Chapter 204: Witnessing the Siege with Your Own Eyes
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Zheng Chenggong's camp is still very large, and there are many of them.
And people kept coming, and the camp kept expanding.
It can be seen that the people along the coast of the Ming Dynasty who have been constantly suffering from war are brought from the mainland, and these people are accepted, and then after resting in the camps along the coast for a week, they are sent to the deeper fields and forests of the treasure island to reclaim the land, destroy the forest vegetation, and open up living space.
Perhaps future generations have to recognize Zheng Chenggong's great achievements, just this immigration, reclamation of this item, must make the descendants of the treasure island grateful for a lifetime, but this is impossible, because this achievement was destroyed by later Japanese immigrants, the Japanese do not recognize your Chinese national hero Zheng Chenggong, although Zheng Chenggong has half Japanese blood.
If history is correct, Zheng Chenggong was indeed born to his father Zheng Zhilong in Japan after marrying a Japanese woman, and there is no problem with this.
The most hateful thing about Japanese immigrants is that they stole the treasure island reclaimed by the Chinese, and used peaceful evolution and fertility machines, as well as 50 years of rule and assimilation, so that later generations of treasure island people do not recognize China as their ancestor at all, but think that Japan is their ancestor, distorting facts and history.
So you look at the Takushima people, because most of them are descendants of the Japanese, and there are also descendants of the assimilated Chinese, most of whom do not recognize China.
When Zhang Qiang followed Liu Guoxuan to inspect, he could also see that even now, many Ezo people, Ezo people are the indigenous people of Hokkaido, Japan, some say that it is actually when the Sui Dynasty went on an expedition to Goryeo, in order to evade military service and escape punishment, the failed soldiers crossed the sea and came to Hokkaido to escape the war, their descendants, but later Japan developed and occupied Hokkaido, because the Japanese have been learning all the customs and habits of China, so their so-called Chinese characteristics have been submerged. So later, the Ezo people actually became indigenous people of Japan, and as a result, they became Japanese, not deserters and Han Chinese of the Sui Dynasty.
It's a bit of, okay, it's a long history, there's no way to verify, we look forward, but we can't ignore the present.
At present, there are many Japanese ronins, and they are actually in Zheng Chenggong's team, playing for Zheng Chenggong, and in Zheng Chenggong's opinion, this group of Japanese ronins who have no national thoughts, Ezo people, are actually at ease and have no ideas.
Anfen is like a Ming soldier.
During Zhang Qiang's inspection the next day, the guys were organized for a siege battle.
Two thousand of these people, plus some people who did not know where Zheng Chenggong had collected, maybe Filipino natives, maybe Malay natives, as well as Dutch, Portuguese, and Spaniards, formed a team, followed by a Ming army soldier composed of all Liu Guoxuan's pirates, wearing uniform Ming army uniforms, and launched an attack on the wall outside the Dutch city.
It can be seen that wooden bridges have been erected over the moat, many planks have been erected for the troops to pass through, and in some places sand and gravel have been buried, and it can be passed directly from above.
The water of the moat was channeled into the sea.
But there are still many places where the river is still water, and although it is shallow, it is not for the soldiers to pass through, and the soldiers only pass through where they can.
Braving the fire of the Dutch who didn't know when to leave the city, there were many Dutch people on the wall, as well as the natives on the treasure island, the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the Dutch people from the western bridge, and the fire charged on the musket defensive position.
Of course, fire support from artillery from high places is indispensable.
A group of soldiers with broadswords, spears, bows and arrows, slingshots, shields, ladders, and artillery in their hands roared, and then, led by the officers, rushed to the enemy's breastwork.
Zhang Qiang saw that the only effect of Zheng Chenggong's siege of the city of Gelansha for a month and a half was to divert the water from the moat, add a few passages to the moat, and then create several gaps in the wall, and these gaps were later blocked by the Dutch in the city.
