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Liu Bozhao led his troops to Semarang all day and night. Fortunately, all of his troops were Hualan veterans, and their military quality was not comparable to that of the natives.Having just fought such a beautiful battle of annihilation, the mood of the troops continued to be high, and they had no complaints about the hasty march.

With Yu Wei who had just wiped out the reinforcements from Surabaya, Liu Bozhao arrived in Semarang in only four days. At the same time, he also gathered an indigenous army sent by Zhang Yunfeng to help him attack the city.At this time, Semarang has not received any news. They are optimistic that the two major cities will send reinforcements respectively.

Semarang's defense is very lax. Colonel Vera, the defender, only knows to drink and have fun every day, without any consideration of the opponent's possible attack.Driven by Colonel Vera, the discipline of the entire red-haired barracks was very lax, and many people often got drunk and would disperse without fighting.

Liu Bozhao did not attack Semarang directly. He knew that he did not have many troops and it would be difficult to capture Semarang, which was heavily defended.His only chance is to use a sneak attack to disrupt the opponent in one fell swoop, and only then can he take advantage of the chaos to win, so he put his mind on the military uniform captured in the hands of the Surabaya reinforcements.

When they were studying in China in the past, the instructor once told them about the example of the senior seniors using the enemy's clothes to earn money to open the city gate in the courageous Taunggyi. This time he can be regarded as applying what he has learned.I chose a morning when the mist drifted away and the sight was unclear. A group of soldiers in the clothes of the native soldiers quickly headed towards Semarang. They were just approaching the edge of the city when they were spotted by the opponent's mobile sentry.

Although the red-haired man was lax in his guard, the sentinel still did his duty. Hearing the noisy footsteps coming from the dense fog, the mobile sentry immediately raised his gun and asked loudly.The figures on the opposite side shook, obviously there were quite a few of them. Hearing the question from the red-haired soldiers, someone on the other side shouted in Javanese.

The red-haired soldier listened attentively. He had lived in the Eastern Zhaini Islands for many years, so he naturally understood the Javanese spoken by the local residents.He probably heard what the other party meant. It turned out that the reinforcements of Vedalon's troops had won the victory and wiped out the mob in one fell swoop. They came back to repay the victory and transport the wounded soldiers.

Hearing this, the red-haired soldier's vigilance was greatly relieved, and he also answered loudly in Javanese, asking the other party to come over slowly in groups of three for inspection.Soon those people stopped in place, and only three people came over.The red-haired man squinted his eyes and looked at the approaching figures. These people were indeed wearing the military uniform of the servant army. One of them was holding a thick gauze on his leg, and it seemed that the injury was not serious, while the other two were one on the left and one on the left. It seemed to be very difficult to support him to move forward.

From the surface, these three people can't see any flaws. The red-haired sentinel has no doubts at all. He hung his gun on his back, approached and asked loudly in Javanese: "Hey, how many wounded soldiers do you have? Are there any red-haired sentries?" people at?"

"Sir, those mobs are stupid, and their combat effectiveness is not considered strong. So we are the ones who were injured, and the foreigners were not injured." One of the native soldiers explained stutteringly, obviously he was very upset when he talked to the foreigners. calm.

The red-haired sentry nodded. He waved his hand to let three people pass, then turned around and shouted for three more people to come over.However, the moment the red-haired sentry turned back, the seemingly half-dead and seriously injured soldier in the middle suddenly jumped up and stabbed the red-haired sentry fiercely in the back.The stab was firm and ruthless, directly passing through the ribs and piercing the red-haired man's heart.The red-haired sentry was caught off guard, and received a fatal attack from behind. As a result, he died without even screaming.

The 'wounded soldier' ​​who was wrapped in bandages didn't look injured in the slightest. He quickly took two steps back to prevent the opponent's blood from splashing on him, then lightly wiped the dagger twice and put it into the boot .The man raised his head, and it was a Hualan man.It turned out that the Hualan man was a veteran. In order not to arouse the suspicion of the red-haired man, he had no choice but to pretend to be a wounded soldier and let two native soldiers support him. He even wrapped half of his head and legs with gauze as a cover.

The 'wounded soldier' ​​checked, and found that the red-haired soldier was dead, so he whistled, which was a pre-arranged signal.Soon the people on the opposite side came over.Liu Bozhao walked in the front. He walked into the "wounded soldier" and talked with him for a few words, then knelt down to look at the dead body of the red-haired soldier, and nodded with satisfaction.

