Chapter 219: The Aftermath of the Red Embedded City
One didn't care, the other was plotting around the bend, one of the two was willing to fight, the other was willing to suffer, and the deal between the two sides was quickly reached. [No pop-ups. 】
All the large-caliber cannons that Zhang Qiang brought this time, more than 12 pounds, and all the artillery that participated in the attack on Chichicheng and Geranza City were handed over to Zheng Chenggong, which was half, and the remaining half, Zhang Qiang dismantled it from his own naval fleet and handed it to Zheng Chenggong, of course, now five or six hundred tons are only equivalent to the Dutch fifth or fourth level of warships, it is impossible to have more than 32 pounds of Caron cannons, these large-caliber cannons, can only be shipped later.
Most of the guns they dismantled from the ship and handed over to Zheng Chenggong were 24-pounder guns, and there were many 12-pounder and 18-pounder cannons, and Zhang Qiang also handed them some small-caliber cannons under 9 pounder, which made Zheng Chenggongmei close his mouth, and immediately promised to withdraw the army from within 60 kilometers of Chiji City, and in the future, this 60-kilometer range and coastline belonged to Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Righteous Army.
In order to silence the mouths of Zheng Chenggong's subordinate generals so that they could willingly support Zhang Qiang to obtain the Red Embedded City, Zhang Qiang removed the guns under 9 pounds from most of the remaining ships and sent them to the generals' ships one by one.
Zheng Chenggong's generals were all experts in C ships, the best sailors, each of whom was once a pirate leader, or the Zheng family's inherent generals, and they all had their own fleets.
The size varies, the big one leads more than a hundred ships, with a large fortune ship of five or six hundred tons, and the younger brother leads twenty or thirty ships, with small centipede ships and other ships.
Having seen the power of the cannons, even the most stubborn sailors wanted to own one or two.
As a result, many of the cannons on Zhang Qiang's ship that did not have time to be replaced, and which belonged to the ships that captured the enemy's ships, became a good thing in their eyes.
Some people even planned to buy it with silver, Zhang Qiang also opened the door of convenience, and all the cannons brought this time, even on the ships that had been reequipped by the Jinhua Righteous Army, the first generation of cast iron cannons made by the Jinhua Righteous Army were sold.
Zhu Dayou was urgently summoned from Xianju County, bringing more captured enemy artillery and arquebuses, these many things are not even worth re-casting, but it is a pity to throw them away, and no one buys them when they are sold, so many things are backlogged in the warehouse.
This time, Zhu Dayou not only brought the guns and cannons that were pressed in the warehouse, but also brought the artillery of the Qing army captured by the Shaoxing Mansion and the Ningbo Prefecture.
In the open space outside the Red Embedded City, there were all kinds of goods, and the undamaged cannon Zhang Qiang in the Red Embedded City was given to Liu Guoxuan as a compensation item, and Yu Xingmei was surrounded by Zhang Qiang all day long.
After learning that Yu Xing only had about 50 medium-sized ships and 60 small ships, and that he was only the last and poorest general among Zheng Chenggong's generals, Zhang Qiang gave him three of the 500-ton galleons of the Dutch Galen captured in the last naval battle, and fifteen Portuguese carrac galleons for nothing, and even reinstalled the guns on them.
Yu Xing was grateful, with these artillery, these big ships, he was also promoted by a level among Zheng Chenggong's generals, from a general who would only rely on selling his strength and being famous for his bravery, to a powerful general, and he would be able to become the main force in the decisive battle in the water battle in the future, and his status is often at the level of your strength, which is a symbol of the ranking and status of the generals of the Zheng family.
Looking at Yu Xing's grateful eyes, Zhang Qiang was thinking in his heart, digging the foot of the wall, especially digging the corner of Zheng Chenggong's wall, don't be so difficult, look at these people, they are all poor and crazy, and they are so friendly to themselves if they give something casually.
Then Zhang Qiang handed over all the 1,000 arquebuses captured by the Dutch to Yu Xing, and sent his own chaser guards to help him train his arquebus team in the next few days.
To be honest, apart from the five-round rifle and the rifled arquebus and the rifled rifle, Zhang Qiang was not interested in the guns of the other Dutch.
They have no research value, the arquebuses produced by Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Righteous Army can completely deal with the arquebusiers of the Dutch, which can be seen from the arquebusiers of the two families in Chiji City, the Dutch do not have excellent arquebus tactics, and their complicated gun system also makes their arquebus S shot a farce, if it were not for the city wall, they are afraid that they will be killed by Zhang Qiang's arquebusiers in the first round.
The Jinhua rebels' handling of the thrift store market was soon known to the other generals of the Zheng army.
So the generals of the Zheng army, who had just finished the battle of Geranza City, came to the outside of Chiji City with a lot of silver and goods, and traded with the Jinhua rebels here, and the trade between the two families had already begun, so there was no need for any formalities, no negotiations, and no one could stop them from having an open market.
Zhang Qiang just paid a little attention to it, and urged Yu Xing to accompany him to take people around to determine the boundaries of the two sides, and erected a boundary monument, this is Zhang Qiang in order to clarify the relationship with Zheng Chenggong in the future, otherwise it will not be good for anyone to have friction between the two sides in the future, and now the relationship between the two sides is still in the honeymoon, and everything is not clear to determine, and Zheng Chenggong will have to spend some brains if he wants to find fault in the future.
