Early June 1793, Nanyang, south of Bacheng.
"Boom! Boom!."
"Da da da, da da da"
With two rapid fires from ten 75mm cannons and hundreds of rounds of bullets fired from the North Navy's position, thousands of Banten Sultanate troops advancing with thick wooden shields threw down two After seeing the corpses of more than a hundred people, he turned around and ran away, quickly disappearing into the woods at the end of the plantation.
This kind of attack has been going on for seven or eight days. Whether it is the mercenaries from Württemberg or the tens of thousands of local soldiers from the Banten Sultanate, facing the iron-walled defense line of the Northern Navy, they have been beaten to death several times.
After learning that the Dutch were going to attack Bacheng, the Military Control Commission immediately issued a city-wide mobilization order. Relying on the prestige established by treating malaria patients at all costs for more than two years, tens of thousands of Chinese people, old and young, inside and outside Bacheng went to battle together. With the assistance of several excavators, it took only half a month to build a defense system consisting of two trenches and a sandbag wall in the southern part of Bacheng.
This line of defense is 13.22 kilometers long, from northwest to northeast, roughly forming a pocket shape with an opening to the north. It is actually divided into many sections. Basically, the entire layout is based on the defense system of the "Battle of Usoliya". The length of each trench or sandbag wall is roughly 700 meters to 800 meters, and they are connected by traffic trenches. Fifty meters in front of the front line trench, there is also a barbed wire fence with high and low piles.
The Dutch and the native soldiers of the Java Sultanate had never seen this. They suffered a big loss on the first day of the war. After that, Overstraten, the governor of the Dutch East India Company, ordered to find weak points in the defense line of Beihai Town. As a result, he searched for several days, but all failed.
At this time, on the Beihai Navy's position, the servants who had rushed into battle just a few days after arriving in Bacheng burst into cheers again. At this moment, an officer wearing a dark blue military uniform climbed up the trench, pulled out a fan from his clothes like a magic trick, opened it, waved it and shouted, and the soldiers in the trench wearing the same color military uniform immediately responded, like this three times.
"えいえい~~"
"おー!"
"えいえい~~"
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Well, people who often play glory games in another time and space must be familiar with this set. Strictly speaking, this is a set of samurai rituals that have been handed down since the end of the Heian period, and first appeared in "The Tale of the Heike". By the time of the Warring States Period, there were actually many schools.
For example, if you shout before a battle, it is called "coax"; if you shout after victory, it is called "victory". In "The Story of Crow and Heron", there are strict requirements on how to shout. The voice should be loud at first, and then gradually become quieter.
However, if it was just a slogan, a group of servant soldiers from Sendai farmers sang folk songs excitedly, and their voices were like stepping on a chicken's neck, which was really intolerable to other people's ears.
No, not far away, at the defense line of the Hoi An Camp, which was composed of Chinese from Hoi An Minh Huong Society, a company commander in charge wiped the oil and sweat on his head and said disdainfully: "The Japanese soldiers who lost your mother are so special. Such mourning!"
He immediately jumped out of the trench and shouted to his more than a hundred soldiers: "Everyone sing to me! The brave generals of the Three Kingdoms~~One, two, three, four!"
"The brave generals of the Three Kingdoms, the first of them is Zhao Zilong, who is a hero in front of Changbanpo! There is also Zhang Yide, who is waiting in front of Dangyang Bridge. Thunderbolts are heard continuously, two or three holes in the bridge collapse, and millions of soldiers are scared away. The five tiger generals show their majesty. ! One, two, three, four! Yun Chang is skilled in martial arts. He warms wine and kills Hua Xiong. He shows his majesty among millions of soldiers. He kills six generals in five passes. He travels thousands of miles with a single sword. He beats drums and three-way sound."
This song was taught by the officers of the special operations camp, and the people in the special operations camp learned it from Wang Yuanfang. As for Wang Yuanfang, that goes without saying. Although there are many military songs in the North Navy nowadays, such as "Man Jiang Hong", "Three Major Discipline Songs", etc., there are more than a dozen songs in total, but the guys with their nostrils in the special operations camp love this one. Therefore, as a disciple of Hoi An soldiers, everyone must sing.
The campers were singing with joy and high spirits, and soon several positions were joined in the singing, and finally even the Sendai soldiers started to howl together.
You must know that the one singing is the Three Kingdoms. People from the island country admire this the most. Since "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was translated into the Japanese version of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" at the end of the 17th century, it quickly became popular among the middle and lower classes, and everyone knew about the Five Tiger Generals.
On a machine gun position more than 30 meters north of the Sendai Domain officer who was dancing like a master, two Northern Marines were busy loading bullets into the newly emptied magazines. The machine gunner put his eyes on the telescopic sight and observed the situation in the distance. It seemed that what happened around them had nothing to do with them, but what they were muttering revealed their gossipy mentality.
