On the morning of September 12 in the third year of Chongzhen, Zheng Zhilong, who no longer wanted to wait under the Hongmao City of the Tamsui River, ordered his subordinates to launch an attack on the city of Santo Domingo.

The arrival of the Dutchman's messenger, Mr. Waite, also brought a group of more knowledgeable gunners and commanders to Zheng's artillery battalion.

These more than 100 Dutch mercenaries sent by Biedno to protect Weite were used by Zheng Zhilong to command and correct the shooting of his own artillery team.

Under the command of these mercenaries of the Dutch East India Company, more than 30 Franc aircraft rear-mounted sub-mother cannons exerted their power that could not be exerted before.

After the earth-shattering sound and the white smoke passed, the projectiles of the Franco's cannon hit the red brick walls of Santo Domingo, making a thumping thump and debris flying to form large and small potholes.

The artillery of the Spanish colonial army at the head of the city, under the command of the commander of the city, Antonio, kept firing at the attacking crowd below the city.

Those captured Luzon native soldiers were naturally sent by Zheng Zhilong in front of the army this time.

Under the coercion of the Zheng army with arquebuses, nearly 2,000 Luzon native soldiers carried the siege ladders built by the Zheng army in the past few days, rushed forward wave after wave, and then fell wave after wave under the dense rain of bullets of the red-haired ghosts at the head of the city.

And those Luzon native soldiers who did not dare to advance or turn around and run back because they were afraid of death, were killed in front of the Zheng army under the Hongmao City by the Zheng army musketeers who were not far behind them to supervise the battle.

For Zheng Zhilong and the Zheng family's army, which was mostly composed of Hokkien people, they hated these Luzon natives more than the red-haired ghosts.

When the Spaniards brutally killed Chinese who went to the South Seas to make a living on Luzon Island, these indigenous Luzon servant troops instigated and armed by the Spanish colonial authorities were extremely active and cruel in massacring Chinese merchants and Chinese immigrants.

Now these native soldiers from Luzon Island will naturally not end well, and at this time they will act as cannon fodder for the Zheng army's large-scale siege of the city.

Under round after round of shelling, nearly 2,000 native soldiers were forced to attack again and again, and then they were shot under the Red Hair City in waves.

In the process of this cycle, He Bin led a large number of Zheng army foot soldiers, on the side of the position, towards the Hongmao City Tower, the direction of the Spanish colonial army is not so dense, sweating like rain.

This trench was not dug for the purpose of besieging the city, but for taking the earthen wall to block the red-haired artillery bombardment at the head of the city.

It's about digging the dirt forward.

He Bin was a very clever man, and when he was begging for a living at sea, he was captured by the Dutch as a pirate.

After that, not only was he not put to death, but he also learned Dutch by giving him the opportunity to sell to the Dutch as a slave.

Then, like Zheng Zhilong, this He Bin gradually got mixed up to the point of being a translator for the Dutch, and it was because of this that he got acquainted with Zheng Zhilong and became Zheng Zhilong's right-hand man.

If ordinary people were in the same situation, I am afraid that they would have accepted their fate a long time ago, and then lived their lives in a mess, but He Bin is different, and he can find a way to survive in a desperate situation.

This time again.

Zheng Zhilong asked him to dig a trench between Tamsui Hongmao City and the camp of the army, and use the mud taken out of the trench to build an earthen wall, which can besiege Hongmao in the city on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can also block the solid projectiles shot down from the city head, so as to prevent the projectiles from bouncing into the camp.

But in the process of leading the army to dig a trench, He Bin unexpectedly found a good way to siege the city.

If you could dig a deep trench and walk through the trench, wouldn't you be able to dodge the cannonballs and muskets from the city?

After Zheng Zhilong made up his mind to prepare to storm the castle of Santo Domingo, He Bin immediately reported this method to Zheng Zhilong, and Zheng Zhilong was overjoyed when he heard it, and immediately arranged for manpower to start work.

He Bin chose and chose the right route, which is diagonally opposite the corner of the boxy city of Santo Domingo.

And in the corner of this castle, there is also a spired tower, which just makes this trench face the least number of gun pellets.

In this way, before Zheng Zhilong ordered the siege of the city, he divided his army into three groups.

A main force followed Zheng Zhilong, just on the right side of the head of Hongmao City, with a large number of foot soldiers under his command, to coerce those captured Luzon soldiers to act as cannon fodder to attack the city.

The other team followed He Bin and followed the set route towards Hongmao City to dig and dig a deep trench.

