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Between the colonies, reinforcements are sent to each other, and the time is often measured in months.

The closest Dutch colony to Malacca is Batavia. There used to be nearly 500 troops there, but many ships sank last year, and now there are only a little over [-] left.The other few are all in India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). The average number of defenders in each colonial stronghold is no more than a hundred, and it is not enough to gather [-] people if they are all pulled over for rescue.

"Damn Van der Lin, he shouldn't have angered the Chinese!" Sanders was furious.

He is a councilor of the East India Company and one of the bigwigs, but he is usually stationed in Malacca, and his own representatives are also present at the council.Malacca is rich in oil and water, and Sanders managed to get this job, but before he got enough, he was attacked by the Chinese.

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing one's parents.

Instead of hating the Chinese, Sanders hated Governor Van der Lin.

"If there is enough food, are you sure you can keep it?" Sanders asked.

Hendrick: "The outer wall is too big. With our current strength, it is impossible to defend it. However, 180 people can still defend the core area of ​​the castle."

Sanders: "At critical times, abandon the outer city walls and stick to the castle to wait for reinforcements."

"Dang Dang Dang!"

A bell rings from outside the castle, which is a signal of an enemy attack.

Sanders immediately ran out and boarded the outer wall to check the situation.I saw hundreds of small boats paddling across the sea from the southeast to the west, all of which were disposable small wooden boats, which looked more formal than wooden rafts.There is no need for city defense artillery bombardment, and it is possible that a wave will overturn it.

"fire!"

"Boom boom boom boom!"

Both sides were firing guns, and the ships of the Tatung Navy continued to cruise and shoot at the outer walls of the Malacca Fort.The city defense artillery of Malacca fired at the boats in the sea.

Often when a shell hits, it is still two or three meters away from the boat, and the splashing waves will overturn the boat.

It doesn't matter if it is overturned, everyone can swim, just take the boat and swim back.

At this time, if the artillery wants to directly hit the sparse boats, the difficulty is similar to winning the lottery.

In fact, it was all a feint, and the boats were all hired Malay natives!

These Malay aborigines are not even eligible to live in urban areas, and live like dogs on weekdays.Just give them some food, and they can make them work hard.

When Portugal attacked Malacca, it hired thousands of natives at one time.

The Dutch fired for a long time at this time. Although the waves overturned countless boats, they only smashed and drowned more than 20 natives.

Although Kuang Hong has never fought a war, he has read military books and has some military theory.

Letting the aborigines row boats to feign an attack firstly consumes the shells of the Dutch defenders, and secondly paralyzes the Dutch defenders.

For several days in a row, the natives continued to row and attack.Every time they were hundreds of meters away from the outer city wall, the aborigines couldn't hold back the artillery and retreated.

Rowing the boat quickly escaped from the range.

The Dutch paid for shells, while Kuang Hong only paid for food.

He went to sea this time to do trade by the way, and earned a lot of gold and silver.These gold and silver can also be used to buy food from the nearby countries of Wandan and Johor, so there is no need to worry about the problem of insufficient military food.

Gradually, the Dutch artillery became numb and fired at small boats at sea every day.The other Dutch defenders played counting lice while listening to the sound of the cannon,

He also complained that the quality of food had declined, and the worst thing was that he could not go to the city to find women.

North of the city, Mount St. Paul.

5730 Seven-Nation Allied Forces, plus 1000 Datong Navy soldiers, have all carried light bamboo ladders up the mountain.

They hide in the dense forest in the mountains and will not be discovered by the defenders.

The defenders were attracted by a feint attack at sea, and there were only 3 Dutch soldiers on the north side of the mountain.Moreover, after days of feints at sea, the spirit of the Dutch soldiers on the backing side has become a little slack.

"Enemy attack!"

Thousands of people approached the city wall in the woods, but they were only discovered tens of meters away. Moreover, someone on the attacking side accidentally slipped and rolled down the hillside, causing the movement to attract the attention of the defenders.

There are no artillery on the city wall here.

Because it was facing the hillside and the woods, the shells could not bounce, and the effect of firing them was not much different from shooting directly.

"Bang bang bang!"

Thirty Dutch defenders fired at random in the woods, and dozens of Johor soldiers ran away in fright when they heard the gunshots.

It’s no wonder that Johor was beaten and moved its capital several times. These Johor soldiers all held matchlock guns and everyone wore leather armor. As a result, some people fled when they met each other.

"Come on!"

Seeing the signs of exposure, the soldiers of the Datong Navy immediately rushed down the hillside, and some simply slid down the hillside.

"First comers will be rewarded!"

Among the seven-nation coalition forces, the Siamese prince Narai was the bravest, leading his army to charge with a spear in hand.

His two consultant friends are also fierce people.

