1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 154 Levying Aceh ([-])
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The three cannons blasted out, and several projectiles hit the huge body of the war elephant at close range.

The war elephant wailed twice, knelt down on the ground in pain, panting heavily, and mouthfuls of blood flowed from the war elephant's wound and mouth.

The Aceh soldiers who were exposed behind the elephants were surprised to find that there was a trench in front of them. Although it was only 1.5 meters wide and [-] meters deep, it also prevented them from rushing into the camp quickly.

Then, behind a mound of dirt on the other side of the trench, a group of soldiers in black (navy blue) uniforms raised their muskets and took aim at them.

"Bang bang bang!..." A row of muskets rang out, and five or six Aceh soldiers fell down.

Before the Aceh soldiers behind could respond, another row of musket salvos sounded from the mound on one side of the ditch. This time, more than a dozen Aceh soldiers who swarmed forward fell down.

As more and more musketeers of the Hanzhou Marine Corps joined the firing queue, the Aceh soldiers who were still charging forward continued to fall in front of the trench. In just over ten minutes, the trench outside the Hanzhou Military Camp was covered with dead Aceh soldiers.

"Cannon for shotgun attack!" Niu Hu was also a little frightened when he saw Aceh soldiers charging bravely, and ordered the spearmen and short soldiers to be ready to fight at any time.

The Dutch military camp next door was in chaos, and the simple fence made of more than a dozen logs did not cause any difficulties for the war elephants.The thick elephant legs easily smashed through the fence and broke into the Dutch army camp.Several rows of muskets were fired, but did not cause substantial damage to the war elephants.Then, the first ones to collapse were the Dutch servants—the Javanese native soldiers. They threw down their knives and guns and fled to the rear of the camp.

Major Frost Fritz, the commander of the Dutch Army, called out to his officers at all levels to organize their subordinates to carry out effective resistance.However, the fleeing Javanese soldiers seriously interfered with the assembly of the mercenaries, and even knocked some panicked mercenaries to the ground and trampled them.

"Lieutenant Murphy, go to the shore to signal the fleet, we need artillery support. Immediately!" Major Frost Fritz grabbed an officer and ordered loudly.

"Of order, sir!" Lieutenant Murphy saluted Major Frost Fritz, turned around and was about to run towards the pier.

"Ah!" With a scream, Lieutenant Murphy didn't take a few steps, but a war elephant rushed up behind him and knocked him to the ground. Before he could get up, a thick elephant stepped on it firmly. .

"Oh, God!" Seeing this, Major Frost Fritz turned pale, and stepped back subconsciously.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..." In the Hanzhou military camp, three 4-pound cannons have fired two rounds. The dense shotguns knocked down the Aceh soldiers rushing to the edge of the ditch, and the rest of the soldiers Finally backed away.

"The Dutch seem to have collapsed!" Under the light of the fire, a wave of Aceh soldiers slowly retreated out of the range of Hanzhou's artillery. Li Fade sat half-kneeling on the ground and let out a long breath.

"It can't collapse!" Niu Hu raised his head and said, "Because it's dawn!"

As soon as the words were spoken, the artillery of seven or eight Dutch warships docked at the pier fired one after another, and the dense rain of bullets instantly covered the second half of the Aceh charge team, and countless bullets rolled and collided among the crowd.The mercenaries of the East India Company also formed a tight battle formation under the restraint of Dutch officers at all levels.They avoided the charging route of the war elephants, and fired round after round at the Aceh army behind them.

"You stay here, and I will bring a hundred musketeers to support." Seeing that the Aceh soldiers gave up their flanks, Niu Hu decided to take advantage of it.

Araudin was going to make one last effort to kill the group of Western soldiers gathered together.In this way, it may be decisive for the defense of the city later.Wielding a scimitar, he loudly ordered Aceh soldiers to rush forward heroically for the sake of the true God and kill all the heretics who blasphemed the true God.

This raid was originally planned by the instructors from Ottoman, and the attack was launched before dawn.But what is ironic is that just as the Aceh soldiers were driving the elephants to leave the city, an elephant collapsed at the gate of the city for some reason, preventing the army from leaving the city.

After finally clearing the elephant blocking the city gate, the sky was already light.However, the commander of Aceh resolutely ordered the troops to go out of the city to make a surprise attack.

Major Frost Fritz was a little panicked at this moment. Aren't these natives afraid of death?He commanded more than 100 musketeers gathered in four rows, shooting continuously.But the crazy Aceh soldiers kept attacking them. In the distance, under the command of Xiangnu, the war elephants had turned around and were about to charge towards them.

Oh God, I'm afraid I'm going to die fighting this morning!
Although the artillery of the battleship cut off the follow-up attack of Aceh soldiers, there were more than 400 Aceh soldiers who rushed into the Dutch barracks. They shouted "God bless" and then raised their scimitars, fearlessly facing the enemy. The Dutch made the most violent charge.

"Bang bang bang!" A volley of guns came from the flanks of the Aceh army, knocking down six or seven soldiers in the rear.Arauddin turned his head to look, and on the left side of the Dutch barracks, groups of Musketeers rushed out one after another.After they fired their guns, they stopped immediately and continued to reload.A group of musketeers behind crossed the front row, raised their muskets, and fired another volley.

