On the evening of Sunday, May 3, 1609 AD, the 30th day of the third lunar month, the undisciplined Japanese pirates attacked the Jewish ghetto in the west of the city, and indiscriminately attacked the Dutch, Portuguese, and British people east of the dock. They also randomly attacked aboriginal settlements. A group of Japanese pirates also attacked a newly opened church in Taiwan, wounding three Jesuit missionaries and killing a Chinese intern monk.
In addition to murder, arson, and robbery, the Japanese pirates also launched attacks on the relatively rare women on the island of Taiwan, regardless of nationality. This made them immediately become the public enemies of all residents of the island.
In the middle of the city, near the patrol city, some ronoi who had wandered half of the city met with the Shimazu family samurai, and also participated in the attack on the company headquarters. The patrol wall was only beginning to take shape, and the gates had not yet been built. , under the raid of the Japanese pirates, the defensive function was lost immediately. However, the built city wall was insurmountable by the Japanese pirates without siege equipment, so the Japanese pirate team all had to pass through the south gate of the patrol city. Then attack the headquarters of the Chinese company.
Not long after Yin Feng ran to the north of the city, he encountered the third regiment directly under the command of Li Xing, totaling 150 musketeers.
At the same time, the cavalry sent by the first cavalry battalion of the ace force supported by Yin Feng also encountered them on the road.
After the batch of Spanish Andalusian horses arrived in Taiwan, Lu Dahai went back to his hometown in Shandong and recruited some bandit partners, plus some selected infantry soldiers from the escort team, to form a cavalry of about 100 people. After several Portuguese , cavalry training was conducted under the leadership of Spanish mercenaries. Although there were only more than 100 cavalry, Yin Feng hoped that this would be the prototype of his own cavalry unit, so he gave it the name of a battalion. He heard the cannon warning and saw the fireworks and rockets. Later, several foreign cavalry instructors believed that since the enemy had directly attacked the port city of Taiwan, their own homes in the city might also be damaged, so they actively organized personnel to attack.
Yin Feng called the Portuguese cavalry instructor over and said sternly: "In a narrow city, and it is a dark night, the cavalry entering the city will only cause chaos. Mr. Luanda instructor, please quickly lead your cavalry troops to the new port in the east of the city. There has been an indigenous rebellion over there in Sheshe and other places. You must use the speed of the cavalry to rush to the scene quickly to quell the rebellion. Remember, anyone who resists will be shot to death."
Yin Feng left a few cavalrymen behind and asked them to serve as his messengers. He sent messengers to the old camp of the Yinggang Navy, the station of Mai De's second regiment in Dadufanguo, and the station of the special battalion, asking them to return to Taiwan quickly. port.
After the cavalry left, the troops directly under the third regiment had already lined up. Yin Feng and Li Xing held the position, and more than 160 people lined up in 16 rows, with 10 people in each row, on the north-south street of Taiwan Port City, striding southward.
Scattered fleeing residents of Taiwan City kept appearing around the team along the way, and sporadic Japanese pirates would often escape from the side streets and alleys, only to be killed by the soldiers of the third regiment.
The establishment and structure of the China Company's escort team, and the officer and non-commissioned officer system played an advanced role. The escort team members who were dispersed at the docks, company headquarters, and various checkpoints were spontaneously organized on the spot under the command of the highest-ranking officer nearby. Combat formations and collective combat capabilities were used to quickly reverse the unfavorable situation in some places.
The infantry led by Yin Feng and Li Xing arrived near the "Leshan House" restaurant, which was only one street away from the company headquarters. More than 200 people had gathered around the infantry group, including those who had been scattered at the docks and various checkpoints. Guard soldiers, soldiers on vacation living in the city, sailors, factory workers, etc., including several foreign mercenaries, armed with assorted weapons, followed Yin Feng's group forward.
At this time, under the command of Yamaguchi Naotomo, Kaguyama Yuki and others, the originally sparse Japanese pirates also began to carry out an organized attack.
The Japanese pirates' iron cannon - matchlock gun, which requires a slow-burning match to be fired, would become a living target in the dark night. Therefore, the Japanese pirates used bows and arrows as long-range weapons at this time. They occupied the city wall of the Inspection Department and nearby areas. On the rooftops of the residents' houses, he aimed down at the Chinese people who were gathering with torches and shot at them. For a moment, Yin Feng's men were suppressed under the eaves and walls of the streets and alleys.
Following the movement of the large infantry group of sailors, the escort soldiers spontaneously organized themselves, set up ladders and climbed to the roofs and walls, attacking the Japanese pirates with flintlock muskets and various weapons.
In the direction of the company's headquarters, flames were rising and the fire was bright. The Japanese pirates repeatedly failed to attack the headquarters gate and began to set fire around the area, intending to attack with fire.
Yin Feng's home in Captain Lane was also in the direction of the fire. Yin Feng saw that the place just across the street was already on fire and felt anxious. Lin Yue, who had just arrived from the weapons research department, and more than a dozen personal guards were surrounding him. Beside him, people were also looking at the fire very anxiously. The homes of the guards were also near Shipowner Lane.
Li Xing organized his own team directly under the regiment to launch three attacks, but they were all repulsed due to darkness and fierce firepower from Japanese pirate bows and arrows. In close combat, complex terrain, and dark conditions, the flintlock muskets in their hands at this time There is no advantage at all. The huge muzzle flash when the flintlock gun is fired almost points the direction for the enemy, but the Japanese pirates can quietly release arrows in the dark.
