206 Taiwan Campaign (3)
The shells flew sideways over the sea, over the Dutch ships, directly to the coast, attacking the Dutch who had fled ashore, the rockets fluttered in the air, the muskets "banged" straight out, and the approaching ships did not join the hand-to-hand combat, but shot the recalcitrant Dutch, covering their own military horses to keep rushing in.
The commander of the fleet was dumbfounded, and it was a nightmare for him. I just woke up in the morning, and I didn't even eat breakfast, but I ate a shell from the Ming Dynasty army, and I chased and fought hard, and my fleet collapsed, what is going on? He didn't know why Zheng Zhilong wanted to attack them, but the development of the battle didn't allow him to think too much, so he could only choose to run away in the name of preserving his strength.
At this time, the Fujian naval fleet was in full swing, and the Dutch fleet had no ability to parry. In particular, the retreat of the fleet commander dealt a huge blow to the morale of the already chaotic Dutch army, and everyone knew that the matter had come to this point and that there was no longer a fight. But did they run, the warships that had been destroyed on the water blocked their retreat, and there were countless Ming warships outside, and the dense artillery fire on the coast also cut off their retreat.
Death or surrender, only these two paths can be left to their choice, and most of the Dutch troops, who have completely despaired, have chosen the latter path. One by one, the Dutch ships stopped resisting, and one by one the Dutch soldiers threw away their weapons. War has become impossible. Surrender has become the only way to save one's life.
There was a lot of noise on the sea, and suddenly, everything fell silent. The sound of artillery stopped, as did the whistling of rockets, and only a dozen ships were burning, and then slowly sinking. In less than an hour of fighting, everything was over, of the thirty Dutch warships docked in the harbor, eight were sunk by artillery, seven were blown up by * ships, and several were affected by the fire, only half of them barely survived, but more than half of the more than 3,000 sailors died tragically, and a few were able to surrender and survive, and there were countless corpses floating on the river, and there were many Dutch lying on the river beach.
"General, the war is over, the other party didn't expect us to attack suddenly, we have suffered heavy losses, and now we have captured more than 1,300 people, what should we do?" Zheng Sen also came to Cao Bianjiao's boat and asked Cao Bianjiao for instructions on his next move.
Cao Bianjiao looked at the river with a cold face, and said: "Take all of them to the city of Puluo Minsha, and demonstrate to those defenders, I see who dares to resist!" Da Mu, leave a team of 1,000 people to clean up the battlefield and treat the wounded, and the rest of the people continue to set off, and they can't be given time to prepare! ”
"Yes!" Zheng Sen also left the Zhongxing battleship at the moment, returned to his command battleship, and conveyed the military order.
A thousand people stayed to clean up the battlefield and cooperate with the medical team to take care of the wounded, and the rest of the people also continued to set off, directly approaching the city of Puluomin, which was the weak point of the Dutch defense, and the defenders were only more than 2,000 people.
In the city of Prominsha, the Dutch governor in Taiwan, François Cuarón, was also anxious at the moment, when he was just eating the roast lamb chops that had just come out of the pot, it was delicious, who knew that he heard a series of cannon sounds, and he was also frightened, and hurriedly went to the high place to look, and found that the war was found on the surface of the Taijiang River, and the smoke of gunpowder was rising, Cuaron was also a person who had been through the war, and knew that it was the smoke emitted after the artillery firing, and he was afraid that there would be no less than 100 artillery pieces.
"What's going on? Tell me, what did you find? Caron is also pacing back and forth in a hurry, I don't know what the specific situation is, the person sent out to find out the news has not come back yet, and he doesn't know where he died, he is also in a very bad mood at the moment, he is not a nobleman, but a pirate and maritime merchant, just like Zheng Zhilong, the Dutch maritime armed forces are basically composed of Western European pirates, and the person with the identity will come here thousands of miles to suffer the crime, they can just sit at home and count the money.
Outside the city, less than ten miles away, the people sent out by Caron are being trapped on the ground like tying zongzi at the moment, and the person who did this is naturally Guo Huaiyi who returned to Taiwan Island, Guo Huaiyi led the one hundred and ten young men on the road in the village in order to respond to Cao Bianjiao's attack, and blocked the roads outside the city, making Caron a deaf and blind man, and he didn't know anything about the outside world.
"What do you move, if you move again, it will chop you......" Guo Huaiyi looked at the red-haired Dutch who was swaying on the ground, and also glared at him, holding a knife on his neck, and communicating with him in fluent Dutch.
"Big brother, isn't it too risky for us to do this, the Dutch are here, let's do this, but the Dutch are gone, and the Ming official army is coming, maybe it's not as good as the Dutch?" Guo Huaiyi's younger brother Guo Baoyu next to him was also embarrassed at the moment, worried that something would happen.
Guo Huaiyi glared at his younger brother and shouted: "Have you forgotten that we are all Han Chinese, I have seen the Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers with my own eyes, General Cao is wise, and the military discipline is strict, and he will definitely not bully us like these red-haired foreigners." ”
"That's good! All right! Listen to you, I'm going to pee......" Guo Baoyu saw Guo Huaiyi's angry eyes, and he didn't dare to say anything, so he waved his hand and went to make it convenient.
Guo Huaiyi watched his younger brother Guo Baoyu leave, and suddenly remembered Cao Bianjiao's reminder, and his face was gloomy at the moment, and he called out to a young man next to him: "Siping, go and see, where did Guo Baoyu go?" ”
"Where can he go, didn't he say, go and untie his hands!" The young man named Siping, who was born with five big and three thick, has a strong physique, and said disapprovingly at the moment.
But Guo Huaiyi didn't think so, sent him a little, and shouted: "You know a fart, my younger brother has always been close to the Dutch, and he is greedy for money, I am worried that he will betray us, you go and keep an eye on him, if he really releases his hands, he doesn't care, if he runs to report to the Dutch, you will take him down for me, and you must not let him destroy General Cao's plan." ”
"Okay, uncle, don't worry, I'll go!"
It didn't take long for the young man named Siping to come back, his hands were still tightly locked on Guo Baoyu's arms, and he directly pushed him to the ground, and said to Guo Huaiyi: "Uncle, you should be vigilant, this guy really didn't have a good heart, when I went over, I found that he was running to the Dutch, if I hadn't been quick and grabbed him, he would have been reporting to the Karon Yangmaozi at this time." ”
"Big brother, big brother, I was wrong, I was wrong, you just spare me, I swear I will never dare again!" Guo Baoyu saw that his whereabouts were exposed, and he hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, he really wanted to report to Caron and prepare a reward, but he didn't expect Guo Huaiyi, who had always cared little about him, to be so vigilant and careful this time, and sent someone to watch him behind his back.
Guo Huaiyi kicked it up directly, and scolded angrily: "You dog who has forgotten your ancestors, I don't have your younger brother, have you forgotten who your ancestors are, I actually colluded with the Dutch, it is not too much to kill you, Siping, he also tied him up, and when the general came to deal with it, from now on, you will show me, if anyone dares to collude with the Dutch, I will kill him." ”
"The artillery fire has stopped, and I think the general should come over soon......," Guo Huaiyi also looked at the direction of Taijiang and said to himself, he believed that Cao Bianjiao would definitely be able to defeat the Dutch.