Chapter Fifty-Eight: Capture of the Estuary Harbor Attack on Batavia

The wooden fence that stopped the Chiliwang River could not withstand a round of bombardment from the 130 cannons on the warship, and it turned into broken logs that flew into the sky, fell into the Chiliwang River, and floated away.

The square castle in front was much larger than the castle guarding the mouth of the river, and many of the Dutch East India Company units were located in it. In order to deal with him, the Canton and Fenzhou contacted each other, and the two ships simply crossed the river, so that the cannons on the front and rear decks of the two ships had a total of two 203 caliber and ten 130 caliber cannons, which could concentrate fire on the castle at the same time.

Li Jing saw the two boats coming sideways in the river, put down the binoculars and said to Liu Chenghuang, "Damn! They are too bullying, how can they fight like this? ”

Liu Chenghuang just smiled, and before he could speak, the "dong dong" cannon sound in the previous biography interrupted him, so he had to say: "Let's watch the excitement first!" ”

The guns on both warships, with little to no need to aim too closely, were able to smash shells into the square fortress in front. This cannon was fought for a while, because the intelligence showed that there were two basements underneath the castle, which was very strong. Now the gunners on the Yaogang warship are very experienced, 130 guns are responsible for sweeping around the castle, and 203 heavy guns are concentrated on bombarding the middle of the castle. The gunners' aim was to gouge through the castle basement with 203 caliber cannons. In fact, the gunners on the battleship could not see, and after two rounds of bombardment, the basement should have been chiseled.

The governor of the Dutch East India Company, De Carpenter, did not understand, did the cannonballs on the Kiln Gang warship cost no money? How can the fight be endless, the officers and soldiers in the castle, needless to say, were killed by the explosion, and the earthquake was also shocked to death!

But what Dekabent expected, and what he didn't want to see, still happened, after a series of relatively dull explosions, this large square castle quickly burst into flames, and batches of *** exploded. De Carbent understood that nearly 2,000 officers and soldiers were cremated in the castle, including more than 1,000 elite professional soldiers. If it hadn't been found that the situation was not good, Dekabent would have taken the initiative to withdraw a group of people, and the losses would have been even greater.

Dekabent knew better that he had no way at all, and he reminded him not to send troops to take the initiative, as that would give full play to the enemy's firepower advantage. To go out is to be slaughtered. In any case, it is impossible to win, but if you want to hold on for a long time, you will have to engage in hand-to-hand street battles with them. No matter how good the enemy's weapons are, they will fight our soldiers one by one. In the chaos, maybe we still have a chance to kill our opponents.

The Sifang Castle became a large candle composed of fireworks, and Liu Chenghuang said to Li Jing: "Deputy Commander, let's go over and have fun!" ”

"It's boring, this battle is boring!" Li Jing said, "Let's go! Let's go ashore and see what the guys who have carried knives since they were young are doing. ”

The Qinghai Lake slowly activated its 20,000-ton body and approached the dock at the mouth of the Qiliwang River, followed by several 5,000-ton ships.

Seeing the very strong wharf built, Liu Chenghuang said: "It seems that the Hongmaofan (Dutch) is still doing very well. Our dock also has a lot to learn from them! ”

"Humph!" Li Jing snorted and said, "Hongmao Fan (Dutch) is known as the coachman of the sea, and there are more ships and docks. Naturally, you can't go wrong with building a dock! It's like these guys, they have been shelled a lot, isn't it getting better and better now? ”

"Hmmm! The analogy of the deputy commander is kind of interesting! Liu Chenghuang's words were somewhat flattering.

Li Jing felt a little uncomfortable when she heard this, "I said, Lao Liu, do we still need to say good things?" ”

"Hey! No, no, no! I really think that the deputy commander's speech is getting more and more level! Liu Chenghuang deliberately said more explicitly.

Liu Jun, who had been following him, really couldn't listen anymore, "Oops! Father, I feel numb in my tongue when you say it. Do you see, the master can hear that his hair is moving? ”

"Haha! Lao Liu, you see, your son can't listen to it anymore! Li Jing said with a laugh.

