Batavia, dotted with torches in the dark night, was enveloped in flames and shouts of killing in a moment, and countless torches illuminated the fortress with sparkling light.

The Ming army of the brigade climbed the first wall through the long ladder, and the Ming army opened the heavy fort gate, and countless Ming troops rushed into the fortress.

At this moment, the Dutch, who had retreated to the second wall, began to condescendingly shoot the Ming army on the first wall.

The fort built by the Dutch is very distinctive, the second wall is higher than the first, and you can overlook the first fort wall from it, and the distance between the two walls is just within the range of the musket.

The Dutch retreated from the unique tunnel into the second wall, and as soon as the Ming army occupied the outer fort wall, they encountered the sound of "bang bang bang" muskets, and several Ming soldiers on the city wall were hit by muskets and fell down screaming.

The Ming army next to him reacted, immediately knelt on one knee, raised the gun to shoot, a Dutchman was shot, and fell off the fortress wall with a wail, but most of the projectiles still hit the fortress wall.

After putting a gun, the Ming army hurriedly loaded the ammunition, but at this time, the Dutch came again with a round of guns, and the Ming army had nothing to cover, and several people were killed immediately.

At this time, the hard labor under the city was mobilized, and the wooden planks and bed boards for building shanties were all removed, and then hung on the city wall to be used as a shield for the Ming army.

Although this is not as good as the stone wall, but there is also a certain defensive power, the Ming army with the advantage of numbers, on the wall and Heyi shooting, the two sides kept exchanging deaths, the Dutch took advantage of the territory, and the Ming soldiers were knocked down as soon as they raised their guns.

The fiercest battle was not fought against each other on the two walls, but at the second fort gate.

Here Li Dingguo invested three rounds of troops in a row, but he suffered heavy casualties, and he immediately transferred three more bureaus to join the attack.

The flag of the Qianhu officers of the second division of the Zhenwei Battalion, who had received the order, waved, and the soldiers of the fourth, fifth, and sixth bureaus immediately resisted the ladder and threw themselves into the attack.

The distance between the two fort walls was very short, and the Ming army could not deploy its forces, and could only put three or four hundred people into the attack at a time.

At this time, three bureaus, each with more than 100 men, attacked the front and two wings of the fort gate, and the soldiers stepped on the trench bridge to the bottom of the second fort wall, and then erected ladders and climbed upward, and from time to time someone was struck and rolled into the trench.

Between the two trenches, the Ming army rubbed through, and above their heads was an intertwined rain of bullets.

The Ming gunners, standing on the first fort wall, hid behind the planks, shot in formation, and the battle was very fierce.

At this time, the castle was already in flames, and the sound of gunfire and shouting became one, and the Dutch were attacked inside and outside, but the main threat was still from the surging Ming army.

The Dutch governor was also in chaos for a while, which gave Zhou Dai in the city a chance, nearly 300 men seized the armory, took the weapons, leaving nearly 100 people in the warehouse to set fire, Zhou Dai led 200 people to kill the fort gate.

Helping the Ming army enter the fort was their first task.

At this time, they were rushing out of the smokey warehouse area, and they encountered more than a dozen Dutchmen in front of them to reinforce the fort gate, Zhou Dai immediately shouted, the team stopped instantly, and the man with the musket stretched out the gun.

The Dutch did not expect to meet them, dozens of muskets were fired at the same time, and several Dutchmen in front fell to the ground at the same time, rolling on the ground and screaming.

The formation of the Dutch behind became chaotic, on the side of the men, the muskets retreated, and Zhou Dai led more than a dozen men with long swords, so he roared and rushed towards the Dutch, quickly defeating the Dutch who were in a mess.

However, they were in a hurry before they arrived, and soon dozens of people were killed by another team of reinforcements.

Because of Zhou Dai and others in the fort, the number of Dutch reinforcements in the fort became fewer, and the Ming army finally made progress after paying great casualties with the advantage of numbers.

At this time, a Ming sergeant came to the castle wall and lit a heaven-shattering thunderbolt, and when the sparkling lead was about to burn out, he threw it upwards.

The Ming army, who climbed halfway up to the city wall, only heard an explosion overhead, the bricks and stones at the head of the city were splashed, and several Dutch people were blown out of the city wall, and their bodies fell from the side of the ladder and smashed into the trench.

Seeing this, a Ming army Xiaoqi looked up, and after reacting, he immediately held the back of the knife with his mouth and climbed up to the city with his hands and feet.

Taking advantage of the situation, the Ming army finally occupied a section of the city wall, and the soldiers who went to the city advanced on both sides on the one hand, and rushed to the inside of the fort wall on the other hand, shooting the Dutch who rushed to reinforce them, so that they could not assemble and go up to the wall for reinforcements.

Amid the continuous sound of explosions and clangings, the Dutch in the city began to flee from the city walls, and large groups retreated into barracks and warehouses to avoid being shot by the Ming army.

The third fort wall of the Dutch was the Dutch governor's palace in Batavia and the office of the East India Company, so it was relatively small.

He was much farther away from the second fort wall, and there was no ditch in between, but a large number of houses.

Within the second fort wall, there are the living quarters of the Dutch, as well as a large number of warehouses, which occupy a large area, like a small town.

After the Ming army climbed the second wall, they did not have to worry about the Dutch shooting on the third wall, so it was very important to break through the second wall.

A division of Ming soldiers, after climbing the city wall again, began to storm down the steps of the upper city, while the Dutch hid in the roofs and windows, shooting at the Ming army, and the Ming army who rushed down the steps were knocked down again and again.

The Ming army left more than a dozen corpses, retreated to the city wall, and crouched to shoot at the Dutch.

