On the third day of the second month of the 26th year of Chongzhen, the mighty southern expeditionary fleet passed through the entire South China Sea and the Karimata Strait, and attacked Batavia of the Dutch.

Batavia Bay is not a bay deep inland, but a relatively open semi-circular sea. The Dutchman's pier is almost bare at the edge of the ocean.

The reason why the Dutch dared to build a seaport in such a place was because of their absolute confidence in their fleet thirty years ago. The Dutch were confident that their battleships had no rivals in the Far East, and no one would dare to attack the Dutch military ports, so the defense of the military ports did not need to be too strong, as long as there was a little cover.

But such self-confidence, in the twenty-sixth year of Chongzhen, seems very fragile.

Lu Hu sailed the fleet into Batavia Bay, standing on the bow of the flagship to take a closer look at the city of Jakarta a few kilometers away.

Shi Dingping, captain of the detachment fleet, said: "Commander, the rumors should be true, the Dutch seem to have really given up on Batavia. “

Lu Hu nodded.

It is unconscionable that the fleet was within range of the harbor shore defense guns and the Dutch did not carry out the shelling. The only explanation is that all the artillery of the Dutch has been withdrawn, and only Javanese are left in the port, and no one knows how to operate the artillery.

Lu Hu waved his hand and said, "There is no need to choose another landing site, just bomb Bataviaburg." “

The flags were hung on masts, and the forty ironclad ships, like forty monsters, approached the Batavia docks little by little.

On the dock, Wu Yingxiong looked at the panicked Javanese soldiers.

Before leaving, the Dutch did not help Wu Yingxiong train the Javanese native soldiers, who did not know how to use the coastal defense artillery. The only thing the Dutch gave Wu Yingxiong was an artillery manual in Dutch.

Wu Yingxiong has managed to find a few Javanese natives who know Dutch in the Javanese native soldiers these days, but these people can't fully understand Dutch characters. So no one dares to manipulate the cannons on the bastions and docks these days.

At this time, Li Zhi's fleet had already attacked near the dock, and if it didn't fire again, it would be bombed by Li Zhi's fleet.

Wu Yingxiong drove the ducks to the shelves and asked the Javanese natives who knew a little Dutch to operate the cannons according to the artillery manual.

Aim at the ironclad ship that is getting closer and closer, charge, load, insert the fire rope, and ignite.

only heard a bang, and Wu Yingxiong felt that his ears were about to be blown up.

I don't know if it was because the gunpowder was overloaded or what, the cannon exploded. In the huge sparks, the barrel of the cannon, which was supposed to shoot the shell, cracked and turned into pieces of iron and flew in all directions. The hapless arquebus soldier around the barrel was instantly killed by the shock wave, and the body flew back several meters before falling to the ground.

Even several other natives standing a little farther away were hit, killing one and wounding four. Although Wu Yingxiong was standing twenty meters away, he was also frightened by the huge shock wave of the explosion and fell to the ground.

But he quickly got up, and his face turned pale.

It's over, no artillery can attack Li Zhi's fleet, it's going to be bombed.

The ironclad ships in the open bay were divided into two squadrons, and the twenty ships of the front squadron gradually moved to an area four miles away from the pier, and formed a semicircular formation to surround the fortress on the pier.

The gun windows and windows on the ship's side were slammed open, and four hundred cannons were pushed out.

The natives in Fort Batavia were stunned as they watched as the terrible muzzles of the guns were aimed at them.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Boom! “

The side of the twenty boats seemed to suddenly bloom with countless red flowers, colorful and dazzling. Then black cannonballs pierced the sky and fired at the fortress of Batavia, five miles away.

From Wu Yingxiong's point of view, after those cannonballs came out of the cannon**, they shot in all directions like fairy scattered flowers, ruling every corner of the front and back of the fortress.

The shell hit the ground and exploded with a bang.

Huge sparks exploded from every corner of the fortress.

A storm of iron rain set off by four hundred heavy artillery shells.

The shockwave was like a storm sweeping through the entire fortress, sprinting through all the spaces. The Javanese soldiers around the shell were immediately blown to pieces, and their charred bodies flew in all directions with the shock wave. Shrapnel from conical shells flew through the air with impunity, harvesting the lives of the earthworms in the bastion like the scythe of death.

With just one round of shelling, the entire fortress was completely blown open.

The fortress, or rather the battlement wall on the perimeter of Batavia, was blown to pieces. The various arrow towers and defense towers on the edge of the fortress were all blown down and turned into rubble bricks. The fortress was full of large holes blown out by shells, shattering the masonry on the ground and blowing out scorched black soil pits dozens of centimeters deep.

I don't know how many Javanese soldiers were killed by the bombing, turned into corpses that never moved at all, and fell around the pit. Many soldiers had their hands broken, their legs broken, their stomachs broken, their blood bleeding all over the ground, screaming and struggling near the crater.

The screams of the countless wounded soldiers became the background sound in the bastion, sounding like a noise.

But no one paid any attention to the natives, the Dutch took all the doctors, and the natives did not know how to surgically at all.

Wu Yingxiong looked at the tragic situation in the fortress, and his face was snow-white.

The Dutch let Wu Yingxiong stay for a few months, how could this be. Not to mention a few months, Wu Yingxiong couldn't hold on for even an hour.

Wu Yingxiong suddenly felt that the red hair was playing tricks on himself.

With the combat effectiveness of Li Zhi's fleet, even tens of thousands of people from the Red Mao faction are estimated to be unable to hold it, how could the Dutch believe that they could hold here? The red fur apparently ran away, throwing himself and the native soldiers here to die.

Wu Yingxiong's body trembled, and he subconsciously prepared to escape.

However, before Wu Yingxiong could take a step, another heavy artillery salvo attacked the fortress.

The cannonballs flew through the sky like meteors and smashed into the fort of Batavia. A huge shockwave exploded in the bastion again. Countless pieces of flesh were blasted out by the blast wave, splattering everywhere in the small space.

Wu Yingxiong lay on the ground in a panic, and he didn't dare to raise his head, but he suddenly felt a heat on his head. He molded his head and felt the blood in his hand, mixed with a few pieces of charred flesh.

Wu Yingxiong thought that his head had been blown up, and let out a huge scream.

However, he screamed for a long time, groping hard for his head, only to realize that his head was not broken, and that the flesh belonged to someone else.

Wu Yingxiong's psychology completely collapsed, he jumped up suddenly, and fled outside the fortress.

He'd long forgotten what he was talking about defending Batavia, and now he just wanted to run for his life.

However, Wu Yingxiong was not the only one who fled, many local soldiers also fled under the fortress, and the path out of the fortress was crowded with people.

Wu Yingxiong thought that he was the commander, and shouted loudly to push away the native soldiers in front of him, asking the others to get out of the way and let him go first.

However, no one looks up to Wu Yingxiong as a commander.

A Javanese soldier who was pulled behind by Wu Yingxiong suddenly pulled out his waist knife and stabbed Wu Yingxiong in the back.

The blade entered the flesh, and in an instant, it completely submerged into Wu Yingxiong's body.

Wu Yingxiong let out a heart-rending scream and rolled on the ground. However, the blade was too destructive to the body organs, and he only rolled a few times before he lost all his strength and died.