The Ming army invaded the city of Batavia, and all the indigenous soldiers abandoned by the Dutch were taken prisoner. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info what awaits these captives will be the dark mines and endless labor.

John Marsuiju took the Dutch and black soldiers and retreated to the castle of the Doge's Palace.

The castle is located in the middle of the city of Batavia, in front of which is an open field known as Fatahira Square. The Doge's Palace itself was a fortified castle with six floors in height and a domed building in the center with a fort on the Doge's Palace.

Before the outer city was breached, John Masui led people to light a fire and burned the dilapidated houses of the local natives to a ruin, so that the Ming army entering the city was not in danger at all, and the entire city was exposed to the fire of the governor's palace.

It can be said that if you want to break through the Governor's Palace, you will have to pay a great price. The whole city of Batavia was only 1.5 kilometers long and 1 kilometer wide, and the whole city was exposed to the fire of the Governor's Palace in the center of the city.

"It's better to fill it with people, let the natives enter the city, use the ruins to build fortifications, and we will follow behind and transport the cannons in, and we can bombard the governor's palace." Zhang Yukun still adopts the old way.

At that time, Zheng He went to the West to convince people with virtue, spread friendship and peace, and sent gifts to the small countries in the South Seas to show his tolerance and wealth, so that those small countries would submit. But because of the face problem of Tianchao Shangguo, when those small countries casually took some gifts to pay tribute, the Ming Dynasty gave more things back.

As a result, a shameless country like Annan paid tribute three times a year in order to get more rewards from the Ming Dynasty.

Now Wang Xinyu's Nanyang Company is not a holy parent company, but a company formed for profit. Wang Xinyu is not a boy who scatters wealth, let alone a good person who does good deeds, he pursues the same colonial rule as Westerners, and uses iron-fisted methods to deal with local natives.

There are so many ready-made cannon fodder, if you don't fill it in, can you fill it with the precious lives of the Ming soldiers?

Although the island of Java is only a few million people now, it will be 150 million in 300 years. For the indigenous people, who breed like locusts, their lives are simply worthless.

With an order, a large number of Indonesian people and captives entered the city and began to clear the ruins and prepare to build fortifications. At first it was better, but it was far away from the Dutch, and it was not very effective if the Dutch fired artillery, so the Dutch did not fire either. When the Indonesians and the captives cleared the ruins on the outskirts and advanced towards the center of the city, the Dutch at the head of the city began to open fire.

The cannon holes on the castle "boom" spewed fire, the white smoke rose up, the cannonballs fell like hailstones, ploughing blood marks in the crowd, and the people who were building fortifications on the ruins of the city were killed and wounded.

The Ming army did not have the slightest mercy, drove the local people, and rushed to work day and night.

Especially during the night construction, the accuracy of the artillery fire at the head of the city was seriously reduced, which also emboldened the indigenous people of Indonesia. They saw that the shells did not pose much of a threat to them, and that they could still eat a full meal when they were finished, so they worked hard.

"The Ming people used the local natives as cannon fodder to build fortifications. We can't just watch them build fortifications. We should send someone to attack. A Dutch officer suggested.

John Ma Sui asked rhetorically: "Our army is too small in number, the enemy is strong, we go out to counterattack, I am afraid that the losses will be too great, is this not a good way?" ”

The Dutch officer replied: "Although the enemy is strong, the space in the city is narrow, and although they have many troops, they cannot use them. They put the natives as cannon fodder in the city, and their own troops could not enter the city too much. As long as we fight out, the natives are cowardly, and when they see us come out, they will be retreated. We don't care how many of them are killed, the key is to hinder them from building fortifications. As long as we drag until the fleet arrives, we win! ”

"Good!" John Marsuiji nodded, "Then you take two hundred of our Dutch warriors and five hundred black soldiers and take them by surprise!" ”

After nightfall, when the Indonesian natives were sweating and raining work, the gate of the Governor's Palace Castle suddenly opened, and 200 Dutch soldiers and 500 black soldiers rushed out of the castle and poured into the construction site of the Indonesians.

"Bang bang bang" gunfire was loud, and the 700 Dutch soldiers who rushed over fired several rounds, causing flesh and blood to fly on the construction site.

The Indonesian indigenous people who were working on steamed buns were shot one after another and fell countless times.

The Dutch and black soldiers rushed to the construction site and slashed with knives and axes, killing the indigenous Indonesians in a river of blood.

