Captain Bunt took a small boat and brought five Dutch sailors ashore. He found that the morale of the Dutch sailors occupying the landing site was low and they were all in low spirits.
He found Captain Van Layton, the commander of the Marine Corps, and upon inquiry he found out that the Chinese on Penghu Island had been harassing them all night, keeping everyone awake all night.
These Chinese secretly came to the beach and fired cold guns and arrows. They also drove a group of sheep to attack the landing site. This caused all the Dutch sailors to shoot fiercely at the lights for a long time. Only then did they realize that they were all killed in the neck.
Goat with lantern hanging on it.
"Despicable, shameless! These Chinese are so despicable!" Captain Van Leyden said angrily. Captain Bont smiled bitterly and shook his head, thinking: You, the descendant of a chicken thief from Leyden, are not so noble.
Right! (The names of the Dutch are very strange. Except for the nobility, the Dutch at that time did not have surnames, so there are many names. Van Leyden means "from Leiden".)
Captain Bunt had some aristocratic blood, and looked down on people like Layton who came from a thieves family. However, the matter was urgent at the moment, and Captain Bunt said seriously: "Commander Wei Malang has given an order to capture the entire island as soon as possible and capture the temple.
The Chinese camp on the edge.”
Captain Van Leyden and Captain Bunt spent a lot of effort to organize the 200 landing sailors into three rows, armed with three 3-pound cannons, and began to attack the Empress Palace camp.
In the Chinese United Company's commercial camp in Penghu, Lin Xiao jumped down from the wooden wall that was as high as one person and shouted to his brothers: "The red-haired men are here again. Pay attention and prepare to meet the enemy!"
Colonel Coutre was directing some people to put up a wooden plank on the wooden wall to form a gentle slope. He filled the only 4-pound bronze cannon with shot shells and placed it on the wooden plank, ready to push it to the top of the wall and fire at any time. Roaquan brought
A dozen brothers were wiping their guns and loading ammunition as if nothing had happened. Lin Xiao admired their high energy. Luo Aquan and others arrived at the camp at the second watch last night and immediately participated in the night raid to harass the Dutch landing site.
After working hard for most of the night, they came back. After just a short sleep, they were already full of energy and ready to fight.
On the outside of the wooden wall surrounding the camp facing the beach, there is a protective wall piled with branches, wood blocks and soil, which is two meters thick. It is a buffer wall used to protect against shells. On the inside of the wooden wall, along the
There is a row of wooden benches placed against the wall, just right for the musketeers to stand on and shoot outside the wall. On the right side of the camp is the Empress Palace, with 10 Dan sailors guarding the roof and walls. Once the enemy approaches, they will
Set fire to the entire temple; the left side of the camp is the same as the front, the terrain is relatively flat, and the Dutch started their attack from this direction.
The Dutch soldiers walked slowly across the beach, marching in order amidst the tight and rhythmic sound of military drums...
On the sea, the Orange led two Junk ships, sailed from east to west, and pounced directly on the Chinese fleet.
Yin Feng ordered to Mai Dahai: "Let's start, let the red-haired barbarians show who is the master here." After saying that, he got off the Feilong and took a small boat to the Xinsheng. As the infantry leader of the escort team, Yin Feng
General Feng and the 400 musketeers on the Xinsheng landed on the island and captured the Dutch landing site, the beach camp.
Mai Dahai took a deep breath and ordered: full left rudder, maintain a north-south course, and order the gunner to fire immediately when the enemy ship enters the range.
The 50 auxiliary warships of the battle fleet also changed their course, moving from south to north-east, forming a "T" shape with the Dutch warships rushing forward, occupying a powerful shooting position. However, except for the Xinxing, the battle fleet
They are all Chinese-style sailing ships equipped with only one cannon. This formation has no practical significance for them.
Yin Feng emphasized array line operations, which was a relatively advanced naval warfare concept in the world at that time. He instilled too many such concepts into these compatriots who were new to naval warfare, but did not combine them with actual combat conditions and equipment conditions. Mai Dahai et al.
