After the two People's Army troops that ambushed the indigenous army returned to the farm, they also greatly encouraged the morale of the farm. As the Dutch coalition forces successively opened out of the city and established positions, the People's Army certainly did not take it seriously, and they were also happy because the coalition forces took the initiative to go out of the city to fight. After all, there was no need to fight a tough battle, but the rest of the farm and the Chinese people who were inhabited were somewhat nervous. After all, the coalition forces were too many.

Although the People's Army did not release the news about the number of coalition troops, there are always some people in the farm that have various channels to find out some news, and many of them are somewhat exaggerated. Because of the forces of the coalition troops, it is inevitable that they will be nervous. However, after learning that the People's Army has won two consecutive victories, everyone was relieved. After all, the People's Army has never been defeated so far.

However, the final battle on Java Island is about to usher in. Although the People's Army is full of confidence in this battle, as the supreme commander of the army, Luo Yue dared not take it lightly. Although Luo Yue also knew that it was indeed not difficult to win this battle with the support of the navy, Luo Yue is an officer of the army after all. Although there are no sharp contradictions between the navy and the army within the People's Army at present, it is inevitable to compete with each other and think that it is inevitable to gain more resources. Therefore, Luo Yue does not want to rely on the navy at any time. He can rely on himself, but it is best to rely on himself.

In fact, the tactics of the People's Army are not complicated. They are mainly based on position defense and use defense to consume the spirit and strength of the Dutch coalition, and then look for the weaknesses of the Dutch coalition to counterattack. However, the purpose of the counterattack is only to defeat the Dutch coalition, and they are not in a hurry to attack the Dutch coalition positions.

Although the current strength of the People's Army is not unable to capture the positions of the Dutch coalition, the People's Army is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of number of people. If you rashly attack the opponent's position, you will definitely suffer a considerable loss, and the People's Army has better tactics. It is to wait until night, with the support of the navy's firepower, and then attack the positions of the Dutch coalition, so that your own losses will be much smaller. Of course, it is best to defend the position by relying on the army's own strength.

After the major tactical idea was determined, the club was arranged as: the first battalion was responsible for the front defense of the farm and also brought 200 farm guards; the first company of the battalion of the third battalion was stationed at the dock, and the remaining two companies were temporarily directed by the regiment headquarters, each with 300 farm guards to guard both sides of the farm; the second battalion had more than 200 farm guards as the general reserve team of the entire army; and the machine gun companies of each battalion were scattered to each company and deployed on the positions, while the regiment's 100mm mortar battalion and the 82mm mortar battalion of each battalion were concentrated to use. In addition, since the Dutch coalition had more than 20 artillery, all positions must be prepared to prevent artillery attacks.

The next morning, the Dutch army set out from the position and advanced until about 4 or 5 kilometers away from the People's Army's position. Frontline Commander Colonel Martinez looked with a telescope and saw that the People's Army's position was silent and seemed to be empty. Only occasionally saw a few people showing their heads and moving.

Of course, Martinez knew that the soldiers of the People's Army were hiding in trenches, but they could not judge the main part of the opponent's position, so they could not command the shooting unit for artillery. After all, the Dutch army only had more than 20 artillery pieces, which could not form a large-scale artillery cover and could only carry out accurate strikes. However, to carry out accurate strikes, there must be sufficient intelligence support. Now the opponent's troops are unable to see at all, and they don't know where to open fire.

So Martinez couldn't help but sweat. The Netherlands did not pay attention to the army. Martinez's practical experience was basically obtained in the battle between Java and the natives. Every time the natives set up a formation to let Martinez see it at a glance. He would hide in the trenches. But it was not a solution to waste like this, and it was definitely impossible not to fire the artillery. Bijing also had to fool the indigenous army. So Martinez finally decided to hit the enemy or not, and then hit it for a while. Anyway, the natives didn't understand it. As long as they saw the cannons fired.

The Dutch artillery was divided into three positions. Although Martinez lacked practical experience, there was still basic common sense. With Martinez's order, the Dutch artillery immediately filled in bullets and positioned them. "Boom Boom Boom Boom" was a bombardment against the People's Army's position. The Dutch artillery shells lasted for about 10 minutes, and more than 20 artillery pieces fired a total of more than 300 shells. Anyway, they all fell to the opposite side and exploded, which caused a lot of dust, smoke and sand and gravel.

Sure enough, in the eyes of the natives, the sound of this shelling was still very loud. After all, these people had seen bombardment of artillery? Therefore, many people cheered.

In fact, the Dutch artillery bombardment caused almost no damage to the People's Army, because most of the artillery shells did not hit the hidden areas of the People's Army at all. Moreover, the tunnel engineering of the People's Army is quite professional, and it is excavated and arranged completely according to the standards of old time and space, so it has very effective prevention for the critical strike of artillery. Of course, it is impossible to achieve 100% prevention, but after the Dutch coalition's artillery bombardment, only more than 10 soldiers were killed and more than 20 soldiers were injured.

