Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1271
After the Ming army established a stronghold in Surabaya, the Dutch on Java Island had trouble sleeping and eating, and they always wanted to drive the Ming army out of Surabaya.

Matalan Sultan's army and more than 100 Dutch soldiers entrenched in Danmu not far from Surabaya, seeking to attack Surabaya, but the Ming army was too strong, Matalan did not have the strength to recover Surabaya, and when Li Dingguo led the two After a battalion of the Ming army arrived in Surabaya, they lost even more chances.

In the past few months, the Danmu Mahe coalition forces have actually only played a role in monitoring Surabaya.

Li Dingguo asked the navy to withdraw its manpower to confuse the Dutch, thinking that the main force of the Ming army was still in Surabaya and had no intention of attacking Batavia in a short time.

On the sea, because most of the Dutch warships were destroyed in Malacca, the Ming army's warships took control of the sea off Batavia.

There are often warships of the Ming army from Surabaya and Malacca cruising here. The few remaining merchant ships in the Netherlands dare not go out to sea for fear of meeting the warships of the Ming army, so they provide a good cover for Li Dingguo's actions.

On the first day of July, the Ming army ships circled half a circle, from the east to twenty miles west of Batavia, and Li Dingguo went ashore from then on.

Surabaya is to the east of Batavia. From the perspective of the Dutch, the Ming army would only attack from the east, but Li Dingguo did not want to go around to the west of Batavia.

The reason for this, apart from being unexpected, was mainly because Sun Anmin told him that there was a large forest on the west side of Heyi Fortress, only about one mile away from the fortress, which could provide cover for the army, so he chose to go ashore from the west.

After disembarking, Li Dingguo did not go to Batavia immediately. He first sent scouts to find out the terrain, and made climbing ladders and long poles. On the night of July [-], he found shelter in the woods on the west side of the fort.

On July [-], during the whole day, [-] Ming troops were lying in the woods. Li Dingguo observed the Dutch fort not far away from the gaps in the branches.

There is a large area of ​​shantytowns under the city, which are supposed to be for hard labor. There are soldiers patrolling the city, and inside the city is the residence of three thousand Heyi.

Throughout the day, there was no change, and the Dutch did not receive any news from Danmu that the main force of the Ming army had left, so they urged hard labor as usual, reinforced the stone wall on the east side, and prepared to build another small fort outside the fort. They are horns with the main castle.

Time passed very slowly. The Ming army gnawed on the dry food and gritted their teeth until dark, but they still did not see the transport team coming over. The surrounding generals couldn't help feeling a little anxious.

However, Li Dingguo was very calm. Zhou Dai was originally a scout, but he was sent to Nanjing for three years. After returning to the army, he went to the army and did a test of hundreds of households, and soon became a full-time member. Since Li Dingguo chose him, he naturally had confidence in him. .

At this moment, a fire dragon suddenly appeared in the distance, and a large group of people came towards the fort from the south.

"All the transported teams enter the castle and start timing. After two quarters, clear the Dutch outside the castle. When there is chaos in the city, immediately seize the city."

After laying down the fortress in Malacca, Li Dingguo learned a lot about this kind of fortress.

If it is the city of Daming, generally as long as he cheats to open the city gate, he can rush into the city, but this kind of bastion is a city within a city. Entering the city, he still has two very complete defense systems inside.

The generals around heard this, and they didn't dare to be negligent, and nodded one after another.

Not long after, the convoy with torches arrived at the gate of the fortress. The escorted Dutchmen called to open the gate. Zhou Dai lowered the torch and raised it up three times with several people around him while no one was paying attention.

The castle was quickly opened, and Zhou Dai and others, urged by the Dutch, drove vehicles full of food and heavy iron ingots into the castle, and when they all entered, the gate of the castle was immediately closed again.

Knowing yourself and the enemy, you can win a hundred battles. Zhou Dai and others sneaked into Batavia for more than a month, contacted Hu Sheng and others who were arrested earlier, and after fully understanding the situation in Batavia, they made a plan and informed Li Dingguo.

Although it was an outsmart effort, it took two months of preparation until now before it started to reach this critical step.

When Li Dingguo saw that the fort gate was closed, he immediately waved his hand, and the scouts of the Ming army in one round were divided into six teams, quietly got out of the woods, like the Dutch stronghold outside the city.

The Dutch stipulated that Ming people were not allowed to spend the night in the fort. However, Zhou Dai and his men only took two quarters of an hour from the first to the fort gate, then entered the second fort gate, and finally arrived at the refined iron warehouse. It is necessary to eliminate hidden dangers outside the city during this period of time, touch near the root of the wall, and prepare for a surprise attack at any time.

The scouts of the Ming army gradually approached the shanty town surrounded by fences outside the fortress. The Dutch deployed six supervisory sheds around, with two or three people living in them, taking turns to monitor.

A team of scouts from the Ming army quickly found the outside of a work shed, where a lamp was lit, and a Dutchman was sitting by the fire outside, with wine and cooked meat beside him.

The scouts of the Ming army have always been the most elite part of the army. Now that the functions of the arms have been further strengthened, almost every scout has multiple abilities, which is stronger than the "night does not accept" in Liaodong back then.

