Chongzhen Undergraduates

"We are just a small team, and there are siege cannons and large troops outside." The reconnaissance company commander explained.

"The gates of the big city you mentioned are not easy to control. The entrances are all inside the bastion. There are special personnel in charge of changing defenses and delivering meals at ordinary times." Su Zhaoxing said.

But the investigation company commander couldn't understand Su Zhaoxing's words, and Su Zhaoxing didn't fully understand the defense structure of the entire city of Ba.The European fortress-style city is different from the Chinese city in terms of structure. Not only is the European style a bastion, the defense is more complete, and even the entrance of the castle is different.

This is troublesome, the Ming army's investigation of the enemy army was too hasty, and they were blinded before the battle.

When the investigation company commander brought people to the entrance, he realized that even the inside of the entrance was different.

"Damn it, it's so narrow that it still rotates." An investigator blurted out.

With a "snap", a shot was fired from the top of the bastion in the dark, and the Dutch's secret whistle was wondering if there was any movement below. This obvious foreign language completely exposed the target.

Fierce fighting is useless in such a small space, no matter how heroic your personal force is, the only thing waiting for the result of the battle is to destroy or run out of ammunition.

The Ming army's attack was not smooth, and the sound immediately alarmed the whole Bacheng.

Tasman had just fallen asleep when he woke up with a jolt.The noise outside does not need to be reported by his subordinates, he already knows that something big is coming.

"God! Let me hang all those idiots." Tasman hated Hua Gong now.He was also thankful for his cleverness, because after Su Zhaoxing's incident came out, he brought Bacheng into the first level of combat readiness with his natural vigilance, and now he came so quickly.

The organization of the Chinese laborers is indeed very sufficient, but they have almost no power to parry in the face of well-equipped and well-trained soldiers who are equal in number to themselves.Especially these Chinese laborers were still in the ideal era of cold weapon warfare, and hundreds of people were killed just by meeting each other.

"My lord, hurry up and take people out!" Uncle Liu held a spear in his hand, but his face was bleeding continuously.

Su Zhaoxing glanced at the Hua workers opposite, their faces were already full of fear and uneasiness.The fire was igniting in the place where Chinese workers lived in the city, and there were countless screams.

Some natives are making trouble, following the Dutch to drive and kill Chinese laborers.

"Where are you going to hide? The city gate has not been captured, and the small gate was sealed by the Dutch guns." Su Zhaoxing stomped his feet anxiously.

"The firing port of the bastion of the small gate faces the outside of the city, and the inside is still safe. Can we blow up the city wall from the inside?" The already wounded reconnaissance company commander retreated to Su Zhaoxing's side and asked.

"How can such a thick city be bombed?" Su Zhaoxing thought the other party was talking nonsense, although he didn't know the defense structure, it was because he was young and didn't participate in the construction of Bacheng.

But Su Zhaoxing heard from his father that this Batavia was built by the Dutch as their own home. It is tall and thick, and it is full of big stones transported thousands of miles away. Can it be blasted?

"Yes. As long as we put more explosives." The reconnaissance company commander was very confident.

"Well, Uncle Liu, let's find some gunpowder!" Su Zhaoxing ordered.The Chinese have a tradition of setting off firecrackers and are the inventors of gunpowder. It is not uncommon to have some black gunpowder.

"Master Su, black powder can't blow up this. If we want to blow up this section of the city, we must bring this."

As the investigation company commander spoke, he took out things that looked like bamboo joints. These were picric acid explosives, the highest secret technology of the Ming army.

The reconnaissance company commander piled ten packs of explosives in the middle of the door opening, and then blocked the entire door opening with boulders.If this sound cannot blow down the entire wall, I am afraid that all the Chinese in the city will lose their only way of retreat.

"Can it work?" Uncle Liu was very worried. He had lived half a century, and he had never heard of such a thing.If you can blow up the city wall casually, why bother repairing it?

"Ignite, everyone get out of here, the farther the better." The investigation company commander lit the fuse, and then ran away.A group of Chinese laborers didn't understand what was going on at all, and they were stunned for a few seconds. When they turned their heads, they saw that the people around them were running backwards desperately. They thought it was the Dutch soldiers who were coming.

The Dutch people in the city were also surprised, why did the well-behaved Chinese in the city run away?Did their marksmanship deter those people?

Shi Lang was standing three miles outside the city. The troubles of the siege troops had been reported to him, and the Ming army had lost contact with the Chinese laborers in the city. blocked.

