The time came to February 2, 1897, which was the first day of the Lunar New Year, the day of family reunion in Chinese culture, but Lin Fei's subordinates could not reunite with their families, and they were carrying out a major counteroffensive, taking the reconquest as a New Year's gift to the people of the whole country.

At 8 a.m. on 2 February, the Third Army, headquartered in Vos, Mindanao, launched a counteroffensive against Manado in northern Sulawesi, with 30,000 troops.

The city was taken by the British more than a month ago, when the British had a strong naval fleet, and Lin Fei had nothing to do with the lost land, but now, the threat of the British and French fleets no longer existed, and Lin Fei's strong army could land unimpeded.

Attacking Manado is different from attacking Senna Port, when attacking Senna Port, the British army did not expect Lin Fei to attack here at all, so the defenders of Senna Port were not much on guard, but Manado's British army was heavily guarded.

The British built a large number of trenches outside Manado to cope with the attack of the Chinese army, and the British army laid out the trenches better than the Dutch army and the Spanish army, and even the Japanese army could not catch up.

Just one point, you can see the superiority of the British trenches, inside the British trenches, you can't see obvious points of fire, the real points of fire are hidden, and only come out when the enemy attacks, unlike the Spanish and Dutch trenches, the fire points are exposed to the outside and can be easily knocked out by the mortars of the Chinese army.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the Chinese army launched an attack on the British defense line outside the old city of Manado, and when the battle began, the Chinese army suffered many casualties, this is because the British army's individual combat is extremely strong, and the guns are extremely accurate, and the veterans who participated in the Taiwan War unanimously believe that the British army's technical and tactical literacy is only above the Japanese army, not under the Japanese army!

The Chinese army launched more than a dozen charges, all of which were repulsed by the British, and the number of dead exceeded a thousand! This made the commander of the Chinese army, Niu Dahu, the commander of the Third Group Army, furious, and now the Chinese Empire is fighting the first battle of the counteroffensive, and the first battle is so unsmooth, how can the future battle be fought?

Niu Dahu after Lin Fei's training for more than two years, he is no longer the reckless warrior of the year, he carefully observed the battlefield, and found that most of the British troops were concentrated in the north of the Manado defense line, and most of the defensive forces on the other three sides were Indonesians, so Niu Dahu decisively ordered to feint to attack the north and attack the east, west and south.

This trick really worked, the Indonesians' combat effectiveness was far inferior to the British, and they could not resist the impact of the Chinese army at all, and after only an hour of fighting, the 300th Garrison Division broke through the Indonesian defense line on all fronts, and entered Manado from the east, and the 301st Garrison Division broke through the Indonesian defense line from the south. The garrison divisions of the Third Army all started with "3".

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the British saw that all the defensive lines had been broken through, and hurriedly led their troops to break through, and the direction of their breakthrough was the port.

The British were extremely glad to see that the Huaxia army did not pursue, and when they arrived at the port, they found that the Huaxia fleet was waiting for them outside the port.

These two warships are the latest dragon-class cruisers launched in the Chinese Empire, one is called "Blood Dragon Ship" and the other is called "Dragon Hatred Ship", which means "blood feud".

In this battle, a total of more than 3,500 British troops were killed, more than 500 prisoners were captured, and more than 20,000 Indonesians were killed, and there were no prisoners.

At seven o'clock in the evening, the Chinese army entered Manado, and after entering the city, they were stunned, because this Manado had become a dead city!

After Manado was occupied by Lin Fei, Lin Fei immigrated 100,000 Chinese to Manado, and as a result, these 100,000 Chinese were all killed by the British army and the Indonesians!

The Chinese army searched for survivors throughout the city, and finally found five seven or eight-year-old children in a garbage dump, and these five children turned out to be the only survivors among the 100,000 Chinese in Manado!

From the mouths of these children, the soldiers of the Chinese army learned about the tragic situation of the massacre of the city that day, the British and Indonesians took machetes, searched for the Chinese from house to house, and cut off the heads of the Chinese when they saw them, the old people and children did not let go, and after the cut, the blades were all cut, and they turned the machetes over, used them as iron rods, and smashed the heads of the Chinese until the skulls were broken, and the milky white brains flowed out of the nose, mouth and ears.

The Chinese women in the city were all subjected to gang violence, many of them died in the gang violence, and the British and Indonesians also used all kinds of heinous methods to humiliate the corpses of Chinese women, naked bodies were the simplest, and they also hung naked corpses upside down and inserted things in the private parts of naked corpses...... All kinds of cruel methods, I can't bear to hear about them.

