When Marton Tropp and his adjutant heard the shouts of the sailors, they immediately looked towards the upper reaches of the Yangtze River at the same time, only to see a road about seven or eight miles away from them, with countless people lighting torches heading towards it along the river bank.
While moving, the snaking flaming body was like a fire dragon in Chinese legend. "It's the support force of the Chinese Revolutionary Army!" Marton Tropp's adjutant shouted, "They are finally here!"
Marton Tropp's adjutant was right. What the sailors of the Dutch fleet saw were indeed reinforcements from the Chinese Revolutionary Army. To be precise, they were composed of the garrison troops guarding Yangzhou and surrounding areas and the Chinese troops gathered from Jiangsu Province.
The vanguard of the reinforcements formed by the Revolutionary Army militia, as most of them carried torches
, so it looked like a fire dragon winding forward from a distance. Seeing this scene, Marton Tropp was shocked. He looked back at the Japanese position and said to his adjutant: "It looks like the Japanese
I'm afraid it's going to be over." Marton Tropp's adjutant asked: "What should we do? Will our army provide support?"
Hearing the words of the adjutant, Marton Tropp shook his head slightly and said: "I am not willing to send our poor five thousand infantry ashore to fight the porcelain Chinese. They have a large population, and I have to fight for us.
The precious lives of Dutch soldiers were responsible.”
After hearing his boss's words, Marton Tropp's adjutant asked again: "Then shall our fleet sail back upstream to bombard the reinforcements of the Chinese Revolutionary Army?" Marton Tropp looked toward the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
Look, and then shook his head, he said: "My son, you must understand that the war has reached this level, there is no suspense anymore, our joint attack plan has failed, even if it kills more porcelain
Chinese
People cannot help us successfully enter Nanjing, let alone capture Hangzhou. The only thing we can do now is to retreat as soon as possible before we run out of ammunition and food." He looked back at the main mast, and then
He ordered the adjutant: "Change the signal light and order the squadron upstream to come to us immediately and join the main fleet. Then send people ashore to notify the Japanese and ask them to get on the ship quickly. I will only give them three hours."
Soon after the Dutch fleet discovered the reinforcements of the Chinese Revolutionary Army upstream, Zhang Huahan also received a report from the soldiers. Now he could finally let go of his hanging heart. Although the Chinese Revolutionary Army successfully relied on the commander's flag and bugle,
The guidance gathered together again, and firmly guarded the southern border.
Half of the position, but after all, they suffered too much loss, lacked ammunition, and had many wounded. Therefore, if the reinforcements could not arrive in time, Zhang Huahan might have to order the entire army to retreat. The reinforcements mobilized by Wang Fuzhi and others totaled 20,000
There were 7,000 people in the vanguard who first arrived at the position.
Although there were only 7,000 reinforcements, the soldiers of the Chinese Revolutionary Army on the entire position immediately had high morale from bottom to top. In their view, those 7,000 people were not holding torches, but hope and courage.
Originally, the Chinese Revolutionary Army and the Japanese army fought extremely fiercely and had insufficient remaining strength. However, the Chinese Revolutionary Army had such effective support, which was like the straw that broke the camel's back. The victory or defeat was already determined.
Zhang Huahan quickly sent someone to contact Shi Lang, and sent Zhao Feng to take command of the reinforcements. More than a hundred soldiers of the personal army were all killed, and Zhao Feng no longer had to continue to be the captain of his personal army. Although Zhao Feng was mentally ill,
However, he is a fierce general and is capable of being a mid-level officer. After dispatching Zhao Feng, Zhang Huahan, Mo Xiao and Pan Hongtu took advantage of the rare opportunity to organize the soldiers to reorganize their formation and prepare to launch a counterattack against the Japanese army.
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When Zhang Huahan and others organized soldiers of the Chinese Revolutionary Army to prepare for a counterattack, the Japanese army fell into panic and chaos. They never expected that the Chinese Revolutionary Army would have reinforcements and that they would arrive at this time.
, and the Chinese Revolutionary Army guarding the position is apparently gathering and seems to be launching a counterattack.
