On the second day of the night of the Japanese pirate attack, it was not until noon that Lin Xiao "dealt" with the Japanese on the south bank.
The killings started at night and lasted until noon. Together with the rebel natives of the Tagalyan Society, corpses were strewn in the fields in Anping Port and Dagou Port. Fireworks lit up the sky. The China Company's escort team and the indigenous allies of the Xingang Society were searching and killing the rebels and Japanese people everywhere. The Siraya Pingpu allies of the Chinese Company continued to come from all over the country to participate in the battle to beat the drowned dogs. After the Japanese town was burned to death, the Tagalyan Society was surrounded by the Chinese Company's escorts and indigenous allies, and the ground was impenetrable. Just look at it and you will be exterminated.
Lin Xiao left the main garrison of the South Fort to continue the search and killing, and rushed to the north bank with fifty people.
The entire Taiwan port city currently has 70,000 permanent residents and 50,000 to 60,000 floating population. This catastrophe was like ten typhoons landing at the same time, and the entire city was in a mess.
Until noon, there was still a group of about 100 Japanese pirates trapped in the Mazu Temple near the port, using firearms, bows and arrows, and swords and spears to resist.
In addition, a group of rogues broke through to the west coast in the chaos of the night, and retreated northeastward under the bombardment of the west fort.
When Lin Xiao landed at the chaotic dock, dozens of warships were transferred from Yingang and were patrolling the harbor water. The North Fort was firing at the Mazu Temple. A team of artillerymen was struggling to push the artillery cart and drive the baggage drawn by oxen. The vehicle is passing through the dock area heading towards Mazu Temple.
Lin Xiao found that the artillerymen had taken off their clothes and were still sweating profusely on March Day in Taiwan. It was obvious that they were troops arriving in a hurry. Suddenly, a man jumped out from the artillery team. He was short in stature and carried a big head on his strong shoulders. He was officially the first soldier. Li Xing, the leader of the third regiment, called Lin Xiao in surprise: "Brother Guangshi, I heard that you did a good job in wiping out the Japanese town."
Li Xing was a member of the original pirate gang, and he and Lin Xiao were old acquaintances. Lin Xiao couldn't help but asked curiously: "What's going on with you? Why did you become an artilleryman?"
Li Xing's face darkened, and he sighed: "The captain asked me to clean up all the Japanese pirates in Taiwan City before dark today, otherwise I have to go to work in the Zhuang Ding Team. The captain is getting angry, please go and persuade him." Please advise." He shook his head and turned to leave. Lin Xiao grabbed him and asked anxiously: "Speak clearly, what happened?"
"It's the eldest lady..."
Lin Xiao was excited and let go of her hand.
"The eldest lady was injured last night and is now in premature labor..."
Lin Xiao gasped in fright, said nothing, left Li Xing and ran all the way back to the company headquarters.
During the war at night, the robbers broke into any house unscrupulously, robbed, and then killed people and set fires, implementing the typical "Three Guangs Policy." Fortunately, under Yin Feng's insistence, the city north of Taiwan Harbor was all built in accordance with the unified plan. There are strict checkerboard-shaped streets with supporting drainage systems. The houses are all made of bricks and tiles and wooden beam structures of the same style. They all have firewalls with high roofs and large purlins. There is a three to five-foot separation between adjacent houses and courtyards. distance, so the fire did not spread, usually the house where the fire started was burned down.
The burned-out buildings in the city are scattered here and there; all kinds of gold, silver and soft goods are scattered all over the streets. Usually, the corpses of the robbers are near these properties, and there are still many corpses that have not been collected. , just piled up on the roadside one after another, Lin Xiao and his people walked through the piles of property and corpses, and everyone became more and more annoyed as they looked at them.
The block close to the company headquarters was the most severely damaged. Ever since the Japanese pirates used gunpowder barrels to blow open the gate of the inspection Sicheng Walled City, the sound of explosions in this area has not stopped. In the final battle at dawn, Yin Feng ordered the use of sky-blasting cannons. The explosive shells and solid iron bullets of the field artillery directly bombarded the city wall and surrounding residential buildings. As a result, hundreds of Japanese pirates and broken bricks and tiles were turned into garbage. They are still buried together and have not been cleaned up. South of the company headquarters A large area was not only shelled, but also set on fire by Japanese pirates. It has now been almost flattened and turned into a pile of rubble.
