1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 315
Shi Lang had been standing at the door for a while, but Fujian Quanzhou general Yang Geng ignored him, and dealt with the military affairs at hand on his own.But Shi Lang didn't show any anxiety at all, his face showed a steady and composed expression that didn't match his age.

Seeing Shi Lang's appearance from the corner of his eyes, Yang Geng couldn't help but secretly nodded in praise.Courageous, good at strategy, calm and calm in doing things, he is a general.However, it still takes a beating or two.

"Shi Baihu, can the wound heal?" Yang Geng asked, looking up at Shi Lang.

"General, the injuries on his body are no longer serious." Shi Lang smiled wryly and bowed to answer.

Because a month ago, when the Spanish and Dutch fleets confronted each other in the sea off Luermen, Shi Lang did not obey the general's order, and ordered the post to attack with warships without authorization.Although in hindsight, the timing of its choice is very accurate, and the effect achieved is also very good.But after all, he violated the military order. After the war, Yang Geng imposed the military law and punished him with twenty sticks.

"The governor has ordered us to go to the northern part of Taiwan to seize the two strongholds where Spain is located, and take the entire island." Yang Geng said solemnly, "Are you willing to be a pioneer?"

"The final general is willing to go!" Shi Lang clasped his fists and promised loudly.

"Oh, why don't you ask about the strength of the northern Spaniards?" Yang Geng asked.

"The general's order must have come to fruition, and the general will follow his orders at the end!" Shi Lang replied.

"There are very few Spaniards in the north, and there are almost no real Western soldiers." Yang Geng said: "Our visit this time is equivalent to taking advantage of it."

"Oh?" Shi Lang couldn't help being a little puzzled, "Didn't the Westerners send four large ships to attack the Dutch stronghold a month ago, and they must have brought a large number of soldiers. Now, we have captured two Dutch strongholds, could it be How dare they transfer many soldiers away! Are you not afraid that I will go back and beat them again?"

"It's a good fortune!" Yang Geng sighed: "A month ago, the Westerners failed to attack the Dutch stronghold. When returning to the northern stronghold of the island, they met the Hanzhou people. The Western soldiers on one of the big ships were all captured by the Han people." Captured in Zhouzhou. Now, he is being held in our Quanzhou."

"Hanzhou?" Shi Lang was a little curious, "Is it the faction built by our Ming people living thousands of miles away in the south?"

"Exactly." Yang Geng said: "Now, they avoided the Dutch blockade and came to Daming by another sea route, preparing to transport the hungry people back to their Hanzhou."

"The Tartars and refugees ravaged the north, causing millions of hungry people. This Hanzhou has found a way of life for many of our Ming people." Shi Langwei sighed.

"When we conquer Taiwan, we will naturally colonize this area and move many hungry people here for reclamation. Maybe tens of thousands of people will live here." Yang Geng said: "This move will not only expand the territory, but also benefit countless people. It can be regarded as infinite merit.”

Shi Lang glanced at Yang Geng, but didn't speak.Taiwan's landscape is primitive, and it is not easy to settle down. The land where the Dutch people live is good. After more than ten years of colonization, the environment has been greatly improved, and it is suitable for farming and living.But in other places on the island, miasma is rampant, and the natives are vicious, so it is not a suitable place to live.If you want to cultivate it, I am afraid that countless people will die and it will take decades to take root on this island.

However, Shi Lang was very supportive of seizing Taiwan Island.This place is too close to Ming Dynasty, allowing a foreign domain to occupy this island will inevitably endanger Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong on the opposite side of the strait.At the same time, it also poses a substantial threat to Zheng Zhilong's forces going to Japan and North Korea for trade.

On the contrary, Zheng Zhilong's forces controlled the island of Taiwan, which could not only effectively protect the coastal areas of Fujian, but also use it as a base to include Japan, Ryukyu, and North Korea in his trade territory, and even deter the Spanish Luzon.

Of course, the most important thing is that once something happens to the mainland, Taiwan will provide Zheng Zhilong's forces with a final retreat.
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"Retreat, there is no way for us to retreat!" He Qing looked at the densely packed Matalan Kingdom soldiers under the city, and yelled at the many bright men who had come forcibly recruited: "The Dutch Musketeers are pressing from behind, who dares to retreat ? Now, we can only have a chance if we repel the attack of the natives!"

He Qing and Li Dazhu, as Su Minggang's nominal "relatives" of the Ming Dynasty, were suddenly recruited by the Dutch colonial authorities in Batavia for the second time at his door.

They were first sent to the barracks for a week of rough training, and then they were driven to the top of the city, where they fought with the soldiers of the Kingdom of Mataran who had been forcibly conscripted for the first time.

He Qing wanted to cry about this, but if he had known about it, he would not have hid in Su Minggang's house.The dreadful Dutch didn't even let Kapitan, who used to manage all the Ming people in the city, force them to help defend the city.If he and Li Dazhu died in battle at the head of Batavia, would someone be shocked if they found out about it afterwards?Will you mock them mercilessly?
I have to say that the fate of people is really unpredictable.As a spy of Hanzhou Black Guards, He Qing is going to lead people to do some sabotage work in Batavia. Obtained the entire terrain map, as well as multiple sets of Dutch mercenary uniforms.

Before the war, because the Dutch guards were relatively strict, the black guards had no chance to get close to the Batavia shipyard.Originally, they thought that after the battle, a few people dressed in Dutch mercenary uniforms would sneak into the shipyard, take advantage of the chaos, set fire to it, and then escape.

It can be counted, except for Zhao Huixiong who escaped the Dutch by chance, He Qing and Li Dazhu were directly recruited by the Dutch as city defenders, and they were dragged to the city wall to fight the natives.

