On the geographical and political map of the East, the Penghu Islands have always had a significant position, and they guard the choke point of the North-South Sea Route of the Eastern Empire. The Taiwan Strait has always been the only route for trade along the north-south sea route along the coast of Fujian, and the Penghu Islands are in the most critical position of this route.

The political attributes of the Penghu Islands recorded in official documents are that since the Song Empire, the Penghu Islands have continued to appear in official documents under various names. In 1225 A.D., the Southern Song Dynasty Fujian City Bo Ti Zhao Rushi "Zhufan Zhi" said: Quan (Quanzhou) has an island, called Penghu, under Jinjiang County. The Penghu Islands are clearly defined as under the administrative jurisdiction of Jinjiang County, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province.

In 1281, the Mongol and Yuan Empires set up an inspection department in Penghu, and symbolically included the island of Taiwan in the territory of the Yuan Empire.

During the Ming Empire, the Penghu Islands not only became a key military patrol place for anti-Japanese warfare, but also officially included in the local household registration management unit.

By the Wanli period of the Ming Empire, the defense of Penghu had been integrated with Fujian's Kinmen, Xiamen and nearby coastal defenses. "Penghu Hall Chronicles" Volume 5 "Wubei" Bow "Xiamen Chronicles" said: Penghu guerrilla, Wanli 25 years (AD 1597) added, belongs to the South Road generals, stationed in Xiamen, and Penghu its remote leader.

The Penghu guerrilla generals began to appear in the official documents of the Guangming Empire, and the setting of local military and political official positions showed that the Ming Empire had regarded the construction of Penghu's maritime military defense as part of the overall national defense construction.

But like many military officials in charge of coastal defense in the pan-history of the Ming Empire, the office of the Penghu guerrilla general was also very bloody and far away in Xiamen.

Such an important place, which has been repeated countless times in historical documents, was constantly despised during the 16th and 17th centuries. The coastal defense policy has always been in a state of "people going crazy" as a result of the sudden tightening and loosening of the coastal defense policy, and the coastal defense of Fujian has always been in a state of "people going crazy." When something happens, it is shelved and shelved, allowing various overseas forces to invade and occupy it in turn.

A few years ago, the Dutch East India Company, which had gotten gossip that the Spaniards were about to occupy the island of Taiwan and was afraid that the trade route between the Ming Empire and Japan would be cut off, sent a Dutch mercenary army led by Reilenven in an attempt to attack Macao.

It's a pity that Yan Xiaosongkong's whisper in his ear made the sudden attack of the Dutch come to naught. Although the Dutch did not succeed in history, this time, Reyjosen, who was surrounded by the Ming sailors, the Portuguese and the Spaniards at the same time, lost even more, and the Dutch army, which had a combined strength of more than 1,000 people by sea and land, was instantly defeated, and less than half of them fled to the Penghu Islands.

However, the inertia of history is still the same, and the remnants of the defeated army led by Rejosen for a long time will gain a firm foothold at the end of the wind cabinet on Magong Island in Penghu, and a simple military fortress has also taken shape in more than a year, turning into a bridgehead that can enter and occupy Taiwan in the future.............

The Dutch held the sea route and throat, which naturally made Shang Zhouzuo, the governor of Fujian in the Ming Empire, anxious, and the best verbal kung fu was directly ineffective from the Dutch, and he wanted to use military means, but the entire Fujian coastal coastal defense post was rotten like something, and Shang Zhouzuo was basically helpless.

Shang Zhou Zuo's political life came to an end, in 1623, the right deputy capital Yu Shi Nan Juyi took over as the governor of Fujian, this old man who was not pleasing to Wei Zhongxian's forces was kicked to Fujian to clean up the mess, his bones were much harder than Shang Zhou Zuo, and he directly released his words to be ruthless to the Dutch.

On May 10, 1624, the fourth year of the Ming Empire's apocalypse, the 23rd day of the third lunar month.

In the official office in Xiamen, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian, Yan Siqi took a group of excited brothers to get up from the kneeling ceremony, and respectfully received the official robe and official seal from the hand of Nan Juyi, the governor of Fujian.

"The Holy Son of Heaven and the Holy Ming, there is a world of Jingping in the four seas of the Ming Dynasty...... Zhenquan (Yan Siqi's word) has been loyal to the monarch and patriotic for many years, protecting the people and protecting the people, and the saint has also heard of it. However, the Japanese are not far away, and the thieves and thieves are coming one after another, and this time Zhenquan took over the post of Penghu guerrilla, and there is a long way to go! ”…,

Nan Juyi, the governor of Fujian, touched his long beard and said lightly to the big pirate who had not long accepted Zhao'an in front of him, his face was very haggard.

