More than 100 years ago, when the Portuguese designed the fort, they planned to turn the Malacca Fort into an irregular pentagonal group of fortresses.

However, there were limited manpower and material resources here, especially the stone was very difficult to manage, and the Portuguese only completed the central castle as planned. As for the rest of the area, it is just a continuous construction of the outer wall, and the outer wall has not completely fenced off this place.

The Dutch occupied Malacca for nine years and continued the Portuguese fortification, finally building the outer walls to the slopes of St. Paul's Hill.

At the same time, on the east and west sides of the outer castle, a fortress-type structure was erected (not very formal). The rest of the outer city walls were only equipped with enemy platforms arranged with crossfire at the five corners of the walls.

It would take a hundred years to complete the original design drawings of the Portuguese and build a complete group of irregular pentagonal bastions here, at the pace of construction of the Malacca colonists...

At this moment, the Eight-Nation Coalition on the besieging side was subjected to crossfire from two enemy platforms.

But to be honest, the crossfire of only 30 people was still an old-fashioned arquebus.

This arquebus, which can fire two shots a minute, belongs to the top elite infantry. And the Dutch Army, with the exception of the Batavia garrison, slightly decent,

The rest of the colonies were all garbage. They used to be adventurers, ruffians, and even vagabonds. With a meager salary, he doesn't train all day, and occasionally has to work in the city to earn extra money, and he can shoot a bullet in two minutes.

With an average of 1.5 minutes per bullet, all 30 of them are considered sharpshooters, and the arquebus firing rate is 100%, and it takes six minutes to kill 120 siege soldiers.

An attack of a few thousand people, what is the death of 120?

In fact, when the Datong naval cadets began to climb the city wall, the casualties of the besieging side were less than 50, including those who rolled down the hill and were injured.

It's a pity that the country of Johor, which sent the most troops, all 3,000 soldiers collapsed.

The soldiers of Sumatra, under the influence of the Johor soldiers, even broke and fled for some reason. Then it became a chain reaction, and the soldiers of Da Ni, Ding Jialu and other countries followed suit.

Because the hillside to the north of the city wall was overgrown with bushes, and the Dutch did not bother to clean it up. It is difficult for the coalition forces to see each other's actual situation, and they do not know the strength of the firepower of the defenders when they fight. Anyway, I heard the sound of gunfire in the dodge, and then saw the largest number of Johor soldiers defeated, and subconsciously thought that their side was defeated, so they followed the crowd and fled.

"Bang bang bang!"

The cross-dynamism of the Dutch defenders continued, but was noticeably sparse and disheveled.

The outer walls are very low, and with the help of columns, it is easy to climb up. Seeing that the besieging side was about to enter the city, the three Dutch soldiers guarding the enemy platform became more and more panicked, and they could not even reload their ammunition normally.

"Reinforcements, ask for reinforcements!"

"Come on, come on, hold on for a few more minutes!"

The Dutch defenders on the east and west sides were running towards this direction with nearly 100 men. However, Kwong's attack was so sudden that the Dutch commander needed time to react, and it was probably too late at this time.

However, it still came, and the first batch of more than 2 Dutch soldiers took the lead in rushing to the enemy platform in the north to reinforce the city, and fired at the siege soldiers in a panic.

"Old Sun!"

The first Datong army to ascend first was Sun Junsheng from the Shanghai Fleet, who was shot and fell to the ground before he could gain a firm foothold, falling from the edge of the city wall and smashing into the climbers behind.

Lao Sanjin was climbing the ladder and watched Sun Junsheng's corpse, grazing his left arm and falling. His eyes were red as he roared and climbed up at a faster pace.

Both of them were born in the Yangtze River Naval Division, and before the naval division was cut in half, some were turned into post officers, and some were turned into naval soldiers. Their comrade-in-arms relationship for many years, killed Tartar without injury, but they didn't expect Sun Jun to die overseas.

Two more soldiers who climbed the city fell, and Lao Sanjin finally climbed the city wall.

He carried a flintlock pistol on his back, a bayonet and ammunition pouch at his waist, and a relatively light waist knife.

At this moment, Lao Sanjin pulled out his waist knife and killed the Dutch defenders on the enemy platform. There are more than a dozen Dutch soldiers here, and the bullets have been fired,

The panic is all in the process of loading.

"Retreat!"

Finally, a low-level Dutch officer shouted and slipped away.

The outer walls were too long for 180 defenders to manage. Distributed to each enemy platform and fortress, there are only more than ten people in one place on average, where can it stop thousands of enemies from attacking the city?

Lao Sanjin hurried to catch up and cut one by one, this is an unlucky guy who does not retreat in time.

On the other side of the enemy's platform, there were also Datong naval non-commissioned officers who climbed up and just blocked the retreat of the more than ten Dutch defenders. After some fighting, only three Dutch soldiers managed to escape and fled directly into the fortress farther away.

Lao Sanjin led people to chase and kill, and encountered a burst of bullets head-on, and four Datong soldiers fell in an instant.

"Withdraw the enemy platform just now!"

Lao Sanjin shouted, leading people to retreat in a hurry. The fortress in front of him is really difficult to break through, and forcibly attacking it is purely fatal.

Another enemy platform, the Siamese prince Nalai, has also landed in the city. Behind him, Yang Dongkui and Hua Erkang, two adventurer rangers, one in China and one in the west, formed an arrow and rushed out, cutting down several people one after another, and finally occupied this place.

Nalai looked back at this time and saw that except for the Siamese army, the troops of the other countries that cooperated with the troops had been dispersed.

Nalai sneered disdainfully: "Coward! “

Maritime.

