Although there have been many naval battles since Shang Yi's uprising, this one was undoubtedly the largest and longest lasting. The total number of warships dispatched by both sides reached nearly 240, and the current battle started in the early morning. , the battle was already approaching dusk, and lasted for more than eight hours in total. In what should be his last naval battle, Shang Yi felt very satisfied to be able to fight such a battle.
The Yue Fei sailed past the sea where the battle had just been fought. At this time, the sea was also the wreckage after the war, full of all kinds of broken floating objects. When the officers and soldiers on other battleships saw the Yue Fei approaching, they all rushed to their respective battleships. Shang Yi raised his arms in the direction of the Yue Fei and shouted: "Long live the emperor, long live the emperor." The voice resounded throughout the sea, and Shang Yi also waved to the officers and soldiers on each ship frequently on the ship's deck, responding to the cheers of the soldiers. .
The final statistics of the battle results were that the Chinese army had sunk forty-two battleships of various types, including three auxiliary battleships worth 2,000 yuan. However, although the two first-class battleships and five second-class battleships that participated in the battle each had their own There were damages, but all were preserved. The number of Chinese soldiers killed in the battle was 2,793, and another 2,157 were injured.
In addition, the results achieved by the Chinese army were to sink 53 Dutch warships, annihilate 3,723 Dutch soldiers, and capture 19 warships of the Dutch fleet, three of which were warships of more than 1,000 tons. They also captured 2,469 Dutch soldiers, crew, and sailors. There were only 43 Dutch warships that escaped from the battlefield, which was less than 40% of the entire fleet. When the battle went out, there were a total of nine ships of more than 1,000 tons. warships, but only two escaped back to Batavia.
Judging from the results of the battle, although the Chinese army achieved victory, its own casualties were not small. However, in this battle, nineteen Dutch battleships were finally captured, as well as the artillery attached to the battleships, which almost accounted for Half of the number of Chinese warships have been sunk, and the Dutch warships are all ships with excellent performance and exquisite craftsmanship. In many details, they are even better than the Chinese warships. As long as they are repaired, they can be used immediately. It was delivered to the army for use, so the actual losses of the Chinese army were greatly reduced.
Of course, these results will only be tallied up after a few days. Now, after the ships have packed up and cleaned up, they have begun to set sail again and sail back to Brunei City under the setting sun.
However, just as the Chinese navy fleet was engaged in a fierce battle with the Dutch fleet, the Chinese Army's 16th Division and 3rd Brigade of the 7th Army, plus the 25th Division of the 17th Army, totaling about 28,000 soldiers, A ground attack was also launched against Sucanada, where the Dutch troops were stationed.
At this time, the Dutch army stationed in Sucanada was about 34,000 people, including about 9,000 Dutch troops, 5,000 native soldiers belonging to the Dutch East India Company and trained by the Netherlands, and another 5,000 horse soldiers. There are 20,000 indigenous soldiers in the Lan Sultanate.
Although the Dutch army has a clear advantage over the Chinese army in terms of strength, only Dutch soldiers are equipped with smoothbore rifles. The indigenous soldiers trained in the Netherlands are only equipped with old-fashioned matchlock guns, while the Matalan indigenous soldiers are completely equipped with The cold weapon army has only twenty artillery pieces, and they are basically small cannons. The Chinese army is not only equipped with muskets, but each person is also equipped with five hand grenades. In addition, the entire army has more than 500 mortars, so in In terms of firepower comparison, the Dutch army is far inferior to the Chinese army.
Although Sucanada had formed a small-scale port city at this time, due to the lack of better management and planning, the layout of the city was very scattered, and there were no city walls. It was completely easy to defend and difficult to attack. city, so the commander of the Dutch Army, Colonel Ronald Fred, could only build some fortifications on the periphery of the city to protect the port.
When Colonel Fred was guarding the city of Brunei, he fought against the Chinese army. He was very afraid of the Chinese army's ultra-long-range musket range and the mortars that could not shoot medium and heavy artillery. We also know that it is difficult to defend the city blindly, because the range of the Chinese army's muskets is much greater than that of the Dutch army. Once the Dutch army is on the defensive, it will become the target of the Chinese army, so in the scouts Reported to Fred and discovered that the Chinese army was attacking Sucanada, Fred decided to take the initiative.
The two armies met twenty miles outside Sucanada and formed formations with each other. Fred also knew that the number and range of muskets of the Chinese army were superior to his own, so how could the two sides engage in musketry exchanges? In the battle, he would naturally lose more than he won, so Fred also ordered the indigenous soldiers to attack first and launch an attack on the Chinese army, hoping to use the indigenous soldiers to attack the Chinese army's front and consume the Chinese army's ammunition.
However, although Fred's wishful thinking was successful, the subsequent situation greatly exceeded Fred's expectations.
