Chapter 245

The battle at the port of Batavia finally came to an end, in which the Dutch East Indies Colonial Army dispatched eight regiments of more than 13,000 people, six of which were disabled, with more than 7,500 dead and wounded, and the total number of Ming soldiers who actually fought against them was only more than 4,500.

It was equivalent to one-third of the number of the Dutch East Indies colonial army, and in terms of equipment, the Ming army did not have any advantage, and even the six three-inch guns that it only carried did not have time to fire. The Ning Navy Jumping Battalion was not equipped, not even a single musket, while the Dutch East India Colonial Army had nearly 2,000 muskets.

These Dutch East Indies colonial troops were also well-trained and experienced in combat, especially in suppressing the indigenous tribes and Chinese who did not obey the administration of the Dutch East Indies Governorate.

In fact, the Dutch East Indies colonists suffered far more casualties than the Ningning navy, because many of them jumped into the river in order to escape. More than 3,000 people were drowned, eight regiments of colonial troops attacked, and less than 1,500 people returned, and the rest were either drowned or surrendered directly, and the Ning Navy captured more than 2,000 people.

The Ning Navy lost 27 casualties, of which 62 were wounded, and these wounded soldiers were mainly lightly wounded, after all, the weapons in the hands of the Dutch East Indies colonial army were basically unable to inflict fatal injuries on the soldiers of the jumping battalion. Of course, this is not to say that the Dutch East India Company's army was not well equipped, in fact, their muskets still caused great damage to the soldiers of the jumping battalion, 99 percent of the casualties and 80 percent of the wounded were caused by the muskets.

Even if the battle is over, Li Weiluan is still a little apprehensive, but fortunately, the establishment of the jumping battalion will not be expanded, with the development of science and technology, no matter how heavy the armor is, it is difficult to achieve 100% safety in front of the musket.

In response to this war, people are in different positions and have different views on that war. The natives were very frightened, because they found that the Ming army was more terrible than the Dutch, of course, the Dutch were invincible in their eyes, and at this time, the Ning Navy officers had become terrible devils in their eyes.

Of course, most of the Chinese were very happy, and the arrival of the Ning Navy, especially Li Weiluan, also received their gifts, which meant that in the future, the Dutch would not dare to trouble them again, let alone the natives now.

The Dutch were shocked and angry, shocked by the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, and helplessly because they also personally understood the combat effectiveness of the Ming army......

The western port area of Batavia finally gradually regained its calm, and the corpses of the killed Dutch and Indian colonial soldiers were lined up on the ground like a pile of heaps, with a pool of dirty blood everywhere, human body remnants and broken arms everywhere, and the corpses of many colonial soldiers floating and sinking in the river, which could scare people's courage alive.

Sidney came down to the West Harbor District in this way, and behind him were the released Chinese, densely packed with a large area of Wuyang and Wuyang.

In the same way, all the clothes on the corpses were stripped naked, and all the weapons and equipment, including the money and personal belongings carried on the corpses, were also sorted out and put together.

Located in the northwest downwind of the port, a huge incineration site has been disposed of, and these corpses will be pulled over and burned, if these corpses are allowed to be left on the dock, they will soon stink and may cause a plague, which will be a very troublesome matter.

As for the captives of the Dutch East Indies Colonial Army, they are very meekly washing away the blood on the ground, as well as the organs and parts of the human body.

"Stop!"

"Excuse me, sir!"

Sidney has a strong inferiority complex in the face of the hoplites of the Ning Navy, there is no way, these hoplites are either from Liao, or from Beizhili, Shandong, Henan, with an average height of more than 1.85 meters, with a big waist and a round waist, otherwise they can't carry heavy armor weighing 48 catties, plus their Mo knives, the weight of the whole body is as much as more than 80 catties.

You must know that when the hoplites were recruited, there were more than 20,000 people whose height met the selection standards of the Ning Navy, and in the end they only protected the establishment of more than 4,800 people, which is equivalent to one in a thousand.

The Ning Navy hoplites who were in charge of standing guard wore face armor, and they couldn't see their expressions clearly, almost the same height, the same body type, and the same equipment, in Sidney's opinion, it was like a mold carved out.

