"Little Liuzi, let me ask you, how long will it take for the Dutch ship to go from Dayuan to Batavia to ask for help, and then these people will rush from Batavia City to the sea near Dayuan?"

Zhang Xiaohu lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then raised his head and replied to Shouhan: "My lord, according to the condition of the Dutch ships, the waterways, and the usual practice of their company, the soldiers and horses are assembled and mobilized on the ship; At least a month. ”

"That's good!" Shouhan gently put down the chopsticks in his hand.

"You and Chu Tianlei will take turns to go to sea during this time, the one at home will supervise the expansion of Yulin Port, and the one who will go to sea will do one thing."

"Obey the orders of the lord!"

"Seeing the ships of the Grand Dutch going to Batavia for help, to be struck without sinking, make them feel that they have broken through with great strength! Let them go to the city of Batavia to report and call for help! ”

Hearing this, Zhang Xiaohu had no choice but to look for Chu Tianlei, and the two compared them on the chart, and according to the current wind direction, tides and other factors, they demarcated several routes that the Dutch on Dayuan Island might go to Batavia, demarcated the sea area, and arranged patrol shifts to take people with them.

For the next ten days, Shouhan took his daughter very leisurely, wandering between the white waves and beaches every day, watching the scenery of the coconut grove sunset and white sails.

He is leisurely here, but others dare not relax at all!

Truckloads of burnt ash, nine-turn steel bars, rice, refined salt, salted meat, salted fish, and salted eggs were transported from Hue, Ha Tinh, and Jiulong rivers at a flowing price to expand ports and berths.

There are few deacons who have to contact the officials of the Qiongzhou Mansion, or hire people. Or contract construction projects, in short, everyone has a fortune. It was those native laborers who also packed up their packages and stepped on straw sandals, went to the depths of Limu Mountain to find the Li Miao village, shook the three-inch incorruptible tongue they had cultivated, and let those Li and Miao people who were in the deep mountains and dense forests come out to the sea, contribute to the big port of the Han general, and at the same time, earn a lot of money for themselves.

"Every ten people are knotted. Every ten knots are in a circle. Each has a knot and a person around the head. All matters such as food, materials, work, and receiving salaries are handled by the head of the circle. In addition to food, each native laborer has two catties of white rice every day. Subsidies for five coins of salt. Every month of work. 1,000 industrial vouchers will be issued. Buy all kinds of industrial products in Nanzhong by yourself. ”

It is about the conditions of the organization and treatment of indigenous labour. Under the temptation of such conditions, those Li and Miao ethnic groups living in the depths of the dense forests of Wuzhi Mountain walked out of the mountains for the first time in their lives. Come to the beach and devote yourself to the construction site in full swing.

As the progress of the project progressed, more and more ships frequently traveled back and forth between Hue, Ha Tinh and Cam Ranh Bay, bringing not only supplies, but also battalions of soldiers, as well as countless cannons and gunpowder.

March 16.

Shouhan wore a helmet made of wicker and bamboo strips on his head, and was at the site of the new lighthouse, holding the construction drawings and discussing the construction progress with several stewards and craftsmen, Chu Tianlei ran to Shouhan with an embarrassed face.

"My lord, our sentinel intercepted two Dutch ships bound for Batavia at sea."

"Did you let it go?"

"As you commanded, the sentinel ship let them go."

"Oh! That's a good thing! It's going according to our plan! ”

"It's just that the eldest lady happened to catch up with this matter."

"Huh?" Shouhan couldn't help but let out a long sound from his nostrils, and his eyebrows moved upward. Could it be that the baby daughter is in trouble? If she misses a big event because of her recklessness, even if she is her own daughter, she will have to sing "Yuanmen Chop" to calm the resentment in the army and teach her a lesson.

Shouhan's Victory was replaced with a new ship, and the old ship that had been eliminated was purchased from the sailors by Li Peiting at the expense of Huamei, and then given to her as Huamei's birthday gift.

With such a good boat, Hua Mei cheered like a young child getting a long-cherished toy. It happened that Shi Lang, a playmate who also loved boats, came, and the two of them had to take their own soldiers to escort the boat to the sea.

