After all, Zheng Zhilong also used to be a maritime merchant, if he could get rid of the Spanish red-haired devils in Santo Domingo City without a war and occupy this red-haired city by himself, that would be the best result.

Therefore, the letter of surrender he sent to the red-haired ghost in Santo Domingue was simple and sincere.

It is to let them leave the city on their own, as long as they do not mess around, and promise not to pursue.

Zheng Zhilong's idea was good, but it angered Antonio, the Spanish red-haired ghost commander in the city.

At noon that day, the Luzon native soldier who had been put into the city for his role as a messenger was quickly pushed to the head of the city, and Antonio, the commander of the city of Santo Domingo, beheaded the man and threw his body in front of many people in the city.

In his opinion, the city of Santo Domingo had four or five hundred Spanish colonial troops, which was enough to destroy an eastern country in the past.

If you surrender with all your strength, then it's just that, and now that you haven't fought a battle, how can you surrender and withdraw your troops?!

Besides, the Governor's Office of the Spanish colonial authorities on the Manila side of Luzon Island dared to send them north to Formosa to open up the colony, of course, it also had all kinds of preparations.

The actions of the red-haired ghost in Santo Domingo City immediately spread to Zheng Zhilong's camp.

After hearing the news, He Bin, a subordinate general who had been by Zheng Zhilong's side and played the role of a military advisor, said to his boss Zheng Zhilong:

"Lord Chief! It seems that the red-haired ghosts in this city are soft, and they have to eat hard! It's better to let them taste the power of our army's artillery array first, kill their majesty, and then continue to encircle and send reinforcements according to the previous plan! ”

He Bin is a typical Hokkien person, not tall, thin and thin, with slightly dark skin, but his eyes are bright, he seems to be extremely shrewd and capable, and he is a relatively intelligent and trusted figure under Zheng Zhilong.

After He Bin finished saying this, Zheng Zhilong nodded at him and said, "These red-haired ghosts are all a fucking stinky problem, that is, bullying the soft and fearing the hard!"

"If Lao Tzu doesn't give them a hard time this time, they will never have a long memory, and they won't remember the mother's surname Zheng on Dongfan Island!"

After saying this, Zheng Zhilong, who is very rare among the people of southern Fujian, who is tall and mighty, gritted his teeth and squinted his eyes, waved his hand at He Bin, and said:

"Go ahead! Tell the brothers, give Lao Tzu a hard beating, whoever breaks the city first in the future, the woman in the city will let him choose and enjoy! ”

He Bin received the military order, clasped his fists and saluted, and then turned away.

Under the shouts of He Bin and his heralds, the Zheng army artillery camp set up under the city of Santo Domingo began to roar, banging and bombarding the Hongmao City on the hillside not far away.

And Antonio and other Spanish colonial troops also shouted loudly at the head of the city, and the Francophone cannons at the head of the city soon began to roar.

The artillery of the two sides came and went, and the sound was earth-shattering, and from time to time, the projectiles on the head of the Hongmao City fell in front of the Zheng army's position, killing the Zheng soldier who was accidentally too far in front of the team.

Although the number of artillery in the artillery battalion commanded by He Bin was more than doubled, and the artillery at the head of Santo Domingo was the same as the small Hongyi cannon equipped by the Spaniards and the Portuguese, that is, the Franco machine gun, but because of the condescending reason of Hongmao City, the firing range was farther than that of Zheng's artillery battalion.

This hardship was encountered when the Zheng army of Dongfanwei besieged the city of Rebara.

The reason why the siege of the city was not taken down for so long was because the artillery of the city had a long range, not only the small and medium-sized Hongyi cannons commonly known as the Franc cannons used to defend the city, but also the naval cannons that the Dutch dismantled from their naval warships, which were commonly called Hongyi cannons.

Now that an artillery battle has been fought, although the Spanish Franco cannon at the head of the city is farther than the Zheng Jun's artillery under the city, He Bin has also tested the firepower at the head of the city.

In the evening of the same day, He Bin obtained Zheng Zhilong's consent, stopped the shelling, and began to command a large number of Zheng army's foot soldiers to start digging trenches outside the city of Santo Domingo, and using the soil dug out of the trenches, along the front of the position of the own army, began to build an earthen fence to block the artillery projectiles in the city.

That night, Zheng Zhilong summoned his subordinates to discuss military affairs, and his Zheng clan's brother Zheng Cai said to him:

"Big brother! Today, there is a report from the natives in the north of Tamsui that the red-haired ghosts in the red-haired city have sent two teams of men and horses to the north and east two days ago!

"These horses, they must be messengers sent by Red-haired City to ask for help, calculate the time, two days have passed, and the messenger of the red-haired ghost asking for help should also deliver the letter! Did we arrange it earlier? ”

After Zheng Cai said this, all the generals recruited by Zheng Zhilong also agreed.

