On both sides of the lower reaches of the river, there is only a slight pier outside Santo Domingo, and almost all of them are banks and beaches in their natural state, and it is extremely difficult to load and unload shipping supplies from water to land. Although there are a few village docks further upstream from the indigenous tribes that originally lived there, those places are a bit further away from the city of Santo Domingo, and the time required to transfer them by land is not cost-effective.

The combat operations of special operations battalions have always emphasized mobility, so they rarely carry heavy equipment and large quantities of materials into battle, and they are all lightly armed to carry out some combat tasks such as surprise attacks, pursuits, and annihilations, and even most of the time they do not even bring logistics teams responsible for transporting materials and baggage. Wartime coordination with the logistics department was not very smooth for the special operations battalion, and although Takahashi Minami had considered this in advance and conducted one or two specialized trainings, the difference in the specific landing environment slowed down the pace of projecting troops to the battlefield at this time.

Sun Zhen was standing knee-deep in the river at this time, carrying the supplies unloaded from the boat to the shore with the others. Since the supply ships carrying war materiel could not completely approach the river bank and had to rely on manpower to carry out the transfer from the near shore, there were about two companies of soldiers on the river bank in this section of the river who were doing the same thing. Although he didn't know the specific battle plan, looking at the anxious looks and constant urging of the commanders, he could also think that this link should have consumed too much unplanned time.

Takahashi Minami ordered to stop unloading goods to the shore, and when everyone was ready to enter the battle, in fact, the war materials were far from being unloaded. However, Takahashi Minami believes that the current unloading of the ship is enough to support the troops for about two days of operation, and instead of spending time here to unload the goods, it is better to first control the perimeter of Santo Domingo City, and then slowly transfer the remaining materials to the shore.

Sun Zhen and his comrades-in-arms were given a fifteen-minute rest, and hurriedly returned to the shore to sort out their personal belongings, ate a small piece of compressed biscuit to replenish the energy consumed by the physical labor just now, and then listened to the arrangements of their superiors for the next marching route.

By the time the special operations battalion had finished repairing and had begun to move west from the landing on Diǎn, the sky was slowly brightening. Without the help of binoculars, the soldiers could see the smoke rising from the distance near the city of Santo Domingo. The inhabitants of this place probably would not have expected that on this morning when there is nothing special (10) ≧ dǐng (10) ≧ diǎn (10) ≧ small (10) ≧ say, .2±3.→os_ (); , they have welcomed a group of hostile uninvited guests.

The landing was only three miles away from the city of Santo Domingo, and in fact it was just over a mile away from the farms and plantations cultivated outside the city, and it was a short time to reach it at the speed of a special operations battalion. As the soldiers of the special operations battalion in fancy uniforms walked out of the jungle, the few local residents who witnessed the spectacle outside were stunned. Even the quickest to react took a long time to realize that they were not confronted by an indigenous army from the nearby mountains, but by a terrifying army - the soldiers were not armed with bamboo spears used by the natives, but rifles that could shoot bullets!

"Intruder!" the others came to their senses, threw down their farming tools and fled in a panic in the direction of the city of Santo Domingo. The number of local immigrants and soldiers killed by indigenous forces in the past few years has increased to dozens, which is a big shadow for everyone, regardless of the identity of these invaders, it is important to escape to safety first.

The soldiers of the special operations battalion did not pursue the panicked civilians, and they continued to move forward in silence along the established route, and divided into small units to search the farmhouses along the route.

Of course, there would be nothing of value in the farmhouse, partly to ensure that no one would escape from the encirclement of the Haihan by this means, and partly in the hope of being able to capture the live mouth, so that the latest situation in the city could be obtained through a surprise interrogation.

The manhunt did not disappoint Minami Takahashi, and soon the soldiers found two shivering peasants in one of the farmhouses. These two men were not Spaniards, but of mixed Chinese and Luzon descent, but probably because of their living environment, they did not speak Chinese, only Spanish. Fortunately, the military had been prepared for this for a long time, and specially transferred a translator who knew Spanish from the Ministry of Commerce to accompany the army, which came in handy at this time. Of course, this kind of small role does not need to be handled by Takahashi Minami himself, and he now needs to focus on the more important command work.

With the strength of the special operations battalion, it is difficult to completely blockade the area where the city of Santo Domingo is located, because this hill where Diǎn is located is not only a small area occupied by the fortified city, but also runs more than a kilometer from east to west and north to south, and the city of Santo Domingo is located on the slope of this hill facing south near the river bank. In later generations, there were also institutions such as the University of Truth, the Peace Park, and the Taiwan Golf Club on this hill, and the city of Santo Domingo occupied only a few tenths of the area.

If such a large area was to be completely blocked, it would probably not be possible to have enough troops left to attack the city, so Takahashi Minami could only divide a small force to guard the small roads and mountain paths leading from Santo Domingo to the outside world, leaving as little chance as possible for the defenders in the city to ask for help.

Louis Gusman woke up to the servant's panicked exclamations, and without even opening his eyes, he slapped someone in the direction from which the sound came from, hitting someone in the side of the face accurately.

"You idiot, didn't I say last night not to wake me up this morning to sleep?" Gusman, who had not yet woken up from his hangover, was furious, and the strength of his wine and the urge to get out of bed made his feelings like a cannon that exploded at the sound of a diǎn. If it weren't for the fact that the servant had been following him for years, Gusman would have even had the heart to get out of bed and pull out his saber and stab this uninteresting fellow to death.

"My lord, it's not good, there's an accident outside, you should get up quickly!" The servant, who had been slapped inexplicably, did not exit the bedroom without interest, still begging Gusman to pay attention to it in a panicked tone.

