Chapter 356 Great Contribution

After the battle of Muzhai became **** and white, the battle on the other side progressed very smoothly. Four 60mm light field guns were pushed to a distance of only 600 meters, and they fired fiercely in the face of the Royal Dutch Army queue that killed a large number of indigenous captives.

  This is the **** tactic of the bayonet on the cannon. The cannonball fell into the crowd with precision and exploded, sweeping down a piece like an iron broom.

   More than a dozen shells went down, blowing up the neatly formed white Dutch soldiers to pieces, leaving more than 130 corpses and fleeing in a hurry.

The enemy formation in the encircling circle was compressed by steps, and a large number of terrified indigenous soldiers kneeled and surrendered. The final formation was compressed to a narrow area of ​​less than one kilometer, and the entire Dutch army in the encirclement was only 1,000. There are more than 600 people, almost half the number of white and native soldiers.

  The chubby Saikado saw that there were less than 800 of his 4,000 strong soldiers, and almost everyone was extremely exhausted. He had been beaten by the Queenslanders like a bird of fright, and his grief came from him.

  These manpower are all strong and strong selected from the tribal warriors. They have worked hard for more than ten years before they have their current scale. They were once beaten back to their original form.

  The Dutch treat themselves completely as cannon fodder. By the way, the same goes for the devilish Queenslanders. It can't go on like this.

   thought of here

  Secado looked at the lush tropical jungle on both sides of the road, maybe...this is the way for the indigenous people to survive, right?

  The tropical jungle during the day is not so desperate, better than facing the devil-like Queenslander's shiny bayonet.

  The biggest problem now is...there must be someone behind to stop the Queenslanders from chasing after them.

  Here

  Lieutenant Colonel Schmidt, who was directing his soldiers to storm the Muzhai Fortress, saw that the soldiers of the Royal Rifle Battalion also collapsed, and he was very annoyed;

  In another half an hour, I'm sure to be able to break this **** prison.

  But the enemy had already gotten to the back, he had to give up the victory he was about to achieve, and quickly organized the soldiers to turn around to form a new line of defense, covering the retreating native and white soldiers into the safety zone behind him from both sides.

  The current battlefield situation is like a pie, one layer on top of another.

  The main force of the group defending Muzhai fortress persisted for nearly 4 hours under extremely difficult conditions. The troop suffered heavy casualties and reduced its staff by more than half. Almost everyone alive was wounded, and the shells were all shot out.

  At this extremely critical moment, the enemy from behind suddenly stopped attacking, which reduced the pressure on the group.

A group of officers and soldiers heard the roar of the main force of the division attacking all the way. It was like a person struggling in the dark seeing the light at first sight. The officers and soldiers filled their bodies with courage and strength not knowing where they came from, and raised their guns to invade the wooden building. The enemy forces on both sides launched a decisive counterattack, knocking out the Dutch enemy in one fell swoop and re-stabilizing the Muzhai defensive line.

  The battlefield situation is like a kaleidoscope, changing every minute and every second,

  Since he had made up his mind to escape the battlefield, Seccardo immediately acted, passing his verbal commands through his confidants, and then quietly moved to the side of the dense forest, and got in.

  The battlefield situation is messy. The white militiamen and the soldiers from the Royal Rifle Battalion are regrouping, and no one notices this.

  By the time they were discovered, more than 800 indigenous soldiers had already escaped, leaving only more than a hundred indigenous soldiers guarding the back road with guns, and then fled into the jungle with the soldiers in front.

  The news was quickly reported to Lieutenant Colonel Schmidt, who immediately threw him into a rage. Unexpectedly, he was put together by the native servants and became cannon fodder for them.

  Count down;

  Only more than 760 white soldiers can continue to participate in the battle. Among them are militiamen and soldiers from the Royal Rifle Battalion. The Queensland army is staring at them and cannot get out of them at all.

  The situation is terrible now, almost to the last moment.

  The white soldiers saw no hope of getting out, and their morale was extremely low. It is possible that the Queenslanders would be disintegrated in one blow.

Lieutenant Colonel Schmidt doesn’t want to die here. He has beautiful wives and beautiful children on the island of Java, as well as several large-scale plantations with abundant production. As long as he escapes from this **** war, he can live a prosperous and peaceful life. Life.

  At this time, you should think about it for yourself, maybe it is a good way to escape along the channel opened by the indigenous people.

  He rolled his eyes and walked over to whisper a few words with the Dutch officers around him. Seeing the struggle on their faces, he patiently persuaded him, and finally obtained the approval of these Dutch officers and was willing to act on their own.

The other side

The main force of the Kalimantan division approached the Muzhai fortress, and it was possible to see a group of soldiers in front of him fighting **** battles. They were working hard to stop the large enemy forces from the direction of Symuda. The situation was not optimistic.

  Time is extremely precious for both sides, and maybe the situation will reverse abruptly in the next minute.

  In order to open the situation as soon as possible and meet the victory of a regiment, Colonel Koch decisively ordered four 60 light field guns to fire at close range, destroying the enemy’s final resistance will with shells.

   "Boom boom boom..."

The shells with shining firelight accurately fell into the enemy's position, and the explosion raised a large group of fire, carrying debris of mud and flesh and blood into the sky. Under accurate shelling, only the Dutch guards remained. The army collapsed unexpectedly, one after another kneeling to surrender.