The timing of the surprise attack has been missed, and the rest is to wait until dawn to attack.

With a "boom", Shi Lang felt as if a dull thunder had been hit, and then at the place where the small door that led to people before, there was a little dark red light flashing in the darkness, and then there was an obvious spray from the small door. The door opening spewed out.

"It's over, it's not sealed." The investigation company commander saw many stones spraying out of the door opening, and he felt that the blasting failed.

"It seems that there is no failure!" Uncle Liu wiped his eyes.

Everyone followed Uncle Liu's fingers to see a tall city wall was slowly falling towards the outside.Although the explosion did not overturn the city wall as imagined, it damaged the foundation of the city wall, and the city wall naturally burst and collapsed.

Chapter 582: Batavia's Last Moment

At dawn, more than 1000 tired Chinese laborers stood in the northern suburbs of Bacheng, and behind them were more Chinese laborers from plantations who heard the news and came to support them.

Happiness has replaced the years of decadence of these people, and the neat formation of the Ming army has already made these Chinese stand tall.

When is a wanderer in a foreign country most able to hold his head high?That's when the Army of the Fatherland is seen.Speaking with the barrel of a gun is the most confident.

Dissatisfied?Come to fight.

"On behalf of the Governor of the Dutch East India Company, I solemnly protest to you. It is immoral for you to attack us without declaring war; you will bear serious consequences if you attack my Dutch territory for no reason..."

A Dutch interpreter held a page of thick paper that Shi Lang couldn't understand, and recited crooked words.

"You innocently arrested my compatriots, today we are here to seek justice for them." Shi Lang pointed to Su Zhaoxing and said.

"Your Excellency, this is a complete misunderstanding. If you have any dissatisfaction, we can fully compensate Mr. Su for the loss." The interpreter flattered.

Tasman knows better than anyone that Bacheng, which has already made a gap, only has [-]% of its defensive strength left.What's more, early this morning, he had already seen clearly the ten warships flying the Dutch flag on the sea north of Bacheng.

No need to guess, they were all warships of the Ming people. If they really belonged to the Dutch themselves, the cannons on the ship would have fired long ago.

What frustrates Tasman the most is that several canals in Bacheng happen to be able to travel with these warships, and the cannons on board can completely cover the entire Bacheng.The Dutch like digging canals most, and they brought this habit here from Holland, which happened to help the enemy attack the city.

"No, I firmly disagree with the surrender." Tasman roared as he sat in the town hall.

This is Bacheng, which was established and perfected by his predecessor with painstaking efforts.There are hospitals, schools, churches, town halls and squares, everything is perfect.

"Since you don't want to surrender, let's enjoy the artillery fire of our Ming army!" Shi Lang's mouth was crooked.

In the morning, when he had already decided that the Chinese in the city were going to die, the muffled sound made a section of the city wall fall to the ground like a drunk man.

Immediately afterwards, countless Chinese laborers rushed out, and the entire investigation company that entered the city suffered more than a dozen casualties, which was equivalent to giving away a Batavia for nothing.As for the rest of the so-called defense, in Shi Lang's view, it was just a matter of spending more ammunition.

The Chinese workers were enthusiastic, especially when they saw the city of Batavia, which was about to fall into the hands of the Chinese, and even the lion dance team and the gong and drum team were assembled.

"What are they doing?" Tasman stood at the head of the city with a dark face watching a group of colorful lion dance performances.

"They are exorcising demons. It may be a kind of priest's prayer, indicating that they are about to attack." An interpreter next to Tasman made nonsense, anyway, they would never understand the Chinese gods.

"These heretics, sooner or later they will be burned to death on the cross." Tasman seems to have forgotten that the Dutch are also of pagan origin.

Of course, in their eyes, anyone who does not carry a cross is a weird pagan.Even hundreds of years later, some people still say that Chinese people have no faith, and that American people have faith because they are devout to Christianity.

Pure nonsense, we Chinese have always believed in the truth.

Shi Lang is like this. He directly uses cannons to tell the truth to Tasman, just like the Eight-Power Allied Forces dealt with us in the later generations.

"Boom, bang", the Ming army used flower sheets, because solid balls are useless against fortress buildings of this thickness, it is better to blow up the defenders on the city head with flower bombs.

Not only the marines on land were shelling and bombarding, but the ten warships were also not idle, firing shells into Bacheng in different ways.

Tasman was beaten badly, but he had nothing to do, because he transferred the main force to Malacca to stop the influence of the Zheng family.Obviously, the Ming army played a trick.