After clearing the Dutch who had jumped into the sea, Lü Yan ordered some of the ships to be on guard in Penghu Bay, and he landed with some of his troops.

Seeing that the battle was over, the horse boat and several armed merchant ships came from a distance, and they soon began to dock.

First the infantry landed, then the cavalry.

At this time, the Ming people who were captured on Penghu Island had already escaped while the Dutch soldiers were panicking, and some of the fishermen on Penghu Island quickly recognized Lu Yan's boat, because there were too few large ships like his.

Since Lu Yan's reputation was quite good when he was still here last time, some Penghu fishermen came over one after another.

A sturdy man in his thirties with many scars on his body walked in front with red eyes, walked not far from Lu Yan and knelt down, and then said loudly to Lu Yan: "My lord, please avenge my father!" ”

Seeing this, Lu Yan was startled and hurriedly went up to help him.

"Don't hurry up, please talk about something slowly."

But before he could speak, more people fell to their knees, and wept bitterly about the crimes of the Dutch.

Since they lived on Penghu Island, the first targets of the Dutch were the fishermen and townspeople.

After more than a month, I don't know how many of them died of exhaustion.

In particular, many of the elderly, women and children in the family were exhausted to death.

When it comes to the parents and children who have been exhausted to death at home, many people are crying silently, and the scene is extremely chaotic for a while.

Hearing their words, Lu Yan's eyes became even colder.

Since ancient times, those Westerners have committed a lot of crimes against China.

This time, for example, the Dutch captured more than 600 fishing boats and 4,000 Chinese, 1,300 of whom would have died of exhaustion if Lü Yan had not come, and the rest would have been sold into slavery.

These Westerners have never seen people of other races as human beings.

In the previous life, he was just a commoner, and there was nothing he could do with those Westerners, but now it's time for them to pay the blood debt.

So he said loudly: "Fellow fathers and fellow villagers, please rest assured, this matter will be left to me." If I don't kill all these Dutch and avenge the villagers, I, Lu Yan, swear not to be a man. ”

"I would like to drive for the adults."

The fishermen said in unison.

In fact, they originally thought that it would be the officers and soldiers who came to rescue them first, but they didn't expect it to be a group of pirates, which made them extremely disappointed in the officials and soldiers.

Of course, due to the blockage of the news, they didn't know that Lu Yan had rebelled.

Jia Xu looked at all this with a smile on his face, and the people's hearts were available.

Those fishermen wanted to welcome Lu Yan to Magong Town to entertain him, but Lu Yan refused, he wanted to see how the Dutch fortress was repaired, if it was repaired, it would be very difficult to fight.

So he took a part of the cavalry and had people take him to the fortress of Mahogyu Cheng.

Two miles away from the Hongmucheng Fortress, Lu Yan and the others stopped, and then he picked up the clairvoyance and looked at the Hongmucheng Fortress in the distance.

Because Lu Yan was in a hurry, the Dutchman's Hongmucheng Fortress was not completed, and it could only be regarded as half completed.

It is now a 96-meter-long, four-meter-high earthen fortress with about seven cannons on each wall.

It is completely different from the outer layer of masonry in the previous life.

But even so, this fortress should not be underestimated, and the main point of the fortress is that it is low and thick.

Moreover, earthen walls have many advantages, such as good absorption of the impact of solid bullets, which is stronger than masonry walls.

In addition, the earthen wall can absorb the energy emitted by the vibration of the cannon on the fort, and is not easy to collapse when the cannon is fired, so most forts need to use a lot of earth.

Seeing this, Lu Yan's face was slightly solemn.

The bastion was very bullish, especially in the 16th and 17th centuries, and it was a bug.

As long as the fort is equipped with enough artillery and muskets, it can easily withstand the attack of more than ten times the enemy.

It's like a 1,000-man fort, which can withstand an attack of 10,000 under normal circumstances.

If you don't plan to pay several times the number of casualties of the defenders, you can't even think about breaching a fortress.

Those peerless heroes, such as ** Hachi, Huang Taiji, Zheng Chenggong and others were all disgraced in front of the fortress, and in the end they were all besieged for a long time, and then they found a way to break the fortress.

