Dragon Sea Empire

Relying on tens of thousands of native soldiers and more than a thousand Dutch soldiers and sailors, the Dutch desperately guarded the inner city of Batavia surrounded by the tiger trench, lion trench and Amsterdam trench. The trees are now all cut down and turned into fence barriers. After the Dutch municipal authorities occupied Batavia, they have been rewarding residents for building stone houses. Now all the stone houses in the inner city have become fortresses.

The more than [-] native soldiers were all recruited from the local natives. During the more than half a year of war, the native soldiers hated the Chinese the most and plundered the most. The Dutch threatened them that the Chinese would retaliate and kill them all. Therefore, these natives are still fighting very desperately.

At the same time, Yin Feng did not want his Chinese army to pay too much in Batavia: the overall situation in Nanyang has basically stabilized, and it is meaningless for him to struggle for a mere Batavia, Yin Feng thought. Just think about it: the Dutch are waiting for reinforcements from Europe. The resilience of the Dutch defending the city was tempered during the anti-Spanish Dutch revolution era. Under difficult conditions, he insisted on defending the city for nine months before surrendering.

When the Chinese Army successively mobilized a large number of troops, the East India Company Java Council held a meeting in the city hall to discuss how to deal with the crisis.

The Governor of Java in the Netherlands, Peterson Kun, was not in the Batavia City Hall. He was directing the battle in the fortress of the East India Company’s Java Commercial House in the West District of Batavia. The Dutch Commercial House was established when the Dutch first came to Jakarta. It was an important fortress before the Dutch occupied the whole city of Batavia.

To the west of the city wall of the trading hall is still a barren mine field. Before the Second Java War, there were expelled Jakarta natives and Banten natives who opposed the Dutch. They often tried to snipe foreigners who explored the outskirts. , those areas close to the mountains and forests are often haunted by tigers and ferocious beasts. All these make the Dutch in Batavia dare not go out, so they are confined to the urban area of ​​Batavia, and the outside world thing, and know nothing about it.

The Chinese army is already so powerful that it can attack all strategic points in Nanyang at the same time, which the Dutch did not expect.

The governor of the Netherlands, Kun, regrets it now. He once adopted the policy of "governing China with China" and controlled and indirectly ruled the overseas Chinese community by appointing the Chinese Kapitan. I believe the commander of the garrison, Colonel Van Layden, about the power of the Chinese company. As soon as the Banten and Madalan people started the anti-Chinese war, he started to shoot, rob, and expel the Chinese in his jurisdiction. The Chinese Jiapitan Su Minggang who was raised up was also confiscated by him and imprisoned in the dungeon of the East India Company's business hall.

Now, there is no overseas Chinese around him, and the Chinese army on the opposite side is not willing to contact him at all, and just launches attacks every day.

Governor Peterson Kun looked east from the top of the fortress. On the east side of the Chillion River, groups of Chinese were pushing and pulling several heavy siege cannons. A few elephants were acting as tractors there. Countless black-clothed Soldiers of the Chinese Army are gathering on the east bank of Huhao, and they seem to be planning to launch an attack. Various artillery shells are continuously fired from the artillery positions of the Chinese Army on the east bank of Chillion River, and the inner city of Batavia is filled with smoke and flames. rise.

"Your Excellency, there is movement in the forest to the west,"

In the jungle to the west of the merchant fortress, a large group of people appeared faintly. Pushed and pulled by the elephants and buffaloes, large pieces of wood were dragged out of the jungle area, and countless people appeared on the edge of the jungle. Peterson Kun was shocked: "This piece of tropical jungle can't pass through the large army. Who are these people?"

He took the Rotterdam-made long-terminal telescope, observed carefully for a while, and sighed with a gray face: "We are completely surrounded,"

Numerous Javanese native prisoners of war, mainly Madalan prisoners of war, are acting as coolies. Soldiers of the Chinese Army supervise the cutting of the tropical jungle in the west of Batavia. Under the supervision of soldiers of the Chinese Army, they desperately opened a road in the dense forest. This road was built for transporting five heavy siege artillery and three heavy mortars. Countless prisoners of war fell into swamps and quagmire to die. Following Yin Feng's strict order, the prisoners of war were desperately forced to work around the clock, and they must capture Batavia before the rainy season in March and April.

The Chinese Army now has a full [-] prisoners of war on hand, and the resources of the coolies are endless; after Yan Siqi returned to the Fifth Division, he launched an operation to hunt down Madalan nobles and generals throughout the island of Java, and continued to create exterminations everywhere. The tragedy caused the whole village to be sent to the front line of Batavia to do coolies.

A regiment of the first division, the main force of the third division, and the main force of the Nanyang Brigade have all concentrated around Batavia, forming a complete encirclement circle around Batavia. The coolies and Spanish prisoners of war were quickly transported to the surrounding artillery positions, especially in the jungle in the west of Batavia. The Chinese army opened up a road with manpower, and aimed the cannons directly at the Dutch business house.

Half a month later, ten heavy siege artillery, ten heavy mortars "Zhentianlei", ten medium-sized mortars "Hongtianlei" and more than 180 field artillery of various calibers were all in place.

