Yin Feng defended Yan Siqi on the board of directors. In fact, he was a little worried about Yan Siqi. This guy was indeed a maverick and ambitious. Everyone could see that he had been fighting in Java for many years and had been living an independent kingdom. However, after all, the Chinese Army is an army established in accordance with modern military training rules and regulations. To a certain extent, it can be regarded as Yin Feng’s private army. However, below Yin Feng, due to military system problems and disciplinary constraints, the officer system, etc. Due to the constraints of factors, coupled with Yin Feng's personal popularity and strong military strength, although the areas controlled by the Chinese Army are scattered and difficult to connect, it is difficult to create internal separatist forces.
Yan Siqi was ordered to bring 3,000 elite troops to Hainan Island. The defense of the Java Island colony will be taken over by Zhao Xuanming's Fourth Regiment, which is famous for its fortress defense.
The early landing force led by Lin Xiao included more than 1,300 sailor musketeers in twelve outposts. The commander was Major Lin Shuisheng, the Nanyang general manager of the sailor musketeers. In addition, there were 3,000 regular infantrymen from Zhao Xuanming's fourth regiment, and There are two battalions of the artillery regiment. The most special unit is the Siraya battalion. They are all composed of indigenous soldiers from the four major Siraya villages such as Xingang Society, which were the first to form an alliance with the Chinese Company. The core officers are Han Chinese, and the remaining 600 soldiers are The non-commissioned officers are all Siraya aboriginals. This is the first time that Taiwan's aboriginal troops have been incorporated into combat troops and no longer exist as auxiliary troops.
The infantry of the Chinese Army have generally been equipped with a new type of flintlock musket. Because it is an improved version of the flintlock musket that has been commonly used in recent years, it is called the "new musket". The pool cover is integrated into one. After the trigger is pulled, the hammer hits the steel scythe and creates sparks. At the same time, the steel scythe is knocked away from the gunpowder pool. The sparks ignite the exposed gunpowder. This bolt is called an impact firing bolt. Although this improvement is small, it is of great significance. It makes the structure of the tunnel engine simpler and more reliable, with low cost and easy maintenance. In fact, it is the original Chinese version of the French flintlock musket of Yin Feng's previous life, and it is also a firearm of the Ordnance Research Department. A masterpiece from the quartet.
However, the new muskets have not yet been equipped to the Sailor Musketeers and indigenous troops, and the garrison troops in various places have not yet changed their uniforms. The Sailor Musketeers who came to Hainan this time basically still held old-fashioned flintlock muskets.
In the fifth year of Wanli of this dynasty, Shu Dayou ordered the soldiers from various states and counties in Qiongzhou to set up rural soldiers during the military patrol. There were 2480 soldiers from all Qiongzhou's villages and towns, and 3471 elite soldiers, including 1200 soldiers from Yazhou Township. , there are 210 elite soldiers, and there are more than 10,000 regular guards in Qiongzhou Prefecture. However, like the rural soldiers, these are only theoretical numbers and have never been realized.
All previous Li rebellions swept the entire island in a short period of time. The officers and soldiers on the island were unable to suppress them and could only protect themselves. Generally speaking, in the early stages of the Li rebellion, it was impossible to suppress the rebellion solely by relying on the officers and soldiers on the island. Therefore, the government and The officers and soldiers can only stick to the city walls of various prefectures and counties, waiting for reinforcements; when reinforcements from all over the mainland gradually gather, and then the army begins to move south, the rebellious Li tribes and villages will be wiped out one by one. Without unified command, there are often riots. The Li tribes that were fighting within each other were often defeated one by one, and in the end they had to surrender and settle the matter; this has become the basic pattern of the Li Rebellion. Before this Li Rebellion, it had been repeated several times in the more than a hundred years since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. This time, Li Luan repeated this scene again.
Le'an City, which is deep in the Luohuoli territory deep in the mountains, is an important base for surveillance and suppression of the Li people. On the day when the advance troops led by Lin Xiao landed, Le'an City was defeated by the Li rebels inside and outside. As a result, the few people who had no worries The Wanli rebels rushed towards Yazhou City. At the same time, Wanzhou, Lingshui, Changhua and other places were attacked by Li people who rushed out of Wuzhi Mountain.
The Li army encountered five outposts from the Chinese Army's vanguard, the Third Fleet Detachment of the Sailor Musketeers, at the original river park five miles east of Yazhou City.
Relying on the dilapidated Sanjin mansion in Hebo and the surrounding river embankments, five hundred sailor musketeers blocked the civilian rebels coming from all directions. Yin Feng came to Yazhou after crossing over, and first lived in Hebo Place.
The sailors carried three light field guns and a howitzer. The sailors' commander, Lin Shuisheng, was a native of Yazhou. He had often done business with the people when he was a child. Knowing the details of the people, he ordered the cannons to be pushed out of the river. The gate was pointed directly at the crowd of civilians on the main road. All the musketeers lined up in three rows at the gate. He gave an order and ordered four cannons to fire a salvo. The explosive grenades passed by a group of civilian leaders who gathered three hundred steps away. The explosion caused the people to stagger around, and the dozens of kilograms of iron sand fired by the three light field guns swept away the civilians within fifty steps. Suddenly, the swarming crowd seemed to be blocked by a pair of giant hands, and all the civilian rebels were Terrified.
Lin Shuisheng gave the order again, and the flintlock muskets of the Sailor Musketeers began to fire continuously.
The Li people, who encountered firearms warfare for the first time, formed a crowded and chaotic formation. As can be imagined, the more than 10,000 Li rebels were blocked by 500 people and were even beaten back.
