On January 9, Han Shin received a telegram from the General Staff forwarded by Fang Liang, approving his plan of action, which made him very happy, and he had planned to occupy Sulawesi from the moment he arrived in Samarinda, and now he could finally carry out his plan. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Immediately send someone to bring in the commander of the 6th division, the chief of staff of the division, the deputy division commander, the commander of the 1st regiment and the 2nd figure, and the captain of the destroyer.

The division commander first asked: "Chief of Staff, do you have any orders this time?" ”

"Don't call me chief of staff in the future, call me deputy chief of staff. Now the kingdom has set up an archipelago military district, with Fang Liang as chief of staff and I as deputy chief of staff, and the defense area of the archipelago military district is very large, from Sulawesi Island in the west to Papua Island in the east, from the Radi Islands in the south to the Talau Islands in the north, spanning 1,800 kilometers from north to south, and 2,500 kilometers from east to west. ”

"Yes, Deputy Chief of Staff, we are not afraid of a tough battle."

"That's good, my opinion and that of the Chief of Staff is that we set sail tomorrow afternoon, and arrive in Palu the morning after tomorrow, there are no Dutch soldiers stationed there, so it's very easy, and when we occupy Palu, we will leave a battalion, and the rest of the troops will continue to move north, to occupy Manado, and gradually occupy the surrounding areas and islands, and develop towards the island of Papua, and the ultimate goal is that the headquarters of the 6th Division and the 1st Regiment will be stationed in Sorong City, the 2nd Regiment will be stationed in Manokarri City, and the 3rd Regiment will be stationed in Jayapura City, The 4th regiment was stationed in the city of Agatz. Do you have any questions? “

"Nope."

"Okay, let's do it now, and get ready to set sail tomorrow at 4 o'clock in the afternoon."

"Yes, Chief of Staff"

The distance from Sammadalin to Palu is 250 kilometers, about 135 nautical miles, and at the speed of a merchant ship at 10 knots, it takes 14 hours, plus the time of departure and arrival, it takes at least 15 hours.

Since there were no Dutch troops stationed in Palu, Han Shin's plan was to place the 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment directly in Donggara Harbor, outside of Palu, and then the fleet would go north to Manado. Let the 1st Battalion go to Palu on its own and take over the power of Palu, but with at least one company of troops stationed in Donggara Port.

The sea distance from Palu to Manado is about 800 kilometers; It was about 430 nautical miles, and it took more than 45 hours to sail, and the time to reach Manado was around 5 o'clock in the morning on the 13th.

While sailing at sea, he received a telegram from the intelligence officer stationed in Manado, saying that the Dutch army was now under martial law in the city and had strengthened its armed forces against the port, and that if it was forced to land, it would definitely pay a great price, so it was recommended to disembark at the southern port of Bithon, and then march 50 kilometers to Manado City, and then fight a decisive battle with the Dutch army.

After receiving the telegram, Han Shin consulted with the division commander and chief of staff of the 6th Division, and felt that the advice of the intelligence officers was very good.

However, the chief of staff of the 6th Division proposed that it could be partially adopted, not completely adopted, and that the heavy material ships and the division headquarters, the 1st Regiment and destroyers, and 2 G5 were waiting in the open sea, and the 2 S6 escorted the 2nd Regiment to land at the port of Biton, and then launched an attack on Manado after a forced march of 50 kilometers, and the destroyers and G5 attacked the port in the open sea, so that the Dutch army could not care about each other and took advantage of the situation to occupy Manado.

Han Xin thought about it for a while, and felt that the escort force was weak, but he didn't dare to send the destroyer, which was very contradictory.

After thinking about it for a while, I felt that ordinary pirates would not dare to attack the army, and the troops had mountain artillery and mortars, and when the time came, the escorted torpedo boats could not defeat the pirates, and the mortars on the merchant ships could also support, and if they did not take risks, they would have to storm the port, and the losses would be not small. Having made up his mind, the opinion of the chief of staff of the 6th Division was adopted, and the order was quickly issued.

However, when the 2nd Division arrives at Bithong Port and then rushes to Manado City, it will be in the afternoon or evening, and it will definitely not be able to attack today, so it can only wait for the early morning of the 14th to launch an attack.

The Dutch officers and soldiers stationed in Manado saw so many merchant ships off the coast and knew that it was Lan Fang's army coming. The Dutch army has already done a lot of defensive measures in advance, just to prevent the Lanfang army from landing here, and now blocking the Lanfang army at sea makes the Dutch regiment commander a little excited.

The chief of staff of the Dutch regiment said: "The regiment commander is still prescient, the Lanfang people are really calling, this time we have to let them pretend to be bloody, and don't want to occupy this place without paying a heavy price." “

"The Lanfang people are very greedy for land, and they have not only occupied our Kalimantan Island, but also our Java Island and Sumatra Island, do you think they can let this place go?"

"It's all to blame on the governor, if it hadn't provoked the Chinese, it wouldn't have caused the Chinese to rebel, if you didn't lead the fleet to attack Kalimantan, you wouldn't have lost all the fleet, otherwise the situation of our kingdom wouldn't be so miserable, we were divided on different islands, it was difficult to support each other, and we could only defend passively."