Since the end of last year, Nan Juyi has dispatched the Ming official army in Fujian, together with the former Penghu guerrilla general, to attack Penghu many times, but has been repulsed by the Dutch defenders with only a few hundred troops for several months. Under the worrisome prospects, Nan Juyi could only obey the "eunuch elements" Liangguang Governor Jianyi, and used Yan Siqi, who was recruited by the imperial court last year and "did not change his thief nature" in his eyes.

"Rest assured, the governor will definitely rectify the soldiers and horses, this time I will expel the Hongmaofan, restore Penghu, and consolidate my Ming Haijiang! , Yan Siqi clenched his fists with both hands, his voice was loud, and the brothers around him also cheered.

"Good, good! Last year, the thieves forcibly occupied Penghu, and the official was difficult to understand all night, and also reported to the imperial court, but the northern captives were rampant, the state was very huge, and the court discussions were delayed. Although the official has a strategy for recovering Penghu, there is still a shortage of boats, ships, grains and straw allocation, Zhenquan has this great ambition, and the official is relieved! ”

Nan Juyi can't do it, because since last year, the military funds and salaries that he managed to raise have long been exhausted. I thought that this former pirate leader was going to refuse to send troops, but when he saw that the other party actually agreed on the spot, his heart suddenly fell to the ground.

Nodding frequently and smiling, Nan Juyi put down the teacup and got up to tidy up his official robe and planned to leave, but he didn't talk about the army's food and salary after Yan Siqi took office. The implication is that of course you are on the recovery of Penghu, but don't expect food or anything.

"There is no shirk of humble duty!" The crowd quickly knelt down and saluted.

Nan Juyi left, Yan Siqi and the others stood in the official office in a daze, looking at each other.

"Big brother, it's really what you expected again! How did you know that the imperial court would take these red hairs and couldn't do anything? Will Nan Juyi succeed Shang Zhou Zuo? Yan Sihai saw that he was a little cold, so he hurriedly walked up a few steps and lowered his voice.

"Sihai, it's not your eldest brother and I, this is all written in a secret letter from Mr. Yan that Luo Da brought back from China and the United States last year. It's just that it's a matter of importance, and I've already burned it. Yan Siqi waved his hand and gestured, and everyone present listened.

"Mr. Yan is thousands of miles away, he is like a god, first there is a red hair to invade Macao, and then there is a red hair to retreat to Penghu, and he wrote that there will be a change in the position of the governor of Fujian, let me wait to seize the opportunity, there will be benefits, I think it must be related to Penghu!" Yan Siqi looked at a room full of henchmen and brothers, and his tone was stern.

"What does Mr. Yan mean is that if the eldest brother can recover Penghu, will it be of great benefit? It seems that Nanda people are not the people of Wei Gong (Wei Zhongxian) and the governor of Liangguang, right? Yan Sihai was a little confused.

"Since the Dutch Hongmao retreated to occupy Penghu, the imperial court has repeatedly reprimanded Fujian places, but the Ming Dynasty has been banned from the sea for many years, and the soldiers and horses of the boat division are slack. Now I am a guerrilla general in Penghu, such a future, all in Penghu, this small place, Mr. Yan is really an unpredictable prophet, thanks to the help of Brother Yu Jiu, Nanjing Ministry of Industry Shangshu Liu and Liangguang Governor Hu Daren jointly protected, Governor Nan Daren also had to put down his body to enable us, etc., brothers want to break a big thing, must go all out. ”

"Hey! Let's do it! There are gorgeous firearms sent by Mr. Yan, no matter how many of them are our opponents! Yan Sihai slapped his palms, looking eager to try, and the other Yan family henchmen were even more chest-chested.

"I'm afraid that we have come all the way, and we are all in Mr. Yan's pocket, I don't know why Mr. Yan and Nahua America take a fancy to our Yan family, this is a blessing or a curse, it is really unpredictable......"

Yan Siqi, who had walked through the wind and waves, finally revealed a rare locked deep eyebrows in the past two years.

Last summer, after tens of thousands of miles, henchmen finally returned to Macao from China and the United States, bringing a huge return to the Yan family. …,

1,200 well-made gorgeous self-generated guns, and 30 gorgeous cannons with a far greater power and longer range than the Fran cannon, if placed in the Ming official army, this is already a first-class strong army, in addition to a large number of gorgeous seafood that is suffocating.

