On the trail at the foot of the hillside, a 7.62mm bullet fired from a Mosin-Nagan rifle penetrated Zheng Zhilong's chest. Before Tongtaro and his party could react, two M77B1s fired Nato bullets had swept over, and several Japanese servants were about to attack.
The soldier fell to the ground. Tongtaro was eager to help Zheng Zhilong and fell to the ground. Fortunately, he escaped the first round of fire.
Tongtaro ignored the bullets flying around him and the people around him fell down one after another. He put his hands under Zheng Zhilong's armpits, knelt down and half dragged and half pulled him to crawl behind the big stone next to the grass. With great difficulty, he hid behind the stone.
, seeing that Zheng Zhilong was not only shot in the chest, but also in the leg. Blood gurgled out, and blood foam came from the corners of the mouth. Seeing that Zheng Zhilong was not alive, he couldn't help but feel sad and couldn't help but shed tears.
Although Zheng Zhilong was seriously injured, he had a clear mind and knew that he would not survive. He struggled and said: "Life is like dew, it will eventually dissipate... You don't have to be too sad... I was in a turmoil when I was young.
But if you earn this career right away, it is a worthwhile journey..." As he spoke, blood welled up in his throat, and he coughed several times and was speechless. Totaro quickly wiped it off for him, and he took a rest.
He reluctantly continued, "I just can't worry about Fu Song..."
Tongtaro held back his tears and said: "I will follow the young master to the death and protect him!"
Zheng Zhilong reluctantly nodded: "I trust you. If nothing can be done... you try to take him back to Hirado to find..." He lowered his voice and said a few words.
"The villain understands!"
"I'm really unwilling..." Zheng Zhilong withdrew his gaze and passed away before he could finish his words.
Tongtaro's eyes filled with tears, but he was not allowed to grieve at this time. Several of the soldiers and mercenaries accompanying him were seriously injured. The ambush of the Kun and thieves was about to rush down and they could neither bury nor hide the bodies in a hurry. "
The general's head must not be taken away by the enemy." This was the consistent tenet of the samurai. He immediately pulled out his wakizashi, cut off Zheng Zhilong's head, wrapped it in clothes, carried it on his back, and escaped into the grass.
When Qian Shuixie and his men rushed to Post No. 6, the gunfire had completely stopped. The team leader who set up an ambush here briefly reported the ambush to him. He heard that the sniper shot a young man who "looked very much like the one in the photo."
When Qian Shuixie's heart skipped a beat - could Zheng Zhilong really be here?
He led the people to climb down to the path at the foot of the hillside. There were more than ten corpses lying beside a big rock. Judging from the weapons and equipment they carried, they were obviously relatively elite troops, especially several of them who were obviously Japanese.
The Japanese mercenaries were only in Zheng Zhilong's bodyguard. This group of people was undoubtedly Zheng Zhilong's bodyguard. The team members checked. Although some of them were still breathing, they were obviously not alive. They couldn't tell who they were.
"Who is similar to Zheng Zhilong?" Qian Shuixie asked.
The problem was that none of the corpses on the ground matched the photo of Zheng Zhilong. The sniper looked at it for a long time and could not recognize any of the people he had seen. The team members searched all the way and went behind the big rock and found a headless corpse.
Judging from the wounds on the chest and legs, they were indeed shot with Mosin-Nagan rifles.
Qian Shuixie walked over and took a closer look. Although he had lost his head, he was still wearing the homespun trousers and jackets commonly worn by Zheng Army soldiers. But being beheaded showed the problem - he was not beheaded for no reason.
This is the practice of decapitating the dead in battle, unless the person is an important person. The other party has no time to bury the body and does not want the general's head to be removed by the enemy, so they take such an extreme step.
From this, it seems that this person is probably Zheng Zhilong! Qian Shuixie carefully observed the surroundings and found traces of dragging on the ground. Obviously, this person was dragged behind the big rock after being shot. So many people were not
People rescued, but this person was the only one who was rescued. Obviously his status was higher than others...
If not, this person is probably an important figure in the Zheng Zhilong Group, and may be a member of the Eighteen Zhi.
"Search these bodies."
Almost everyone brought some gold and silver, but there was nothing to prove their identity. The person who was beheaded was clean and had nothing on him, which made people suspicious. However, during the search, it was found that this person was very
This may be the second piece of evidence that Zheng Zhilong or another important figure is wearing a close-fitting trousers and jacket made of fine poplin - which is very inconsistent with the coarse cloth trousers and jackets worn outside.
Qian Shuixie took out his Casio card player and took pictures of the entire scene. Then he ordered the headless corpse to be buried alone next to a big rock and marked. Since the head had been chopped off, the verification was lost.
There is no need to transport away the possibility of identity.
Although he subsequently reported the "suspected killing of Zheng Zhilong" to the Lichun, he continued to enforce the blockade in the direction of Wulaofeng to prevent other fish from slipping through the net.
