Chapter 207 Retamping Taiwan

At the beginning of February of the eighth year, a large-scale fleet consisting of seven warships with a displacement of 500 tons, fifty warships with a displacement of 300 tons, and 70 troop carriers with a displacement of 300 tons began to gather in Quanzhou Bay.

This time, the Southern Fleet of China and North Korea dispatched a total of 3,000 sailors and two marine regiments as the main force. In addition, in order to ensure the success of the operation, the Southern Military Region also sent a reinforced heavy artillery battalion, three marine division infantry battalions and a scout brigade to the navy as a supplementary force to strengthen the navy. The combat strength, the total strength is close to the scale of 13,000 people.

The Dutch people in Taiwan now have a total strength of no more than 3,000 people, only more than 20 armed ships, and only seven Galen ships with a displacement of about 500 to 800 tons. In addition, there are also some combat boats. The large and medium army fully grasp the advantage of war.

With the order of Liu Jiang, the commander of the navy, Quanzhou Port immediately sounded a salute. Liu Yanming, the commander of the Southern Fleet, as the commander of the battle, also immediately ordered his flagship to start firing a salute. The warships immediately began to raise their sails and slowly sailed away from the trestle and anchorage. Drive out of Quanzhou Bay.

A day later, the fleet arrived at the Penghu Islands, where more than 40 fast dhows were gathered here. These ships were all navy patrol ships and scout ships, and dozens of fishing boats, which will also cooperate with the operation.

After a slight supplement to the fleet, the warship formation of the first echelon began to set sail first and sail to the sea of Tainan. Their task was very simple, that is, to eliminate the Dutch's maritime power in the Tainan area first, defeat the fleet gathered by the Dutch in this area, and cover the landing of the second echelon mainly for the troop transport ship.

After another day's voyage, the formation of the first echelon arrived at the sea. The Dutch patrol ship immediately found the Chinese fleet, and immediately began to warn the Dutch fleet to come out to fight.

More than a dozen sloop fast sailboats immediately rushed out of the fleet like beagles and rushed to the Dutch patrol boat. However, after a short exchange of fire, the two Dutch patrol boats on the sea were immediately sunk by the patrol boats of Greater China and North Korea and captured one.

At this time, after the Dutch fleet was alerted, it also began to drive out of the harbor in a panic and appeared in front of the Royal Navy fleet of the Great and Medium Korea.

This naval battle was the first time that the large and medium-sized army completely took the Western-style sailboats as the main force and the Western maritime powers at sea.

However, although the Great China and North Korea were late, they were far stronger than the Dutch fleet gathered by Taiwan. Therefore, the battle situation was one-sided. The Royal Navy of Great China and North Korea used several ships to deal with a superior firepower. In more than two hours, it destroyed seven Dutch warships in one fell swoop. In addition, it also successfully used jumping tactics. Six Dutch warships were captured, and the remaining Dutch ships were not good and could not stop the attack of the Chinese fleet at all, so they had to turn around and escape. One fled back to the harbor, and the rest simply fled to the Southern Ocean with their tails. Even so, they were still chased by the Chinese fleet and captured two more. The Chinese fleet completely controlled the sea, destroyed the naval power of the Dutch, and sealed the Dutch on land.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Dutch governor of Taiwan immediately sent more troops to the forts on the coast in an attempt to prevent the Chinese army from landing, and the Chinese fleet immediately began to concentrate its firepower on the forts.

At this time, the Dutch desperately found that the Chinese's firepower was no longer as weak as they thought. On China's warships, it was no longer the tattered Franco machine guns and various earth cannons in the early years. At this time, China's warships were all equipped with new types of naval guns, including 12-pound cannons and two Fourteen-pound cannon, and a heavy 36-pound cannon.

Each ship has at least 20 artillery pieces, and more than 50 warships have more than 1,000 cannons. These warships are arranged far away near the coastline and begin to shell at the Dutch forts at the head of the beach.

