Chapter 247

The western port area of Batavia has undergone a radical change from a few days ago, the scattered buildings that used to be built around the wharf have largely disappeared and have been replaced by uniform wooden buildings, the former port warehouses have been relocated to the outskirts of the country, and now the warehouses have become open squares, where Dutch colonial prisoners and Chinese laborers are now dredged and the wharves are being expanded to allow larger ships to dock.

Since Xie Jinglin left, the military and political power here has been concentrated in the hands of Li Weiluan. In the past few days, the soldiers of the jumping battalion have not been idle, but have attacked from the west and taken a large area.

With the establishment of the Coconut City Executive Committee, the Coconut City Executive Committee led the establishment of the Civil Affairs Bureau, followed by the City Management Bureau, and now the Director of the Civil Affairs Bureau of the Executive Committee is Lin Bufan, Li Sixi was appointed by the City Management Bureau, of course, now Li Sixi and Lin Bufan are the same as the temporary acting director, and the formal appointment must require the authorization of Cheng Shijie.

The Ning Navy has always adopted a policy of separating military and political affairs, with a total of more than 4,500 soldiers in the jumping battalion, responsible for these large areas, occupying too much land will lead to serious dispersion of troops, and then if it is counterattacked by the Dutch and the local king, it will not be able to be supported to death.

When Li Sixi was acting as the director of the city management bureau, he set up the coconut city management bureau, which naturally did not have the city control uniforms of Liaodong, but used Chinese women to temporarily make 300 sets of Tsing Yi short shirts with red armbands to show the difference.

"Director Lin, call the Chinese farmers. General Ben has something to say to them! ”

"Okay, I'll do it right away!"

Lin Bufan asked, "General Li, do you want to collect taxes on Chinese farmers?" ”

Li Weiluan shook his head and said: "It's not about collecting taxes, it's about forming the Chinese People's League!" ”

Lin Bufan shook his head and said, "There are three kinds of Chinese in Batavia! ”

"Three?"

Li Weiluan asked, "Which three?" ”

"Some of them have very good relations with the Dutch, they consider themselves overseas Chinese, they believe in Catholicism, they receive a Western education, and they are more Dutch than the Dutch; Another kind of Chinese is called Baba Nyonya, this part of the people are the descendants of the Chinese and Javanese after marriage, they no longer consider themselves Chinese, there is no difference in appearance from the locals, only those Chinese who have immigrated to the East Indies in recent years are easier to manage, but because they have been in the East Indies for a short time, they actually do not have much personal property! ”

Li Weiluan smiled faintly: "They will cooperate!" ”

It must be emphasized that Ning Haijun and Cheng Shijie are not open-minded, and they do not have the patience to treat people with sincerity, so they are to kill those who follow me decisively and those who disobey me die.

Even if it is for the Chinese, Ning Haijun will not compromise unconditionally, the Chinese who commit crimes in Luzon will also have to serve prison sentences, and they will also have to be sent to labor reform, and now the East India is the same, if the Chinese farmers are willing to cooperate, then Li Weiluan will be very welcome, if the Chinese farmers are not willing to cooperate, then Li Weiluan will also be very welcome.

You must know that Ning Haijun's knife can also kill, in the management of Luzon, if a Chinese killed a native, it is not considered a crime, because the law only protects the Chinese and Ning Haijun, not everyone. In Daming, Daming Law is actually very double-standard.

It is impossible not to cooperate all, there will always be people who are willing to cooperate, so those who are willing to cooperate need to be rewarded. Then those farms that are unwilling to cooperate are the reward for these people.

Cheng Shijie never thinks that he is a good person, and good people will suffer losses at all times, he would rather be a villain who takes advantage of him than a good person who suffers.

Therefore, in Liaodong, in Luzon, including the current Batavia, that is, the coconut city, there is only a cold system, and there has never been a legal principle that is nothing more than human feelings.

