Chapter 617: Battle of the Chicken Coop
According to Chen Yue's estimate, it will not be long before the first batch of immigrants will come to Zhoushan from Shandong.
Then Chen Yue took the fleet to pull anchor and set sail, heading towards Dongfan Island, and in front of the fleet were the "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan", the two armed sailing ships that were originally captured in the Japanese Kingdom. Duncan and other Dutchmen, as well as the Javanese black slaves and Nanyang Chinese, who had been captured, were on these two ships.
The two ships, led by Yang Zhengping, were in the vanguard and headed towards the chicken coop.
The chicken coop, also known as the chicken coop mountain, is named because of its shape that resembles a chicken coop. However, the Dutch station of the chicken coop was not Chicken Coop Hill on Dongfan Island, but an outlying island outside the chicken coop port, which was called Sheliao Island (i.e., Heping Island in later generations).
As early as the sixth year of the Apocalypse, in order to compete with the Dutch for the Ming trade, the Spaniards sent a fleet along the east coast of Dongfan Island to reach the chicken coop, and established the city of San Salvador on Sheliao Island as the center of domination of Dongfan Island and the Dutch to compete for the Ming trade.
However, it was not more convenient for the Ming maritime merchants to trade with Sheliao Island than to Manila, and the Japanese closed off the country and refused to do business with the Spaniards, coupled with the Spanish royal family's ban on the flow of American silver into Manila, which caused the Spanish galleon trade to gradually shrink. The city of San Salvador did not meet the expectations of the Spaniards, and the Spanish had to make ends meet on the island of Dongfan and had to be subsidized by Manila, and the city was already a chicken rib for the Spaniards.
Therefore, when the Dutch attacked the chicken coop in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen and captured the city of San Salvador, the Spaniards in Luzon did not try to recapture it, but gave up Dongfan Island to the Dutch.
Due to the construction of Taiwan Castle and Chichicheng Castle in the southern part of Dongfan Island, the Dutch did not try to build more castles in the north of Dongfan Island, and still ruled the northern part of Dongfan Island based on the city of San Salvador on Serao Island.
However, the garrison in the city of San Salvador numbered only about 100 men, and had an armed sailing ship, after all, the total number of Dutch troops on the island of Dongfan was not enough. However, such a force is enough to deal with the natives of Dongfan Island.
The troops in the city of San Salvatore were used to suppress the indigenous tribes in the area of chicken coop and freshwater in the north of Dongfan Island, due to the fact that there was too little land in the north of Dongfan Island, there were basically no Ming immigrants living in this generation, and most of the Ming people lived in Beigang in the west and central part of the island, and the area of Dayuan in the south of the island.
Therefore, it was completely unnecessary to leave too many troops in the chicken coop, so another task of the garrison was to patrol the northern part of Dongfan to the coastal area of Daming in armed sailing ships, and rob the passing Daming merchant ships at will. Today, however, the rare armed sailing ships did not leave the port, and the Dutch soldiers lay lazily on the beach basking in the sun.
When he saw two sailing ships on the sea in the distance, the soldier in charge of the lookout at the highest point of the city of San Salvador held a telescope and finally saw the Dutch flag flying on the ship.
"It's our ship, it's the ship that went to trade with the Japanese country has returned!" The watchful soldiers shouted loudly, and the soldiers who had just been on guard lazily dispersed to go about their business.
It was not uncommon for ships to trade with the Japanese to turn around, and the sailors were tired from the long voyage at sea, and it would take several days to get to the big man, and the best harbor was the chicken coop harbor, where they could rest and replenish some food and fresh water. And often at this time, it is also a time for the soldiers stationed in the garrison to be happy, because the ships will bring some interesting Japanese goods, and maybe a few Japanese koishans, so that the lonely sailors can get some comfort. The courtesans of the Wa Kingdom were much more beautiful than the indigenous black women of the nearby tribes......
There were Dutch soldiers who were looking forward to the coming ships, and many more who were lazy and went about their own business.
Second Lieutenant Martin and a few sailors led a small boat into Chicken Coop Bay, where there were a number of reefs nearby, without which they might run aground.
Then the two ships docked at the pier, and from the boat stepped down a group of Nanyang Chinese, then a group of Javanese natives, followed by Martin's acquaintances.
"Hey, Duncan, why didn't you bastard die on the belly of the girl?" Martin smiled and greeted Duncan, who took the lead in disembarking.
"Hey, Martin, long time no see, but I miss me." Duncan grinned as he approached Martin and took him in his arms and gave him a big bear hug.
"Get out of here, a fishy smell, how long has it been since you took a shower!" Martin pushed Duncan desperately, and the two frolicked as usual.
"Hey, Duncan, why haven't I seen that stubborn guy in Anglo, and who are these people?" Suddenly, Martin asked in surprise as he pointed to the crew coming down from behind. The people who came down behind were all Mingren, but they were holding all kinds of weapons in their hands, when did there be so many Mingren on the Dutch ship. By the way, and Captain Anglo and Captain Armand, why didn't they come down at all?
"These people are all soldiers of the Ming Dynasty!" Duncan grinned as he grinned on Martin's shoulder, and the short knife in his other hand rested against Martin's waist.
"Ming soldiers!" Martin's face changed drastically, but the sharp short knife at his waist made him dare not shout at all.
Then he saw that the men who had rowed with him to lead the sailboat to the shore had been subdued in the same way, and the Chinese and Ming soldiers were rushing towards the open gates of San Salvador, and most of the Dutch soldiers in the city were ignorant of all this.
There was a commotion, followed by a series of crisp gunshots, accompanied by screams. The fighting didn't take long before it fell silent, and the city of San Salvador had changed hands. There were 400 Ming soldiers on the two armed galleons, and the Dutch soldiers in San Salvador could not put up an effective resistance. Many people are still in a daze, and the Ming soldiers have already been killed in front of them, and those who resist are killed on the spot, and the only thing left is to surrender.
The battle was swift and short, but in a matter of incense, the city of San Salvador was completely occupied, and in fact the castle built on the island was not very large at all, and it was inhabited by hundreds of people. However, the castle is in the shape of a fortress, and if it is attacked by force, it will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.
A small part of the Dutch inside were killed, and most of them surrendered. And only three people were killed and two were injured in the Zhoushan army, which can be described as a great victory!
As for the seizures, in addition to the hundred or so flintlock pistols that were captured, there were also a large number of materials stored in the castle, deerskins, gold, brimstone, etc., which the Dutch had obtained from the natives of the chicken coop.
The biggest seizure, of course, was the armed sailing ship moored in Joncoop Bay. It didn't take a single shot to fall into the hands of the Zhoushan army, and so far Chen Yue already had six Galen ships in his hands!