[247] Target Taiwan 3

When the Dutch governor Frederick heard the news, he was taken aback, he had long been wary of the regime across the channel, but he did not expect them to dare to do it. However, he didn't have much to worry about the Ming army, and in his opinion, the defense of the entire area was watertight, and the Chinese natives simply could not control the harbor route through heavy artillery. Even if the Chinese natives broke through the defense line, with more than 2,000 troops, built strong fortifications for more than ten years, and their own powerful firearms, these Chinese natives who can only use cold weapons such as broadswords and spears will not beat them. The so-called fiasco of Liaoluowan is nothing more than the overwhelming number of indigenous Chinese people. Moreover, since Guo Huaiyi said that the Han army was coming on the thirteenth, in Frederick's opinion, the Chinese indigenous army could only attack from the front during the day. What worries him is the revolt of the common people, if the revolt of the common people cannot be suppressed, then how will the Dutch gain a foothold in the future? How to squeeze a good profit out of this land?

Therefore, Frederick considered how to extinguish this revolt. Of course, by the way, the defenders of Chichilou and Utlicht Fort were also informed to strengthen their defenses, and there was only one fort, a squad leader, and six soldiers on the tail island of the northern line, and it seemed that more men would have to be dispatched. Frederick immediately sent the Dutch army to suppress it with 120 musketeers led by Schavrey.

At this time, Guo Huaiyi was still in the dark, and he was sharpening his knife at home while preparing for an uprising with his fellow villagers. When the Dutch were about to arrive at the entrance of the village, some people noticed the Dutch, and they immediately informed Guo Huaiyi.

Guo Huaiyi wondered, what are the Dutch doing here? At this time, someone told him that Li Denghui, Cen Zui bat, and You Cricket stick were leading the way in front, Guo Huaiyi scolded: "Damn, it's broken, it must be Li Denggray, Cen Zui bat, You Cricket Stick, the three thieves who have told the secret and led the Dutch to arrest us." Guo Huaiyi immediately greeted the people: "Folks, run, it's the three thieves who are traitors, Li Denghui, Cen Zui bat, and You Cricket Stick, and they are informants!" Run, run to the mountains! ”

Hulala, the people began to flee in all directions, but many could not make it and were caught by the Dutch. The Dutch treated the captured people cruelly, asking them to tell Guo Huaiyi's whereabouts, but none of them were willing to say it. Annoyed, the Dutch soldiers tied the two old men and a small child they had captured to a tree and roasted them on fire, and the cries of the old man and the child pierced the silent night sky. The cruel Dutchmen dug out the hearts of the old man and the child alive and hung them on a tree, saying that they wanted to see what the heart of the "pig" was like, and it was so hard. After searching and not finding Guo Huaiyi, the Dutch burned down the village with a fire, and marched to the next village with more than 30 young men and a dozen women who had been caught, but because Guo Huaiyi had already sent people to inform the villages when he fled, the Dutch did not even find a ghost. After burning four villages in a row, the Dutch officer who led the team was afraid of an ambush after dark, so he returned with the "booty".

Guo Huaiyi, who had fled into the mountains, sent people to various places to inform the Chinese of the immediate uprising, and by the third day, more than 20,000 people were gathered, and everyone rushed to the Dutch castle with scythes, axes, clubs, dung forks and other agricultural tools. On the way, He Bin, who heard that the Dutch had gone to arrest the leader of the rebel army, hurried over and found the people who were rushing towards Taiwan City. He immediately found Guo Huaiyi: "Old Guo, what are you doing here?" The Dutch are waiting for you with their cannons! Go to death! ”

"Elder He, go and see what the people have suffered, those Dutch brutes don't even spare the old people and children, these red-haired devils are not human!?" Guo Huai, who was tall and burly, and was as strong as a black blind man, cried bitterly, and the rebellious people around him also whimpered

"But we can't risk the lives of our compatriots for a momentary effort, can we? Can muskets and cannons be carried by our flesh and blood? He Ting held back the anger in his heart and comforted Guo Huaiyi, "Let's endure it~~ Anyway, as soon as the day dawns, the king is about to arrive, so let's endure it all night~ One night, at dawn, we want the Dutch red-haired ghost to pay for the blood debt!" ”

"Alas! Blame me! Guo Huaiyi threw down the knife, squatted on the ground and cried loudly, constantly hitting his head with his fists, "It's all my fault, why didn't I see that the three kings and eight lambs were spies before?" I killed those folks! ”

"You don't have to blame yourself, let everyone hide in the mountains first, and when the leader comes early tomorrow morning, it's not too late for us to take revenge!" He Bin said. In desperation, Guo Huaiyi retreated to the mountains with the people, waiting for the arrival of Zheng Zhilong's army.

Zheng Zhilong, who was at sea, did not know what was happening on the island, and he arrived near Heliao Harbor on the evening of the 12th. After the tide rose in the early morning, the little messenger sat in the bucket of the Chinese military ship, directing the advance, and the other ships followed, and the ship moved slowly, constantly rounding the reef and avoiding the dangerous shoal. Finally, at dawn, the ships of the Ming army successfully crossed the port road and distributed in the Taijiang River.

Early in the morning of the 13th, Captain Constantine # Nobel of the Dutch Army on duty rubbed his astringent eyes, glad that he could finally rest, but he was worried that if the Chinese natives attacked today, he might not be able to sleep again. He couldn't help but secretly curse the hateful Chinese natives, who were not civilized at all and were so barbaric.

