Chapter 59: The Occupation of Java and the Resumption of the Galleon Trade

"Oops! These guys are fast enough! Li Jing didn't expect that the attacking army would surround the Batavia City Hall building so quickly.

"Master, this is not strange!" Liu Jun said, "When I heard the gunfire, I felt that the soldiers were a little red-eyed!" ”

Liu Chenghuang also said: "Jun'er is right, our soldiers encountered the enemy's resistance, and the murderous spirit began!" Especially if there are casualties, it will be even more red-eyed! ”

really let Liu Chenghuang say, the defenders in Batavia City know that today's battle with the Yaogang people will undoubtedly be lost, that is, they must fight with the enemy as much as possible, and it can be regarded as a battle for honor. The defense of the entire city was not organized at all, and they basically fought on their own, relying on the many buildings in the city and the network of rivers. But they didn't expect that the kiln people would prepare a lot of speedboats and gunboats. The river network, which was originally an obstacle, became the best channel for the Yaogang people to attack, and they gave full play to the advantages of speedboats and gunboats. In particular, the attacking kiln gang officers and soldiers encountered the stubborn resistance of the defenders, which aroused the murderous spirit of the officers and soldiers. With the superior weapons in their hands, they cleared the defenders house by house. In fact, it was the Javanese soldiers who were assisted in the defense of the city of Dekabunt made the officers and soldiers of the kiln gang who besieged the city feel very troublesome, they were really not afraid of death, and they didn't know where they would come from in the city with spears and rush out. often caught the kiln soldiers off guard. Instead, the Red-haired (Dutch) soldiers hid in their rooms and secretly shot with muskets.

At first, the kiln soldiers still shot out of the window, and they returned fire and threw their hands into the window. Later, on the way to attack, when encountering a house, I first threw it with my hand, and then attacked after the explosion. In this way, the efficiency is improved! But everywhere you go, too many people are killed! Fortunately, the good houses are all Xiyi people.

The battalion that surrounded the Batavia City Hall building, their task was to leave it alone, and after the troops in front of them had tore through the hole, they rushed in to settle the place.

At first, the commander of the first battalion was still patiently waiting for the other troops to open the way for them, but after fighting for a while, he couldn't wait any longer, so he took this battalion and attacked it himself. Because they didn't have to worry about clearing out the remnants of the enemy, the battalion eliminated some of the enemy who stood in their way, did not entangle with the enemy, and rushed in and surrounded the Batavia City Hall building.

At this time, Li Jing and Liu Chenghuang were a little surprised, and Dekabent didn't expect it, he knew that the Yaogang people were attacking from outside the city, and there were still many lines of defense to his city hall building. However, Dekabent was not overly panicked, first, he had already made up his mind to die, and second, he found that after the attack of the Kiln Gang began, he basically did not bombard the buildings in the city with heavy weapons. And now the doors and windows of the government hall building have basically been blocked, and the roof and windows are all shooting positions, and he thinks that the kiln gang people will have to pay a lot of price if they want to attack it!

How did Dekabent know that Li Jing's instructions to the battalion surrounding the city hall building were to take down the building at the lowest cost.

The battalion commander of the battalion that surrounded the city hall building got a telegram from Li Jing from the division headquarters, and his understanding was that the city hall building should be taken at the lowest cost, which means that there should be fewer deaths, and the building should not be destroyed too much!

The battalion commander summoned several company commanders, made a simple arrangement, and the offensive began!

The first was the infantry artillery that kept up, opening fire and bombarding the doors and windows of the building. The wooden doors and windows, plus the sandbags piled together, blew up one by one, all the light and heavy machine guns blocked the fortifications upstairs, and the mortars sent the shells upstairs, and lifted the sandbags upstairs together with the Hongmao soldiers downstairs, and the kiln soldiers rushed to the wall of the city hall building under the cover of light and heavy machine guns, and threw a lot of hands into the window in a row, and the smoke of the explosion of the hands ** had not yet dissipated, and the soldiers rushed into the door and the window with automatic rifles.

