In the port of Pontianak, huge warships are docked on the shore. Workers on the docks carried loadloads of rice, flour, soybeans and mung beans onto the boat, filling the storage silos at the bottom of the boat. Pontianak was the last stop before Wang Xinyu went to war, and after the final supplies here, he had to march into Batavia, annihilate the Dutch fleet, attack the Natuna Islands, occupy the islands, and then land in Singapore, which was adrift at sea for a long time.

Fresh water is available on the surrounding islands, but food must be brought with it, and there is no food on those islands.

On the upper deck of the Drake, there is a basket of fresh leafy greens, which can only be stored for a few days and must be eaten as soon as possible. On the upper deck, there are also wooden plates, which are used to produce sprouts and seedlings, so that the sailors can eat food containing vitamin C at any time and will not get sepsis.

On the inside of the railing, there is a row of cages with live chickens.

On the lower cargo deck, pigs and sheep are kept. The storage warehouse was stuffed to the brim, in addition to grain and beans, there were several buckets of fresh meat, more than a dozen barrels of salted meat soaked in salt water, and dried meat hanging from bamboo poles. Large buckets filled with fresh water, barrels filled with beer and rum resupplied from Manila.

The main ships of the fleet that are about to depart are four Warrior-class fourth-class cruisers and the Hector-class cruisers, three Brave-class fifth-class cruisers and five-armed Galen ships are cooperating with the main fleet, the fast echelon is eight Cormorant-class sixth-class ships, and the transport and supply fleet is three converted Spanish galleons.

According to Wang Xinyu's plan, the eight Cormorant-class sixth-class ships of the fast echelon blocked Batavia's external routes, and once they found that a Dutch transport ship was coming, they immediately launched a siege to sink or capture the Dutch ship. The main fleet and the auxiliary echelon waited for a naval battle with the Dutch off the coast of Batavia; The transport fleet is responsible for transporting naval special operations units and marines. The Navy Special Operations Team will enter the port of Batavia in small boats at night. Capture the Dutch warship. The Marines were tasked with clearing the surrounding islands and occupying the Natuna Islands after the Navy had won.

Wang Xinyu did not take the army on the expedition, because his purpose in this battle was not to seize Java Island and Jinzhou Island, but only to annihilate the fleet of the Dutch East India Company. Weaken the Dutch in the Far East, control the route from Japan to Manila, and lay the groundwork for their own safe capture of Singapore. After defeating the Dutch, there was capital to negotiate with the Dutch so that the Dutch would not fight the idea of Singapore and the Malay Peninsula.

While the fleet was anchored at Pontianak for replenishment, eight Cormorant-class 6th class ships took turns cruising the navigation line from Dongfan Island to Java Island in groups of four, in case a Dutch ship returning from Japan reported to the Dutch that Zheng Chenggong was attacking Dongfan Island. If a Dutch ship is spotted, attack it immediately.

However, the patrol fleet had been cruising the sea for a week and had not seen a single Dutch ship passing by.

July 3, 1661. The fleet sortie, having completed all preparations, officially launched the attack plan named "Operation Lightning". All the warships lowered the naval flag of the Nanyang Company and replaced them with the flag of the Ming Zheng Naval Division, and prepared to engage the Dutch army in Batavia in the name of the Zheng Jiajun.

In Pontianak Port, gongs and drums are noisy and flags are fluttering, and the Han people of Pontianak stand on the pier to see off the conscripted fleet.

Wang Xinyu took out his pocket watch and glanced at the time, and the pointer was at six o'clock. He put away his pocket watch. An order was given to the fleet: "Open the ship!" ”

With the sound of the bell, one by one the battleships pulled up their anchor chains. Putting away the cables, raising the white sails, slowly leaving the pier and heading out into the depths of the sea, splitting the waves, heading south towards the island of Java.

The fleet sailed on the surface of the sea at a speed of six knots. It is expected to arrive off the coast of Batavia in two days and two nights.

On Dongfan Island, Zheng's army had already stabilized its position, and the Dutch no longer had the ability to launch a counteroffensive. At this time, Zheng Chenggong could sit back and relax and launch a final attack on Resharan City.

On the back of the hillside, two stubby sixty-four-pounder mortars had been erected, and the muzzles were aimed at the city of Reshalan. on the ground next to the gun emplacement. There were hundreds of black shells.

Because the mortar position was located on the back of the hillside, the cannon range of the city of Resha was higher than that of the mortar, but it could not attack the mortar position. The curved mortar cannons, on the other hand, can send shells over the hill and attack the city of Resharan in an arc.

