The sky was getting darker, and in the hazy moonlight, I could see the silhouettes of nearby ships, and the behemoths were floating on the sea. Since the port was not occupied, the ships could not dock, so Zheng Zhilong dropped anchor for the ships outside the range of the coastal artillery, and the entire fleet was docked off the coast of Dayuan.

Dinner was served on the ship, hot water and dry food, and although there was no seafood, the soldiers were still very excited, to be exact, they were still excited about today's battle.

The victory over the Dutch ships in the first battle made the soldiers have a trace of fear of war at the beginning, which has long been swept away.

After the victory, all kinds of meals were sweet, and they spontaneously summed up the experience of the battle while eating.

"The Dutch are still in the stage of solid ammunition, and their firearms are worse than Daming."

"The Dutch are just afraid of death, and if we have ten ships left, we won't surrender if we are killed."

"Why can the Dutchman's ships, which are smaller than our ships, carry more guns?"

……

They regarded the victory of this naval battle as a universal experience, and the first naval battle was not rich in experience, but it did not prevent the soldiers from gradually accumulating self-confidence through battle.

The soldiers of the Marine Corps were not so comfortable, in this naval battle, they were completely spectators, in fact, they were not even spectators, the transport ships they were on were not only unable to participate in the battle, but also needed the protection of the ships, and the soldiers of the Fourth Marine Division, when eating, looked like flintlock muskets with dumb fire, and they looked quite annoyed.

However, they soon had no time to be annoyed, and the division commander Zheng Xing came.

"What's the matter, brethren?"

“……”

Silence is the best answer.

"Brethren, hurry up and eat, and prepare after eating." Zheng Xing sells a pass.

"Master, what are you going to do? Do you want to go to bed so early? We have adapted to the march at sea and are not sleepy at all. ”

"Sleep? Think beautifully! Zheng Xing shook in front of the soldiers who were eating, "The soldiers of the 10th Marine Brigade are ready to log in, and the commander said, we must take advantage of the new defeat of the Dutch fleet and the unstable morale of the army to use the night to sneak attack the port, we can't always anchor in the open sea, and the South China Sea fleet can't have a new home." ”

"It's finally our turn."

"How many Dutchmen are there on the shore?"

"Do the Dutch have flintlock pistols?"

……

Zheng Xing coughed and suppressed the soldiers' discussions, "Junzao said that the Dutch soldiers on the island are only a few hundred in total, even if they have flintlock pistols, they are just like us, we occupy a huge advantage in numbers, if anyone is afraid, even if they stay on the transport ship, tonight's military merits are not his share." ”

“……”

Zheng Xing saw that the soldiers were silent, and he was not very satisfied, "Tell me, which of you is afraid?" ”

"Master, we are not afraid." The soldiers began to answer in a scrambled manner.

"Be louder, I can't hear you."

"We're not afraid!"

The sound is neat and sonorous.

"Very good, this is the first opportunity for our Fourth Marine Division to make meritorious contributions, not to mention raising troops for a thousand days, using troops for a while, tonight's battle is a completely one-sided battle, if anyone misses tonight's opportunity, or gives me a chain, don't mix up in the Fourth Marine Division in the future." Zheng Xing's voice was not loud, but it spread almost throughout the fleet, the Dutch were on the shore, and he was not afraid of the Dutch hearing it.

"We have to follow the master to make meritorious contributions!"

"We have to follow the master to make meritorious contributions!"

"We have to follow the master to make meritorious contributions!"

……

Under the cover of the Fu ship and the Cangshan ship, the transport ship took advantage of the moonlight to dock between the south side of the Dayuan and the port, and Zheng Xing personally led the soldiers of the 10th Landing Brigade to land, and then turned south and quietly approached the port.

When approaching the port, Zheng Xing did not immediately attack, but ordered a regiment of soldiers to lay in ambush on the northeast side of the port to prevent the Dutch soldiers in the city of Geranza, and after the battle began, come to meet the port.

After the arming was completed, Zheng Xing took out a firework from his arms and lit it with a fire fold.

With a "whoosh", a blue firework burst into the night sky, and the Dutch soldiers on duty at the port spotted the death flame for the first time.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack."

The Dutch soldiers on duty exclaimed loudly, and the soldiers in the harbor quickly put on their clothes, picked up their weapons, and came to the post where they were stationed during the day, and even the muzzles of the shore guns were reoriented.

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

……

To the surprise of the Dutch soldiers, the sound of artillery did not come from the direction of the fireworks, but from the sea.

Daming's ships launched an attack from the sea, although the distance was relatively far away and did not cause any damage for the time being, but the terrifying sound of flowering bombs in the night sky still frightened the Dutch soldiers.

In order to stop the naval guns, the muzzles of the shore guns were adjusted again, pointing back to the sea, and the Dutch soldiers loaded their shells, and as soon as the ships of the Ming came into range of the shore guns, they immediately ignited the lead#.

There were only fifty soldiers in the harbor, all of whom were engrossed in the sea, and the Ming ships were completely exposed to the eyes of the Dutch soldiers while firing the flower shells, and the experienced gunners were already aiming, waiting for the Ming fleet to come and die.

"Bang."

"Bang."

"Bang."

