Chapter 350 Recovering Dongfan requires tens of millions of dollars in compensation

The explosion was heard after a red light filled the sky, followed by a huge noise mixed with the supersonic projectile passing through the air.

The first batch of rocket launchers, mainly designed to destroy sailing ships, carried white phosphorus incendiary bombs. After a single explosion, it covered a ignition point of nearly 100 meters, which instantly plunged the entire harbor into a sea of ​​flames.

Immediately afterwards, there was a follow-up clearing attack carrying submunition bombs. The second burst of explosions, and the third burst. The Dutchmen, who had gone from a shock and daze to wakefulness, fled in panic, quickly away from the harbor.

After four bursts of explosions, before the explosion in the harbor was completed, the fifth wave began to rush towards the forts, granaries, and military camps on the shore, exploding one after another.

The entire Relandia, except for the main city two miles away from the harbor, was in a mess.

There were flames everywhere, and the Dutch navy did not even react. There were only a few small boats that were not at the target point. Even if they were not targets, their hulls were shot to pieces, as if they would fall apart if touched.

According to the advance instructions, Tang Ruowang hid in the corner of his room and listened to the explosion with fear.

After counting eight explosions, he went out and looked towards the harbor. Although there were houses on the street blocking it, the raging flames dyed the harbor red. As he muttered to himself, Tang Ruowang held the cross tightly in his hand.

"God, how could there be such an inhumane weapon?"

From the castle window of the Governor's Palace, Maier had already taken his telescope and looked overseas since he received the copper bell warning from the coast.

Before I could get over the shock of the Ming Dynasty fleet having no sails and the huge hull, I saw with my own eyes dense light spots flying from the sky and crashing into the harbor.

Ships on the seaside were blown into wood chips, the bodies of soldiers on the shore who were about to board the ships were torn into pieces, and the forts along the shore were accurately blasted. Explosions were heard from several granaries and military camps near the city.

He leaned on everything clearly, the pipe in his hand shook so much that it fell apart, he muttered all kinds of curses, and his legs were so weak.

None of the cannonballs penetrated the city, and at most they hit the edge of the city. This made him understand that the Ming people probably didn't want to completely exterminate them, but they just didn't want a naval battle.

"Shit, John Adam, you piece of shit, didn't you say that the emperor of the country was deceived? Is this how he was deceived?

The glory of our Netherlands, the glory of the William family, and the Age of Discovery are over..."

The coast was in a mess. On the ship, Chongzhen had already put on a uniform combat uniform, a bulletproof vest and a helmet, and holding a rifle, he boarded the landing speedboat that was lowered by the cable next to the ship.

Wang Chengen was wrapped tightly, with a helmet and neck protector on his head, and a bulletproof vest on his body. The camera in his hand was focused on Chongzhen, who was holding the 81 bar and looking towards the coast with a solemn expression.

He did not advise Chongzhen not to go to the battlefield because he knew that Chongzhen and Chen Ye were invincible, but he was not. He even wanted to hide behind Chongzhen and was very unaccountable.

The eunuchs who followed Chongzhen were different. The two eunuchs held up the sun and moon flags with red characters. They were extremely excited. The soldiers who could see their ship also cheered and excited.

"Look! Your Majesty is on the front landing craft! Your Majesty is on the front landing craft!"

"Your Majesty and I are on the battlefield together! Your Majesty is marching to the battlefield in person!"

"Brothers, sing our military song with me! Come on, charge forward, even His Majesty has surpassed us, then you have to shoot yourself!"

"Long live my emperor!"

"Long live our emperor! May the navy be victorious!"

The soldiers, who were full of chicken blood, kept their heads down, controlled the speedboats with high-energy plastics and bulletproof glass, and rushed towards the landing position on the shore that was not on fire.

The few hundred lucky ones left by the Dutch navy on the shore panicked when they faced more than twenty ships rushing towards them quickly, followed by large ships approaching slowly.

With their morale collapsing, most of the Dutch sailors chose to flee into the city, while the remaining small number of soldiers who had learned their way through battle were still preparing to fight back in an orderly manner.

What the Dutch sailors were holding was an early Royal Army flintlock, which Chen Ye sold to Charlie and the others three months ago.

Although they do not have gunpowder granulation technology, and the difference in gunpowder makes the range worse than the rifles in the hands of the soldiers, it is still enough to threaten the Royal Navy.