The small semi-sea goods sold by the maritime merchants in Tongguò Macao brought Yan Siqi a profit of nearly 600,000 taels of silver, and after the more expensive seafood was handed over to the Liu family in Shandong, he received more than 300,000 taels on the spot. In just one month, it was nearly a million taels of income, and it was so easy that Yan Siqi was a little uneasy.

Such a generous gesture is no longer something that can be described by the simple word "gift", coupled with Luo Da's beautiful description of China and the United States, which made Yan Siqi, who was already a little mentally prepared, even more stunned.

What kind of medicine is sold in Mr. Yan's gourd? Could it be that there is no place to spend more money, just to sympathize with the people who have migrated to the sea?

In less than a year, Yan Siqi's soldiers and horses have almost doubled, and he has occupied a place in Dayuan Island Tamsui by relying on the relocation of displaced people and the recruitment of fellow villagers.

"Big brother, I think it should be the Li Dan family who offended Mr. Yan. Otherwise, why did Mr. Yan have to pay attention to the Zheng Zhilong of Li Dan's family when he left? Yan Sihai recalled the conversation when he said goodbye to Yan Xiaosong and felt that things should be like this.

"That's why I said that this Mr. Yan is not simple, how did he know a few years ago that Zheng Yiguan would be a sea dragon in the future? Now Zheng Yiguan is quite popular in Fujian, Zhejiang, and Ryukyu, and half of Li Dan's fleet is under his control, and he is hearty and generous, and he has won the favor of Francois and even Dutch red hair, and he is also respectful to me, I heard that the imperial court also intends to recruit him, so it seems that Li Dan and Zheng Yiguan's thoughts are really terrible. ”

Yan Siqi smiled coldly, put his hands behind his back, and just looked at the sea outside the window.

"Then big brother, in this case, why do we still have to be recruited by the imperial court, and from then on, we have watched that Zheng Yiguan grow. This time, the governor also hinted that we would attack Penghu alone, if it didn't work, the loss of the warships would outweigh the losses, and if it succeeded, it would inevitably be a disaster of unloading and killing donkeys later. Yan Sihai was even more puzzled, and even faintly worried.

"There is no turning back from the bow! Brothers, now that we have been recruited by the imperial court, our minds are naturally focused on recovering Penghu. According to the policy of Yan Guangsheng of the United States, we have been colonizing more than 1,000 households in Dayuan Island in Tamsui since a year, and this kind of family business is not easy to come by. Now our ships are all on Nanao Island, and after the hurricane, we will take advantage of the southwest wind to send troops to Penghu! ”

At the sound of the order, all the henchmen clenched their fists and bowed, and their morale was high.

On June 6, 1624, the fourth year of the Ming Empire's apocalypse, the twenty-first day of the fourth lunar month. The inner bay of Magong Island, Penghu, the tail of the wind cabinet.

The cannon roared, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and more than a dozen hard-sailed warships under the banner of the Ming army surrounded a certain stone and wood fortress on the shore of the island, constantly tilting the shells, and the military fortress where hundreds of Dutch mercenaries were stationed flew into stone and wood fragments, and the few Dutch cannons with good gun positions also launched counterattacks from time to time, setting off a column of water that soared into the sky in the Ming army's fleet.

After damaging two Dutch galleons, Yan Siqi's fleet laid down the infantry along the coast north of the tail of the wind cabinet, and now supported the infantry in the final attack with heavy artillery fire.

Wearing the red jackets of the Ming Dynasty officials, waving banners, holding swords, shields, spears, and Chinese and American self-generated rifles, under the command of the officers, they constantly attacked the land perimeter defense support points of the Dutch.

Dozens of corpses were scattered along the way from the Dutch fortified stronghold to the beach, most of them Ming troops, several of them rotting out of human shape, apparently killed by Dutch artillery. …,

Another approaching salvo fired, several Dutchmen on the civil fortifications spewed blood arrows and collapsed to the ground, and the remaining dozens of Dutch soldiers hurriedly pressed their bodies against the fortifications, their whole bodies trembling. After firing the shells, the Ming officers and soldiers shrank back behind the stones where they were sheltering.

"Damn, when will you be able to fight like this! The children of the Yan family have never shrunk their heads as turtles, and they will rush to me with handles! ”

A strong officer of the Ming army bit his waist knife in his mouth, and stood up with a big banner in person, and the Ming army, which had been in a stalemate with the Dutch for more than half an hour, also surged hundreds of people, one by one, holding shields and spears to launch the final 100-meter charge.

