Li Pingzhi was silent, watching the continuous eruption of fire and rumbling cannons in the direction of the fort. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This is the real enemy!

Closer, you can see the fort built by the Dutch, here and the small fort in the town harbor is completely different, hundreds of steps in circumference, erected a number of heavy guns and a considerable number of small artillery, the fort is obviously made of boulders, from the point of view of the shape is also very elaborate architecture, and closer, the five or six warships moored in the port also began to fire artillery, this time the cannon fire is more powerful, each battleship is berthed horizontally, there are more than ten guns on each side, after the porthole is opened, the artillery bursts out in turn, The sound of sharp cannonballs skimming the air was incessant, and Li Ping couldn't help but look ahead, as if he could see the flying cannonballs in mid-air.

"There was a shot in the boat!"

The ship in front of them raised the flag, and someone on the Chinese ship screamed.

A little further, sure enough, you can see a black ship was hit by a cannonball in the bow, most of the hull was smashed by the kinetic energy of the cannonball of the giant cannon, the foremast and mainmast can no longer be seen, it is estimated that it fell sideways in the seawater, this kind of small boat was originally a large fishing boat, and was changed into a transport ship or a warship by the sailor, and a horizontal bar was added to the front of the warship, and the iron ingots were hung on both sides, which could collide with the enemy ship or fire attack, and it was the main warship of the Fuchuan Naval Division, after all, the large ships like the Chinese military ships were scarce, and the eight-pulp ship or the four-pulp ship was too small, Medium-sized warships such as the Shuangpeng Ship and the Spirit Dragon Ship are also rare, and the Wufu Ship can already be regarded as the main magic weapon for the sailors to defeat the enemy.

The ship in front of him was almost broken, the hull was tilted in the seawater, more than a dozen officers and soldiers of the sailor division were swimming and paddling hard in the sea, dozens of arms were constantly paddling up and down in the sea, at this time, hundreds of fires suddenly burst out from the castle in Baisha Harbor, a large number of bullets were dumped in the sea water very close to the beach, and there were also many musketeers on the side of the Dutch warship on the left side to shoot into the sea.

"The heart of a dog day is really poisonous." A captain on the Chinese military ship scolded: "I have fallen into the water, do you have to kill me?" ”

Li Pingzhi said quietly: "Hundreds of steps apart, these guys are also beating blindly, deliberately trying to frighten my officers and soldiers who have fallen into the water, or to demoralize our side." ”

Yu Zhigao glanced at Li Ping and showed appreciation.

Sure enough, as Li Pingzhi said, the Dutch stopped fighting after being angry, and the officers and men who fell into the water were surrounded by several four-pulp sentry boats and picked them up one after another.

The sound of the cannons continued to roar, and the cannonballs continued to whist, Yu Zhigao looked at it for a while, and saw that the warships on his side were struggling to dodge, and the mast of another ship was hit, lost power, and was pulled away from the battlefield by several eight-pulp ships.

Yu Zhigao sighed and ordered: "The whole army retreats, no attack on this port today, and the whole army will return to the area of Zhenhai Port and stand by." ”

Li Pingzhi was thoughtful, today he watched a real and cruel naval battle, the black ship that was only able to be shot has sunk to the bottom of the sea, and there are more than a dozen corpses of officers and soldiers of the naval division floating on the sea...... This is the tradition of the sea runners, and no one will resent it.

After more than ten days, the naval division attacked several times, each time it was a feather killing, the terrain of Fengwei Cabinet Island was too steep, the land could not be attacked, the water could not enter Baisha Harbor, the Dutch warships sometimes took the initiative to attack, sank several ships, the number of dead officers and soldiers soon exceeded 100 people, and continued to rise, and when the Ming ships and ships started to pursue the enemy ships, these shameless Dutchmen hid in the harbor again, with the help of the artillery power of the fort to suppress the attack of the Ming army, Yu Zhigao played a real fire several times, intending to mobilize all the warships to attack, but the Dutch battery firepower is too fierce, the largest cannonball weighs more than 20 pounds, each cannon in the Ming army sailors boat, almost instantaneously smashed the whole ship, almost all the people on board are killed, this is still a considerable distance, if the distance is close, plus the Dutch ships on the ship, small artillery near the shore...... Yu Zhigao didn't dare to imagine that picture.

As a general, of course, at the critical moment, you must have the determination and will to put all your belongings on the table, and you must also have the consciousness of sacrificing all your men to win, but if you bet all your wealth and lose the battle, it is another matter.

Yu Zhigao's soldiers are not as good as the border towns to recruit troops, the generals can regard the battalion soldiers as cannon fodder, it doesn't matter how many deaths, his subordinates are all the children of Fujian near the sea, almost all of them are related to each other, once the casualties are too heavy, he, the chief military officer, should not say that he can't explain to the imperial court, even to the local military and public opinion in Fujian.

By the beginning of May, the Ming army began to increase its troops.

Gu Sizhong led ten warships and more than 500 soldiers to arrive first, and then the governor Zheng Guochang personally summoned Zhang and Quanerdao to mobilize the local treasury to produce silver and materials, and mobilized a large number of ships and soldiers to go to sea, and Sun Guozhen, the governor of Haiphong, personally led the soldiers to guerrilla Liu Guofu with the water standard, and rushed the chief Hong Jiyuan, Hong Yingdou and others to Penghu to join Yu Shigao and other troops.