Alauddin gritted his teeth in pain, this damned Muhaya, didn't he launch an attack on the barracks next to him?Actually let the enemy attack my rear team from the flank!

Whether to continue to kill the Westerners regardless, or to mobilize manpower to stop the group of musketeers in black clothes.

When he was hesitating, Niu Hu led a hundred musketeers to gather more and more, from only five people in the first row to 20 people in the last row, forming a standard five-stage shooting formation.

At this time, there was no need for the Aceh people to make any more choices. The muskets fired rhythmically row by row, and the Aceh soldiers fell one by one.Araudin clutched his chest and murmured that the true god was great and fell to the ground.The remaining 200 Aceh soldiers gave up their backs and ran back quickly.

"Bang bang bang!" With the last round of salvo, after seven or eight laggard Aceh soldiers were brought down, the camp of the Han-Dutch coalition finally stopped with the sound of gunfire and shouts of killing.

"Idiots, put down your guns, those are friendly troops!" Major Frost Fritz saw the terrified mercenaries pointing their muskets at the Hanzhou marines standing still in the distance, and couldn't help but I was so angry that I cursed, oh, God, thanks to their timely rescue.

Major Frost Fritz came to Niu Hu with several officers and thanked him very politely.

Although Niu Hu couldn't understand what the Dutchman said, he also understood that the other party was expressing his gratitude.He waved his hand, expressing that you are welcome.

Seeing this, Major Frost Fritz took out an emerald from his pocket and handed it to Niu Hu with a smile.

What, is this a sign of repaying the kindness of life-saving?Niu Hu froze for a moment, scratched his head, and took it, just to give it to my daughter-in-law to please her.He touched his body, and there seemed to be nothing of value.He took out the steel knife tied around his waist and handed it to Major Frost Fritz.

Major Frost Fritz smiled and reached out to catch the steel knife, patted Fearful Niuhu's arm, and expressed his thanks again.

A sudden battle before dawn, although the time was very short, less than an hour before and after, but its intensity was once suffocating, and even completely collapsed the Javanese servants of the Dutch.

Afterwards, as a result of the inspection, more than 180 casualties were caused by the Dutch Army, of which more than 130 Musketeers were killed or injured, which is considered to be more than half of the loss.However, the Javanese servants only died or injured more than [-], and even many of them were caused by fleeing for their lives and falling into the water.

For the Hanzhou Marine Corps, er, 15 people were injured, and some soldiers injured their fingers due to the hot barrel of the gun because of the nervousness of the battle.

"I suggest that the attack on Rapid Water Bay City be abandoned." In a combat assessment meeting held in the morning, Major Frost Fritz said dejectedly: "Half of the musketeers were lost, and the natives were also frightened. It is estimated that , It is no longer possible to complete the follow-up combat mission!"

Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bakona remained silent. Before setting off, the Governor also said that this was a tentative attack. If the Aceh people can be easily defeated, their city must be resolutely broken.

On the contrary, if the Kingdom of Aceh resisted fiercely and might cause losses to the personnel and property of the Dutch East India Company, then the action could be stopped.

Lieutenant Colonel Jamie Bacona looked at the other officers present at the meeting.Because the navy could not go ashore to participate in the war, it took an indifferent attitude.On the army side, the faces of several officers were full of fear, presumably because they were frightened by Aceh's crazy attack before dawn.

"What are they talking about?" Cao Xiong lowered his head and asked Second Lieutenant Andrew Florent beside him.

"Prepare...to stop the action." Second Lieutenant Andrew Florent shook his head and said.

"What, that was a waste of time!" Cao Xiong was stunned, because he was attacked by someone in the morning and lost some people.If we suffer a little, we will withdraw?
"Chao, do you think we should continue to attack or retreat?" Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona saw Cao Xiong and the naval liaison officer discussing in a low voice, so he asked him with a smile.

Yesterday, the heroic behavior of Cao Xiong and his two ships won his respect.

"Huzi, do you want to fight?" Cao Xiong didn't answer Lieutenant Colonel Jamie Bacona's question, but asked Niu Hu for his opinion first.

"When I was cleaning the battlefield just now, I roughly counted. There were as many as four to five hundred corpses left by the natives, and that doesn't include those who were bombarded by warship artillery near the city and died!"

"so……"

"So, in the first battle of the natives at dawn, there must have been about a thousand casualties. How many soldiers can they have left in this city?"

"I understand!" Cao Xiong nodded.

"Fight!" Cao Xiong said loudly: "And we must attack immediately! Take advantage of the heavy casualties of the natives, attack immediately, and don't give them time to breathe!"

The interpreter next to Lieutenant Colonel Jamini Bacona immediately translated Cao Xiong's words to him.

Yes, we suffered heavy casualties, so the casualties in Aceh will definitely be more serious than ours.

Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona immediately came to his senses, the Aceh soldiers in the entire Rapid Water Bay City did not exceed 1000 soldiers at most.A raid before dawn cost them at least [-] troops.So how many troops are left in the city!

In another time and space, the Dutch only lost two or three hundred people, and immediately gave up and continued to attack Aceh.Instead, they began lobbying to win over the Kingdom of Aceh to deal with the Portuguese together.

The fate of Jishuiwan City in the Kingdom of Aceh seemed to have suddenly turned a corner this morning, heading towards destruction.

(End of this chapter)