Of course, Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, was making these arrangements quietly and deliberately, not to think about Zheng Zhilong and his family.

He didn't think that way.

As the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang sent by Emperor Chongzhen to Fuzhou, Wen Tiren's purpose was only to prepare for the day when Zheng Zhilong lost the control of the imperial court, and if he was still in office in Fuzhou, then he had to have someone who could be handed over for punishment.

In short, he had to be able to give the emperor an explanation.

For an official who was born as a traditional scholar, he instinctively thought that if he could take Zheng Zhilong's father, uncle, and some other clansmen in Nan'an into his own hands, it would be a constraint on Zheng Zhilong.

As for whether he really wants to do this, or whether it is possible to really go to that point, and whether he really has reached that point, whether he will be of great use to Zheng Zhilong by doing this, that is not a question for him to consider.

It is precisely because of this that Wen Tiren figured out Emperor Chongzhen's intentions, and while trying his best to encourage and allow Zheng Zhilong to gradually shift the focus of his Zheng family's business to the direction of Dongfanwei, he also wanted to restrain the Zheng family's power.

Therefore, when Zheng Zhilong's agreement with the envoy of the Dutch East India Company, Bideno, and the governor of Rebasha, Putmans, was sent to Fuzhou, after weighing the pros and cons, he quickly agreed.

Whether it was the Zheng clan that had waged war with the Dutch in the southern part of Dongfan Island, or whether he had now received the will of the imperial court and turned enemies into friends with the Dutch, and then jointly dealt with the Spaniards, Wen Tiren was firmly supportive.

As for whether the land occupied by the Spanish occupation of the Kamalam people on the east coast of Dongfan would be lent to the Dutch, it would never be returned in the same way that the Portuguese leased Ho Kyong O, that was not his concern.

What he really cared about was who should balance the Zheng family's army on Dongfan Island after the Zheng clan defeated the Spaniards.

After Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, agreed to the agreement between Zheng Zhilong and the Dutch, the battle on Dongfan Island soon reached the time of hand-to-hand combat.

On the morning of August 20 in the third year of Chongzhen, Zheng Zhilong personally led Zheng's army to the north in Beigang, and then used both sea and land, and began to besiege the city of Santo Domingo on the north bank of the Tamsui River in the north of Dongfan Island (that is, Hongmao City, Tamsui Town, Taipei County, Taiwan Province in later generations).

The city of Santo Domingo, which claims to be a city, is actually nothing more than a castle.

These Spanish armies began to enslave the natives of the northern part of Dongfan, known as the Kaida Grans, after the first year of Chongzhen's first year of building a city.

On the one hand, they were forced to contribute deer skins to the red-haired devils in the castle, and on the other hand, they were forced to grow sugar cane to produce sugar for the Spanish army.

And, as had been done in the city of San Salvador, the aborigines were robbed to serve them with the army, and the slightest resistance from the natives would lead to massacre.

The dozen or so indigenous communities of Kedagram scattered along the north bank of the Tamsui River originally numbered five to six thousand, but within a year or so of the arrival of the Spaniards, the number of young and strong people was more than halved.

Speaking of which, in the city of Santo Domingo, there were more than 1,000 Spanish troops, including more than 400 real Spanish red-haired devils, stationed in the fort; In addition, more than 700 Luzon natives served as the servants of the two devils, stationed outside the Hongmao City.

Of course, there were also businessmen from Manila, their families, and prostitutes who accompanied the army.

And this time, Zheng Zhilong, who went north, brought more than 100 warships, more than 1,000 horses, and more than 10,000 soldiers on land and water.

This is one-third of all the forces under Zheng Zhilong's command, and it is also one-third of the more elite among them, and it is also its main force on Dongfan Island.

Among them, there are more than 3,000 sailors, more than 1,000 cavalry, more than 5,000 land divisions, 38 Franc machine guns, and more than 700 gunners and soldiers of the artillery team.

In addition, there was also a black flintlock flintlock musket team led by Zheng Zhilong's younger brothers, Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian, composed of more than 500 black slaves.

Long before he was annexed to the imperial court, Zheng Zhilong, as a pirate and maritime merchant, was already equipped with a lot of firearms in his armed merchant ships, but most of these firearms were seized from other pirates and imperial court sailors, and the quality was relatively low.

In addition to the fact that these arquebuses can be fired at close range to play a role before the naval warship jumps into the gang, what can really decide the winner at sea is the bloody hand-to-hand combat of the face-to-face knife and axe.

After returning to the imperial court, Zheng Zhilong wrote to the imperial court to request the distribution of firearms for Dongfanwei, and finally the firearms allocated by the Nanjing Military Department were still the old fireropes equipped by the Nanjing Beijing camp.

