"For God's sake, if you go further, we will shoot!" Outside Protum, a team of Dutch militia walked over panting and said to the East Coast soldiers who were walking in line opposite him.

The soldiers on the east coast wore black-brimmed caps, overgrown shoes, and armed armed belts on their backs. The rifles looked not on the same level as the Dutch militia like a rustic man. And looking at their faces, they were murderous, which made the Dutch more or less bleak, and at the same time they were even more confused: We didn't provoke you, why did they come to the door like this? Some smart people speculated that it might be related to some recent conflicts between the two countries, but most of them were not aware of it, so they were both panic and puzzled.

The one who faced the Dutch was the 11th Mixed Battalion of the East Coast Army. The battalion commander was Captain Li Zhixin. He was originally just a small staff officer, without much background, and it was not easy to be promoted. However, after following Guo Handong and becoming a hardcore, he was promoted very quickly, and now he has become a dignified battalion commander of the Mixed Battalion of the Army.

He was just in his early thirties, and was in high spirits. After seeing the Dutch coming to stop him, he was too lazy to send someone to understand what these people were saying, so he directly ordered loudly: "First Company, turn left half of the face, quickly move up and put the marksmanship, ready to aim and put it!"

The 11th Mixed Battalion is a new unit. The soldiers have serious lack of experience and the officers are also filled with young young people who have just graduated. However, their training is excellent and the intensity is also very high. The high officers and soldiers have almost formed a conditioned reflexive obedience to the orders of the top. Therefore, after hearing the orders of the battalion commander Li Zhixin, the officers and soldiers of the First Company immediately stepped forward without thinking. Then more than 200 rifles rang out one after another in a very short time, directly knocking the dozens of Dutch militia standing in front into hornet's nests. When the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, the First Company subconsciously knew what they had done just now!

Li Zhixin rode on the war horse so that all the officers and soldiers of the battalion could see him. After seeing the well-trained "performance" of the First Company, he suddenly felt a little overjoyed. He laughed and said, "That's it, that's it, see? There is nothing scary about the Dutch. They are not as trained as us, their equipment as our morale as us, and their treatment is not as good as us. What else do you have to worry about? Everyone has it, search for advance in combat formations, and target Protum! I want to go to the city to have tea within an hour, please help me!"

"Wan Sheng!" The officers immediately cheered up their morale. The soldiers raised their guns and shouted, then sorted out the formation according to each company and the platoon, and walked towards the city of Protum with a bright drum rhythm. At this time, in their eyes, the Dutch no longer had much threat. Their own troops were dominant, and the Dutch did not expect to be attacked by their own side in advance. Therefore, it is a high probability that they would be in chaos. The dozens of militias just now were probably the vast majority of the troops that the city could draw at the first time. So what else is there to be afraid of? Just fight!

Protum is a small town with mixed civil and industrial structures. The walls are not strong, because in the early stages of construction, they only needed to prevent attacks from the English and indigenous peoples. There was no need to make a fortress-style structure made of brick and stone like the Dutch native. The cost was too high and the East India Company would never allow it.

And because of this, Protum quickly fell under the attack of 960 officers and soldiers of the four infantry companies of the 11th Mixed Battalion, and the resistance time was not even more than twenty minutes. In this siege operation that was almost impossible to say, only 19 people were killed or injured on the east coast, and only 15 Dutch people in the city were killed or injured, which was even less than the east coast. If it were not for the dozens of people who were shot to pieces outside the city before.

Li Zhixin proudly entered the town half an hour later, and then seized the structures such as vaults, granaries, arsenals, etc. as usual, and sent people to notify the cavalry of the 11th Mixed Battalion, which followed by the three Mixed Battalions led by Guo Handong, who were also behind. This was mainly because Guo Handong drew all the cavalry from each battalion and temporarily returned to the regiment headquarters as a mobile strike force.

There are hundreds of Dutch colonists in this city, as well as about three times the number of black and red slaves. These people are a little panicked at this time. I wonder why they were in good condition yesterday, but why they suddenly met today? Could it be that the United Province has started war with the East Coast? That is really unlucky!