In fact, even if Ning Haijun took off his armor and revealed his appearance, in Sidney's eyes, these Chinese were almost all carved out of a mold.

After getting the translator's translation, the Ning Navy soldier said coldly: "Wait! ”

Just when Sidney arrived, the tall Xu Tong stood beside Li Weiluan, and said with a wry smile on his face: "General Li, how can we count our achievements in this battle?" ”

In Xu Tong's opinion, these colonial forces were very weak, and they were even stronger than the Luzon colonial army that fought against them.

Li Weiluan smiled and said: "Didn't the big marshal say it when he was in Luzon?" We are now in a foreign war, and externally, all enemies are counted according to their exploits! ”

"But ......"

"But what? Are they civilians? ”

"It's not!"

"They are not civilians, but formed soldiers, so they naturally have to be counted as war merits!"

Li Weiluan smiled: "We can't count on how strong our enemy is. ”

Xu Tong scratched his head and said: "In the battle of Luzon, I beheaded thirty-seven, in the battle last night, I beheaded one level, and today eleven, a total of ......"

"Forty-nine!"

Li Weiluan said: "Very good, you can get 3,675 acres of land, have you thought about it?" Where are the preparations? ”

"Liaoyang!"

Xu Tong smiled: "If my father knew that there were less than 2,000 acres of land in Jinzhou, he would definitely die of distress!" ”

"If you want more land, then go to Luzon, with your military exploits in Luzon, you should be able to divide nearly 40,000 acres of land!"

"I'm going to ask for 500 acres in Jinzhou, keep it for my father, and 2,000 acres in Liaoyang, let my third brother be in charge of Jingying over there, and I'm going to stay in Luzon for the rest!"

"Stay in Luzon?"

Li Weiluan said puzzledly: "Are you going to stay in Luzon?" ”

"I've figured it out!"

Xu Tong sighed and said: "Luzon has my demons, I can't sleep well without Luzon!" ”

"Devil's fart, I think you can't bear that pretty widow!"

Li Weiluan scolded: "Bear-like who has no interest!" ”

"Haha!"

There was a burst of laughter.

The military discipline of the Ning Navy is relatively strict, especially for the relationship between men and women. But the problem is that Cheng Shijie is a person of later generations and has the habitual thinking of later generations.

In formulating this discipline, consideration was given to the protection of vulnerable groups. He doesn't engage in any free love, and he doesn't have this problem in this era.

However, when he was in Luzon, considering that the population of Luzon was too small, especially the Chinese were too small, this restriction was relaxed, and as long as he was over 18 years old, he could apply to the supervisor for marriage with the object.

Although Xu Tong did not get married, he fell in love with a pretty widow in Zheng Hegang, Tao, who was the wife of the fisherman Lin Sen, who met the Spanish patrol fleet when he went to sea, and was bombed to pieces by the Spanish fleet as a target.

In this way, Tao became a widow, she lived with a pair of children, the eldest son was seven years old, and the youngest daughter was five years old.

Tao apologized to Xu Tong on behalf of Lin Dazhuang, Xu Tong felt that Lin Dazhuang was like his nephew who died young, tiger head and tiger brain, Xu Tong gave Lin Dazhuang the canned food he didn't eat, and the ruffian who originally bullied Tao naturally disappeared. Tao asked Lin Dazhuang to recognize Xu Tong as his godfather.

came and went, and the relationship between the two came naturally.

Xu Tong decided to marry Dow.

While Li Weiluan and Xu Tong were chatting, the garbage on the dock, that is, the corpses of the colonial army, was almost cleaned up, and the dock was also cleaned on the ground, but the smell of blood in the air was still very pungent.

"Tell the general, the Dutch want to restart negotiations!"

Li Weiluan said: "Inform Mr. Xie that the war is our business, and the negotiation is his business!" ”

"Yes!"

Xie Jinglin came to Sidney and said coldly, "What are you doing here?" ”

"The contemptible people have come to discuss the resumption of negotiations on the orders of His Excellency the Governor!"

Sidney felt unnatural in the midst of the wolves' gaze. From the moment he arrived in the Westport district of Batavia, from the moment he came ashore, he was already stared at by hundreds of pairs of eyes.

