Chapter 638 Fight (7)

After the Dutch were frustrated in the frontal battle, they would shift their attack direction to the flanks of the town. This was something that the Haihan defenders expected. Therefore, Mu Xiabai deployed scouts in advance on several areas on both wings where it was easier to cross the river.

.And due to the geographical environment, it is unlikely that the Dutch will invest large forces on the flanks. They can only send out small teams to look for opportunities to harass, which will not put too much pressure on the small town defenders. Mu Xiabai even

None of them placed too many regular militia troops on the flanks. The northern side was mainly composed of Portuguese and local aboriginal militiamen. Only one squad of militia troops was assigned to command and coordinate, while the south side was assigned a platoon of militia infantry.

, and brought dozens of local militiamen - taking advantage of the weapon performance and geographical environment, this arrangement should be enough to handle three or four times the offensive force.

Compared with Van Longen, the other team led by Brouwer to the north of the town was obviously more unsatisfactory. A large swamp took them twice as long to reach the intended location, and there were only relatively low areas on this side.

There were no dense forests along the Van Longen route in the south that could be used to hide their tracks. They were discovered by investigators on the roof when they were still a hundred meters away from the stream outside the town.

But Broward's thoughts were more optimistic than Van Longen's. Although the stream was a bit in the way, it was fortunately not deep and could be waded directly. The town on the other side of the stream obviously did not have heavy firepower positions such as artillery emplacements, so the infantry launched a charge.

There should still be a chance to invade the town. Of course, the premise is that Spikes's frontal offensive can attract enough attention from the opponent. So according to the agreement before departure, Brouwer also sent a messenger back to the port.

, informed Spikes of the situation in the north.

However, due to too much time delay on the road in Brower, Spikes finally fired the first shot of the second round of offensive at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The Dutch learned the lesson in the morning and moved the artillery position back.

The company and the team also consciously retreated to a relatively safe distance.

Although the Dutch took many measures, they were still the ones who suffered at the beginning of the attack. The naval guns used to fill the Dutch position originally had a relatively short range, and the retreat caused the hit rate to hit a new low, and the Haihan artillery's

The firing ranges were all over one mile. The retreat of the Dutch positions by several dozen meters did not change the status quo that they were still within the effective range of the Haihan artillery fire. The one-sided situation was actually more serious than in the morning.

Of course, Spikes did not expect to really defeat his opponent with artillery fire. He still pinned his hope on the two teams attacking the town from the north and south. If Van Lungen and Brouwer could successfully attack and create chaos, then Spikes would be able to

Opportunity to lead the army to break through the opponent's defense line from the front.

However, the development of the situation was completely different from the ideal trend in the minds of the Dutch. Van Longen commanded his men to rush out of the dense forest and step into the creek. Halfway through, he suddenly found a row of gun barrels sticking out from the edge of the opposite roof. There were at least three or four gun barrels.

About ten.

Fan Longgen felt a chill in his heart immediately. He didn't even have time to greet the others and immediately turned back to the woods. A burst of gunshots rang out behind him, followed by screams. Fan Longgen didn't dare to stop and turn around to see what was going on behind him.

, burying his head straight into the dense forest.

The Haihan garrison conducted three rounds of volley fire from the commanding heights. Seven out of ten Dutch mercenaries who tried to forcibly cross the stream were knocked over in the water and on the river bank. Only Van Longen and other ten people who saw the opportunity early were able to make it in time.

He fled back to the woods and came back with his life.

Van Longen ran in the woods for a long time in shock before he stopped due to lack of physical strength. While panting heavily, he looked back at the few remaining soldiers who were also in shock and sat down on the ground. From the time he launched the attack to

It only took a minute or two to run away after being frustrated, but Van Longen felt that he had gone full circle from life to death, and from death to life again.

Although the operation failed, Van Longen was still very happy that he could save his life. As for the result of the battle... After all, there was no way to force it. Van Longen could only hope that the offensive in the other two directions would yield results. Maybe Brouwer would attack all the way.

