When the 1st Marine Brigade took Chiraza bloodlessly, only half a day apart, the Ming army on the western route smashed the outer defense line arranged by the BDA coalition army on the outskirts of Batavia overnight.

The colonial army also seems to be divided into three, six, nine and so on? The Anglo-Indian 28th Infantry Brigade, which was also a servant army, performed significantly better than the Dutch-Indian army, but it caused some obstacles to the Ming army.

The Javanese people were overjoyed by the arrival of the Ming army and welcomed it wholeheartedly - the Ming were no worse than the Dutch!

The defeated defenders retreated while digging roads and placing barricades in the hope of slowing down the Ming army, but the local people dared to contradict.

As soon as the defenders left, the people in the vicinity rushed up, digging and filling the pit with shovels, and moving large rocks and scrapped cars to the side of the road.

Although they planned to defend Batavia tightly, the plan could not keep up with the changes, and the remnants of the defeated BDA coalition did not have the morale to defend firmly.

More than a dozen Ming tanks and trucks formed an assault detachment, and more than 100 infantry ventured to ride on the tanks and boldly advance towards the center of the city.

"Tanks! Chinese tanks are coming! ”

"Anti-tank guns! Damn, haven't they come yet?! ”

"Sir, we ......"

"Boom!"

The barricades lined with masonry, sandbags, furniture, and car wreckage were crushed by the tanks that hit them head-on, and many Javanese and Indows threw their guns and ran away.

Bullets clanged on the tank's armor, and the detachment attacked as if no one was around.

The wounded tanks also turned to the side of the road with all their might to avoid getting in the way, and the soldiers who were shot fell to the ground, but most of them hid in nearby houses.

The panicked citizens were terrified, and rumors spread quickly - the Ming army had appeared in the city, the Dutch army was being defeated, and Batavia had been lost!

The detachment drove all the way through five intersections, and due to mechanical failures and battle damage, only half of the tanks finally rushed to the residence of the governor of the Dutch East Indies colony.

"Stop, stop! This is it! ”

"Fuck it, bombard!"

"Bring up a box of bullets!"

The infantry on board jumped down one after another, leaning against the nearby wall for cover, or seizing the nearby building as a stronghold.

Seven Type 38 medium tanks rotated their turrets one after another and opened fire on the large building, a symbol of Dutch colonial rule.

The white façade was soon blackened by the explosion, and bullet holes were deeply imprinted on it.

Under the shelling and strafing of the tanks, the window glass shattered, all kinds of debris splashed out, and more than a dozen windows were emitting smoke.

It was like a sharp knife piercing the heart, and the entire city defense system had tended to collapse after being stirred up like this.

The desperate defenders mobilized all available forces in the vicinity to launch a counteroffensive in an attempt to encircle and annihilate this daring Ming assault detachment.

Two companies of Dutch-Indian troops and one company of Anglo-Indian troops were engaged in battle, and the fierce fighting lasted from noon to night, in which seven tanks were destroyed and five were damaged, and the only two remaining tanks were also depleted of ammunition.

The tankmen ventured out of the car and got into the destroyed tank to collect the remaining ammunition that was still usable.

After a night of cold guns and cold artillery, the sun rose in the east, and the BDA coalition forces that rushed into the core of the city paid a huge price of nearly 200 casualties, and dozens of corpses were scattered across the neighborhood.

The patchwork counterattack ended in vain, and a crimson flag and two pennants still fluttered over the buildings here.

At noon on this day, at the very moment before the total collapse, the command of the defenders decided to surrender, and the coalition units to which they belonged laid down their arms and stopped resisting.

Ciraza and Batavia have both been captured in the Third Army's operational strategy, and the battle situation in Java has been decided, and there is not the slightest possibility of a reversal on the part of the coalition forces.

In the face of the gloom of defeat, the BDA Coalition Command in Bandung maintained a different scene - most of them looked blank and stared, as if they were just puppets at the mercy of others.

Lieutenant General John Greer Dill still maintains the aristocratic demeanor of the Zhengmi banner, calmly responding to one bad news after another from the front.

On the same day, however, a telegram was sent to the prime minister asking for instructions.

「…… There is no military point in continuing to resist, and we can hold out for another week at most...... If you think we should continue to resist in defense of honor, then I will continue to do my duty......

Considering Lieutenant General John's military rank and aristocratic status, London quickly made a decision after weighing it - he must not be allowed to be captured by the Ming, otherwise it will inevitably make a big fuss again, and the face of the British Empire will be lost if it continues like this!

