Chapter 205: Liu Guoxuan, the Five Tiger Generals
This attack can be regarded as a temptation, a feint, and a routine attack when Zheng Chenggong is no longer there, the main purpose is probably to tell the enemy that you are besieged by us, we are attacking you every day, we are not sitting on the side to eat dry food, we are not not working.
Three or four hundred men retreated with minor wounds, and the enemy also retreated back to the city, which could be regarded as a draw, but two thousand men were left with three or four hundred men under their noses, and the battle was too fierce.
And the biggest grievance is that the enemy's casualties are only three or four hundred. And how many people the enemy went out of the city in total, counting the artillery of the Dutch, was only eight hundred.
And the real Dutch did not die much, maybe thirty or forty, maybe fifty or sixty, maybe not, most of the dead Zhang Qiang saw that most of them were some natives of Daming Treasure Island, or some Japanese ronins or something, maybe some wanderers from the West.
The battle was fought a bit of a loss.
But this is not his own troops, if it were his own troops, Zhang Qiang would not let them die like this unless they had to.
"Your Excellency the Governor, are you still grieving your nerve about yesterday's siege?" Liu Guoxuan walked up to Zhang Qiang and stood side by side with Zhang Qiang, looking at the Dutchman's castle.
"No," Zhang Qiang denied it, and asked rhetorically: "Lord Liu is so idle, he actually has time to come and see me?" ”
Zhang Qiang knew that Zheng Chenggong was very busy, and his main purpose was to develop Baodao into a base and a territory for him, just like what Zhang Qiang did in Jinhua, Zhejiang.
Treasure Island is now a barren land, although it has long been inhabited, and even the history is not short, but most of it is concentrated along the coast, and there are people who go deep into it, some indigenous people, or former pirates, in order to avoid the capture of the officers and soldiers of the previous dynasties, or to avoid the enemies of the pirates, and venture deep inland, hiding in the forest and deep mountains.
What Zheng Chenggong wants to do is to immigrate to the mainland people, come here to farm, advance inland, and at the same time send people to clear out bandits and pirates, and co-opt some unruly small forces, and at the same time have to wage war with Yan Sichen and others, Yan Sichen has also had a territory on the treasure island since he was driven out of Japan, but compared to Zheng Chenggong, his territory is much smaller.
In fact, it was Zheng Chenggong's subordinates who commanded the war.
Now his five tiger generals have basically taken shape, and some have followed him for many years, which Zhang Qiang learned about in a day and a night when he landed on the treasure island.
Except for Shi Lang, everyone else has arrived.
Without Shi Lang, another person filled Shi Lang's vacancy, a young man named Yu Xing.
Yesterday, he was the one who commanded the battle and led 2,000 people to storm the outer chest wall of the Dutch, and it can be seen that this young man fought bravely, but he was simple-minded, and with a lot of courage, he just completed the task assigned to him by Feng Xin.
Yes, you didn't guess wrong, although it is said that there are five tiger generals, but the positions of individuals are different, and the abilities are different, and at that time, the people of later generations, or the storytellers, in the real Zheng Chenggong's team, these five people can only be said to have outstanding abilities, and they are especially famous Shi Lang, the three surnamed slaves.
Just like Wei Yan of Shu at the beginning, although he was in a famous army, a great man, and a hero's army, he was not famous for his strength, because his conduct and the things he did had some taste of rebellion.
"Ahem." Zhang Qiang found that he was distracted, and Liu Guoxuan next to him had already called him twice in a row, and finally he was not allowed to sacrifice the artifact to remind him that he was talking to someone.
"Lord Liu has a kind of teaching?" Zhang Qiang was embarrassed for a moment, and asked without changing his color.
"Just now, the lower official asked your lordship, what are you thinking? Are you feeling sorry for yesterday's siege battle? Liu Guoxuan asked again.
"Yes, it's a bit of a pity, so many people, just to take a breastwork, although you have destroyed the breastwork within a radius of about a hundred meters, making the enemy's breastwork useless, but it is not worth it to fill it with more than a thousand lives and the second half of the lives of hundreds of soldiers." Zhang Qiang had to follow Liu Guoxuan's topic, and what to say now, the two of them couldn't talk together.
It's not the same level.
If it weren't for Liu Guoxuan, who was sent by Zheng Chenggong to be responsible for receiving and accompanying him, with Liu Guoxuan's official position, it would be impossible to stand with him and speak calmly.
Instead, he knelt there, or bowed his hands, bowed his head and listened to his own teachings, or, Zhang Qiang asked, he answered, and if he said more, he was afraid that he would say something wrong.
The official is crushed to death, not to mention that he is the governor, the governor of the Longwu Dynasty of the Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the whole court is such a governor as him, of course, now other courts in the Southern Ming Dynasty, such as King Lu, in the power of the Lu Prison State, scholars, scholars, Shi Lang, admirals, and general soldiers, there are more, and the governor has also sealed several, but since King Lu fled from Shaoxing Mansion, he has never sealed one.
Because most of the governors and admirals he appointed left him, either running away with his money, or running away with his soldiers, or joining the enemy with people to hunt him down, so there were a lot of civil officials, but the governor really didn't have one.
There are many governors of the Yongli court, but not as governors, but as governors, superintendents, cabinet departments, and other positions as commanders-in-chief, managing civil affairs and military affairs.
Listening to Zhang Qiang's words, Liu Guoxuan pressed his waist knife in his hand, "Then according to the words of the governor, how should this battle be fought?" ”
"Dig a tunnel." Zhang Qiang casually said a method.
"It's too long, and it's close to the sea, so the sand is relatively loose and not suitable for digging tunnels." Liu Guoxuan immediately retorted.
Zhang Qiang glanced at him strangely, Liu Guoxuan held his head high and looked at Zhang Qiang without squinting.
Zhang Qiang's heart was full of admiration, as a migrant worker in later generations, his life should not be gloomy, just say that he was not forced by life every day, and he did not have much courage to straighten his waist and speak, or in front of officials who were much older than himself, he was ashamed to stammer, and there was no master of the six gods.
is a talent, Zheng Chenggong is really powerful, and he can recruit such talents.
And he is a little miserable, his subordinates are almost the same as NPCs who are trained by the system that can only listen to orders, and there are no generals.
This is one of the reasons why he has been nesting in Jinhua and not expanding his territory, nor does he occupy all of Zhejiang.
"So, with General Liu's idea, how should we attack?" Zhang Qiang asked rhetorically.
"Siege the city, double the siege, long-term siege, and ready to adjust the purpose of the campaign according to the changes in the situation, three times and attack, siege three missing one, do not make the enemy fall into a desperate duel, save a hope, the enemy break through the siege will be intercepted halfway, otherwise it can be occupied by strategy, if it does not work, must retreat before the arrival of the enemy's reinforcements or take it down with the loss of troops, and then defend the city, five times can be attacked, can advance or retreat, ten of the ** can be overcome, the enemy's morale must be low, one blow, or three attacks and will be overcome."
Zhang Qiang understood what he said, but what was the use of him saying this? He didn't know.