Chongzhen woke up the next day and recalled his dream last night. He dreamed that he poked the helicopter down with just a bamboo pole. Then he remembered the words "poked down with a bamboo pole" that Chen Yi said when he asked reporters how to set up the U2 reconnaissance plane, and he couldn't help but laugh.

I don’t know how that submersible was like. I was nervous for a day, and when my nerves relaxed, I fell asleep and had a dream of Qingqiu. Oh, have you arrived in Taiwan? It seems that it is really Taiwan. Chongzhen asked quickly:

"How is the iron fish?" Chongzhen is now following the local customs, and the name of iron fish is actually very vivid.

Liu Jiyun replied: "Your Majesty, the lid of the iron fish has been opened, and all three Japanese are still alive. The one who is in the forefront made a move first, and the other two are very stubborn at the beginning and will never fight to the death. However, after learning that the one who is in the forefront made a move, they also took action."

"How powerful are the Japanese?"

Liu Jiyun didn't believe the Japanese confession very much and replied:

"According to them, there is also a large iron ship, much smaller than the ones coming, but larger than ours, and the smaller iron ship runs faster. According to the head, they have two large iron ships, one big and one small, two iron birds, three iron fish, and the other two of the three iron fish cannot run far, so only their iron fish will attack us."

"Oh, that's it. What else?"

"There is...and the other two people said that the iron ship and the iron bird and the iron fish were brought by gods, and more than 100 gods were also from the gods in this temple. They were gods and ghosts, and the ministers thought it was pure nonsense."

Chongzhen didn't expect that the Japanese travelers were regarded as gods in Japan, haha! These turtle grandsons were treated so well. This guy in the temple is a travelers with extraordinary value. He also had to dig out some useful information. He explained:

"Oh, gods and ghosts, don't pay attention to him. If he were gods, how could we catch them! Let's treat them well and never kill them. I will take them back to Nanjing."

Chongzhen guessed that the two ships did not work together. If they expected, the biggest possibility was the fuel problem, unless there was a 10,000-ton tanker that followed. If you wanted to open this point, you felt relieved. It seemed that the possibility of the Japanese coming again was almost zero, so just deploy to attack Taiwan calmly.

The total defenders of Tamsui and Jilong were only more than 200 Dutch soldiers. In addition to the casualties, the new army had 1,000 reinforcements brought by Liu Jiyun, with a total of 3,700 people.

After capturing 700 people in Tamsui, Zhao Yijun personally directed the child. The child was so suffocated on the ship, and now he finally had an outlet to vent. With the participation of new weapons with huge generation gaps, especially machine guns and rockets, the Dutch quickly lost the will to resist and surrendered in less than an hour. Other new troops observed this devastating offensive battle, which also accumulated some experience in fighting new firearms.

Wu Sangui is really a man. He is said to have a serious injury, but he insists on watching the entire battle with a telescope. After watching the game, he shook his head and sighed. I don’t know if he thinks that bullying people like this is not a skill, or is he sad for his Guanning Iron Cavalry.

Chongzhen was a little curious. After being in contact with Wu Sangui for a long time, this guy is a brave and resourceful person, and he is rarely a little loyal. After all, Wu Sangui is also a good general, and I don’t know how to deal with the Japanese.

The occupation of the Jicang was even smoother. After clearing the defenders on the periphery, the Dutch who surrendered Tamsui called out. Faced with the powerful military power and incredible firepower of the Ming army, the defenders of the Jicang surrendered in half an hour.

Chongzhen's trip was a big gain, but he almost had to explain it to the sea. It was so dangerous! As soon as he saw the worry of these generals under his command, Chongzhen decided to relieve stress. Of course, the best measure to relieve stress was to go back to Nanjing by himself.

Chongzhen left 200 guards in each place, and left corresponding ships, and then sent a fleet and 500 troops to reinforce Zheng Zhilong. He went back to Fuzhou directly.

