The Dutch robbers were knocked unconscious by two rifle salvos. The huge casualties sent them into a state of rage and began to behave unreasonably. One hundred and twenty paces away, the Dutch set up their bows and arrows to shoot at the riflemen at the top of the hill. This distance is far beyond the effective range of the bow and arrow, and the shot can only be indiscriminate.

The archers had already loaded their ammunition, and at this time they set up their mounts and began to shoot up the hill. Pieces of fire erupted at the foot of the hill, and the crackling gunfire merged into a loud explosion. More than 300 buckshot rounds flew to the top of the mountain. These lead bullets are inaccurate and spread extremely wide after a flight of almost two hundred meters. Of the more than 300 rounds of bows and arrows, only about 30 of them hit the soldiers of the trapped regiment.

However, these red-haired bows and arrows have a large diameter and are not small. The thirty soldiers of the Trap Regiment who had been shot were all shot through the chain mail and fell down screaming. But none of them died. Seeing that Hongmao had injured his comrades, the other soldiers of the trapping regiment rushed into anger and immediately began the third salvo. The Dutch bows in the second row had not yet come up to the front row to shoot, and the third salvo of the trap regiment swept over. Dozens of red-haired sailors slammed their bodies, and blood bloomed on their bodies. They screamed and covered their wounds with their hands, but they couldn't hold back the blood that was pouring out.

There were sailors who were unwilling to fall like this, grabbed the shoulders of their companions around them, roared loudly, and finally hung on their companions and died. The five strong crossbows in the camp also opened fire on the red hair. Five powerful crossbows shot long arrows, like a raindrop into the red-haired array. The Dutch soldier who had been hit by a long arrow had no way to live. Blood and flesh were reduced to scrap and scattered in the air. The Dutchman who was still alive in the front row seemed to be bathed in a rain of blood, sprayed red by the blood of his comrades who had been shot. Some of them also had some minced meat flying out of the bodies of their comrades who had been shot, which was extremely terrifying.

The Dutch retreated. More than 800 people were killed at once, and more than 200 were killed at once, and the casualties were already unbearable, and the bows and arrows on this side had not yet entered the effective range. Such a battle cannot be fought. The officer in the lead yelled something, and the beats of the firecracker-like drum stopped. The Dutch soldiers gave up storming the hill and fled with bows and arrows on their backs.

Fang Laosan turned to look at Guan Shan, and heard the commander shouting loudly: "The whole army is pursuing!" More than 300 soldiers, armed with rifles, pursued the fleeing Dutch. The camp was more than ten miles away from the bay where the red haired boats were parked, and the red hairs saw that the tiger master chased them out, and they ran very embarrassed. The soldiers of the trapped regiment chased after them with loaded rifles, and when they saw the outdated red hair, they shot them several times and killed them. chased all the way to the sea, and the trapped group killed more than 40 red hairs.

The Dutch suffered heavy losses this time, you must know that even in the naval battle of Liaoluo Bay in the southeast a few years ago, Sloppy only cut off more than 100 red-haired heads. And today, the Dutch left more than 300 corpses under this unknown small camp at once. After chasing until the seashore and the range of the strong crossbow on the Dutch ship, Guan Shan stopped the pursuit. There were too many crossbows on the Dutch ships, and a single blow would cause very heavy casualties.

The Dutch hurried into the boats, rowed away from the shore, and rowed toward the big boats, not daring to turn back and engage the soldiers of the trapped. Fang Laosan hid in the pine forest by the sea, where he observed the nine big ships with red hair in the distance. The nine big ships were not small, they were about the same size as the Tianjing, and two were even bigger than the Tianjing. The boats had wide bellies and dense soft sails. Each ship had a number of strong crossbows on its belly, some with a dozen and some with more than twenty.

There are so many red-haired crossbows! This fleet has many more crossbows than all the crossbows of the Khitan outside the Guanwai. These red-haired ships plundered everywhere and would be the number one enemy of the city lord to open up Taiwan. Fang Laosan was observing the ship there, and he didn't know who was behind him and took the lead and shouted, "Wan Sheng!" And the four hundred soldiers shouted in unison. Fang Laosan turned his head, looked at the excited soldiers of the trapping regiment, and also raised his fist, shouting loudly: "Wan Sheng!" ”

In January, the shipwrights of Wangjiawan delivered another ship, and Yang Peng's fleet expanded to four ships. Four ships were put into the development of Taiwan, and another 100 soldiers and 1,400 peasants arrived in Taiwan. By mid-February, there were 3,500 people in Taiwan.