He and his comrades told everyone to move on. Using this deceptive method, they successfully passed several lines of defense and quickly approached the urban area of ​​Semarang.Although there are no city walls in tropical cities, the inspections in the fringe areas of the city are very strict.I saw more and more sentries in front, and the mist began to dissipate slowly as the sun was born.If you continue to deceive the opponent slowly, you may not be able to enter the city until the fog clears, and these soldiers will immediately expose their targets.Liu Bozhao calculated in his mind that time was running out, so he immediately ordered everyone to load their bullets and forcibly charged the enemy's defense line.

The fringe areas of the urban area have become double posts. Although they are all native soldiers, they are still quite serious when there are senior officers who check the posts from time to time.Hearing many footsteps in the dense fog, one of the native soldiers was about to ask a question, but found a black thing flying from the air and landed directly under his feet.

Looking at this black thing that was emitting white smoke, the native soldier didn't know why, so he just wanted to squat down to study what it was, when he felt a loud noise coming from his ears.Immediately afterwards, a huge air wave swept over their bodies with scorching iron sheets, and the two sentries were blown into the sky by grenades before they could shout out.

Chapter 269 Siege of the Fort

The huge explosion alarmed the surrounding sentries, and almost all the sentries became alert, but with limited visibility under the heavy fog, they couldn't tell where the explosion came from.Under the fear of low visibility, many native soldiers fired guns indiscriminately around to embolden themselves.

However, the flying bullets aggravated the fear of the native sentinels. After one person fired randomly, there was a second, a third, and soon all the native soldiers in the vicinity began to shoot desperately.Gunshots erupted all around Semarang suddenly, as if they had encountered a full-scale siege by a large force.

Colonel Vera just woke up, and the hangover last night made him feel very uncomfortable.He asked the servant to prepare a milk and bread sandwich for breakfast, and he was startled by a sudden gunshot after taking a bite.Colonel Vera couldn't care less about having breakfast, he stood up abruptly, ran out in a hurry without even buttoning his shirt.

As soon as Colonel Vera stepped out of the door, he met an officer who was rushing through the door.Seeing Colonel Vera come out, the officer immediately saluted and said: "Report to Colonel, we have been attacked by mobs in an all-round way. According to our reconnaissance, there are at least 4000 people on the other side, and they have launched a siege from all directions. We are about to be overwhelmed. "

The red-haired men were simply scaring themselves. They judged the opponent's attack based on the sound of gunshots, which would naturally cause a lot of misjudgment.In fact, it was only the native sentinels they set up who fired guns desperately in the surrounding area, while the troops led by Liu Bozhao didn't fire guns at all, they had already sneaked into the urban area.

Regarding the officer's report, Colonel Vera was terrified. He knew very well that it was impossible to stop the siege of thousands of people with his own power.To be on the safe side, Colonel Vera abandoned the main points in the city and the native soldiers, and fled to the coastal fort with only more than 300 red-haired soldiers.

In order to defend against attacks from the sea, three coastal forts were built near the coast in Semarang.These forts are all made of huge stones with walls up to one meter thick, with gun holes on four sides, and no less than [-] artillery pieces are placed.

After Colonel Vera entered the fort, he immediately ordered the red-haired soldiers to be on alert, and at the same time made the only three small gunboats in the harbor ready to fight.

Due to Colonel Vera's misjudgment, the native army in the city lost its command, and they were quickly divided and surrounded.When the officers could not be found, most of them quickly raised their hands and surrendered, becoming the first batch of prisoners in Liu Bozhao's hands.

Liu Bozhao's attack was very smooth, and he quickly controlled most of the urban areas of Semarang, but when the troops attacked near the harbor, they encountered big troubles.The native army was sent there first, and when they rushed a few miles away from the harbor, they were first bombarded by the cannons on the fort.Although those large-caliber coastal guns are facing the sea and are difficult to move, the few small guns that can move have made the native soldiers helpless.

Driven by the Hualan soldiers, the native soldiers tried to charge a few times, but the opponent's artillery fire was too powerful, and each shot would kill dozens of people.After approaching the fort, the gunboats in the harbor also joined in the shelling, which greatly increased the firepower, and the native soldiers could not charge up at all. In the end, these native soldiers dared not charge anymore.

Faced with this situation, Liu Bozhao also had a headache. The lack of heavy firepower made them fail when they attacked Surabaya last time, and the same problem came again this time.Seeing that the situation is very good, facing the harbor fortifications with artillery, it is still difficult to overcome.