In Liaodong, as long as you abide by the law, keep to yourself, and work hard, you can be protected by the law and get the due reward. On the contrary, if you deliberately look for loopholes in the law to benefit yourself, you will probably not survive in Liaodong and Luzon.

In Liaodong, honesty is the code of conduct that everyone must pay attention to, if the business is short of catties and shortages, if the products sold are shoddy, if the officials are corrupt and pervert the law, and even if students cheat in exams, they will be severely punished by the law.

It's not terrible to make a mistake in Liaodong, as long as it's an unintentional mistake, most of you can be forgiven, but if it's deliberate, then even if the victim doesn't trouble you, the judge will also find you trouble, and the cost may be beyond imagination, making people regret it.

It's the same in the East Indies, Ning Haijun doesn't need to be so warm, and for those who don't cooperate, they don't have time to play that kind of seven captures, if those who don't cooperate have an important status, then find someone to replace them, if the status is not important. For a long time to come, it is estimated that there will be a shortage of construction workers in the East Indies.

On the second day, when the Chinese or Chinese farmers around Batavia gathered in Coconut City Port, Li Wei bent and said straight to the point: "Ning Haijun is the kind of big you can't imagine, and we didn't come to Coconut City on a whim, but because our migrant ship was treated unfairly in Batavia, I believe that this injustice, you can also feel it in your daily life, now it's time to change, of course, this may be dangerous, but at the same time, it is also an opportunity, if you are interested, you can come to me at any time, Opportunities are reserved only for those who are prepared. ”

Probably because they were not used to Li Weiluan's style of doing things, they were uneasy, and even the farmers who were ready to break the bank and eliminate disasters suddenly looked at each other, not knowing what medicine he was selling in his gourd.

This is the role of the executive committee, they found the head snakes Li Sixi and Lin Bufan.

Especially Li Sixi and Lin Bufan, they have already put on their official uniforms, and they are embroidered white pheasants from the complement, and those who know the rules of officialdom know that this is the official uniform of a five-grade official.

"Master Li, congratulations!"

"Lord Lin, congratulations!"

"Lord Li, what does that imperial court general mean......

"yes, we want to know too!"

Lin Bufan and Li Sixi glanced at each other, don't you know?

Some people may not know, but there must be some people who pretend to be confused, the Chinese in Batavia are actually different from the Chinese in Luzon, the Spanish occupation of Luzon for more than 70 years, they are deeply rooted in Luzon, especially the Spanish methods are very simple and rude, taking a large-scale massacre against the Chinese.

However, the Dutch had only occupied Batavia for more than ten years, and the Dutch's methods were relatively more hidden, they only adopted the same massacre as the Li Shichang family, did not expand the scope, and specially selected a few or a dozen families to massacre, and under the banner of the other party's crime, which caused the Batavian Chinese to split.

Some took the initiative to take refuge in the Dutch and seek wealth, while others spent money to buy peace.

Li Sixi actually knew what Li Weiluan meant, in fact, he and Lin Bufan could also take the lead in the formation of the militia group, but they needed checks and balances, he surrendered to the Ning Navy early, obtained the right to manage the city, and had three hundred chengguan, these chengguan were equipped with knives, guns and sticks, if placed in the Central Plains, this official position was roughly equivalent to the commander of the soldiers and horses of the five cities.

Li Sixi is also very content, he already has soldiers before he can control the militia, I am afraid that Li Weiluan and Ning Haijun will not be happy, the Civil Affairs Bureau managed by Lin Bufan is roughly equivalent to participating in politics and politics, and this official position is also impossible to control the army.

In fact, it didn't take long for a Chinese representative to understand: "General Li wants us to stand up and form a militia army, maintain local law and order, and collect taxes?" ”

"Clever!"

Li Sixi looked at the young man on the other side and smiled: "Guo Bingren, you guessed well, are you interested!" ”

Before Guo Bingren could speak, the others shouted.

"Isn't this against the Dutch?"

