The Dutch really did not expect to see such a scene. In the intelligence collected in advance, all Chinese businessmen and overseas Chinese said that the Penghu Islands were deserted islands, with only fishermen passing by occasionally, and the Ming Dynasty government only sent Japanese invaders five times a year.
The Penghu Islands will be present during the month, and the rest of the time is completely anarchic.
The Chinese United Company only emerged this year. When the Chinese Company's merchant ships went to Batavia, Old Port, Malacca, and Pattani in the South China Sea, the Dutch fleet led by Wei Malang was already in the Pattani area.
Know anything about the Chinese company.
General Manager Li Jin was originally from Haicheng, Zhangzhou, and had been doing business in Pattani for many years. Before the establishment of the Dutch East India Company, one of its predecessors, Zeeland Trading Company, hired Li Jin to work for them. The Dutch East India Company merged with Zeeland.
After waiting for the company, Li Jin naturally also served the East India Company. Due to his outstanding performance, in 1600, the Dutch of the Zeeland Company even took him on a trip to Europe.
In Europe, Li Jin was baptized there and became a Protestant Christian of the Dutch Reformed Church. He was probably the first Protestant Christian in Asian history.
Li Jin also didn't know the details of the China United Company. He had never heard of the so-called "United Company". But the fact that was confirmed at the moment was that someone occupied the best settlement in Penghu. And it was a Chinese trading company.
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Originally, he encouraged the Dutch to come to Penghu, firstly because the eunuch Gao Caipai Pan Xiu had brought the promise of opening up the sea for trade; secondly, he knew that Penghu had been moved to the sea and abandoned in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, and was basically unmanaged.
After the Dutch occupied this place, they could follow the old example of the Portuguese in Macau and open up the sea for trade.
But now, it seems that someone has already occupied Penghu as a base.
At the same moment, seeing the described Dutch giant ship with countless gunholes sailing into the bay, Lin Xiao quickly released the homing pigeons he had prepared in advance, while Mai Xiaoliu and others picked up the pigeons and prepared for battle.
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Yin Feng met Zeng Rui when he returned to Yingang. He was very happy that the Zeng family finally decided to invest in the China United Company. Zeng Rui pestered him for several days and wanted to go to the escort team to watch the firearms training. Yin Feng was busy
After spending the money from the robbery, I had no time to pay attention to him, so I wrote a warrant to let him observe the training by himself. This move caused a lot of troubles in the future, which Yin Feng could not predict.
It took a lot of time to select the personnel stationed in the Chinese merchant houses in Pattani and Ryukyu. Both the Tseng family and the Han family wanted their own clerks and family members to take up the posts. The two families were arguing and found Yin Feng. Yin Feng made a stipulation and immediately wrote
There are several selection rules for personnel in foreign commercial missions. The first one is: they must be able to read and write, and have some accounting and financial knowledge; and they must have the ability to do business independently.
The Zeng family is a combination of officials, gentry and businessmen who can study and serve as officials, so they have an advantage in the first aspect; while the Han family went abroad to do business early and had many contacts with foreigners. In the end, one of Han Ping's cousins and the Zeng family
A domestic servant of the company obtained these two positions. Yin Feng also decided that in the future, these positions in foreign commercial offices will be open to internal competition among the company's employees.
On this day, Yin Feng was so busy that he came home very late. He entered the house rubbing his temples and shouted: "I have a headache, I have a headache, I have to decide on everything... I'm starving, Wan'er..." Suddenly he
He jumped up as if he had seen a ghost, and was shocked: "Beautiful! When did you come?"
His first wife, Zeng Jing, was sitting behind a table full of food, looking at him with a smile.
After Zeng Yue's wound attack and death, Yin Feng's days at his home in Quanzhou were very few, and he had not touched his beautiful wife for a long time. In his home in Taiwan, Wan'er waited on him every day, almost
They all forgot about their first wife, or they deliberately did not think about her. Zeng Yue still had a great influence on him. He always felt sorry for the Zeng family for not being able to bring back a living Zeng Yue.
Mai Wan'er had no choice but to stand aside and wait. Yin Feng calmed down, sat down at the table, picked up the chopsticks, and said to Wan'er, "Sit down too, and let's eat together."
Wan'er looked at Zeng Jing. Zeng Jing, who usually had very strict rules and was full of airs as the main wife, actually nodded pleasantly: "Girls, let's eat together."
Wan'er looked at her and then at Yin Feng, feeling as if the sun was coming out from the west.
The three people had a dull dinner, but it was quickly interrupted by the sound of hurried footsteps. Lu Shitou rushed in with a few people: "Brother Yin! The carrier pigeon! The carrier pigeon has arrived!"
Upon hearing this, Yin Feng pushed his job and said to the two women: "I have something urgent. I have to go to the military camp outside the city first. I may not come back at night. You don't have to wait for me."
After the group of people left in a hurry, the two women looked at each other, looked at the dark door, and sighed together.
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On the way to the military camp, Yin Feng had sent Lu Shitou back to Singang to mobilize all members of the fleet and prepare to leave for Penghu tomorrow. At the same time, countless flying pigeons were released, and small fishing boats were sent out overnight to secretly sail to the coast of Fujian;
The Jinghai Gang and pirate groups controlled by Chinese companies from various places will concentrate on the Penghu Islands.
Yin Feng rushed to the convoy barracks overnight, gathered all the Portuguese mercenaries and temporary officers, and issued the order to start fighting tomorrow.
Mai De, a former civilian sailor and current commander of the first sentry post, spoke first: "Ship owner, we have only started live-fire training for a few days. I'm afraid..."