The infantry convoy in units of ten was inspecting and patrolling the ruins, occasionally striking at the half-dead Japanese pirates.
The gate of Sicheng Village, where the war was the fiercest, naturally turned into ruins. When Lin Xiao passed through the ruins, an infantry brother recognized Lin Xiao, saluted him, and then stepped forward and whispered: "Seventh brother, hurry up. Let’s go see the captain, I heard that the eldest lady is dying..."
The speaker was a distant cousin of Lin Xiao who had just come to Taiwan from Yazhou to join him. Lin Xiao looked at this brother with stern eyes and said sternly: "Don't talk nonsense, carry out your mission."
When he led people to the gate of the company headquarters that had disappeared, Zeng Qi, Zeng Ke, Han Ping, Han Jing, Lu Shitou and others were hurriedly walking from the front yard of the company headquarters.
"Master Zeng..." Lin Xiao did not dare to neglect, and saluted Zeng Qi. Zeng Qi took a step forward with the support of Han Jing, his face was pale, his eyes were empty and he looked ahead, sighed and said: "Glossy, go. Please advise Feng'er, I'll go find the doctor, hey..."
Lin Xiao's heart sank and she nodded quickly.
That night, when the Japanese pirates broke into the inspection of Sicheng Walled City, three women from Yin Feng's family were at home. Mai Wan'er escaped the disaster because she returned to her hometown in Yazhou to pick up her father from Taiwan. Among them, two pregnant women were in the inner house; the eldest lady once Qian was teaching people to write. Her student was Chen Zhongji’s Pingpu wife Xilan, who was also pregnant with Liujia. The explosion frightened the two of them. For a moment, they didn’t know what happened and were completely helpless. Li Lihua from the West Campus finally experienced the Manila Massacre, experienced the Spanish artillery bombardment in the Balian market area, and witnessed tens of thousands of firearms battles during the counterattack in Manila, so she reacted quickly and immediately rushed into Zeng Qian In the room, the two pregnant women were asked to quickly go to the study room in the backyard and prepare to hide in the company headquarters through a secret passage. However, some Japanese pirates obviously came deliberately to target the Yin Feng family. When the three women just arrived in the yard, more than ten Japanese pirates The famous ronin had already climbed over the wall and entered, brandishing a Japanese sword.
The guards of the Yin Feng family resisted desperately, but something unexpected happened. They pulled out their flintlock pistols and fired only one shot, and they were all cut down by the Japanese pirates.
Thanks to the timely arrival of Magaro's black guards, they blocked the Japanese pirates at the door of the inner house. Some of the loyal black people rushed over without even having time to get their weapons, and they blocked the door of the inner house with all their flesh and blood. The Japanese pirates were blocked for a while, but the women could not walk out of the courtyard to the study, and could not evacuate through the secret passage. As a result, after the Japanese pirates started setting fire, Zeng Qian fainted in the smoke. , the collapsed roof beam also hit her shoulder...
When being rescued from the sea of fire by Magalo, Zeng Qian began to have fits of convulsions, and blood flowed from her lower body...
"Boom, boom, boom," bursts of gunfire came from the direction of the Mazu Temple at the port. It seemed that Li Xing's artillery team had begun to bombard the Mazu Temple, and the Japanese pirates there were about to be destroyed.
There is Yin Feng's office and study in the backyard of the Zhonghua Company headquarters. As soon as Lin Xiao stepped into the backyard, she heard Yin Feng shouting: "What's going on? Why hasn't it been cleaned up yet? What's going on with you? Flee to Huweilongshe When will the Japanese pirates be eradicated?"
Lin Xiao saw Navy Chief Mai Dahai, Second Regiment Commander Mai De, Direct Artillery Battalion Commander Li Kuiqi and others bowing their heads in silence in front of Yin Feng. A security officer handed Lin Xiao a statistical report. Xiao Yi saw that it was a preliminary statistical report on the losses caused by the war: the material losses in the dock area were incalculable, but the merchant ships from various countries were fortunately unharmed; the fire area in the warehouse was not large, and the property losses were about hundreds of thousands of taels of silver; the material losses in the company headquarters and urban areas were not yet known. Statistics; Personnel losses, including foreign personnel, preliminary statistics show that more than 1,200 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured; most of them were merchant sailors, fishermen, craftsmen, coolies, traders, etc., and more than ten foreign businessmen were also killed. .
