() Among the several groups of people who were sent back to Java Island, some people already had symptoms such as fever and cough on the ship. However, these very common phenomena were regarded as ordinary diseases by the people around them and did not take them seriously.
After they returned to their original place of residence, the symptoms gradually worsened, and the number of patients began to increase.
Soon, three days later, the first person died due to shock due to coughing up blood. Then, people died every day due to violent coughing, and after death, the skin of the body turned purple and black. This
It was a typical form of pneumonic plague, known to Europeans as the Black Death.
Due to the poor medical conditions on the island of Java, coupled with the dense population and hot climate, it is very suitable for the spread of pneumonic plague. Therefore, many people who had contact with these repatriated people were infected with the bacteria, and they moved with them
Then spread it to more people.
By the end of July, patients in areas such as Batavia, Bandung, and Bekasi in eastern Java Island were suffering from swollen lymph nodes, suppuration, and ulceration that led to death; while in western areas such as Bali, Marado Island, and Surabaya,
High fever, cough, shock
The patients died, and their skin turned purple and black after death; in the central area of Java Island, Semarang, Keladeng and other places, there were also many people who died suddenly, but most of them had high fever, chills, and then skin bleeding.
Then comes death.
Although the causes of death and symptoms of these deceased people are different, they all have one thing in common, that is, they are all people who were repatriated by smuggling. However, when Java was blocked, many people tried to leave Java by smuggling, so this
The characteristics did not attract the attention of people around him.
Since the onset of disease is very fast, death usually takes 1 to 4 days. Therefore, the local Dutch people have no good solution. They can only ask the locals to cremate the corpse according to the tradition of the suspected Blue Sect, and this unintentional
This has partially prevented the spread of the disease.
In early August, the outbreak rate of the disease suddenly increased on the island of Java. A large number of infected people appeared in various places, and the original symptoms gradually became evenly distributed due to cross-infection from carriers in various places. When a Dutch doctor
After seeing a corpse with black skin after death, he was so frightened that he immediately informed the Dutch East Indian government in Batavia: The Black Death was coming.
The reaction of the Dutch government was not unpleasant. They quickly issued an order and announced the implementation of martial law on the island of Java. All forms of travel between cities were not allowed, and within cities and villages, anyone who had the disease must strictly implement it.
After death, the body must also be cremated.
However, although these measures are correct, they are already too late. There are three types of plague viruses actively spread by the South China Sea Federation this time: pneumonic plague, lymphatic plague and septicemic plague. These germs are very contagious, from the body fluids of patients to
Airborne transmission is almost everywhere. And the medical conditions on Java Island
There are not enough items, and the local people’s awareness of prevention is also very poor. Many people live in a large family with dozens of people living together. Many of them are also businessmen who need to buy goods around the island. Therefore, after nearly a month
After months of transmission, even if Liu Fu came to the current epidemic, there would be nothing to do because there are too many carriers.
By mid-August, a large number of sick people appeared in all large and medium-sized cities on the island of Java. Due to the rapid death rate and death rate, the Dutch had to mobilize local troops to be responsible for burning those who died in the cities.
There are corpses everywhere. The entire Java Island, except for some very remote mountains and deep forests that have not yet been infected, is full of doomsday scenes.
Only then did the Dutch react. They sealed off Batavia and several other cities tightly. The army patrolled the streets. Anyone found to have fever, cough, fear of cold or heat and other related symptoms would be arrested and sent to the hospital.
In the concentration camps, the places where these patients had stayed were strictly disinfected or even burned.
Throughout the island of Java, especially in the cities where the population is concentrated, black smoke from corpses being burned outside the city and the homes of patients being burned can be seen everywhere. The formerly rich and beautiful Java Island has now become a hell on earth.
Although the Dutch have taken decisive measures and the intensity is very strong, the number of germs is beyond human control to a certain extent. No matter how hard the Dutch burn or catch the epidemic, the epidemic cannot be effectively controlled.
, not only the locals, but also the Dutch and Europeans doing business on the island of Java can't escape.