Panic quickly spread among the Japanese troops. Without waiting for any orders from the officers, some Japanese soldiers retreated one after another. You pushed me and you pushed me to the river. Standing on the river bank, I looked towards the river.
shouts of the Dutch convoy.
The Dutch transport fleet had just received an order to assist the Japanese army in retreating, so their response was a step slower than that of the Japanese army. After more than 5,000 Japanese troops crowded the riverside, the Dutch transport fleet docked at the riverside and lowered their boats.
, preparing to take the Japanese troops back to the ship.
Although the Japanese general, Matsudaira Nobutsuna, was in a panic, he had to act calm in the face of danger. He rode on the purebred Arabian white horse, holding the reins in his left hand and carrying the samurai in his right hand.
Knife, running around among the noisy soldiers, shouting loudly
Those timid soldiers ordered them to return to their respective positions and hold on. But what made him very embarrassed was that those soldiers had no intention of stopping at all. They either walked around from a distance, or simply used their weapons to
The weapon was used to threaten officers who were trying to stop themselves from escaping.
Although only a small part of the Japanese army was shaken, their chaos caused the entire Japanese army position to fall into chaos. People in the Japanese army were panicked, and panic spread among the Japanese army. Zhang Huahan, who paid close attention to the Japanese army position, knew it clearly
were aware of the chaotic state of the Japanese army, and also saw that that day
The Japanese army seemed to want to escape. He knew that the opportunity was not lost, so he quickly ordered the Chinese Revolutionary Army troops in offensive formation to immediately launch a counterattack against the Japanese army. As the attack horn sounded, 22,000 Chinese Revolutionary Army soldiers raised their voices.
Armed with fast rifles with bayonets attached, they braved the sporadic bullets on the Japanese position and launched an attack.
"Kill the Japanese pirates, kill!" "Come on! Avenge the brothers who died in the battle!" I don't know who shouted first, and suddenly the entire charging army of the Chinese Revolutionary Army burst out with shouts of killing, and the entire position
In addition to the sound of gunfire, there were also shouts of killing mixed inside. The soldiers of the Chinese Revolutionary Army were hunched over and lined up.
The dispersed formation quickly ran towards the Japanese position on the opposite side, shouting. Soon, under a burst of rapid fire from the Chinese Revolutionary Army's charge troops, the soldiers on the first line of defense of the Japanese army who had not yet engaged in close combat were
Then they turned around and fled. The soldiers of the Chinese Revolutionary Army quickly broke through the Japanese army's first line of defense.
Also attacking with the infantry of the Chinese Revolutionary Army were the artillery. They carried their horses and moved more than a hundred cannons brought by the 60 small warships to the riverside. When the infantry of the Chinese Revolutionary Army in front captured some Japanese troops
After the position, the artillerymen immediately set up the cannons, and then
Use the most intense firepower to fire at the Dutch transport fleets assembled on the riverside. At the same time, the Chinese Revolutionary Army naval fleet led by Shi Lang upstream also began to rush downstream, and soon became entangled with Dutch warships.
This prevented them from rushing to support the transport fleet on the shore.
Under the fierce artillery fire of the Chinese Revolutionary Army, dozens of Dutch transport ships were immediately knocked up and down. Seeing that the situation was not good, they ran towards the river one after another, until they were out of the effective range of the Chinese Revolutionary Army's cannons.
Seeing that there was no way to escape, the Japanese troops crowded on the riverside had to turn around again and fight the Chinese revolutionaries who were pressing up.
The soldiers of the Ming Army launched a fierce battle. However, at this time, the Japanese army was completely in chaos. They were in a scattered formation and could no longer organize an effective defense. Therefore, when the 7,000 new troops commanded by Zhao Feng arrived to support the position,
After entering the war, a heavy weight was immediately added to the balance of war victory, and the Japanese army's defeat was determined.
The Dutch battle fleet saw that the fighting on the shore had resumed, and the Japanese army's retreat was cut off by the ground forces of the Chinese Revolutionary Army. They had to use most of their warships to fight Shi Lang's war fleet around them, and at the same time they had to withdraw some of their warships and sail
Near the river bank, the ship's naval guns were used to suppress the artillery fire of the Chinese Revolutionary Army Army Artillery, in an attempt to cover the transport fleet approaching the river bank and meet the Japanese army.
