After the British fleet arrived in Java, the People's Army, which arrived in Java in advance, launched a counterattack against the indigenous Suka tribe of Java.

Moreover, just two days before the British fleet arrived in Java, the People's Army launched another rescue operation. This time it was to rescue a Chinese village, about 30 kilometers away from the farm. However, the Chinese in this village took the initiative to rescue the People's Army. This operation killed more than 200 natives and rescued more than 1,200 Chinese.

However, after returning to the farm, I interrogated the captured indigenous people during this operation and learned that the indigenous people's operation was to retaliate against the People's Army. Because the first two attacks of the People's Army attacks were very heavy on the nearby indigenous people. The 4 or 5 indigenous tribes in the surrounding areas suffered considerable losses. The indigenous tribes did not dare to come and be provoked to the People's Army, so they had to vent their anger against the local Chinese. Among the indigenous people who were dispatched to attack the People's Army three times, the Suka tribe was involved, so this attack on the Suka tribe was also named "Punishment Operation".

Of course, during the waiting days, the People's Army was not idle and had already begun to prepare for war. First, it sent a drone to take aerial view of the Suka tribe, and then sent scouts to conduct on-site reconnaissance, then drew a combat map, and learned in detail about the situation of the Suka tribe from the local Chinese on the farm and the captured Suka tribe, etc.

The Suka tribe is actually a collection of several villages, with a total population of about 4,000-4,500, distributed among five villages. The largest of them is called Utina Village, with about 400 households, with a population of about 2,000, accounting for about half of the entire tribe's population. The chief of the tribe is Lin Dihan, who is 52 years old this year.

The entire tribe basically has farming as its main means of survival, and there are also a small number of tribes who make a living by hunting or handicrafts. However, because the Javanese farming skills are not high, their living standards are very poor. However, in recent decades, due to the influence of the colonial economy, some economic crops have also begun to be planted, such as coconut, cocoa, sugarcane, etc., which has improved the living standards of the tribe. However, overall, the living standards of the entire tribe are still not high, and they are basically a natural economy dominated by families.

Because the Dutch colonial government has limited control over Javanese society, all tribes in Java have great self-control. Each tribe has its own system, laws, and army, and even fights with each other. As long as it does not affect the rule of the colonial government, it usually turns a blind eye and pretends not to know. Sometimes it even provokes struggles between tribes to facilitate the rule of the colonial government.

However, since the Suka tribe is not large in size, the number of professional troops is not large, with only more than 100 people. However, the entire tribe implements a system of integration of farming and war. All young and middle-aged villagers are both civilians and soldiers, usually farming farmers, and become soldiers when they need to fight. Most of the prisoners captured by the People's Army are like this.

After discussing with Qian Guoyu, Li Lixin believed that the current People's Army was insufficient, and the army formed by local Chinese still could not bear the heavy responsibility, so it was impossible to launch a comprehensive attack on the Suka tribe. Instead, he adopted the tactic of direct attack on the Huanglong, skipped the other villages of the Suka tribe and directly attacked the Utina village. However, the Suka tribe was about 60 kilometers away from the farm, so the entire operation could not be completed within one day. The two decided to set off at noon and arrived near the Suka tribe in the evening to lurk near the Suka tribe to rest. In the early morning, the attack was launched, first with mortars to bombard the village, disrupting the order of the village, and then took advantage of the chaos to enter the village. He neither seized the spoils nor captured prisoners, but fought quickly and quickly to retreat, causing major blows and injuries to the Suka tribe in the shortest time. It would be even better if the chief could be killed.

Of course, such tactics will definitely hurt a large number of elderly, weak and weak women and children. They were hit indiscriminately in the beginning. However, war is war, and accidental injury is inevitable. Now the People's Army is not able to distinguish between elderly, weak and weak women and young people on the battlefield. Moreover, when the indigenous people attacked the Chinese residential areas, they did not let the Chinese elderly, weak and weak women and children go. Most of the people killed by the indigenous people were elderly and young children. Although many women were not killed, they were also affected. Therefore, there was no need for the People's Army to ruthlessly. Of course, what should be done on the battlefield is up to each soldier to decide.

The troops dispatched this time are still a company and a company-affiliated mortar platoon, and an 82-mortar platoon has also been added, with a force of about 200. This time, Li Lixin will be led by the team, while Qian Guoyu stayed at the farm.