"Our sentinel ship has already had a military order, just a little interception, a few shots from a distance and then plan to release the water, let these two boats escape, unexpectedly the eldest lady's Kirin from the oblique stab, a cannon fire wildly, the intensity of the artillery fire, so that the officers and soldiers of the sentinel ship smacked their tongues."

Chu Tianlei couldn't help but shake his head when he thought of that scene, not knowing whether to praise Huamei's newborn calf for not being afraid of tigers, or to reprimand this eldest lady for her recklessness.

"The Dutch ship was sunk?"

Hearing this, Shouhan couldn't help but be startled, if this daughter of his used dozens of guns on the Kirin to give the Dutch ship a cannonball washing service on a whim, then many of the previous calculations would be in vain!

"It's fine! Both ships were heavily damaged, but, according to the assessment of the sentinels who witnessed it, it should not be a problem to hold on to Batavia. My lord, in this way, it is impossible for the Dutch high-ranking officials in Batavia to come up with troops to help the generals! The eldest lady's mistake is equivalent to giving them a signal: we have begun to attack the Dutch! ”

"This girl! Come back and see how I clean him up! ”

Shouhan had to smile bitterly, and secretly shouted in his heart: "Luck!"

"Immediately send the fastest ships to Manraka, Penang, Ling Jiawei and other places, and order them to strengthen their preparations for war, Ling Jiawei's customs and forts, and the Dutch ships are not allowed to enter! Manraka's battery, block the Dutch ship in the strait for me! From now on, our war against the Dutch begins! ”

On 17 March, Shouhan announced the mobilization of the whole army to fight against the Dutch soldiers on the grounds that they had received a letter from the Portuguese in Entrenchment and complained that the Dutch soldiers had smashed shops and taverns and molested Portuguese women in Entrenchment and other places.

For a time, from Cam Ranh Bay to Yulin Port, the sails were like clouds, and the ships were connected.

(Putmans: "You're so unreasonable!") My soldier, drunk, touched the Portuguese woman's ass in the Portuguese tavern and smashed two glasses. At most, it's a civil dispute or a prostitution dispute, can you use so many cannons to talk to me?! ”）

(Li Shouhan: "Then I don't care, anyway, the Portuguese are my little brother at the moment, and I have more cannons than you, so the reason is naturally on my side!") If you are not convinced, use the cannon to speak! ”）

A kun is out of the ocean. Shouhan's battleship Victory, Chu Tianlei's Thor, and Zhang Xiaohu's three-headed tiger were moored here, and behind the three of them were dozens of warships of all sizes. With a good telescope lens, one can clearly see the situation on the island.

The city of Geranza is on this island.

From south to north, there are seven islands here, known as the Seven Kun Body. The body of a kun is located at the northern end. Just at the entrance to Dayuan Port. It is about three square kilometers wide. After the Dutch occupied Dayuan Island, they began to build the city of Geranza in Yikun as an important outlying stronghold to block the communication routes in and out of Dayuan. This military fortress was built in the fifth year of Chongzhen. It was completed in 1632.

The terrain here is dangerous. It is described in the "Taiwan Bamboo Branch Words" that can be seen in our time. "The iron plate sand is connected to the seven kun. The sea is dark. It is difficult to commit a minor offense in teaching a giant ship, and the natural danger is to generate a deer ear gate. The author describes it this way: "Next to Anping City, from one kun to seven kun. All sand gangs also. The iron plate sand is heavy, and the water is as hard as a stone, and the boat is parked on the sand, the wind and waves are thrown, and the bottom of the boat is broken. There are thousands of ox carts, and there is no track in the water every day, and its strength can be known. "There is also a "snow wave emptying boat, and the red-haired city is unique. The ferry head is more on the ox cart to sit, and the sunset also passes the red embedded city. The author explains: "Ferries are all small boats. Hongmao City is now Anping City, and the ferries come and go, all of which are between Anping and Chiji. The water is shallow, and although the boat cannot reach the shore, it must be pulled by ox carts. Chichijo Castle is on the coast of the county and confronts Anhei Castle. ”

The Dutch began to operate a kun body from the Wanli period, there is a masonry fort on it, a total of fifteen large-caliber guns, just enough to block the channel into the port of Dayuan, and later Zheng Chenggong recovered the battle of Taiwan, the reason why he had to smuggle Luermen at the time of the tide on the 26th of the first month, a large distance dù is also to avoid the Dutch artillery fire on the fort of a kun body.

