Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 527 The Fall of Batavia

No one in the Northern Navy who went south knew neither Dutch nor German, so it was impossible to tell the difference between Dutch and German mercenaries.In Sauron's eyes, anyone with a big nose and deep eye sockets must be eliminated.Therefore, Batavia was the first to meet the Iron Fist of the Northern Navy, and it became the troops of the Württemberg Cape Corps.

Württemberg in another time and space is most famous for its wine, but at the end of the eighteenth century it was most famous for its mercenaries. In 1786, the Dutch East India Company established the Württemberg Cape Corps, the main station of which was Batavia.

Of course, the most famous mercenaries these days are the "Landsknechts" in the Hesse-Kassel region, and that is a qualified warmonger.One of the best things Hesse did was to successfully provide mercenaries to both warring parties in the battle of Austrian succession.

As for the captured blond woman, Wang Yuanfang couldn't understand what the other party was saying, anyway, she definitely didn't speak English.He asked people to lock up the woman first, and then said to Jiang Asheng: "You go back and find dozens of Chinese laborers."

Jiang Asheng, who was shocked by the bloody smell in the castle, said with some horror: "My lord, what are you?"

"Let them bring tools to help dig pits and ditches. I will give five silver dollars to each of them." After Wang Yuanfang finished speaking, he added: "Every time you find one, I will give you an extra silver dollar. How about it?"

What did 23-year-old Jiang Asheng and those Chinese workers from Fujian want to leave home for thousands of miles?Isn't it just that people say that Nanyang is full of gold and silver, and money is easy to earn.Now that there is an opportunity to make a lot of money, even if it is dangerous, Nanyang is not a paradise in the first place; not to mention that miasma may kill them one day, the contract and usury for the past few years alone have made them breathless .

Hearing Wang Yuanfang's attractive offer, Jiang Asheng rolled his eyes, then wiped his mouth with his dirty sleeve, bowed and said, "My good man, I don't know if I should say something or not."

"Go ahead."

"According to what you said, it's okay to find someone to dig pits and ditches. Everyone is used to hard work. But if you want them to deal with the Dutch government, it's really impossible!"

"Hehe, I won't let you charge and fight." Wang Yuanfang smiled and shook his head, seeing that Jiang Asheng still had doubts on his face, he said, "If we don't bury so many corpses, we won't be able to stay here at noon. The soldiers must spare energy to deal with the Dutch. Do you think this will work? I swear, if I let you Chinese laborers go into battle to fight the Dutch, you will be hit hard!"

Sure enough, the ancients believed in this.Seeing Wang Yuanfang swearing, Jiang Asheng said with joy on his face: "The hero can trust the villain, so the villain will go there. Give the villain half an hour, oh no, three sticks of incense, and the villain will find fifty people for you." !"

"Bring your sick companion, maybe I can cure it."

"What? Good man, do you still know medical skills?"

Wang Yuanfang nodded, and then instructed: "When people come, you lead them a hundred steps away from the south wall, and don't come in."

"The little man understands."

In order to make Jiang Asheng go back and forth faster, Wang Yuanfang asked his men to find him a horse from the stable.This kid was eager to make money, and he didn't even need a saddle. He jumped on the horse's back, grabbed the reins with one hand, and the mane with the other, and left.

After more than 40 minutes, Jiang Asheng, who led the horse and walked at the head of the team, was full of joy. This kid unexpectedly invited more than 60 people to follow, and even the foreman in the sugarcane plantation also followed after hearing the news.

The news Jiang Asheng brought back was like pie in the sky, and no one believed it at first.But when he showed the silver dollar given by Wang Yuanfang, several Chinese laborers who had a good relationship with him were shocked, so when the news spread to other work sheds, everyone couldn't sit still, and they all wanted to follow over to have a look.

Along the way, Jiang Asheng looked left and right, forward and backward from time to time, for fear that one would be missing.To him, each of these people meant a vain silver dollar!
"Ah Sheng, you won't lie to us, will you? Do you really have five silver dollars in Dingjiabao?" The person who spoke was an old Chinese worker in his fifties, with a hoe on his shoulder.

"Uncle Li, put your heart in your stomach!"

Another Hua Gong said: "Xiao Jiang, the more I think about it, the more I feel like a storyteller. Five silver dollars can be given for digging a hole? Can such a good thing happen in the world?"

Jiang Asheng gave the man a disdainful look, and said mockingly, "Big Horse Bear, why do you still follow me if you don't believe me?"

"I..." that Hua Gong stuck his neck and said unconvinced: "I'm afraid that my brothers will be deceived by others, so I don't feel relieved to come and have a look."