"Bastard thing! Did you talk to you like that? Why don't you get down there and see what's going on on the docks? Liu Chenghuang was embarrassed by Liu Jun's words, so he had to put on Lao Tzu's qualifications and teach Liu Jun a lesson.

Liu Jun went out and said, "How is this like a war?" It's just a joke! ”

However, as soon as Liu Jun went out, he quickly covered his ears. Big ships are slow to start and stop, and docking is even more slow. When the ship approached the pier, the heavy machine gunners on the ship kept firing at the shore with six 12.7 mm heavy machine guns, and all objects that they thought could hide people had to be cleaned up with bullets. Not to mention, it was true that a lot of soldiers were killed behind some piles of objects. Most of the soldiers here are black, swarthy Javanese. They were all wearing their upper bodies, holding spears and waist knives in their hands, and some had an extra rattan shield.

The makeshift objects on the dock could not hide the bullets, and the rattan shields in their hands had no effect on the bullets, let alone the 12.7mm heavy machine gun bullets.

After the bullets swept away, they left behind broken corpses, and many Javanese ran away like a tidal wave.

The ship approached the dock, and as soon as the gangway was lowered, a group of soldiers rushed down the gangway to the dock. Stepping on the dock, the soldiers ran in their own direction and quickly established a cordon on the pier.

Yoo Joon saw Yoo Joon and Yoo Sung-hwang also come to the deck and asked, "We're too careless too!" Didn't you send someone to land in a dinghy first? ”

"Boy, I know a lot!" Li Jing was not polite, "Is it so troublesome to use them?" ”

Liu Chenghuang also said: "Study hard, what kind of battle to fight, what method to use, you have to learn too much!" ”

As more and more troops ashore, the infantry moved forward, setting up a line of defense to guard the docks. The artillery of the artillery regiment also began to be hoisted to the dock on the ship's crane.

Dekabent would also be a soldier, and he knew the truth of attacking half-way. Therefore, he absolutely could not let the Yaogang army be in front of them like this, and no one else would transport troops and weapons to the shore, but he also remembered the reminder of the Yi, and resolutely could not fall into the hands of the Yaogang people. He would not sacrifice his limited army in this way. But the Javanese, who looked like ants in his eyes, were not in his mercy, and he promised the Javanese leaders a great reward, ordering them to attack the docks and retake them while the enemy was still on the ground.

The Javanese leaders and soldiers had long been frightened by the heavy artillery of the kiln gangsters, but he did not dare not carry out De Carpenter's orders, because he knew that in that case, the various punishments in the Dutch prison would make him worse than death.

Nearly 10,000 Javanese people launched an attack on the dock this time, and from the tall deck of the Yaogang Qinghai Lake, you can see that the Javanese people are pouring over like a tide, black and shining. Javanese are almost always half-naked.

At first, their drums were slow, and the soldiers slowly moved forward with weapons in their hands, and as they got closer, the drums beat faster and faster, and the Javanese advanced faster. Dekabent thought that in such a position, he would definitely be able to cause some psychological pressure on the kiln people. How did he know that the Yaogang people would not have any fear in the face of the crazy Mongol cavalry.

Li Jing said to Fan Chengkun: "There are a lot of people! It's a pity to be killed! ”

"There are still a lot of people like this who haven't shown up," Liu Chenghuang said, "I think, let's use some airburst bombs!" That thing works well against such dense formations! ”

"Yes! Good things don't have to wait for anything at this time! Li Jing said.

Liu Chenghuang turned back to the commander of the mountain jungle army and said: "The artillery on our ship bombarded the middle and rear with air-burst shells, and the mortar infantry artillery of your infantry bombarded the front!" ”

"Yes!" The commander agreed.

