1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 295 Chaos Battle ([-])

It was night, in Zheng's barracks outside Chikan City, there were thunderous snores in the camps, and there were not many soldiers on duty by the simple wooden wall outside, and the braziers placed at intervals under the wall were crackling and burning Then, the surrounding small area is mapped to flickeringly bright and dark.

On a large ship by the pier, in a cabin, the lights are brightly lit.

"If the Dutch attack at night, it will be troublesome for us to deal with it," said a stout officer.

General Yang Geng from Quanzhou, Fujian raised his head and glanced at him, and said softly, "If you feel uneasy, go and wake up all your soldiers, and just watch for the other brothers overnight."

Cheng Xueen smiled when he heard this, and said, "General, I'm not worried that the Dutch will launch a night attack when my foothold is not stable and the soldiers are exhausted. Throughout the ages, there have been many cases where the army was attacked at night, and then The situation that caused the collapse of the whole army. That Baihu claimed that the Dutch would definitely not attack at night, did the general believe it?"

"Xueen, what are the advantages of the Dutch?"

"Naturally, the firearms are sharp."

"Did the Koliho use their firearms at night?"

"..." Cheng Xueen was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "Light a torch, and you can also fire a firecracker."

"Since all the torches are lit, do you think that all the soldiers in the army are blind?"

"Then...then they can attack us at night and fight us with knives."

"Hmph, our army is more than three thousand, how many talents does he have in the Netherlands?" Yang Geng snorted coldly, "If the Dutch have the guts to fight with me in a night attack, I will exchange two of them for one. How many people can defend the city?"

"..." Cheng Xueen thought about it in his mind, and it was exactly as Yang Geng said, the Dutch had no more than 500 people at all, if they attacked Zheng Jun at night, one was bad, and all of them were trapped outside the city, wouldn't that make Zheng Jun's soldiers bloodless? Receive two strongholds from the Dutch.

"Then what if the Dutchman doesn't come tomorrow morning?"

"Then let's drag the heavy artillery to the shore and grind it slowly against the Dutch!" Yang Geng said: "Anyway, the commander-in-chief didn't give us a time limit to capture the Dutch stronghold."

At four o'clock in the morning, the gates of Zeelandia City and Chikan City opened successively, and hundreds of people poured out from the two castles one after another. Taking advantage of the moonlight, the two troops met at the bottom of a slope, and then began to slowly gather together. He went to Zheng Jun's camp at the beach head of the Taijiang River.

When there was still a distance of 400 meters from Zheng Jun's camp, a Dutch officer waved his arm lightly, signaling that all the soldiers following him fell to the ground and began to crawl forward.

About ten minutes later, when they quietly sneaked into Zheng Jun's temporary camp more than 100 meters away, all the Dutch soldiers, including the native servants, lay down on the ground, waiting for the arrival of dawn.

The Dutch soldiers who participated in the raid on the Zheng army consisted of 180 mercenaries and 350 native servants.Before leaving, the governor of Van der Bolge and the sheriff Captain Stern Gruben told Lieutenant Tveitt, who was leading the team, to inflict a large number of casualties on the Zheng army in the camp, making them lose the ability to continue to attack the Dutch castle. and courage.

The night seemed to be getting darker, and the moonlight was also hidden in the clouds, but everyone knew that dawn was coming, and the camp of the Zheng Army, which was still sleeping in front, would be attacked most fiercely by more than 500 Dutch troops.

There was a glimmer of light in the sky, and the scenery on the earth had been presented in front of people's eyes like a haze.Lieutenant Tveit, who led the team, took a deep breath, supported his body with one hand, bent his legs slightly, raised the rapier in his right hand, and pointed forward sharply.

More than 180 Dutch mercenaries started running towards Zheng Jun's camp with muskets in their hands.The native servants behind them, holding their spears, rushed over at a trot.

The mercenaries with muskets rushed to the wooden raft of the camp and pointed their muskets at the inside of the camp.The native servants who rushed up afterward gave a soft drink, and then violently hit the wooden raft with their bodies in unison. With only two blows, the thin wooden raft was knocked to the ground.The native servants let out a burst of cheers, and rushed into the camp with wooden spears in their hands.

There was also a smile on the musketeer's face. He broke into the enemy's camp so easily, but did not receive any counterattack. It seems that Zheng Jun's military strength is strong, and he is a little understated.

The natives who rushed into the camp waved their spears, picked up the tents in front of them one by one, and rushed into them quickly, trying to kill the enemies who were still asleep.However, after overturning more than a dozen camps one after another, there was not a single enemy in sight.The natives were ignorant and wanted to go deeper and raid the soldiers of Zheng Jun inside.

But Lieutenant Tveit already felt something unusual. Zheng Jun's camp was too quiet, as if it was an empty camp.

"Oh, damn it!...Retreat! Retreat!" Lieutenant Tveit shouted loudly: "The enemy has an ambush!"

Hearing the officer's shout, the mercenaries were the first to react. They immediately stopped their advance and began to turn around and back.

However, the Dutch woke up a little too late. Countless bamboo spears and wooden spears suddenly appeared in the white sky, with a slight trembling sound, and plunged fiercely into the panicked Dutch team.Immediately afterwards, in addition to the direction of Taijiang Beach, countless soldiers of the Zheng army appeared on the other three sides, holding various weapons, shouting and killing the Dutch.

The Governor of Formosa, Van der Bolger, who was watching from the top of Zeelandia City, turned pale when Zheng Jun suddenly burst out with shocking shouts of killing and appeared around the attacking Dutch troops.The troops outside were finished, and they lost nearly half of their armed defense forces.So, how long can Chikan City and Zeelandia City last?