"Will the Dutch give up?"

"Next, we don't know who wins and who loses!"

"The Dutch have united Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong has brought more than a thousand ships, can the Ning Navy beat them?"

"It's too early to stand in line!"

"We don't get involved in politics, whoever wins will stand on whose team!"

"It's better for us to break the bank and eliminate the disaster......"

"Confused, aren't we Chinese suffering enough from the Dutch? Rather than be ruled by the Dutch, I would like to pledge my allegiance to the Duke of Haiguo, and I will do my best to say goodbye to you......"

Guo Bingren got up and clenched his fists, then turned around and left, leaving a look of surprise, stunned, mockery, and resentment.

This scene has actually been in Li Weiluan's eyes.

Guo Bingren hugged his fist towards Li Weiluan and said: "General Li, the grass people are willing to devote their families to prepare for the establishment of a militia group, and I hope that the general will approve it!" ”

"Yes!"

Hearing Li Weiluan's agreed, Guo Bingren's heart was ecstatic.

What does it mean to shoot a bird in the head?

If Guo Bingren becomes the leader of the militia, the Guo family will rise directly from a small family that is not well known.

Guo Bingren is naturally willing to fight.

Li Weiluan looked at Guo Bingren and said: "Our Ning Navy is different from the Dutch, the Dutch are understaffed and the national strength is weak, so we have to rely on the Tuwang to rule the East Indies, we Ning Navy does not need to, you should know that we have a population of more than 20,000 in the Ming Dynasty, and there are many Chinese here in the East Indies, so we don't need to rely on the Tuwang, these Tuwang must all be eliminated, and those half-hearted Chinese farmers, maybe you are not used to our way of working, it doesn't matter, you can slowly get used to it." ”

Cheng Shijie's biggest advantage is the population, when there are many people and there is little land, the population is a burden, and when there are few people and there is a lot of land, the population is the advantage. The East Indies Chinese have lived under the colonial rule of the Dutch for a long time, and most of the time they have to swallow their anger and be cautious, and they have never been so high-profile.

He Li Shiji was ordered to form the Coconut Chenghua People's League, which was divided into two bureaus according to the establishment of the Ning Navy, with a total strength of more than 1,600 people.

Guo Bingren and Li Shiji were only responsible for recruiting Chinese young and strong militias, and the training of troops and the appointment of grassroots officers were responsible for the jumping battalion.

In fact, the command of this militia group nominally belonged to Li Bingren and Li Shiji, but in fact it was still in the hands of Ning Haijun.

Contrary to imagination, this militia group of more than 1,600 people did not undertake the task of defending Coconut City Port, but went out directly to fight, using local indigenous tribes and uncooperative Chinese farmers as training targets.

Zheng Zhilong, located in the port of Batavia, Zheng Zhilong had the idea of surrendering Cheng Shijie.

Three battles and three defeats, which made Zheng Zhilong also have fear of the Ning Navy, especially now that the Ning Navy has landed in the west port of Batavia, and the landing force has five or six thousand people, these five or six thousand Ning Navy are elite troops, and they have defeated more than 10,000 Dutch colonial troops, including a regiment of Dutch infantry.

Even if the Ning Navy is defeated on the sea, fighting on land is not Zheng Zhilong's strength, and his reason is that even if he wins the naval battle, it is useless.

Cowardly and selfish people can always find countless justification for their actions.

Shi Daxuan was taken aback when he heard Zheng Zhilong's heart, and hurriedly said: "Anyone in our Zheng Group can surrender, but the Admiral can't surrender, if the others surrender, Cheng Shijie will not be wiped out, and if the Admiral surrenders, even if Cheng Shijie doesn't do it directly, he will send someone to do it secretly!" ”

How did Zheng Zhilong not understand what Shi Daxuan said, in fact, he did it himself, the huge Zheng fleet, and the Zheng family group, were originally the inheritance of his father-in-law Li Dan and brother-in-law Yan Siqi, after years of deployment, he had completely eliminated the influence of Li Dan and Yan Siqi.

