Follow the Tamsui River up the river and head west through the valley between Yangmingshan and the Central Mountains to reach the coast of Jonlong Harbor. Although this journey is only about 100 miles, there is actually no artificially built road on the way, and the whole journey is basically in the wilderness, which is really not an easy trip. Moreover, the indigenous tribes living in the mountains were also very hostile to the Spaniards because of their past conflicts, and they caused problems for them whenever they had the opportunity. Although the Spaniards used this land line of communication several times after opening up, it was almost always forced by the situation to take the risk of transporting supplies and personnel through this line of communication because the weather or other objective reasons could not use the sea route - of course, the people who traveled between the two places through this route were basically war materials and armed men, and the civilian population generally did not take this risky route.

On the first day of the war, the Spaniards' ship was sunk and damaged on the shore by shells fired from the Tamsui River by the Haihan warships, and not even a single small fishing boat was left, and the Haihan people would certainly not be kind enough to use their own boats to send them out of here, let alone wait patiently for the Jilong Harbor to send a boat to pick them up. The only way they could get out of here now was on their own two legs. In terms of the size of the personnel, it was not much risk, and there were hundreds of people, but before they set off, all the metal weapons were confiscated by the Haihan army, and the only things they relied on for self-defense were wooden sticks and bamboo spears. For the team that is about to pass through the area of local activities, it is indeed a big safety hazard.

Moreover, there are a large number of civilians in this team, plus all kinds of pots and jars, and the speed of movement is definitely not up to the level of the army. According to military estimates, it would be considered smooth to complete the journey in two to three days. Of course, if you encounter a troublesome tribal armed force along the way, it is not easy to say.

Takahashi Nan watched the team slowly enter the jungle to the west, and then gave an order to his men: "Let the brothers in the upper reaches of the Tamsui River be hidden, and do not reveal their whereabouts." Send someone to follow the Spaniards, but don't alarm them and make sure they don't play tricks halfway. ”

Although the Spaniards chose to surrender and sacrifice the city, Takahashi Minami was not careless enough to completely ignore their reactions, he knew that the other party would definitely not admit defeat this time, and maybe there would be some tricks that had not yet been used. Although the opponent has been disarmed, even if he kills back, it is impossible to cause too much trouble for Haihan, but it is always wrong to be cautious, and by the way, you can also take this opportunity to explore the valley passage from the upper reaches of the Tamsui River to Jilong Harbor.

Takahashi Minami did not rush into the city, but sent a company of soldiers into the city to check whether there were any remaining people and other potential dangers. Then he personally operated the radio station and reported the current operational progress to the Penghu base.

According to the advance plan, the troops led by Takahashi Minami will not be stationed here for long, and other troops will soon come to this stronghold to take over the local garrison duties, and it is likely that a group of immigrants will arrive at the same time to start a new round of colonization of this area at the mouth of the Tamsui River.

The results of the search into the city made Takahashi Minami a little surprised, he originally thought that all the residents in the city had been evacuated, leaving only an empty city here, but he never thought that there were more than 70 people in the city who chose to stay. Of course, there were no Spaniards. These people basically moved from Manila City on Luzon Island, and they also have a little industry in the local area, so they are unwilling to give up and leave, and plan to stay and fight. Although the area has changed owners, the land in this vicinity still needs to be cultivated and managed, and they think that if they can do things for the Spaniards, they can certainly work for the new owners.

Takahashi Minami was also a little laughing at this, his plan did not include receiving the people who originally lived here, because no one knew if there would be spies arranged by the Spaniards among these people, and if these people were left behind, it would be a hidden danger that had to be guarded against in the future. Gao Qiao Nan could only order these people to be gathered together for temporary resettlement, and after the ships transporting supplies from Penghu came over, they would be transported to the resettlement and transfer center at the Penghu base, where they would be scattered and redistributed. When they go elsewhere, even if there are Spaniard spies among them, it will be difficult to have a channel to pass on information, and the threat will naturally be much reduced.

