Katsuka Tsukamoto had already ordered the division officers to find a large house in Sota Town as the division command center.

At around 10 o'clock in the afternoon, Major General Saburo Sakata, Chief of Staff of the Division, Hiroyo Watanabe, Captain of the 35th Regiment, Captain of the 36th Regiment, and Captain of the 19th Regiment, Kitaro and others all followed Katsuka Tsukamoto and entered the division command post to hold a military meeting.

The Japanese commanders had been discussing for a long time and were at a loss as to how to encircle and suppress the Indonesian xenophobic army in the future.

Because according to the original idea, each of the four infantry corpses of the 9th Division had the strength to destroy the informal army composed of peasants such as the Indonesian xenophobic army.

However, the Indonesian xenophobic army wiped out a Japanese corps in a short period of time.

It can be seen from this that the strength of the Indonesian xenophobic army is not below the 9th Division of the Japanese army. With the remaining 24,000 troops of the 9th Division, it is impossible to pose a threat to the Indonesian xenophobic army that is familiar with the terrain.

Moreover, the 9th Division now has to divide its troops to occupy the townships near Pontianak, consolidate the occupied territory, and wait for people to be sent to take over in the country. In this way, the troops are too short and very nervous.

As the cavalry corps leader Kobayashi Asoro came in to report: "Secretary Commander, Hu Yi has set up a warning area outside Sota Town according to your order."

"Kun Kobayashi, your cavalry has come into contact with the Indonesian xenophobic army. What do you think of the combat effectiveness of the Indonesian xenophobic army? Now they are fleeing in two groups. Do we have the chance to wipe them out separately?" asked Katsuka Suruo Tsukamoto.

Kobayashi Asoro said carefully: "His division commander, the Indonesian xenophobic army is not only determined and brave in combat, but also the traps they designed along the way are very vicious. It can be seen that the Indonesian xenophobic army is very cunning and good at fighting. If we accidentally deal with it, we may capsize in the gutter like the Seventh Regiment."

After a pause, seeing that Katsuka Tsukamoto did not reprimand, Kobayashi Sengoro continued: "Secretary Commander, Huyi believes that the destruction of the Seventh Regiment is the result of our lack of understanding of the enemy's situation and being arrogant. Now it seems that the enemy's strength is not inferior to our army, and with our current military strength, we have no ability to wipe them out."

"Yes," Chief of Staff Major General Saburo Sakata nodded and said in agreement: "The strength of Indonesia's xenophobic army is indeed great. It makes sense that they can make trouble in the whole of Indonesia. We underestimate them too much."

Katsuka Tsukamoto's face was gloomy, and sighed, and said dejectedly: "Since that's the case, I can only generate electricity and return to the country, so that His Majesty the Emperor will decide whether to increase troops again. Alas, the entire regiment was destroyed, and we didn't even have time to rescue him. Even if we didn't even touch the shadow of the main force of the enemy, we let the enemy escape. It's really incompetent."

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Soon, the Japanese Meiji Emperor, Prime Minister Kaedaro and others all learned that the Japanese army's first battle was very unsatisfactory.

According to the telegram sent back to Japan by the Ninth Division, after the Seventh Regiment of the Ninth Division arrived in Pontianak, the commander of the regiment Colonel Saburo Kimura was eager to avenge the expatriates. Without waiting for the follow-up troops to follow, he went deeper and attacked the Indonesian xenophobic army in Sota Town.

However, due to the unfamiliar terrain and the serious lack of estimation of the strength of the Indonesian xenophobic army, more than 3,800 people in the Seventh Regiment were surrounded by the Indonesian xenophobic army, which was ten times more than itself.

Although the Japanese officers and soldiers of the Seventh Regiment were deeply encircled, they carried forward the spirit of fighting bravely and fought to the death with more than 30,000 Indonesian xenophobic troops. After a fierce battle, the Seventh Regiment was wiped out, and the commander of the Seventh Regiment was killed, and no one in the entire regiment surrendered.

In this battle, the Seventh Regiment wiped out more than 13,000 Indonesian xenophobic troops, and even though they were defeated, they were still honored.

The commander of the 9th Division, Katsuka Tsukamoto, the chief of the division staff, Saburo Sakata and other division commanders requested punishment for despising the enemy and ineffective rescue, resulting in the elimination of the Seventh Regiment.

In addition, the Japanese cavalry corps found that there were at least 40,000 elite Indonesian xenophobic troops hiding in the mountains, ready to trouble the 9th Division that opened its territory at any time.

In view of this, the 9th Division Command believed that the strength of only one division was sufficient to maintain its strength and lack of progress. In order to consolidate its existing territory and eliminate Indonesian xenophobic army, commanders such as Tsukamoto Katsuka asked at least two more divisions in China to send.

Finally, commanders such as Katsuka Tsukamoto claimed that they had occupied the most fertile land in Borneo and hoped that the country would quickly organize personnel to come and cultivate so that Japanese citizens could eat white rice from the new colonies as soon as possible.

At 9 a.m. on December 17, 1908, Emperor Meiji convened Prime Minister Kaitaro, Ito Hirofumi, and Yama Prefecture Aritomo to hold a meeting of important officials in the Japanese Palace.

Since everyone had long reached an unanimous agreement to send troops to capture Borneo, the meeting mainly discussed the issue of which divisions to continue to be sent to Borneo to open territory.

Of course, everyone was also talking about whether the Japanese army's combat effectiveness was weakened.

The telegram from the 9th Division was a bit tactful, but everyone knew that the Japanese army was defeated as soon as they arrived in Borneo. Although the Japanese army obtained a large area of ​​fertile land as they wished, it would be necessary to annex the territory of Indonesia's xenophobic army.

After some discussion, the top Japanese leadership decided to send the 17th Division, which was originally ready to go, and also send an elite 3rd Division to Pontianak, Borneo, to work with the 9th Division to attack Indonesia's xenophobia.

After the news of the Japanese army's massive increase in troops was released, most powerful countries learned that the Japanese army suffered a great loss in Borneo, and were gloatingly waiting to continue watching Japan's jokes.

However, diplomats in the Republic of Lanfang, Borneo made a tough speech, proposing that Borneo was the territory of the Republic of Lanfang and Indonesians, and the Japanese army only sent troops to protect the overseas Chinese.

Now, the Japanese army has achieved its goal of protecting overseas Chinese. Therefore, the Lanfang Republic firmly disagrees with the Japanese army's increase in troops to Borneo.

If the Japanese army insisted on their own and continued to increase their troops in Borneo, the Lanfang Republic Army would never sit idly by and watch the Japanese army seize territory in Borneo.

At the same time, the Lanfang Republic announced that it would immediately send a large army of more than 70,000 people to gather and stand by to Pontianak, ready to fight the Japanese army of the invaders at any time.

The tough measures of the Lanfang Republic surprised all countries around the world.

Soon, under the secret operation of the People's Liberation Army Intelligence Department, many newspapers from all over the world published articles to support the Lanfang Republic, believing that the Lanfang Republic's actions were to safeguard their own territorial security and a just act.

After the Japanese government achieved its goal of sending troops to protect overseas Chinese, it also launched a large increase in its attempt to annex the fertile land of Borneo. It was an act of invasion and should be condemned and sanctioned...

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