So John Greer Deere was appointed commander-in-chief of the Oceania Theater of Operations and immediately left for Australia.

He flew east on a DC-3 transport plane from Bandung to Surabaya, where he had not yet fallen, refueled and continued east to East Timor, and finally flew southeast over the Savu Sea to Darwin, Australia.

The command of the BDA coalition on the island of Java was handed over to Major General Jacobs of the Dutch and Indian Army, who did his best to exercise restraint, but could not help but scold the British for being shameless and arrogant.

I asked for command arrogantly before, but now I have left a basket of messes and slipped away?

But at this point, Major General Jacobs had no choice - either surrender or be eliminated.

At 9:30 a.m. on 14 April, Major General Jacobs and Governor of the Dutch East Indies, Alidius, had a conversation and decided to stop resisting.

The Third Army Headquarters sent a negotiating team to a small town northwest of Bandung, where the Dutch agreed to stop resisting but hoped to win some additional benefits.

The domineering Ming envoys immediately vetoed, rejecting any conditional surrender and urging all coalition forces to surrender unconditionally.

What about the Dutch, who have no cards to play in their hands, now? I can only reluctantly agree.

After the instrument of surrender and the original and copies were signed, the envoy of the Ming army proposed that the representatives of the two sides participate in the negotiation conference take a group photo, but how could the Dutch, who were in great shame, agree?

But at the end of the day, a few reporters from the army broke into the negotiation site and took many commemorative photos with their cameras......

In the afternoon, Jacobs issued an order to surrender to all troops after returning to headquarters, and Governor Alidius issued an executive order to the local government offices.

Early the next morning, when the vast Ming army entered the city of Bandung, the Bandung Telegraph Office sent its last telegram before it was taken over.

"Our resistance in Java is over, the Chinese have entered the city, maybe the situation will change in the future, but not now. Good luck to all and long live the Netherlands! Long live Her Majesty!"

From the eighth day of April to the present landfall in Java, it has only been six and a half days, less than a week.

In the second phase of Operation Bloody Paralysis, the Ming army annihilated a total of 100,000 British, Dutch, and Australian allied forces, including more than 7,000 killed and wounded, and more than 90,000 prisoners.

The casualties of the participating troops were much smaller, with only 987 killed, incurable, and sick deaths, and 8,534 wounded and non-combat attrition.

A large part of this is due to malaria, and no matter how careful you are in fighting in the South Seas, it is difficult to completely eradicate mosquito bites.

Fortunately, quinine, a malaria-specific drug, is abundant here, and more than 90% of the world's quinine is produced in Java, and the Dutch have almost monopolized the supply of quinine.

Of course, now it is firmly in the hands of Da Ming.

A series of seizures were also quite rich, and the Ming army captured a total of 151 fighters of various types, 48,000 rifles, 3,250 machine guns, 342 barreled artillery, 127 armored vehicles, and 4,349 trucks.

The Metropolitan Governor's Office originally conceived the idea of pacifying the South Seas within six months of the war, but now this idea was successfully completed ahead of schedule.

From the Battle of Malaya to the Battle of Dutch East Indu, the pacification of the South Seas took just over three months from start to finish, and the cost was a tiny fraction of the estimated 40,000 casualties.

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"Look, that's where our group came back then."

After three years, Zhou Changfeng came to Batavia again, only this time as a victor.

Thinking back to the time when the thieves were punished for thousands of miles, they made a big fuss in Batavia, and even used heavy machine guns and mortars, and now I can't help but feel a little self-conscious when I recall it.

He led a group of do-gooders to the Katarin Hotel - a neoclassical style, light gray, square overall, with a total of twelve floors.

There are six stone pillars at the entrance, and you will find the hotel lobby when you walk in.

Rooms 0907 and 1007, which were destroyed by the explosion, have been renovated as if nothing had happened.

If the guests who stay in the room after that learn about what happened in this room, they don't know how they will react.

After revisiting the old place, the group held a small banquet here.

"Come on, everyone, here I wish our Zhou Commander a high promotion."

"!"

"Hahaha, don't shirk, let's have a toast first."

Melodious music came from the gramophone, and the audience was happier than Zhou Changfeng himself, and he was completely sure that his promotion would bring a series of benefits to everyone.

