The Dutch bandits were knocked unconscious by two rifle volleys. The huge casualties made them enter a state of rage and began to behave irrationally. A hundred and twenty steps away, the Dutch actually set up their bows and arrows to fight with the top of the mountain.
The riflemen shoot at each other. This distance is far beyond the effective range of the bow and arrow, and shooting with the gun can only be random shooting.
The archers had already loaded their ammunition, and now they set up their stands and started shooting towards the mountain. Pieces of fire appeared at the foot of the hill, and the crackling gunshots merged into a huge explosion. Three hundred
Multiple rounds of lead bullets flew towards the top of the mountain. These lead bullets had no accuracy and spread extremely wide after flying for nearly 200 meters. Only about 30 of the more than 300 bows and arrows hit the soldiers of the trapping regiment.
However, these red-haired bows and arrows have a large diameter and are very powerful. The thirty soldiers of the Trap Regiment who were shot were all shot through their chainmails and fell down screaming. But none of them died. The other soldiers of the Trap Regiment saw red.
Mao wounded his comrades, became furious, and immediately started firing a third salvo. Before the Dutch bows and arrows in the second row came up to the front row to fire, the third salvo from the trapped group swept over. Dozens of red-haired sailors were fierce
The ground was stunned, and blood bloomed on their bodies. They screamed and covered their wounds with their hands, but they could not hold back the blood that flowed out.
Some sailors who were unwilling to fall like this clung to the shoulders of their companions, roared loudly, and finally died hanging on their companions. The five-gun crossbows in the camp also opened fire at Hong Mao. The five-gun crossbows fired.
The long arrow shot into the red-haired formation like a raindrop. The Dutch soldier who was hit by the long arrow had no way to survive. The blood and flesh turned into pieces and were thrown in the air. The Dutch soldier in the front row was still alive.
The figures seemed to have been bathed in a rain of blood, sprayed red by the blood of the shot companions around them. Some people still had pieces of flesh flying out from the shot companions hanging on their bodies, which was particularly scary.
The Dutch retreated. More than 800 people were killed at once, and more than 200 were killed. The casualties were too high to bear, and the bows and arrows here had not yet entered the effective range. Such a battle was impossible. The leading officer yelled.
What, the firecracker-like drum beat stopped. The Dutch soldiers gave up the attack on the hill and fled back the way they came, carrying their bows and arrows.
Fang Laosan turned to look at Guanshan and heard the commander shouting: "The whole army is pursuing us!" More than 300 soldiers carried rifles and chased the fleeing Dutch. The camp was more than ten miles away from the bay where Hong Mao's ship was parked.
The red-haired men ran in a panic when they saw the Tiger Guards chasing them out. The soldiers of the trapping regiment held up loaded rifles and chased after them. When they saw the red-haired men falling behind, they fired a few shots to kill them. They chased them all the way to the seaside, and the trapping regiment again
More than forty red-haired men were killed.
The Dutch suffered heavy losses this time. You must know that even in the Liaoluo Bay naval battle that shocked the southeast a few years ago, Sloppy only cut off more than a hundred red heads. But today, the Dutch suddenly lost their lives in this unknown little place.
More than 300 corpses were abandoned under the camp. They chased them all the way to the seaside and within the deterrent range of the crossbows on the Dutch ship, before Guan Shan stopped the pursuit. There were too many crossbows on the Dutch ship, and a fight would cause very heavy casualties.
The Dutch hurriedly squeezed into the small boat, rowed away from the shore, and rowed to the big ship. They did not dare to turn back and fight the soldiers of the trap group. Fang Laosan hid in the pine forest on the seaside, where he observed the red red in the distance.
Mao's nine big ships. Those nine big ships are not small. They are about the same size as the Tianjing, and two of them are bigger than the Tianjing. Those ships have wide bellies, and densely packed soft sails are hung on them. The bellies of each ship
They are all equipped with many powerful crossbows, some more than a dozen, some more than twenty.
There are so many red-haired crossbows! The crossbows in this fleet are much more than all the machine crossbows of the Khitan outside the Pass. These red-haired ships are plundering everywhere and will be the number one enemy of the city lord to open up Taiwan. Fang Laosan is here
While observing the ship, I didn't know who took the lead behind him and shouted "Wan Sheng!" The four hundred soldiers shouted in unison. Fang Laosan turned his head, looked at the excited soldiers of the trap group, and also raised his
fist, shouting loudly: "Wan Sheng!"
