Chapter 125: Conquering Batavia (1)
Batavia was the center of the Dutch East Indies colony from 1619 onwards, and after two and a half centuries of Dutch operation, it became a fortified port city with fortified forts and fortress-like defensive positions.
Originally, Batavia had tens of thousands of troops to defend, but Dipole wanted to concentrate his troops on Borneo to encircle and suppress the Chinese army, and Batavia's garrison was repeatedly transferred, and now there are less than 1,000 old, weak, sick and disabled troops and more than 2,000 police forces.
The core firepower of this fort is six 280 mm caliber heavy guns, each weighing 60 tons, 35 times the diameter of the barrel, using a back-mounted fire, installed in the fortified fortress of the fort, with a wide field of view and firing boundary, and safely controlling the entire port area and the city of Batavia.
In addition to these six 280-mm guns, the fort group was equipped with 155-mm guns, 18 120-mm guns, and 18 75-mm guns.
The 57 guns of the battery group formed the core firepower of Batavia's defense system, but now it was facing the embarrassment of empty troops: the battery group was originally equipped with more than 3,000 officers and men, but now it was guarded by more than 400 people, and some artillery batteries had problems with whether they could raise their muzzles and aim at their targets.
However, the Dutch officers and soldiers who remained in Batavia and all the Dutch in Batavia thought that there was nothing wrong with this, because in their minds, only the great powers of Europe could threaten Batavia, and in the Far East of Asia, the barbarians who could threaten Batavia had not yet been born.
As a result, Batavia had only about 1,000 old, weak, sick and disabled troops and more than 2,000 policemen, but everything was as usual, and the fortifications were as lax as ever.
The fate of many people in Batavia was decided under such circumstances.
At dawn on this day, under the guidance of a yawning white pilot, two transport ships returning from Borneo slowly approached the docks.
Because the Dutch Governor's Office had decided to use troops against Borneo, the people on the docks were not at all concerned about the transport ships that often carried heavy troops, nor did they feel the slightest surprise at the two transports that returned at dawn today.
After the two transport ships docked at the dock, a long line of indigenous soldiers dressed in Dutch uniforms came out of it.
As soon as the soldiers came out, they rushed to the key points of the dock, and several sentry posts on the dock were brought under control before they could understand what was going on.
In the hazy morning light of the Buddha's dawn, dozens of Chinese people came to the dock to greet these Dutch soldiers.
The leading Chinese people said: "Confidant in the sea!" ”
Someone among the Dutch soldiers immediately responded in Chinese: "The ends of the world are like neighbors!" ”
"Great, I'm finally looking forward to you coming!"
"Let you wait for a long time, don't say polite words, you quickly split up and lead us to the various defensive positions and batteries in Batavia!"
"We've already arranged it, please come with us!"
It turned out that the more than 1,000 Dutch soldiers on the two transport ships were the vanguard of the Huaxia Army, the special combat team, and under the leadership of Ma Shaohao, they entered the port of Batavia in disguise.
Through radio contact, the Huaxia Army arranged for Batavia's intelligence officers to mobilize a large number of Huaxia people to lead the way for the Huaxia Army to attack various key points in Batavia's urban area.
After the two sides finished talking, immediately according to the planned grouping, the special combat team first controlled the Dutch sentry posts on the pier that did not know what was going on, and then acted separately, led by the local Chinese, and quickly rushed to the defensive positions of the Dutch army.
In the artillery position that Ma Shaohao personally led the special combat team members to, along the way, he saw that the muzzle of the Dutch artillery was not covered with a gun jacket, but the Dutch army did not even have a person standing guard, which made Ma Shaohao very suspicious that the person who led the way was not leading the wrong way, so he asked: "Is it the wrong way, why is the Dutch army's guard so lax?" ”
"That's right, it's this road, I come here every day to sell fruits, I can't go wrong with my eyes closed, those who usually hold it like this, no one in my eyes for hundreds of years, I never thought that we would come to attack today, and we never arranged a sentry!" The passer-by insisted that he did not go the wrong way.
Ma Shaohao expected that there could be no problem with the guide arranged by Chen Zichao of the Intelligence Department, so he ordered the people behind: "Follow behind, speed up!" ”
When he rushed to the door of the Dutch barracks, he still did not see a sentry, but when he was about to rush into the Dutch barracks, a Dutch soldier came out of it, but he was wearing a military uniform and a pair of small shorts underneath, and he looked sleepy-eyed. Seeing a group of people rushing over in the haze, this person couldn't help but ask, "Who are you?" ”
"Humph!" Ma Shaohao didn't bother to pay attention to him, and directly used two pistols equipped with silencer tubes, fired two robberies at his chest, and beat him to the ground with a scream.
Before the man fell, Ma Shaohao rushed forward, stepped on his chest, and rushed into the barracks. 、
After rushing in, Ma Shaohao waved the flashlight in his hand, and a pillar of light shone around, only to see hundreds of soldiers lying inside, hearing screams outside, and some people were about to get up.
"Fire!" Ma Shaohao's two pistols pulled the trigger at the same time, spraying silent blazing flames into the crowd.
The special operators who rushed in behind all shot fiercely at the enemy in the house with their weapons.
The enemy in the house had no power to fight back at all, but Ma Shaohao felt that it was not enough, and ordered: "Go up and cut with a machete!" ”
For this sneak attack, each special combat team member carried a machete behind his back, and when he heard Ma Shaohao's order, he drew his machete one after another and slashed at the enemy's body.
It was a one-sided massacre, but in a matter of minutes, all the unarmed Dutch soldiers were killed and hacked to death, and the special operators successfully occupied an artillery position and controlled two 280 mm guns.
When rushing to the next position, the special combat personnel no longer used guns to fight, but all used knives to rush into the enemy camp and hack all the enemies to death.
The movement grew louder and louder, and later, when the soldiers saw that they were exposed, they were troublesome, so they simply threw grenades and explosives at the enemy camp, killing the enemy.
It's just that the positions of the Dutch army are too scattered, and the special operators ran over a long distance, and it took an hour before and after they took down the entire Dutch battery group.
When the Dutch troops and policemen in the city heard the movement on the pier and the fort, they gathered 300 soldiers and more than 1,300 policemen in panic, armed with single-shot rifles or muskets, and rushed towards the pier and the fort.