So far, the Ming army has mobilized more than 100 serious warships, hundreds of small boats of various kinds and fishing boats temporarily converted into transport ships, more than 10,000 officers and soldiers of the naval division who have gone ashore, and the military salaries and materials used are worth more than 100,000 taels of silver.

For the southeastern provinces of Fujian, which have been peaceful since the Japanese rebellion and have not fought a major war, this expenditure is simply a shocking huge amount of money!

This can also be seen that Zheng Guochang acted decisively and his character resolutely, and changed the ordinary governor, he might not dare to do such a thunderous trick to him, and it was almost a desperate use of the art of war.

With the support of warships and personnel, Yu Zhigao began to block the passage of Fengwei Cabinet Island from both land and water.

Prior to this, the Dutch had also brought in reinforcements from Dayuan Island, and the fleet commander had been replaced by a more experienced Song Ke, and the Penghu garrison soon numbered more than a thousand, including nearly 900 well-trained white soldiers and more than 100 young soldiers in training.

Generally speaking, more than 1,000 regular troops from Europe can almost go sideways on the earth in this era, whether it is Southeast Asia or South Asia, West Asia, Central Asia, or North America, South America, more than 1,000 Dutch soldiers are a force to be reckoned with, in the sixteenth century, the Spaniards and Portuguese who destroyed several large empires in South America were only a few hundred at the beginning of colonization.

In Luzon, Batavia, and India, where the British were running, the garrison never exceeded 10,000 troops, and one or two thousand men were enough to control a considerable territory.

But here in Daming, the garrison of one province surrounded more than a thousand white-skinned regular troops, and also surrounded several warships of the Dutch East India Company!

The Ming army gathered with soldiers and horses, many warships, and high morale, Yu Zhigao, at the request of Sun Guozhen, Haiphong Dao, attacked again from the sea.

From morning to night, the cannons of Fengwei Cabinet Island did not stop, not only the Dutch fired cannons, but also the warship artillery of the Ming army.

The two sides come and go, bombarding each other with artillery, the Ming army tried to rush to the shore with a large number of small boats several times, but once the sea, the small firearms of the castle and more than a thousand firearms were suppressed with firepower, the Ming army could not raise its head directly, from morning to evening, the Ming army suffered very heavy losses, more than 100 people were killed in direct battles, dozens of people were missing, hundreds of people were seriously injured or lightly injured, and nearly ten warships were destroyed by the artillery of the Dutch army.

By night, everyone understood that the port and castle in front of them were unlikely to be attacked by force.

Don't say that the strength ratio of the army and the Dutch army is ten to one, but the Ming army's warships are much more in number, in terms of quality, the Dutch ships have a lot of artillery, and the shore batteries are very well coordinated, and the firepower is extremely sharp, while although the Ming warships are many, there are not many equipped with artillery, the number of artillery is not only scarce, but most of them are old old artillery, the firepower is too far from the Dutch, and it is not an opponent at all.

Even if the officers and men of the naval division dared to brave the arrows and rocks to rush to the beach, they could only put a small number of men on the shore at a time, and the Dutch army also had hundreds of men stationed on the shore and in the castles, and there were also marines on the ships.

As for the impossibility of attacking from the land, Fengwei Cabinet Island is only connected to the whole island of Penghu by land, and the terrain is very narrow, as long as a few dozen people can easily defend it with firearms, and it is impossible to storm it.

At this point, the Ming army and the Dutch began to stalemate in Penghu, and the main forces of both sides were almost caught in the Penghu battlefield and could not get out for a while.

……

"There's a boat."

"It's a ship!"

Li Pingzhi has been living on Penghu Island for a month, and he is an intermediary who was ordered to liaise with Zheng Guochang, Xu Xinsu, and other Fujian bigwigs, and has been running back and forth in Taiwan, Penghu, Zhangzhou, and Fuzhou, and has become very familiar with the local bigwigs in the past few months.

In particular, the relationship with Yu Zhigao is also very smooth, this young man from the north has shown a lot of good qualities, not afraid of difficulties, bold, at the beginning of the boat and the island have made jokes, a few months down, the sea breeze blew Li Pingzhi's fair face a lot black, but also let him get the approval of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Army, as for Yu Zhigao, it was originally in the face of the governor Zheng Guochang to accept Li Ping on the boat, a few months of hard work, the old Yu Tou is also very appreciative of Li Pingzhi, The attitude was also quite friendly and close.

Seeing that everyone was about to be nervous, Li Pingzhi smiled and said, "Don't panic, this is our Hutchison ship." ”

He Yusheng's existence in the south is almost unknown to northerners, and the imperial court still knows about Li Dan, Li Guozhu, Liu Xiang and other sea giants, and Yusheng only claims to have sea ships to do sea trade in the south, which is not common among the big merchants in the north, but it is not nothing, and the imperial court does not put its mind on this side...... Everyone knows that the sea in the south is Li Dan's territory, what tricks can he make with Yusheng?

Only the local people in Fujian knew that He Yusheng had clearly emerged, and in the past two or three months, he Yusheng's merchant ships and warships could be seen everywhere on the sea, and Hutchison and Li Guozhu's sea forces had cooperated with each other to firmly control the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang and the routes to Japan.

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