The smoke filled the air and the flames of war raged, and the battle entered the most brutal stage. Both the Japanese soldiers and the soldiers of the Chinese Revolutionary Army fought with all their strength. The Japanese army was trying to retreat and escape, while the Chinese Revolutionary Army was trying to annihilate all the Japanese troops.
, so the battle was extremely fierce. In the smoke, the sound of gunfire, shouts of death and screams were intertwined. Broken limbs and flowing flesh and blood filled the entire battlefield, becoming a dark Shura hell.
In order to cooperate with the land battle of the Chinese Revolutionary Army, Shi Lang transformed the sixty small warships transporting artillery into fire attack ships. He immediately dispatched these sixty fire attack ships and rushed into those ships despite the fierce gunfire of the Dutch warships.
Shelling by the river
Among the Dutch warships of the Suppression Army, under the rumbling bombings and soaring flames, sixty fire attack ships destroyed seventeen Dutch warships and severely damaged seven Dutch warships, making the Dutch have no control over the land.
The artillery fire was reduced by most.
Seeing that the fire attack was effective, Shi Lang ordered his subordinates to convert all the heavily damaged Chinese Revolutionary Army warships into fire attack ships, preparing to use fire attack ships to attack the main Dutch battle fleet again. Seeing the Chinese Revolutionary Army naval fleet in front of him
Going crazy, the supreme commander of the Dutch fleet, Marton Tropp, wanted to reduce
In order to reduce losses, he had no choice but to order the entire fleet to evacuate here and keep a distance from the naval battleships of the Chinese Revolutionary Army. Looking at the farther and farther river bank, listening to the shouts of death coming from the bank, Marton Tropp's adjutant
Asked Marton Tropp: "Mr. General, do we ignore those Japanese?"
Marton Tropp said calmly: "Now we have to abandon our former allies! For the benefit of the Netherlands, we can only do this." Marton Tropp's adjutant asked: "But we can do nothing.
Didn’t get it? If you retreat like this, I’m afraid the parliament will be in trouble with you.”
Marton Tropp put the sword in his hand back into the scabbard. He looked at the fire on the battlefield in the distance and said: "This military adventure was originally a gamble. It is a pity that we lost." He
He sighed and continued: "You know, our strategy in the Netherlands should be to occupy the maritime traffic arteries and control the world's maritime trade, because our country is too small, and resources and manpower are problematic. We have no way to conquer it.
Any major land country, and
Instead of staying here and struggling in vain, it is better to return immediately and protect our maritime interests. All I can say now is that the members of the parliament and the company's top executives have been blinded by the Japanese's rhetoric, and they have only seen the surface of the problem.
, without seeing the essence of the problem. If we in the Netherlands want to continue to be the hegemon of the ocean, then we must abandon those land disputes that are dragging us down, put all our minds on the ocean, and seriously operate our fleet."
"Are we just going to leave like this?" Marton Tropp's adjutant was obviously still a little unwilling, "But we also suffered a lot of losses. What makes me especially angry is that those damn British guys actually secretly
If we slip away, they will definitely publicize our failure everywhere."
"If we don't retreat now, we will suffer greater losses. As for those British guys, we will have a chance to deal with them in the future!" Marton Tropp pointed towards the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, "Look back
Look, those porcelain Chinese's so-called Chinese revolutionary army's naval fire attack ships composed of pirates and civilians rushed down again. Have you ever seen such a crazy team composed of pirates and civilians? They are completely crazy.
, they are no longer fighting
, they are going to perish with us! Our losses have already been huge, and I don’t want to suffer any more losses. I just hope that my sailors can return to the Netherlands safely and reunite with their families!” After that, he carried the words on his back.
Start walking to the back armor
On the helm of the board, he ordered: "Hang up the signal light and order all ships to change course immediately, sail eastward, and withdraw from this cursed battlefield!" "Where are we going?" Marton Tropp's
The adjutant asked, "To Batavia?"
Marton Tropp thought for a moment and said: "No, we are not going to Batavia. Our ship is seriously damaged and there must be a place where it can be repaired. Let's go to Formosa (Taiwan) first. We will go to Formosa (Taiwan) this time.
