PS: Zheng Chenggong's army made a mistake earlier, it was the Third Army, and it has been changed. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In October of the twenty-first year of Chongzhen (1648), after more than half a month of confrontation, the reinforcements dispatched by the Dutch East India Company from Batavia finally arrived in Dacheng.

In addition to the reinforcements of the Dutch, the Japanese and Spanish also increased their troops again, and the three coalition forces that arrived in Taiwan this time totaled more than 6,000 soldiers and 110 warships, in addition, the reinforcements also brought a large number of supplies and gunpowder to the city of Geranza.

For the landing of reinforcements, Zheng Chenggong did not have much to stop, and now his military strength was forced to disperse to various parts of Taiwan to carry out tasks, and the military strength stationed in Dayuan and Pu Minsha cities and towns was estimated to be less than five regiments (7,500 people), and it was indeed no problem to prevent the enemy from leaving the city, and the troops were obviously not enough to block the reinforcements from entering the city.

The Three Kingdoms Alliance in the fortress also discovered this problem, and even ignited the hope of counterattack, wanting to take advantage of the lack of strength of the Ming army, attack inside and outside, and recapture the fortress of Puluo Minsha in one fell swoop.

However, before the Triple Alliance could begin to move, it encountered an irresistible factor - a typhoon.

In mid-October, the reinforcement fleets of the three countries anchored in the open sea were hit by strong winds and were forced to leave the coast of Dayuan and go to the Penghu Islands to take shelter from the wind and rain.

During this period of time, the local weather in Taiwan is the season when storms are frequent, and even "locals" like Zheng Chenggong do not dare to walk on the sea easily, and even food can only be requisitioned on the spot, the Dutch have been operating here for many years, and they also know about such climate change, but they have no choice but to gamble.

But now it seems that God did not help them, even because of the storm, Shi Lang's detachment did not go to sea to fight, and the fleet of the Three Kingdoms Alliance withdrew to the Penghu Islands still lost five warships.

This turn of events gave the Third Army an opportunity to reorganize, and by the time the Triple Mixed Fleet returned to the Dayuan Sea in early November, the Third Army had already completed its preparations for operation, although it had not been able to bring back the majority of its forces.

In mid-November, the Triple Alliance and the Ming Army fought a fierce naval battle in the Taijiang Inland Sea.

The fleets of the Dutch and the Spaniards are not vain fat men like the Qing army's sailors, they are really old naval fleets, and these Westerners are no strangers to the steam engine, after all, there have always been people in China tinkering with these things, although compared to the Ming army's application to warships, those domestic steam engine research is a bit naïve to ridiculous, but at least in the face of steam warships, they will not be like the Qing army, from the bottom of their hearts.

In terms of the number of warships, the mixed fleet of the three countries has been increased and is once again on par with the Fujian Naval Division, or even slightly surpassing the Fujian Naval Division, plus the Dutch have been operating here for many years, and they are far more familiar with the nearby waters than the Fujian Naval Division.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Zheng Chenggong had to transfer Shi Lang's fleet to the Taijiang Inland Sea for a decisive battle.

Naval battles are not as good as fighting on inland rivers, even in peacetime, the wind and waves at sea are about three or four levels, not to mention that the wind season has just passed, and the average wind strength is still about five levels, which greatly reduces the accuracy of the artillery of both sides, and the firepower advantage of the Fujian naval division has been seriously weakened.

The mixed fleet of the three countries wants this effect, they have lost confidence in long-distance artillery battles, and the only chance to win may be the string battle.

At the same time, these people are all human spirits, and they have long coveted steam warships, and if they can find a way to get one, it will be developed to transport it back to China.

Today's Europe, is in the age of discovery, any invention that helps to improve the ability to survive at sea, it will be speculated to sky-high prices, inventors like Li Zeshui (inventor of the Ming steam engine), if in Europe, it can not only get rich overnight, but also get a lot of titles.

However, if the mixed fleet of the three countries wants to rely on the chord battle to win, it is not easy, after all, the number of warships on both sides is equal, and after Zheng Chenggong found that the artillery advantage was neutralized, he also ordered a chord battle.

At this time, the individual weapons and equipment of the Ming army began to show advantages, both sides were all-firearm troops, and they were both using flintlock guns, but the firearms of the Ming army were obviously more advanced than the firearms of the Three Kingdoms Alliance.

The rate of fire of fixed ammunition far exceeded that of ordinary flintlock pistols, which made the fleets of the Three Kingdoms Coalition in close combat miserable.