Unfortunately, the speedboat the Royal Navy took this time was equipped with bulletproof glass and special partition shooting holes, which not only facilitated observation during landing, but also facilitated shooting and aiming.

If it were modern times, this design would be useless. After all, the bulletproof glass on the speedboat could not stop rifle bullets. But this is the Middle Ages, and bulletproof glass is an incredible defense tool, enough to defend against the black powder thrust projectiles of flintlock guns.

Zheng Zhilong looked through the fixed bulletproof glass on the speedboat and looked at the Dutch soldiers who were getting closer and closer to the shore. They were aiming their guns. The flintlock gun in their hands stretched out through the shooting gap of the bulletproof glass, and they were vaguely ready to take action.

"General Zheng, there is no need to worry. Although the most advanced weapon equipped by our Fujian Navy is grenades, it is enough to defeat the Dutch."

"I am thinking about how to attack Europe if we arrive in the future."

"That's okay. The new navy and new army in the capital are still training. They are modern armies equipped with another type of rifles, rocket launchers, and mortars. They will be crushed faster than this time.

The feat of 500 Spanish soldiers in occupying Mexico, the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty will not be worse than them in the future, we will use 1,000 soldiers to fight Mexico back."

"The shopkeeper is right, Officer, I will fire the first shot later, you can speak now."

Chongzhen said in agreement, turned on the safety of the rifle, and then switched it to single-shot mode.

Zheng Zhilong held up the trumpet in his hand and looked at the coast just around the corner. The trumpet beeped.

"The Dutch sailors on the shore listened and immediately put down their weapons and surrendered. We will not kill the prisoners, but we will kill anyone with weapons!"

"Crack!"

After Zheng Zhilong finished shouting, Chongzhen fired directly without giving any chance to react. Like a signal, all the speedboats started shooting collectively.

"Soldiers of the Ming Dynasty! Follow me to annihilate the bandits and recapture Dongfan!"

"Long live! Annihilate the bandits! Recover Dongfan!"

"Won victory! Long live your Majesty!"

Chongzhen's figure and the two flags following behind him made the landing soldiers' blood surge. At 2:30 in the afternoon, the navy captured the pier and completely destroyed all the sailors and successfully landed.

Chongzhen was always at the forefront of the battlefield. He was hit twice by bullets and killed more than ten people with his hands, making the navy scream and kill.

Wang Chengen followed the whole process with a camera and was shot several times. However, protected by a bulletproof vest with steel plates and a helmet with a partition net, he was fine.

As for Chen Ye, he was in soy sauce mode the whole time. Even though he already had abilities beyond human limits, Chen Ye still couldn't do the same thing as Chongzhen.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, when Chongzhen led the naval officers to attack outside the city of Relanja, the navy and the Zheng family sailors stopped on the shore to prepare for landing. At this time, all the artillery vehicles assembled by the navy were aimed at the city.

After several rounds of artillery bombardments and grenade launches, Chongzhen began to invite the governor of Relanze to come out for a talk.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the Dutch East India Company and Governor Maier of the General Governor's Office formally presented the city and surrendered. The whole process lasted only three hours, of which one and a half hours was still waiting for the surrender.

Immediately afterwards, the navy and the Zheng family's sailors took control of the piers outside Relanze and guarded the prisoners.

As for the naval officers, the East India Company's warehouses, small banks, taverns, and any valuable buildings in Geranze were sealed and awaiting inspection.

In the evening, at sunset, Chongzhen called for the airdrop. Amid the cheers of the soldiers, he provided drinks, tents, electric lights and other tools to support the troops. At this point, the entire Dongpan only had the end of the second day.

After Chongzhen finished speaking to the soldiers, he crossed his legs in the Governor's Mansion and held his head with one hand. Standing in the hall in front of him were Zheng Zhilong, Shi Lang, Maier who had surrendered, and Tang Ruowang who had returned again.

Ignoring Maier, Chongzhen just ordered Tang Ruowang to organize people from all over the island to establish household registration and identity files, inventory assets, and centralize management.

Then he ordered Zheng Zhilong and others to appease the Han people and native people on the island, collect the remaining firearms, divide the land, and find scholars and village elders to be the first batch of prefecture and county officials.

After everything was explained, Chongzhen looked at Zheng Zhilong, and then Zheng Zhilong walked to Chongzhen's desk and stood sideways, facing Maier, acting as a translator.

