martini formation, with one hundred people attacking in a scattered manner, firing alternately, facing one hundred targets. After half an hour of shooting, many targets were already full of bullet holes, and then the artillery began to speak, two 2, two 37 fell successively, and dozens of targets were torn to pieces.

After the targets were replaced, the flintlocks began to move out, and the flintlock smoothbore rifles advanced in a queue shooting manner. In fact, they had not practiced the attack of flintlocks, and Liu Yiming only used flintlocks for defense.

The caliber of flintlocks was large and they were close. In half an hour, without the artillery shooting, most of the targets had been torn to pieces, but they had to stop. Continuous shooting, overheating of the barrel, and pouring gunpowder into it might spontaneously ignite.

After changing the target, Liu Yiming treated it as a military exercise. Three Napoleon bronze cannons began to roar. Liu Yiming only had two types of shells, one was a spherical solid shell, and the other was a bullet-shaped shell, which was filled with explosives, but there was no fuse. It relied on the flame when the gunpowder was pushed to ignite the fuse, so the reliability was low, but it was better than nothing.

Seeing the excitement of the audience beside him, Liu Yiming struck while the iron was hot and asked the conscienceless cannon to come forward. This was an improved conscienceless cannon. The barrel was specially rolled with wrought iron sheets and then reinforced. It could throw the shells 400 meters away, and the 20-kilogram cannon could throw 300 meters away.

Everything was ready. The first 10-kilogram cannon fired. With a bang, all the targets that were concentrated on visiting flew into the sky. The air wave rolled up a cloud of dust. When the dust settled, a large pit with a depth of several tens of centimeters and a radius of several meters was left on the ground. Picric acid was slowly burning nearby.

Everyone around was frightened by the power, and the audience was quiet for a while.

Chen Jiangtao was the first to react. He was so excited that he couldn't speak, but he was crying!

Then the older people either danced or muttered to themselves. Liu Yiming was afraid that these people were crazy, so he hurried forward.

"Everyone, stop, everyone, stop!" He held a big loudspeaker and kept shouting, but no one paid attention to him...

Liu Yiming had no choice but to return to the firing position.

"Second round, ready, ignite!"

Boom~ Another sound, it was this sound that brought the people in the audience back to their souls. Liu Yiming immediately said: "Everyone, don't be excited, don't be excited. What we took out today are all mass-produced. Just this shell can produce dozens of them every day, so don't be afraid, don't be excited, we can protect you!"

"Now, it is the most powerful weapon test today, and it is also the first test."

Liu Yiming placed 200 targets. This time, there was no dense visit, but it was arranged according to the current standard British and French military skirmish line, but from a modern perspective, it was too dense, and it was like this before the machine gun era.

"Ready, ignite!"

"Bang!"

First there was a muffled sound, and the explosive pack was thrown out, slowly drawing an arc in the sky and falling to the ground.

Seeing that it did not explode when it landed, the people in the audience did not know what was going on and were talking about it.

Boom~~

A violent sound came. The air flow rose, forming a small mushroom-shaped dust.

The land was shaking, and people's hearts were shaking even more.

After the dust settled, dozens of targets near the impact point had disappeared, and targets further away were also torn apart, leaving a large pit with a radius of more than ten meters on the ground. Picric acid ignited the land dozens of meters away. The soil layer here was very thin, only a few dozen centimeters shallow, and the ten kilograms of explosives just now fell directly on the stone.

Even though they were mentally prepared, a group of spectators still couldn't hold back, and tears and snot flowed one by one.

Liu Yiming looked at them, feeling a little choked up. A group of people, young in their thirties and old in their fifties and sixties, had experienced even two indigenous riots. No one was willing to help them, no one gave them a hand, and they were not even allowed to protect themselves. It had always been like this. The current colonizers, future colonizers, and puppets were oppressing and slaughtering them.

"Everyone, soon, we will take over Surabaya and establish a country that belongs to us. In our country, no one can bully us, no one can oppress us, no one can rush into your family, rob your money, insult your daughter, and kill your parents. These things have become history."

Liu Yiming paused.

"This is the settlement of the Hassan tribe. More than a month ago, more than 12,000 people gathered here to attack Surabaya, rob and massacre!"

"Now, all these 12,000 people are in this valley. The most vigorous forest is their burial place."