In January, the shipwrights of Wangjiawan delivered another ship, and Yang Peng's fleet expanded to four ships. With four ships devoted to the development of Taiwan, another 100 soldiers from the formation regiment and 1,400 farmers arrived.
Arriving in Taiwan. By mid-February, Taiwan’s troops already numbered 3,500.
Boss Wei heard that the city lord studied the map in Tianjing New City and called the area occupied by 3,500 people Hsinchu, Taiwan. Boss Wei thought the name sounded okay and there were indeed a lot of bamboos nearby. Boss Wei
During this time, they have been cutting down the isolation zone in the woods. It took 400 soldiers and 800 farmers more than a month to finally cut out the isolation zone around the first planned farmland and start burning the wasteland.
On the day of the burning, Boss Wei held a torch and lit fires everywhere in the woods. The time of burning was when it had not rained for several days. The woods were very dry, and a large fire burned a large area. Boss Wei and his two comrades-in-arms
Working in groups of three, they first lit a fire deep in the woods, and then retreated little by little, lighting fires in other places along the way. In the end, the fire rushed forward and almost burned the three of them, Boss Wei.
Fortunately, the isolation zone was cut out before, and the three people fled outside the isolation zone. The fire burned for five days, causing the temperature in the vicinity to rise a lot. After burning for three days, Boss Wei was ordered to enter the fire area for inspection, and continued
Ignite the areas that the fire did not burn until the forest of more than 100,000 acres was burned to the ground.
In the end, all the forests on the east and west sides of the camp were burned away. Standing on the hill of the camp and looking over, I could only see a piece of scorched earth on both sides of the river, with nothing but black plant ash. The next step was to build irrigation canals. Commander Zheng made this mission
The planned irrigation canal is four miles long, and a large area needs to be irrigated. Such an irrigation canal should be six feet above the ground at the riverside, and gradually lower from the riverside to the distance, so that the water can flow along the irrigation canal to the distance.
go.
Boss Wei followed the squad leader and started digging the soil with shovels, tamping the soil with stone hammers, and starting to build irrigation canals. On this day, Boss Wei was shoveling the soil and suddenly sighed: "Yuan Jin, the burned soil is so fertile!" Na and Wei
Yuan Jin, who was in the same class as the eldest, shoveled a shovel into the soil and said with a smile: "That's right, this plant ash is the best fertilizer. I heard from the platoon leader that this ordinary paddy field in Fujian can produce two stones and five buckets of rice per acre."
The fields we burned are so fertile, the harvest will be even higher!"
Boss Wei also attended the soldiers' night school, and now he can count. He stood there and counted, and said: "The farmers who come to Hsinchu to open up wasteland are extremely rich." Yuan Jin smiled and shoveled again.
He put the soil on the cart and said nothing. Boss Wei thought for a while and said: "I want to write to my young boys and ask them to sign up to come to Taiwan to open up wasteland. Although I can't be an officer to recruit them into Fanjiazhuang, but come to Hsinchu
Being a farmer is not much worse than being a soldier!"
From January to April, Yang Peng's textile factories have been expanding production. The quality of Yang Peng's fine cloth is better than the hand-woven cloth on the market, and it is very easy to sell. But if it is dumped to the prefectures and counties of the Song Dynasty, it will make people spin yarn at home.
The bankruptcy of housewives who weave fabrics has caused very serious social problems, which will eventually turn into political problems. Therefore, Yang Peng has never launched a large-scale textile factory.
But after the ship opened the route to Hirado, Yang Peng had the Japanese market, and he could dump high-quality and low-price fine cloth to the Japanese country. Of course, dumping the fine cloth produced by mechanization to the Japanese country would also cause the Japanese country to
The weavers went bankrupt. But that was a Japanese problem, and Yang Peng didn't bother to think about it. During this period, Yang Peng's trading fleet has been running the Taiwan route, and the cotton cloth produced by the textile factory is piled in the warehouse. Yang Peng is ready to let
The fleet will continue to sail to Taiwan until mid-May. There will be typhoons on the southeast coast from mid-May to the end of August in the lunar calendar, so the fleet will be diverted to run the Tianjing New City-Hirado route to avoid typhoons.
