Chapter 774 Nanyang Fan (6) Joint Operation of Land, Sea and Air
There was a firefight, or it couldn't be counted as a firefight at all. It was just a unilateral bombardment of the Holland by the Ming Dynasty's Dahei Ship. Anyway, it was six or seven kilometers away. The Ming Dynasty's Dahei Ship's naval gunfire tore open the Holland's starboard side.
Several large gaps were made, and the masts on the deck were also destroyed.
Now the Holland was completely unable to move.
In desperation, Tropp and Leint had no choice but to wave a white flag and declare surrender.
Regarding surrender, there are still obvious differences between Eastern culture and Western culture.
In the context of Eastern culture, surrender is a treasonous march and will be despised. If one surrenders to a barbarian regime like Jiannu, it will be infamous for thousands of years.
But in the context of Western culture, surrender is not a big deal.
Therefore, after realizing that they could not escape, the Dutch surrendered decisively.
Seeing the Holland hoisting the white flag, the Ming Dynasty's big black ship stopped shelling.
After a while, the Ming Dynasty Daihei Ship approached the Holland. At this time, the Holland's cabin had been seriously flooded, and the hull began to roll seriously, and it was already on the verge of sinking.
Seeing this, the Ming army immediately threw down the rope ladder from the side of the ship and began to rescue the Dutch sailors.
At the beginning, Tropp and Leint were still lucky, thinking that they might be able to take advantage of the Ming army's lack of preparedness to launch a sudden attack and seize the Ming army's big black ship.
But when they climbed up the rope ladder to the deck of the big black ship, they immediately gave up this idea.
Because the Ming army had been on guard against them for a long time. Not only did they have teams of loaded rifles on the deck to guard them, but they also placed several multi-barreled "flintlock guns". In the previous boarding battle, the Dutch Navy had already seen
The Ming army's multi-barreled flintlock rifles were so ferocious that Tropp and the others no longer dared to act rashly and could only remain obedient prisoners.
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After noon, the cruisers of the three major fleets of the navy rushed to the sea outside the Port of Relanja.
Tropp, Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands Navy, and Rear Admiral Leint were also sent aboard the Zheng He and brought to Chongzhen.
Chongzhen obviously did not have enough understanding of modern Western maritime hegemony. He had not even heard of Leint's evil name and just regarded him as an ordinary Dutch general.
Of course, it won't make any difference even if you've heard of Leint's name.
Because the world line of this world has been changed beyond recognition by Chongzhen, the so-called Western powers no longer exist in this world. There is only one great power in the world today, and that is the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, people like Leyint were not rare at all in the Ming Dynasty.
The only use is to build railways and send them to the bitter cold places in the outer northeast to build the Far Eastern Railway.
So after a few interrogations, Chongzhen ordered Tropp and his men to be taken into custody, and he would send them to the Northeast only after the merchant ship from Nanyang Company arrived tomorrow.
What Chongzhen is considering now is to destroy the city of Relanja.
Soon, the commanders and senior generals of the three fleets gathered on the bridge of the Zheng He.
When everyone arrived, Chongzhen nodded to Jiang Tian, indicating that he could start explaining.
Jiang Tianyi immediately asked two military officers and cadets to hang up the map. This map was drawn by bribing Dutch businessmen before. The accuracy was very high. It basically mapped out the defense deployment of Relanja City.
"Everyone, please see, this is the city of Relandja. Since the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Dutch have illegally occupied this place for more than thirty years. Before, our Ming Dynasty had internal and external troubles, so we did not bother to expel the Netherlands.
People, but now, our Ming Dynasty is no longer what it used to be, so we can no longer sit back and do nothing."
"The city of Relanja is actually a large gun platform."
"Of course, the Dutch call this a bastion."
"I don't need to explain the characteristics of the bastion. Everyone knows it very well."
Hearing this, the senior generals participating in the meeting all looked solemn. Of course, they knew the characteristics of a bastion or a gun platform, which is that it has extremely strong defense power and is particularly effective when used in conjunction with firearms.
The Huanghuai Defense Line back then, as well as the later Tianjin Guard and Gaizhou Guard, all relied on this kind of gun platform.
If it weren't for this blunderbuss, the Ming Dynasty might not be able to withstand the cavalry of the Jian Nu, and the Ming Dynasty would not be what it is today. It is feared that it would be destroyed by the Jian Nu before it had time to revive.
After a pause, Jiang Tianyi said again: "However, you don't need to worry too much."
"The defense of the bastion is strong, and its defense against ground attacks is very strong."
"Due to the obstruction of the field of view and the coastline, the destructive power of naval guns will also be sharply reduced."
"Fortunately, we still have the air force, which can launch attacks from the air without any obstacles."
Upon hearing this, all the senior navy generals present turned their eyes to Zheng Sen.
Zheng Sen immediately stood up and said: "The weather is very good today, the wind is not strong, and the view is wide."
Jiang Tian nodded, and then said: "Let's talk about the whole plan. First, the air force will cooperate with the naval gun group to destroy the Hongyi cannon at the head of the city of Relanja. Then the Army's 3rd Division will land and establish a divine artillery position on the beach.
