1890 King of Southeast Asia

In the early morning of the 14th, each battalion had already started to move according to the mission. Before the action, Liu Yiming delegated the command.

"In terms of specific implementation, each battalion can arrange the mission flexibly. Once the battle starts, everything is to complete the mission as the first goal. We have no way out. Execute it!" Liu Yiming finally gave the order in the temporary command post of the Chen family.

The first and second battalions have been hiding in the houses near the mission site. The residents have been evacuated, and the street vendors and citizens are all played by soldiers.

The third battalion is the most difficult to hide, and it is also the first shot to start the mission. A platoon infiltrated the northern artillery area. More can't hide. The rest of the third battalion and the artillery that cooperated with the action were waiting in the mountainous area under the artillery.

Unfortunately, the efficiency of the pirates was not taken into consideration, and the pirates did not come to hand over.

One hour, two hours, three hours...

From six in the morning, it dragged until noon. The morale dropped visibly. The commander of the third battalion, Yang Tao, knew that this was not a solution. If it dragged on, some soldiers might be crushed by psychological pressure.

"Send a signal, let the people on the fort get ready, prepare to attack the Dutch!" Yang Tao chose to fight.

"Captain Zhao, the artillery you lead will follow us and provide support at any time!"

"Move, keep your voice down, and don't be discovered if you can!"

At this time, the Dutch on the fort were waiting to hand over the fort to avoid the sun, and they were all gathered in a bunker on the edge of the fort. After receiving the attack signal, Wang Xu, the platoon leader of the first platoon of the seventh company, rushed straight to the fort.

Then, as expected, they were discovered by the Dutch, but things changed dramatically. After the Dutch discovered a row of soldiers, they ran out of the fort with cheers and lined up.

Wang Xu found that something was not right. Seeing that the Dutch did not seem to be attacking, he stopped the attack. Thinking of the intelligence, he immediately asked someone to inform the third battalion commander, "The Dutch seem to have mistaken us for bandits."

For concealment, they did not find a garment factory because they had not yet formed an army. They were just a makeshift team without a unified system. Their clothes were also varied, which was indeed somewhat similar to bandits. As colleagues, the difference between pirates and bandits was not very big.

Wang Xu waited for a while under the fortifications. When the Dutch above saw that Wang Xu was not coming up, they simply came down.

The leader was a second lieutenant in his thirties. He came down and talked a lot. Unfortunately, Wang Xu could not understand. Fortunately, the cultural level of the entire army was high, and the environment in Southeast Asia was there. There were still many people learning foreign languages, and a soldier took the responsibility of translation.

"You are too slow. According to the agreement, you should have come in the morning. It's noon now!"

Perhaps because of the order, or perhaps because he was in a hurry to get off work, the second lieutenant did not say much.

"Something happened on the way. What are you doing now? Do you need any formalities?"

"Don't bother with that. According to the agreement, you can only have 50 people at most. Go up. Remember, the cannon inside is very expensive. Don't move around." The second lieutenant said impatiently.

Then he led his men down the mountain in a hurry. Wang Xu was still confused, and the Dutch left first.

"That's it?" Wang Xu asked the deputy platoon leader in confusion.

"I don't know! Isn't it a strong attack?" The deputy platoon leader was also confused.

At this time, the messenger had just run to the third battalion commander, but it was too late. The third battalion had already walked to the upper artillery platform, and the Dutch were rushing down.

The encounter between the two armies was inevitable. Yang Tao immediately ordered to send a signal for the whole army to attack.

The signal for the whole army to attack was the only way Liu Yiming thought of in the era of poor communication, that is, to execute different orders according to the different colors of the signal flares modified from fireworks.

But this time the signal for the whole army to attack was different, with the sound of gunfire as the signal.

The Dutch could be seen clearly from a distance, less than 200 meters away, and there was no escape. Yang Tao immediately ordered a charge.

The third battalion had two companies in the north, but only two platoons had muskets. The others were armed with cold weapons. There were more than 40 Dutch, all of whom were artillerymen. They didn't bring any guns at all. Among the six revolvers, eleven Mauser 1871 single rifles were used.

The Dutch were a little flustered when they saw hundreds of people rushing up (the artillerymen were also chasing behind, adding up to more than 500 people). The second lieutenant compared the enemy's strength with ours, took off his white vest at the fastest speed in his life, ordered his men to lay down their weapons and surrender.

In this way, without firing a shot, the artillery changed hands. Yang Tao sent a platoon to tie up the surrendered Dutch soldiers and send them to the headquarters, and report the situation by the way.

Liu Yiming, who got the news, was also confused. Even if he wanted to surrender, he should have fired a few shots first, right? More or less, pass on the message!

Although Liu Yiming didn't understand this operation, it didn't prevent this from being good news. As for why the second lieutenant did not resist, according to him, he thought the attackers were pirates, and they would be released after paying a ransom or even without a ransom. By chance, the northern artillery was taken without a fight.

The plan changed. Liu Yiming found that the Dutch soldiers had a weak will to fight, so he changed the battle plan. The artillery originally used to block the inner city was returned to the barracks. Fortunately, the opponent was the Dutch, and the order was slow to convey, and the artillery was difficult to mobilize. When the mobilization was completed, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.

"Send the signal, open fire!" Wang Yang ordered!

