Chapter 122: Tamsui River

The Qiongzhou military fleet arrived in the northern waters of Dongfan Island, and on the flagship, Wang Xinyu, Zheng Cong and others formulated a plan to capture Dongfan.

If you want to capture Dongfan Island, you must capture Zheng Xi's lair, that is, to conquer Chihkan City and Anping City.

Anping City is the original Dutch city of Geranza, when the Dutch surrendered, these two castles left a large number of cannons, and after more than a year of construction by Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Xi, these two cities can be said to be impregnable, the city is stored in a mountain of food and ammunition, not afraid of siege at all. If it is a strong attack, there are not only cannons left by the Dutch on the fort at the head of the city, but also various new cannons newly cast by Zheng Chenggong according to Wang Xinyu's technology, which is enough to make any intruder suffer enough.

If you attack from the front, there are more than a dozen batteries on both sides of the original Taijiang Inland Sea, and there are all kinds of new artillery on the batteries, and there are even four 64-pounder super cannons! This kind of heavy artillery is extremely powerful, the weight of the cannon reaches 10,000 catties, the shells fired are 64 pounds, and the maximum firing range can reach 8 miles; There is another short-barreled cannon, which weighs 3,000 pounds, can fire 32-pound flowering shells, and has a maximum range of 3 miles, and this short-barreled cannon has 12 guns. Zheng Zheng had such a powerful firepower in Taiwan that even the latest battleship of the Britannica's Maritime Sovereignty could not bargain in front of the Taijiang Battery.

Any fleet that tries to enter the Taijiang River will taste the power of the battery's cannons. The front is impassable.

As for the Luermen that Zheng Chenggong took to recover Taiwan last time, there is no way to go now, since Zheng Chenggong used this trick to sneak attack the Dutch and achieve the success of the landing battle, then it is strange that Zheng Jiajun can not guard against the Luermen waterway.

If the Dongfan Zheng raid base is stormed, then the Qiongzhou army does not know how heavy the price will have to pay, I am afraid that it will have to lose more than ten large ships, hundreds of small ships, and tens of thousands of casualties before it can be taken. This is what Wang Xinyu does not want to see, and his Qiongzhou army in the Zhejiang area is only 20,000 in total. The strong attack will cost 10,000 elites, and such a loss is too great.

Naval blockade, trapped Zheng Xi's people? That's not a solution, the Zheng raid department on Dongfan Island has stored a lot of food, enough for them to eat for several years. With the besieged, the last one who is trapped is himself.

The current history is completely different, because Wang Xinyu changed history, Zheng Raid has super strength and defensive strength in Dongfan, even if Zheng Raid is defeated in Xiamen and flees back to Dongfan Island. Zheng Jing was also unable to conquer Dongfan Island.

Whether it is a storm or a siege, it is not a way. Wang Xinyu decided to adopt the method of sneak attack, so that Emperor Hu Dedi and Ma Chaoxing would not collect their night, and together with Shifu's lynx battalion, they landed in the eastern part of Dongfan Island, passed through the dense primeval forest, crossed Dongfan Island, and arrived at the Tainan grain producing area controlled by Zheng Xi, and then tried to mix into Chihkan City and Anping City.

In the middle of the island of Taiwan is a potbelly kingdom. It cuts off the traffic between the north and south of Taiwan. Wang Xinyu didn't want to conflict with the Potbelly Kingdom at this time, so he chose to land east.

"Handsome! Rajah! Liu Guoxuan, who is familiar with the topography of Taiwan, said, "The terrain of the primeval forest in the east of Dongfan Island is complex, and the last general encircled and suppressed the Big Belly Kingdom at that time. Lead the troops into the primeval forest and suffer heavy losses along the way! It's a tough road! ”

Liu Guoxuan had completely obeyed Zheng Cong at this time and became the right-hand man of the new King of Yanping.

Zheng Cong was at a loss, and turned his head to look at Wang Xinyu: "Brother-in-law." How do you think we should behave? ”

Wang Xinyu pointed to the map and said categorically: "Act according to the original plan, let the elite night and the Bobcat battalion land from the north of Dongfan Island first!" Find the locals to lead the way, and then land from the east side of Toho. Take a detour from behind the thieves and find a way to infiltrate the city of Zheng Raid and the rebels! Let's join forces inside and outside, and seize the thief's territory! ”

"Dashuai!" Liu Guoxuan hesitated for a moment, his lips squirmed a few times, and then he boldly said, "But the local natives have a deep hostility towards our Zheng Jiajun!" We go and ask them to lead the way, I am afraid that we will lead our people to a dead end! ”

Wang Xinyu glanced at Liu Guoxuan: "General Liu, you went north to conquer the Potbelly Kingdom at that time, and the slaughter was too much, right?" I heard that many villages have been slaughtered by you? ”

Liu Guoxuan arched his hand and said loudly: "Handsome! The heart of the non-my race must be different, the big belly kingdom was originally the natives of Dongfan Island, how many years, since the Song Dynasty, they have killed countless Han people who took refuge on the island! How many of our Han people easily escaped from the iron hooves of the alien races in the north, but when they arrived here, they were killed by them! The last general slaughtered the village, also to avenge the Han people! ”

Wang Xinyu nodded: "Yes, if you are not from my race, your heart will be different!" A lot of the natives here are not good! Of course, those cannibals should be killed! But we can't completely take tough measures, in fact, among the indigenous people, there are contradictions with each other, and we can use some familiar fans to deal with raw fans. ”

Speaking of those local aborigines, to be honest, Wang Xinyu doesn't have a good impression of them. In later generations, most of the Taiwanese natives supported those Han Chinese who fled to Taiwan during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, and together they formed the so-called Democratic Progressive Party, which clamored for independence all day long, claiming that they were Taiwanese locals, claiming that Taiwan was the Taiwan of the Taiwanese, and wanted the blue camp to get out of Taiwan.