Further searches of the city of Santo Domingo also largely confirmed the military's judgment before the start of the war, that there was really no oil or water in the city, that there were no supplies in the city, and that the only little food had been taken away by the Spaniards when they evacuated. Although the Haihan soldiers noticed this during the body search, their superiors did not order them to seize the food, so they did not stop it. Of course, no one would be interested in collecting the grain that the Spaniards had begun to mold with them.

Probably the most valuable thing in the city was the dozens of cattle that the Spaniards had left behind, including eight ploughing oxen, more than 30 sheep, more than 20 pigs, large and small, and two horses, which were said to belong to Gusman and López, respectively.

When Takahashi Minami heard that he had found two horses, he immediately ran to the stable to find out. As soon as he saw the two horses, he knew that he had picked up a treasure this time.

The two horses had bushy and muscular manes, and their heads were a head taller than those of Minami Takahashi. Although Takahashi Minami is not very knowledgeable about horses, he can also see that the quality of these two horses is quite good. If Qian Tiandun was here, he could have told Takahashi Minami that these two horses should belong to the oldest and purest horse breed in the world, the Andalusian.

Although there are only two of them, they are both stallions that have not been gelding, and Halu Gong, who is in charge of stallion breeding and cavalry training in Sanya, will definitely jump with excitement when he knows the news. You must know that the Haihan people had already asked the Portuguese for a batch of Lusitano horses with very similar ancestry to Andalusian horses a year ago, but they had not been shipped from Europe until now. When these two horses are transported back to Sanya, they can be used for breeding and breeding of war horses.

"Serve these two babies well, and you must have a supply of fresh forage every day. Takahashi Nan thought about it and felt uneasy, and added: "Set up an isolation area outside the horse shed, arrange a squad to keep an eye here, and even if someone has an accident and a horse can't have an accident before it is transported away!"

This windfall finally made Takahashi's mood slightly better, and the value of these two horses was much more than the dozens of laborers left in the city. As for the rest of the seizures, they are lackluster, and in the eyes of Takahashi Minami, they are completely a pile of rags. If it weren't for the fact that the castle still had a certain military value, he really had little interest in staying in this place.

In the pre-war battle plan, if the special operations battalion's attack on Santo Domingo did not go well, then the attack on Chicken Coop Harbor would be postponed. But by mistake, the special operations battalion did not make much effort to take the city of Santo Domingo, and there were not even casualties, so the result was not expected by Qian Tiandun and Takahashinan before the war. Naturally, Takahashi Minami didn't have the idea of accepting it when he saw it, this was a hard-won combat opportunity, and the special operations battalion ended before it was officially put into battle, so it definitely couldn't stop there.

Since there is not much consumption in the battle at the mouth of the Tamsui River, it is only natural to move on to the next target. The city of Salvador, located in Chicken Coop Harbor, is not only the main stronghold of the Spaniards on the island of Taiwan, but also the area that Haihan most wants to occupy in the northern part of the island. The special operations battalion had already formulated an operational plan for attacking the city of Salvador before this expedition, and it could come in handy at this time.

Compared to Santo Domingo at the mouth of the Tamsui River, the Salvador city of Joncoong Harbor is larger in terms of scale and has a larger number of defenders. Since the city of El Salvador is located on the island of Sliao at the mouth of the harbor of Joncoong Harbor, the depth of the battlefield left for the army to play is also very limited. If the military strength of the attacking and defending sides is equal, then the geographical advantage of the defenders is quite obvious, and the Dutch have made several trips in the past few years, but all of them have been in vain, and there is no effective way to take the Spanish stronghold here.

Of course, the Haihan militia has an advantage that is difficult for Western colonists to catch up with, that is, weapons and equipment that surpass the technological level of this era. Heavy weapons such as siege artillery had already appeared on the battlefields of Europe, but the colonists could never have imagined that they would see such a frenzied weapon on the battlefields of the Far East, and the users were still Orientals.

