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"Hold on! Don't back down! Our great Netherlanders, of course, are more heroic than those savages who don't even know God! More disciplined!"

After the first few rounds of shooting, Captain Yang Sen's demeanor and tone immediately changed from the initial arrogant and violent to hoarse, sharp and distorted, and even a little guilty.

But he knew that the brave wins when encountering a narrow road. Since Major Endrick sent him out to annihilate the enemy on the beach, he had already reached this point, so he had no choice but to persevere to the end.

At this time, whoever is the first to be unable to hold back and lose his position will completely lose all his capital and be slaughtered by the opponent in vain, and the casualties and price paid before will be in vain.

The Dutch soldiers are also worthy of being a powerful army in this era. The country of coachmen in the world is now in full swing. On the European battlefield, the repeated killings of Spain, the original suzerain country, have been pushed back by the Dutch.
Relying on the blood of desperadoes who want to make a fortune all over the world, they control one piece after another of colonies on all continents, extracting spices, tea, tobacco, sugar, and silk. How can they be deflated in the Ming Dynasty?

The pride and bloody courage that has always been cultivated allowed the Dutch musketeers to fight against the blood of their comrades who were constantly falling.

Although the quality of the firearms of the Ming army had an advantage, at the beginning, because the number of troops who went ashore to gain a foothold was temporarily at a disadvantage, the firepower output density was not stronger than that of the Dutch.

Only in the first two rounds of shooting, the Ming army took advantage of the range advantage. From the third round, as both sides fully entered the range, the Dutch immediately gained a temporary advantage in the ratio of killing and exchange.

On the other hand, the Ming army, the first batch of people who went ashore, had less than 200 people in the beginning, and they rushed into the battle.Ruan Jin, the highest officer in the first batch of the Ming army to land, also bravely brandished a command knife to supervise the formation,

However, because it was too conspicuous, he was actually hit on the arm by stray bullets and shrapnel, and was dripping with blood for a while, but he just bit the cloth and took a few seconds to tie his arm to stop the bleeding, then changed his hand and continued to wield the knife.

One or two cowardly deserters who wanted to retreat to the mud flat were also beheaded on the spot by him, suppressing their position.

"Don't panic! There aren't many of these Hongyi devils! When the rear army comes ashore, the victory will definitely belong to Daming! Those who mess up will die! Those who are shot in the back will not be given compensation if they die! Those who are shot in the front will be rewarded with a hundred taels of compensation by the prince! Set up a small family!"

At any rate, this Ming army has seen some troubles. If they had no fighting spirit at all, they wouldn't be selected by Zhang Mingzhen for rounds of training.

At this moment, seeing clearly the number of Dutch attacking, and realizing that the weapons of the Dutch are no more advanced than the Ming army, everyone boosted their morale and gritted their teeth.

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

Captain Yang Sen on the opposite side saw that the Ming army hadn't collapsed and the number was still increasing, so he had to make a last desperate fight and ordered all the Dutchmen who had gradually approached within a hundred paces to come forward and fight with bayonets.

The Dutch still used an intubated bayonet, the kind with the handle inserted directly into the barrel of the gun. Fortunately, the Dutch who could come to the Far East were also desperadoes, so they rushed up at the last opportunity before the number of people reversed.

"Bayonets in the front row!" The Ming army was not to be outdone, and did not dare to covet the chance to shoot in the last fifty or sixty steps. They quickly checked the bayonets and tightened them all, so as to avoid being dragged into hand-to-hand combat with naked guns.

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

Both sides are five-foot-long flintlock guns, paired with two-foot-long bayonet blades, and the weapons are seven feet long, not inferior to spearmen at all.

In just one cup of tea, dozens of people were killed on both sides, and more and more Ming troops went ashore. The Dutch soon couldn't stand it anymore.

