The East likes to use wood in construction, while the West is good at using stone, after the Dutch arrived in Taiwan, they chose the dangerous place of Dayuan Bay, and they gave full play to the characteristics of their good use of stone construction, enslaved the inhabitants of the island, and built two stone forts that were horns of each other near Dayuan Bay, called Chikan Fort on land, and called Gelanza Fort on the body of a kun.

At this time, in the inner harbor, hundreds of sea ships were moored, and on the dock of Fort Geranza, more than a dozen plundered cargo ships of the Longsheng were being watched by more than a dozen Dutchmen, urging coolies to move boxes of goods from the ships.

The value of these more than a dozen ships, the movement of Western profits will be more than one million.

In the chamber of the fort, the members of the Taiwan Council of the East India Company were sitting around a round table at this time, forming two different emotions, the Dutch who had rushed from Batavia to support were full of joy, while the members of the Taiwan Council were worried.

At this time, Fairberg, the tenth governor of Dutch Taiwan, looked at the reinforcement commander Kaau, stood up, and accused: "Your Excellency, you are too impulsive, this will cause the country to attack the generals, causing immeasurable losses to the company, and Your Excellency will bear this responsibility at that time." ”

"Your Excellency the Governor, look at the loot I brought back, the Taiwan Council has not contributed so much to the company in a year, what reason does Your Excellency have to accuse me. If Your Excellency is really afraid of the Chinese, then I will transport this batch of loot back to Batavia, so that the Chinese will come to me for trouble! Kawu spread his hands, his face did not care, he did not understand why the Dutch were afraid of the Chinese.

"Oh, that's not going to work!" Felberg's expression was exaggerated, "These trophies naturally belong to the Taiwan Council." ”

He is a bit of a scoundrel, and he wants benefits, and he doesn't want to take responsibility, Kawu looked at his face and immediately stood up.

Seeing this, the man who was sitting on the side came out and reconciled: "Your Excellency, the matter has happened, it is irreparable, what we should do now is to consider how to defend against the attack of the country!" ”

The people sitting around listened and nodded, the matter of responsibility, the distribution of interests, it will not make sense to talk until the Chinese peep at the big man is defeated, otherwise once the big man is occupied by the Chinese, they will finish together, and now it is a quarrel, and there is no point in it.

Felberg sat down again, slowed his expression, and said to the examiner: "Your Excellency has been appointed as the commander of the fleet by the company, what do you think of the guard officer?" ”

Kaauu said with a smile: "The Chinese have nothing else worthy of praise except for the large number of people and many ships, as long as we hold the danger, block the southern channel with ships, and cooperate with the batteries of Fort Geranza to prevent the Chinese from landing, even if they have many people, they cannot go ashore, there is no food and fresh water, they can't hold out for a few days, they will leave, what do you have to worry about." ”

The terrain of Dayuan Bay is very complex, and the Dutch chose this place because Dayuan Bay is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is an inner harbor between the two forts, which are surrounded by the seven kun bodies plus the northern line of the tail island and the Luermen island, and only two waterways can enter the inner harbor.

The Seven Kun Bodies are seven connected islands, which are called one Kun Body, two Kun Bodies, until the Seven Kun Bodies.

These seven islands are located in the southwest of the inner harbor, lined up in a straight line, each of which is less than a mile apart, full of reefs, and ships cannot route, but between the body of a kun and the tail island of the north line, it is passable, known as the southern channel, but the Fort of Geranza is on the body of a kun, as long as the ships are blocked, and then the heavy artillery on the Fort of Geranza is coordinated, it is a man who can not be opened.

The other northern channel is between the end of the north line and Luermen Island, that is, the "Luermen channel", compared with the wide water depth at the mouth of the south channel and the easy entry of boats, the north channel is shallow and narrow, and can only pass through small boats, and large ships must pass at high tide and are familiar with the route.

"What about the Northern Passage?" He asked.

"In the northern channel, there are too many reefs, the route is complicated, and we can only cross small boats, and we can put two hundred Dutch soldiers on the tail island of the northern line to prevent the Chinese from entering from there."

After Zheng Chenggong and Chen Zilong joined forces, they prepared for two days in Xiamen, replenished grain, fresh water, and gunpowder, and sacrificed to the sky and the sea on Gulangyu Island on June 9, and then led eight three-masted ships, 500 large and small sea ships, and 25,000 soldiers, set off from Jinxia, arrived at the Penghu Islands on the 10th, and then waited for the time here.

On the evening of the 15th, a full moon hung high in the night sky, and the soft moonlight sprinkled on the sea, and a huge fleet outside Dayuan Bay was like a moving black mountain, like a layer of foothills riding the wind and waves, and the surrounding waves were sparkling.

On the flagship of the sailor, Chen Zilong and Zheng Chenggong stood at the bow of the ship, "Is the surname of the country sure that the fleet can directly enter Dayuan Bay from Luermen?" ”

If you want to enter Dayuan Bay, generally speaking, you can only take the southern channel, but there are Fort Geranza and the Dutch navy, and the terrain is very unfavorable to the Ming army.

The sea breeze blew Zheng Gongcheng's robe and agitated, "Chen Gong rest assured, our army has a sea chart, today is a full moon, it is just the tide, the sea level is rising, and there is absolutely no problem for the army to pass through Luermen." ”

After Zheng Chenggong finished speaking, he turned around and asked, "How is the situation on Gan Hui's side, is there a return?" ”

While he was talking, a small boat approached the flagship, and the sergeant on it immediately lowered a rope ladder, and a general climbed up.

"General Gan has sent someone back." The general heard the movement, glanced back, and then replied with a fist.

Zheng Chenggong immediately turned around, and the general who got on the boat had already hurried in front of him, and then saluted on one knee, "The surname of Qiyuguo is Ye, General Gan has passed through the Luermen Waterway." ”

"Can you spot the Dutch guards?"

The general raised his head and replied in a loud voice, "There is a small Dutch fort on the tail island of the northern line, which is guarded by about one or two hundred people. ”

Zheng Chenggong nodded, with a hint of excitement on his face, "Order the whole army, all pass through the Luermen, set up a formation in the bay, and fight with the Heyi Naval Army." ”

At the beginning of the Dutch occupation, there was a hot fort at the north end of the tail island on the northern line, and the role of the fortress was mainly used to monitor the Luermen waterway, but not only the Dutch themselves did not leave, but there were no outsiders here, and no outsiders came, and no enemy was found for more than 20 years.

If it weren't for the reinforcements from Batavia, who were well manned, Kawu would not have bothered to send two hundred men to guard here.

At night, on the beach of Beiwei Line Island, Gan Hui led more than 300 people, lurking in the darkness a hundred steps away from the fortress, a Han Chinese from the main island of Taiwan, as their guide, he participated in the construction of the fort so that he could bring them to the fort.

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