Chapter 7: This is the Secret Weapon!

For Zhu Daohua.

The occupation of Batam is no longer just about gaining a foothold in the Strait of Malacca.

It's about letting the eyes of thousands of Chinese people around the port of Batam look at it.

How did the Dutch, who had a dominant position in the South Seas, be beaten by themselves!

So this war is not just a military operation.

At the same time, it is also a political statement.

Zhu Daohua knew very well that the main force of his future army must be Chinese.

He wants to let these Chinese take a good look.

How the Dutch were... Vulnerable.

Thanks to the Dutch commander Bronckhorst's strategy of abandoning the port and resisting the city.

Zhu Daohua's army, under the cover of naval guns, approached the port in small boats.

Walking at the forefront was Zhao Si, the captain of Zhu Daohua's personal guard.

He held aloft the sun and moon flag on a blue background.

As soon as the ship hit the shore of the port, he jumped and stepped on Batam.

Then the sun and moon flag was planted on the ground.

.......

"This.... Is this Da Ming back? ”

"This is the Sun and Moon Banner, right? I heard that in the past, the ships of the Ming Dynasty flew this flag in the South Seas. ”

"This Ming Dynasty has been dead for more than a hundred years, and can he come back?"

"They heard that they were going to drive out the Dutch and occupy Batam?"

"How can this be beaten, the Dutch can really fight, the heroes under Luo Fangbo of Lan Fangguo are enough to fight, and they don't dare to provoke the Dutch."

"It's not just Luo Fangbo, it's a good man who does business without capital on the sea surface of the South Seas, which one doesn't want to pay tribute to the Dutch?"

Seeing that there is going to be a war.

Those Chaoshan people who had been working in the port left the port one after another, but they did not go far, but craned their necks from a distance to watch and discuss.

Speaking of which.

The Cantonese people did not have a good impression of the Qing Dynasty.

Whether it is a Cantonese person, a Chaoshan person, or a Hakka person, this is the case.

The reason is also very simple, when the king of Pingnan of the Qing Dynasty was still happy in Guangdong.

That's killing millions of Cantonese people.

Tu Shaoguan, Tu Guangzhou, Tu Chaozhou....

It can be said that it is a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and it is not a common day.

Coupled with the later relocation order, it offended a vote of Cantonese people - originally Guangdong had a tradition of going to sea to beg for a living.

As a result, now a sea relocation order can only allow Cantonese people to roll up inland.

As a result, a large number of heroes who opposed the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty were rolled out....

Therefore, during the Qing Dynasty, Guangdong was one of the most active areas in the anti-Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty.

Having said that, the Cantonese people have had no rebellious spirit since ancient times.

From the Qin Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was nearly 2,000 years since the establishment of counties in Lingnan.

Lingnan is basically a place where there are very few rebellions.

But the Qing Dynasty for more than two hundred years.

Guangdong has become the base camp of the Heaven and Earth Society, and there are anti-Qing uprisings almost every year, and even the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Guangzhou Uprising later.

The Cantonese who could Wishing you prosperity and putting peace and wealth on their faces forced the number one anti-thief base of the Qing Dynasty.

This Qing Dynasty is really lacking in great virtue, and it belongs to yes.

"Who's that?"

"Bright yellow robes? It can't be a Ming Dynasty clan, right? ”

"Impersonated, huh?"

"But his men are very neat. That's white? ”

"Shhhh Where did this guy come from, who can actually drive white people? ”

When three thousand Swiss mercenaries set foot on the land of Batam.

The onlookers were shocked.

They were stunned to look at these Swiss people with flintlock pistols, patting neatly lined up, and shining bayonets pointing at the sky, and they were shocked!

Here in the South Seas.

White people are first-class people.

Not to mention the average Chinese.

Even some Chinese Kapitan do not dare to provoke easily when they meet white people.

And this mysterious figure under the banner of Daming.

Can you drive thousands of white musketeers?

The Chaoshan laborers looked at the Swiss mercenaries in a daze.

However, they were soon attracted by the Chinese soldiers holding the cylinders.

"What kind of cannon is that?"

"This tube is too thin, isn't it?"

"Won't it explode?"

While they were talking.

A thousand Swiss mercenaries lined up in three rows as the vanguards, marching forward in a neat pace.

The remaining 2,000 were to serve as flanks and reserves, escorting more than 100 Chinese artillerymen in the middle.

"What kind of cannon is that?"

Bronckhorst now has no lightness on his face.

Three thousand Swiss mercenaries surprised him.

If you had known that this time the opponent had 3,000 Swiss under his hands.

Maybe he'd already gone first.

Although it is said that the Dutch have the advantage in total strength.

But there were only two thousand whites under his command, and the rest were indigenous.

It's not easy to win this battle.

"Their artillery is not arranged on the sides? How to hide behind the infantry? ”

Bronckhorst is strange.

The artillery of this era was all about firing solid bullets from direct fire to inflict damage.

Therefore, it is necessary to place the artillery on the sides or in front of the infantry - otherwise the artillery with direct fire will not be able to exert its power.

But now the other side is hiding behind the infantry with that strange-looking artillery.

"Could it be that this artillery is fired in a curved way?"

"What's the use of that?"

Just as Bronkhoyt was thinking.

He saw that the opponent's artillery began to arrange artillery positions.

Twelve barrels were erected on a bipod with the barrels at an angle of at least forty-five degrees to the ground.

"Is it a mortar?"

The thought that had just crossed Bronkhoit's mind had just passed.

Under the gaze of a telescope.

On the artillery position 1 mile away, I saw a gunner holding a shell with a strange tail fin stuffed through the muzzle, and then squatted down with his ears covered.

It's not time to wait for Bronkhoyt to react.

The muzzle of the gun flashed.

A cannonball shot into the sky, forming a large parabola at a speed visible to the naked eye, coming in its own direction.

Soon.

Thousands of pairs of eyes on the lookouts.

Immediately saw the scene that shocked them.

A shell landed about seven or eight meters from the front of the indigenous army.

Stuck in the soft ground.

Before anyone could react.

Rumble!

A burst of fire exploded.

A violent explosion flashed in front of the natives.

Fragments of artillery shells swept past the front of the formation.

Immediately, several of the indigenous musketeers collapsed to the ground.

When everyone was stunned.

The gunners on the artillery positions quickly adjusted.

This time...

It's a salvo!!

Twelve shells threw a stable large parabolic trajectory.

Under the gaze of everyone, they plunged headlong into the Dutch-Johor coalition army!

Rumble!

Boom!!

Twelve fires exploded.

The soldiers standing in the formation, whether indigenous or Dutch, were all reduced to a pile of minced meat as long as they were around the explosion.

Bronkhoyt's whole body stiffened, and he suddenly felt a chill on his face.

Reach out and touch it.

It was a fragment of an ear...

It is also not known whether it belongs to the Dutch or indigenous.

"It's a flowering bomb!!"

Bronkhöyt almost screamed.

Before he could react.

Those artillery that can throw terrifying flowering shells.

Once again, a cannonball like a grim reaper was thrown ....