The third team is two black slave sentry flintlock musket teams, followed by Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian, ready at any time.

Once the trench of the attack was dug under He Bin under the Hongmao City, and then the Hongmao City was blown open by burying a large amount of gunpowder, then it was Zheng Cai's turn to rush in first.

At noon on September 12, the third year of Chongzhen, the sun hung hotly above the middle sky, and the cannons rumbled under the city of Santo Domingo, shouting and killing.

The corpses of the native soldiers of Luzon were also piled up one after another under the Hongmao City and in front of the Zheng army.

At the same time, under the repeated urging of Zheng Zhilong's people, He Bin personally went into battle and led a large number of foot soldiers to dig trenches in sweat and rain, and advanced step by step towards the red-haired city on the uphill slope.

It was still a hundred and ten steps away from the spired tower on the Hongmao City, and He Bin was discovered by the Spanish colonial guards on duty on the tower with a large number of foot soldiers on this side.

In the dense sound of gunfire, the alarm bell set up in the tower was suddenly sounded.

The news of the alarm bell ringing soon reached Antonio's ears.

Commander Antonio, who was directing the Spanish colonial army and the Luzon native soldiers under Zheng Jun to shoot down, heard the news, hurriedly went over to check, and when he saw it, he was shocked and immediately understood the intentions of those Chinese outside the city.

But panic is panic, and it is clear that in the face of the panic in the city, just two days ago Antonio had ordered the blocking of the only exit from the castle of Santo Domingo.

At this time, they wanted to go out of the city to attack the Zheng army who was digging trenches, and they didn't have a chance.

After Antonio shouted a lot of words, the Spanish colonial musketeers, who had been holding the front of the castle, immediately separated more than a hundred people and ran towards the tower with muskets in hand.

Zheng Zhilong, who commanded the siege outside the city, saw this change, and immediately ordered the remaining Luzon native soldiers to rush up collectively and launched another wave of strong attacks.

The city of Santo Domingue had plenty of food and ammunition, and the Spaniards had already prepared for the Zheng army when they built a castle here as a bridgehead to conquer the west coast of Dongfan Island.

And this is also the reason why Antonio does not want to surrender, because according to his thinking, it is far from the time to run out of ammunition and food.

The only time that he wavered was the one when Zheng Zhilong ordered people to throw all the 497 heads of the Spanish colonial army cut off in the ambush to the city to vent their anger and demonstrate.

It was precisely because of Zheng Zhilong's practice that Antonio and some merchants in the city realized that they were waiting for Spanish reinforcements, and they were afraid that they would not come.

Even if I did, it would be a long time later.

Therefore, Antonio simply ordered the only entrance and exit to the castle of Santo Domingo, forcing everyone in the city to unite and defend the castle.

It soon turned out that Antonio's approach was wrong.

And if you do it wrong, you must pay the price.

Although Antonio had discovered Zheng Jun's intentions outside the city earlier, he had no good way to stop them.

The Spanish colonial troops, who had heard the order, fired round after round at the trenches that were constantly being dug according to Antonio's orders.

But the rain of bullets from the city only hit the ground at the edge of the trench, and pieces of stirred up earth and stones splashed down on He Bin's head and face.

The speed of excavation is slow, but it is moving forward.

As time progressed, the trenches excavated by He Bin and his army became closer and closer to the corners of the city of Santo Domingo.

Antonio became more and more aware of the approaching danger, but he was so angry that he thundered at the top of the city, angrily rebuked his men, pulled over two cannons that had been used for frontal defense, and took turns shelling the soldiers of Zheng who were advancing in the trenches.

However, the soil excavated in the trench became a natural barrier, and the soldiers of Zheng, who were digging desperately in the trench, finally understood that they were in no danger under the artillery fire of the city, and they did not hide or hide, and dug desperately.

Finally, in the evening, the fiery clouds of the western sky stained the sky a blood-red.

With an earth-shattering loud noise, Zheng Zhilong's feet shook like a mountain, and the horses sitting down also screamed and stood up.

When Zheng Zhilong stabilized the war horse he sat down, and then looked at the direction He Bin was in charge of, he saw that the tower that originally stood tall in the corner of Santo Domingo City was gone.

And the wall under the spire tower also collapsed with the earth-shattering loud noise.

Antonio Capitan, who had been thundering above the city, disappeared into the pile of rubble with the loud bang and the disappearance of the tower.

Zheng Zhilong shook his head violently in order to sober himself, and when he looked over again, he saw a black crowd rushing up the rubble pile and into the city of Santo Domingo!