At the beginning of February of the eighth year of the reign of Dazhong Dynasty, a large-scale fleet consisting of seven warships with a displacement of 500 tons, 50 warships with a displacement of 300 tons, and 70 troop carriers with a displacement of 300 tons began to assemble in Quanzhou Bay.

In order to ensure the success of this operation, the Southern Military Region also assigned an additional reinforced heavy artillery battalion, an infantry battalion of three land divisions, and a scout group to the navy as a supplementary force to enhance the navy's combat strength, with a total strength of nearly 13,000 troops.

As for the Dutch in Taiwan, the total strength of the army now does not exceed 3,000, there are only more than 20 armed ships, and the main warships have only seven Galen ships with a displacement of about 500 to 800 tons, and there are also some combat boats.

With the order of the commander of the navy, Liu Jiang, the port of Quanzhou immediately resounded with the roar of a salute, and Liu Yanming, the commander of the Southern Fleet, who was the commander of the battle, also immediately ordered the flagship he sat on to start firing a salute, and one after another the warships immediately began to raise their sails, slowly sailed away from the trestle and anchorage, and sailed towards the outside of Quanzhou Bay.

A day later, the fleet arrived in the Penghu Islands, where more than 40 fast dhows had already assembled, all of which were navy patrol ships and scout vessels, as well as dozens of fishing boats, which would also cooperate with the operation.

After the fleet was slightly replenished, the first echelon of battleship formations began to set sail first, sailing to the Dayuan sea area in Tainan, their task was very simple, that is, to clear the Dutch sea forces in the Tainan area, to defeat the Dutch fleet gathered in this area, and to cover the landing of the second echelon, which was mainly composed of troop carriers.

After another day's sailing, the formation of the first echelon arrived off the coast of Dayuan, and the Dutch patrol ships immediately spotted the Chinese fleet, and immediately began to warn and beckon the Dutch fleet to come out to meet it.

A dozen dhows immediately rushed out of the fleet like beagles and pounced on the Dutch patrol boats, but after a short exchange of fire, the two Dutch patrol ships at sea were immediately sunk by the patrol ships of Dazhong and North Korea, and one was captured.

At this time, after the Dutch fleet was warned, it also began to sail out of the harbor in a panic and appeared in front of the fleet of the Royal Navy of Dazhong.

This naval battle was the first time that the Great Chinese Army fought a major battle at sea with Western-style sail warships as the main force and Western maritime powers.

However, although the Great and Chinese and Korean Empires were late, but their strength far exceeded the Dutch fleet assembled in Taiwan, so the battle situation was a one-sided situation, the Royal Navy of the Great and Chinese and Korean Empire with several ships against one superior firepower, in more than two hours, in one fell swoop, destroyed seven Dutch warships, in addition to the successful gang tactics, captured the Dutch six warships, the remaining few Dutch ships were not good, completely unable to stop the attack of the Chinese fleet, so they had to turn around and flee, one fled back to the harbor, The rest simply fled to the South Seas with their tails between their legs, but even so, they were caught up by the Chinese fleet and captured two more, so that the Chinese fleet completely controlled the sea, destroyed the sea power of the Dutch, and blocked the Dutch on land.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Dutch governor of Taiwan immediately increased his troops towards the batteries on the coast in an attempt to prevent the landing of Chinese troops, and the Chinese fleet immediately began to concentrate their fire on the batteries.

The Dutch at this time desperately found that the Chinese's firepower was no longer as weak as they thought, and on the Chinese warships, there were no longer those tattered Fran machine guns and various earthen cannons of the early years, and the Chinese warships at this time were all equipped with new naval guns, both twelve-pounder cannons, twenty-four-pounder cannons, and heavy thirty-six-pounder guns.

Each ship, with at least twenty or more guns, and more than fifty ships with more than a thousand cannons, lined up far along the coastline and began to shell the Dutch batteries on the beachhead in turn.

Although the Dutch defenders of the battery fought back with great efforts, damaging a number of Chinese ships, their resistance was quickly broken down by the intensive fire counterattack.

