"Okay, it's a good fight, it's so happy."

Seeing the artillery recklessly, the fire of the large regiment enveloped the port complex, and the ground cracked like a landslide, and the officers and men cheered in unison.

The only pity is ...... Time is too short.

After 8 minutes

The sound of the artillery stopped abruptly, and the soldiers of the 2nd Regiment, who were the main attackers, began to attack in a line of stragglers with Mauser Type 1871 rifles in their hands.

The soldiers crossed the barren fields on the outskirts of the harbor, crossed the ravines and streams, and approached the harbor step by step.

"Hurry up, damn it...... Get up and fight, the Queenslanders are coming. The Dutch officer rushed out of the rubble, brandished the Colt revolver in his hand, and drove the soldiers into battle with kicks and curses.

The port town had been bombed into ruins by shells, and the Dutch soldiers got up from the ruins in the corners of their houses, thick in the dust, shook their heads buzzing from the shells, and mechanically took up their guns to resist as ordered.

For a while, there was a burst of gunfire, and the battle began.

The whizzing bullets whistled through the air, knocking the attacking soldiers to the ground from time to time, thinning out the dense attacking queue, and the Dutch soldiers continued to emerge from the ruins and plunge into the battle.

The second regiment was repulsed from two consecutive attacks, with more than 100 dead and wounded.

Battalion commander Lei Xiaopeng looked at the soldiers who were receding like a tide, and his eyes flashed with anger.

Although the shelling caused heavy casualties to the Dutch defenders, it did not completely incapacitate them, and they were still able to resist stubbornly by virtue of their geographical advantages.

The attacking soldiers were exposed in the wilderness and suffered a great loss in the fighting.

Lei Xiaopeng watched the fifth company commander being carried down, he was shot twice in the chest, the blood general uniform was stained red, and the person was already dead, and immediately called the deputy company commander Hu Dachuan; "Dachuan, your company commander is dead, the fifth company is temporarily led by you, and I will issue you a letter of appointment after the good battle."

"Please rest assured, Hu Dachuan will definitely live up to the trust."

"That's good, I want you to take the 5th company of brothers as a sharp knife, and attack another wave, remember that the attack action must be brave and decisive, not afraid of sacrifice, resolutely insert into the ruins of the port building, rely on the geographical advantage to hold on, and respond to the large army into the town to kill the enemy."

"I understand the lowly position, and I promise to complete the task."

"Okay, I will let the artillery open the passage for you to attack, as long as you take the lead in attacking, I will write down the first merit for your company, go down and prepare."

"Yes."

Watching Hu Dachuan leave, Lei Xiaopeng commanded the 60 light artillery company that followed the attack to set up 4 artillery pieces, and after the infantry attack was launched, it bombarded the Dutch defenders gathered in the ruins.

Since the distance between the two was only six or seven hundred meters, the 60 guns were flattened and fired straight at the barrels, and the blows were very accurate.

The shells burrowed into the rubble like eyes, exploding into the sky, blasting the Dutch defenders hiding behind them into the sky, along with the rubble.

There, when the resistance is fierce, the shells will explode in a blast, enveloping the entire vicinity in a cloud of exploding fire.

Take this opportunity

Hu Dachuan led the soldiers of the 5th Company to rush all the way, attacked the town, occupied a piece of ruins of peripheral buildings, and scattered to hide behind the corners, by the broken wall, next to the big pillar, and held on to it by virtue of the geographical advantage.

When the Dutch commander saw the enemy attacking the town, he immediately mobilized the remnants of the enemy to counterattack, trying to drive the enemy out and recapture the lost position.

Hundreds of natives rushed in with knives and guns in their hands, and they poured down the ruined streets and alleys, shouting in an unintelligible indigenous language, looking murderous.

See this scenario

Hu Dachuan calmly commanded the soldiers to shoot fiercely, shooting down the enemy like leeks, and when the natives rushed to a distance of fifty or sixty meters, they were like an invisible wall, and they fell to the ground and died here.

The Mauser 1871 magazine mounted rifle had very strong continuous firepower, and a single shot could be fired by pulling the bolt, and dozens of mounted rifles formed a dense firepower, curbing the fierce offensive momentum of the indigenous samurai.

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The soldiers had encountered it many times in the tropical jungle, and the Mauser rifle was extremely good, and the continuous fire never disappointed, but it was just another one-sided massacre.

These indigenous samurai came and retreated as fast as they could, and after just a few minutes, they left a large number of corpses and retreated in a hurry, chased and beaten by the soldiers of the 5th Company, and the positions they occupied not only did not decrease, but expanded a lot.

That's all it takes

More than 200 native samurai were killed and wounded, and the soldiers refilled the wounded who were still wailing, and the attacking troops had no spare medical resources to use on the wounded prisoners.

Shangfeng has already conveyed the order, and there will be no mercy for those who resist in the corner!

Immediately behind the 5th Company, the follow-up attacking troops continued to attack, and quickly expanded to both sides with the position occupied by the 5th Company as a starting point.

The Dutch defenders were so resolute in their counterattack that they had no way to retreat, and the nearly 2,000 soldiers who had survived the artillery fire gathered together to quickly build barricades and launch waves of fierce counterattacks.

Intensive gunfire continued, and the two sides engaged in a bloody battle house by house.

The attacking troops pulled 60 light guns into the ruins of the town, and at close range they bombarded the barricades built by the Dutch, splashing earth and rocks and flying flesh and blood.

It turns out that in the face of absolute superiority in firepower, all resistance is futile.

