Chapter 7, This is the secret weapon!

Chapter 7, This is the secret weapon!

For Zhu Daohua.

The operation to occupy Batam was not just to gain a foothold in the Strait of Malacca.

But let thousands of pairs of Chinese eyes around the port of Batam take a look.

How did the Dutch, who had a dominant position in Southeast Asia, get beaten up by themselves?

So this battle is not just a military action.

It is also a political statement.

Zhu Daohua knew very well that the main force of his future army must be Chinese.

He wanted these Chinese to take a good look.

How...vulnerable the Dutch are.

Thanks to the Dutch commander Bronkhorst's strategy of abandoning the port and refusing to defend the city.

Under the cover of naval guns, Zhu Daohua's army approached the port in small boats.

Walking in the front was Zhao Si, captain of Zhu Daohua's personal guard.

He held high the sun and moon flag with a blue background.

As soon as the ship hit the port shore, I jumped onto Batam Island.

Then the sun and moon flag was planted on the ground.

.......

"This...is Daming coming back?"

"Is this the sun and moon flag? I heard that Ming ships used to fly this flag in Nanyang."

"The Ming Dynasty has been dead for more than a hundred years, can it still come back?"

"They heard that they wanted to drive away the Dutch and occupy Batam?"

"How can we beat this? The Dutch can really fight. The men under Luo Fangbo of Lan Fangguo are all capable of fighting. They don't dare to provoke the Dutch."

"It's not just Luo Fangbo, it's also a hero who does business without capital on the waters of Nanyang. Which one doesn't have to pay tribute to the Dutch?"

I saw there was going to be a war.

Those Chaoshan people who were working on the port left the port one after another, but they did not go far. Instead, they stretched their necks to watch and discuss from a distance.

Talk about it.

Cantonese people have no favorable impression of the Qing Dynasty.

This is true whether they are Cantonese, Chaoshan people, or Hakka people.

The reason is also very simple. When King Pingnan of the Qing Dynasty Shang Kexi was in Guangdong.

That killed millions of Cantonese people alive.

Massacre Shaoguan, massacre Guangzhou, massacre Chaozhou...

It can be said that there is a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, and we will never share the same fate.

Coupled with the subsequent sea relocation order, another wave of Cantonese people were offended - Guangdong originally had a tradition of going to sea to make a living.

As a result, the current order to move to the sea will only allow the Cantonese to involuntarily move inland.

As a result, a large number of heroes fought against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty...

Therefore, during the Qing Dynasty, Guangdong was one of the areas with the most active anti-Qing and restoration activities.

Having said that, Cantonese people have never had any rebellious spirit since ancient times.

It took nearly two thousand years from the Qin Dynasty to establish counties in Lingnan to the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The land of Lingnan is basically a place where there are few rebellions.

But the Qing Dynasty lasted for more than two hundred years.

However, Guangdong became the headquarters of the Tiandihui, and anti-Qing uprisings occurred almost every year, including the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Guangzhou Uprising.

The Cantonese people who could talk about congratulations and get rich and show their kindness and wealth on their faces forced them to become the number one anti-thief base in the Qing Dynasty.

The Qing Dynasty was really short of great virtues.

"Who is that?"

"Bright yellow robe? It can't be some Ming Dynasty clan, right?"

"Is it fake?"

"But his people are quite neat. Are they white people?"

"Hiss... Where did this hero come from? He can actually drive white people?"

When three thousand Swiss mercenaries set foot on Batam Island.

The Chinese people watching were shocked.

They stared blankly at the Swiss, who were carrying flintlock guns, slapping neatly in formation, and pointing their gleaming bayonets toward the sky. They were greatly shocked!

Here in Nanyang.

White people are first class.

Not to mention ordinary Chinese.

Even some Chinese Kapitans dare not provoke white people easily when they meet them.

And this mysterious figure under the banner of Ming Dynasty.

Can he actually command thousands of white musketeers?

The Chaoshan workers stared blankly at the Swiss mercenaries.

However, their attention was quickly attracted by the Chinese soldiers holding cylinders.

"What kind of cannon is that?"

"Isn't this tube too thin?"

"Won't it explode?"

While they were discussing.

One thousand Swiss mercenaries lined up in three rows as the vanguard, marching forward in an orderly manner.

The remaining two thousand served as flanks and reserves, guarding the more than one hundred Chinese artillery in the middle.

"What kind of cannon is that?"

Bronckhorst's face no longer looked relaxed now.

Three thousand Swiss mercenaries caught him by surprise.

If I had known earlier that this time my opponent would have 3,000 Swiss people under his command.

Maybe he would have left earlier.

Although the Dutch have the upper hand in terms of total military strength.

But there were only two thousand whites under his command, and the rest were natives.

It is not easy to win this battle.

"Their artillery is not arranged on both sides? How can they hide behind the infantry?"

Bronckhorst was very surprised.

The artillery of this era all caused damage by firing solid projectiles directly.

Therefore, artillery must be placed on both sides or in front of the infantry - otherwise the direct-fire artillery will not be able to exert its power.

But now the opponent is hiding behind the infantry with that weird-looking artillery.

"Does this kind of artillery fire deflectively?"

"What's the use?"

That's when Bronkhoyt was thinking.

He saw the opponent's artillery starting to set up artillery positions.

Twelve gun tubes are mounted on a bipod, with the gun tubes and the ground at an angle of at least 45 degrees.

"Is it a mortar?"

The thought just flashed through Bronkhoyt's mind.

Under the gaze of a telescope.

On the artillery position 1 mile away, a gunner was seen holding a cannonball with a strange tail and stuffing it into the muzzle, then squatting down covering his ears.

It’s not time to wait for Bronkhoyt to react.

There was a flash of muzzle flash.

A cannonball soared into the sky, forming a large parabola at a speed visible to the naked eye, heading in its direction.

soon.

Thousands of pairs of eyes gathered around.

Immediately they saw a scene that shocked them.

A cannonball landed about seven or eight meters in front of the indigenous army's formation.

Plugged into the soft ground.

Before anyone could react.

boom!

A ball of fire exploded.

A violent explosion flashed in front of the indigenous army formation.

Fragments of artillery shells swept across the front of the military formation.

Immediately, several indigenous musketeers fell limply to the ground.

When everyone was stunned.

The gunners on the artillery position quickly made adjustments.

This time...

It's a salvo! !

Twelve artillery shells threw a stable large parabolic trajectory.

Under the gaze of everyone, he plunged into the formation of the Dutch-Johor coalition army!

boom!

Boom boom! !

Twelve balls of fire exploded.

The soldiers standing in the military formation, whether they were natives or Dutch, were all turned into a pile of minced meat as long as they were around the explosion.

Bronkhoyt was stiff all over, and suddenly felt a chill on his face.

Reach out and touch.

It was actually a fragment of an ear...

I don’t know if it belongs to the Dutch or the indigenous people.

"It's a flower bomb!!"

Bronkhoyt practically screamed.

Before he could react.

Those artillery pieces that can throw terrifying explosive shells.

Another death-like shell was thrown...