"Hold on! Don't go back! Our great Dutch people, of course, are more heroic than those barbarians who don't even know God! Know more about discipline! ”

After the first few rounds of firing, Captain Janssen's demeanor and tone immediately changed from the initial arrogance to hoarseness, sharp distortion, and even a little weak-hearted.

But he knew that the brave would win when they met on a narrow road, and since Major Endrick had sent him out to annihilate the enemy on the beachhead, he had come to this point, and he had to fight to the end.

At this time, whoever takes the lead and can't hold back and messes up the formation will completely lose all the capital and be slaughtered by the other party in vain, and the casualties and costs paid before will also be wasted.

The Dutch soldiers are also worthy of being the strongest army in the world in this era, and the country of the global coachmen is now in full swing, and on the European battlefield, the repeated slaughter of the former suzerain, Spain, has been pushed back by the Dutch.

Relying on the blood of outlaws who want to make a fortune all over the world, they control one colony after another on all continents, squeezing spices, tea, tobacco, cane sugar, silk, how can they eat deflated in the Ming Kingdom?

The pride and courage of the flesh that have always been cultivated made the Dutch muskets still fight to the death in the face of the blood of their falling comrades, lining up to shoot, and harvesting each other's lives with the Ming army.

Although the quality of the muskets of the Ming army was superior, at first because the number of troops who came ashore to gain a foothold was temporarily at a disadvantage, so the density of firepower output was not stronger than that of the Dutch.

It was only in the first two rounds of firing that the Ming army relied on the range advantage to take the lead, and from the third round, as both sides were fully into range, the Dutch immediately achieved a temporary advantage in the lethal exchange ratio.

On the other hand, on the side of the Ming army, the first batch of people who went ashore had less than 200 people lined up at the beginning, and they hurriedly put into shooting. Ruan Jin, the first top officer of the Ming army to land on the shore, also bravely brandished the command sword to supervise the formation.

However, because he was too conspicuous, he was actually hit in the arm by the stray bullet shrapnel that was fired, and he was drenched in blood for a while, but he just bit the strip of cloth and simply spent a few seconds to tie his arm to stop the bleeding, and then changed his hand and continued to wield the knife to command.

One or two cowardly deserters who wanted to retreat to the mudflats were also killed by him on the spot and held their positions suppressed.

"Don't panic! There aren't many of these Hongyi devils! Wait for the rear army to come ashore, and the victory will definitely be the Ming Dynasty! Death to those who are in chaos! The person who was shot in the back will not be given a bereavement if he dies! The prince who was shot in the front will be rewarded with a hundred taels of bereavement! Also placed in the family small! ”

This Ming army can be regarded as having seen a little storm, if it has no will to fight at all, it will not be selected by Zhang Mingzhen to train in rotation.

At this moment, they saw clearly the number of Dutch attackers, and also recognized that the Dutch's weapons were not more advanced than the Ming army, so everyone boosted their morale and gritted their teeth.

After dozens of people were killed on both sides, the Ming army continued to line up ashore, and soon the strength of the firepower output was about to be reversed.

Captain Janssen, who was on the opposite side, saw that the Ming army had not collapsed, and that the number of people was still increasing, so he could only fight to the death, and ordered all the Dutch, who were already gradually approaching within a hundred paces, to step forward and fight with bayonets.

The Dutch still used intubated bayonets, the kind with the handle of the knife directly into the barrel of the gun, but fortunately, the Dutch who could come to the Far East were also outlaws, so they took advantage of the last opportunity before the number of people reversed, and rushed forward.

"Bayonets in the front row!" Not to be outdone, the Ming army did not dare to be greedy for the last fifty or sixty steps to shoot, so quickly check the bayonets and tighten them all to avoid being dragged into a white-knuckle battle directly in the state of a bare gun.

The two sides fought bloodily together, the scene was chaotic for a while, and the casualty rate also soared instantly, much faster than shooting at the beginning of nearly a hundred paces.

Both sides were flintlock muskets more than five feet long, with two-foot-long bayonet blades and seven-foot-long weapons, which were not inferior to pikemen at all.

However, after a cup of tea, dozens of people were killed on both sides, and the number of Ming troops ashore was increasing, and the Dutch soon could not stand it.