Li Dan's son Li Guoji is only a nominal shareholder, without any real power, and the influence of the Yan family is almost gone. Once Cheng Shijie surrenders, Cheng Shijie will definitely take the same approach to clean him up.

Also actively preparing for war, he took advantage of the Dutchman's dockyard repair yard and began to build fireships on a large scale, and then laid mines on a large scale.

This time the mines were different from the last one, but they were connected with ropes with heavy objects to prevent them from drifting around, and after luring the enemy fleet into an ambush circle, the water ghost team cut the ropes and let the mines drift into the channel, sealing the channel.

Those mines generally sink three feet deep under the water, and it is difficult to find them if you don't pay attention, and once they hit, no matter how big the ship is, it will be over. But rocket ships are very light, have a very shallow draft, and can come and go freely on the water.

On October 29, the seventh year of Chongzhen, the main warship of the Ning Navy appeared on the sea more than ten kilometers away from the port of Batavia.

However, the problem is that this time Zheng Zhilong miscalculated, the Ning Navy formed a sea whirlwind array on the sea surface, this formation is more like a variant of cavalry cavalry shooting, that is, the six strike squadrons of the Ning Navy, which are connected end to end to form a huge circular formation. On a high-speed battleship, use sideboard guns against a dense crowd of fireships.

In this way, these Zheng fireships felt like a big head, and when they dealt with enemy warships, they usually used the wind direction and the speed of the enemy ships to collide and burn or blow up the enemy's warships.

However, under the blow of the whirlwind array of the Ning Navy, they were faced with a broadside naval gun, twelve naval guns and a terrifying range of two thousand meters, because the fireship was too small, even if it was close to missing, it would damage the handling of the fireship.

The most important thing is that this whirlwind array can evade the attack of the fireship at any time, and once it enters the center of the circle, this fireship will be hit by the covered blow of the port side gun.

Under this overwhelming blow, the sailors of the Zheng fleet who controlled the fireship let out a terrible scream, and they were all beaten to the point of inhumanity, and the fireships that lost control lost their direction, spun around on the spot, and even collided with each other, bào zhà, turning into gorgeous fireworks on the sea.

The killer feature of the Zheng fleet failed.

Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhihu were not surprised by this, for a well-disciplined army, fireship tactics could not play a big role, or most of the tactics were not very effective, and they could only fight hard with strength. Zheng Zhilong didn't expect those fireships to achieve results, as long as they could attract the firepower of the Ning Navy, reduce casualties, and allow the fleet to successfully break through the blazing line of death composed of naval gun firepower.

Obviously, those fireships that didn't want to die did it, in order to deal with them, the firepower of the Ning Navy was forced to disperse, although the Hun Yuan Array seemed to be invulnerable, but the thin Hun Yuan Array, any point could be used as a breakthrough. With the interference of Zheng's fireships, the Ning Navy's originally invulnerable firepower network appeared to be a loophole.

The main fleet led by Zheng Zhilong successfully narrowed the distance to 300 meters, and after entering the effective range of the 300-meter gunwales, he roared and gave the order to open fire.

Hundreds of Zheng's main battleships rotated clockwise, revealing the dense guns on the port side. In the barrel of the gun, the gunpowder has already been loaded, and the loader uses iron tongs to clamp the lead balls that have been burned red by charcoal fire into the barrel, and even the ignition is exempted, as soon as the shot put rolls in, the port side immediately bursts out like a volcanic eruption A large curtain of fire, the sound of the cannon shook the sky, and the red lead ball pulled out thousands of strange ballistics, and smashed into the battleship of the Ning Navy!

Although most of the shells of Zheng's fleet hit the sea, first a puff of white smoke was raised, and then a column of water rushed up. But there was still a part of the battleship that hit the Ning Navy, and the part that was hit made a tooth-aching cracking sound, the flames rose, and the temperature of the red-hot lead ball was too high, and it was strange that it did not catch fire when it smashed into the wooden hull.