It was the Zheng family who played a leading role in the battle. Although the Zheng family took Formosa (Taiwan) from our hands, for various reasons, they have now established a certain friendly relationship with us.
, we can go there to repair the ship and replenish some food and water. Although it is more expensive, we can also complete other tasks. Then we will sail to Batavia to escort the ships carrying spices.
He paused for a while and then said softly: "Even if we rush to Batavia without stopping, we will still be many days late. I wonder if the spice fleet has left Batavia?"
Mukai and Tadayoshi Sakai stood blankly by the river, watching the Dutch ships leave. They couldn't believe that they had been mercilessly abandoned by their allies. They shouted desperately to the river, hoping that the Dutch would
Hearing their voices, I hope they will be kind enough to transport Japanese troops back to Japan.
But their efforts were in vain. The Dutch fleet moved further and further away, and the lights hanging on the stern of the ship became darker and darker. After floating on the river for a certain distance, they finally disappeared from the river completely.
More than a dozen small boats gradually approached the river, and they were filled with Japanese soldiers. They were part of the soldiers who had boarded the Dutch transport ship, but the Dutch drove them all back when they retreated. However, the Dutch finally managed to
It saved some face for the allies and did not throw them all into the water.
Looking at the Japanese soldiers wading ashore in a state of confusion, Mukai suddenly felt a little dizzy. He couldn't believe that all of this was true. He would rather believe that it was just a dream, a nightmare.
"Ahem! What are you doing standing here? Are you all scared out of your wits?" Matsudaira Nobutsuna's violent voice came from Mukai's ears, startling him, and at the same time waking him up from his reverie.
After returning to reality in his imagination, he soon found that he was completely in a real nightmare, because behind him there were flashes of guns, the screams of Japanese soldiers, and the encirclement of the Chinese Revolutionary Army.
It has started to shrink.
Sakai Tadakiyo was obviously a little calmer than Mukai. He grabbed the girth of Matsudaira Nobutsuna's saddle and shouted to Matsudaira Nobutsuna: "Your Majesty, General, please give the order to break out and retreat! Take advantage of the fact that the east side has not been occupied yet.
If the enemy forces block it, our army can still successfully retreat.
!" Hearing what Tadaki Sakai said, Mukai also woke up. He is General Tokugawa's staff, and he is the most confidant. He also has to make suggestions for General Tokugawa. He doesn't want to die. He got here first.
He also shouted at the top of his lungs: "Please give the order!"
After hearing the words of the two men, Matsudaira Nobutsuna's eyes widened, and he shouted violently: "Am I a person who is afraid of death? For the sake of your Excellency, the General, I will die here!" Mukai begged: "General, please think about it.
, if we are wiped out by the Chinese, then who can go back to defend the general? Without the deterrence of these troops, those dissatisfied daimyo will definitely attack the general!"
Matsudaira Nobutsuna was stunned. He had obviously never thought about this problem, but then he remembered his mission. He was unwilling to go back and face the general's rebuke. He said: "I will not retreat with the reputation of failure."
After softening, he hurriedly said: "General General, you can't just think about yourself, you must think about the remaining 20,000 soldiers, so you must order a retreat!" In fact, there are still more than 10,000 disabled people.
Japanese soldiers, but they were all abandoned by Japanese officers.
Mukai said: "If the general agrees, our army should immediately retreat to the east. Not far to the east, there are several very wealthy cities in China, among which Suzhou is the richest. It is not far from here. If everything goes well
, our army can arrive within two days. When our army captures Suzhou, our army will stand firm there and wait for reinforcements from the country."
Matsudaira Nobutsuna had no idea at all. He took out the map that Mukai had given him from his arms and asked, "Show me that Suzhou." Mukai has been in China for many years, so he naturally has a lot of knowledge about China's maps.
Otherwise he would not be able to draw a rough map of China's coastal cities and other cities. He ordered a soldier to stand beside him holding a torch. He took the map, searched for a moment on it, and then drew the map of Suzhou.
Point out the location to Matsudaira Nobutsuna.
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