Chapter 159: The reinforcements were blown away by the gale
Wu Youke has been hungry for more than ten days.
During this period, Luo Sanpao was afraid that he would starve to death, so he threw him a piece of bread, which was barely hanging for his life.
When he saw Zheng Zhilong at this time, he thought it was a hallucination before he died.
After looking up, he continued to lie on the ground.
Zheng Zhilong didn't care about finding the key, took out the treasure knife on his waist, cut the chain a few times and rushed in.
"Ambassador Wu, it's me! Zheng Zhilong! ”
Zheng Zhilong knelt in front of Wu Youke, and because he didn't know if he was injured, he didn't dare to move.
Wu Youke raised his head again and looked at Zheng Zhilong.
Now he was sure it wasn't a hallucination.
"Zheng Zongbing. There you are! Xu Yanru, save Xu Yanru. My retinue. ”
Wu Youke's eye sockets were deep, and he weakly pointed to the next door and said to Zheng Zhilong.
Zheng Zhilong hurriedly ordered someone to go next door and found Xu Yanru, who was covered in bruises. At this time, Xu Yanru had fallen into a coma. Seeing this, Zheng Zhilong's qi and blood surged. Seeing that this was not the place to speak, Zheng Zhilong ordered someone to carry Wu Youke and Xu Yanru out.
Wu Youke is okay, except for weakness, there are no injuries. Xu Yanru's situation is very bad. There is basically no good place on the body, and there are whip marks everywhere.
Some places have become inflamed, and the whole person is hot and has a high fever.
Zheng Zhilong ordered someone to find Wu Youke's medicine box, and under his command, he cleaned the wounds on Xu Yanru's body and fed him medicine. But whether he will wake up or not is still unknown.
"Ambassador Wu, do you know why the red-haired devil wants to arrest you?" After finishing his work, Zheng Zhilong finally asked the question in his heart.
"Your Majesty has given you a special medicine for malaria, and even a seriously ill patient can be cured after two or three days. I practiced medicine on the island and saved a lot of Han Chinese, but the red-haired devil didn't know how to learn about it, so he arrested us. robbed us of our medicine, and wanted to ask for prescriptions and practices. Wu Youke drank some honey water, recovered his strength a little, and told the ins and outs of the matter.
"Fuck! These red-haired devils are really not things. Look at what people have become! Ripan, go, cut down that dog traitor. By the way, cut a few more red-haired devils to make Ambassador Wu angry! ”
"Yes, big brother!"
Luo Sanpao never imagined that death was so close to him.
If you don't cut the leader of Kemp, why do you want to cut yourself?
"Don't kill me, I'm Han!"
"If you weren't for the Han people, maybe you wouldn't have to die, phew! Dog traitor! Zheng Zhihu spat at Luo Sanpao, cut off his head with a knife, and blood spurted out of the cavity more than a foot high.
Zheng Zhihu was not happy after cutting Luo Sancang, and dragged a few red-haired devils. One by one, it slashed six in a row before stopping.
"This is the interest collected for Ambassador Wu, whether you can live or not depends on Your Majesty's will."
After speaking, he glanced at the silent Kemp, turned his head and left.
After finishing everything, Zheng Zhilong reported to Zhu Youzhen the process of capturing Prominsha and Wu Youke's rescue.
Zhu Youzhen breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that Wu Youke was safe and sound. Immediately afterwards, he gave Zheng Zhilong a way to deal with the Dutch in the city of Prominsha.
Cut down the leader, and lock up the rest first.
In the future, large areas of land will need people, and they can't be allowed to die so easily.
After receiving Zhu Youzhen's order, Zheng Zhilong immediately pulled Cam Pu out.
"What are you doing, we have surrendered! Your casual killing of captives is a crime that seriously infringes on the personal rights of captives! Camp shouted.
"Okay, good, I've sinned. Let your headquarters send troops to punish me! Zheng Zhilong replied with a smile in Dutch.
After saying that, he slashed Camp with a knife.
Your Majesty has given orders, what do you say is the use of this?
Still sinning, using your Dutch laws to punish me for the sins of the Ming Army? What a great official authority!
Zheng Zhilong's army repaired in Prominsha for two days, and then planned to attack the core of the Dutch in Taiwan, the city of Orenji.
On the third day, Zheng Zhilong left 4,000 men to guard Promensha, and led 16,000 men to the city of Orenji.
Before leaving, I met a wave of people outside the city.
"Liu Neng?" Zheng Zhilong looked at the leader and was amazed.
"Why are you here?"
"General Zheng, we heard that the general was attacking this Puluo City, so we discussed it with the villagers and decided to come to help. Hurry up, hurry up, finally catch up. ”
Zheng Zhilong smiled.
