The news was quickly spread to Beijing in the form of an 800-mile urgent report, and Xiao Tianjian and the cabinet ministers were overjoyed when they heard the news.

Although this battle is not a big battle compared to the battle of Liaodong against Jiannu, and it cannot be compared with the scale of the army, but the significance of this battle is very significant, this is the first time that the Royal Navy of the Great Chinese Army is led by the navy, to complete a cross-sea landing operation, and against the Western modern Dutch army, this is also a test action for Xiao Tianjian to lead the construction of a strong navy.

The navy did not live up to Xiao Tianjian's expectations, whether it was a naval battle, a landing battle, or even a tough battle, they fought very beautifully, and in just one month, they took the island of Taiwan and conquered the Dutch city of Geranza and Chichicheng in Tainan, and this battle was perfect, completely defeating the arrogance of the Dutch.

In addition, the operation of the Dazhong Army is different from that of the Ming Dynasty, when the Dazhong Army goes to war, the imperial court does not appoint bullshit supervisors to follow the army to give instructions, but there are military commissioners, they will not interfere with the command of any commander, but they will be responsible for recording the combat process in detail, and there will never be a situation where the generals exaggerate their achievements, and each battle will be recorded by specialized personnel throughout the combat process, and then submitted to the Ministry of War for the record with the war report, in order to prepare for the post-war review and review of the gains and losses of the operation.

In addition, after sorting out and analyzing these battle reports, they will also be sent to the major lecture halls for the cadets to study and draw war command experience from them; it is precisely this kind of system that Xiao Tianjian implemented in the early stage that enables the large and medium army to continuously obtain a large number of qualified junior and intermediate commanders, so as to accumulate more actual combat experience for future wars, so that the large and medium army can be invincible and become more and more proficient in war skills.

The most important thing is to avoid the situation in which the old-style military generals are passed down from generation to generation and control military affairs, and the formation of a generation of warlord groups in the large and medium army is avoided.

Over the years, the children of many generals of the Dazhong Army have gradually begun to become adults, and the Dazhong Dynasty does not implement the hereditary system, and the children of these generals, if they want to inherit the mantle of their fathers, then the only way they can go is to enter the lecture hall for systematic study, and then distribute them uniformly according to their achievements, and will never let them serve in the army of their respective fathers, so that it is impossible to form a warlord group as in the old days.

In this battle, there is another thing worth mentioning, that is, among the fleets that went out to fight, there was a captain named Zheng Sen!

Zheng Sen is also the famous Zheng Chenggong in the old time and space, after the Zheng family group surrendered to the Great Middle Kingdom, Zheng Sen did not follow Zheng Zhilong into the sea trade group to do things, but in the second year of the Zheng Group's surrender to the Great Middle Kingdom, Zheng Sen followed Qian Qianyi's advice and threw himself into the Royal Navy, first entered the Ningbo Royal Navy Lecture Hall for two years of study, and then because of his excellent grades, he began to serve as a midshipman captain on a patrol ship, and some time ago he became the captain of a third-class battleship. He became a dazzling rookie in the Royal Navy.

In the naval battle against the Dutch fleet, Zheng Sen's battleship was extremely brave, and the whole ship sailors under his leadership operated the ship flexibly, the shelling was fierce and accurate, and blocked the escape of the two Dutch warships in a timely manner, although the warships were seriously damaged in the battle, but they helped other warships to finally capture the two Dutch warships.

After the naval battle, Zheng Sen also led the sailors to quickly repair the warship, and engaged in the subsequent artillery bombardment of the Dutch battery on the shore, his ship was hit again in the artillery battle, and finally succeeded in destroying one of the Dutch batteries and several heavy guns.

In the case of serious damage to his ship and Zheng Sen himself was slightly injured, he commanded the warship to run aground on the beach and keep the warship unsinkable, and when attacking the city of Geranza, he led the whole ship of sailors to unload the guns on the ship, and joined the artillery array of the bombardment of the city of Geranza.

In addition to Zheng Sen, a group of excellent naval commanders also emerged in this battle, and there is another person who needs to be mentioned, this person is Shi Lang, when Zheng Sen was invested in the Royal Navy, Shi Lang was suspected of betraying the Zheng family because his uncle defected to the Dazhong Dynasty, so after the Zheng Group surrendered to the Dazhong Dynasty, Shi Fu thought that it was not easy for them to stay in the Haimao Group to do things, so he took the clan into the naval system, Shi Lang as his nephew, and also entered the Royal Navy with him. Also after two years of training in the Navy Lecture Hall, he became a midship-cadet captain of a warship.

In this battle, the captain of his warship was seriously wounded in the naval battle, and Shi Lang immediately took over the captain's command, led the whole ship to continue the artillery battle with the Dutch warship, and finally succeeded in destroying a Dutch warship, and also made a lot of achievements.

