Chapter 218: The Battle of Java (8)

After receiving Luo Yue's order, the first battalion immediately launched an attack on the camp of the Dutch coalition army. At this time, the positions of the coalition forces had already been disturbed by artillery bombardment and bombardment, and the defense line was even more useless, so the KPA assault was very smooth, and almost did not encounter any obstacles, and easily broke into the positions of the Dutch coalition army, and then quickly deployed its troops, and launched a fierce battle with the soldiers of the Dutch coalition army.

At this time, the Dutch coalition army was also completely disorganized, not only the establishment of the army was all disrupted, but also many soldiers were awakened by shelling and bombing in their sleep, and they escaped from tents or houses without even having time to put on their clothes, all of them were shirtless, and some people were only wearing a pair of trousers, and they were bare-handed, and they did not even have a stick, how could they fight with the soldiers of the People's Army. Even a small number of soldiers were fully dressed and armed to resist for a while, but the number was too small to stop the KPA attack.

After a period of fierce fighting, seeing that the Dutch coalition could no longer organize effective resistance, the battalion was immediately divided into companies, each with a frontal spread of about 100 meters, and about 300 meters apart from each other, and advanced in unison, advancing deep into the Dutch position. Each team of the People's Army is coordinated by a squad, and two 3-person sharp knife groups are responsible for the breakthrough. The deputy squad leader is responsible for fire support, and there are 2 grenadier groups later, and 2 fighters are mobile personnel, shooting at the enemy at a distance with pistols, and the near enemy is assassinated by the sharp knife group, if it is found that the organized enemy army occupies a favorable place to resist, the grenadier group is responsible for knocking it out, and the 12 people of a squad form a whole, cooperate with each other to support the operation, and only kill the enemy soldiers who fall to the ground and die, and they can't be stopped at all, as if entering no man's land.

After the success of the assault of the first battalion, Luo Yue immediately ordered the follow-up troops to immediately enter the battle, continue to expand the results of the battle, and completely defeat the Dutch coalition army. After the 3rd Battalion and the Farm Guard were put into the battlefield, the KPA increased its strength and launched an all-out attack on the Dutch positions, which were already invincible and could not resist now, so they had to retreat from their positions.

Helwig's headquarters was located relatively far back, and there weren't many shells that landed here, but helicopters dropped quite a few here*. But it's still better than the front of the position. With the help of the guards, Helweig was able to get dressed and bring his pistol.

Originally, Helwig wanted to gather the fleeing soldiers, reorganize the army, and resist for a while, but in the chaos, no one listened to Helwig's greetings at all, and he wasted half of his strength, and only a dozen guards around him listened to his dispatch, and wanted to call someone to find Martinez and VanderWitt, and the three of them worked together to find a way to command the army, but Helvig sent two guards to find it, but there was no response for a long time, and I don't know whether the two guards did not arrive, or died halfway, or simply ran away.

Although Helvig's headquarters was far from the front of the position, the sound of shouting and killing was getting closer and closer, and it seemed that it was not far from the headquarters, and there were more and more soldiers who were defeated and fleeing, so Helvig did not dare to stay in the headquarters for a long time, in case the People's Army came to kill, he was afraid that he would not be able to escape. So Helwig did not dare to wait for the return of the guards, and immediately withdrew from the headquarters in the direction of Batavia with his own guards.

By this time the sky had completely brightened, and the Dutch coalition army had been completely defeated, the tribal armies had scattered and fled, and the KPA had scattered its forces to pursue the defeated army in all directions, so that the whole battlefield was divided into several areas.

However, on the whole, most of the troops who fled in the direction of Batavia were defeated, because the colonial army basically fled to the Batavian side, and although the armies of the various tribes fled back to their respective tribes, most of them had to pass through Batavia, and some tribes followed the trend, anyway, they fled to Batavia first, and as a result, a large stream of fleeing to Batavia was formed.

Helwig still contained a lot of routs along the retreat road, after all, it was dawn at this time, and the pursuers behind were far away, so he was a little calm, and saw that there were senior officers here, so many routs also automatically gathered over, and it didn't take long for Helvig to gather more than 200 people. And with more people, Helwig's heart has settled down a lot.

But though there were many of them, the ranks were scattered, and most of them were unarmed, and many were shirtless and shirtless, so Helwig ordered the ranks to be suspended, intending to reorganize them before they moved.

