The pirate Li Kuiqi was exterminated, and the pirate Liu Xiang also ran to the north of Dongfan and did not dare to come. When Waite received the news, his nose was crooked.

It was no longer a question of blocking the maritime trade of Spain, Portugal and the Ming Empire, and he could not do his own business.

Because pirates such as Liu Xiang and Li Kuiqi were not only their tools to block the maritime trade between Spain, Portugal and the Ming Empire, but also the main cargo transshipment tool between Dongying, the Ming Empire and Dongfan.

These pirates are their partners, he is not talking nonsense, usually he relies on these pirates to transport goods, without these pirates, the goods between Dongying, the Ming Empire and Dongfan cannot be turned.

The income from the maritime trade of the Ming Empire and Dongying accounted for half of the income of the Dutch East India Company in the entire Far East, and the average monthly profit was more than one million taels of silver, which could not be done.

Morality. Waite couldn't help but curse the bureaucrats in the headquarters, these fools had already told them that they couldn't indulge the Ming Empire to be so arrogant!

The last time he sent to headquarters, he was ruthlessly denied, for the simple reason that they could not afford to hurt.

Regardless of the fact that the Dutch East India Company monopolized almost the entire trade between the Far East and the European continent, in fact, they had only 50,000 employees, 10,000 regular troops, a total of only about 150 ordinary warships or armed merchant ships, and a total of only about 40 main warships.

60,000 people, sounds a bit shabby, is there a total of 60,000 people for such a huge colonial company?

This is indeed true, because at this time, the whole Netherlands is worth more than a million people, and 60,000 people in a company is quite terrifying!

It is precisely because they are not manpower that they are reluctant to start a war with the Ming Dynasty.

According to the estimation of the Batavia headquarters, in order to clean up the Ming Fujian Naval Division, at least more than ten capital warships must be dispatched, and four to fifty ordinary warships must be matched, which is already one-third of the strength of the entire East India Company.

As for cleaning up the Ming Empire, it was almost impossible, because they came to the conclusion after estimating that they had to send over more than forty capital warships and more than one hundred and fifty ordinary warships, which was just a joke, not to do business!

Morality. Waite also knows the company's difficulties, but he thinks that even if he doesn't clean up the Ming Empire, this Fujian governor must also clean up, because this guy clearly wants him to not be able to do business.

Now, as expected, he had guessed correctly, and while gritting his teeth and cursing the bureaucrats at the headquarters, he added fuel to the fire and wrote the governor's arrogance into the report, and then sent a clipper ship directly to the headquarters in Batavia.

This time, these idiots should have made a move, he didn't believe that the headquarters would lose half of the Far East's earnings for nothing!

It is not clear whether the Dutch East India Company will make a move immediately, but Zhang Bin is ready to make a move.

The reason why he didn't attack the big man immediately after exterminating Li Kuiqi was mainly to wait for the second batch of fifty thousand catties of Buddha Lang machines.

After driving away the Dutch envoy Natz last time, he informed the Yuegang Cannon Foundry to change their plan and make every effort to build the second batch of fifty thousand pound franc machines.

Because he knew that the Dutch used all cannons, which had a longer range than ordinary artillery, and the range of the 300 jin and 500 jin Franc machine guns could not be compared with them at all, and only the 1,000 pound Franc machine could be comparable to the main guns of their battleships.

Morality. Waite didn't expect that the reply from the headquarters had not yet arrived, but the overwhelming Ming warships came.

Less than ten days after the pirate Li Kuiqi was exterminated, Zhang Bin led more than 700 warships to attack Dacheng, at this time the castle of Gerancha had not yet been completed, so he did not detour to the Luermen waterway in the north of the Taijiang Inland Sea, but led the army to the front entrance of the Taijiang Inland Sea, where the city of Relanza was located.

Morality. Waite didn't expect the Ming army to dare to attack the general, and by the time he found the Ming warship, they were already approaching the entrance opposite the city of Geranza.

A great battle broke out immediately, Zhang Bin directly ordered fifty Dafu ships equipped with a thousand catties of Buddha Franc to scatter and surround the castle of Geranza to attract firepower, while other warships rushed into the inland sea of the Taijiang River.

At this time, the armed merchant ships of the Dutch were still anchored in the port next to the mouth of the Taijiang River, and they rushed to meet under the castle of Geranza and were surrounded by the swarming Ming warships.

Twelve to seven hundred, this is a battle without suspense, Zhang Bin directly ordered seven hundred warships to swarm up, directly leaned up, took the ship, and seized the ship!

The firepower of the armed merchant ships of the Dutch was indeed very fierce, and there was a cannon on the front, rear, left and right, but no matter how fierce they were, they could not withstand the encirclement of more than 700 warships, and as a result, they only fired two rounds in total, and the fastest Ming sailing oars had already approached.

The result can be imagined, when thousands of Ming troops squeezed into twelve armed merchant ships and cut down nearly 300 Dutch soldiers, the remaining 200 people finally surrendered, Zhang Bin easily took these twelve armed merchant ships at the cost of sinking more than 20 small ships.

Immediately afterwards, nearly 5,000 soldiers of the Qi family army landed in the port and went straight to the warehouse and trading place set up by the Dutch near the port.

At this point, the entire Dayuan, except for the castle of Geranza, all other areas were occupied by the Ming army.

