C1175 Belait Hell (1/2)
When Tian Lin and Niu Jincai's carriage rushed into Belait City, they finally knew that this place had become hell on earth. There were terrified and madly running citizens everywhere. The flames from the explosion wreaked havoc in the city, and the battleships on the bay were shooting at them slowly, as if they were methodically slaughtering lambs.
The soldiers of the Russian Army were riding on their boats and slowly approaching the pier. The food boats were concentrated with cannonballs and the smell of burning rice filled the air.
All of Belait's aboriginal monkeys had gone mad. They carried long Pahlian knife in their hands and killed the Chinese as soon as they saw them, and rushed into their shops as soon as they saw them. Women's screams and the sound of windows shattering could be heard everywhere.
The Chinese soldiers began to retaliate. However, the soldiers who normally didn't need to use their guns to scare off the monkeys were met with an unprecedented resistance.
With Russian supporting them from behind, all the indigenous monkeys rushed up as if they had smoked a kilogram of opium. They did not fear death and completely ignored the fire rifle.
A row of monkeys rushed up, killing another group. After one alley was broken up, another one ran up to their deaths.
Tian Lin stomped her feet in anger and scolded loudly, ”Raising you all is trash! This is how you f * cking fight! ”F * ck these monkeys to death …”
”Head storekeeper, it's not that our brothers aren't strong, it's just that there are too many enemies …” All the natives of the Belait had rebelled! There were also enemy cannons in the distance … ”Be careful!”
Guard Captain and two soldiers pounced like tigers on Tian Lin and Niu Jincai and threw them to the ground. Not far away, the Zhang family's rubber shop's third floor was hit by a cannonball.
Tian Lin and the others finally realised that today was the real war, a real war.
Guard Captain shook his head and shook off the broken pieces, ”Take the two big shopkeepers and leave... This place is too dangerous! ”
”NO!” We won't go there... Brothers, we can't go! ” In that moment of danger, Niu Jincai jumped up from the ground, and then with a plop, he kneeled on the stone ground, with hot tears in his eyes.
”Brothers!” Can't Retreat... I beg you to follow me back to the pier, we will go to Letian Bank, Four Seas Trading Company and the Mi family grain store … We can't go, where can we find the Prime Minister's gold, twelve thousand ounces! ”
”Brothers, that's over six thousand taels of gold!” That was the money that saved our lives... ”You can't leave, I beg you, let's fight our way back, I've kowtowed to you!” After saying that, Niu Jincai's head hit the ground, causing blood to splatter everywhere.
Soon after, Tian Lin also knelt down: ”Brothers! Let me tell you the truth! Right now, the Prime Minister is concerned about both internal and external affairs. In Jiangnan and Shanghai, our bank notes are on the verge of collapse and countless small merchants have begun to reject them. They only want the Real Gold and Silver s to trade … ”
”Everyone is not optimistic about us, they all think that we, the Chinese, will lose!” That's why they started to refuse to take the notes. Our business couldn't carry on anymore, and just as the paper money was about to collapse, the Prime Minister ordered all the reclamation areas in the Southern Ocean to collect gold and prepare to transport it to the Ryukyu … ”
”This is life-saving gold! This is the gold that maintains our monetary confidence! We can't throw it to the Russian, we would rather sink into the ocean than let the Russian get lucky! ”
The two shopkeepers used to be like local tyrants in the Borneo, but today, they knelt on the ground and kowtowed as if they were knocking garlic.
All the members of the guard were dumbfounded. They didn't even know about the matters of the upper echelons. Who would have thought that there would be so much gold hidden on the commercial street of the pier?