The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 732: The Burning of Larut (Part )

"You don't have to rush into the city. This place is not far from the mining area. After finding the Chinese there, we can organize a lot of people." While cleaning the battlefield, Lao Jiu said to the people from the security company.

There were too few people in the security company, and the other party also arranged some people to go to the mining area with them.

There are only about a hundred people left here.

It's too dangerous to go into the city.

"Don't worry, this is what we are best at! Just leave some people for us to lead the way!" said the captain of the security company with a smile.

Compared with those regular troops, what they are best at is fighting street battles in the city.

I didn’t want to go into the city last night because I was unfamiliar with the place and it was pitch black in the city. If I was ambushed, I wouldn’t even know where to run.

"Besides, they probably don't have many weapons left!" The captain of the security company glanced at the rifles piled up nearby.

There were more than 300 of them, all old-style muzzle-loading rifles.

"This thing is similar to a fire stick, but we can organize some young Chinese people and give it to them. It can at least play a role."

After more than half an hour, the battlefield was cleaned up and everyone took a break.

Lao Jiu led a group of people to the mining area, and the security company also sent 50 people to follow them.

"Check the ammunition, how much is left?" the security company captain ordered.

"There are three more boxes and a magazine."

"Three and a half boxes plus a magazine."

"Two and a half boxes... plus two magazines..."

"Four boxes..."

Each member of the security company has a small bag filled with bullets, with 50 rounds in a box.

Each person will carry four magazines when on the move, each magazine containing 25 rounds.

"Those of you who don't have enough bullets can share them with others. We will set off in ten minutes!" The captain of the security company ordered. On average, each person still had about 150 bullets.

Although there are still more than 10,000 natives in the city...but these bullets are enough.

"Lazai, take a team of people and guard the road to the pier. Don't let them get away!"

After assigning another ten people, the captain of the security company led them into the city.

……

Dato Sheth Maher waited in the city until the gunfire outside stopped, then sent someone to check the situation. However, the person he sent came back soon, looking panicked and saying:

"Dato, it's bad... There are a lot of Chinese people outside, and everyone who chased after them was killed!"

"Nonsense, so many people...how is it possible?" Sheth Mach said angrily.

"The people who ran back said..." The thug ran halfway when he met people who ran back. After hearing them talk about the situation outside the city, he immediately ran back in panic.

With a gloomy face, Shet Mach walked back and forth a few steps before asking, "Are you sure?"

"Dato, it's true, I saw Zhan Dan... He couldn't run and fell behind. I saw it with my own eyes..."

Hearing this, Dato Sheth Maher and several natives around him who were dressed in luxurious clothes began to panic.

Zhan Dan is a person with some influence in the city. The guns that were distributed before were distributed through several people.

One of them is Zhan Dan.

"how come?"

"There were at least one or two thousand people chasing after us just now... How could this happen?"

"How many Chinese are there outside? Didn't they say there were only over a hundred people?"

Those who had fled back from Kerian Port said that there were one or two hundred people, but how could one or two hundred people kill so many people?
"Zhandan said... at least five or six hundred people..." the subordinate said in a panic.

"Why are there so many people? Dato', what should we do?" The other richly dressed natives looked at Shet Maher nervously.

They killed so many Chinese people. If the Chinese rushed in, they would definitely not let them go.

"I said we shouldn't attack those Chinese...even if we did, we shouldn't kill so many people..." a luxuriously dressed native complained in panic.

"Now they are coming for revenge, what should we do?"

"They've already killed them, what's the point of panicking now?" Shet Mach's heart was in a mess, he cursed angrily, and then looked around nervously:
Then he looked at the Malays around him and gritted his teeth and said, "Tell them what happened. Say that the Chinese burned down the temple and blasphemed Allah. They must be killed to avenge themselves! Even if they die in battle, Allah will let them enter the eternal garden according to their merits!"

"The higher your merits, the higher level of the garden you can enter!"

"If they are cowards and run away, Allah will punish them by burning them in the flames of Hell!"

Soon, Shet Mach and others began to incite other natives.

When the natives heard that the Chinese had burned down temples and blasphemed Allah, they immediately clamored to inflict the most horrific death and torture on the Chinese!
Many people returned home to get their weapons, bows and arrows, hatchets or machetes, or even pickaxes and hammers.

