Most of the red-haired fans lost their courage, and only Pete Poznan stood up and shouted: "You must not give in, to retreat is to die!" ”

Peter Poznan is also an old colonist, he has dealt with the Southeast Province a long time ago (1626, now 1633), went to the Southeast Province to redeem the captured Dutch, he has also seen the whole process of the Southeast Province attacking Zhongzuo (Xiamen), and has a clear understanding of the Southeast Province.

It is a pity that there were too many staunch patriots among the Dutch, who were busy doing business with the southeast province to make money (they even sold a large number of cannons to the southeast province), and failed to gather a large army to conquer the southeast province in one fell swoop when the southeast province was weak, causing the southeast province to sit on the throne.

Pieter Poznan was in charge of the battle, but the other Dutchmen asked him: "Now that the naval battle has been lost, and the opposing fleet is blockading our port, what else can you do to deal with them?" ”

"We are holding on, they are coming from afar, it is not easy to supply, we still have a chance to win!" Pete Poznan encouraged everyone.

At that time, the red-haired fans were gathering in the conference room of the Governor's Palace, and when they heard his words, everyone was moved, and Pete Poznan took the opportunity to say: "We have come here from distant Europe, we have destroyed the Tufu, conquered here, and built here, how much effort has it taken us, how can we give up easily!" ”

"Yes!" The red-haired fan Van Rosemaren also stood up and said passionately: "If we give up this land, we will never be able to come back." ”

"For this land, fight!" He shouted.

Everyone was moved by him, and they all stood up and shouted: "For this land, fight!" ”

So they mobilized overnight, strengthened their defenses, and prepared for war!

At that time, the port of Batavia was a harbor, with three batteries on each side, a total of six batteries, each with thirty guns, respectively, 24-pounder, 12-pounder and 6-pounder guns, ten each, the Dutch dismantled the available guns on 15 of the 25 battleships that returned, and strengthened them to six batteries, forming a dense defensive circle of 300 guns!

With the assistance of the local natives, they dragged thousands of pounds of cannons to the forts, dug gun emplacements, loaded sandbags and stacked the forts, even if the southeast warships opened fire outside the port, it would not affect their enthusiasm for work.

Then 15 warships were scuttled at the entrance to the port of Batavia, and 10 more battleships faced the entrance in a semicircle, and the Dutch were determined to defend the port.

But their preparations were overshadowed from the very beginning, they were too few in number!

Now the available whites in the port of Batavia are only a thousand and five, three hundred cannons plus ten warships, which is not enough for one white cannon squad per cannon (seven people are needed), and they can only use the natives to make up the number, but they found that the natives leader Kappat has escaped!

This guy was so clever that as soon as he saw the defeat of the Dutch, he immediately got on a clipper and slipped away, avoiding the trouble of blockading the port of the Southeast Fleet behind.

The Dutch hate it to the core, and if they have the opportunity, they will kill them.

The rest of the natives did not have ships like Capat, and under the threat of the Dutch with guns in their hands, they had to work, but their ability was limited, and they did it slowly, and the thousand and five white people's nests burned to death, and they had to work with them, tired and half dead-----, and the slave owners worked harder than the slaves, and the world was turned upside down.

As for the good workers, the Chinese in Batavia were also recruited, purely as foreign grinders, and did not contribute to the work.

They knew that their compatriots had won the battle against the whites, so they blocked the door outside, how could they still play for the whites, just waiting for the "king teacher".

But the Dutch could not beat and scold them as before, let alone kill them, because the southeast ship released two white men, and brought the word that the Dutch must treat the Chinese in the city well, and if they killed the Chinese, they would have to kill those Dutch prisoners of war!

And after attacking Batavia, he settled accounts with the whites, which shocked the whites so much that they had to let the Chinese in the city go.

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The Dutch were waiting for the battle, and the news was reported to Yan Changwu, the commander of the Southeast Fleet, who heard that the morale of the other party was high, and immediately released a three-day vacation for the large army!

He formed a detachment of ten ships (including two battleships, two fifth-class cruisers, and six sixth-class cruisers), and worked in two shifts a day, each for twelve hours, from morning to night, to harass the port of Batavia without stopping, constantly shelling the port, firing all night, making the defenders sleepless day and night!

In this way, the Batavian port was beaten every day, and the losses were not great, but there was no rest, no peace, and morale inevitably declined.

It was not until the morning of the third day that the main force of the Southeast Fleet was dispatched, and the whole line was pressed, and seeing the dense southeast warships outside the port, the red-eyed Dutch knew that the most critical time had come, and they wordlessly entered the gun emplacements and prepared for battle.

Yan Changwu didn't play false, except for his battleship, which was not on board, he sent fifteen battleships, and their side guns were as high as 525!

The fire was earth-shattering, the dense cannonballs rained down on the Dutch battery, the shells whistled like rolling thunder, the fire flashed, shrapnel flew sideways, and a stream of dust and smoke that went straight to the clouds (not blasting shells, but hit the ground, many shells brought up smoke and dust), and gradually formed a huge impermeable curtain, tightly wrapping the people on the position, everyone was in danger, and only felt that the ghost of death was around them.

The Dutch fought back, and the artillery on the fort did their best to load, aim, and fire as fast as they could, under the desperate urging of the officers.

And a series of shells fell among them, supplemented and strengthened by the gunners of the fifteen battleships of the South-East Fleet, drawn from the cruisers, and they were fast and accurate, completely overpowering the Dutch gunners.

The casualties on the batteries were increasing, and the speed of artillery firing was constantly slowed down by the lack of manpower, and the accuracy of the guns was also poor, and some natives began to flee.

Pete Poznan roared: "Fight, fight, do our duty!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a heavy artillery shell knocked him down, shattering him to pieces!

Seeing this terrible scene also took away the courage of the defenders to resist!

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The bombardment lasted for six hours from six o'clock to twelve o'clock, and in order to cool down, the fifteen battleships of the Southeast Fleet fired the port guns and then the starboard guns, repeatedly attacking the enemy batteries.

In fact, Yan Changwu had different options, he had already obtained a topographic map of the vicinity of Batavia, and landed on the eastern coast a little farther away, so that he could make a detour and enter Batavia without blood, and the muzzles of the batteries were facing the open sea, which could not stop his army, thereby reducing casualties.

However, Yan Changwu insisted on conquering the port of Batavia with strong ships and guns, so as to establish a kind of confidence for the Han people to defeat Hongmaofan!

After fighting until noon, feeling that the Dutch's counterattack was getting weaker and weaker, Yan Changwu ordered the marines to land on the beach!