The Dutch are not fools. They discovered the mighty Ming fleet as soon as it entered the Taijiang River from Luermen, but they were helpless. He Bin took the lead and the route of the Ming fleet was within the range of the Dutch's cannons.
Foreign. The Dutch were "horrified that soldiers were falling from the sky" and could only watch the Ming army land at Heliao Port.
After landing, the Ming army Wang Daxiong and Chen Mang's troops established a beachhead along the Taijiang River near Chican City. One hundred warships from Chen Qice and Cai Xin's troops also patrolled the Taijiang River. Banan Shiding and Aldopu
I was shocked. There were only 400 Dutch soldiers and 1,500 Tufan soldiers in Chichan City. Among them, 700 Tufan soldiers were temporarily recruited after hearing that the Ming army was coming.
Banan Shiding ordered: "Lieutenant Aldop, the situation is serious now. You should quickly take our four ships to the Taijiang River to harass the Ming army. Try to open up the waterways of Chican City and Relanzhe City.
The Dutch have four ships in Chikan City, namely the battleships "Hector" and "Grafland", and communication ships "Egret" and "Bermaria".
"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander." Lieutenant Aldop saluted with a military salute and took the order. He is a pure soldier. No matter how many enemies he faces, as long as his commander gives an order, he will immediately move forward bravely.
Banan Shiding ordered the cannons embedded in the city to continuously bombard the Ming army's beachhead outside the city. At the same time, he sent a second lieutenant to lead 40 Dutch soldiers and 260 Tufan soldiers out of the city.
Go and burn the stables and grain warehouses set up by the Ming army outside the city.
Before the soldiers and horses move, the food and grass go first. Part of the food in the Ming army's mills comes from their own food, and the other part comes from the troops of the common people of all ethnic groups.
Gao Minggui was afraid that the grain would be burned, so he sent guerrilla Yang Ying to guard the grain warehouse, and stationed the Chinese army next to the grain warehouse.
He saw hundreds of Dutch troops rushing toward Aucang and urgently ordered the Chinese army to be on alert.
If the Dutch army wanted to burn grain warehouses, they had to first cross the Ming army's beachhead. They encountered more than 2,000 soldiers and horses from the Ming army's guerrilla Wang Daxiong's troops.
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On April 2, the first year of the reign of Emperor Guangwu of the Ming Dynasty (1653), the first battle for the restoration of Taiwan began at the beachhead outside Chican City.
At the beginning, the Dutch second lieutenant was very confident. He had 300 soldiers. According to the official statement of Formosa, "twenty-five Ming people together are not as good as one Dutch soldier."
If there are a few people among them, they will be so frightened that they will run away and all of them will collapse."
Therefore, the second lieutenant divided his men into twenty rows with fifteen people in a row. The local soldiers stood at the head and tail of the row, and the Tufan soldiers stood in the middle. They spread out into a battle formation and fired their guns, approaching the Ming army.
"Prepare, release!"
Dutch commanders gave orders and fired volleys.
"Bang! Bah! Bah!"
Smoke fills the air.
According to the Dutch second lieutenant's opinion, the Ming army should have been frightened and fled in all directions.
No, the Ming army did not flee. Although some people kept falling, they still moved forward in an orderly formation.
Wang Daxiong's troops were led by 500 gunmen at the front, followed by 1,500 spearmen and sword players, and at the end were 200 archers.
Entering the throwing distance, the archers began to throw arrows like a shower, and even the sky seemed to darken. The Dutch army began to suffer casualties.
Other Ming troops continued to advance. Although some people were constantly shot and fell to the ground, the military formation was not in chaos.
The Dutch second lieutenant began to sweat, the enemy was so well-trained!
This is inevitable. After fighting one battle after another, almost all the soldiers of the Ming army are veterans. It would really be a joke if the men who were killed in the mountains of corpses and blood were scared away by a few hundred musketeers. p>
At eighty paces, at this distance, fire blunderbuss already have a strong lethality, but the commander of the Ming army insisted on not lining up to fire the blunderbuss until thirty paces.
