In this assault battle, the generals of the Xuanjia Army had merits and faults, and Fang Yuan had to reward and punish them clearly.

The one who committed a major mistake was Feng Ting, the chief soldier of Fujian. Not to mention the loss of Tamsui City, he also lost nearly 8,000 Xuanjia sergeants. This level of defeat was enough to lead to the defeat of this campaign against Taiwan, and in terms of military law, it was only natural that Feng Ting should be beheaded.

But at the moment, when it was time to employ people, Feng Ting was still spared, but he was demoted to the post of chief soldier, demoted to captain, and fined 100 military staffs. Considering the battle situation, Fang Yuan ordered him to temporarily take the post of chief soldier, first hit fifty military staffs, and the remaining fifty military staff were recorded in the account. After the war, if you can't make a mistake, you will be demoted and punished with a military staff.

Feng Ting knew that this time he was negligent, almost leading to the rout of the whole line, Fang Yuan's punishment was not too heavy, but too light, and he could only obediently admit the punishment.

Although Najib had the merit of repelling the Zheng army's sneak attack, but at the time of the conference, the speed of gathering troops was too slow, if Zhang Ying had not led the army to snipe the Zheng army for an hour, the defense line of the Xuanjia army would have been broken through by the Zheng army, and the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Najib has merit and demerits, and his merits and demerits are comparable, and there is no reward or punishment.

The only meritorious general was Qianhu Zhang Ying, if it weren't for his decisive decision to defend the river, the outcome of this battle is still unknown.

Fang Yuan directly promoted Zhang Ying from Qianhu to deputy commander-in-chief, and transferred the remaining more than 10,000 soldiers of Feng Ting to him, and also transferred 5,000 to him.

Tamsui City, north of the Tamsui River, is the northern estuary that crosses the former New Taipei City.

After the failure of Wanli's sneak attack, he led the remnants of the Zheng army to retreat to Tamsui City, one was that the remnants of the army did not dare to flee south, so as not to be pursued by the Xuanjia army, and the other was to continue to snipe Fang Yuan's Xuanjia army with the help of the Tamsui River defense line. As long as Tamsui City was still in Zheng Jun's hands, Fang Yuan would never dare to go south easily before pulling out this nail.

Fang Yuan got the information that Wan Li had retreated to Tamsui City, and estimated that Wan Li's Zheng army of 13,000 people was already the last possession of the Zheng family, as long as this Zheng army could be annihilated, Zheng Sen would have no more troops available.

Fang Yuan personally led a group of generals to the south bank of the Tamsui River to observe the terrain, the width of the Tamsui River is at least thirty zhang, on the other side of the river is the Tamsui City, and a large number of artillery pieces are erected on the city wall. He ordered the sergeants to measure the water of the river, which was at least three zhang deep, and crossed the river from the Tamsui River to attack the city of Tamsui with great losses. If you go around, the artillery on the city walls is still a big headache.

He looked at Tamsui City on the other side, and Wan Li wanted to rely on the Tamsui River to fortify, and there was indeed no loophole in terms of the arrangement of troops. But the Tamsui River has an outlet to the sea, in other words, it is possible to send warships directly under Tamsui City from the sea and bombard Tamsui City with battleships.

After Fang Yuan inspected the terrain, he sent the ten captured Zheng army sergeants to Tamsui City to spread the word, ordering the main general Wan Li to surrender immediately, otherwise after the city was broken, none of the Zheng army sergeants would be left.

Wan Li already had the intention of dying, and at a glance saw through the purpose of Fang Yuan's sending troops to come. Although he was determined to fight to the death, there were not a few soldiers of the Zheng army who might surrender.

Wan Li did not let these troops enter the city to shake the morale of the army, and shot all the dozen or so Zheng army sergeants directly under the city gate, which also showed Fang Yuan's firm determination that Tamsui City would never surrender, and would fight to the death, and if he wanted to attack the city, he would attack the city.

Fang Yuan was furious, and since Wan Lihe returned to Chicken Coop City, he began to arrange the military task of capturing Tamsui City.

Feng Ting was the main general, Zhang Ying was the deputy general, and the main force attacking Tamsui City was 12,000 soldiers. Fang Yuan and Najib's 8,000 Mountain Special Battalions stayed in Jilong City, one was to recruit the soldiers from various aboriginal tribes to support, and the other was to prevent Zheng Sen, or the Ami and Paiwan clans from coming to sneak attack.

Shi Fu led the fleet of sailors from the Tamsui River to the bottom of Tamsui City, bombarded Tamsui City, and covered the siege of the city.

The task assignment was completed, and the people from all walks of life set off in detachments and slaughtered towards Tamsui City.

The fierceness of the battle of Tamsui City far exceeded Fang Yuan's previous estimates.

In order to prevent the Xuanjia warships from attacking from the sea, Wan Li directly poured fire oil into the Tamsui River, and the fire oil flowed along the water, and the fire oil floated on the surface of the Tamsui River, which stretched for a mile.

When Shi Fu's first three medium gunboats were killed under Tamsui City, Wan Li directly ordered the hundred soldiers on the city wall to drop their torches.