Boss Wei heard that the city lord had studied the map in Tianjing New Town, and called the area occupied by these 3,500 people Hsinchu, Taiwan. Hsinchu, Boss Wei thinks the name sounds okay, and there are indeed a lot of bamboos nearby. Boss Wei has been cutting down the isolation zone in the woods during this time. It took more than a month for 400 soldiers and 800 peasants to finally cut out the separation zone around the first planned farmland and start burning the wasteland.

On the day of the burning, Boss Wei lit fires everywhere in the woods with torches. The time for burning was when there was no rain for several days, and the woods were very dry, and a large area was burned by a fire. Boss Wei and his two comrades-in-arms worked in groups of three, first lighting a fire in the depths of the woods, and then retreating outside little by little, lighting other places along the way. In the end, the fire burst into the face, almost burning the three of Boss Wei.

Fortunately, the isolation zone was cut out before, and the three of them fled outside the isolation belt. The fire burned for five days, raising the temperature in the neighborhood quite a bit. After burning for three days, Boss Wei was ordered to enter the fire area to inspect it, and continued to light the place where the fire did not burn, until the forest of more than 100,000 acres was burned flat.

Eventually, the forests on the east and west sides of the camp burned down. Standing on the hill of the camping camp and looking over, I saw only a scorched earth on both sides of the river, and there was nothing but black grass and ash. The next step was to build the irrigation canals. Commander Zheng made the irrigation canal planned this time four miles long, and a large area should be irrigated. Such an irrigation canal should be six feet above the ground at the edge of the river, gradually lowering from the river to the distance to allow the water to flow down the irrigation canal into the distance.

Boss Wei followed the squad leader and began to dig the soil with a shovel, ram the soil with a stone hammer, and start to build irrigation canals. On this day, Boss Wei was shoveling soil, and suddenly sighed: "Yuan Jin, this burned soil is really fat!" Yuan Jin, who was in the same class as Boss Wei, shoveled into the soil with a shovel and said with a smile: "That is, this plant ash is the best fertilizer." I heard the platoon commander say that one acre of ordinary paddy fields in Fujian can produce two stones and five buckets of rice. The fields we burned are so fat, and the harvest is even higher! ”

Boss Wei also attended the soldier's night school, and now he can count. He stood there and calculated, and said, "The farmers who have come to Hsinchu are so rich." Yuan Jin smiled, shoveled another shovel of soil onto the cart, and did not speak. Boss Wei thought for a while and said, "I'm going to write to my little boys, asking them to sign up for Taiwan to open up wasteland." Although I can't be an officer and recruit them into Fanjiazhuang, coming to Hsinchu to be a farmer is not much worse than being a soldier! ”

From January to April, Yang Peng's textile factory has been expanding production. The quality of Yang Peng's fine cloth is better than that of hand-woven cloth on the market, and it is very easy to sell. However, if it is dumped in the prefectures and counties of the Great Song Dynasty, it will bankrupt the housewives who spin and weave at home, causing very serious social problems, and eventually it will become a political problem. Therefore, Yang Peng has not been a large-scale textile factory.

However, after the steamship opened the route to Hirado, Yang Peng had the Wa State market, and he could dump high-quality and inexpensive fine cloth into the Wa Kingdom. Of course, the dumping of mechanized large-scale production of fine cloth into the Wa State would also cause the bankruptcy of the weavers of the Wa State. But that was the problem of the Japanese people, and Yang Peng didn't bother to think about it. During this period, Yang Peng's trading fleet has been running Taiwan routes, and the cotton cloth produced by the textile factory is piled up in the warehouse. Yang Peng plans to let the fleet continue to run in Taiwan until mid-May. From the middle of May to the end of August of the lunar calendar, there will be a typhoon on the southeast coast, and the fleet will take out the Tianjing Xincheng-Hirado route to avoid the typhoon.

