The Dutch robbers were knocked unconscious by two rifle salvos. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe huge casualties caused them to enter a state of rage and began to behave unreasonably.

One hundred and twenty paces away, the Dutch set up their arquebuses to shoot at the riflemen on the top of the hill. This distance is far beyond the effective range of the smoothbore gun, and the shooting with the gun can only be indiscriminate.

The smoothbore gunners had already loaded their ammunition, and at this time they set up the bracket and began to shoot up the hill.

Pieces of fire erupted at the foot of the hill, and the crackling gunfire merged into a loud explosion. More than 300 buckshot rounds flew to the top of the mountain.

These lead bullets are inaccurate and spread extremely wide after a flight of almost two hundred meters. Of the more than 300 rounds of lead bullets, only about 30 hit the soldiers of the trap regiment.

However, these red-haired smoothbore guns have a large caliber and are not small. The thirty soldiers of the Trap Regiment who had been shot were all shot through the chain mail and fell down screaming.

Seeing that Hongmao had injured his comrades, the other soldiers of the trapping regiment rushed into anger and immediately began the third salvo.

The Dutch smoothbore gunners in the second row had not yet stepped up to the front row to shoot, and the third salvo of the trapped regiment swept over. Dozens of red-haired sailors slammed their bodies, and blood bloomed on their bodies. They screamed and covered their wounds with their hands, but they couldn't hold back the blood that was pouring out.

There were sailors who were unwilling to fall like this, grabbed the shoulders of their companions around them, roared loudly, and finally hung on their companions and died.

The five sixteen-pounder cannons in the camp also opened fire on the red fur. Fifteen hundred shotgun projectiles from the five cannons rained down on the red-haired array.

The Dutch soldier who was hit by a shotgun had no way to live. Blood and flesh were reduced to scrap and scattered in the air. The Dutchman who was still alive in the front row seemed to be bathed in a rain of blood, sprayed red by the blood of his comrades who had been shot. Some of them also had some minced meat flying out of the bodies of their comrades who had been shot, which was extremely terrifying.

The Dutch retreated.

More than 800 people were killed at once, and more than 200 were killed at once, and the casualties were already unbearable, and the smoothbore guns on this side had not yet entered the effective firing range. Such a battle cannot be fought. The officer in the lead yelled something, and the beats of the firecracker-like drum stopped. The Dutch soldiers gave up storming the hill and fled back and forth with their muskets.

Fang Laosan turned to look at Zheng Hui and heard the commander shout loudly: "The whole army is pursuing!" ”

More than 300 soldiers, armed with rifles, pursued the fleeing Dutch.

The camp was more than ten miles away from the bay where the red haired boats were parked, and the red hairs saw that the tiger master chased them out, and they ran very embarrassed. The soldiers of the trapped regiment chased after them with loaded rifles, and when they saw the outdated red hair, they shot them several times and killed them. chased all the way to the sea, and the trapped group killed more than 40 red hairs.

The Dutch suffered heavy losses this time, you must know that even in the naval battle of Liaoluo Bay in the southeast of Weizhen a few years ago, Zheng Zhilong only cut off more than 100 red-haired heads. And today, the Dutch left more than 300 corpses under this unknown small camp at once.

After chasing to the seashore and the artillery deterrence range of the Dutch ship, Zheng Hui stopped the pursuit. There were so many cannons on the Dutch ships that a single hit would cause very heavy casualties.

The Dutch hurried into the boats, rowed away from the shore, and rowed toward the big boats, not daring to turn back and engage the soldiers of the trapped.

Fang Laosan hid in the pine forest by the sea, where he observed the nine big ships with red hair in the distance. The nine big ships were not small, one was about the size of the Nova, and two were even bigger than the Nova. The boats had wide bellies and dense soft sails. Each ship had quite a few cannons on its belly, some a dozen, some more than twenty.

There are so many red-haired cannons! The cannons of this fleet are much more than all the cannons of the Tartars outside the gates.

These red-haired ships plundered everywhere and would be the number one enemy of the Metropolitan Governor's exploration of Taiwan.

Fang Laosan was observing the ship there, and he didn't know who was behind him and took the lead and shouted, "Wan Sheng!" And the four hundred soldiers shouted in unison. Fang Laosan turned his head, looked at the excited soldiers of the trapping regiment, and also raised his fist, shouting loudly: "Wan Sheng!" ”

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In January, the shipwrights of Wangjiawan delivered another ship, and Li Zhi's fleet expanded to four ships. Four ships were put into the development of Taiwan, and another 100 soldiers and 1,400 peasants arrived in Taiwan. By mid-February, there were 3,500 people in Taiwan.

Boss Wei heard that the Metropolitan Governor had studied the map in Tianjin, and called the area occupied by the 3,500 men Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Hsinchu, Boss Wei thinks the name sounds okay, and there are indeed a lot of bamboos nearby.

Boss Wei has been cutting down the isolation zone in the woods during this time. It took more than a month for 400 soldiers and 800 peasants to finally cut out the separation zone around the first planned farmland and start burning the wasteland.

On the day of the burning, Boss Wei lit fires everywhere in the woods with torches. The time for burning was when there was no rain for several days, and the woods were very dry, and a large area was burned by a fire. Boss Wei and his two comrades-in-arms worked in groups of three, first lighting a fire in the depths of the woods, and then retreating outside little by little, lighting other places along the way. In the end, the fire burst into the face, almost burning the three of Boss Wei.

Fortunately, the isolation zone was cut out before, and the three of them fled outside the isolation belt.

The fire burned for five days, raising the temperature in the neighborhood quite a bit. After burning for three days, Boss Wei was ordered to enter the fire area to inspect it, and continued to light the place where the fire did not burn, until the forest of more than 100,000 acres was burned flat.

Eventually, the forests on the east and west sides of the camp burned down. Standing on the hill of the camping camp and looking over, I saw only a scorched earth on both sides of the river, and there was nothing but black grass and ash.

The next step was to build the irrigation canals. Commander Zheng made the irrigation canal planned this time four miles long, and a large area should be irrigated. Such an irrigation canal should be six feet above the ground at the edge of the river, gradually lowering from the river to the distance to allow the water to flow down the irrigation canal into the distance.

Boss Wei followed the squad leader and began to dig the soil with a shovel, ram the soil with a stone hammer, and start to build irrigation canals.

On this day, Boss Wei was shoveling soil, and suddenly sighed: "Yuan Jin, this burned soil is really fat!" ”

Yuan Jin, who was in the same class as Boss Wei, shoveled into the soil with a shovel and said with a smile: "That is, this grass ash is the best fertilizer." I heard the platoon commander say that one acre of ordinary paddy fields in Fujian can produce two stones and five buckets of rice. The fields we burned are so fat, and the harvest is even higher! ”

Boss Wei also attended the soldier's night school, and now he can count. He stood there and calculated, and said, "The farmers who have come to Hsinchu are so rich." ”

Yuan Jin smiled, shoveled another shovel of soil onto the cart, and did not speak.

Boss Wei thought for a while and said, "I'm going to write to my little boys, asking them to sign up for Taiwan to open up wasteland." Although I can't be an officer and recruit them into Fanjiazhuang, coming to Hsinchu to be a farmer is not much worse than being a soldier! (To be continued.) )