At this time, dozens of the 500 gunmen have fallen, and there are still more than 400 people left. They are arranged in three rows. The two rows at the back are loaded with bullets and sent to the front row.
"Bang bang bang!"
"Bang bang bang!"
"Bang bang bang!"
The Ming army fired six rounds in a row. Wang Daxiong took a look and saw that there were many gaps in the red-haired Yi people's gun formation, and many corpses were lying in disorder.
"The entire army attacks," he issued the military order.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
The Ming army's spearmen and sword players quickly rushed towards the Dutch.
The scattered musket array cannot stop such a charge.
The Ming army rushed into the Dutch army and fought in a melee. The extremely light and slender Western fencing swords used by the Dutch army were no match for the Ming army's broadswords and spears.
"Red-haired ghost, go to hell!"
Wang Daxiong swung his sword and chopped down a barbarian soldier. When he turned his hand, the blade of the sword pierced the stomach of another barbarian soldier, and then he kicked him down.
He saw the Dutch second lieutenant and rushed forward with a howl.
Seeing Wang Daxiong's ferocious face, the second lieutenant uttered two words: "God", collapsed, and ran back.
Other Dutch officers and soldiers also fled to Chican City, and only 100 of the 300 soldiers escaped.
After the war, the second lieutenant wrote in his diary: "Those guys who claim that 'twenty-five Ming soldiers together are not as good as one Dutch soldier' should be hanged. They are out-and-out liars.
Hooligans and traitors. It was these idiots who ruined Formosa."
In order to counterattack the artillery on Chiqian City, the Ming army built forts and dug trenches on the beachhead. They fired artillery against artillery, and the roar continued.
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The "Hector" is the largest warship of the Dutch in China, with 150 soldiers and more than 40 artillery pieces.
Lieutenant Aldorp raised the semaphore on the "Hector": "Follow me, move forward!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
This ship was very ferocious, with cannonballs pouring down like rain and shooting at lightning speed. In the blink of an eye, it sank a Ming army speedboat and set a bird ship on fire.
The Graveland, the Egret, and the Bermaria were not to be outdone, and followed the Hector to fire at the Ming army. The Graveland had ninety soldiers and twenty-eight guns.
The "Egret" and the "Bermaria" each had twenty soldiers and six guns. These four ships were all very fast, and they were galloping on the sea.
Chen Qice, the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Navy of the Ming Dynasty, saw this and sighed: "This red-haired ghost's warship is really not bad!"
He saw that the "Hector" was the main force of the Dutch army and rushed too far forward, putting a distance between it and the other three ships. He then ordered his deputy Cai Xin to lead forty ships to intercept the other three ships, while he himself led sixty ships to intercept the other three ships.
Ships besieged the "Hector".
"When you draw a bow, you should draw a strong one, and when you use an arrow, you should use a long weapon. Shoot the horse first when shooting a man, and capture the king first when catching a thief." Chen Qice understood clearly that as long as this largest barbarian ship was sunk, the red-haired barbarian navy would
, naturally timid.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Sixty against one, the contrast in strength was too great. In the deafening series of explosions, the "Hector" sank.
The Grafran, Egret, and Bermaria behind were so distraught that they turned around and fled.
Cai Xin led his own fastest eight-speed ship in hot pursuit. The Ming army caught up with the "Grafran" and the "Egret" and started a boarding battle. The Ming army set up planks and rushed onto the barbarian ship, and fought with the barbarians.
Hand-to-hand combat.
The brave Ming soldiers braved the barbarian fire and climbed aboard the "Grafran", cut off the ship's butt, tied the enemy ship's bowsprit with iron chains, and set it on fire.
The captain of the "Grafland" was so frightened that he finally broke away and escaped, but was already scarred. He took the "Egret", which was also seriously damaged, and fled back to Chikan Port.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, the communication ship "Bermaria" fled directly to Batavia. It was actually only a speedboat, and it was very fast. The Ming army did not pay attention for a while, and it actually slipped away.
"What! The Hector was sunk and Lieutenant Aldorp was killed!"
Commander Shiding of Banan was shocked when he heard the bad news. The fighting power of the Ming army was so powerful! He hurriedly defended the city while asking for help from Relanja City.