Guo Handong and others arrived at Protum at about 11:00 a.m. He led the regiment headquarters staff, the guards, the health team, the military police team, and the reconnaissance forces into this low-level town, and then moved directly into a church, which was also the best and largest building in the city.

"The Army Department has a complete process for the occupied areas. You have also read and learned before departure. You should know how to be a good occupying army." Guo Handong sat on the long chair for the believers to pray with a golden sword. Looking at the more than ten officers under his command, he said slowly: "Li Zhixin, Protum was taken by your 11th Mixed Battalion. So you can send three infantry platoons to garrison here. There should be no problem, right?"

"The commander, there is no problem!" Li Zhixin stood attentively and replied: "There are only more than 800 colonists in the entire town, and half of them live in the countryside outside the city, and only half are in the city. Three well-trained infantry platoons are stationed here, so there is no problem. The Dutch people dare not act rashly, otherwise we would not be holding fire sticks."

Guo Handong was so happy that Li Zhixin said this murderous words. He smiled and said, "Okay, okay, you all have confidence, so I feel relieved. But don't worry too much. I have already agreed with their county magistrate on the east side that the security team of the county will cooperate with us in the next period of time. Well, it is not for them to undertake the main combat tasks, but to send people to consolidate the rear-occupied area and maintain the logistics transportation line. Although the security team of Changqing County has only more than 300 people and is not very long, it is still not a big problem to do such things. So it won't take long to build your three platoons. Just be careful that all the supplies in the warehouse must be optimistic and cannot be taken away for no reason. I know that some of the officers and soldiers of the security team in the local area have always been very good, so you have to pay attention to this point."

After talking wildly, Guo Handong hurriedly ate some lunch in the town, which was the bread made by the French Huguenots, vegetable soup and barbecue. It tasted average, but there was nothing to pay attention to in the marching and war. Then he left Protum and went outside the town to join the main force that had just been rested, ready to move forward. After all, time does not wait for anyone! Sometimes, the word "fast" is the word "fast", that is, before the enemy can react, control the overall situation, which may greatly reduce casualties.

At 1:30 p.m., a cavalry detachment (a total of more than 400 cavalry) composed of four mixed battalions of cavalry companies, also left the main force and headed south toward the city of Bredasdorp, dozens of kilometers south of Protum. The city was actually a very small town. The population was not large, and the geographical location was relatively remote. The Dutch people did not pay much attention to it on weekdays. There were neither solid fortifications nor elite soldiers, so it would not take much effort to fight. Sending more than 400 cavalrymen over there, which was actually a bit small and useful!

In addition to the main force of the 11th Mixed and Cavalry Detachment, the 11th Mixed Battalion, set out a little later, because it needed to handle some affairs in Protum, such as focusing on important materials, levying taxes from local Dutch residents, and obtaining some supplies to reduce consumption in the suburbs and villages, etc., there were still more than 4,000 people. They continued to move forward and fight towards the next Dutch colonial town of Heimer (near the small town of later Caliden), and arrived outside the city three days later in the afternoon.

On the march westward, the east coast army also encountered many Dutch manors and villages. The manors should be owned by nobles or merchants, with more than a dozen white helpers and thugs, managing a large number of efforts, mainly planting wheat, grapes, fruits, and raising livestock; the village is said to be built by employees of East India Company whose service life has reached. They obtain valuable places from the company, and then sign an agreement with the company to share the benefits of farming or grazing. Here is a distant topic, the employees of East India Company

I was very resisting in this kind of share agreement because the terms were very unfavorable to them. I believe that if it were not for the territory of the East Coast people around me, these guys who had already changed from employees to "Boer" would definitely bring all their belongings and wander in the inland areas with their families, because no one could exploit them. This may be the reason why the Boer people often wandered and migrated in history. Of course, it seems impossible in the East Coast plane, because there is no large blank space around them for them to occupy.

