As soon as the shrednel from the violent explosion fell from the sky, and the smoke of gunpowder had not completely dispersed, the counterattack against the enemy troops who had come in for reinforcements quickly began. Under normal circumstances, in the face of a team that is fully armed with plate armor and decent firearms and has a certain amount of training, even with the elite of the main force of the volunteer army, it will cost a certain amount of cost and time to make a breakthrough, and there is a high probability that it will not be able to annihilate the opponent, but when the continuous violent explosions have temporarily caused the opponent's forward team to temporarily lose its reliable combat effectiveness, the battle situation has become one-sided.

Approaching a distance of about twenty or thirty paces, more than 400 elite archers in the attack launched a series of accurate arrows against the exposed enemy troops under the cover of firearmsmen, and in a very short period of time, they broke through the protection of the opponent's shoulders or head with a strong bow of two or three buckets, killing and wounding six or seven hundred people, and only after suffering more than a quarter of the losses from the previous blows to the enemy's surprise attack did the approaching enemy troops begin to react.

Some chose to resist in this situation, but many more chose to flee, and after a not too fierce and suspenseful battle, the situation quickly became one-sided, and the more than 5,000 enemy soldiers who came to reinforce were finally escaped because they were not dismounted as reserves, and the other 3,000 were either carried or purged in the ensuing counterattack.

The annihilating blow to the enemy on the shore had greatly boosted the morale of the elite officers and men of the provisional marine battalion, but in order to prevent accidents during the attack, and because the reserve forces on the ship were too thin at this time, the captain of the temporary detachment did not let the troops on shore attack too far without being completely sure of the outcome of the naval battle that lasted until the evening yesterday. Instead, they began to build relatively wide fortifications not far from the port of Batavia, waiting for their own fleet, which was likely to gradually gather in a day.

The officers and men who had come ashore to carry out the fortification work did not seem to have waited long, and around noon, a large fleet of ships began to appear near the sea antenna. The previous signal contact and the pattern of the fleet in the telescope also began to cheer the officers and men of the army and navy who remained on the shore near Batavia. Because it was clear: the previous day's naval battle would inevitably end with a great victory for their own men. The distance near the sea antenna seemed to be very far, but after an hour, the fleet gradually approached from a distance along the coastline and began to land and increase troops, and the officers and men with marines began to gradually go ashore in a fairly scattered formation, and soon about 5,000 troops were gathered on the shore, and the time for attacking the enemy's defensive stronghold began to gradually mature at this time.

At this time, Wang Yuan did not hesitate any longer, and soon issued an order to attack the enemy strongholds in the Batavia area. In order to prevent any possible accidents, the team also maintained a relatively scattered formation as much as possible in the process of advancing according to the order, and carried protective equipment such as shields and started to advance.

When the combat effectiveness of the troops was very guaranteed, the formation of about 5,000 troops seemed to have the largest number of tens of thousands of regular troops, and the formation of the regular army quickly surrounded the enemy's strongholds in the Batavia area from all directions, and the rumbling artillery also sounded at this time.

Although they saw the fierceness and strength of the enemy's landing force, because most of the strongholds on the shore were built outside the effective threat distance of artillery at sea, and a seemingly complete fortress system was formed, not many people felt too much pressure. More than 200 medium and heavy guns deployed in all directions in the fortress fired tens of thousands of heavy shotguns in less than a minute, posing a considerable threat of casualties to the attacking team and finally bringing the team to a halt about 200 paces from the enemy's city.

But soon after, more than 1,000 gunners and 200 Baotou steel light guns and 600 pieces of three-two guns accompanied by the team also began to concentrate on the enemy's defense system in the south, and the attacking team also began to approach to a closer distance under the alternate cover, directly suppressing the opponent with accurate bows and arrows, and advancing under the alternate action and cover of the supplementary artillery.

Of course, relying on the cover of many fortifications at the head of the fortress, although there is a certain risk of casualties, there is still a continuous fire from the city. Most of this firepower was withstood by the thorough shield protection, but it still caused casualties on a scale that was not deliberately ignored.

It's just that when the distance between the two sides is shortened to the nearest distance of about sixty or seventy paces, the heavy arrow rain that the strong bow continues to unfold can suppress the opponent by means of side fire, and then the firepower of the counterattack is like a lot.

Immediately after that, the special blasting attack team began to use specially prepared ultra-light mortars to blast out more than ten catties of pottery black powder one after another at a distance of about fifty or sixty paces, which was also one of the thunderbolts that the Central Manor Research Institute had just trial-produced and equipped the team with shortly after that.

Under the effect of two or three kilograms of black powder, these explosive mines are no longer only a psychological suppression effect after all, even for the heavily armed and protected enemy troops have begun to have some suppressive effect, and hundreds of more than ten pounds of explosive shells in succession have smashed the enemy's intention to prepare for stubborn resistance with the help of the cover of the fortress wall at the last distance. Although the defense system here seems to be much better than that of Manila, it will not escape the fate of being disintegrated and breached.

At this time, there seems to be no suspense about the outcome of the battle, because it is obvious that the previous battle between the two sides has reflected the huge gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides.

Although at the end of the day, the defenders were forced to carry out a demolition defense that imitated the past, and with tens of thousands of catties of black powder, hundreds of thousands of heavy lead bullets were blown up in early preparation, but only caused about two or three hundred casualties to the attacking team under the fierce blasting defense, and finally did not avoid the fate of being breached.

After Wang Yuan completed the final consultation in the Batavia area in the next few days, after leaving behind about 3,000 elite troops, he embarked on the return voyage with a lot of captured assets.

(End of chapter)