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Chapter 43:Tearing Apart Jakarta's Defenses

In the port of Jakarta, the Royal Dutch Navy, which was stationed today, three warships were quietly docked in the port to deter the Dutch East Indians in Jakarta.

A tumult had just ended, and it was customary for the Dutch to warn all the people of the colony with strong guns, who was the boss here.

For a long time, peace and quiet, the Royal Dutch Navy has become a deterrent, as for the actual combat ability, except for a few times to fight pirates, fire has been running a few times, there is no actual combat experience.

At night on the ship docked in the port, most of the Dutch sailors can hardly go ashore, they are back to the warship until the middle of the night, all kinds of wine and food, walking crooked.

The quiet night sky, the boredom of the Dutch sailors, although still holding on to the ship's post, but the flushed face and the bottle of wine in his hand have explained everything.

Under the calm sea, several white ribbons surrounded the three warships.

A Dutch sailor looked at the white bands that appeared on the sea, first hit a drunken hiccup, exhaled a strong drink, and his head was still dizzy, pointing to a white tail, and seemed to be thinking about something.

The clearness of his mind made him sober, but everything was late, and his mouth just cried out: " torpedo..."

Several torpedoes hit three warships at the same time, hundreds of kilograms of high explosives, and a violent explosion resounded throughout the port at the moment when the torpedo fuse hit the water line of the warship.

The enormous power of the explosion, set off dozens of meters high water column, the huge power will be three warships weighing only thousands of tons, almost out of the water.

The defense of the shore-based battleships was inferior to that of heavy cruisers, and the 610 mm torpedoes blew up a huge mouth of five or six meters on the warship, and was not yet a mussel.

The officers and men of the warship were instantly awakened, but they only woke up to welcome death.

The enormous explosive power, which left unsuspecting large numbers of Dutch sailors, severe bruised and bruised, warships heavily tilted, and raging waters poured in, and in less than a minute the smallest of the three ships, the protective cruiser, had sunk in half.

Two five-thousand-ton coastal battleships, also heavily sloping, were submerged in half of their decks.

The surviving Dutch sailors jumped into the water, and the wine was completely unscathed and headed for the shore.

The Dutch army soldiers in the port looked at the three sinking warships with a embarrassed face, and some soldiers could not help but slap themselves to see if they were dreaming.

Unfortunately, this was not a dream, nor was it a sleepwalker, and the Dutch soldiers on alert in the port rushed to save the diving sailors.

Jakarta was awakened, and the whole city was sleepless.

The governor's office of Auterle was awakened by the sound of an explosion, and a stirring of Wellington jumped out of bed, came to the window, and opened the curtains on the harbor in the distance, and there was a fire.

He hurried to the side of the telephone, and before Autterel picked up the mic, the phone rang: "Report the Governor, the matter is not good, our warships have been attacked, and the three Royal Navy ships have been sunk."

O'Trel was too late to react, and suddenly said in anger: "What nonsense, where the enemy comes from, how can our warship sink."

"Governor, it's true, there's really an attack, and three ships have sunk in half."On the phone, I said with a cry.

“Bastard, what’s going on?”Autrell was also frightened, quickly hung up the phone, and at the same time dialed the phone to the shore defense garrison, but the line was always not connected, and the phone to the garrison troops was always unable to connect.Even if they want to call the port again, they all go into the sea.

This time, Autterel was no longer lucky, and he really encountered an attack.

“Come on, come on, come on.”

A group of bodyguards ran in, and Auttrell, who was too late to put his clothes on, ordered: "The horse sends all the troops ready to fight."

One by one, the guards looked at each other, but in fact they had never encountered such a situation, and they did not know what to do.

"Why are you standing and riding to inform you."O'Torrell saw it and shouted.

One by one, the guards reacted and ran out of the governor's house.

Without the navy, Jakarta is not alone, and on several commanding heights around the port of Jakarta, there are forts, and even a 381 mm kruppy coastal defense giant.

This was the most effective means of defense against the colonies of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, but the best weapons and equipment required human operation.

The same weapon, handed over to a group of professional soldiers, and the effect of handing over to a group of farmers is naturally different.

Three warships were sunk, under normal circumstances, the coastal defense forces should be the first to confirm the existence of the enemy.

However, all three ships began to sink, the Dutch navy's shore defense soldiers were not all in place, drunken and hazy officers came to the fort, crooked and slanted with telescopes, searching for the distant sea.

In the distant hazy night, there seemed to be something, a series of dazzling fire suddenly appeared, and there was a clear sound of shelling in his ears, and for a time everyone listened to the howling of the shells from far away and near.

“Shoot and hide.”

I don't know who shouted, before everyone could lie down, the terrible explosion of the giant cannons, it resounded around the port of Jakarta.

The four cannons on the front of the port of Jakarta, covered by dense naval gunfire, bare forts, and the great power of artillery, show an irreparable fate.

Four forts, three were destroyed at once, and the Dutch soldiers on the other cannons essentially lost their combat effectiveness.

How the four forts could hold up a sound fleet, not to mention a premeditated surprise attack, the location of the four cannons was no secret and could not be moved.

Under normal circumstances, the fleet will not be hard-hitting coastal artillery, but if it is a surprise attack, then the other two will be said.

Moreover, in the face of the Dutch army that has no war-consciousness at all, and if it is not taken in one fell swoop, it is sorry for such an opponent.

The second round of shelling battleships was not involved, but was covered again by the artillery of cruisers and destroyers.

Mainly because the battleship gun fire preparation time, manually loaded artillery, the speed of fire is really touching, this is also the same in the Red Police Corps.

While the gunfire of cruisers and destroyers was enough to complete the fill, the second round of shelling, the last of Jakarta's coastal defense guns was destroyed, and all of Jakarta's defenses were torn open, bare and naked in front of the First Fleet.

The saddest thing is that the Dutch do not yet know who the attackers were, and have not even seen the fleet in the attack.

The night brought good cover to the attack, and the people on the shore could only dimly see the shadow of the sea.

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