Chongzhen boarded a wheel boat. The boat was really good, with good survival performance, speed, and flexible maneuvering. It is not an exaggeration to say that it was a water tank in the 17th century.

Chongzhen was curious and simply went down to the bottom cabin to see what was going on. After he got down, he found that four people were shaking a wooden bar in his hand with all their strength. After a closer look, he found that this was the so-called lever. The front pair of paddle wheels and the back pair of paddle wheels each share one axis and one flywheel. In other words, one flywheel and one axis drive two paddle wheels on the left and right. One axis has two crankshafts. The entire axis is made of wooden, but the crankshaft is made of iron. The connecting rod is also made of wooden, but

The part that holds the crankshaft is a copper sleeve. The reciprocating mechanism is an iron wheel embedded in the chute. One side of the rotating shaft of the iron wheel is connected with a long lever. When the long lever shakes up and down, it drives the iron wheel to slide up and down, and the other side of the rotating shaft is connected with a connecting rod. This is the simple system of the human-driven crankshaft link mechanism. When two people fall up and down together, they can drive the paddle wheel to fly. As for the flywheel, it is a wire-mesh cement flywheel with an outer ring wrapped in an iron ring. It is really economical!

After a closer look, the chute was staggered at an angle. This was a two-cylinder 2-stroke design. I really couldn't accept it! Two people shaking a pair of paddle wheels, one on the left used force to pull down, one on the right let go of long strokes, one on the right let go of long strokes, and the one on the left let go of long strokes, the two of them swayed together, and the cycle was repeated, there was a wonderful rhythm between the ups and downs, which was amazing. If the diameter of the paddle wheel was increased, or the width of the paddle wheel was increased, and the manpower was doubled, it turned out that one person could change to two, and I wonder if he could accelerate to 20 knots.

Chongzhen thought that if we followed this design idea, even human-powered tanks could be built. Well, right, after returning to Nanjing, we would use this mechanism to build some earth tanks. The earth tanks were usually pulled by slow horses, and then removed the traction when they arrived at the battlefield and rushed on their own. It was estimated that the Tatar cavalry would be in trouble.

Zheng Zhilong's action to capture Taiwan City and Chi Cing City was very smooth at first.

The "Relanzhe" city and Chichui City built by the Dutch are located in Tainan. There is an inner port between the two cities called Taijiang. The Relanzhe City is located on the west side of Taijiang, and Chichui City is located on the east side of Taijiang, which is a corner of each other.

There are seven islands connected to the southwest of Taijiang River, each island is only more than one mile apart. The Dutch defends the mountain islands and is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is a small island in the north of Taijiang River across the sea, which faces the seven islands. The sea surface is called Dayuan Port. The north side of the north line is Luermen Port.

There are two routes to enter Taijiang from the outer sea. One is Dayuan Port, called the Southern Channel. The entrance of the southern channel is wide and deep, so large ships can enter. The other is the sub-channel, which is the Luermen Channel. The northern channel has shallow water and narrow water. Usually, it can only pass through small boats. Large ships must pass at high tide. Both channels have fortifications. Of course, the focus of fortification is the southern channel. There are warships at the port of the southern channel, and heavy artillery on the mountain island. There are also a heat fortress at the northern end of the island at the tail of the north line to guard the Luermen Port.

The Ming army's attack was carried out according to the plan formulated in advance. The large ship drove outside the southern channel, took an offensive posture, and released a mother-child ship to feint attack. The mother-child ship rushed to the range of heavy artillery on the mountain, which triggered the interception of heavy artillery on the defenders' mountain.