At the moment when the siege battle began, Hong Xu put down the clairvoyant mirror: "The cannon is fired, the whole army is attacking, and the sailors also take up arms to attack the city!" “

There is still a difference between a sailor and a sailor, and sailors generally do not participate in war.

But most of the sailors were sent to the north to attack the city, and the sailors had to be on top of it.

Dozens of coalition warships, from the east, west, and south, all fought towards the outer walls of the castle, firing cannonballs as they advanced. The Malays in the sea also rowed small wooden boats and rushed forward with great excitement, because as long as they landed in the city, they would be rewarded with food.

There were too many ships attacking the city at sea, and the Dutch artillery couldn't take care of it at all, not to mention that the northern city wall had been captured, and I was panicked at the moment. If it weren't for the north and south sides of the outer city wall, there was a fortress in front of each of them, and the Datong army that killed the city wall would have rushed over to seize the fort.

In some places, large ships would run aground, warships would lower their dinghys one after another, and sailors and sailors would row their dinghys towards the city walls.

In order to form crossfire, the outer walls were also built in a pentagonal shape, and there were land vacancies in many places. Under normal circumstances, if you want to attack the city from these vacancies, you will be tilted by crossfire, and it belongs to the hellland of the besieging side.

However, the Dutch defenders were too few in number!

The Datong navy, as well as the sailors and sailors of the fleets of various countries, as well as the natives who fought for food, after paying more than 200 casualties, the Dutch obviously could not bear it.

"Withdraw! All retreat to the fortress! “

Commander Hendrik hurriedly ordered.

The Dutch defenders hurriedly retreated, and the artillery did not have time to destroy the artillery, so they abandoned the city wall and scattered the boys en masse.

Councillor Sanders has now returned to the Central Castle. He saw that the Datong army that had ascended the city from the north, because they could not conquer the fortresses on both sides, were entering the city along the ladder, and wanted to directly bypass the fortresses to attack the central castle, so he was so frightened that he immediately ordered: "Tell Hendrick to let him give up the outer fortresses, block the passages, and withdraw all to this side!" ”

As a result, the outer defense system of the castle in Malacca was all captured by the coalition forces, and the Dutch could only defend the central castle.

"Well played, well played!"

Guang Kuanghong stood on the top of the mountain, observing the battle situation with a clairvoyant mirror, and was so happy at the moment that he admired again and again.

Chen Erxun, a local Chinese leader, said: "My lord, when the Dutch attacked this place ten years ago, they quickly occupied the outer city wall. But the Portuguese withdrew to the central castle, and the Dutch could not enter. “

Kwong Hung asked, "How did the Dutch capture this city?" ”

Chen Erxun said: "After besieging the city for more than half a year, the Portuguese were so hungry that they went out of the city and surrendered. “

Siege for more than half a year?

Kuang Hong was a little apprehensive in his heart, he belonged to diplomacy and had no power to besiege the city for more than half a year.

Kwong was worried, and so was Sanders.

"How many casualties did our army have?" Sanders asked.

Hendrik said: "Lost 31 people. "

Sanderston's brow furrowed, there were only 180 defenders here, and the loss of 31 was one-sixth.

"Let the civilian staff and their families also take up arms." Sanders said.

Between the central castle and the outer walls, there are also some non-military buildings. It was the office of the Dutch East India Company, as well as the residence of its employees and their families. As for the Dutch settlement in the city of Malacca, it is all inhabited by Dutch merchants and immigrants.

By the way, the Dutch Army soldiers, who are basically single, are not able to have a family here.

In other words, Dutch rule in Malacca has not yet reached the point of distributing women to the army.

For example, in Taiwan, after the Dutch colonists gained a firm foothold, they directly killed all the men on Xiaoliuqiu Island, and snatched the women and assigned them to the soldiers to solve their physiological problems. The remaining women and children were either left as slaves or sold as slaves.

The Dutch had not been ruling Malacca for a long time, and under normal circumstances, it would take a few years to do so, and they would have to find an indigenous tribe that was easier to start with.

Johann Newhoff, a travel writer and painter, received an arquebus.

"Sir, you're going to shoot, right?" The officer asked.

Newkhov looked at the musket in his hand and said in great depression: "I do use an arquebus, but you gave me a burning stick!" “

The officer embarrassedly explained: "This was left by a dead Nordic mercenary ten years ago and has been thrown in warehouses without maintenance." “

Ten years ago, the Dutch attacked Malacca, sending only a few hundred troops themselves, and the real main force was more than a thousand mercenaries.

Those mercenaries, who fight for money, are willing to die in siege warfare?

Therefore, relying on the armed forces of the indigenous soldiers and the Han Chinese, after taking the outer city wall, the European mercenaries began to paddle all kinds of water, unwilling to attack the central castle. In the end, more than half of the mercenaries were killed or wounded, because many of these guys were from Northern Europe and could not withstand the tropical climate of Malacca, and the main casualties were all from tropical diseases.

The mercenaries who actually die in battle are actually in the single digits...... It all relied on the siege of the city and the lack of food to achieve victory.

At this moment, the arquebus in Newkhov's hand is a relic of a mercenary. The barrel is rusty, the wooden butt is moldy,

This thing is used to defend the city, and can only be used as a stick to fight the enemy in melee combat.

In the arsenal of the central castle, powder kegs were moved out one by one.

The moment he pried open the powder keg, Newkhov couldn't help but hold his forehead. The gunpowder inside is not only as simple as being damp, but it has all been cemented together.

After the Dutch conquest, the defenders had not fought for almost a decade, and who was particularly interested in maintaining the inventory in the warehouse?

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