Li Dingguo stood on the seashore and used a clairvoyant mirror to observe the city of Geranza on the island.

The island, located at the mouth of the river, is a sandbar alluvial from the Taijiang River, somewhat similar to Chongming Island.

On one side of the island is the castle and on the other side is the residential quarters.

Li Dingguo could only see the situation on the periphery of the castle, and he couldn't see the inside clearly. But just the outer defense gave Li Dingguo a headache,

It's this hellish bunker again.

Yes, the Bastion Group!

There is a dirt slope on the outermost periphery, and the second line of defense is the castle wall.

The front building has a semi-circular fort and two prismatic fire platforms on the side, which is the office of the governor and officials of Taiwan. Once the besiegers have breached the area, all personnel can retreat inside.

The first line of defense inside, a semi-circular fort on each side, the four corners are all prismatic enemy platforms, and there is a square fire platform in front.

There is also a second line of defense inside, with a total of two semi-circular forts and four bastions at the four corners.

There is almost no difference between sending 10,000 people to attack such a well-designed fortress group and sending 100,000 people to attack.

The siege artillery of the seventeenth century could not be forcibly blasted, it was nothing more than filling with human lives, and using human lives to consume the ammunition of the defenders. It is useless to dig a B-shaped tunnel, at most it can break through a few peripheral defenses. After attacking it, it is impossible to dig a pit, and the four bastions and one semi-circular fort in the innermost layer are too unreasonable.

"If we attack forcibly, I'm afraid that one of our divisions will have to be killed or wounded before it can attack it. This is still a small number of defenders, otherwise it would be useless to finish a division. Li Dingguo sighed and said.

Wu Hualong said: "The general came a few years ago, and the red-haired ghost's Taiwan City (Relanza City) has only been built for a few years. The outer semicircular walls (semicircular forts) were also built at that time, and some angular walls (bastions) in the upper city were also newly added. ’

Li Dingguo said: "If you don't fight, you have to fight, you can only besiege the city and send reinforcements, forcing the defenders to surrender after running out of food." ”

Wu Hualong said: "I'm afraid it will take more than half a year, there are wells in the city, and there is still a lot of food. Saying that, Wu Hualong was extremely indignant, "If I knew this, I shouldn't have helped the red-haired ghost build a city!" ”

The Tainan Han people were the main builders of the entire Gelansha fortress group, and the local aborigines cooperated to do the hard work, and the Dutch colonists only needed to design and command.

At this moment, a group of aborigines rushed to Chichicheng.

They wore sackcloth trousers, most of the men were shirtless, and the women covered their chests with a piece of cloth. Moreover, all the faces are yellow and thin, and at first glance, they are long-term malnutrition.

Li Dingguo went to meet the leader, and Wu Hualong introduced: "This is the indigenous people of Huweilong. More than ten years ago, the red-haired ghosts sent troops to attack, burned all their houses, and robbed them of all their food. The big tribe of thousands of people starved to death nearly half of them that year, and then they could only honestly enter the page for the red-haired ghosts.

The leader was very excited when he saw Li Dingguo, wah-wah, wah-wah, dancing with his hands, and finally kneeling down to Li Dingguo on one knee with an earthen spear.

Wu Hualong translated: "This is the patriarch of Huweilong, Uma, he heard that the general led the army to fight against the red-haired ghosts, and brought all the people in the clan who can still fight. These women and children can also fight, although they usually don't have enough to eat, but they have always insisted on practicing their skills, just waiting for the day when they can kill the red-haired ghost to take revenge. If the general doesn't like them, they can help move things. When attacking a city, you can also rush to the front.

Li Dingguo swept towards these aborigines, ragged and thin, but even the old and weak women and children looked at him with expectant eyes.

These people are really here to fight, and they are determined to die.

Li Dingguo suddenly stopped complaining about Wu Hualong, and the Han people launched an uprising in advance, and they must have been forced to be unable to live. Just like these natives, if there is hope for revenge, even if it is sent to death, they will come to fight.

Because if you don't fight, sooner or later you will die, and you will be tortured to death by the Dutch!

After pacifying these aborigines, the chief missionary Qian Huanyong pulled Li Dingguo aside and said: "The people's will is available, you can send people back and contact the navy." Blockade the nearby sea and prevent the Dutch from transporting food supplies from other places. Then, our army transported grain to this point and distributed some to the Han and natives to help them tide over the difficulties.

"If we give food to the people, we may not have enough food." Li Dingguo said

Qian Huanyong came up with an idea: "Your Majesty treats the families of soldiers and soldiers preferentially, and the first batch of more than 3,000 people who migrated over, each household has food donated by the imperial court.

The family members themselves also brought food stocks. Talk to the soldiers and their families, and ask them to lend out the food and pay it back after the court supplies the military rations.

Li Dingguo nodded and said, "This plan is feasible." ”

If it is placed at the end of the Ming Dynasty, let alone borrowing food from the soldiers, even if there are rumors in this regard, the whole army will be full of resentment, and there may even be a direct mutiny.

And the Datong Imperial Court, both the government and the army, has always had a very good reputation.

If you say that you are borrowing, you are borrowing, and it is absolutely impossible to repay the debt.