Did you go in?

Fan Longen sat on the ground and rested for a while. After his breathing calmed down, he patted his butt and got up to return to his life. At this time, he found that his personal fire gun had fallen off at some point. But he did not dare to go back and look for it himself.

, so he assigned two of his men to look back along the route they had just escaped from.

The two men looked like they had stepped on something, and they left reluctantly. But after a while, they ran back shouting, with expressions as if they had seen a ghost. Van Longen shouted: "No.

Panic! What happened?"

One of them responded: "The enemy... the enemy has crossed the creek and is already searching this way!"

"How many people are there?" Van Longen asked sharply.

"About...about a hundred people..." his subordinates replied tremblingly.

"Withdraw!" After hearing this, Van Longen made the decision immediately without any hesitation. With the current manpower, it is definitely impossible to prevent the opponent's search. The only thing that can be done is to rush back and inform Spikes.

Allowing him to be on guard against enemy counterattacks.

With the pursuers behind them, their physical strength seemed to have recovered a lot. The group of people stumbled back to the Dutch position near the port along the way they came. When Spikes saw their appearance, he had already guessed the outcome:

"Defeated?"

"The enemy has many musketeers... deployed in the south... They have left the town and are chasing them from the woods!" Van Longen did not bother to elaborate on the details of his failure, and first informed Spikes of the enemy's attack:

"Listen, it's best for us to retreat as quickly as possible and to the sea!"

Spikes hesitated and said, "But there's no news from Broward yet..."

"Brouwer may not be able to come back!" Van Longen interrupted Spikes emotionally: "The enemy has been digging holes for us to jump into! They are just waiting for us to attack so that they can attack at a closer distance.

Kill our soldiers! If we don’t retreat quickly, maybe we won’t be able to leave this island alive!”

Spikes hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No, we can't leave our own people alone."

Van Longen was silent for a moment and then said: "Then I will apply to go to the port to prepare the ships for sailing. If the war goes against us, at least we will have time to retreat."

"Okay, you can go. Remember to arrange for people to move the ammunition from the troop carrier to your ship first!" Spikes did not insist anymore this time and agreed to Van Longen's request. The damage to the two troop carriers was similar.

It's more serious. If the situation really deteriorates to the point where we have to retreat to the sea, we can only temporarily abandon the two troop transport ships.

After Van Loongen left in a hurry, Spikes looked at the opponent's position with a gloomy look. The artillery battle had stopped before Van Loongen escaped back, because almost all the artillery on the Dutch position was plowed by the opponent's shells, and the few who survived were

The ten gunners said they were unwilling to step forward and endure such a one-sided and unilateral bombardment.

Although the news from the north has not yet come back, Spikes is not very optimistic about the results of Broward's battle with Van Longen's experience. But although the trend of the battle is already obvious, the opponent is not in a hurry to leave town.

Pursuing, Spikes believed that this was not a normal phenomenon. He actually hoped that his opponent could use his own musket array to get another fight when he attacked. He felt very unwilling to admit defeat like this.

Ten minutes later, the first man who had escaped from the north appeared on the Dutch position, and the news he brought back made Spikes worried again.

The team led by Brouwer was undoubtedly also attacked by a large number of musketeers when they launched the attack. Brouwer himself did not have as much luck as Van Lungen, and he was shot and fell on the spot.

Of course, the escaping soldiers did not just throw him away, but still dragged him out of the battlefield, and then several people took turns carrying him back. The person who ran at the front to report the news was just to let the position here

Can quickly prepare medical first aid measures.

But the Dutch really don't have any good first aid methods. For trauma, all military doctors can use is nothing more than cloth strips boiled in boiling water and a few simple surgical tools.

A few minutes later, Brouwer was finally carried out of the woods and appeared in front of Spikes. He was shot in the right chest, but because Brouwer was wearing leather armor, the bullet did not directly penetrate the body, but stuck.