……

The sound of a dense flintlock musket came from the north side of the harbor, and several Dutch soldiers near the north side fell silently, not dead without a sound, but almost completely muffled by the sound of artillery on the sea.

The Dutch soldiers noticed that the situation was different, and they turned the muzzles of the fire# guns in their hands and fired indiscriminately into the darkness.

Realizing that a sneak attack was no longer possible, the Marines simply picked up their flintlock pistols and began to storm the harbor.

The guns in the harbor were facing the sea, and it was impossible to turn the muzzles in time, and now it was too late to adjust them, and the soldiers of the Marine Corps had already engaged the Dutch in close combat, and both sides were firearms, and the target could not be seen clearly in the dark, and the hit rate was very low.

When a soldier is shooting, the fire coming out of the muzzle of the gun is the best target.

However, the Dutch soldiers used various houses in the port as shelters, while the Ming troops hid under the earthen walls outside the port, and the two sides fired almost blindly.

The Ming army was dozens of times larger than the Dutch, the bullets were more dense, and the momentum was more terrifying, and they became more and more courageous the more they fought.

Closer to the distance, the Ming army began to throw grenades forward.

The area where the grenade exploded was a large area, and even with the earthen wall as a cover, the Dutch soldiers still suffered casualties, and the large area of fire emitted by the grenade explosion completely exposed the nearby Dutch soldiers to the guns of the Ming army.

The Dutch soldiers began to retreat towards the inner side of the port, while the Ming army crossed the outer earthen wall and pursued closely.

Due to the darkness, it was difficult to distinguish friend from foe, so the Ming army did not send a small detachment, but advanced towards the port as a whole in a fan shape.

After the Dutch soldiers left more than a dozen corpses, with the help of the cover of the house, they could continue to fight with the Ming army, because they were worried about the Dutch's fire # guns, the speed of advance was not fast, and they could only clear the various obstacles in front of them one by one.

Putmans, the Taiwanese governor of Geranza, had already heard the sound of artillery coming from the direction of the port, and he was worried that the port would be lost, so he sent a force of 150 soldiers to reinforce the port.

The team ran for about half an hour before approaching the perimeter of the port, and the Ming army's naval guns had stopped firing, but the battle in the harbor was raging, and the firelight from the firearms of both sides could be seen almost from miles away.

The port was really attacked, and the attacking enemy seemed to be constantly advancing, and the Dutch reinforcements were so alarmed that they increased their advance.

How many reinforcements came, it was impossible to see in the night, but the footsteps of one hundred and fifty people running still came far away, and the Ming army ambushed the soldiers hidden in the dark, judging from the footsteps, the reinforcements of the Dutch were no less than a hundred.

The Ming army lay in the grass and did not dare to move until the Dutch soldiers came within range of the flintlock muskets.

"Shoot!" A loud shout startled the Dutch soldiers in front, although they couldn't understand Chinese, but a human voice appeared in the shadows of the middle of the road, and they immediately had a premonition that they were in ambush.

"Bang."

"Bang."

"Bang."

……

The Ming army did not give the Dutch soldiers much time to think, and hundreds of flintlock muskets in the first row fired all the bullets at the first time.

With the faint light of the flintlock pistol, the second and third rows of gunners of the Ming army also shot all the bullets in the flintlock pistol at the Dutch soldiers who were stunned in the night.

The Ming army found that there were no Dutch soldiers standing in the night, so they lit torches and surrounded the Dutch soldiers.

The Dutch reinforcements who were attacked by the Ming army were attacked by the flintlock pistol, and nearly 100 people were killed and wounded, and the remaining dozens of people saw that the momentum was not right, and after they came to their senses, they quickly lay on the ground, so the Ming army could not see that there were standing fools.

The Dutch soldiers in the back row, seeing a large number of torches, knew that the Ming army had made sufficient preparations, and they no longer had the luxury of reinforcing the port, and before the Ming army's torches arrived, they did not shoot, but slowly crawled to the side and rear like crabs, until the afterglow of the torches was out, they stood up, and fled in the direction of the city of Geranza.

When the Marines cleaned up the battlefield, they found only about 120 Dutch soldiers, most of whom had been killed or wounded, and less than 20 who were unwounded.

The wounded are naturally replaced, and who has the energy to take care of them? In order to prevent the spread of the information of the anti-personnel soldiers, the remaining dozen Dutch soldiers were also killed by the Ming army.

It was not known if the Dutch would send reinforcements again, and the soldiers of the Marines were once again lurking in the grass, but they did not fully appreciate the formation of the dewdrops, so Zheng Xing sent heralds.

"Tuanza, Shizao let you go to the port and set up camp."

"To the port? Why? Could it be that the Dutch in the port have already surrendered? ”

"Exactly."

"Huh? So fast? How was the battle? ”

"The Dutch suffered nearly thirty casualties and more than twenty prisoners, totaling about fifty."

"Such an important port, only guarded by fifty soldiers? These Dutch pigs, how about our casualties? ”

"The casualties were not great, the brethren died three and wounded sixteen."

"Oh, what if we go to the port and the Dutch send reinforcements again?"

"Shizuo said that with the port, even if reinforcements come, they are not afraid."

"Okay, let's get over here."