If you are poor, you will change and you will succeed. Liu Bozhao began to think of a way.Now that the mist has not cleared, the opponent's shooting range is unclear, which is his advantage.The raid just now caught the opponent by surprise, causing most of the city in Semarang to be controlled by him, including the arsenal of the Red-haired Army, where he found a large number of guns and ammunition, as well as a few small cannons.

But it is a pity that these artillery belong to the army, not only the caliber is only 57 mm, which is much smaller than the fortress gun on the fort.Also because the turret has a height advantage, the range suffers a lot.

If you want to use these small cannons to attack the fort, you must attract the opponent's attention so that your side can get closer.Liu Bozhao made some plans, and he finally decided to use the newly captured opponent's native soldiers as targets to attract firepower.

Hualan Kingdom had not signed the Geneva Convention, and the chapter on preferential treatment of prisoners could be completely ignored. Therefore, Liu Bozhao could act arbitrarily without any scruples, driving the prisoners away to attract enemy firepower.

Those native soldiers on our own side are already dying to charge, but they are still willing to charge to drive the captives of the same clan.When the native soldiers dealt with their fellow clansmen, their methods were often more vicious. After being whipped with a leather whip, the native soldiers' captives immediately expressed their willingness to charge.

There were a large number of captured native soldiers, so Liu Bozhao simply divided them into six teams to charge in turn.These native soldiers took turns to charge in order to survive. Since it was a feint attack, they mostly shouted and cheered, and rarely launched a substantive attack, so the casualties were not large.

The red-haired men on the fort didn't know that the opponent was just feigning an attack, the cannon could only reach far, and if it got close, it would be like scrap iron, so they didn't dare to be careless at all.Whenever they heard the sound of killing, they fired continuously in that direction, so that the red-haired artillery never got a rest.As the artillery was used more and more intensively, the consumption of ammunition continued to increase, and more and more artillery had to be stopped due to overheating.

Hearing the sound of the opponent's guns becoming more and more sparse, Liu Bozhao directed the Hualan soldiers to pull a few small cannons and approach the fort from the flanks.The fort defenders didn't know it. They always focused on the front, hoping to stop the opponent's attack and avoid contact with the opponent's superior force, but they didn't want the opponent to attract their attention at all.

A few small cannons were soon in place, but the mist also obstructed the sight of the Hualan soldiers, and they couldn't see where the forts were.Although they couldn't see where the fort was, but as the fire from the gun muzzle lit up again and again, and the approximate distance was calculated by listening to the sound, everyone finally roughly measured the distance.

Putting the cannonballs into the chamber, several soldiers with experience in shelling hurriedly turned the muzzle and aimed it in the direction of the fort.The red-haired soldier was looking down the fort, hoping to observe the position where the opponent's infantry arrived, so as to prevent the opponent from charging with the weapon in his hand.After the artillery overheated, the rifle became their main weapon, and they had to try to keep the enemy as far away as possible in order to keep the fort.

2 Chapter Seventy Conquering the City

The group of red-haired men didn't expect that the enemy's assault team hadn't seen it, but they had already heard the screams from far and near.The rumbling cannon sounded again, and this time the shell exploded not among the native army below, but among the red-haired men.The unprepared red-haired soldier didn't even make a movement to lie down, and was rushed into the sky by the air wave generated by the shell explosion.

The red-haired men were in a mess. They never expected that the mob would have cannons, and they could shoot so accurately.The small caliber of the army's artillery also has the advantage of being small. Because the shells are small and easy to carry, the rate of fire of these small artillery is much higher.

After the dense shells fell, the red-haired men immediately blew up the battalion. Many people howled and rushed down the fort, trying to escape from another direction, but such attempts were quickly blocked by the dense bullets.Seeing that the shelling succeeded, Liu Bozhao commanded another group of people to join in the frontal attack, and these bullets were fired by them.

This time the frontal attack was no longer a feint. All Hualan troops and native troops were mobilized and rushed to the front line to launch an attack.Rifles, machine guns, and grenades fired together, and the red-haired man ignored the other, and holes gradually appeared in the defense.The overheating of the red-haired man's artillery became more and more serious. In addition, the Hualan army attacked from the flank at the same time, and the red-haired man had no idea which direction to defend.

The aboriginal captives, empty-handed, were driven in front of the aboriginal soldiers holding Malay swords, pushed forward like a flock of sheep, and flocked directly to the fort.The influx of native captives completely suppressed the resistance of the red-haired men, and they were so crowded that they didn't even have enough room to shoot.