The castle is a square shape, made entirely of burnt bricks, with an outer wall 6 feet thick, an inner wall 4 feet thick, filled with sand and gravel between the two walls, and a breast wall 3 feet high, and on the east side of the castle there is another Utrechchi Castle, which can be supported by artillery fire and use each other as horns. After years of development by Li Dan, Zheng Zhilong and others, many businessmen from the mainland have settled in Yikun. With the increasing number of mainland merchants who settled in the city, an urban area of about 25,000 people, excluding women and children, was gradually formed in the east of the castle square, which was named Relanza Town, which is today's Anping Town in Tainan. The Dutch used the forts here and the city as their home, and the forts were equipped with wells, granaries, and various warehouses.

During the Apocalypse, Song Ke, the leader of the Dutch East India Company, used fifteen pieces of cheesecloth to deceive a large piece of land in Chichi (present-day Tainan City) on the west coast of Dayuan from the local natives of Dayuan, and built the Provencha Fortress, that is, Chichi City. (Sound familiar?) It seems that exchanging glass beads and cotton cloth for land from indigenous people is the traditional trick of these Westerners who now shout universal values and human rights, but today they are no longer using glass beads, but green paper tickets. ）

"Let's talk about it! How should this battle be fought?! ”

Different from the naval battle of Liuluo Bay, this battle to capture the big man was not only a naval battle, but also a landing battle and a tough battle. Perhaps after the landing there will be naval battles.

The commander of the Shouhan Army, together with the officers of the Xuanwu Battalion and the Army Battalion, and the captain and above, who came with the fleet, to the dining room of the Victory for this military meeting.

Such meetings are nothing new in the South China Army, and similar meetings have been held in every operation. However, what is different today is that two little ones appeared in everyone's sight.

That is Li Huamei and Shi Lang.

After being grounded for ten days as a punishment, Hua Mei finally got the opportunity to go to sea with the ship to fight. For this hard-won opportunity, she stared unblinkingly at the battle diagram on the wall of the ship's cabin, which marked the strength and firepower of the Dutch fortresses, castles, and batteries in various places.

This time to deal with the Dutch on Dayuan Island, the South Chinese Army can be described as a lion and a rabbit, and did its best. The naval division dispatched more than 60 warships, large and small, including the Chinese army directly led by Shouhan, Zhang Xiaohu's left flank fleet, and Chu Tianlei's naval division practice fleet. Only Xu Huanshan's right-wing fleet was left to patrol the long coastline from Ling Jiawei to Ha Tinh. In addition to combat ships, this huge fleet also has more than 200 Daifuku ships for support and transportation, and the entire fleet has nearly 1,500 artillery pieces of various types, nearly 300 rockets, and a total of nearly 40,000 troops that can be put into combat by naval divisions and land battalions.

"This time, our troops and firepower are several times or even dozens of times that of the Dutch Hongmaoyi on the island, and this battle is naturally undefeated, but we have set up such a large formation. A lot of money was spent. Nature is not just for the sake of the big man an island! First, it is necessary to let the children of the training fleet practice their hands and have a chance to shoot real guns. Second, it is a great opportunity for us to monopolize this 10,000-mile ocean! ”

Shouhan's words undoubtedly set a principle for this battle.

"On March 14th. We shelled Dutch ships coming to Batavia for help. Today is the seventh day of the fourth month. I think that the Dutch reinforcements are also coming soon. Chu Tianlei! ”

Chu Tianlei, the commander of the practice fleet, rose with his sword. With his right hand, he clenched his fist in front of his chest, "Subordinates are here!" ”

"Command the fleet of your subordinates, and travel between the Grand Commander and the city of Batavia. Be sure to annihilate the Dutch fleet in one fell swoop, and the sailors will take it as long as they can! Our sailors are still lacking. After destroying this reinforcement of the enemy, your troops will go to Batavia, cooperate with our army stationed in Manraka, and take this city to Lao Tzu! ”

"Do your bidding!"

