No one in the Northern Navy who went south knew either Dutch or German, so they couldn't tell the difference between Dutch and German mercenaries. In the eyes of Sauron soldiers, anyone with a big nose and deep eye sockets must be killed. Therefore, the first people in Batavia to greet the sword of the Northern Navy were the troops of the Württemberg Cape Corps.
In another time and space, Württemberg was most famous for its wine, but at the end of the 18th century, it was most famous for its mercenaries. In 1786, the Dutch East India Company established the Württemberg Cape Regiment, whose main headquarters was Batavia.
Of course, the most famous mercenaries these days are the "Landsknechts" from the Hesse-Kassel region, and they are qualified warmongers. One of the most awesome things Hesse did was to successfully provide mercenaries to both warring parties in the Austrian Succession War.
As for the captured blond woman with blue eyes, Wang Yuanfang couldn't understand what the other party was saying, and it was definitely not English anyway. He first had the woman locked up, and then said to Jiang Asheng: "Go back and find dozens of Chinese workers."
Jiang Asheng, who was squatting on the ground and vomiting, was already frightened by the ferocity of Wang Yuanfang and these people. He said with some horror: "Good man, what do you want to do?"
"Ask them to bring tools to help dig holes and trenches, and I will give each of them five silver dollars." After Wang Yuanfang finished speaking, he added: "Every time you find one, I will give you an extra silver dollar. How about it?"
What do twenty-three-year-old Jiang Asheng and those Chinese workers from Fujian want to do when they leave home thousands of miles away? I just heard people say that Nanyang is full of gold and silver, and it’s easy to make money. Now that there is an opportunity to make a lot of money, even if it is dangerous, Nanyang is not a paradise to begin with; not to mention that miasma may kill them one day, just the contracts and loan sharks in the past few years have made them breathless. .
Hearing Wang Yuanfang's tempting offer, Jiang Asheng rolled his eyes, then wiped his mouth with his dirty sleeves, bowed and said, "Good man, I don't know whether to say something or not."
"Say it."
"According to what you said, it's okay to find people to dig holes and trenches. Everyone is used to hard work. But you want them to deal with the Dutch government, it's really not possible!"
"Haha, I won't let you charge into battle." Wang Yuanfang smiled and shook his head. Seeing that Jiang Asheng still had doubts on his face, he said: "With so many corpses, if we don't bury them, we won't be able to stay here at noon. Besides, I The soldiers must reserve their energy to deal with the Dutch. Do you think this is okay? I swear, if I let you Chinese workers go into battle to fight the Dutch, there will be five thunderbolts from heaven!"
Sure enough, the ancients believed this. When Jiang Asheng saw Wang Yuanfang swearing, he looked happy and said: "The good man can trust me, so let me go. Give me half an hour, oh, no, three sticks of incense, I will find fifty people for you." !”
"Bring your sick companion here, maybe I can cure him."
"What? Good man, do you still know medical skills?"
Wang Yuanfang nodded, and then ordered: "When the people come, just take them a hundred steps away from the south wall and don't come in."
"The villain understands."
In order to make Jiang Asheng go back and forth faster, Wang Yuanfang also asked his men to find a horse for him from the stable. This guy was so eager to make money that he didn't even need a saddle. He jumped on the horse's back, grabbing the reins with one hand and the mane with the other and left.
More than forty minutes later, Jiang Asheng, who was leading the team with his horse, was filled with joy. This boy actually invited more than 60 people to follow him. Even the foreman in the sugarcane garden also followed him after hearing the news.
The news Jiang Asheng brought back was like pie in the sky, and no one believed it at first. But when he showed the silver dollar given by Wang Yuanfang, several Chinese workers who were on good terms with him were shocked. So when the news spread to other work sheds, everyone couldn't sit still and wanted to follow him to have a look.
Along the way, Jiang Asheng looked left and right from time to time, looking forward and back, for fear that one person was missing. To him, each of these people means a piece of white silver!
"Ah Sheng, you won't lie to us, will you? Do you really have five silver dollars when you get to Dingjiabao?" The speaker was an old Chinese worker in his fifties, with a hoe on his shoulder.
"Uncle Li, just put your heart in your stomach!"
Another Chinese worker said: "Xiao Jiang, the more I think about this, the more I think it's like a storyteller. Can you dig a pit and dig a ditch and be given five silver dollars? Can such a good thing happen in the world?"
Jiang Asheng glanced at the man with disdain and said mockingly: "Da Maxiong, why do you still follow me if you don't believe me?"