The reason why these people can stand out in the navy is inseparable from their experience, these young generations are accustomed to fighting at sea in their early years, and they have already accumulated considerable experience, and after transferring to the Royal Navy, it is difficult to think of outstanding people, so in this time the navy has performed well in the operation to recover the island of Taiwan.

Xiao Tianjian was very happy when he learned about it, and personally rewarded these meritorious people in the name of the emperor, and specially ordered Zheng Sen and Shi Lang to go to Beijing to accept his personal awards.

As for the more than 1,000 Dutch prisoners of war, Xiao Tianjian ordered them to be imprisoned in Quanzhou, Fujian, and the ruling Dutch authorities paid 2 million guilders to Dazhongchao as war reparations before these prisoners could be released.

The Dutch East India Company originally wanted to send troops to reinforce Taiwan after learning the news of the attack on the island of Taiwan, but they had limited warships on hand, although the Netherlands had quite a lot of warships, but the number of their warships in Asia was not large, and the Dutch also learned that the strength of the Dazhong and Korean naval divisions was now very powerful, and even if they sent ships to reinforce, they might not be able to save the city of Geranza and the city of Chichi.

Just when they had just organized a fleet in Batavia and wanted to set off to rescue Taiwan, they learned that the Great Chinese Dynasty had conquered the cities of Geranza and Chichi, and annihilated all the Dutch defenders on the island, so they could only give up the rescue plan and send people to Guangzhou to negotiate with the Great Chinese and North Korea.

After some negotiations, the Dutch had to pay 2 million guilders as war reparations in accordance with the demands of the Great and Middle Koreas, and then took the more than 1,000 prisoners back to Batavia.

After the Great and Chinese Dynasties recovered the island of Taiwan, the Spaniards also began to feel more of the threat of the Great Chinese and Korean Empires.

The Spaniards had already occupied Luzon, and under their management, Manila had become the largest commercial port in Asia in the West, and Spain's interests in Asia were completely supported by Manila.

Seven years after Tianyuan, various ships of the Chinese maritime division and some unknown fishing boats began to frequently appear on the sea around Manila, and many unknown Chinese also began to appear in the port of Manila.

Recently, even overseas Chinese businessmen living in Manila have begun to harden their waists, no longer obey as before, and even began to have frequent violent clashes with local indigenous Filipino monkeys.

The Spaniards are very afraid of the Chinese in the Philippines, they are afraid that too many Chinese will affect their colonization of the Philippines, so they often instigate the local Filipino monkeys and Chinese to get by, bully the Chinese, and even slaughter the Chinese openly and secretly.

In particular, the Spaniards knew very well what they had done in the Philippines in their early years, and in 1603, the Wanli Emperor heard that there were rumors that there were many gold mines in the Philippines, so he sent people to the Philippines to explore, which caused fear among the Spaniards.

Later, the Spaniards oppressed the local Chinese, which led to a Chinese uprising, which was later suppressed by the Spaniards, and finally evolved into a massacre against the Chinese, not only the Spaniards participated in the massacre, but the local Filipino monkeys and even the Japanese also participated, and in a few months, they slaughtered nearly 30,000 Chinese.

Later, the Spaniards were very worried that they would incur the retaliation of the Ming Dynasty, but they did not think that after the Wanli Emperor heard about this, he did not react at all, but thought that the Chinese who went abroad were all abandoned by the Ming Dynasty and did not care about this matter at all.

So the Spaniards were relieved, and in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, that is, in 1639, the Spaniards once again slaughtered the Chinese in Manila, this time countless Chinese were slaughtered by the Spaniards, and their property was also robbed by the Spaniards.

Originally, the Zheng group was very angry about this and wanted to intervene in this matter and take revenge on the Spaniards, but later due to various reasons, the Zheng group failed to launch an attack on Manila, and Chongzhen didn't care about this kind of thing at this time, so the Spaniards thought they could sit back and relax.

But what the Spaniards didn't expect was that the Ming Dynasty collapsed, and the rapid rise of a new Dazhong Dynasty in China, in the first two years, Xiao Tianjian did not have the strength to ask the Spaniards for an explanation, but now with the development of the Haimao Group and the rapid expansion of naval strength, the Dazhong Dynasty finally has the strength to settle accounts with the Spaniards.

In the sixth year of Tianyuan, Xiao Tianjian ordered the Ministry of Rites to send a note to the Spaniards, ordering the Spaniards to give an explanation to the two large-scale massacres of Chinese, and to ask the Spaniards to compensate the relatives of the victimized Chinese.

Now when they saw that the Great and Chinese Dynasty brazenly expelled the Dutch from the island of Taiwan, the Spaniards were even more afraid, so at the end of the seventh year of the Tianyuan Dynasty, the Spaniards began to send additional troops to Manila, and began to arm the local natives, preparing to deal with the possible arrival of the Great and Chinese Dynasty.

At the same time, Spain sent warships to expel the ships of the large, medium and North Korean navies that appeared off the coast of the Philippines, and friction between the two sides gradually began at the end of the year.

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