It is said that in order to avoid foreign intrusion and internal strife, the local aborigines planted a large number of bamboo plants near the village to protect the village, and the local pronunciation of bamboo is "to fight dogs". Kaohsiung's old name "beating dogs" or "beating drums" comes from this local language.

As for the name Kaohsiung, it was created by the Japanese occupation period based on the Japanese pronunciation of "beating dogs". Both the pronunciation and meaning of the words are much more elegant, and it has become an official name. Just as Keelung replaced the chicken coop, Kaohsiung also replaced the dog.

Ren Fu has been to Dayuan, but he has never been to Kaohsiung, but he knows that "beating dogs" is not too far from Dayuan. Therefore, he took the safest route to the sea off the coast of Dayuan first, and then south along the coastline to Kaohsiung.

With the navigation level of the navy, it is not difficult to fly directly from Nanao Island to Kaohsiung, and there is no need to adopt such a circuitous coastal navigation route, but Li Ziping is eager to see the state of the Dutchman's fortification.

He had obtained from the Foreign Intelligence Service a sketch of the Dutchman's fortifications and an approximate estimate of the number of troops. At this time, Dayuangang did not have the comprehensive defense system that Zheng Chenggong later had when he recovered Taiwan, and was at best a fortified armed merchant house. The total number of Dutch permanent residents in the Grand Garrison will not exceed three hundred.

The estimates of the Foreign Intelligence Service proved to be accurate, and when the Haitian passed through the port of Dayuan, the Dutchman's castle was still nowhere to be seen, and only a few larger buildings were scattered along the bay. There are only three European-style ships moored in the bay, ranging in tonnage from a few dozen tons to one or two hundred tons. Considering that when Zheng Gongcheng came to attack here in the old time and space, the Dutch only had three ships to meet the enemy, so it was obvious that this was their standing sea liliang in Taiwan.

The Dutch were quite weak in Liliang in Taiwan before 1633. 30 kilometers out of the city is already no longer a deterrent. The natives didn't buy the Dutch. In 1630, the East India Company's merchant house in Taiwan was considered to abandon it due to lack of trade and the constant infestation of the indigenous people.

The castle of Geranza, which Zheng Chenggong had eaten for most of the year, was not built until 1633, and it was a very strong castle by East Asian standards at the time, and Huā spent a huge amount of money on the East India Company. In fact, the defense system of the castle of Geranza proved to be quite effective. Li Ziping saw through the high-powered telescope that there seemed to be a large-scale construction work going on near the Dutch Trade Center, with many workers and a lot of building materials piled up.

According to records, in 1631~1632, the East India Company carried out a large-scale expansion here.

If 1631 is to conquer the Commanders, many people advocate tearing up the trade agreement as soon as the typhoon season ends at the end of 1631 and conquering the Commanders in one fell swoop. But compared to the benefits of the Dutch's trade deal, a mere member is not on the executive committee's mind. The status of Dayuangang is, at best, another Macao, or even far inferior. With the existing siege firepower of the Fu Bō army, you can occupy it whenever you want. The Dutch and their slaves and mercenaries were a "lonely group of outsiders" in Taiwan, surrounded only by ill-intentioned natives and unreliable mainland immigrants. They can be uprooted with ease—as Zheng Chenggong once did in Taiwan.

The Dutch could not afford to station large ships here: the entrance to the port was shallow, allowing only ships with a draft of less than three meters to enter and exit, and ships with a draft of three to five meters had to enter and exit at high tide, and ships with a draft of more than five meters could only be parked outside the harbor and loaded and unloaded by barges. This almost makes it impossible for ships over 200 tons to anchor in Dayuan Port. The ships sent to Taiwan by the Netherlands were generally smaller, largely due to the constraints of local ports.

Generally speaking, Dayuan is not a suitable trading port, and there are almost no real natural harbors on the entire island of Taiwan, whether it is Kaohsiung or Keelung, which is the result of large-scale artificial reconstruction.

As the Haitian approached the Giants, a puff of white smoke suddenly rose from the sky over the Dutch Merchant House, and then the sound of cannons was heard in the distance. Whether this was a warning or an inquiry, Li Ziping did not know, but he had roughly confirmed the information of the Foreign Intelligence Agency from the telescope. The big Dutchmen were by no means a potential stumbling block to the engine's action, they were too small. A Type 901 is enough to sweep through the East India Company Navy Liliang.

Within a few hours of driving along the coastline, the Haitian was off the coast of Kaohsiung, where a large number of seaside lagoons had almost completely disappeared in the 21st century, either silting up into land or transforming into a port. In the 21st century, Kaohsiung is the second most densely populated area in Taiwan, and even the countryside is generally urbanized, but at this time, the seaside is unusually barren and almost completely uninhabited. Compared with the coastline near Dayuan, there are still some scattered indigenous villages and villages of Fujian immigrants.

