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Chapter 501 The situation is chaos

The Ming army did not attack the city immediately, but camped on the outskirts of the city and built fortifications.

About half a day after the Ming army landed, the Han landlords who lived in the countryside of Batavia came one after another with rebel troops. They also gathered the fleeing Han people in the city.

The Dutch all knew that the Ming Dynasty and the British had bad intentions. Although it was not a massacre, they still expelled all the Han people in Batavia. The property of these Han people and their somewhat pretty female relatives were all plundered. Most of them were snatched away by the Dutch, and a small part were divided among civilians of other ethnic groups.

In fact, even if it hadn't been for this time, the Dutch would have been unable to bear it in a few years. In just the past two years, the Dutch have begun to impose heavy taxes on the urban area of ​​Batavia and the Han landowners in the countryside.

Because they were jealous of the wealth of the Han people and felt that this wealth should belong to them, regardless of whether such robbery would cause censure from Ming China.

To use an old saying, it is a typical example of doing big things but cherishing one's life, and seeing small gains and forgetting one's life.

"Caomin Huang Ban and Chen Haifu pay homage to the Ming Dynasty General." When Huang Ban and Chen Haifu saw Tang Tongjiang, they immediately knelt down and saluted respectfully.

They were respectively the leader and deputy elected by the Han landist army. Chen Haifu was from a prominent family among Han landowners in Java Island.

Tang Tongjiang, with a kind face on his face, stepped forward to help the two of them up and said, "You two martyrs, quickly excuse yourself. With your fellow rebels coming to help, I, the general, will not worry about being unable to capture this Dutch city."

This is indeed true, because Tang Tongjiang came to attack Batavia this time with the Fujian Navy, so there were really not many land combat troops, but the battleships were all replaced by newly built Ming-style battleships.

The actual army strength for landing operations was only 3000 troops, but they brought a lot of artillery.

These Han rebels had at least more than 2000 people, almost all members of the local Han landowners, and they also included those urban refugees who had been driven away.

The rebels composed of these refugees did not have to worry about loyalty issues, because all of them had their property robbed by the Dutch, and some even lost their wives and daughters, so they hated the Dutch deeply.

Calculated in this way, the Ming Army has a lot of land combat troops, 3000 regular troops, 2000 Han rebels, and 10 red cannons, as well as squatting tiger cannons, shotguns, and mortars.

On the first day of landing, the Ming army did nothing.

The more than 2000 Han rebels did not break up, but branched out to cut down trees and dig soil. It's good to build siege equipment, and there are sandbags and earth bags ready to fill the moat.

On the second day, 10 red cannons from the Ming army began to bombard the city of Batavia.

In the south, the Sultan of Matalan Kingdom, Bagu Buwono II, saw that the sky soldiers really came to fight the Dutch, and with the lobbying of the British, this guy finally made up his mind.

Of course, he was not determined to fight the Dutch, but planned to take advantage of the Ming army and the British to fight the Dutch and take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune.

The Sultan of Matalan was a typical loser in history. When the Han people were forced to break out in an uprising, this guy took the opportunity to join forces with the Han rebels and then tried to regain the country. Seeing that the Dutch were not easy to fight, he planned to retreat and fight. Dutch people talk.

As a result, even the citizens were angered, rushed into the Sultan's palace, drove away the useless Sultan, and welcomed his grandson as the new Sultan.

However, the Sultan of Mataram was somewhat self-aware and did not go directly to attack the Dutch city of Semarang. Instead, he went to join the Chinese army with a large army, intending to reap the benefits.

In this way, including the 3000 indigenous soldiers dispatched by the Matalan Kingdom, the current strength of the Ming Army directly exceeded the 8000 army.

These Matalan soldiers were basically the Tu-Bang coalition forces within the Matalan country, veritable indigenous troops, so they were directly sent by Tang Tongjiang to replace the Han rebels in cutting down trees and digging soil. The 2000 Han rebels followed the Ming army's training reserve training model and began to conduct simple training by Ming army officers.

Tang Tongjiang had no intention of attacking the city now. After all, the British had not arrived yet, and his troops were too few.

Although there are not many Dutch people in the castle, most of them are civilians, slaves, and indigenous servants, the bastion is not easy to fight. The Ming army only has 3000 regular troops. The remaining 3000 natives and 2000 rebels are still equipped with cold weapons, and the Ming army still needs help.

"Boom boom boom!"

Outside the city, the Ming army's artillery continued to shell, while the indigenous soldiers from Ma Dalan were sent to fill in the moat under the cover of earthen carts.

After a stalemate like this for half a month, the Dutch's bastion still had enough food, but the food in the city began to be stretched. Because they turned all the civilians and slaves in the city into defenders, so many defenders needed food.

There is not much food in the city of Batavia. In other words, the governor who founded the city did not consider that Batavia would be besieged for several months. Therefore, the food in the city is basically supplied from the surrounding farms, as well as from the sea. Ship transportation.

Now, all the Han people have been expelled, and the food supply in the city has been cut off. There is no chance of shipping by sea, because the outer sea has been blocked by Ming army warships.

Huang Ban was quite experienced and said: "General, according to time calculation, the food stored in these Dutch cities will not be enough for two months at most. As long as we can block the transportation of food from the open sea, there is no need to rush to fill the moat." , wait a month or two, and the city of Batavia will definitely be in chaos. By then, unless the Dutch in the castle take the initiative to provide food relief, but in this case, the Dutch in the castle will not have enough food to eat, and our army will only We need to besiege the city for a month or two, and we will surely win a complete victory without any bloodshed."

Tang Tongjiang said with a smile: "Then take your time and surround him for a month or two. Don't worry about the things outside the sea, the Dutch can't get in. The British will also stop us, let the Dutch suffer. Bar!"

In the next few days, the Ming army no longer asked the Matalan native soldiers to fill in the moat. These Matalan natives were all very happy.

Outside the entire city, there are only hot air balloons that rise every day, and artillery that roars from time to time.

The Dutch Governor Van Kroon, who was trapped in the city, and the members of the Parliament were already in despair at this moment. Although there was still food in the city and the castle was impregnable, they could do nothing.

Outside, the hot air balloons of the Chinese army are always staring at their city. Whenever there is a slight mobilization of troops, they will be immediately communicated by the opponent's flags, and then artillery will blast the area where the troops are mobilized.

Precision guidance, targeted strikes belong to yes.

While Batavia is still in a stalemate, fighting has broken out in Cirebon and Briangan.

The Matalan aristocratic kingdoms in these two lands heard that Batavia was besieged by the Ming army, and quickly revolted in series. Then they madly robbed the Dutch plantations and villages, and finally gathered thousands of troops to besiege Cirebon and Cirebon. Briand Castle.

The wave of uprising grew rapidly, and a large number of Han people joined in, and soon spread to the city of Semarang in Central Java.

The city of Semarang had not yet been conquered, but the Dutch colonial castle in Gardasura was first captured by the noble rebels of Mataram. After this noble rebel army captured the Dutch colonial castle, they directly executed all the Dutch, claimed to be of the royal blood of Matalan, and then established themselves as the Sudan.

At this time, the situation in Java Island became chaotic. Semarang was occupied by the Han rebels, Buriangan was a coalition of Han people and Matalan aristocrats, and Cirebon was completely dominated by the Matalan aristocratic rebel army.

Moreover, none of the four rebels listened to the orders of the Sultan of Matalan. The one in Gardasura even proclaimed himself Sultan and actively requested the support of the Han rebels in Semarang to jointly fight against the puppet Sultan of Matalan.

(End of this chapter)