After understanding these situations, Zhang Lidong, Chen Shouchong, Chen Shouyue, Chen Shouyue and others immediately held a meeting to discuss how to attack these two castles and expel the Dutch colonists in Taiwan.
Chitchi and Jelanzha were both built according to European castles. Chitchi was smaller in scale, while Jelanzha was larger in scale. Therefore, everyone finally decided to conquer the smaller and weaker Chitchi. Then attack the stronger Relan Chacheng. This is also in line with the Chinese army's usual combat principle of first attacking weak enemies and then attacking powerful enemies. So Zhang Lidong also ordered that the 25th Division be held responsible for attacking Chi Chi. The 33rd Brigade was responsible for besieging the city of Relanzha and restraining the Dutch troops.
Chiqian City is generally square, with a circumference of about 150 meters, and covers an area of about half a football field. Although the size of the castle is not large, it is all made of bricks made of rice soup and grey. It is very strong, and the total height of the castle is more than 11 meters. It is divided into three floors. There are four artillery towers on the city wall, and each artillery tower is equipped with five artillery gates.
On the next day, Zhang Lidong ordered the 24th Division to launch an attack on Chichicheng. The 24th Division was equipped with 225 various artillery pieces. Although most of them were light medium-sized artillery, they focused on medium-sized artillery. There were also sixty-eight artillery pieces, including sixteen 1,500 kilograms, four-inch and two-digit bronze cannons, various artillery pieces, and thunder rockets were lined up in front of Chichicheng City and bombarded violently.
Although Chichuang City is built strongly, it is a small city after all. Under the bombardment of Chinese artillery fire, the whole city was swallowed by the sound of deafening cannons and Miman's smoke. Dutch soldiers were beaten so hard that they didn't dare to be there. His head was exposed on the city wall. And even in the city of Lelanzha on the west bank of Taijiang Bay, I could hear it very clearly.
In an hour, the Chinese army bombarded Chicing City with more than 1,200 artillery shells and more than 800 thunder rockets. After this round of bombardment, the city wall was damaged and cracked. More than ten battlements of the city wall were blown up, three of which were blown up to collapse a large gap of more than three meters. Nearly 100 Dutch soldiers guarding the city were killed, and Walianjing, the chief general of Chichai City. He was also injured by the aftermath of the artillery fire, and was bleeding from his head and unconscious. He was carried into the city for rescue.
At the same time, after the thunder rocket flew into Chichi City, countless flames were lit in the city. The entire Chichi City Army was covered with smoke and was full of flames. Dutch soldiers and indigenous soldiers were forced to run around in the city. , cried and shouted.
In the afternoon, the Chinese army also began to attack Chichicheng on the ground. Because the city was in chaos at this time, no blasting team was sent, but instead set up a ladder to attack Chichicheng. But at this time, the Dutch soldiers guarding the city were indeed in chaos, and the chief general was injured and unconscious, and few people could still hold on the city wall. As a result, the Chinese army easily climbed the Chician City through the ladder, and went to the Netherlands with the The soldiers started hand-to-hand combat.
The Dutch soldiers were tall and big, with big arms and round waists. However, at this time, the Dutch muskets had not been equipped with bayonets. Each soldier was equipped with a short sword of more than fifty centimeters to conduct close combat, and the Chinese military muskets were added. The total length of the bayonet can reach more than 1.5 meters. In this way, it is of course much more laborious than the bayonet used by the Chinese army. Moreover, the number of Dutch soldiers is far less than that of the Chinese army, resulting in the local indigenous soldiers. He was even less of an opponent, so the hand-to-hand combat lasted only for more than an hour, and most of the Dutch soldiers were injured and killed, and the rest were put down their weapons and raised their hands to surrender.
As a result, in just one day, the Chinese army captured Chicing City. The four hundred Dutch soldiers guarding the city were killed in battle, and 200 indigenous soldiers died in battle.
All the rest surrendered. The Chinese army also killed 127 soldiers, and another 69 were injured.
Chichuang City and Relentcha City are only separated by a bay. The Chinese army attacked Chichuang City. Two Taiwanese chief officers, Feerbger and Oward, also led Dutch soldiers to watch the place with a telescope on the city tower.
fighting.
The result of the battle was indeed far beyond the expectations of the two senior officials. Although they both said that the reinforcements of the Chinese army had arrived in Taiwan, they did not expect that the Chinese army suddenly brought a large number of cannons and defeated them.
The sexual firepower advantage forced Chichicheng to break out. When I saw that many huge warships anchored in Taijiang Bay had not yet been dispatched to participate in the war, this also made Ferbger and Oward also
He had a desperate thought, Chi Chicheng didn't even take it over for a day, and how many days could the Rebang Chacheng stop the Chinese army's attack?