The Ming army behind the battle counterattacked with muskets and bows and arrows, but in the dark, the Ming army could not see the location of the target clearly. The rain of projectiles and arrows came, and the Dutch and black soldiers did not injure a few, but the Indonesian natives suffered numerous casualties.

Hacked and killed by the Dutch and blacks, and shot by the Ming army, the Indonesian natives threw down their tools, turned around and fled out of the city.

"Escapees, no mercy!" Jin Tongwu roared.

The Ming soldiers stepped forward, slashed and stabbed, killing more than 300 Indonesian natives. The Indonesians who did not die were held to the ground with knives and guns, so they had to return to the construction site with a hard head. At this time, the Dutch, who had just succeeded, retreated, but before they retreated, they lit several bonfires. When the Indonesians went to the construction site, the Dutch at the head of the city used the light of the fire to light up another shelling. When the bonfire went out and the surroundings were plunged into darkness, the Dutch attacked again and attacked the Indonesian natives who were working on it.

This time the Ming army was prepared, and when the Dutch soldiers and black soldiers came over, the Ming army came out from behind and repelled the Dutch counterattack at night.

In the past few days, the Dutch have come out every night to harass and kill a large number of indigenous Indonesians.

After spending five days and paying the price of more than 6,000 Indonesian casualties, the Ming army finally built fortifications in the city of Batavia.

"The Ming people have repaired the fortifications, and they are going to shell again! We didn't expect that the fortified city of Batavia would not last a month before it would be breached by them! Seeing that the Ming army outside the city had repaired the fortifications and was transporting artillery into the city, John Ma Suidug said bitterly.

Next, the Dutch could only pray for how strong the Doge's Palace castle would be and how many shells it would withstand.

Fortunately, the castle of the Doge's Palace was very strong, and it was stronger than the city of Geranza. In real history, Zheng Chenggong attacked the city of Geranza and fired tens of thousands of shells but failed to destroy it, so you can imagine how strong that Western-style castle is. Later, Wang Xinyu invented a new type of flowering bomb to destroy that kind of strong castle.

The current castle of the Governor's Palace of Batavia is difficult to destroy with ordinary solid cannonballs and ordinary flowering cannonballs, and countless cannonballs have smashed into it, leaving only white marks on the castle.

The flowering cannonball still caused a lot of damage to the Lingbao, and the interior was a hollow Lingbao, which was pierced by the cannonball and exploded inside, causing damage to the Lingbao. However, the main body of the castle still stands and is not shaken by the shells.

Only a new type of flowering cannonball can destroy such a fortified castle. If it is an ordinary flowering shell, I am afraid that it will be difficult to destroy if it fires 10,000 catties of shells and consumes tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder.

Zhang Yukun still adopts the old method: approaching the blasting method.

Using a sealed wooden chest filled with gunpowder, it only takes a few hundred pounds of gunpowder to blow down a fortified castle, and its efficiency is much higher than that of a mortar cannon to fire ordinary flowering shells. After five days of artillery fighting, the artillery of the Dutch at the head of the city was almost lost, and the siege weapons of the Ming army were able to reach the castle.

The Indonesians, who acted as cannon fodder, pushed various siege weapons towards the city walls. The Dutch on the castle rained down bullets, and Indonesian corpses were strewn with blood.

The sound of gunfire was incessant. The corpses of the castle were littered, and along the way, the wreckage of destroyed siege weapons was everywhere, the mutilated bodies of Indonesians were littered everywhere, and the wounded Indonesians lay in pools of blood and let out a near-death scream. New vehicles kept passing by them, and no one stopped to treat the natives.

The siege vehicles advanced under the castle, and the Indonesian natives, under the threat of muskets and bows and arrows from behind, used axes and shovels to slash and destroy the obstacles beneath the castle.

Deer and wooden stakes blocked the way of the vehicles, and the muskets roared from the top of the city, and the corpses piled higher and higher in front of the obstacles.

Under the city, the artillery, muskets and bows and arrows of the Ming army continued to shoot at the head of the city, and the losses of the Dutch and black soldiers defending the city also rose in a straight line, and the head of the city was full of shattered stones that had been blown to pieces, wounded soldiers and corpses were all over the ground, blood flowed into a stream at the head of the city, and fragments of destroyed muskets and artillery were everywhere.

After three days and three nights of bloody fighting, Indonesian cannon fodder finally opened the way to the city.