In the first ten days or so, the natives only continued to launch tentative attacks, and they would retreat soon after being fired from the artillery at the top of the city and the dense musketry of the affiliated castle outside the city.And these smart and strong men were ordered to stay at the gathering place not far from the city wall, ready to go to the city to fight at any time.

As the artillery of the Kingdom of Mataland reached the city of Batavia in the rear, the attack intensity suddenly began to increase.They first concentrated all their artillery to attack the two subsidiary fortresses outside the city. In just three days, they drove the Dutch out of the fortress and fled back to the city of Batavia in embarrassment.

As a result, the soldiers of the Kingdom of Mataran braved the bombardment of the artillery at the top of the city and spent five days building an earth barrier not far from the city wall of Batavia, and then dragged the artillery to it to start He kept bombarding the city wall, trying to break a gap.

The Dutch at the head of the city of Batavia were not to be outdone, and aimed at the artillery position of the Kingdom of Mataland on the earth barrier with several artillery pieces, trying to destroy the opponent's most threatening siege weapon.

The artillery battle lasted only two days, and the Kingdom of Mataran lost three artillery pieces, much to the heartache of their commanders.Immediately, while the artillery battle was going on, the mobilized natives began to attack the city wall on a large scale.

At this time, He Qing and other Ming people who were forcibly recruited were threatened by the Dutch mercenaries with muskets, and armed with spears and swords, they fought fiercely with the natives of Ant Fudeng City. More than 2000 people flocked to face the bombardment of the artillery at the top of the city, completely ignoring it, and rushed towards several city walls with wooden ladders on their shoulders.

After paying huge casualties, the soldiers of the Kingdom of Mataran laid a large number of planks on the ditch outside the city, and then began to rush down the city wall.As wooden ladders were erected at the top of the city, the suffocating ants attacking the city began.

The folks at the top of the city struggled to roll the rolling logs down the wooden ladder on the wall, and some people held up the fork to push the wooden ladder away. The top of the fort wall kept shooting and killing the enemies under the wall.The artillery of the Kingdom of Mataran on the earth barrier outside the city gradually raised its muzzle and bombarded the defenders on the top of the city.

The soldiers of the Kingdom of Mataran charged desperately, and the dead bodies began to pile up under the city. Some natives carrying a bundle of bamboo spears began to throw bamboo spears towards the top of the city, nailing some of the defenders who could not escape to the city wall. superior.

The Kingdom of Mataland launched the most violent attack on the east and south walls of Batavia in more than half a month. The natives all over the mountains, braved the continuous attack of artillery and muskets, poured into the city like a tide.On dozens of wooden ladders, countless natives struggled to climb upwards with short knives in their mouths.Rolling logs, stones, and muskets caused the natives to fall from the wooden ladder continuously, making a shrill scream.

Finally, a native climbed to the top of the city, took the short knife out of his mouth, jumped onto the city wall, and slashed at the defenders with his knife.

The natives and Minzhuangs in He Qing's section of the city wall couldn't bear it any longer, and began to retreat. Even a few timid natives and Minzhuangs dropped their spears and turned around and ran away.

"Bump! Bump! Bump!" With the sound of gunfire behind him, the fleeing natives and Minzhuang were shot dead on the spot by the Dutch mercenaries who were supervising the battle.Seeing this, the rest immediately stopped their retreating pace, with a bitter face, turned their heads and counterattacked towards the top of the city.

Damn, in such a chaotic battle, they were either killed by the natives who attacked the city, or shot and killed by the Dutch who supervised the battle behind them.Relatively speaking, it is easier to organize the strong people and drive the natives who are besieging the city from the top of the city.

Therefore, He Qing and Li Dazhu quickly organized more than a dozen companions to form a simple army formation, relying on each other, besieged and killed the natives who attacked the city one by one, and kept engulfing the defenders alone. Renhe Minzhuang joined them.

After a fierce fight at the top of the city, the natives who attacked the city were exhausted. After discarding hundreds of corpses, they slowly retreated to the attacking position.He Qing looked carefully outside the city with his probe, and made sure that the natives had retreated, so he sat down on the ground in relief.

"He Tou, just now the natives attacked so violently, the Dutch insisted not to come to support, but just guarded the bastion and fired their muskets." Li Dazhu sat down next to He Qing with a single sword in his hand, "Look at the appearance, are the Dutch Do you want to consume us smart men and native servants at the head of the city?"

"Bah!" He Qing spit on the ground angrily, squinted his eyes and looked at the dozen or so Dutch mercenaries on the right bastion, "The number of Dutch people is far less than that of the natives outside the city. We will not confront the enemy directly, so as not to cause too many casualties. We... are not their consumables!"

"Hehe..., we died in the battle to defend the Dutch. Speaking of which, it's so ridiculous!" Li Dazhu said with self-deprecation.

In a watchtower on the city wall, Colonel Pete Kurucs held a binoculars and carefully observed the camp of the Kingdom of Mataland below the city, silently calculating the casualties suffered by the natives in this attack.

"Colonel, do we need to consume all those people at the top of the city?" A major officer asked softly.

"Consumption?" Colonel Pete Kurucs was taken aback, and then he smiled: "No, Major Luwitt, each of our defense forces is not a needless consumable. The reason why we only use those Ming people and natives The strong resistance is to give the kingdom of Mataran outside the city the confidence to continue to attack. You see, their first large-scale attack has already reached the top of our city. Perhaps, next time, they will invest more Soldiers, attack the top of the city again, or occupy a section of the city wall."

"We don't have time to engage in offensive and defensive tug-of-war with the natives here. We need to hit them hard enough to make them lose their confidence in attacking us again! But we need a chance, a chance to crush them! "

(End of this chapter)