The coalition fleet entered the port of Batavia, the ships came ashore, and groups of officers and men stepped off the ships. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

John Masui, who was hiding in the castle, estimated the number of his opponents and found that the army that had landed was estimated to be more than 8,000 people, including more than 5,000 Ming troops dressed in red, more than 2,000 Ming troops dressed in blue, and about 1,000 Portuguese and Spanish soldiers.

John Ma Suidui thought to himself: The one in red must be the army of the Ming Kingdom, and the one in the blue clothes may be the navy of the Ming Kingdom. He was right, it was Li Dingguo's army wearing dark red uniforms, and Wang Xinyu's marines wearing dark blue uniforms.

There were more than 1,500 Dutch soldiers, more than 2,000 hired local aborigines, more than 5,000 Dutch civilians, and more than 3,000 black slaves. John Marsuige armed more than 3,000 black slaves and selected 1,000 from the Dutch civilian population to join the army.

There were more than 5,000 civilians in the Netherlands, but among them were old men, children, and women, and most of them were mercenary, and they smelled of copper all over their bodies, and they were very good at making money, but it was never possible to let them go to war, so it was good to be able to select more than 1,000 people from among the civilians.

Together with the black slaves and the local indigenous soldiers, John Ma also raised an army of nearly 8,000 men. However, it is okay for this army to rely on the castle to hold on, but it is simply impossible to let them go out to fight. Because there are only more than 500 Dutch troops in this army who are really combative.

Although there were more than 1,500 Dutch regular troops in the city, more than 1,000 were sailors and sailors, and the real army was only about 500.

John Masui would not be so stupid as to use a rabble of 8,000 men to go head-to-head with the regular army of 8,000 men on the opposite side, and the only way to hold Batavia was to rely on strong walls. Batavia Castle, formerly known as Jakarta Castle, was halfway built by the British when it was robbed by the Dutch, who built a huge castle on the basis of the British. The castle is larger than the city of Geranza in Taiwan and is the governor's palace of Batavia.

Outside the Batavia Castle, there is the city of Batavia, which covers an area of 1.3 square kilometers, and there are more than 2,000 Chinese in the city, as well as more than 10,000 local aborigines, as well as buildings such as Qing [True] Temple.

John Ma Suiju drove all the Chinese out of the city within the first time.

"The Chinese are unreliable, but their army is out there, and we can't slaughter them for fear of retaliation." John Marsui-dug ordered the expulsion of the Chinese.

Dutch soldiers armed with guns and natives armed with broadswords and spears broke into the homes of the Chinese and savagely drove the Chinese out of the city. The Dutch were still a little jealous and didn't dare to go too far, but the natives were ruthless.

Many Chinese women were captured and forced by the aborigines, and the property of the Chinese was looted by the aborigines. The aborigines brutally drove the Chinese out, and some of the Chinese who resisted were brutally killed by the aborigines.

After driving out the Chinese and closing the gates, John Ma Suiju called the officers and interpreters: "The local natives are loyal to us, and we can recruit a group of men from among them to help defend the city!" ”

Translated to the natives and lobbied: "You have snatched a lot of money from the Chinese, if you don't want your wealth to be robbed back by the Chinese, then fight side by side with us!" Just hold the city of Batavia, and our armada will come! Those Ming people and their allies will be sent to the bottom of the sea by our fleet! ”

Under the persuasion of the Dutch, many natives joined the Dutch army to assist the Dutch in defending the city. In this way, the Dutch recruited an indigenous army of more than 3,000 men, bringing the total strength of the defenders in the city to more than 10,000.

The landed Ming army advanced in the direction of Batavia City, and on the way, I saw a large group of ragged Han people running towards the Ming army, and they could be heard crying for help from a distance.

"What's going on?" Li Dingguo asked people to ask.

After a while, the soldiers who went to inquire came back and reported to Li Dingguo: "Marshal Qiyu, they are overseas Han people who have been living in Coconut City for many years. This time we came to attack Coconut City, and the red-haired Governor ordered them to be expelled. But the acquaintances here took advantage of the fire to rob, robbed them of their silver, and returned their daughters. ”

Li Dingguo was furious: "The barbarians of Nanyang, dare to bully my Han people? When I break the city, I will kill all the barbarians! ”

When he was in Burma, the Burmese made it difficult to curse the water, and Li Dingguo unceremoniously killed many Burmese. Previously, on the island of Borneo, the aborigines attacked the Han gold mines, and Li Dingguo led his troops to kill a large number of aborigines.

