Hertz has been in a dilemma. It has been two weeks, and there are only three weeks left before the time given to him by the Prime Minister. Although the five weeks is just a casual comment by the Prime Minister, he will not do anything to him if he does not reach the Prime Minister, but if he fails to do it, he will not do anything.

If you do this, the impression will be left, and the issue of regularization will not be a problem.

So Hertz forcefully ordered the mercenaries to attack, and the artillery did not spare the shells. The South China Army's position was bombarded to pieces. The attack continued for three days, but it was still not ideal.

"What's going on? In the past three days, you have received artillery support and have not made any achievements. Don't you think you need to explain for this?" In Hertz's headquarters at the Dutch station, Hertz was facing a group of people.

The mercenary camp commanders were furious.

The Dutch mercenary model is different from international mercenaries. It has a similar organization to the regular army. The Dutch recruit individual or group mercenaries, organize training, and issue weapons. The largest organization is a battalion, and then there is the Netherlands.

The power of human leadership.

The few mercenary battalion commanders sitting below didn't say anything. They were joking. We came to the colony to fight the indigenous security war for the sake of gold coins. In addition to the lack of numbers these days, the firepower has reached the level of the European Army.

It's standard. It's just this little money a month, and it's not a colony of our country, so why bother?

"In three days of fighting, we did not advance even one meter. Don't judge how strong the defense on the other side is. The barbed wire fence has been smashed by artillery. You almost rushed forward several times, but the enemy fired one round and you retreated!

What are you here for? On vacation? You idiots!" Hurts was still yelling.

"We have tried our best. Whenever we rush to the opposite position, the enemy's firepower will suddenly become intensive, and the artillery bombardment will arrive soon. My boys are all good. Our battalion rushed twice, leaving

More than fifty people were killed, and they were all brave young men!" Marvin Owen said. Of course, in fact, there were not that many left. The total casualties were more than fifty, mostly injured, but the medical conditions here are not good.

Well, supplies are still very insufficient.

Hertz originally wanted to scold Marvin, but seeing that the faces of the other mercenary battalion commanders were all ugly, and after thinking for a long time, Hertz changed his mind.

"Continue to maintain the offensive situation. New artillery will arrive in two days. Take the time to consume the tired enemy. We don't have much time!" In two weeks, Hertz also obtained a lot of intelligence, such as the opposite unit.

They are the main force of Nanhua. If they are destroyed, they can claim to Amsterdam that Nanhua has been solved.

To this end, Hertz specially mobilized two Krupp 1885 210 mm heavy cannons used for the defense of Batavia and two Krupp 1886 120 mm heavy howitzers for attacking the Nanhua position. Hertz

He was very greedy and wanted to defeat Nan Hua in one fell swoop and eat up his main force under the threat of cannons.

Because the cannon was too heavy and could not move easily, Hertz decided to transport it by ship to Cirebon, a small city 20 kilometers north of the battle site. It is expected to be delivered on November 27.

arrive.

...

On the other side is the direction of the main force of the South China Army.

In the past three days, the Dutch had made many attacks, especially the continuous shelling, which had caused considerable damage to the South China Army. At this time, Xie Hui was furious in the headquarters.

"Well, when have I ever suffered such a loss? Just let the brothers stand guard in the trenches stupidly, waiting for the Dutch to bomb. What kind of war is this?" Xie Hui faced the door, but his voice was so loud that the whole command was

Everything is an echo.

Wang Yang knew that this was meant for him, but he couldn't say anything more. After all, he decided the tactics, and he didn't feel good about it.

"No one can die in a war. There are no bullets on the battlefield. The sacrifice at this time is to avoid greater casualties!" Yang Tao said.

Others in the headquarters did not dare to say more. These three were all big bosses. The three chief officers when Nanhua was founded. In the entire Nanhua military system, only Liu Yiming, the commander-in-chief, was greater than them.

"To put it lightly, the casualties have been too great in the past few days. There are more than 300 casualties, dozens of people died, and medicines are also consumed. Now the logistics are already staffed with supplies. Don't fight like this. What are you going to fight?

When?" Xie Hui was not lazy, but he was just complaining.

"How many specific casualties are there?" Wang Yang turned around and asked.

"The total casualties were 347, including 181 minor injuries, 106 moderate and serious injuries, 28 people whose lives were in danger, and 60 killed. Seven of the cannons were

Hit directly or at close range, the bodies were scattered all over the floor." Xie Hui turned his face away and said unbearably.

"The casualties are quite large!" Yang Tao added when Wang Yang didn't speak.

"Yes, the total casualties of our army in the past were not that many!" Wang Yang replied when he heard Yang Tao also speak.

"Counting the Surabaya offensive and defensive battles, there have been some, but this is the first time so many people have died in a single battle." Yang Tao said.

"How is the morale of the troops?" Wang Yang lay on the map and looked at the increasingly clear situation between ourselves and the enemy.

