1890 King of Southeast Asia

Let’s not talk about the trouble in Batavia for now. The natives’ siege scared the Dutch colonists in Yogyakarta. On November 1, the assembled Dutch colonial army and vassal army began to withdraw their troops and set off on their way home at the urging of Yogyakarta.

The Dutch colonial army was at least a regular army. They did not rush back all at once, but cautiously sent out reconnaissance troops. However, the Dutch colonists were used to being arrogant, and the reconnaissance troops only pretended to be reconnaissance.

It was not useless. In Indonesia, the rebels were mostly native civilians or former nobles. These people had no military quality. The intimidating reconnaissance march was more effective. They were scared out of their wits.

But the South China Army was different. Although it was not established for a long time, it had at least experienced a low-intensity battle. According to the militia training manual and Liu Yiming’s own summary, the theoretical and tactical level of the South China Army was decades ahead of this era.

You should know that the next few decades are the decades with the fastest tactical changes. First, the army's weapons are changed, and then the air force appears. The speed of tactical changes is faster and more than the previous two hundred years.

At this time, the South China Army has set up an ambush position, but did not enter the position. Instead, it hid in the jungle hundreds of meters away from the position. The Dutch soldiers just roughly checked the situation along the road and did not go deep into the jungle on the roadside.

Waiting for the Dutch scouts to pass, under the signal of the South China scouts, the South China soldiers quickly entered the position and waited for the main force of the Dutch colonial army to arrive.

Half an hour later, the Dutch colonial army slowly approached the ambush position.

The pocket formation set up by the South China Army has more than 300 broadsword mines, and all of them were used. An ambush position about 500 meters long was set up to ensure that the enemy can be eaten up.

The Dutch soldiers were unaware that more than 1,800 people walked into the ambush area without any defense. When they reached the middle, the battalion commander of the Dutch colonial army felt something was wrong.

"What's wrong, Pierce. Why don't you leave?" Another battalion commander Picard asked.

"I feel something is not right." Pierce said.

"What's wrong?" Pierce heard Pierce say this and raised his telescope to observe everywhere.

"I can't say, I just have a bad feeling." Pierce said.

"Don't worry Pierce, these yellow monkeys just lost a thousand people under Yogyakarta. Do they still have the energy to ambush us?" Pierce looked for a long time. The jungle was dead quiet. He said to Pierce indifferently.

"Besides, even if they dare, what can they use to ambush us? We have two thousand people, and they need ten thousand people to put pressure on us. Do they have it? Let's go quickly. The master of Yogyakarta is scared to death. If we go back late, we will be scolded again!"

"Okay..." Pierce had no evidence, and the Dutch colonial army continued to move forward.

"It's a close call. We almost fought! If we fight now, at least half of them will run away, which is not good." In the bushes in the distance, Yang Tao also stared at the Dutch colonial army. There was a signal gun next to his hand. He had already touched it, but it turned out to be a false alarm.

In this way, eight hundred Dutchmen and a thousand local traitors perfectly stepped into the ambush area, and then Pierce stopped again.

"What's wrong, Pierce? If you keep going like this, you won't be able to get there before dark!" Picard was a little angry.

"I know what's wrong. It's too quiet, the road is too quiet. The sound of birds is too far away from us, it must be wrong!" Pierce said to Picard in panic.

"Battle accuracy..." Picard looked around, and even the sound of birds was very small. It was obviously not coming from nearby. Obviously, something was wrong, but before he finished speaking, he had no chance to say it again.

While Pierce was speaking, Yang Tao raised the signal gun in his hand and pulled the trigger. A signal flare rose into the air with a harsh sound, followed by a rapid explosion.

The mine construction was detonated. The Dutch and local traitors who had not experienced anti-artillery training felt the enthusiasm of modern weapons. Tens of thousands of steel balls did not kill too many people at a long distance, but only nearly a thousand wounded people!

Before they could recover from the explosion, the sharp whistling of shells came again. Dozens of mortars fired covering fire. After only one minute of short rapid fire, the mortars stopped firing, and the infantry rushed up quickly, dividing and surrounding the Dutch who were still in a panic.

It was so simple. In this era, weapons have advanced to the British 77, and Germany also has a Commission 1888. Six months later, the old Russians' m1891 will also begin production. The charge of shells has also improved from traditional black powder or solid bullets to tNt, Dana explosive, picric acid, etc.

However, in terms of infantry tactics, France and Germany have made some progress on the basis of the Franco-Prussian War, and Britain is still continuing the tactics before the Franco-Prussian War, not to mention a small country like the Netherlands.

The division and encirclement tactics during World War II proved their effectiveness here. The Dutch only felt that there were gunshots all around them, and they had lost contact with friendly forces. In panic, the local traitors first put down their weapons and knelt on the ground to surrender.

This seemed to be a signal. As the first traitor knelt on the ground, the gunshots became less frequent. In more than ten minutes, the entire marching column surrendered or fled.

In the end, 580 Dutch were captured, of which more than 400 were injured to varying degrees. Among the more than 800 natives, only about 200 were intact.

The Nanhua Army had a total of more than 1,300 prisoners, but less than half of them were able to move on their own.

"Miscalculated!" Yang Tao murmured as he looked at the situation.

"There's no other way. We can't take them away. Let's set up camp here!" Yang Tao thought.

He thought and did it. The Nanhua Army found a campsite not far away and settled down with the Dutch supplies.

The next day, Yang Tao left a squadron to guard the prisoners and took the rest to meet Xie Hui.

In Ximanle County, Xie Hui was still stationed here. The original team of 400 people increased to more than 600 after gradually receiving the members who fell behind and returned to the team.

On November 2, Yang Tao led the main forces of the second and third detachments back to the city of Ximanle.

"How is it? Did they fall for it?" Xie Hui asked.

"No problem. We only have a few people with minor injuries and more than a thousand prisoners. It's just that there are a lot of wounded, but they are all useful and can't be brought back. I left a squadron to watch them. How is your place?" Yang Tao said.

"Everything is going well here. I also tested the firepower of the defenders. According to comprehensive judgment, there should be more than one battalion of combatants in Yogyakarta, which is far more than the garrison level in Yogyakarta. The militia should have been mobilized!" Xie Hui said.

"What about casualties?" Yang Tao asked with concern.

"No casualties." Xie Hui said smoothly.