And this news also reached the British Council.

"Sir, it looks like those natives are going to fight the Chinese to death!"

"This is what they should do!" Hugh Luo was stuffing things into the box.

"Get the army ready, and when they start fighting, escort me out of here!"

More than twenty minutes later, gunshots suddenly rang out in the distance.

A few moments after entering the city, the people from the security company encountered the natives armed with cold weapons.

"It's the Chinese, kill them!"

“Let them bear the punishment of Allah!”

Looking at the natives rushing over, the captain of the security company curled his lips and said, "What are those monkeys shouting?"

"They said..." Just as the henchman left by Lao Jiu was about to help him translate, the captain of the security company waved his arm and said, "Fire!"

He was just saying it casually, who cares what those natives say.

Da da da!
As flames spurted out from the muzzles of the guns, the natives who rushed over fell down one after another.

A young man was squeezed in the crowd, holding a hatchet tightly in his hand, his face was ferocious, and he wanted to kill those who blasphemed Allah.

Even if you die, you will enter the Eternal Garden.

Then gunshots were heard, and the people in front suddenly disappeared. The young man holding the hatchet suddenly stopped.

In front of him were his compatriots bleeding and wailing, and in front of him were hundreds of Chinese people pointing guns at him.

The courage in his heart began to fade, and he was terrified by his compatriots lying on the ground and their cries of pain.

A stream of heat spread along the trouser legs.

Da da da!
The boy suddenly felt a pain in his chest and lost all his strength.

The fight in the streets was quick.

With the help of religion, the natives went from fearless and fearless to being defeated in just ten minutes.

Half of the street was filled with corpses, and the people behind initially shrank back.

"Dad...brother..." A young man with red eyes searched among the corpses on the ground. He just saw his father and brother in front of him...

But where is the person in front now?
The people from the security company were still moving forward, stepping on the corpses.

Da da da!
A few red spots appeared on the young man's body, and then he fell to the ground with a bang.

The remaining natives kept retreating, and then someone shouted and suddenly they ran away in all directions.

The weapons in the hands of those Chinese are not what human beings should possess.

As for the indigenous people of higher status such as Dato' Sheth Maher, they had fled long ago.

"How can the guns shoot so fast? Don't they need to reload bullets?" Chet Mach's face was pale. He didn't even dare to stop and ran out of the city from another direction with some people.

At the same time, Councillor Hugh Lowe was also sitting in a carriage, escorted by a hundred Indian soldiers, leaving the city. Halfway through the journey, they saw the natives running behind them. "Why so fast? Faster, faster!" Hugh Lowe's face turned pale.

The natives dispersed faster than he expected. He thought he could at least hold them off for an hour or two.

Fortunately, as soon as the fighting broke out there, he took his men away, and soon left the city and headed for Krian Port.

The Indian soldiers held their guns tightly and looked around vigilantly. They would immediately point their guns at the slightest sign of trouble.

"He's really coming. Fortunately we are here, otherwise he would have run away!" Lazai, who was hiding on the side of the road, looked at the soldiers and carriages coming from the front, and was immediately delighted, knowing that the person had arrived.

Especially since the soldiers were all Indians, the person on the carriage must be the Resident.

"Pass it on, don't shoot yet, let them pass halfway. Our target is that carriage!" Lazai whispered to others.

When half of the soldiers and the carriage had passed, Lazai aimed his gun at the horse in front of the carriage and pulled the trigger.

As the gunshot was heard, there was a burst of gunfire all around.

Those Indian soldiers were directly mowed down, and the remaining ones were immediately frightened. The enemy's gunfire was so dense that it sounded like there were at least one or two hundred people.

Except for the middle group that was under concentrated fire, the rest of the people turned around and fled with their guns.

Seeing this, Hugh Luo, who was in the carriage, turned pale and his forehead was covered with sweat. He dragged his luggage out of the carriage and wanted to run, but there were gunshots in front and behind, and he had no idea where to run.

After hesitating for a moment, he dragged his box into the woods.

Even if he was escaping for his life, he couldn't bear to leave behind the things in the box, because they were all his assets.

Without these, his life would be no better than death.

However, he didn't run far before someone caught up with him.

