For a month, Fang Yuan's Xuanjia army was stationed in Jilong City, neither looting nor disturbing the people, and the grain was also transported from Quanzhou Port one by one.

The military discipline of the Xuanjia Army was a hundred times better than that of the previous Spaniards and Dutch people, and the merchants, people, and aborigines in the city who were still panicking and avoiding before After half a month of understanding, they gradually relaxed and were willing to do business with Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan took out real money and silver, buying and selling the food of the locals to solve the shortage of military supplies. With the ability to replenish locally, the headache of military rations has gradually eased.

Feng Ting found a total of 80,000 taels of silver in the chicken coop city that he had not had time to transport, and countless military supplies such as gunpowder and lead bullets. Before the Dutch people withdrew, they first moved valuable gold and silver, all kinds of animal skins, and left all the gunpowder and lead bullets that could not be removed in Chicken Coop City.

This is the original intention of the original party, so Feng Ting was ordered to test these gunpowder and lead bullets, and most of them can still be used, which solves the problem of the armaments and materials of the Xuanjia Army.

Zheng Sen had sent envoys from the sea to the north to take over the two cities of Tamsui and Jilong, and also made a surrender condition to Tamsui City, which was located on the northwest coast, that is, to order the Dutch people to leave unconditionally and hand over Tamsui City.

It happened that Fang Yuan's envoy also arrived in Tamsui City, and the surrender conditions were the same as those in Jilong City, each of them received fifty taels of silver, and then sent back to Quanzhou Port.

The Dutch garrison in Tamsui City weighed the conditions of both sides, and surrendered Zheng Sen with empty hands, while the surrendering party had the original silver. These sergeants were not fools, of course they knew the trade-offs, and directly escorted the envoys sent by the Zheng family to Fang Yuan's military camp and surrendered to Fang Yuan.

When Zheng Sen got this military information, he wanted to take advantage of Fang Yuan's unstable foothold and send Liu Guoxuan's Penghu Naval Division north to cut off Fang Yuan's backup route. However, there was an urgent military situation from the direction of Penghu, and Shi Lang's huge fleet had arrived at the port of Kinmen, abandoned Kinmen Island and prepared to attack Penghu Island directly.

Shi Lang's naval army pressed Liu Guoxuan's Penghu naval division and was suppressed so much that he couldn't move, where did he dare to go north to fight Fang Yuan's fleet?

Zheng Sen couldn't figure out the number of Fang Yuan's fleet in Taipei, and thought that Fang Yuan's journey was a false story, so he desperately sent the only 50 warships left on the main island of Taiwan to attack the ports of Tamsui and Jilong Harbor, in an attempt to cut off Fang Yuan's sea supply line and completely trap Fang Yuan's landed sergeants on the island.

Zheng's fleet of fifty warships immediately headed north, and when attacking Tamsui City, Shi Fu led the sailors stationed in Jilong City to attack this sailor fleet from the flank. The tonnage of the fleets of both sides was not at all on the same order of magnitude, and the naval division of the Zheng army was routed in a battle and was sunk thirty-eight ships. The only ten remaining warships turned around in fright and fled, returning to Taiwan City to report to Zheng Sen.

When Zheng Sen got the news of the defeat of the naval division, he couldn't help but take a deep breath when he heard that Fang Yuan's naval division that landed in Taipei had at least one or two hundred ships, and that there was no terrible artillery carrier formation. Only then did he deeply realize that the strength of the Xuanjia Army's naval division was enough to start a war on the northern and southern fronts, and Zheng Jun's current naval division was already overstretched to deal with the first line.

This disparity in national strength made him feel a little afraid, maybe it was not Fang Yuan who was trapped and died on the island, but his remnants of the Zheng army.

Zheng Sen is worthy of a generation of heroes, and after a short period of deterrence, he immediately put his fear behind him and made a strategic deployment for the defense of the island.

It is impossible for the Zheng army alone to repel the Xuanjia army that Fang Yuan landed in the south, and the only way to survive is to mobilize the aborigines on the island to fight side by side to jointly resist Fang Yuan's invasion.

Zheng Sen summoned the leaders of the Ami and Paiwan clans, who had expressed their submission in Tainan and were the most powerful in Taichung and Taitung, and held a military meeting in Taiwan City.

He first took advantage of the aborigines' ignorance of foreign forces, and even intimidated and frightened the leaders of the two tribes to inform the leaders of the two tribes that an invader more terrible than the Francois Hongmao had landed in Taipei. This group of invaders will kill all the indigenous people of the island and move the Han Chinese to the island.

