Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 480 The Deming Fleet Arrives
The so-called Batavia Castle is just a castle built on the island of Java.

Not the whole island is surrounded by walls, but there are artillery garrisons on the main shore and in the harbor.

The Netherlands has a total of fourteen main battleships, all of which are first-class battleships, each with eighty cannons, and six battleships were transferred from other places later.

The tonnage and naval gun power of these warships were absolutely invincible in the entire Asia before.

So far, there has not been a single defeat, but it has sunk many national warships.

Now Batavia dispatched all the warships, fourteen warships lined up in front of the harbor, ready to fight against the Ming warships.

Six warships are on standby at the harbor, ready to go to battle whenever needed.

Meanwhile, the Ming people in Batavia Castle and the Ming people outside the city had gathered together at this time.

They jointly resisted the attack of many troops, but in the end they were defeated or retreated to the seaside.

In front were the Batavian army, the local aborigines, Germans, British, and Japanese, and the vast sea behind them had no way out.

The leader of this resistance movement is Zhang Han. He is engaged in transportation and has dozens of merchant ships and more than 1000 workers under his command.

Zhang Han often runs business at sea. In order to prevent pirates, he bought some firearms from the Netherlands privately with a lot of money, but he didn't expect to use them at this time.

It was he who stepped forward at the critical moment and organized the Ming people to resist in an organized way, otherwise the Ming people in Batavia would have been almost wiped out.

Originally, his merchant ships were supposed to meet here, but he didn't see any of them at this time.

Knowing that the merchant ship must have been detained by Batavia, Zhang Han couldn't help but sighed:
"God, do you really want our Ming people to be wiped out? I hope that in the near future after our death, the Ming Fleet can crush Batavia and avenge us."

Daming is thousands of miles away, and no one has tipped off the news. It is absolutely impossible to rescue them Ming people in Batavia.

Besides, even if the Ming Fleet arrives, Zhang Han and the others do not believe that the Ming Fleet can defeat the powerful sea coachman.

Knowing that surrender was a dead end, Zhang Han had no choice but to fight to the death. Zhang Han immediately gathered the Ming people with firearms in the front row to let them resist the attack of the thugs.

The Ming people without firearms, even the children held a wooden stick in their hands. Zhang Han put them behind him and lay down on the ground to prevent them from being killed by the firearms in the hands of the thugs.

Once they can't resist, they will fight to the death with the thugs, kill one to earn money, kill two to earn one.

This is the best way Zhang Han can come up with, and he will never give in.

The Ming people were very united at this time, and no one fled privately. They all glared at the mob with anger in their eyes.

But in any case, they only had more than 500 flintlock guns, which could not stop the impact of more than 1000 Dutch soldiers and tens of thousands of natives, and soon another group of people fell unyieldingly.

Zhang Han was also shot at this time, and his left arm, thigh and lower abdomen were hit by flintlock bullets.

But he still stubbornly lay down on the ground, let the people around him fill the bullets for him, and still shot and killed the Dutch soldiers with one hand.

So far, Zhang Han has killed at least a dozen Dutch soldiers and natives.

"boom"

"puff"

Suddenly he was shot again in the right arm, unable to resist anymore.

The flintlock bullet is a small lead bullet. If it was a Mini bullet, Zhang Han would have died in battle long ago.

Zhang Han felt that his life had come to an end. He slowly closed his eyes, unable to bear to look at those compatriots who were killed by bullets.

At this time, all the Ming people were desperate. They just wanted to kill a thug before they died, and avenge themselves, their compatriots, and their relatives.

On the vast sea, the Ming Fleet has cut through the waves and approached Batavia, and Zhu Youjian can already see the thick smoke from Batavia standing on the bow of Dayu.

He hurriedly picked up the binoculars and looked at Batavia. There was thick smoke everywhere in the lens. Zhu Youjian was taken aback at the time, and turned around to ask Zheng Chenggong:

"Is there any other country that attacked Batavia before us? You see that Batavia seems to be going through a war, and the fleet is ordered to advance at full speed in four directions. No matter which country, it cannot compete with Ming Dynasty for Batavia. "

"obey"

Zheng Chenggong promised, and immediately ordered Huang Fei, Shi Lang, and Zhang Huangyan to lead ten iron-clad warships to advance at full speed, no matter which country's warship they encountered, they would all be sunk.

He and Zhu Youjian sat on Dayu, led twenty warships lined up, and marched directly to Batavia port from the front.

With Zheng Chenggong's order, all the warships immediately entered the battle preparation, and the shells were quickly pushed into the barrels, approaching Batavia from four directions.

The Ming people on the coast are still fiercely resisting the siege of the Dutch and aborigines.

A twelve or thirteen-year-old child looked desperately at the sea. He wanted to commit suicide by jumping into the sea, but suddenly found many strange ships approaching the sea not far away.

He hurriedly patted Zhang Han who was injured and fell beside him:
"Uncle, Uncle, look quickly, there are many strange ships on the sea surface, they could not be the Ming warships who came to rescue us!"

Zhang Han didn't want the Ming Fleet to rescue them, but he felt that it was a child's fantasy.

Zhang Han struggled to smile at the child:
"Good boys, you are all good. If you have a chance to live, it's best to go back to Daming, where our roots are..."

Zhang Han and the others were defending with their backs facing the sea, while the Dutch and the natives were chasing and killing them facing the sea.

When the children inadvertently looked back and saw the sea monster ship, the Netherlanders and those aborigines who chased and killed them of course also saw the sea monster ship.

"God, look, what's in the sea?"

Seeing the strange ship approaching quickly in the sea, these vicious colonists and local thugs looked at the sea in shock, forgetting to attack the Ming people on the shore for a while.

The strange ships sailing towards Zhang Han and the others were the ten Ming iron-clad warships led by Zhang Huangyan.

The sea is clear from the shore, but the shore is still a bit blurry when viewed from the sea.

However, the observation post on the Hongwu still saw through the binoculars a crowd surging and smoke from muskets not far from the shore.

The sentinel immediately grabbed the walkie-talkie and reported to Zhang Huangyan:

"Report to the deputy governor, there seems to be a battle on the coast of Batavia, and it is a bit far away, so it is not clear who they are."

Zhu Youjian has issued a decree that no matter which country it is, it cannot compete with Daming for Batavia now.

Zhang Huangyan walked out of the command cabin quickly, then climbed up to the position of the observation post, and raised the high-power telescope in his hand to look at the shore.

Whether it is the appearance of Westerners or local Batavia natives, they are very different from Chinese people.

Especially those black and small Batavian natives, who look even more like monkeys.

Zhang Huangyan said that their telescopes are all out-of-the-box systems, and of course they are not comparable to those single-tube telescopes in Western countries.

With the adjustment of the focal length, Zhang Huangyan gradually saw the situation on the shore clearly, as if the Ming people were besieged by foreigners.

On the way here, Zhu Youjian had already told the main general about the persecution of the Chinese in Batavia.

Daming is no longer the former Daming that suffered from internal and external troubles. How can the dignified Chinese be bullied by those monkeys and red hairs.

Seeing that it was exactly as the emperor said, Zhang Huangyan was furious, grabbed the walkie-talkie and gave the battle order:
"All the captains obeyed the order, and the naval guns aimed at the three forts on the coast. A round of fierce attack destroyed all the Batavia shore guns and let the army land."

(End of this chapter)