I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 504
  This battle was fought in a messy manner. Old Port and Malacca were captured in a confused manner. The Ming army even fought with the indigenous armies of Palembang and Johor, two countries that should be allies or even vassals.

On the Java Island, the situation was also chaotic. The Dutch reinforcements ran away without losing a single soldier. Batavia was completely reduced to an isolated city. As for Ma Dalan, who helped the Ming army fight the war and wanted to take advantage of the situation, a serious internal rebellion also broke out.

To be precise, it can't be considered a rebellion. It's just that the Matalang aristocratic landowners and Han rebels in Semarang, Cirebon, Katasura and Burangan joined forces to overthrow the Dutch, and then began to imitate the warlords. Separate and self-reliant.

Among them, Gadasula even proclaimed himself the Sultan of Mataram and actively requested to join forces with the Han rebels in Semarang. Although the two sides were of different races, they soon joined forces to fight against the Sultan of Mataram in Surabaya.

The two parties also had the foresight to jointly send envoys to Batavia to request the Ming Dynasty for canonization.

The Sultan of Matalan had no intention of taking advantage of the situation. All the Dutch in the Matalan country were driven away, but four separatist warlords were ushered in. Three of them came to compete with him for royal legitimacy.

There was also Semarang, which did not participate only because they were all Han rebels.

But in fact, the leader of the Han rebels in Semarang also called himself the Sultan internally, but sent the envoy Batavia to proclaim himself the governor of Semarang.

Most of the Han people in Java Island have been seriously assimilated by the local indigenous people, not by blood, but by cultural beliefs. Most of the Han Chinese and plantation landowners in Batavia were influenced by the Dutch and embraced Protestantism. The rest of the Han Chinese in Java, including the Semarang Rebels, believe in the Muslims of Java Island. The original Chinese beliefs such as Mazu and Buddhism have not completely disappeared, but they have long been integrated with Muslim teachings to form a new hybrid product.

This is also a helpless move. If they do not follow the local customs, it will be difficult for these overseas Han people to survive in islands such as Java, Borneo, and Sumatra.

Even the city of Surabaya, where Sultan Mataram currently lives, also has a large number of religions that have been seriously assimilated. Just hearing the name of Surabaya City, you can tell that it is not a name that this group of Javanese natives could come up with.

The Ming army had no time to deal with the chaos in Ma Dalan Country.

Outside Batavia, after more than a month of siege, the Ming army was finally about to launch a general offensive.

Old Port and Malacca have already been attacked, and there is no point in continuing to delay outside the city. Moreover, after the Ming army continued to test the lives of the Ma Dalan natives, the moat of Batavia was found to be impossible to fill.

The entire moat of Batavia is not only connected by nine twists and turns, but it is also an intricate water network, and it is also connected to the sea. It is impossible to fill in the moat of Batavia without spending a lot of manpower and time.

"Boom boom boom!"

On this day, the Ming army's artillery tested the city of Batavia without any warning.

With the hot air balloons constantly waving flags to guide them, the Ming army's artillery specifically targeted those weak points in the city and blasted them hard. The entire city wall defense became shaky in just a moment.

The Dutch in the castle were alarmed and quickly set up artillery to counterattack.

"Boom boom boom!"

The rumble of cannons was all that could be heard. The range of their artillery shells was completely inferior to that of the Ming army's artillery, and their momentum was not even as powerful as that of the Ming army's artillery.

On the contrary, the roar of artillery also exposed the position of one's own fort, attracting bombardment from several Ming army artillery pieces.

Faced with the destructive power of the Ming army's improved red cannon and sugar gunpowder, even the famous bastion was bombarded with constant roars and seemed to be on the verge of collapse.

The Dutch gunner could no longer stand it any longer and said to Commander Peter: "Your Excellency, Commander, the Chinese artillery has a longer range, higher accuracy, and is obviously more powerful than ours. Our artillery is simply difficult to withstand." .”

Peter also looked ugly, but there was nothing he could do about it. This was a gap in cannon-making technology between the two countries, and it could not be made up by the level of individual gunners.

