Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 630 All about casualties, seek a decisive battle!
The Qinglong Battalion belonged to the Imperial Forest Army. Although there were not many people, the soldiers were all elites selected from various towns in the navy, and the generals were all outstanding in the army.

As for the equipment, it is far more than the naval towns.

For example, the Zhaowu revolver that can fire continuously, although the soldiers are not equipped with it, the generals at the rank and above have one.

Ordinary soldiers are also equipped with single-shot short guns, several grenades, daggers, short knives and claws specially used for sea jumping operations, etc., everything that one expects to find.

Coupled with the superb combat quality of the soldiers of the Qinglong Battalion, once they stepped on the Silver Lion, they formed a crushing advantage.

Many Dutch soldiers who had been on warships for many years were no match for the soldiers of the Qinglong Battalion, whether it was gun battles or hand-to-hand combat.

"The devil! They're all devils!"

An unsteady Dutch soldier saw his comrades in front being killed like chopping melons and vegetables by the soldiers of the Qinglong Battalion.

But before he could escape far, he was shot and killed by a general of the Qinglong Battalion.

After the soldiers of the Qinglong Battalion killed nearly a hundred people, and the Dutch jumped into the sea in batches to flee for their lives, an interpreter was brought up and shouted at the top of his throat: "Throw away your weapons, and those who kneel and surrender will not be killed!"

Between life and death, the Dutch did not say that their knees would not bend. The rest of the people almost scrambled to throw away their weapons and kneel down to ask for surrender.

As for the commander of the Silver Lion, Corbett, he was shot in the head by a sniper from the Qinglong Battalion holding a rifle when the first batch of Qinglong Battalion jumped on board the ship.

When the Silver Lion was captured by Yan Yingyuan and other soldiers of the Qinglong Battalion, the other two armored warships captured the remaining two fourth-tier battleships of the Dutch in a similar manner.

At the same time, other warships of the Ming army also rushed over, engaged in boarding battles, and quickly captured one Dutch warship after another.

As for Zeelandia City, Colonel Connor held a telescope and noticed the naval battle in the southern channel, and immediately shouted: "Let the artillery groups bombard the channel!"

But Owald stopped immediately, "Colonel, you can't do this, there are still many of us there!"

"They have already been defeated!" Connor stared, blushing and thick neck, "Didn't Your Excellency see that? The Ming army captured almost all the ships, and our soldiers and sailors are surrendering in batches, becoming shameful captives! "

Owald said expressionlessly: "Even if they become captives, they are still alive. But if our cannons bombard them indiscriminately, they will be killed."

In fact, Owald doesn't care much about the life and death of ordinary soldiers and sailors, but those naval officers have a network of connections behind them.

What's more, the Dutch navy is the number one military force. If the navy knows that their people have been killed in large numbers by their own artillery, they will definitely make trouble.

Maybe, even if he is dismissed by the company and returns to the Netherlands, his safety cannot be guaranteed.

At this time, Gerd also said: "Colonel, the Ming army is landing on Dayuan Island, and our artillery may not be enough to deal with the landing Ming army. We can no longer turn our guns to bombard the southern waterway."

Speaking of this, Connor, Gerd and others were both angry and puzzled.

When responding to the Ming army's naval artillery attack, the fort where their heavy artillery was located was actually taken care of by the Ming army with multiple artillery pieces, and several of them have been knocked out, as if the Ming army knew where their heavy artillery was placed.

Although these destroyed artillery can be repaired, it will take several days, which is equivalent to temporarily losing their function, which weakens their artillery fire a lot.

Therefore, it is not enough to deal with the landing Ming army now, not to mention that the Ming army's naval guns have been suppressing their firepower.

However, Zeelandia City is indeed a nest-like castle carefully built by the Dutch on Dongfan Island. Even if part of the heavy artillery was destroyed by the Ming army, even if it was suppressed by the heavy artillery of the Ming army ships, its artillery fire still seriously hindered the Ming army from attacking Dayuan Island. The landing operations of the Ming army continued to increase.

When the sun was westward in the afternoon, seeing that the soldiers attacking from three directions failed to obtain a stable stronghold on Dayuan Island, Zheng Hongkui had a brief discussion with Chen Jitai through the walkie-talkie, and then chose to withdraw the troops ahead of schedule, ending today's battle.

After dark, Zheng Hongkui had dinner, landed with his own soldiers, and arrived at Chixian City.