The patriarchs of the two clans were so frightened that their faces were bloodless, and the strength of the red fur of the Francis had made them fearful, so they dared to hide in the mountains and live by buying and selling sulfur and animal skins. If there is another invader who is more terrible than the red hair of the Franc machine, and still uses the slogan of killing the aborigines, how will this life be lived?

Seeing that he had frightened these ignorant aborigines, Zheng Sen said in a deep voice, "This invader is our common enemy, and I can fight side by side with you to drive them out of the island of Taiwan." ”

The patriarch of the two clans is not a fool, for them, who will rule them is also in the mountains, it is a big deal to continue to flee to the depths of the mountains, who will chase them to the uninhabited deep mountains and old forests to kill them?

Zheng Sen saw the hesitation of the patriarch of the two clans, and imitated the empty glove white wolf that Fang Yuan had played in Fujian before, and promised the patriarch of the two clans, "Taiwan has been decided, if we can drive out the invaders together, I will divide the fertile fields of the Pingtung Plain to your two clans." After the war, you two tribes will be able to go out of the mountains and live in the plains. ”

This condition is quite attractive to the patriarch of the two clans, who wants to go to the deep mountains and old forests infested with snakes, insects, rats and ants to survive in the rich plains? What's more, the population of the Ami tribe is 90,000, and the population of the Paiwan tribe is 70,000, and the fishing and hunting life in the deep mountains is no longer enough to support the huge population of the two tribes.

The only way to solve the livelihood of the two ethnic groups is to say goodbye to the mountains where materials are scarce, move to the fertile plains, and adopt the lifestyle of an agrarian people. Before, whether it was the rule of the Han people or the red hair of the Franco, the two clans had not been able to get half of the land in the plains.

At present, Zheng Sen's condition can be said to be in the hands of the two clans, so he agreed to the plan of joining forces with Zheng Sen to resist the invaders.

Since the Ami and Paiwan clans were willing to fight side by side, Zheng Sen could arrange the defense line between the mountains and forests in Taichung to snipe Fang Yuan.

Zheng Sen sent the barbarian mercenaries who had followed him here from Fujian to the north, and the sergeants who participated in the battle with the Ami and Paiwan tribes were deployed in the mountains and forests of Taichung, and they were sure to snipe Fang Yuan's southward army into the Tainan Plain, which was unsafe to defend.

This line of defense in Taichung can be said to be the last barrier of Taiwan City, once this line of defense is broken, Fang Yuan's Xuanjia Army enters the Tainan Plain, and can reach the military and political center of the Zheng family - under the city of Taiwan in one day. With the powerful power of the Xuanjia Army's artillery, a mere Taiwan city will never be able to withstand it for long, and everything will be over.

Zheng Sen summoned Pan Di, the leader of the barbarian mercenaries, grabbed his hand, and said with a sigh, "The Taichung Basin is the last line of defense on the Tainan Plain, and there is no way to lose it, and the rise and fall of the Zheng family will all be in your hands." ”

He ordered his subordinates to carry out a large box of silver and handed it to Pan Di, "The only remaining 200,000 taels of silver in the Zheng family, here is 50,000 taels of silver, give it to you!" ”

The surname Pan is one of the four surnames of the She clan, since the young Zhuang of the Pan clan fled with Zheng Sen, the Fujian government has arrested the old, weak, sick and disabled in the Pan clan in Fujian, as well as the women, and handed them over to the other three surnames to divide and rule.

Pandi half-knelt on the ground, brandished a knife and directly cut off the little finger of his left hand, and immediately bled like a torrent of blood.

Pan Diqiang endured the severe pain of his severed finger and swore to Zheng Senmeng, "My Pan clan is homeless, and in this battle, 10,000 warriors of the Pan clan swear to live and die with Zheng Zongbing!" ”

Zheng Sen bowed down to salute him, and hurriedly ordered the healer to bandage him.

After being bandaged, Zheng Sen confessed, "Before defeating several untamed small clans in Tainan, the 2,000 women in the clan have all been locked up in Taiwan City. Three days later, the brothers will go to Taichung again, and in these two days, the brothers will be happy first! ”

Zheng Sen's move was to use these exterminated aboriginal women to give the 10,000 young and strong soldiers of the Pan clan who were about to go on the expedition.