Yang Dongkui was carrying a Chinese-style waist knife, and Hua Erkang was carrying a Western-style long sword. They followed behind Nalai and shouted excitedly. The two regarded war as an adventure game.

"Bang bang bang!"

As the distance got closer, the Dutch muskets shot more accurately.

Of the 3000 Johor soldiers, only a dozen were actually killed, but one by one they turned and fled.But this is a hillside, it's easy to get down, but it takes a lot of effort to climb up. In fact, it's safer to charge forward.

On the contrary, there are several small countries, sandwiched between "big countries" on weekdays, and the soldiers' fighting will is much stronger.

Kuang Hong stood on the top of the mountain watching the battle, and when he saw the situation, he cursed angrily: "Damn it, what kind of cowardly soldiers is this Johor country? This is their former capital, and they don't even know how to go all out to regain their old place!"

When the soldiers of the Datong Navy, as well as the Siamese soldiers, rushed to build ladders outside the city wall, the 3000 Johor soldiers had all collapsed, and the Johor prince took the lead in escaping.

No wonder there are very few Dutch defenders in Malacca, because the surrounding area of ​​the Malacca colony is all the territory of Johor.

Facing such garbage soldiers, how could the Dutch colonists station heavy troops for defense?

Chapter 703 [mafang]

More than 100 years ago, when the Portuguese designed the fort, they planned to build the Malacca Fort into an irregular pentagonal bastion group.

But the manpower and material resources here are limited, especially the stone is very difficult to obtain, the Portuguese finally only completed the central castle as planned.As for the other areas, the outer city walls are only being built continuously, and the outer city walls have not yet completely enclosed this place.

The Dutch occupied Malacca for nine years, continued the Portuguese fortification work, and finally repaired the outer city wall to the slope of Mount St. Paul.

At the same time, a bastion-like building (not very formal) was built on the east and west sides of the outer castle.For the rest of the outer city walls, there are only enemy towers with crossfire at the five corners.

In order to complete the original design drawings of the Portuguese and build a perfect irregular pentagonal bastion group here, it may take another 100 years according to the construction speed of the Malacca colonists...

At this very moment, the Eight-Nation Allied Forces on the attacking side were met with crossfire from two enemy platforms.

But to be honest, the crossfire of only 30 people still uses old-fashioned matchlock guns.

This kind of arquebus, which can fire two rounds in one minute, belongs to the top elite infantry.And the Dutch Army, except for Batavia, the garrison is slightly decent,

The other colonies are full of garbage.They were former adventurers, hooligans, and even tramps.With a meager salary, he does not train all day, and occasionally goes to the city to work to earn extra money. He can shoot a bullet in 2 minutes and is considered qualified.

Let’s take an average of one bullet every 1.5 minutes. If these 30 people are all regarded as sharpshooters, and the firing rate of the matchlock gun is 100%, it will take 6 minutes to kill 120 siege soldiers.

What is the death of 120 people in an attack of thousands of people?

The actual situation is that when the soldiers of the Datong Navy began to climb the city wall, the casualties of the siege party were less than 50, including those who fell down the hillside and were injured.

It is a pity that all 3000 soldiers of Johor, which sent the most troops, collapsed.

Under the influence of the Johor soldiers, more than half of the soldiers of Sumatra fled inexplicably.Then it became a chain reaction, and soldiers from Da Ni, Ding Jialu and other countries followed suit.

Because the hillside on the north side of the city wall was covered with bushes, the Dutch didn't bother to clean it up.It is difficult to see each other's actual situation clearly among the various units of the coalition army, and it is also difficult to know the strength of the defending side's firepower during the battle.Anyway, I heard the gunshots and saw the largest number of Johor soldiers collapsed. I subconsciously thought that my side was defeated, so I bluffed and followed the crowd and fled.

"Bang bang bang!"

The cross vigor of the Dutch defenders continued, but was noticeably sparse and unkempt.

The outer city wall is very low, and with the help of pillars, it is easy to climb up.Seeing that the siege party was about to ascend the city, the three Dutch soldiers guarding the enemy's platform became more and more flustered, and they couldn't even fill the ammunition normally.

"Reinforcements, quickly request reinforcements!"

"Come on, come on, hold on for a few more minutes!"

Nearly a hundred Dutch defenders on the east and west sides are running towards this side.But Kuang Hong's attack was too sudden, and the Dutch commander needed time to react, and it was probably too late at this time.

But it still came. The first batch of more than two Dutch soldiers rushed to the enemy station in the north for reinforcements, and fired at the siege soldiers in a panic.

"Old grandson!"

The first Datong army to ascend was Sun Junsheng from the Shanghai Fleet. He was shot and fell to the ground before he could gain a firm footing.

Lao Sanjin was climbing the ladder, watching Sun Junsheng's body fall down while wiping his left arm.Under his hissing and roaring, his eyes were red, and he climbed up at a faster speed.