In this inhumane killing, none of the Chinese sat still, including women and children! They took up arms to resist, even if it was just a kitchen knife, an axe, or even a rolling pin! This is the Chinese under Lin Fei's rule, each of them has an iron backbone, every one of them has unyielding blood, and those weak and bullying Chinese in Lin Fei's era are no more!

The Chinese army tried to find a place to bury the corpses, but the surviving children told them that the British did not bury the corpses at all, and they threw the corpses into the sea in piles, drifting away along the current, and being eaten by fish and shrimp.

When the Chinese army heard that the British did not even leave corpses, they were furious, and immediately arrested the British soldiers who had surrendered to vent their anger, and they asked the British soldiers to dig deep pits for themselves, and then kicked them down the pit and buried them alive, so that more than 200 British soldiers were killed.

There were also more than 300 British soldiers, who were tied to the back of the transport ship, and each of them cut two cuts in their legs, so that the smell of blood attracted sharks, these British soldiers, the British soldiers who slaughtered the Chinese in majesty that day, were torn to pieces by sharks in the terrible screams, and paid off the debts for those Chinese souls!

Niu Dahu reported the battle situation of Manado and the tragic experience of the Chinese to Lin Fei, and Lin Fei listened to only one instruction, don't kill and surrender troops in the future!

Niu Dahu ignored that the person who was talking to him was Lin Fei, and said angrily: "The British and Indonesians bullied us so much, don't they let us take revenge?" ”

Lin Fei said in a deep voice: "We want to avenge us, but the Chinese in the Nanyang region have been slaughtered, we need a lot of manpower to rebuild, those who surrender are our slaves, especially the Indonesians, who bully the weak and fear the hard, they are very easy to manage, and they must be taken prisoners!" ”

Niu Dahu suddenly realized, agreed, on February 8, Niu Dahu led the troops, to kill Makassar in the south of Sulawesi Island, I thought that with the experience of attacking Manado, Makassar would be easier to fight, but I didn't expect that the attack was hindered by Yan zhòng at the beginning, the battle lasted for a day, and the time came to February 9, and still did not break through the Makassar defense line, and the casualties of the Chinese army exceeded 3,000 people!

It turned out that the total number of British and Indonesians in Makassar exceeded 100,000, including 20,000 British troops and 80,000 Indonesians, while Niu Dahu's troops were only 30,000.

Niu Dahu ordered the Third Army in Voss to mobilize ten garrison divisions, totaling 150,000 men, and these people were divided into two parts, one part to attack Makassar by land, and the other part to take the sea route, and on 14 February, the two reinforcements joined Niu Dahu's main force and attacked Makassar with a force of 180,000 men.

After three days and three nights of fierce fighting, at two o'clock in the morning on 18 February, the Chinese army, after paying the price of more than 10,000 casualties, recaptured Makassar, killed more than 10,000 British soldiers, and captured all the rest, killing more than 20,000 Indonesians and taking all the rest.

When I entered Makassar, I found that it was almost the same as Manado, and the 140,000 Chinese in the city were slaughtered!

Niu Dahu tried his best to restrain his subordinates, they did not kill prisoners of war, but organized the prisoners of war into a number of slave production groups, working for the Chinese Empire, before the war, Makassar produced the most things is wood, among which there is a kind of ebony, especially precious, China's foreign trade, precious wood accounted for a large proportion, these slaves then cut wood for the Chinese Empire.

The Chinese army did not treat these slaves well, these slaves ate food mixed with grass roots and sawdust, pigs and dogs disdained to eat, and the work was heavy and tiring, and the mules and horses were afraid to do the work, and if they did it slowly, they would be beaten with leather whips and sticks, and when the slaves died, they were pulled out to feed the dogs.

These slaves were sold for nearly forty years for Huaxia before they were released by Lin Fei, and when these more than 70,000 people were allowed to return home, there were less than 700 left.

These slaves are known as the "prisoners of China" in history, and they are one of the levers used by the Western world to attack Lin Fei's cruelty and tyranny in the future.

Lin Fei naturally vigorously denied this incident, although it was indeed Lin Fei's intention to let the British and Indonesians be slaves, but Lin Fei just refused to admit it, declared that this matter had nothing to do with him, and ordered the compiler of the history book never to write the historical truth.

This confirms what Lin Fei has repeatedly said, history is written by the victors, and I want future generations to see what kind of history they see, what kind of history they see is!

After conquering Makassar, the Third Army immediately marched north to attack Machen, and together with the Third Army, there was also the Second Army, and the strength of the two armies reached 300,000!

Such a huge army, which consumes thousands of dollars every day, would definitely not be able to support it if Lin Fei did not launch a full-scale war plan.

When these 300,000 people arrived in Machen, they were shocked by the sight in front of them!