And just when Helwig was reorganizing the team, I saw another team of defeated troops catching up from behind, and the leader was actually Van DeVit, it turned out that Van de Vit was awakened by the artillery fire of the People's Army, and he quickly got up, fortunately, he did not take off his military uniform to sleep, so he reacted very quickly, and after he got up, he happened to meet a team returning from patrol, so Van DeVit immediately recruited them to his side, so that he had a fighting army.

When the KPA launched an attack on the position, VanderVit led the team, taking advantage of the terrain in the position to resist it, killing some KPA soldiers and taking advantage of the chaos to contain some stragglers. However, his team was soon discovered by the KPA, and was hit by a grenadier shelling and suffered heavy casualties, even Van de Witt was wounded, and seeing that the situation was gone, Van de Vuit had to take the remnants of the soldiers to retreat from the position.

However, due to the large number of people he carried, and most of them were neatly uniformed and armed, he gathered a lot of people along the way, so he retreated in the direction of Batavia under the leadership of Van de Witt, and met Helwig halfway through.

After the two met, they both had a sense of the aftermath of the catastrophe, and they couldn't help but be sad and joyful, and briefly told each other about their experiences, Helvig asked Martinez again, and VanderVuit didn't know Martinez's whereabouts, and it was estimated that it was more than lucky.

The two did not dare to stay here for a long time, and there were nearly 800 troops in one place, including both colonial soldiers and indigenous soldiers, and there were more than 100 soldiers who were neatly dressed and armed, and the two left more than 20 people to guard by their side, and the others were formed into a team to break the back, and then the army pulled out and marched towards Batavia.

The team walked a distance of more than 10 kilometers, and gathered some scattered defeated soldiers along the way, and the number of them exceeded 1,000, which was quite impressive. And at this moment, only to hear "papapa" A dense burst of gunfire sounded in the dense forest ahead, and the Dutch soldiers were unprepared and immediately fell to the ground. The soldiers who followed were so frightened that they fell to the ground, some hiding behind big trees, some hiding behind rocks.

This is precisely the second battalion of the People's Army set up an interception position here, and the battalion commander Li Lixin divided the whole battalion into companies and ambushed them in the woods, and at the same time, each company was equipped with two machine guns to strengthen the firepower.

There were already some scattered soldiers in front of them who fled, but the battalion commander Li Lixin thought that these were scattered soldiers and were not worth startling, so he let these stragglers go, and this time it was a large group of people and horses, more than 1,000 people, of course, he couldn't let it go anymore, so he immediately opened fire and shot, giving the defeated soldiers a head-on blow.

Helwig and VanderVuitt hurriedly found a place to hide, and ordered soldiers with rifles to come forward and shoot at the ambush. However, the Dutch coalition had few rifles, and they were in a hurry, and they couldn't find suitable cover, so in the exchange of fire from both sides, soldiers were constantly shot and fell to the ground, and the other soldiers had to retreat one after another.

At this moment, two KPA armies had overtaken from both sides and launched a charge against the Dutch coalition army, although there were not many KPA troops charging, but the coalition army was still no opponent, and the KPA soldiers were killed one after another after swinging their bayonets. Then the KPA on the front also rushed up, and immediately crushed the Dutch coalition forces. Helweig and VanderVuit were also washed out.

Helwig led a group of soldiers, who were also killed and could not distinguish between the east and west, scurrying around in the dense forest, only thinking of fleeing from the battlefield far away, but after escaping for a long time, he encountered a People's Army unit head-on, and the two soldiers running in front were immediately shot and fell to the ground, and the other soldiers immediately started a white-knuckle battle. However, the KPA soldiers were extremely brave, and after a few engagements between the two sides, most of them were coalition soldiers who were stabbed to the ground.

In a short time, more than 10 soldiers of the Dutch coalition army were killed, and only 4 or 5 soldiers were left by Helwig's side. Before he had run a few steps, he heard two screams behind him, apparently two more soldiers had been killed, followed by several "bangs", and several bullets flew from behind Helwig with the sound of the wind, some hitting the nearby tree poles, and some hitting the leaves flying around.

Helweig was so frightened that he stepped up his feet, and ran wildly with his legs stretched out, but he didn't know how long he had run, and suddenly he tripped under his feet, and suddenly the sky was hanging on the ground, and the whole person fell to the ground, and he rolled 5 or 6 times in a row, only to feel dizzy and sore.

But Helwig still wanted to struggle to get up, but as soon as he supported his body with his hands, two huge pains suddenly came from his back, and the strength of his arms suddenly loosened, and the whole person fell to the ground again. However, it was only a short time before Helwig felt that his arms had been grabbed and his whole body had been erected, and although Helvig was powerless to resist, he knew very well that he had been captured by the People's Army.