Chapter 128: Utrecht Fort
In the chaos, part of Zheng's army was killed, and all the remaining officers and soldiers surrendered. After that, the main force of the Qiongzhou Army landed on Penghu Island.
The soldiers escorted Zhang Ji, who was tied up with five flowers, in front of Zheng Cong.
"Don't kneel down when you see the prince!" The two soldiers pressed Zhang Ji, who refused to kneel.
"Phew!" Zhang Ji spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, "Lord Wang? Our General Zheng Xi is the real prince! Zheng Cong, you stinky and undried kid dare to call yourself the prince? You are not even as good as Zheng Jing, a yellow-mouthed child! It's simply a puppet of Wang Yu's thief! ”
Zheng Cong was so angry that his face turned red and white, but after all, he was inexperienced and didn't know how to refute this person, so he just pointed at Zhang Ji with his finger: "You! You erector! This king can't bear to hurt you in the face of his father! But you don't know what to do, it's just too much of a deception! ”
"If you want to kill or chop, listen to it! If this general is Zou Yi, he is not a hero! Zhang Ji said loudly.
Wang Xinyu walked up and untied the rope on Zhang Ji's body with his own hands: "General Zhang! You and I are both Han Chinese! Although we are each our own master, we are all the same, our common enemy is the Tartars, not our own! Therefore this king cannot bear to harm you. Moreover, this king also hopes that Zheng Jing and Zheng Xi will turn their rivalry into jade silk, stop internal strife, and jointly deal with the Manchu Tartars! ”
"Loyal ministers don't care about the two masters! Don't think I'm going to surrender to you like this! Zhang Ji was still stiff-mouthed, but his tone was insufficient.
Wang Xinyu smiled slightly: "General Zhang, this king knows that you are loyal to Zheng Zheng, and this king does not expect you to surrender, when Zheng Jing and Zheng Zheng stop the internal fighting, I will let you go back!" As long as he is single-minded about dealing with Tartars, my Wang will regard him as a friend! Now that the Tartars are powerful, and most of my Ming Dynasty has fallen into the hands of the Tartars, why do we Han people still kill each other? It is precisely because we Han people ourselves are too disunited that we have allowed the Tartars to take advantage of the loopholes. ”
"Humph!" Although Zhang Ji was a little moved in his heart. There was still a cold snort on his lips.
"Come on, leave General Zhang behind, take care of him, greet him with good wine and food, don't slack off!" Wang Xinyu said.
The soldiers escorted Zhang Ji down.
Wang Xinyu turned his head again and explained to his subordinates: "Don't abuse the captured Zheng Xi sergeants, everyone is their own people." If they are willing to join us, it is the best, and if they refuse to join us, when the civil strife between Zheng Xi and Zheng Jing is pacified, they will be let go home. ”
After a while, Hong Lei, who was captured and imprisoned by Zheng Zheng, was also brought up. Only then did the Qiongzhou army find a place where Hong Lei and a group of Zheng Jing soldiers were imprisoned, and they went from being prisoners of Zheng Xi to being prisoners of Wang Xinyu.
Hong Lei, like his father Hong Xu, is also a very diehard loyal minister.
"Phew! Wang Yu thief! Back then, the little prince wanted to kill you. Father also said good things for you! I didn't expect you to be such a traitor and treacherous villain! actually instigated the prince to abolish the little prince and set up Zheng Cong as your puppet! also took advantage of the fact that we and Zheng raided the thieves to defeat both sides to sneak attack! Hong Lei scolded when he saw Wang Xinyu.
"General Hong, like Ling Zun, is a loyal man! Ben will be very admirable! In fact, the son of the previous life was also a hero who swore not to surrender to the Tartars! It's just too young. It was he who angered the prince, the prince wanted him to commit suicide, and the general also begged the prince to let my brother-in-law go, but the prince resolutely refused to allow it. Now Ben will come, just to help the little prince! Otherwise. Sooner or later, the little prince will be defeated in the hands of Zheng Xi! Wang Xinyu said.
"Dog thief! Don't be pretended! If you hadn't moved the artillery factory to Dongfan, would the little prince have lost to Zheng Xi? It's good now! You guys go and fight Zheng Zheng. I'm sure you'll be cocooned and beaten to the brink by Zheng Raid! Hong Lei scolded bitterly.
"Zheng Xi is indeed not a good person! My brother-in-law is actually much better than Zheng Xi, but I don't know why, he hasn't been able to tolerate me. But don't worry, General Ben will definitely not hurt his brother-in-law. Wang Xinyu knew that in real history, after Zheng Zheng was defeated by Zheng Jing. went to the Qing court, and later worked for the Qing court.
"Yes, after all, the eldest brother is the king's own brother, and the king will not hurt the eldest brother!" Zheng Cong also spoke.
