After the battle in Muzhai fell into bloody and white heat, the battle on the other side was progressing very smoothly. Four 60mm light field guns were pushed to a distance of only more than 600 meters, and they fired violently against a large number of Dutch Royal Army troops that killed indigenous prisoners.

This is the bloody tactic of bayonets on the cannon. The shells fell into the crowd accurately and exploded, sweeping down like an iron broom.

More than a dozen shells went down, bombing the well-formed Dutch white soldiers, leaving more than 130 bodies and fleeing in a hurry.

The enemy formation in the encirclement was compressed step by step, and a large number of terrified indigenous soldiers knelt down and raised their hands to surrender. In the end, the formation was compressed to a narrow area less than one kilometer. The total strength of the Dutch army in the encirclement was only more than 1,600, which was almost half of the whites and indigenous soldiers.

The chubby Saikado saw that he had more than 4,000 soldiers and horses with less than 800 left, and almost everyone was extremely tired and was beaten by the Queenslanders like a frightened bird, and he was immediately sad.

These men were all talented and selected from the tribal warriors. They worked hard for more than ten years to reach their current scale, and were defeated back to their original form once.

The Dutch completely treats themselves as cannon fodder, by the way, the devilish Queenslanders are the same, and they can't continue like this.

Thinking of this

Sekado looked at the lush tropical jungle on both sides of the road. Maybe... this is the way for the natives?

The tropical jungle during the day is not so desperate, it is better than facing the shiny bayonet of a devilish Queenslander.

The biggest problem now is that there must be someone behind the temple to stop the Queenslanders from following and chasing.

This room

Lieutenant Colonel Schmidt, who was commanding his soldiers to attack Muzhai Fortress, was very upset when he saw the soldiers of the Royal Rest Battalion retreating;

In another half an hour, I will surely be able to break this damn cage.

But the enemy had already reached the back, and he had to give up the victory that was about to be won, and quickly organized the soldiers to turn around to form a new line of defense to cover the retreating native and white soldiers into the safe area behind him from both sides.

The current battlefield situation is like a thousand-layer cake, layer by layer.

The main force of a regiment guarding Muzhai Fortress lasted for nearly 4 hours in the extreme difficulty of being attacked from both sides. The troops suffered heavy casualties and lost more than half of their personnel. Almost everyone was injured and the shells were exhausted.

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

The officers and soldiers of a regiment heard the roar of the division's main force attacking. It was like a person walking hard in the darkness suddenly saw the light. The courage and strength of the officers and soldiers came from were filled with their bodies. They raised their guns and launched a decisive counterattack on the enemy troops invading both sides of the wooden building, and attacked the Dutch enemy in one fell swoop, stabilizing the Muzhai defense line again.

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

Since he had made up his idea of ​​escaping the battlefield, Sekado immediately took action, passed his verbal orders through his confidant subordinates, and then quietly moved to the side of the dense forest and entered the other end.

The battlefield was in a mess, and the retreating white militia and the soldiers of the Royal Rampage Battalion were reorganizing, and no one noticed all this.

By the time they were discovered, most of the more than 800 indigenous soldiers had fled, leaving only more than a hundred indigenous soldiers guarding the rear path with guns and vigilantly, and then followed the soldiers in front to flee into the jungle.

The news was quickly reported to Lieutenant Colonel Schmidt, which made him furious. Unexpectedly, he was placed in a row by the indigenous servants and became cannon fodder for their palace.

Take a look;

There were only more than 760 white soldiers who could continue to participate in the battle, including militia and soldiers from the Royal Rest Battalion. They were staring at the Queensland army step by step and could not escape at all.

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

The white soldiers saw no hope of getting out and their morale was extremely low, and it was possible that the Queenslanders would collapse in just one blow.

Lieutenant Colonel Schmidt didn't want to die here. He had a beautiful wife, a group of children, and several large plantations with rich production. He could live a wealthy and peaceful life just by breaking away from this damn war.

At this time, we should consider ourselves. Perhaps it is a good idea to escape along the passage opened by the indigenous people.

He turned his eyes and walked over and whispered to the Dutch officers around him. Seeing their faces showing a struggle, he patiently persuaded them. Finally, he received the approval of these Dutch officers and was willing to act according to the opportunity.

The other side

The main force of the Kalimantan Division approached Muzhai Fortress and could see a regiment of soldiers in front of them fighting bloody battles, and were striving to block the large number of enemy troops from Saimuda. The situation was not optimistic.

Time is extremely precious to both sides, and the situation may suddenly reverse in the next minute.

In order to open up the situation as soon as possible and meet with the first regiment successfully, Colonel Koch decisively ordered four 60 light field artillery to close the fire and use shells to destroy the enemy's final will to resist.

"Boom boom boom..."

The shells with shining flames fell into the enemy's position accurately, and large groups of fire rose up, and flew into the sky with fragments of soil and flesh and blood. Under the accurate shelling, the only remaining Dutch defenders collapsed unexpectedly and kneeled down to surrender.