There are also many soldiers who died around the moat, and many soldiers died on the other side of the moat, leaving a lot of corpses that could not be removed.
The shouts, the footsteps of the charge, a group of soldiers who looked at death or feared death, just used their chests to meet the enemy's bullets, bows and arrows, and cannonballs.
Two hundred men remained on the way to charge forever, and more than a hundred died when they crossed the river, and the corpses fell into the moat, and perhaps soon they would rot and become river mud, and by the time they reached a distance of thirty meters below the breastwork, half of the two thousand soldiers were already dead.
Then ladders were erected, climbed, and soldiers with bumper logs slammed into the breastwork.
A bunch of Ming people in Dutch uniforms jumped up and fought with Zheng Chenggong's soldiers who were climbing.
White smoke was constantly rising from the breastwork, and it was the enemy who was firing.
The enemy was not without casualties, but this casualty was very few, maybe more wounded, but there were few who died.
In particular, the regular Dutch soldiers, but a few people, commanded a group of expatriates and natives of the treasure island, as well as mercenaries to fight with the hodgepodge troops sent by Zheng Chenggong.
How can I say this, the generals on both sides have a purpose, to use cannon fodder to consume the enemy's living forces, and then finally let the elite soldiers come on and settle the battle in one fell swoop.
Perhaps soon the Dutch will realize that playing a war of attrition with Zheng Chenggong is doomed to defeat.
And Zheng Chenggong has long realized that if you play with the Dutch, if you can't beat it, I will consume you, anyway, I have a lot of soldiers, and any random ones can consume you, of course, this is the most negative way to play, if Zhang Qiang wants him to do this.
"Boom"
Zheng Chenggong was not willing to do this.
He pushed the cannon up.
The artillery braved the threat of the enemy's long-range heavy artillery, rapidly advanced until it was less than two hundred meters away from the breastwork, and quickly stopped and set up positions.
It took about half an hour, less than a moment to advance, and almost as soon as the soldiers rushed to the side of the breastwork, they advanced to a distance of two hundred meters from the breastwork, losing about a dozen cannons in the process.
Zhang Qiang took a look, most of those cannons were Furlong machine guns, and some were thousand-pound Hongyi cannons, not air-leaking cannons that were reloaded behind the Furlong machine guns.
The cannon fired, and suddenly the masonry of the breastwork flew sideways, and the stump was broken.
Screaming and screaming.
The soldiers on both sides panicked, because no one knew that they could fight their own people.
In fact, even if the cannon does not fire now, it is impossible for the three or four hundred people born to capture the breastwork.
Because the enemy also brought artillery, which was also a Furlong machine gun, which was dragged by a carriage, and quickly arranged the position, but they were located on high ground and were not blocked by the breastwork, so they could bombard the Ming army attacking the breastwork below, or the artillery position of the Ming army.
While the two sides were engaged in an artillery battle, the Dutch retreated.
Because Zheng Chenggong was not mainly for artillery, he wanted to tear down the wall and leave more Dutch defenders by the way.
Now the Dutch defenders were miserable.
The wall fell.
People died, and there were quite a few.
Several of the gaps were thirty or fifty meters wide, some of which had been knocked down by the attacking soldiers with wood, and most of which had been broken open by artillery shells.
The Dutch fled frantically to the city gates.
Behind the shells chased them and exploded.
Zhang Qiang witnessed that about two or three hundred Dutch were dead on the road, and three or four hundred were dead or wounded on the breastwork.
The two sides began an artillery battle, the terrain was unfavorable, and the Ming army suffered a lot of losses.
Overhead, heavy artillery from the walls bombarded them.
In less than a morning, more than half of the entire artillery team was killed and wounded, and the rest ran back, and the artillery was destroyed. About fifty large and small cannons.
And the losses of the artillery of the Dutch were not much, three or four guns were destroyed, five or six carriages were destroyed, more than a dozen people died, and a dozen or so cannons remained, which were still bombarding the Ming army until the end of the battle.