"Maier, although you have surrendered, the Ming Dynasty will not leave you in Dongfan, but will ask you to bring a letter back to your Netherlands.

Your Majesty requires your King of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Earl of Nassau, to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty and compensate the Ming Dynasty for its losses, totaling at least 30 million jins of silver and 300,000 jins of gold."

"Oh God! Nicholas Zheng, and His Majesty the Emperor, I said this when I was negotiating with you an hour ago.

We in Dazhan have not received any edict from you or your brothers asking us to leave, let alone any officials from your country asking us to leave.

Even if your officials let us do business in Dayang, how can we talk about aggression? Speaking of aggression, aren't those people from the Braganza dynasty of Macau an invasion?"

Maier was frightened when he heard the Chongzhen lion's big mouth. He couldn't hold back for a moment. One pound of Ming Dynasty's weight was equivalent to about 1.3 pounds of theirs.

In other words, they have to compensate for 40 million pounds of silver and 400,000 pounds of gold. This amount is equal to the net profit of their entire Netherlands for more than five years. What a joke if they pay compensation, those shareholders can hang themselves.

"You invaded the Ming Dynasty's Damuan Island, attacked the Ming Dynasty's A-Ma several times, invaded the Ming Dynasty's Penghu Islands several times, and attacked my vassal Ryukyu several times. How do you count this? Is it false?"

"Your Majesty, we in the Netherlands are still resisting the brutal Habsburg rule. We are still very weak. We are just a company and we don't have that much money at all.

If your Majesty just wants to use this as a reason to declare war, there is no need to do so. I think the East India Company can go bankrupt and hand me over to your Majesty, and your Majesty will still get nothing."

Maier did not answer the question. In the past few years, the Ming people had defeated them twice, and the Ming people had indeed not settled the score with them yet.

"Speaking of the Habsburg Kingdom, they no longer have the energy to deal with you. Your Majesty will meet with their governor tomorrow. Do you think they can run away?

Considering that the Habsburgs are stronger than the Netherlands, their compensation will be 40 million and 400,000 yuan. Is this a balance?

It doesn’t matter if you can’t afford the compensation, you can pay it in installments, for example, pay it over ten years, three million taels a year, and pay it to everyone on average, so the average person only gives Ming one tael a year.”

"It is impossible for the Parliament of the Netherlands to accept such conditions. Europe is tens of thousands of miles away, the journey is long, and there are tens of millions of citizens who advocate freedom. Does the Ming Dynasty still want to lead troops to attack Europe?

Even if your iron-clad ships can sail across, can you transport millions of people across? Your Majesty, I am willing to explain the situation to the directors of the East India Company and the Parliament.

I believe the directors are willing to spend money to make a good impression on you, but the amount of compensation is too high and impossible."

Maier said clearly and coherently that he really did not believe that the Ming people could cross thousands of miles to conquer Europe. The Europeans were all bad people, so how could they honestly surrender?

"Okay, it goes without saying. Since you are not sincere and you are not willing to cooperate with me to persuade them, then this war will not stop. We will only talk about it on the day you are willing to surrender and have a good talk with me.

Do you think that rocket falling from the sky cannot land in your Europe? I can launch a rocket to your Europe tomorrow, so that your European royal families can take a good look at what it means when the emperor is angry and millions of people are buried dead.

If a child is disobedient, I will only spank him hard and beat him until he cries. If he is really disobedient, then he will die."

Chongzhen's calm words made Maier's hair stand up instantly, because he suddenly recalled today's rocket launcher. With that kind of thing around, there are so many Europeans? What's the use of having so many?

"Your Majesty, please think again. This matter is too big. Neither the Parliament of the Kingdom of the Netherlands nor the King have truly seen how powerful you are. Even if I say it, it will be useless.

I am just a small branch governor and a relatively large shareholder. The United Provinces of the Netherlands are not like the Ming Dynasty. You are here to make decisions with a single word.

This matter needs to be discussed by the Republic Assembly. It cannot be done by just one person agreeing. I need to go back and discuss it with them."

"Well, I often felt in the past that as long as I said something, those ministers would not be willing to do it, so I replaced all the disobedient ministers.

What you said does make some sense, but can it be said that even if that Earl of Nassau agrees, I will definitely not get the money? You Earl of Nassau can't do that."
To be continued...