However, although this kind of lead bullet can damage the main battleship of the Ning Navy, as long as the main battleship of the Ning Navy is not burned by the flames, there is basically not much damage.

The sailors on the battleship of the Ning Navy, to be precise, the marines are responsible for extinguishing the fire, and the deck of the main battleship of the Ning Navy is stacked with prepared sandbags, which contain sand, which have two functions, and the anti-artillery shells can also extinguish the fire.

Li Zhixiang looked at the several battleships with medium guns, and the marines quickly extinguished the location of the fire, especially because each battleship carried landing soldiers, and while extinguishing the fire, it did not affect the combat of the battleship.

In the past, the establishment of the battleships of the Ning Navy has always been supernumerary, and each post is two people, or even three people, but now with the development of the Ning Navy and the Navy is getting faster and faster, there is a serious shortage of sailors, and there can only be a radish and a pit, but the problem is that the personnel who manage the damage are indispensable posts on the warship, and Li Zhixiang is also wondering whether the Ning Navy warship will carry a 50-person Marine Corps post in the future.

At a distance of three or four hundred meters, the Ning Navy has an extremely high hit rate, especially high-explosive shells, which are specifically aimed at below the waterline and fire. The cylindrical cannonball grazed the sea surface and fiercely chiseled into the hull of the ship, exploding violently, blowing up the sailors in the cabin of the Zheng battleship and at the same time blowing up a terrifying hole near the waterline.

The losses of the Zheng fleet rose in a straight line, and Song Fuguo, the general under the command of Zheng Zhilong, stared blankly at the sea, blood and raging flames stained the strait red, the waves were howling, the sky was wailing, and the desperate cries of the sailors of the Zheng fleet made the heavens and the earth change color.

Terrible shells bombarded, once hit by the naval artillery of the Ning Navy, even the largest battleship, it would be seriously disabled, under the bombardment of the naval artillery of the Ning Navy, the Zheng fleet was not a battleship after a battleship, but a formation after formation turned into burning wreckage.

In order to avoid these bloodthirsty naval guns, many warships rushed into each other in a panic, and even collided with cannonballs even more brittlely, and shattered in a terrible sound, announcing that there was one more sunken ship and dozens of souls who had lost their lives at the bottom of the strait.

"Boom ......"

Right here, Song Fuguo's battleship seemed to erupt in the bilge of a volcano, and the terrifying blast wave of the explosion shattered the cabin partition, lifting a large piece of the deck into the air, and became a trapeze artist when the nearby sailors boarded.

Song Fuguo only felt that his head had been hit hard, and the world was spinning, and before he passed out, he saw that many battleships were like his battleships with blazing fire, and the sound of explosions and screams came one after another, which was terrifying......

When Song Fuguo thought he was finished, he was covered by a fishing net, and soon he found that he was rescued by Shi Daxuan, one of the eighteen Zhizhi, along with Zheng Zhihu's son Zheng Yi.

"Thank you Brother Shi for saving your life!"

Song Fuguo is Yan Siqi's old department, he was the first to take refuge in Zheng Zhilong, he is a strong and very high-ranking general under Zheng Zhilong, and the deputy commander of the left battalion of the Guanju Water Division, if he excludes the Zheng clan, he can be ranked in the top ten in the Zheng group.

Shi Daxuan smiled: "Brother Song, you're welcome!" ”

Song Fuguo said with a sad face: "My fleet is finished!" ”

"Not only yours, but also mine!"

Shi Daxuan ranked higher in the Zheng group, because his younger brother Shi Daxuan was Zheng Zhilong's adviser and was very trusted by Zheng Zhilong, but in this naval battle in Batavia, he had more than 100 warships in just half an hour, and now there are less than 30, while Song Fuguo is even worse, with only five warships.