A cannonball flew in, slammed into the crowd, bounced a few more times on the rocky beach on the coast, brought up countless flying sharp stones, and crashed out of a bloody path in the charging Ming army, more than a dozen Ming soldiers fell to the ground with screams, and several of them were killed on the spot and were already incomplete.

But in just a few seconds, hundreds of minutes, they jumped into the stronghold of the Dutch, and under the close hand, most of the recalcitrant Dutch soldiers who resisted were stabbed to death except for a few who escaped or were captured.

"Whew! I thought that the two red hairs who used to rely on the fire cannon were not afraid of death, and they were not a fucking wretch! ”

Looking at the corpses of nearly 100 Dutch soldiers inside and outside the Dutch stronghold, Yan Sihai spat on a bearded Dutch soldier who had already knelt on the ground and desperately begged for mercy, and finally burst into laughter.

When dusk was about to fall, the Dutch fortress artillery had all been destroyed by the gorgeous nine-pound cannon on the Ming army's sea ships, and the surrounding defensive strongholds were all captured by the Ming army, and the remaining less than 200 Dutch soldiers were completely surrounded in the fortress.

The commander of the Dutch army, Rayosen, had lost his previous arrogance at this time, he originally thought that with two battleships and the cannons on the fortress, he could easily defeat the Ming Empire's naval division with backward equipment and low morale again, but who knew that the opponent this time was completely different, and the battle was only at the beginning, and these Ming troops, who were equipped with weapons that were far more powerful than the European army, actually pressed themselves from beginning to end.

Especially those warships of the Ming army, there are dozens of 12-pounder guns, even the Portuguese in Macao, there are only 9-pounder guns at most! In comparison, his largest artillery is Wan, and there are only 6 in total!

Ray Yosen was puzzled, but helpless, if he didn't make another choice now, when the sun rose tomorrow, he and the rest of the soldiers would definitely be buried by the artillery of the Ming army, which was obviously not the main purpose of his visit to the East.

An hour later, Rejosen, who had thoroughly figured it out, finally sent a representative and walked to the camp of the Penghu Ming army with a white flag, and another hour later, under the light of torches, Rejosen walked out of the fortress with a group of dejected Dutch soldiers, handed over his weapons and announced his surrender.

600 miles of urgent report to send the Beijing division: "Penghu victory, the officers and troops were invincible, dozens of ships were heavily damaged, thousands of Hongyi soldiers were killed, and the banners of the battle were piled up. Today, Enwei is widely spread, the governor of Liangguang is wise and wise, strategizing, the governor of Fujian is good at planning, and he is commanding and supporting in a good way, Penghu guerrilla Yan Siqi and Du Si Yan Sihai are the first soldiers, and they are in battle to kill the banner ......"

The loss of the Dutch at the end of the Penghu fortress, coupled with far more heavy losses than in history, marked the end of the process of colonial occupation of Taiwan by the Dutch East India Company. And Yan Siqi has officially become a veritable Penghu guerrilla general.

Originally, the military efforts of the governor of Fujian, Nan Juyi, were only negotiated to get the Dutch to evacuate Penghu, but the Ming Empire government had to recognize the Dutch occupation of Taiwan, and even a few years later, the Dutch still made a comeback to occupy Penghu. Nan Juyi, who is now on the wrong path with Wei Zhongxian and succeeded Shang Zhou Zuo as the governor of Fujian, can be regarded as preserving his historical reputation.

What Yan Siqi didn't know was that his decisive attack this time not only recovered the Penghu Islands cleanly and beautifully, but also officially included Taiwan Island in the territory of the Ming Empire.

What he didn't know was that not long after this victory, the imperial court would promote himself to a military post and become a "senior general", and from then on, he began to openly legalize the colonization of Taiwan by the exiles.

What he didn't know was that Zheng Zhilong would be recruited by Nan Juyi, the governor of Fujian, before leaving office, and become the new Penghu guerrilla general, stationed in Penghu and controlling the key points of the sea route.

The Ming court's hand to restrain each other is extremely beautiful, and the two sea tyrants who are also pirates have been entangled together in the mainland and the Taiwan Strait since then, making Yan Siqi's power greatly increased, but also always on his back. I am afraid that Yan Xiaosong did not expect this.

The pair of butterfly wings in the distant New World of North America finally fanned a breeze in the east...... ）