Both of them were from the Yangtze River Navy. Half of the navy was abolished before, some were converted to post office officials, and some were converted to naval soldiers.They have been comrades in arms for many years, and they didn't get hurt when they killed the tartar, but they didn't expect Sun Jun to die overseas.

Two more soldiers climbing the city fell, and Lao Sanjin finally climbed up the city wall.

He carried a flintlock on his back, a bayonet and ammunition pouch at his waist, and a relatively thin waist knife.

At this moment, Lao Sanjin pulled out his waist knife and charged towards the Dutch defenders on the enemy platform.There are more than a dozen Dutch soldiers here, all the bullets have been fired,

The panic is all in the process of filling.

"Quick retreat!"

Finally, a low-level Dutch military officer yelled and fled.

The outer city wall was too long, and it was not something the 180 defenders could take care of.Distributed to each enemy tower and bastion, there are only a dozen people in one place on average, how can it stop thousands of enemies from attacking the city?

Lao Sanjin quickly chased after him, hacking down one of them with one blow. This is a bad guy who didn't retreat in time.

On the other side of the enemy platform, soldiers from the Datong Navy also climbed up, just in time to block the retreat of the dozen or so Dutch defenders.After some fighting, only three Dutch soldiers managed to escape, and fled directly into the bastion further away.

Lao Sanjin led his men to chase after him, but he encountered a burst of bullets head-on, and four Datong soldiers fell instantly.

"Withdraw the enemy station just now!"

Lao Sanjin yelled and led the people to retreat in a hurry.The bastion in front of him is really difficult to break through, and a forcible attack is purely fatal.

Another enemy tower, Siamese prince Narai, has also ascended the city.Behind him were Yang Dongkui and Hua Erkang, two adventurers and rangers, one in the middle and one in the west. The three of them formed arrows and rushed out, hacked down several people one after another, and finally occupied this place.

Looking back at this time, Nalai saw that apart from the Siamese army, the troops of other countries that cooperated with the troops had already collapsed by [-]% to [-]%.

Na Lai sneered disdainfully: "Coward!"

maritime.

At the moment when the siege battle started, Hong Xu put down the binoculars: "Fire the cannon, the whole army will attack, and the sailors will also take up weapons to attack the city!"

There is still a difference between sailors and sailors. Sailors generally do not participate in battles.

But most of the sailors were sent to the north to attack the city, and the sailors had to go on top at this time.

Dozens of allied warships headed towards the outer walls of the castle from east, west, and south, firing shells as they advanced.The Malay natives in the sea were also rowing small wooden boats, rushing forward with great excitement, because as long as they climbed the city, they would be rewarded with food.

There are too many ships attacking the city at sea, and the Dutch artillery can't take care of it at all, not to mention that the northern city wall has been captured, and I feel panicked at this moment.If it weren't for the fact that there was a bastion on the north and south sides of the outer city wall, the Datong army that killed the city wall would have rushed to seize the fort.

In some places, the big ships will run aground, and the warships will put down the small boats one after another, and the sailors and sailors will row the small boats and rush towards the city wall.

In order to form crossfire, the outer city wall is also built in a pentagonal shape, and there are land gaps in many places.Under normal circumstances, if you want to attack the city from these gaps, you will be tilted by crossfire, which belongs to the hell zone of the attacking side.

However, the number of Dutch defenders is too small!

The Datong Navy, as well as the sailors and sailors of the fleets of various countries, and the natives who fought for food, after paying more than 200 casualties, the Dutch obviously couldn't bear it.

"Withdraw! All retreat into the bastion!"

Commander Hendrick hastily ordered.

The Dutch defenders retreated in a hurry, and before the artillerymen could destroy the cannons, they abandoned the city walls and ran away collectively.

Congressman Sanders has returned to the central castle at this moment.He saw that the Datong army ascending the city from the north, unable to capture the bastions on both sides, was entering the city along the ladder, and wanted to go directly around the bastions to attack the central castle, so he was so frightened that he immediately ordered: "Tell Hendrick to let him give up!" Outer bastion, block the passages, all retreat here!"

In this regard, the outer defense system of Malacca Castle was all captured by the coalition forces, and the Dutch could only defend the central castle.

"Good fight, good fight!"

Guang Kuanghong stood on the top of the mountain, observing the battle situation with binoculars, and at this moment he was so happy that he praised again and again.

The local Chinese leader Chen Erxun said: "My lord, the Dutch attacked here ten years ago and quickly occupied the outer city wall. But the Portuguese withdrew to the central castle, and the Dutch couldn't get in."

Kuang Hong asked, "How did the Netherlands capture this city?"

Chen Erxun said: "After more than half a year of siege, the Portuguese were so hungry that they left the city and surrendered."

Half a year of siege?

Kuang Hong felt a little uneasy. He was a diplomat and had no right to siege the city for more than half a year.