At this time, Ferbger couldn't help but regret it. When he came to Taiwan, he still had some illusion, thinking that reinforcements came and there were strong cities to defend, so he should be able to withstand it. Then he knew that now, the situation was only
Even worse, there is no worst. Ferbger came from Batavia and knew very well that Batavia could no longer send reinforcements to Taiwan. And even if Batavia could send
It will take three months to come to reinforcements, and now Ferbger estimates that it is not easy for Reblock to survive for three days.
And OWD felt even more unlucky. His term in Taiwan was about to end. During his tenure in Taiwan, OWD also saved a lot of private money. With the original salary, it was not a small amount.
After the end of his term, Deben planned to return to the Netherlands with the money to open a small shop, and spend the rest of his life comfortably, but he caught up with such a thing, which not only broke his dream, but could not do it well.
All these old bones will be thrown here.
At this time, the battle across the bay had ended, and the Chinese army completely occupied Chichi City. The Dutch soldiers who watched the battle with the two chief officers were all pale, and many people were trembling independently. Obviously,
He was frightened by the overwhelming absolute advantage of the Chinese army.
In fact, most of the Dutch soldiers of the Dutch East India Company are mercenaries. Those who dare to come to Asia to take risks and make gold hunters are basically the ones who put their heads on their belts, and they are also willing to do a gambler mentality. Of course, they don't.
You will be afraid of death, but when facing an enemy you are almost invincible, anyone will be afraid of.
That night, Feerbger and Oward also recruited all the Dutch soldiers and mobilized them urgently. The Hotto soldiers must do their best to defend the city of Helm and falsely rumored that the Batavian authorities would also give Taiwan a message.
Send reinforcements. At the same time, Oward took out another 30,000 taels of silver and distributed it to the soldiers. Even the native soldiers also sent a few taels to stimulate the soldiers' fighting spirit. Under the stimulation of the agitation and money, the defenders were
Morale has finally improved a little.
Just the next day, the Chinese army began to attack Rebangzhacheng.
The city of Jelan Cha is the Dutch capital in Taiwan. It is several times larger than that of Chichicheng City. It is also square, but its circumference is nearly 800 meters. It is also divided into three floors above the ground, one floor below the ground, and ten high above the ground.
There are still more than three meters underground. If Chichi City is only half the size of a football field, then Renzha City is equivalent to a small stadium.
Moreover, the four corners of the city wall are built in artillery towers protruding outwards, with twenty artillery guns each; among them, ten artillery guns are placed in the north and south, so the artillery is dense and has a long range, blocking every road around, regardless of
From which direction is approached by Gerlanzha, you will be bombarded by artillery fire on the city. In addition, there are three small outer guard castles outside Gerlanzha. Among them, it is located on a small hill on the south side of Gerlanzha.
Utlich Castle is the most important because the castle is located at a critical location. Just as the exit of Gerlanzha, the distance from Gerlanzha is less than a thousand meters, and it is condescending. Once Utlich Castle is occupied, heavy artillery
You can go directly to Jelancha.
The first thing the Chinese army attacked was these three small guard castles. Zhang Lidong ordered that the two main battle groups of the 25th Division and one main battle group of the 33rd Brigade launched an attack at the same time as the three outer castles.
The division's artillery regiment provided fire cover, and another main battle group of the 33rd Brigade and the Taiwan Brigade were responsible for restraining the Dutch troops in Relanzha City.
This battle took place on the periphery of Gerlanzha City, which was naturally even more earth-shaking. The huge roar almost made the entire Gerlanzha City shaking. After two hours of battle, the first thing was Gerlanzha City.
A small foreign fort on the west side was captured by the Chinese army; then the Chinese army concentrated its forces and attacked Utlichi Fort with all its might.
At this time, although Feurbog also sent a team of soldiers out of the city to support Utlich Fort, the Dutch soldiers were hit by the Chinese army as soon as they left the city. Both sides used muskets and fired at each other for several rounds.
Dozens of Dutch soldiers were injured and killed, but soon they could not hold on and were beaten back. At about 1:00 in the afternoon, Utlich Fort was finally captured by the Chinese army, and all the Dutch soldiers guarding the fort surrendered. And the last one
The fence only lasted for half an hour and was declared to be lost.
As a result, in just one morning, the three guard castles outside the city of Relanzha were all captured by the Chinese army, and the city of Relanzha was completely isolated. And in the afternoon of the same day, the Chinese army launched towards the city of Relanzha.
With violent bombardment, the Chinese military warships anchored in Taijiangwan also fired fire at the city of Relanzha from the sea to provide firepower support for the artillery shells on land.
Although the Dutch in the city of Jelanzha also fired fire and counterattacked the Chinese army outside the city, the number of artillery on both sides was too different, and the Dutch friends were at an absolute disadvantage, and the joint attack between the Chinese army and the sea and the land were carried out.
Next, in two hours of artillery fired more than 3,000 shells at the city of Jelanzha, while the Dutch counterattacked only more than 800.