"We don't have time. We will hold an exercise on the school grounds tomorrow and select the 400 people with the best training results to follow me." Yin Feng turned to Colonel Kutre: "Mr. Colonel, the special team you trained must also follow me.
, especially bring Luo Aquan."
He looked around and asked, "Where is the logistics officer?"
"Come on, come on!" Zheng Dong, a fat logistics officer and former accountant at Zeng's store in Manila, hurried over.
Yin Feng had no time to worry about his lateness and ordered: "Immediately prepare 400 muskets and the gunpowder and bullets required for a month's operation. Just ask Colonel Coutre for the relevant data. There are still 400 men and two
Month’s worth of meals must be prepared quickly.”
Yin Feng paused and loudly told everyone about the arrival of the Dutch. No one had any objections. Just follow Captain Yin and fight the people regardless of their country.
Someone tugged at the corner of his clothes, and Yin Feng turned around dissatisfied, only to find that it was Zeng Rui.
"Why are you here?"
"Brother Feng, shall I follow you to fight the Dutch?" Zeng Rui begged.
"No!" Yin Feng was startled and threw away Zeng Rui's hand: "Absolutely not, it's too dangerous!"
"It's too dangerous! Then why are you going in person?"
Yin Feng shook his head like a rattle and said resolutely: "Absolutely not, I have to be responsible for your old man! Also, your pretty sister comes to Taiwan, you go and accompany her."
Zeng Rui still kept pestering, but Yin Feng refused: "This is an important military camp area, you can't stay here." He simply called a few escort brothers and dragged Zeng Rui back to Taiwan City.
The basic organization of the China United Company's escort team imitates the non-guard units of the Jiajing Japanese Pirates period of the Ming Dynasty. The popular non-guard unit organization at that time was as follows:
The infantry organization in the mid-Ming Dynasty was based on the ancient Shiwu system. There were five people in the team. The second team was called Shiwu, and there was a captain outside. The third team was a team, and there was a captain outside. The third team was a sentry, and there was a sentry officer outside.
The five generals are the general, and there is one member of the general outside. The five generals are the battalion, and each one is under the command of a general, who is commanded by Gao Biaoqisen, the sentry detective Jianbu, the calligrapher, doctor, and Ding. Each battalion is divided into one battalion.
They are all the same. There is a general, a sentry, and a team, and all the sentry teams are all the same." This is the organization of battalion, general, sentry, team, and so on.
Qi Jiguang's "Ji Xiao Xinshu" Volume 1 "Shu Wu Pian" is battalion - division - team - whatever, but the "general" is called "division".
Xu Guangqi's "Art of War Regulations" states that there are 5 people, 25 people are teams, 5 teams are sentries, 5 sentries are departments, and 5 departments are battalions. The "general" is also called "department". The establishment of a battalion is about 3,000 people.
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Yin Feng had actual combat command experience in Luzon Island. He felt that based on the communication conditions at that time, the command levels of grassroots troops could not be too many, but they could not be too few either - otherwise the issued orders would not be conveyed to the individual soldiers' ears at all. Moreover, the basic number of troops
It can't be too many, otherwise the quality requirements for officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers will be too high. Yin Feng's unit is a newly formed rookie unit, so it is impossible to require these military qualities from them.
So after a compromise, the system of battalion-postal-team-supervision was adopted, with 10 commanders, one captain and deputy each; three squads, one captain, one deputy, and 35 soldiers under their jurisdiction; five squadrons, one commander and one commander
One sergeant and two deputies are in charge of 200 soldiers; five posts are a battalion, and the battalion commander is one sergeant and two deputies, and they are in charge of 1,200 people. The current escort team is exactly the establishment of a battalion. The officers of each unit are divided into battalion commanders, sentry commanders, captains, and commanders.
As a name, avoid using titles such as the imperial court's commander-in-chief, thousand-general commander, commander, or small flag, to avoid irritating some people's nerves or arousing the alertness of the court.
As for the personnel of the military supervisory system, only the original Dan civilian sailors are now employed, but the supervisory troops have been sent to the sentry level. Since the army has just been established, and all the rules and regulations are different from those of the Ming Dynasty guard army, it is impossible to recruit them.
There is a serious shortage of officers in the government and army, so the supervisory army is generally the second-in-command of the grassroots troops.
At noon the next day, 400 guardsmen from two temporary posts were already gathered at the gate of the camp. These were all the top soldiers selected for training.
Yin Feng walked back and forth in front of them for a few times, calmed down his emotions, and announced loudly: "Brothers, many of you have followed me to fight your way from Luzon Island to survive until now! We will not let him go any further.
We will never let the Fanyi foreign devils slaughter us at will! Now, the red-haired barbarians have robbed two of our boats, killed dozens of our brothers, and are trying to steal our territory and our business right in front of our home.
Brothers, what should we do?”
"Kill!" Soldier No. 400 roared in unison.
Yin Feng waved his hand: "Let's go!"
The troops of No. 400 carried 10 4-pound guns, which were pulled by ox carts. The artillery carts that are convenient for marching operations have not yet been manufactured, so they can only do this for now. In addition, more than 100 auxiliary soldiers set off together with ammunition and food.
, go to "Taipei Port" to board the ship.
The entire company was mobilized, and countless people came to help deliver supplies. 50 of the 400 musketeers carried new flintlock muskets, and all were issued bayonets, blunderbuss swords. This was the first actual use of bayonets.
Therefore, Yin Feng only brought 50 spears on the road, hoping to see the first actual battle of bayonets.