Five eagle boats drove towards Luermen Port, attracting artillery fire from the hot castle. The Ming army then followed the five fast-sentence ships quickly rushed to the beach at the end of the North Line and landed on the beach. The five wheeled boats dragged behind fired rocket launchers one after another to suppress the defenders. Yang Heng took 50 Ming troops to jump off the beach and unfolded on the spot. The three single-bar rocket launchers brought with him were fired on the spot. At the end of the North Line, there was a sandbank of less than one square kilometer. After landing, the beach was

The leading position was close to Gerburg. The rocket launcher aimed at Gerburg and shot close to the fire. Nine rounds of bombs were shot, knocking down Gerburg. The defenders were only 50, and there were many casualties at this time. Moreover, the Ming army's subsequent landing troops arrived in a steady stream, and resistance was meaningless. More than a dozen Dutch defenders left in the fort surrendered with the white flag. The southern end of the island at the end of the northern line was facing the city of "Relanzhe" and captured the island. They immediately set up rocket launchers to bombard the city of "Relanzhe".

At the same time, the 1,000 Ming troops landed from the southern waters began a roundabout operation. After the 1,000 Ming troops led by Wang Fuzhi landed, they carried fifteen single-barrel rocket launchers and 100 rocket launchers and headed straight to Chichicheng City. They were welcomed by local Han people along the way. With the help of their carts, they quickly advanced to Chichicheng City.

Chichuang City is 45 meters around, 3 meters and 6 feet high, and there are 4 artillery towers on the city wall. Chichuang City is originally a solid fortress, with four artillery towers facing the heights and defending the city, which is actually easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Wang Fuzhi issued a series of commands:

"Meng Lingwu, you are responsible for killing four artillery towers and equipping you with 8 rocket launchers. Two single-barrel rocket launchers are responsible for destroying one artillery tower. After destroying the artillery tower, cover the infantry charge."

"Hong Songlin, after the artillery tower is destroyed, you lead the fire support team to follow up, blast open the door, and provide fire support for the infantry charge."

"Liang Yongnan, when the artillery bombards the city gate, you are responsible for organizing the infantry charge and capturing Chichicheng."

Everyone took the order and left. Liang Yongnan performed well in the battle to capture Laizhou and was promoted to battalion commander. Wang Fuzhi, who was the company commander at that time, was already the regiment commander.

When the Dutch defenders saw the Ming army four times, the two guns on the front began to fire artillery, trying to stop the Ming army. Unfortunately, the Dutch fired solid bombs, and the speed of each launch was slow, which basically had no threat to the Ming army in a scattered formation. The Ming army's rockets used blasting bombs with bumping fuzes. Several rounds of rockets were fired onto the artillery tower, and the two gun towers were completely destroyed. The explosion of the rockets caused the explosion of gunpowder piled up next to the cannon. Not only did the artillery be destroyed, but even half of the artillery tower collapsed.

Immediately after several rounds of rocket launchers were fired, and the other two artillery towers were also destroyed. The cannon loading gunpowder was too likely to explode under the attack of the blast blast bomb. Even if the first few explosion bombs did not ignite the gunpowder next to the cannon, they could dodge the first day of the lunar month and the fifteenth day of the lunar month. The subsequent explosion bombs would always ignite it, so the remaining two artillery towers inevitably repeated the catastrophic tragedy.

Without the suppression of cannons, the Ming army's rocket launcher approached the gate and fired flat. The Dutch defender's musket was only less than 100 meters. He stared at the Ming army's rocket launcher who approached the guns 200 meters away. There was no suspense about the next attack. The gate was broken and another city wall was also collapsed. 1,000 Ming troops dealt with 400 Dutch people, shotguns and rifles dealt with the backward muskets. With the cover of rocket launchers and the infantry and artillery coordination, the Ming army rushed into Chicing City in one fell swoop. After the Ming army rushed into the fortress, all resistance was futile. The remaining Dutch defenders saw that the situation was not good, and they shot out the white flag to surrender. The whole process was less than two hours.

The defenders of "Relanzhe" City sent 300 troops to reinforce Chichicheng. After being beaten by a rocket launcher and being killed by the Ming army far away by more than 100 people, less than 100 remaining people were retracted back to "Relanzhe" City.