He has no actual combat experience, and he is somewhat fluent in the past, so he has come up with such a formation no matter what. After all, tactical innovation must go through practice before it can become practical. Yin Feng only has written knowledge in this aspect.
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However, Admiral Wei Malang on the Dutch Orange was really taken aback. He had only seen this formation used by the British in naval battles.
He immediately ordered the entire fleet to move from north to south and to move from north to south. It would pass by the opponent's fleet, and it would soon form a line-by-line battle with the opponent's warships.
When the battleship Feilong of the Chinese Company was 800 steps or about 2 miles away from the Orange, it opened fire with its bow 24-pound gun. The Feilong's bow gun was mounted on a gun carriage and was surrounded by iron.
The chain connection is fixed at the bow of the ship. After firing, the cannon can slide back through the gun carriage to remove a large part of the recoil. The biggest feature is that the shooting direction can be changed 90 degrees in the horizontal direction. The details of these equipment were improved and designed by Yin Feng
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Therefore, the Hiryu's bow gun can fire at the Orange. Because the Orange's bow gun is fixed on the bow, it cannot adjust the shooting direction quickly. The 24-pound iron bullet rumbled across the sea.
It caused a splash of water several feet high 80 meters away from the Orange.
Wei Malang's scalp was swollen, he was gnashing his teeth, and he was stamping his feet angrily on the deck. He didn't know what strange tricks the Chinese would come up with, and he didn't want to be in a passive state anymore. Wei Malang loudly ordered: "Fire! Fire!"
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The gunner carefully climbed out of the cabin and said to him cautiously: "General, although we can shoot enemy warships from this distance, the hit rate is very low. We..."
Wei Malang interrupted him: "Fire quickly! Do you hear me? Fire! Helmsman, heading 20 degrees south to west, get up and shoot them!"
The gunner listened to his words and took a deep breath; the array line bombardment was an experience that many sailors and sailors had lingering fears about. The military orders were overwhelming, and the gunner reluctantly entered the gun cabin and prepared for battle.
At a distance of 400 steps, the Feilong and the Orange missed each other and fired salvos at each other, but neither one hit. Then, the Feilong approached the two Chinese-style sailing ships of the Dutch fleet and used each side of its ship's side to
It has 15 cannons to ravage these two auxiliary ships equipped with only two cannons.
Similarly, the Orange arbitrarily insulted the more than 50 sailing ships with only one cannon. However, after the first few sailing ships were capsized and sunk, Mai Dahai immediately realized his tactical mistake: relying on these firepower
A thin sailing ship could not maintain the array line. He immediately used semaphores and the conch to notify the follow-up fleet and dispersed and besieged the enemy warships. Mai Dahai himself commanded the Feilong to beat up the two Dutch Chinese sailing ships.
The Rotterdam, which tried to sneak out of Penghu Bay the night before, was paralyzed by the Feilong's cannons because it rushed too far forward. The other sailboat tried to turn around and sail towards the interior of the bay, but was blocked.
The Xinxing, which rushed out of the diagonal stab, blocked the way. The Xinxing, which was taller than the ship, fired a 24-pounder shell from its bow cannon, which penetrated the bottom of the ship.
The Wyvern left the half-dead Rotterdam behind, caught up with it and fired another salvo, immediately breaking the sailing ship into pieces and turning it into a pile of scrap wood floating on the sea.
The Xinxing was escorting the troop transport Xinsheng, coming from the north close to the coastline. Seeing an opportunity, it struck a blow behind the Dutch ship. Then, the Xinxing continued to escort the Xinsheng and rushed directly to the Dutch landing site in Magong Port.
.After crossing the Tiantian Island in the harbor, Yin Feng, standing on the bow of the Xinsheng, could already see the smoke over Mazu Palace with his naked eyes.
"The war has been going on for more than an hour. It seems that Lin Xiao and the others are still persisting. Well done!" Yin Feng nodded and said to Chen Zhongji: "You can blow the conch horn now. Remember, one is short and two is long!"
Chen Zhongji jumped up and said excitedly: "I know, one is short and two is long!"