Encirclement and reinforcement is a strategy that has been set a long time ago, and even if there is no information sent by the local natives, this strategy has reached the moment when it should be arranged.

Zheng Zhilong immediately said: "I called everyone here tonight, just for this!" If Xiyi is not removed, Dongfan will be difficult to settle after all!

"Tonight, the court officials will continue to lead the men and horses to dig deep trenches and build a long causeway to besiege the red-haired city, and tomorrow morning will continue to shell the red-haired ghosts!

"Ming Guan led the fleet to continue north from Tamsuikou, sailed around the island, and went to set up an ambush in the area of Sheliao Island off the coast of Jilong Mountain.

"I personally led the team, Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian's subordinates followed, and after dawn, they went east together to set up an ambush in the upper valley of Tamsui to annihilate their reinforcements!"

Tingguan refers to He Bin, because He Bin is also called He Tingbin, and after becoming a pirate, he was renamed He Bin, and his nickname is Tingguan.

As for the Ming official, he is talking about his brother Zheng Ming in the Zheng Zhilong clan, who is also a member of the Eighteen Zhi, but after the internal strife and rebellion of several other foreign surnames, the word Zhi was removed except for Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao, and Zheng Zhibiao.

Zheng Ming rushed to the mouth of the Tamsui River overnight, led the ship of the Zheng Army Naval Division to sail northward in the wind, bypassed the northern tip of Dongfan Island (the so-called Fuguijiao in later generations) and then went east, and went straight to the city of San Salvador on Sheliao Island off the coast of Jilong Mountain.

At dawn, Zheng Zhilong personally led more than 600 people from the two black slave sentry musket teams and more than 1,000 cavalry under his command to the east from the valley on the south bank of the Tamsui River, which was far away from Hongmao City.

In this era, the area where Taipei was located in later generations was still a wilderness.

Although it is a basin, dominated by river valley plains and swampy forests, it is a natural granary that is very suitable for reclamation, but because of the stronghold established by the Spanish colonial army nearby, the local indigenous Kaida Gran people were enslaved or killed, and the Han immigrants from Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong did not dare to stay away from the protection of Tamsui Qianhu and go deep into this place.

Therefore, the place is well reclaimed but has not yet been developed.

Over the next two days, Zheng Zhilong led his cavalry infantry and black slave sentry muskets, guided by a group of Kaida Gran natives, along a tributary of the upper Tamsui River, through the valley jungle, to the eastern edge of the plain basin, and set up an ambush on both sides of an east-west valley.

Beyond this valley, to the northeast, is the rolling Jonlong Mountain, which passes through the canyon at the bottom of Jellong Mountain and leads to the sea off Jetch Hill to Fort San Diego in Jonlong Port.

And not far from Fort San Diego, on the open sea, is the Red Hair City of San Salvador on Sheliao Island (later Keelung Harbor and Peace Island).

To the southeast, the valley is covered with mountains, including a path where the Kadagram and Kamalam trade leads to San Lorenzo, the red-haired city of the Spanish colonizers in the Ilan region.

Zheng Zhilong led the most elite group of men and horses under his command, in the dense forests on both sides of this valley, endured the scorching heat and humidity of Dongfan Island in late August and early September, and endless mosquito bites, and waited for three days.

It wasn't until noon on the third day of the ninth lunar month that Zheng Zhilong's troops had eaten all the dry food they had carried, and just when they were already impatient with waiting, Zheng Cai and the spies who were heading to the east finally hurried back with a few Kamalans.

The Spaniards are coming!

On the afternoon of the third day of the ninth lunar month, Zheng Zhilong gathered all the men and horses sent out to spy in this area, and also gathered hundreds of mountain Kaida Grans and hundreds of mountain Kamalans who rushed to help in the battle after hearing the news, and led the whole army to quietly wait for the arrival of the Spanish army in San Lorenzo.

In the evening of the same day, the Spanish reinforcements in San Lorenzo, led by his Capitan Gonzalez, marched rapidly westward along the valley that had begun to darken in the setting sun, with more than 2,000 Luzon native soldiers as thin as monkeys.

Gonzalez, the Spanish army and the native soldiers of Luzon, had almost wiped out the indigenous people of Dongfan in the plains around the city of San Lorenzo, that is, the later Yilan region, but there were still many indigenous squatters in the high mountains and dense forests.

These natives of the mountains were hunters, always using poisonous bows and arrows to sneak up on the Spaniards who dared to enter the mountains.

Although Gonzalez also has an unusual self-confidence, he does not dare to stay in the mountains and dense forests at night.

However, Gonzalez, who was urging his Spaniards and Luzon soldiers to advance quickly, just came out of the depths of the mountains at sunset, and crashed headlong into an ambush that Zheng Zhilong had set up for many days.