Therefore, Liu Guoxuan slaughtered the village, and Wang Xinyu did not object.

It's just that if you want to control the whole of Dongfan Island, you can't completely resort to massacre. Later, the Japanese defeated the Manchus and forced the Qing court to cede Taiwan to them, and the Japanese took dividing measures against the local natives, resisting and killing, and the rest brought them into a civilized society. It is precisely because the Japanese people brought railways, electricity, and education to the local people in Taiwan, and neither the Ming Zheng group nor the later Qing court brought civilization to the local people, so many local people are very grateful to the Japanese people, thinking that without the Japanese people, they would not be able to enter the civilized society, and they are still wild people in the mountains.

"But time is of the essence, how do we win over the locals?" Liu Guoxuan asked.

Wang Xinyu smiled confidently: "There is still a way!" Aren't there a lot of Han Chinese who came here a few years ago on Dongfan Island? With their help, we were able to gain the trust of the locals in just a few days! ”

When the fleet arrived at the north of Dongfan Island, Wang Xinyu discovered that the terrain in Taipei at this time was very different from that in Taipei, and the map of Taipei he drew with the memory of his previous life was not used at all. At this time, the Taipei Plain was still a vast ocean, and after hundreds of years of erosion by the Tamsui River and the Keelung River, there was a plain in the area of today's Taipei City.

The map couldn't be counted on, so Wang Xinyu had to give an order to let people explore the way.

Li Rui personally took a few personal soldiers to explore the way, and they rowed a small boat into the harbor and rowed in the direction of the beach.

"Boat! There are so many big ships out there! The Orion boy Xiaohu looked at the mast on the sea like a forest, and his eyes widened in horror.

"It's a pirate! Go home and tell Daddy! Let the villagers hide! "Although my sister Shan Tao is young, she is very sensible. They mistakenly thought that the Qiongzhou army was a pirate, so they wanted to run back to the village to report it, so that the villagers could hide in the mountains and forests to avoid bandits.

At that time, there was no one in Taipei, and many Han people who fled here at the end of the Song Dynasty lived on the plains by the river. At that time, Taiwan was called Ryukyu, the Yuan army invaded Jiangnan, and the people of Jiangnan fled to Fujian. At that time, Pu Shougeng, the real boss of Fujian, couldn't arrange so many people, so he had to let them go to Ryukyu. These people lived here for hundreds of years, and in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese rose, and the people here were harassed by the Japanese all the year round, and they were left with only two ways: one was to flee into the deep mountains and old forests; The second is to join the pirates and pray for the protection of the pirates.

Later, Zheng Zhilong's boss Yan Siqi developed Taiwan and brought many Han people. As the largest pirate group of the year, Yan Siqi defeated the Japanese pirates, so that the Han people here temporarily gained peace. After Yan Siqi's death, Zheng Zhilong was recruited by the Ming court, so he couldn't take care of it, and as a result, the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Dutch arrived one after another. However, Taipei's location is far less important than Tainan, so Westerners established castles in Tainan, and the area around Taipei became an ungoverned area, whether it was the Dutch, or later Ming Zheng, or Taiwan's local potbelly kingdom, they couldn't manage here.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army invaded, and many Han people fled to Taiwan, where they developed land and fished and hunted for a living. However, the Han people, who were loyal to each other, were powerless to resist in the face of pirates. Every time the pirates attacked, they hid in the mountains and forests, and when the pirates were gone, they returned to the village.

"Holy damn pirate! Every time they came, they burned down our village! After listening to Xiaohu's report, Xiaohu's father, Zhao Dapeng, sighed.

Although they were very reluctant to leave here, they still had to pack up their belongings, and the whole village fled the village where they lived with bottles and cans, and hid in the mountains and forests behind.

Villages can be rebuilt if they are burned, farmland can be cultivated again if they are destroyed, but people cannot be resurrected when they are gone!

Li Rui and his soldiers rowed a small boat, entered the river, went upstream, and rowed about four or five miles, Li Rui suddenly saw a patch of rice fields and a small village by the river.

"Ashore!" Li Rui gave the order.

The boat docked by the river, and Li Rui jumped ashore with his own soldiers, and approached the village along the Tiankan path.

"It's strange, it's cooking time, why is it so quiet?" Li Rui saw that there was no movement in the small village at all, not only was there no voice, no cooking smoke, but also no dog barking, no rooster crowing, and no sound of cows, sheep and pigs, which felt very strange.

"My lord, take a few people in and have a look!" A pro-soldier said.

"Little Liuzi, be careful! Don't fall for the ambush. Li Rui nodded.

The personal soldier named Xiao Liuzi entered the deserted village with seven soldiers. They cautiously walked into the village and found no movement. Looking at the houses in the small village, many people's doors are empty, and when they are gently pushed, the doors open, and the houses are empty.

Xiao Liuzi walked into a dilapidated bedroom and found that although there was no cover on the bed, the bed board was quite clean, as if the people here had just left. (To be continued.) )

PS: Luo Ben has been running for two months, and Dianniang finally gave a recommendation, thanks to Dianniang, thanks to the editor. There are two shifts in these days, and there is one shift at 12 noon