"I..." Na Hua Gong rubbed his neck and said unconvinced: "I'm afraid that my brothers will be deceived, so I don't worry about coming here to have a look."
"Hey, don't talk about five silver dollars. I'll be satisfied if you can give me one."
Jiang Asheng turned around and looked at his companion lying on the horse, and comforted him: "Paulin, we are almost there, please bear with us."
After that, he took out something two fingers wide and wrapped in fancy paper from his arms. Under the watchful eyes of the Chinese worker nicknamed "Big Horse Bear" and others around him, Jiang Asheng carefully opened the outer paper and then peeled off a tinfoil-like package, revealing the dark stuff inside.
"What's this?"
Jiang Asheng ignored the questioner, broke off a piece, and put it into the mouth of Zhong Baolin, who was already pale. Zhong Baolin took a sip in a daze, feeling that the thing in his mouth had an indescribable sweetness, but he really couldn't tell what it felt like.
"This is called chocolate, it's so sweet!" Jiang Asheng put the thing in his arms and then explained to the others. This thing was given to him by Wang Yuanfang before leaving, saying it would satisfy his hunger. Jiang Asheng took a small bite and knew it was a good thing.
A drool welled up in the big bear's throat, and he couldn't help but said: "I don't believe it, can it be as sweet as sugar cane? Give me a bite and I will know."
The Chinese worker named Uncle Li reprimanded: "Da Maxiong, you are a loser. You are in your twenties and you are a bit promising, okay? You are fighting for food with the patients."
Da Ma Xiong blushed and said: "Try it..."
In the days that followed, when Xiao Xiongguan, nicknamed "Big Horse Bear", also joined the Bei Navy, he could receive a few pieces of this stuff every month. Only then did he know that this stuff was called "cream." chocolate".
A group of ragged Chinese workers walked quickly, chattering with admiration and worry as they walked, and soon arrived outside the south wall of Dingjiabao. When everyone was still a hundred steps away from the outer wall of the castle, everyone became timid again. This is the territory of the Dutch soldiers. In the past, even if they were closer, they would be scolded and driven away by the soldiers on the wall.
Jiang Asheng asked everyone to wait outside the south wall, while he led the horse and took the sick Zhong Baolin into the castle from the west gate to report to Wang Yuanfang. None of the soldiers in the Solon camp could speak Hokkien, and it sounded like a book from heaven. Only Wang Yuanfang could communicate normally with Jiang Asheng.
Wang Yuanfang first asked the medical soldiers to treat the Chinese worker named Zhong Baolin, and then asked Jiang Asheng the number of Chinese workers he had brought. Then he ordered his men to bring over a cloth bag containing dozens of silver dollars and said to Jiang Asheng: "Each person Give one piece first, then give the rest after the work is done, and your share will be given last.”
It wasn't that he wanted to take advantage of Jiang Asheng, but he took a hundred silver dollars with him when he set out, and he had to go back to the Thor to get the rest. Although there were some seizures after the capture of Dinkelland Castle, the problem is that the Dutch guilder silver coins issued by the Dutch have completely different values from the North Sea silver dollars. Mixing them together will definitely cause trouble.
After Jiang Asheng thanked him hurriedly, Wang Yuanfang explained to him what he was going to do. It turned out that two large pits ten meters long, two meters wide and two meters deep were to be dug in the open space outside the south wall to bury the bodies.
The Chinese workers outside the castle were very happy after receiving the money. It turned out that it was a good thing that pie in the sky was really falling from the sky. They quickly got busy under Jiang Asheng's instructions.
At 5:50 in the morning, the Thor, which was preparing for war, was extremely busy. The roar of the bow winch when weighing anchor broke the calm on the sea. The muzzles of the two cannons on the deck quickly raised, and the sides of the ship Double-layer sandbags used as bunkers were also piled near several heavy machine gun positions.
At six o'clock, Deng Fei in the cockpit issued the bombardment order through the radio. The 122mm howitzer's barrel was about to slam backward when it was grabbed tightly by two finger-thick steel cables. Almost at the same time as the deafening sound of cannons sounded, two explosions of flames rose in the castle on the east bank of the Gillion River.
The Northern Navy attack on Batavia begins.
The Chinese workers brought by Jiang Asheng were all frightened when they heard the sound of the cannon. They threw away their tools and ran back. However, when two Bei navy soldiers raised their guns into the sky and fired a shot, the sound of gunfire was heard very close at hand. Scared these guys to their knees again.
