Chapter 595: Seize the ship

Four hundred soldiers and cadets besieged a Dutch ship, and the first group of about 30 people to climb the ship did not rush into the cabin, but tacitly took off the crossbow hanging behind them, and hooked the trap at the Dutch who rushed out of the cabin.

With the sound of strings, the Dutch crew members who rushed out fell to the deck one after another, and the crossbows and crossbows at close range were fired, and it was difficult to shoot without shooting.

Hand crossbows and long knives were the standard equipment for soldiers and cadets, while the clumsy muskets with troublesome reloading were only a few.

Under the cover of the soldiers who had landed on deck first, the soldiers on the small boat climbed onto the deck of the Dutch ship one after another. When the number of their own people on the deck exceeded 100, Wu Ping, who had already followed the second batch of ships, gave an order, and the soldiers rushed into the cabin with crossbows in their hands and long knives.

This Galen armed sailing ship had three decks and four cabins, and it was necessary to clear the ship of enemies layer by layer. At this time, the Dutch and the servant army on the ship had already reacted, and under the command of several Dutchmen, they were trying to rush out of the cabin to launch a counterattack, "bang bang bang", and from time to time bullets flew out of the cabin.

Although the Dutch armed sailing ships are mainly trade-based, but robbing the sea ships and robbing the natives of the islands is a way to make money, so the word "armed" is named in front of the sailing ship, and the main trade-based Ming maritime merchants, each Dutch ship is extremely armed, whether it is the Dutch or the servant army, almost everyone has weapons, and the armament rate of muskets is extremely high. If it is pulled out alone, it is a small army. So there is such a thing as a colonial army of more than 100 people in the New World that can wipe out an indigenous country.

So when the Dutch reacted and counterattacked, the casualties of the Ming army increased dramatically. The Dutch muskets are sharp, and the Dutch are even more tall and fierce, even those servant troops, who are used to looting and fighting on weekdays, and their combat effectiveness is not bad at all.

Three Dutchmen commanded about 20 natives to hide on the deck of the second floor, more than 20 muskets pointed at the entrance of the deck, and when the Ming army appeared, it was a round of muskets, and then the Dutch commander took the lead in launching a counterattack with bayonet swords.

The first attack had already been fought, with more than a dozen casualties.

Wu Ping was furious in his heart, but his face was calm, "Use a grenade!" He commanded in a deep voice, and a dozen soldiers took out round grenades from their belts, took out their fire sickles, and lit the fuses.

The fuse burned, and when it was halfway through, the soldiers threw out the grenades, which rolled down the planks of the ship and fell down the entrance to the second deck.

After a while, a violent and dull continuous explosion came from the second deck, followed by a series of ghosts crying wolf. Under the prompting of Chen Yue, the Duke of Qi Guo, Pan Xuezhong took the grenade, a combat weapon recently developed by the personnel of the Ordnance Division, to use it on the battlefield for the first time.

When the explosion stopped, Wu Ping waved his hand, and the soldiers rushed down the deck with long knives, and then saw the messy corpses lying on the ground and the wailing wounded.

This kind of grenade shell is cast iron, filled with gunpowder, because it is black powder, the power of the explosion is not very large, at most the explosion can tear the iron shell into seven or eight pieces, but even so, more than a dozen grenades have exploded, its power is not trivial, more than 20 Dutch and servant troops below, most of them were hit by the whirling shrapnel.

The few who were still standing were also stunned, and then they were overwhelmed by the swarming Ming army.

Next, the soldiers opened the way with grenades, and whenever they met resistance, they threw a few grenades, and the Dutch were all blown up and howled wolf.

The grenade is a new weapon that has been used to great power. Although the explosion power of the black powder is not very large, the weight made in order to increase the power is very heavy, and the gunpowder and the shell are full of three catties, and they can't be thrown far at all. However, in this kind of melee combat, it is where it comes into play.

Although the Dutch and their servants were highly combative, and equipped with a large number of muskets, they could not exert their combat effectiveness in the face of this new weapon.

Soon the battle was one-sided, with large numbers of Dutch and servant troops being blown up in pools of blood.

In the end, the Dutch took refuge in the lowest cabin and shielded the entrance with wooden crates loaded with cargo to protect against grenades.

By this time, the entire ship had been occupied, and the soldiers were clearing the enemy from each compartment floor by floor. A hundred soldiers surrounded the entrance to the lowest cabin, but they did not rush into the attack.

"Shout and make them surrender!" Wu Ping ordered in a deep voice.

Can the Dutch understand the Da Ming dialect? The soldiers looked at each other, but they still obeyed Wu Ping's orders. A loud soldier shouted into the cabin.

"Listen, the people inside, give you a stick of incense time to come out and surrender, otherwise, otherwise, we will set fire to the ship and burn you all inside!"

"What are they shouting?" There were three Dutchmen left in the docks, and the commander, a lieutenant named Anglo, asked.

At this time, there were still more than thirty people left in the cabin, including three Dutch, fifteen or sixteen Javanese black slaves, and the rest were Ming people who took refuge in the Netherlands. It is said that it is the Ming people, in fact, many of these people went to the islands of the South Seas during the Song Dynasty and lived in Malacca, Java and other places, but with the occupation of the islands by the Dutch, these Chinese were also enslaved by the Dutch, and many people had to do things for the Dutch.

However, as Chinese Americans, most of these people can also speak Chinese, and of course they can understand the shouts of the soldiers who persuaded them to surrender. When Anglo asked a question, someone translated it for him.

"Don't listen to them, they don't dare to set fire to the ship, they can't bear to have so much cargo on this ship." Anglo hurriedly shouted, encouraging the servant army to continue the confrontation.

"Anglo, why don't we surrender, if they really set fire to the ship, we will all be burned here, it's a big deal to surrender and pay some ransom, wouldn't it be better than dying here." A man named Duncan next to him suddenly said that this Duncan was a German.

"Fart, surrender and we'll have nothing!" Anglo scolded with red eyes.

But if you don't surrender, you won't even have your life, unlike Anglo who is so stubborn, Duncan and the two Dutchmen have long been shaken psychologically.

The Dutch were still like this, and the internal Javanese and Chinese servant armies were even more shaken. Resistance is a dead end, surrender may still be able to live, at this time, as long as you are not stupid, you will know how to choose

So, before a stick of incense arrived, the vast majority of the people had already decided to surrender, and Anglo, who was angry and unwilling to surrender, was tightly hugged by two Chinese and tied up with ropes.