Anderson was a little helpless, he had the strongest artillery, the thirty-two-pounder cannon in his hand, which weighed 7,000 pounds, with an effective range of 2,000 yards and a maximum range of 7,000 yards. In the face of a fortress like Sicao Sea Fort, it only takes one day to blast a gap.

But that Ming man Lu Fang had better luck, and he actually hit the opponent's powder magazine with only one shot. Anderson would never believe that Lu Fang had the ability to play so well, it was all luck, shit luck.

Lu Fang's luck was indeed very good, the wooden delay fuse tube of the nine-headed bird made the delay detonation time of the explosive bomb very good, and when the explosion fell into the city and exploded, it happened to explode next to the house where the gunpowder was stored, and the powder keg in the house was detonated at once.

The power of the explosion was extremely great, and it directly blew up a section of the southern city of Lingbao, half of the city wall collapsed, and the broken city wall bricks just piled up a slope on both sides of the gap in the city wall.

When the smoke cleared, Lu Fang saw that the three-zhang high city wall showed a big opening, and he almost fainted with excitement. Quick, aim the cannon at that gap, make the opening bigger, and don't let the red-haired people plug the opening. Lu Fang shouted, pulling a soldier over and telling him to hurry up and report to Wang Qian.

Before the soldier could run over, Wang Qian was already alarmed by the violent explosion, and he quickly rode over, and then saw the large gap in the smoke.

"God help me!"

Wang Qian laughed excitedly a few times, and then ordered the shield soldiers to cover the fire soldiers to grab the gap and enter the city.

The nine city defense cannons in the castle also began to roar, but with such a big opening, the defenders in the city couldn't stop it if they wanted to. Under the cover of the shieldmen, the musketeers ran forward at a rapid pace.

At this time, Lu Fang was still excitedly directing the four Shenwei cannons to keep throwing explosive bombs into the city.

Dahn on the north fort also hurriedly ran to the south with Lucas and a group of defenders, but unfortunately he was unable to return to the sky. That huge gap can't be closed at all.

In addition to the musketeers, there were also light artillery in the infantry battalion, and the small cannons equipped with the division flag, such as the Tiger Squat, the Exterminator, and the Franc Machine, although they could not be compared with the artillery of the artillery company. It can't be compared with the city defense artillery, but in this kind of melee battle for a gap, the power is not to be underestimated.

Just twenty or thirty paces apart, or even only a dozen paces, they fired at close range, firing a large piece of iron sand each time, and the Dutch couldn't stop it at all.

The nine-headed bird broke through the gap and poured into the castle like a tidal wave.

Two of the Dutch defenders' most powerful weapons, the nine fortifications and the fortified fortress, were ineffective. All that remained was the Dutch garrison, which numbered less than a hundred.

Bursts of gunfire followed, and after a few moments, the gunfire faded and then stopped.

The red, white and blue tricolor flag marked with the letters VOC above the castle was torn off and the nine-headed bird flag was planted.

In the distance on the inner sea of the Taijiang River, Liu Jun and others had just arrived at the port of Heliao Port on the shore.

When there was a violent explosion over there before, Liu Jun had already begun to watch the day with a clairvoyant mirror.

"Dashuai, our flag has been raised, and the Four Grass Sea Fort has been taken down."

"I saw it too." Liu Jun nodded. Smiling and satisfied. It was a great speed, and in an hour, they had already taken the fortress.

Nicholas, a Spanish officer who followed Liu Jun, could not believe that he knew about the defense of the Dutch in Taiwan. The Four Grass Sea Fort is a fortress. Although it is not as tall as Relan Castle, it is also a fortress. The fortress is said to be the strongest defense. Now, it was broken in less than an hour, even if the number of Dutch troops defending the fort was small. It's also shocking.

The port of Heliao was in front of them, and as when they opened the Luermen waterway, there was no Dutch interception and defense in this port.

The Dutch did not show up. However, a large number of Han Chinese appeared in the port.

Nicholas became nervous, Liu Jun smiled and said to him, "Don't be nervous, these are your own people." "As early as before Liu Jun was ready to attack the big man, he asked Zheng Zhilong to send someone to sneak back to Tainan and convey the news of the imperial court's imminent recovery of Taiwan to the Han Tuntian immigrants who Zheng Zhilong had stayed here at the beginning.

Zheng Zhilong sent people to contact these Han people, and in the plan, if the Dutch dared to send troops to intercept them, then these Han people would stab the Dutch in the back, and for this reason, Liu Jun even secretly brought a lot of knives and guns to these Han people.

Now the Dutch were cowering in the castle and did not dare to come out, but these Han people came as promised.

Since Zheng Zhilong was evacuated from Taiwan by Zhao'an and the Ministry of Recruitment, these immigrants from the mainland have not been at ease in Dayuan. In the past, when Zheng Zhilong was there, the Dutch did not dare to provoke them. But as soon as Zheng Zhilong and the others left, the Dutch slowly reached out to the Han immigrants, collected taxes from the Han people, and even instigated the indigenous people to attack the Han people, so that the Han people believed in religion and so on.

After Liu Jun went ashore, he found that thousands of Han people had come, and basically all the young and strong Han immigrants in Taiwan had come. Some of them were holding knives and guns given by Liu Jun, and some were holding hoes, firewood knives and hunting bows, all of them beaming.