Hong Lei still kept scolding. Wang Xinyu didn't say anything more, and asked people to escort him down. He was imprisoned with Zheng Xi's people.
"I don't know what's going on Dongfan Island, so many days have passed, and there is still no news at all, Emperor Hu De, don't miss it!" Zheng Cong said worriedly.
"It's estimated that we're almost done, let's rest here for two days, and then go east!" Wang Xinyu said slowly.
On Dongfan Island, the special combat team and mountain army led by Hu Dedi and others finally passed through the reckless primeval forest, entered the Tainan Plain, and arrived behind Zheng's raiding department. However, with a total of more than 100 officers and soldiers of the Lynx Battalion and more than 500 officers and soldiers of the Bobcat Battalion, and without artillery and other heavy weapons, it was impossible to conquer Anping Castle.
After Zheng Chenggong captured Utrecht Castle, he set up mortars on the high ground where the Dutch could not hit the direct artillery, and condescendingly bombarded the city of Geranza before forcing the Dutch to surrender.
With this amount of troops, let alone attacking Anping Castle, even if they seize the high ground in the south, it is impossible.
Walking out of the mountains and forests, Hu Dedi looked like a local farmer wearing tattered clothes, a hat on his head, his trousers rolled up, his feet covered in mud, and two large baskets of taro on his shoulders. Shi Fu put on a familiar dress, wore a hat full of feathers on his head, and carried a load of bamboo shoots, mushrooms and other mountain goods.
Arriving outside Anping Castle to observe, the two found that there were many local Han people and cooked people carrying various vegetables and meat to sell outside the castle, and the soldiers of the Zheng Raid Department in the city often walked out of the castle to buy goods from these locals.
"I have a way to do this, and the people outside disguise themselves as ordinary people and sell things. The soldiers in the castle have a lot to buy, and a few of us can pick things in. At this point, we can take the opportunity to kill the doorkeepers and let the brothers outside rush in. I believe that Zheng Xian and these soldiers never dreamed that someone would sneak in from behind. As long as we rush to the castle, more than 700 of us can deal with all the Zheng raiders in the castle. Shi Fu made a suggestion.
"Although this method is feasible, we only took Anping Castle, but did not take the high ground in the south, I am afraid that Zheng Xi's people set up mortars on the high ground, and we still can't hold Anping Castle." Khadedi shook his head.
Shi Fu turned his head to look at the southern highland: "Then we can outwit the southern highland first, as long as we take the highland." We will be able to use the cannon above to bombard Anping Castle. ”
"It's hard for us to blend into the highlands to the south, you see, very few people come down to buy things, and there are no locals who carry things up there to sell, after all, it's just a small castle with few garrisons. There is no one to go up and sell anything, how can we sneak into Utrecht Fort? Hu Dedi still shook his head.
At this moment, there was a sudden rumbling of cannon on the sea outside.
"It's our fleet that has arrived! It is estimated that the port of Zheng Xijun is blocked! We need to act as soon as possible! Hood Emperor said.
In the waters around the Taijiang River, the ships of the Nanyang Navy have arrived near Dongfan Island. With Wang Xinyu's order, large and small warships spewed out balls of fireballs, and the cannonballs hit the ships of the Zheng Raiders in the outer harbors, causing the planks of these small boats to shatter and fly with sawdust, and the small boats that were hit by the bullets immediately sank to the bottom of the sea, and the larger ships caught fire.
"Block the entrance and exit of the Taijiang River! Don't let a ship of Zheng Raid go to sea! Even small sampans and fishing boats. See Sink Immediately! Wang Xinyu gave an order.
In Anping Castle, Cao Conglong, who stayed in the east, heard the sound of cannons, so he climbed the watchtower at the top of the castle, stood on it and picked up the telescope to take a look, only to see that the sea was densely packed with large and small ships, and the flag of Zheng Cong was hung on the ship, as well as the flag of the Qiongzhou Army.
"It must be Wang Yu's thief, instigating Zheng Cong to attack! This dog thief. Enter and cheer up our minds! I want to eat our Dongfan Island in one bite! Cao Conglong said angrily.
"My lord, our Anping Castle and the surrounding forts have a large number of huge cannons! If the thief comes to fight. There will be heavy losses! A pro-soldier said.
Cao Conglong laughed: "We have already taken precautions in Luermen!" The prince has already let people drop stones and block the waterway! If they want to land, they can only come from the front! When the time comes, we will compare with them to see if their Tessie giant ship is powerful, or our giant cannon is powerful! ”
"Hahaha!" Several of the surrounding soldiers laughed, and one of them said, "My lord, even if our fort here encounters a red-haired ghost, it will not suffer!" If the Wang Yu thief dares to attack. Let them see the power of our sixty-four-pounder cannon! ”
However, the Nanyang Navy fleet did not approach, but hid far away from the range of Zheng Xianjun's battery.
