Putmans' ship fled the battlefield with the two armed merchant ships, and as the sky grew darker, he observed that there were no ships following him before hoisting his flag and asking the fleeing armed merchant ships to lower their sails. Three-inch room

While the three ships were floating in the sea at low speed, Putmans estimated the direction they were sailing after fleeing the battlefield based on the position of the sun. Putmans, who was standing on the bridge of the aft building, looked at the bow building being cleared and the corpses that had been removed from the rubble, and roughly estimated the damage to the ship.

Obviously, the bow of his ship was seriously damaged, and the crew lost at least 20%. The artillery power of the Ming warships seems to have been greater. If the ship does not return to port for repairs as soon as possible, it is clear that it will not be able to participate in the next battle.

However, the combined fleet of the Chinese and the British clearly indicated that an alliance had been reached within the Association against the Dutch East India Company, otherwise the combined fleet just now would not have been able to openly attack them.

Although there are shipyards in Osaka and Yokohama in Japan, Putmans has lost confidence in the north. He knew very well how much influence the country had in Japan, and if they were an intact fleet, those Japanese might still stand.

But if they appear in front of the Japanese in such a scorched image, maybe those Japanese will take the initiative to report to the Chinese people. As an employee of the Dutch East India Company who had been dealing with the Edo shogunate for many years, he deeply understood the bad instinct of the Japanese to worship power and bully the weak.

Besides, since the combined fleet of ASEAN was able to intercept them in front of the Korean Strait, it was natural that they would not let go of Sado Island. In their current condition, they could only go north through the Tsugaru Strait, which was an even narrower passage in the Korean Strait, and if they were blocked in the strait, they would be completely annihilated.

Putmans weighed the pros and cons and found that he could now retreat to Dayuan Harbor and then ask Batavia for help. Only with the full support of Batavia will they be able to break through the Combined Fleet's blockade of the Korean Strait and rescue or recapture Sado Island.

Of course, Batavia could also give in to ASEAN, hand over the person responsible for the Sado Island incident, and restore the situation to the situation before the incident broke out. Although this seems humiliating, the company has no plans to start an all-out war with the country at the moment, and since the country is not afraid of expanding the conflict, it is quite natural for Batavia to choose to compromise to protect its own interests.

After Putmans hoisted the flag to follow him, the other two armed merchant ships slowly adjusted their course and followed behind Putmans's ship, heading southwest.

Twenty days later, Putmans' fleet circled east of Taiwan and arrived outside the port of Dayuan, but the harbor was blocked by the Combined Fleet, and Putmans's fleet could not approach the city of Geranza.

Looking at the columns of smoke and the rumbling of cannon from the direction of the city, Putmanston realized that the city was probably difficult to hold. First, the city of Geranza was only a circle of foundations, and all kinds of defenses had not yet been completed; Second, after he took away part of the troops of the city, there were only 397 soldiers, 33 gunners, and less than 1,156 civilians, soldiers' families and slaves.

Looking at the posture of the Ming army attacking by sea and land, the fleet and army attacking the city of Geranza exceeded at least 10,000 people, and it was obviously difficult for the city to reach an attack of this scale.

When the Ming army's peripheral ships discovered the traces of the Dutch ships, the fleet outside the port of Dayuan divided a group of ships to surround them. Putmans had to order the fleet to turn around and continue south, returning directly to Batavia. By this time, Putmans finally realized that it was difficult to compromise between the two sides, and that Batavia had to engage in a battle with the combined fleet of the Association to determine where the two sides were at the junction of forces.

The Ming ship, which had driven the Dutch ships away, soon returned to the port of Dayuan and reported to the two commanders of the Combined Fleet, He Changqi and Waldes.

As the commander of the Spanish fleet, after leading the fleet to join the national fleet, Waldes moved to the Dongting Lake and commanded the operations of the entire combined fleet with He Changqi.

For this war against the Dutch, Manila was extremely supportive. After all, the establishment of the Philippine colony was mainly for two purposes, one was to open up trade routes with the same country; The other is to look for spice sources in the East.

Although Manila achieved its first goal, the decline in silver production in the Americas and the continuation of the wars of religion in Europe led to a diminished effort to benefit the spice trade.

Although Governor Silva was concerned about the final audit and therefore had some interest in the war, for the merchants and officials of the colonies, the war was undoubtedly opening the way to the Spice Islands, so the humility shown by Valdes in the battle was not enough.

Of course, the great strength of the Ming army in the siege of the city of Geranza was another reason for the Spaniards to bow their heads.

With a displacement of 1,260 tons, the Dongting Lake, although it is a three-masted double-deck, is already one of the few behemoths in Asian waters. This kind of warship, designed for combat purposes, is naturally not comparable to those large and bulky merchant ships.

In the past 20 days or so, the Dongting Lake has shelled the city of Gelanza several times, which has shown that this warship can not only maneuver flexibly in the sea, but also its firepower is extremely amazing. If it weren't for the extremely strong foundation of the stone masonry of the city of Geranza, it is estimated that this unfinished fortress has been broken by the Dongting Lake.