Although the Dutch fort defenders also fought back hard and injured some Chinese warships, their resistance was quickly disintegrated under the intensive fire counterattack.

Under the continuous shelling of the navy boats of the large and medium-sized army, the Dutch man's fort only persisted on a small matter and was destroyed by random artillery. More than 300 people were killed and injured by the fort garrison. The rest had to flee back to the city of Reland and Chijian City with their tails and gave up their forts in the coastal area.

As a result, the Chinese and North Korean navies successfully cleared the landing site outside Dayuan Port for the subsequent landing of the Marines and Marine Divisions.

On the morning of the third day, the second echelon learned that the first echelon had defeated the Dutch fleet, so it immediately set sail in Penghu and arrived at the outer sea.

Although the Dutch tried their best to bombard the beach of Dayuangang Port with the forts on both sides of the Taijiang River, trying to prevent the landing of the Chinese navy ships immediately carried out large-scale shelling, suppressing the Dutch forts and providing cover for the landing forces.

A troop transport ship immediately began to dock. A large number of large number of large and medium-sized naval and marine soldiers and land division soldiers will be unloaded and began to land. Without capturing the port wharf, the navy specially prepared several troop transport ships. After modification, the beach sank at the head of the beach and used as a temporary trestle, allowing the rest of the ships to rely on Bo unloaded a cannon on the beach.

Seeing that the Chinese army was about to land successfully, the Dutch sent 700 troops out of the castle to try to carry out a counterattack and drive the Chinese army back into the sea.

However, a naval barracks, that is, the Marine Corps, immediately organized defense. The two sides fought a platoon shooting battle. All the large and medium-sized troops used were flult guns, which easily gained a battlefield advantage. Their rate of fire and accuracy exceeded that of the Dutch muskets. As a result, 700 Dutch soldiers soon More than 300 bodies were left behind, and many of the rest were injured. They fled back to the castle in a hurry. Their counter-impact operation ended in failure.

A large number of large and medium-sized troops landed successfully under the cover of warship artillery, and unloaded nearly 100 12-pound heavy guns and more than ten 24-pound heavy guns, as well as countless ammunition.

This time, the Great China and North Korea recovered Taiwan Island by force, which was not as shabby as Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan in history. Whether it is the combat effectiveness of ships or the firepower of landing infantry, it is dozens of times more than the old Zheng army in time and space. Although there are not as many Zheng troops, its combat effectiveness is far more than the old Zheng army in time and space.

The Dutch were really scared by the large and medium-sized army. A counterattack made them lose hundreds of people. They had less than 3,000 soldiers in the city of Relancha and Chikan. The fleet was destroyed again. There were only less than 2,000 defenders left in the two castles, looking at the bees. With the landing of the Dazhong army, they no longer had the courage to go out of the city to counterattack, so the governor of Taiwan had to concentrate all his troops in the two castles and make a posture of waiting for help. He hoped that the escaped ship could only escape back to Batavia to bring back reinforcements.

However, their hope was still destroyed in the subsequent offensive launched by the Dazhong Army. The Dazhong Army is not like the old-style army of the old Ming Dynasty. In addition to having many sharp firearms, they are complete in arms, and the cooperation between the various arms is also quite skillful.

Although the Dutch have built two castles very strong over the years, and the fortifications and forts have also been built very well, the Henai army has prepared a lot of cannons for them. With the siege, the army first concentrated its fire on Chijian City.

More than 100 12-pound guns and 24-pound heavy guns, as well as several large-caliber siege mortars newly developed by the Great China and North Korea, built a barrage outside the Chijian City, and fired fiercely at the Chijian City.

In a few days, the shells fell in Chijian City like rain, especially those large-caliber siege mortars, which caused more serious damage to Chijian City. The mortar trajectory was bent, and the shells almost fell from the top of the head. There was no safe place in the city. Although the defenders also used the forts in the city The artillery counterattacked, but the firepower was always at a disadvantage.