Outside the harbor of Batavia, the battleships Dingyuan and Zhenyuan opened their gun windows, and the [-] cannons of the artillery fleet of the Chinese Navy were also in place. These cannons surrounded the inner city of Batavia from all directions. The Dutch are now standing Every inch of the place will be a point of impact for shells.

This morning, Yin Feng stood on the bow of the Dingyuan ship, looked at the Orange flag on the Dutch City Hall, and sneered. He turned around and looked at the generals behind him, and saw that they were all excited, each eager to try , nodded with a smile, and ordered to Ye Hua, Li Xing, and Li Kuiqi: "All the cannons fire, rapid fire, and then only fire, there is no restriction on the target,"

Dingyuan suddenly emitted dense flames and gunpowder smoke from the side of the ship, and then there was a loud noise like rolling thunder... The entire surrounding of the inner city of Batavia was followed by the roar of dense cannons. The sound quickly became one, and it was impossible to distinguish the direction and type of firing. More and more Chinese warships on the sea joined the shelling, and there were more than a thousand cannons firing at the same time.

The City Hall to the west of Prince Street was shrouded in smoke from the shell explosion, and then the top of the Dutch church tower to the west of the square was destroyed by shells... The inner city area of ​​Batavia guarded by the Dutch was completely engulfed in gunpowder smoke after 1 minute In the flames, before long, countless thunderbolt rockets soared from the four directions of Batavia, east, west, north, south, and rushed towards the inner city guarded by the Dutch, spreading the flames of death wider and wider. The sound resounded all over the world, mixed with the sound of cannons and explosions to form a thrilling music, which made all the soldiers of the Chinese army watching the battle, the native Malay prisoners of war, representatives of the Javanese allied states, and businessmen from all over the world feel as if they were in a daze. He stared blankly at the scene in front of him.

The bombardment lasted for a whole day, and the Dutch in Batavia felt like the end of the world was coming: solid shells, shrapnel shells, and explosive grenades fell on the city densely, and the oil-burning bombs in the thunderbolt rockets turned the city into a city. There was a sea of ​​flames, and the wooden fences of Tiger's Ditch and Amsterdam's Ditch were ignited and burning... The City Hall collapsed in the fire and explosions, half of the cathedral fell, and all the Dutch buildings were next to each other The shells, Dutch defenders and native soldiers were killed and wounded in large numbers, and morale fell to the bottom.

Yin Feng looked at the large group of businessmen from various countries, representatives of domestic business gangs, and company shareholders who were watching the battle behind him. Seeing them, they were all stunned by the scene of intensive shelling, and couldn't help secretly laughing. He stepped forward and said with a smile: "...Captain, this is killing a chicken for the monkey to see, but this kind of bombardment is really unprecedented,..."

Yin Feng sneered: "I just want to use this method to frighten Nanyang. At worst, Batavia will be flattened. At worst, we will rebuild it."

Van Layden was overwhelmed and stumbled to find Governor Peterson Kun in the innermost room of the Dutch Commercial House Fortress: "Governor, surrender, if you don't surrender, we will all be finished, the city hall, church, workshop, gunpowder depot It's all over,"

Peterson Kun raised his head blankly, his face was as gray as death: "The Chinese already have such weapons..."

"Your Excellency, if you delay any longer, we will all die here, and none of us will be able to return to Europe,"

Governor Kun lowered his head, and his head was covered with wall ash from the shelling: "The Chinese have so many, and with such weapons, once we leave, the Europeans may never come back," he said dejectedly. He lifted his head up and smiled wryly: "Ten years of hard work, God bless us, Colonel Van Layden, surrender with the white flag, surrender to your Chinese friends, let's go home and leave here forever,"

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In February of the lunar calendar in the 47th year of Wanli, after a whole day of bombardment by the Chinese army, the Hong Maoyi surrendered in the city of Batavia. The Chinese company announced that Batavia was the area directly under the company, and changed back to the original name "Jakarta", Java Island The Java tutelary office was established, divided into West Java County (capital Jakarta) and Central Java County (capital Semarang). At the same time, the Chinese company announced all overseas commercial trade in the Nanyang region east of the Strait of Malacca, south of Hainan Island, and Luzon Island. All were placed under the monopoly of the Chinese company, and the Nanyang Province was formally established, under which the Malacca and Java tutelary forts were temporarily established.

The war in Nanyang was over, and the most sensational news was spread all over the coast of East Asia: Yin Feng became king in Jakarta and proclaimed himself King of Jinghai.

After the surrender ceremony of the Dutch in Jakarta, while the ceremony of the entry of the Chinese army into the city was held vigorously, Yin Feng entered the city surrounded by crowds, and accepted all the major Chinese families, Chinese companies, and all shareholders of the Chinese company in the square in the rubble. , Supported by all the soldiers of the Chinese Army, he called himself the King of Jinghai.

Representatives of major domestic business gangs present also knelt down to Yin Feng. A few months later, the news was brought back to China by these businessmen.