At this time, in the sea in front of the port, the three Sendai Domain sailing ships had all been sunk under the cross bombardment of the north and south forts. Only more than 100 Sendai Domain warriors with good water skills swam to the dock, and more than a hundred remained in the dock area. The retainers of the shogunate Naotomo Yamaguchi and the guards desperately resisted the attack of the defenders of the North Fort. After sinking the sailing ship of the Sendai Domain, the North Fort transferred the artillery fire to the dock area. The guards of the North Fort thought that the dock area had been invaded by Japanese pirates anyway. After occupying it, they bombarded the entire dock without any scruples. The shells fell on the heads of the Japanese pirates one by one, beating many warriors to a pulp. However, these Japanese warriors relied on the pile of goods on the dock to crisscross the area. Warehouses, as well as a variety of cargo flatbed trucks and horse-drawn carriages formed a complex terrain. They tried their best to get close to the escort soldiers for hand-to-hand combat.
In this stalemate situation, Yin Feng finally calmed down and thought about it. He thought that Japan's habit of strategic gambling existed in history. The strategic gambling behaviors such as the attack on Pearl Harbor in later generations were due to the nature of Japanese pirates. Yin Feng He gave himself a slap in the face; he had indeed underestimated the enemy and did not expect the Japanese pirates' sneak attack at all. However, now was not the time to regret and blame himself. He grabbed Lin Yue and ordered loudly: "Go to the Weapons Research Department quickly and kill him." Bring the sky-blasting cannon they are testing, quickly, quickly."
Lin Yue and others rushed away, and Yin Feng grabbed Li Xing who was dancing and commanding the attack and said: "Where is your artillery battalion?"
After the reorganization of the escort infantry, each regiment has a professional artillery battalion with a number of between 300 and 500 and 30 to 50 light field guns.
Li Xing was startled: "Captain, the artillery battalion is stationed in the old camp. This is a city. Pull up the cannon, then..."
"If we let these Japanese pirates kill people and set fires, the city of Taiwan will be completely destroyed by them. Quick, let the artillery battalion bring ten cannons into the city."
The two sky-blasting cannons in the improvement test were first in place. Several shells landed on the wall of the patrol city wall in a curved manner, exploding into balls of hot fire, splashing iron sand, and falling iron pieces. A large number of Japanese pirates were ambushing the city wall. Then, under the cover of their own men on the roofs behind, the guards with bayonets roared out and seized the gate of the patrol city wall in one fell swoop. The artillery battalion that followed came with A burst of rapid fire destroyed numerous houses and walls and leveled them to the ground.
The soldiers, sailors, workers, and villagers of the escort team who were suppressed under the eaves and walls all stood up and marched forward bravely.
The front yard of the company headquarters has been reduced to rubble by countless grenades, with corpses and rubble strewn everywhere as far as the eye can see.
More than a dozen agents from the company's security department and the last dozens of soldiers from the escort headquarters were bruised and bruised. They used their last bit of physical strength to block the corridor behind the front yard, using bayonets, gun butts and even stones, and the last one. A group of Japanese pirates who desperately broke into the hospital were entangled together.
The Captain's Alley was blazing with fire, the flames were flying, and you could feel the heat from a dozen steps away. Yin Feng led Lin Yue and others to fight here covered in blood, and couldn't help but be stunned.
From the gate of the walled city to here, there were hand-to-hand fights everywhere. The furious Chinese did not let go of any Japanese pirates. No matter whether they resisted or not, they were killed. Since Yin Feng began his overseas adventure, most of the time he used muskets to fight. Shooting the enemy from a distance, tonight for the first time in hand-to-hand combat, I assassinated a short-built ronin.
The Chinese army, which responded quickly, took control of the situation in the early morning.
Infantrymen transferred from the military camp and the military academy in the north of the city, warships and sailor musketeers sent by the Yingang Navy, indigenous auxiliary soldiers and villagers sent by the Xingang Society in the east, and infantry sent by the factory area entered the city one after another, sweeping away those who had nothing to do with it. The Japanese pirates, who had good organizational discipline, and the guards in Jewish ghettos, black residential areas, and commercial stores from various countries also spontaneously organized to eliminate Japanese pirates on the spot.
The cavalry battalion was invincible along the way. With the assistance of the Zhuang Ding team and friendly indigenous people, the rebellion of some indigenous people in Xingang Society was put down the next morning.
The infantry of the North Fort, supported by the Yingang navy fleet, finally recaptured the dock area, burned all the Japanese merchant ships, and cut off the Japanese pirates' escape route at sea.
Yin Feng, who was completely angered by the despicable sneak attack, issued an order after eliminating the Japanese pirates who attacked the company headquarters: "All Japanese pirates will be executed on the spot, and their surrender will not be accepted."
On the morning after the Taiwan Port was attacked, the defenders of the South Fort, with the help of the Zhuang Ding team and friendly natives, defeated the Japanese and rushed into Nihonmachi.
Lin Xiao believed that the order mentioned referred to "all Japanese pirates", and the Japanese in Nihonmachi were certainly within this scope, so he went ahead and carried out a massacre of Nihonmachi. Japanese people living in Nihonmachi, regardless of age or sex, were All were killed, no one survived,