Just one shooting range was an insurmountable gap for the Dutch.

Seeing that the artillery successfully suppressed the Dutch fort, Tang Tongjiang issued an siege order: "The whole army attacks, and the two leaders, Huang Ban and Chen Haifu, are ordered to lead the natives of Ma Dalan and attack first with the carts. The heavy armored infantry immediately set off. A, the rest of the infantry will follow. Before the sun sets, I want to see my Ming Dynasty's dragon flag planted on the tower of this city."

Huang Ban and Chen Haifu received the order to attack first and did not feel anything was wrong. As the rebels who fought with the Chinese army, they could also bring the carriages and command the natives to attack first, and they were covered by artillery from the rear. The Chinese generals were already giving them a lot of face.

Chen Haifu issued an order: "Rebel soldiers, listen to my order and charge! Attack the city!" Huang Ban was more pragmatic and directly drew his sword and shouted: "Brothers, kill all those red-haired ghosts, take back our property and land, and fight for us His wife and daughter take revenge!”

"Kill!"

"Kill all the red-haired ghosts."

"Ow ooh..."

The roar of the Han rebels, accompanied by the unexplained cries of the Matalan natives, led the Han-Turkish coalition of nearly [-] people, under the cover of carriages and artillery, to attack the city of Batavia.

Seeing the situation, the defenders in Batavia City were instantly shocked. The defenders who had been forcibly recruited by civilians had made up their mind long ago. Although the actual situation was different from what they expected, the Ming army did not give priority to the attack, but instead let the natives go first.

However, these civilian defenders of various ethnic groups did not care about Tunduo and ran away with the crude weapons issued by the Governor's Palace. Anyone who did not have the eyes to stop them on the way would be chopped with knives.

"Run!"

"The Chinese army is coming, Batavia can't hold it anymore!"

"..."

Many of the mixed-race defenders were afraid that the Ming army would not be able to capture the city of Batavia, so they actually ran away desperately while shouting at the top of their lungs and causing chaos on the city walls.

The morale of the people in Batavia had already been depleted to the extreme, but the war had just begun, and their own artillery was completely suppressed by the Ming army's artillery, and they were unable to fight back.

The friendly troops around them fled in large numbers even before the fighting started, and some were shouting loudly to create chaos.

At this time, even the numb slaves and Javanese native servants greased the soles of their feet one by one and squeezed under the city wall desperately, hoping to escape.

Several Ming army lookouts were stunned to see the hot air balloon high in the sky.

"Isn't this too vulnerable? How on earth did these Dutch people manage to roam the seas for so many years and conquer such a large area of ​​land?"

"Could it be that the natives of Nanyang are simply too aggressive and have poor combat effectiveness?"

It's very possible. After all, when they were watching from the sky before, they had seen the combat effectiveness of their own indigenous servant army. It cannot be said that they are useless, they can only be said to be worse than even a living wage.

Otherwise, it would not have been used only to cut down trees and dig soil, and to work for the Ming army to test the Batavia city defense.

"Stop talking and inform the general immediately. If such a war opportunity is delayed, we will all be punished by military law."

The lookouts came to their senses and hurriedly issued flags.

There was chaos in the city of Batavia. Tang Tongjiang got the intelligence and made a prompt decision. He directly ordered the heavy armored infantry to rush forward without waiting for the native servants and the local rebels to open the way.

And not only the heavy armored infantry, but also many tiger squatting artillery and shotguns were also pushed forward to cover their own troops in seizing the city.

Peter arrived late with the Dutch soldiers, and then he was really late. By the time he arrived with reinforcements, the indigenous servants and Han rebels had already begun to attack the city in large numbers.

In addition to most of the people on the run at the top of the city, there were actually quite a few defenders who were unwilling to submit. Most of them are of mixed Dutch descent, and they consider themselves to be Dutch, or mixed Han Chinese and civilians of various ethnic groups who have been completely assimilated by religion.

A bloody battle broke out instantly between the two sides!
  (End of this chapter)