Lazai looked at a man in gentleman's suit stumbling in the woods in front of him, reluctant to put down the box in his hand. With a face full of mockery, he fired several shots at his feet.

Xiu Luo immediately ran faster.

But then he felt a pain in his leg and fell out.

"I am British, I am British! You can't kill me, I am British!" Hugh Luo shouted wildly after falling to the ground.

"Don't worry, I won't kill you now!" Lazai walked over and shot him in the right hand. Xiu Luo immediately rolled on the ground, holding his right hand, with fear in his eyes.

"Don't kill me, you can't kill me..."

"If you want to live, follow me! Carrying your suitcase, it looks very valuable!" Lazai said with a smile.

It was a good harvest.

"I have money, I'll give you half... please let me go..." Xiu Luo begged.

"Damn, this is the first time I've heard such a request!" Lazai was stunned.

He had heard of misers before, and this time he really saw one.

Then he sneered: "No wonder you are the council secretary in this godforsaken place!"

Soon, Lazai took Xiu Luo back at gunpoint.

The security company members who entered the city rushed to the residence of the Councillor and found it empty. They captured a few people and asked them about them, only to find out that the Councillor had run away, and the 100 soldiers had also run away.

However, after hearing the direction they escaped, the captain of the security company immediately relaxed.

"I said I was the most strategic!"

"Being a captain is a waste of talent!"

Those Indian soldiers...three or five of them could defeat them, let alone 10 of them.

He then sent people out of the city to search for them, and indeed they encountered the fleeing Indian soldiers. Then Lazai also brought the Councillor Hugh Luo over.

"How to deal with this guy?"

"Break his limbs and throw him in the city!" said the security company captain with a turn of his eyes.

"Didn't you say to hang him?" Lazai asked in surprise.

"Hanging him would be too easy for him..." The captain of the security company walked up to Xiu Luo.

Although Xiu Luo didn't understand what the two were saying, he knew the situation was not good and kept begging: "I am British, please don't kill me..."

The captain of the security company swung the butt of his gun at his head, then pointed the gun at Hugh Luo's limbs and pulled the trigger.

Following several gunshots, Hugh Luo rolled on the ground.

He was only shot in the leg and arm just now and could still walk.

But the captain of the security company directly broke his joints.

"Throw him here...seal off the city and don't let the people in this city escape..." the captain of the security company then ordered.

There are also a few British merchants and Indians in the city, but they are not important.

He didn't intend to let any of them go.

The fire was set by the natives, what does it have to do with them?
……

At the same time, Lao Jiu and his men encountered natives near the mining area, there were thousands of them.

The natives still had dozens of guns in their hands.

After the two sides fought, the natives simply fled.

At this time, many people in the mining area were hiding in the mines.

These people have been hiding in several large mines these days and have barely survived.

Hearing the gunshots outside, many people showed hopeful expressions on their dark faces: "There are gunshots, is someone coming to rescue us?"

"Who will save us?" A young man leaned against the wall, holding a pickaxe tightly in his hand, and spoke weakly.

However, not long after, a Cantonese voice was heard.

"Is anyone here? Is anyone here?"

There was a sudden light of ecstasy in those people's eyes.

Some people went out cautiously to check, and then they saw Lao Jiu.

"Brother Ninth?"

"It's you, it's you... I'm saved... I'm saved..."

Many people were about to shed tears.

The people in other mines were also ecstatic.

"Are you Afa's subordinate? Where is Afa?" Lao Jiu recognized the other person and asked.

"Brother Fa...is dead..."

Lao Jiu sighed and then said:

"To make a long story short, what's the situation here? How many people are there?" After some questioning, Lao Jiu found out that there were more than 10,000 people hiding in this mining area, many of whom came from Larut.

As for the situation in other mining areas, they are not clear.

After Lao Jiu learned that they had not eaten for more than a day, he thought for a while and asked someone to find the food originally stored in the mining area, give them some food, and then send them to the vicinity of Larut.

At the same time, a group of young and strong people were organized to go to other mining areas.

After arriving in Larut, this group of people were organized by the security company to go in and find food, flammable firewood, kerosene, cloth and other things.

　This chapter was a bit difficult to write, the main difficulty being how to finish it.

　　In fact, we try to omit as much as possible to speed up the writing.

　　The result was still a little off.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)