At this moment, Zhang Guozhu finally landed successfully with two sampans loaded with four-pounder cavalry guns, and the guns were already loaded with gunpowder and propellant when they were on the ship, but they had not yet been loaded with projectiles, so as not to be mistriggered. As soon as he landed ashore, Zhang Guozhu ordered to immediately load the cannonballs and fire at the Dutch.

"The general can't do it, the formation is too chaotic to fire the cannon, and the gun carriage hasn't been fixed yet." The gunner looked at the situation of the dogs and the enemy and the unfixed gun mount, and suddenly he was a little at a loss.

Zhang Guozhu knew that he had to make a decision at this time: "It's okay to release empty cannons without loading shells!" Just scare the red dogs! Hit backwards! Don't hurt your own people! ”

The gunners could not disobey the order, so in a panic, regardless of the recoilless unloading measures, they directly fired at the cavalry guns, which had only gunpowder and no projectiles—of course, they were attacking the positions where there was no one behind the enemy formation, so as not to injure their own people by mistake.

With two roars one after another, the morale of the Dutch troops on the opposite side was also suffocated. After all, it is a form of combat that has never been seen in this era, where did the Dutch hear that as soon as the landing force came ashore, they could directly fire artillery without any preparations?

"The people of the Ming Kingdom actually have cannons that can be fired when they go ashore?" Captain Yang Sen was also stunned for a moment,

Although none of his men were seriously injured, at most a few were blackened by the spray of gunpowder gas, or scraped by the flying sand and gravel, the Dutch soldiers were briefly stunned.

Relying on this momentum, the Ming army instantly began to push back, stabbing with bayonets, and killing more than ten people in a row, and the Dutch finally began to turn around and run because of fear.

"Run! Anyway, the Ming barbarians are already on the bayonet! Don't run into the cannons! A few clever Dutchmen ran away, and some of them didn't know whether they were frightened or alerted their comrades, and they actually spoke to themselves, although no one heard them.

But in the hearts of all the Dutch, in fact, there is a common sense - they have entered the state of fighting bayonets between the two armies, but the enemy is sending more and more reinforcements, and if they are really defeated and retreated, they can only be defeated, and it is no big deal.

This kind of thinking will be very naïve in the eyes of future generations: if they are all in hand-to-hand combat, but they are defeated halfway, won't they open their backs and let the enemy chase and shoot them?

But in the seventeenth century, this was true, because they had all used intubated bayonets, and once a battle had been fitted with bayonets, they could not be pulled out in a short time, and it was impossible to quickly return the muskets to a firing state.

In the bloody battle just now, most of them did not carefully understand that the musket bayonets of the Ming army on the opposite side were actually more advanced and epoch-making shackle bayonets, rather than the backward intubation bayonets of the Dutch, so they did not expect the serious problem of "once the Ming army is out of hand-to-hand combat, it can be re-engaged in shooting in an instant".

Perhaps a few of the Dutch were observant and had good eyes, but these few could not control the collapse of the troops, and their comrades ran away, but they stayed where they were, and they would only be stabbed to death by the bayonet team with the absolute numerical superiority of the Ming army more quickly.

"Bang bang bang!"

The Dutch thought they could retreat safely, but they didn't escape thirty or forty paces, and the Ming army actually opened fire again in their backs!

This round of shooting, is really outstanding, that is to the fleeing enemy in the back shots, the remaining more than 100 Dutch remnants instantly collapsed, the Ming army took advantage of the situation to pursue, all the way to the foot of the line tail mountain fort, almost wiped out this group of Dutch, was caught up with most of them kneeling on the ground begging for mercy and surrendered.

Major Endrick, the defender of the Linetail Mountain Battery, did not expect to call in the heavy artillery fire support of the battery at first, and most of his gun positions were still facing the waterway on the north and south sides, lest it was true that the Ming army would seize the beach and take the opportunity to sneak across the channel.

When he found that Captain Janssen had failed to attack halfway and collapsed, he ordered to adjust the angle of fire from the fortress cannons, but it was too late.

When the remnants of Captain Yang Sen retreated hundreds of steps outside the fort, the artillery of the Xianweishan battery began to open fire in a hurry, but it did not cover the advance route of the Ming army, but only blocked and restricted the movement of part of the Ming army's landing field.

"Push the cannon to the east! Don't stay in the firing angle of the battery gun! Speed up the movement! Take advantage of the fact that there are not many Hongyi devils on the fort! Follow the assault! ”

Zhang Guozhu carried four cavalry cannons, and although there were no horses to pull the cannons, he could count on dozens of people to fight to the death and move flexibly.