At this moment, Zhang Guozhu finally successfully landed with two sampans equipped with four-pound cavalry guns. The gunpowder and propellant had already been loaded when they were on board, but they had not been loaded with projectiles to avoid misfiring during firing.As soon as he landed, Zhang Guozhu ordered the shells to be loaded immediately and fired at the Dutch.

"The general can't do it. The formation is too chaotic to fire, and the gun mounts haven't been fixed yet." The gunner looked at the situation where the enemy and the enemy were intertwined, and the gun mounts that hadn't been fixed, and suddenly felt a little helpless.

But Zhang Guozhu knew that he had to make a decisive decision at this time: "It's okay to fire the cannon without loading the shell! Just scare the Hongyi dog! Hit it backwards! Don't hurt your own people!"

The gunners couldn't resist their orders, so in a panic, they ignored the recoil relief measures and fired directly at the cavalry guns that had only gunpowder but no projectiles—of course, they aimed at the enemy's rear, where there was no one. , so as not to accidentally injure one's own people.

Following two roars one after another, the morale of the Dutch army on the opposite side was also suffocated.After all, it is a form of combat that has never been seen in this era. How have the Dutch ever heard that the landing force can fire directly without any preparations?

"Ming people actually have cannons that can be fired ashore?" Captain Yang Sen was also stunned for a moment,
Although no one of his subordinates was seriously injured, at most a few were blackened by the sprayed gunpowder gas, or scratched by the splashed sand and gravel, but the Dutch soldier was beaten briefly after all.

Relying on this momentum, the Ming army immediately began to push back, stabbing randomly with bayonets, and killing more than ten people in a row. Finally, because of fear, the Dutch soldiers began to turn their heads and run away.

"Run! Anyway, the barbarians of the Ming Dynasty have already mounted bayonets! Don't touch the cannon head-on!" Several clever Dutchmen ran, and some of them didn't know whether they were frightened or reminded their comrades. No one heard.

But all Dutch people actually have a common sense in their hearts - they have entered the state of bayonet fighting between the two armies, and the enemy's reinforcements are getting more and more. If they really lose the enemy and retreat, they can only retreat. It's no big deal.

This kind of thinking, in the eyes of future generations, will be very naive: if you have fought hand-to-hand, but retreated halfway, wouldn't you open your back and let the enemy chase and shoot you?

But in the seventeenth century, this idea was correct, because they all used intubated bayonets. Once a bayonet was attached to a battle, it could not be pulled out in a short time, and the musket could not be quickly returned to the ground. to a firing position.

In the bloody fight just now, most of them did not carefully understand that the musket bayonet of the Ming army on the opposite side was actually a more advanced and epoch-making hoop bayonet, rather than the backward intubation bayonet of the Dutch, so they did not expect "Once the Ming army is out of combat, they can immediately re-enter the shooting" is a serious problem.

Perhaps there are a few Dutch people with keen observation and good eyesight, but these few people can't control the collapse of the army. All their comrades ran away, but they stayed where they were. Stabbed to death.

"Bang bang bang!"

The Dutch thought they could retreat safely, but they didn't escape thirty or forty steps, and the Ming army opened fire again from behind them!

This round of shooting was really effective. It was shooting at the back of the fleeing enemy. The remaining one hundred or so Dutch remnants collapsed in an instant. The Dutch were wiped out, and most of those who were caught up knelt down and begged for mercy and surrendered.

Major Endrick, the guard of Xianwei Mountain Fort, did not expect to call in heavy artillery fire support from the fort at first. Most of his artillery positions are still facing the waterways on the north and south sides, lest the Ming army grab the beach as a feint attack and take the opportunity to sneak across the waterway. is true.

When he discovered that Captain Yang Sen had failed and collapsed after halfway across, he ordered to adjust the shooting angle of the fortress gun, but it was too late.

After the remnants of Captain Yang Sen retreated hundreds of steps outside the fort, the cannons of Xianweishan Fort began to fire hastily, but they did not cover the advance route of the Ming army, but only blocked and restricted part of the Ming army's landing site.