By the end of April, Yang Peng recruited tenant farmers and began to reclaim 200,000 acres of private land on both sides of the rivers in Qing County and Xingji County. Although the harvest of paddy fields reclaimed in Taiwan was higher, the construction of Tianjing New City could not be left behind.
After all, Tianjing New City is the base camp, and the large amount of farmland in the local area is conducive to local stability and prosperity. After all, Taiwan’s rice has to be transported across the sea, and no one knows whether there will be problems at sea. For example, during a typhoon, the fleet cannot
Running back and forth between the two places.
Guan Shan was not in Tianjing New City, so Yang Peng put Huang Guang in charge of organizing the reclamation of new fields. Now Yang Peng's prestige in Tianjing New City was at its peak. The guards in various places were extremely fawning over Yang Peng, and the local gentry did not dare to stop Yang Peng from repairing irrigation canals.
With the cooperation of all parties, there were basically no obstacles to reclaiming new land. Even though Huang Guang was doing this for the first time, he was able to organize 10,000 tenant farmers to reclaim land.
During this period, Yang Peng's shipbuilders continued to launch new ships. In late February, five large ships built in Dengzhou and Laizhou, Shandong, contacted by Gao Ligong were launched. By April 9th, another one was built in Wangjiawan.
Big ships, Yang Peng had ten big ships.
With these ten large ships, Yang Peng can transport more than 3,000 farmers to Hsinchu in one trip. Although there are ten ships, there are not so many strong crossbows. The new gunsmiths in the strong crossbow workshop are not yet skilled, and the strong crossbow workshop's production capacity
It is still slowly improving. From the beginning of January to the end of April, Li Zhi's crossbow makers only produced 80 heavy crossbows in four months. Eight of Yang Peng's ten ships were equipped with strong crossbows, and two ships were not.
Strong crossbow.
But even so, eight gunboats are still very powerfully armed. Even the Dutch pirate fleet only has nine crossbow ships. Moreover, Yang Peng's steamships can run faster than sailboats, so they can run away when encountering a large fleet that cannot be defeated. So
Generally speaking, Yang Peng's fleet is very safe. In early May, Yang Peng followed the fleet to Hsinchu, a stronghold in Taiwan. Now Hsinchu has transported 10,000 people there, and Yang Peng consumes 2,000 shi of food every month.
, a large amount of money and various materials, Yang Peng went to see how the construction was going.
The wind was clear and the clouds were clear along the way. Ten ships plowed through the waves and took eight days to reach the sea outside Zhejiang. On this day, Yang Peng stood on the poop of the Xinxing with a cup of Longjing tea and was chatting with the fleet captain Lu Hu. "City Lord,
Taiwan is so wild, why didn’t the city lord wait until construction was completed before going there?”
Yang Peng smiled and said: "The wilderness is a good place. It is precisely because of the wilderness that we can cultivate and profit. If everything was as mature as the Song Dynasty, there would be many obstacles to whatever we do, and our career would be
It’s extremely difficult to carry out.”
Lu Hu nodded and said: "The city lord is not afraid of miasma and went to the wild Taiwan to inspect it in person. I admire you!" Yang Peng looked at the seagulls following the stern of the boat and said: "In the future, we will open up more places and conquer more
The barbaric land. Competing with the Europeans, filling the whole world with the blood of the Han people."
The two were talking there, but suddenly they heard Abban on the mast shouting: "There is a fleet to the south!" Everyone was stunned and looked to the south. Yang Peng raised his telescope and observed the horizon for a while, and sure enough,
He saw a fleet gradually emerging from the sea level. After a while, the two fleets gradually came closer, and Yang Peng could clearly see the fleet on the opposite side. The fleet was quite large, with nine ships in total.
The ships are not small either. Each one looks as big as the Nova, and the two largest ships are even bigger than the Nova.
Abban on the boat shouted: "The tricolor flag! It's the red-haired pirate fleet!" Hearing Abban's words, the people on the boat became a little nervous and all looked at Yang Peng. Lu Hu said: "City Lord,
Eight of our ships have powerful crossbows, so they may not be able to defeat the Dutch. Our ships are fast, let’s avoid them and escape?" Yang Peng carefully observed the Dutch fleet and said nothing. Lu Hu had no choice but to raise his hand
I looked through the telescope at the Dutch fleet, but I couldn't see anything interesting about it.