After the first batch of 800 Ming troops went ashore, the movable sampan immediately returned to pick up the second batch of reinforcements to land, trying to bypass the landing point that avoided the artillery blockade on the fort and avoid the main channel to seize the beach.

The threat of the Dutch's artillery to defend the city finally began to gradually increase, and the Ming army's casualty exchange ratio finally became bloody, and dozens of hundreds of war dead began to appear, but the Ming army still landed one after another, and soon even Zhang Mingzhen himself led the team ashore.

Zheng Chenggong also asked his gunboats to get as close to the line as possible, and fired their guns indiscriminately to share the pressure, even if the range could not hit the forts on the island at all - who made the range of the coastal defense fortress guns in any era must be far away from the naval guns.

The main generals of the Ming army all understood a truth: don't be afraid of casualties, take the opportunity to take the line tail mountain fort first, take advantage of the fact that Hongyi did not expect that the Ming army would directly force the beach at any cost, and take advantage of the lack of defenders of the line tail mountain fort of the Hongyi people, and quickly eat it.

The forts at the end of the line were far less fortified than those of the cities of Geranza and Chichi, and were only a fort of civil structure, otherwise they would not have been destroyed by a typhoon in 1656. Fighting a strong attack battle of sneak attack and quick attack here, it is better to go to the city of Geranza and the city of Chichi.

No matter how tricky the defenders are, after all, there are only 240 people left in the fort, even if one can kill a few Ming soldiers, it can be quickly drowned!

In this way, the Ming army withstood the casualties, relying on the pressure of flowers on all sides, coupled with biting the tail of the collapsed Captain Yang Sen's troops, taking advantage of the chaos to cover up, and the cavalry artillery also arrived from behind when the infantry had already begun to climb, and began to try to bombard the door and wall, focusing on a fast word.

After half an hour of bloody fighting, the Ming army finally attacked the inside of the fort and began the final white-knuckle battle, and finally Major Endrick saw that the general situation was gone, and had to lead the remnants to surrender and beg for mercy.

……

More than an hour later, Zheng Chenggong also hurriedly landed on the online tail, joined Zhang Mingzhen, climbed to watch the battlefield, and grasped the latest situation.

The Dutch on the island had been cleared, and the Ming army repelled two small groups of Dutch reinforcements from the south and north shores of the mouth of Taijiang Bay who tried to land on the island to rescue.

Each repulse also caused dozens of casualties to the Dutch, but it is a pity that these Dutch wounded soldiers came by boat, and it is impossible to count the deaths and wounds of muskets from a long distance, let alone beheading, and they will be dragged back by Dutch boats.

"Major General, our army has killed more than 220 Hongyi levels! Eighty-seven people were killed and wounded, and one hundred and seventy-six people were taken prisoner! Destroy and capture four light guns and four fortress heavy guns! Repelled two enemy reinforcements, killing and wounding hundreds of people, all of whom were dragged back by enemy ships, and they could not be counted!

Our army killed 355 people, 287 people were seriously injured, and 100 people drowned without a trace, and they are still searching! ”

After hearing this result, Zheng Chenggong finally breathed a sigh of relief,

It is true that the number of dead and wounded is much higher than that of the Dutch, but this is a fortress attack with a quick sneak attack. Of the number of dead and wounded, only about 20 percent were paid for in the beachhead field battle, and the subsequent 80 percent died during the storming of the fortress by taking advantage of the chaos.

If the Dutch hadn't finally had 170 or 80 remnants of the army, and saw that the gate and wall of the fortress had been breached, they chose to surrender, and the Ming army might have to pay several times more losses than the surrendered troops to kill all the Dutch who had absolute geographical advantages.

In any case, the fort blocking the channel at the mouth of the Taijiang Bay has been taken, and the conditions for the large force to enter the deep-water anchorage in the bay and directly unload the main force are also sufficient.

There is no way to kill a little person, if you want to kill people quickly, you will have to smash people's lives, go back and bury the dead soldiers well, erect a monument to engrave their names, and then reward and compensate their families.