At this time, hundreds of people climbed up to the city from the place occupied by the Ming army, and the firearms of the Ming army on the city wall began to dense, gradually suppressing the fire of the Dutch on the roofs, in the houses, and in the streets.

At this time, a Ming soldier of the division tried to attack again, and the soldier was knocked down again and again, but finally rushed down the steps, killed the doorway, hacked several Dutch inside, and then lowered the drawbridge and opened the city gate.

Li Dingguo saw that the drawbridge was put down quickly, and the fort door was slowly pushed open, and he immediately waved his knife and shouted: "Kill!" ”

More than 2,000 horses crowded between the first and second walls immediately shouted and swarmed in, and the fiery red figures and fluttering saucer helmets began to rush into the streets inside the fort.

The Dutch on the second wall gradually broke down the city, some retreated to the last of the main fortress governor's palace, and many more lost their organization and scattered into small groups, hiding in warehouses, houses, and workshops in a panic.

The Ming army first occupied various important streets and junctions, and then began to fight the Dutch along the streets, house by house, and quickly advanced from the west to the center.

After Li Dingguo entered the city, he did not go deeper, he stood at the city gate, and saw his subordinates running through the dark doorway with torches, and the sound of clothes and armor rubbing and dense and neat footsteps reached his ears.

He looked up at the city again, and the streets inside the fort were filled with gunshots and shouts, and the sound and the smoke of gunpowder in the streets slowly rose together, and finally dissipated in the air.

Although they entered the city, the street fighting was still fierce.

At this time, inside the main fort, Governor Corry's office was in a panic, with papers and papers scattered all over the ground.

"Your Excellency the Governor, the Ming people have entered the fort, and the Dutch soldiers are fighting fiercely with the Ming people in Xicheng District, but there are many of them, and it is estimated that they will soon occupy Xicheng District and advance to the Governor's Palace!" A Heyi officer, carrying a smoking pistol in his hand, rushed in and said in a panic.

Correy's face was hideous, "Sidiu, you immediately lead people to set up defenses on the streets, don't let the Ming people rush over, and organize other people to transport the grain in the warehouse into the governor's palace." ”

The Doge's Palace, the center of all of Batavia, was built very tall and fortified, the center of the entire fortress and the third line of defense, and Correy decided to hold on to the last line of fortifications.

"Your Excellency, there is a rebellion in the grain depot, and it has long been ignited by traitors!" The councillor named Sidiu said urgently: "Your Excellency, please forgive me for saying that the company has completely and completely failed in Nanyang and in its strategy against the Ming Dynasty!" Now only by taking advantage of the fact that the Ming people only occupy the western part of the city, we will immediately break through from the north and rush out of Batavia by boat! ”

The grain depot was burned, and there was no point in holding on to the main fort, and in the end it could only be the same as Malacca, and the grain ran out.

"Damn it!" Corey scolded angrily, but had to admit defeat, the Dutch are here to make money, not to play with their lives, he can only admit defeat now, "Let the parliamentarians clean up, and we will retreat immediately." ”

In this way, the Dutch East India Company would lose the South Seas, the coachmen of the sea, just defeated by the British in the West and the Ming Dynasty in the East.

This sea power, which has dominated the seas for decades, is doomed to decline, and it will decline faster than in history, and it will be reduced to the edge almost in the past few years.

On the streets of the city, there was fighting everywhere, and the more than 300 people brought into the city by Zhou Dai were estimated to have died for the rest of them, and the rest were also killed.

After the Ming army rushed into the city, Zhou Dai changed direction and led his men and horses to attack in the direction of the governor's palace, and they entered a street, next to which there were Dutchmen kneeling with their guns raised, speaking Dutch that everyone could not understand, as if begging for mercy and surrender.

Zhou Dai couldn't understand their words, but as long as he knelt on the ground and raised his hand, he didn't pay attention to it, but when the few people behind him saw the red-haired ghost, they raised their guns and shot them.

With a bang, the Dutchman who was kneeling on the ground flew upside down and hit the wall on the side of the street.

At first, these men were not allowed to shoot, and they vomited a lot of blood when they saw it, but after killing several people in a row, they were already red-eyed, and they killed the Dutch when they saw them.

At this time, they crashed into a room, several Dutch wounded soldiers were lying inside, they looked at Zhou Dai and others who came in in horror, one of them He Yi cried profusely, snot and tears flowed on his face, and begged for mercy again and again, Zhou Dai was just about to speak, he heard a "bang" sound behind him, and killed all the Dutch in the house.

At this time, because the colonial authorities had no will to resist, the stragglers in the city were uncommanded, and the Ming army advanced by leaps and bounds, quickly occupying various neighborhoods and beginning to organize manpower to control the fire.

Suddenly, a loud cheer rang out, and it was the Ming army that had rushed into the governor's palace.

Corry and the East India Company executives escaped from the fort, they heard the cheers behind them, and turned their heads to see that a large number of torches had appeared on the wall of the northern section of the fort, and a team of men and horses came out of the northern city and chased after the docks.

Coerry was so frightened that his face was colorless, and the Dutchmen who were crisscrossing the sea hurriedly boarded three armed merchant ships from the dock, and the ships had just anchored Yang Fan, and the Ming military gunners wearing red cloth armor had already reached the dock, squatting and shooting a wave of guns at the big ship that left the dock.

The Dutch fled from the harbor in a hurry, and as soon as they came out to sea, they encountered a cruising Ming warship.

The two sides fought in a scuffle in the dark, and three Dutch warships, one was sunk, one was captured, and one took advantage of the darkness to flee north······

(End of chapter)