1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 396
Although the naval battle is over, there is still a strong smell of blood in the air, which is uncomfortable.

In Daring's cabin, by the light of a kerosene lamp, Fremont polished a manuscript titled The Dutch East India Fleet's Panic Escape and Our California Fleet's Initial Victory.

Liang Yao's right arm was injured, and it was inconvenient to carry a pen to write, so he could only dictate the article by himself and Fremont wrote the article.

"Did we really win?" Fremont always felt that this article was a bit self-defeating.

"From the result, we won, but from the process, we lost." Liang Yao said.

It was the Dutch who withdrew from the battlefield first, and this manuscript is also stating the facts, but it just sums up the losses and emphasizes their own achievements.

The goal of this battle is to seize command of the sea and prepare for tomorrow's landing operations.

Their goal was indeed achieved, temporarily driving the Dutch out of the Java Sea, and bought a valuable landing time window for the Army.

The most important thing for California right now is confidence. He must play up an exciting victory, and then recruit some modified armed civilian ships and sailors as a reserve force.

Although the Dutch ships temporarily fled back to Batavia, the Dutch East Indies Fleet still has strength. As long as the ships are repaired and the personnel are replenished, the Dutch East Indies Fleet can still restore its combat effectiveness.

This naval battle for sea control in the Java Sea and the South China Sea is not over yet, and there is still a battle between Liang Yao and the Dutch.He must prepare early.

What Liang Yao is most worried about now is that the Dutch mainland fleet will come to support the Dutch East India Fleet.

If the Dutch mainland fleet and the East India Fleet join forces at that time, the problem will be difficult.

There was not much time left for Liang Yao. He had to gain a firm foothold in Borneo during the period when the Dutch temporarily lost their command of the sea, and achieve the greatest results as soon as possible, so as to push the Dutch to the negotiating table as soon as possible.

"Hopefully California can afford these losses," Fremont sighed.

"If California can't afford this loss, we don't deserve Borneo." Liang Yao said.

The next day, Hong Mingxiang's Tibiao Battalion and the two battalions of the California Infantry Regiment stood in formation, waiting for the tide to land when the tide rose.

Pontianak is not a coastal city, but lies on the lower reaches of the Kapuas River.

There is still a distance of 20 kilometers from the coast to Pontianak.

The defenders of Pontianak have deployed artillery on both sides of the Kapuas River, and scuttled merchant ships to block the channel entering Pontianak Port, preventing Liang Yao's army from using the river to push into Pontianak City.

Liang Yao could only choose to land on a nearby beach, then break through the blockade of the Pontianak defenders, and advance towards the Pontianak port and city.

At this time in Pontianak, Ye Tenghui, the former chief executive of Lanfang Company, ordered 180 of his cronies to put on the uniforms of Umbrella Company, carrying the umbrella flag, and led 70 crew members of Elvis, holding guns and cannons. , rushed towards the port of Pontianak aggressively.

They are going to take down the forts in the port and defend them according to the plan, dragging down the strength of the Pontianak defenders and reducing the pressure on the landing troops.

Before departure, Ye Tenghui had asked his confidants to spread the news that the Californians had entered Pontianak in the city.

For a while, the defenders in Pontianak panicked.

Local residents either fled into the mountains to escape the flames of war, or hid at home behind closed doors.

Elvis set up three 3-pound infantry guns and launched a shelling attack on the Pontianak Fort.

Responsible for guarding the fort of Pontianak Port is a white infantry company of the Royal Dutch East India Army, and half of the green battalion armed by Lanfang Company, with a strength of more than 200 people.

The sudden bombardment caught the defenders on the fort by surprise, and they ran around like headless chickens.

The California army broke into Pontianak so soon?

"The captain was killed! The captain was killed!"

Before the defenders on the port fortress could react, the sad news came that the captain had been killed.

The captain was killed, and the lieutenant had gone back to Batavia for vacation a week ago.

Lieutenant Carlito suddenly became the supreme commander of the fort defenders, but Carlito was not at all happy.

In a daze, the rain of metal bullets fired from the enemy's position hit them head and face, suppressing the Dutch defenders on the port fortress unable to raise their heads.

As for the Chinese guarding the port fort with them, they still have flintlock guns or even arquebus guns from a century or two ago in their hands, so there is no hope at all.

The opponent's gunfire was very dense, and this was the firepower that only a regiment of infantry could unleash!

The rate of fire of the Walter M1851 rifle was very fast, and the 250 guns just fired a regiment of firepower, which made the defenders on the fort of Pontianak Port mistakenly think that the opponent had a regiment of troops attacking.

We are surrounded by a regiment of the enemy!
As for where the enemy troops of this regiment came from, the defenders on the fort of Pontianak Port had no time to think about it, nor did they want to think about it.

Lieutenant Carlito was pretty sure he was surrounded by an enemy regiment.

He didn't even have the courage to resist the danger, he just ordered the Lanfang company's armed forces to stay to stop the enemy, and he hurriedly retreated to the city with a company of white soldiers, calling for reinforcements under the pretense of calling for reinforcements.

The Chinese soldiers of Lanfang Company naturally didn't do it either, a regiment can have a thousand people!

Let them fight with a regiment of California soldiers with the fire sticks in their hands?Isn't this sending you to death?
Pontianak's defenders are complex in composition and distinct in rank.

The best are undoubtedly the Dutch soldiers, followed by other European soldiers, and then the native soldiers who are mainly Javanese.

The Chinese soldiers of Lanfang Company are at the bottom, belonging to the party that is discriminated against.

Not to mention the Dutch, even the Javanese can bully them.

They were not less bullied by white officers and soldiers on weekdays, and naturally they did not have the awareness to sacrifice for the Dutch.

The fort positions belong to the Dutch, but their lives are their own.

As soon as the Dutch left, the soldiers of Lanfang Company immediately oiled the soles of their feet and withdrew back to the city with the Dutch.

In less than fifteen minutes, the fort at Pontianak Pier was empty.

Even Elvis was very surprised, so he just withdrew?
Ye Tenghui also felt that there was a fraud in it. Out of caution and safety, Ye Tenghui sent a few cronies to the fort to spy on it. After confirming that the fort had been abandoned by the Pontianak defenders, he and Elvis joined forces. Occupied the fort at Pontianak port.

"Damn it, these red-haired ghosts and traitors ran so fast that no one was left behind."

Ye Tenghui held a Colt revolver in his hand, and said cursingly.

Except for 16 corpses, there was not a single living person left on the fort in Pontianak Port.

Elvis lowered the red, white and blue tricolor flag of the Dutch and raised the umbrella flag of the Umbrella Company, officially announcing that the California armed forces had occupied the fort of Pontianak Port.

(End of this chapter)