As soon as the oil on the surface of the river ignited, it immediately burst into flames, engulfing all three warships in a single dragon. The three battleships were burned down in a blink of an eye, and the hundred sergeants on the three battleships were also burned alive on the surface of the river, and the whole army was wiped out.

After losing the first battle, Shi Fu was furious, and once again sent three warships to rush to the city of Tamsui one after another, wanting to forcibly bombard the gates of Tamsui City.

Wan Li ordered Zheng Jun to dump all the remaining oil on the surface of the river, and set fire to the Xuanjia Army's warships again. After two days and two nights of surface battles, Shi Fu desperately lost seven warships and two hundred sailors, and finally ran out of fire oil in Tamsui City.

Without the fire attack of the oil and oil, Shi Fu's warships immediately seized control of the river, and four or five warships drove to the city and began to bombard the city walls.

Wan Li did not carry artillery before he set out on the expedition, but when he captured Tamsui City, he captured ten cannons, lead bullets and cannons abandoned by Feng Ting in the city. These ten guns greatly improved the defense of Tamsui City and posed a great threat to Shi Fu's warships.

The artillery of both sides, one on the battleship and the other on the city, after three days and three nights of mutual shelling, the battleships of the Xuanjia Army lost three or four more ships.

On the third day, the city was first drained of buckshot, and Wan Li ordered the soldiers to look for stones of similar size in the city to polish them and use them instead of buckshot.

Relying on these stone shells, the city held out for two more days, and the gunpowder was exhausted. Since then, Shi Fu's fleet has completely controlled the river, and there is no power to fight back in the city.

Since the beginning of the war, the Zheng army of Tamsui City has destroyed a total of twelve warships of the Xuanjia army, and in terms of the results alone, it has been a very brilliant victory. But this battle is a never-ending offensive and defensive battle between the two sides, and no matter how many Xuanjia warships are destroyed, Wanli can't change the defeat of the loss of the river.

The remnants of the battleships damaged by the Xuanjia Army floated on the surface of the river, which greatly hindered the transportation of the soldiers and soldiers to the other side of the river to attack the city. But these floating decks on the surface of the river have reached an improvised pontoon bridge to attack the city from the other side of the river. Under the cover of the bombardment of the Shifu battleship, 13,000 Xuanjia soldiers crossed the Tamsui River in three ways, reached the city, and began to blast and burn the city gates.

When the critical moment of the Zheng army's life and death came, Wan Li ordered the Zheng army to resist the bombardment of the warships on the river, and smash the soldiers who attacked the city gate with large stones and giant trees, and must not let the Xuanjia army break through the city gate.

The battle between the two sides over the city gate lasted for a day and a night. Relying on the fierce artillery support of the Shifu battleship, the Zheng army on the city wall suffered too many casualties, and finally declared it dead.

Seeing that the casualties of defending the city gate were too great, Wan Li immediately ordered the whole army to retreat to the city and prepare to continue the street fighting. Feng Ting sent a team of 500 men to attack the city, but was surrounded by Zheng's army, and the whole army was annihilated, and not a single one escaped from the city.

The casualties were too heavy, and Zhang Ying immediately suggested that instead of attacking again, he should occupy the commanding heights of the city wall, cut off the flow of the Tamsui River through Tamsui City, and trap the Zheng troops in these cities.

Feng Ting adopted Zhang Ying's suggestion and assigned the Xuanjia sergeants to abandon the strong attack and adopt the strategy of besieging but not attacking. On the one hand, it occupied the commanding heights of the city wall, erected twenty artillery pieces, and bombarded indiscriminately around the recalcitrant Zheng army in Tamsui; On the other hand, sergeants were sent upstream to cut off the water supply to Tamsui City.

The Zheng army in the city was cut off from the water source, and the artillery bombardment was on their heads, and the morale and fighting spirit of the army almost collapsed, so some sergeants came out to surrender.

Because Fang Yuan strictly ordered that the Zheng army was not allowed to surrender, all of them were annihilated, and Feng Ting did not surrender again, and directly shot all the Zheng troops who came out to surrender.

As a result, all the ways of life of the Zheng army were cut off, and Wan Li organized four teams of Zheng troops and began to fight for the city wall occupied by the Xuanjia army on four sides. After two days and two nights of fierce fighting, Zheng's plan to recapture the city wall failed.

At this point, the only remaining 8,000 Zheng troops in the city have been cut off, and they can only sit and wait to die.

Feng Ting ordered the soldiers to besiege Tamsui City for ten days and ten nights, and the Zheng army starved to death and died of thirst, and there were corpses all over Tamsui City. Zheng Jun who can barely stand is one of the few, and even fewer can fight.

Wan Li held on to Tamsui City for twenty days, asking himself that he was worthy of Zheng Sen's kindness, and that the time had come for him to ignite the remnants of gunpowder in a private house.

A violent explosion sounded in the south of the city, and Wan Li, with Zheng Jun's last martial courage and blood, together with Zheng Sen's only expectation of turning defeat into victory, was buried in the sea of fire.