"I said, these two groups are fighting again. What do they want?"
"Who knew, I feel like I'm going crazy every time after the beating!"
"The same goes for those Sendai soldiers. They formed a position like a large gathering and didn't even look like they were fighting."
"Hey, even though these guys are not tall, when the meal comes, they look like starving ghosts reincarnated."
"No! I saw this guy two days ago. He ate ten bowls of brown rice in one meal. He looked scary."
The machine gunner who had been paying attention to the battlefield ahead suddenly turned around and interjected: "Yu Deshui, our eldest brother doesn't laugh at our second brother. When he first arrived in Beihai Town, didn't he kill six big steamed buns in one meal? If it hadn't been for the nurse's request. Xie keeps walking to eat, and Xie is afraid that he will die."
Several soldiers from the Marine Battalion from Henan couldn't help but be happy after hearing this. The machine gunner said again: "You think they eat too much now? Do you know what they did before they became soldiers?"
"What are you doing?"
"Build the railway!" The machine gunner turned his head, put his eyes on the scope, and said: "These Japanese soldiers have never had a full meal before they came to Beihai Town."
"Hey, they are all poor people too."
Yu Deshui decided to end this topic to prevent the machine gunner who was from the same hometown and several years older than him from telling more embarrassing things about him. He took out the towel tucked around his waist and wiped his sweat, and complained: "It's just April, and the weather can be so hot that it can kill a person! Brother Ermao, if we just defend our position and don't attack, when will it be over?" ?”
The machine gunner said: "You have nothing to worry about, and you don't care who is commanding this battle. Just wait and see, maybe there will be a big move in the next two days."
At this moment, on a star-shaped fortress on the south side of Bacheng that was once called "Nordwijk Castle" by the Dutch, Zhao Xin put down the telescope in his hand and took a look at the map handed over by the staff. In an open space not far from the fort, there are twenty 75mm guns. Obviously, the artillery positions of the Northern Navy were located here, and the castle served as the frontline headquarters.
In 1657, the Dutch East India Company built "Fort Noordwijk" to stop the frequently stolen cattle outside the city. Before the "Red Creek Massacre", the Chinese rioted and resisted. Because the castle was isolated outside the city, the Dutch burned it down. A year later, the Dutch restored the castle, but the defenders thereafter were only responsible for the operation of the locks of the Gilion Canal. When Wang Yuanfang attacked Bacheng, he ignored it because there were only seven soldiers here.
"Is there any news from Wen Dai's team?"
He Xiwen on the side first replied "No", then thought for a moment and then said: "Do you want to send another team?"
Zhao Xin shook his head and said, "No, I'm too anxious. It's more than three hundred miles from here to Wandong, so it's not that fast."
The "Wandong" he mentioned is Bandung in another time and space. The reason why Zhao Xin did not send his troops to attack Langas Betong to the west at the moment was because he was waiting for information from Wandong. According to the news sent by Gu Lihuan three days ago, the previous governor of VOC, William Arnold Altin, took three thousand mercenaries and sailed to the Sultanate of Yogyakarta in southern West Java a month ago.
Both his staff and Zhao Xin speculated from this that Altin would probably lead the armies of the Sultanate of Yogyakarta and the Sultanate of Solo to launch an attack from the Wandong direction, because this way of marching would have the shortest distance and would allow for greater surprise.
In 1741, the Sultan of Mataram "Pakubwana II" sent troops to assist the Chinese laborers fighting against the VOC, and together they besieged Semarang. However, faced with the powerful force of the VOC, they ultimately failed. Since then, the strength of the Kingdom of Mataram has been further weakened, and then it gave up a large area of territory in Bandung and became a territory directly under the VOC; while Mataram itself was split by the Dutch into the Sultanate of Yogyakarta and the Sultanate of Solo. country.
Yesterday morning, a platoon from the special operations battalion was sent out by Zhao Xin. They would follow the road built by the Dutch and conduct reconnaissance in the direction of Wandong. You must know that the Java Island in the 18th century was covered with rainforests, and most areas were simply blocked from the sky. It was difficult for the drones of the North Korean Navy to detect the whereabouts of the enemy. The people of the reconnaissance team could only go deep into the rainforests under the leadership of guides. , so as to understand the specific situation of the enemy.
Again, there were not enough troops in Bacheng in the past, so they never launched an attack on Wandong in the southeast. As a result, the Dutch were given time to linger and gathered a large group of vassal states.