  Inventory after the war;

  In the last blow, more than 230 white Dutch soldiers in the Muzhai Fortress were killed and more than 500 were captured. The main officer, Lieutenant Colonel Schmidt, and others were not among them. I don't know where they fled.

  After interrogating the white captives, it was discovered that some of the indigenous soldiers had fled along the tropical jungle under the leadership of Sedoka. The Dutch officer Lieutenant Colonel Schmidt and others ran away and could not be pursued.

  The current situation is critical and there is no time to chase down the remnant enemy.

  After the Dutch army discovered that the main force of the second division of Kalimantan flooded the Muzhai fortress, the last battle courage disappeared completely.

Knowing that something could not be done, the Dutch response troops from Semuda retreated like a tidal wave. In the open position in front of the fortress, a large corpse was left on the edge of the hills. The scarlet blood almost stained the entire land, looking tragic. Extremely.

  At this time, it was about 11:00 noon. Starting at 5 o'clock in the morning, the fighting lasted for up to 6 hours. The officers and soldiers on both sides were tired, hungry, and extremely exhausted.

  Having worked hard for a long time, it fell short.

   Seeing that the dream of responding to the besieged Dutch troops was shattered, Colonel Henry bitterly issued the order to retreat, returning to Symuda to lick the wound with his wounds.

  The officers and soldiers of the 2nd Division of Kalimantan were also at the end of the crossbow, unable to pursue them, and could only watch them leave in the smoke of gunfire.

  At this point, after 24 hours and 30 minutes, this fierce and dangerous battle finally came to an end.

  Counting the results after the war;

  Shangri-La Second Division faced the heavily defended port, carried forward the spirit of daring to fight, and made a breakthrough in one fell swoop and achieved a decisive victory.

In the battle, more than 3,400 enemies were killed and wounded (including 1,100 white soldiers), more than 2,000 people were captured (including more than 600 white garrisons), and two German-made 280mm long-barreled shore guns were captured, and German-made 239mm There are 5 shore artillery, more than 2,000 German-made 1871 rifles, and more than 1,600 old-fashioned front-loaded rifles. There are countless kinds of cold weapons.

  After achieving an absolute victory in the battle of the port, the Second Shangri-La Division carried forward the spirit of continuous combat, bravely attacked the Dutch reinforcements halfway through, and surrounded it in one fell swoop.

   A regiment withstands the follow-up Dutch defenders from Semuda and fought inside and outside the heavy army group, paying great sacrifices to complete the division and encirclement task, and cooperate with the main force of the division to annihilate the encircled enemy in one fell swoop.

  This campaign

  Besides a small part of the Dutch army who fled (more than 800 indigenous troops and a few white officers), most of the rest were wiped out.

  Post-war statistics;

The siege battle wiped out two Royal Netherlands Army rifle battalions in one fell swoop, killing and wounding more than 500 people and taking more than 500 prisoners.

  This battle annihilated more than 3,300 indigenous servants and gave birth to more than half of them.

  The battle seized more than 1,000 shots of German Mauser 1871 standard rifles, more than 2,600 old-fashioned front-loaded rifles, and piles of cold weapons.

  On the battlefield dominated by Muzhai Fortress, Shangri-La 2nd Division and 1st Regiment performed particularly well, withstanding the attack of the opposing heavy group and causing heavy damage to the enemy.

  Accounted for killing and wounding more than 3270 enemy troops (including more than 670 white Dutch soldiers) and more than 920 casualties, winning a glorious victory.

  Destroyed three German-made 95mm guns in the battle and seized more than 200 German-made Mauser 1871 rifles. The rest were taken away by the retreating Dutch army.

With such a major battle result, the Second Shangri-La Division also paid a considerable price. In the battle, more than 4,700 indigenous cannon fodder was consumed. The total number of troops was reduced to more than 1,900. Among them, 972 soldiers were killed, more than 370 were seriously injured, and 500 were slightly injured. More people.

  The combat effectiveness of the whole division has dropped by half, and the ammunition consumption is serious, and it has to enter the rest phase.

  Next day

  Port Town

It was a fine weather. The blue sky was floating with white clouds. A large number of mighty joint fleet-owned warships escorted a mixed fleet of more than a dozen large cargo ships and troop carriers to the port. The cargo ships with a displacement of up to 5,000 tons were directly Get on the dock and unload a large amount of materials and personnel.

  The heavily armed soldiers of the Kalimantan First Division and a large amount of equipment were unloaded from the freighter in an orderly manner.

  On the roads and coastal fortresses attached to the port, light gray tents were erected, densely arranged in neat rows, just like large clumps of mushrooms growing in the wilderness, it is truly spectacular.

   A group of high-level commanders of the Second Division gathered in the harbor, all of them looked energetic, and the feeling of pride couldn't be concealed.

  After all, he fought two big victories in a row, and he was very confident in front of the brothers in the first division.

As the military commander-in-chief of Borneo, Wei Chi Shouzhuo had no concern for the Second Division's unauthorized expansion of the war, but he was helpless.

After all, the mission of the Second Division was to attack the enemy in front of the port, and it was impossible to ignore the Dutch reinforcements, but no one thought that the appetite of the Second Division was so good. By the way, the Semuda Dutch Heavy Group would be disabled by the grass and rabbits. This credit is really not small.

  (End of this chapter)