The soft night sky under the starry sky reflects the extraordinarily dark land of that era.

The sea was as black as a black curtain, and with a slight churn, two boats were rowing towards the harbor.

Five days after the Battle of Batavia, the night was deep, the noise of the day had long since passed, and the port of Batavia was silent, with only three or five lonely lights.

After the previous armistice between the two sides, the Dutch returned to Hong Kong to resupply and dispatched again.

Naturally, they pounced, and the clippers sent finally found corroboration---- a merchant ship said that it saw them all the way north, and the clippers tracked them for a day, but they couldn't find it, and the Ming people should have retreated.

So the Dutch celebrated for a day, this victory was not easy to come by, although the Ming people were at stake, but they did not run away!

After that, the port was restored to its original state, and the loading and unloading of the ship were busy doing business diligently, and the lazy use of this opportunity everyone went to the bar to have a drink, and drank and carnivaled all night for several days, which was a rare opportunity to celebrate the victory.

Anyway, we Dutch are strong enough that no one dares to mess with them.

I didn't expect that someone really wanted to touch the tiger's buttocks, Zuo Liangyu on Kaohsiung No. 8 came at night with two small boats, and secretly rowed into the port of Batavia, wanting to blow up the boat!

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Let's say that the two militants of Kaohsiung No. 8, Hong Xiguan Yan Zhang, happily drove Kaohsiung No. 8 with a Luzon Chinese shipowner who had been to Batavia, led by him, and rushed to Batavia to participate in the war, but it was too late, the main fleet had already withdrawn, they did not see the main fleet, and they could not be contacted, seeing that they were getting closer and closer to Batavia, Yan Zhang, no matter how bullish, also asked Hong Xiguan worriedly: "Brother Hong, we can't single out the Dutch!" ”

"Of course it's impossible, but it's okay to sabotage!" Hong Xiguan said calmly and made up his mind, no matter what, he couldn't come for nothing.

This benevolent brother has decided to attack the port of Batavia!

In the daytime off the coast of Batavia, they caught a dhow, received information from the fishermen that they wanted to know, had come, but had not yet taken the port of Batavia, and had withdrawn.

"I'm going to attack the port of Batavia!"

"At dawn, when we could just see it, we drove into the harbor and opened fire on them to let them know how good we were!"

At the officers' meeting, when he said what he envisioned, all the officers were taken aback and excited about it!

Fight the enemy!

No matter how strong the enemy is, our soldiers in the southeast province will still do the same, and they will be able to save themselves.

At that time, the soldiers of the Southeast Province were heroic, and there was nothing they did not dare to do, neither afraid of danger nor sacrifice.

Besides, Hong Xiguan's plan has a great success rate, and he is a sixth-level cruiser, fast, hit and run, those Dutch ships with big RU rooms (bow tower) and big butts (stern) can catch up with us?

Most of the officers thought it was feasible, but Zuo Liangyu, the only Marine Corps Commander, shook his head and thought it was not good.

"I want to hear and see!" Hong Xiguan was not angry and listened to what he said.

"The artillery fire of your cruiser is too weak, one-on-one, if people don't fight back to fight you, it may not take three hours to sink an enemy merchant ship!" Zuo Liangyu clarified the facts as soon as he opened his mouth.

At that time, the sail warships used mostly solid bullets, relying on kinetic energy to hit, a projectile is a bowl-sized pit, think about how big a ship is, how many pits to smash?

"We rushed into the port and fought for a while, at most we would give you half an hour, and you couldn't sink a boat, this kind of sneak attack is called trick-or-treating!" Zuo Liangyu gushed endlessly: "The so-called injury of ten fingers is better than cutting off one of its fingers, I have an idea, I don't know if it is suitable or not!" ”

"Please!" Hong Xiguan raised his hand and let him say.

"We have grenadiers, one throw is a 10-pound bomb, this time we will make a 100-pound bomb, I will take some people, drive a small boat into the port of Batavia, find a big ship, load the big bomb, detonate it, send it to the sky, the captain will see how it goes!" Zuo Liangyu said.

"You make this way!" Hong Xiguan slapped his thigh excitedly.

"You slapped my leg!" Yan Zhang rolled his eyes and said.

"Oh, I'm sorry!"

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The officers watched the non-commissioned officers make big bombs, and they first found a powder keg, which weighed 100 catties and could be ignited directly, but it was too heavy, it sank as soon as it entered the water, and it was easy to enter the water even if there was a powder keg.

If you find a large wooden box with thin skin, and want to fill the gap with putty so that it does not get water, and then stuff it with gunpowder......

Zuo Liangyu thought: "The power is too small! I thought so, let's go in two small boats, each with three barrels of gunpowder, and when we arrived, everyone got into one boat, concentrated the gunpowder in one boat, and the other boat loaded people and retreated! ”

"What should I do if I am discovered?" Someone asked.

"If we are discovered, we will send a signal, you drive the warship in to meet us, do whatever you want!" Zuo Liangyu said casually.

"Good!"

After everyone discussed the detailed rules, they did what they said, and in the dark of night, Kaohsiung 8 set off.

The Chinese merchant who was in charge of leading the way was called Song Yueqiao, and Hong Xiguan was a fellow villager in southern Fujian, and he was quite bold, and he kept pushing the cruiser straight outside the port of Batavia!

Then he put down the two dinghys on board, loaded with gunpowder, and rowed eleven men each, ten with oars and one rudder, and rowed to the harbor.

They were all dressed in black, the dinghy blackened, tied to oars with cloth, and rowed vigorously with the lights of the harbor.

The port of Batavia is huge, and the dinghy is almost silent and difficult to spot as it breaks the waves in the water.

There was a battery at the entrance to the port, and there were still people on duty, but there were no searchlights at that time, and the defenders did not have this awareness at all!

When a big ship comes in, it will be discovered by them, and when a small boat comes in, how can it be destroyed?

Even in the era of high-power electric searchlights, the light was brilliant, and the water ghosts were also successful in touching the military port.

The night was dark and visibility was low, and it was the time when the moon was dark and the wind was high.

There were at least thirty ships moored in the harbor, and small boats passed through them as if they were in a no-man's land!

All the ships were asleep, and there were no guard posts.

Too careless! On the warships of the South-Eastern Fleet, at any time, someone will be arranged on duty, and it is the officer who leads the sailors, the officers are responsible for inspection, and the sailors are responsible for vigilance, and there will be absolutely no sloppiness.

However, it is no wonder that the people are careless, after all, they are merchant ships, and they are in the harbor, and the system is not well implemented (

By the glimmer of light from nowhere, they found the largest ship, which they later learned was the unfortunate "Poseidon", the capital ship of the Battle of Batavia, with 54 guns, the rank of a third-class battleship.

First row the dinghy under its rudder, two dinghys side by side, flip the powder keg onto the other dinghy, then six hundred pound powder kegs open the lid (which has been opened beforehand), connect them in series with fuses, and then cover them thickly with several layers of military blankets (sealed black powder is more powerful).

Zuo Liangyu and three officers and soldiers worked together to drill a large nail into the hull with an iron drill, and then tied the gunpowder boat to the big nail, and beat several nails and tied a few ropes.

The long fuse was ignited, and then the crowded manned dinghy stretched out its oars and rowed desperately away.

The fuse was lit in the slightest, and the Dutch people slept comfortably, and no one knew that the killing star was coming.

When they were fifty meters away, a loud thunderclap exploded in the port of Batavia!