They were even happier when they saw that such a large imperial army was coming. Although many of these immigrants came to Taiwan when they couldn't live on the mainland, after leaving their homeland, they were still very happy to see the officers and soldiers coming from home, especially when Zheng Zhilong and they were still in this army.

These Han leaders came to meet Liu Jun and gave them wine, meat and other things. Liu Jun also gave these people gold and silver and other things, and praised them loudly.

Some of them were in tears of excitement, especially when Liu Jun said that in the future, the imperial court would set up a government official in Taiwan to rule here for a long time, and announced that these Han people's tuntian would be exempt from tax for three years, these people were even more happy.

They took the initiative to carry artillery and baggage for the nine-headed bird ashore, and transported the baggage to the city of Chiji for the official army.

The base camp of the Dutch in Taiwan is on Dayuan Island, and the Red Castle is on the main island of Taiwan, and the Red Castle is separated from Dayuan Island by a narrow sea, and the Sicao Sea Fort on the tail island of the northern line is just on both sides to protect the Rejialan City and Dayuan Town on Dayuan Island.

The Red Castle, also known as the city of Romasia, was originally obtained by them with fifteen pieces of cloth and cowhide lies.

This is also a solid castle, the main body is square, 300 meters long and more than 200 meters wide, quite an enlarged version of the Sicao Sea Fort, there is a protruding fortress in the northeast and southwest of the castle, there are also nine city defense cannons on the castle, there are moats, breastwork walls, and wooden fences outside the city.

Sicaohai Fort has been taken, so the morale of the Ming army is high at this time, and they are also quite confident in taking Chichicheng.

With the assistance of thousands of Han people, Liu Jun ordered the troops to divide into two routes again. One route was led by him through the farmstead and the courtyard of the East India Company that the Dutch had cultivated outside the city, while the other followed the road south, turned east, and finally bypassed a forest and then turned north to camp on the other side of the town.

The two soldiers and horses cleared the town outside the castle, and finally besieged the castle.

It was Paul who was in charge of guarding Chichi, and when he saw the arrival of a large number of Ming troops, the armor was dazzling, and the flags were fluttering, he was frightened, and hurriedly sent people to ask for help from the city of Relan on the opposite island.

In the afternoon, De Baul asked Van Buron to send a company of Marines from the fleet ashore for reinforcements.

As soon as the 300 people approached the shore in the boat, Liu Jun had already received the news and immediately sent a cavalry battalion to intercept them.

Feng Sheng led the cavalry battalion to quickly gallop to the shore to intercept, and the war horse galloped to arrive, "Dismount!" ”

Following the order, the cavalrymen dismounted one after another, began to line up in a neat formation, and raised their muskets.

"Put!"

With an order, the cavalrymen fired one after another, and rows of lead bullets were fired, and when they were finished, the gunners who were standing in the front row turned around and walked back from the side of the line to the back of the line, joining the last row of the line. The second row of gunners in the queue, who had already finished loading, stepped forward, stood in the original positions of the gunners who had just left, raised their guns, took aim, and fired another volley.

The sound of thumping and thumping firebolts was incessant, and the Dutch marines, who had finally landed and disembarked from the ship, were met with fire from this cavalry before they could get back in time.

At that time, many people were shot.

These Dutch marines were full of anger in their hearts, and they never expected that the Ming army actually had a cavalry. Because of this, they didn't expect the other party to arrive so quickly.

They were also old mercenaries, who often fought with the fleet, and had never fought such battles. The enemy is countless times outnumbered by them, far superior to them in terms of numbers and weapons.

"Shoot back, fire back!"

The Dutch mercenaries searched for a shield and bent down to fight back.

However, the Ming army was more numerous, and they formed a fire gun array one step earlier, and what was even worse was that many Dutch soldiers found that the opponent's fire guns were fired extremely fast, one step after another, with almost no gaps. The continuous bullets made them unable to raise their heads at all, and they were completely suppressed on the shore.

"These red hairs are very smart, and they know how to lie on the ground and spread out." Feng Sheng looked at the battlefield and sneered twice, "Do you think that I can't do anything about you like this?" ”

He waved his hand and shouted, "Bring our guns up." ”

The artillery fire that Feng Sheng called for was not the artillery company, but the supporting firepower of the cavalry battalion's own configuration, a large number of various types of light artillery firepower.

A door tiger squatting, exterminating, and franc machine was dragged over and quickly erected.

After a rapid adjustment, the battalion dependents opened fire on their support fire.

It was full of loaded shotgun iron sand, a dozen large pieces, and although these small cannons had a short range, they were still far away from the firecrackers. It was just right to deal with a group of ship-based marines who came ashore.

After a burst of artillery fire, the Dutch could not hold it anymore and began to retreat.

Seeing this, Feng Sheng showed a smug smile and pointed forward with a swing of his knife, "Drive them into the sea!" ”

The musketeers lined up and fired from time to time, and the Dutch fought and retreated, and finally had no choice but to abandon their weapons and surrender. A marine company, with only 218 men left, all surrendered.

The Dutch's plan to reinforce the city was a complete failure. (To be continued......)