Taking advantage of the chaos, the soldiers rushed forward and quickly occupied the fort.The two forts at the pier were occupied, and the soldiers of the main battalion quickly corrected their artillery and aimed at the three gunboats that were still firing desperately in the port.Just now, facing the inland direction, only small 120mm caliber guns can be used at most, but when facing the sea, all kinds of large-caliber artillery can be fully used.

Liu Bozhao recalled the essentials of artillery operation he had learned in his mind. He carefully operated a 280mm cannon and slowly aimed at the three gunboats.The mist on the sea had gradually dissipated, and the outlines of the three gunboats were clearly visible. Liu Bozhao slammed the fuse, and with the violent recoil of the gun barrel, a heavy shell flew towards the gunboat.

There was a loud bang, and even though the shell missed and just fell into the water and exploded nearby, the huge splash still made the gunboat agitated for a while.The red-haired sailors who were fighting vigorously encountered a sudden attack. Several people standing on the deck operating the artillery were unsteady and were penetrated by the air waves into the water. They were so angry that they scolded the army as a bastard and even went blind and beat their own people.

Soon these red-haired men couldn't scold them anymore, because they found that the people on the fort seemed to be crazy, and they shot the cannonballs one after another.Taking advantage of the confusion, Liu Bozhao ordered to fire the cannon again. This 280mm cannon is an older model, but it is already the best on the red-haired man's fort.Several such cannons spoke continuously, and the dense shells immediately shrouded the three gunboats in gunpowder.

There was a loud bang again, and a gunboat was hit hard, and the rear deck was directly hit by a 120mm shell.The gunboat blasted a half-meter-wide hole, and the turbulent sea water rushed in, and the hull of the boat gradually tilted due to the water.

Seeing that the gunboat could not be saved, the captain had to order to abandon the ship, and all the sailors were transferred to the other two gunboats.Taking this opportunity, the two gunboats pulled anchor and sailed slowly towards the bay.Seeing these scenes, Zhang Yunfeng immediately ordered the artillery to block the exit of the port, and blocked the opponent's gunboats in the port.

The red-haired sailors knew very well that it would be a dead end if they were stopped in the port, so they drove at full speed and planned to rush out from the main channel.However, the main channel of Semarang was a bit tortuous, and the gunboats did not dare to drive too fast when passing through here. As a result, one of them was unlucky and was directly hit by a shell and sank.

The remaining gunboat escaped by chance, and they didn't care about the sailors who fell into the water. They ran at full speed and fled in the direction of Batavia.Seeing that the situation was over, the fort defender who held on last had no choice but to raise his hand and surrender.

Semarang was in his own hands, and Liu Bozhao immediately ordered to recruit civilians from the city to salvage the two sunken gunboats and repair them.Although the ship repair yard in Semarang is not big, serious faults cannot be dealt with, but fortunately, the damage of the gunboat is easy to repair, as long as the cracked hull is riveted to plug the leak.

It was the first time Liu Bozhao owned a navy, but he was not arrogant enough to use two small gunboats to attack the entire fleet of the red-haired men. Now these gunboats can only be used for training sailors. The waterway is blocked to prevent the opponent from entering the harbor to launch a surprise attack.

Liu Bozhao then ordered to take out a large amount of ammunition from the arsenal, and use the old Mauser rifles of the red-haired men to arm a large number of aboriginal soldiers, so that the aboriginals who originally wielded Malay swords finally used hot weapons.

Liu Bozhao used his main battalion of 3 soldiers as the backbone, and quickly assembled an army of [-] people, of which thousands of people were local Hualan children. Even Liu Yuan, who had covered his sneak attack on Anchi last time, also joined in.

The Hualan people have always been oppressed by white colonists in Southeast Asia, coupled with the several massacres of the aborigines, these people have always cherished their homeland, otherwise Sun Wenhai would not have come to Nanyang several times to raise a lot of donations.Now there are people who take the lead in resisting the colonists and building their own armed forces. Not only do they actively participate, but their loyalty is also guaranteed.

Liu Bozhao quickly designated these Hualan descendants as direct descendants to strengthen their training, and then used these Hualan descendants as officers to organize the indigenous troops into an army.With the support of the red-haired man's arsenal, the rifles were quickly completed, but it was a pity that there was not enough heavy weapons.The artillery units of each division are all short of staff, and their combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of the Kokang Self-Defense Forces.

The news of the occupation of Semarang quickly spread throughout the East Indies via the Hongmao Navy. The Hongmao authorities were extremely frightened and immediately ordered the Hongmao troops from all over the country to assemble.At the same time, an expeditionary fleet consisting of two cruisers and three destroyers was dispatched to the Semarang area.