However, this castle of Geranza is indeed a bit difficult to fight, because it is built on an independent island, and there is not much room for landing around it, and if the warship wants to land closely, I am afraid that the foot soldiers will be sunk before they can be put down.

Fortunately, the Dutch had not built it into a three-story fortress at this time, and the firepower was not very fierce, and there were more than 20 artillery pieces in total.

He ordered all the warships to anchor near the port, and at a time only sent ten Daifuku ships equipped with thousand-pound Franc machines, scattered in the direction of the inland sea of the Taijiang River, and launched a bombardment with the Dutch defenders in the castle of Geranza, one group slowly bombarded for an hour, and then sent another group, a total of ten groups, taking turns not to extinguish, day and night!

Now the Dutch in the castle suffered, they only sent ten warships at a time to bombard them far away in one direction, it was too difficult to aim, and even if they occasionally hit a shot, the Daifuku ship would not be sunk.

Morality. Waite originally wanted his soldiers to take turns to rest, but the Ming army didn't let it, and the warships of the Ming army could leave after a while, constantly rotating, but the castle of Geranza couldn't move, the artillery fire outside was non-stop, and from time to time there were shells falling into the city, smashing the barracks into a thousand holes, who could sleep!

After five or six days of such a round-the-clock bombardment, the Dutch soldiers in the castle were so exhausted that most of them could fall asleep standing as long as the artillery stopped for a while!

At this time, Zhang Bin began the second step of the plan.

On the night of the seventh day, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and he could see his five fingers when he stretched out his hand, but he couldn't see anything clearly when he was a few steps away, and it was a good time to kill, set fire, and sneak attack.

In the evening, at the port of the Taijiang Inland Sea, dozens of soldiers held torches and lined up all the way from the port to the wharf, shining a clear picture of the entire port.

At the front of the dock, Zhang Cha, Zhao Ru and other five guards each took ten scouts, wearing dark night clothes, neatly arranged in five rows, standing upright.

Opposite them, Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Cai, five guerrilla generals each led a hundred carefully selected naval soldiers, carrying ten ladders in five neat rows, all the way to the inner side of the port.

Zhang Bin stood in the middle of the ten people and solemnly admonished: "Remember, the artillery fire can only stop for half an hour at most, and you must occupy the eastern wall of the castle of Geranza within half an hour and give out the signal. ”

Zhang Cha, Zhao Ru, Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Cai and others all bowed their hands and said, "My subordinates understand." ”

Zhang Bin glanced at them deeply, then waved his hand and said decisively: "Let's go." ”

Zhang Cha and Zhao Ru and other five personal guards directly led fifty scouts to board the five centipede boats, and then rowed into the night without hesitation.

Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Cai and other five guerrilla generals led 500 sailors to board five sailing boats, and also rowed out into the night without hesitation.

How could they determine the distance on such a dark night?

It's very simple, count the ten Daifuku ships in front of you about four miles from the port and about five miles from the city of Geranza.

They counted silently at a certain frequency in their hearts, and when they rowed near the Daifuku boat, they counted how many, wrote them down, began to count again, and continued to row forward, until they reached the same number, and it proved that they were only about a mile away from the castle of Geranza.

In less than two quarters of an hour, they rowed to this position, and at this time, Zhang Cha and the others directly slid into the water silently and quickly swam forward, while Zheng Zhihu and the others stopped there and waited for the signal.

After about two quarters of an hour when the artillery stopped, they finally landed on the east shore of the castle of Geranza, and fifty men, guided by the torches on the wall, ran silently to the bottom of the wall, and then began to build the wall.

One person, two people, three people, and finally the human wall was less than five feet away from the top of the city wall, at this time, Zhang Cha and the other five people directly bit the broken blade, quickly climbed up the human wall, and slowly stretched out their heads.

At this time, because the artillery fire had ceased, the city wall was already snoring, and almost all the Dutch soldiers were asleep against the women's wall, except for a few sentry soldiers standing there, their eyes hazy and crumbling.

Finding the right moment, they sprang up, covered the sentry's mouth, and brought them down one by one with their short blades, and then they lowered the ropes, allowing all the scouts to climb up.

At this time, there were less than eight hundred men in the castle of Geranza, and less than a hundred men were on duty on the eastern wall, and soon they were all put down in their sleep by fifty scouts.

At this time, Zhang Cha directly threw a torch under the city wall, and soon, Zheng Cai and the others took 500 naval soldiers to climb the city wall on a ladder.

The eastern wall was thus taken down silently, and the Dutch in the city did not even notice it.

Immediately after that, Zhang Cha and the others controlled the artillery on the city wall, and fired three cannons in a row at certain intervals, which was the signal, the signal that they occupied the eastern city wall.

Five miles away, near the Dafu boat, at this time, dozens of sailing oars were gathered, Qi Changshan and Qi Changlin received the signal on the city wall, and immediately led more than 2,000 subordinates, rowing sailing oars, and quickly approached the castle of Geranza.

There was no accident in the middle, and in less than half an hour, more than 2,000 soldiers of the Qi family army all climbed the eastern wall of the castle of Geranza, and as soon as they gathered, they began to disperse towards the entire castle in the dark.

At this time, the sound of fighting and gunfire slowly sounded in the castle, but it was too late, hundreds of Dutch soldiers with muskets were the elite opponents of the Qi family army in the dark night, and before dawn, the castle of Geranza was occupied by the Ming army!