"The Lanfang people attacked the city all the way, it was too smooth, they would only sneak attack, this time we just let them attack head-on, let them pay the price of blood, and let them know the combat effectiveness of our Dutch army."

In order to test the firepower of the Dutch army, and also to cover the strategy of the 2nd Regiment to land from Biton, Han Shin asked the destroyer to open fire on the Dutch on the shore.

"Commander, Lan Fang's army has begun to attack, look, their destroyer is coming."

"Don't be afraid, it's just a destroyer, it can't make any waves, we have shore defense artillery, when he gets closer, let's give him a little bit of power, don't fire the cannon first, put it close and then fight, and listen to my orders when the time comes."

"Yes, Captain."

The captain of the destroyer did not let the warship get too close to the coast, and he did not know whether there were shore defense guns on the shore, so he ordered the destroyer to start firing shells 10 kilometers away, and the four naval guns fired one by one, firing shells on land, which did not require high accuracy, and it was good to be able to attack the positions of the Dutch army, even if it could not be attacked, it would play a deterrent role.

The approach of the Lanfang warship made the Dutch regiment commander very angry, and he originally wanted to get closer and teach the Lanfang warship a lesson. In this case, the Dutch commander had no choice but to order the shore defense artillery to start attacking the destroyers of the Lanfang Kingdom.

As soon as the captain heard the sound of the Dutch shore defense guns, he knew that the caliber was at least 150mm, and immediately ordered the destroyer to retreat. Now that the details of the enemy are known and the goal has been achieved, there is no need to continue the attack.

The 2nd Regiment arrived at the port of Tonbitong at 11 noon and took nearly three hours to unload the ship.

Without rest, immediately after lunch, the march began, and by 8 o'clock in the evening it was already 30 kilometers of march. The commander of the 2nd Regiment made a report to the division headquarters, requesting that the 20-kilometer march should be made tomorrow morning and the offensive would begin tomorrow afternoon, otherwise the soldiers would be too tired and would not be able to rush into battle.

Han Shin read the telegram and agreed to the request of the 2nd regiment.

At 10 o'clock on the morning of the 14th, the troops reached 5 kilometers south of the city of Manado, and the commander of the 2nd regiment ordered the troops to stop advancing, rest for 1 hour, and asked the soldiers to start eating, drinking, checking equipment, and going into battle in the afternoon.

At 12:20, the 2nd Regiment launched an attack, and the Dutch army only defended in the direction facing the port, arranging heavy troops and shore defense artillery, and they did not expect the Lanfang army to kill from the back.

"Regiment commander, a large number of Lanfang troops have come from the direction of the city, the troops cannot be stopped, and they are attacking quickly."

"How many of them are there?"

"I don't know, but it's certainly not less than us."

The Dutch regiment commander was also caught in a dilemma. These Chinese are so cunning, how else to call them Chinese, their warships and fleets are all bait, they are deceiving us, and they fall for the Chinese.

Lan Fang's army was armed with a large number of light machine guns and semi-automatic rifles, which were not at all able to withstand the Dutch army. Moreover, the Lanfang army also had mortars, and for the heavy machine gun positions of the Dutch, they directly bombarded them, and did not send people to charge collectively at all.

The Dutch heavy machine gun position began to open fire, and the two Lanfang soldiers who rushed to the forefront were shot and fell, and the other soldiers knew that it was a heavy machine gun and fell down.

The company commander said fiercely: "Quick, the mortar is aimed at me and bombarded." ”

"Yes, company commander, you can see it."

Three mortars fired together, and one of the 60mm mortar shells landed next to the heavy machine gun, directly blowing the heavy machine gun into a pile of parts, and the Dutch machine gunner and ammunition man also fell in a pool of blood.

"Company commander, our heavy machine gun position was blown up by the Lanfang people, and we can't hold it."

"Have you asked for the Commander's help?"

The deputy company commander of the Dutch army said: "Company commander, I have already applied to the battalion headquarters and regiment headquarters, but the battalion commander and regiment commander said that there are no reinforcements. ”

"Mom, there is no way to fight this battle, retreat, retreat to the rear position, and continue to block the enemy."

"Company commander, even if you withdraw to the rear, you can't hold it, we still have less than half of the people."

"Don't talk about it yet, retreat first."

"Yes, company commander."

The Dutch army's position was gradually lost, and Lan Fang's army was approaching step by step.

The Dutch's shore defense guns could not turn their muzzles, and could only gradually shrink their line in the direction of the dock.

The chief of staff of the Dutch regiment said: "Regiment commander, we have no way to retreat, Lan Fang's army has surrounded the dock, and we have no way to break through." “

"What if you break through? Where can it be transferred? “

"Captain"

"Don't say it, we have fulfilled our obligations as soldiers, and we don't want too many soldiers to make indifferent sacrifices, so order surrender."

"Yes, Captain"

Han Xin was still very happy to be able to easily take this port city, and he was distressed that there were less than 100 people sacrificed in total, but there was no way, this is war, how can there be immortals in war.

The Chief of Staff of the 6th Division was then responsible for clearing the Dutch of the city, and at the same time sending the fleet back to Samarinda to join the 3rd and 4th Regiments.

By the time the 3rd and 4th Regiments arrived, Manado should have stabilized and the soldiers rested and could continue their assault on the surrounding cities and islands.