The conch horn sounded, and hundreds of fishermen miraculously appeared on the beaches and reefs in various parts of the bay. They pushed small fishing boats and sampans and quickly entered the sea and rowed towards the Xinsheng.
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These fishermen disappeared without a trace when the Dutch landed, so it was even harder for the Dutch to find supplies on the shore. Last night, Luo Aquan found these fishermen with Yin Feng's letter to the leader of the fishing village.
These fishermen had all had drinks with Yin Feng and heard that it was Yin Feng who asked them for help, so they agreed without saying a word.
With the cooperation of hundreds of fishermen, dozens of fishing boats, and sampans, more than 400 escort infantrymen and their equipment on the Xinsheng were all landed in less than half an hour.
The place where Yin Feng landed was about 1 mile away from the Dutch camp. At the beginning, the Dutch left-behind personnel discovered that the Chinese were landing, and hurriedly sent more than ten people to intercept them. They were bombarded by the Xinxing cruise ship on the shore.
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The Dutch landing force's attack on Mazu Palace was not smooth.
This time they did not have the artillery cover and support of the Orange, and only the two 3-pound cannons brought ashore could be used to support the infantry attack.
But for the two-meter-thick bunker of mud, wood and haystacks in the Mazu Palace camp, the power of the 3-pound cannon is too small. The shells will get stuck in the thick walls and lose their power. Unless the Dutch can
Bringing in 24-pound or 36-pound heavy guns for direct bombardment. It is hopeless to rely on these two small cannons to break through this wall.
After Captain Bont commanded the small artillery to bombard for a while, he ordered the stop without much interest. Then, the rapid and rhythmic drum beat sounded, and the Dutch army continued to advance, and soon approached the 80-step range of the Mazu Palace camp, and soon secured the camp.
Inside 60 musket bullets are welcome.
The company commanded by Captain Van Leyden was attacking from the front. The sailors led by Lin Xiao were all experienced soldiers. Many of them had experienced the Battle of Luzon Island, so they were very skilled in operating muskets, almost as good as the Dutch in front of them.
They can all reach the super level of firing two bullets per minute.
The tactics used by the Dutch infantry at that time were Morris's reformed infantry formations. Morris was elected as the military governor of the Dutch Federal Provinces when he was 21 years old. He was a talented military strategist. The combat units he used required
Much smaller than the Spanish phalanx. The Spanish combat unit was a regiment, while the infantry combat unit after Morris' reform was a company. Each company was reduced from 150 men in the old system to 115 men, and later to 80 men.
Infantry and spearmen accounted for half each. He also reduced the depth of the musketeers to 10 columns and widened the battle line to a maximum width of 250 meters.
The battle formation invented by Morris is called "Morris Line". Each row of Morris Line has about 50 spearmen, and the distance between the soldiers is about 1 meter. The battle formation after Morris' reform is completely different from the Spanish
Different. In the Spanish phalanx, the musketeers were in the center of the phalanx, surrounded by spearmen. Morris did the opposite. His musketeers were on both sides of the spearmen. Their real positions were the same as those of the spearmen.
The fourth or fifth row of spearmen is parallel. The musketeers are in this position, protected by spearmen on both sides. Even in close combat, they can still shoot effectively and kill the enemy.
Located on both sides of the horizontal line are 3 platoons of musketeers, each with 40 people, arranged in 4 columns, each with 10 people. After the musketeers fired, they retreated and loaded bullets until the last row of musketeers finished shooting. Morris
The horizontal formation is the prototype of the linear battle formation in the history of military warfare. Morris adopted the tactic of spearmen in the center and musketeers on both sides, which avoided the waste of soldiers in the Spanish infantry regiment. At the same time, not only the flexibility was enhanced, but also the soldiers and the
The soldiers cooperated in a tacit understanding, and the combat effectiveness was doubled. In the war, the spearmen fought very smoothly, and the musketeers, under the cover of the spearmen, could also shoot at the enemy calmly.
The problem is that the "Morris Line" is more mobile and flexible in large-scale battles, battles involving more than 10,000 people or hundreds of thousands of people.