After the Ming army established a stronghold in Surabaya, the Dutch on the island of Java had trouble sleeping and eating, and they always wanted to drive the Ming army out of Surabaya.

Sultan Matalan's army and more than 100 Dutch soldiers entrenched in Danmu, not far from Surabaya, seeking to attack Surabaya, but the Ming army was too strong, Mataran did not have the strength to recover Surabaya, and when Li Dingguo led two battalions of the Ming army to Surabaya, they had no chance.

In the past few months, the indifferent Maho coalition army has actually only played a role in monitoring Surabaya.

Li Dingguo asked the sailors to draw out manpower to feint, just to confuse the Dutch, thinking that the main force of the Ming army was still in Surabaya, and there was no intention of attacking Batavia in a short time.

On the sea, because most of the Dutch warships were destroyed in Malacca, the warships of the Ming army held control of the sea off Batavia.

There were often Ming warships from Surabaya and Malacca cruising here, and the few remaining merchant ships in the Netherlands did not dare to go to sea for fear of encountering Ming warships, so they provided a good cover for Li Dingguo's actions.

On the first day of the seventh month, the Ming ships made a half-circle and circled from the east to 20 miles west of Batavia, and Li Dingguo went ashore from there.

Surabaya is to the east of Batavia, and in the eyes of the Dutch, the Ming army will only come from the east if they want to attack, but they don't want Li Dingguo to go around to the west of Batavia.

The reason why this was so, in addition to the surprise, was mainly because Sun Anmin told him that there was a large forest to the west of the Heyi fortress, only about a mile away from the fortress, which could provide cover for the army, so he chose to go ashore from the west.

After going ashore, Li Dingguo did not immediately go to Batavia, but first sent scouts to investigate, find out the terrain, and make ladders and long poles to climb the city, and only on the night of July 2 did he find a hidden place in the woods on the west side of the fortress.

On July 3, during the whole day, 6,000 Ming troops were lying in the woods, and Li Dingguo observed the Dutch fortress not far away from the gap in the branches, which was also wavy, and the three-story wall was raised from the outside to the inside.

There was a large shanty town under the city, because it was supposed to be for hard laborers, and there were soldiers patrolling the city, and inside the city was the residence of 3,000 Heyi.

During the whole day, there was no movement, and the Dutch did not receive the news of the departure of the main force of the Ming army from Danmu, so they urged the hard labor as usual, strengthened the stone wall to the east, and prepared to build another small fort outside the fort, which would be the horns of the main fort.

Time passed very slowly, the Ming army gnawed on dry food, gritted their teeth and stayed up until dark, but they still didn't see the transport team coming, and the surrounding generals couldn't help but be a little anxious.

However, Li Dingguo was very calm, Zhou Dai was originally a scout, and was later sent to Nanjing for three years, returned to the army and directly tried 100 households, and was soon able to become a regular, since Li Dingguo chose him, he naturally had confidence in him.

And at this moment, a fire dragon suddenly appeared in the distance, and a large group of men and horses came from the south towards the fortress.

"All the teams from the transport enter the castle, start the timer, and after two quarters, clear the Dutch outside the fort, and when the city is in chaos, immediately seize the city."

After laying down the fort in Malacca, Li Dingguo learned a lot about this kind of fort.

If it is the city of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the city gate is opened, he can rush into the city, but this kind of fortress is a city within a city, after rushing through the first one, it is the same as rushing into the urn city of the Ming Dynasty, and it cannot be killed in the city, and he has two very complete defense systems inside.

The surrounding generals listened to it, did not dare to slack off, and nodded one after another.

After a short time, the convoy with torches arrived at the gate of the fortress, and the Dutch escorted the Dutch to open the gate of the fort, and Zhou Dai took advantage of the fact that no one paid attention to the torches and lowered the torches three times in a row.

The castle was soon opened, and Zhou Dai and the others, at the urging of the Dutch, drove into the castle with carts full of grain and heavy iron ingots, and when they all entered, the gate of the fort was immediately closed again.

Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, Zhou Dai and others infiltrated Batavia for more than a month, contacted Hu Sheng and others who were arrested earlier, and fully figured out the situation in Batavia before formulating a plan to inform Li Dingguo.

Although it was outwitted, it has been preparing for two months before it has begun to come to this critical step.

As soon as Li Dingguo saw that the fort gate was closed, he immediately waved his hand, and the Ming army scouts of a bureau were divided into six teams and quietly drilled out of the woods, like a Dutch stronghold outside the city.

The Dutch stipulated that the Ming people could not spend the night in the fort, and Zhou Dai and them only needed two quarters of an hour from the first to the fort gate, then to the second fort gate, and finally to the fine iron warehouse, so the Ming army must eliminate the hidden dangers outside the city during this time, touch the vicinity of the wall, and prepare to raid at any time.

The scouts of the Ming army gradually approached the shantytown surrounded by a fence outside the fortress, and the Dutch deployed six overseer sheds around it, in which two or three people lived, taking turns to watch.

A group of Ming scouts soon found a workshop with a lamp lit inside, and outside a Dutchman sat by the fire, with wine and cooked meat beside him.

The scouts of the Ming army have always been the most elite part of the army, and after the functions of the current arms are further strengthened, almost every scout has a variety of abilities, which is stronger than the "night does not collect" in Liaodong back then.

