Chapter 436: Chicken Coop City Breaks
The situation on Dayuan Island has been in a steady development, and since the joint naval exercises, the Dutch have sent some additional troops here, and the Zheng family's abnormal behavior has also been restrained.
The Dutch, who originally thought that the Zheng family would stop like this, also began to relax a little about the ships entering and leaving the port, and also began to relax a lot for the local villagers.
However, they would never have imagined that the Zheng family had secretly transported weapons and other weapons to the island, and secretly organized personnel to train them every night.
These abnormal behaviors have not been discovered at all, but if they are discovered, Zheng Hongkui can also retire completely.
In a village 20 miles away from Taiwan's chicken coop pot, although it is already night, it is brightly lit in a certain house, illuminating the whole room as if it were day.
This unusual phenomenon is not right at a glance, and the villagers usually finish their meals before it gets dark, finish all their work, and then go to bed on the boat, in order to save a candle fee.
But today, this situation is a little wrong, there is obviously more than one candle lit in the farmer's house, and judging by the bright light from the window, there are at least a dozen up and down.
"Li Da, when are we going to do it, call everyone here today, do you have any instructions from Master Zheng."
The man known as Li Da is responsible for the liaison with the Zheng family, and he is also one of the main talents secretly cultivated by the Zheng family.
Long before Zheng Zhilong was recruited by the imperial court, he had been arranged in the chicken coop, and it can be said that the Zheng family's dark line here was to prepare for that day.
"Lord Zheng does have an order, let me and others prepare for the plan, and around noon tomorrow, the fleet will arrive at the chicken coop for a landing operation."
"Tomorrow. Okay, I can't wait for a long time, if I want me to say that we should act tonight, the brothers are very well-trained these days, and we also have artillery, so we can take the chicken coop fort and wait for Lord Zheng to arrive. ”
The man who spoke was a bearded man, and as soon as he heard this, he knew that he was the kind of person who had courage and no brains.
Attacking the Dutch, it is ridiculous that they want to attack the Chicken Coop Fort, which contains hundreds of Dutch professional mercenaries, and they all use muskets. And how could the artillery be able to completely attack their group.
Under the Zheng family, they didn't dare to easily say that they could attack it, and if they came to unite with them, it could be seen that the Dutch were not weak in battle.
Since the Zheng family didn't dare to do anything, let alone them, it was not a good way to discredit and attack the city, not to mention that the city could not be captured, even if they waited for their lives were thrown there.
So Li Da shook his head and rejected the man's proposal, even if he wanted to ask for credit, he had to see how strong his strength was.
Early the next morning. Li Da and the others went to work in the sugarcane plantation as if they were on weekdays, and there seemed to be no reaction from the expressions on their faces.
According to the instructions given by Zheng Hongkui, they started on time at noon, and their main task was to destroy the enemy's coastal defense batteries. It brings convenience to the landing of the Zheng family.
Looking at the sun overhead, Li Da wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, and said to a person beside him: The time is almost up, everyone will do it according to the specified time.
At this time, the Zheng family's fleet was less than fifty nautical miles away from the sea outside the chicken coop. The Dutch ships had already been discovered, and the Zheng family had sent more than thirty ships this time, with a force of two thousand.
Such a large-scale operation. It must have been difficult not to be discovered, and in order to discourage the Dutch from preparing in advance, he deliberately released the guise of delivering goods to the Japanese shogunate in advance.
With such a pretense, the Dutch were at least half convinced, and the Zheng family also slowed down their attention to Dayuan Island.
After all, the Zheng family is the hegemon in the East China Sea, and the center of gravity of the Dutch is in Southeast Asia, and it is impossible to deploy a large number of troops here.
As soon as noon arrived, Li Da and the others suddenly took out the Oshima short gun that had been hidden in advance and headed towards the Dutch coastal defense battery, and then someone specially lit a 26-pounder gun to signal the Zheng family's fleet in the open sea.
The flotilla that received the signal quickly fully sailed and headed for Joncoo Harbor at full speed, and when the Dutch reacted and wanted to use the shore defense batteries to counterattack, they found that there were many more people around them.
"Kill," Li Da and the others raised their broadswords and slashed towards the Dutch, and more Dutch soldiers also rushed out of the city to help, at this time Li Da and the others were obviously in a weak position, if the Zheng family had not landed in advance, then it was likely that the fort was recaptured by the Dutch, and counterattacked.
The Zheng family's fleet was already very close to the port at this time, and standing on the deck of the bow of the ship, it was already obvious that the crowd fighting on the shore could be seen.
"All the soldiers listen to the order, whoever rushes ashore first will be rewarded," said a general under Zheng Zhilong, named Zheng Cai.
Zheng Cai is also quite ambitious, it can be said that almost one-third of the forces under Zheng Zhilong are under his orders, although they are all surnamed Zheng, but they are definitely not related to Zheng Zhilong.
The soldiers were encouraged, and as the ships got closer and closer to the harbor, some with bows on their backs began to stand on the bow of the ships and fire arrows at the shore.
With the first ship docking, several soldiers of the Zheng family army boarded the chicken coop, the situation of the entire dock can be said to have changed completely, and the Dutch saw more and more ships docking, and began to deliberately retreat towards the castle, wanting to defend the castle for battle.
However, at this time, Master Li was chasing very closely, and these men who usually farmed the land were like professional soldiers at this time, wielding short guns, and orderly pursuing those defeated Dutch soldiers.
The form was one-sided, and the Dutch had no time to think about it at this time, and before the people outside the city could retreat, the people inside the city had already begun to close the city gates.
At this moment, all the ships of the Zheng family are docked, and the soldiers are all surrounded under the chicken coop fort.
There was not enough food in the chicken coop fort, and it would be difficult for the Dutch to continue defending even if they retreated inside without reinforcement from other places.
Therefore, Zheng Cai was not in a hurry to attack the city, but ordered not to let go of a person, let them go out to ventilate and report the news, I believe that at this time, the Dutch in other parts of Dayuan Island have not noticed that something is wrong here, so Zheng Cai plans to leave some of his men and launch a surprise attack on the Dutch in the direction of Geranza City. (To be continued......)