"Push the cannon to the east! Don't stay in the firing angle of the fort gun! Speed ​​up and move! Take advantage of the small number of Hongyi devils on the fort! Follow the storm!"

Zhang Guozhu carried four cavalry cannons. Although he didn't have horses to pull the cannons, he could count on dozens of people to push and move flexibly.

After the first batch of 800 Ming troops went ashore, the movable sampans immediately returned to pick up the second batch of reinforcements for landing, trying to avoid the landing point blocked by the artillery on the fort, and avoiding the main channel to grab the beach.

The threat of the Dutch's defensive artillery finally began to gradually increase, and the Ming army's casualty exchange ratio finally became bloody. Dozens and hundreds of war dead began to appear, but the Ming army still landed one after another, and soon Soon even Zhang Mingzhen led the team ashore,
Zheng Chenggong also made his gunboats as close as possible to Xianwei Island, and fired randomly to share the pressure, even if the range could not hit the forts on the island at all—whoever told us that in any era, the range of coastal defense fortress guns must be farther than naval guns.

The main generals of the Ming army understood one truth: don’t be afraid of casualties, take the opportunity to take down the Xianwei Mountain Fort first, because the Hongyi did not expect the Ming army to forcibly grab the beach at any cost, and take advantage of the number of defenders of the Xianwei Mountain Fort Not enough, eat it quickly.

The fort on Xianwei Mountain is far inferior to the fortifications of Zeelandia City and Chixian City in terms of fortifications. It is just a civil structure fort, otherwise it would not have been destroyed by a typhoon in 1656.It is better to fight a sneak attack and quick attack here, and it is better to go to Zeelandia City and Chixian City to fight a strong attack battle.

No matter how tricky the defenders are, there are only 240 people left in the fort. Even if one can kill a few Ming soldiers, they can be drowned quickly!
The Ming army suffered casualties like this, all relying on the pressure of blooming from all sides, plus biting the tail of the collapsed Captain Yang Sen's troops, taking advantage of the chaos to cover up and kill them, and the cavalry artillery also rushed from behind when the infantry had begun to climb. To start trying to bang the door and hit the wall, focusing on a quick word.

After half an hour of bloody fighting, the Ming army finally broke into the fort and began the final hand-to-hand combat. In the end, seeing that the situation was over, Major Enderik had to lead the remnants to surrender on their knees and beg for mercy.

……

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

The Dutch on the island had been wiped out, and the Ming army also repelled two small groups of Dutch reinforcements who tried to land on the island for rescue from the south bank and the north bank of Taijiang Bay Estuary.
Each repulsion also caused dozens of casualties to the Dutch, but it is a pity that these wounded Dutch soldiers came by boat, and there is no way to count the deaths and injuries of long-distance muskets, let alone decapitation. , will be towed back by Dutch boats.

"Major General, our army has killed more than 220 Hongyi people! We killed 87 people, and captured 170 and six people! Destroyed and seized four light cannons and four heavy cannons in the fortress! Repelled two enemy reinforcements, killing and wounding hundreds of people. , were all towed back by enemy ships, it is impossible to count!
Our army killed 350 and five people, 280 and seven people were slightly or seriously injured, and hundreds of people drowned without a trace. We are still searching! "

After hearing the results of the battle, Zheng Chenggong was finally relieved.
The number of people killed in battle was indeed half as many as that of the Dutch, and the number of wounded was much higher, but this was after all a fast and sneak fortress battle.With so many casualties, only about [-]% were paid by the beachhead field battle, and [-]% of the subsequent deaths were caused by storming the fortress while taking advantage of the chaos.

Had it not been for the fact that when the Dutch still had 80 NO.[-] remnants at the end, they chose to surrender when they saw that the gates and walls of the fortress had been breached. In order to kill the Dutch who have an absolute advantage.

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

There is no way to kill a few people. If you want to hurry up, you will kill more people. When you go back, you can bury all the dead soldiers, erect a monument and engrave their names, and reward their families heavily.