"Liu Neng, you have not been trained and have never fought a war, so I am afraid it will be difficult to survive if you rush to the battlefield. Well, you're in charge of helping defend in Prominsha. He couldn't bear to refuse the enthusiasm of Liu Neng and the others, but after all, these people were peasants who had just put on their armor, so they were assigned the task of defending the city.
Liu Neng no longer insisted after hearing this, and knew that with the level of himself and others, he was afraid that it would be chaos on the ship. entered the city under Zheng Zhilong's arrangement.
And Puttersmann of Orange City had already learned of the breach of Prominsha, and he was so angry that he dropped his cup.
He thought that it would be no problem for Prominsha to hold on for a month, and as soon as the reinforcements arrived, he would lead the army to attack inside and outside, which would definitely make the Ming army suffer a big loss. Let this arrogant Zheng Zhilong taste the power of our Dutch artillery.
The result?
People are about to come around.
He was confident in the defense of Orange City, which had a lot of food! It's no problem to eat for a year. And there are wells in the city, so you don't have to worry about being cut off from the water by the Ming army.
Here it comes!
The soldier standing on the watchtower and observing yelled.
The Ming army is coming.
"Pass the order, as soon as the Ming army enters the firing range, fire the cannon immediately! Let them taste our awesomeness! ”
Zheng Zhilong ordered the army to divide into three routes: north, south, and east, and rushed towards the city of Olunzhi in a closed circle.
He mobilized more than sixty artillery pieces and was ready to gnaw hard bones.
Sure enough, as soon as he entered the range of the opponent's artillery, he was attacked fiercely by the opponent. Zheng Zhilong ordered the artillerymen to fire back, and on the other hand, the soldiers hurriedly dug parallel trenches, and built Ruo** platform and defensive fort baskets. His intention was very obvious, that is, to use simple and direct frontal artillery bombardment to gradually destroy the outer walls of the city of Orenji.
But the walls of the city of Orange were unusually strong, and they were all made of glutinous rice lime. The artillery in Zheng Zhilong's hand was a solid cannonball, and the damage to the city wall was minimal.
In this way, while building forts and trenches, Zheng Zhilong's army began to fire aimlessly with the defenders of Orange City. During this period, due to the rash advance, several artillery pieces were destroyed by the opponent.
A hint of gloom flashed in Zheng Zhilong's heart. I'm afraid that we will have to rely on a long siege to win this battle.
But your own logistical supply will be a big problem.
Three days later, something even more terrible happened.
Reinforcements from Batavia finally arrived in the waters of Taiwan, and the soldiers defending the city cheered!
Putsmann was also very excited.
This is an internal and external attack, see if you die!
The fleet from Batavia was led by four ships with 36, 34, 33, 32 guns and more than 700 soldiers on board.
Zheng Zhilong was also a little panicked, he didn't expect the other party's reinforcements to come in such a timely manner! Your own fortifications are not yet ready. And the personnel are too scattered, and it is easy to be broken by the fierce firepower of the other side.
Just as Zheng Zhilong was hesitating whether to temporarily avoid his front, reinforcements began to dock and prepare to land.
But as soon as a little supplies and dozens of soldiers were unloaded, a violent wind suddenly blew on the otherwise calm sea.
This water area is very shallow, and if you are not careful, the big ship will run aground, and there is no way for reinforcements. I can only take shelter at sea, planning to wait for the wind and waves to be a little less before landing.
As a result, it retreated one section after another, but the wind and waves became bigger and bigger.
The flotilla of reinforcements was getting farther and farther away from Orange City. Eventually it became a dot and disappeared.
Zheng Zhilong was stunned.
Putsman was also stunned.
What do you mean?
Reinforcements were blown away by the wind?
Putsmann's aggrieved lungs were about to explode. The strong wind doesn't come early, it doesn't come late, just wait for the reinforcements to arrive? A little earlier, can't you play for a while?
What about me?
But even more sad were the dozens of soldiers who went ashore. Fuck, just got off the boat, turned around, and the boat was scraped off? They stood alone on the shore, looking in the direction of the city of Orange.
Who am I?
Where am I?
After Zheng Zhilong reacted, he laughed.
"God help me!"
He immediately ordered to step up the construction of fortifications, and ordered people to go and arrest dozens of reinforcement soldiers who had come ashore. The reinforcement soldiers directly gave up resistance and were caught in Zheng Zhilong's camp in despair.
Putsmann had thought that when the storm calmed down, reinforcements would return.
But he waited, waited.
One day, two days, three days.
He waited so long that he didn't even see a single reinforcement.