The Dutch were instantly crushed.

The dense barrage of bullets rained down on them like a storm, and almost in the blink of an eye the front row of the entire Dutch phalanx collapsed. Bullets whistled, smoke filled the air, and flesh and blood splattered, and the dead bodies of the Dutch piled up at once, and even the second and third rows were affected.

Especially since the Ming army had a longer front, and bullets even hit their flanks.

And the latter immediately began to rout.

Their Maurice phalanx did have a great advantage in sustained firing, with the front row turning and going backwards to reload at the end, while the next row fired forward, and so on to compensate for the tragic rate of fire of the arquebus.

But......

It's not enough to do 20 meters of paste!

Gu Erye improved on this tactic and came up with a six-stage three-row face, which is known in Europe as Gustav Thunder, which is the magic weapon of the Swedish Legion to run rampant in Europe and achieve Sweden's most glorious era. The Englishman Twenty Meters Paste Face learned from him and developed because of the increased rate of fire of the flintlock pistol, because the relationship was very iron, the Swedish Legion had a large number of Scottish mercenaries, and was even regarded as the best subordinate by Gu Erye, these Scottish mercenaries brought Swedish tactics back to Britain. However, even at this time, the Swedish army will not enter the Ming army at such a close distance to fire, this tactic requires too much courage on the soldiers, and in addition to the volunteers of the provincial legions, it is estimated that other miscellaneous mercenaries under Gu Erye should not be counted on.

There is obviously a gap between those who hire money and those who live happily for future generations.

An officer clearly wants to salvage the defeat.

He rode on a very strong horse, brandished his saber and kept running, shouting and even threatening the defeated soldiers, but it was obvious that this behavior could be described as brain-dead, because the Ming army had snipers. A skirmish who had just finished reloading immediately aimed at him, and with the pull of the trigger, a rifle fired a bullet flew a distance of one hundred and thirty meters, hitting the guy accurately in the chest, instantly piercing his breastplate and entering his heart.

His fall brought the Dutch to complete collapse.

"Kill the enemy and get a reward!"

Ma Xin shouted excitedly.

The spirits of the Ming soldiers soared, and the spearmen began to move forward without the slightest hesitation, while the arquebusiers took out an awl with a wooden handle and stuffed it into the muzzle of their guns......

This is a bayonet.

But it's not standard equipment.

This is the Marines' own brains, in fact, sticking a spearhead into the muzzle of the gun was done before the Ming Dynasty, this is just more scientific, but it is still a little far from the casing bayonet. In this way, the agitated Ma Xin led his infantry, armed with spears and awls, and slammed into the backs of the Dutchmen, crucifying them to death one by one in confusion. Then they pursued the enemy south until they drove less than half of the remaining enemy forces back to the sea, and then returned to clean up the battlefield, and at the same time, the Ming artillery bombardment also destroyed the small fortress, and the warships sailed into Luermen on the tide.

Then there was the naval battle......

"They can't do naval battles either!"

Zheng Cai looked at the Dutch warship that fled to the city of Geranza with a smug expression.

Naval battles are even more suspense-free.

In fact, there were no warships here, only eight armed merchant ships, which were supposed to be ten, but two of them were blocked by the Ming fleet in the open sea and beaten to death. The difference in strength between the two sides is too great, and at most an armed merchant ship with a twelve-pounder gun or a nine-pounder or even a six-pounder gun, how can it fight a naval battle with a special battleship with an eighteen-pounder gun? Even if the Ming army was a cruiser and not a battleship, it was also designed for naval battles and not for loading, and the thickness of the planks on both sides was not at all of the same level.

Originally, Zheng Chenggong encountered this level of naval resistance in history.

"Login!"

Zheng Cai looked at the Dutch armed merchant ships that had fled back to the city of Geranza and said with satisfaction.

The flagship Chang Yuchun ordered it to be issued.

Immediately after that, the accompanying troop carriers began to lower their boats, and then the other two battalions of marines began to land and march towards Chikan. The Marine Corps is four battalions, and the commander-in-chief of this campaign, Huang Binqing, took another battalion to guard the base in Penghu, and the first batch to arrive was three battalions, of course, three battalions were enough, because all the Dutch here added up to less than 3,000 people!

And Chikan had no defenders.

The Chikan Tower was not built, and the Dutch certainly could not defend Chikan, but they had withdrawn to the city of Geranza before the Ming army could break through the Luermen, and the Ming army quickly took over the town, where they were warmly welcomed by the Rice Bowl Pulp......

The Dutch are extremely exploitative in Taiwan.

Whether it is the Han people here or those others, they don't have a good impression of them, think about it, just such a small place, such a small population, can squeeze out hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year, needless to say. It can be said that there is no tax that is not collected, the sugar is completely monopolized, the rice is taxed, the deer hunting is also taxed, and hunting is not allowed without paying the tax, there are sika deer everywhere, deer hunting is very popular, and the mullet fishing at sea also has to pay taxes. Those natives dared to resist the Dutch and went to exterminate the clan, and the latter's equipment directly crushed the natives, and often engaged in things such as slaughtering villages, which can show that the arrival of the army was simply regarded as a savior by both the natives and the Han people.