After the artillery battalion clears the ground, they will then launch an infantry attack, striving to capture Rejelan City in one wave of attacks."
Chongzhen finally said: "Listen, this is the first joint land, sea and air battle in the history of our Ming Dynasty or China, so preparations must be done carefully, and there must not be any major mistakes. If someone misses a major event due to someone's negligence,
, it affected this joint operation, I will never take it lightly."
Chongzhen really attached great importance to this joint operation.
The reason is also very simple. This joint operation is an unprecedented attempt.
Chongzhen hoped to make this battle an epoch-making classic, and also hoped to lay a good foundation for future tough battles and reduce casualties.
Chongzhen's goal was to capture the city of Relanja with single digits or even zero casualties.
Of course, Chongzhen would not express this idea, otherwise it would cause pressure, but he really expected this in his heart, hoping that this time the battle of Relanzhe would be able to achieve zero casualties.
In another world, the armies of Western powers often captured China's coastal cities and even the capital with minimal or no casualties. In this life, Chongzhen wanted to return all this to the armies of Western powers.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The city of Relanja is just the beginning, followed by the strongholds of Western countries throughout Southeast Asia and even South Asia, then the strongholds of Western countries in Africa, and then Latin America
America and mainland Europe.
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There are actually not many Dutch soldiers in the city of Relandja, less than three hundred. The remaining more than a thousand are all mercenaries, most of whom are Japanese ronin, and there are also a small number of Sikh natives.
That's right, the total number of defenders in Relanja City was only over a thousand.
But the number of various artillery pieces adds up to a lot, more than a hundred cannons.
Moreover, most of the defenders were equipped with flintlock muskets, which can be said to be well-equipped.
But it is only well-equipped compared to other European powers. Compared with the Ming Dynasty, it is completely impossible to see. The weapons and equipment of the two sides are not on the same level at all.
At this moment, the defenders of Relandja City had received news that the Ming army was about to invade. More than 300 Dutch army troops and more than a thousand foreign mercenaries had all boarded the city and were waiting in full formation.
Kinoshita Hiroshi was once a samurai of the Shimazu clan of the Tokugawa shogunate. Later, because he offended the feudal lord, he fled in fear of crime. He took more than fifty ronin to Relanja City and became a mercenary, which could be regarded as a small officer.
Kinoshita Kan didn't care much about the coming Ming army, because his life in Relanzha City was quite comfortable in the past few years, and he even married a wife and gave birth to a son, so Kinoshita Kan didn't know much about the outside world and didn't know much about the Ming Dynasty.
The army did not understand even more. They thought that the Ming Dynasty was still the Ming Dynasty five or six years ago, and the Ming army was still the Ming army during the Japanese Rebellion in Imchen.
Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty's air force appeared over the city of Relanja, Kinoshita Hiroshi and other Japanese ronin were particularly shocked.
"What are these?" Looking at the dozens of airships appearing in the sky, Kinoshita Hiroshi was confused on the spot. "Are these the heavenly weapons borrowed by the people of the Ming Dynasty?"
"Heavenly soldiers?" The ronin behind him almost knelt down and worshiped.
"Shit, what kind of heavenly soldiers? That's a flying car of the Ming Dynasty Air Force!" The Dutch officer leading the team shouted sternly, "Listen, cheer up for me, and wait until the Ming army's flying car approaches.
Shoot into the air!"
The Ming Air Force has appeared on the battlefield many times, and it is not surprising for the Dutch to know about it.
The Dutch even thought of a way to deal with it, which was to shoot down the flying car with a rifle.
Although the cannon has a longer range than the flintlock, it cannot shoot into the sky due to its elevation angle.
As a result, the Dutch and foreign mercenaries at the top of Relanja City raised their guns and aimed at the sky.
After a while, the Ming army's flying car flew over the city of Relanja. Dutch soldiers and mercenaries opened fire one after another. There was a dense sound of gunfire, and the city of Relanja was instantly filled with smoke.
After a volley of fire, the gunfire suddenly stopped.
However, the Ming army's flying chariot high in the sky remained unscathed.
Obviously, the defenders' flintlock guns couldn't shoot that high.
Immediately afterwards, the Ming troops in the sky cut off the ropes on one side of the hanging basket.
The next moment, the 25-pound bombs tied to both sides of the gondola screamed and fell.
After many improvements, the flying car of the Ming Air Force has reached a bomb load of 500 kilograms, and can carry twenty 25 kilograms of high-explosive bombs in one sortie.
This time, 96 flying vehicles came out.
It carried 1,920 25-pound high-explosive bombs.
In a short while, high-explosive bombs landed on the top of the city of Relanja. The next moment, the city's head was bursting with red light, followed by thick smoke billowing up.
The smoke from the explosion immediately obscured the city.
The unlucky Kinoshita Hiroshi was torn into pieces by the air waves in an instant.
It was really torn into pieces. The 25-pound high-explosive bomb exploded at close range. It was simply too brutal!
In an instant, continuous huge explosions sounded from the top of the city of Relanja, and the explosions were faintly mixed with the screams and wails of Dutch soldiers and foreign mercenaries.