Zheng Chenggong didn't dare to delay, and immediately ordered: "Quick, take advantage of the twilight of the day, let the main fleet enter the bay in the dark at that time!" The Hongyi people may shoot blindly at the waterway at night,

But don't care, they can't beat it in the dark, and the soldiers who are blinded can only say that their fate is not good! Before dawn tomorrow, we will have to gain a firm foothold in the hinterland of Dayuan Bay! Set up a field camp! ”

Moreover, with the destruction of the fort on Jiangkou Island, Zheng Chenggong's old technique of "taking advantage of the high tide to smuggle across the Luermen Channel" in history can also be used to reapply - although it may be a little inappropriate to say "recast", after all, Zheng Chenggong in this time and space has done this for the first time.

Before nightfall that day, the Dutch organized two more counterattacks and tried to re-ascend the line tail mountain at the mouth of the river, but they were all in vain, and the Dutch had no choice but to give up, and sure enough, as Zheng Chenggong expected, they only saw the shadow of the ship passing by in the middle of the night and bombarded indiscriminately.

Early the next morning, the Dutch discovered that the previous night's shelling was useless, and the Zheng family's fleet took advantage of the high tide to enter Dayuan Bay at the mouth of the river from the northern channel of Luermen.

What surprised the Dutch even more was that the natives on Dayuan Island, after learning that the Ming army was coming, immediately ate pot pulp, took out food to trade with the Ming army, and provided supplies to the Ming army, which further alleviated the shortage of military food for the Ming army to cross the sea.

This year, the Ming army's offensive intentions were not revealed too long in advance, and the Dutch were not fully prepared for the fortified wall.

Historically, before Zheng Chenggong's attack, the Dutch had a considerable amount of time to prepare, but the governor at that time sent troops to the countryside to collect grain, and also burned about 8,000 stone of rice that the people had secretly stored and harvested late.

Now that there is not enough time, it is more normal for the people to trade with the Ming army to solve the military rations, and it is not considered to be open.

……

After Zheng Chenggong established the camp, the Dutch are now the governor of the city, Cornelis. Fan. Morality. Lieutenant General Lynn felt more and more like pins and needles.

He thought about taking advantage of the Ming army's unstable foothold on the shore of Dayuan Bay to organize a counterattack.

However, Colonel Vanderbilt, who was in charge of guarding the Red Embedded City, refused his request, on the grounds that the defensive strength of the Red Embedded City was still insufficient, and a rash counterattack would only lose the vitality in vain, resulting in the subsequent defense of the city being unable to hold the city.

To tell the truth, Colonel Vanderbilt's words are not wrong, because the Dutch army now has only two main forces left in the southern part of Dayuan Island.

There are three companies of defenders in Chichicheng, and the actual number is less than the number, and some of them are due to the attrition of the Spaniards in the previous two years, but in fact there are more than 600 soldiers in total.

The other was the defenders of the city of Geranza, under the direct command of Lieutenant General Cornelius, which was fully staffed, but only six phalanx companies, each with 240 men, for a total of 1,440 men.

The rest were five Galen warships, ten patrol ships, frigates and other medium-sized clippers, some gunners, sailors, merchants, and some Dutch civilians engaged in docks and merchant houses in the two towns, which could be forcibly brought in to defend the city at a critical moment, but the number of these two parts was only more than 1,000 each, and they were not professional soldiers.

In addition to the troops in the southern part of Dayuan Island, in the northern part of Dayuan Island, around the port of Shuishui, the Dutch army also has an expeditionary force of five companies, which was left to be responsible for the purging and public security pursuit after defeating the Spaniards in the north the year before last.

But the five companies were not yet fully formed, and in fact there were only more than 800 men, plus two warships and a number of small boats. To reinforce the south of the island, you have to trek five or six hundred miles by sea to the south, which will take at least ten days, and it is very likely that you will be intercepted by the Ming army's sailors at sea halfway.

Lieutenant General Cornelis commanded Colonel Vanderbilt, so he could only take the risk himself, trying to send a small group of elite troops to attack Zheng Chenggong's camp at night, kick off the operation with artillery bombardment, and then rush up and set fire.

But this attempt apparently failed, and a small death squad and several artillery pieces were lost overnight, and General Cornellis had no choice but to retreat.

However, this failed attempt was not completely fruitless. Because in the process of the Dutch army attacking the camp at night, a few people escaped alive, and a few Ming prisoners were captured in the melee.

By torturing these captives, General Cornelius was able to thoroughly understand the approximate true size of the Ming army's combat forces and all the main commanders for the first time.

