1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 265 One blow

"You Hanzhou people are only tens of thousands, and your soldiers and ships are pitifully small, how dare you fight with the Westerners again and again?" Bi Maokang looked at Cao Xiong and Qi Tian seriously, "You know, the belligerent will die! "

"It's not that I, Hanzhou, want to fight against the Westerners, it's because they act recklessly, thinking that our Hanzhou can be bullied!" Cao Xiong said in a deep voice, "My Hanzhou lives in a remote continent in the south of Nanyang, so I naturally want to take over my Ming Dynasty in peace. Hungry people come here to survive. But Nanyang is chaotic and Westerners are strong, and Hanzhou is inevitable. If I don’t fight, I will be like a small country in Nanyang, allowing Westerners to be enslaved and oppressed.”

"Aren't you afraid that those Western countries will unite and strangle you Hanzhou together?" Bi Maokang nodded, but continued to ask.

"They can't unite at all!" Qi Tian said firmly: "The fight between them is even more fierce, and they wish they can't get rid of each other. Moreover, they not only fight here in Nanyang, but also in the Europa continent where they live. It's also fighting each other, fighting each other."

"How did you know?"

"Well..., we have worked in Batavia and Luzon to collect some information about them in Europa." Qi Tian said, "Also, we also know that the number of these Western forces here is not very large. Most of them use the local natives to do things for them. Compared with them, our Hanzhou is not weaker than these Western forces except for a little less ships."

"You can know yourself and your enemy. But in this battle, the Dutch blocked your route from Hanzhou to Daming, and attacked your territory outside Hanzhou. Will Hanzhou respond?"

"The sea is not like the land. It can be blocked by mountains and rivers. Our Hanzhou has explored the eastern route to reach the Ming Dynasty." Qi Tian said: "As for the Dutch attacking our territory outside the Hanzhou mainland, it is not indecent to come and go. We Naturally, they can also attack its strongholds on the islands. Moreover, they will also rob and kill their merchant ships traveling to and from various places, continue to bleed it, and finally force the Dutch to negotiate peace with Hanzhou.”

"Hey, your Hanzhou is fighting with Western forces and blocking the shipping routes, making it difficult for me to return to Daming!" Bi Maokang said with a sigh.

"Ah! You want to return to Daming?" Qi Tian asked in surprise.

As the author of "Illustration of Military Weapons", a well-known weapons expert, well-known scholar, and writer, it would be a pity to let Bi Maokang return to Daming just like that!

"Your Hanzhou country is small and weak, and it was attacked by the Western forces. Do you want to be buried with it?" Bi Maokang said: "But if you want to stay in your Hanzhou, you will not be spared your Hanzhou's food and clothing. As a reward, I will help you Let's wait until the weapons produced are slightly improved by one or two!"

Looking at Cao Xiong and Qi Tian who left disappointed, Wang Zheng shook his head, and then said to Bi Maokang with a smile: "Brother Menghou, although Hanzhou is small, it is rare to give us full support for what we are studying. The blood of the family, the mantle of China, and the ability to help thousands of refugees from the Ming Dynasty. It is even more rare and precious. Its Hanzhou was founded, it is inclusive of ideas, and the attitude of all rivers in Hainan, everything may be reshaped. Hanzhou is the place where our generation displays its talents. Earth!"

"Brother Liangfu, I have only been in Hanzhou for a few months, let me take a look here." Bi Maokang said with a smile: "Brother's family members all come to Hanzhou, I think they want to live here, there is nothing else."

"The Great Ming Dynasty is dying, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to revive it again." Wang Zheng said: "But there is still a little thought in Hanzhou, which may create a situation for me to go another way in China."

"Oh?" Bi Maokang asked in surprise, "Different from my country of Ming Dynasty?"

"Perhaps, it is different from previous dynasties."

Bi Maokang twisted his beard, groaned silently, looked up at the black valley outside the window, thoughtful.