More than four hours later

The siege of the port had come to an end, with nearly 700 Dutch defenders killed and many more taken prisoner, leaving only a mere 400 Dutch soldiers entrenched in the lumber yard to fight to the death.

The 2nd Regiment organized several attacks, but after paying a heavy price of more than 80 casualties, it was still unable to overcome this fortified position.

The large timber yard by the harbor was stacked with a large number of large trees that were hugging each other, densely stacked and piled high, and cushioned with some rammed earth, showing an irregular circle, like a strong tortoiseshell fortress.

The Type 60 light gun is a little less powerful, and the effect of direct fire is not good.

"Damn the Dutch, why are they so difficult?" The deputy division commander, Colonel Koch, cursed hatefully, turned around and ordered; "Order the 60 artillery battalion assigned to us to quickly advance lightly, move closer to the main force of the northern division, and be ready to intercept the Dutch reinforcements coming from Semuda at any time, and order the engineer battalion to quickly repair the road and drag our two 95mm artillery battalions out, and the next big battle is indispensable for artillery fire, so that they can all speed up a little faster."

"Yes, Master."

"Battalion Commander Li Xiaopeng ......"

"Here."

"Take your battalion to see this enemy, find a way to blast a gap, and destroy this enemy for me."

"Yes, sir."

Colonel Koch turned his head to look at the Dutch shore artillery position not far away, the distance was about seven or eight hundred meters, this is a hilly terrain with a height of tens of meters, the terrain is gentle, and there are communication trenches dug around it, and at the top of the hill are three 280 mm concrete structure shore batteries in the shape of "Pin", which are very solid.

Around the top battery, there were several German-made 239mm shore guns, all of which were built with hat-like reinforced concrete batteries with openings facing the bay.

There were about 600 white soldiers in the fort, and with the help of communication trenches and reinforced concrete batteries, they formed a thin but strong defensive line.

This battery is not large, and being able to accommodate more than 600 white soldiers is already the limit.

After storming the port, most of the enemy was eliminated.

There were only two hard nails left in front of Colonel Koch, one was a fort and the other was a lumber yard, and the defenders were white soldiers with a high will to fight, with plenty of guns and ammunition and plenty of food, which was indeed not a big trouble.

Colonel Koch had a hundred ways to get those two hard nails down as long as he had enough time, and what he lacked now was time.

The main force attacking the port was a battalion of the second regiment and the third regiment, with a total of more than 2,300 soldiers, and after a fierce battle, more than 400 people have been killed and wounded in the battle, and nearly 2,700 (including indigenous servant army) have been eliminated and captured by the enemy, and more than 1,900 people are left in the attacking force with combat effectiveness.

In the forts and timber yards, thousands of white soldiers were still gathered, ready to bite back.

Therefore, the main force of the 2nd Regiment was involved in the port and was temporarily unable to support the main force of the division.

The barren terrain of several hundred meters between the fort and the harbor was an unobstructed open terrain, which became an obstacle to the attacking troops and a natural obstacle to the counterattack of the Dutch army.

Now the question is;

The main force of the division (1st regiment, 3rd regiment and 1st battalion) set up a battlefield on the road between the port and Saimuda, in a hilly area about 5 kilometers from the port, ready to snipe a large number of Dutch reinforcements from Saimuda and fight a siege for reinforcements.

According to the pre-war sand table deduction;

The Dutch defenders were not willing to lose the port, and there was a chance that they would reinforce the port defenders, and the distance between the two was only 18 kilometers, and a rapid march would take two hours.

Therefore, the Kalimantan division was divided into two divisions, and the main force of the division was led by the division commander Liu Shan, who was responsible for blocking the enemy's large reinforcements and resolutely containing them outside the port.

The attacking port force was dominated by the 2nd Regiment, striving to uproot the Dutch defenders of the port as soon as possible, and then as a reserve for the main force of the division, ready to be thrown into a large-scale counterattack at any time.

Now the problem before Colonel Koch was that the main forces of the 2nd Regiment were dragged in the harbor and could not participate in a large-scale counterattack for the time being.

Once the main force of the 2nd Regiment left, the Dutch defenders could recapture the port at any time with the help of two strong strongholds, the fort and the timber yard.

"Master, what good things do you see we found?" Lei Xiaopeng walked over with Hu Dachuan, the commander of the 5th company, and the soldiers behind them were holding a large number of jars and jars, all with excited expressions on their faces.

Colonel Koch looked at him suspiciously, then sniffed hard and said; "This ...... It's kerosene. ”

"Hey...... That's right, it's kerosene, the commander of the fifth company, Hu Dachuan, led his men to search for the remnants of the enemy, and smelled a strong smell of kerosene in a collapsed ruin, and opened it to take a look, good guy...... There were hundreds of cans of kerosene, and in addition to the canisters of kerosene that had been crushed by the collapse of the house, there were dozens of them that were still intact. Lei Xiaopeng pointed with his hand and said with a smug expression; The timber yard is so sturdy that it's not easy to blow up a passage, so let's pour kerosene on him and burn him hard, turning all these Dutchmen into roast pigs, and running out of the target himself if he doesn't want to burn to ashes. ”

"Well, good idea." Colonel Koch slapped his thigh and immediately agreed.

For the army, burning a large amount of timber is not a big deal, and destroying an entire port town is not a big deal, as long as the cost of casualties is reduced, it is worth it, and the final victory is over.

It's a big deal to destroy and rebuild, then it has nothing to do with the army.