The Javanese came to a short distance in front of the defensive line set up by the kiln gang people and began to "oh oh! Many of the Javanese were barefoot, but they ran fast on the ground, their gait was extraordinarily nimble, and their bodies were low. When they rushed within a hundred meters of the Yaogang people's formation, the light and heavy machine guns, infantry guns, and mortars on the defensive line opened fire at the same time. The indigenous soldiers who ran in front of them lined up to go down to the second floor, but the Javanese did not retreat, they really went forward one after another. The Javanese people are very savage, they are really not afraid of death, and they don't dare to retreat, their military discipline is stricter, and if they run slowly, they may be cut by their commander with a knife. Life is the least valuable thing in their place.

The guns on the warship fired at such a close target, and the airburst shells could not be fired directly, but could only hit a high trajectory, so that the shells could be fired directly from the air to produce the effect of air explosion.

The effect of the airburst bomb was simply terrifying, and a cloud of smoke suddenly burst out from above the Javanese head, and a large area of Javanese soldiers below, like a piece of grass scattered by the wind, fell in all directions. From above, it looks like a flower. But the Javanese soldiers below the bullet point could not be so romantic, those prefabricated monoliths, raining down on them, they had to be blown up and blown up and blown in the wind and rolled in all directions. No matter how brave the Javanese soldiers who were not hit by the bombing in the back were too frightened to move by such shells, but as soon as they hesitated, another batch of airburst shells fell on their heads!

The lookouts on the lookout of the warship constantly pointed out the targets of the guns on the ships, and the shells also fell on the heads of the Javanese soldiers as if they had eyes. The Javanese men who rushed to the front were quickly wiped out by mortar guns, infantry guns, and light and heavy machine guns. The soldiers of Yaogang were all on the position to watch the excitement in the direction of the distant airburst bomb landing point. Those with binoculars kept telling their comrades about the effect of the airburst bomb.

In the end, the soldiers had enough of it, and someone said: "We are fighting with such a group of people, and if we win, it is very boring to kill more." ”

"Yes! These savages are not much stronger than monkeys, and they don't know why they died! Another person said.

Some people even said: "If we don't kill them, we can't do it, don't look at them like this, if you don't kill him, he will rush over and stab you in the heart with a spear!" ”

"Hey, too! If you don't kill, you can't do it! ”

They don't know that it is these monkey-like people, in the original history, the subsequent massacres of Chinese were all bloodshed.

Although Dekabunt didn't take many Javanese soldiers dead seriously, such a massacre by the kiln people made him tremble. He couldn't figure out how the kiln men used to make every shell explode in the air, and the control was so precise that it caused the most damage. More than 10,000 people will be killed in a while, even if you kill 10,000 chickens, you can't be so fast!

Although the kiln soldiers did not want to capture any prisoners, they still captured more than 1,000 Javanese soldiers.

The commander of the Mountain Jungle Army said to the commander of the Second Division of the First Army of the Mountain Jungle Army who landed: "The weather here is really hot. So many corpses must be disposed of right away and then sprinkled with lime! ”

The division commander said: "Those prisoners are useful, just in time for them to clean up the bodies of their brothers." ”

These Javanese soldiers were also very lazy, and they were even more reluctant to get those mutilated corpses, so they had no choice but to shoot a few prisoners on the spot, and they immediately began to become diligent. Folded hands and feet, the corpses were piled up on the beach.

A lot of gasoline was brought from the boat and poured on the pile of corpses, and in the dusk, the rows of corpses on the beach became smoking torches. Unfortunately, however, the wind was blowing in the direction of Batavia City, and the smell of burning people drifted right into the city. The smell also brings the horrors of death into the city. Many of the red-haired fans in the city and the Xiyi people from all over the world are disgusted and can't eat.

After counting the corpses, the big ship of Yaogang used searchlights to illuminate the battlefield, and those prisoners had to use lime to splash on the battlefield.