For these manors or villages, the East Coast people basically did not divide their troops to occupy them, and of course they did not send anyone to explain what they were doing. Now the only target of the commander Guo Da is Heimer and New Horn, two cities located at the western end of the southern coastal plain. After defeating this, the East Coast people can basically enjoy this narrow, humid, and fertile plain between the Nanhengshan Mountains and the sea. Later generations are an important source of grapes, livestock, fruits and vegetables and wheat in South Africa. It is very livable and nourishing.

On April 15, 1674, after sending people to persuade Heimer City but failed to surrender, Commander Guo, who was mentally prepared, did not speak nonsense and directly pulled out the five artillery companies, a total of 40 artillery guns (the artillery company of the 11th Mixed Battalion had not arrived yet), and then silenced the originally noisy Dutch militia in Heimer City with a baptism of tsunami. Faced with artillery, a powerful weapon that can be called the god of war, anyone has awe, especially when they only have two or three old bronze cannons.

The final battle was also unreasonable. Commander Guo, who was once ridiculed as only knowing how to use money to smash people, used dozens of barrels of gunpowder and a large number of projectiles to be consumed, directly smashed a large gap on the unstable city wall of Heimer City, and then approached the Dutch who were rushing to block the gap with grape bullets, directly destroying the morale of the Dutch militia.

Next, Captain Li Zhixin of the 11th Mixed Battalion led his troops to attack the gap and easily attacked the city, causing the battalions of the brother troops who were originally planning to perform, the company commanders secretly cursed. This little man took the lead twice in succession, which was really annoying!

Just as the officers and soldiers of the 11th Mixed Battalion attacked Heimer City and launched a bayonet assault on the last few remaining enemies, a cavalry unit also brought good news from Bredasdorp: with the efforts of the cavalry brothers, the city was under control, and the Changqing County Security Regiment also sent a hundred militias to come, and they could hand over defense with them soon and then enter a new battle.

Guo Handong was overjoyed when he heard this and said that the four cavalry companies did not need to come to Heimer's side to meet, but headed directly towards New Horn (near Hermanus Port) and cooperated with the 9th Mixed Battalion, which would set out to the south tomorrow, to remove the colonial town located by the sea. After capturing this place, the people of the East Coast no longer had to transport supplies from land, but could unload goods directly on the dock of New Horn Port, which was convenient and fast, provided that the navy had completely blocked the coast of Dutch South Africa, although they had not even seen a hair from the navy so far.

After the division of troops, the temporary first regiment did not continue to march in a hurry, but rested for a day and a half in Heimer City, and waited for three infantry platoons of the 11th Mixed Battalion who had arrived to join. They escorted a batch of supplies and rushed over. The Master, the big cart and the livestock were all collected on the spot in Changqing County.

In the early morning of April 22, 1674, the first temporary trek, which had been traveling for several days, appeared near the city of Stellenbosch, an economic town in South Africa, and tentatively persuaded him to surrender. As a result, Guo, who had not had much hope, unexpectedly discovered that the Dutch actually accepted the conditions for surrender, that is, the East Coast people guaranteed their private property and life safety, that is, they could hand over the keys and all supplies of the city gate, and bear some "reasonable" taxes. Guo Handong agreed to this, so Stellenbosch went down without a fight.

It was a surprise. However, after asking the Dutch colonists in the city, Guo Handong was a little amused and crying again. It turned out that more than a thousand security troops gathered from the two counties of Tianxiong in the river, they had recovered the barrier of Gorns, the north of Stellenbosh, through fierce battles. In addition, the South African cavalry battalion led by the Lai brothers had also moved south in large numbers and defeated a Dutch cavalry unit, which cut off the Dutch's last fortress, Cape Town, from the vast countryside, making it an isolated city, and waiting for Guo Handong's main force to come and launch a fatal blow to him.

Guo Handong, who heard the news, couldn't even close his mouth. It was only a few days ago. The Dutch South African colony, which I thought was not easy to chew, was left with only the last enemy city. Of course, it was also the most important one. Most of the population, wealth and army of Dutch South Africa were concentrated in that area!
Chapter completed!