Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

As Li Yuchang agreed to Daxia's request, Lin Yi also passed the news to Xue Dingshan.

Because before that, when the empire occupied the Strait of Malacca, it had already occupied the Malay Peninsula. Therefore, it is easy for Li Yuchang to meet Xue Dingshan. After all, the Malay Peninsula is now also under the control of the empire.

After meeting Li Yuchang, Xue Dingshan announced the empire's decision and told him that the empire would land on Kalimantan in the near future. If Li Yuchang was willing, he could organize a group of soldiers to follow the imperial army.

Of course, if Li Yuchang cannot organize enough manpower, the empire will not force it.

Anyway, in Xue Dingshan's view, all the empire needed was Li Yuchang's name. However, if Li Yuchang could muster enough manpower, the empire could also provide weapons.

Moreover, Xue Dingshan can also make the decision for this batch of weapons without charging Li Yuchang any fees. This can be regarded as the empire's support for Lan Fangguo.

When Li Yuchang heard Xue Dingshan's words, he immediately expressed his gratitude, and then returned to Kuala Lumpur to recruit 2000 restoration troops, and handed them over to his second son, Li Chengxia, to lead them.

When Xue Dingshan heard that Li Yuchang had recruited 2000 people, he sent an order to Fan Shaozeng, the commander of the Dongchuan Army stationed in Jakarta, asking him to promise some equipment to Li Yuchang. The firepower configuration should be based on the empire's local garrison configuration.

Regarding Xue Dingshan's order, Fan Shaozeng did not delay and had weapons and equipment delivered to Li Yuchang that night.

At the end of July 1913, Li Chengha led his Nationalist Army northward to Chumphon, Siam, and trained with the 7rd Division of the Yongxiang Army stationed there. Then the follow-up actions also let them follow the third division.

At the same time, Xue Dingshan also told the commander of the Third Division, Mo Shoucheng, that Li Chengxia's Restoration Army was a card for the empire. If the empire wants to quickly open up the situation in the Kingdom of Sumatra, it must play this card well.

Therefore, Li Chengxia must ensure his life safety.

Mo Shoucheng has been following Lin Yi for more than ten years. He didn't understand anything at the beginning, but after so many years, he is now considered a veteran.

Naturally, he understands what Li Chengxia means to the empire.

Therefore, Mo Shoucheng specially arranged a security company for Li Chengxia and asked them to be responsible for Li Chengxia's safety.

After arranging these things, the time soon came to the end of August, and the time for the empire's planned login was getting closer and closer.

On September 1913, 9, under the cover of the special fleet, the 2rd Division of the Longxiang Army, as the vanguard, first arrived in the waters off Pontianak in the northwest of Kalimantan Island.

There are currently very few troops stationed on the entire island of Kalimantan. Except for the two battalions of the Dutch infantry battalion, which only has about 800 people, there are only [-] local colonial troops.

The reason why there are only two battalions of infantry on an island as big as Kalimantan is actually very simple.

Because the Dutch mainland is now too busy to take care of itself and is facing huge pressure from the Hans Empire, it is very difficult to leave regular Dutch infantry in Sumatra.

If it weren't for the fact that Sumatra was an important Dutch colony, there wouldn't necessarily be a garrison here.

But even so, the equipment of these two infantry battalions was pitifully poor. Not to mention the [-] local soldiers.

They had almost no heavy firepower other than a rifle.

Therefore, when the special fleet arrived in the Pontianak waters, there was almost no resistance, and the third division successfully landed on the island of Kalimantan.

However, if we have to say what difficulties the Third Division encountered when landing, it may be that the port in the Pontianak area is too small to dock large ships. They can only use small transport ships, two or two, to go to the shore. Transport soldiers.

As for the soldiers stationed in Pontianak, they ran away as soon as they saw the fleet.

I didn't dare to resist at all.

In their own words, they only have a few dollars a month, do they need to work so hard?

Therefore, the Third Division encountered almost no obstacles when it landed. The only trouble was the landing site.

However, Mo Shoucheng kept this matter in mind. He felt that he needed to mention this in the battle report and let the people at the Ship Research Institute consider whether to design a professional landing ship.

After all, it is quite inconvenient to land on the current transport ship.

It took two days for the entire Third Division, together with the weapons and equipment of the Third Division, to be moved to land.

After that, it was time for Li Chengha's National Restoration Army to start performing.

As soon as Li Chengha's Lanfang Kingdom Restoration Army landed ashore, they took out the flag of Lanfang Kingdom.

Since Pontianak used to be the old land of Lan Fang Country, and Lan Fang Country was pretty good to their people before, the older generation still remember Lan Fang Country.

Therefore, when Li Chengxia raised the flag of Lanfang Kingdom, the attitude of the local people towards Li Chengxia immediately changed.

When Li Chengxia came, he was told by Li Yuchang that if he wanted to establish a foothold on the island of Kalimantan, he could only use the name of Lan Fangguo. After all, this was one of the reasons why Daxia valued him. one.

Therefore, Li Chengxia purchased a lot of grain and other materials in Jakarta. As soon as he landed, he began to ask the soldiers to distribute food to the people who came to watch the excitement.

As soon as they saw those people carrying the flag of Lan Fang Country distributing food to everyone, these people instantly remembered the goodness of Lan Fang Country.

Li Chengxia took the opportunity to start promoting the restoration of Lanfang Kingdom, and told them that they were all the old people of Lanfang Kingdom. Now that the country was restored, they were still the people of Lanfang Kingdom.

Some elderly people, when they heard that Lanfang was restored to the country, expressed their support.

And Li Chengxia also took the opportunity to tell them that although he now has Daxia's support, Lanfang Kingdom also needs its own soldiers. He hopes that everyone can support him and jointly defend Lanfang Kingdom.

With Li Chengxia's guarantee that each soldier could receive five imperial silver dollars as settlement allowance, it took less than ten days to recruit 2 people.

This matter was also reported to the Imperial Military Headquarters.

The meaning of the military department is that no matter how effective these people are in combat, at least their reputation needs to be established first.

Therefore, Xue Dingshan was ordered to arm these restoration troops according to the standards of the imperial local garrison. Xue Dingshan naturally had no objection, and soon a large number of transport ships arrived in the Pontianak area.

Under Mo Shoucheng's arrangement, these Restoration Army soldiers only underwent simple training and were allowed to act with the Third Division.

Their mission was to clear out the Dutch soldiers and local garrisons on the island of Kalimantan, and to control the entire island of Kalimantan in the hands of the empire.

Li Chengxia also expressed no objection to Mo Shoucheng's order.

He knew very well that his task was to follow the Third Division. Anyway, the Third Division would naturally be responsible for fighting.