After a while, there was an explosion of hands and the sound of rifle shooting from inside the building.

The red-haired and Javanese soldiers outside the city hall building found that the situation on the side of the city hall building was not good, and under the leadership of the officer, reinforcements came here. There were thousands of people rushing from several roads shouting. This is the sober-minded Dutch officers who understood that if the town hall building was taken, they would be a complete defeat! So they rushed over to support regardless of life or death.

Some of the officers and soldiers of the kiln gang who surrounded the city hall building rushed into the building, while others turned to meet the enemy who rushed over to support the enemy. Under the fire of their light and heavy machine guns, automatic rifles, and mortars, they were soon filled with enemy corpses.

The officers and soldiers of the other armies of the kiln gang who rushed into the city also reacted very quickly, and quickly surrounded the city hall building, and began to attack the enemy troops who supported them from behind. A few thousand people are not enough for them to fight.

The fiercest battle of the Batavia offensive was soon over!

After attacking the city hall building, the battle was very brutal, because the opponent resolutely refused to surrender, so there were basically no prisoners, and each room was thrown into a few hands **, and then entered the house to clear it. In such a battle, the soldiers of Yaogang will not think about what to capture, and those who are not dead will be killed with guns.

The only regret is that the messenger was also killed in such a battle.

After the city hall building was occupied, all that remained was to search for the remnants of the enemy house by house in the city of Batavia. The enemy had no command, and the Javanese soldiers who had entered the city to help in the battle found that the situation was not good, and fled out of the city like a tide. The officers and soldiers of Yaogang did not intercept them, and they fled from the city, which was conducive to solving the remnants of the enemy in the city as soon as possible.

The officers and soldiers who entered the city were still fighting, and the bodies of Dekapent and Yi were sent out of the city, and Li Jing and Liu Chenghuang examined the corpses, and asked the captured red-haired soldiers to authenticate Dekapent's body. After Li Jing had people take pictures, they were cremated as soon as possible. Also give their ashes to their families.

Liu Chenghuang said to the commander of the First Army of the Mountain Jungle Army: "According to the plan, just leave one regiment to clean up Batavia!" The other armies attacked Surabaya, Semarang, and Banten respectively. After these key places are taken, Java will have a heavier task of hunting Javanese soldiers than Sumatra. ”

After the commander left, Li Jing asked Liu Chenghuang: "Lao Liu, I heard that there are more than 20,000 islands in Nanyang, you have been in Nanyang for so long, you are familiar with the situation, can we gather these natives on a few islands and let them fend for themselves?" ”

"It's not that easy," Mr. Liu said, "and the people here are of many nationalities and are different. Beliefs are also different! Put them together and they'll be fighting soon. ”

"Hey! They are not much stronger than monkeys, and they don't believe what they believe! Li Jing said.

"That's true, but a lot of things aren't as easy as they say!" "In the long run, if we want to gain a foothold in Nanyang, we also need to get along with them," Liu said. However, they must be subdued by force now, and then by the policy of softness. Otherwise, they will think we are weak. Too kind to them! They prefer to obey the strong! Our practice of convincing people with virtue does not apply to them. That's for civilized people! ”

Zhang Zhimu and his party returned to Hankou to rest for two days. It was also here that they received the news that Li Jing had occupied Batavia and were sweeping away the remnants of the enemy on the island of Java.

