Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1081

[Chapter 1071 Burning Jakarta]

Stephen looked desperately at the imperial soldiers rushing towards the trench like a tide.

Under the bombardment of artillery shells, the soldiers hiding in the trenches suffered heavy casualties. In order to avoid being killed by the artillery shells, many Dutch soldiers hid in the earth caves again.

But now the imperial soldiers launched a charge, and they had to get out of the hole to resist, but when they showed their heads again, the machine guns fired again, making them miserable.

What was even more frightening was that under the cover of machine guns, the imperial soldiers quickly rushed to the trench. Facing the Dutch soldiers in the trench, they dropped grenades, which caused the defensive force in the trench to immediately collapse.

Simon and Eivor were both faced with this dilemma at the moment. Without strafing weapons like machine guns, they simply could not use front-loading muskets to stop the charge of the Imperial soldiers.

The battle was doomed the moment it started. Facing the Empire’s cannonballs falling from the sky, they were once again at a disadvantage.

However, the existence of trenches and earth holes still retained a considerable part of the Dutch’s vitality.

After the Imperial soldiers rushed into the trench, a brutal hand-to-hand combat with bayonets began.

“Stephen, we must retreat. We won’t be able to hold on like this for long.” Simon and Ivor rushed to Stephen in embarrassment.

The bodies of the two men were covered with soil, which had been lifted up by bombs and fell on them.

“What are our casualties now?” Stephen asked.

“Just from the other side’s bombing, we lost 30% of our soldiers. The morale of the indigenous soldiers we trained has been shaken, and they will soon fall into chaos. In that case, we will simply not be able to withstand the empire’s attack with only the remaining Dutch soldiers.” Simon said eagerly.

Although Eifel was very sad, he knew that he might have to give up this last Dutch colony in Asia.

“I have ruled here for many years, and I am very familiar with the terrain here. Taking the remaining soldiers into the rain forest to the east, we can escape their pursuit. As long as we pass through the rain forest, we can reach Buer City a hundred miles away. We can Get on the merchant ship and leave,” Eifel said.

Stephen continued to look at the battlefield, where gunshots and grenade explosions could be heard from time to time in the trenches. This was Imperial soldiers clearing the Dutch soldiers in the trenches.

On the flanks of the trench, some indigenous soldiers climbed out of the trench and fled, but fell one after another under machine gun fire.

As the imperial soldiers continued to pour into the trenches and the defense lines continued to be compressed, Stephen said: “Retreat, destroy everything that can be destroyed in Jakarta, and don’t leave anything of value to the empire.”

“No problem, Councilor Stephen. Simon and Ivor said at the same time.

Then they blew the horn to retreat. Upon hearing this order, the Dutch soldiers in the trench climbed up the trench and retreated towards Jakarta.

On the King, Lei Ming was observing the situation on the entire battlefield. As soon as signs of the Dutch’s collapse appeared, he immediately issued a pursuit order to frontline commander Chang Yuzhu.

After receiving the order, San Yuzhu immediately led the imperial soldiers to intensify their offensive efforts. They shuttled through the trenches. They no longer fought with the Dutch soldiers with bayonets, but directly fired with rifles. At the same time, whenever they encountered a hole in the soil, they would throw grenades into it. .

They had just suffered a lot of losses because they had ignored the cave. After they rushed over, some Dutch soldiers suddenly rushed out of the cave and attacked them from behind.

“Hurry! Hurry! Don’t waste time with these Dutch people, stop fighting with their fucking bayonets.” Chang Yuzhu cursed.

The Dutch in front of them were provocative with their bayonets, and the imperial soldiers often couldn’t help but go up and make gestures with their bayonets.

However, although they were proficient in bayonet skills, the size and physique of the imperial soldiers were still somewhat different from those of the Dutch, so they could not gain much advantage in bayonet fighting.

But in this way, the speed of the attack was delayed. Seeing the Dutch officers retreating with their soldiers, San Yuzhu became even more anxious, because according to their war experience, these colonists would take away a large amount of wealth from the city and destroy everything before retreating. Something they can destroy.

This situation will make their war benefits much smaller, and they will also lose a lot in the settlement after the war.

The soldiers also came to their senses at this time. These Dutch soldiers who were still resisting were clearly meant to delay their pursuit.

After coming back to their senses, they loaded their bullets one after another and threw grenades at the enemy one by one. The firepower suddenly increased, and the Dutch soldiers suddenly couldn’t resist and retreated one after another.

Chang Yuzhu led his soldiers in hot pursuit. After fully capturing the trench, he led the leading troops to pursue the city of Jakarta.

Just when they were two hundred meters away from the city gate, a row of Dutch soldiers suddenly stood up on the wall of Jakarta.

A burst of gunfire rang out, and the imperial soldiers had no time to react. The soldiers in the front row were shot and fell to the ground.

“Everyone get down!” Chang Yuzhu shouted while lying on the ground: “First battalion commander, bring the mortars over quickly and hit me hard against the city wall.”

After a while, the first batch of thirty mortars attacked The cannon was brought over, and after a simple adjustment of the angle, the soldiers stuffed the cannonball into the barrel. As the sound of the cannonball piercing the air was heard, the city of Jakarta suddenly turned into a sea of flames.

In the explosion, stones from Jakarta’s city wall flew into pieces, and soon the entire city gate was blown down by mortar shells.

After breaking through the city gate, San Yuzhu raised his arms and the imperial soldiers rushed into the city again.

In the Governor’s Mansion, the three Stephens who arrived first were directing the soldiers to carry gold and silver, but the sound of the city gate collapsing suddenly made their expressions extremely ugly.

The imperial soldiers seemed to understand their intentions and gave them no chance of transporting their wealth.

Seeing the gunfire getting closer and closer, the Dutch soldiers kept running towards the Governor’s Palace. The three of them looked at each other unwillingly and

Stephen said: “Burn the Governor’s Palace.”

After that, he grabbed a soldier’s torch and threw it on the curtain of the window of the Governor’s Palace, and the flames suddenly shot into the sky.

At the same time, Dutch soldiers threw torches at valuable buildings, shops, granaries, and houses in the city. Everything that could be ignited began to burn.

During the fire, Stephen opened the boxes filled with gold and silver and let the Dutch soldiers rob them.

“Soldiers, these are our Dutch properties, take them all, now we are going to Bull City, follow us, let those bastards get nothing.” Stephen shouted.

To him, it was now the best way to preserve the wealth of Jakarta, which he would rather give to Dutch soldiers than to people from the Chinese Empire.

The soldiers cheered and carried the gold and silver on their bodies. They protected the three of Stephen and headed towards the east gate.

After leaving Jakarta, Stephen looked at the city in flames with a mocking smile, so that he would have an explanation even if he didn’t keep Jakarta and go back.

(End of chapter)