When Zheng Zhilong saw this situation, he knew that he was afraid that he would not get any good things from the imperial court's military department, so it was better to spend his own money to buy it directly from the red-haired devil.

In this way, through his uncle Huang Cheng's connections in Ho Jing Ao, he spent a huge amount of money to purchase more than 1,000 front-loading flintlock muskets from the Portuguese.

That is, the Portuguese front-loading flintlock smoothbore gun that Sun Hedou and Sun Heding brothers purchased from Hao Jingao.

Zheng Zhilong used more than 1,000 relatively powerful flintlock pistols to equip three black slave whistles, which were led by his own brother Zheng Zhibao and his cronies Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian.

Now one of the three black slave posts followed Zheng Zhibao to stay in the newly built Dayuan City in the south of Dongfan Island, and the other two followed Zheng Zhilong himself to the north and came to the outside of Hongmao City near Tamsui.

On the morning of August 26, the third year of Chongzhen, Zheng Zhilong personally led a team of forwards, under the leadership of the local indigenous people of Kedagram, to camp a few miles outside the city of Santo Domingo.

As early as three days ago, when Zheng Zhilong's sailor fleet first appeared at the mouth of the Tamsui River, the commander of the Spanish colonial army in Santo Domingo, Antonio Capitan (Captain), had already smelled the smell of danger and already felt the atmosphere of the approaching big war.

Antonio, the commander of the Spanish colonial army in his forties, killed people like a lot on the island of Luzon, and killed not 1,000 Luzon natives or even 800 Chinese with his own hands, so it can be said that he was full of prejudice and discrimination against the Orientals of this era.

But he never dared to underestimate a Chinese pirate leader like Zheng Zhilong.

Because the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Dutch who roamed the seas in this era have all suffered great losses at the hands of this group of Chinese pirate leaders again and again.

Among the 1,000 sentry posts under Zheng Zhilong, almost all of those black slaves came from the slave ships of the Spaniards.

The fact that these black slaves were able to be seized again and again from the armed slave ships of the Spaniards was enough to worry the invincible Spanish colonial army, especially the Spanish colonial authorities on the island of Luzon.

Therefore, after being sent to Dongfan Island by the Spanish colonial authorities in Manila, Luzon, this Antonio still killed and killed the local natives of Dongfan, and did whatever he wanted, but he always stayed in the area on the north bank of the Tamsui River and did not dare to cross the Tamsui River to the south.

Even when he heard that the Chinese pirates on the island were fighting the Dutch who had occupied the southern part of Dongfan Island, he did not dare to act rashly.

At best, it was just to capture and kill those Han immigrants who dared to cross the border, so as to scare off other Han immigrants who went north to the area of Jilong Mountain.

The reason for this is that he and his superior, Sebastian Camanda (Lieutenant Commander), the commander-in-chief of the Spanish Formosa Colonial Army in San Salvador, have both heard of the name of this Nicholas.

And they also know that there are too many Chinese pirates under the command of this official Nikolai, as many as thirty or forty thousand people!

Therefore, after occupying the northern tip of Dongfan Island, these Spaniards did not dare to march into the plain area of the west coast of Dongfan Island, where Zheng Zhilong's power was strong, except for the city of Santo Domingo, but turned around and marched to the east coast of the central mountain range that crosses Dongfan Island.

While slaughtering the indigenous Kamarans who had previously cooperated with the Dutch, the native Luzon was brought in as a servant army to build the city of San Lorenzo.

Although this practice of the Spaniards did not further stimulate Zheng Zhilong, it further stimulated the Dutch East India Company.

Let's say that Antonio Capitan discovered that the army under Zheng Zhilong's command was heading north three days ago, and he was afraid that he was going to attack the city of Santo Domingo, so he sent two teams of men out of the city the next day to report and move the rescuers.

The group headed north, over the mountains, to report to their superior, Sebastian in San Salvador.

A group headed east along the Vale to ask for reinforcements from another capitan González stationed in San Lorenzo.

At the same time, Antonio also gathered a large number of Luzon native soldiers stationed outside the city to the red-haired city to hold on to help.

On the morning of 26 August, Zheng Zhilong rode a horse and came to the castle of Santo Domingo, which was built on the mountain, and stopped to observe from a distance of more than three miles.

While ordering his subordinates to set up camp outside the range of the artillery in Hongmao City, he also let his clansmen and his cronies Zheng Ming, He Bin and others command their own artillery team, and transported a large number of artillery dismantled from the warship to the front of the formation and set up an artillery array.

At the same time, he also sent the Luzon natives who had crossed the border arrested by the Tamsui Senhu Office to go to the city to persuade them to surrender with a letter of persuasion.