In addition to the People's Army, more than 40 people were selected from the farm guards. These people were old people from the original farm guards. They had undergone certain training and learned to use rifles. Therefore, under the training of the People's Army, these people made progress significantly faster than others. Although they still did not meet the standards of the People's Army, they could also be taken out to see the real battlefield. After all, the standards for training them to the People's Army are not achieved in a short period of time. Now, the quick-success method can only be used. The battlefield is of course the best crash course. In fact, the group of people at the beginning of the founding of the People's Army grew up like this. Moreover, this battle was not very difficult, and it was suitable for the first battle of the rookie. In addition, this attack did require the help of some local Chinese.

The captain of the guard team, Zhang Guoping, was also very excited. After the People's Army arrived at the farm, the two attacks were made with fewer opponents and more, and achieved significant results. Zhang Guoping admired the People's Army. However, there was no share in the guard team in these two attempts, so Zhang Guoping was also very depressed. This time he got the opportunity and took the initiative to attack the Sukaluo tribe. So Zhang Guoping also rubbed his fists and prepared to do a big battle on the battlefield.

So on the afternoon of the day when the British fleet arrived in Java, the People's Army set out from the farm and headed towards the Suka Tribe. Since they had to avoid passers-by along the way, most of them walked on small roads. After more than three hours, they arrived in a wooded forest near the Suka Tribe, which was only about 7 or 8 kilometers away from the village of Utina, and they spent the night in this wooded forest.

In fact, the most difficult part of this battle was not about combat, but about resting this night. Because there are many mosquitoes in tropical areas, if there are no protective measures, people will bite them to sleep at all. Moreover, this battle was light-fitting and no tent, so each person brought a piece of felt. Li Lixin and Qian Guoyu were both members of the Marine Corps before, and had a lot of experience in combating tropical jungle. They knew that fighting in tropical jungle was a key subject. Of course, they also brought a lot of anti-mosquito potions when crossing. However, due to the long time, they had basically failed. However, there were still some mosquito repellent lamps to use, and this time they also brought a few.

However, in ancient China, there were always many local medicines to repel mosquitoes, which were actually very effective. The Zhang family also prepared a large number of such mosquito repellent medicines for the People's Army, plus a few mosquito repellent lamps, and then wrapped their whole body with felt, so that they could basically spend the night safely.

At 4 a.m. the next day, all the personnel were woken up. Under a few faint lights, the soldiers sorted out their weapons and equipment, ate a little dry food, and then set out for the Utina village of the Suka tribe.

It was not dawn at this time, and there was no one on the avenue. The scouts had already been dispatched in advance to guide the troops on the road. Therefore, although they were marching in the dark, they did not lose their direction. Moreover, on the way to Utina village, they had to pass through another village of the Suka tribe, but at this time the whole village was sleeping, and the People's Army was moving quickly. Except for the occasional barking of dogs, they did not alarm anyone at all. They passed through the village very smoothly and came to the vicinity of Utina village.

The scouts had already determined the location of the artillery positions, but because the ranges of the 82 mortars and 60 mortars were different, the positions of the two mortar platoons were also different. Moreover, after the artillery was bombarded, the mortar platoons had to be on alert to prevent people from other villages from coming to reinforce.

After all the troops of the People's Army entered the predetermined position, it was around 5:30 am. At this time, the margins of the sky were slightly white, and the scouts also completed the final reconnaissance report. The village of Utina was very calm, and there was no movement of chickens, dogs and other livestock. It seemed that the villagers were still sleeping peacefully at this time.

Li Lixin clicked, raised his signal gun, and fired three red signal flares into the sky. According to the arrangement before the war, the red signal flares represent an attack, three shots represent a shelling, and one shot means a stop to shelling; while yellow means retreat; green means reinforcements from the enemy. According to various signals, each unit has different plans and plans are very detailed.

At this time, both mortar platoons had already been installed, and the firing unit was adjusted according to the distance parameters provided by the scouts. After seeing the signal flares, the 3 82 mortars and 60 mortars of the two mortar platoons opened fire immediately. The shells fell and burst out with huge roars and dazzling sparks. Although it did not illuminate the village as bright as day, it was enough to observe the position of the shells' landing point.

In fact, the first round of artillery bombardment was not high. Only 4 shells fell into the village and only 1 shot hit the house. However, the residents in the village had long been awakened by the explosion of the first round of artillery bombardment, but they didn't know what happened. A few people saw the fire outside, so they got up and opened the door to go out to watch, but most of them had not understood it yet.
Chapter completed!