Suddenly, the Dutch sentry shouted wildly: "Chinese, the army of the indigenous people is coming!" ”

The shouts of sentinels broke the silence of the early morning and awakened the sweet dreams of many Dutch colonists. The whole castle was in disarray, and Governor Frederick hurried to the city wall and asked, "Where are the hateful natives?" ”

"Governor, look, the natives are in the river!" The Dutch sentinels panicked

"Oh God! How did they get through the blockade? Did it fly over? Didn't these natives say they wouldn't start coming until today? How did it come so quickly! "Governor Frederick was surprised, things have completely exceeded his expectations," Li Dengshen, Cen Zui bat, You Cricket stick, those three *** people must not be telling the truth! ”

The artillery rumbled, and the Dutch army began to open fire, but it was too late, the Ming army was already out of their range, and a large number of Han troops began to land. The Ming army that landed quickly divided into two routes, one to encircle Taiwan City and the other to encircle Chichicheng.

At sea, when the 13 ships of the Ming army responsible for containing and attacking the tail island of the northern line approached the tail island of the northern line, they were awakened by the sound of the artillery on the battery that woke up the city of Taiwan, and the Dutch soldiers immediately fired artillery to stop them, and the Ming army used its new artillery to bombard only four guns, except for one shot, the other three threw the battery to pieces, and the 17 Dutch soldiers stationed in the fort were blown up eight on the spot. The remaining nine lay on the ground, and they didn't dare to move until the Ming army rushed up, and they all obediently became prisoners.

In the city of Taiwan, Governor Frederick first sent Captain Constantine Nobel with 240 soldiers to the outside of the city to block the Ming army, so as to force the Ming army back into the water, so that Taiwan and Chichi could support each other, and ordered the fleet anchored under the city of Taiwan to launch an attack on the Ming navy.

Constantine? Nobel was a typical Great Westernist, who looked down on the Easterners at all, believing that these Easterners were cowardly, had no advanced weapons, and were no match for his own Dutch army. He called the Chinese "pigs" and "savages" and had a penchant for killing, killing more than 100 Chinese with his own hands. He first led his subordinates to pray under the auspices of the chaplain, praying that God would help them, the "civilized" people, to defeat the barbaric natives of the East.

After the prayer, Constantine? Nobel drew his sword and shouted at the top of his voice: "These natives' broadswords and spears are no match for our muskets, and we can beat them off with a volley of guns!" Sortie! ”

This group of Dutch soldiers, who had always dealt with the unarmed Chinese very easily, also thought that this time it would not take much effort, and howled and rushed out of the castle under the leadership of Constantinobel.

Zheng Zhilong, who observed the enemy situation with clairvoyance, watched these Dutch people rush out without knowing whether they were alive or dead, smiled coldly, and ordered: "Artillery preparation, let these Dutch devils taste the taste of our Ming cannons, and see if our artillery is powerful, or their artillery is powerful!" ”

Soon the Ming artillery opened fire on the Dutch soldiers who were marching towards the area in a neat pace. The Dutch were really affected by the heavens, and the flowering shells of the Ming army roared down from the sky and exploded in the ranks of the Dutch soldiers. Many unlucky Dutch soldiers were suddenly blown into the air, and when they fell, no one was complete, the horror of the flowering shell was that it scattered shrapnel, more than two dozen shells due to the hasty launch, not all accurate, only five fell into the Dutch team or nearby, less than half of the two hundred and forty Dutch soldiers remained, Constantinobe, the executioner whose hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese, was cut off half of his head by shrapnel on the spot, his brain burst to the ground, and he went to see his lord cleanly.

The rest of the Dutch soldiers were all stunned and shouted. Turn around and run. But the second batch of shells flew again, and the Dutch suffered again, and only four people ran back to the castle. Governor Frederick and the Dutch soldiers in the city of Taiwan were all stunned and at a loss, for for a long time, the Chinese had fled in front of their cannons, but now, they had turned upside down, and a group of Dutch soldiers who were enough to wipe out thousands of Chinese were left with only four people left in a bombardment.

"Oh God! Where did you get such a powerful cannon? Governor Frederick exclaimed

The Dutch, who had always relied on muskets and cannons, began to be afraid, and when the enemy had more powerful weapons than them, they felt like women stripped naked, and they did not know how to resist the enemy's attack, and only a castle could be used as a fig leaf to cover their shame. All they could do now was pray that the walls of their castle would be strong enough to withstand the enemy's cannons

Zheng Zhilong was very satisfied with the bombardment, and he ordered the gunners to take a big credit. The Ming soldiers on the warship cheered. At this time, the sentry on the mast reported that there were many people approaching here from the east, and it seemed that they were not Dutch, but some Chinese.

"Faucet~~ Faucet!" It turned out to be He Bin and Guo Huaiyi, they had already sent people to monitor the situation here, and when they knew that the Ming army had landed, the people came to comfort the Han army with wine and food.

As soon as Guo Huai saw Zheng Zhilong, he knelt on the ground and cried bitterly: "General, you are here!" We're going to make these Dutch devils miserable! General, you want to avenge the dead folks! ”

Zheng Zhilong hurriedly helped Guo Huaiyi up, and comforted him in a good voice: "Don't worry, this time the court has made up its mind to expel these red-haired ghosts, and I will definitely not let them go!" Blood debts must be paid with blood! ”

On the water surface of the Taijiang River, the Ming Navy and the Dutch fleet engaged in a naval battle. The Dutch warships consisted of two battleships, two dinghys, and a number of sailing ships, with the lead ship being the cruiser Hector. The Ming navy has more than 200 large ships, and there are also two or three hundred small ships, and the ratio of ships between the two sides is 100 to 1, and the Dutch rely on their two huge cruisers to be bold, thinking that they can compete with the Ming navy, but what they don't understand is that they are not only absolutely inferior in numbers, but even the brave cannons are actually far less sharp than the new artillery of the Ming army.