In addition, the Dutch artillery bombardment also determined the location of the Dutch artillery position for the People's Army.

In this battle, the People's Army did not use modern equipment positioning such as drones or helicopters. Instead, they rely entirely on human observation and calculation to determine the location of the opponent's artillery position, but only used individual radio stations to communicate. This is mainly to test the artillery training results before the previous level, and gradually reduce the People's Army, because it is the time traveler's dependence on modern equipment.

Because the Dutch artillery bombarded for too long and there was no extreme transfer of positions after the artillery attack, this also left enough time for the People's Army's artillery to counterattack.

Of course, this cannot be entirely blamed on the Dutch army for not following military rules, because according to the situation mastered by the Dutch colonial government, the People's Army should not have large and medium-caliber artillery, and probably some 50mm caliber rapid-fire cannons, but the rapid-fire cannons are obviously impossible to pose any threat to the artillery positions. The main heavy weapon mortars equipped by the People's Army is still an absolutely new weapon in this era. Therefore, although the Dutch artillery arranged the artillery separately from the positions according to the conventional arrangement, there was no extreme transfer after the artillery was completed.

The biggest advantage of mortars is their flexibility and maneuverability. Even if it is a 120 mortar, it can also be quickly built and transferred within a short distance. Therefore, when the Dutch army launched artillery attacks, the People's Army's 82 mortars and 100 mortar units were arranged in units of companies to exit the position. This is because the effective range of mortars is smaller than that of normal artillery, and they must exit the position forward to reach the strike distance. However, although Java's terrain is flat, it has many plantings, and there are a large number of hidden areas between the positions of both sides.

Just when the Dutch army was launching artillery, the mortar units of the People's Army also corrected the firing parameters and fired at the Dutch artillery positions one after another. The 82 mortar company and the 100 mortar company were equipped with 9 mortars, so the People's Army invested a total of 54 mortars to counterattack; the maximum range of the 100 mortar is 5,400 meters, and the effective range is about 4,000 meters, which is the main force of the artillery; the maximum range of the 82 mortar is 3,200 meters, and the effective range is about 2,400 meters, which is mainly used for interference shooting.

According to artillery tactics, after 10 rounds of fire, the position must be transferred immediately. It takes about 100 seconds to 120 seconds to carry out 10 rounds of fire. Therefore, in less than two minutes, the People's Army's mortar troops poured 540 rounds of shells to the Dutch artillery positions. Whether it is the total amount of firepower projection or the firepower projection density per unit time, it is far exceeding the Dutch artillery. Although the shooting accuracy of the mortar is not as good as that of ordinary artillery, and half of it is interfering shooting, so there are only more than 60 shells that really hit the target range, but it is enough. After all, the People's Army's artillery targets are clear and concentrated, while the Dutch artillery positions do not have bunker facilities. After the artillery was over, the People's Army's mortar troops evacuated from the artillery positions at a speed and retreated to their own positions.

As a result, two of the three Dutch artillery positions were basically destroyed, and the remaining one was also lost nearly half. A total of 16 artillery pieces were damaged, and more than 300 soldiers were injured and killed.

Martinez, the front-line commander of the Dutch coalition, couldn't help but be confused. Didn't it say that overseas Chinese do not have large-caliber artillery? Judging from the round of artillery attacks just now, the number of overseas Chinese guns is at least 50. Although they are all top guns, their firepower delivery capabilities are far above the Dutch army. However, the 50 guns are at least one artillery regiment. Donkeys, horses and livestock alone require more than 300 people, and at least 1,500 people. Such a huge number of human and animal power is impossible to hide. So why did overseas Chinese transport so many artillery to the island without knowing it?

But now is not the time to study tactics, but what should we do next? The artillery of the Dutch coalition has basically been crippled. So should we launch a ground attack or temporarily withdraw our troops? If we launch an attack, the opponent has more than 50 artillery pieces, which will cause great damage to the attacking party. If we retreat like this, it will be a heavy blow to the morale of the army.

At this time, another army commander, Colonel Vanderwitt, said: "Col. Martinez, don't hesitate anymore. Impeach the attack immediately. Now we have a chance to win the attack. Once the troops are withdrawn, at least half of the indigenous army will be dispersed, so it is impossible for us to win this war."

Martinez nodded and understood Van der Witt's meaning. Although Helveg coaxed and deceived yesterday, and incited the emotions of the indigenous tribes, this emotion was extremely unstable. If it was a little setback, it would be immediately formed into a metamorphosis. Therefore, at this time, you can only advance and not retreat. Although you are now launching an attack, the chance of winning will not be very high.
Chapter completed!