Chapter 489: The East and the West

The Dutch had a lot of bad record in this history in the late Ming Dynasty. In 1609, when a fleet suddenly sailed from the other half of the earth along the newly discovered route into Taiwan's waters, these Dutch colonists, known as "sea coachman", immediately salivated as soon as they arrived in Taiwan, intending to win.$().(w)(x).() In 1622, Lei Yoz, the commander of the Dutch Expeditionary Fleet, made a comeback, occupied Penghu again and invaded the coast of the mainland. In 1624, Yu Zigao, the son of the famous general Yu Dayou, led his troops to Penghu and captured 12 people including the Hakka Wenlu alive.

The Dutch were forced to demolish the castle, and all 2,400 people in the army fled to Taiwan. However, from then on, the treasure island of the motherland fell into the Dutch colonial rule for eight years. During the period when the Dutch colonists occupied Penghu, they wanted to attack peaceful villages, massacre innocent people, and abused the local residents who arrested and built the castle. According to records, 1,200 of the 1,500 workers were starved to death. Even the Dutch captain Brinkley said without saying he himself: "The Dutch introduced themselves to the Chinese as international pirates."

Have you ever heard of the Dutch East India Company? The Dutch Parliament actually gave it the horrifying power to form an army, declare war on the outside world, and judge the people of the occupied land. If the East India Company also has any corporate spirit for Taiwan's operations, it is the greed, barbaric and bloody cruelty accumulated by the primitive accumulation of capitalism.

The Dutch attacked Jinghao (Macau) five times in succession and was eventually repelled. The Age of Discovery is a very moving term. When people mention this era, they always add some rhetoric, such as "magnificent" and other words. But behind this word is the robber's behavior. This is the case with the strong and the strong. Therefore, history only has success or failure, no right or wrong. Before there is the ability to restrain the robbers, they will not be ruthless when they rob.

If the Rabbit Kingdom hadn't created a mushroom egg, would the US emperor and the Soviet revisionists be so gentle to you? Maybe they would come to the door. All human beings were being pulled away from the constraints of race and group life in this world. There is nothing to say about this. If you are weak, other countries will bully you. The open ones will not come. The dark ones will come back.

Spain once organized a fleet to come to China to go to war with the Ming Dynasty. Spain did not come, but later Britain and France and other great powers came eventually. Why? After all, it was the rule of survival in this world. The strong prey on the weak. Survival of the fittest. Relying on others' sympathy is a very stupid thing.

"To clean up the Dutch's forces in the south of Dayuan, we must first capture Chikan. Dayuan Bay has two lanes, with deep water and wide water in the south. The Dutch blocked it with heavy artillery, and the lanes in the north were narrow and shallow, and sand and gravel were silted, and the Dutch lacked defense." Standing beside Fangsi Valley was a Ming man named He Bin. Because he lived in the south of Dayuan, he was dissatisfied with the Dutch's oppression, so he quietly drew a map and ran to the north to present the map.

Fons Valley looked at the map and didn't understand why Mr. Chen knew that he could take advantage of the high tide and rush into the harbor from the northern channel. But this combat plan was specified so that he could take advantage of the main fleet, which inevitably attracted the attention of the Dutch. Another fleet with the main ship, carrying more than 3,000 elite soldiers, suddenly rushed into the harbor.

In this era, it was a recognized stupid act to use naval guns against turrets. But Fons Valley did not think so. The reason was simple, because the range of rifled guns was enough to allow the eighty warships he commanded to bombard the Dutch fortresses with ship guns.

Maybe the adults want to save some ammunition! They could only think so in their hearts. However, Chen Xie had thought of imitating Zheng Chenggong's tricks since he saw the map presented by He Bin. Of course, the strength of the two is incomparable. Even if they have to push hard, it will be the result of direct crushing. It is naturally good to have a sudden effect.

Since he was going to attract attention, let's start. Fang Sigu slowly put down his telescope and ordered: "Fire!" The ten warships heading in front suddenly shook violently. After a bang, each gun fired one after another. The smoke of gunfire was rolling on the sea surface and the sound of gunfire rumbling.

Putmans, who was in the deep Chikan Fortress, was shocked at this time. What was going on? Why did the Chinese hold a meeting at this distance? Was it here to scare people? But when the projectiles that fell then hit the city wall, Putmans knew that this was not to scare people, but could really hit it here. How far is this? It's more than three nautical miles? The whistling shells made people feel desperate. The 12-pound cannon on the city was not enough to reach others at all. But their shells fell like raindrops.

The warships on the sea were lined up, and the artillery fire on the side was constantly tilting the firepower towards the city.