Under the continuous bombardment of the ships and ships of the Great Chinese Army, the Dutchman's large artillery battery lasted less than a small matter, and was destroyed by random artillery, and the defenders of the battery suffered more than 300 casualties, and the rest had to flee back to the cities of Geranza and Chichi, abandoning their batteries in the coastal area.

As a result, the navy of Dazhong, and North Korea successfully cleared the landing ground on the periphery of Dayuan Port for the marines and land divisions who came to the landing operation in the future.

Early in the morning of the third day, the second echelon learned that the first echelon had routed the Dutch fleet, so they immediately set sail in Penghu and arrived at the sea off the coast of Dayuan.

Although the Dutch continued to bombard the beachhead of Dayuangang with the batteries of Geranza and Chichicheng on both sides of the Taijiang River, in an attempt to prevent the Chinese troops from landing, the Chinese naval ships also immediately carried out large-scale artillery bombardment to suppress the Dutch batteries and provide cover for the landing force.

One by one, troop carriers immediately began to dock, and a large number of large and medium-sized navy and land division soldiers were unloaded from their ships and began landing operations; without seizing the port wharf, the navy specially prepared several troop carriers, and after refitting, they washed the beach and sank on the beachhead, which was used as a temporary trestle, so that the rest of the ships could berth, and one cannon after another was unloaded on the beachhead.

Seeing that the Chinese army was about to land, the Dutch sent 700 men to rush out of the castle in an attempt to make a counterattack and drive the Chinese army back into the sea.

But a naval battalion, that is, the Marine Corps, immediately organized a defense, and the two sides conducted a platoon gun shooting battle, and the large Chinese army used all flintlock muskets, and it was easy to gain a battlefield advantage, and their rate of fire and accuracy were much higher than the Dutch arquebuses, and as a result, 700 Dutch soldiers soon left behind more than 300 corpses, and the rest were still wounded, and fled back to the castle in a hurry, and their counter-shock combat operation ended in failure.

A large number of large and medium-sized troops immediately landed successfully under the cover of battleship artillery, and unloaded nearly 100 12-pounder guns and more than 10 24-pounder guns for attacking fortifications, as well as countless ammunition.

This time, the Great Chinese and North Koreans recovered the island of Taiwan by force, but it was not as shabby as Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan in history, and the combat effectiveness of the Great Chinese Army in both the combat effectiveness of the ships and the firepower of the landing infantry exceeded the Zheng Army in the old time and space by dozens of times, and although it was not as large as the Zheng Army, its combat effectiveness was definitely many times greater than that of the Zheng Army in the old time and space.

The Dutch were really frightened by the large Chinese army, a counterattack made them lose hundreds of people, they only had less than 3,000 soldiers in the city of Geranza and the city of Chichi, the fleet was destroyed, there were only less than 2,000 defenders left in the two castles, looking at the large Chinese army that swarmed to land, they no longer had the courage to go out of the city to counterattack, so the governor of Taiwan had to concentrate all his forces in the two castles, and made a posture of waiting for reinforcements, hoping that the escaping ships could only escape back to Batavia to bring back reinforcements.

However, their hopes were destroyed in the subsequent offensive launched by the Great Chinese Army, which was not at all like the old army of the Old Ming Dynasty, in addition to having many sharp firearms, and the arms were complete, and the cooperation between the various arms was also quite skillful.

Although the Dutch had built the two castles very well over the years, and the fortifications and forts were also very well built, the Great Chinese Army prepared a large number of cannons for them, and along with the siege of the city, the Great Chinese Army first concentrated its firepower to attack the Red Embedded City.

More than 100 12-pounder guns and 24-pounder guns, as well as several large-caliber siege mortars newly developed by Dazhong and the DPRK, were mounted outside the Chiji City, and one after another artillery fortifications were erected and they opened fierce fire on the Chichi City.

The shells fell in the red city like rain in a few days, especially the several large-caliber siege mortars, the damage to the red city was more serious, the trajectory of the mortar was curved, the shells almost fell from the top of the head, there was no safe place in the city at all, although the defenders also used the artillery of the city batteries to counterattack, but the firepower was always at a disadvantage.