"City Lord, should we escape?" Yang Peng put down the telescope, shook his head and said: "Our crossbows are much more powerful than theirs. If we don't escape, we will sink them all!" Lu Hu was stunned and said: "
"The city lord" Li Zhi waved his hand and said: "Send the order, the fleet will form a horizontal formation to meet the red hair who rushed up to die." Lu Hu had no choice but to shout loudly to the sailor in charge of the flag: "The fleet will form a horizontal formation to meet the enemy.
!Use the broadside crossbow with grenades attached to it and aim it at Hong Mao’s ship.”
"Captain of the Formosa Combined Fleet of the United Provinces of the Netherlands and the United East India Company and Captain of the Flagship Braidan" Forreston looked at the Song fleet in the distance with a monocular telescope and said nothing. Holmes
Sand is the Dutch name for Taiwan. The Formosa Combined Fleet is a fleet based in the city of Jelanje in southern Taiwan. This fleet has been plundering near Taiwan, sometimes robbing merchant ships, and sometimes rushing into the Song Dynasty.
Robbery, as if he were a local tyrant.
Except for being repelled by Guan Shan when they landed in northwest Formosa for robbery in January, this pirate fleet has never encountered a rival. Even if it was Yang Peng's ship, this fleet would dare to rob it.
After a long time, Forreston put down the telescope and said: "It's the Song fleet again that doesn't use sails and has smoke above its head. There are more ships in the fleet than last time!" After thinking about it, Forreston laughed.
He said: "The Song people have set up a horizontal formation. They want to use crossbows to deal with our fleet!" The first mate Caron beside him put down his telescope and said coldly: "These Song people don't know how to fight at sea! They are learning from us.
Putting strong crossbows on the ship, they thought they could rely on the strong crossbows to decide the outcome. They didn't know how strong our ship was. Even if it was blasted by hundreds of crossbows, it would only make a few holes in the ship's board.
."
Second Officer Wu Erbao came up and said: "Captain, this is the fleet of Yang Peng, the commander-in-chief of the Song Dynasty. They have been transporting farmers to the colonies in the northern part of Formosa. They are full of farmers and have no sailors, so they cannot engage in battle, so
We can only use strong crossbows to aim at us, hoping to determine the outcome in a crossbow battle."
First mate Caron said: "Yes! There were only farmers and no sailors on their ship. We rushed to engage the ship and captured their ship! Study why their ship does not need sails!" Forreston nodded. Although
More than 300 people were killed by Guanshan during the attack on Hsinchu in January, but Forreston had made great achievements in plundering in western Formosa in the past few months. The headquarters of the United East India Company in Batavia attacked Forrest
Dun took it seriously and replenished Forreston's manpower in March. The headquarters gave him 300 high-morale Dutch sailors and 200 strong Javanese sailors.
There are now 1,200 sailors on Forreston's nine ships. If he engages in a battle with a Song ship carrying only farmers, Forreston believes that he will be able to defeat it. As for Yang Peng's powerful crossbow
, Forreston didn’t take it too seriously. Although the warships of this era were equipped with a large number of crossbows, the decisive factor was often the gang battle. I believe that before his own fleet jumped gang battles, the enemy’s cannons were the most
Punch a few holes in the ships of the Combined Fleet.
"Send the order! All ships rush to the enemy fleet and fight for the boarding battle!" The orderer hung colorful order flags on the mast of the flagship and passed Forreston's order to the other eight warships through the flag language.
.The nine warships were fully loaded with sails and aimed at the eight gunboats lined up by Yang Peng in the front row, preparing to rush forward and engage in hand-to-hand combat.
Taking advantage of the south wind, the Dutch ship sailed very fast, at least seven or eight knots. A Galen ship with 18 guns rushed at the front, rushing directly towards Yang Peng's flagship Nova.
Yang Peng's eight crossbow ships were loaded with ammunition and ready to shoot. The crossbowmen used long arrows to grab a handful of grenades and fired them.
Nine Dutch sailing ships rushed over in a line, with the distance between each ship being no more than a hundred meters. The Galen ship at the front was three miles, two miles, and one mile away from the Nova. Yang Peng's Nova opened fire.