Zheng Chenggong didn't dare to procrastinate, and immediately ordered: "Hurry up, let the main fleet enter the bay in the dark while the sky is getting dark! The Hongyi people may blindly fire at the waterway at night,

But don't worry, they can't shoot in the dark, and the soldiers who are caught can only say that their lives are bad!Before dawn tomorrow, we must 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 trick of "smuggling across the Luermen Channel at high tide" in history can also be repeated—although it may be a little inappropriate to say "replay", after all, this time and space It was the first time that Zheng Chenggong did this.

Before the night fell that day, the Dutch organized two more counterattacks, trying to re-climb the Xianwei Mountain in Jiangkou, but they were all in vain. When the shadow of the ship passes by, it bombards indiscriminately.

Early the next morning, the Dutch found that the shelling last night was useless. Taking advantage of the high tide, the Zheng family fleet entered Dayuan Bay in Jiangkou 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 attacking, immediately ate pots of pulp, took out food to trade with the Ming army, and provided supplies for the Ming army, which further eased the Ming army's crossing of the sea. The shortage of rations for combat.

This year's Ming army's offensive intentions were not exposed too long in advance, and the Dutch were not fully prepared to fortify the wall and clear the field.

Historically, before Zheng Chenggong’s attack, the Dutch had a considerable amount of time to prepare, but the then governor Kui Yi sent troops to the countryside to collect food, and burned about [-] shi of rice that the people had privately collected and harvested late. It can be seen that The Dutch's control of the countryside was not very effective. After all, the number was too small to form an island-wide governance.

Now that there is not enough time, it is more normal for the common people and natives to trade with the Ming army to settle the military rations, and it is not considered cheating.

……

After Zheng Chenggong established his camp, Lieutenant General Cornelis van der Linn, the current governor of the Dutch, felt more and more on pins and needles.

He thought about organizing a counterattack while the Ming army's camp on the shore of Dayuan Bay was not stable.

However, Colonel Vanderbilt, who was in charge of guarding Chixian City, rejected his request. The reason was that the defensive forces in Chixian City were not enough, and rushing out of the city to counterattack would only damage the vitality in vain, making it impossible to defend the city in the future.

To be honest, what Colonel Vanderbilt said is 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 Chixian City, but the actual number is not enough. Part of it is due to the attrition of the Spaniards in the previous two years. In fact, there are only more than 600 soldiers in total.

The other is the garrison of Zeelandia, under the direct command of Lieutenant General Cornelis. This force is full, but there are only six phalanx companies, each with 240 people, a total of 1440 people.

The rest are five Galen warships, ten patrol boats, frigates and other medium-sized fast boats. There are some gunners, sailors, merchants on board, and some Dutch civilians working in docks and shops in two towns. They were forcibly recruited as strong men to defend the city, but the number of these two groups was only more than a thousand 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 and around Danshui Port, the Dutch army also has five companies of expeditionary forces. After defeating the Spaniards in the north the year before last, they left behind to be responsible for the purge and security pursuit.
But the five companies were not full, and in fact there were only more than 800 people, plus two warships and several small boats.To reinforce the south of the island, they have to trek five or six hundred miles southward by sea, which will take at least ten days, and there is a high possibility that they will be intercepted by the navy of the Ming army on the way.

Lieutenant General Cornelis could not command 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 battle with shelling, and then rush up to set fire.

But this attempt obviously failed, and also damaged a small death squad, as well as several artillery that were pulled to the field to bombard the camp overnight, and then General Cornelis had no choice but to retreat.

However, this failed attempt is not completely fruitless.Because during the night attack of the Dutch army on the stolen camp, at least a few people escaped alive, and several Ming army prisoners were captured during the melee.

By interrogating these captives, General Cornelis was able to find out for the first time the approximate true size of the Ming army's combat troops, as well as all the main commanding generals.
It is learned that there are not only the Zheng family navy divisions who have been dealing with for many years, but also Zhang Mingzhen's department transferred from Zhoushan by the Ming court.Dozens or hundreds of cannons are possible!

