Chapter 524: Occupy Taiwan One
Seeing that the Luzon army seemed to have the intention to rely on artillery to defeat Gerlanz, Berge and others no longer had the mentality of white Europeans looking down on other nations.
In fact, since the Age of Discovery, white Europeans have always regarded other ethnic groups as inferior people.
Even if it is China, although the European countries that arrived in East Asia had to regard the Ming Dynasty as a powerful opponent due to its large land and abundant resources and a large population, in their hearts, Europeans still sincerely contempt for the yellow people.
This idea is rooted in the teachings of Catholicism and Christianity, because both Catholicism and Christianity regard faith in Jehovah as a more noble race, so other pagans are naturally part of the inferior group of people.
In addition, the indigenous people around the world have never achieved an overwhelming victory against Europeans, which has further fueled this racist sentiment of European white skin.
But today, the Luzons told the Dutch with practical actions that there was never any bullshit God's blessing, you are just lucky.
"Quickly, let our fleet attack, inform Chichicheng, and dispatch all warships within Taijiang."
A twenty-pound shell roared and hit the wall of the city of Relanzha, instantly cutting off a large piece of stone. Berge immediately woke up and shouted wildly with wide eyes.
The city of Gelan Cha has three upper and lower structures, which can fully utilize its firepower advantages when facing the enemy. However, when facing powerful naval gun bombardment on the sea, this three-layer structure is also susceptible to huge damage.
Because it was a fixed target shooting, the Luzon fleet only took a quarter of an hour to complete the gun position calibration of the entire ship.
A quarter of an hour later, each salvo of 840 artillery on one side of the fleet accurately bombarded every corner of the city of Gerancha.
When the Dutch fleet left the port again and set sail, the entire western wall of Jelancha and the inside of the castle were already ravaged in a mess.
Crying and help resounded over the city of Jelanzha.
"Northeast 52 degrees, Dutch fleet, 18 warships."
There are seven islands connected to the southwest of Taijiang River, called Qikun, but among the seven sea estuaries, only the South Channel Daren Channel in the south and the North Channel in the north can pass through large ships.
Twenty years later, the Guoxian master took advantage of the opportunity of rising tide and broke into Taijiang Bay from Luermen, avoiding the artillery fire blockade in Relanzha City.
The Dutch did choose a good place to build a castle, but facing the powerful Luzon fleet, the Qikun line also caused great obstacles to the Dutch fleet.
This Dutch fleet, dominated by small and medium fleets, had to sail out of the Grand Master's Channel and directly exposed to the Luzon fleet.
"Stop the shelling and prepare to face the enemy."
Seeing that the city of Gerlandzha had lost its firepower advantage in the west due to shelling, You Degao calmly ordered the Dutch fleet to be faced with ease.
The Dutch fleet led by
Admiral Dabar led the fleet to attack almost with a tragic heart of dying.
After seeing the Luzonian artillery fire, he now regrets why he came to the Far East.
Damn Peter Nuyiz, if it weren't for the third Dutch chief in Taiwan who hadn't been showing off his wealth after returning to Europe, he might have gone to New Spain to hunt for gold.
The Dutch fleet was as soon as it left the Grandmaster's channel and was violently bombarded by the Luzon fleet. Under Dabar's crazy supervision, the Dutch successfully advanced to a range more than three miles from the Luzon fleet under the fire.
However, before they could fire, a crying scream came from the lookout.
"In the northwest direction, there are 7 ships in the Luzon fleet."
Dabar, who was standing on the flagship Hector, felt weak and almost fell from the stairs at the bow.
He looked in the sound and saw a 750-ton cruiser leading six small frigates quickly burst into the rear of the island in the direction of the Qikun North Line.
The Dutch fleet was suddenly in danger of being attacked.
You Degao, who was far away on the Sun Wu, and Zhao Jingyong, who was also observing the movements of the Dutch at the end of the north line, all put down the telescope in his hand with joy.
The Dutch have become turtles in a jar.
The Luzon Navy is not the time when he could only train in Qingbo Lake. The Liu family officers who grew up in the war quickly improved their understanding of war. This trick of luring the enemy to fight was simply as helpful as a god.