The next day, Tang Dianfeng led the expeditionary army back to Chichi City, and Relan Shacheng completely conquered it, and then handed it over to Zheng Chenggong's general Feng Xin and them to manage.
All the goods of the city of Geranza were brought back, and the Dutch captives and some Dutch immigrants from the city of Geranza, as well as the wanderers from the west, were brought to the city of Chichi.
The number of prisoners this time was somewhat larger, about 500 Dutch soldiers, 1,000 Dutch colonial immigrants, 500 Western wanderers.
These people, together with the captives of Chichicheng, about 300 Dutch soldiers, 500 Dutch immigrants, and 100 Western wanderers, were all loaded and transported to Xianju County.
As for the captured treasure island natives and Qing soldiers, as well as the Japanese ronin and the indigenous soldiers of the Dutch colonies, Zhang Qiang was ruthless, killed them all, and it was not worth transporting them back.
Zhang Qiang didn't even want to use them as hard labor, he was ready to move the good people of the territory from the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army to farm and live here, and at the same time arrange a garrison camp to come here, and at the same time bring their families, at least let Chichicheng have a population of 3,000 and a garrison of 500 troops, in addition to Xiao Fei's two thousand households, Tang Dianfeng's one thousand households, and the army led by these two regular soldiers is not allowed to bring their families.
The regular army of the Jinhua Righteous Army practiced stationing in different places and stationed in turns, which was Zhang Qiang's means to prevent his subordinates from becoming warlords and oppose him.
In addition, there will be a naval division fleet of 100 warships and 50 merchant ships stationed here, mainly to guard against pirate attacks, as for Zheng Chenggong's people, it is not that they are not defenseless, but they can't prevent it, Zheng Chenggong's fleet is getting stronger and stronger, and when they landed on the treasure island, they captured a lot of armed merchant ships of the Dutch, as well as some merchant ships from other places.
Zheng Chenggong now has a fleet of 300 large ships as the main force, 500 medium-sized ships as auxiliaries, various types of small ships, armed merchant ships, and 2,500 ships that can be converted into human beings and can fight, and the strength is so large that it is impossible to destroy Zheng Chenggong's sea power without a large-scale campaign.
Therefore, Zhang Qiang is not ready to turn his face with Zheng Chenggong, at least not now.
Although he has three detachments along the coast of the mainland, plus shipyards along the coast of the mainland, 1,000 remnants, captured pirate warships, and no less than 5,000 warships, except for the main warships of the three subfleets, some small ships, Zhang Qiang does not look down on, the navy in his eyes, or the navy, or the navy, will be a fleet with thousands of tons of warships, and three or four hundred tons of warships can only be used as auxiliaries or patrol ships.
He felt that it was child's play to classify civilian ships and merchant ships, and some miscellaneous ships into the miscellaneous forces of the fighting force, and that his sailors were going to develop in the direction of the British navy, a navy, not just a sailor who patrolled the coast and fought pirates.
"My lord, Lord Xuanyuan Longfei has arrived?" Zhu Dayou once again dutifully assumed the position of Zhang Qiang's housekeeper, and whispered to remind Zhang Qiang, who was pretending to sleep.
"Ask him to come in." Zhang Qiang rubbed his swollen eyes and took a sip of tea.
"The last general, Xuanyuan Longfei, pays a visit to the Governor." Xuanyuan Longfei bowed down on one knee towards Zhang Qiang solemnly.
"Get up, you finally know a little etiquette, it's not easy, I came to you this time to ask you to do something." Zhang Qiang said softly.
After all, Xuanyuan Longfei has been an old man who has been with him for a long time, and he is the kind of casual friend who doesn't talk about etiquette with Zhang Qiang, and at this moment Zhang Qiang saw him bow down to himself so solemnly for the first time.
"My lord, when did I stop talking about etiquette, in my heart, you are the sun in the sky, the god of the stove on the earth, I **** worship, miss every day, and always treat you as my most respected big brother, my lord......"
Zhang Qiang hurriedly stopped it, and let Xuanyuan Longfei continue to nag again, and this afternoon was going to be in the soup again.
"Don't say it, I'm looking for you for serious business," Zhang Qiang said seriously.
"The last will listen to you." Xuanyuan Longfei stood up straight, his hand pressed on his sword, like an ancient warrior in a portrait.
"The battle with the Dutch is over, and then we have to settle accounts with the Portuguese, I came to you this time to ask you to go to Xiamen, Kinmen and other Zheng Chenggong on the coast of the mainland, on the islands off the coast of Fujian, accept the islands that Zheng Chenggong promised to hand over to us, where will you be the admiral, the commander-in-chief, and at the same time to monitor the Longwu court in Fujian for me, especially Zheng Hongkui's sailors, as well as the movements of the Portuguese, when we are ready, we will send troops to recover the trench gate mirror, and completely drive the Westerners out of the Ming Dynasty."
"My lord, how is my position as the governor of Wenzhou?" Xuanyuan Longfei asked vigilantly.
"Concurrently," Zhang Qiang glanced at him, he didn't expect this guy to have an official addiction, he originally thought that Wenzhou Mansion would be dominated by Chen Hanhui in the future, supplemented by Ruan Shu and Ruan Wu, and those who took the initiative to take refuge in him were also brought up and played their roles, it seems that it is not good, he can't treat the old brother badly.
(End of chapter)