Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Occupation of Machen City
At 3 o'clock in the morning of the 14th, Zhang Wei and others arrived at the mouth of the Barito River off the coast of Machen, at which time Zhang Wei and Li Zhao went down to the runabout and ordered the torpedo boat to return to Pontianak. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info chat speedboat along the Barito River, towards the direction of Machen, from the mouth of the sea to Machen is about 20 kilometers, because it is dark night, Zhang Wei asked the speedboat to drive slowly, not too fast, pay attention to safety, it takes about more than 1 hour to arrive.
At a place still 2 kilometers away from Ma Chen, Zhang Wei let the small runboat dock, and after the small runabout stopped, he and Li Zhaoshui crossed the river and came to the shore. Zhang Wei put a few crew members into the system, took the small runabout back to the warehouse, and then slowly rushed towards Ma Chen.
The U-XXI submarine was equipped with an active sonar system, and it was easy to find the two Dutch warships anchored in the port of Mazen, and the Dutch officers and soldiers on duty on the warships did not know that they had been targeted. The two submarines determined their respective targets and attack times by wireless telegraphy, fired torpedoes at 5 o'clock sharp, fired three torpedoes each, and if they did not hit, they could fire three more torpedoes until the two Dutch warships were completely destroyed, and then evacuated to the entrance to the sea.
At 4 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Wei and Li Zhaoshui arrived at Ma Chen's periphery, and the intelligence officers lurking in Ma Chen had already been waiting on the shore, and soon found Zhang Wei and the two people.
At 5 o'clock, six huge explosions were heard in Machen Harbor, and Zhang Wei and Li Zhaoshui knew that this was the submarine's success.
Zhang Wei muttered happily: "Cool, it's really cool, it's really cool to use the weapons of the end of World War II to bully the weapons of the end of the last century." He turned around and said to Li Zhaoshui: "Since the submarine is so powerful, after I go back, I will study it specially, and first use the submarine to teach little Japan a good lesson, and after we establish the Xinhua Empire, you will all follow me to bully little Japan." ”
"Young master, don't think about this yet, let's release the troops and start attacking."
"Well, we can't forget the big things."
So, Zhang Wei released the 3rd Division from the system. The division commander led 2 regiments and regimental headquarters, led by intelligence officers, to surround and attack 1 regiment stationed in Machen; The deputy division commander led 1 regiment to occupy the port of Mazen with the assistance of intelligence officers, and was responsible for annihilating or capturing the Dutch navy; The Chief of Staff led a regiment with the assistance of several intelligence officers to occupy various important departments in the city of Mazen, such as the official residence of the administrative officer, the tax office, the police station, etc.
At this time, the people of the entire city of Machen were awakened by the huge explosion in the port, could it be that some country called? No, if there were troops, it wouldn't be just a few rings. Soon the city of Machen fell into silence again, and the citizens continued to sleep, which had nothing to do with them anyway.
The citizens could not care about the source of the explosion, but the commander of the army and the administrative officer stationed here could not ignore it, so the administrative officer and the regiment commander hurried to the dock.
When they arrived at the dock and learned that the 2 battleships had been sunk, the 2 people were scared and sat down on the ground, who could blow up the 2 battleships silently? If you don't protect the port and let the enemy sneak into the port, your responsibility will definitely not be small, and the punishment will not escape. Just when these people were remorseful and blamed themselves, the 3rd Regiment of the 3rd Division had quietly approached the dock area, according to the previous battle plan, they could not use heavy weapons, for fear of destroying the port, and besides, there were no heavy troops on the dock, only mortars could hit the Dutch soldiers than rolling pee. The 1st Battalion of the 3rd Regiment was in front, gradually approaching the pier in company and platoon, and the 2nd and 3rd Battalions were on both sides, moving closer to the pier in a semi-encircled manner. When the 1st Battalion was still 300 meters close to the dock, it suddenly launched an attack, light machine guns opened the way in front, mortars pressed the formation, and the unprepared Dutch troops were scurrying, and the 1st Battalion took advantage of the situation to catch up, and the regimental headquarters and the 4th Battalion in the rear were responsible for taking over the dock and receiving prisoners. The battle ended half an hour later, and there was not even half a battalion in the entire dock area, and 1 regiment was sent here, which was really a bully.
