The battle on Qiongzhou Island was raging, and a fleet of ships arrived at the waters east of Dongfan Island, and Hu Dedi, Ma Chaoxing, Shi Fu and the officers and soldiers led by them got off the ship and set foot on Dongfan Island again. I was accompanied by a guide who was familiar with the local trails. Their trip will pass through the Jade Mountain in the middle of Dongfan Island and attack from behind the Zheng raid army.

The time goes back to seven days ago, and the spices that Wang Xinyu took out were very popular with the indigenous people.

Ah Leopard's eyes were fixed on the roasted deer leg on the fire, the roasted deer leg, sprinkled with a thin layer of fine salt on it, and then sprinkled with a layer of spices, and the air immediately filled the air with an enticing fragrance.

"Come on! Everyone, try it! Wang Xinyu tore off a piece of venison leg meat and handed it to Ah Leopard.

"It smells so good!" A leopard took a bite, and the fragrant juice flowed out of the burnt yellow flesh outside, a little salty and a little spicy and spice fragrance, and when I ate it, it was full of fragrance. He could swear it was the best meat he'd ever eaten in his life.

Several Han Chinese and indigenous people around them were given a piece of meat, and they tasted it and praised it endlessly.

With a bag of spices to open the way, the local Han and indigenous people chose to cooperate with the Ming army. Such cooperation would be beneficial to them, not only would they be protected by the army, but they would also be able to gain wealth by eliminating the cannibal people who were hostile to them, and the most powerful kingdom of Potbelly in the middle of Dongfan Island.

Ah Bao asked people to open the gate of the village, and the Ming army outside carried bags of grain, salt, boxes of cloth, ceramics and ironware, and entered the cottage. These items were offered to the local natives, who took out mushrooms, furs, various mountain goods, and gold and silver that were not valuable to them, in exchange for things in the hands of the Ming army.

For the local Han Chinese, the Ming army also helped. The soldiers helped the villagers build houses, build waterwheels, develop wasteland, and provided a collection of piglets, calves, and lambs, and built earthen towns for the villagers to protect them.

After opening the way to cooperation. Wang Xinyu proposed that he and Zheng Cong would cross the Jade Mountain in the middle of Dongfan Island, hoping to find a guide who was familiar with the road conditions to help.

Ah Bao looked at the map drawn by Wang Xinyu, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "Some of us know this road!" Although not from our tribe, they often cross the mountainous areas of the central part of Dongfan Island. They are from the east of Dongfan Island, and they have dealings with us and trade with you. However, the relationship between the Big-Bellied Kingdom and them is very poor, and their path is to avoid the Big-Bellied Kingdom and be able to directly lead to the Taijiang Flat behind Anping City. ”

Soon, Ah Leopard called the guide named Antai. Let them lead the way for the Qiongzhou army.

Wang Xinyu rewarded A leopard with a transparent glass, a set of ceramic tableware and a bottle of wine.

"Thank you, Lord Wang!" got such a beautiful good thing, Ah Bao is grateful.

Wang Xinyu rewarded Antai with a set of silk clothes, a bag of refined salt and a bottle of wine.

These things can be said to be rare treasures for the local indigenous people. Although Zheng Zheng also sold things to the natives, Zheng Zheng's heart was too dark, and the asking price was particularly high.

Antai accepted the reward and thanked him again and again, saying that he would definitely be able to bring Emperor Hu and them to the back of Zheng's raiding department. At the same time, the Atayal man also put forward a condition. The Ming army was asked to build a port and castle in the eastern part of Dongfan Island, so that they would not have to travel long distances through the mountains and forests, and they would be able to buy good things locally.

For this condition, of course, Wang Xinyu agreed to it. He has long wanted to develop the entire island of Taiwan. Become your own powerful logistics base. In addition to building ports and castles, Wang Xinyu was also willing to build schools to help the indigenous people improve their literacy and integrate into civilized society.

The fleet docked in the Jingpu area of present-day Taiwan. The coastline of eastern Taiwan is curved and complex. With the mountains reaching the sea, it is difficult to find a suitable landing site. But with locals leading the way, the Ming fleet still found a harbor. Set foot on the land in the eastern part of Dongfan Island.

Antai took the Ming army and came to the tribe not far from the sea.

The Ming army, carrying rice, refined salt, ironware, ceramics and cloth, was very popular, and the local people who had undergone a certain degree of sinicization sang and danced to welcome the arrival of the Ming army.

However, Emperor Hu did not stay long, and only stayed in the local Atayal tribe for one day before embarking on the journey.

According to Wang Xinyu's regulations, he had to pass through Yushan within seven days, enter the back of Zheng's raiding department, and wait for an opportunity to attack. And the main force of the Qiongzhou Army blocked the Zheng raid fleet in the Taiwan Strait.

However, after entering the dense primeval forest, I realized how difficult it was to reach the Tainan Plain in seven days. At that time, most of Taiwan was a deserted primeval forest, and there were basically no roads to pass. Although Shifu's lynx battalion is all mountain people such as Miao Li and Yi Yao from the mountains, and there are local natives leading the way, wild beasts, high temperatures, mosquitoes, poisonous snakes, etc. threaten the soldiers of the Qiongzhou army all the time, and non-combat attrition may occur at any time.