The king of Jin was merciful and only to the Han people. But it was also because of being too kind to his own compatriots that Xinhui was defeated. In contrast, Wang Xinyu is much more ruthless, as long as it is in the way, whether it is a Han or a barbarian, he will not show mercy.

The city of Batavia covers an area of 1.3 square kilometers, and there are city walls built outside, all of which are Western-style city walls, six zhang high, and there is a diamond fort every 100 steps. In the city of Batavia, there is also the Dutch Governor's Palace, which is actually a castle.

The coalition army has more than 8,000 land forces, plus naval sailors and artillery who can go ashore to fight, the total strength can reach more than 10,000 people, and the coalition forces are all elite regular troops, much stronger than the Dutch army in the city, and have the advantage of naval guns. However, the city of Batavia is strong, and if it is stormed, I am afraid that the losses will be great.

On the one hand, Li Dingguo decided to besiege the city, and at the same time, he asked people to shoot a letter of persuasion to surrender to the city.

"Report to the Governor! The Ming people outside the city shot a letter with arrows! "A Dutch soldier reported to John Masu.

John Ma opened the letter, which was written in Chinese and Spanish, the contents of which were naturally written by Li Dingguo, translated into Spanish by the Portuguese, and then shot into the city.

The letter reads: "Your Excellency Governor John Masuch, if you surrender in Kaiseong, we can guarantee the personal safety of each of you, and we will allow you to leave with your personal possessions. But our patience is limited, and if we don't open the city and surrender within three days, we will attack it! Once the city is broken, I can't guarantee what my men will do.

John Ma Suiju was furious and threw the letter of surrender on the ground: "Let me open the city and surrender? No way! If you have the ability, you will come to attack the city! I don't believe you can break through Batavia! ”

"Your Excellency the Governor, we have enough food in the city for a year! In fact, it doesn't take a year, as long as we hold out for two months, our fleet will be there! The priest in the city said.

"Such a strong city, not to mention holding on for two months, it must be no problem to hold on for half a year! If the enemy wants to attack, hum! Then let them shed their blood under the city of Batavia! John Masui snorted coldly.

Outside the city, after Li Dingguo asked people to shoot a letter of persuasion to surrender, Zhang Yukun stepped forward and said: "Lord Wang, the last general estimates that the red-haired ghost will definitely not take the initiative to open the city and surrender!" We must go and get people to build the fort now! Otherwise, we won't even be able to erect the artillery, and we will be destroyed by the artillery at the head of the city! ”

"Arrest?" Li Dingguo was stunned.

"Yes!" Zhang Yukun nodded and said, "Grab a group of local natives to build the fort!" We grabbed them, put knives on their necks, and told them to help us repair the fortifications and repair the forts! ”

"Okay, then I'll leave this matter to you!" After all, Li Dingguo didn't have a good impression of these Indonesian natives, so Zhang Yukun proposed to arrest people to repair the fort, and he agreed without hesitation.

The island of Java is very densely populated, with a population of more than 150 million people in the 21st century. Although the population density was not so perverted in the seventeenth century, the island also had a population of more than five million. This was already a very high population density at the time, and most of the population lived in the coastal areas.

Zhang Yukun led the Ming army to arrest the locals to act as a people's strongman, and the Nanhai Marines took the local indigenous interpreters into the villages, and arrested the strong young men when they saw them.

The Indonesians still had some people to resist at first, but after the Ming army killed a few guys who resisted, the rest of the people were honest and let the Ming army take them away. Anyway, the Ming army didn't come to ask them for their lives, but just to let them work, and these people all chose to obey and honestly follow the Ming army to the construction site.

The fighting power of the Indonesians is indeed very poor, there was originally a local Banten Kingdom, but after the Dutch came, the Kingdom of Banten with millions of people was easily defeated by the Dutch army of several hundred people, and the King of Banten fled into the mountains of the central part of Java Island with the remnants of the defeated army, and the Indonesians in the coastal areas were honestly obedient to the Dutch colonists.

With more than 2,000 Marines armed to the teeth, it will not be a problem at all to deal with these Indonesians. In just three days, the Ming army captured more than 20,000 locals to serve as people's strongmen.