Post-war inventory;

In the last attack, more than 230 Dutch white soldiers in Muzhai Fortress were killed and more than 500 were captured. However, the main officer Lieutenant Colonel Schmidt and others were not included and I don’t know where to escape.

After interrogating the white prisoners, it was discovered that some of the indigenous soldiers were fleeing along the tropical jungle under the leadership of Sedoka. Dutch officer Lieutenant Colonel Schmidt and others ran away, but they couldn't catch up.

The battle situation is now critical and there is no time to pursue and suppress the remaining enemies.

After the Dutch army discovered that the main force of the Second Kalimantan Division rushed to the Muzhai Fortress, their last fighting courage completely disappeared.

Knowing that things were not done, the Dutch support troops from Saimuda retreated like a tide. On the empty positions in front of the fortress, a large piece of corpses were left beside the hills, and the blood almost dyed the entire land red, looking extremely tragic.

It was about 11:00 noon, starting at 5 a.m., and the battle lasted for up to 6 hours. The officers and soldiers on both sides were both tired and hungry, and extremely tired.

After working hard for a long time, the effort failed.

Seeing that the dream of the surrounding Dutch troops was shattered, Colonel Henry issued a resentful order to retreat, returning to Semuda with trauma all over his body and licking his wounds.

The officers and soldiers of the 2nd Kalimantan Division were at the end of their strength and were unable to pursue them. They could only watch them leave in the smoke of artillery fire.

At this point, it took a full 24 hours and 30 minutes, and this fierce and dangerous battle finally came to an end.

After the war, take stock of the results of the battle;

Facing the port with heavy troops defending, the Second Shangri-La Division carried forward the spirit of daring to fight and fought in one fell swoop and achieved a decisive victory.

More than 3,400 enemies were killed and injured (including 1,100 white soldiers), more than 2,000 prisoners (including more than 600 white defenders on the fort), two German 280 mm long-body tube shore cannons, five German 239 mm shore cannons, more than 2,000 German 1871 rifles, more than 1,600 old-fashioned bore loading rifles, and countless cold weapons.

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

A regiment fought against the subsequent Dutch defenders' heavy army group that rushed from Saimuda, and made great sacrifices to complete the division and encirclement mission, and cooperated with the main force of the division to annihilate the encircled enemy in one fell swoop.

This battle

In addition to a small number of the surrounding Dutch troops fled (more than 800 indigenous troops and a few white officers), most of the remaining ones were wiped out.

Post-war statistics;

The siege and war wiped out two Royal Dutch Army Rifle battalions in one fell swoop, killing and wounding more than 500 people and capturing more than 500 people.

This battle annihilated more than 3,300 indigenous servants and more than half of them were captured alive.

The German-made Mauser 1871 rifle was seized in the battle and more than 1,000 old-fashioned bore loading rifle, and more than 2,600 cold weapons were piled up.

On the battlefield dominated by Muzhai Fortress, the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Division of Shangri-La performed particularly well, resisting the attacks of the opponent's heavy army group and causing heavy damage to the enemy.

More than 3,270 enemy troops were killed and injured (including more than 670 Dutch white soldiers), and more than 920 casualties were killed and killed, winning a brilliant victory.

During the battle, three German 95mm artillery were destroyed and more than 200 German Mauser 1871 rifles were seized. The rest were taken away by the retreating Dutch army.

After achieving such a major victory, Shangri-La Second Division itself paid a considerable price. It consumed nearly 4,700 indigenous cannon fodder in the battle, and the troops reduced their troops to a total of more than 1,900 people, including 972 soldiers, more than 370 seriously injured, and more than 500 minor injuries.

The combat effectiveness of the entire division has been reduced by half, and the ammunition consumption is severe, so it has to enter the rest and recuperation stage.

The next day

Port Town

It was a sunny day, with white clouds floating in the blue sky, and a large number of warships belonging to the mighty joint fleet guarding a mixed fleet of more than a dozen large freighters and troop carriers to arrive at the port. Cargo ships with a displacement of up to 5,000 tons directly approached the dock and unloaded a large amount of supplies and personnel.

The soldiers of the fully armed Kalimantan Division and a large number of equipment were unloaded from the freighter in an orderly manner. The people on the dock shouted cows and mooed, and the horses were neighing and hustled, making them very lively.

Light gray tents were erected on the flat roads and coastal turrets near the port, arranged in dense and neatly, like the large clusters of mushrooms growing on the wilderness, which was spectacular.

The Second Division and a group of senior commanders gathered at the port, all of them seemed full of energy, and the feeling of pride could not be hidden.

After all, he won two consecutive victories, and he was very confident in front of the brothers of the first division.

As the commander-in-chief of the Borneo military, Yuchi Shouzhuo could not say he was unwilling to the Second Division's arbitrarily expanding the war, but he had no choice but to do anything about it.

After all, the Second Division's mission is to attack the enemy in front of the port, and it is impossible to ignore the Dutch reinforcements. However, no one expected that the 2nd Division had such a good appetite, and he also crippled the Dutch heavy army group by the way. This contribution is really great.
Chapter completed!