Daming Military Empire

Chapter 408 Batavia
Standing on the bow of the giant treasure ship, Zheng Chenggong held up the binoculars and looked at the oncoming United Fleet with a cruel smile on his face.

He put down the binoculars, and directly ordered: "Order all the battleships to line up in a single row, and pass through the middle of the joint fleet. All Fuchuan battleships will not change their formation, and they will directly cover them and prepare for boarding."

In order to protect this precious lump, the flagships of the three fleets followed the success. Four giant treasure ships and one hundred super battleships lined up in a row. The formation was really scary.

At this time, both the North Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet have already started to turn around. It is convenient to say that this ship turns around. It only needs to turn a big circular arc, and it will turn over with a swipe. There is no need to look at the wind direction. It will be troublesome if you come here, if the wind direction is wrong, you may not be able to fall for half an hour.

Seeing this scene, Fan Mendi put down the binoculars in despair, and said in pain: "Order, all ships disperse and flee to the left and right. Good luck to everyone, see you in Batavia."

This battle is impossible to fight at all. The number of super battleships of the opponent is almost twice that of our own, and the total number of battleships is even four times that of our own. Moreover, judging by the opponent's posture, it is definitely trying to divide the combined fleet into two from the middle, divide and encircle At that time, if you want to run, you won’t be able to run away. It’s better to take advantage of the opponent’s encirclement and immediately disperse and escape from the left and right fronts. Fortunately, there are exits everywhere in this Sulu Sea. The tragedy of the army being captured.

Seeing this, Zheng Chenggong patted the side of the ship annoyed, and ordered loudly: "Orders, take the battalion as a unit, disperse the pursuit, each battalion chooses its own target, try not to repeat it."

He originally wanted to see the effect of the treasure ship giant ship in actual combat, but now it is all right, he ran away without firing a shot, because of the size and propulsion force, the treasure ship giant ship is slower than the super battleship and Fuchuan battleship , it is not suitable for chasing at all. It seems that this treasure ship can only continue to play the role of mascot.

As for the enemy escaping, he wasn't worried at all. Comparing the speed of the sailboat with the steamship, it was courting death.

A sea battle that was supposed to be earth-shattering turned into a chasing battle. Within a thousand miles of the Sulu Sea, warships of the United Fleet and warships of the Ming Navy were chasing and intercepting everywhere. This chasing battle lasted for three or four days before it ended. Zheng Chenggong This time, I guessed wrong. There were actually a small number of anti-Habsburg warships that escaped the pursuit of the Ming Dynasty's three major fleets, and Van Mendy's flagship was one of them!

They didn't run faster than the warships of the Ming Navy, but escaped by taking advantage of the sacrifices of their companions. Sailing ships were not as fast as steamers, but some of the warships might be able to entangle the pursuers and flee crazily.

Of course, it's useless even if they escape, and they will still flee back to Batavia in the end, but is Batavia still Dutch Batavia?
While the Nanyang Navy, South China Sea Fleet, and North Sea Fleet set off for the Sulu Sea, Zheng Chenggong also dispatched the East China Sea Fleet, carrying [-] soldiers from the Second Corps of the Expeditionary Army, to head straight for Batavia.

The city of Batavia was built in 1619 by Petersson Kun, the third governor of the Dutch East India Company. For the fortress, Peterson Kun recruited a large number of exiled laborers from the Ming Dynasty and quarried huge stones from the Coromandel coast to build the city wall and fortress.

In other words, the walls and bastions of Batavia were actually built by the laborers of the Ming Dynasty, and their strength is no less than that of the local cities of the Ming Dynasty. It is also difficult to attack the army, so Fan Mendi boldly left 1 musketeers of the East India Company and took most of the main force to attack Manila City.

Facing such a strong city, the range of the opponent's artillery even exceeds that of the howitzers of the Ming army. How to conquer it?

If other countries came to attack Batavia, 10 people would not be enough. Even if Portugal or even Spain came, it would be the same. Only the Ming Empire could hope to win it.

Why do you say that?Because there are many descendants of Ming laborers in the city, and more importantly, there are many secret agents of Jinyiwei hidden in the city. These spies are masters selected from tens of thousands of Jinyiwei, and assassination is their training subject!
There is a saying called "The strongest castle is often breached from the inside." I don't know who said this sentence, and I don't know if Zheng Chenggong has heard of this sentence, but his plan is to start from Breach Batavia from the inside.

Long before the departure of the East China Sea Fleet and the Second Corps of the Expeditionary Army, Zheng Chenggong had issued an order to Batavia's Jinyiwei spies. At midnight on the third day after the siege of the second army, the Second Corps of the Expeditionary Army would open Batavia at all costs. The south gate of the city welcomes the soldiers of the Second Corps of the Expeditionary Army.

In order to confuse the defenders in the city, Zheng Chenggong even ordered that the East China Sea Fleet bombard the north of Batavia city from the sea day and night, regardless of the loss of warships or the effect, just keep bombarding day and night!
Therefore, after the East China Sea Fleet and the Second Corps of the Expeditionary Force came to Batavia, they all pretended to be ready to attack hard. The soldiers of the legion were also divided into two, and they kept rushing to make siege equipment on the east and west sides of Batavia. Everything seemed so normal. People care about it.

The defenders of the East India Company in Batavia were not fools either. They did not withdraw all the defenders on the south wall because no one cared about it. In view of the relatively high pressure on the east and west sides, they just mobilized some troops to go east and west. Supported by two walls, the south wall has maintained a scale of about a thousand people.

However, when people are always tired, the warships of the Ming army bombarded them day and night like crazy. Although they did not do anything to the northern city wall, and even sunk several warships because of this, the defenders in the city But he still couldn't rest well, the artillery was roaring all the time, who knew whether it was fired from the battleship or the siege troops, what if the siege troops started to attack the city?Therefore, the defenders in the city did not dare to sleep too much at night, and it was even more common for them to be awakened by the roar of artillery in a daze.

After this situation lasted for three days, the defenders in the city could be said to be exhausted physically and mentally. Basically, they could doze off standing there, and the defense naturally became extremely lax.

At midnight on the third day, there was still no one to be seen outside the city wall to the south of Batavia. The soldiers on duty on the city wall were basically holding their guns and dozing against the wall. Touching the city wall at night, they took advantage of the shadow of the city wall to avoid the illumination of the torches, touched behind the guarding soldiers one by one, covered their mouths and noses with a thick cloth, and then wiped their necks with a knife, the movements were extremely skillful.

Soon, the guards near the city gate tower were almost cleaned up. Even if someone saw it from a distance, they would not be able to find it, because everyone was sleeping against the city wall. Only when they walked closer could they find out that there was a lot of blood on the ground!

In this way, Jin Yiwei's spies opened the city gate to the south without any risk, and silently welcomed [-] soldiers from the Second Corps of the Expeditionary Army hidden in the dark into the city, and touched the walls and bastions everywhere.

It was a night of massacres. Countless musketeers of the East India Company were wiped on their necks while they were still half asleep. Although the defenders in the city finally discovered the anomaly, it was too late, and both the east and west gates were opened. , All the soldiers of the Second Corps of the Expeditionary Army poured into the city.

One hundred thousand against several thousand, that was a crush without any suspense, and Batavia was breached from the inside by the Ming army in this way!

(End of this chapter)