"With Xie Hui here, the morale of the army is very stable, and the supply of medicines is sufficient. However, the transportation of disinfectant alcohol, hemostatic drugs, tetanus vaccines, and special anti-inflammatory drugs is difficult and takes up part of the transportation capacity. In order to make up for the transportation capacity, we mobilized people to form

The transportation team is used to supplement logistics, which is why Xie Hui said that logistics is now carried by people." Yang Tao glanced at Xie Hui and said.

"Has the transportation team been mobilized again?" Wang Yang asked.

"Yes, Mayor Zhang Wentao is very capable. This transportation team of 800 people is all composed of Semarang Chinese." Yang Tao said casually.

"Semarang has been stabilized?" Wang Yang was very surprised.

"This Mayor Zhang is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Weren't we arrested the families who used to charge cards and report to the public? It was difficult for us to deal with it. When Mayor Zhang came, he solved it directly!" Yang Tao said

So happy to see this.

"How to solve it?" Xie Hui was even more enthusiastic. He was a man with clear lines of love and hate, and it was all written on his face.

"Gather the Chinese people together and expose those people's actions to the public. The people are excited and demand that they be killed in anger."

Yang Tao said to Xie Hui,

"Don't say anything. Wait until I finish. Our Mayor Zhang is a wise man. He will kill him if he doesn't obey..." Yang Tao still couldn't finish his words, and Xie Hui grabbed him again.

"Didn't kill? Why didn't you kill? Why? This can't be killed? Selling information, that's a spy. If the Dutch on the other side had learned the news at that time, and a team was attacked before it had a stable footing, how many more casualties would it have suffered?

?" Xie Hui said angrily, thinking about the information about the South China Army that he had found from the spies.

"I said, can you please let me finish what I said? Mayor Zhang produced evidence that several family members collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, and then promulgated temporary laws and regulations in the name of Nanhua. According to the law, the mastermind Tang San, Liu Er and others were sentenced to be cut in half and their subordinates

For example, if Liu Er's son was hanged, some of the servants who had hurt others would be sentenced to twenty years of hard labor." Yang Tao said.

Xie Hui is thoughtful, he is just reckless, not stupid.

"Semarang is stable. At first, I thought that Surabaya sent him to manage Semarang just because he is both a member of our family and a Semarang native. I didn't expect that he knows how to manage the place better than the people in Surabaya." Wang Yang

Said in surprise.

Wang Yang still didn't get to the point, but for him, it was already a big improvement to be able to think of places other than the military.

"Is there any news from the special detachment?" Wang Yang was more concerned about the current battle situation.

"The news was only sent out yesterday, so it wasn't that fast. Don't worry, looking at the look on the other side, we didn't find any special support." Yang Tao said.

"The Dutch are coming up again." While the two were chatting, Xie Hui kept staring at the position and said quickly when he saw the Dutch gathering.

Everyone in the headquarters gathered around. Those who had telescopes used them, and those who didn't just looked at the people next to them eagerly.

.......

There are still two days before the arrival of the artillery. You can't do nothing during these two days, right? And if you suddenly stop attacking, if the South China Army notices it, they will run away instead of completing the battle. Then it will be time to take the trouble to maintain security.

war.

Under the guidance of this idea, Hertz prepared to attack a few more times, but the mercenary casualties were already considerable, and the Dutch colonial army had not moved for three days. If the mercenaries were called again, they would only work without any effort.

It would be bad if the other party notices you.

Therefore, Hertz ordered a company of Dutch colonial troops and a battalion of Dutch East India Royal Colonial troops, also known as local traitors, to launch a fierce attack on the South China Army's position. Of course, the Dutch officers had been instructed before setting off, and they could

It doesn't matter if you can't fight, the main thing is to fight loudly and with few casualties!

Of course, the casualties here refer to the noble Dutch. As for the traitors? New troops from Batavia have arrived, three thousand militiamen!

Therefore, the two regiments of more than 2,000 traitors and the remaining 2,000 Dutch colonial troops have been loaded on ships and will arrive in Cirebon on the 27th.

Now, after receiving the instructions, the Dutch colonial army led a battalion of more than 300 traitors to launch another attack on the South China Army's position.

It was three o'clock in the afternoon on November 25th, only three hours before dark.

More than 300 local traitors were divided into more than a dozen groups and slowly approached the South China Army's position. When they were 400 meters away, the artillerymen from both sides began to speak. The South China Army's artillery was inferior to the Dutch in terms of quantity, quality, and soldier training.

The Chinese army suffered the most casualties from the artillery, but the Dutch had not replaced the charges, so most of them were injured.

Boom boom boom!

After an artillery battle, the Nanhua artillery damaged a three-inch gun, killing one person and injuring five others, all of whom were slightly injured. Three Dutch artillerymen also died, but the gun was fine.

The barbed wire fence on the front line can no longer completely prevent the attack, but although it is riddled with holes, it can still limit people's route of advancement.

On the front line, in a trench of the South China Army.

Wu Cheng looked at the enemy getting closer and closer and the shelling gradually stopped, and shouted back.
Chapter completed!