"I'm so sorry, after the last negotiation was unreasonably suspended by your governor, I don't think we need to negotiate now!"

Xie Jinglin knows very well that Brewer sent people to restart the negotiations, so as to use the negotiation method to reduce the losses, this is really a joke, is it possible?

What cannot be obtained on the battlefield is naturally impossible to get at the negotiating table, and the current Ning Navy has a huge advantage over the Dutch, thanks to the capture of Luzon, Cheng Shijie faced the toughness of Xiyi, which made the Chinese all over Nanyang more and more confident in Cheng Shijie.

These Chinese also know very well that if they want to keep the wealth they have accumulated over the years, only by cooperating with Cheng Shijie can at least they have a chance to survive and keep their wealth, while the Dutch or other colonial authorities of other powers will not leave them a penny.

Originally, as soon as the cannon went off, there were 10,000 taels of gold, but the problem is that with the blood transfusion of Nanyang Chinese to the Ning Navy, Cheng Shijie is really not short of money now.

Of course, the Dutch East India Company was not short of money, they were just short of people.

"Sir, you can't do this, God is merciful, too many people have died, and we, as a member of the civilized world, should not fight bloody like barbarians......"

As Sidney spoke, he discovered that Ning Haijun was in the port and was registering all the Chinese.

"Name!"

"Lin Bufan!"

"Age!"

"Fifty-three!"

"Origin!"

"Huguangbu Political Secretary Changsha Xiangyin County!"

"How many people are in the family?"

"Fifteen!"

"What's your name?"

"Eldest son Lin Zhufeng!"

"Age?"

"Thirty-seven!"

"Marriage or not!"

"Married, wife Chen, now Chinese New Year's Eve five years old!"

……

"Bang!"

As the big seal was stamped, Lin Bufan took his ID card and household registration book with emotion.

The ID card in the Ning Navy system is similar to the size of the body card of later generations, but there is no photo, and it is stamped with copper plate, which is easy to carry and not easy to damage.

"You can't do this, this is the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, you are breaking the law!"

Xie Jinglin said with a faint irony: "You are really shameless, lifting the butcher's knife to slaughter our Ming people unscrupulously, this is your so-called mercy, why are you so thick-skinned?" Oh, by the way, you guys shouldn't have ...... skin."

Sidney reluctantly returned to the Dutch East Indies Governor's Mansion and reported to the Governor the attitude of the Ming people.

Brewer is also understanding that Ning Haijun is asking for too much. He can only pray for the Dutch Navy to fight for it now......

For the Chinese captives released by the Dutch, Xie Jinglin asked Lin Bufan to start providing food for these Chinese, who were imprisoned for nearly two months and had some physical problems.

When food and water were distributed, there were choked voices among the Chinese people, and most of them had already resigned themselves to their fate, after all, the massacre of the Chinese was not once or twice.

Under the administration of the Dutch colonial authorities, the Chinese were actually raised as pigs, and in the process of accumulating wealth for the Chinese, the Dutch colonial authorities did not set restrictions.

As soon as the wealth of the Chinese reached their psychological expectations, they would raise the butcher's knife.

"Long live Daming!"

"Thank goodness!"

When registering the Chinese captives, Ning Haijun was not enough, so Xie Jinglin had to use these Chinese, and thanks to the material environment in Nanyang, the Chinese literacy rate was much higher than that of the Central Plains.

Of the more than 1,500 captives, more than 400 were literate, and in addition to the elderly, weak, women and children, who were temporarily settled, the rest of the Chinese made full use of them.

Lin Bufan looked at Xie Jinglin and said, "Mr. Xie, what should I do next?" ”

"Clean up the garbage from the port, destroy the houses and warehouses, and repair them, our fleet is coming, we must be ready!"

Lin Bufan asked puzzledly, "Didn't you beat the Dutch?" Why send troops? ”

"The Dutch are not as weak as they imagined, they will not be reconciled, you must know that there are thirty-five strongholds in the Dutch East Indies, in addition to the big officers, there are thirty-four, they are armed with hundreds of thousands of colonial troops, these horses are originally cannon fodder, and the Dutch will definitely make a comeback again!"