Desolation has the benefit of desolation, at least there is no need to use any tricks to seize the land. Li Ziping grew up under the red flag, and when he was a child, he was full of fierce criticism of colonizers, and when he grew up, his ears and eyes were all exposed to universal theories, and he felt a little guilty about using all kinds of tricks to deal with the natives according to the "politically correct" argument -- the land and resources that were plundered by tricks and plundered by cunning and plundering belonged to the category that was not very open-minded.

Haitian sailed slowly under Ren Fu's guidance. Then Li Ziping discovered Zuoying according to the nautical chart and latitude and longitude. The base of the Taiwan Navy in this old time and space was still a lagoon port, and fishermen off the coast of Fujian Province sometimes moored their fishing boats here to avoid the wind. In addition, not to mention large ships, even the Haitian can only enter when it is full of dynasties.

"Hit the Dog Mountain!" Ren Fu shouted. Li Ziping immediately looked towards the shore, and sure enough, there was a hill standing on the coastline not far away, this hill was unremarkable, overgrown with subtropical vegetation, and lush.

"Measure the altitude." Li Ziping shouted, and the navy cadets and exploration team members who were interning on the deck immediately made some observations and calculations on Dagou Mountain, and concluded that it was 04 meters above sea level.

When you see Dagou Mountain, Dagou Port is also in front of you. Dog Harbour is a lagoon port. The long lagoon, separated from the open sea by a natural sandbar, is almost 0 km long and almost 15 km wide. Among the coastal bays, the mooring conditions are the best, and fishermen often stop their boats here.

But for large sea vessels, the berthing conditions at Tagou Harbor are not very good. Due to the shallow nature of the lagoon, large ships can only be moored in the outer part of the harbor with a small anchorage area. In the old time, the Dutch also built a port here, but it was rarely used.

It is dangerous to enter the port of Tagou, especially for large sailing ships that have no motor power, are propelled by the tide of sails, and the rudder is in constant direction. It has only a narrow entrance, is flanked on two rocky shores, and the width of the port is only 60 meters. Although the Haitian has a propeller, Li Ziping is not very comfortable with the underwater situation, and Ren Fu also advises caution to act cautiously, and there is a sandbar that is often "moved" under the water of Dagou Harbor, and it will be troublesome if it is stranded. The tide here is only once a day, and the tide is less than a meter high. It is difficult to get out of a stranded ship.

Zuihou used the safest method of lowering a rowboat from the Haitian, using the rowing boat to measure the depth of the water, while towing the Haitian into the port of Dagou, and choosing a suitable place to anchor.

Li Ziping calculated and looked at the charts, and Zuihou thought that their current berthing place was probably the small port area of Kaohsiung, where the port established by the Dutch in Kaohsiung, which was formerly known as "Aberdeen". But this will make the Dutch themselves disgraced by the four major societies near Geranza, and they simply cannot afford to come here to repair the port.

Once again, Qian Shuixie and his detachment acted as the vanguard of the landing. Ren Fu reminded him to be careful. The natives here are very difficult to get along with. Fujian fishermen and coastal pirates who came here to take shelter from the wind or fetch water and cut firewood, sometimes clashed with them, often at the expense of death.

In the past, several boats under the old men of Zhucai had gone to fight dogs because of fresh water, and as a result, they clashed with the local "dog-fighting savages", killing and injuring dozens of people. Almost fled in embarrassment.

The so-called "dog-fighting savages" who operate in the vicinity of the port are generally believed to be a branch of the local Pingpu tribe.

"I heard from them that the local people are not small, and they are very good at fighting. I like to cut off people's heads the most, and hang them in the village one by one as a war achievement. Ren Fu said: "Please be careful, chief.

Qian Shuixie nodded: "Don't get in the way, we'll be very careful." ”

He immediately commanded the soldiers to board the rowboat, and in addition to the weapons, he also brought two dogs, which were the descendants of the six breeding dogs that Yang Guigui had brought at the beginning. Under Yang's training, they have become well-trained working dogs, which are very useful as spearheads and guard posts.

Li Ziping said: "If you meet a native, try to communicate peacefully. To avoid armed conflict, Qian Shui Association disagreed, but ostensibly agreed.

"Don't worry, we are not European colonizers who kill people and set fires, we pay attention to harmonious coexistence and joint development ......"

Liu Zheng smiled: "Let's develop a fart together." Wouldn't it be better to grab it directly? What harmony to talk to these barbarians from the South Island! Saying that, he made a "beheading" action, "I don't want to click directly." ”

Qian Shuixie shook his head: "There is only one model of joint development: we are the bosses, and they are the joint development of wage earners." ”

Several people daxiao together, making Ren Fu inexplicable. I had to laugh a few times with him.!.