It is not difficult for the battle-seasoned Walders to show from the performance of the Dongting Lake that if it is a one-on-one naval battle, the Spanish galleon of the same tonnage is not only not the opponent of the other side, but even cannot outrun the other party.

And the fleet of the Ming Kingdom, the army strength of the Ming people is even more worthy of awe. Less than 10 days after the start of the war, the Ming army divided into two routes, east and west, crossed the default dividing line between Ming and Dutch, Zengxi, and within a week, the Ming army destroyed the fortresses and villages along the road, and surrounded the Taijiang Inland Sea in the north and the south.

More than a dozen Turen villages around Dayuangang that submitted to the Dutch did little to resist the Ming army that surrendered south. Although this Ming army is under the banner of the Ming army, the soldiers in Taiwan occupy nearly two-thirds, especially the Gaoshan soldiers recruited by the Eastern Route Army, and the treatment of these plain natives who have taken refuge in the Dutch is particularly vicious, which makes the villages in the Dutch-controlled area take the initiative to surrender to the Ming army in order to avoid being slaughtered by these Gaoshan soldiers.

Although the reputation of the Western Route Army is not as vicious as that of the Eastern Route Army, the Western Route Army led by Zheng Zhilong has been cultivated in southern Taiwan for a long time, and Dayuangang was ceded to the Dutch by the pirates back then, so they are extremely familiar with the local geography and native villages, and they have already established relations with the leaders of these villages and communities on weekdays.

Therefore, when the Western Route Army went south, the Turen villages along the road took the initiative to join the Western Route Army and followed Zheng Zhilong to fight the Dutch in Relanza City.

The Spaniards such as Waldes did not know what was going on, and they only saw that the Ming army on the island had broken through the land defense line that the Dutch had painstakingly managed in a very short time, and that the Dutch were left with only the city of Geranza and the town of Anping and a few independent batteries on the periphery.

And the worst thing for the Dutch was that in Peter. When Natz was the governor of Taiwan, in order to please the countrymen, Peter . Natz not only cut off the construction of the city of Geranza, but also allowed the people to survey and observe the entire city of Geranza to prevent the Dutch from secretly building the castle.

In Peter. After Natz left, although the city of Geranza was rebuilt, the Ming army was well aware of the unfinished castle layout, and when the Ming army began to attack the city of Geranza, they easily captured the town of Anping to the east of the city, the small island at the end of the northern line in the north, and several other forts in the body of the city.

Therefore, in this attack on Dayuangang, the combined fleet only blocked the main channel leading to the inland sea of the Taijiang River, and intruded and contained the firepower of the city of Gelanza on the outer sea, and the rest of the work was basically done by the Ming army's army.

The staff officers of the Ming army, who had already measured the location of the fortifications of the city of Geranza, after clearing the outer fortifications of the city, mobilized the main force to seize the high ground southwest of the city on December 19.

The high ground overlooked the whole city of Geranza, but the Dutch built only a rudimentary fortress on this high ground, and Putmans originally planned to convert the wooden and stone fortress into a concrete and stone fortress, and he even had the name of the round fortress - Utlich.

However, after the Chinese received the payment for his goods, they did not send the cement, and the cement he sent to Japan* was misappropriated by the Chinese merchants several times, so the round fort, which should have been built a year ago, still exists only in the drawings.

After the Ming army seized this high ground, they immediately turned the fortress into a fortress for the Ming army. On December 27, after the Ming army had transported three heavy guns to the high ground, they began to fire continuously into the city of Geranza.

Although the Ming army only used solid bullets, this kind of heavy artillery of 18 pounds and the destructive power and loud sound of the city wall, every shot brought great fear to the defenders in the city.

The Dutch defenders in the city then recruited volunteers for 200 liels to destroy the Ming heavy artillery in the southwest highlands, a total of 40 soldiers, 10 gunners and a number of sailors volunteered, but this brave Dutch volunteer team, just arrived below the southwest highlands, was repelled by the Ming army who had been waiting on the high ground with a platoon of guns and small artillery.

The volunteers left behind nearly 20 corpses and fled back to the city of Geranza. And on December 30, two more heavy artillery pieces were sent to the southwestern heights. After a week of heavy artillery fire, the soldiers and civilians in the city finally refused to hold out any longer, and they hijacked the officers who wanted to continue fighting, and raised the white flag to the Ming army on the fourth day of the first lunar month in 1636.

After 4 hours of negotiation in the afternoon of the same day, the representatives of the city of Geranza abandoned the idea of trying to protect the company's property and decided to surrender unconditionally to the combined fleet of the ASEAN. And they were given the promise that they could leave Taiwan with their belongings.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, 947 Dutch sailed to Manila with their belongings, where they were to transfer to a Dutch merchant ship and return to Batavia. At this point, the entire island of Taiwan has fallen into the hands of the Ming Dynasty. Zheng Zhilong immediately occupied the city of Geranza, renamed it Anping Fort, and prepared to transfer his base in Beigang to Dayuan Port.

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