"Open the whole thing? My lord. Broadly looking at the city of Batavia with torches burning in the distance, his hands rubbed together excitedly.

There had been no war for several months, and the old Praetorian Guards had long been itching in their hearts.

"Your uncle, you're not going to rob, what's the panic?" Liu Hong gradually glanced at Kuoduan, picked up the binoculars and began to look at Batavia City.

The city wall is not a typical Lingbao shape, but a straight quadrilateral like the Ming wall, which belonged to the Bachachara dynasty in the 14th century, and was conquered and rebuilt by the Banten people in 1522.

More than seventy years later, the Dutch drove out the Banten and declared it the headquarters of the East India Company.

However, the Dutch did not overturn the city and rebuild it, and it would take too much manpower, material and financial resources to build a city, and the Dutch believed that as long as their fleet remained the world's leading one, no one would dare to covet the company's property.

But even the Dutch did not expect that in just five or six years, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty would overtake them like a big explosion, especially firearms.

The walls of Batavia were only heightened and strengthened on the original foundation, and the raw materials of its foundation were still made of green bricks, supplemented by main stones.

This kind of wall can withstand ordinary solid artillery for about two or three days, but if it is howitzer...... Hey!

"Two stunned, you lead the artillery battalion to slowly push forward, Lin He, you bring five thousand musketeers to support, each of them is distributed with five grenades, and you must be silent on the way, if you are discovered by the enemy at the battlement, Yang Tianbao, you snipe and kill, the artillery battalion quickly enters the predetermined position and fires, as far as possible before dawn to attack the city!"

Liu Hong gradually put down the binoculars and found a group of generals waiting for him to give orders, so he finalized the immediate tactics.

The Dutch must have known the news of the landing of the Daming Naval Division at this time, and there were not a few soldiers on duty on the city wall, and there was one standing almost every other battlement.

But four o'clock in the morning is the most tired time for people, and it is also the time when those who sleep the most sleepy, and most of the Dutch soldiers at the battlements of the city wall under the light of torches are quietly sleeping against the wall.

Liu Hong couldn't help but sigh secretly, fortunately, he chose to rush overnight, and it was really wonderful to choose to start the siege at four o'clock in the morning.

First of all, the defenders in the city are sleeping at this time, and the response speed may not be fast, and secondly, the torches are lit on the city wall, which is just convenient for the artillery battalion of the Ming Dynasty to calibrate the muzzle.

On the contrary, the artillery on the city wall looks black underneath.

Nearly 10,000 men quickly detached from the main force, with musketeers on either side, and the artillerymen of the artillery battalion pushed the cart mounts to the city walls.

Eight hundred steps, seven hundred steps, six hundred steps......

From time to time, there were heralds coming over the distance between the two compatriots, and Liu Hongjian was also staring at the battle formation, according to the previous war with the Netherlands, everyone had long known the firing distance of the Dutch city defense artillery.

With a hundred more paces, the artillery battalion could stop, a distance that was within the range of the howitzers, while the Dutch artillery was already beginning to lose its accuracy and power.

At this time, a Dutch soldier on the city wall began to untie his waist and release water in a daze, and the faint moonlight shone on the firearms outside the city wall flashing with cold light, and the soldier felt that his eyes were flashing in a daze, and then he opened his eyes and looked outside the city wall......

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! (Dutch)"

Bang –

A gunshot rang out, and the sniper team that had been quietly hiding not far from the city wall immediately shot and killed the shouting Dutch soldiers, and then the gunfire under the city wall was loud, and after several Dutch soldiers fell to the ground, AKM pressed the Dutch behind the city wall and refused to come out again.

"Push! Give Lao Tzu the strength to breastfeed! Seeing that it had been discovered, Kong Er was stunned and immediately ordered to move forward at full speed.

After a few moments, the artillery battalion finally moved into its position and began to calibrate its gun position, while there was still no sign of the Dutch on the eastern walls of Batavia.

After ten breaths, most of the guns had reached their positions and were calibrated.

"One group of city gates, ten steps to the left of the second group of city gates, ten steps to the right of the three groups of city gates, open fire!" Kong Er was stunned and ran around between the artillery positions like a jumping rooster.

The 20,000 marines carried a total of 50 howitzers, which Kong Erzi divided into three groups to widen the gap in the city wall, a tactic that only experienced gunners could do after the advent of howitzers.

Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom

The cannon began to roar, and the earth and eardrums were suffering.

"! Shing mun...... Broken? Kong Er was stunned, put down the telescope in his hand, and was suddenly stunned.

In conventional warfare, the defenders of the city would often seal the gates with stones to prevent the besiegers from breaking in, as wooden gates were too weak compared to the walls.

But just such a salvo, fifteen grenades, and the city gate was broken?

Kong Er was stunned for a moment and didn't react, he couldn't understand why the Dutch didn't block the city gate, but he decided not to want to, while urging the gunners to load quickly, he hurriedly sent someone to inform Liu Hongjian of the situation.

In fact, Kong Er was stunned and also picked up a leak, in addition to the east gate of Batavia City, the remaining three main city gates and four side gates have long been sealed, and the only one left is the east gate, which was originally prepared by the Dutch to go out of the city early tomorrow morning to meet the Ming army.

As soon as the news of the Ming army's landing east of Batavia reached the city, Cohen and Lancelot immediately decided to go out of the city to meet them.

First, Batavia is their territory and they are familiar with the terrain, and secondly, the Ming army must bring artillery to attack the city, and the artillery is extremely inconvenient to transport in the jungle, so it is impossible for them to stay in the city and wait for the Ming army to transport the artillery safely under the city.

It's just that Cohen and Lancelot didn't expect the Ming army to be so fast, let alone that the Ming Dynasty had already made tires out of rubber, and with the power plant of rubber tires as gun carriages, plus there were Banten guides who were more familiar with the terrain than the Dutch, the howitzer, which was not a heavy artillery, was not slow to cross the jungle.

"So wait for the yarn? The whole army pressed in! Rush to Lao Tzu! After Liu Hong gradually ruled out the idea that it might be a trap, he immediately ordered Lin He's musket battalion, grenadiers, and Kong Erzi's mortar to rush into the city.

At this time, the Dutch had just finished dressing, forming a team, and assembling together, and many of them were wearing clothes while following the large army to climb the city wall for defense.

But at this time, the grenadiers and musketeers under the command of Lin He had already broken into the city, and the enemies were very angry when they saw each other, and the city immediately burst into gunfire and explosions.

It's just that the firearms of the Dutch are not as good as those of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that it is four o'clock in the morning, and the large phalanx of the Dutch cannot play any effective role in the night.

On the other hand, the musketeers of the Ming Dynasty, all of them bolt-action rifles not only had a fast rate of fire, but also could find cover nearby, and the battle inside the city gate soon ended with the defeat of the Dutch.

Two quarters of an hour later, the Ming army took the east and south walls, and the mortar led by Kong Erzi, under the cover of the musketeers, had placed a whole hundred small steel cannons neatly outside the Dutch barracks.

The sound of explosions resounded throughout the city in an instant, muskets and grenades were raging, one side came prepared, the other side rushed to fight, and the limbs flying in the moonlit night showed the misery of the Dutch.

Liu Hongjian never imagined that the capture of Batavia would be so smooth, but whether it is war or history, sometimes it is like this, and it is inevitable woven by various coincidences.

Looking at the fire in the sky above the city of Batavia, his mood was extremely comfortable at this moment, and the pressure of the once long-cherished enemy of the Netherlands was swept away, as if a mountain that was in the way of the road collapsed.

"Cui Geng, this king has avenged you again!"

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