After finding out the information, although Cornelis still felt that the captives might be exaggerating to deceive him, the big difference should not be bad, at least the size of the Ming army's fleet was placed there.

So he couldn't help but gasped: This is 3 people!Tens of thousands of musketeers!More than a hundred cannons!

And he has only a combat force of more than 2100 people in the local area (after the online Weiyu Fort defenders were destroyed), one or two thousand merchants, sailors and other civilians, plus five companies of more than 800 people in Fort Anthony, Tamsui, and other places in the north of the island!
In any case, judging by the proportion of regular soldiers, the Ming army has a ten times superiority in numbers. The key is that the level of weapons and equipment displayed by this new Ming army is no worse than that of the Dutch!

At least in terms of guns, it is absolutely comparable to the Dutch, or even slightly stronger than the Dutch. The weakest is the seaworthiness and sturdiness of the battleship.
To put it bluntly, Daming's shipbuilding industry still has shortcomings compared to the Dutch shipbuilding industry. Zhu Shuren has not been able to quickly make a leap forward in Daming's shipbuilding industry in the past few years.

The strength of the enemy and us is very different. He failed to resist the enemy at the beachhead, and also failed to attack halfway. As the Ming army gained a firm foothold and gradually began to build an encirclement circle, they wanted to besiege the cities of Chikan and Zeelandia. Lieutenant General Cornelis Also had to recognize the situation:
Since there is a high probability that we won’t be able to win, let’s try to negotiate. After all, it was Daming who took the initiative to provoke the war this time. I heard that Han civil officials are generally shameless. Maybe you can condemn Daming diplomatically and let them make up for it. receive.

Of course, to be honest, Lieutenant General Cornelis would not have bothered to use diplomatic negotiation means if he had the certainty of repelling the Ming army militarily from the very beginning. He still wanted to show his authority first.

It's not that Ma Wei didn't succeed, and he even broke a few teeth, so he thought of diplomatic means.

……

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

The negotiators sent by Lieutenant General Cornelis finally came outside Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen's camp under the flag of truce, requesting negotiations.

Zheng Chenggong discussed it with Zhang Mingzhen, and felt that he was not happy with the unknown teacher. If he wanted to let the enemy know why they were beaten, Daming was not a country that started wars indiscriminately, so he received him.

"Who is the visitor, and what is his position?" After letting the envoy in, Zheng Chenggong sat on the white tiger leather chair with a golden knife, pressed the hilt of the sword at his waist, and pointed the halberd at the visitor.

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

Fortunately, the translation seemed to be a waste of work. The Chinese level of the visitor was not bad, and he replied directly in Chinese: "Dear General Zheng, I am the plenipotentiary envoy sent by Lieutenant General Cornelis, the Governor General of the East India Company. Longrich, Director of the Chamber of Commerce.

We have already experienced the military might of your country, but I, the Netherlands, and Ming Dynasty have had a complete truce for seven years, and have negotiated a ceasefire and reached a trade agreement many times before.

Now why do you suddenly invite an unknown teacher to invade my border?Aren't you afraid of damaging the reputation of Da Ming Shang Guo and integrity-based?
Even if you, General Zheng, outraged the few, bullied the weak, and successfully seized the land, what would the Ryukyu, North Korea, Annan, and Borneo countries think of Daming after learning about this?
Although we in the Netherlands have lost hundreds of soldiers and some property, as long as you, General Zheng, are willing to return from the wrong path and return your troops, we can continue to do business. The East India Company can also be merciful to this loss. Don't count.When everyone makes a wrong step in a moment of confusion, everyone should look forward. "

It can be seen that the curator of this business hall is still a Chinese hand. He knows that the court officials of the Ming Dynasty still have to lose face, so he first uses the reason for turning his face and starting a war when he comes up, and he speaks Chinese very fluently.