Chapter 738 Dutch Counterattack

If the rain that started the night before continues, it will inevitably lead to the large number of muskets and artillery in the hands of the Dutch being unable to play their due role on the battlefield. Then the horse and blue army, who are more adept at cold weapon combat, still have a greater chance of winning.

After all, the combined strength of the Dutch armed personnel inside and outside the city was only half that of the Horse and Blue Army. The two sides were engaging in hand-to-hand combat, so the superiority in strength of the Horse and Blue Army could easily be transformed into victory.

But for the Matalan people, God was so unfavorable that the rain miraculously stopped almost at the same time the Dutch landed at Batavia Port. Otherwise, the Dutch wanted to disperse the defenders at the port.

Weapons such as matchlock guns cannot be used, and it will probably take more time to complete the landing operation. This will also provide convenience for the Dutch's subsequent arson operations, otherwise under the continuous rain, they will want to put them down as soon as possible.

It is really a troublesome thing to set fire to dozens of warehouses storing war supplies in the port and hundreds of sailing ships on the shore.

If it hadn't been for such an unlucky detail, Lang Sang, the commander of the Ma Da Blue Army, wouldn't have been prompted to hurriedly mobilize troops out of the city for rescue. Even if it was only an hour or so later, the last stronghold in the city might have been occupied.

The horse beat the blue army and conquered.

However, there are no what-ifs on the battlefield. The horse-and-blue people were not able to conquer Batavia in the original historical trajectory. After experiencing the butterfly effect created by various time travelers in this time and space, they still fell short in the end.

The main force of the horse-defeating blue army rushed outside the city to fight in a panic, leaving insufficient troops to suppress the Dutch in the city who they considered to be on the verge of survival. This move laid the foundation for subsequent defeats.

The Dutch in the Council Castle went from despair to chicken blood. The state transition time was very short. As soon as the horse and blue army left, the Dutch found the stronghold of the castle with their back foot. They soon discovered the movement of the horse and blue army.

, Van Diemen ordered a counterattack without hesitation, biting the horse and blue army's baggage troops who were at the end and were trying to withdraw the artillery outside the city.

In order to conquer the barricades in Batavia, the Malta Blue Army had just transported all the artillery in the army into the city a few days ago. This also resulted in the defenders having almost no heavy weapons available when the Dutch landed at the port.

, and it was difficult to assemble to resist the Dutch who had just landed. Laden Langsang knew the Dutch's combat methods. After learning that there was a Dutch fleet launching a landing counterattack at the port, his first reaction was to transport the artillery in the city to prevent it.

The Dutch reinforcements approached the city of Batavia. However, it took a long time to reload the heavy artillery on the carriage shafts and transport it away, so the baggage troops responsible for transporting the artillery were pulled at the back.

Although Lang Sang also left more than 2,000 people to cover the retreat of the baggage troops, no one could have imagined that the Dutch counterattack would come so quickly. The Dutch only paid a minimal price and used musketry to disperse the unknown people.

Cuo's horse beat the blue rear troops.

The troops who were the first to rush outside the city to try to support the port were shocked to find that the Dutch had deployed a defense line outside the port in a very short period of time, and this line of defense had at least ten foot-chilling artillery pieces. But the port

The warehouses and sailboats were burning, and the Ma Da Blue Army had to bravely rush up. If these materials and ships were lost, it would be like draining the fuel from the bottom of the cauldron.

But the Dutch armed force that had just returned to the port of Batavia was obviously different from the exhausted remnants of the army in the city. Facing the counterattack launched by the Malta Blue Army, they responded in an extremely tough way. They were the first to launch the attack.

The charging team of a thousand men only rushed to a distance of 100 meters before they chose to retreat because they could not withstand the gunfire from the opposite side. More than a hundred corpses on the ground proved that this Dutch armed force was not bluffing.

If someone like Su Keyi, who is familiar with the senior officials of the East India Company, is present, he will probably be surprised to find that the officer who commanded the Dutch army in the port position turned out to be the man who was expelled back to Damuan Port due to poor negotiations with Haihan.