After an earth-shattering bang, the castle was blown open.

Then there was another loud bang, and a large chunk of the castle collapsed.

"We can't hold on! The ammunition was used up and the castle was blown up. If we keep going, the devils of the East will kill us all! "The priest in the city offered to surrender.

Seeing that the general situation had turned, John Masuui, the governor of Batavia of the Dutch East India Company, reluctantly agreed, and surrendered to the Ming army outside the city.

Just as the Ming army was preparing for a new round of attacks, a white flag was raised in the castle, and John Marsuiju led the priests, officers, officers of the East India Company, Dutch soldiers, and black soldiers out of the city to surrender.

"You're defeated! From this day forward, you are our captives! But rest assured, we won't harm your lives! We will hold you in detention for the time being until your fleet comes. When we defeat your fleet and we negotiate with you, we will let you go back! Zhang Yukun asked the interpreter to tell John Ma Suidu.

Zhang Yukun was reluctant to kill these Dutch captives, because every Dutch captive was a bargaining chip and a silver for nothing.

When negotiations were made with the Dutch in the future, the captives could be exchanged for silver with the Dutch. If nothing else, let's say that a Dutch governor is worth at least 10,000 guilders of silver. Others, such as priests, officers, East India Company employees, captains, sailors, etc., were able to exchange a lot of gold and silver.

A silver coin with a face value of one guilder is about the same as the Spanish eagle, about seven cents of silver, and more than 10,000 guilders is roughly equivalent to more than 7,000 taels of silver. A governor can sell for that high price.

When the Ming army entered the castle, the Dutch piled up mountains of gold, silver, jewelry, spices, ivory and other precious luxuries in the castle became the trophies of the Ming army.

"Rich!" Seeing the mountains of gold and silver treasures, Zhang Yukun was ecstatic.

A large part of the wealth accumulated by the Dutch East India Company for many years was not transported back to the Netherlands, and it was in Batavia, and now all of it became the spoils of the Ming army. After counting, the silver found in the castle of Batavia included more than 10 million yuan of Spanish eagles, more than 20 million guilders of Dutch silver coins, more than 2 million taels of various gold coins and gold, plus other luxury goods, spices, white jade, pearls, ivory, etc., a total value of more than 70 million taels of silver!

But Zhang Yukun had a heart: he ordered the Ming army to bury the booty worth 30 million taels of silver on the spot, and transport the rest of the loot worth 40 million taels of silver out of the castle.

Seeing so many gold and silver treasures shipped out, not only Li Dingguo was very moved, but even the eyes of the Portuguese and Spaniards were red.

"How are we going to distribute the silver seized here?" The Portuguese officer, who was fighting with the Ming army, asked.

The Spanish officer smiled and said, "Of course we all have to divide the efforts we all work together!" ”

Zhang Yukun gathered everyone together and held a meeting in the conference room of the Governor's Palace in Batavia, where everyone sat down to discuss how to divide the spoils.

"We're going to divide 10 million taels, that's not too much, isn't it?" The greedy Spaniards asked for a quarter as soon as they opened their mouths.

The Portuguese also said, "We want 10 million too!" The remaining 20 million, you Nanyang Company and King Jin divided. We are four families together to fight Batavia, divided into four parts, the most fair and reasonable! ”

Zhang Yukun retorted: "The soldiers and the strength of the two of you are not as much as one of us, if it is distributed in this way, it will be unfair, we will give your family three million at most!" ”

The Portuguese and Spaniards, of course, were not satisfied, and the two sides engaged in fierce bargaining.

Li Dingguo also helped Zhang Yukun speak, he knew that the less he gave to the Spaniards and the Portuguese, the more he could get, and Li Dingguo also knew very well that Zhang Yukun also secretly hid some loot, but that was also what Nanyang Company deserved, and he would not go to grab it from Zhang Yukun. Now the silver that Li Dingguo earns every year is the blessing of the Nanyang Company.

"We give more force, we should take more! And you have to think in the long run, too! We have access to a large quantity of silk and ceramics, and if you want more goods from us, then you should agree to our terms, so that it is fair and reasonable. Zhang Yukun replied.

After some fierce bargaining, the Portuguese and Spaniards each took the booty worth six million taels of silver, and the rest was left behind by the Ming army.

Of the remaining 28 million taels of silver, Zhang Yukun gave Li Dingguo 15 million taels. (To be continued.) )