It's just that the artillery has a fast rate of fire, and even the individual firepower is so fierce, how can you fight?

In particular, the soldiers of the Triple Alliance, who tried to hide in the splints and attics and shoot covertly, were defeated after seeing the power of the grenade.

After the battle, the armies of both sides could no longer use artillery, but the Ming army used grenades as mobile artillery, and who could withstand the indiscriminate bombardment?

A small wooden stick with smoke in the dust, the power of the explosion is comparable to that of a flowering bomb, how can this be hit?

Moreover, the participants in the string battle this time were all the old-fashioned warships of the Fujian Navy Division, and the steam warships took advantage of their speed to penetrate into the enemy fleet and began to harvest frantically.

Even if the accuracy of the guns is greatly reduced because of the waves, the effect of shooting at close range is still very obvious, and the steamer takes advantage of the speed advantage, as well as the rate of fire and power of the artillery, in the enemy fleet, it is simply invincible.

In the past, even four or five shells could not sink these large ships, but now with the use of trigger fuses, as long as one shell can fall in the center of the enemy warship, it is only a matter of time before it sinks.

Although the wooden warship does not have the defensive power of the ironclad ship, it is superior to the huge hull, and although the killing area is sufficient for the use of flowering shells in the past, it does not have much penetrating power, and cannot reach the lower level of the warship.

Although the use of solid bullets can break into the lower layer of the local warship, it can be cut through the plywood layer by layer, and after hitting the bottom layer, it basically has little power.

Therefore, at that time, artillery warfare was mostly used to kill and injure the enemy troops on the deck and clear the way for the connecting battle, unless it was lucky enough to directly use solid bullets to hit the enemy ship below the waterline, causing the warship to enter the water and cause sinking, otherwise the artillery battle was far less lethal than the continuous battle.

But today's Fujian Navy Division is different, the penetration ability of the conical warhead is naturally needless to say, coupled with the application of the disguise fuse, so that the Fujian Navy Division's artillery not only has the ability to kill a large area of flowering shells, but also has the armor-piercing ability of solid bullets.

Often, when a shell hits the deck of an enemy ship, it will drill directly into the deck and reach the interior of the enemy ship, and then the shell will explode from the inside, causing serious damage to the enemy ship.

It can burst the bilge floor and cause it to leak and then sink slowly, or blast a large hole in the floor and tear the entire hull apart under the pressure of the seawater.

Of course, if you occasionally hit the ammunition depot of an enemy ship and cause an explosion, the entire warship will be wiped out in an instant.

Steam warships not only have powerful guns, but due to their own speed, almost no warships can withstand a head-on impact.

Some enemy warships, in order to slow down the speed of the steam warships, took the initiative to block the way of the steam warships, as long as they could stop the steam warships, then they could rush up and engage in a string battle.

It's a pity that the idea is good, but in the face of a steam warship equipped with special ramming, you have to accept the cruel truth.

Large warships that can really slow down the speed of steam warships are unable to intercept steam warships because of their own speed, and those small and medium-sized warships that can barely keep up with the speed are completely vulnerable to the impact of steam warships.

With today's level of shipbuilding, the title of "sea scavenger" is well deserved.

The naval battle lasted for half a day, and finally the Fujian naval division won a complete victory, sinking more than 100 warships of the Triple Alliance and seizing more than 70 warships of the Coalition Army.

At the end of November of the 21st year of Chongzhen, the monsoon completely passed, and the second batch of more than 30,000 Ming troops successfully landed on the island, and the counteroffensive began..........

The fleet was crippled, the morale of the Triple Alliance army fell to the bottom, and the defection of the German-Dutch non-commissioned officer Hans Jeuriaen Rade made it even worse.

With the help of the intelligence provided by Zheng Chenggong, he mobilized more than 300 heavy artillery pieces to bombard Utrecht Fort, an important stronghold outside the city of Geranza, firing more than 25,000 shells, and breaking the city that night.

At this time, there were only more than 15,000 remnants of the Three Kingdoms Coalition army cowering in the city of Geranza, and most of them lost their combat effectiveness due to disability, hunger and disease.

The leaders of the Triple Alliance held an emergency meeting and, after some consultations, decided that they were willing to surrender the castle on favorable terms, that is, they decided to surrender conditionally.

However, what Zheng Chenggong needs is not this, what he needs is the unconditional surrender of the other party.

On the third day of the twelfth month (January 21, 1649), representatives of the Dutch and Spanish armies signed the instrument of surrender and led their troops to withdraw from the fortress of Geranza.