While the large and medium army fiercely bombarded the city, it also continued to launch small-scale tentative attacks to find out the weaknesses of the Dutch defenders, and then inflicted devastating blows on these garrison sites with artillery salvos, and the defenders did not dare to show their heads at all.

In particular, the Dazhong Army has always attached great importance to the application of engineers, under the cover of artillery fire, constantly sent engineers to carry out excavation and blasting operations in various parts of the city wall, so that in a few days, it successfully broke through the Red Embedded City, the 800 defenders in the Red Embedded City, a few days later, were killed and wounded nearly 500 people, and the remaining 300 people saw that the city was broken, and they could only lay down their arms and surrender.

As soon as the Red Embedded City was broken, the city of Geranza became even more lonely, and after the Great Chinese Army broke through the Red Embedded City, it immediately began to attack the city again.

The city of Geranza is a typical western fortress-style castle, with a stepped arrangement, which is much stronger and more well-defended than the red castle, and is very difficult to attack.

The Great Chinese Army launched several sieges, all because the defenders occupied the geographical advantage, were repelled by the Dutch defenders, and lost a lot of personnel, Liu Yanming, who was extremely angry, saw that he could not take the lead in attacking, and felt that if this battle could not be taken down by the Dutch as soon as possible, for their navy, it would lose face in front of the land division, so he ordered each ship to draw sailors and gunners on the ship, and unloaded the 36-pounder guns and 24-pounder guns on the fleet warships, and also transported them to the land to join the artillery bombardment of the city of Geranza.

As the heavy artillery of the fleet was unloaded one after another, and the sailors and gunners were reinforced into the siege force, the city of Geranza suddenly felt as if it had been placed on the crater, and every second it was bombarded with cannonballs, and the defenders of the city had almost no place to stand, and the governor was bombarded into the basement to avoid the cannons, and the Dutch defenders in the city suffered heavy casualties.

When the siege was carried out on the tenth day, the Taiwanese aborigines of the surrounding Gaoshan tribe also rushed to help the war when they heard the news, they hated the Dutch for their oppression and slaughter, and when they heard that the Dazhong Dynasty was coming to attack the Dutch, some Gaoshan people took out their only food and sent it to the Dazhong army, and expressed their willingness to help the Dazhong army attack the city of Gelanza.

However, considering that the weapons of these Gaoshan people are extremely rudimentary, and letting them go into battle will only increase casualties, Liu Yanming expressed his gratitude to these Gaoshan people, politely declined their request to participate in the war, and gave them a lot of gifts.

Many Gaoshan people could not participate in the war at all, so they helped the Dazhong army to transport food and ammunition, and many hunters took the initiative to go hunting, sending the hunted prey to the army for the soldiers of the Dazhong army to improve their food.

Taiwan is prolific with deer, wild boar and other prey, and for a time, the officers and men of the Dazhong Army who participated in the war had venison and wild boar meat for them to feast on, so the officers and men of the Dazhong Army became more courageous.

On the fifteenth day of the battle, I saw only a city wall of the city of Geranza, and suddenly there was a violent explosion, which swept away dozens of meters of the city wall at once, killing and wounding hundreds of defenders, and the shell of a heavy mortar cannon of the original Dazhong Army actually broke through the ammunition depot of the Dutch like a ghost, and ignited thousands of catties of gunpowder in the ammunition depot, which caused a violent explosion, and as a result, blew down the wall of the city of Geranza.

Seeing the city walls collapse, the Great Chinese Army roared and rushed into the city of Geranza, quickly crushing the recalcitrant defenders, and finally the more than 500 Dutch living in the city had to lay down their arms and surrender to the Great Chinese Army.

At this point, the Dazhong Army swept away the main force of the Dutch in Taiwan in one fell swoop, and the Dutch governor was also captured alive by the Dazhong Army on the spot, and then Liu Yanming immediately sent a ship back to Quanzhou to report to Liu Jiang, who was sitting in Quanzhou and was waiting for the news, that Taiwan had been recovered by the Dazhong Army.

(Today, there are three old friends of hong360, brave 1023, and Fengmu Chunjiang, of course, I still have to say thank you!) ）