Chapter 589
At night, the sky was covered with clouds and the stars and moon were dim. The north gate of Changhua Fort suddenly creaked and quietly opened.
Sun Sijiang took the lead, and hundreds of remaining soldiers behind him rushed out and fled to the north. The soldiers who opened the city gate hurriedly followed the brigade and rushed north in a hurry.
The Dutch firearms were sharp. The Sunsi River lasted for less than ten days in Changhua. The city wall was collapsed and the moat was filled with the big-bellied natives.
This time, the Dutch dispatched 600 soldiers and used the temptation to help the big-bow natives restore the country, inciting more than 30,000 life spans, and provided a lot of excellent equipment to attack the Ming army in Taiwan.
Earlier, the Dutch colluded with the Qing Dynasty to cast ordnances and sold them to the Qing Dynasty to conduct arms trade.
Zhao Ming led a fleet to march north, defeated the Manqing naval division and blocked the Bohai Sea, the trade between the Dutch and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was greatly affected. The originally large-scale arms transactions could only be carried out on a small scale, causing the Dutch to accumulate a large amount of raw materials such as fine iron.
This time, in order to deal with the Ming army, the East India Company built this batch of fine iron into various weapons and gave it to the ruled Shengfan and Shufan tribes, and used them to attack Donghai Town.
The Big Belly Kingdom, which originally occupied a vast area in central Taiwan, was destroyed by the Donghai Town and the Netherlands while expanding its southward direction, and divided the territory of the Big Belly Kingdom.
Now, in order to use the Dabai Natives to return their territory and promise to help them recover lost land, the East India Company immediately gained support from the Dabai Natives and formed an alliance with them.
Under the attack of more than 30,000 coalition forces, Changhua Fort quickly fell, and then 30,000 coalition forces quickly advanced northward to destroy the fortress of Donghai Town and Tunzhuang.
In order to retaliate against Donghai Town, the indigenous tribes burned all the way. From time to time, they could see the smoke-filled villages, as well as large trucks, bags and baskets discarded by the villagers.
In less than half a month, the coalition forces captured the troughs in Donghai Towns such as Changhua, Nantou, and Taichung, destroying hundreds of trough houses. All the south of Da'anxi fell, causing more than 100,000 trough houses to flee north.
The coalition army advanced rapidly, which made the Dutch people very angry. The army advanced northward and reached Miaosu Acropolis before being blocked again.
Miaosuwei is one of the seven garrisons recently established after Donghai Town landed in Taipei. After seven or eight years of development, it has become a city, and the city has been stronger by Changhua Fort, and its circumference is more than twice as large.
At this time, the Dutch used the same trick again, relying on the sharp firearms, and suppressed them with muskets and artillery again, allowing the natives to fill the moat and then pour into the city.
However, Miao Suwei is one of the seven old guards in Donghai Town in Taiwan. The city walls are strong, there are many troops stationed, and there are many. For the strategy of advancing south, the military funds transported to Taipei in advance were not as easy as Changhua.
At this time, the Dutch commanded the natives to recover from two thousand casualties, and finally filled half of the moat, a hundred feet long, with the soil being only one meter away from the city wall.
After the Battle of Jiangbei, Donghai Town lost 30,000 elite troops, and also had a large amount of equipment and equipment.
The ordnance cast by the vassal states is mainly used to supplement the war soldiers and restore the strength of the war soldiers, so the troops stationed in Taiwan have not purchased new equipment in recent years.
On the Miaosu Acropolis, the defenders' counterattack methods were still mainly bows and arrows and bird guns, which could not be compared with the Dutch flintlock rifles. Fortunately, Miaosu cannons have more, and bows and arrows and bird guns cannot reach the Dutch, but the Flang machine cannons can shoot at the Dutch.
There were few Dutch people and dared not be exposed to the range of artillery fire. They just used cannons to support the indigenous people. Without the suppression of Dutch musketeers on the city, bird guns and bows on the city could keep firing, shooting the indigenous people who filled the trenches.
At this time, outside the Miaosu Acropolis, nearly 10,000 indigenous soldiers, like ants, were constantly carrying soil bags and frames, pouring soil into the trench, and people were passing by, and the scene was spectacular.
At the top of Miao Su city, Zhang Zhongjian and Sun Sijiang roared loudly and directed the defenders to defend. The soldiers on the city wall shot arrows like rain at the indigenous people. Bird guns kept firing, and the indigenous people kept getting shot, and rolled into the moat with people and frames.
Behind the battlefield, Dutch officer Roskan was watching the progress of the indigenous people filling the moats. Most of the wide moats had been filled up, and they could basically stand up ladders to attack the city.
Although the Dutch originally wanted to use the Dadu natives, and the so-called helping Dadu natives restore the country was just a lie. The Dutch did not care about the life and death of the indigenous people, in order to avoid excessive death and injury of the indigenous people and affect morale, they decided to end the river filling.
"His Excellency Big Belly King, you can let your warriors retreat and stop filling the river!" Roskall smiled.
The Big Belly King obeyed the Dutch's words and immediately ordered it in local language.
A sound of horns and the whistle of the natives sounded, and the indigenous soldiers who filled the river immediately retreated like a tide. Soon, the Miaosu Acropolis became deserted, leaving only countless baskets, earth bags and corpses piled up under the city.
On the top of the city, the soldiers of the garrison breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the natives retreating and stopped shooting.
However, Sun Sijiang looked at the large section of the city that had been filled with a serious look. The deep trench, which was originally six meters wide, was almost filled with soil.
"Commander Zhang!" Sun Sijiang said in a deep voice: "Red Mao Yi and the natives are going to attack the city!"
Zhang Zhongjian's face was a little gloomy, "I have sent an envoy to report to the vassal state. The Prime Minister had already intended to fight south. Now that he has been preparing for half a year, the army should have set off!"
Sun Sijiang exhaled a breath of turbid air, "I hope this is the case! The red-haired firearm is sharp, so I can only hope that the reinforcements from the vassal states can be faster."
As he was talking, a soldier ran quickly to report: "Report to commander, Zhou Qianhu is back."
Zhang Zhongjian and Sun Sijiang were instantly overjoyed and asked anxiously almost at the same time: "Where are the people?"
"Report to the command, the man has just entered the North City!"
Zhang Zhongjian immediately said to Sun Sijiang: "Commander Sun, you guard the South City, I'll go and have a look!"
After saying that, before the soldiers came to take the people, Zhang Zhongjian hurried to the North City. Halfway through, he met Zhou Daji. Zhang Zhongjian was impatient and grabbed Zhou Daji's arm and asked anxiously: "Have the vassal government sent troops?"
"Reporting to the command, the Prime Minister has sent troops, and the fleet will arrive soon!" Zhou Daji replied quickly: "When Beizhi returned, reinforcements had already boarded the large ship and were ready to go to sea. At most, three days will be available to Taiwan."
Zhang Zhongjian was overjoyed when he heard the words, "Okay! OK! OK!"
Chapter completed!