The reason why Wu Daofu and Wu Juren killed the Dutch Hongcheng Fortress overnight was that they still had a little calculation in their hearts, that is, they thought that they could gather them on Magong Island and not move before the Dutch fleet sent warships to Bengang.

When Hong Zhengkai proposed to take advantage of the Dutch attack Bengang to counterattack Magong Island, out of his own judgment, Wu Daofu also felt that this plan was more ingenious than directly returning to Bengang.

However, if they could besiege the Dutch fleet in advance and compress the space for their fleet before the Dutch sent troops, they might not be able to deal a fatal blow to the Dutch.

Although Li Tianyang had an order, he said that Wu Daofu and the others should inquire more about the movements of the Dutch along the way, and they must ensure that after the Dutch really send troops, they can march towards Magong Island and attack it.

Obviously, Li Tianyang was willing to use Bengang as a bait to make the Dutch feel that there was an opportunity, and he was unwilling to let Hongtang's fleet confront the Dutch fleet again.

In the last Battle of Jilong Harbor, Li Tianyang, as a person who carefully observed each other's combat strength from beginning to end, had a negative judgment on the combat strength of each other's fleets, and he always believed that in the frontal battle of the Dutch fleet, even if Hongtang could win, it would definitely be a tragic victory, and it was better to disperse the strength of the Dutch first, concentrate Hongtang's superior forces to attack its weak branches, and slowly try to make it the right reason for the soldiers, which is the so-called injury to its ten fingers rather than cut off one of its fingers.

However, Wu Daofu and Wu Juren, who were parties to the naval battle, did not think so, and in their minds, the reason why the Hongtang warship had been at a disadvantage in the face of the Dutch fleet was actually because the Dutch fleet was too flexible, and on the wide sea, their activity space was too vast, which made the Hongtang warship always be beaten by their nose and could not catch up.

But now the siege of Hongcheng Fortress is different, when the only stronghold of the Dutch in the Daming Sea is attacked, and when the time comes, the Dutch are strong warships, and they also need to take care of the safety of the fortress, which gives the Hongtang warship the possibility of compressing its activity space.

Of course, the reason why Wu Daofu and Wu Juren are unwilling to let Bengang take risks is that Bengang lives in the relatives they care about. Not to mention that Wu Daofu has taken his family to Bengang to live in the past few years since he defected to Li Tianyang, even Wu Juren's family is more still in Tanmen, his eldest brother, that is, Li Tianyang's biological father Li De's mother and wife are all in Bengang, if they have any mistakes, then how can he, the younger brother, still have the face to see his eldest brother?

This is what Li Tianyang did not expect, but even if he thought of it, he would still be willing to use the safety of Bengang to gamble that this is the most likely opportunity to bring peace to Bengang and Jilong Port in the next few years, and also has the best chance to survive this crisis at the lowest cost.

It's not that Li Tianyang is cold-hearted, it's that the burden he is carrying is too heavy and too heavy, he is not only Mrs. Wu's grandson, Sanniang's son and Yumo's husband, he is also the largest leader of the two towns of Bengang and Jilonggang, with an actual population of nearly 100,000 people.

Every decision he made also meant that the lives of hundreds of thousands of people below had to be changed because of this decision, which was also the reason why he felt that his ability was limited and he began to form a team of officers and secretaries around him.

Who said that Li Tianyang didn't worry about the safety of his grandmother and mother, but did you really carry everyone behind your back and run to let people quickly send their relatives to a safe place, and let the families of the Hongtang soldiers below take risks?

This is obviously contrary to Li Tianyang's constant instillation in everyone to wait for the same weal and woe, and the will of the team to work with one heart and one mind.

Therefore, Li Tianyang can only be ruthless, put his relatives and everyone's relatives on the front line of Bengang, and can also bring courage and confidence to the people of Bengang.

Moreover, he also believes in the ability of his wife Yumo, who will take good care of their relatives, everyone's relatives.

Wu Daofu and their calculations were very good, but unfortunately they still failed to block the Dutch fleet in Hongcheng Fortress. When they heard from the surrounding team members who were monitoring the movements of the Dutch that the Dutch fleet had been gone for almost five or six hours, Wu Daofu and the others did not care about the suffering of the Hongtang team members coming from afar at this time, as well as the time when the sun was setting in the west and it was almost twilight, so they gave the order to attack at the first time.

Of course, Wu Juren and they have not forgotten a little, giving the Dutch time to prepare.

It's not that Wu Juren is merciful, but they are very worried that if they fight in a hurry and don't give the Dutch a chance to send troops for help, then even if they capture Hongcheng Fortress, but they can't bring back the Dutch fleet that attacked Bengang, then their purpose will be in vain.

"Brothers, the first one to attack the fortress on the island in front of him, Lao Tzu will reward him with a thousand taels of silver, and at the same time the official will be promoted to one level!!" Wu Juren's pre-war mobilization still had a strong reckless atmosphere, but most of the backbones under his command were his henchmen brought from the Wild Shark, but they were encouraged by him, and they were already screaming, waving the swords in their hands, and looking at the isolated island that was getting closer and closer in front of them.

However, the other two departments of Hongtang to which Wu Daofu belonged still had a solemn expression, intently waiting for the next order of the commanders in their posts.

"Stand ready, the gunners are in position!" As soon as the order went down, the team members on the warship began to get busy.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

The artillery on the Hongcheng Fortress opened fire first, taking advantage of the height advantage, the gunners on the fortress, under the command of Lei Yousheng, aimed the artillery fire on the fort at the dense warships in Hongtang.

Cannonballs fell around the Hongtang warship, and occasionally even one or two cannonballs landed on the bow of an unlucky warship, causing a lot of damage to the warship, and the water splashed several feet high on the sea, and finally slapped on the faces and bodies of the soldiers on the Hongtang warship, but it could not make the Hongtang soldiers move in the slightest.

"Fire!!"

As the warship approached an effective range, Wu Daofu's tiger roar sounded, and the three warships of Hongtang that had been silent for a long time finally let out a roar that belonged to them.

In order to support Wu Daofu and their actions to the greatest extent, Li Tianyang equipped all the shipboard guns on the three captured Dutch warships. Due to the design flaws of the Daming Fu ship, it could not be equipped with heavy firepower on both sides of the warship on a large scale like Western warships, so Li Tianyang and his team simply added one or two Dutch cannons to many warships equipped with great generals' cannons.

In this way, Hong Tang did not have to turn to fire shells like Western warships, but the bow guns of forty-five battleships fired a salvo, and the artillery fire of eighty or ninety cannons bombarded the fortress on the isolated island on many sides, which was no less rare than the artillery fire of a salvo of the Dutch fleet.

(End of chapter)