After Fred gave the order, the indigenous soldiers raised their weapons one after another and launched an attack on the Chinese army's line. Although the Sultanate of Mataram was a big country in Southeast Asia, although there were many troops dispatched, their equipment was very average. Among them, there are only a few hundred soldiers with metal armor, and there are only more than 3,000 soldiers equipped with leather armor. All of them are clothed in cloth or linen, and most of the weapons are long spears. Only officers are equipped with swords and other weapons. , because the long gun saves the most materials, and only needs to be installed with a gun head.
Of course, this does not mean that Mataram is short of iron, and Mataram’s iron smelting technology is very backward. Although it has abundant iron ore, it has insufficient mining and smelting capabilities to provide the army with enough steel to make armor. Weapons, and the attack of the indigenous soldiers was also unorganized, just like a group of headless flies charging at random.
At this time, the Chinese army had already set up a shooting formation. The front row was a musket formation. Mortars were deployed behind the musket formation. They first launched an artillery bombardment against the Matalan indigenous army.
The artillery shells fell into the array of the indigenous soldiers and exploded. The indigenous soldiers were killed and wounded numerous times, screaming in agony. Immediately afterwards, the Chinese army's muskets also fired, and the sound of gunfire was "bang bang bang bang bang". Due to the formation of the indigenous soldiers, The formations were very dense, so the indigenous soldiers suffered heavy casualties and fell to the ground in rows. There were also many bullets that could penetrate the bodies of the indigenous soldiers and hit the second indigenous soldier. As a result, the Matalan indigenous soldiers They were beaten to the point where they could barely move forward, and the ground was filled with corpses of indigenous soldiers.
Although the Mataram soldiers had seen the power of musketry from the Dutch colonists, they had never seen the terrifying firepower caused by such a volley of muskets. Moreover, the Mataram soldiers had no intention of fighting the Chinese army and were so far away from the sea. They were forced to join the war. Now that they saw the fierce firepower of the Chinese army, they naturally did not dare to attack anymore, so they immediately turned back and ran back.
Tian Chu, the commander of the Seventh Army, saw this and immediately ordered the Chinese army to pursue the Matalan native soldiers in a scattered attack.
Although the combat effectiveness of the Matalan Army is not very good, after all, they are large in number and have no organized formation. Therefore, once they are defeated, they will be completely defeated. What's more, the Chinese army is still chasing behind, and the Matalan Army is even more defeated. , retreated towards the Dutch army's front.
The commander of the Dutch Army, Fred, did not expect that such a situation would occur, because under normal circumstances, even the army's retreat would be in order, and they would fight and retreat, but now the Matalan Army's retreat is unsystematic. , it is exactly like the Dutch army rushing over the front line set up by the Dutch army. The Dutch army's front line is very likely to be broken up by the Mataram army, and the Chinese army is still chasing after it. It can completely break into the Dutch army's front line and defeat the Dutch army. The army was completely defeated.
Therefore, Fred also shouted anxiously in the formation, gesticulated, and asked the Matalan Army to maintain order, but the Matalan Army simply ignored it and rushed towards the Dutch army's front line. The Dutch army also discharged A linear formation, but a gap of about two meters will be left at every other section of the formation to allow the retreating soldiers to retreat behind the formation.
But the Matalan Army has no such common sense. Of course, it is also because the Matalan Army was defeated across the board and there were too many people. Such a small gap is not enough for the Matalan Army to pass. Therefore, many Matalan soldiers are They rushed over directly like the Dutch army's array. Of course, the Dutch soldiers would not let them disrupt their array like this, so they tried their best to stop them.
Moreover, the Dutch soldiers have always despised the Matalan soldiers, and of course they were not polite in their attacks. They hit them with their rifle butts or kicked them with their feet. The Matalan soldiers were not willing to be beaten, and many of them fought back, so both sides also There was a lot of pushing and hitting, but at the beginning, the soldiers on both sides were relatively restrained, and they only limited themselves to fighting off their opponents, rather than actually fighting. However, in the process of pushing and hitting, There were still a few Mataram soldiers who squeezed into the Dutch army's formation, and in some areas the Dutch army's formation was scattered.
At this time, the Dutch army was a little anxious. If Wu allowed the Matalan soldiers to attack like this, the Dutch army's formation would be broken up sooner or later, because the Dutch army only had 9,000 people, while the Matalan soldiers were close to two. Ten thousand.
I don’t know which Dutch soldier lost his composure first and raised his gun at the Mataram soldiers. With a "bang" sound, he knocked one of the Mataram soldiers to the ground. This action first affected the people around him. soldiers, and immediately more than a dozen Dutch soldiers opened fire. Because the distance between the two sides was too close, almost within easy reach, the hit rate was extremely high. As a result, more than ten Matalan soldiers were hit in a single confrontation.
Then this situation quickly spread to the entire army, and most of the Dutch soldiers raised their guns and fired. Suddenly, there was a loud sound of gunfire, and many of the Matalan soldiers were wounded and killed.
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