The arrival of his own fleet made Emperor Hu even more anxious, and he must take Zheng Xi's base as soon as possible, so as not to leak the news from Ye Changmeng. If Zheng attacked back and held on to Dongfan, it would be even more difficult to take it.
How to take Anping Castle? It seems that the first thing to do is to take the Utrecht Fort on the high ground to the south, take the castle, control the cannons erected on the high ground, and the soldiers who enter the Anping Castle will not be threatened. At this time, people were mixed into Anping Castle.
On the fortress of Utrecht, there are two sixty-four-pound super cannons, which can not only block the sea, but also pose a serious threat to Anping Castle. The number of Zheng raiders in Utrecht Fort was small, only more than 300 people.
After Emperor Hu and Shi Fu returned to the mountains and forests, everyone began to discuss how to seize the base of Zheng's army.
Ma Chaoxing listened to the news that the two of them came back from reconnaissance, and said without thinking: "What's so difficult about this, as long as we take Utrecht Fort and bombard Anping Castle with the cannons above, the enemy in Anping City will definitely surrender!" ”
"It's not that simple!" Liu Hui objected to this, "Anping City is the main city, and a large number of grain and materials are stored in it, and there are more than 3,000 soldiers and horses. Even if we shell Anping Castle, the Zheng army inside can counterattack us, and with our troops, we may not be able to hold Fort Utrecht. Even if we can hold it, they can see that they can't hold Anping City, so they can evacuate with food and supplies, enter Dayuan Town, which is outside our range, take a boat from the dock, and transfer to other batteries. With the strength of the forts around the Taijiang River, they can still resist to the end. Only after taking Fort Utrecht, immediately taking Anping City, and cutting off the food and grass of Zheng's army, can Zheng's army in other places be forced to surrender. ”
"How easy is it to do both? Unless we can take Utrecht Fort silently, Zheng Xijun in Anping City will not receive a signal at all, and we will have a chance to take Anping City again. Ma Chaoxing shook his head and said.
Emperor Hu suddenly thought of a solution: "We can attack at night!" After dark, we made a surprise attack on Fort Utrecht, silently tackling the defenders above, taking care to leave a few prisoners behind. After daybreak, our men took the captives to Anping Castle and used the captives to open the city gates. The rest of us disguised themselves as ordinary people and waited outside the city. As soon as the gates open, rush in! In this way, Anping Castle will be captured in one fell swoop! ”
"That's a good idea! Our men enter Dayuan Town, even if we make a noise when we capture Utrecht Fort, and Zheng Zheng's army launches a counterattack and attacks Utrecht Fort, our men can take the opportunity to attack Anping Castle. If they want to escape, we will control Dayuan Town, and they will not be able to fly! Shi Fu laughed heartily and clapped his hands again and again to praise the clever plan.
As the sky grew darker and night covered the ground, a small team dressed in night suits made their way through the jungle and appeared outside the heights of Fort Utrecht.
At the edge of the high ground, three Zheng Xianjun sentries sat by the campfire chatting, and one sentry dozed off. Outside, one of the most vigilant sentinels was poking his head out and looking out.
"Whoosh" A crossbow bolt plunged into the sentry's throat, and the sentry covered his throat, and an upside-down onion fell.
Ma Chaoxing was like a nimble civet, stepping forward silently with an arrow, and steadily caught the fallen corpse without making a sound.
After eliminating the sentry, Ma Chaoxing used his hands and feet to climb the rock and climb the mountain.
At this moment, a Zheng Xijun sentry suddenly appeared on the side. Ma Chaoxing didn't have time to reload the crossbow arrow, pulled out the dagger, and shot it into the sentry's throat.
"Up!" After eliminating the sentry, Ma Chaoxing used sign language to order the special combat team members under the mountain.
More than a dozen special operators threw their claw hooks and climbed onto the rocks.
The three Zheng Raid sergeants were chatting around the campfire when suddenly three black shadows appeared, swooping down like lightning, and their short knives brushed their throats. The sentinels didn't even say a word, and then they met Hades.
Ma Chaoxing touched the dozing sentry behind him and stabbed him in the kidney.
At the gate of the fortress of Utrechtburg, two sentries stood guard at the door. Suddenly, two black shadows appeared from the side, two pairs of large hands covered their mouths, twisted so hard that only the sound of bones shattering was heard, and the two sentinels were twisted and their necks were broken.
More than a dozen special combat personnel were like ghosts in the night, flashing into the camp of Zheng Xianjun.
Suddenly, there was a dog barking.
"Oops!" Ma Chaoxing chuckled in his heart. You must know that Wang Xinyu trained and had the habit of raising dogs, and as a result, Zheng Jiajun developed this habit! (To be continued.) )
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