While fiercely shelling the Chijian City, the Dazhong Army also continued to launch small-scale tentative attacks to find out the weaknesses of the Dutch defenders, and then fired artillery to give these defensive sites a devastating blow, and the defenders did not dare to show their heads at all.

In particular, the Dazhong army has always attached great importance to the application of engineers. Under the cover of artillery fire, they continued to send engineers to dig and blast all parts of the city wall. In this way, in a few days, they successfully broke through Chijian City. Eight hundred defenders in Chijian City. In a few days, nearly 500 people were killed and injured, and the remaining 300 people were killed. Seeing that the city was broken, he could only put down his weapon and surrender.

As soon as the Chijian City was broken, the city of Relan Zhe was even more lonely. After the Dazhong army broke through the city of Chijian, it immediately began to launch an attack on the city of Relan.

Relanzha City is a typical Western citadel-style castle, which forms a ladder-like layout. Compared with Chijian City, it is stronger and has a much better defense. It is not easy to attack.

The Dazhong Army launched several sieges, all because the defenders occupied the advantage of the land, they were repulsed by the Dutch defenders and lost a lot of personnel. Liu Yanming, who was extremely angry, could not attack. He felt that if the Dutch could not take down the Dutch as soon as possible in this battle, it would lose the face of the navy in front of the army division. So he ordered the ships to draw the sailors and gunners on the ship, and unload the 36-pound and 24-pound guns on the fleet's warships, and also transport them to land to join the shelling of the city of Geland.

As the heavy artillery of the fleet was unloaded one after another, and the sailor gunners were strengthened into the siege force, the city seemed to be placed on the crater. Every second it was bombarded by shells. The defenders in the city had almost no foothold, and the governor was shelled into the basement to avoid the gunfire. The Lan Shou army was killed and injured heavily.

When the siege war reached the tenth day, the Taiwanese aborigines of the alpines around them also came to help with the war. They hated the Dutch' oppression and slaughter of them. When they heard that the Great Middle Court came to attack the Dutch, some of the alpine people took out their only food. , sent to the Dazhong Army, and expressed his willingness to help the Dazhong Army attack the city of Gelan.

However, considering that the weapons of these Gaoshan people are extremely simple and will only increase casualties when they go to battle, Liu Yanming expressed his gratitude to these Gaoshan people, politely declined their request to participate in the war, and gave them a lot of gifts. The Gaoshan people look at the Dazhong army and care for them, and the military discipline is strict, which is even more The middle army had a good impression.

Many Gaoshan people could not participate in the war at all, so they helped the large and medium-sized army deliver food and ammunition. In addition, many hunters took the initiative to hunt and sent the prey to the army for the large and medium-sized soldiers to improve their food.

Taiwan is rich in deer, wild boar and other prey. For a while, the generals of the Dazhong army who participated in the war had venison and wild pork for them to eat, so the generals of the army became more brave.

On the fifteenth day of the battle, only a wall of the city of Relanzha was suddenly seen. Suddenly, a violent big explosion broke off the wall of dozens of meters, killing and injuring hundreds of defenders. It turned out that a heavy mortar shell of the Dazhong army actually penetrated the Dutch. The ammunition depot, and ignited thousands of kilograms of gunpowder in the ammunition depot, which triggered a violent explosion, which collapsed the city wall of Relanzha.

Seeing the collapse of the city wall, the Dazhong army roared and rushed into the city of Relancha, quickly defeating the rebelling defenders. In the end, more than 500 Dutch living in the city had to put down their weapons and surrender to the Dazhong army.

So far, the Dazhong army wiped out the main force of the Dutch in Taiwan, and the Dutch governor was also captured alive by the Dazhong army on the spot. Immediately, Liu Yanming immediately sent a ship back to Quanzhou and reported to Liu Jiang, who was sitting in Quanzhou and waiting for news, that Taiwan had been defeated by the Dazhong army.

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