Deng Siquan picked up the cup and said with a smile: "The Nanyang Campaign has been more than three months, during which there have been dozens of battles of all sizes, land battles... Not to mention the strategic work of our chief military officer, the real combat achievements must be none other than Zhou Kexing. ”

"After the class teacher, a brigadier general can't run."

"That's for sure, there are rewards and punishments, and real feats are here."

"Okay, the youngest general so far is about to appear, and I'm afraid no one will be able to break it in the future."

Zhou Changfeng had carefully pondered the promotion rules of Da Ming before, and speculated that if he was not suppressed, it would be appropriate for him to be promoted to brigadier before the age of thirty.

Although it has not been long since he was promoted to colonel last time, the record he set and the results he achieved in the operation to pacify Nanyang are too dazzling.

Zhou Changfeng has no interest in the future sweeping work, but after he is done with official business, he is now in a hurry to return to China to toss his personal affairs.

Until then, though, there is still something to be resolved.

The army has always been a mixed collective, especially the Ming Army, including but not limited to unemployed vagrants who have no way out, idle gangsters, and related households sent by favors.

These people have a bad temperament, and their misdeeds have to a great extent brought about bad morals, and they have overshadowed the rest of the honest and dutiful peasants, the self-motivated young people of the towns, and the aspiring highly educated students.

Top-down appropriations are inevitably subject to layers of deductions, from logistics officials who dare to embezzle large sums of money, to quartermasters who are so timid as to only work on small pockets.

After years of running-in of different cases and judgments, a conventional practice has long been formed in this regard - one point at a time for important funds, and three points for insignificant funds.

For example, a sum of 10,000 yuan for organizing a celebration banquet was actually issued 9,700 yuan from the Quartermaster Department of the Ministry of War, 9,409 yuan was left after passing through the logistics department of the General Military Department of the Third Army, and 9,126 yuan was left after passing through the hands of the actual organizers.

This is a more ideal situation, in fact, there is never a lack of people who are bold, have a fluke mentality, or feel that they are hard in the background, and dare to eat five points, or even ten points.

However, it is obvious that this kind of person who breaks the rules may be living comfortably at the moment, but it has been remembered by countless people, and sooner or later it will be over one day - Daming's official position is more monks and less porridge, and how many people are red-eyed.

In the past, there had been no major battles in the Ming Dynasty for many years, and there were only skirmishes such as border conflicts.

When preparing for war, many people paid attention to the problem of the distribution of war spoils, that is, how to clarify the amount of money to be kept and handed over by the front-line soldiers after they captured the war spoils.

The only cases that the imperial court can refer to are decades ago and ancient times, and the final preliminary formulation is:

All weapons, ammunition and military supplies must be surrendered to facilitate the unified filing and use, except for pistols and sabers, which are allowed to be kept as souvenirs.

Personal belongings such as watches, rings, pens, and cameras are allowed to be kept for themselves, and officers are not allowed to take the spoils of war under their command by force.

But there are always people in the world who are greedy, at least there are five cases that Zhou Changfeng knows about alone, among which the highest rank is lieutenant colonel, and the lowest is second lieutenant, all of whom are overly greedy and wantonly embezzle the fruits of victory under their command, and as a result, they were shot black and died in vain.

The military justice department does not accept such cases at all, which is a typical self-inflicted crime.

In the past few days, the generals of various divisions and regiments have sent troops in all directions, seized large and small munitions warehouses all over Java, and then affixed the seals of their respective unit numbers.

The private residences of the Dutch East Indo-Dutch bureaucrats were no exception, and the wolf-like soldiers of the Ming army pushed open the large iron gates and rushed into them.

Gold and silver jewelry, mahogany furniture, copper crystal chandeliers, blue and white porcelain on white ground, gold silk nan wood screens, cars and so on can be described as dazzling.

Zhou Changfeng did not participate in this post-war carve-up frenzy, although he needed a gray income, but he had already collected too many feats in this battle, if he even had to intervene in the spoils of war, it would be too easy to make enemies.

"Four Buicks, five Stippunks, twenty-two Fords, two Rolls-Royces, seven Citroëns, a total of forty."

After flying to the Old Port, he went to the meeting place agreed with Yaosheng and others, and handed her a list of some of the cars seized at Tangningan and Chiraza

The latter covered his mouth and chuckled, and as he glanced at the list, he said, "It's really a lot, let's estimate it." ”

I was so sleepy last night that I fell asleep unconsciously......

(End of chapter)