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 the Sauron soldiers, anyone with a big nose and deep eye sockets had to be a mercenary.
Get rid of it. So the first people in Batavia to greet the Iron Fist 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 Badawi.
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Of course, the most famous mercenaries in these days are the "Landsknechts" from the Hesse-Kassel region, and they are qualified war dealers. The most awesome thing Hesse did was to fight in the Austrian throne succession war
, successfully provided mercenaries to both warring parties.
As for the captured blond woman with blue eyes, Wang Yuanfang couldn't understand what she was saying at all. Anyway, she was definitely not speaking in English. He first had the woman locked up, and then said to Jiang Asheng: "You can find her again when you go back.
Dozens of Chinese workers came."
Jiang Asheng, who was vomiting heavily due to the smell of blood in the castle, said with some horror: "Good man, what are you doing?"
"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? Isn't it just that they heard people say that Nanyang is full of gold and silver, and it is easy to make money. Now that there is an opportunity to make a lot of money, even if it is dangerous, but Nanyang is not originally
It's not paradise; not to mention that the miasma may kill them one day, just the contracts and loan sharking 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 impossible!"
"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 thunder and lightning from heaven!"
Sure enough, the ancients believed this. When Jiang Asheng saw Wang Yuanfang swearing, he said with joy on his face: "The good man can trust this villain, so I will take a trip. Give the villain half an hour, oh, no, three sticks of incense, villain."
I’ll 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 said: "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 asked his men to find a horse for him from the stable. This boy was so eager to make money that he didn't even need a saddle. He jumped on the horse's back, holding the reins with one hand and the mane with the other.
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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 that Jiang Asheng brought back was like pie in the sky, and no one believed it at first. But when he showed the silver dollars given by Wang Yuanfang, several Chinese workers who were close to him were shocked, so when the news spread to other
In the work shed, everyone couldn't sit still and wanted to come over and have a look.
Along the way, Jiang Asheng looked left and right from time to time, looking forward and back, for fear that one of them was missing. To him, each of these people meant a piece of white silver!
"Ah Sheng, you won't lie to us, will you? Do you really have five silver dollars when we 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. You can be given five silver coins for digging pits and trenches? Can such a good thing happen in the world?"
Jiang Asheng glanced at the man with disdain, and said mockingly: "Big Horse Bear, 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 other people around him, Jiang Asheng carefully opened the outer cover.
Paper, and then peeled off a piece of packaging that looked like tin foil, 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
I really can't describe what it feels like.
"This is called chocolate, it's so sweet!" Jiang Asheng took the thing into his arms and then explained to the others. This thing was given to him by Wang Yuanfang before leaving, saying that it would satisfy his hunger, so Jiang Asheng took a small bite, and then
Know this is good stuff.
A drool welled up in the big bear's throat, and he couldn't help but said: "I don't believe it, it can be as sweet as sugar cane? Give me a taste and you 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, Xiao Xiongguan, nicknamed "Big Horse Bear", also joined the Bei Navy. When he first received this kind of thing as supplies, he learned that it was called "cream chocolate"
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A group of ragged Chinese workers walked quickly, chattering as they walked, full of longing and worry, and soon arrived outside the south wall of Dingjia Fort. When everyone was still a hundred steps away from the outer wall of the castle, a
Everyone became timid again. This was 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.
The only person who communicates normally with Jiang Asheng is Wang Yuanfang.
Wang Yuanfang first asked the medical soldiers to treat the Chinese worker named Zhong Baolin, and then asked the number of Chinese workers Jiang Asheng had brought. Then he ordered his men to bring over a cloth bag containing dozens of silver dollars and said to Jiang Asheng: "Everyone
Give one piece first, then give the rest after the work is done, and your share will be given last."
It's not 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 Dinklan Castle was captured, the problem is that the Dutch guilder silver coins issued by the Dutch are different from those in the North Sea.
Silver dollars have completely different values, so 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 he was going to dig two large pits ten meters long, two meters wide and two meters deep 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 really happened. They quickly got busy under Jiang Asheng's instructions.
At 5:50 in the morning, the Thor, which was entering a state of preparation 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-layered 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. Just as the gun body of the 122mm howitzer was about to slam backward, it was grabbed tightly by two finger-thick steel cables. It almost stopped.
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 laborers brought by Jiang Asheng were all frightened when they heard the sound of cannons. 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 voice: "Brothers! The ones who gave us money 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!"
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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. The German woman, who was almost in her twenties, glared at Wang Yuanfang fiercely, and took the horse rein with some hesitation.
After getting on the horse, he left Fort Dinkelland in an instant and headed towards the city of Batavia.
The woman named Anat didn't know that her release was actually planned by Wang Yuanfang. When she returned to Batavia with hatred to report the news, the German mercenaries of the Württemberg Cape Corps
He immediately became extremely angry, and the count who led the team went to the Governor of Altyn, intending to go out of the city to exterminate the bandits who had killed his compatriots.
At this time, the city of Batavia was already in panic. The Dutch were in a panic due to the Northern Navy's undeclared war early in the morning. No one could have imagined that the cannons on the Serris ship could shoot so far and be so powerful.
, the other party is 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 panic. Seeing the carefully built four-cornered castle destroyed by the huge explosion,
The place gradually turned into rubble and ruins. 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 the truth.
"Shameless! The Seris people are so shameless! How can they start a war without declaring it!"
In these days, Europeans still followed the hypocritical chivalric ethics and would always give notice 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 Altin 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.
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"Your Majesty the Governor, I received a report that a group of bandits captured the Dinklan Fortress. All my soldiers were slaughtered, and only one woman survived."
Altin and others were shocked again, gangsters? Not long after, Anat, who was released by Wang Yuanfang, came to the city hall in disheveled clothes, cried and told the story of the morning, and begged the Governor to save her man and other dead people.
Soldiers take revenge.
The East India Company bosses in the city hall already understood that this must have been done by people from Beihai Town. When Alting learned that there were only a few dozen bandits attacking Dingjiabao, he said to himself, I can't defeat you at sea.
, I can’t deal with you on land?! He immediately ordered the Württemberg Cape Corps to dispatch to recapture the occupied Dinklan Castle.
At the same time, the various 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 sea two miles away.
Thor launched a counterattack.
Half an hour later, the Thor's bombardment of Batavia suddenly stopped and began to concentrate on dealing with the Dutch fleet. On land, a thousand German mercenaries arrived at almost ten o'clock in the morning, and the citizens of the city cheered.
The squadron strode out of the east gate, and behind them was a servant army composed of a thousand natives.
However, no one could have imagined that more than two hours later, this group of German mercenaries, who seemed to be full of combat effectiveness, would be ambushed on the road to Dinkelland Castle.
First, the North Korean Navy, which was ambushing on both sides of the road, used four machine guns to form a crossfire, suppressing the enemy three hundred meters away. Just as the Germans were urging the 6-pounder guns to be brought up, two platoons
The soldiers of the special operations battalion passed through the dense sugar cane forest, went around the enemy's rear, and launched an attack.
After this battle, the two thousand enemy troops who came out of Bacheng were killed and routed, with corpses strewn across the fields. 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 Bandan.
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.
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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 remained silent for a long time before saying in a deep voice: "In fact,
We should have surrendered as soon as the Seres started issuing ultimatums."