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That night, the continuous violent explosion near the north gate of the city of Dili not only killed and wounded more than 600 Dutch soldiers and captured more than 200 people, but also knocked down and cracked all the houses near the explosion, and spread to the Dutch soldiers fighting on the city wall And Hanzhou soldiers.

Major Frost Fritz, the commander of the Dutch army, was killed on the spot. The more than [-] Dutch mercenaries and native servants who poured into the city were wiped out, and almost no one escaped.

The follow-up Dutch army was frightened by the violent explosion in the city and did not dare to continue entering the city.

When the soldiers of the Hanzhou Marine Corps and the township soldiers lit torches and swept the battlefield with muskets, what they saw was a pile of fallen corpses. Many of the corpses remained intact, except for bleeding from the mouth and nose.The more than 200 Dutch mercenaries and native servants who survived nearby lost their eyesight and sat or stood blankly, letting the Hanzhou soldiers bind and drag them.

Xu Chuanxing ordered the soldiers of the Marine Corps and the township soldiers to rearrange the defenses at the top of the city, and at the same time spared manpower to clean up the vicinity of the north city gate and search for possible remaining enemies.

After tonight's heavy damage, the Dutch must not attack again.

Colonel Aryan Van Dijk, commander of the Batavian fleet, was stunned by the violent explosion in Dili City. Even though the retreating siege troops passed by him one after another, they did not pull him back from his dazed state.

The night raid failed!And the losses could be huge.So, can Dili City be captured before Christmas?
If the city of Dili cannot be captured in time, the furious Governor Daiman will definitely remove him from his post, and even arrest and imprison him in the name of ineffective combat.

Colonel Ayan Van Dijk was full of frustration and uneasiness. We clearly had the upper hand, and the Hanzhou defense forces in Dili City were not many, so why did we fail?Three times the strength of Hanzhou, they were unable to capture Dili City.It seems that our Dutch East India Company really seriously underestimated the strength of Hanzhou, and even underestimated the good fighting skills of Hanzhou Army.

"Colonel, what should we do now?" A Dutch officer asked softly.

"...to appease the retreating soldiers and rest temporarily." Colonel Aryan Van Dijk shook his head and said, "Tonight will be our saddest night!"

"Colonel, are we... are we going to give up and continue the offensive?"

"Give up?" Colonel Aryan Van Dijk smiled wryly, "Do you still have the desire to attack?"

"We still have more than 1000 people, and our strength is still greater than that of the Hanzhou army in the city." The officer said, "We may still have a chance in the future."

"Perhaps. Arrange the defense of the camp and wait for the next order." After speaking, Colonel Aryan Van Dijk turned his head and walked towards the pier.

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"I guess there is no chance during the day." Niu Hu and Li Fade lay on a big tree, carefully observing the city of Amwen.

"There are two merchant ships at the pier. I don't know if the sailors on board are on board." Li Fade said, "If they all enter the city, there may be more people in the city than we expected."

"So, when raiding at night, we must attack the city as quickly as possible to disrupt their assembly and deployment. We launch from both north and south directions at the same time. After entering the city, we often use hand-throwing bombs and prepare for close combat. Kill as many of their soldiers as possible."

"No prisoners?"

"We don't have that many people. Besides, it's night again.... Everything will be discussed at dawn."

Li Fade didn't ask any more questions, and held up the binoculars to observe for a while, and then he was about to slide down from the tree with Niuhu.

"Wait..." Niu Hu suddenly said, "What are so many people doing outside the city? It seems like they are fighting with weapons."

Hearing this, Li Fade grabbed the tree trunk with one hand, and raised the binoculars with the other to look towards Amwen City.

I saw that at a place 400 meters away from the Ambon Wharf, many people gathered, and they seemed to be wrestling, and some even slashed at each other with swords.

"Assemble the team immediately!" Niu Hu quickly slid down from the tree and ran towards the temporary camp.