At this time, Xiao Qi, the leader of the team, looked up at the red-haired ghost, and immediately beat the soldiers around him. The eight men divided into two sides and walked towards the house, while the remaining four followed him and walked forward for a while. If there is no distance, they lie dormant and wait for the opportunity.

Xiaoqi kept staring at the red-haired ghost, but the Dutchman didn't notice it. In recent months, Batavia has been very peaceful, and he would never have thought that the Ming army had touched his feet.

At this time, after he ate a mouthful of meat, he raised his wine bottle and raised his head to drink, but as soon as he raised his head, Ming Jun Xiaoqi immediately raised his hand, and a poisoned sleeve arrow shot directly at He Yi's throat , blood spurted out.

The wine bottle fell to the ground, He Yi covered his throat in pain for an instant, and at the moment when the sleeve arrow was shot, Xiao Qi jumped up, and the next moment, he was already riding on He Yi, covering his mouth with one hand, With one hand, he stabbed the sharp dagger into his chest, and the bright red blood gushed out like a spring, and the clothes on He Yi's chest were instantly soaked in warm blood.

The moment Xiaoqi made his move, the eight scouts who surrounded the shed on both sides rolled into the shed, covered their mouths, pressed their feet, and the two sleeping Heyi were cut off just as soon as they opened their eyes. .

Soon the scouts sent a message, and the nearby Heyi strongholds were all eliminated.

"Go!" Li Dingguo waved his hand immediately, and the 6000 people walked out of the woods lightly, while Sun Anmin had already entered the shanty town first and contacted the brothers inside.

The people in the shantytown immediately made way for them, and the people who were not asleep looked at the many black figures with wide eyes, and they walked past the shed one by one, and slowly approached a section of the fort wall.

"Commander, it's time." At this moment, an officer beside Li Dingguo suddenly said.

At this moment, the gate of the second fort opened, and Zhou Dai and others entered the second fort wall, and soon came to the warehouse where refined iron and grain were stored.

"Hurry up and finish unloading the goods, and then hurry out of the fort." At this time, the Dutch officer escorting the goods said angrily, "I'll give you an hour. If you can't finish it, you won't be allowed to eat tomorrow!"

According to the time, they were supposed to return to Batavia in the afternoon, but they returned only at night, and the Dutch officer was in a bad mood.

It was dark at this time, most of the Heyi had rested, and there were only more than 20 Heyi around them, Zhou Dai could not help but wink at several of his subordinates.

That He Yi was about to turn around and sit down on a stool beside him as the supervisor, but Hu Sheng suddenly hugged his neck from behind, pulled out a small knife less than a foot from his trousers with his other hand, and pointed at the He Yi stabbed several times in the back of the heart, and the hot and sticky blood sprayed all over him immediately, but he kept moving, stabbing the knife in, and then pulling it out, and he didn't let go until He Yi stopped moving.

The hard laborers near the vehicle immediately jumped up one after another, knocked down more than a dozen Heyi around them, and hacked them to death with short knives. Not so capable, not only did not kill anyone, but two people were beaten to death by He Yi.

Gunshots sounded, and one He Yi fled in a hurry. Zhou Dai and Hu Sheng led 26 Ming soldiers who sneaked in, and quickly killed all the remaining He Yi.He couldn't bear to think about it, so he yelled, "Hu Sheng, set fire to it, and the others will follow me to capture the arsenal!"

The gunshots and burning flames inside the fortress made the whole fortress agitated in an instant. The Dutch soldiers patrolling on the outermost wall couldn't help turning around to look at the firelight and the sound of killing inside the second wall. There was a burst of astonishment on everyone's face.

"Rush up!" Li Dingguo under the fortress heard the movement in the city, and immediately gave an order. The Ming army lying on the ground stood up one after another. One of the division's more than 300 Ming soldiers immediately picked up a long pole. Hold the tail of the pole, one person hugs the head of the pole, and instantly sends the person with the pole head to the city wall, stepping on the city wall and being supported on the top of the wall.

The Dutch in the city were looking towards the inner city, but before they could react, nearly a hundred Ming soldiers jumped up to the city like magic soldiers, hacking and killing several Dutchmen from behind, and then began to fight.

This kind of pole siege can only send a very small number of elites to the city. If there are too many, the speed is not as fast as climbing the city ladder, and the soldiers who hugged the tail of the pole have no strength to continuously support people to the city.

At the moment when nearly a hundred civilian troops supported the city, thousands of Ming soldiers jumped up and rushed forward carrying ladders. The officers drew out their swords and shouted, "Follow me!"

The Ming army quickly built a trench bridge on the trench, and put ladders on the castle, and the soldiers quickly climbed up.

Only then did the alarm bells ring out in the city. The Dutch who reacted wanted to stop the Ming army from going to the city, but they were entangled by the Ming army who came up to the wall first, and they couldn't stop them at all.

In a short while, a large number of Ming troops went to the city. Seeing that the first wall was inexplicably lost, the Dutch immediately took the initiative to retreat to the second wall.

Li Dingguo boarded the city wall, and when he saw the Dutch retreating back, he instantly understood their intentions, and he immediately waved his knife and pointed: "The Zhenwu Battalion will open the fort gate, and the Zhenwei Battalion will storm the second fort gate for me. Make it a success or failure!"

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