Everyone drank tea on the open-air platform facing the Yangtze River in the Hankou Hotel, and after reading the telegram, Ouyang He said happily: "I see that there is a big island on the other side of the South Seas, Borneo!" Borneo is said to be a very large island! ”

"Borneo is not the third largest island in our world." Zhang Zhimu said, "Li Jing and Liu Chenghuang left two divisions to solve here, and the number of troops is not too much!" ”

Chen Yufeng asked with great interest: "Zhimu, how big is the third largest island you are talking about?" ”

"Huh! How Bini? Zhang Zhimu said, "Let's say so! It's much bigger than Japan's Honshu Island, bigger than the original North Korea, and bigger than our Shanxi and Shaanxi combined! How's that, it's big enough, right? Moreover, it is evergreen in all seasons, and can produce three crops of rice a year, which is very suitable for rubber tree production, and there are also oil, coal, gold and diamond deposits! In other places in the world, you can't see new animals and plants! ”

Xiaohu was willing to listen to the adults, and this time he couldn't help asking: "Uncle, when are you going to Borneo, I also want to go with you!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen, who had just come over, happened to hear Xiaohu's words and took it, "What a good place, I also want to go and see it!" ”

Xiaohu had never spoken to the emperor, and said a little timidly: "Uncle just said that Borneo is a very good place!" ”

"What? We've taken Borneo!? Emperor Chongzhen asked happily.

"Not yet!" Zhang Zhimu said, "They have just solved Batavia, which is the headquarters of Hongmaofan, and in the next step, they have prepared two divisions of troops to prepare to solve Borneo!" ”

"Oops! There are so many things to say about Borneo! Emperor Chongzhen said, "If Borneo is really defeated, I really want to see what Borneo is like?" ”

"Borneo is too far away, but they can record it with a video camera. When Li Jing and the others come back, the emperor will be able to see the situation over there! Ouyang He said.

Lu Chengxiang came over with a telegram in his hand, and when he saw what everyone was talking about, he sat down next to Zhang Zhimu without speaking, and the waiter poured him tea and drank it.

Zhang Zhimu turned his head sideways and asked, "There is something urgent, Mr. Lu?" ”

"No hurry!" Lu Chengxiang said and handed the telegram to Zhang Zhimu.

After reading the telegram, Zhang Zhimu said with a smile: "Lu Qi is good!" It's not in vain that you put your heart and soul into him! After speaking, Zhang Zhimu said to everyone present, "Our Mr. Lu's nephew, Lu Qi, has sent a telegram, and he has asked for the immediate resumption of the galleon trade. Some people may not know what the galleon trade is. In fact, it is a sea trade route developed by the Francois people. It is a direct trade from the port of Manila across the Great Oriental Ocean (Pacific Ocean) to Mexico. Because the ships they use are all galleons that we hired me to build in Manila, it's called the galleon trade. Although their ship sailed from Manila, the goods they trafficked were our silk and porcelain. Since we occupied Manila and drove out the Francos (Spaniards), this galleon trade stopped. Our original plan was to take care of all the affairs of Nanyang and then expand overseas. In fact, it is a bit conservative, our Lu Qi suggested, there is no need to wait, we can send our own fleet to Mexico, take over this golden route, and do our business to Mexico. You may not know what's going on in Mexico, but I'll tell you, it's rich in silver! Through there we can also sell our goods to many parts of the world! ”

"With this good thing, we don't have to wait any longer!" Emperor Chongzhen said.

"Mexico still seems to be occupied by the Franciscans, and when we go, we have to bring a few warships!" Ouyang He said.

"Yes!" Zhang Zhimu said, "This matter should be considered thoroughly, especially when we sailed for the first time. We should form a fleet of merchant ships, warships, and supply ships. ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "I suggest that our cargo ship go to two 5,000-ton wooden sailing ships. This route has not been opened for several years, and the goods of the two big ships should be able to be sold! Let's go with two more warships and a supply ship! With such a fleet, I don't think anyone dares to stop it! ”

"Behold! Let's go to a 1,800-ton and a 1,500-ton ship! Zhang Zhimu said.

Ouyang He said: "Mr. Zhang, I think we should send a few more boats out, this is the best exercise for them!" Our fleet will soon go to the world, and it is a rare opportunity to accompany the trading ships to go out to practice sailing across the oceans! ”

"Hmmm! Mr. Ouyang is right! Zhang Zhimu said, "We can organize a fleet to go out and go to a few more ships!" Everybody exercise. The boat that goes can be reassigned from other boats to participate. Let everyone see! ”