Chapter 103: The Final Battle

Luo Dianchen was driven out of the barracks by two Huo family soldiers in an embarrassed state! As for the more than ten Dutch soldiers who had escorted him, they had all been detained by Wang Xiangzong!

Although Luo Dianchen was extremely angry and felt that he had been treated unfairly! But the Huo family soldiers who couldn't understand what he was saying in his mouth! According to the division commander's explanation, he threw this Dutch hairy man who looked a little nervous!

Embarrassed to get up from the ground, patting the dirt and grass clippings stuck to his body, Luo Dianchen glanced at the military camp behind him in a complicated way, and had the intention to go back, but when he saw the two powerful Chinese soldiers who drove him out, he shrunk his neck, turned around and walked towards the way he came! This time he did not achieve the mission of the governor's account, hoping that the two sides would cease fire and negotiate peace in accordance with the current occupation area!

As time passed, the encirclement formed by the 3rd and 4th Marine Divisions was constantly tightened, gradually compressing the last remaining Dutch army within three kilometers of Batavia and its surroundings!

"General Pete, how are you preparing?" asked Mondrian with a blank face as he looked at the top officer of the Royal Netherlands Army in the East Indies who walked in.

"Lord Governor, I have done what you said, but the time is too short, so far we have only recruited 10,000 indigenous troops, and now they are not even equipped with rifles, I doubt that such a force can withstand the well-equipped and well-trained Chinese People's Army jīng sharp soldiers!"

"I know that their combat effectiveness is very poor, but we only have more than 10,000 troops now, and the gap between them and the enemy is too great! And these natives are also a temptation for us, if those Chinese soldiers are really as Luo Dianchen said, strong in combat and advanced in equipment, then I will not risk the lives of Dutch soldiers! I will consider surrendering when the time comes!" Perhaps after today, as the last Governor of the Dutch East Indies, he will forever be recorded on the Pillar of Shame in Dutch history, because in December 1881 he lost the last colony of the kingdom in the Far East!

Looking at the back of the Governor, Pete opened his mouth with a complicated expression, but found that he couldn't say anything, if the matter really came to the point where he had to surrender to save his life, then he would give the same order, he didn't want his soldiers to make fearless sacrifices! Because their wives and children were still waiting in Europe for them to return home and reunite, as their commander, it was his responsibility to let them return home alive!

Mondrian did not notice Pitt's departure! Now his whole mind was drawn by the flag in the small square of the Doge's Palace, which had been bathed in the setting sun, and his expression was indescribably sad!

"Tomorrow may be the last day of the Dutch existence here!"

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Bekasi, five kilometers away from Batavia, where the 3rd Marine Division and the 4th Marine Division finally met in victory today!

"Xiangzong, six days have passed since the battle was launched, and now we have finally fought here, it's not easy!" Ren Bangding looked at the busy soldiers on both sides and said with an emotional face.

"Yes, the rest of the Dutch have been surrounded by us, tomorrow we will be able to take the whole of Batavia, and completely expel the Dutch from the South Seas, and then this place will become an indispensable place for the Chinese nation to live and reproduce, just like the young master said! No one can change it!"

In addition to defending the homeland and defending the country, the most important mission of our soldiers is to open up territory for the country and the nation, and now the entire Nanyang Islands add up to more than 2 million square kilometers of land, which can catch up with our rich Jiangnan, and it is also rich in products, gold, silver, copper, and iron resources, and the land is fertile, and it grows three times a year.

Hearing his words, Wang Xiangzong smiled faintly, Huo Jiajun had never thought of letting it go since he set foot on the land of Nanyang!

"Let's go, Brother Bangding, let's go back to the headquarters to discuss tactics, and after the troops rest for the night, we will launch a full-scale attack early tomorrow morning and take Batavia as soon as possible, compared to the battle in Sumatra, we have dragged on for too long!" Wang Xiangzong smiled and patted his old friend on the shoulder and said with a smile.

"Okay! Tomorrow morning, we will launch an attack, and at noon we will plant the flag of our People's Army on the roof of the office building of the Dutch Governor's Palace!" Ren Bangding said with a big laugh.

The time of the night passed quickly, thanks to the daily five-kilometer cross-country training formulated by Huo Shan, the Huo Jiajun troops who had been running for 60 kilometers for a long distance had fully recovered, and all the soldiers had sharpened their swords and guns, and under the leadership of their commanders, they were excitedly waiting for the final general attack order to be issued!

"Brother Bangding, will you order this name or will I come?" Wang Xiangzong asked with a smile.

"Come on, who told you to be older than me! However, after today, you have to give me some of the good tea that the young master gave you, and mine is all drunk!"

"Okay, I agreed!" After saying this sentence with a smile, the expression on Wang Xiangzong's face slowly became serious, and he glanced at the officers at all levels of the Huo Family Army gathered together in the military tent, and said firmly and loudly: "Attack!!"

As this order was notified by the herald to the troops of nearly 40,000 troops of the two divisions that had arrived at the edge of the city in Batavia, Huo Jiajun grabbed the rifle in his hand like a tyrannosaurus that had been touched against the scales, shouted murderous slogans, and followed closely with his comrades-in-arms, rushing towards this final battlefield from all directions!

When the troops of nearly 40,000 people rushed towards the combined forces of the Dutch and the natives like cháo water in the straggler formation used in ordinary training, with earth-shattering shouts of killing, the tremendous pressure was unimaginable!

Banksy hid behind the natives, his face pale, trembling with his rifle, and the moment he faced the charge of the Chinese army, his urge to drop his rifle and run backwards was so strong!

As the Huo Jiajun soldiers got closer and closer, the only few 57mm support guns in the Dutch army fired, but unfortunately these guns were not only slow, small in caliber, and short in range, but their black powder was really limited, and after the Huo Jiajun heard the scream of the shells and fell to the ground, they did not cause any casualties!

However, the next artillery that leaked out of their position was terrible!

"Boom!"

The 70mm infantry shells loaded with the new gunpowder quickly destroyed these old guys who were outdated! But the artillerymen who had already fired did not stop their anger!

In each regiment-level formation of the Huojia Army, there is a battalion of 12 70mm infantry guns, and the two divisions together are 72 infantry guns, although the heavy artillery of the Huojia Army cannot catch up with this battle because of the bad road conditions on Java Island, but against the Dutch who have no artillery at all, 72 infantry guns are already super heavy firepower!

Chen Jin is the commander of the heavy artillery regiment of the 3rd Marine Division, but now there is no heavy artillery, only the infantry artillery regiment he is responsible for commanding!

Watch as the artillerymen skillfully adjust the design angle and direction, and stuff the shells into the breech!

Chen Jin waved the small red flag in his hand fiercely, and shouted in his mouth: "Release!"

"Tom tom ......!"

The cannonball burst out of the muzzle of the cannon and flew into the distant sky with a sharp whistling sound!

"......Boom!" The violent explosion destroyed everything within a dozen meters of the surrounding area, and the stumps and broken arms that flew into the sky and the blood that flew up made these guys who had never seen war pee their pants in fright!

The shells that kept falling completely dispelled the last trace of courage to resist in the hearts of the natives! At that moment, they didn't care that there were still Dutch soldiers behind them who were supervising the battle with this rifle! They threw down their weapons one after another, and fled behind them without looking back! At this moment, the huge escape cháo finally stopped after the mortars, heavy machine guns, and a large number of light machine guns began to roar within 300 meters of the Huo family's army!

Watching the natives flee, the Dutch, who were already hit by the artillery, did not have much courage, and began to run backwards!

And just like that, the entire defensive front of Batavia began to completely collapse!