Lin Bufan was very surprised that Ning Haijun actually gave food to the captured natives, and the food provided was actually not bad, pay attention, there were dishes. Not only are there vegetarian dishes, but each person also has a fried golden fish on both sides.

Ning Navy soldiers ate the food sent by the Chinese, and when they watched the Chinese children come over, as long as they said hello and spoke a word of Chinese, they would get a canned meal.

Even if the Chinese in Nanyang are rich, they are actually relatively rich, and there are many Chinese who work as workers or servants, and they have no property, and canned food is still a luxury for them.

Stimulated by the whip and delicacies of the Ning Navy, the work of more than 2,000 captives was progressing quite well, and as more and more Chinese joined in the repair process of the port, the appearance of the entire port changed dramatically.

First of all, the garbage piled up in a small hill was cleared, and after being cleaned up, it was sprinkled with white ash, and the streets were swept to reveal the blue-gray slate below, and all the sanitation, including the garbage on the roof, including the corner houses, was also swept away, and a large area of dilapidated and unsightly shanty houses around the dock was also demolished.

All kinds of garbage that have been piled up on the water surface in the port for many years have also been cleaned up, fishing boats and merchant ships are neatly arranged on the side of the port in accordance with the regulations, and they can no longer be parked in a disorderly manner as before, and the problem of being crowded and even affecting the passage of the channel has been solved in an instant.

After racking his brains, Brewer had to admit that the port authority had done nothing in the port of Batavia over the years except to collect taxes.

There is another problem that has to be faced, that is, the Ning Navy has no intention of leaving, and now in the west port area of Batavia, the Ning Navy has formed a patrol team and began to patrol the surroundings and set up sentry posts.

At the same time, the West Port of Batavia was officially renamed Coconut City.

Several stonemasons engraved a stone tablet overnight, with the inscription "Coconut City Port!" "Three big words.

The following is engraved with small characters in the book, Weiming Chongzhen in October of the seventh year, the military department of Shangshu, the governor of the five armies, the general of the conquest, the governor of Liaodong, the commander of Liaodong, the commander of the sea country, shocked to hear that the South Seas, the red sheep of the world, the disaster of Java, the invasion of the West Yi, the ravages of the devastation, tens of thousands of people, loyal eyes unforgettable Wang Shi's aid, Nanyang Bandang. The festival of fighting for a thousand autumns with a naked heart, the country's cadres bowed down and marched, and sent General Zhaoyong to jump the battalion to command Li Weiluan to supervise the surprise attack, and the west was unprepared, and the three armies fought hard, killing more than 10,000 enemies, and Keye City,"

Batavia West Port was renamed Coconut City Port.

Like Luzon, a temporary executive committee was established, Xie Jinglin was the director of the temporary executive committee, Lin Bufan, Li Sixi, Guo Sijia and others became temporary members of the executive committee, and began to issue Daming ID cards and household registration to the Chinese people in Coconut City.

As the household registration statistics began, the construction of the port began on a larger scale, and more and more Chinese came to register, and as the Ning Navy occupied the west port of Batavia, it began to requisition the local residents.

The natives have no wages, only food. Chinese workers have wages, benchmarking the level of Liaodong, with a daily salary of 50 yuan, or a monthly salary of 125 yuan of silver.

While the construction of the western port of Batavia was in full swing, the Dutch East India Combined Fleet, located in the Java Sea, was also circling in circles with the main fleet of the Ning Navy.

They took advantage of the better terrain and never engaged the Ning Navy, although the warships of the Ning Navy had the advantage of speed, but the problem was that they would lead the Ning Navy to the sea with complex sea conditions and dense reefs, and then quietly slip away.

In this way, the officers and men of the Ning Navy were very angry, but they were helpless.

"Alas, these grandsons ran quite fast, and let them run away again!"

Li Zhixiang was very angry at this time.

Naval battles, in fact, are similar to the decisive battles of cavalry on the grassland, and they also have great room for detours, and it can even be said that rising battles are more complicated than cavalry battles.

If the other side doesn't want to fight, it's completely okay to go around in circles at sea.