"Oh, let alone five silver dollars, I'll be content with one."

Jiang Asheng turned around and looked at his companion lying on the horseback, and comforted him: "Paulin, we are almost there, please bear with it."

After saying that, he took out from his pocket something that was more than two fingers wide and wrapped in fancy paper.Under the watchful eyes of the Hua worker nicknamed "Big Horse Bear" and other people around, Jiang Asheng carefully peeled off the outer paper, and then peeled off a tinfoil-like package, revealing the dark thing inside.

"what is this?"

Jiang Asheng ignored the questioner, he broke off a piece, and put it into Zhong Baolin's mouth, whose face was already pale.Zhong Baolin took a sip in a daze, feeling an indescribable sweetness in his mouth, but he really couldn't tell what it was like.

"It's called chocolate, it's so sweet!" Jiang Asheng put the thing in his arms, and then explained to others.This thing was given to him by Wang Yuanfang before he left, and he said it would satisfy his hunger, so Jiang Asheng took a small bite and knew it was a good thing.

A spout of saliva gushed from the big horse bear's throat, and he couldn't help but said, "I don't believe that the black one can be as sweet as sugarcane? Give me a taste to know."

The Chinese worker named Uncle Li reprimanded: "Da Ma Xiong, you are a bad boy, you are in your twenties, and you are a bit promising, okay? Take food from the patients."

The big horse bear blushed, and said, "Try it."

In the later days, Xiao Xiongguan, nicknamed "Big Horse Bear", also joined the Beihai Navy. When he received this kind of thing as a supply for the first time, he only knew that it was called "Cream Chocolate". .

A group of Chinese laborers in ragged clothes walked quickly, chattering while walking, full of anticipation and worry, and soon arrived outside the south wall of Dingjiabao.When everyone was still a hundred steps away from the outer wall of the castle, each of them became timid again.This is the territory of the Dutch soldiers. Even if they were closer in the past, they would be chased away by the soldiers on the wall.

Jiang Asheng asked everyone to wait outside the south wall, while he led the horse and took the sick Zhong Baolin into the castle from the west gate to report to Wang Yuanfang.None of the soldiers in the Sauron Battalion could speak Hokkien, and it sounded like a bible. The only one who could communicate normally with Jiang Asheng was Wang Yuanfang.

Wang Yuanfang first asked the medical soldiers to treat the Chinese laborer named Zhong Baolin, and then asked Jiang Asheng the number of Chinese laborers he had brought. Then he ordered his subordinates to bring over a cloth bag containing dozens of silver dollars, and said to Jiang Asheng: "Everyone Give one piece first, and then give the rest after the work is done, and your share will also be given at the end."

It wasn't that he wanted to take advantage of Jiang Asheng, but he brought 100 silver dollars with him when he set off, and he had to go back to the Thunder God to get the rest.Although some were seized after the capture of Dinkland Castle, the problem is that the Dutch guilder silver coins issued by the Dutch are completely different from the Beihai silver dollars, and there will definitely be trouble if they are mixed together.

After Jiang Asheng thanked him in a hurry, Wang Yuanfang explained to him what he was going to do.It turned out that two large pits ten meters long, two meters wide, and two meters deep were to be dug in the open space outside the south wall to bury the corpses.

The Chinese workers outside the castle were very happy after getting the money. It turned out that there was a good thing about the pie in the sky. They quickly got busy under Jiang Asheng's order.

At [-]:[-] in the morning, the Raytheon, which was in preparation for war, was extremely busy. When the anchor was lifted, the roar of the bow winch broke the calm on the sea. The muzzles of the two cannons on the deck were raised rapidly, and the sides of the ship Double-layer sandbags used as bunkers were also piled up near the positions of several heavy machine guns.

At six o'clock, Deng Fei in the cockpit gave the shelling order through the radio. The barrel of the 122mm howitzer was about to slam backwards when it was grabbed by two finger-thick steel cables.Almost at the same time as the deafening cannons sounded, two bursts of flames exploded in the castle on the east bank of the Jillion River.

The North Sea Army's attack on Batavia begins.

The Chinese laborers brought by Jiang Asheng were all frightened when they heard the sound of the guns. They threw away their tools and ran back. Scared these guys to their knees again.

Jiang Asheng was heartbroken, walked up to his companions, and said loudly, "Brothers! The one who gave us the money is a hero from Beihai Town! The big ship that opened fire on the sea belongs to them! To be honest, the Dutch in Dingjiabao People have been killed by them!"

"what?!!!"