By the end of April, Yang Peng recruited tenant farmers and began to cultivate 200,000 mu of private land on both sides of the rivers in Qingxian and Xingji counties. Although the harvest of paddy fields cultivated in Taiwan is higher, the construction of Tianjing New City cannot be left behind. After all, Tianjing New Town is the base camp, and the large amount of farmland in the local area is still conducive to the stability and prosperity of the local area. After all, Taiwan's rice has to be shipped across the sea, and no one knows if there will be problems at sea. For example, during a typhoon, the fleet cannot run back and forth between the two places.

Guan Shan was not in Tianjing New Town, so Yang Peng asked Huang Guang to be responsible for organizing the reclamation of Xintian. Now Yang Peng's prestige in Tianjing New City is in full swing, and the garrisons everywhere are extremely obsessed with Yang Peng, and the local gentry do not dare to stop Yang Peng from repairing irrigation canals. With the cooperation of all parties, there is basically no obstacle to the reclamation of new fields. Although Huang Guang did this for the first time, he was able to organize 10,000 tenant farmers to open up the wasteland.

During this period, Yang Peng's shipbuilders continued to launch new ships. In late February, five large ships built in Dengzhou and Laizhou, Shandong, with which Gao Ligong was in contact, were launched. On the ninth day of the fourth month, Wangjiawan built another big boat, and Yang Peng had ten big boats.

With these 10 big ships, Yang Peng can transport more than 3,000 peasants to Hsinchu in one trip. Although there were ten ships, there were not so many crossbows. The new gunsmiths of the Crossbow Workshop are not yet skilled, and the production capacity of the Crossbow Workshop is still slowly increasing. From the beginning of January to the end of April, Li Zhi's crossbowsmiths produced only eighty heavy crossbows in four months. Eight of Yang Peng's ten ships were equipped with strong crossbows, and two boats did not have strong crossbows.

But even so, the Hachijo gunboats were very powerful. Even the Dutch pirate fleet consisted of only nine ballistas. Moreover, Yang Peng's steamship runs faster than a sailboat, and he can run when he encounters a large fleet that can't be beaten. So on the whole, Yang Peng's fleet is very safe. In early May, Yang Peng followed the fleet and headed for Hsinchu, a stronghold in Taiwan. Now Hsinchu has transported 10,000 people over, and Yang Peng has to consume 2,000 stone of grain, a large amount of silver and various materials every month, and Yang Peng wants to see how the construction is going.

Along the way, the wind was clear and the clouds were light, and ten steamers broke the waves and moved forward, and it took eight days to reach the sea off Zhejiang. On this day, Yang Peng was standing on the stern of the Nova with a cup of Longjing tea, chatting with the captain of the fleet, Lu Hu. "City Lord, Taiwan is so wild, why doesn't the city lord wait for the construction to be completed?"

Yang Peng smiled and said, "Wilderness is a good place. It is precisely because of the wilderness that we can reclaim and profit. If we are as highly mature as Da Song everywhere, and there are many obstacles to everything we do, it will be extremely difficult for us to carry out our career. ”

Lu Hu nodded and said: "The city lord is not afraid of miasma, and he personally went to the wild Taiwan to inspect, I admire it!" Yang Peng looked at the seagull following the stern of the ship and said, "In the future, we will explore more places and conquer more wild places." and the Europeans, the blood of the Han people occupies the whole world. ”

The two were talking there when they suddenly heard Aban on the mast shouting, "There is a fleet to the south!" Everyone was stunned and looked to the south. Yang Peng raised his binoculars and observed on the horizon for a while, and sure enough, he saw a fleet gradually emerging from below the horizon. After a while, the two fleets gradually got closer, and Yang Peng saw the opposite fleet clearly. The fleet was huge, with nine ships. The ships in the fleet were not small, each one looked the size of the Nova, and the two largest ships were even larger than the Nova.

The ship's Aban shouted: "Tricolor! It's the red-haired pirate fleet! Hearing Aban's words, the people on the boat became a little nervous, and they all looked at Yang Peng. Lu Hu said: "City Lord, eight of our ships have strong crossbows, and they may not be able to beat the Dutch. Let's get out of the way of them, right? Yang Peng carefully observed the Dutch fleet and did not speak. Lu Hu couldn't help it, and he also held a telescope to look at the Dutch fleet, but he couldn't see anything famous.