The two returned to the temporary camp of the Marine Corps. All the soldiers and local soldiers were covered with veils, and their hands and feet were tightly bound. They were talking in twos and threes in low voices.

Seeing the two chief officers coming back, they immediately stopped talking and looked over eagerly.

"Everyone is ready, let's go to break Ambon!" Niu Hu said loudly.

In the Governor's Mansion of Ambon City, Tex Winter, the governor of the Dutch East India Company in Ambon Island, stared at his red eyes, angrily squeezed a report in his hand into a ball, and then threw it to the corner of the room.

The hateful natives attacked a trading base on the island that bought cloves yesterday, killing two company employees.Although the rushed mercenaries killed or wounded six or seven people, the remaining natives still fled into the jungle.Calculated, since the beginning of this year, more than [-] company employees and mercenaries have been attacked and killed by the natives.

Although there are mercenaries stationed in every trading base, it is still difficult to take care of these unpredictable native attacks.It seems that it is necessary to organize an army to exterminate these daring natives.In addition, it is necessary to put more pressure on those native tribes, not to allow them to accommodate the natives who attacked, and to induce huge profits so that they can provide corresponding information to the colonial government.

However, last month, Batavia dispatched more than 100 mercenaries from Ambon to attack the Han people on Timor Island.It is said that the stalemate has been held for a long time, but it has not been broken.Could it be that Hanzhou is more troublesome than the natives of Ambon Island?
I hope that the war on Timor Island will end soon, and most of the troops can be deployed in Ambon, so that the native forces on the island can be completely cleaned up.Otherwise, it would be very damaging to morale in the face of endless attacks.

"Stike, go and call the sheriff, Captain Barry Lenz!" the governor of Ambon, Tex Winter, shouted loudly to an officer on duty.

"Oh, Governor, Captain Lentz may not be in the city. There were some disputes among the merchant sailors near the pier outside the city, which affected the natives working nearby. Captain Lentz took people out of the city to suppress it." The officer replied.In the past, every time a ship docked, there would always be some fights or quarrels.At this time, presumably the sheriff in the city will teach these rude sailors a profound lesson.

"Dyat and Zelenia, haven't left yet?"

"Yes, my lord governor. They probably want to start again tomorrow morning."

"These lazy sailors! Don't they know that setting off a day later is wasting the company's precious time and capacity?" Tex Winter shook his head and said.

Regarding time, at this moment, Tan Zhongfu cherishes it more than anyone else.Thirty or so marine soldiers carefully avoided a few small forts not far outside the city, crossed the ditch outside the city, crossed several obstacles, and slowly approached the city wall.Fortunately, the small fortress outside the city and the Dutch defenders at the head of the city of Ambon seemed to be attracted by the constant live-action drama on the pier, and seemed to have no reaction to the thirty or so sneak attackers who sneaked up near the city of Ambon. Notice.

Niu Hu led more than [-] marine soldiers, and slowly approached the edge of the forest, lowered his body, and touched the city of Anwen.

"If Tan Zhongfu's team can rush into the city gate, I will lead the first marines and the local soldiers to rush in quickly." Niu Hu said in a low voice: "You take the second marines to attack the group of Dutchmen who are fighting with weapons. To defeat them, it is best to kill a large number of people, and they must not be allowed to escape to the pier fort and several nearby forts."

Li Fade nodded, staring at a group of people five to six hundred meters ahead, silently calculating the distance and time of the charge.

"Bump! Bump! Bump!..." There was a burst of gunfire near the north gate of Amwen City.

"All attack!" Niu Hu shouted in a low voice, and more than 200 officers and soldiers of the First Marine Corps jumped up and rushed towards Ambon City. More than 100 township soldiers also held muskets and rushed after them.

Regardless of the shouting and musket shooting of the defenders on the small fort passing by, their goal is the city of Ambon ahead.

(End of this chapter)