I learned that there are not only the Zheng family sailors who have been dealing with for many years, but also Zhang Mingzhen's department transferred from Zhoushan by the Ming Dynasty, the total number of people is not less than 30,000, and the new elite musketeers are at least tens of thousands! Dozens or hundreds of artillery pieces are possible!

After finding out this information, although Cornelius still felt that it was possible that the captives were exaggerating and deceiving him, the difference should not be bad, at least the size of the Ming army's fleet was there.

So he couldn't help but gasp: That's 30,000 people! Tens of thousands of musketeers! More than 100 cannons!

And he only had a total of more than 2,100 combat troops in the local area (after the destruction of the defenders of the online Weiyu Fort), one or two thousand merchants and sailors and other civilians, plus more than 800 people in Fort Anthony and other places in the north of the island and other places!

In any case, looking at the proportion of regular army soldiers, the Ming army has a tenfold numerical advantage, and the key is that the level of weapons and equipment shown by this new Ming army is no worse than that of the Dutch!

At least in terms of guns, it is definitely on par with the Dutch, or even slightly stronger than the Dutch, and the weakness is only the seaworthiness and solidity of the battleship.

To put it bluntly, the Daming shipbuilding industry still has shortcomings compared with the Dutch shipbuilding industry, and Zhu Shuren has traveled over the past few years, and he has not been able to quickly make a leap forward in the Daming shipbuilding industry.

There was a huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, the failure to resist the enemy on the beachhead, and the failure of the half-crossing attack, as the Ming army gained a firm foothold and gradually began to establish an encirclement, to besiege the cities of Chichicheng and Geranza, Lieutenant General Cornelius had no choice but to recognize the situation:

Since there is a high probability that it will not be able to fight, let's try to negotiate, after all, this time it was the Ming side that took the initiative to provoke the war, and I heard that the Han civil officials generally still want to face it, maybe they can condemn the Ming diplomatically, and let them accept it when they see the loss.

Of course, to tell the truth, if he had been sure to repel the Ming army militarily from the beginning, Lieutenant General Cornelius would not have disdained to use diplomatic negotiation methods as soon as he came up, and he would still want to establish his authority first.

This is not a success, and he also broke a few teeth, so he thought of diplomatic means.

……

On October 27, the sixth day after the Ming army arrived on Dayuan Island, it was also the fourth day after the Ming army landed and established the camp.

The negotiators sent by Lieutenant General Cornelius finally came to the camp of Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen under the flag of armistice and asked for negotiations.

Zheng Chenggong discussed it with Zhang Mingzhen, and felt that it was not good to raise an unknown army, and to let the enemy know why they were beaten, and the Ming Dynasty was not a country that started wars indiscriminately, so he met with him.

"Who is here, and what is the current position?" After putting the messenger in, Zheng Chenggong sat on the white tiger skin chair with a golden sword, his hand pressed the hilt of the sword he carried at his waist, and the halberd pointed at the comer.

Of course, the interpreter next to him will also translate his words to the other party.

Fortunately, the translator seemed to be busy in vain, and the Chinese proficiency of the visitor was not bad, so he replied directly in Chinese: "Dear General Zheng, I am the plenipotentiary envoy sent by Lieutenant General Cornelis, the governor of the Dayuan, and the director of the Dayuan Merchant Pavilion of the East India Company, Langrich.

We have learned the military might of your country, but our Netherlands and the Ming have had a complete truce for seven years, and have negotiated a ceasefire and reached a trade peace treaty many times before.

Why do you want to suddenly raise an unknown teacher to invade my borders now? Aren't you afraid of damaging the reputation of the country and integrity?

Even if General Zheng succeeded in seizing the land by bullying the outnumbered, bullying the weak, how would the Ryukyus, Korea, Annam, and Borneo countries view the Ming Dynasty after learning about this?

Now, although our Dutch has lost hundreds of soldiers and some property, as long as General Zheng is willing to know your way and retreat back, we can continue to trade, and our East India Company can be lenient and not care about this loss. Everyone has a time when Hutu takes a wrong step, and everyone should look forward. ”

It can be seen that the director of this merchant hall is still a China expert, and he knows that the court doctors of the Ming Dynasty still want face, so he will first talk about the reason for turning his face and starting a war, and he is very fluent in Chinese.