"City Lord, can we escape?" Yang Peng put down the binoculars, shook his head and said, "Our strong crossbow is much more powerful than theirs. We don't run away, we sink them all! Lu Hu was stunned and said: "City Lord" Li Zhi waved his hand and said: "Pass the order, the fleet will form a line to meet the red hair who rushed up to die." Lu Hu had no choice but to shout loudly to the sailors who spoke at the flag: "The fleet platoon is lined up to meet the enemy!" Use a broadside crossbow with a grenade mounted on it to aim at the red-haired boat. ”

"Captain of the Combined Fleet of the United East India Company of the Republic of the Netherlands and Captain of the Flagship Bredan" Forreston looked at the Song fleet in the distance with a monocular, and did not speak. Formosa is the Dutch name for Taiwan. The Combined Formosa Fleet is a fleet based in the city of Geranza in southern Taiwan. This fleet has been plundering near Taiwan, sometimes robbing merchant ships, sometimes rushing to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty to plunder, as if it was a local hegemon.

With the exception of January when they were repulsed by Guanshan when they went ashore to rob northwest of Formosa, the pirate fleet never encountered an enemy that could match it. Even if it is Yang Peng's ship, this fleet dares to rob it.

After a long time, Forreston put down the binoculars and said, "It's this Song fleet that doesn't use sails and smokes overhead, and there are more ships in the fleet than last time!" After thinking about it, Forreston smiled and said, "The Song people have set up a horizontal formation, this is to use a strong crossbow to deal with our fleet!" The first mate beside him, Caron, put down the binoculars and said coldly: "These Song people don't know how to fight at all!" They learned that we had a strong crossbow on the ship, and they thought that we could use the strong crossbow to decide the winner. They don't know how strong our ship is, and even if it is bombarded by hundreds of powerful crossbows, it will only make a few holes in the board. ”

The second officer, Würrberg, came up and said, "Captain, this is the fleet of Yang Peng, the chief soldier of the Song State, who has been transporting peasants to the colonies north of Formosa. Their ships were full of peasants and no sailors, so they could not engage in broadside battles, so they could only use strong crossbows to aim at us, trying to use crossbows to divide the victory and defeat. ”

First mate Caron said, "Yes! There were only peasants on their ships and no sailors. We rushed up to the broadside and captured their ship! Research and study why their boat doesn't need sails! Forreston nodded. Although more than 300 people were killed in Guanshan during the attack on Hsinchu in January, Forreston had a fruitful harvest in western Formosa in recent months. The headquarters of the United East India Company in Batavia valued Forreston and replenished its staff in March. The headquarters replenished him with three hundred high-morale Dutch sailors and two hundred strong Javanese sailors.

Today there were 1,200 sailors on nine ships in Foreston. If he had to engage a broadside battle with a Song ship carrying only peasants on the opposite side, Forreston believed that he would be able to win the battle. As for Yang Peng's strong crossbow, Forreston didn't pay much attention to it. Although the warships of this era were equipped with a large number of powerful crossbows, the decisive role was often played by gang jumping. It is believed that before the jump of their own fleet, the enemy's artillery will make a few holes in the ships of the combined fleet at most.

"Pass the order! All the ships rush towards the enemy fleet and fight for the overboard! The herald hung a colorful flag on the flagship's mast, and through the flag, Foreston's order was transmitted to the other eight battleships. Nine battleships hung sails and aimed at the eight gunboats lined up in the front row by Yang Peng, ready to rush up for hand-to-hand combat.

With the southerly wind, the Dutch ships sailed very fast, at least seven or eight knots. An eighteen-gun Galen ship rushed to the front, heading directly for Yang Peng's flagship Nova. Yang Peng's eight ballistae were loaded with charges, ready to shoot. The crossbowmen grabbed a handful of arrows from their strapped grenades and fired them,

Nine Dutch sailing boats rushed in a line, each no more than a hundred meters apart. The Galen ship at the front was three, two, and one mile away from the Nova, and Yang Peng's Nova opened fire.