Nowadays, the officials' salaries are paid official tickets, and the soldiers' salaries are paid military tickets, and both bills can be cashed at the nearest Datong Bank. Due to the extremely high credibility of the imperial court, officials and soldiers have the habit of storing bills, not like at the beginning to get the bills to redeem Because of this, in the face of natural disasters for many years, Zhao Han can continue to send troops to fight without aggravating the exploitation of the people.

You must know that in Henan and Shandong provinces, because the damage is so severe, only half of all land is collected, and the full amount of land will not be resumed until next year. Beiping Prefecture, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Liaoning, Yunnan, Guizhou, many prefectures and counties in these places are also in a state of land tax reduction.

Especially in Hebei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Liaoning, and Beiping Prefectures, the policy of full exemption of Tianfu will continue for several years!

Even the opposition scholars who took the liberty of Xinjiang and couldn't get used to Zhao Han's policy of forcibly seizing the landlord's land, couldn't help but sigh: "Since ancient times, the benevolent government of the emperor has not been as good as the one who was in power, and the farmer is so lucky."

The Zheng clan of Annam, with a population of 3 million, was able to support more than 50,000 standing troops (one-third of the land was used to support the clan and nobles, and officials, scholars, and soldiers did not pay taxes). Annam Nguyen, with a population of 1 million, can support more than 20,000 standing troops. Annam Mo, with a population of 100,000, can support 8,000 standing troops.

However, Zhao Han has a population of 90 million, but only supports 200,000 troops, and often laments that military food is insufficient. It is because of a large number of provinces that the land endowment is either halved or not levied at all, and money and grain are allocated for disaster relief, and money and grain are continuously spent on immigration.

Qian Huanyong continued: "While using military rations to help the Han people and natives, let the missionaries in the army temporarily act as local officials, and first set up the official shelves here. Especially the indigenous people, I heard that there are more than 200 tribes in the surrounding area, with thousands of large tribes and only one or two hundred small tribes. You can ask the local Hermes-Epitek to be a general guide.

While going into the mountains to distribute food and relief to the natives, he also preached the policy of establishing villages and towns. The mayors of villages and towns are all appointed by locals to avoid causing conflicts. In this way, before the enemy castle is surrounded, the people of this place will be used by me!

"Okay, you can do it." Li Dingguo fought very well, but he governed the people averagely.

The place that has just been fought is automatically regarded as a military area, and the army can temporarily appoint officials until the imperial court gives corresponding instructions.

A few days later, Wan Bangyan came with the Taiwanese fleet and cruised to blockade the waters near the city of Geranza. They didn't dare to get too close, and each fortress in the city of Geranza was equipped with 12 city defense guns, with a total of nearly 100 artillery pieces, which could bombard the sea from all angles.

In the same way, the Dutch warships did not dare to sail out of the port.

Four Dutch warships, one of which went to Batavia to bring rescuers. There are three ships left, and they dare not be tough with the more than 30 ships of the Datong Navy.

After blockading the sea, they began to transport grain to Chichicheng. Every time, the high tide time is pinched, and with the help of the tide, it lands in Luermen, and a steady stream of grain is transported to help the Han people and the aborigines.

As for the soldiers and their families, they all had to tighten their belts and live a hard life this year before the mainland brought in military rations.

But the effort was worth it, and the results were immediate.

The Han Chinese and indigenous people in Tainan were increasingly exploited by the Dutch. When the Datong army came, even if it was just to announce this year's tax exemption, they would be grateful one by one, not to mention that they actually sent food relief.

The indigenous leaders in the vicinity spontaneously gathered together for a meeting and then came together to thank them.

In front of Li Zicheng, they knelt on the ground with Hulala, Mona had already killed the leader supported by the Dutch, and became the patriarch of the Madou Society. He knelt down in front of him and said in Chinese: "The general is our great benefactor, and in the future, the deer skins we hunt will only be sold to the general." The food we grow will also pay tribute to the generals. If the general lacks people to fight, even if there are not enough warriors, the women of the clan are willing to fight for the general! ”

Li Dingguo hurriedly helped him up, and said to the other leaders: "Brothers, please get up quickly." His Majesty the Emperor said, "All the four seas are brothers,

The Han people are brothers, and everyone is a brother. It is the responsibility of the elder brother to help his younger brother tide over the difficulties, so why should the younger brothers bow down? ”

As soon as these words came out, Mona was so moved that he cried directly, and this indigenous warrior actually shed tears on the spot.

He translated Li Dingguo's words to other leaders, and these leaders were also inexplicably moved. For a while, they were noisy, and they all wanted to bow to Li Dingguo, and some directly ripped off the necklace on their chests and gave it to Li Dingguo as a gift with both hands.

Those necklaces, which were their amulets, were mostly made of animal bones or teeth.

Either the first time the prey was caught, or a large beast of prey was captured. They will grind the bones or teeth of the beast into a necklace, and once they take it out and give it away, they will be regarded as friends of life and death, and they can die for each other at any time.

Li Dingguo didn't know why, and he also felt that this kind of bone chain was not valuable, so he accepted it all with a smile.

Seeing Li Dingguo accept the necklace, the leaders were even more happy.

It wasn't until a few days later that Li Dingguo understood what he was receiving.

Where is this necklace?

This is the friendship of many tribes in Tainan, and when Li Dingguo gives an order in the future, the entire indigenous people of Tainan will be dispatched.

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