Inside the castle, when Wang Yuanfang heard the sound of rumbling cannons, he asked Wen Dai to take the captured German woman to the stable, and said in English with a Northeast dialect: "Ma'am, I will let you go." Go back. War has nothing to do with women."

After all, he didn't care if the other party understood or not, so he handed the rein in his hand to the woman.The German woman was about 20 years old. She gave Wang Yuanfang a hard look, took the reins of the horse with a little hesitation, got on the horse, and left Dinkland Castle in a blink of an eye, heading towards the direction of Batavia City.

The woman named Anat did not know that her release was actually planned by Wang Yuanfang.When she returned to the city of Batavia with hatred to report, the German mercenaries of the Württemberg Cape Corps immediately became extremely angry, and the earl who led the team went to Governor Altyn, and he planned to ask Go out of the city and kill the bandits who killed their own people.

At this time, the city of Batavia was in panic, and the Dutch were embarrassed by the undeclared war of the Northern Navy early in the morning.No one could have imagined that the cannons on the Serisian ship could hit so far and be so powerful, and the opponent was nearly six miles away from Bacheng!
The artillerymen on the port of Bacheng and the castle were already terrified by the powerful explosion. Some were reduced to ashes in the flames of the explosion, and some escaped from the artillery positions and ran for their lives in a hurry.Seeing that the well-built four-cornered castle was gradually reduced to rubble in the huge explosion, Governor Altyn, who escaped from the Governor's Mansion with the help of his subordinates, realized that the ultimatum from Beihai Town was not a threat, but a truth.

"Shameless! The Serisians are so shameless! How could they fight without declaring war!"

These days Europeans still followed the hypocritical chivalry, and would always notify them before going to war; the problem was that the Northern Navy was not used to their stink, and it was the same when fighting the Russians, and it was the same when fighting the Dutch.

Seeing that the fortress built a hundred years ago collapsed in repeated bombings, the governor of Altyn and the members of the council who fled into the city hall knew that they were invincible, and were planning to surrender with a white flag, so the Earl of Württemberg came to him .

"Your Excellency, I have received a report that a group of bandits has captured Dinkland Fortress, and all my soldiers have been slaughtered. Only one lady survived."

Altin and the others were surprised again, gangster?Not long after, Anate, who was released by Wang Yuanfang, came to the city hall in disheveled clothes, crying and telling about what happened in the morning, and implored the governor to avenge her man and other dead soldiers.

The bigwigs of the East India Company in the city hall understood at this time that the people from Beihai Town must have done it.When Altin learned that there were only a few dozen bandits attacking Dingjiabao, he said in his heart that I can't beat you at sea, and I can't deal with you on land? !He immediately ordered that the Württemberg Cape Corps be dispatched to retake the occupied Dinkland Castle.

At the same time, the various merchant ships moored outside the port began to flee in all directions, away from this sea area, and under the command of the commander, the "Oriental Treasure Fleet" of the Dutch East India Company all hoisted its sails and anchored, preparing to attack the enemy two nautical miles away. The Thor counterattacked.

Half an hour later, Thor's bombardment of Batavia stopped suddenly and began to concentrate on dealing with the Dutch fleet.On land, a thousand German mercenaries marched out of the east gate amidst the cheers of the citizens at around ten o'clock in the morning. Behind them was a servant army composed of a thousand natives.

However, no one could have imagined that more than two hours later, this group of German mercenaries who looked full of fighting power were ambushed on the way to Dinkland Castle.

First of all, the North Navy ambushing on both sides of the road first used four machine guns to form crossfire, crushing the enemy 300 meters away.Just as the Germans were urging the 6-pound guns to be brought up from behind, two platoons of special operations battalion soldiers walked through the dense sugarcane forest, went around to the enemy's rear, and launched an attack.

After this battle, the 200 enemy troops who came out of Bacheng were killed and routed, with corpses strewn all over the field. In the end, only more than [-] people escaped back to the city alive.

As for the Treasure Fleet, which the Dutch are proud of, three ships were sunk by the Thor with a cannon shot, and the other ships were frightened by the heavy machine guns fired wildly on the deck, and they either surrendered with a white flag. Or flee to Banten.

That afternoon, as shells from the Thunder God fell into the city one after another, the desperate Governor Altyn and the members of the Council of State Council were forced to let people fly a white flag on the damaged city wall due to the serious casualties of the residents in the city. .

Afterwards, when Altin, who had already returned to Banten, was asked by the judge in court, regarding the loss of Batavia, when you felt that those places were not handled properly, Altin was silent for a long time before saying in a deep voice: "Actually, We should have surrendered as soon as the Sirians started issuing ultimatums."

(End of this chapter)