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The city wall collapsed, more than 1,000 soldiers of the firearms battalion launched a fierce attack towards the gap in the city wall, the gunfire sounded like a bean, the Zheng army was completely beaten without morale, although everyone picked up the arquebus, but after all, these people are not very familiar with the arquebus, in the private army of the Fujian Navy Division and the Zheng family, the arquebus is not very much, although this thing is not small, but it is very restricted by the weather, the Zheng family is across the sea, mainly in the southeast area activities, the rainy weather is too much, Compared with the bow and arrow, the arquebus is too limited, Zheng Zhilong is aware of this defect, for the equipment of the arquebus, is not very enthusiastic, is the soldiers under his command, there are not many people who master the application of the arquebus.

At this time, the soldiers were already flustered enough, and if they used arquebuses to shoot, they could exert a few percent of their combat power, but I am afraid that only God knows, Zheng Jun can't resist the imperial sailors in the charge at all, and when they saw the imperial sailors launching a charge, they panicked one by one, and some even dropped the arquebus, turned around and ran.

Tagawa Nanazaemon was completely dumbfounded, although he knew that the castle might not be able to stand it, but he didn't expect it to fall so soon!

Run!

If you don't run, you will become a prisoner of the imperial court!

Tagawa Nanazaemon reacted instantly, leading an elite force and began to desperately flee in the southeast direction!

It wasn't until dawn that Zheng Haotian led the Imperial Sailors to completely occupy the entire Keelung City, and the Zheng army either fled or surrendered, and no one continued to resist.

"Lord Qiyu, all our firearms are here, and it is Zheng Zhilong's second son Tagawa Nanaemon who is stationed here, and the defenders here were all defeated by us just now, and Tagawa Qizaemon led an elite force to flee in the southeast direction!"

Meng Zhong bowed to Zheng Haotian and said.

Zheng Haotian nodded and said in a deep voice: "Have you counted the firearms?" ”

Meng Zhong hurriedly replied: "My lord, it has been counted, and now there are 5,000 arquebuses, 1,000 flintlock muskets, and 5,000 boxes of bullets in Keelung City, which were purchased by the imperial court from Nanyang, and most of them have not yet been opened, but in the fierce battle at night, dozens of muskets were destroyed, and bullets were also opened several boxes; Of the fifty artillery pieces, three were smashed by shells, but if they were pulled back to Nanjing, they should still be repaired, and most of the shells have not moved yet, hehe, we have snatched them back! ”

Zheng Haotian was overjoyed, as long as this batch of arms was recovered, then it would be considered as completing the task assigned by the emperor, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, this is enough to equip the entire Beijing army!

"What about our casualties?"

Zheng Haotian then asked.

Meng Zhong smiled bitterly: "Lord Hui, when our fleet attacked, it was attacked by the strong counterattack of the Fujian Naval Division, at least six or seven warships were hit by the artillery of the Fujian Naval Division, although their artillery power is not great, but our warships are not strong, especially the ones that rushed to the front, they are all old ships that we brought from Dongting Lake, don't say too much, as long as two shells hit, they will basically fall apart, eight warships were damaged and sunk, and the soldiers on the ship were all saved, Don't expect the ship to be recovered, there are several old warships, which have also been damaged by shells, and need to be repaired a little before we can drive back, otherwise, we will drive halfway through the sea and suddenly sink, but at that time, it will be really miserable......"

Tut-tut......

Zheng Haotian sighed, eight warships were damaged, this is all something that needs to be replenished at a great price, specially, damn Zheng Zhilong, it's all your dog's trouble, I'm going to clean you up sooner or later!

Meng Zhong continued: "The casualties of our army are not serious, when attacking the fleet of the Fujian Naval Division, twenty or thirty people were injured and fell into the water and drowned, during the siege of the city, there were more than 200 brothers killed and wounded, the army killed and attacked 98 people, and 164 people were seriously injured, preliminary statistics, more than 400 people were killed and more than 500 people were captured, and the rest of the people all scattered and fled, and there was no trace......

Zheng Haotian took a deep breath, and then asked, "What about the warship of the Fujian Navy Division?" What's the situation? Is there anything that can still be used? ”

Meng Zhong shook his head and replied: "My lord, there are twenty warships of the Fujian Navy Division, three of which escaped from Keelung Port and fled in the southeast direction, thirteen were sunk by our army, and only four were captured by our army because of damaged sails and could not sail, but there was no sail, and there was no way to sail on the sea......

Zheng Haotian's heart moved, and said: "It doesn't matter if there is no sail, as long as the hull is not damaged, on the dock, there must be other warships whose sails have not been defeated, immediately send someone to salvage and reopen the sails, we can't stay here for too long, once Zheng Zhilong gets the news, he will definitely lead the main force of the Fujian Navy Division to come to the rescue, when the time comes, we will suffer!" Immediately send the infantry, put all the artillery, muskets and ammunition on the warship, stay for a day today, and tomorrow afternoon, the sailors will return to Nanjing, but the emperor is still waiting for our news! ”

Defeat the Keelung defenders and seize Keelung, Zheng Haotian has absolute certainty, but if he wants to defeat Zheng Zhilong's main force of the Fujian Navy Division head-on, it is wishful thinking, Zheng Zhilong's large and small warships are no less than hundreds, and the Fujian Navy Division's naval combat ability is so strong that it is definitely better than the Imperial Navy, after all, the Imperial Navy Division has never fought on the sea as early as the Dongting Lake Water Division, which is not the same thing as fighting on a lake or river, compared with the sea, Dongting Lake is at most a small puddle. The current Imperial Sailors are not strong enough to compete with the Fujian Sailors.

Zheng Haotian spent two days and two nights repairing in Keelung before preparing to leave for Nanjing.

It's just that only a day later, in the evening of the next day, Zheng Zhilong got the news of Keelung's attack.

Zheng Zhilong had reached an agreement with Sony on the alliance the day before, and today he was preparing to send a herald to Keelung, ordering Tagawa Nanazaemon to send all the firearms back to Fujian.

"Father! Father! ”

Tagawa Nanazaemon stumbled into the sailor's yamen, and shouted urgently: "Oh no, no, father, the imperial army's army raided Keelung Harbor the night before yesterday, and the soldiers under my command couldn't resist the fierce siege of the Imperial Sailors, and they couldn't fight hard, Keelung Harbor fell, and all the firearms were lost!"

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