In particular, the sea is not always calm, if the visibility is too low, it is entirely possible to pass by, the key is that after the cavalry, as long as a large number of cavalry passes, it will definitely leave traces, and experienced cavalry will find it and can also chase it down.

But after the battleship passed, no trace was left.

Cheng Shijie smiled very easily: "Since they are hiding from us, then we will attack them and go directly to Batavia, and Ben Shuai wants to see how long they can hide!" ”

"Dashuai means ......"

Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly: "We don't have time, Zheng Zhilong is only three or four days away from us, if we let Zheng Zhilong's fleet catch up, this battle will have to be fought!" We go straight to Batavia! ”

Although Zheng Zhilong's fleet is huge, and the Ning Navy relies on its own equipment advantages, the speed of the ships is fast, and the power of the naval guns is great, but the problem is that the armed merchant ships and warships of the Dutch are also large, unlike the five or six hundred ton Wuwei ships, nor as good as the eight or nine hundred ton junk ships.

The three-inch naval guns of the Ning Navy did not have the ability to hit the soul of the Dutch's thousand-ton armed merchant ships, and the four-inch guns could only hit the powder kegs on the Dutch battleships with the blessing of luck, but the problem was that now the Dutch and Zheng Zhilong had learned well, and they no longer put barrels of gunpowder on the deck, but put the gunpowder in the bottom cabin, and let people carry the gunpowder when they needed it.

Because the flowering shells of the Ning Navy came out ahead of schedule, they forced the Zheng fleet and the Dutch combined fleet to adopt the method of ordering gunpowder to avoid sinking a battleship with one shot.

Just when the main battleship of the Ning Navy sailed towards Batavia, dense sails appeared on the sea surface of Batavia, which was Zheng Zhilong's fleet.

In fact, as early as when the Ning Navy turned south, the traces of the main battleships of the Ning Navy would be discovered, because when crossing the Penghu Strait, the Dutch discovered the main fleet of the Ning Navy.

Zheng Zhilong immediately judged that Ning Haijun was definitely not afraid of the Zheng fleet, but first turned around to clean up the Dutch, and then turned back to clean him up.

Zheng Zhilong also knows the truth of cold lips and teeth, now that the Spanish power in the South China Sea no longer exists, the Spanish warships that surrendered have been converted into armed merchant ships by Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie didn't look down on the Spaniards' warships, because their warships couldn't keep up with the Sea Shark class, and fighting with the main warships of the Ning Navy would only drag down the overall speed of the Ning Navy.

The second is that the Ning Navy is no longer short of ships, but lacks excellent sailors.

Cheng Shijie turned around and cleaned up the Dutch first and then dealt with the Zheng fleet, and there was also a desire to recruit the Zheng sailors. When Zheng Zhilong went south, he was moving forward at full speed.

Be the first to arrive at the port of Batavia.

Although the Ning Navy occupied the West Port area, the battery was blown up by the Ning Navy's reconnaissance detachment, and now they lacked the means to attack the sea, so they could only watch the Zheng fleet slowly enter the port.

Zheng Zhilong has learned enough lessons, and now he doesn't dare to be careless, the fleet he entered the port is only a part, and the other fleets are scattered on the sea, responsible for vigilance.

Putmans immediately reported a shocking news to Governor Brewer: "Your Excellency, the big thing is not good, our strength on Dayuan Island has been wiped out by the Ming army!" ”

"How is this possible? Don't we have the city of Orange? ”

Brewer said incredulously: "We bought a lot of cement from the Ming people, did they do anything in the cement?" No, we experimented and smashed it with a hammer, a hammer is just a white spot, I have to admit that the Ming army's army is very strong, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the first in the world, but how did they capture the city of Orenji? ”

Putmans smiled wryly, "Actually, I also want to know how that bastard from Mays lost Orange City!" ”

Brewer really couldn't figure it out, even if they used 32-pound guns to bombard the cement castle, it would have little effect, but according to their intelligence, neither the navy nor the army was equipped with 32-pound guns.

"Can you ask Zheng's men to help us retake the West Port of Batavia?"

"I'm very sorry, Your Excellency the Governor, Zheng's appetite is not small!"

(End of chapter)