At this time, the naval battle had turned into a massacre, a massacre of the enemy who was overwhelmingly inferior in numbers against an enemy army ten times its size.

Song Fuguo said to Shi Daxuan: "Lord Shi, you should go and persuade Lord Admiral!" ”

"Can't be persuaded!"

Speaking of this, Shi Daxuan's face was a little unpleasant, he looked at Zheng Yi beside him, and said with a wry smile: "Zheng Yi is still the nephew of Lord Admiral, if not, his head has already moved at the moment!" ”

At this time, Zheng Zhilong was already like a gambler with a red eye, he pressed everything recklessly, he knew very well that he could not lose, and if he was defeated repeatedly, he would have no chance.

"Lord Admiral, stop fighting, let's retreat!"

Zheng Zhibao was about to cry, their means were exhausted, but at this time, the battleships of the Ning Navy were still cruising on the sea, bombarding the Zheng fleet from time to time with an elliptical whirlwind array.

With each round of shelling, more than a dozen or several warships were sunk, and the key problem was that as time went on, the distance between the two sides became farther and farther, and the proximity advantage gained by the sacrifice of hundreds of fireships in exchange for it had been completely lost.

Now they are facing an embarrassing problem, the naval guns in their hands cannot reach the Ning Navy warship, and every time the Ning Navy warship fires, they will suffer heavy losses.

Zheng Zhilong was very angry, if it was someone else, he would definitely behead the other party, but the person who proposed to retreat was Zheng Zhibao.

"Bastard!"

Zheng Zhilong didn't kill Zheng Zhibao, but kicked Zheng Zhibao and kicked Zheng Zhibao over.

Zheng Zhilong roared at Zheng Zhibao: "Don't retreat!" Give me offense! I'm going to peel Cheng Shijie's skin, I'm going to eat his meat,......"

Zheng Zhilong's almost crazy demeanor and fierce gaze made everyone shudder. In peacetime, once he gets angry, there must be countless henchmen and soldiers who will rush forward and stretch the enemy army to vent for him, but now no one listens to his orders, everyone knows that this battle cannot be fought at all, and the problem they are facing now is not how to win, but how to get out!

Zheng Zhibao glanced at Zheng Zhilong's cronies and pro-soldier captain, and the pro-soldier captain took a step forward, and hit Zheng Zhilong's back of the head with a knife handle to knock him unconscious, Zheng Zhibao took the opportunity to order: "Lord Admiral is injured, retreat!" Fall back! ”

Zheng Zhilong planted a lot of mines in Batavia Bay, which caused great trouble to the Ning Navy, and the two Ning Navy warships that were pursuing were blown out of a huge hole by the mines one after another, and the fierce sea water poured into the cabin.

Fortunately, the damaged cabin was closed in time, which prevented the battleship from sinking.

Seeing the rout of the Zheng fleet, Brewer was in despair.

What Zheng Zhibao didn't expect was that although he escaped with Zheng Zhilong, more Zheng warships surrendered to the Ning Navy.

"We surrendered! Don't attack anymore and let us go! ”

The sound of begging was mixed with heart-rending cries. These guys crisscross the South China Sea, killing people and doing many evils, each more ferocious than the other, but in the face of a strong enemy that they can't defeat, they are not much stronger than a cowardly little daughter-in-law. All their courage, will and pride have long been shattered by Cheng Shijie, and they no longer dare to have the slightest idea of confronting Cheng Shijie, they just want to live!

Cheng Shijie thought about it for a long time, but still agreed to accept the surrender of Zheng's battleship.

These warships of the Zheng fleet, trembling, carefully avoided the wreckage and the ubiquitous mines, and sailed out of the harbor of Batavia, where they would surrender to the Ning navy.

Looking at the Zheng banners that were thrown into the sea one after another, it also heralded the end of an era.

Of course, the Battle of Batavia also heralded the rise of the Ning Navy and the beginning of the era of Cheng Shijie, the new sea king.

(End of chapter)