The captives finished spreading the lime very late, fearing that they would be killed when they were done. What they didn't expect was that the kiln people gave each of them a big white flour steamed bun that they had never eaten before, and a piece of pickle. Because Java can produce two to three crops of rice in a year, but there is never wheat, only those noble Xiyi people can afford to eat bread made of wheat, and these people who usually eat the same as pigs and dogs cannot eat such good things. After eating the steamed buns, many captives felt very lucky that they did not die and ate such delicious food. Some people sang and danced happily.

Li Jing felt a little strange to me, "Do these brutes know that they are now captives?" How do you sing and dance? ”

It happened that Liu Jun came in from outside, took it and said: "They told us about it, they were all forced by Hongmaofan to come out to fight with us, and they also hate Hongmaofan, if we can feed them, they can also fight for us!" ”

"Huh! These people are the same as cats, who give food and listen to whom! If someone else had given it better, they would have defected! I think they're fit for labor! Just eat it! Li Jing said.

The kiln gang people set up a guard to prevent the red hair fan from sneaking up at night, and the result was that there was nothing to do all night. The Dutch didn't sleep well all night, how could they have the energy to sneak attack! They had been frightened by the battle of yesterday afternoon, and they were considering whether to flee or defend Batavia. Arguments went on and on, but it was easy to come out and advise Decarbent: "Even if we flee into the mountains, we will be hunted down like prey." If you don't surrender, you will be in the city, and maybe the people of Yaogang will not be willing to build such a good house in the city, and they will not bombard it with their heavy artillery. ”

really made Yi Yi right, Li Jing and Liu Chenghuang were really reluctant to bombard Batavia City with artillery.

By daybreak, there were already a lot of speedboats and gunboats on the big ship. According to the map, each gunboat and speedboat was assigned a target for the attack. Shore infantry were also assigned targets separately.

As soon as the battle began, the warships of Yaogang still began to speak first, and their cannons shelled the main buildings opposite. Those buildings that are clearly armed, and the fortifications above them are very obvious, then there is no care to protect them. Li Jing told the officers and soldiers that the lives of our soldiers are more important than anything else.

On both sides of the banks of the Chiliwang River, artillery tore a gap in the city of Batavia. Gunboats and speedboats, rushing into the past with black smoke.

The Dutch soldiers who were lying in ambush behind the building finally had a chance to shoot with their muskets, but if they fired a single shot, the heavy machine guns on the speedboat would shoot a string of bullets. The buildings in this area, because they are located in the tropics, do not need to be protected from the cold, many of the buildings are not very strong, and they can't stop the bullets of the machine guns at all.

Even if a shot was fired from the window behind some fortified buildings, a 65-mm shell from the gunboat would return a shell into the window.

The sound of gunfire quickly resounded everywhere in Batavia. The infantry of the kiln hill also followed the passable place, and the tide flooded into the city in a high-spirited manner. The sound of gunfire and hands soon rang out everywhere.

Yoo Sung-huang said, "I hope the battle can end today!" ”

Liu Jun said: "Father, don't worry, as long as our soldiers are not careless, there should not be too much loss!" ”

"Yesterday afternoon, although we had a lively fight, there were not many people killed except for Javanese soldiers! The rest will be settled in Batavia! Li Jing said.

"Actually, our battle with Hongmaofan today is likely to be a decisive battle between us and Hongmaofan in Nanyang. Their main forces are here. It's solved here, and the matter of Nanyang is almost over! Liu Chenghuang said.

"Yes! It's over here, shouldn't you go back and form an air force! Li Jing said, "Why don't you go back with us?" ”

"Not yet! I'm going to wait for Shi Xiu to come over and explain to him!" Liu Chenghuang said.

"Isn't Uncle Shi Xiu studying the matter of entering Australia? How did you come to that place? Yoo Jun asked.

"That's true, Shi Xiu has never been to the south, and he needs to be given some time to get used to Nanyang. Besides, the soldiers who marched into Australia also had to be transferred from the Nanyang side, and he also needed to familiarize himself with the situation! They can't always talk on paper at the General Staff! Li Jing said.

At this time, the staff officer came over and reported: "Report, report from the front, our regiment and battalion have surrounded the Batavia City Hall building!" ”