The team led by Matos was chased all the way by Shi Zhiqi, and finally collapsed completely. Matos and some of the people finally escaped to the dock, grabbed two boats and escaped. Others died or were captured, and those who were lucky enough to escape also lost their lives.
Establishments are scattered in the mountains and forests.
Subsequent convoys arrived one after another, and heavy artillery units, land forces and logistics columns landed one after another. Although there were no targets worth fighting on the island, there were still many stragglers of the Zheng army scattered throughout Xiamen Island, and there were many Zheng family members.
The fortress was not occupied, and the follow-up troops arrived just in time to carry out the subsequent security mission.
Gulangyu fell later that day. The First Expedition waited until subsequent troops landed before crossing the sea and occupied Gulangyu without resistance. The defenders on this small island had already fled.
As a member of the Intelligence Bureau, he was the first to land on Gulangyu Island after the battle. This Piano Island was just a deserted island at this time, with no literary and artistic qualities except for a few fishing villages.
This small island in the southwest sea of Xiamen Island is almost entirely made of rocks, with an area of only four square kilometers. You can climb up to Sunlight Rock, the highest point here.
The surface of the rock is dyed a light golden yellow. What is strange is that the sunlight does not reflect when it shines on it, as if it has been absorbed by it.
"No wonder people call it Sunlight Rock!" Xu Xu looked up at this strange rock on the hill. Not far from this slightly angular rock, there were densely packed round rocks.
Overlooking the entire island from here, we can see that the Zheng family also has considerable business operations on this small island. Not only did they build forts, they also set up a large-scale weapons factory and shipyard. There is nothing much to say about the shipyard, but it still follows Chinese tradition.
The large-scale Fu Ship and Guangzhou Shipbuilding were built using the same shipbuilding method. On the beach of the shipyard, there were several unfinished Dafu ships, which seemed to have a displacement of more than a thousand tons. It seemed that Zheng Zhilong also knew that small-tonnage ships were in the current situation.
There is no use for it at sea.
"There is not much oil and water in the shipyard, and those few ships are not finished yet. But there is a lot of oil and water in the weapons factory." A naturalized citizen from the Special Search Team of the Planning Institute who accompanied him to visit said excitedly, "It's all filled with pig iron and
Copper, lead - especially copper, it is estimated to be tens of thousands of kilograms! There are also many iron cannons and bronze cannons..."
He thought that this chief was also from the Planning Institute, because Chief Xu had been patrolling the yards and warehouses where the trophies were stacked since he landed ashore.
Xu Xu smiled slightly. He was concerned about something different from the Planning Council: it was not how much property could be seized, but whether there were any clues in the loot that could threaten the Senate's rule.
Just now at Zhongzuo Suo, he had seen two 24-pound cannons manufactured by Lingao. Although the mounts of these two guns were damaged, they were so special that the marines could recognize them at a glance after occupying the Suo city.
This is one of the navy's standard naval guns.
Xu Xu then checked the emblems and numbers on the guns and confirmed that the two guns were the guns on the missing patrol boat No. 64. He then ordered the soldiers to collect the shells and other accessories of the two guns. They were soon found.
The damaged gun carriage, some accessories on the gun, some unfired shells and several grenade time fuses were recovered.
These two artillery pieces fell into the hands of Zheng Zhilong, and obviously the Harbor Patrol No. 64 also fell into their hands. This was not beyond Li's expectation - after all, there were only a few people who had the motive and courage to do this. But.
, Xu Xu is more concerned about - what is the purpose of the Zheng Group in acquiring this ship? Is it just to get these two cannons? Now that the cannons are there, where is the typewriter?
Xu Xu thought deeply and said, "Let's go to the shipyard first."
Looking at the shipyard itself, there is nothing special about it, whether it is equipment, raw materials or traditional Chinese shipbuilding techniques. However, when looking at the unfinished Dafu ships, Xu Quan discovered something different.
First of all, the length-to-width ratio of these two Fu ships is close to 4, while the length-to-width ratio of traditional Fu ships generally does not exceed 3. Such ships have good stability, but the price is very slow speed. The ribs are installed in a European design, and
On a nearly completed Fuzhou ship, we also saw half of the upper deck already laid.
These changes are of course invisible to ordinary people, but Xu is a naval intelligence officer and is very sensitive to shipbuilding technology - he has accumulated various navigation and naval knowledge in the 16th and 17th centuries.
These improvements all show that the Zheng Group has begun to try to introduce some European ship manufacturing technologies. Increasing the density and strength of the ship's ribs and laying the upper deck seem to be intended to prepare for the installation of more artillery - traditional Chinese futuristic
Due to structural problems, ship types such as ships and Guangzhou ships cannot install a large number of artillery.
However, these technologies were already mature at the time, and there were no traces of borrowing from the Harbor Patrol Boat No. 64. The whereabouts of this missing patrol boat are still unknown. (To be continued...)