On the morning of 4 July, Zheng Chenggong made the final arrangements: ironclads, pikemen, and swordsmen lay in ambush in the trenches, with birdmen, musketeers, and archers following behind, and when the city was blown open, the infantry launched an attack on the city. After the artillery suppressed the Dutch fire and blasted the outer city, the infantry could plant gunpowder directly under the city walls and blow up the city.

"Ready!" Zheng Chenggong gave an order.

The gunners loaded gunpowder into the chamber of the mortar and loaded the solid shells into the muzzle.

"Fire!" A soldier of the Zheng family army waved a small flag.

The two gunners picked up the torches and lit the fuse, and with a "sizzle" sound, the fuse was shortened into the fire door, and the mortar made a dull sound of gunpowder gas expansion, and the two shells rose into the air, drawing an arc in the air, and falling above the castle of Reshaland.

Inside the castle, the Dutch heard the sound of cannons and looked up to the heights. I saw two black dots appear in the sky and fall towards the castle.

"Mortar! Damn mortars! A Dutch soldier shouted in horror.

Mortar cannons are the nemesis of the castle, even if it is a solid cannonball, it can cause great damage to the castle, not to mention that the Dutch don't know if Zheng Jiajun has a flowering cannonball in his hand. The Dutch inside the castle could only pray that the cannonballs would not hit their heads.

Two solid shells fell to the ground, because of the first launch, there was a deviation, both shells hit the target, and both fell on the ground outside the castle, smashing into the ground and creating two large craters in the ground.

Based on the deviation, the gunners recalculated the amount of gunpowder to be reloaded and reloaded. About five minutes later, the two mortars roared again.

This time the shells hit the target, and both shells fell on the ramparts between the bastion and the inner city.

With two loud bangs of steel and stone, a huge solid cannonball fell on the city wall, and a large piece of stone suddenly cracked, and a huge crack appeared in the ground of the city wall.

Seeing the effect of the shelling, the artillery officer asked the gunner to proceed with changing the charge. Then reload the gunpowder again.

In an hour, the mortar fired eleven rounds, and a total of twenty-two shells were fired. In the final round of firing, the cannonball finally smashed accurately on top of a bastion.

There was a loud "bang", and the cannonball smashed a crack in the top of the fortress, and a large area of stones and bricks fell on the fortress. A hole was also smashed into the roof.

According to the amount of charge this time, Zheng Jiajun continued to bombard with solid shells, smashing the top of the fortress full of holes. Eventually, all the holes are connected, and a large hole appears.

"Swap out the bullets!" Zheng Chenggong ordered.

The gunners loaded the gunpowder into the chamber of the mortar, inserted the cut fuse into the wooden tube fuse of the shell, and then put the shell through the muzzle with the fuse of the shell upward.

The two gunners lit the fuse from the muzzle of the gun and quickly ran away. The two gunners standing at the end of the cannon saw that the fuse of the shell had been lit, and immediately took the torch and stabbed the fire door at the end of the mortar to ignite the firing fuse.

"Bang bang" was accompanied by two sounds of gunpowder gas expansion. Two flowering shells filled with black potion burst into the air. Because the weight of the flowering shells was not the same as the weight of the solid shells, the two flowering shells flew too far and flew over the castle and landed on the ground of the outer city to the north.

"Blossom bomb! The Orientals have flowering bullets in their hands! "The Dutch were terrified. Although the two flowering shells did not hit the target, the next shot. Soon there will be shell hits!

After two rounds of test firing, the third round of flowering shells hit the broken bastion. Blossom shells drill through a hole that has been smashed open by a solid bullet. Exploded inside the bastion. Only a dull explosion was heard, and fire erupted from the fortress, billowing white smoke from the fortress.

"It's time to replace the high-powered shells!" Zheng Chenggong smiled and stroked his beard.

But before the gunners could load the high-powered shells, they heard a commotion in the castle, and the gates of the city of Resharan opened, and countless Dutch soldiers and black slaves were opened. Dutch sailors and pro-Dutch Taiwanese aborigines rushed out of the castle, shouting, and rushed towards the high ground.

On the top of the hill, Zheng Jiajun's tiger squat cannons, small cannons, and red-coated cannons roared, and the cannonballs drilled into the formation of black slaves rushing ahead. Lines of blood were pulled.

After the shells smashed over a number of black slaves, they penetrated into the crowd of Taiwanese indigenous soldiers, setting off a bloody storm.

"Rush! Must rush up! Destroy the cannons of the Orientals! A Dutch officer shouted.