Of course, among the captives, the political officer of Ma Chen, the commander of the regiment stationed in Ma Chen, and the captains of the two warships were still examined, and they were really unlucky.
At the same time, the commander of the 3rd Division led the 1st and 2nd regiments to surround the Machen barracks, in order to reduce the losses of the troops, the division commander did not want to attack, but asked the mortars of the division artillery battalion and the regimental artillery battalion to fire at the camp of the Dutch army, each firing 6 shells.
12 75mm mountain guns, 24, 65mm mountain guns, 48 81mm mortars, plus 100 60mm mortars, each firing 6 shells, basically blew up this barracks of less than 3,000 people.
When the soldiers of the two regiments rushed into the barracks, they did not encounter any resistance, and there was not one in ten alive in the entire barracks, and even the living people were stupid, and when the People's Army rushed in front of them, they didn't react, but just looked stupidly at these soldiers who didn't know where they came from. Many of the people in the room were wiped out by a single shell, and there was not a single one left.
When the regiment commander and division commander entered the barracks, the commander of the 1st regiment regretted it, "Division commander, we made a mistake, if we don't use artillery, we can win, at least one regiment can be stationed here, look, such a good barracks was destroyed like this, it's a pity, now we have no place to live." With so many shells wasted, the young master will definitely be angry. ”
"You kid knows a fart, I don't know if the barracks can live in people, if the attack loses too many brothers, the young master can't get around me, in the young master's mind, people are the most important, the shell is a fart, the young master has it, you must pay attention to this point when you lead the troops to fight independently in the future, remember it."
Several battalion commanders and 2 regiment commanders around them hurriedly answered "yes".
The 4th Regiment led by the chief of staff of the division also occupied the city of Machen relatively smoothly.
In order to quickly stabilize the place, Zhang Wei combined the mayor of the Machen Municipal Government, a middle-level administrative officer, and the director of the tax bureau, a middle-level businessman, and some junior administrative officials and junior businessmen as auxiliaries. At the same time, Zhao Guangming, the commander of the 3rd Division, was ordered to be the commander of the Machen garrison area, stationed in Machen City, and was fully responsible for the security of Machen City.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, the signboard of the Southern Provincial Military Region Staff of the Lanfang People's Army and the signboard of the Machen Municipal Government of the Lanfang Republic were hung at the entrance of the official residence of the political officer of Ma Chen, and at the same time, the signboards of the Ma Chen Taxation Bureau of the Lan Fang Republic and the Ma Chen Police Department of the Lan Fang Republic were also hung at the door of the original tax bureau and the police station.
The tax bureau and the police have posted the "Interim Regulations on Taxation" and the "Interim Regulations on Public Security", so that everyone has a law to follow.
The captured Dutch magistrates and Dutch soldiers were all imprisoned. All the Dutchmen in the city of Mazen were also imprisoned, and all their property was confiscated.
The commander of the 4th Battalion of the 1st Regiment was appointed as the chief of the Machen Police Station, and the 4th Battalion temporarily exercised police functions, patrolling the streets and maintaining order in the city.
At Li Zhaoshui's suggestion, six S6 motorized torpedo boats and two 1935 torpedo boats were purchased in Machen, plus two U-21 submarines in the open sea, so as to ensure that Machen was not threatened by Dutch warships.
The army and navy stationed in the southern province are under the jurisdiction of the southern provincial general staff. I believe that with Zhang Cheng in charge of military affairs here, there should be no mistakes.
On December 15, Zhang Wei sent the 4th Division to occupy several inland cities and demanded that military control be imposed in the occupied cities.
After finishing these things, Zhang Wei asked Li Zhaoshui: "Staff Officer Li, did you say that we should salvage those two warships?" ”
"What are you doing salvaging this, we can't repair it when we salvage it, and we have to send someone to protect it, how hard it is, let's think about this after we get the Dutch down." However, when the time comes, it can be sold to the Qing Dynasty after it is repaired, and it is estimated that other countries have not bought it. ”