"Zhang Xiaohu, the commander of the left wing of the water division!"

"The subordinates are here!"

"Your department is responsible for capturing a kun body, remember, you have to attack but not take! Leave some thoughts and thoughts for the Dutch people on the island! Let them feel that they can hold out until reinforcements arrive, and pretend to intercept the ships that call for help in the direction of Batavia, and let them pass! Destroy the Dutch fleet in the port of Dayuan at the right time! ”

Hearing this way of fighting, Zhang Xiaohu, who has always liked to fight and rush, and took it as a quick thing to destroy the enemy, couldn't help but crack his mouth, "Lord, this, it's too embarrassing, right?!" ”

"What words!"

Shouhan slapped the table violently, and there was a bang, and the frightened people in the cabin couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. I wonder if the lord is going to go crazy today?

"Our battle today is like catching a big fish!"

Shouhan got up and came to the wall, and slapped the combat deployment map with his hand.

"First use a kun body to fish for the Red Embedded City on Dayuan's main island, let them come out to fight us, destroy their troops and warships in the wild, and reduce the pressure on our army to capture Dayuan City. Then use the main island of Dayuan as bait to lure the Dutch from Batavia to help, so that all the Dutch in this area can be wiped out in a single battle! This South China Sea is the South China Sea! All ships of all walks of life on the surface of the water in this area must go to our Nanzhong Military Office to obtain licenses, order flags, pay taxes and fees, and register the number of weapons and gunpowder carried before they can sail and trade, for those ships that do not have licenses and order flags, we cannot guarantee the safety of their ships and property, there are many pirates in this area! ”

Seeing a sinister smile on Shouhan's face, everyone also burst into laughter, damn! All ships have to pay taxes, licenses, and flags, how much money do you get? Those ships that do not have a flag and a license, the lord has already said that they can be disposed of by the sailors! Isn't this the time to get rich?!

"Do you understand?"

Shouhan's words have a bit of a cold taste.

"Subordinates obey orders!"

For a time, starting from the sea of Qikun and from south to north, the gunboats on the left flank of Zhang Xiaohu's naval division and the Chinese gunboats of the naval division began a slow and methodical artillery bombardment of the Dutch defenders on these seven islands.

"Boy, the lord said that you are a material for naval warfare, so I will transfer you to serve in front of my fleet, do a good job, and fight this battle, Lao Tzu will ensure that you go to the Sailor Academy for further study!"

Facing Shi Lang, Zhang Xiaohu naturally looked like a senior and an elder.

To serve in front of the army, it was Shi Lang who came out before Shou Han, and after a little consideration, Shou Han agreed to Shi Lang's request. The reason is also high-sounding, "A young man is self-motivated, so he naturally has to be given a chance." And in the depths of Shouhan's heart, it was a smug voice that burst into bursts of ecstatic laughter: "You guy, but the second person to attack Taiwan after Zheng Chenggong, let you help Zhang Xiaohu, it's just right, make the best use of your talents!" ”

Shi Lang didn't think about it so much, he just had some opinions about Zhang Xiaohu's style of play.

"Uncle Shi, the little nephew feels that this kind of tactic is a little inappropriate."

On the sea, more than 10 gunboats of the South China Army took turns to bombard the city of Geranza on a Kun body island, but the batteries of the city were very silent, only when the gunboats of the South Central Army were closer, they occasionally fired a cannonball, and the huge cannonballs splashed huge columns of water on the left and right of the gunboats.

"Huh! Didn't you listen to the lord, the purpose of this attack is to lure out the Dutch on Dayuan Island and destroy them at sea and in the field! ”

"Uncle Shi, what the lord said is right, he pretends that he will not be able to capture the city of Relan on a kun for a while, but at the moment, we are not acting realistically, not fighting, but harassing! Look! ”

Zhang Xiaohu held a telescope in the direction of Shi Lang's finger and looked at the island, and wisps of curling smoke floated in the city of Relanza.

"The people on the island don't have the intention of asking for help at all! They had to be beaten and hurt before they could come out and ask for help from the Dutch! Ask your boss in Batavia for help! (To be continued......)