Jiang Asheng was heartbroken, walked up to his companions, and said at the top of his lungs: "Brothers! The ones who pay us are the heroes of Beihai Town! That big ship with cannons on the sea belongs to them! To be honest, the Dutch in Dingjiabao Everyone has been killed by them!"
"ah?!!!"
In the castle, when Wang heard the roar of cannons in the distance, he asked Wen Dai to take the German woman who had been captured before to the stables, and said in English with a Northeastern accent: "Madam, I will let you go." Go back. War has nothing to do with women."
After that, he didn't care whether the other party understood or not, and handed the horse rein in his hand to the woman's hand. The German woman, who was almost in her twenties, glared at Wang Yuanfang fiercely, took the reins of the horse with some hesitation, got on the horse, and in a blink of an eye, she left Dinkelland Fort and headed towards Batavia City.
The woman named Anat didn't know that her release was actually planned by Wang Yuanfang. When she returned to the city of Batavia with hatred to report the news, the German mercenaries of the Württemberg Cape Corps immediately became extremely angry. The count who led the team went to Governor Altyn, who planned to kill Go out of the city and destroy the group of bandits who killed your compatriots.
At this time, there was panic in the city of Batavia, and the Dutch were embarrassed by the Northern Navy's undeclared war early in the morning. No one could have imagined that the cannon on the Seris ship could shoot so far and be so powerful. The opponent was nearly six miles away from Bacheng!
The artillerymen on the port and castle of Bacheng had been frightened by the powerful explosion. Some people were reduced to ashes in the flames of the explosion, while others fled the artillery positions and fled in a hurry. Seeing the carefully built four-corner castle gradually reduced to rubble in the huge explosion, Governor Altin, who was helped by his men to escape from the Governor's Mansion, realized that the ultimatum from Beihai Town was not a threat, but true.
"Shameless! The Seris people are so shameless! How can they start a war without declaring it!"
In these days, Europeans still followed the hypocritical chivalry ethics and always informed before starting a war. The problem was that the Northern Navy was not used to their bad habits. This was true for the Russians and the Dutch.
Seeing the fortress built a hundred years ago collapse in bombings one after another, Governor Alting and the members of the Senate, who fled into the city hall, knew they were outnumbered and were about to surrender with a white flag. The Count of Württemberg came to find them. .
"Your Majesty the Governor, I received a report that a group of bandits slaughtered all Dinklan's soldiers, and only one woman survived."
Altin and others were shocked again, gangster? Not long after, Anat, who was released by Wang Yuanfang, came to the city hall in disheveled clothes, told the story of the morning in tears, and begged the Governor to avenge her man and other dead soldiers.
The East India Company bosses in the city hall already understood that this must have been done by people from Beihai Town. Altin said in his heart that I can't hit you at sea, but I can't deal with you on land? ! He immediately ordered the Württemberg Cape Corps to dispatch to recapture the occupied Dinkelland Castle.
At the same time, the merchant ships anchored outside the port began to flee away from the sea area, while the Dutch East India Company's "Oriental Treasure Fleet", under the command of the commander, all raised sails and anchors, preparing to attack the ships two sea miles away. Thor launched a counterattack.
Half an hour later, Thor's bombardment of Batavia suddenly stopped and began to concentrate on dealing with the Dutch fleet. On land, a thousand German mercenaries strode out of the east gate amidst the cheers of the city's citizens. Behind them was a servant army composed of three thousand natives.
However, no one could have imagined at this time that more than two hours later, these murderous Germans who walked out of the city gate would be killed by the North Korean navy ambushing in the sugar cane fields on the road to Dinkelland Castle. The airtight bullets and grenades falling from the sky defeated the four thousand people. In the end, only more than two hundred people escaped back to the city alive.
As for the treasure fleet that the Dutch were proud of, three ships were sunk by the Thor with cannon fire as soon as it came up. The other ships were frightened by the heavy machine guns firing wildly on the deck and had to surrender with white flags. Or he fled to Banten.
That afternoon, as the cannonballs from the Thor fell into the city one after another, the despairing Governor Altyn and the members of the Council of Ministers were forced to have people fly white flags on the damaged city walls due to the heavy casualties among the residents in the city. .
Afterwards, when Altin, who had returned to Banten, was asked by the judge in court whether he felt that the loss of Batavia was handled improperly in those places, Altin was silent for a long time before he said in a deep voice: "In fact, We should have surrendered as soon as the Siris started issuing ultimatums."
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