Takahashi Minami was a little unhappy that this kind of heavy artillery finally arrived on the battlefield, but he did not carry out even a single live fire in the process of attacking Santo Domingo City, which made Takahashi Minami never have a more intuitive understanding of the actual utility of this big killing weapon. It took a lot of work to get the siege guns here, and then they had to be reloaded and transported by sea to the next battlefield. To transport this heavy big creature to the dock for loading, it is inevitably another trouble.

In fact, it can be expected that in the next battle against El Salvador, the special operations battalion will still be difficult to become the protagonist on the battlefield, and the four large-caliber siege guns will be the number one person with the most scenes in this battle. It is only after the siege artillery bombards the city walls that it will be the turn of the special operations battalion to clean up the remnants of the enemy. However, this doesn't matter to Takahashi Minami, anyway, the credit for capturing the enemy chief alive in the end must belong to the special operations battalion rather than the artillery unit.

The special operations battalion was given a short rest for the day, and Takahashi Minami ordered the slaughter of several pigs to reward the soldiers who had "fought hard". Although the food in the special operations camp is not bad in peacetime, and meat is often eaten, almost everyone thinks that the trophy tastes better.

Early the next morning, the second convoy of convoys from Penghu arrived at the mouth of the Tamsui River. However, because the wrecked Spanish ships on the pier would be difficult to clean for a while, the fleet had to dock a little further away from the castle.

Along with the war materiel, an army company transferred from Guangdong will take over the special operations battalion and garrison it so that they can take a break from their combat missions. At the same time, the Executive Committee also brought a directive to set up an administrative body here, and in the future, the area north of the Tamsui River and west and south of Yangmingshan will be under the administration of the newly established Tamsui County, and its administrative office will be temporarily set up in the city of Santo Domingo, which was left by the Spaniards. Of course, the city will also be renamed Freshwater City in the future, and will no longer use its original Spanish name.

The fleet brought more than 150 migrants, most of whom were brought from Penghu for resettlement. Because the southern Kaohsiung Port is also in the development and construction stage, the demand for immigrants is huge, and the recent immigration base in Penghu has been in a state of short supply.

Takahashi Minami decided to divide the troops into two routes, and the field ambush army originally deployed in the dangerous part of the upper reaches of the Tamsui River marched directly by land to Jilong Harbor, while the troops on this side of the Tamsui River boarded ships and passed by sea. The voyage from the mouth of the Tamsui River to the port of the Tamsui River was only fifty or sixty nautical miles, and it would take a day to arrive by boat, and perhaps by the time the Haihan army arrived at the port of the Chicken Spoon, the Spaniards who had been released from the mouth of the Tamsui River had not yet sent back the news of the fall here.

The city of Salvador was not unaware of the unusual atmosphere, the two cargo ships carrying supplies to the city of Santo Domingo were supposed to have returned three days ago, but there was no news at all. There was no such thing as a place to stay there for that long time, and it was unlikely that the crew would have stayed there for such a long time, and the weather had been fine for the past three days, and it could not have been due to the delay caused by bad sea conditions.

In addition, about ten nautical miles from the port, fishermen spotted several unidentified armed sailing boats in motion, not belonging to the Dutch, Spain's old rivals.

Alcaraso thought that the Tamsui estuary might be in some kind of trouble, but he could not take any other action before receiving a call for help, so he could only send another boat to the local area to find out the news. Of course, after the ship left, it also disappeared into the sea without a sound.

But before Alcarazo could figure out what was going on, he received a report that afternoon that a sizable fleet had appeared in the sea outside the harbor. Judging from the flags hoisted on its masts, this fleet should belong to the newly emerging forces in the South China Sea in the past two years, known as the Haihan Army, which is known as the victorious army in the South China Sea. According to what was observed, all the combat ships in this fleet had their gunboats open, which was clearly not a friendly gesture.