"What the hell is going on!" Gusman sat up angrily, pointing at the servant and scolding, "If it's all about trivial things, I'll let the guards drag you out and give you twenty lashes!"

"My lord, there is ...... There's an invasion from outside!" the servant stammered.

Gusman's mind was excited, and his drowsiness immediately faded, he lifted the quilt and jumped out of bed, and asked while putting on his pants: "How many people are there? Where are Captain López, let him gather his troops quickly!"

Attacks on Tamsui Diǎn are nothing new, and armed conflict with the natives has been uninterrupted since the Dutch first set foot in 1628. Although the Dutch had defeated all the indigenous tribes in the surrounding area in 1629 and forced the largest tribe in the area, the Guirou Society, to move out of the area and into Yangmingshan, they were unable to completely eliminate the sporadic skirmishes.

Guersman arrived in 1630 after the founding of Santo Domingo, but his tenure has seen at least double-digit conflicts. Two of the most severe of these even drew nearly 1,000 indigenous warriors to besiege the city of Santo Domingo, killing peasants and patrolling soldiers working outside the city, and destroying production facilities and farmland outside the city. These two clashes also left a great psychological shadow on the residents of the city, the peasants were reluctant to leave the city to farm, the soldiers were reluctant to go out of the city to patrol, and the cultivated area of the farmland outside the city had dropped sharply.

There are only about 200 soldiers in the city, and it is barely enough to defend such a small base, but if you want to go out of the city and into the mountains to exterminate the indigenous tribes, Gusman will definitely not take such a risk. Being able to firmly defend the fortress of Santo Domingo and leave this unfortunate place without incident, is Gusman's greatest wish at present. When he returns to Manila, his tenure as governor of the colony may help him move one step further in his career.

Staying in this poor and remote place, even going out of the city to move around can't ensure absolute safety, and the chief executive is actually quite aggrieved. In the three years since he took office, the population of Santo Domingo has grown by less than 50 people since it was founded, a joke for Spain, which has always prided itself on expanding its overseas colonies. But the Manila authorities have not mentioned that they want to replace Gusman, which shows that the people above know that the situation of this place is not good, and whoever comes over will basically have the same effect.

Gusman was not able to make much money in this position, and most of it was sent back to Manila to fight the various immortals, hoping that the people above would be merciful and merciful to transfer him out of here. Two months earlier he had finally received information that he was going to be transferred back to Luzon to be appointed governor of the newly developed port of Batanas in the south, but only on the condition that he stay in Tamsui until October 1633 to complete his three-year term.

Now that he has seen the light of the tunnel, Gusman naturally has no intention of making any achievements during his tenure, and it is the ideal result to be able to finish the last half year peacefully and then leave this hellish place. So recently, he has basically adopted a "rule by inaction" attitude to deal with local affairs - to put it bluntly, he doesn't care about anything.

But the heavens clearly did not intend to let Gusman pass so smoothly, and just when he thought he saw hope, a sudden intruder appeared at an inopportune time. Gusman's first reaction was that one of his subordinates had probably taken advantage of the other party in the trade with the natives, and the natives had taken a simple and crude way to recover the losses they had suffered. Although these natives had nothing to do with the fortified city of Santo Domingo, they were very good at destroying it outside the city, and they wreaked havoc outside the city once, and afterwards the people in the city had to spend dozens of times as long to recover, and it was no wonder that Gusman immediately flew into a rage when he heard the news of the invasion.

But the situation was clearly different today, and the servant replied: "Captain López is waiting outside, he said...... The enemy who came this time was not the natives. ”

"What are you not a native? Is it a Dutchman?" said Gusmann, frowning, "These guys want to come and grab ******** food before they even have the food in their own bowls?"

"Like...... Nor the Dutch......" said the servant tremblingly, "I hear from those who have fled from outside the city that these intruders are strangely dressed but uniform, and they are all armed with rifles!"

"What!?" Guersman replied incredulously, "You mean that there are a large number of musketeers who have taken over our lands outside the city, and that these musketeers are not Dutch?"

For Gusmann, the surprise was even greater than the invasion of the enemy, and the Dutch, as the Spaniards' regular opponents, had no less hands-on dealings with the Spaniards in recent years. The main reason why the Spanish side had a slight advantage in the long tug-of-war was that Manila, the center of Spain in the Far East, was not too far from Taipei, and much closer to Batavia, the headquarters of the Dutch. However, since the Dutch lost to the combined fleet of the Ming and Haihan in the battle in the Fujian Strait the summer before last, they have reined in a lot, and there has been no more active provocation. After Batavia was attacked by the Madaran army last summer, the Dutch East India Company suffered a great loss of vitality, and the port of Dayuan also quieted down. But if the offender is not Dutch, who will it be?

"My lord, the army outside the city is Haihan, and they have already shown their military flags. If our judgment is not wrong, it should be a certain unit affiliated with the Haihan militia outside the city. ”

Later, Guersman received a surprising answer from his local military commander, Captain López. Gusman didn't quite understand why the Haihan militia, which had nothing to do with Spain, appeared outside Santo Domingo, and they came in full armor, not quite as if they were preparing for friendly relations with their own side.

Gusman didn't know much about the Haihan militia, only that this private army had a deep connection with the Fujian Ming army. The Haihan militia appears to have provided some technical support to the Fujian military in exchange for the right to trade the Haihan trading fleet along the coast of Fujian. In fact, Spain and the Netherlands have planned to do similar things, but the Netherlands has picked the wrong partner before, and the situation is irretrievable, but Spain has not joined in time because it has been a cold sidewitness for too long, and as a result, Haihan saw the needle and snatched away the potential partner of the Ming Army.

"We've never dealt with Haihan, and we haven't had any troubles, so why are they here to trouble us?" asked Gusman with an innocent expression.