It was in a certain part of his body. The injury to his lungs and the bumps along the way caused him to constantly cough up blood from his mouth. When Spikes saw him, his face was pale and he was speechless.

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Although the two had many differences and even had some disputes during this mission, Spikes could not help but feel a little sad when he saw his colleague was seriously injured, and ordered military doctors to quickly provide treatment.

But the capabilities of military doctors are also very limited. To perform thoracic surgery to remove the bullet from the lung lobe in this environment, even professionals like Morgan and Johnson have to be very cautious, and Brower was not able to receive timely and effective treatment after his injury.

After being carried all the way back, the injury was aggravated invisibly.

Before the military doctor could take out the bullet, Brouwer burped due to excessive blood loss. At this point, forcing the troops to continue fighting would lose morale. Spikes gave the order with a livid face.

Let all personnel retreat towards the port immediately - before the opponent has time to pursue, the correct solution is to quickly withdraw to the sea as Van Longen suggested.

However, things still did not develop as he expected. Just when the soldiers began to evacuate, the defenders in the small town in the distance finally showed their ferocious side and began to line up to attack.

Although the positions of both sides were nearly a mile apart, the pressure of the opponent's attack immediately caused confusion among the Dutch soldiers. Some people tried to return to the position to block the enemy, while others panicked and wanted to rush to the dock as soon as possible to board the landing.

Boat, the team suddenly became confused.

One mile seems to be a long distance, but at normal marching speed, it is actually only a few minutes away. Of course, Spikes knew that his situation was no longer suitable for high-intensity fighting, so he could only shout and let the chaotic people

The team quickly evacuated to the port.

At this time, rival musketeers began to appear sporadically from the woods on both sides of the north and south, which made the Dutch even more panicked. More people gave up the idea of ​​sticking to the spot and began to flee to the port regardless.

However, they did not know that there were not many Haihan soldiers who broke out from the dense forests on the north and south routes, and many of them were local militiamen. Their combat effectiveness was not the same as that of the regular militia army. If the Dutch were not

So panicked, they immediately launched a counterattack on the spot, and maybe they could still achieve some success.

But once a battlefield defeat occurs, it will be difficult to rely on the ability of individual commanders to turn the tide. Spikes has no better way to deal with such a situation. He can only rely on a few personal guards to turn the situation around.

He also fled to the port.

"The Dutch have escaped!" After Mu Xiabai saw this scene through the telescope, his heart finally returned to his stomach. Although the scale of the two days of fighting was not large and the fighting situation could not be said to be so tragic, for Shou Dao

It is indeed a big test for the troops. Being able to quickly change the state from the initial defeat and giving the Dutch a head-on blow on the second line of defense, Mushabi believes that he has still displayed his due command level.

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However, Mushaba did not intend to let the Dutch leave so easily. The reason why he wanted to seize the opportunity of the Dutch retreat to push out the troops was to make them pay a little more before leaving.

When the Haihan troops chased them to the port, two Dutch sailing ships had already left the pier first, but there were still about two hundred Dutch people who were boarding the ship in a chaotic manner. The militia soldiers lined up calmly a hundred meters away.

Then they started shooting at the several sailboats still parked on the pier and the people on the shore.

The panicked and crowded crowd completely became a living target without any resistance. A round of shooting every twenty seconds would knock down several people. However, on the Dutch side, only a handful of people who had already reached the deck could bother to organize a wave.

A weak counterattack. But this sporadic shooting will soon attract at least two platoons of musket fire, and then nothing will happen.

The sailors on the ship had no time to untie the cable and hurriedly cut it with a knife. Some people who had no time to board the ship could only cling to the rope net outside the ship's side, but many of them were killed before they climbed onto the ship's side.

He was hit by a lead bullet in the back and fell into the sea.
Chapter completed!