It is said that after the Kingdom of Majapahit, which once ruled the entire Java Island for more than two hundred years and worshiped Hinduism, fell in 1527 (the sixth year of Jiajing reign in the Ming Dynasty), the rule of the entire Java fell into a state of fragmentation and was ruled by a large group of sultans. . Except for the Banten Sultanate in the west of Bacheng and the Cirebon Sultanate in the south, which lasted for two hundred years, the other sultanates have been changing the king's flag at the top of the city over the years, and they have all become vassals of the VOC.
Zhao Xin will go south in person this time to completely solve the problem on Java Island. Since the sultans in eastern Java Island have only been sitting on their butts for a few days, he doesn't mind sweeping them away. However, if Beihai Town wants to completely control Java Island and Kalimantan Island in the north, it will have to invest heavily in transportation and communication lines in the future.
After leaving the frontline headquarters, Zhao Xin, surrounded by several guards, boarded a small patrol boat with a machine gun on the side of the ship. This time he came to Bacheng to reveal his identity. Although it boosted the morale of the soldiers on the front line and surprised the Chinese people in Bacheng, the risk factor also increased accordingly. Every time he traveled, he was accompanied by at least seven or eight armed guards.
Because the logistics transport ships on the Gillian Canal were constantly shuttled between Bacheng and the front line, the patrol boat could not drive too fast, and it took more than half an hour to arrive near the Military Control Commission building. Although the Military Control Commission implemented public security controls in the city after the war broke out, and armed police officers patrolling the streets could be seen everywhere, the tension in the city was not serious.
Although the combat effectiveness of the 5,000 troops transferred from the Cam Ranh Bay base is not as good as that of the North Korean Navy's own troops, who can they compare with? At least in the limited understanding of the people in Bacheng, the equipment and mental state of the servant army from head to toe far exceeded that of the previous Dutch army.
Furthermore, the Military Control Commission hired a large number of Chinese to dig trenches, make military supplies, transport supplies, pay workers, and take care of food. This attitude of not being short of money was unprecedented. After receiving the white silver coins from Beihai Town, many Chinese in Bacheng even hoped that this war would last for a year and a half so that everyone could earn more.
As soon as he returned to his office, the considerate A Miao brought tea that had been brewed and the temperature was just right. Zhao Xin took a sip happily, picked up King Duofu who had just occupied his seat, and caressed it twice. The satisfied guy immediately began to purr.
King Duofu was almost two or three years old when he was "abducted" by Zhao Xin. Now nine years later, this guy is at least 11 years old, and he has entered an advanced age. However, because A Miao took good care of her and the residents of Beihai Town loved her, both men and women, old and young, so except for the fact that her hair became a little thick and rough, everything else was fine.
"Give it to me. Duofu has been a little clingy to you lately."
"No, when will it stop being clingy? Hey~~ Do you think my posture looks like the Godfather?"
A Miao spat softly when he heard the words, and said with a smile: "You are not even forty yet, and you don't look old at all. Why are you just imitating that old foreigner?"
When the beauty smiled, the whole room was filled with joy, and Zhao Xin couldn't help but feel a little dazed. When A Miao saw Zhao Xin's gaze, her expression instantly became a little shy, but she quickly raised her fair and thin oval face to look at Zhao Xin, with a layer of moisture between her eyebrows and eyes, which was both charming and charming. There is innocence.
"She is not shy, but she is charming and infatuated, but she stands tall and is dressed in fat. Oh~~ the longer this little girl grows, the more she will bring disaster to the country and the people."
After so many years, even though Prince Zhao has always been obsessed with love, his attitude towards A Miao is different from others; he has always doted on this girl like a treasure, both as a child and as a sister, and would not let her suffer even a little bit. Wronged. However, his attitude is very subtle in the eyes of many people around him, so A Miao is seventeen this year, and no one dares to propose marriage.
Although Shen Xuan has hinted at it in the past two years, Zhao Xin has never expressed his stance. He actually understood A Miao's thoughts, but he really couldn't keep his mouth shut about this matter.
King Duofu, who jumped on the table, squinted his eyes, glanced at this person, and then turned to look at that person. He thought to himself that such hypocritical human beings are so familiar with each other, why are they still bothering?
The two of them stared at each other with smiles on their brows. At this time, the sun was shining brightly outside the window, and two swifts flew over the window sill at some point, combing each other's feathers, whispering, and chirping briskly, and the atmosphere in the room began to become a little ambiguous.
"A Miao."
"Um."
"The weather is nice today."
"Um."
"I have something to ask you."
"Um."
As if she had a premonition of what the other party was going to ask, the blush on A Miao's face became even thicker, and even her slender neck became slightly red.
"this."
Just when Zhao Xin was about to muster up the courage to speak, there was an untimely knock on the door, and the words that the guy had been planning for a long time were suppressed again.
