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Chapter 1411
Seeing that the artillery was not effective, the sultan of Matalan quickly gave up his weak attempt. He came up with a simple method in a short while, launching frequent attacks on the fort at night.

However, this method is also very clumsy. Every aggressive attack will be defeated by the defenders who are waiting in full battle. The strong fortress is an iron wall that they cannot overcome, so that the Matalan army besieged Batavia for 21 days and could not Arrive under the real city walls of Batavia.

Just the fortress with 500 people stationed on the outskirts of the city held back his army of 20000 people, making it impossible to move an inch!
The forts and armed merchant ships in the port of Batavia defeated the Mata blue sampan fleet planning to forcibly land within 21 days.

These ships were originally offshore merchant ships or fishing boats, and they were prone to heavy losses after being hit by artillery. They were still unable to break through the forts and the firepower of armed merchant ships to dock, and instead sank several ships.

The main force of the [-]rd Infantry Battalion, who was deceived by the Matalan people to investigate, immediately returned to Batavia from other ports after receiving Batavia's request for help.

Two warships easily expelled the Matalan fleet blocking the port, and more than 700 people landed in Batavia.

"My lord, I didn't expect to be set up by these natives!" The battalion commander of the [-]rd Infantry Battalion yelled at the first sentence when he returned to Batavia, "They sent a team of hundreds of people to attack the port and seize the ships. The purpose is to attract us. When we got there, they wanted to lead us into the jungle. Fortunately, I didn't fall for it, otherwise it would take longer."

"It shows that these native kingdoms have also learned to be shrewd in the struggle against us. Their real main force is besieging the fort on the southern outskirts of the city. Now that you return, it's time for us to launch a counterattack!" The Batavia civil administrator was a little annoyed.

Matalan besieged Batavia for 21 days, and Batavia suffered huge direct and indirect losses during this period!

Plantations such as rubber forests, which are indifferent to Matalan people, can still remain intact, but edible plantations such as coconut groves, banana groves, and sugarcane groves have been looted by Matalan people, with losses of 10 More than ten thousand taels of silver!

"How many troops are there in the city?" asked the commander of the infantry battalion.

"There are 100 regular soldiers and hundreds of young men. If we want to launch a general offensive, we can organize more young men, businessmen, sailors, and workers to fight back." The civil affairs officer said.

"Since it is a general attack, we must defeat them all at once and gather as many soldiers as possible!"

The Nanyang Province began to mobilize the merchants and residents of Batavia to participate in the war to the greatest extent!
After the main force of the [-]rd Infantry Battalion arrived, the haze over the city of Batavia was swept away!

More than 3000 residents, businessmen, workers, patrolmen, jailers, and sailors were organized into three battalions. A few people were issued muskets by the government, some were armed with cold weapons, and some used kitchen knives, poles, and long sticks. Equipment of combat power.

But this is not important, these people are for the sake of momentum, in fact they will not encounter any danger, their task is to charge behind 800 regular infantry.

"The Matalan people outside the city destroyed our farmland and plantations, and brought Batavia to a standstill for 20 consecutive days. We must drive them out!" the Civil Affairs Officer shouted with arms raised.

"Expel the Matalan people and defend Batavia!" The patrol below took the lead to support the civil affairs officials.

"Expel the Matalan people and defend Batavia!"

The gate of Batavia opened, and the main force of the 3000rd Infantry Battalion bravely marched out of the city, followed by [-] Batavia civilians.

They were high-spirited, and two artillery pieces were pulled out.

When the Matalan army saw this group of Batavian troops who had left the city as if they were about to fight them, they began to retreat uneasily.

"Calm down! Calm down!" The Sultan of Mataram Kingdom saw that his troops, including the elephant soldiers, were starting to agitate, and ordered the generals below to maintain order.

They have a main force of 20000!The opponent's team coming out of the city seemed to have only a few hundred people who were well-trained, and the other 3000 people were dressed in all kinds of clothes!

"Sir, the main force of our [-]rd Infantry Battalion is back! Is their formation going to counterattack?"

"Get ready to go out to fight!"

The infantry captain who was holding on to the fortress urgently mobilized 200 soldiers and 300 Japanese warriors inside.

"When the enemy's formation is disrupted by our main force, use the Japanese warriors as the tip of their swords to carry out a hand-to-hand assault!" The infantry captain made a simple deployment.

The Matalan army barely maintained stability, but when the third infantry battalion led soldiers approaching them, the Matalan army began to panic.

The third infantry battalion kept pushing the artillery forward, and the solid bullets roared and landed in the formation of the Ma Dalan army, making the Ma Dalan army frightened!
The artillerymen of the [-]rd Infantry Battalion are very different from the artillerymen of Ma Dalan. The artillerymen of Ma Dalan have hardly used artillery before the battle, while the artillerymen of the [-]rd Infantry Battalion have hundreds of shelling experience. Veterans, the artillery is also designed by physicists with ballistics, and some low-level artillery officers also have technical talents who have mastered the basic principles of ballistics!
Seeing that his subordinates were shaken by the ferocity of the opponent's artillery, Mata Lan Sudan immediately ordered two cannons to fight back, but the performance of the Mata Lan artilleryman was still touching, and the shells missed again...

After the opponent's formation was disrupted by artillery, the [-]rd Infantry Battalion began to approach the formation of the Matalan Army with a line of muskets.

"Assault by the whole army!" Mata Lansudan saw the enemy approaching, at this moment he had no way to retreat, once he retreated, he would be defeated for thousands of miles!I can only bite the bullet!

Driven by the general, the [-] Matalan army had to confront the musket line of the [-]rd Infantry Battalion head-on!

However, the reality is very cruel. The Matalan army armed with all kinds of weapons will collapse under the fierce shooting of muskets.

The big collapse spread from the front row to the back, and the Dongpu warriors and musketeers in the fortress began to attack with hand-to-hand blades at the right time, which accelerated the collapse of the [-] horses and blue army on a larger scale!

"Kill!" The 3000 Batavian civilian army took advantage of the victory and pursued them. They brandished kitchen knives and poles and chased and killed the Matalan army. The panicked Matalan soldiers were in a hurry, and many of them plunged into the jungle. .

The elephant soldiers used to fight Lan Sudan to support the scene also fell into chaos. Instead, the bulky war elephants caused a lot of damage to their own people and wailed.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Matalan Sudan didn't care to turn the tide, and could only retreat to the rear under the protection of the guards and elders around him. He didn't even have time to take away the throne inlaid with gold, which became the enemy's spoils of war...

(End of this chapter)