There are quite a few Han people here.

Yan Siqi, Zheng Zhilong had been operating here for many years, and taking advantage of the drought in southern Fujian, Zheng Zhilong organized tens of thousands of people to emigrate, making Tainan feel like the mainland.

The immigrants, who were also Fujianese, welcomed Zheng Cai and the Marines with the utmost enthusiasm, helping them to quickly unload all kinds of supplies and provide them with what they needed, and soon a base was established in Chikan across the sea less than ten miles from the city of Geranza. Even the new Ming Taiwan Mansion was listed here, and the first temporary prefect appointed Zheng Zhilong's subordinates among the Han people in Chikan, who was originally Zheng Zhilong's subordinates, and later stayed in Taiwan to do business, that is, the guide who originally took Zheng Chenggong through Luermen in history.

In this way, the Ming army successfully landed on the island of Taiwan.

Of course, Yang Qing won't know this for the time being.

News from Taiwan had to be sent to Penghu first, then from Penghu to Kinmen, then to Hangzhou by stagecoach, and then to Nanjing by Hangzhou's communications tower.

If there is a typhoon, it is even less counted.

However, the Marquis of Zhongyong is not interested in caring about the war situation in Taiwan now, this war is guaranteed to be won, and it is a fantasy whether it can be won or not, there are more than 2,000 Dutch people in total, and they are not regular troops, but mercenaries of the East India Company. It wasn't even necessarily the Dutch, it was just a rabble of people cobbled together in Europe, and even the governor Caron was French at this time! Even Zheng Chenggong could do it in the original history, if Huang Binqing and Zheng Cai can't do it, they can simply wipe their necks! As for the Marquis of Zhongyong, there are more important things now.

Nanjing, Jinyiwei Ordnance Institute.

A huge wooden water wheel is constantly rotating under the impetus of the water flow, and on both sides of the channel across this water wheel, there is a pig iron pedestal, the shafts at both ends of the water wheel are in the copper sleeve on the base, because of the lubrication of castor oil, the rotation of the water wheel is light and smooth. At the end of the shaft on the right is a linkage system that pulls a huge leather drum back and forth......

Well, it's a drain.

Very old stuff.

It's just that it's more efficient.

The air outlet of the water discharge is piped directly to a very small coke furnace, the volume of this furnace is simply disproportionate to the supporting huge blast system, but this disproportion is exchanged for the blazing flame of coke burning in the furnace, and above this flame is an equally small crucible.

Stone grinding and clay crucibles.

And inside this crucible, the fiery red molten iron was already boiling, and it was glowing with foamy impurities of different colors.

To be precise, this is molten steel.

Real molten steel.

This is not the pseudo-steel made in wrought iron furnaces, this is real carbon steel that meets modern standards.

Use the best iron ore, and after crushing magnetic separation, after magnetic separation, sinter into blocks with auxiliary materials, smelt into high-quality pig iron with charcoal, and then use pig iron in the stirring furnace to become wrought iron that decarbonizes and removes various impurities, and the wrought iron is repeatedly forged and extruded into slag in water hammer, making it a high-quality wrought iron. The result of the tedious and even puzzling process of carburizing and then cutting these wrought irons into pieces and melting them in crucibles is an epoch-making step in the history of human metallurgy......

Real carbon steel.

This is Huntsmann crucible steel.

One of the most important and easily overlooked foundations of modern European industry, lathe tools, high-grade springs, precision instruments, etc., are all made of this kind of thing, and it is a sign of the leap from the era of pseudo-steel to the age of real steel. The next leap forward was the invention of the converter in the mid-nineteenth century, more than a hundred years before the invention of the converter, or more than a hundred years before Europe really began to sweep the world, and the industrial geming brought about by steam power was this kind of invention that originated from Benjamin, a small iron-smelting workshop owner in Sheffield. Huntsmann's technology underpins Europe's machinery industry.

Of course, his technology was soon stolen.

Now this pot of molten steel has been smelted for three hours, and it was originally thirty catties of carburized wrought iron, and the foam floating on it is the refined impurities.

"Master Hou?"

An old craftsman said cautiously.

Yang Qing nodded indifferently.

The latter hurriedly took a small rake made of the same stone grinding and clay firing to clean up the impurities, and soon the work was completed, and the workers next to him hoisted the crucible with an inverted chain, pushed the gantry along the track to a sand-turning mold, and then slowly poured out the molten steel inside.

"A small step for science and technology, a big leap for mankind!"

Looking at the molten steel flowing in the mold, Yang Qing couldn't help but sigh.

This is also a big step for him!

His flintlock pistol pressure spring was finally ready for mass production, and it was no longer necessary to rely solely on the skills of individual craftsmen.