The encirclement and annihilation battle outside the city lasted only a short time. The Dutch musketeers only fired a round in a hurry before they were disrupted by many panicked native servants from behind. Army impact.After paying dozens of casualties, the Dutch mercenaries simply threw away their muskets, raised their hands, and surrendered.

With one hand on his hips and a long knife in the other, Shi Lang, the first deputy of Zheng Jun's vanguard, watched Zheng Jun's soldiers tie up the Dutch captives with ropes and escort them to the beach of Taijiang River.They will be loaded onto a ship and then sent to Quanzhou for detention, waiting for the Dutch to buy them back.

Looking back at the two Dutch castles with closed gates, Shi Lang spat out contemptuously, the Western barbarians still want to play tricks with us, raid the camp, and sooner or later you will all be killed!

The Dutch failed to attack Zheng Jun, but lost more than 500 defensive forces. In the next two days, Zheng Jun did not attack the city, but began to dig tunnels, leading directly to Chikan City.In the camp, countless soldiers and artisans accompanying the army also began to make ladders, preparing to attack the weaker Chikan City first.

Chikan City and Zeelandia City have been fully mobilized, and even some old people and women have been conscripted to the top of the city to defend against Zheng Jun's attack at any time.Everyone felt extremely panicked and kept praying to God in their hearts, hoping that Batavia's reinforcements would come to rescue them in time.

"In two days, attack the small castle (Chikan City) to the west first, and try to win it in one battle." Yang Geng looked at the guerrillas and thousands of households in the camp, and said loudly: "I hope that you will be able to join us in the battle." During the war, we must do our best to abide by our duties, and do not miss the opportunity of the war. This battle will lay a solid foundation for the Ming Dynasty to seize the entire island of Taiwan, and it will also make an incomparable achievement for the imperial court to open up the territory. The governor, the Ministry of War in Nanjing, and you all will reward and increase officials!"

"Follow the general's order!" The general under the account suddenly promised.A few days ago, the Dutch army that came out of the city to attack was wiped out. At this time, the defensive forces in the two cities must have been greatly weakened. With some casualties, they will definitely be able to conquer the two cities.Moreover, the Dutch in the city have been operating for decades, and have accumulated a lot of wealth. After capturing the city, they can also share some gold and silver, so that the sons and daughters can live happily.

At this time, a servant came in from outside the tent, walked quickly to Yang Geng's side, and whispered something to him.After hearing this, Yang Geng's expression changed, he looked at this servant in surprise, and nodded affirmatively when he saw him.

"Cheng Xueen, you are responsible for guarding the camp, and everyone obeys orders. You must closely monitor all the movements of the Dutch, and prevent the Dutch in the two cities from counterattacking!" After speaking, he hurried out of the camp with his servants.

Several military officers in the camp watched Yang Geng leave suspiciously, feeling a little uneasy in their hearts, could it be that the Dutch reinforcements came.

"My lord, there are four ships here. Judging from the shape and structure, they don't seem to be Dutch." Zheng Jun's coastal defense guerrilla Deng Zhong respectfully reported after seeing Yang Geng: "They seem to be a little afraid of us, and they are far away from us. And approaching. I guess, it should be the Frangji on the north side of the island."

"Falang Jiren?" Yang Geng asked suspiciously, "What are they doing here?"

"If the guess is correct, they should also come to fight the Dutch!" Deng Zhong said with a smile: "But I don't want to be preempted by us."

As the big ship gradually departed from Lu'er Harbor and came to the open sea, Yang Geng and others saw from a distance that four Western-style ships were swimming two or three miles away from Zheng Jun's ship, three of which were relatively large. A smaller one maintained an alert position with Zheng's warship.

"Send someone over there to ask, do they want to fight us, or continue to waste time with us here!" Yang Geng held up the binoculars and observed the opponent's ship for a while, although the opponent's ship was huge and had many artillery pieces.However, our own side has more than 100 large and small ships. Once we make a move, we can quickly rush to fight with them by virtue of their numerical advantage, and we may not necessarily lose to them.

Major Pascal Gross, the commander of the Spanish attack squadron, hesitated at this moment. He originally planned to attack the Dutch stronghold in the south of Formosa, but he never thought that the navy from the Ming Dynasty had already attacked the Dutch first.The sea in front of the fleet was full of Ming ships, large and small, and the number of landing troops carried by them must have been two to three thousand.

So, how should Spain, as a third party, deal with itself?Drive away the Ming ships on the opposite side, and then let them launch an attack on the Dutch?Or do you just turn around and turn around Santo Domingo City (now Danshui Port, Taiwan) and wait for further instructions from Manila?
It seems the most stupid way to stay here and engage in meaningless confrontation.Those ships of the Ming Dynasty are blocked near the port outside the Dutch stronghold. If they have not broken through the Dutch stronghold, the conflict between the Spaniards and the Ming Dynasty navy will not give the Dutch a chance to see a joke, and even It may benefit the Dutch.

"Gentlemen, we are preparing...to return!" Major Pascal Gross stopped hesitating after hearing the words of the liaison officer sent by the Ming Dynasty Navy.In order not to create opportunities for the Dutch, and to avoid the loss of the Spanish naval fleet stationed in the Philippines, they need to return and report the situation here to the colonial authorities in Manila as soon as possible.

"Major, a fleet is found in the southwest!" Suddenly, the watchman shouted loudly: "The number of ships...five!"

(End of this chapter)