This fortress is no exception, and later the governor of Fujian sent about 30,000 troops by land and water, but still did not break through the fortress guarded by hundreds of people, because it can be seen how difficult it is to break through the fortress.

But Lu Yan has a lot of confidence in taking this fortress.

The fortress is a cow, but it is no more than a cow.

He was the Frenchman Vauban, born in 1633.

Vauban was not a particularly good military commander, and even he never commanded an army independently in his life, but he was an excellent military architect and engineer.

The fortress was a military structure that had reached the extreme, and it was rarely breached before Vauban joined the army.

Even if it was breached, it was only at the cost of several times that of the defenders that the attacking side breached.

But after he joined the army, these fortresses were breached by him one after another.

In fact, his method is very simple, since the fortress is a very good military project, then he will use a more good project to break it.

He would dig trenches or serpentine trenches parallel to the walls outside the bastions to slowly approach them.

Those trenches were able to completely hide the soldiers, and then carry them through the trenches to the bottom of the city walls.

Everyone has seen the bright sword, there is a section in the bright sword where Li Yunlong sent the soldiers to a short distance in front of the devil by digging a trench, and then broke the devil's bridge by throwing grenades.

And Vauban has done this before, in fact, the principle is the same.

In the West he also has the title of the father of the grenadiers.

He once had some grenades made and then had them thrown at the soldiers defending the city, and found that this worked very well, even better than artillery bombardment in difficult terrain.

Therefore, this fortress looks very powerful, but in Lu Yan, he feels that he can still break through it.

In order to break through this fortress, he deliberately took some ancient grenades from the treasury of the Ming army.

When it comes to the development of grenades, Daming is no worse than the West, and even surpasses the West.

The Ming Dynasty not only had grenades with fragmentation personnel, but also had mixed mines, mines that could be used in water warfare, all of which were ahead of the West.

Lu Yan dug up the dirt on the ground.

Jia Xu and the soldiers all looked at him with puzzled expressions, what did he mean by this.

When Lu Yan found that the soil could be cut open, he was completely relieved.

"Let's go, let the soldiers rest for a while, and then prepare for the siege. Remember to leave some cavalry to watch them"

Lu Yan said.

After two days of sailing, the soldiers were somewhat unwell, and he left with them.

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Just as Lu Yan was observing the Hongmucheng Fortress, there were also several people on the Hongmucheng Fortress who were observing them with a clairvoyant mirror.

Relsen and Gao Wenjin's faces were a little solemn, they didn't expect the enemy to transport all the cavalry to the island, it seems that the enemy is not simple.

But the fact that the enemy was all armed with bows and arrows and swords and guns made them wonder what kind of army it was.

Pan Xiu stood behind them, and his face was also cloudy.

"Can you introduce me to this rebel group? It seems that this should be a very unusual rebel army. ”

Raelson said.

Pan Xiu thought about it and introduced him to this rebel army.

"Their leader is called Lu Yan, the self-proclaimed king of Qin, and now he is leading tens of thousands of troops to fight in Fujian, Zhejiang, and the imperial court's army."

"Tens of thousands of troops!"

Hearing this, both Raelson and Gao Wenjin were shocked.

In the past, Pan Xiu told them that the Ming Dynasty had an army of one million, and Lei Ersheng and Gao Wenjin always thought he was joking.

I'm afraid that the total number of armies in Europe is not so much, and the population of their Netherlands is only a few million, if the Ming Dynasty fights with them, it will not be able to drown them with people alone.

But seeing that Lu Yan had such a powerful warship, they felt that maybe Lu Yan really had tens of thousands of troops.

Pan Xiu continued to tell what he knew about Lu Yan, including the fact that Lu Yan had been a garrison in Liaodong before.

This incident is quite sensational, and many ordinary people know about it.

Speaking of Lu Yan to give up his official position to become a pirate, many people are very puzzled, the gap between the garrison and the pirate is too far.

It's like now a person doesn't want to be a general, but runs away to be a thief.

But Raelson wasn't surprised, and he didn't think there was anything to be ashamed of being a pirate.

Because in the West, the navies of many countries are also tasked with being pirates.

The most typical is the British, for example, when the British resisted the Spanish Armada, a very important part of it was the various pirate forces.

