Daming One Piece

Chapter 232 The Siege of Batavia (Part [-])
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Rumbling cannons sounded outside the city of Batavia, and the roaring shells hit the city wall accurately again.

For all this, the defenders in the city seem to have adapted long ago.

Standing on the bastion at the mouth of the Batavia Canal, looking at the black army of natives assembled outside the fortress, Jane Peterszorn Cohen, the governor of Batavia, was full of confidence in his eyes.

"They shall not take our fortress!"

The Mata blue man's attack had already been expected by him.

After the Matalan men besieged Batavia last year, all this was doomed.

In the past year, the Matalan people were planning a larger-scale attack, and Cohen was also planning a defense in every possible way, such as hiring more Japanese mercenaries in various places, and concentrating them all in Bada Via.

The last time the Matalans besieged Batavia.He once recruited Japanese ronin inside and outside the city as mercenaries.These people are all low-level samurai who lost their jobs because of the end of the civil war and were forced to travel overseas. The Mata blue men were defeated.In the past year, Cohen has organized a Japanese mercenary force of thousands of people.

In addition to them, the Chinese in the city also joined the battle, the same as last time, including the Japanese and the Chinese, even those Indians, they all fought against the Matalan people with the same hatred. After all, Everyone knows what it means once the city is broken.The Matalans would kill everyone in the city, take everyone's property, and take away all the women.

"Yes, Your Excellency, the people of Matalan only have six cannons, and besides the two we gave them more than ten years ago, the other four were given to them by merchants from Beigang. However, there are only four cannons. A cannon will definitely not be able to break through our fortress."

Major William said beside him.

"Hey, Chinese, maybe only the Jews in the world have a common language with them,"

Cohen sighed helplessly.

"When they sold weapons to the aborigines, didn't they consider that one day, the aborigines would attack them with their weapons?"

Consider shit!

Governor Cohen's complaint made Wei Nanyi curse in his heart.

This Batavia does not belong to our Daming, even if you sell them cannons, it will hit you red-haired barbarians.

Besides, you red-haired people don't give cannons to the Matalan people. The two old-fashioned cannons they used were given by the Dutch in the past to establish some kind of friendship with the natives.

Mumbling in his heart, Wei Nanyi looked at the aborigines in Wuyangyang outside the city.

Couldn't help talking to himself.

"There are so many soldiers and horses dispatched by the natives this time!"

Drawing on the lessons of last year's failure to attack Batavia, in order to assemble a larger army, Sultan Ahu ordered a general mobilization of one out of every ten people in the territory directly under his jurisdiction, thus recruiting a new army of more than 100000 people including auxiliary troops.

One hundred thousand troops!

In the history of the South China Sea Islands, this is an unprecedented large army, but for the Matalan people, they obviously have never had experience in large-scale combat. The so-called [-] troops are scattered in the forest outside the city in such a mess , there is no rules at all.

"It's just a lot of people, Mr. Wei, if there are Liaodong iron cavalry of the Celestial Dynasty, only 500 people are needed. I can guarantee that this so-called [-] army means [-] heads, just for the Celestial Dynasty cavalry to chop off for fun... ..."

Sakai Ichiro, over fifty years old, used to be a samurai of the Toyotomi family. He once crossed the sea and invaded North Korea. It was there that the cavalry of the Ming army left an extremely terrifying impression on him. Even after he escaped back to Japan by chance, he It is also often awakened by the sound of horseshoes in the dream.

After the failure of the Toyotomi family, he became a ronin. Like many ronin, he went to sea to serve the merchants. However, with the expulsion of foreign merchant ships and missionaries by General Tokugawa, many Japanese businessmen have returned to Japan one after another. Only these ronin Stay here for a living.

Of course, even if they stay overseas, they are also worried about their future, especially for people like Ichiro Sakai, who used to be the head of the Toyotomi family. He can't go back to Japan, but what about overseas?

Without the employment of those businessmen, he also has to worry about his future livelihood.

Dutch……

The red-haired barbarians are unbelievable!

"That's right, Liaodong cavalry is invincible in the world. Killing these natives is naturally just chopping melons and vegetables."

Wei Nanyi said triumphantly.

Like any person from the Celestial Dynasty, he also likes to listen to foreigners complimenting the Celestial Dynasty, besides, he is also from Liaodong.

"Sakai Banner, you don't need any cavalry to defeat these natives!"

Hearing their conversation, Major William said in blunt official language.

"As long as we continue to hold on to the fortress, they will soon be defeated without a fight. After their little food is eaten, they will naturally be defeated without a fight. This is entirely due to you, Sakai Banner!"

When Sultan mobilized the army, he also ordered the collection of grain in the coastal city-states. After Cohen got the news that the Matalan people were hoarding grain and grass on a large scale, he tortured the Matalan envoys sent to Batavia. The Dutch not only obtained the battle plan of the Matalan people, but also learned that due to the large number of people, the food and grass needed by the attackers could not be transported quickly.They had to use a large number of conscripted merchant ships to transport the grain to the vicinity of Batavia.But before that, the supplies were piling up in the major ports.So Governor Cohen immediately concentrated all the warships to attack and violently attacked the Matalan port that was hoarding grain and grass.First bombarded with naval guns, and then dispatched a commando mainly composed of Japanese to go ashore to sweep up one by one, burning a large amount of military supplies.And because the ports had to deal with the heavy duties assigned by Ma Talan, almost all the strong men were exhausted, and they were unable to stop the attack of the Dutch, let alone the hacking of Sakai and his ronin mercenaries.

"Mr. Major, this is just duty."

Lowering his head slightly, Sakai Ichiro's tone appeared extremely flat.He has always kept a distance from the Dutch and all the red barbarians, who are not trustworthy at all in his opinion.If you want to talk about trust, in the South China Sea, the Chinese are more trustworthy.

I begged a boring Major William, said a few words in embarrassment, and stopped joining in the fun here.

It was at this time that there was a sudden commotion outside the city. There seemed to be some commotion behind Wu Yangyang, who had surrounded the Matalan people outside the city, and the chaotic team seemed to be even more chaotic...

"Look, what's there..."

(End of this chapter)