On the hill, projectile arrows and rolling wood and stones were fired in unison, sending the black slaves and indigenous soldiers who rushed ahead to the flesh and blood flying. The Tiger Cannon erupted in flames, and the Dutch Musketeers who followed the black slaves and indigenous soldiers fell in large pieces.

By this time, the gunners had already loaded their high-powered flowering shells.

"Put!" A Zheng Jiajun officer yelled.

Two flowering shells filled with Dana explosives flew out of the muzzle and took off into the air, pulling an arc through the air and landing accurately in the already scarred fortress.

"Boom" two explosions sounded like the sky and the earth cracked, as if hundreds of flowering shells exploded at the same time, as if there had been a violent earthquake, and the whole earth shook like a sieve.

Hearing the explosion behind them, whether it was a Dutchman, a black slave or an indigenous soldier, they all turned their heads to look. They turned their heads and were stunned for a moment: the fortified fortress collapsed like an egg smashed by a stone into a pile of ruins in the flames and blue smoke!

The violent tremors affected Yuichi in the inner fort, and he was so shaken that he fell to the ground unsteadily.

When he stood up, he was surprised to find that the fortress that had been shelled had completely turned into a pile of ruins! The explosion just now was so terrifying, the sound was so shocking, and then seeing the castle collapse with a bang, and the smoke coming out of the firelight was not white, but light blue, and the fear in his heart could no longer be acted on with words.

"Quick, ring the bell, let them withdraw!" Ryi shouted.

De Boer was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Honorable sir, if we don't rush up and destroy the mortars of the Orientals, they will sooner or later collapse our castle!" ”

Yu Yi said helplessly: "Do we still have any hope of winning this battle?" There are thousands of enemies, and they occupy the high ground, and there is this kind of sharp weapon against the castle, and it is a dead end for us to counterattack, and it is also a dead end to defend the castle. Now the only way is to fly the white flag and surrender to them. ”

Hearing the bells of the castle, the Dutch, who were frantically attacking the hill, retreated into the city like a low tide.

When the Dutch retreated into the city, they summoned all the officers and East India Company officials in Taiwan and held a review meeting to vote on whether to surrender or hold on.

After voting, the Dutch decided to surrender to Zheng's army.

On the city of Reshalan, a white flag was hoisted.

Zheng Chenggong did not expect that his twenty high-power flowering shells only used two rounds, and the Dutch announced their surrender. So he ordered the shelling to stop and wait for the Dutch to send someone out to negotiate.

On the morning of 5 July, the negotiators dispatched by Kuiyi walked out of the city of Reshalan under a white flag to negotiate with Zheng Chenggong.

By the time the Dutch on Dongfan Island were preparing to surrender, Wang Xinyu's fleet had already reached the sea off Batavia. At this time, Wang Xinyu didn't expect that the Dutch on Dongfan Island would have announced their surrender so soon. At that time, communication was inconvenient, and it was estimated that it would be a month later for Batavia to learn the news of the surrender.

The sky was not completely dark, and the fleet flying the Ming Zheng banner was cruising on the sea.

Two Cormorant-class sixth-class ships were patrolling the route from the Strait of Malacca to the island of Java, and at this time, the Ming army spotted two Western-style soft sailing ships of Dutch ship type approaching from the direction of Malacca, heading in the direction of Batavia.

The captain of the Red-necked Duck picked up the monoculars and found that the two ships opposite were the Galen, estimated to be about four or five hundred tons. He put down his binoculars and said: "There are two enemy ships, and we also have two, but the tonnage of the enemy ships is large, and we are afraid that we are not opponents two against two, so we immediately sent a signal and asked to send two ships to support us!" ”

"Bang" a sailor set off fireworks.

Seeing the signal from the patrol fleet in front, the fast-echelon sixth-rank ships immediately dispatched two sixth-rank ships to reinforce the forward fleet.

At the same time, the Dutch ship also spotted fireworks rising into the sky.

"There are enemies ahead!" The Dutch sailor, who was in charge of the lookout, shouted.

The Dutch captain picked up the binoculars and saw two small soft-sailed warships in front of him, slowly approaching him.

"It's a damn British pirate! I recognize this kind of boat! Damn it! How did the British pirates cross the Strait of Malacca to get here? The Dutch captain was taken aback.

"Captain, the enemy is only two ships, and we are also two, we are much bigger than them, and they are certainly not our opponents." A Dutch sailor.

"You didn't see the fireworks they set off? They definitely have reinforcements! (To be continued.) )