At this time, the little flag of the leader of the team looked up at the red-haired ghost, and then hit the soldiers around him, and the eight people divided into two sides and touched the side of the house, and the remaining four people followed him forward for a distance, and then hibernated and waited for the opportunity.

Xiao Qi's eyes kept staring at the red-haired ghost, but the Dutchman didn't notice it, Batavia had been peaceful in recent months, and he wouldn't have thought that the Ming army had touched his feet.

At this time, after he ate a mouthful of meat, he raised the wine bottle again and raised his head to drink, but as soon as he raised his head, Ming Jun Xiaoqi immediately raised his hand, and a quenched sleeve arrow shot directly into Na Heyi's throat, and blood shot out.

The wine bottle fell to the ground, He Yi instantly covered his throat in pain, and at the moment when the sleeve arrow was shot, Xiao Qi jumped up, and the next moment, he was already riding on Na He Yi, covering his mouth with one hand, and stabbing the sharp dagger into his chest with the other, the red blood gushed out like spring water, and the clothes on He Yi's chest were soaked with warm blood in an instant.

At the moment when Xiaoqi made his move, the eight scouts who outflanked both sides of the shed flipped into the shed, covering their mouths and pressing their feet.

Soon the scouts sent in to the news, and the nearby Heyi strongholds were all resolved.

"Up!" Li Dingguo immediately waved his hand, and the six thousand men and horses lightly felt out of the woods, and Sun Anmin had already entered the shantytown first and contacted the brothers inside.

The people of the shantytown immediately gave way to them, and the people who had not slept looked at the many dark shadows with bright eyes, and walked past the cat's waist outside the shed one by one, and slowly approached a section of the fort wall.

"Dashuai, it's time." At this time, an officer beside Li Dingguo suddenly said.

At this time, the second fort door opened, and Zhou Dai and the others entered the second fort wall, and after a while, they came to the warehouse where the refined iron and grain were stored.

"Hurry up and unload the goods, and then hurry out of the fort." At this time, the Dutch officer who was holding the goods said angrily: "Give you an hour, if you can't finish it, you won't be allowed to eat tomorrow!" ”

According to the time, they were supposed to return to Batavia in the afternoon, but they did not return until the evening, and the Dutch officers were in a bad mood.

At this time, it was dark, most of the Heyi had already rested, and there were only more than twenty Heyi around them, and Zhou Dai couldn't help but give a few of his subordinates a look.

Na Heyi was about to turn around and sit down on the stool on the side to supervise the work, but Hu Sheng suddenly hugged his neck from behind, and with the other hand, he pulled out a knife less than a foot from his pants, and stabbed Na Heyi in the back of the heart a few times, and the hot and wet blood suddenly sprayed him, but he didn't stop, stabbed the knife in, and then pulled it out, until Na Heyi didn't move, he didn't let go of his hand.

The hard laborers near the vehicle immediately jumped up, knocked down more than a dozen Heyi around them, and slashed them with short knives, but except for the Ming army who mixed in, they quickly stabbed Heyi to death, and the other hard laborers were not so strong, not only did they not kill anyone, but they were killed by Heyi.

The gunshots rang out, and a Heyi fled in a hurry, and Zhou Dai and Hu Sheng led twenty-six Ming troops who had mixed in, and quickly killed all the remaining Heyi. He didn't allow much thought, so he yelled, "Hu Sheng, you set fire, and the others will follow me to capture the armory!" ”

The sound of gunfire and the flames in the fortress instantly made the entire fortress restless, and the Dutch soldiers patrolling the outermost wall couldn't help but turn around one after another, looking at the fire and shouts of killing in the second wall, and their faces were stunned.

"Rush forward!" Under the fortress, Li Dingguo heard the movement in the city, and immediately gave an order, and the Ming army lying on the ground stood up one after another, and more than 300 Ming soldiers of one of the divisions immediately picked up a long pole, several of them hugged the end of the pole, and one person hugged the head of the pole, and instantly sent the person at the head of the pole to the city wall, and stepped on the city wall to be propped up on the wall.

The Dutch in the city were looking at the inner city, and before they could react, nearly a hundred Ming soldiers suddenly jumped into the city, like divine soldiers descending from the sky, slashing and killing several Dutchmen from behind, and then began to fight.

This kind of pole siege can only send a very small number of elites to the city, and the speed is not as fast as the ladder to climb the city, and the soldiers holding the tail of the pole have no strength to continuously support people to the city.

At the moment when nearly 100 people's troops supported the city, thousands of Ming troops jumped up, carried ladders and rushed forward, and the officers drew their swords one after another, waved their knives and shouted, "Kill me with me!" ”

The Ming army quickly built a bridge over the trench and a ladder to the castle, and the soldiers quickly climbed it.

At this time, the alarm bell in the city was loud, and the Dutch who reacted wanted to prevent the Ming army from entering the city, but they were entangled by the Ming army who came to the wall first, and they couldn't stop it at all.

In a few moments, a large number of Ming troops went to the city, and the Dutch saw that the first wall was inexplicably lost, and immediately took the initiative to retreat to the second wall.

Li Dingguo climbed the city wall, and when he saw the Dutch retreating backwards, he instantly understood their intentions, and he immediately waved his knife and pointed: "The Zhenwu battalion will open the fort gate, and the Zhenwei battalion will give Ben Shuai a second fort gate, success or failure again!" ”

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