The crossbow commanders adjusted their muzzles to aim at the oncoming Galen ship, pulled the lead of the grenade, and flew the opponent's ship with the grenade. The nine crossbows on the port side of the Tianjing were from front to back, one after another.
Shooting from the door. Black smoke immediately exploded on the port side of the ship, like black flowers. The whole ship shook again and again, pressing to the right and pressing again, pressing out a row of waves on the sea.
Not only the Tianjing opened fire, but the three ships next to the Tianjing also fired at the same time. The roaring sound of artillery fire was deafening. Thirty-six long arrows with grenades roared towards the Dutch Galen ship, two of which
The long arrow hit the Galen ship and smashed in from the bow of the Galen ship. Two long arrows were fired into the bow of the ship. One shot into the third deck, broke through the two inner partitions of the ship and stopped.
It was launched into the second crossbow deck, hit a twenty-level crossbow and stopped.
The Dutch people are in a very stable mood. After all, these Dutch people have never seen Yang Peng's grenades. According to the power of solid bullets in this era, even if it is hit by more than a dozen shells, the Galen ship will still sprint unscathed. At most, it will not slow down.
The iron cannonballs that rushed into the ship killed several sailors, or the flying wooden pieces brought out by the cannonballs when they smashed through the ship's planks stabbed several sailors to death.
But the development of the matter shocked the Dutch. After being blocked by obstacles, two long arrows exploded in the middle of Galen's ship. Huge shock waves burst out on the second and third decks of the ship respectively.
The third deck was okay, it was the rest area for sailors, and there was no one there at this time. But what fell on the second deck set off an iron-blooded storm. Countless iron pellets shot out from the shells, and shot into
It entered the bodies of dozens of gunners operating artillery on the deck, killing them in an instant.
Not only that, the shock wave caused by the explosion of the shell blasted through the hull and deck. Looking from the perspective of the crossbowman of the Tianjing, the shell exploded and scattered sawdust on the hull of the Galen ship, as if two flowers had bloomed.
Two huge holes three to four feet in size were blown out of the body. Before the Dutch could react, the remaining four ships opened fire, and a second wave of thirty-six long arrows and grenades were fired at the ship.
Lun ship.
This time, three shells hit the target and entered the hull. A terrifying explosion was emitted in the hull again. Sparks and iron pellets were like a storm, sweeping across the cabin, blowing up the second and third decks.
There was a roar, and no one knew how many people inside were killed. One of the last shells to explode rolled into the lower deck along the large hole in the deck that exploded in the front, and exploded the bottom of the ship with a bang.
The seawater gushes out from the bottom of the ship like a fountain, quickly swallowing the entire Galen ship. The sailors on the Galen ship panicked. If the bottom of the ship leaks, the ship will sink. They were all standing on the top deck.
They were preparing to engage in a broadside battle. At this time, one by one they dropped their weapons and rushed to the bottom deck, using wooden planks to block the gushing water.
On the Dutch flagship, Captain Forreston looked at the Galen ship at the front in surprise, his mouth wide open and speechless. After a long time, he stammered: "Oh my god, the captain of the Song Dynasty."
Will the arrow explode?" First mate Caron's face turned pale and he murmured: "My Lord, I have never seen such a long arrow."
Second Officer Wu Erbao had lost the confidence to continue fighting and said: "Captain, the Song people's long arrows will explode, and our ship will be sunk by the shells if it rushes up like this!" Forreston said sarcastically: "Then what?
I can't even shoot a crossbow with a machine gun, so they can only run away?"
"But Yang Peng's ship is faster than ours." Forreston felt a little weak, holding on to the side of the ship, his face getting whiter and whiter. On Galen's ship at the front, dozens of sailors desperately used wooden boards to block the water.
It took a few minutes to seal the hole with nails, but the big hole in the bottom of the ship was finally sealed. However, the bad luck had just begun. The Tianjing led eight gunboats and quickly turned around using paddle wheels and stern rudders, and headed north. The steam engine brought
The incoming surging power acted on the paddle wheel, allowing the eight ships to drive faster than the Dutch who were following the wind. The eight ships opened up the distance, turned around, and fired at the Dutch with their starboard crossbows.
If you want to know what happens next, let’s look at the breakdown in the next chapter.