Only the Wa Kingdom remained, and they were still stubbornly resisting in the fortress.

However, this resistance was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, and the Third Army's nearly 50,000 troops, after receiving the fort defense map provided by the Dutch and the Spaniards, wiped out more than 4,000 Japanese ronins in the city in only two days.

At the same time, the Fujian Navy Division led by Shi Lang also launched a final onslaught on the Penghu Islands, and the 5,000 Wa Ronin, who had been besieged for three months, also collapsed under the devastating offensive of the 20,000 Ming army.

At this point, Taiwan, which had been occupied by the Dutch colonists for 25 years, returned to China.

Because of the unconditional surrender, the Dutch have not been able to take away a penny of the property they have plundered in Taiwan over the years, and the Dutch East India Company, in order to redeem these prisoners of war, has spent a great price, which can be described as a loss of money.

Compared with the Dutch, the Spaniards were even more miserable, because their navy was declining, and there was basically no oil and water in the South Seas.

So the Spaniards made a look of a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, and he didn't give money anyway, what do you like.

The Spaniards were scoundrels, and the Ming army was not easy to get along with, and the prisoner of war camps did not raise idlers, so since they did not go back, they should stay in Taiwan for the rest of their lives and carry out labor reform.

The Spaniards really don't have money, so they play scoundrels, and this Japanese is really a scoundrel.

Not only did they not sign the instrument of surrender, but they even refused to admit the fact of aggression, and they were almost dead anyway, and a few Japanese ronin would not let the Japanese government pay attention to it at all.

But it's no wonder that from Qi Jiguang's resistance to the Ming Dynasty's war to aid Korea, it is basically related to the Japanese country, but people are not afraid of you at all because of their geographical advantages.

Whenever the Ming Dynasty moves seriously, the Wa State immediately admits intimidation, bows his head to the ministers, and sends an envoy to pay tribute, and the last sycophant is patted down, a few broken pearls, and a lot of gold and silver treasures are exchanged for back, and the face is given to the Da Ming, but the cheap is occupied by the Wa State.

"No wonder the character of the little Japan of later generations is so distorted, it seems that it has been spoiled in the past few hundred years. This is a disease, it has to be cured, and when the Northern Expedition is over, labor and management have to cure the stinky disease of Little Japan! After reading the war report on the recovery of Taiwan, Li Hongfei muttered to himself.

The country that Li Hongfei wants to clean up the most may be this Japanese country.

It's a pity that the time is not yet ripe, and the Northern Expedition has begun, and Li Hongfei's plan has to be implemented as soon as possible..........

That's right, at the time of Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan, the Ming army's Northern Expedition had already begun to be implemented.

In this Northern Expedition, there was really nothing to do with Li Hongfei, and the one who led the Northern Expedition was Li Dingguo, a newcomer to the Ministry of National Defense.

It stands to reason that in addition to Li Hongfei in the Ministry of National Defense, the most senior may be Qi Hongying, whether in terms of family background or past military exploits, Qi Hongying is a well-deserved first choice.

After all, Li Dingguo did not have the record of Chongming Island winning more with less, nor did he have the battle of the Western Expedition, with the exploits of 100,000 troops to contain the 250,000 soldiers and horses of the Qing army.

However, Qi Hongying only got the title of deputy commander-in-chief of the coalition forces.

Could it be that Zhu Youzhen is ready to start suppressing the Qi family's army?

In fact, although Qi Hongying fought bravely and had brilliant achievements, she was always a daughter, and the ministers of the DPRK and China would not agree to command such a large-scale battle, even if the commander did not have to charge now.

In addition, the battle plan submitted by Li Dingguo was far better and more detailed than Qi Hongying's battle plan, so the final result of the Ministry of National Defense was to use the "newcomer" Li Dingguo.

For a guy who has only just entered the Ministry of Defense and has only come into contact with the all-firearms unit, how can he arrange a battle plan that even Qi Hongying can't compare?

When it comes to understanding the firearms unit, Li Hongfei dares to say second, and no one dares to say first.

Li Dingguo, as Li Hongfei's "student", wants to lay out a thorough attack plan, which doesn't seem to be too difficult, and with the intelligence support of the Cao Gang, the plan drawn up is naturally more perfect than Qi Hongying.

It is not so much that Li Dingguo is in full command of the Northern Expedition, but that Li Hongfei is in remote command, although he cannot enjoy the history of the Northern Expedition, but this last battle to drive out the Tartars, Li Hongfei does not want to miss it.