After this battle, Lin Xiao's large group of troops stationed in Yazhou. He swaggered and returned to his hometown in fine clothes to pay a visit to the prefect. At the same time, the civil servants who came with the ship and were selected from the preparatory Central Taiwan Governor's Office quickly arrived at Lin Xiao's Under the guidance, he entered the Yazhou government office in Yazhou Prefecture. Surrounded by soldiers with guns and live ammunition from the Chinese Army, all the clerks in the six rooms were driven out of the government office. The civilian officials of the Zhonghua Company immediately took over the large and small government affairs of Yazhou; After Lin Xiao arrived, he immediately understood who he should be loyal to. The guardsmen in the city were quickly disarmed in the name of rectification and organized for screening. The prefect was quickly dismissed and could only helplessly fight every day. Sitting in his room in a daze, the guards at the door of his house have all turned into Chinese army soldiers in black clothes and helmets.
At this time, the Chinese navy also quickly occupied and controlled Sanya Port, Yuling Port, Lingshui and other places.
The civilians launched an attack on Yazhou City two days later, but were bombarded by more than a dozen howitzers at the top of the city. Then the Chinese army opened the city gate and launched a bayonet charge, leaving nearly a thousand corpses behind. , fled back to Wuzhi Mountain.
Lin Xiao sent a battalion of the Fourth Regiment to join the artillery battalion out of Yazhou City and occupied Mioukou and Xiamaling in the eastern part of Yazhou. They built temporary forts at these two places to block most of the civilian rebels from rushing out. At the same time, he sent spies to the northwest to explore the route to Danzhou Changhua.
The Siraya Battalion composed of Taiwanese indigenous people has no combat missions except defending the city. Battalion Commander Yaku and Supervisor Yan Songshan discussed it and came to ask Lin Xiao for another mission: the indigenous warriors of Siraya are good at mountain jungles. Fighting and defending the city are not their proper duties.
Lin Xiao was not good at military affairs. He came to Hainan just to use his connections to coordinate the relations between all parties and occupy Yazhou as a base for the Chinese army to develop its power across the island. Therefore, he entrusted all battlefield command to Lin Shuisheng, the Nanyang general manager of the Sailor Musketeers. .
Lin Shuisheng participated in the battle against the Satsuma Domain and was a new generation of Danmin sailors who emerged on the battlefield. Zhang Wei, the commander of the "Iron Wall Regiment" dispatched by Zhao Xuanming's fourth regiment, also participated in the battle of the Satsuma Domain in Kyushu, and Lin Shuisheng knew Lin Shuisheng very well, so the two men cooperated in commanding the combat operations after the Chinese army landed.
The two discussed it for a while, and both felt that the Lebanese rebels in front of them were not worth mentioning, so they decided to let the Taiwanese indigenous battalion take a sentry team from the artillery battalion, plus two sentry teams of sailor musketeers, to explore the northwest direction and win the battle. Open the passage to Changhua before Yan Siqi's reinforcements arrive. At the same time, this can also test the strength of the Li people's rebels.
The joint uprising of the people is limited to the early stage. At present, chaos has emerged within the village communities of the various tribes of the people. The tribes that have obtained the spoils of war only want to go back to the mountains to inventory their belongings, while the village communities that have not harvested anything want to continue fighting; The people of Li did not have a recognized leader to uniformly command the battle. Therefore, the joint force of the Taiwanese Aboriginal Battalion and the Sailor Musketeers had penetrated deep into the western edge of the Wuzhishan Mountains without a major battle.
Yan Siqi, who received the letter from Fei Ge, quickly began to mobilize his troops. Unfortunately, the one-third of the Java Island he occupied was mostly the northern coastal area, intertwined with areas controlled by the Dutch and areas controlled by the indigenous Madura Kingdom. He mobilized troops, Setting up defenses takes a lot of time.
When Yan Siqi's Nanyang Task Force arrived in the southern part of Hainan Island, the Ming Dynasty's official army's counterattack had also begun.
The two sides began to compete for time and territory. However, the Chinese army was organized, premeditated, and took the initiative; while the Ming Dynasty official army had limited information and did not know in advance that the Chinese army was coming to seize the territory. thing, so he immediately fell on the passive side.
The Limin rebel forces separated between the two sides were now under attack from the north and the south. As soon as Yan Siqi's troops arrived in Yazhou, they immediately launched a northward attack and directly attacked the Limin rebels' lair deep in the Wuzhi Mountains.
Most of the officers, noncommissioned officers, and veterans of Yan Siqi's Nanyang Task Force were members of the former Fifth Regiment. They were famous for their murderousness. After years of continuous fighting, they have become accustomed to small-scale and high-intensity mountain and jungle combat. They relied on sharp firearms and proficiency. With his tactical coordination, he traveled through mountains and rivers, fearless of dangers, and soon reached the vicinity of Luo Huoli's lair through various small roads. This time, Yan Siqi once again showed the violent spirit of the original fifth regiment, and Fan persisted in resisting along the way. Most of the village communities were massacred, and Lin Xiao's sailor troops and the Fourth Regiment also began to attack, and soon took control of the Ganfen and Wanzhou areas.
In the north, the official infantry departing from Qiongzhou Prefecture was led by Guangdong Deputy General Jin Qijia, with Qiongya Chief General Yu Zigao as his deputy, totaling more than 15,000 people.
When they set out, they did not know that the Chinese army had landed in Yazhou. They were not surprised until the Haikou division camp reported that a large number of Chinese company ships had appeared near Sanya. At this time, the official army was blocked on the eastern coast of Hainan Island. Huitong and the Wuwanshui area were blocked on the northwest coast at the line between Lingao and Wenlanshui, unable to advance. The officers and soldiers did not attack the Limin base camp in the Wuzhishan Mountain area on the middle road at all, but only attacked Shigu at the northern foot of Wuzhishan. Ridge and Maple Ridge were defended in order to prevent civilians from going north.