Chapter 2 Treasure Island Raiders

Located at the northern tip of Taiwan Island, Keelung Port is the maritime gateway to northern Taiwan and an important marine fishing base. It is located at 25°09'N latitude and 121°44'E longitude, and is located in Keelung City, northern Taiwan Province. The water depth of the port is up to 11.5 meters. The port is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there are more than 40 berths along the bay. The annual throughput of the port is about 3500~40 million tons, and the main goods are grain, oil, cement, timber, fertilizer and steel. The world's 10th largest container shipping port, with a throughput of 1.81 million TEUs in 1990. Keelung Port is an important natural port in northern Taiwan, and it is also an auxiliary port of maritime transshipment center - a high-value cargo import and export port. It is mainly used for containers, supplemented by bulk cargo. It is the main hub port of shipping around the island, combined with sightseeing, and the port of Xing on the water.

At this time, the governor of Taiwan was Chen Maolie (I really couldn't find who it was, so I had to take him as a number, forgive me), Shaoting, a native of Langmuchong Village, Zhulin Town, Qichun County, Hubei Province. He was a good official in history, but he didn't know that there was an army in the Taiwan Province under his rule.

"This is Keelung?" Looking at the wasteland bay in front of him, Lin Hong was speechless, at this time, Keelung has not yet built a port is a virgin land, Keelung Port is located at the northern end of the main island of Taiwan, in the middle of Fugui Jiao and Bitoujiao. The port is open to the northwest and enters the inner harbor to the southwest bay, forming a narrow waterway with a length of about 2,000 meters and a width of about 400 meters. Keelung was established in the 12th year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1886 AD), and is the second largest port in Taiwan and the 39th largest container port in the world (until 2004). It is an important natural port in the north of Taiwan, and it is also an auxiliary port of the shipping transshipment center - a port for the import and export of high-value goods, and a major hub port for shipping around the island.

"What a pit! How to play this game, by the way, in the game, the capital must be captured before it is occupied, and that's it. Lin Hong summed up the experience of playing empire, and now he is going to take the army to fight Tainan.

"Li Zhong, order the whole army to advance to Tainan Mansion (Taipei was not built at this time)" Lin Hong called Li Zhong and ordered.

"Your Majesty!" ——

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Although it is the army, but the quality and physical strength of the Duli regiment (belonging to xing) is really good, less than six o'clock in the evening arrived outside the city of Tainan, Lin Hong ordered to rest on the spot, after all, it is difficult for the road soldiers who have worked for a day to have the ability to fight again, and then it is necessary to wait for the artillery to arrive the next day to attack the city and reduce losses, because it is a full Duli regiment, with a battalion of artillery, including 20 40mm caliber mortars, 10 75mm caliber field guns, 3 120mm caliber cannons, Although it looks shabby now, in fact, for Taiwan at this time, his 1,000 people are already the largest armament.

At seven o'clock the next morning, the artillery battalion finally arrived, and the artillery was only too late because of problems with roads and transportation.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the rest was completed and preparations were made for the attack. At this time, Tainan was already in chaos, and Chen Maolie, the prefect of Tainan, looked at the city, "Everyone else has besieged the city for a night, and we still don't know who the traitor is?" Why don't they put up a flag? Chen Maolie asked the master and the general guard next to him, "This" "Forget it, I only hope to be able to defend it for today's plan, otherwise we will lose the emperor's grace." "Yes, my lord."

I saw a person outside the city riding a horse forward, and stopped not far from the outside of the city, it was Li Zhong, the head of the Duli regiment, who came to persuade him to surrender, Lin Hong also wanted to reduce casualties, although the Qing defenders were only weak with bows and arrows.

"Who's under the city?"

"I am Li Zhong, the head of the Duli Regiment of the Great China Empire, and I came to persuade me to surrender on the orders of my emperor, are you willing to be a slave of the Tartars as a Han Chinese?"

"We are deeply favored by the emperor, and we should serve the country loyally." Chen Maolie said

"You just don't want to surrender, Hugh blames the sword for being ruthless."

"Loyalty to the state is today!" Chen Maolie shouted at the city defenders at the head of the city.

"Serve the country with loyalty, serve the country with loyalty!" , Chen Maolie's proud beard "The military heart is available!" ”

After Li Zhong came back, he said to Lin Hong: "Is Your Majesty attacking the city?" ”

"I'll leave it to you," Lin Hong said.

At about ten o'clock in the afternoon, the artillery fired first, a total of more than 30 artillery roared in unison, the fragile city wall was easily cut like tofu, and then three infantry battalions marched towards the city under the cover of artillery fire, because the rifle equipped by the infantry of the Duli regiment is a rifle set by the system, and the rifle refers to the Mauser 1898 type of the German army in World War I, in fact, it is copied and named "the official rifle in the empire" by Lin Hong. It is conceivable that using the weapons of World War I to fight the Qing army with spears and broadswords in 1840 is simply a massacre, not a massacre. This kind of shot-type rifle has led the world for nearly 50 years, and Western Europe has just invented the shot-type rifle in the 30s of the 19th century and began to replace the flintlock rifle, and Lin Hong used not a shotgun but a rifled gun.

At around 7 p.m., Tainan was pacified, and Tainan Governor Chen Maolie was blown to pieces by artillery, and about 500 Qing soldiers surrendered.

Just when Lin Hong entered the city, the system sent a message: "Congratulations to the host for recovering Taiwan, reward the host with a merit value of 1,000,000, funds of 1,000,000, the Imperial Duli Regiment is upgraded to the first division of the Royal Army, you can recruit soldiers, and get one 74-gun third-class battleship and two 48-gun cruisers." The administrative system is being generated, the military and political system is being generated, the education system is being generated, and the legal system is being generated."

"Systematic construction of barracks, ordnance factories and port docks, hurry!"

"The dock can be built and is expected to be completed in 10 days."

"Barracks construction requires training camps."

"The construction of the ordnance factory requires an artillery foundry."

"This"

What? The barracks can't be built directly, and the ordnance factory has to build an artillery foundry first? I only have three opportunities to shorten the construction period. Then the system reminded me: "The city has a training camp, but it is not under your control, you can directly build a barracks if you take control of the training camp." ”

Lin Hong looked at the map given by the system, chose a vacant lot in the suburbs, and started construction.

At this time, the people in Tainan City were panicked, although these green-clothed troops did not harm them, but the war only made people feel terrible and frightened.

"This, how can I have an administrative officer!"

"You can choose to buy it!"

"You can buy this too?"

"Yes, there are also family members attached, family members don't need money, and because the host has recovered Taiwan, the family members of your army are also being generated"

"That's alright! You help me arrange for the purchasing officer to arrange it. ”

"Okay, host!"

There was a fog in front of him, and then two middle-aged people in Mao suits walked out, only to see one of the middle-aged people bow and say: "Taiwan Provincial Governor Li Fang and Taiwan Provincial Inspector General Liu Min came to see me."

"Get up! The two of them want to manage Taiwan well on our behalf. ”

"Yes, your will is our life's pursuit."

After the two left, Lin Hong stayed alone in the prefect's yamen, thinking about the future strategy, now it is not far from the Opium War, he will either unify China before the British, or win the Opium War first and then unify China, the former is too urgent, and the latter can only be chosen, but the British are not so easy to fight, now they can only rely on the system, their three warships are not enough to defeat the British Empire, time is what Lin Hong needs most.