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They had already spotted ten strange ships approaching, but they didn't know that they were the iron-clad warships of Ming Dynasty.
In that era, there was no steam engine to drive, and they were all sailed warships. It can't be blamed for their ignorance.
When they saw the overall appearance of the armored battleship, they were even more shocked.
This strange ship clearly looks like a battleship, and the mouths of the huge naval guns at the bow and stern can already be seen.
Only then did they focus on the Daming Dragon flag fluttering in the wind on the battleship.
"It seems to be a Ming battleship, hurry up...fire, fire..."
"Boom"
"Boom"
……
The firing is the firing, but not their artillery firing.
Instead, 480 naval guns from ten armored warships of the Ming Dynasty violently bombarded the three forts of Batavia.
Numerous solid and blooming bullets poured down on the three Batavia forts like a torrential rain.
Immediately, thick smoke billowed from the Batavia fort and flames shot up into the sky, gravel, gun barrels, and human limbs and broken arms flew.
After a round of shelling ended, the Daming ironclad battleship quickly turned around, and another round of hundreds of shells bombarded the Batavia Fort.
The three forts were destroyed by the Daming ironclad battleship in a short time, the shore artillery was bombed, and all the artillerymen were killed.
Zhang Huangyan took a closer look at the Batavia coast with a telescope and saw that all the shore artillery had been destroyed.
But he was not at ease, and ordered the battleship to bombard the place on the shore where he could not see clearly,
Zhang Huangyan didn't put down the binoculars until there was no movement on the coast in this direction, with a satisfied smile on his face.
Then he picked up the walkie-talkie and reported the battle situation to Li Dingguo, the leader of the Longqi Special Forces.
"General Li, Batavia's coastal guns in our direction have all been destroyed by our fleet, and the Longqi Special Forces can land."
Soon Li Dingguo's excited voice came from the intercom:
"Okay, there's Governor Lao and the navy brothers!"
"The Dragon Banner Special Forces quickly landed. His Majesty ordered that all be killed except for the people of Daming."
With Li Dingguo's order, more than a dozen sail transport ships galloped from behind the armored warship to the coast.
"Hurry up, go back to the beach, the Ming Fleet is really here..."
The Ming people on the shore could no longer stop the attacks of the Dutch and the natives.
After seeing the Ming battleship shelling the Batavia shore artillery, they were both surprised and happy, and retreated to the beach one after another.
Property was robbed, relatives and compatriots were killed, not many of them shed tears, some were angry.
But when they saw the arrival of the Daming Dragon Banner and the Daming Battleship, their eyes were filled with tears.
They knew they were saved, and they were as happy as a wandering child seeing their parents coming when they were being bullied.
Now the Dutch and the aborigines also know that it is the Ming warship that is coming.
Although they were scared to death, they didn't believe that such a huge ship would land in the shallow water, and they were still chasing Ming people.
The water in this place is not deep, not to mention that armored warships cannot land, and large sails cannot land either.
But the Dragon Banner Army is the Marine Corps after all, so it has long been prepared for this.
The sailing warship and the iron-clad battleship put down assault boats that could seat more than a dozen people, and the boat quickly rushed to the shore under the forceful sliding of a dozen people.
It is impossible for the [-] Dragon Banner troops to land at the same time, and there are not so many small boats.
Li Dingguo ordered [-] artillerymen and [-] sharpshooters to land first to rescue compatriots, and other soldiers quickly landed in sequence.
Seeing that only a few hundred people from the Dragon Banner Army had landed, those Ming people still had no idea.
But after the two hundred sharpshooters landed, they immediately lined up behind the Ming people, aiming their rifles at the Dutchmen holding flintlock guns.
And the two hundred artillerymen carried the gun barrels, and the artillery shells transported the shells, and soon began to install mortars behind the sharpshooters.
The Ming people in Batavia originally hoped that Daming would come to save their lives.
Now I am a little dumbfounded, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are actually hiding behind them and forming an array.
The Dutch and the local aborigines felt relieved when they saw that only a few hundred people had landed for the time being.
They still decided to pack up together with the Ming soldiers, and then quickly retreated to Batavia Castle.
"Compatriots, retreat quickly or retreat to the left and right, and hand over these barbarians to us."
The commanders of the two hundred households lined up in a battle formation, and immediately called the Ming people to retreat to a safe place in front of them.
Before all the compatriots could evacuate, the Dutch and natives began to rush over.
The sharp gun Baihu reached out and drew out the sword at his waist and waved it in the air:
"Shoot and kill these beasts."
"Bang bang bang..."
The two hundred sharpshooters of the Dragon Banner Army aimed at the Dutch and pulled the trigger.
After the Chinese got the weapons, they were not afraid of the local natives at all. What they feared most were the more than 1000 Netherlandish musketeers.
These people are all experienced in many battles. Not only are they calm and cruel, they are also very accurate in marksmanship.
More than 500 musketeers under Zhang Han's command were killed by most of them when they were shooting at them, and now there are only more than 100 people left.
Because of the sudden arrival of the Ming warship just now, the Ming people took the opportunity to distance themselves from them.
This distance is already beyond the range of their flintlock guns. Seeing the Dragon Banner Army shooting at them from such a long distance, Lieutenant Nedland laughed contemptuously:
"Haha, a group of ignorant rookies from the Ming Dynasty who don't even know the range of their own firearms, so they have the nerve to come out and mess around."
"Puff puff puff..."
But before he finished his sentence, he suddenly saw the Dutch soldiers in front of him falling to the ground following the gunshots of the Daming Dragoons.
Many Dutch soldiers had their heads blown off, and some had large blood holes in their chests.