Under the threat of the death scythe, the island of Java is in chaos. In some remote areas where the epidemic is not serious, locals have united and blocked the roads and waterways entering the area, strictly prohibiting anyone from approaching the area. And those who are frightened by death
The courageous Europeans, Javanese and some Chinese who have not left Java urgently need to go to a safe place to escape this horrific plague. Not allowing them to enter those relatively safe areas will cost their lives.
As a result, at the end of August, dozens of armed conflicts broke out across Java. A large number of white people brought their mercenaries to attack the areas where they were preparing to take refuge. In order to protect their homes, the local people also fought with these people who usually
The white gentlemen, who did not dare to look at them, started a fierce battle.
Most of the results of the battle were that the white people relied on their weapons and numerical superiority to defeat the locals and temporarily gained a relatively safe area. However, this safety was also temporary. Due to the medical conditions at the time, it was impossible to determine who was infected with the germs.
The incubation period of plague can reach up to 15 days, so many remote areas that did not have an epidemic before were also infected with the epidemic due to the arrival of white troops.
By the end of September, the entire island of Java, including Palawan and Bali, was basically infected by the epidemic, and it was difficult to find a clean place. The Dutch Governor in East India also died of the Black Death.
Seeing that the governor was dead, the white people and locals panicked. They could no longer bear the torture of waiting for death slowly in their own homes, and they could no longer bear the black smoke of burning corpses all day long. They ran to the dock
, boarded all available ships, ignored the dense mines in the waterways, and began to sail out of the port of Batavia.
Although the South China Sea Federal Navy responsible for the blockade had already made plans for the Javanese ships to rush out of the port en masse, it was really hard to see these people who were not afraid of life and death driving various ships and rushing out of the port crazily.
The scene that came out made everyone feel cold and dumbfounded.
Most of the large-tonnage iron ships that rushed out of the port were blown up by magnetic mines and sank in the waterway. Sometimes, due to the overcrowding of ships, many small wooden boats that were too close to the bombed ships were also affected and were overturned together.
in the sea. But because there are too many ships leaving the port, mines
Both wooden ships and small boats were powerless, and some ships broke out of the mine array and escaped outside the port. They filled up their sails and burned up their boilers. They drove as fast as they could, regardless of the federal patrol outside the port.
The warship just moves in the direction it wants.
After consulting the Federal Navy Department, the blockade fleet launched an attack on these escaping ships. Destroyers, torpedo boats, and submarines were all involved in the extermination work. Because the Navy Department issued a death order, one ship escaped, and all captains and fleet commanders
Officials will be arrested for treason, and what awaits them is a lifetime of supervised labor in mines and dense forests.
Although there were many ships escaping, most of them were small boats under 500 tons, and many of them were sailing wooden ships. After receiving the order from the Admiralty, the commanders and captains of the blockade fleet immediately took action like taking opium.
He put away his sympathy just now, put on the devil's face, roared, and asked everyone to enter a fighting state, use all the weapons on the warship that can attack, and attack the fast and large ships first.
For a time, outside the port of Batavia, 3 destroyers and 5 torpedo boats were like hungry wolves entering the flock. They bombarded with main guns, secondary guns, machine guns, and even rammed with the hull, killing most of them.
The escaping ships were all sent to the bottom of the sea, but some fish that escaped the net had already passed the first blockade and fled in all directions.
There are five submarines in the second blockade. Facing these small boats that are running away like crazy, the submarine's torpedoes are basically useless, because these boats are not only small in size and have shallow drafts, but also mostly have wooden hulls, and the torpedoes cannot be detonated at all.
Therefore, after receiving the approval of the fleet command, these submarines surfaced one after another, using the two heavy machine guns on the boats and the hull as weapons, hitting and ramming them, and finally wiped out all the submarines within 50 nautical miles outside the Batavia port.
A ship preparing to escape.
Afterwards, rough statistics showed that there were more than 300 ships that rushed out of the port on that day, and each ship was basically full or even overcrowded. If you look for an average of 80 people on a ship, at least 20,000 people were buried at the bottom of the sea.