A red flare flew into the sky.

Boom

Boom

Bang, bang, bang

Bang, bang, bang

This is the sound of three-inch guns, Napoleon guns, and 37 guns firing continuously.

Bang~~Boom~!!

This is the sound of the conscienceless gun exploding.

"Send a signal, stop the shelling, infantry attack! Charge!" Waiting for the conscienceless artillery to explode, the Dutch military camp was filled with smoke and dust.

The infantry was waiting 200 meters away. When the attack signal was issued, the soldiers rushed forward fiercely. In just a few tens of seconds, they rushed into the barracks. At this time, the remaining Dutch soldiers had not reacted.

The first battalion began to clean each barracks one by one in squads, but the artillery's technology was indeed problematic. Most of the Dutch soldiers did not suffer much damage. It was just that the last two explosive packs frightened many people. The first battalion came in and fired two shots, and then raised their hands and surrendered directly.

After cleaning more than half of the way, the Dutch reacted and began to try to counterattack. The first battalion began to feel difficult to attack.

Luo Yu, the squad leader of the first company, the first platoon, the first squad of the first battalion, he could have been a platoon leader, but except for the Martini platoons of the first company and the second company of the first battalion, other places were using muskets or even cold weapons. He didn't want to, so he stayed in the first battalion and became a squad leader.

Now the last pair of Dutchmen gathered together. There were cement fortifications in the military camp, and the last part of the Dutchmen were being trapped inside.

"Er Ming, where is the grenade launcher? You were so accurate in training, don't let me down now, shoot for me!" Luo Yu shouted.

"Yes!" A little soldier, probably 17 or 18 years old, agreed. He took out a few parts, a few pieces of wood, a spring, and pieced together a simple launch device. After comparing them twice, he put a grenade in, pulled the line, and launched it.

The grenade drew a parabola and fell behind the fortifications.

Boom~

Er Ming wanted to continue firing, but before he could put the spring back in place, a white flag was raised, and the remaining seven or eight Dutch soldiers came out to surrender.

The Dutch military camp was also shot down, and now there were only two targets left.

On the other side, in the inner city, a few minutes after the sound of the artillery, a group of Dutch soldiers ran out, and the second battalion forced them back with volleys.

"Report, there are a lot of ambushes outside the city, request support!" The Dutch soldiers reported to their superiors.

"Concentrate troops and prepare to break through. We need to join the soldiers outside the city!" Henry didn't know what was going on, nor did he know who was attacking him.

At this time, the explosion of the conscienceless cannon came.

"Heavy artillery, it's heavy artillery, at least twelve-inch artillery, there is no heavy artillery of such a large caliber in the whole of Sishui, send troops to investigate, who is attacking us? Send a telegram to Batavia, we are under attack, the enemy has twelve-inch heavy artillery, we need support!" Henry ordered his headquarters

A company of Dutch soldiers quickly gathered together, and under the cover of the inner city wall, they rushed out to the outer city.

"Directional mines are ready, detonate the five that are close." Seeing that the enemy had attacked a company of people at once, the second battalion commander Xie Hui gave the order decisively.

The Dutch soldiers rushed out, trying to find shelters and spread out in a scattered line, but it was still too dense, especially the directional mines were arranged at the shelters.

Boom~ Five directional mines were detonated, and thousands of steel balls covered hundreds of square meters. Half of the Dutch soldiers in a company fell down instantly, and many were torn to pieces.

The rest were also injured, and only the 20 or 30 at the back could move. They threw away their guns and ran back to the inner city.

The soldiers who returned to the inner city were distraught. The bloody and incomprehensible scene made them think that this was the punishment of the devil.

Panic began to spread in the Dutch army. Henry did not dare to send soldiers out anymore. He could only order to hold on and wait for help. At this time, the messenger brought him another bad news.

"Report, the telegraph line has been cut off, and we have lost contact with the outside world!"

"Has the telegram for help been sent?" Henry asked frantically.

"No!"

Henry slumped in a chair in a state of dismay.

The first battalion, which had completed the mission, divided two companies to attack the shipyard and distributed the guns seized in the military camp. More than 300 Mauser 1871s were seized. After the military camp was captured, the equipment of the first and second companies was first replenished, and the rest was sent to the second company. The civilians also began to transport shells to the northern artillery.

Half an hour after the military camp attack and defense ended, the two companies of the first battalion arrived at the shipyard and immediately launched an attack. The Dutch warships were still in the dry dock, and they could not fire effectively due to the angle.

Although the water was released, the facilities of the civilian shipyard were old, the water inlet was blocked, and the water flow was very small. If the lock was opened directly, the water pressure would teach them a lesson.

In this era, the navy had marines and self-defense weapons, but there were only more than 100 people on the three ships, and the training was negligent... Anyway, the power comparison was huge.

Soon, two companies approached the two docks. In this era without turrets, without defensive turrets, the navy would also be killed by bullets. In the war four years later, Japan used the method of killing crew members and gunners to pour firepower on the warships, which was still very useful at this time.

The Dutch navy was pressed into the cabin, but they could not get out. The entrances and exits were pointed at by dozens of guns. If they dared to show up, they would be shot into sieves. Some Chinese soldiers boarded the ship under the cover of their teammates. It was only a matter of time before they were captured.