Chapter 404: Attack on Batavia

Most of the red-haired fans lost their courage, and only Pete Poznan stood up and shouted: "Never give in, retreat is death!"

Pete Poznan is also an old colonist. He had dealt with the Southeast Mansion a long time ago (2 years, now it is 33 years), and went to the Southeast Mansion to redeem the captured Dutch. He has also seen the Southeast Mansion attack. Zuo Suo (Xiamen) had a clear understanding of Southeast Mansion throughout the entire process.

It is a pity that there are too many steadfast patriots among the Dutch, busy doing business with the Southeast Mansion to make money (they even sold a large number of cannons to the Southeast Mansion). They failed to conquer the Southeast Mansion in one fell swoop when the Southeast Mansion was weak, and the Southeast Mansion became bigger.

Pete Poznan fought, but the other Dutch asked him: "Now that the naval battle has been lost, and the opposing fleet has blocked our port, what else can you do against them?"

"We clung to them, they came from afar, it is not easy to supply, we still have a chance of victory!" Pete Poznan encouraged everyone.

At that time, the ramblings were meeting in the conference room of the governor’s palace. Hearing his words, everyone moved, and Pete Poznan took the opportunity to say: “We came here from far away Europe, we eliminated Tufu, conquered this place, and built this place. How can we give up easily with so much effort!"

"Yes!" Redhead Fan Rose Mullen also stood up and said passionately: "If we abandon this land, we will never be able to come back."

"For this piece of land, fight it!" he exclaimed.

Everyone was moved by him, and all stood up and shouted, "For this land, fight it!"

So they mobilized overnight, strengthened their defenses, and prepared for war!

At that time, the Batavia port was a harbor with three cannons on each side. There are six cannons in total. Each cannon has 30 artillery, namely 24 pounders, 2 pounders and ten pounders. The Dutch All the artillery available on the 5 battleships on the returned 25 battleships were demolished and strengthened to six turrets, forming a dense defensive circle of 300 artillery!

With the help of the local natives, they carried out the lanterns and fought at night. With the assistance of the local natives, they dragged thousands of cannons to the fort, dug out the artillery positions, and filled the sandbags. Even if the Southeast battleship fired outside the port, it did not affect their enthusiasm for work.

Then 5 warships were scuttled at the entrance of Batavia port, and 0 warships were aligned in a semicircle towards the entrance. The determination of the Dutch to defend the port was not small. ..

But their preparations were overshadowed from the beginning, they were too few!

The number of white people available in Batavia’s port now has only a few thousand people. Three hundred cannons and ten battleships are not enough for one white gun squad per gun (seven people are needed). They can only use indigenous people to make up the number, but they found that indigenous people Captain Kapat has escaped!

This guy was too smart. When he saw the Dutch defeated, he immediately boarded the Clippers and avoided the trouble that the Southeast Fleet could not escape from blocking the port.

The Dutch hate them to the bone, and such hostage slaves will kill them if they have a chance.

The other indigenous peoples did not have a boat like Capate. Under the threat of the Dutch with a gun in their hands, they had to do work, but they were limited in their ability and did it slowly. The thousand and five white people died of fire and had to take them to work together. Live, tired and half dead-----slave owners have to work harder than slaves, and the world is upside down.

As for the skilled workers, the Chinese in Batavia were also recruited as purely foreign workers and did not work hard.

They knew that their compatriots had defeated the white people, so they blocked the door outside, how could they still play for the white people, just waiting to "welcome the king."

But the Dutch can’t beat and scold them like before, let alone kill them because the Southeast Ship has released two whites. The message is that the Dutch must treat the Chinese in the city well. If they kill the Chinese, they need those. The life of a Dutch prisoner of war!

And after attacking Batavia, he settled accounts with the white people, which shocked the white people so much that they had no choice but to let the Chinese in the city let them go.

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The Dutch waited and reported the news to Yan Changwu, the commander of the Southeast Fleet. Yan Changwu heard that the morale of the other party was booming, so he immediately let the troops off for three days!

Every ten ships (including two battleships, two fifth-tier cruise ships, and six sixth-tier cruise ships) form a squadron, two shifts a day, one shift twelve hours, from morning to night, uninterrupted to harass Pakistan The port of Davia, bombarding the port non-stop, and the sound of gunfire all night, making the defenders sleepless day and night!

In this way, the Batavia port was beaten every day, with little loss, but no rest, no peace, and morale inevitably declined.

Until the morning of the third day, the main force of the Southeast Fleet was dispatched, and the whole line was pressed. Seeing the densely packed Southeast battleships outside the port, the Dutch with red eyes knew that the most critical time had come. They silently entered the gun position and prepared for battle. .

Yan Changwu didn't play virtual, except for his battleship that was not on board, he sent fifteen battleships, and their side guns were as high as 525!

The fire was earth-shattering, with dense shells pouring on the Dutch fort like raindrops, the roar of the shells was like a roar of thunder, the fire was strobe, shrapnel flew horizontally, a cloud of dust and smoke directed at the night ( It is not a blasting bomb, but when it hits the ground, many shells bring up smoke and dust), gradually forming a huge airtight curtain, which tightly wraps the people on the ground, everyone is in danger, and only feels the ghost of death Surround yourself.

The Dutch fought back. The artillery on the artillery base was desperately urged by the officers to load, aim, and fire as quickly as possible. Almost all the artillery had already been stripped off, and Chiguo’s body was sweating profusely, and he kept firing. .

As a series of shells fell among them, the gunners on the 15 battleships of the Southeast Fleet supplemented and strengthened them. They were transferred from the cruise ships. They were fast and accurate, completely overwhelming the Dutch gunners.

The casualties on the turrets are getting more and more serious, the firing speed is constantly slowing down due to lack of manpower, and the accuracy of the head is also poor. Some indigenous people began to flee ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Pete Poznan yelled: "Fight, fight, do Our duty!"

As soon as the voice fell, a heavy artillery shell knocked him down, breaking him to pieces!

Seeing this terrible scene also took away the courage of the defenders to resist!

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The bombardment lasted six hours from 6 o'clock to 12 o'clock. In order to cool down, fifteen battleships of the Southeast Fleet fired port guns and then starboard guns, repeatedly attacking the enemy's turrets.

In fact, Yan Changwu has different options. He had already obtained a topographic map near Batavia, and landed on the east coast a little farther away. He could make a detour and enter Batavia without blood, while the gun emplacement was facing towards. The open sea cannot stop his army, thereby reducing casualties.

However, Yan Changwu insisted on using strong ships and guns to openly conquer the Batavia port, thus establishing a confidence for the Han people to defeat Hong Maofan!

At noon, feeling that the Dutch counterattack was getting weaker and weaker, Yan Changwu ordered the Marines to land on the beach!