The two torpedo destroyers each dropped a small sampan and sent ten sailors to the dock.

The sailors lay on the sampan in a panic, looked up and observed, only to see a large stream of gunpowder rising from the shore, and it was obvious that someone was using a gun or a gun loaded with gunpowder to shoot, but because the range was not enough, it could only fall far on the sea surface two or three hundred meters in front of the sampan.

"Fire, give me the place where the guns rang out!" The captain of the torpedo destroyer immediately gave the order for shelling.

Both torpedo destroyers were equipped with 120 mm main guns and 57 mm secondary guns, and the rate of fire could reach five rounds per minute, which was the fastest rapid-fire gun of this era.

Dozens of shells were densely smashed into the places where the smoke of gunpowder rose, and the violent explosion rose even more smoke.

After the explosion, there were no more gunshots.

Seeing that the sampan was dangling on the sea and unwilling to move forward, the captain of the torpedo destroyer, seeing that there was no movement on the shore beach, used the flag to convey a strong order: "Keep moving forward and quickly go ashore to reconnoitre!" ”

The sailors of the two sampans had no choice but to move on and cautiously board the pier.

From time to time, a few men appeared on the shore and fired at the sailors who had landed from afar, but as soon as the sailors returned fire or called for the support of the torpedo destroyers, the men who came out disappeared.

Seeing this, the two torpedo destroyers planned to simply sail to the dock area and dock, sending more sailors to rush to the pier from the trestle.

However, when he approached the dock area, he saw that the dock area had been damaged by blasting, so he had to use a sampan to send more than 30 sailors ashore, meet the ten sailors who had landed in front of him, and search the dock area.

After a search by the sailors, there was nothing more special in the dock area except that the dock was damaged and could not be used, and there was no harassment by the Huaxia Army.

Two hours later, two torpedo destroyers returned to report to Dipole that a massive landing was now possible.

Axon was puzzled by this: "Strange, why didn't those hateful Huaxia people use the six cannons on the battery to resist our fleet?" ”

Tilis scoffed at this: "Hehe, Lieutenant General Axon, those Chinese people with pigtail pigtails on their heads are no different from the indigenous tribes, they will only fight a dozen guerrilla attacks in the jungle, use some despicable means to surround our army that strayed into the jungle encirclement, and then eat human flesh!" Where will you know how to use what artillery bombardment? They understand what geometry is, what trigonometric functions are, how can they know how to calculate the ballistic distance of a shell? I think they either blew up the cannon or buried it. ”

Hearing Tyris's mockery of the army under his command, Axon's old face moved for a moment, and he was speechless.

Dipole was very impatient, thinking that two hours had made him wait too long, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he asked: "When will our army be able to land!" ”

Akson hesitated for a moment and replied: "Lord Governor, the army is under the cover of the fleet, and it can now be landed on a large scale!" ”

"Okay, land now, recover Pontianak, recover Dongwanyu!"

After the large-scale landing of the Dutch army, there was no trace of the Huaxia army in the port area, and no trace of the Huaxia army was found in the urban area.

Akson was most concerned about the artillery of the port battery, and immediately sent a search team to where to send a search team, and the Dutch troops who searched for the battery were very unlucky, and as soon as they entered the battery, they stepped on a mine, causing a large explosion, killing fifty or sixty soldiers, and not even the shadow of the cannon was seen. It seems that this cannon was really disassembled by the Huaxia Army, and I don't know where it was transported.

In fact, among the six cannons of this fort, there are two 210 mm caliber and 25 times the body tube, and the other four are 155 mm caliber and 35 times the body tube, although Hu Zhen is not very eye-catching, but before the large-caliber artillery was manufactured in Lag Town, there was still some value in using it to defend the port, so he ordered the six cannons to be dismantled and transported away, and let the port of Pontianak be reoccupied by the Dutch army.

After reoccupying Pontianak, Dipol wanted to immediately advance to East Wanlu, but Akson said that the Huaxia army gave up Pontianak easily, and it was necessary to deceive, and suggested that it was only necessary to build fortifications in Pontianak to prepare for defense, and only to wait for the whole army of 70,000 horses to arrive before starting to move to East Wanlu, the two pulled a few words, and finally Aksong also captured a few routed officers and asked them to confess that the Huaxia army was very strong, so as to prove that they could not casually advance to East Wanlu.

But no matter what Axson said, Dipol insisted on marching into Dongwanlu, and in the end Akson compromised, saying that he would send twenty search teams to Dongwanlu with a total of 3,000 people to reconnoiter the situation before the army arrived.

After leaving the door, Dipole walked aimlessly down the road and ran into Rear Admiral Tilis.

Tilis, a son of a noble family, behaved very politely: "Hello, Dear Governor, where are you going, can I serve you?" ”

"It's not all those damn Army! Akson, this old guy said that he can't enter Dongwanlu yet! ”

"With all due respect, Lord Governor, if it were our navy, it might be time for Admiral Axon to retire. But, I'm sorry! You know, he's not our Navy! It is a pity that our naval fleet could not sail into the jungles of Borneo. ”

Tilis shrugged his shoulders, he did not think in his heart that he would one day replace Axon as the supreme military governor of the Dutch East Indies colony, so seeing that the Governor had complained about the old fellow, what aristocratic demeanor had long since flown away.

After listening to Tilis's words, Dipole, who hated Axon for being timid and afraid, felt that he had a confidant, and couldn't help but praise Tilis: "Dear General Tyris, you are really different from others, you are really a noble blood inheritance!" Would you like to come and have two glasses of wine with me? ”

This was exactly what Tilis wanted, and he immediately said, "Yes, thank you, Lord Governor!" ”

The two went to a luxury cruise ship in Dipole to drink wine.

The bitter old man Akson, but in the headquarters conscientiously arranged the affairs of the army to re-enter Pontianak, and was busy until late at night and still working with the lights.

On the Huaxia Army's side, Hu Zhen also stayed awake all night.

In the middle of the night, the scouts finally came back with a message: after reconnaissance by the scouts in several aspects, it was finally confirmed that all the naval fleets of the Dutch East Indies Colonies were anchored in the anchorage outside the port of Pontianak! However, due to the haste of the Dutch army, many ships transporting the army are arriving one after another, and it is possible that there will be more Dutch transport ships until tomorrow.

The accurate information has been confirmed, and it is up to Hu Zhen to make the final decision on whether to seize the Dutch fleet tonight.

Do you want to do it tonight?

On the eve of the decisive battle between the Huaxia army and the Dutch army, who can sleep?