Yin Feng was walking back and forth in the yard hurriedly, with his hands behind his back and a dark face, and the clothes on his body were stained with blood. He had never been so irritable and angry.
He asked Lin Yue again: "Why hasn't Dr. Zhang Zheng from Quanzhou come yet?"
Lin Yue's face was still filled with the smoke from last night. He raised his head and said hesitantly: "The Han family and his son have already gone to invite him... However, he is not a gynecological doctor..."
"Where's Po Wen, where's damn Po Lu Wen, I gave her so much money..."
Lin Yue said dullly: "That Mrs. Lu Wen was set on fire by the Japanese pirates last night, and Mrs. Wen of the Zhang family in Ximen was injured in her hand when she fled, so she couldn't deliver the baby..."
Yin Feng suddenly became furious: "Fart, there are only two midwives in such a big Taiwan port, go and find them for me,"
Lin Yue sighed, raised his left hand across his chest, performed a military salute, turned around and left. Lin Xiao waved to him and asked him to leave quickly. He couldn't help but sigh. There were more men than women in Taiwan, so life was There are even fewer women with children, and the profession of midwife is not very profitable. Lu Wenpo was brought to Taiwan by the Zeng family with a high salary from Quanzhou City years ago. She was specially prepared for Zeng Qian. She lives next door to Yin Feng's house. Yesterday Wan died in a fire set by Japanese pirates.
There was a scream in the study. Yin Feng rushed to the door, but lost the courage to go in. His body swayed and he had to raise his hand to hold the door frame. The door curtain opened, and Li Lihua's face blackened by fireworks appeared. Although her face could not be seen, But his eyes were extremely panicked.
"Brother Feng, madam, madam wants you to come in..." Li Lihua said with a trembling voice.
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When night fell, the Mazu Temple was bombarded by artillery, and more than 100 Japanese pirates were all killed. When Li Xing led his people into the ruins, he unexpectedly found a Westerner among a group of Japanese dwarves, and he also Still alive, this man was Monk Dasmarinas, and he became the only person who survived in the Mazu Temple.
To the northeast of Yingang, the cavalry battalion caught up with the group of Japanese pirates who had escaped in the morning. They had broken through the obstruction of the indigenous people of Huweilongshe and were trying to escape north to the land of Dadufan. Mai De's second regiment was returning. When assisting Taiwan Port, they happened to meet this group of Japanese pirates head-on, and cooperated with the cavalry to block their way; at the same time, the sailor musketry team sent by the Yingang Navy also came over from the west, and some of the desperate Japanese pirates were on the spot. Some committed suicide by caesarean section, some abandoned everything and fled, and some made a desperate move and pounced on the pursuers...
After a night of pursuit and interception, on the morning of the third day, the last Japanese pirate who participated in the sneak attack on Taiwan Harbor was trampled to pieces by the Chinese cavalry.
The surprise here was that the cavalry captured a Han guide who was leading the way for the Japanese pirates. This fur trader from Zhejiang specializes in doing business with Japanese businessmen. He has a good relationship with Yuki Kayama. He is dissatisfied with the fur goods monopoly policy of the Zhonghua Company, so he has long been He was helping the Japanese pirates, and he was the one who led the way to Yin Feng's house.
After his interrogation, the inside story hidden behind the attack gradually emerged. Yamaguchi Naotomo, the shogunate, was killed when Yin Feng bombarded the patrol city with blooming artillery shells. Among the group of Japanese pirates fleeing the country, he was stabbed to death in a reed bush by the company's escort at night.
More than 1,000 Japanese pirates who participated in the sneak attack were all killed within three days, and more than 500 Japanese immigrants in Nihon Town were also massacred. By the evening of the third day after the sneak attack on Taiwan Harbor, there was not a single Japanese on the entire island of Taiwan. People are still alive,