He came to Chen Jitai to discuss how to attack the city of Zeelandia - although this matter had been discussed many days ago, and he had prepared several plans for it, but when he actually attacked the city of Zeelandia, he discovered this. A Dutch castle is more difficult to attack than expected.

"Today our army landed on Dayuan Island, and more than 700 soldiers were killed or injured. If we add the casualties in the attack on the northern sandbar, northern line Weidao, and Chikan City, our battle losses in this battle have reached more than 1000."

Hearing Zheng Hongkui's words, Chen Jitai said calmly: "In such a big war, it is inevitable that soldiers will be killed or injured.

What's more, the imperial court will properly compensate the dead and wounded now, so as not to let them bleed and shed tears. Even if they die in battle, they can be regarded as a well-deserved death. "

Zheng Hongkui said in his heart: Most of them are former soldiers of our Zheng family, so of course you don't feel sorry for them.

But he only dared to think about it, never dared to say it.

For one thing, the soldiers of the Zheng family are now soldiers of the imperial court. It cannot be thought that the Zheng family still regards the garrison troops of the four towns of the Nanyang Navy and the three towns of Fujian as the private soldiers of the Zheng family.

Second, there were two Guangdong garrison troops participating in this battle, and there were many Cantonese among the casualties.

But as the acting admiral of the Nanyang Navy, Zheng Hongkui really didn't want too many soldiers killed or injured by the attack on Zeelandia City.

"Chen Futai, I think that since we have captured the city of Chikan and surrounded the city of Zeelandia, we might as well implement the second plan.

Surround the city of Zeelandia for a long time until its food and water sources are cut off, or until it voluntarily surrenders. "

Chen Jitai glanced at Zheng Hongkui, and said, "It's not bad to besiege Zeelandia for a long time, but the Nanyang navy must defeat the Dutch fleet at sea.

And it's best to hit the Dutch with heavy losses, and their headquarters dare not send a fleet to support them.

Otherwise, while surrounding the city of Zeelandia, we also need to deal with the harassment of the Dutch, and many soldiers will also be killed or injured.

If so, it would be better to bear the loss from the beginning, break through the city of Zeelandia, and let the Dutch in Batavia give up. "

Zheng Hongkui frowned slightly when he heard this, and after thinking for a while, he said, "I understand what Chen Futai said. Tomorrow, I will lead the Seventh Town of the Navy to Unite No.13 Town, looking for fighters to fight the Dutch fleet."

Chen Jitai's expression changed after hearing this, and he said: "General Zheng, don't misunderstand the meaning of this court—this court is not urging the navy to fight the Dutch fleet.

It should be noted that even if there were more casualties in the Fujian and Guangdong garrison troops, the imperial court could afford it.

But if the navy loses the decisive battle with the Dutch fleet and suffers heavy losses, then you and I may not be able to escape the blame. "

Zheng Hongkui still felt that it would be more appropriate to end the war by solving the Dutch fleet through a naval battle, so he said: "Chen Futai, don't worry, I will act prudently."

After speaking, he got up and bid farewell to Chen Jitai.

Chen Jitai looked at Zheng Hongkui's leaving back, frowning deeply.

He thought of the situation of the Dutch warship introduced by Kuang Lu today, and then thought of the current situation of the Daoming Army Navy.

Although the Ming Army navy defeated half of the Dutch fleet in Taijiang Bay today with an absolute advantage, he still has doubts and worries about whether the Ming Army navy can outperform the entire Dutch fleet in the ocean. .

However, as the governor of Nanyang, he currently only has partial command over the garrisons of Fujian and Guangdong provinces.

If he wanted to interfere with the actions of the Nanyang Navy, he had to go through the court.

Although he has a telecommunications group on his side, allowing him to report to the court thousands of miles away.But if he did this, it would definitely make Zheng Hongkui and even the Zheng family feel dissatisfied and harbor grudges.

If this is the case, I am afraid that he will not be so smooth as the Nanyang governor in the future.

Chen Jitai thought a lot that night, but on the next day, after all, he did not send a telegram to the court to interfere with Zheng Hongkui's actions.

Looking at the departure of the Seventh Town of the Navy led by Zheng Hongkui, he can only hope that Zheng Hongkui can defeat the Dutch fleet...

Zeelandia city.

Owald and others also noticed the departure of the Seventh Town of the Ming Army Navy, and they could guess that Zheng Hongkui must have gone to deal with the fleet led by Marin.

It can be foreseen that in the waters near Dongfan Island, a sea battle between Ming and the Netherlands is inevitable.

However, some people in Zeelandia are still optimistic about the upcoming sea battle.

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)