Van der Wegen, and Spikes, who had disappeared from public view in Batavia after the Battle of Ambrosia last year. These two senior military attachés of the East India Company who suffered repeated setbacks last year seemed to have long since faded out of the top ranks of the company.

But they miraculously appeared in Batavia Harbor at this time.

This is of course not a coincidence, but part of the military deployment adjustment plan that started last year. Cohen transferred back to Van Diemen to sit in Batavia, and then found an excuse to let Spikes and Van der Wegen leave here and quietly went overseas.

The colonial organization trained another armed force. Even people like Su Keyi, who had close relations with the top leaders of the East India Company, really thought that they were exiled by the council due to poor performance.

This adjustment plan was huge and complicated. In order to prevent the news from leaking out in advance, both Spikes and Van der Wegen had to temporarily disappear from the public eye with a humiliating image. Of course, this was not a punishment from Governor Cohen for their previous defeat.

.Although they may have been a lot unwilling when they left Batavia, when they led the fleet back this time, they knew very well that this was the best opportunity to clear their name. As long as this battle is won,

, no one will mention their previous failures in Fujian and the Ambrosia Islands in the future.

Seeing their own combat supplies being burned up bit by bit in the sky-high flames, it was obviously not a pleasant feeling. The Ma Da Blue Army did not hesitate and continued to launch wave after wave of attacks on the port. But because

Their formation lacks long-range weapons. This practice of purely relying on human lives to consume the opponent's ammunition is difficult to last for too long, and morale is also declining rapidly. Looking at this situation, Laden Langsang was naturally furious.

He asked his subordinates loudly why the artillery had not appeared on the battlefield for so long.

However, at this time, the artillery that had held back the Ma Da Blue Army finally appeared at the city gate, but it was not the Ma Da Blue soldiers who pushed it out, but a group of Dutch. They did not even have time to set up

A decent gun mount opened fire at the rear of the Ma Da Blue Army arrayed outside the city.

Although the Dutch only pushed four small-caliber artillery pieces to the city gate, this move immediately caused chaos among the horse-defeating blue army. Everyone suddenly realized that not only did they not completely capture Batavia City,

Moreover, we are still losing supplies to maintain the military's operations and operations. If we hesitate any longer, we may not even be able to return home.

Some officers tried to direct their troops to turn back and attack the city gate, because they knew very well that there were very few Dutch armed forces left in the city. As long as these stubborn people were killed, the Mata Blue Army could reoccupy Bada in a short time.

Batavia City. When the time comes, they can always get food by plundering the people in the city. However, if the Dutch outside the city want to recapture Batavia City, it will not be possible in a day or two. If the East India Company can be captured

senior officials, then the two sides might be able to sit down and discuss terms. Even if the Ma Da Blue Army has to withdraw, they can at least leave with dignity.

But more people couldn't think so much in this kind of chaos, and Lang Sang was one of them. The sudden change in the battle situation turned his mind into a ball of mush. At this time, he issued a second serious order.

The wrong order requires the army to recapture the port in the shortest possible time at all costs.

Although the Dutch at the port deployed some artillery, after all, time was very short, and the imperfect defense line was not enough to stop the large-scale counterattack of the Malta Blue Army. When the Dutch discovered that the Malta Blue Army was starting to get serious, they immediately

They chose to retreat rather than fight to the end. More than a dozen large warships docked at the port used naval guns to isolate a safe area on the port for the retreating companions. All personnel successfully completed boarding, and tried to prevent

Their horses beat the blue army but they did not dare to pursue them too close - although the range of the naval guns was not far, it was still far beyond the bows, arrows and short spears in their hands. A unit that chased too fast was incurring a cannon attack.

After the bombardment, the people behind wisely chose to watch the Dutch board the ship and leave.

At this time, the small number of horse and blue troops who tried to counterattack Batavia City did not achieve the desired results. The Dutch armed personnel in the city quickly completed their assembly at the city gate and used artillery to block the only way into the city in the north.

Avenue. Although such defensive measures pale into insignificance compared to the previous siege battles, the horse-defying blue army was obviously not in the mood to repeat the previous battle process at this time. At least more than half of the horse-defeating blue army immediately invested in it.

During the fire fighting and disaster relief at the port, they not only had to snatch supplies from the fire scene as much as possible, but also put out the burning sailing fleet.