With the addition of the Luzon squadron, the battle situation has almost become irreversible.
An hour later, the Dutch fleet, which was under the fierce artillery fire of the two sides, finally slowly raised the white flag, but at this time only 8 warships survived on the sea.
The Dutch officers and soldiers who were observing the battle situation on the sea were watching the scene without turning their eyes on the wall of the Rhelanzha, all their eyes were red and their heads were lowered.
Berg originally wanted to say something, but in the end he could only punch the stone wall with regret. His face, which had turned red due to the afternoon exposure to the sun, seemed to be about to swell and bleeding.
With the destruction of the Dutch fleet and the destruction of most of the city of Jelancha, the fate of the Dutch was also confirmed.
After a night of repair, the Luzon fleet, which guarded the Grandmaster's waterway, set off again, first continued shelling and destroying the castle of Lelanzha, and then broke into Taijiang and began to sweep Chichicheng.
By the first day of October, the Dutch, who could not bear the casualties, had to walk out of the castle under the leadership of Berg and ask for surrender to Youdegao.
Outside the city of Relanzha, Jiang Baolin once again acted as the ambassador to surrender with the already tragic wall.
Faced with such obvious humiliation, Berg and others were naturally angry, but under the gaze of a group of Luzon naval officers and soldiers, these red-haired Dutch people could only dare not speak out.
"Your Excellency, on behalf of the Chief Office of the Netherlands East India Company in Taiwan, I surrender to you, please be able to do it to me
The soldiers of Fang showed kindness.”
Berge, wearing a white scarf European robe, said this with a humiliating look on his face.
Jiang Baolin smiled slightly on his young and handsome face and took over the command knife handed over by Berg with one hand.
"This commander represents the General Luzon's Office to accept your surrender. Our army promises not to kill prisoners indiscriminately, but whether we can return to Batavia safely will not be decided until our army convenes the indigenous peoples meetings in Madou, Mugaliuwan and other places."
With the surrender of the Dutch, the official rule of the Luzon General's Office over Taiwan was also announced.
During this battle, more than 2,000 Dutch defenders were killed, and more than 700 were killed in battle, and the rest were all captured by the Luzon army.
The two consecutive days of war had already alarmed the Han people and the Indigenous Villages near Tainan.
When You Degao, Zhao Jingyong and others led the naval soldiers to land in the city of Relanzha and Chichicheng, they did not need to send people to declare that the Luzon military did not need to send people to declare, and representatives from more than 30 villages and communities near Tainan rushed to Chichicheng.
He Kang is one of the representatives of these villages and communities. He is fifty years old this year. He was originally from Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian. Because he couldn't live a life in the countryside, he moved to Taiwan with his tribe.
In order to fight against the indigenous people and the Dutch, Han people who immigrated to Taiwan also began to gather villages.
After Zheng Zhilong's rise, these Han villages were protected by him. In addition to occasionally committing evil, the Dutch were still quite polite to Han villages.
However, since the Zheng family fought against Luzon in June this year, the Dutch's persecution against Han villages near the Grand Secretary has gradually increased.
The Dutch, who had originally obtained materials from Han villages through transactions, actually began to send people to the village to demand taxes such as capitation tax and rice eleven tax. He Kang and others naturally firmly opposed it.
At first they had hope that the Zheng family could end the war with Luzon as soon as possible, thus forcing the Dutch to give up the invasion of the Han village.
But what He Kang and other Han village elders did not expect was that by the end of September, news came from the Han merchants who were communicating.
The arrogant Zheng family actually returned from a defeat in the Battle of Keelung, and even the strongholds such as Beigang were ceded to the Luzons. I heard that the same is true for the senior officials.
This made He Kang and others feel frightened.
What exactly did the Luzons look like, how would they treat the Han villages in Taiwan, and whether they could suppress the Dutch, these questions made He Kang and others sleepless at night.
However, no one expected that the Luzons were so fast and so decisive. It took only a few days to conquer Beigang and began a war with the Dutch, and it actually beat the Dutch to the death.
Now, He Kang and others were both grateful and worried.
Fortunately, Hongmao finally got out, and she was worried about whether the Luzons could be as kind as the master of the Zheng family.
Chapter completed!