Chapter 933: Capture the city of Geranza

In fact, during this period of time, too many Ming civil officials and military generals have expressed their refuge, including many local officials, and there are not a few political envoys, governors, and prefects.

The shipbuilding industry in the system is booming, and several small steam engine ships suitable for navigation on the Yangtze River and several medium-sized seagoing ships have been launched.

Many people who have seen steam engine steamships call this new thing "hot wheel", which may be named after the steam engine jet and smoke and fire.

At present, more than 20 large shipyards in "Tiger's Nest City," Qingniwa, Tianjinwei, Hancheng Port, Nantong Prefecture, Shanhaiguan, and Lushunkou have concentrated their technical forces in building steel "big steamers" with a displacement of 1,000 or 2,000 tons, "medium-sized steamers" with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons, and "small steamers" with a displacement of less than 200 tons.

The innovation and technological revolution is always in progress, and more than a dozen large, medium and small "steamships" are launched every month.

In the transition of three years at most, Huang Han plans to stop building wooden sail warships, large merchant ships, and passenger ships.

In addition to the maintenance of the existing wooden sail battleships, all the craftsmen and technicians in all the military dockyards were devoted to the construction of steel "steamers".

Five years later, Huang Han personally led a fleet of 100 steel "steamers" with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons to England.

The British thought they had strong ships and cannons, and they came all the way to the mouth of the Pearl River to do things, openly slaughtering unarmed people, and if they had revenge, they would not take revenge, and Huang Han was going to lead a steel warship to the English Channel to fight back.

Steam engines, coal, and iron and steel are the three main factors that contribute to the accelerated development of industrial revolution technology, and the "Hanwang" system has achieved it, and the industrial revolution, technological innovation, and large-scale production are underway.

But if the British are not beaten severely, there will be a British Empire that has completed the "Glorious Revolution" in a few decades.

There is no good way to lead the steel fleet with tens of thousands of infantry to the British Isles, reduce their population, plunder their wealth, destroy their industrial base as much as possible, and weaken it as much as possible.

During the Manchu Qing Dynasty, tens of thousands of British and French troops dared to fight in the capital and staged a realistic version of the snake swallowing the elephant, relying on the army equipped with advanced firearms.

Why can't Huang Han lead tens of thousands of "Red Banner Army" with equipment ahead of the world to conquer London?

How much wealth will you get by plundering this city? Thirty million taels of silver? Or 50 million?

At the time of the death of the Ming Dynasty, the capital was said to have been tortured by "thieves" for 70 million taels of silver, and the British lair would not even be able to compare with the wealth of the desperate Ming Jingshi, right?

The rapid rise of the British Empire was directly proportional to the speed of their plunder.

Huang Han led a large army to plunder Britain, which naturally strengthened the "Han Empire" and seriously weakened the British Empire, and the benefits are self-evident.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, six hundred miles of urgent delivery of Huang Yong's good news, sent out to Xiamen, Fujian Province, in the left thousand households to guard the palace.

In mid-November last year, after Huang Yong led a formation of warships into the Taiwan Strait, he was in no hurry to land.

Instead, they searched for the ships of the Dutch East India Company and rounded up, sank two and captured thirteen Dutch deck warships in one month, killing more than 600 sailors and gunners and capturing more than 1,000.

On the 20th day of December in the Taiwan Strait, the Marine Corps of the "Red Banner Army" Marine Division landed for deployment, and the planned goal was to seize the city of Geranza.

This city was rebuilt by the Dutch on the site of the original city of Qicheng, and has been built for more than ten years, and is the main hub of the Dutch ruling the whole island of Taiwan and foreign trade, and it is also one of the relatively large concentrated residences of the employees and families of the East India Company.

Hans Putmans was the fourth Dutch governor in Taiwan, and he had been operating in Taiwan for ten years, and many of the natives had been slaughtered by the Dutch.

He had earned enough, eager to return home with the vast wealth he had plundered over the years to enjoy his aristocratic life, and had long since submitted his resignation and was waiting for his successor to arrive.

The last shift was not good, and not a single ship had docked in the port of Geranza for a month, and Hans Putmans, a veteran colonist, smelled danger.

He ordered all the Dutch, including all Westerners, to enter the city of Geranza as a precautionary measure, and deployed soldiers to summon the twenty-eight leaders of the indigenous communities who had already been conquered.

During the Ming Dynasty, Taiwan's indigenous people were basically uncivilized, similar to primitive society, and the so-called society was actually a group of people who believed in their own tribal gods, with a limited number of people, and it was rare to see a community of more than 1,000 people.

Putmans had ten years of experience dealing with the leaders of the Society, and he coerced and lured them, and the leaders agreed to bring in ten to twenty warriors to help the Dutch defend the castle.

Huang Yong had a sailor division of marines under his direct command, as well as more than 3,000 sailors and gunners to participate in the siege, and the total number of troops dispatched reached 7,000, which should be about five times that of the Dutch defenders.

In fact, it is not accurate to estimate that the defenders of the city of Geranza were about 1,500, not because there were not so many people, but because the regular army was probably less than 700.

The "Red Banner Army", which is accustomed to strong winds and waves, not only has an advantage in equipment, but also has an absolute advantage in troops.

Three days later, the battle for the city of Geranza began, and the result was as expected.

The advent of the Minnie was enough to change the tactics of the Middle Ages, and the smoothbore gun emplacements could not cope with the accurate fire of the Minnie gunners who showed a fast-moving line of skirmishers, even on the castle turret.

The deployment took three days, and the actual combat took only two hours.

It was the defenders of the city of Geranza who were beaten by Minnie's gunners without firing a few shots, and finally the Dutch understood that resistance was futile and could not change the fate of the fall of the city.

So, under the leadership of Governor Hans Putmans, they chose to surrender with dignity, and the "Red Banner Army" got a European-style fortress that was basically intact, and Huang Yong directly changed its name to "Longwu City".

Huang Yong was not afraid that the Dutch would send troops to retaliate, and robbed all the gold, silver, treasures and goods in the city of Reranza.

All the colonists were destitute, and they had to become laborers to plow the fields, mine stones, get up earlier than chickens and sleep later than dogs.

Minnie's gunners approached about a hundred paces below the city of Geranza and fired accurately, and the Dutch's arquebuses did not have enough range to effectively return fire, and were basically pressed and beaten.

The Dutch in military uniforms were taken care of, and one or two hundred were killed on the spot, and about five hundred natives of the twenty-eight societies were armed with swords, guns, bows and arrows, and it was easy to distinguish them, and of course the "Red Banner Army" would not target them.