For these Indonesian people, as long as they are given a bite to eat, they will be satisfied. On weekdays, they were also inferior, slaves of the chiefs and village chiefs, who ate the worst things and did the most tiring work. Now to build fortifications for the Ming army, how to say that the miscellaneous grains are still full.

There are so many sweet potatoes in the hands of the Ming army that it is not a problem at all to take out some of them to feed these Indonesian people.

"Put the sand in the sacks and make sandbags. Some of them went to the front to dig fortifications! The others brought sandbags over and piled them up in front of the fortifications! Several local leaders yelled and gave orders to the locals.

The head man who is responsible for directing the work of the Indonesians is also a local. There are many people who know a little Chinese, and they are also local tribal chiefs and the like, and they come here, get a salary, and don't have to contribute themselves, so they naturally regard themselves as loyal lackeys. They were lackeys in front of the Ming army, but they were masters in front of the locals.

The captured Indonesian Minzhuang walked into the construction site with various tools and began to dig trenches.

Inside the city of Batavia, in the office of the governor of the castle.

"Report!" A Dutch soldier walked in, "The Ming army is starting to build fortifications!" ”

"They're definitely going to build a fort! We're going to open up the shelling right away! Can't let them fix the fort outside the city! John Marsuige shouted and gave the order.

Outside the city, indigenous Indonesians are sweating and digging trenches. Suddenly, there was a roaring cannon fire at the head of the city, and the 12-pound and 8-pound shells rained down on the construction site, and the shells fell to the ground, leaving deep pits on the ground, and the shells bounced up again, colliding in all directions in the crowd of Indonesians, and a large number of Indonesian people let out heart-rending screams, and their stumps flew sideways. Some people were directly hit by shells in the body, and their bones were instantly shattered.

Shelled by the Dutch army, the Indonesian people who were working turned around and ran away in fright.

The hired Indonesian overseers swung their whips and frantically beat the fleeing Minzhuang. But there were so many people who fled, and although they were scarred by the whipping, it was better to be beaten than to die, right? The Indonesian people braved the whips falling like raindrops and fled backwards.

The Ming army supervising team standing behind immediately stepped forward, waved a steel knife and slashed and cut off a group of heads.

The bloody heads fell to the ground, and the fierce Ming soldiers blocked the retreat, startling the Indonesian locals, who had to go back and continue to build the fortifications.

The Dutch opened fire again, bombarding the Indonesians who were digging trenches, and the shells raised a mist of blood in the crowd.

The Indonesians once again turned and fled, and were hacked to death by the Ming army. This time, however, the Indonesians would rather be hacked to death than turn around and go to work on the construction site.

Zhang Yukun had planned to take all the Marines up, and if the locals didn't obey, he wouldn't mind killing all the local Indonesians. But at this time, he thought of what Wang Xinyu said: cannon fodder is also a resource, which is fed with food, and cannot be wasted casually.

So Zhang Yukun ordered the Indonesians to return to the camp.

Li Dingguo asked puzzledly: "The lives of these indigenous people are not valuable, why did the construction stop?" ”

"When it gets dark and the red-haired ghost can't see clearly, then go dig a trench and build fortifications! Although the lives of these natives are not valuable, it takes time to catch so many people, and the food they have eaten in the past few days is also silver, so they cannot be sent to death in vain. Zhang Yukun said to Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo nodded: "Okay, then wait until the evening to start construction." ”

After dark, the overseers once again drove the Indonesian people to the construction site like cattle and sheep, and began to work overnight, digging trenches and piling up the excavated earth.

"Report to the Governor! The enemy seems to be working overnight! "Someone reported it to John Marsui.

The Dutch opened fire again, and the shells rained down like a torrential rain. But in the dark, the Dutch couldn't see where the Indonesian people were at work, and the shells were fired, and most of the shells fell in the dirt in vain.

When the Indonesian people heard the sound of artillery, they were taken aback at first, and many people turned their heads and ran, but after more than 200 heads were cut off by the Ming army, the other Indonesians did not dare to run anymore, and all returned to the construction site honestly. When the Indonesians found out that the Dutch shells did not pose much threat to them, they were relieved and worked with peace of mind.

The trenches deepened and widened, and the excavated earth was piled up and piled up in front of the trenches to form a slope. (To be continued.) )