The Ming soldiers marched no more than the local natives, they carried armor and weapons, ammunition and dry food, plus water and soil adaptation, the marching speed was extremely slow, and they could not even walk twenty miles a day in the jungle.

Towering ancient trees shade the sun. It can be described as a dark day. Dense primeval forests, huge ancient trees, the width of which can only be embraced by a few people. There was no sunlight here, murderous motives lurked in the jungle, and poisonous snakes spat out letters, looking ill-intentioned at the uninvited guests who passed in front of them.

"We marched so fast that we couldn't go out in seven days! We only brought dry food for seven days. Hood Emperor said.

Shi Fu took out the dagger, and a "whoosh" flew out. A seven-inch venomous snake that had been shot fell from a tree. Shi Fu stepped forward, grabbed the poisonous snake, pulled out the dagger, disemboweled, sucked the snake's blood, and took out the snake gall bladder and swallowed it in one gulp.

"There's no dry food, this is food!" Shi Fu picked up a piece of snake meat with a knife and forked it into his mouth.

Mosquitoes buzz in your ears, and it is very uncomfortable to accidentally bite out a large bag. The mosquitoes in the rainforest are poisonous and big, and the faces and hands of the Ming soldiers are itchy and painful, even if they apply panacea balm, they can't reduce the pain. There are also nasty locusts on the mountain roads, burrowing into people's shoes and trouser legs to suck blood. Every time the Ming army walked, they had to take off their shoes and roll up their trouser legs to catch the locusts.

"How did you get to such a difficult path?" Emperor Hu De, who was bitten by a mosquito and turned into a pig's head, couldn't help but ask.

Antai replied: "My lord, we used to go to Reranza, which is now Anping City, and we have another way to go. But there are a lot of people on that road, and you used to be easily spotted. Adults, in addition, we also have medicine to prevent poisonous insects. ”

"Your medicine is a fart! It's not as good as our panacea, it doesn't work at all! Emperor Hu said indignantly.

"That's because you don't adapt to our medicine!" Antai laughed.

Khadedi asked, "We've been walking for six days!" How many days do we have to walk out of this place? ”

"Soon, at the speed of your march, five more days will be enough!"

Thousands of miles away, on Qiongzhou Island.

"Rides?" Huang Yingjie sneered, "It takes time and effort to build this thing, and it moves much slower than the shield car. We finally built one, and the thieves bombarded it with two or three cannons! ”

"Then may I ask General Huang what is the best way to break the enemy?" Daniel Zhang asked.

"Look at Ben's performance!" Huang Yingjie said with a confident smile.

The Qing army relied on the advantage of being outnumbered and overwhelming, and advanced to the city under the dense artillery fire of the Ming army. The auxiliaries kept throwing sandbags down, and the earthen platform was getting closer and closer to the city. The artillery fire at the head of the city became more ferocious, and many shield carts were hit by cannonballs and were torn apart, and the broken wooden planks killed and injured the Qing soldiers behind them like shrapnel. But more shield wagons pushed in, auxiliaries threw sandbags down, and an earthen platform to defend against artillery bombardment approached the walls.

Some of the shield carts had already rushed through the filled moat, and just after crossing the river, stones with the size of a grinding disc were smashed on the head of the city, and the wolf's tooth was smashed.

On the top of the city, bows and arrows, bird guns, and spears shot countless projectiles and arrows, causing heavy casualties to the Qing army.

But for Huang Yingjie, he can afford this loss. At that time, when Li Dingguo was about to break the city in Xinhui, he could let the people rush out to block Li Dingguo's road; The Qing army in the city ran out of food and began to eat people. For such a ruthless person, the loss of some auxiliaries is nothing!

The Qing army auxiliaries dug trenches, mixed the excavated soil with water, turned the soil into wet soil, filled sandbags, and then piled up ring-shaped forts.

"It turns out that the Tartars are to build fortifications to defend against our artillery fire, and then set up artillery to bombard our city!" Fang Yizhi was not far from the Qing army behind the earthen platform, coming and going, as if they were pushing something, so they understood what the Qing army was going to do.

But Zheng Yun was calm and calm, and seemed to have a good plan to break the enemy.

After three days and three nights of attack, the Qing army finally built a large number of temporary batteries outside the city. The Hongyi cannons, the general cannons, and the thousand-pound Franc machine and other artillery carried from behind were pushed into the forward position by the Qing soldiers. Then the Qing army began to lay out artillery positions: they erected platforms for placing cannons on wet ground with wooden planks.

"Fire!" The artillery officer of the Ming army yelled.

On the fort at the head of the city, a Hongyi cannon and a six-pounder cannon roared, and the cannonballs whistled out and smashed into the fortifications of the Qing army. However, the fortifications of the Qing army were piled up with sacks filled with wet soil, and the cannonballs smashed on the sacks, tearing open the mouth of the sacks, and the wet soil inside flowed out, forming a mud field in front of the fort that could absorb the energy of the shells.

At that time, the solid artillery shells relied on multiple bounces to kill the target, and the killing effect was best on the solid ground, but when it encountered wet mud, the shells could not bounce, nor could they splash the stones and sand on the ground to form a secondary kill, and the killing effect was significantly weakened. Unless the shell just hits the target, so that a single shell can only kill one Qing soldier at most.

"Dog Tartar really has a set! If they bombard our city, we will lose a lot! Fang Yizhi secretly complained. (To be continued.) )