The crossbowmen adjusted their muzzles to aim at the rushing Galen ship, pulled the lead of the grenade, and the stout achievement flew with the grenade to the opposing ship. The nine strong crossbows on the port side of the Tenkyo were fired one after the other from front to back. Black smoke immediately exploded on the left side of the ship, like black flowers. The whole steamer shook and shook, and pressed to the right and again, and a row of sprays pressed on the surface of the sea.

Not only did the Tenkyo fire, but the three ships next to the Tenkyo also fired at the same time. The roar of artillery fire was deafening. Thirty-six long arrows with grenades whizzed towards the Dutch's Galen, and two of them hit the Galen and smashed into the bow of the Galen. Two long arrows fired into the bow of the ship, one into the third deck, broke through the two inner partitions and stopped, and the other into the second crossbow deck, crashed into a twenty-machine crossbow and stopped.

The Dutch were in a stable mood, after all, these Dutchmen had never seen Yang Peng's grenade. According to the power of solid shells of this era, even if it was hit by a dozen shells, the Galen ship would still sprint unharmed and unabated. At most, that is, the iron shells that rushed into the ship killed a few sailors. Or the flying wooden blocks brought out by the cannonballs when they smashed the planks of the ship and stabbed a sailor to death.

But the development of events made the Dutch stunned. After two long arrows were stopped by an obstacle, they exploded in the middle of the Galen ship. Huge shock waves burst out on the second deck and the third deck, respectively. The third deck is fine, this is the rest area of the sailors, there are not many people at this time. The one that fell on the second deck set off an iron-blooded storm. Countless iron projectiles burst out of the cannonballs and into the bodies of the dozens of gunners operating the guns on the deck, killing them in an instant.

Not only that, but the blast wave from the explosion of the shell burst through the hull and deck of the ship. From the perspective of the crossbowmen of the Tianjing, the shell blew up the wood chips in the hull of the Galen ship, like two flowers, and blew two huge holes three or four feet in the hull. Before the Dutch could react, the remaining four steamers opened fire, and a second wave of thirty-six arrows with grenades came at the Galen.

This time three shells hit the target, shooting into the hull. The horrific explosion was sent out in the hull again, and sparks and iron projectiles swept through the cabin like a storm, blowing up the second and third decks, killing an unknown number of people inside. One of the last shells to explode rolled down the large hole in the deck that had exploded in front of it into the lower deck, and with a thud blew the bottom of the ship open.

The water gushed out from the bottom of the ship like a fountain, devouring the entire Galen ship with such speed. The sailors and sailors on the Galen ship panicked, and if the bottom of the ship leaked, the ship would sink. They were all standing on the top deck ready to engage in broadside battle, but one by one they dropped their weapons and rushed to the lower deck, desperately trying to block the gushing sea water with wooden planks.

On the flagship of the Dutchmen, Captain Forreston looked at the Galen ship at the front in astonishment, and opened his mouth wide and was speechless. After a long time, he stammered: "Oh my God, the long arrow of the Song Dynasty will explode?" The first mate, Karon's face turned pale, and he murmured, "My lord, I have never seen such a long arrow. ”

The second officer, Würrberg, had lost the confidence to continue the battle, and said: "Captain, the long arrows of the Song people will explode, and our ship will be sunk by cannonballs if it rushes like this!" Fareston sneered, "Then what should I do, but the crossbow shoots and shoots more, and they have to escape?" ”

"But Yang Peng's ship is faster than ours" Forreston felt a little weak, holding on to the side of the ship, his face getting whiter and whiter. On the Galen ship at the front, dozens of sailors desperately blocked the water with wooden planks and sealed the hole with nails, and it took a few minutes to finally seal the big hole in the bottom of the ship. However, the bad luck has only just begun. The Tianjing led eight gunboats to quickly turn around with paddlewheels and tail rudders, and headed north. The surging power of the steam engine worked on the paddle steamer, allowing the eight steamers to sail faster than the downwind Dutchman. The eight steamers pulled the distance a little, turned their hulls around again, and opened fire on the Dutch with their starboard crossbows.

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.