With a clamor, a tower was knocked down. Putmans, who was hiding behind the city wall, did not even take a look. He kept shouting, "Don't have a meeting, wait until they get close to you before fighting."

The artillery fire in the south was too fierce, and the Dutch were suppressed and could not raise its head at all. This was the first time they had suffered such a fierce artillery fire. Eighty warships took turns to fight, and the fierce artillery fire lasted for an hour, without any intention of stopping. At this time, the Dutch's attention was successfully attracted by the artillery fire in the south.

Three thousand infantrymen were carried on a lucky ship. Taking advantage of the high tide, they walked through the tunnel in the north at full speed and rushed through Luermen. Fifty boats rushed into the port and immediately bombarded the Dutch ships in the port with the 12-pound cannon on the ship. Suddenly they got up and hit the Dutch people in a mess. They didn't expect that when the south was fighting fiercely, the north was broken through.

After hearing the news, Putamans on the city wall realized that he had fallen into a trap. He immediately ordered the troops to retreat to Rezalan. All things that could not be taken away would be blown up and set fire to the fire.

When Fangsi Valley heard the movement, he knew that the sneak attack in the north had succeeded. He couldn't help but admire Mr. Chen's complete plan. To be honest, if he fought hard, he would be very confident to take it down. The problem was how many casualties were. It would be difficult for the cannons in the fortress to destroy them all. Once the previous family was hit, it would be a hole.

The soldiers who rushed to the dock shot with fierce volleys to disperse the Dutch's resistance. The Dutch who still used the clamp gun was naturally difficult to resist in front of the advanced flintlock gun. Just as the Fons Valley was about to order and the south was about to launch an attack, the staff came over and shouted: "Report, Flying Fish One discovered the Dutch's fleet."

Fangsi Valley immediately became energetic and turned around and asked, "How many ships?"

"There are ten Garen ships in total. They were found twenty nautical miles away an hour ago and were heading towards this side."

"Tell Gongsalu that I'll leave it to him. I'll take forty ships over there." After Fangsi Valley issued an order, ten Liaoning-level and thirty Dingyuan-level warships immediately left the team, forming a new formation, and rushing to the south.

The person who commanded the reinforcement fleet was the later governor of Taiwan, Kui Yi. According to Batavia's order, he brought the fleet over to teach the Chinese a lesson and let them know how to fight the naval war.

Kuiichi also believed that he would definitely teach the backward small boats of the Ming Dynasty a good lesson. As for Putmans' report, he didn't take it seriously. When could the Ming Dynasty build a big boat? Although the officials were convinced, they repeatedly emphasized that the Ming Dynasty could have built a big boat and cast high-quality cannons. Kuiichi didn't believe it, and his superiors didn't believe it. He believed that it might be the few big boats bought from the Portuguese. This was why Kuiichi dared to come for reinforcements with just ten boats. His ship was loaded with more than a thousand reinforcements and ammunition.

When he found the flying scissors, Kuiyi couldn't believe his eyes. What kind of ship is this? It can run at such a speed? It's really like flying. Almost instantly, he came to his face. On the sea, the fast scissors made a bend outside the range of the cannon, and immediately turned around and left. Liu Mazi, the commander of this ship, was a small officer of the Dengzhou Navy, and had good abilities at sea. He couldn't play this kind of ship before. He was also crippled by this speed when he first took this ship to sea. After more than two months of adapting to it, he could barely master this kind of ship. After half a year, he was more skilled. Once he became familiar with this ship, the feeling brought by the speed was a very exciting effect.

At the speed of fifteenth quarter, he easily got rid of the Dutch fleet and turned around and reported the news. When he came back to investigate, he had plenty of time. So when Kuiyi found that his opponent's clutch was back, he felt very upset and wanted to catch a living person. It was obvious that in this sea, the warship that could catch such a ship had not yet been born.

"Dog-day Dutch ghosts, go back and greet your brothers to gather. If you look back and chase us, you have to see us." Liu Mazi whistled, and the scissors swayed a piece of white waves on the sea surface and turned north. There were a total of ten scissors moving in this sea area. This was also the first batch of scissors to launch the water. The biggest function of this thing was once a messenger. Between Dengzhou and the officials, I really didn't dare to use it as a transport ship. An old sea ghost like Liu Mazi was tortured to death at the beginning.

The two sides were walking each other. After half an hour, Fons Valley saw the Dutch fleet, and Kuiichi also saw the dense white sails. He took a breath. This was definitely not a lucky ship for the Chinese, it was a serious warship. Even in Europe, such warships were not a small boat. After counting, Kuiichi's mind was a little too small. There were actually so many large warships, not a few procurement results. Could it be that this was the work of the Portuguese to help China build ships?
Chapter completed!