Of course, the trouble didn't stop there. The damn Dutch fleet was lingering near the harbor. From time to time, it sent several ships to the shore to fire a cannon, specifically to bombard the waterline of those sailing ships that had not yet caught fire. And the horses

The number of armed ships deployed by the Blue Army at sea was extremely limited. Although they tried to drive the Dutch fleet away from the harbor, the effect was obviously not satisfactory. It was not until noon that the Dutch fleet sailed north and voluntarily left the battlefield.

At this time, almost all the warehouses on the shore should be burned, and the quartermaster began to carefully count the remaining supplies. The situation at sea was also in a mess. There were a large number of sailboats that were almost burned to pieces on the shore. It was conservatively estimated that there were

Hundreds of ships have lost their navigation capabilities in the fire and subsequent shelling. As for the human losses, it is difficult to count them in a short time. The price paid by the Dutch was surprisingly small, only two

A Dutch sailing ship was damaged and capsized while rushing into the port.

By the afternoon, the statistics of material losses had been roughly concluded. The biggest losses were the food supplies that everyone was worried about. More than 100,000 kilograms of food in three warehouses were reduced to ashes in the fire. Economic losses.

Secondly, for this expeditionary army, at least half a month's worth of combat rations are gone. And the food reserves currently in the hands of the Ma Da Blue Army are only enough to maintain this army for less than a week.

.This is also one of the main reasons why Tianma immediately approached the grain merchants after the Blue Army entered the city and asked to purchase grain from other places as soon as possible. However, compared with the situation at that time when there was still room for maneuver, the grain reserves at this time have been stretched.

The alarm sounded.

At this time, it is not impossible to return and attack the city again. After all, the resistance in the city is already quite weak and is not enough to stop the horses from attacking the blue army outside the city. Lang Sang can be sure that the Dutch do not even have enough manpower to allocate them.

For defense in other directions, the main force would probably be concentrated in the north of the city. But just when he was undecided, another piece of bad news came.

Of the thirty-eight cannons that were brought into the city in order to conquer the defensive fortresses in Batavia, only twelve are now outside the city, while the others were all intercepted in the city by the Dutch who launched a counterattack. They were also captured along with them.

What was intercepted also included a large amount of ammunition. During the siege, the Ma Da Blue Army was not even willing to throw all these precious weapons into the battlefield. It was not until after the city defense was breached that it took a lot of effort to put these heavy weapons

It was transported into the city, but in the end it fell into the hands of the opponent and became a tool to resist itself. This is really a great irony for the Ma Da Blue Army.

If they want to attack Batavia City again now, the Malta Blue Army will obviously pay a heavy price for this stupid mistake. And after experiencing the previous war, Lang Sang is not sure whether his army can really attack the city.

Within a day or two, the remaining resistance forces in Batavia were defeated.

If the food supplies were not destroyed by the fire, and if the Dutch fleet did not appear at sea, then Lang Sang could have taken the risk. After all, Batavia's city defenses were severely damaged, and even if the Dutch had guns and cannons,

It is also difficult to defend. But now the Ma Da Blue Army only has about a week of supplies on hand, and there is a ghost-like fleet on the sea that may appear from behind to attack at any time. Lang Sang is really not sure whether his army can withstand such attacks from both sides.

The battle situation. But Lang Sang is really unwilling to retreat like this. This kind of opportunity may be difficult to come by again in the future. Even if the Horses and Blues can make a comeback in a few years, they may not be able to break through like this time.

The city of Batavia.

Before Langsang could make a decision, the Dutch fleet approached the port of Batavia again that afternoon and had a small-scale confrontation with the Materan fleet. The Dutch fleet, which had the advantage in weapons, sank one ship and wounded three others.

After the horse hit the blue warship, it quickly left the battlefield, and the damage it suffered was basically negligible compared to the horse fighting the blue fleet. Such results made Lang Sang realize that the Dutch would probably never fight the horse again.

When the Blue Army engages in a head-to-head confrontation, they will use constant harassment tactics to drag the Horse and Blue Army into this port until they run out of supplies and collapse.
Chapter completed!