Chichicheng fell into the hands of the Ming army, and the "Relanzhe" city was isolated and helpless. Although it was judged in advance that the Ming army was preparing to attack Taiwan, Batavia sent 600 reinforcements, and the "Relanzhe" city was only 1,100 defenders. Now both at sea and on land were attacked by the Ming army, Chichicheng City was easily changed hands, and the defense of the Dutch defenders was immediately in chaos.

The Dutch relied on the sturdyness of the city of "Relanzha" and intended to defend it by risk. This fortress made of glutinous rice mixed with mortar and huge rocks was 277 feet in the circumference, more than 3 feet high, divided into three layers, and the lower layer was more than 1 meter deep underground. The method of glutinous rice mixed with mortar came from the Han people who came to Taiwan, but the design of the castle was a typical European castle style, with four corners protruding outwards, and the four prominent artillery towers each set up five cannons. The Dutch army believed that the artillery was dense and the range was long, so that it could block every road around. No matter which direction the invading enemy approached, they would be bombarded by artillery fire on the city. Therefore, after the Dutch army contracted its defense, they did not take the attack of the Ming army seriously. They were determined to defend and had the wishful thinking of fighting, waiting for the arrival of Batavia reinforcements and counterattack in one fell swoop.

Wang Fuzhi tried to attack the city of "Relanzha", but the city of "Relanzha" is not as good as Chichicheng. The roads were blocked and the rocket launcher could not be pulled up for a while. One or two doors were pulled up, and the effect was insignificant. The rockets hit the city wall and could only leave a shallow mark. The attack was not good, and Wang Fuzhi could only adopt a siege strategy, which was also a pre-developed strategy.

When Wang Youqing saw the signal flare rising, he knew that Wang Fuzhi had captured Chichi City. At this time, the battle to attack the "Relanzha" city started. At this time, Zheng Zhilong was commanding his warships to besiege the Dutch warships in Dayuan Port.

Four Dutch ships also attempted to stop the Zheng army from rushing into Taijiang. When five wheeled boats and 10 serial ships rushed over, the largest Dutch warship, the Hector, first firing fired fire, and bursting out surging water columns on the sea. However, the 15 small ships of the Ming army were too fast and the distance was getting closer and closer. The Dutch "S Grafran" and "Egret" and "Mary" also continued to fire, and the Ming army's rocket launchers began to fight back fiercely. For a moment, the smoke of gunfire filled the sky, and the sound of cannons shook the sky, arousing countless surging water columns.

Soon, the rocket launcher's blasting bombs and incendiary bombs hit the Hector, and the Hector ignited a fire. Then the "S Grafran" and the "Egret" were also shot one after another. A serial ship hit the "Maria". The gunpowder, coal tar on the front ship ignited a raging fire, igniting the "Maria", and the ship had already left.

As a result of the naval battle, three Dutch warships were burned and sunk, and the "S Grafran" surrendered.

This was a one-sided victory. The Ming army only lost a serial ship, while the other three serial ships and a wheel boat were damaged to varying degrees.

The next step is to sweep the Dutch outer defensive strongholds. At this time, the city of "Relanzha" had no time to take care of itself, so there was no place to care about the outer strongholds. The outer strongholds were pulled out one after another. In the end, the city of "Relanzha" was left.

The city of "Relanzhe" lasted for two days. On the third day, the Ming army, who had been attacked by Danshui and turned back to reinforce after Jilong arrived. The Ming army had extended-range high-explosion rockets, rocket launchers and machine guns. After the high-explosion rockets knocked off the front artillery tower, there was no suspense in the future. After barely resisting for a while, the Dutch chose to surrender under the Ming army's persuasion to surrender.

After the war, Wang Fuzhi's summary wrote: This is a completely unequal war. The firepower advantage of our army is so strong that the front-line commanders do not need to exert their command ability. In other words, even if you choose a soldier with normal intelligence to command, you can win the war. I don't know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing!
Chapter completed!