In ancient times, the heroic deeds of the legendary Greek hero Odysseus were all pirates who burned and looted, but the "Homeric Epic" warmly cheered for his piracy.

In modern times, there is a story in many countries that a pirate became rich overnight because he robbed a handful, and was even made a nobleman.

The most typical is the legendary British pirate Drake, who robbed millions of taels of silver in his lifetime, and was finally named a British royal knight, and even the British coins at that time were printed with his head.

The later "Pirates of the Caribbean" is, to some extent, a continuation of the pirate complex.

Lu Yan's military career made him pay more attention to this rebel army, perhaps the pirates in front of them were completely composed of the army of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, their speculation is purely that a blind cat catches a dead mouse, although it is not far off.

"Your Excellency, I think we should get in touch with them to find out what kind of purpose they are coming to attack our warships. If they just want to rob, I think we can talk to him and meet their demands

They left. When we cross this threshold, we will slowly find a way to deal with him in the future. ”

Gao Wenjin thought for a while and said.

Raelsen pondered for a while, and then said: "You are right, our purpose is only to trade, not to fight with the enemy to the death, and now it is indeed not appropriate for us to build a strong enemy." ”

Although both Raelson and Gao Wenjin wanted to avenge the dead soldiers, the enemy now seemed to be very strong.

They all felt that the most important thing now was how to get through this pass, and as for revenge, we would talk about it later.

So Raison turned back to Pan Xiu and said, "I don't know if Mr. Pan is willing to run for us?" Convey our kindness to them and find out what they mean. ”

"And how many troops he had, and what weapons he carried."

Gao Wenjin added.

"This?"

Hearing this, Pan Xiu was embarrassed.

These are rebels, and they are very unfriendly to the Dutch, otherwise they would not have sunk their warships.

What to do in case the other party gets angry and cuts off his head.

"As long as Mr. Pan helps us with this, Mr. Pan is our friend of the Dutch. In the future, all the goods that Mr. Pan went to Batavia without paying taxes. ”

Raison gently patted Pan Xiu's shoulder and said.

Hearing this, Pan Xiu's eyes flashed with a greedy look.

"Okay then, that's up to me."

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After coming to Magong Town, Lu Yan met with several local prestige people.

He told them that he needed to recruit some men to dig trenches, and that the workers would be paid six pounds of rice a day.

He was in a hurry, and perhaps now Da Ming had begun to encircle and suppress his men.

After learning of Lu Yan's request, these people agreed almost on the spot.

But the rice was rejected by them.

Lu Yan is here to avenge them, just to let them dig some trenches, if they can't even do this, then are they still human?

But Lu Yan knew that the life of these fishermen was difficult, and insisted that he should at least take care of the food for the people who worked.

In the humility of both sides, the matter was finally settled.

Not long after they had discussed it, a cavalryman Pegasus came to report.

"Report to your lordship, just now a Ming merchant came out of that castle with a white flag, and he said that he was the messenger of those Hongyi, and he wanted to see you, my lord."

Hearing this, Lu Yan's face was cold, how could a merchant mix with the Dutch, didn't you see that the Dutch had killed so many Chinese? Needless to say, it must be a traitor.

So he said, "Bring him here, and I'll see who is doing things for the Dutch." ”

"Wait."

At this time, Jia Xu suddenly stopped him, and then said, "My lord, can you think of taking that Hongyi Fortress more easily?" ”

Hearing this, Lu Yan couldn't help but move in his heart.

Although he is sure to capture the fortress of Hongmucheng, he will definitely pay a lot of casualties.

If it was easier to get to the Fortress of Mahogany, of course he couldn't ask for it.

So he said without hesitation: "If the military advisor has anything to say, please say it directly." ”

"We might as well use a little trick to lure those Hongyi out of the castle, and then take the initiative to fight us."

Jia Xu said confidently.

Lu Yan once told him about the power of the fortress, and he knew that there was such a thing in the world.

However, he felt that he was not useless, how could a group of barbarians be able to fight against his Jia army division, so he pondered a plan for Lu Yan.

Hearing this, Lu Yan couldn't help but be interested: "How to induce it?" ”

"Show weakness to the enemy."

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Thank you very much for the tips from the travelers who travel back and forth to the world, the Wind Wanderers and the travelers who travel through time and space.

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