When the Tiance Navy fleet arrived at Xiamen Island, it was already 5:50 in the morning, and there was already light in the east.

After arriving at Xiamen Island, the fleet continued its voyage along the southwest coast of Xiamen Island and approached the city of Zhongzuo.

The city is located on the southwest coast of Xiamen Island, backed by Wulao Mountain, and across the sea from Gulangyu Island, which is roughly the location of Xiamen University. To the east of the castle is the famous Huli Hill Fort.

The modern Huli Hill Fort is also a famous tourist attraction, with its impressive 280mm Krupp cannon on it, and the attraction also has an amazing daily cannon firing show.

This place guards the key point of the waterway between Gulangyu Island and Xiamen Island, and is known as "the gateway to Fujian and the key to Tiannan". The location was so important that Zheng Zhilong also built a fort on Huli Hill and erected eight ship-borne 24-pounder cannons purchased from the Portuguese.

According to the level of this time and space, the fortification of this Hulishan Fort is no longer simple, and its strength is far superior to that of Humen Fort. Zheng Zhilong was more knowledgeable in coastal defense than the bureaucrats in Guangdong, so he still had some money on Xiamen Island.

Although the bronze cannons on the Hulishan Fort had limited destructive power against the Tiance warships, they were always a threat, so it became the first target to strike.

The fleet sailed past the Waixin Stone, and it was already 6:10 in the morning when it reached the sea near the Huli Hill Battery, and the fleet stopped moving and locked on the battery, and began to launch an artillery bombardment on the Huli Hill Battery.

The shelling was still carried out by 85-mm anti-aircraft guns, which delivered shells at a rate of 30 rounds per minute to five kilometers. For a moment, fireworks and thick smoke enveloped Huli Mountain, and from the telescope, you could see the fort gradually flying rubble and gravel everywhere in the smoke and dust.

UAVs take off to observe the shelling situation, and it can be seen that the explosion of anti-aircraft artillery shells is very sharp for personnel, and anti-aircraft artillery shells hit aircraft by relying on countless prefabricated fragments.

However, compared with the fight against wooden warships, the damage of anti-aircraft guns to land batteries was still limited. In five minutes, hundreds of shells fell, and the bronze cannon weighing half a ton was not blown away or completely scattered, but the base was loosened and finally fell to the side, and the fort facilities collapsed and were badly damaged by the dense explosions.

The anti-aircraft artillery is a direct-fire artillery, and the ammunition on the battery was not detonated during the shelling, it may be that the Zheng soldiers have not had time to carry the gunpowder onto the battery, but this is enough, and the role of the battery has been disintegrated.

According to the intelligence officer's report, in addition to the fort on Huli Mountain, there are still many forts on the whole island of Xiamen, but they are not meaningful to the actions of the Tiance Army.

The landing site was chosen on the beach in front of the Huli Mountain Fort, which is about five kilometers away from the castle of Zhongzuo.

The first to land on the beach were 35 amphibious assault vehicles, which rushed into the sea from the dock landing ship Neizi five kilometers away from the shore and galloped towards the beach.

Amphibious assault vehicles can travel at speeds of up to 40 kilometers per hour on water, so a distance of five kilometers to the coast is instantaneous. The range of the naval warships of the Tiance Army has already been taught by the Zheng family, so there is no army on the coast to prevent the Tiance Army from landing on the shore, so as not to be injured by the artillery fire of the Tiance Army warships.

After the blue camouflage amphibious assault vehicles landed on the shore, they still followed the operation steps to expand the landing site to the flanks and depth, and 15 of them headed straight for Huli Mountain. Mount Huli is the highest point in the vicinity, so a mortar position will be placed on the mountain.

At the same time, a flight formation of 21 Wuzhi-18 transport helicopters in the sky was rapidly approaching Xiamen Island.

The 21 Wuzhi-18 transport helicopters took off from Taiwan to carry out combat missions on Xiamen Island with a range of 1,000 kilometers at full load and a maximum range of more than 1,300 kilometers with no load on board.

The Tiance Army has accurate timing tools, so the helicopter formation almost arrived in time, which is also the strength of the Tiance Army's navy, which is not afraid of the enemy's obstruction.

The Wuzhi-18 transport helicopter formation has two combat missions: one is to supplement the air attack force of the carrier-based helicopter Wuzhi-9; Another is that once Zheng Zhilong chooses to escape, the Wuzhi-18 transport helicopter can carry the Marine Corps to carry out frog-jumping tactics to intercept and capture.

After the amphibious assault vehicle landed, the landing ship and the passenger and cargo ro-ro wheels began to slowly dock in preparation for the landing of a large army force.

In this process, the armored vehicles in the dock landing ship still drove to the surface one after another, and headed for the shore through the sea, and the armored vehicles also had the function of running on the water, and their speed on the water was 10 kilometers per hour, which was about 5.5 knots of the speed of the ship.

The first battle broke out in the direction of Zhongzuo Suocheng, but Huli Mountain, and a reinforcement of 3,000 men sent by the Zheng family to Huli Mountain had an encounter with a company of the Fifth Brigade of the Tiance Army.

Huli Mountain originally had a shore artillery garrison of several hundred people from the Zheng family, and it suffered heavy casualties in the process of destroying the fort by the Tiance army.

But the terrain determines that Huli Mountain is still an important place for the Zheng family to defend, and the reinforcements of these 3,000 people were sent by Zheng Zhilong, led by Hong Xu, a cadre of the Zheng family, and later a general under Zheng Chenggong.

The company commander led by Tiance Army was Liu Gaoming, and due to the expansion of the army, he had been promoted to company commander by Cong Platoon Commander.

The Tiance army got off the front mountain and climbed up the mountain. The reinforcements of the Zheng family came from the back mountain, they came first, climbed to the top of the mountain, and immediately found the Tiance army that had reached the halfway up the mountain, and the battle began.

"Whoosh!" With the sound of the bowstring, the dense rain of arrows rushed to the soldiers of the Tiance Army who were climbing the mountain, fortunately, Xiamen belongs to the south, with rainforest characteristics, and the mountains are densely wooded, which plays a role in shielding, but there are still more than a dozen soldiers who are hit by arrows.

"Hidden, hidden!" When company commander Liu Gaoming saw the situation in front of him, he immediately shouted.

The soldiers of the Tiance Army immediately looked for trees and rocks to conceal and fired, "Da, da, da! The bullets of the counterattack rained down on the top of the mountain, and immediately many Zheng family soldiers were shot and fell to the ground.

"Smack!" "Smack, smack, smack!" The top of the mountain was filled with smoke, and the firecrackers of the Zheng family's soldiers also began to shoot.

The firebolt reacts slowly, so it follows the bow and arrow. But now that the distance between the two sides is about a hundred meters, the range of the firearm may be able to hurt the Tiance army, but don't think about it.

"Kuroko, how are you?" Liu Gaoming pulled up a soldier who should have an arrow feather stuck in his head and an arrow in his body and asked loudly.

This soldier is a deputy squad leader under him, named Guo Jingpeng, because of his long blackness, everyone nicknamed him "Heizi".